History Trivia / PowerRangersMegaforce

* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: According to [[http://awwman.com/nps/main/2015/05/episode-191-interview-with-ciara-hanna/ a podcast interview]] with Ciara Hanna (Gia's actress), the Filler episode ''The Perfect Storm'', where Tensou was wandering around the city was "Tzachor's Baby" and had the most effort put into it, a contrast to the CreatorsApathy that otherwise was usually taken in regards to the show. This is especially odd when you consider that Tzachor favored the ShotForShotRemake approach, yet outside of the fight footage, the entire episode was completely original.

* RoleReprise: Eleven previous Ranger actors will return to the series during the season finale of ''Super Megaforce'', taking on their respective Ranger character and color. They are:
** [[spoiler:Brittany Anne Pirtle as Emily the Yellow Samurai Ranger]]
** [[spoiler:Hector David, Jr. as Mike the Green Samurai Ranger]]
** [[spoiler:Jason Faunt as Wesley Collins the Red Time Force Ranger]]
** [[spoiler:Alison [=MacInnis=] as Dana Mitchell the Pink Lightspeed Ranger]]
** [[spoiler:Sean Cw Johnson as Carter Grayson the Red Lightspeed Ranger]]
** [[spoiler:Reggie Rolle as Damon Henderson the Green Galaxy Ranger]]
** [[spoiler:Danny Slavin as Leo Corbett the Red Galaxy Ranger]]
** [[spoiler:Creator/MelodyPerkins as Karone the second Pink Galaxy Ranger]]
** [[spoiler:Patricia Ja Lee as Cassie Chan the Pink Space Ranger]]
** [[spoiler:Selwyn Ward as T.J. Johnson the Blue Space Ranger]]
** And finally, [[spoiler:Creator/JasonDavidFrank as Tommy Oliver in both his ''Mighty Morphin'' Green Ranger and White Ranger incarnations]]

** "Samurai Surprise" marked the return of Alex Heartman as Jayden Shiba, the original Red Samurai Ranger, as well as Rene Naufahu as Mentor Ji.

* NamesTheSame: The Gokaiger suits are referred to as Super Mega Mode. This name was also used in ''Samurai'' for when a ranger accessed Mega Mode while already using Super Samurai Mode.

** This created new problems, not helped by issues hitting the show '''hard'''. Taking 100 episodes of two different stories and condensing them down into a single 40 episode story arc resulted in massive pacing problems. Additionally, the two series varied widely in terms of tone and characterization, with ''Goseiger'' being more light and fun and ''Gokagier'' being a little more dark and complex. Combining stock footage from both created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past Rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ranger teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers" On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer (Austin St. John said at a panel in 2022 after being asked that, not only was he serving as an army medic in Iraq at the time so he ''couldn't'' take part or else he'd be considered AWOL and be arrested for it, but the pay was only around $2,000 or so, which he felt wasn't worth it, making an earlier comment of his about the pay not even being worth the price of the plane ticket make more sense), some like [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Valerie Vernon]] would have liked to come back had the invitations not been sent out so late, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). Plus, some actors who accepted got turned down shortly thereafter for no explained reason. An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.

** This created new problems, not helped by issues hitting the show '''hard'''. Taking 100 episodes of two different stories and condensing them down into a single 40 episode story arc resulted in massive pacing problems. Additionally, the two series varied widely in terms of tone and characterization, with ''Goseiger'' being more light and fun and ''Gokagier'' being a little more dark and complex. Combining stock footage from both created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past Rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ranger teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers" On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer (Austin St. John said at a panel in 2022 after being asked that, not only was he serving as an army medic in Iraq at the time so he ''couldn't'' take part or else he'd be considered AWOL and be arrested for it, but the pay was only around $2,000 or so, which he felt wasn't worth it, making an earlier comment of his about the pay not even being worth the price of the plane ticket make more sense), some like [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Valerie Vernon]] would have liked to come back had the invitations not been sent out so late, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). Plus, some actors who accepted got turned down shortly thereafter for no explaineed reason. An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.

