History Series / PowerRangersTurbo

* FinaleProductionUpgrade: Although a failure in ratings, the series won the fans back by including serious stories in the latter half of the season, and in the finale, [[spoiler:completely decimating the Power Rangers' defense, with the villains-of-the-season overrunning the Command Center, explicitly destroying it, and blowing it up!!! Now, with the Rangers' powers gone, their command post demolished, and no way to defend the Earth, it's a desperate escape into space, as the Power Rangers' mentor, Zordon, has been captured and they have only have one shot, a Space Shuttle from NASADA, with no as-of-yet fast way to reach Eltar, Zordon's home planet.]]

* TheLoad: Justin in the movie, less so in the show. Once the torch gets passed, he's often the first person in the room to get a clue.

* WouldHurtAChild: In one episode, Justin runs afoul of two older students who have no qualms whatsoever about attacking and chasing after a pre-teen, just for not giving them the answers to a test.
* ZergRush: Essentially Divatox's strategy when she attacks the Power chamber at the end of the series. She sends Piranhatrons to attack it. ''All of them''.

* ParentalSubstitute: Tommy and Kat for Justin.

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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: IMPLIED to be the reason for the unceremonious replacement of the first team with the new team. It was suggested that the [[AbortedArc Millenium Message]] revealed that TJ, Cassie, Ashley, and Carlos were the Rangers prophesied to stop the United Alliance of Evil, which is why they were chosen seemingly at random.

** There was a more subtle one earlier on, in the immediate aftermath of the Millenium Message. Her first plot after that episode involves attacking a soccer match featuring Carlos and Ashley, with the implication that she's targeting them because she saw them in the message and wanted them eliminated before the power transfer. It comes off as a very forward-thinking plan for a villain with the... competence of Divatox.

In the movie an alien wizard named Lerigot is being hunted by SpacePirates lead by Divatox because his magic holds the key to unleashing a demon named Maligore. Seeking help from the Rangers, he is nonetheless taken by Divatox and the Rangers pursue, upgrading their Zeo powers into Turbo powers in order to do so. In a pitched battle, they rescue Lerigot and defeat Maligore, with Divatox swearing revenge. The show picks up the story as Divatox arrives on Earth and begins to wreak havoc with her own MonsterOfTheWeek.

As the season progresses there are many changes to the team: Zordon and Alpha return to their home planet of Eltar to be replaced by Dimitria, an alien with a mysterious connection to Divatox, and Alpha Six, her JiveTurkey robot assistant. Not long after, Tommy, Kat, Adam and Tanya, having recently graduated high school, each choose a successor to serve in their place on a new Turbo team. T.J., Cassie, Carlos and Ashley join Justin to fight Divatox's continuing threat.

The season concludes on, possibly, the biggest DownerEnding of a SeasonFinale in ''Power Rangers'' history. Both of the team's Megazords are destroyed, their weapons are lost, the Command Center/Power Chamber is blown up (again, but for good this time), and the Turbo powers vanish. The Rangers themselves are spared by a last minute summons for Divatox by the legendarily powerful Dark Specter, suggesting he is the GreaterScopeVillain behind all other enemies. Utterly defeated, the Rangers leave Justin behind and set off into outer space after Divatox, setting the stage for the next season, ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''.

* AllYourPowersCombined: The Turbo RAM, both in its "car" mode and Cannon Mode.

Tropes for ''Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie'' are included here. See also: the NonSerialMovie, ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' (1995), and the ContinuityReboot, ''Film/PowerRangers2017''.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Implied. All it took for Justin, who, to everyone else, just looked like a disheveled intruder crying wolf that the Power Rangers needed their super-advanced shuttle pronto, to convince the base commander of NASADA was, among other things we don't hear, the name of the planet Eltar. That alone convinces the commander. Of course, combined with many other things brought up in ''In Space'''s 2-part opener, this raises certain questions about NASADA...

