History YMMV / PowerRangersMegaforce

* WhatTheHellCostumingDepartment: The use of the ''Sentai''-only ranger suits from the ''Gokaiger'' footage in general, but probably the most eggregious thing about it is that in the second to last episode of ''Super Megaforce''; "The Wrath", rather than shoot a new fight scene with five suits from adapted seasons, the produccers had the costuming department recreate the suits for Five Yellow, Change Griffon, Blue Mask, and the female variant of Green Flash for pick-up shots with the MMPR Red/Tyranno Ranger suit. You can tell they're not the original ''Sentai'' suits as well due to the materials they're made out of not being the shiny materials Toei uses, instead being the material the New Zealand team uses. It only reaffirms the lazy feeling of the season that they did that.

** One of the "New Powers" was ''Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman'', who technically become the first Power Rangers team without a Yellow Ranger. [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Something it shares with the next official Power Rangers series]].
*** Similarly, they are also the first Power Rangers team that had both a female White and Pink Ranger in the core team until [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel three years later]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Q1dqlsFVY A video]] parodying the {{hand wave}} of certain Sentais being "new powers" had the villain declaring that the "new powers" will be his. After ''Super Megaforce'' ended, ''Dino Charge'' and ''Ninja Steel'' both had {{Big Bad}}s whose primary goal is to grab the [=MacGuffins=].
** The episode “Vrak is Back” has an apocalypse scenario where the hero’s power-copying gimmick and super mode are cut off. 5 years later, Series/KamenRiderZiO did the same thing during its endgame.

** [Insert a name of a past Power Ranger actor] Refused the invitation/ was not invited to do a cameo in Super Megaforce (Due to many actors not coming back for various reasons).
** "At least it's not ''Samurai''."- What many fans say when trying to be nice about this season.
** "At least ''Samurai'' had a story" - What many fans say after the season ended.

** "Troy is the real robot."- a joke among the fandom was that Troy was an actual robot thanks to his stiff behaviour and Andrew Gray's acting- the "Real" part comes from after Robo-Knight appeared.

* BetterThanCanon: Like with ''Samurai'', fanfiction novelizations have gotten better reception than the actual seasons--in particular, the works of [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2270225/Darien-Fawkes Darian Fawkes]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/845890/Lily-Hanson Lily Hanson]] have been seen as far superior to the show.
** The self-proclaimed FixFic, dubbed ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11720841/2/Power-Rangers-Pirate-Crew Power Rangers:]] [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/9477914/chapters/21443816 Pirate Crew]]'', by Scsigs for ''Super'' has had some pretty positive feedback for maintaining what worked with ''Gokaiger'' while also adapting the episodes to fit within the context of ''Power Rangers''.

** Robo Knight is just... suddenly alive again in the Legendary Battle. No, [[UnexplainedRecovery they never explain what happened]], even as a simple HandWave. Nobody even reacts to it like he's been gone at all.

* ValuesDissonance: Episode 17 of ''Megaforce'' has Metal Alice blow up a train bridge to hijack a train, only telling the rangers that she'll disrupt transportation. Compared to Japan and Europe, the majority of trains in the US are used for transporting industrial needs, and trainspotting is not as big a hobby in the US, meaning that what would be a major blow to transportation in either of the former 2 areas would, at most, be a mild annoyance to the people whose route was hijacked in the US. Even the episode itself somewhat lampshades this, since not only do the rangers check airports and harbors before train stations[=/=]bridges, the plot is resolved by the halfway point. Considering that the corresponding ''Goseiger'' episode (38) was basically filler[[note]]the episode saw the TV debut of the mech that had been used in TheMovie...that did not appear outside of said movie and said episode[[/note]], one can't help but wonder why this episode was adapted ''at all''.

** Megaforce's latter half's original adaptation, ''[[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'', is a universally loved season in the [[Franchise/SuperSentai]] franchise. Many fans felt in comparison, the American version doesn’t hold a candle to the original ''at all'' with its bland characters and story and how it doesn’t pay as much homage to past Ranger seasons as ''Gokaiger'' did.

* UnfortunateImplications: [[Characters/AmericasNextTopModelCycleThirteen Sundai Love]], an actress trying out for Power Rangers [[http://racebending.tumblr.com/post/27466085749/an-actress-on-twitter-writes-i-didnt says she was told that they couldn't cast her in the show]], since they [[TokenMinority already cast a Black actor]]. They did end up casting a Black girl as the Pink Ranger [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge next team]] and another as the White Ranger in the [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel team after that]], but as of ''Beast Morphers'' there has never been a season of ''Power Rangers'' with more than one black character in the team, though it nearly happened in ''Ninja Steel'' before the original Yellow left and was replaced by a white actor.

