History Series / PowerRangersOperationOverdrive

* {{Mooks}}: Chillers for Flurious, Lava Lizards for Moltor

The fifteenth anniversary season of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', taken from ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger''. Legends speak of the ''Corona Aurora'', the Crown of the Gods; an ancient jeweled relic with inconceivable power. According to the myths, millennia ago, two brothers warred with each other in their pursuits of the crown, only for the crown to turn them both into monstrous forms and seal them into planets. Afterward, the crown was taken and its jewels removed, all being sent away to an InsignificantLittleBluePlanet...

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Despite what most believe, there had been foreshadowing throughout the season involving Andrew Hartford's secret from his own son. [[spoiler:In "Kick Into Overdrive Part 2" where Spencer tells Mack to not feel like one of his dad's "possessions". In "Out of Luck", Hartford says Mack should not have been affected by magic that alters luck. In "One Fine Day," the team tries to use Tyzon's powers to pass through a barrier, but it doesn't work for Mack since he's not biological and the group gets separated. A subtle one happens at the end of "Ronny On Empty, Part 2", as the Rangers have a costumed Halloween party. Andrew and Spencer exchange worried looks when Mack shows up dressed as a robot, then decide to shake it off.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Despite what most believe, there had been foreshadowing throughout the season involving Andrew Hartford's secret from his own son. [[spoiler:In "Kick Into Overdrive Part 2" where Spencer tells Mack to not feel like one of his dad's "possessions". In "Out of Luck", Hartford says Mack should not have been affected by magic that alters luck. A subtle one happens at the end of "Ronny On Empty, Part 2", as the Rangers have a costumed Halloween party. Andrew and Spencer exchange worried looks when Mack shows up dressed as a robot, then decide to shake it off.]]

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The year before, Super Sentai had gone HD. PR was still SD. The solution? Squeeze the 16:9 Boukenger footage, specifically the Zord battles, into 4:3. The result wasn't pretty. Jungle Fury and RPM simply took the 16:9 footage and cropped it.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Is Mack ever one. Hartford had apparently decided that his biological clock was ticking, and for reasons unknown he decided to get one from a machine shop rather than a womb. Neither the robot in question nor the viewers were aware of his robotic nature until he picked up a computer virus]].

* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Male example with ''Hartford''. He decides his clock is ticking, and so [[spoiler:''he builds himself a RidiculouslyHumanRobot teenage son'' (Mack, who, incidentally, becomes the team's Red Ranger)]]. Being a childrens' show, why he doesn't use his ungodly amounts of money to get a gold-digger wife is never explored, but it at least gets a lampshade:

** In the same episode we see Thor fighting the large, ice themed Flurious. In Norse Mythology, Thor is well known for fighting frost giants.

* BecomeYourWeapon: Sentinel Knight merges with the sword Exelsior. Later both merge with Mack for his Battlized mode.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Tyzonn goes through this upon debut. Starts off as a CombatMedic with good social skills and a wise disposition, only to be suddenly turned into an [[StalkerWithoutACrush ignorant stalker]] with NoSocialSkills (or knowledge of Earth customs) who [[IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery wants to imitate the other Rangers]]. Then he's just....[[MyFriendsAndZoidberg kind of there]].

-->Oh, uh, yeah, well, long story short, our mentor who's, well, a dog, got promoted to head of SPD which was run by a bird but he retired to Miami, and Sky got promoted and I got promoted. That's why I'm the Red Ranger, or [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble will be]].

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: James Maclurcan (Mack) and Rod Louisch (Mr. Hartford) are not very good at hiding their New Zealand accents.

* {{Nerdgasm}}: {{In-universe}} example -- Ronny seems to have a "zordgasm" seeing the zords for the first time. And then another one when she checks out the Drill Blaster. All for the sake of adapting Natsuki's [[GenkiGirl genkiness]] into her...

* PinocchioSyndrome: [[spoiler:Mack about five seconds after finding out he ''wasn't'' [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots human to begin with]].

%%* AdventurerArchaeologist
%%* AirplaneArms: Miratrix
%%* ArtifactCollectionAgency
%%* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Mack]]

%%** Who are, notably, not actually dead, per se. But they pulled a HeelFaceTurn and he didn't, so they're dead to ''him''.
%%*** Well, their HeelFaceTurn was forced onto them by Zordon's good energy. So, technically, the good guys "killed" who they once were, and what they were clearly like when Thrax was born, given his appearance.