** This created new problems, not helped by issues hitting the show '''hard'''. Taking 100 episodes of two different stories and condensing them down into a single 40 episode story arc resulted in massive pacing problems. Additionally, the two series varied widely in terms of tone and characterization, with ''Goseiger'' being more light and fun and ''Gokagier'' being a little more dark and complex. Combining stock footage from both created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past Rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ranger teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers" On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, some like [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Valerie Vernon]] would have liked to come back had the invitations not been sent out so late, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). Plus, some actors who accepted got turned down shortly thereafter for no explaineed reason. An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.

** This created new problems, not helped by issues hitting the show '''hard'''. Taking 100 episodes of two different stories and condensing them down into a single 40 episode story arc resulted in massive pacing problems. Additionally, the two series varied widely in terms of tone and characterization, with ''Goseiger'' being more light and fun and ''Gokagier'' being a little more dark and complex. Combining stock footage from both created wildly inconsistent characterization, with characters bouncing back and forth from calm and stoic to hyper and energetic and vice versa (the Pink Ranger got the worst of this). Additionally, ''Gokaiger'' had a gimmick of being able to morph into past Rangers and using their powers. ''Super Megaforce'' kept this, along with several ranger teams that never actually made it to North America who simply appeared with no explanation outside of being "new powers" On top of all this, the anniversary aspect left the door open to cameos and appearances from past Rangers (as happened in ''Gokaiger''). Of the hundred or so actors who played Rangers in the past 20 seasons, they brought back roughly 10, with actor after actor announcing they weren't returning either because they simply weren't asked or they declined the (apparently really bad) offer, some like [[Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy Valerie Vernon]] would have liked to come back had the invitations not been sent out so late, and some of those that did return didn't even have speaking parts to show for it (it should be mentioned that these appearances were no small feat, as the show now films in New Zealand). An anniversary season with an interesting theme and incredible Stock footage built right in has sadly turned into a massive case of WhatCouldHaveBeen.