* BrokenBase:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-kC4TorDg4 Some footage]] of the ''Megaforce'' version of the Legend War has been released... with Saban and the producers doing their damndest to not show ANY of the pre-''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' teams (and arguably [[StockFootageFailure not doing a particularly good job of it]]). Some fans are NOT happy about that. There are a few, however, who think the footage was extremely well cut, in that the only way you would notice the pre-''Zyuranger'' teams at all is if you were specifically looking for them.
** During the ''Super Megaforce'' filming, reports started coming in for many former Rangers ''not'' appearing, [[http://www.tokunation.com/showthread.php?t=44462 for various reasons]]. A Q&A session with Austin St. John (Jason of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'') revealed he was invited for the finale, but declined saying that what he was being offered "wasn't worth the price of a plane ticket". However, he clarified that it was less because of ego and more out of self-respect. While some fans were absolutely furious--some of the complaints bordering on ridiculous and [[MisBlamed mis-blame]]--others seemed to give Saban Brands the benefit of the doubt and reserved judgement on the finished product and even pointed out how some fans were blowing things out of proportion.
** Episode 2 of ''Super Megaforce'' reveals that they can now morph into the Dairanger suits, with the only explanation being that they're from an alien planet. Many fans call this lazy, some are okay with it, and a few are glad that the Dairanger suits are being used. Three episodes later we're treated to the [[Series/ChoushinseiFlashman PinkFlash]] and [[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman YellowMask]] outfits, without so much as a HandWave, probably hoping viewers would just remember the "never seen on this planet" spiel. Some fans can excuse the ''Dairanger'' suits on the grounds that said season was ''technically'' adapted into season 2 of ''Mighty Morphin'', but it's not a universal opinion, but the same can't be said for the other "New Powers". Even if you interpret Gosei's statement of the Rangers unlocking "powers never before seen on this Earth" right before they use the Dairanger suits as an explanation for ''all'' the New Powers, it's never revealed what caused this - was it the rangers using the powers of [=RPM=], a team from a different dimension? Was it Gosei just now deciding that the rangers needed these powers, despite the fact that they weren't struggling at all at the moment? Or was it something else entirely?

* ValuesDissonance: An unintentional example due to the show being such a blatant CutAndPasteTranslation. Episode 17 of ''Megaforce'' has Metal Alice blow up a train bridge to hijack a train, only telling the rangers that she'll disrupt transportation. Compared to Japan and Europe, the majority of trains in the US are used for transporting industrial needs, and trainspotting is not as big a hobby in the US, meaning that what would be a major blow to transportation in either of the former 2 areas would, at most, be a mild annoyance to the people whose route was hijacked in the US. Even the episode itself somewhat lampshades this, since not only do the rangers check airports and harbors before train stations[=/=]bridges, the plot is resolved by the halfway point. Considering that the corresponding ''Goseiger'' episode (38) was basically filler[[note]]the episode saw the TV debut of the mech that had been used in TheMovie...that did not appear outside of said movie and said episode[[/note]], one can't help but wonder why this episode was adapted ''at all''.

* ThemePairing: Both Troy/Emma and Jake/Gia are shipped for as they shared the elements Sky and Earth respectively.

* LauncherOfThousandShips: Emma is this to a season scale. Being TheHeart of the team, she's basically shippable enough to be paired with well...all members of the group (except Robo Knight maybe). It's helped by the fact she's ShipTease magnet with some fans shipped with [[RoboShip the robot turned friend Rico.]] Also she's paired with [[CrossoverShip Jungle Fury Red Ranger Casey]] appeared in "Spirit of tiger" (Super Megaforce episode). The amount of edits on Youtube dedicated for her pairings is quite noticeable.

** It’s original adaptation, ''[[Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger Gokaiger]]'', is a universally loved season in the Super Sentai franchise. Many fans felt in comparison, the American version doesn’t hold a candle to the original with its bland characters and story and how it doesn’t pay as much homage to past Ranger seasons as ''Gokaiger'' did.

** Despite ''Megaforce'' clearly trying to harken back to the ''Mighty Morphin'' days, there is not an episode that takes place in Angel Grove. Having the rangers visit the town (or better yet, having Angel Grove be where ''Megaforce'' was set) would've been a perfect way to feature older rangers, since given Angel Grove's history with Rangers, they'd surely have some kind of museum for Power Rangers by now; plus, given that it's been so long since we've seen any of the city (with the anniversary special ''Overdrive'' did only feature a warehouse in Angel Grove), it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine that there was a major overhaul of everything (not to mention not everything in Angel Grove was shown).
** During the final of ''Megaforce'', the episode ends with Vrak seemingly disappearing, and Metal Alice and the Messenger being the last villains from that season the Rangers defeat. It should've instead ended with the Rangers fighting Vrak one last time, and sacrificing their powers to destroy him - not only would this justify them getting new Morphers in-universe, but it would've also meant that the show wouldn't have to go back to ''Goseiger'' footage in the second half of ''Super Megaforce'' to resolve his fate.

** Despite ''Megaforce'' clearly trying to harken back to the ''Mighty Morphin'' days, there is not an episode that takes place in Angel Grove. Having the rangers visit the town (or better yet, having Angel Grove be where ''Megaforce'' was set) would've been a perfect way to feature older rangers, since given Angel Grove's history with Rangers, they'd surely have some kind of museum for Power Rangers by now; plus, given that it's been so long since we've seen any of the city (with the anniversary special ''Overdrive'' did only featuring a warehouse in Angel Grove), it wouldn't be a stretch to imagine that there was a major overhaul of everything (not to mention not everything in Angel Grove was shown).

** You can tell whenever it's switched from American to Japanese footage because of the quality of video. The New Zealand footage has a richer texture to it duee to having warmer color grating and filters applied. Not only that, but a lot of the Sentai footage is shot in the morning which makes it very noticeable if the American footage is shot in the afternoon. Not to mention that the Japanese ranger suits are made oout of a more shiny material while the US suits aren't.

** You can tell whenever it's switched from American to Japanese footage because of the quality of video. The New Zealand cameras have a richer texture to it. Not only that but a lot of the Sentai footage is shot in the morning which makes it very noticeable if the American footage is in the afternoon.