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Implied. All it took for Justin, who, to everyone else, was a ragged-looking intruder lying that the Power Rangers needed their super-advanced shuttle pronto, to convince the base commander of NASADA was, among other things we don't hear, the name of the planet Eltar. The tone of surprise, ease of believing him, and urgency in launching the shuttle seems to indicate that Justin was telling the truth, as well as indicating he knows what's so special about Eltar...

%%* BreastPlate: Divatox.

[[RunningGag Did we ever tell you about that time]] [[NeverLiveItDown they got baked into a pizza?]]

* SlidingScaleofSillinessVersusSeriousness: Perhaps one of the most schizophrenic of ''Power Ranger'' seasons, especially in the first half. Plots where the BigBad planted detonators to blow up and kill people were common, there was a doomsday message prophesying all past villains joining forces, somewhat more mature plots like eating disorder and dangerous drag racing juxtaposed with goofy monsters and pretty silly villains thanks to a parody source footage. The second half, while not a parody embraces the inherent silliness- until the finale where things get [[CerebusSyndrome dead serious]]; the finale barely uses footage from its source Sentai other than a Zord battle.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Goldgoyle, the last monster the Rangers face, outclasses any other monster, destroying BOTH Megazords with zero effort.
** Divatox herself is a subversion, while Zedd was more evil than Rita, Master Vile more evil than Zedd, the Machine Empire more evil than Master Vile, Divatox is at best Rita levels of evil.
*** [[BewaretheSillyOnes She also came the closest to wiping out the Rangers once and for all by the end of that season.]]

* TotallyRadical: Alpha 6, who replaced Alpha 5's "Ay-yi-yi" catchphrase with "Yo, yo, yo."

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The biggest, though not the ''only'' such situation is the Zeo Crystal. The source of power for the Rangers in the previous season gets swiftly brushed aside and replaced by the Turbo powers in the movie. It's given no dramatic send off like when the [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Power Coins]] were destroyed. No one lampshades it, nor brings up how the Zeo Crystal continues to grow in power, which would make the need for new more powerful morphers to be pointless. This is strange considering how Kat morphs into Zeo Ranger I in the beginning of the movie, yet Adam doesn't possess his Zeo Crystal during his cameo in ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''. (Out-of-universe, it's obviously so his teamup with Carlos would be of the two Black Rangers; if it had been during Turbo he'd probably have become the green Zeo Ranger IV. In-universe, he used an unstable damaged Power Coin that could have ''killed'' him in favor of the Zeo powers.) On top of ''that,'' Tommy is powerless in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' until the Black Dino Gem is discovered (even though ''he'' used his Zeo powers just fine in "Forever Red!") But we don't have to go all the way to Adam's return, let alone PRDT, for a time when it's non-use was FridgeLogic: After the Turbo powers were lost, you'd think they'd have said "didn't those other guys used to be powered by this super-powerful crystal of supposedly planetwrecking strength?" before setting out ''powerless'' on a journey to space.

*** Oddly, neither Lt. Stone nor the Rangers seem to give a rat's ass about Bulk and Skull having completely dropped off the map without so much as a single word.
* WrenchWench: Ashley, who took auto-shop in "The Turn of the Wretched Wrench" only as a TakeThat to her slightly sexist father, only to find herself loving it.
** This plot was done because her Carranger counterpart was a mechanic, and the morphed footage in that episode made that obvious.

* MythologyGag: Tommy wearing all white whilst training for and taking part in a martial arts competition here, whilst Rocky & Adam both have at least an item of clothing in their Ranger color.

* EarWorm: It's used as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnCZvf0NEuk form of attack]] in "The Song of Confusion"

* EarWorm: InUniverse example; it's used as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnCZvf0NEuk form of attack]] in "The Song of Confusion"

** The show's Sentai counterpart ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'' is known as the show that saved ''Franchise/SuperSentai''. ''Power Rangers: Turbo'' is known as the shown that nearly killed ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.

* {{Irony}}: When the Rescue Megazord forms, a song plays that states the Rangers are "invincible" and they don't lose. Come the end of the season and they lose, and badly.

* {{Mooks}}: Pirhanatrons, and Chromites (used only by General Havoc).