History Headscratchers / MightyMorphinPowerRangers

** Green Ranger joined the team and shortly after his powers were compromised. While they held out ok for the reast of season 1, Lord Zedd was much more powerful then Rita, and made a point to eliminate Green who was already weakened. Zordon felt perhaps Tommy would have been a better leader, but because his powers were getting worse all the time, that it would be a mistep to name him leader when his powers could fail at any moment. White ranger as Zordon first decribes him, was given a enhanced ranger form as well as a powerful new Zord. A Thunder Zord that did not need to be morphed from Dino Zord components. Because of his now increased importance to the team, he was given leadership of it as well.

* Meta-example, but I've heard the reason why the Teng''u''s from The Movie became Teng''u''s in the show is because of Fox owning the name. This doesn't begin to make sense if you have even a basic knowledge of trademark/copyright law. For one thing, the video games and other licensed material that feature Ivan Ooze don't credit Fox, and the Tengus are named after, well, {{Tengu}}s, which are PublicDomainCharacter s. The only thing that could be legally owned is the suit design, which Saban was obviously able to use. This would be like if Nike said "We're okay with you selling knockoff shoes with our logo on it, but don't go using the Greek god of victory's name!"

*** There's a neat conversation on the reviews of ''[[https://www.https://archiveofourown.org/works/1024337 Halloween Havoc]]'' on this entire issue in regards to Tommy in Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder. Some of it's in specific regards to Tommy not calling CPS on Anton in regards to Trent (some of Anton's behaviors scream emotional/mental neglect and/or abuse of Trent. Trent's shown as possibly running away in one episode and Tommy, as a teacher, is a mandated reporter), but also because Trent, as both an evil Ranger AND a white Ranger would very likely be some form of mental health trigger for Tommy, who may or may not have come to terms with the number of times he's been BrainwashedAndCrazy in his Ranger career. There's also a bit on how many of the Rangers, across the series, need some form of therapy because they've been BrainwashedAndCrazy, lost (permanently or otherwise) their zords, their powers, and-quite possibly-their mentor and/or their Command Center. Tommy's the one season 1 Ranger behind Kim where, if there's a Ranger that's to be kidnapped and/or become BrainwashedAndCrazy, it's him. There's no way that '''''didn't''''' do some damage mentally. Revenge or otherwise...still. Multiple personality disorder? I can kinda see that. By the time Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder comes around, as it's pointed out on ''that'' series' page, Tommy may have lost sight of himself as a person and only knew himself as a Power Ranger.

*** There's a neat conversation on the reviews of ''[[https://www.https://archiveofourown.org/works/1024337 Halloween Havoc]]'' on this entire issue in regards to Tommy in Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder. Some of it's in specific regards to Tommy not calling CPS on Anton in regards to Trent (some of Anton's behaviors scream emotional/mental neglect and/or abuse of Trent. Trent's shown as possibly running away in one episode and Tommy, as a teacher, is a mandated reporter), but also because Trent, as both an evil Ranger AND a white Ranger would very likely be some form of mental health trigger for Tommy, who may or may not have come to terms with the number of times he's been BrainwashedandCrazy in his Ranger career. There's also a bit on how many of the Rangers, across the series, need some form of therapy because they've been BrainwashedandCrazy, lost (permanently or otherwise) their zords, their powers, and-quite possibly-their mentor and/or their Command Center. Tommy's the one season 1 Ranger behind Kim where, if there's a Ranger that's to be kidnapped and/or become BrainwashedAndCrazy, it's him. There's no way that '''''didn't''''' do some damage mentally. Revenge or otherwise...still. Multiple personality disorder? I can kinda see that. By the time Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder comes around, as it's pointed out on ''that'' series' page, Tommy may have lost sight of himself as a person and only knew himself as a Power Ranger.

*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKMrQd7bZMI Watch after the Power Blaster hits the 2 females are tossed away and destroyed.