%%* BigFancyHouse: the Hartford mansion

%%* TheBroCode: Called "Man law!" in "Both Sides Now"

%%* CoolCrown: The Corona Aurora.

%%* DisneyDeath: Mack. Appropriate since the series is made by Creator/{{Disney}}.

%%* ElaborateUndergroundBase

%%* EvilerThanThou

%%* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Norg.

%%* JumpedAtTheCall: Mack

%%* LinkedListClueMethodology

%%* MasterOfDisguise: Spencer
%%** LatexPerfection: Gets ridiculous[[note]]ly awesome[[/note]] when he impersonates ''Ronny''.

%%* [[TheMountainsOfIllinois The Mountains Of Florida]]

%%* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Male example with ''Hartford''

%%* TheOneTrueSequence: Used and abused.

%%* PinocchioSyndrome: [[spoiler:Mack]]

%%* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Is Mack ever one.
%%* RoboticReveal

%%* SurvivorGuilt: Tyzonn

%%* TakeMyHand: Mack to Will.
%%* TeenGenius: Rose

%%* ToTheBatpole
%%* ToMakeALongStoryShort: Bridge in "Once A Ranger"

%%* WrenchWench: Ronny

* YouLookFamiliar: Subverted; Kelson Henderson returns yet again, as confirmed in the opening credits, but thanks to the Yeti suit and yet another vocal characterization (he's Norg), it's impossible to recognize him.

%%* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Or rather, Your Jewel Is In Another Location.

ChestInsignia: Team compass logos on the chest.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Can be easily interpreted as "''Power Rangers'' meets ''Franchise/IndianaJones''".

* ActionGirl: Ronny and Rose.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs
* BigBad: BigBadEnsemble variant: Moltor, Flurious, Kamdor, and the Fearcats Mig and Benglo (themselves a BigBadDuumvirate).
* BigGood: Andrew Hartford.
* ChestInsignia: Team compass logos on the chest.
* ChromeChampion: Tyzonn

** MechaExpansionPack: Drill, Shovel, Cement, and Crane Drivers
* '''MadeOfExplodium''': This series just cranked it UpToEleven and never looked back.

* {{Mentors}}: Hartford

** SuperSenses: Will (hearing and sight)

** ElementalShapeshifter: Tyzonn (mercury)

** ShovelStrike: Ronny's Drive Claws (a pair of scoops)

** ImprobableWeaponUser[=/=]SwissArmyWeapon: Tyzonn's Drive Detector (a metal detector\lance\blaster)
** {{BFG}}[=/=]ThisIsADrill: Drill Blaster (which can swivel itself around to become the Tri-Laser)

** InTheNameOfTheMoon[=/=]TransformationNameAnnouncement:

* AdventurerArchaeologist
* AirplaneArms: Miratrix
* ArtifactCollectionAgency
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Mack]]

* AvengersAssemble

** Who are, notably, not actually dead, per se. But they pulled a HeelFaceTurn and he didn't, so they're dead to ''him''.
*** Well, their HeelFaceTurn was forced onto them by Zordon's good energy. So, technically, the good guys "killed" who they once were, and what they were clearly like when Thrax was born, given his appearance.

* BigFancyHouse: the Hartford mansion

* TheBroCode: called "Man law!" in "Both Sides Now"

* CainAndAbel: Moltor and Flurious

* ChekhovsGun: The mummy case in the Hartford's living room, which is [[spoiler: where the last Corona Aurora jewel is conveniently hidden]].

* CoolCrown: The Corona Aurora.
* CosmicKeystone: the Corona Aurora

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Norg in the finale, able to fight off six [[{{Mooks}} Chillers]] to protect himself [[spoiler: and Tyzonn's fiance Vella]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Spencer
* DisneyDeath: Mack. {{Justified|Trope}} as it is was made by Creator/{{Disney}}.
* TheDitz: Norg

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: The Rangers themselves, after Thrax cuts them off from the Morphing Grid in "Once A Ranger". Seemingly subverted when they're reminded that they still have their genetic powers to fight, but [[DoubleSubverted fall into this when they prove to be ineffective]]. And then there's Mack finding out he isn't human.]]

* DreamIntro: The series opens with Mack (the red ranger) on an adventure where he escapes from a plane. We then see him fall out of a hammock and turns out he was just daydreaming.
* DrillTank: Drill Driver
* ElaborateUndergroundBase
* ElementalRivalry[=/=]FireWaterJuxtaposition: Between Moltor and Flurious.

