History Fridge / PowerRangersOperationOverdrive

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* Andrew [[spoiler: creating an artificial son that was physically a young adult, although it's likely that this is a preferable alternative to making new bodies for him to simulate growing up.]]
* If Andrew is skilled enough to create [[spoiler: a robot sophisticated enough to perfectly pass for human as much as Mack does, why doesn't he use that technology to create a team of Power Rangers?]]
** He's [[spoiler: worried enough about Mack as is, much less any other robots he builds]]
** [[spoiler: A popular theory is that Mack was actually created to be the prototype for a team of robot Rangers, but he turned to be so human that Hartford couldn't bring himself to create a team of what would have been essentially slaves and changed his plans to recruit a willing team instead]].
* A question of fans is [[spoiler: if Mack's super strength was really his own robotic strength, why did he never show it before?]] The obvious answer is [[spoiler: he was always this strong but Hartford put in special programming to keep him from accessing it so it wouldn't be suspicious. Realizing Mack was intent on joining the team, Hartford used this as the excuse to undo that programming so Mack could utilize his robotic strength without realizing he wasn't truly human.]]

* Since Mack [[spoiler: is a robot]], [[spoiler: he won't age like those around him]]. If Andrew had died before [[spoiler: telling him who he really was, Mack would never know why this was happening]]. Not every day you see a teenager [[IncrediblyLamePun filling up the fridge]] like this...

* At first, "Rose" seems like a stock MeaningfulName, but then you find out her [[Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger Boukenger counterpart]] [[FloralThemeNaming was named]] [[CherryBlossomGirl "Sakura."]] This goes to a CMOF level if you're a fan of the StreetFighter games.

** [[spoiler: A popular theory is that Mack was the first attempt at this but he had a change of heart afterwards]]

** Kind of rectified in the end, [[spoiler: since Mack found out, and he eventually [[BecomeARealBoy became human]]]].

* The Morphin Grid is some sort of energy formed from the battle between good and evil, and the run-off energy tends to form in explosions. With multiple bad guys (and later in the team-up episodes, multiple good guys), the Grid must've been overloaded and gone crazy with the explosions.
** Considering ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM's]]'' explanation for these explosions, perhaps the equivalent of RPM's "bio-channels" got clogged up because of all that.

** [[spoiler:He probably would have used up a lot of time and energy for it.]]
** [[spoiler:Plus as noted by Linkara, he could have built Mack as a prototype for a team/army of robot rangers to protect the Corona Aurora, but they would develop sentience like Mack. and considering how resilient Andrew was against letting Mack become a ranger and being put in harm's way, would be a good enough reason to put an end to it.]]

* Regarding "Once A Ranger": [[spoiler: In [[{{Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers}} the original MMPR series]], Rita Repulsa replies on two occasions to Lord Zedd's idea of having children with utter disgust. So, what changed her mind enough to conceive Thrax?]]
** One would expect much alcohol was involved, hence why we never hear of it before now, what with this being a kids show...
** As you may have forgotten, [[spoiler: in season two of ''MMPR'', Zedd banished Rita for her failure to conquer Earth and defeating the Rangers. Later on, she came back and used a love potion (made by Finster) to marry Zedd so she would eventually overthrow him, hence her repulsion of having a baby at the time. But by the middle of season 3, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments she eventually comes to love Zedd for real, and vice versa even though Goldar cured him of the love potion]]. So it's possible they ''did'' have a baby during their absence in ''Zeo'' and ''Turbo''.]]
* So Thrax is the son of Lord Zedd and Rita. Okay, stretch, but we'll go with it. But that makes him only ten years old, tops. And yet he was sealed away by the Sentinel Knight, who was, at the start of the season, incorporeal. So WHEN, exactly, did this happen?
** There is a simple answer here that is this Troper's personal headcanon: Thrax... was... lying. About what? All of it. Thrax is some two-bit villain who discovered that the Sentinel Knight once defeated a warrior named 'Thrax'. He takes the name as his own and then decides to go one step further and claim he is the son of two powerful evildoers... who aren't around to deny such things. Suddenly makes Thrax's actions make more sense.
** Rita and Zedd only got married ten years prior. Prior to being sealed in the dumpster, Rita was a minion of Zedd's. While they didn't get along when Zedd came to Earth and banished her, what happened between thousands of years ago is unknown.
*** Perhaps the idea of the combination of their powers was too tempting and they created Thrax by non-sexual means.
** There is the possibility of some timey-wimey thing happening to Thrax that would get him sent back in time 10,000 years or whatever.
*** This [[Tropers/TitoMosquito troper]] finds this likely; [[spoiler: during ''Zeo'' and ''Turbo'' they gave birth to Thrax and probably sent him back in time for his safety until they attempt to conquer the universe as shown in "Countdown to Destruction".]] But they didn't count on being purified by the Z-Wave. [[spoiler: Either they have forgotten or decided he's better off.]]