* ExecutiveMeddling: A large amount of the problems this show faced can ultimately be traced back to this - the writers recognized that ''Goseiger'', the first show to be adapted, was largely considered a dull show, and wanted to get to the elements in the much more desirable ''Gokaiger''. However, Saban's contract with Toei strictly forbade them from outright skipping ''Goseiger'' (which became extremely ironic given what happened in [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge the next series]])[[note]]while the contract didn't require them to use all the footage, it ''did'' require them to use some, so Saban would've had to have adapted the ''Goseiger'' Megazord footage or the suit footage at the bare minimum if they had wanted to adapt ''Gokaiger''; since pulling a Thunderzords with the Samurai rangers and switching over to the ''Goseiger'' mechs in ''Super Samurai'' wasn't an option due to Shinkenger having a Green ranger but Goseiger having a Black Ranger, they had no choice but to use the ''Goseiger'' fight scenes and mech footage in the first half[[/note]], and producer Jonathan Tzachor forbade the writers from expanding upon the characters, and outright rejected many of the ideas listed below in WhatCouldHaveBeen[[note]]as shown in ''Wild Force'', where he had direct control, Tzachor seems to favor the idea of [[ShotForShotRemake shot-for-shot remakes]] as opposed to [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic adaptations]]; while this idea works fine when adapting a sci-fi Sentai like ''Timeranger'', ''Goseiger'', a fantasy-themed Sentai, wouldn't be as easy to pull this off with, and while ''Gokaiger'' was more tech-heavy, that series was heavily rooted in Sentai mythology, which wouldn't have been a problem if it wasn't for the fact that it featured transformations[=/=]tributes to 16 Sentai series that had never been adapted (counting ''Dairanger'' on the grounds that the core 5 were never adapted) into ''Power Rangers''[[/note]]. The decision to adapt ''Gokaiger'' in the second half as opposed to stretching ''Goseiger'' out over 2 years (like what happened in ''Samurai'', and what would happen in ''Dino Charge'' and ''Ninja Steel'') and adapting ''Gokaiger'' separately was made so that Saban could catch up with Sentai[[note]]had it not been for Nickelodeon requiring them to limit each season to 20 episodes, or had Saban taken ''Rangers'' to another network, Saban would only have been 2 years behind at most, and it's possible that the adaptation of ''Gokaiger'' would have aired at the same time as ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' aired in Japan; however, due to the aforementioned rule, ''Megaforce'' began airing right before ''Kyoryuger'', which was adapted into ''Dino Charge'', began airing, meaning that Power Rangers was ''3'' sentai behind by the time ''Super Megaforce'' aired it's last episode; had it not been for ''Kyoryuger'' being seen as more marketable than ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'' and Saban opting to skip the latter for the former, Saban would've possibly wound up being even further behind[[/note]]. Of course, this was somewhat problematic - aside from the fact that not all of the ''Goseiger'' plot threads that had been adapted into ''Megaforce'' had been resolved (hence the reason why midway through ''Super Megaforce'', they go back to using ''Goseiger'' footage to resolve the plot revolving Robo Knight and Vrak, despite the fact that the season had pretty much abandoned using ''Goseiger'' footage in favor of ''Gokaiger'' footage at that point), tone-wise, ''Goseiger'' and ''Gokaiger'' were two vastly different series, the core 5 didn't use the same colors, resulting in one of the rangers (Jake) changing color (going from a black ranger in ''Megaforce'' to a green ranger in ''Super Megaforce'') when the footage changed[[note]]ironically, there was a green ranger in ''Goseiger'', but due to the fact that he was a PosthumousCharacter in that series, he was not adapted in ''Megaforce''[[/note]], and the apparent need to burn up as much sentai footage as possible[[note]]combined, ''Goseiger'' and ''Gokaiger'' had 101 episodes, 2 30-minute movies, and 3 crossovers (the ''Goseiger''-''Shinkenger'' crossover, ''Goseiger vs Gokaiger'', and ''Gokaiger vs Gavan'') worth of footage that could've been adapted - if Saban had given the 50 episodes of ''Goseiger'', and the 51 episodes of ''Gokaiger'' the treatment they gave ''Samurai'', ''Megaforce'' would've ended in ''2016'', so some episodes had to been dropped regardless. Of the two, ''Gokaiger'' was seemingly made to be as easy to adapt as possible, due to many of the tribute episodes being for seasons that were adapted into ''Rangers'' seasons, and many of the mech configurations the Gokaigers obtained from said tribute episodes were the ones that got the most use, whereas ones from tribute episodes to unadapted series like ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'' or ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'' weren't present in adapted series tributes, and as for the few unadapted series that were featured outside of their tribute episodes (i.e., ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'', ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger''), they had very minimal screentime, not to mention that there were more transformations into teams that had corresponding ''Rangers'' teams; the majority of ''Goseiger'', which was made when no future adaptations had been announced due to Saban not being able to immediately buy the franchise back from Disney right away after ''RPM'', on the other hand, wasn't, not only having more of it's episodes themed in Japanese culture (i.e., having an entire plot focused on trains, which aren't as big in the US as they are in Japan or Europe) on top of having a theme (angels) that, had it been directly adapted, would've caused an outrage with moral guardians[[/note]].