* EverythingIsOnline: Kamdor zaps the [=DriveMax=] Megazord with a computer virus, which spreads to the base [[spoiler: and to Mack.]]
* EvilerThanThou

* FakeMemories: [[spoiler: Mack]]
* {{Fiction 500}}: Andrew Hartford has a mansion with 27 bathrooms complete with a secret cave underneath with genetic scramblers, Ranger technology and Zords, all which he basically designed for his own private use rather than needing to have it go public in any way. He owns a film studio, had Will break into his own bank, has pioneered holographic recording technology and even [[spoiler: built his own absurdly lifelike robot]] just for his own use, and even has time to spend "twice the net worth of New Mexico" just to go treasure hunting in his spare time. It's pretty crazy.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Despite what most believe, there had been foreshadowing throughout the season involving Andrew Hartford's secret from his own son. [[spoiler: In "Kick Into Overdrive Part 2" where Spencer tells Mack to not feel like one of his dad's "possessions". In "Out of Luck", Hartford says Mack should not have been affected by magic that alters luck. A subtle one happens at the end of "Ronny On Empty, Part 2", as the Rangers have a costumed Halloween party. Andrew and Spencer exchange worried looks when Mack shows up dressed as a robot, then decide to shake it off.]]

* GottaCatchThemAll: The show revolved around the five jewels to a magical crown (other artifacts empowered by them were clues, but also powerful themselves.)

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Norg.
* HumanAliens: Tyzonn and Vella.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: as Bruce Kalish's third season, every title had three words.

* TheJeeves: Spencer
* JumpedAtTheCall: Mack

* LinkedListClueMethodology

* MasterOfDisguise: Spencer
** LatexPerfection: Gets ridiculous[[note]]ly awesome[[/note]] when he impersonates ''Ronny''.

* [[TheMountainsOfIllinois The Mountains Of Florida]]

* MultinationalTeam
* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: male example with ''Hartford''
* MythologyGag: All of ''Boukenger'''s monsters were homages to previous seasons' HumongousMecha. It doesn't ''fully'' translate to ''Operation Overdrive'', between homages to seasons that never made it overseas and American-designed monsters that don't homage anything, but still.

* TheOneTrueSequence: Used and abused.

* OperationBlank: Of course.

* PinocchioSyndrome: [[spoiler: Mack]]

* [[spoiler: RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Is Mack ever one.]]
* [[spoiler:RoboticReveal]]

* ShoutOut: Every monster is designed to look like a previous Megazord, albeit in abstract (this is a carry-over from ''Boukenger'', which was a big milestone celebration series).

* [[SuperEmpowering Super Re-Powering]]: Sentinel Knight, at least in "Once A Ranger".
* SurvivorGuilt: Tyzonn

* TakeMyHand: Mack to Will.
* TeenGenius: Rose
* TenMinuteRetirement: [[spoiler: The Rangers, ALL of them, after fully reaching their DespairEventHorizon (having to be saved by veteran Rangers) decide to go back to their lives (save for Mack) in the first part of "Once A Ranger".]]

* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: [[strike:Mr. Hartford]] Andrew
* ThisIsADrill: the Drill Driver and the Drill Blaster.

* ToTheBatpole
* ToMakeALongStoryShort: Bridge in "Once A Ranger"
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Mack]], again
* [[spoiler: TrulySingleParent]]: Hartford
* VillainTeamup: not frequently, but it's still there. Almost immediately followed by...
** ChronicBackstabbingDisorder

* WHAMLine: [[spoiler:"We decided to leave Operation Overdrive."]]
** [[spoiler: (After a computer virus infects the base) - "Good thing. Good thing. Good thing..."]]

* WrenchWench: Ronny

* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Mack]], being [[spoiler:an android]], has had the physical appearance of a 17 or 18 year old since his 'birth' [[spoiler:(or in his case, design)]].
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: or rather, Your Jewel Is In Another Location.

