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  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In “The Good, The Bad and General Ug” the Scanrangers are checking out a paintball blitz place when suddenly they turn into cowboys and have a shootout.
  • Designated Hero:
    • True, the Scanrangers do routinely thwart the efforts of aliens who want to suck our planet dry, but they're also the people who not only seemed willing to let B.C. end the universe if they couldn't convince him to go back to his own time in the crossover, they consider him the glue that holds the team together. And insulted someone who brought up the downsides of their protection, and people who have different fashion sense than they do, and people who enjoy partying at Spring Break.
    • It’s telling that MizunoBBS’ reading of the work said that a random guest character in the Valentine’s Day episode managed to be more heroic in one line of dialogue than the entire team had been in 17 chapters.
    • In "Scanranger vs. Jetman," B.C. falls in love with Blue Swallow and plans to stay in the past to be with her, despite his friends’ warnings that the space time continuum will collapse if he doesn’t go back to his own time with them. To reiterate: a character we’re supposed to like, a superhero no less, seriously considers something that would result in the destruction of the universe. Our hero, ladies and gentlemen.
  • Fridge Logic:
    • One episode has the Scanrangers finding out they look just like the members of a popular boy band, and agreeing to impersonate the band for a while. At the end they even transform on stage and have a fight with MAYHEM, meaning the world thinks the band is the Scanrangers. What happens to the reputation of Kunio’s doppleganger a few episodes down the line when he’s forced to bequeath his powers to someone biologically incapable being in a boy band? After all, the female uniforms are slighty different from the male ones, even if the anatomy isn't supposed to be noticable.
    • Scanranger was written in large part to let the author vent his anger at the people behind Power Rangers for stripping out nearly everything but the most superficial stuff from the original Super Sentai shows and releasing a different product. How does the author feel then about Japanese Spider-Man, which is essentially the same kind of thing as Power Rangers and which popularized the whole Make My Monster Grow concept that became a staple of Sentai? And which is a concept wholeheartedly embraced by Scanranger.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Humor Dissonance: B.C., the comedy-empowered blue ranger whose levity supposedly holds the team together. Most people who stick with the story name him as their most hated character for how absolutely unfunny he is. The following is an actual one of his jokes:
    Imperiled Friend of the Week: "Your friends are all that, and a bag of chips.."
    B.C.:"No..Nacho Cheese tortillas, actually.."
  • The Scrappy: The author sure seemed to like the B.C./Bluescanner character with how he gets the most/deepest emotional subplots of all the heroes and supposedly holds the team together with his humor. Most people who stick with the story long enough to form a detailed opinion name him as their most hated character because of his awful jokes and tendency to take a bad situation and make it even worse. During the Midseason Upgrade arc for example, he insisted on trying to stay in their dying mech and continue the fight even though they hadn't made a dent in their enemy. When he's reprimanded for it he angrily punches out Vin and quits the team, just adding to a string of disastrous setbacks the team's already suffered, having lost all of their mecha and now a full half of their members.
  • Spoiled by the Format: Besides just knowing what to expect from being familiar with the genre, it's hard to get wrapped up in the drama of the heroes nearly being defeated during the Mid-Season Upgrade arc what with how the titles seriously all begin with "Power Upgrade Part 1, 2," etc.

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