*** There's a neat conversation on the reviews of ''[[https://www.https://archiveofourown.org/works/1024337 Halloween Havoc]]'' on this entire issue in regards to Tommy in Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder. Some of it's in specific regards to Tommy not calling CPS on Anton in regards to Trent (some of Anton's behaviors scream emotional/mental neglect and/or abuse of Trent. Trent's shown as possibly running away in one episode and Tommy, as a teacher, is a mandated reporter), but also because Trent, as both an evil Ranger AND a white Ranger would very likely be some form of mental health trigger for Tommy, who may or may not have come to terms with the number of times he's been BrainwashedandCrazy in his Ranger career. There's also a bit on how many of the Rangers, across the series, need some form of therapy because they've been BrainwashedandCrazy, lost (permanently or otherwise) their zords, their powers, and-quite possibly-their mentor and/or their Command Center. Tommy's the one season 1 Ranger behind Kim where, if there's a Ranger that's to be kidnapped and/or become BrainwashedandCrazy, it's him. There's no way that '''''didn't''''' do some damage mentally. Revenge or otherwise...still. Multiple personality disorder? I can kinda see that. By the time Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder comes around, as it's pointed out on ''that'' series' page, Tommy may have lost sight of himself as a person and only knew himself as a Power Ranger.

*** Even as a child, that line just screamed "RuleofFunny", "something for the adults watching" to me. Like they're mocking it at the same time.

*** There's a neat conversation on the reviews of ''[[https://www.https://archiveofourown.org/works/1024337 Halloween Havoc]]'' on this entire issue in regards to Tommy in Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder. Some of it's in specific regards to Tommy not calling CPS on Anton in regards to Trent (some of Anton's behaviors scream emotional/mental neglect and/or abuse of Trent. Trent's shown as possibly running away in one episode and Tommy, as a teacher, is a mandated reporter), but also because Trent, as both an evil Ranger AND a white Ranger would very likely be some form of mental health trigger for Tommy, who may or may not have come to terms with the number of times he's been BrainwashedandCrazy in his Ranger career. There's also a bit on how many of the Rangers, across the series, need some form of therapy because they've been BrainwashedandCrazy, lost (permanently or otherwise) their zords, their powers, and-quite possibly-their mentor and/or their Command Center. Tommy's the one season 1 Ranger behind Kim where, if there's a Ranger that's to be kidnapped and/or become BrainwashedandCrazy, it's him. There's no way that '''''didn't''''' do some damage mentally. Revenge or otherwise...still. Multiple personality disorder? I can kinda see that. By the time Series/PowerRangerDinoThunder comes around, as it's pointed out on ''that'' series' page, Tommy may have lost sight of himself as a person and only knew himself as a Power Ranger.

** There's a neat conversation on ''[[https://www.https://archiveofourown.org/works/1024337 Halloween Havoc]]'' on this entire issue in regards to Tommy in Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder. Some of it's in specific regards to Tommy not calling CPS on Anton in regards to Trent (some of Anton's behaviors scream emotional/mental neglect and/or abuse of Trent. Trent's shown as possibly running away in one episode and Tommy, as a teacher, is a mandated reporter), but also because Trent, as both an evil Ranger AND a white Ranger would very likely be some form of mental health trigger for Tommy, who may or may not have come to terms with the number of times he's been BrainwashedandCrazy in his Ranger career. There's also a bit on how many of the Rangers, across the series, need some form of therapy because they've been BrainwashedandCrazy, lost (permanently or otherwise) their zords, their powers, and-quite possibly-their mentor and/or their Command Center. Tommy's the one season 1 Ranger behind Kim where, if there's a Ranger that's to be kidnapped and/or become BrainwashedandCrazy, it's him. There's no way that //'''didn't'''// do some damage mentally.

