Power Rangers Animal Strike
is a Power Rangers fan fiction by AgUaScorch on fanfiction.net. It details the adventures of a new team of Rangers in their mission to defeat the Axis.
Also has a "Sentai" counterpart, Sutoraiku Sentai Kemonoranger.
Traditional Power Rangers tropes include:
- Make My Monster Grow: Axis' dragon Zaku fires a beam from their lair at the destroyed monster, enlarging it.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: Psycho Mode, which temporarily doubles as a Superpowered Evil Side.
- The Mentor: All the Rangers have one of their own. Overall, the role is filled by Mick, Redbot and Steel.
- The Psycho Rangers: The Trope Namer gets brought Back from the Dead in chapter 6.
- Rookie Red Ranger: Inverted, as Saul was the first to be recruited.
- Those Two Guys: Eduardo and Yuki, students of the Wind Academy. Yuki gets a Family-Unfriendly Death while Eduardo becomes a Ranger
Tropes exclusive to this work include:
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: The original mentors have done this, with Kai appearing to mentor Saul.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Eduardo and Sakura seem to exist solely for the purposes of subplots. But then they become Rangers on their own.
- Death by Origin Story: Yuki and everyone else at Dustin's Wind Ninja Academy.
- Hidden Agenda Villain: Axis' plans are unknown, even to their Arch-Enemy Kai.
- I Have Your Wife: Sakura's brother is a hostage in both the present day and Saul's flashbacks.
Word of God indicates he'll have a bigger role later on. - I Work Alone: Saul refuses to work with the rest of the team, due to being the first to be recruited. He eventually mellows out.
- Mythology Gag: The team combines the Animal Motifs from Power Rangers Jungle Fury and Power Rangers Beast Morphers with the battery gimmick from Power Rangers Dino Charge.
- The Sixth Ranger is coloured green.
- Plus his new Mecha Expansion Pack is an elephant.
- At least one new pair of Rangers are Captain Ersatz of the Thunder Rangers. Their counterparts in Kemonoranger were even mentored by Lightning Speed Gouraiger.
- The Sixth Ranger is coloured green.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: The Anti-Ranger Taskforce and their leader Hunter consider the Power Rangers menaces because of one incident in London, even months after the fact.
- One-Steve Limit: Acknowledged. When he hears the project is named Operation:Animal Strike, Saul points out that there was already a team with operation in its name. Redbot then clarifies that "operation" isn't in the team name.
- Played Straight with Kai, who shares his name with a former blue ranger.
- Real-Person Fic: K-pop group BLACKPINK are recurring characters.
- Samus Is a Girl: the last Ranger introduced is female, implied to be Jisoo of BLACKPINK.
- Shout-Out: In Kemonranger, Kite (the counterpart to Saul) is hounded by a Hammy Herald who calls him the ultimate king and prefaces his speeches with "IWAE".
- He now has a counterpart in Animal Strike as well.
- Special Guest: Chapter 2 features several real world celebrities performing a concert which gets attacked by Axis.
- Superpowered Evil Side: In Kemonranger, Hyoma seemingly has one.
- Wham Episode: Chapter 32 introduces the final Ranger.
- Chapter 33 reveals that Neo is Caste’s brother and the latter is behind Saul’s path to become a king, which involves Project: Animal Strike in some way.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Saul and the others often give this to each other, the former because he thinks the others are
too unprofessional and the latter because the former is a Jerkass.
