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"Time for Time Force!"
— Morphing call

The twenty third instalment of the Power Rangers Redverse written by Mad Red X 12, a adaptation of the actual Power Rangers Time Force. By the year 3001 AD, Earth has evolved into a technologically advanced society rivalling Eltar and Edenoi, and has even discovered and thoroughly developed Time Travel. To prevent possible abuses of this technology, it is regulated by Time Force, an international organization that also captures dangerous Mutants and holds them in cryogenic stasis. The only mutant left is Ransik, a evil terrorist mastermind with plans to go back in time to have mutants rule the world. During a siege on his headquarters led by Time Force leader Logan Daniels, Ransik is defeated by Logan's son Alex using a experimental, highly advanced (by the standards of the 31st Century!) piece of technology known as a Chrono Morpher, of which there are only five in existence. Ransik is detained and sent off to be frozen, but during the transportation, his spoiled daughter Nadira and their alien mafia friends Gluto and Lira bust him out. Ransik and his crew go on to take all the cryogenically frozen mutants from the Londerz Cryo-Prison, the largest cryo-prison in existence, and use its time travel capabilities to travel back to the year 2001 AD. Alex, taking responsibility for the fact that they got away on his watch, collects the other four Chrono Morphers and breaks protocol by travelling a thousand years back into the past using a experimental Time Shuttle. However, unable to control the vehicle, he crashes into a forest and is severely injured.

Enter Jennifer "Jen" Scotts, Lucas Kendall, Katie Walker and Trip Regis, a quartet of teenage True Companions who by chance just so happened to have been playing baseball in the woods where Alex crashlanded and stumble upon the Time Shuttle. There, they find the unconscious Alex and drag him back to Katie's house in order to seek medical help, taking most of the tech with them. When Ransik arrives and attacks the town of Silver Hills, the four attempt to fight him and accidently wind up unlocking the other Chrono Morphers, which are designed to only activate to someone with a certain bio-signature, and find themselves with superhuman abilities as they battle Ransik's Cyclonian army. Alex regains consciousness just in time to help them, and together they morph into the Time Force Rangers and fend off Ransik's initial invasion force.

Alex heads back and picks up the Time Shuttle, learning that due to the damage it sustained it cannot travel back to the future, but can still travel back into the past, which just so happens to be where Ransik and his gang are planning to attack next, thanks to their time travel device being repaired by Laurmark, one of the mutants in the deep freeze. The five then band together and fight the mutants across time, while also dealing with their personal problems such as Alex having to adapt to being so far away from home and Jen's strained relationship with her emotionally abusive, obsessed-with-making-a-profit mother. They later acquire the help of Alex's 21st century ancestor Wesley Collins, who fights with the powers of the Quantum Morpher, and Wes's bodyguard Eric Myers in fighting the mutants across the time-space continuum.

A major theme in the series is the nature of fate. Alex, being from a period where Time Travel has been extensively researched, is resigned to the fact that the future is entirely predetermined. On the other hand, the other Rangers from the present day are determined to change their own destinies: Jen wishes to break free from the future that has been decided for her since her mother found on the road as a baby, while the others all want to gain strength in a world where connections and nepotism mean more than hard work. Eventually, the team discover that there's a connection between them that none would have realised, that the future in Millennium City isn't as rosy as one would expect, and that someone has been plotting everything in their adventures down to the last second, and in the end either destiny will be screwed, or they will.

The Time Force Rangers:

The Mutant Liberation League and their allies:

Recurring Power Rangers Redverse Tropes:

Tropes specific to Time Force:

  • Actor Allusion: In addition to Ransik's behind the scenes Wez cosplaying, in the scene where the Rangers stumble into a wardrobe while Trapped in TV Land and end up in different costumes, Jen winds up in Rebecca Chamber's outfitnote .
  • Adaptation Expansion: The Rangers actually time travel often throughout the series, although much of the series is still set in 2001.
  • Adaptational Curves: Both inverted and played straight. On one hand, Jen and Katie are both designed to be less curvy than in the original, in order to emphasise the fact that they're teenagers instead of adults. On the other hand, Katie, who was originally portrayed as being simply boyish-figured, is borderline Amazonian here in order to emphasise her The Big Guy role.
  • Adaptational Heroism:
  • Adaptational Intelligence:
    • Gluto, much more so. Yes, he's still incredibly Book Dumb, leaving most of the mathematic work to Lila, but he's also portrayed as being a Street Smart tactical genius who earned his leadership in the mafia.
    • Much like his Timeranger counterpart, Fearog is shown here to have created the DNA Patches.
  • Adaptational Species Change: The mutants look much less like aliens (except when they go giant) and more like actual mutant humans. Trip is also a human rather than a Human Alien, whereas Gluto, the only villain whose design is completely unchanged, is an alien.
  • Adaptational Ugliness: Nadira. Whereas in the original she was a moderately attractive human with no visible mutations, here she's covered in blue gangrenous sores, has no nose with small slits in the place of one, and like how her adoptive father needs to take his serum to combat Venomark's poison, she needs to inject herself with DNA samples to keep herself from melting away into nothing. The reason behind this is because she was made up of a pool of leftover DNA from when Alex was born and unlike the other mutants doesn't have enough actual DNA of her own to remain stable by herself.
  • Adaptational Wimp: Played with around Wes. Unlike in canon, he starts out as a Non-Action Guy, with the appearance of a single Cyclonian forcing him to run away in his first appearance. However, as the story progresses, he gradually changes from this to a Cowardly Lion to a full-on badass able to handle six Monsters of the Week at once.
  • Agent Scully: Alex, being from the future, will always attempt to explain how "magical" things are really advanced technology or Applied Phlebotinum. While he's usually right, there are some times, such as with the Black Knight, where he isn't.
  • Always Chaotic Evil: The future's opinion of Mutants, which is clearly shown not to be the case. This is also some mutants' view on humans.
  • Ancient Grome:
  • The Artifact: Gluto and his wife Lila being aliens. In Timeranger, all the villains were aliens. In Time Force, Gluto was a mutant. Here, all the mutants have been given more human-like (albeit deformed) designs, making the blatantly inhuman Gluto and Lila stand out a bit more.
  • Bad with the Bone: Much like in the original, Ransik can pull bones out of his body and use them as weapons, although he's shown turning them into bows, axes, daggers, lances and slingshots as well as swords.
  • Beard of Evil: Ransik, even back when he was a kid.
  • Bar Brawl: While hunting for Dymonbac in The Wild West, Alex and Trip get themselves involved in one.
  • Been There, Shaped History
  • Bloody Horror: For a relatively blood-free series, what's under Gien's suit is some of the most disturbing and realistic gore seen in the franchise.
  • Body Horror: All of the mutants' deformities:
    • Ransik retains his original deformed face and Tainted Veins, but this time he has Nemesis-like Combat Tentacles growing out of his back.
    • Nadira... well, see Adaptational Ugliness above.
    • Laurmark at first appears to be near-normal, his only mutation being a Klingon-like forehead. But when he briefly takes off his jacket, we see that he's got NO CHEST, his organs being wrapped around his spine a la the Eraserhead baby with only a practically transparent layer of skin and muscle protecting them.
    • Miracon has an exposed green brain pulsating at the top of his head.
    • Medicon has NO SKIN, forcing him to reside within a robotic suit.
    • Artillicon has what looks like metal growing over most of his body.
    • Ironspike has enormous muscles, especially in his arms and torso. His bones also seem to be beefed up as shooting him in the head only served to piss him off even more.
    • Reihou has blue skin, a disproportionate left eye and visible yellow veins running along her lower body.
    • Redeye, like her name suggests, has a single cycloptic red eye on the right side of her head.
    • Conwing has a discoloured face and is so horribly emancipated that you can see his entire skeleton, which has no ribs and only three fingers per hand.
    • Catthief has green reptilian skin that flakes off at times.
    • Tentaclaw is a purple-skinned head on fingers who uses a mech to get around.
    • Gougan has red eyes and is covered in visible, glowing red veins.
    • Izout has a mouth with More Teeth than the Osmond Family that takes up most of his face.
    • Samurhive has three eyes, each atop the other, and no visible mouth.
    • Severax has no left hand and a giant blade-like bone in its place, protruding out of his skin.
    • Flamecon has weird pale skin with purple lumps covering it and Black Eyes of Crazy.
    • And that's not even touching Notacon or the X-Gang, who are so badly mutated that they don't even look remotely human.
    • When a mutant grows gigantic and mutates, they become completely inhuman (due to their giant designs using the original mutant designs from the original show) and most of the time, their outfit or weapon fuses with their body.