*** There's a neat conversation on ''[[https://www.https://archiveofourown.org/works/1024337 Halloween Havoc]]'' on this entire issue in regards to Tommy in Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder. Some of it's in specific regards to Tommy not calling CPS on Trent (some of Anton's behaviors scream emotional or mental neglect and/or abuse and Trent's shown as possibly running away in one episode and Tommy, as a teacher, is a mandated reporter), but also because Trent, as an evil Ranger AND a white Ranger both would very likely be some form of mental health trigger for Tommy, who may or may not have come to terms with the number of times he's been BrainwashedandCrazy in his Ranger career.

*** Originally it was supposed to be teenagers with attitude, but executive meddling forced the goody goodies we got.

** In fairness, in the earlier episodes, Jason was pretty hot headed. When Bulk acted up, Zack usually had to cool Jason down from doing something stupid. He certainly had an attitude to start with, but it seemed to die down. Kim's overbearing and overemotional personality remained though, only really starting to diminish late S2/early S3, when half the squad was transferred and she had to take a more mature lancer role to guide the newbies. Billy ''is'' overbearing and overemotional, just not in the traditional light people think of when they hear the word attitude. But Billy has a strong attitude and interest towards scientific pursuit, and often overreacts with too much emotion when an experiment went wrong, if calculations weren't correct, or if he got a B on a test... it's still an overemotional attitude. Trini though, doesn't fit any catagory of overemotional or overbearing attitude.

** Easy one here: The new coins were wired to use the old suits for all six Rangers (presumeably because Ninjor is a lazy bastard), otherwise everyone would be in Kakuranger gear and Kimberly would have been [=SOoL=]...

*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKMrQd7bZMI watch after the power blaster hits the 2 females are tossed away and destroyed.

** They where destroyed by the upgraded power blaster

* Where does the head of the Mastodon Zord go when the Dino Megazord switches to battle mode? I know it can be used as a shield, but until it is, it just...disappears.

** More likely Zordon was reffering to the Green Ranger powers that Rita crafted and gave to Tommy; those were made by Rita (who, at this point, is still evil). The other Dino Coins were probably made from the same "light of goodness" that the White Ranger's coin was, but with prehistoric beasts (IE: The Dinozords) and not modern animals (IE: The Ninjazords).

* Shouldn't Lord Zedd alone be able to take on all 6 rangers back in 1993? Season 2 made Zedd out to be this big powerful overlord. As a kid, it was terrifying to see this evil creature get angry at his minions. I wonder why Zedd never teleported to earth and attack them himself given his ego. He seemed powerful enough to vaporize a human with just a snap of a finger.

* As with what [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] said, which didn't Zordon ask for Alpha to summon the five greatest martial artists in the known universe, or better yet, [[MemeticBadass Memetic Badasses]] like Creator/ChuckNorris, Creator/JetLi, Creator/StevenSeagal, Wrestling/TripleH, and Creator/BruceCampbell? Hell, [[Tropers/BossHamHam This Troper]] suggested ([[https://www.deviantart.com/sagwanut/status/18252600 on his DeviantArt account]]) that Zordon should have gotten Alpha to summon [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]], ComicBook/{{Batman}}, [[Manga/DragonBallZ Goku]], [[Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons Captain Scarlet]], Advertising/TheMostInterestingManInTheWorld, [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]], [[Series/{{LazyTown}} Robbie Rotten]], and [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou Shaggy]].

** Rita and Zedd where upping their game too though. Rita had the super putty Zedd made monsters with specific plans in mind rather than just distractions.

** Becauase they know they're goody goodies and either won't fight back or let each other fight back.
* In respect to the points above about people living in the same place where a skyscraper-sized mech slugs it off regularly with monster, where's the Army? That bugged me even back in the day.
** Their wepons wouldn't do much to the monster so theyre probably playing defense and getting people out of the buildings and such

** Becauase they know theyre goody goodies and wont fight back/wont let eachother fight back.

* In "Mighty Morphin Mutants" why were only the male rangers affected by Rita's growth staff? The female ones just disappeared after Rita grew Crayfish and the male ones for no good reason.