In the present day, AdventurerArchaeologist Andrew Hartford has at last found the crown - but the discovery frees the brothers, Moltor and Flurious, from their respective prisons. Realizing that they and other villains would come seeking the crown's power, Hartford uses his wealth to assemble and equip a team to track down and claim the crown's five gemstones before they fall into the wrong hands. He assembles a team of four people with unique histories - Rose Ortiz, a former ChildProdigy and a teacher with incredible intellect, Ronny Robinson, an F1 driver, Will Aston, a notorious thief, and Dax Lo, a Hollywood stuntman with dreams of acting. Hartford grants them their Overdrive Morphers and one by one enhances their DNA to have genetic powers. Hartford initially intends to take on the Red Ranger role himself, but he's prevented from doing so by an attack from the villains. His sheltered son Mack transforms himself to save him, earning him the last spot on the team.

** SwissArmyWeapon: Drive Defenders
** GrapplingHookPistol: OO Zip Shooters

** {{BFG}}[=/=]ThisIsADrill: Drill Blaster
** {{BFS}}: Exelsior the Sentinel Sword

* {{Fiction 500}}: Andrew Hartford has a mansion with 27 bathrooms complete with a secret cave underneath with genetic scramblers, ranger technology and zords, all which he basically designed for his own private use rather than needing to have it go public in any way. He owns a film studio, had Will break into his own bank, has pioneered holographic recording technology and even [[spoiler: built his own absurdly lifelike robot]] just for his own use, and even has time to spend "twice the net worth of new mexico" just to go treasure hunting in his spare time. It's pretty crazy.

* LawOfInverseRecoil: Averted for once; the Drill Blaster requires the Defender Vest to counter its recoil.

* RecruitingTheCriminal: Will. It's never spelled out wither or not he's a ReformedCriminal when the series starts, but during his ten-minute retirement in ''Once A Ranger'', he's shown working as a security consultant. It takes a thief and all that.

* ShoutOut: Every monster is designed to look like a previous Megazord, albeit in abstract (this is a carry-over from Boukenger, which was a big milestone celebration series).
** When the rangers go to St. Lucia (in the Caribbean), they talk about how it's haunted by the ghost of Brownbeard the Pirate. Dax says, "A ghost pirate? That's so cool they should make a movie franchise about that!". Since Power Rangers was owned by Disney at the time, it's a excuse to promote "Pirates Of The Caribbean".

* {{Tagline}}: On Creator/ABCKids, various commercials for ''Power Rangers Operation Overdrive'' used the phrase "Kick into overdrive!" at one point or another, sounding similar to the "Shift into Turbo!" [[ByThePowerOfGreyskull morphing call]] from ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''.

The series also contained the [[MilestoneCelebration 15th Anniversary special]] "Once A Ranger" where a new villain comes into play, the son of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd]], Thrax. Targeting the [[MetaOrigin Morphing Grid]] itself, they manage to cut the Operation Overdrive Rangers off from their powers. To stop their plan of decimating the entire grid and eliminating all Power Rangers, the Sentinel Knight [[CrisisCrossover commissions Rangers from previous seasons]] to form a new team (all of the Disney-era shows, with one before they took over) [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Xander Bly]], [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Bridge Carson]], [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Kira Ford]], [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Tori Hanson]], and [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Adam Park]] (most characters were {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s, the return of JohnnyYongBosch especially was appreciated). In addition, Alpha Six takes on a role. The two-parter involves the Operation Overdrive Rangers worrying about being replaced.

* [[WhatWouldXDo What Would Zordon Do?]]: Alpha in "Once A Ranger"

* CallBack: In "Once a Ranger, Adam uses a forklift as a battle prop, just as he did in [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie the first Power Rangers movie]].

* CallBack: In "Once a Ranger, Adam uses a forklift as a battle prop, just as he did with a bulldozer in [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie the first Power Rangers movie]].

The series also contained the [[MilestoneCelebration 15th Anniversary special]] "Once A Ranger" where a new villain comes into play, the son of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd]], Thrax. Targeting the [[MetaOrigin Morphing Grid]] itself, they manage to cut the Operation Overdrive Rangers off from their powers. To stop their plan of decimating the entire grid and eliminating all Power Rangers, the Sentinel Knight [[CrisisCrossover commissions Rangers from previous seasons]] to form a new team (all of the Disney-era shows, with one before they took over) [[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Xander Bly]], [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Bridge Carson]], [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Kira Ford]], [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Tori Hanson]], and [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Adam Park]] (most characters were {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s, the return of JohnnyYongBosch especially was appreciated). In addition, Alpha Six takes on a role. The two-parter involves the Operation Overdrive Rangers worried about being replaced.

* MadeOfExplodium: This series just cranked it UpToEleven and never looked back.