History Fridge / PowerRangersWildForce

** Jason and Cole - The first and current Red Ranger respectively. And while it's a controversial moment, Cole destroying Serpentera could be considered a sort of 'passing-the-torch' moment from Jason as he succeeds where the first Red Ranger failed. Also, Cole's Zord is the lion aka TheKingOfBeasts while Jason's is the T-Rex aka the KingOfTheDinosaurs.

* [[spoiler:Dr. Adler's entire motivation is an undying hatred spawned from his jealousy over Cole's mother choosing the wrong person. Orgs are spawned from pollution. Hate and jealousy are pollution of the mind. Cole even points out those emotions had 'poisoned' Adler.]]
* The crossover shows Wes wearing the red beret that denotes command over the Silver Guardians while Eric, his partner and equal, wears a rank-and-file ballcap. From a Doylist perspective this visually symbolizes Wes's position as the Red Ranger vs Eric as the SixthRanger, as well as their respective white/blue collar backgrounds. From a Watsonian perspective, Eric is a master marksman and a generally practical man, and a ballcap does better to keep the sun out of one's eyes when lining up a shot.
** [[BoringButPractical It also makes them easier to tell apart in wide and group shots.]]
* The Machine Generals' costumes being recycled Beetleborgs costumes makes sense given that the Machine Empire also has animal-like members. King Mondo and Prince Sprocket resemble dogs while the Cogs look like apes.

** If that were true, Master Org would've told the rangers about it. He bragged about killing Cole's parents so why wouldn't he do that here?

!!FridgeBrilliance

* The name "Animarium"/"Animaria", for the island on which the Wild Zords reside, is a carryover from ''Gaoranger'', the Japanese source material. However, while it sounds like a generic fairy-tale-place name, we're forgetting that the name was conceived from the Japanese language, where the letter "L" technically does not exist. What happens when you adapt the name in a corrected form? [[spoiler: You get "Animalium"/"Animalia"! Perfect when you consider that "Auditorium", "Planetarium", "Gymnasium" or any similar words ending in "-ium" on the same concept are areas where activities are performed or '''individuals reside!''']]

!!FridgeLogic
* WordOfGod says Turtle Cove is in Colorado. How in God's name did Cole manage to get there from the jungle by canoe?! That same WordOfGod said that Time Force's Silver Hills was in Washington State. Either Taylor went several states away and into a different time zone to buy her car, or the Silver Guardians were way out of their jurisdiction. It [[SarcasmMode gets even]] [[BlatantLies better]]. Another WordOfGod says that Turtle Cove was in Oregon; one can assume it would be somewhere near Portland. Given that, it would have taken Cole ''a long'' time to make it from the jungle.

!!FridgeHorror

* WordOfGod says Turtle Cove is in Colorado. How in God's name did Cole manage to get there from the jungle by canoe?! That same WordOfGod said that Time Force's Silver Hills was in Washington State. Either Taylor went several states away and into a different time zone to buy her car, or the Silver Guardians were way out of their jurisdiction. It [[SarcasmMode gets even]] [[BlatantLies better]]. Another WordOfGod says that Turtle Cove was in Oregon; this [[NarniaRanger Troper]] assumes it would be somewhere near Portland. Given that, it would have taken Cole ''a long'' time to make it from the jungle.

** Jason and Cole - The first and current Red Ranger respectively. And while it's a controversial moment, Cole destroying Serpentera could be considered a sort of 'passing-the-torch' moment from Jason as he succeeds where the first Red Ranger failed. Also, Cole's Zord is the lion aka TheKingOfBeats while Jason's is the T-Rex aka the KingOfTheDinosaurs.

* The pairings we see in the episode make more sense when you take into account each Red Ranger's history:
** Jason and Cole - The first and current Red Ranger respectively. And while it's a controversial moment, Cole destroying Serpentera could be considered a sort of 'passing-the-torch' moment from Jason as he succeeds where the first Red Ranger failed.
** Tommy and Wes - Both have been paired with their team's respective Pink Rangers (though only Tommy became an OfficialCouple with Kim and later Kat). In addition, Jason and Tommy's respective partners, Wes and Cole, had teamed up prior to "Forever Red".

** Eric and Aurico - Two Red Rangers who were never the leaders of their respective teams. Also both their teams were led by females. And considering Eric's comments towards mutants and aliens like Trip in ''Time Force'', him working with Aurico who is an alien can be seen as subtle character growth.

* This is something that occured to me a while in regards to "Forever Red". I don't know if this was on purpose by the writers, but the pairings we see in the episode make more sense when you take into account each Red Ranger's history:

* Eric is seen wearing red civilian clothing in "Reinforcements From The Future pt. 2" for the first and only time. This could symbolize how he is acting more like how a Ranger is expected to act after CharacterDevelopment in Time Force. Especially given the context is a celebratory gathering between two teams of Rangers. This is also a noticeable contrast to how he was absent from the post-battle send off in the Lightspeed team-up.
** Wes and Eric's civilian clothing in this episode also mirrors their Ranger uniforms. Wes's suit is red and white and his civilian wear includes a red button-down shirt over a white tank top. Eric's suit is red and black and his civilian wear includes a red button-down shirt over a black t-shirt.

* WordOfGod says Turtle Cove is in Colorado. How in God's name did Cole manage to get there from the jungle by canoe?!
** [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Paddling really, really hard?]]
** That same WordOfGod said that Time Force's Silver Hills was in Washington State. Either Taylor went several states away and into a different time zone to buy her car, or the Silver Guardians were way out of their jurisdiction.
** It [[SarcasmMode gets even]] [[BlatantLies better]]. Another WordOfGod says that Turtle Cove was in Oregon; this [[NarniaRanger Troper]] assumes it would be somewhere near Portland. Given that, it would have taken Cole ''a long'' time to make it from the jungle.
* How did Cole's motorcycle beat Serpentera? Serpentera was shown to be capable of total planetary annihilation, and he flew right into its primary weapon?
** WordOfGod is that the motorcycle counts as a "Holy Weapon" since it came from Animus. Yeah, I'm not really happy about that whole thing... my personal opinion is that they found a prototype of Serpentera, and THAT was what was destroyed.
** That, or the Machine Empire screwed up while modifying Serpentera.
** My belief is that by fixing Serpentera's fuel issue, they instead rerouted the weapon power source to the fuel cells, rendering her weapons systems massively underpowered. Only thing that makes sense 15 years on...
** The Zord had been left to rot on the moon since at least Zeo when Zedd returned and moved in to the Moon RV. The Mechine Empire forces really had no blueprint for it and probably Jerry rigged the new reactior in to the Zord along with a new repaired control bridge as the set was much different from the MMPR one lacking zedd's throne. Cole managed to fire at it's mouth Ray while it charged causing an overload.
Annoyingly because they had to go to Bandai America for episode funding the intended 10 Zord beatdown was cancelled because Bandai America wanted to plug the new cycle toy.
** More on Serpentera, how did it get smaller?
*** Could tie back to the power supply issue; the Machine Empire remnants dealt with Serpentera's power problems by reconstructing most of the original zord in the belief that they were consolidating its power, but in reality their reconstruction cost it most of its old strength.

** That's probably because their Sentai counterparts WERE part of Ultimate Org Senki (the Sentai counterpart of Master Org's final form).
** Actually, they weren't part of it in ''Gaoranger'' either-- presumably whoever designed Senki assumed that Toxica and Jindrax's counterparts, Tsuetsue and Yabaiba, were going to be part of it, but the final episodes just saw them killed off, instead, and presumably it was too late to change the design, making those parts of Senki TheArtifact.