    • Venomark's venom is capable of causing your skin to turn silver and boil.
  • Brick Joke: One early episode has Jen attempting to look up the news on a new mutant attack, only for her Windows 95 PC to crash, much to her frustration. In the finale, when the Rangers are sent into the future, she attempts to find a document containing a door passcode on a 3001 PC ... but it crashes too.
    Jen: Damn it! Even in the future, nothing works!
  • Bring My Brown Pants: When he and Eric get sent back into time to the age of dinosaurs, Wes noticeably pisses himself when a Tyrannosaurus Rex attacks them.
  • Bullet Time
  • Camelot: An occasional setting. When the Rangers go back here, expect swordfights.
  • Can't Take Anything with You: Downplayed - the Rangers are unable to take anything natural and unaltered with them from the past, such as rocks or people, but they can take things they've made themselves or that has already been artificially constructed, such as a sword from the Dark Ages or a dinosaur fang whittled into a knife.
  • Character Development: This series is all about the Character Development - let's take a look, shall we?
  • Chekhov's Gun:
    • Julia.
  • Computer Voice: Gien speaks in one.
  • Composite Character:
  • Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit: Becomes a Played for Laughs Chekhov's Gun later in the series. When the team get sent back to The '50s, Jen briefly disappears off at what would later become Silver Hills's main bank. Throughout the series, Jen, even after cutting herself off from her mother, is always able to afford things. As it turns out, it's because she actually took ten thousand dollars and dumped it all into the bank, leading to her getting a higher investment in 2001.
  • Covered in Gunge: Happens during the only proper Cat Fight in the series, where we get to see a use for Nadira's blue buboes - when Katie and Jen both punch her at once, they burst all over the girls, spraying bluish-green slime all over them.
    Katie: EWWW!
    Jen: Uugh! It's all over me!
    Nadira: ...Hmmm. I didn't know I could do THAT.
  • Cursed with Awesome: Several mutants. Miracon is a good example - his mutation is a Improbably High I.Q., and aside from his giant exposed green brain, he looks almost human.
  • Designer Babies: Every human from the future is one, although they're still born naturally via being implanted into a womb. The Mutants are failures of the genetic engineering process.
  • Drives Like Crazy: Lucas. Deconstructed in that it's the main reason why he doesn't have his driving license yet.
  • Evil Versus Evil: The Mutants vs. the X-Gang, and later against the robots.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: The X-Gang are well known for inflicting disgust and fear amongst their fellow mutants, to the extent of which the Mutant Liberation League has occasionally pulled an Enemy Mine with the Rangers specifically to try and take them down. When they were first found in the Hell's Gate vault in the Londerz Cryo-Prison, Ransik, who has a personal hatred of Venomark, outright ordered that their cryo-tubes be stomped on and any trace of those mutants be destroyed. Unfortunately, the X-Gang still manage to get out of stasis thanks to Gien using them as a smokescreen for her master plan.
  • Face of a Thug: Notacon. Amongst the most hideously deformed mutants, he barely looks even remotely human, with multiple freakish red eyes all over his body, long squid-like Combat Tentacles, and some genuinely disturbing Psychic Powers, but he's actually a benevolent, kind-hearted Nice Guy.
  • Family-Unfriendly Violence: The Redverse is no stranger to this trope, but Time Force really cranks this trope up, with much more frequent combat featuring real guns and weapons, and in-depth injury showcases than usual, even though blood is relatively minimal.
  • Fantastic Racism: In the future, most humans look down on mutants, viewing them as genetically inferior beings that are the trash and leftovers of the Designer Babies program. This is not aided by the fact that the most prominent mutants in the series are anarchist terrorists.
    • For emphasis, unlike in the original series, there are a handful of humans who are cryogenically frozen in the Londerz Cryo-Prison like the mutants, but whereas most of the mutants fought were found guilty of no greater crime than (essentially) just being mutants, the only humans put into the freezer are legitimate criminals and serial killers, all of whom have body counts in the thousands.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water: While Alex manages to adjust to his temporal displacement a lot better than most examples, he does still frequently run into difficulties, such as being unable to drive a car (or even really know what a car is), referring to Destiny's Child as "classical music" and getting confused looks from people around him, and not knowing how to work a payphone (this leads to a funny moment where he winds up smashing the payphone in a fit of rage).
  • Flashed-Badge Hijack: Attempted during part of the finale. It doesn't work.
    Alex: Time Force emergency. We need to commandeer your vehicle.
    Driver: Get lost!
    Katie: Alex, Alex! You just gotta be more polite and persuasive! (punches through the car window) GIVE US YOUR RIDE, YOU JERK! (throws the guy out of the car and gets everyone in it before driving off)
  • Imperial China:
  • Limited Wardrobe: Justified with Alex, as he only has one uniform he brought from the future. Played straight in that the other main Rangers all wear the same outfits day in day out:
    • Jen: Pink t-shirt, grey leather jacket, white pants
    • Lucas: Blue shirt, black jacket, black pants
    • Katie: Yellow shirt, black vest, green pants
    • Trip: Green t-shirt, orange coat, cerulean pants, black hat
  • Lovely Angels: Jen and Katie.
  • Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Katie and Trip.
  • Mayincatec:
  • Mythology Gag / Shout-Out:
    • There are a lot of references to Mirai Sentai Timeranger, Time Force's Sentai source, thrown in throughout the series:
      • When the Rangers morph, the Timeranger instrumental plays.
      • Gluto being a alien mafia don.
      • The entire existence of Lila, who is now a separate character from Nadira.
      • One of Wes's finishers is called "Time Fire".
      • Gien shares the same name as her Sentai counterpart, although in terms of both personality and backstory, she's more similar to Frax.
      • Logan being behind everything as revealed at the end is similar to his Sentai counterpart. However, there is a massive dosage of Adaptational Heroism involved - whereas Ryuya tried to alter the timestream to save his own ass, Logan wants to change time to protect his children.
    • There are plenty of references to previous Power Rangers seasons as well:
      • The Battle Fire Battilizer's finisher is similar to the Lightspeed Megazord's.
    • For some non-Power Rangers-related Shout-Outs, whenever the Rangers change their clothing style to fit in with a past time period, their appearances tend to be references.
    • A lot of science fiction movies, especially ones that feature time travel, are either referenced or even outright mentioned in the series.
    Alex: It's very important that we morph before we attempt to warp without the Time Shuttle. Our suits are what enable us to survive the rigors of a temporal warp.
    Jen: What happens if we … don't have our suits on?
    Alex: Any of you remember the ending of Time Cop?
    Lucas: Uh … yeah?
    Alex: THAT's what'll happen.
  • Never Say "Die": AVERTED.
  • One-Word Title: All episodes.
  • Rebellious Princess: Miss Scotts wanted Jen to grow up to inherit the family business from her, but her grooming served only to alienate Jen from everyone around him. Jen jumps at the chance to be a Ranger, as it's the first time in her life she's fought for anything.
  • Related in the Adaptation: Kind of averted - whereas in the original it was uncertain whether or not Nadira was Ransik's biological or adopted daughter, here she's explicitly stated to be adopted. Played straight with the main five rangers.
  • San Dimas Time
  • Status Cell Phone: Jen briefly shows off one. Alex reacts accordingly.
    Alex: The heck is this abomination?!
    Lucas: Uh... a phone?
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When Alex first arrives in the 21st century, he has next to no idea how anything works. He has no money, no residence, and nobody knows who he is, forcing him to spend the first few episodes hiding in Jen's basement before Jen ends up acquiring the Clock Tower.
  • Sword and Sandal:
  • Take That!:
    • One of Katie's Gamer Chick moments has her ask what was on every 2001 gamer's mind.
    Katie: Hey, Alex? I know you try not to give us spoilers about the future, but ... will Duke Nukem Forever ever come out?
    Alex: Uh... yeah. And it was ... great. (awkwardly looks away)
  • Technicolor Science
  • Technology Marches On: Happens in-universe whenever Alex has to use 21st century technology.
  • Terminator Twosome: Alex and Ransik briefly become this at the end of the first episode of the multi-parter in which Wes and Eric are introduced, with Alex protecting Wes from Ranisk, who intends to kill him and thus erase Alex from existence.
  • Time Travel
  • Time Machine: The Time Ship, which gets destroyed at the start of the series but is repaired by the end of the first season, the Time Jets and later Alex's Strata Cycle and Wes's Quantum Eagle.
  • Timey-Wimey Ball: Regularly lampshaded and touched upon.
    Trip: Time travel just doesn't make any sense. But I'm sure in 3001, they'll have made sense of it all, right, Alex?
    Alex: Nope. We haven't got it worked out then either.
  • Un-Robotic Reveal: At the end of the third season, the Rangers and Ransik all begin to realise that Gien could actually be a human or mutant wearing robotic Powered Armour. They're half-right - Gien is actually a Cyborg.
  • The Age of Dinosaurs: The Q-Rex was lost in this era. Wes and Eric get sent there by accident when they attack Commandocon and manage to survive by hiding within the Q-Rex and putting themselves in stasis for 65 Million Years until right before they were sent back in time.
  • The '50s: Another recurring setting, mainly used for Vector Cycle battles.
  • The Middle Ages:
  • The Vietnam War: The setting of two arcs.
  • The Wild West:
  • Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Gluto and Lira.
  • Victorian London: One of the settings of the series.
  • We Will Have Perfect Health in the Future: Downplayed; the Designer Babies of the 31st century are immune to all known natural diseases, but can still be affected by genetically engineered diseases and powerful biological weapons, such as Venomark's poison.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: A major plot point in the series, with the mutants' Freudian Excuse formed around receiving this treatment in the future.
  • World War III: In a moment of Black Comedy, Katie, while doing history homework, asks Alex about whether or not a third world war has actually happened. Alex, briefly forgetting his "no spoilers, don't wanna mess up the timestream" policy, accidently lets it slip that by 3001 there have been twenty world wars. He then asks if that's Too Much Information and Katie replies with a Blunt "Yes" while Jen, Trip and Lucas are stuck in Stunned Silence.
  • Zeerust: Alex has this reaction when Lucas and Trip show him Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
    Alex: Oh yeah, sure, this is totally what 2029 was like. Robot wars and some moron in shades running around quipping. (snorts)

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