* ExecutiveMeddling: A large amount of the problems this show faced can ultimately be traced back to this - the writers recognized that ''Goseiger'', the first show to be adapted, was largely considered a dull show, and wanted to get to the elements in the much more desirable ''Gokaiger''. However, Saban's contract with Toei strictly forbade them from outright skipping ''Goseiger'' (which became extremely ironic given what happened in [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge the next series]])[[note]]while the contract didn't require them to use all the footage, it ''did'' require them to use some, so Saban would've had to have adapted the ''Goseiger'' Megazord footage or the suit footage at the bare minimum if they had wanted to adapt ''Gokaiger''; since pulling a Thunderzords with the Samurai rangers and switching over to the ''Goseiger'' mechs in ''Super Samurai'' wasn't an option due to Shinkenger having a Green ranger but Goseiger having a Black Ranger, they had no choice but to use the ''Goseiger'' fight scenes and mech footage in the first half[[/note]], and producer Jonathan Tzachor forbade the writers from expanding upon the characters, and outright rejected many of the ideas listed below in WhatCouldHaveBeen[[note]]as shown in ''Wild Force'', where he had direct control, Tzachor seems to favor the idea of [[ShotForShotRemake shot-for-shot remakes]] as opposed to [[PragmaticAdaptation pragmatic adaptations]]; while this idea works fine when adapting a sci-fi Sentai like ''Timeranger'', ''Goseiger'', a fantasy-themed Sentai, wouldn't be as easy to pull this off with, and while ''Gokaiger'' was more tech-heavy, that series was heavily rooted in Sentai mythology, which wouldn't have been a problem if it wasn't for the fact that it featured transformations[=/=]tributes to 16 Sentai series that had never been adapted (counting ''Dairanger'' on the grounds that the core 5 were never adapted) into ''Power Rangers''[[/note]]. The decision to adapt ''Gokaiger'' in the second half as opposed to stretching ''Goseiger'' out over 2 years (like what happened in ''Samurai'', and what would happen in ''Dino Charge'' and ''Ninja Steel'') and adapting ''Gokaiger'' separately was made so that Saban could catch up with Sentai[[note]]had it not been for Nickelodeon requiring them to limit each season to 20 episodes, or had Saban taken ''Rangers'' to another network, Saban would only have been 2 years behind at most, and it's possible that the adaptation of ''Gokaiger'' would have aired at the same time as ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' aired in Japan; however, due to the aforementioned rule, ''Megaforce'' began airing right before ''Kyoryuger'', which was adapted into ''Dino Charge'', began airing, meaning that Power Rangers was ''3'' sentai behind by the time ''Super Megaforce'' aired it's last episode; had it not been for ''Kyoryuger'' being seen as more marketable than ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'' and Saban opting to skip the latter for the former, Saban would've possibly wound up being even further behind[[/note]]. Of course, this was somewhat problematic - aside from the fact that not all of the ''Goseiger'' plot threads that had been adapted into ''Megaforce'' had been resolved (hence the reason why midway through ''Super Megaforce'', they go back to using ''Goseiger'' footage to resolve the plot revolving Robo Knight and Vrak, despite the fact that the season had pretty much abandoned using ''Goseiger'' footage in favor of ''Gokaiger'' footage at that point), tone-wise, ''Goseiger'' and ''Gokaiger'' were two vastly different series, the core 5 didn't use the same colors, resulting in one of the rangers (Jake) changing color (going from a black ranger in ''Megaforce'' to a green ranger in ''Super Megaforce'') when the footage changed[[note]]ironically, there was a green ranger in ''Goseiger'', but due to the fact that he was a PosthumousCharacter in that series, he was not adapted in ''Megaforce''[[/note]], and the apparent need to burn up as much sentai footage as possible[[note]]combined, ''Goseiger'' and ''Gokaiger'' had 101 episodes, 2 30-minute movies, and 3 crossovers (the ''Goseiger''-''Shinkenger'' crossover, ''Goseiger vs Gokaiger'', and ''Gokaiger vs Gavan'') worth of footage that could've been adapted - if Saban had given the 50 episodes of ''Goseiger'', and the 51 episodes of ''Gokaiger'' the treatment they gave ''Samurai'', ''Megaforce'' would've ended in ''2017'', so some episodes had to been dropped regardless. Of the two, ''Gokaiger'' was seemingly made to be as easy to adapt as possible, due to many of the tribute episodes being for seasons that were adapted into ''Rangers'' seasons, and many of the mech configurations the Gokaigers obtained from said tribute episodes were the ones that got the most use, whereas ones from tribute episodes to unadapted series like ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'' or ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'' weren't present in adapted series tributes, and as for the few unadapted series that were featured outside of their tribute episodes (i.e., ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'', ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger''), they had very minimal screentime, not to mention that there were more transformations into teams that had corresponding ''Rangers'' teams; the majority of ''Goseiger'', which was made when no future adaptations had been announced due to Saban not being able to immediately buy the franchise back from Disney right away after ''RPM'', on the other hand, wasn't, not only having more of it's episodes themed in Japanese culture (i.e., having an entire plot focused on trains, which aren't as big in the US as they are in Japan or Europe) on top of having a theme (angels) that, had it been directly adapted, would've caused an outrage with moral guardians[[/note]].

* GodNeverSaidThat: Does Bigs have a powerup called "Ultra Scmultra" [sic]? No, it was actually an error made by FANDOM. In reality, that was actually an insult Bigs made, and the mispelling came from a ''Morphin Legacy'' video title.

** Emma's actress Christina Masterson auditioned for the role of Gia, while Gia's actress Ciara Hanna auditioned for the role of Emma.

** In Italian, Gia is voiced by Giuliana Atepi in ''Megaforce'' and by Creator/BenedettaPonticelli in ''Super Megaforce''.