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  • Power Rangers beat Super Sentai to the punch at a Kamen Rider crossover, thanks to Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers' Poorly Disguised Pilot story arc for Masked Rider by a long gap. To elaborate: Said MMPR episodes aired in 1995. The Samurai Sentai Shinkenger crossover arc of Kamen Rider Decade aired in 2009, or 14 years later.
  • Power Rangers also had a female Red Ranger before Super Sentai: S.P.D.'s A-Squad leader Charlie, to Shiba Kaoru, the female ShinkenRed, a 4-year difference.
  • Ninja and Dino-based seasons have an interesting relationship. Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger and Ninja Sentai Kakuranger - which had dinosaur and ninja motifs respectively - were both adapted into Mighty Morphin. Ninja Storm was immediately succeeded by and had a crossover with Dino Thunder the latter of which saw the return of Tommy Oliver, who was part of MMPR in both its ninja and dino incarnations, as a series regular. Dino Charge was immediately followed by Ninja Steel, a reversal of the Ninja Storm and Dino Thunder situation. Ninja Steel's White Ranger also shares her first name with the Mission Control and tech support character from Dino Thunder.
  • Adored by the Network: British channel Kix. They love the show so much, that their second channel, Kix Power, is named after Power Rangers and for the first six weeks is showing nothing else!
  • Approval of God: Hiroshi Miyauchi, the actor who played Aoranger and Big One is aware that Power Rangers is an adaptation of Super Sentai and has voiced his support, saying that the former’s existence is an extension of the latter’s message about justice, teamwork, and the greater good.
  • Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Zordon never told Alpha to recruit "teenagers with attitude." He asked for "overbearing and overemotional humans." Alpha said, "not that, not teenagers!" The phrase was used in the introduction, but was a way to condense that scene. Became a trope namer.
  • California Doubling: Often. Starting with Ninja Storm it became New Zealand Doubling (for California no less).
    • Briefly Australia Doubling while the movie was being filmed, though most of the episodes filmed there were actually set in Australia.
    • For the 2017 film reboot, Vancouver Doubling.
  • Cast the Expert: The show usually seeks out people with martial arts or other athletic backgrounds to start with.
  • Cast the Runner-Up:
    • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers:
      • Jason Narvy (Skull) auditioned for Billy.
      • Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack) also went in reading for Billy but changed tunes when he saw that playing Zack would be more attuned to his skillset.
      • David Yost originally auditioned for the role of Jason Scott/Red Ranger, and actually got the part. He would later turn down the role, feeling that he didn't look the part to play the team leader, which led to him getting the role of Billy instead.
      • Catherine Sutherland actually auditioned for the role of Dulcea in the movie, but was turned down as the crew felt that she looked too young for the role. Nevertheless, her performance in the audition impresse the filmmakers, who later cast her to play Katherine, Kimberly's Pink Ranger successor.
      • Dan Southworth (Eric Myers on Power Rangers Time Force) stated at Power Morphicon that he had auditioned for the role of Adam during production of the second season. But instead, Johnny Yong Bosch got the role and Dan continued his stunt work. In addition to being Austin St. John's stunt double (morphed), he also acted as a Stunt Double to Johnny (also morphed). He also auditioned for Chad in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue.
      • Brad Hawkins was originally going to become the White Ranger in Season 2. Around this time, Saban had shot a pilot for a new show that would become VR Troopers, with Jason David Frank playing the Ryan Steele, since his character on Power Rangers had lost his powers. Before the episodes were shot, Haim Saban felt it was a better idea to bring back Tommy to Power Rangers as the new White Ranger, so the roles were switched and Hawkins ended up as Ryan Steele. He was then going to reprise his role as Ryan Steele in Power Rangers Zeo, now the Gold ranger. He did voice Trey of Triforia before his identity was revealed.
    • Power Rangers in Space: Patrick David auditioned for the role of Andros in Power Rangers in Space before being cast as Psycho Red.
    • Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Jason Faunt and Rhett Fisher also auditioned for Leo Corbett. They would later be rangers - Rhett became Ryan the Titanium Ranger and Faunt became Wesley Colins.
    • Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue:
      • Rhett Fisher (Ryan/Titanium Ranger) originally auditioned for the role of Carter. Interesting if you think about how, in the show, Carter originally tried to use the Titanium Ranger powers, but couldn't handle it.
      • Jason Faust also auditioned for the role of Carter before being cast as Wes in Time Force.
      • Deborah Estelle Phillips was actually approached for a role (likely for the role of either Kelsey, Dana or Angela), but she didn't think herself ready for the job and would later play Katie in Time Force.
      • Phillip Jeanmarie auditioned for the role of Joel before being cast as Max in Power Rangers Wild Force.
    • Power Rangers Time Force:
      • Dan Southworth was offered the role of Wes in Time Force; but, as fans already know, Jason Faunt got that role instead. Interesting to note: in the show, the team was hoping that the Quantum Morpher would go to Wes. Just before that, he auditioned for Lucas. But, apparently, the crew thought he was "a little too intense" to be the Blue Ranger.
      • Ricardo Medina Jr. auditioned for the role of Eric, right after Southworth. He would later play Cole Evans in Wild Force and Deker in Samurai.
    • Power Rangers Ninja Storm:
      • Emma Lahana auditioned for Tori Hanson. And since she was trying to launch a music career at the same time, one wonders if the character would have been a straight copy of Hurricaneger's Nanami had she gotten the role. She would later play Kira in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder.
      • Jason Chan auditioned for the role of Dustin before being cast as Cam.
      • James Napier was offered the role of Shane but scheduling conflicts with his role in The Tribe prevented him from accepting it, though he would be cast as Eric in the finale before playing Conner in Dino Thunder.
    • Power Rangers Mystic Force: Firass Dirani and Richard Brancatisano, who played Nick and Xander respectively, actually tried out for each other's parts.
    • Before being cast as Dillon in Power Rangers RPM, Dan Ewing auditioned for the role of Casey in Power Rangers Jungle Fury.
    • Power Rangers Samurai:
      • Emily was almost played by Ciara Hanna, they even had the contract ready, but she backed out before signing. She would return to play Gia in Power Rangers Megaforce.
      • Spike's actor, Felix Ryan actually tried out for the part of Antonio.
      • According to a recent interview, during the audition process, at one point, they moved Hector David, Jr. over to the Gold Ranger.
    • Power Rangers Megaforce:
      • Orion's actor, Cameron Jebo, originally tried out for the part of Troy.
      • Christina Masterson (Emma) and Ciara Hanna (Gia) auditioned for each other's roles.
      • Noah's actor John Mark Loudermilk auditioned for the role of Jake. Peter Sudarso also auditioned for the role.
    • Power Rangers Dino Charge: Brennan Mejia auditioned for the roles of Chase and Riley before being cast as Tyler.
    • In Power Rangers Beast Morphers:
      • Liana Ramirez initially auditioned for the Yellow Ranger before Jacqueline Scislowski would take the role. She instead got casted as Roxy, which adds irony to her character being the intended Yellow Ranger.
      • Hunter Deno who would later play Amelia Jonas in Power Rangers Dino Fury also mentioned that she had auditioned for the role of Zoey.
  • The Cast Showoff: Many hobbies and skills of the actors are integrated into their characters:
    • Plenty of expert martial artists are known to have joined the cast, including:
      • Austin St. John (Jason)
      • Thuy Trang (Trini). Not only that, but Trang also earned a scholarship to study civil engineering at the University of California, Irvine, before being approached for the role of Trini.
      • Jason David Frank (Tommy)'s martial arts training also allowed him to preform more risky combat stunts than the other Rangers at times.
      • Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam)
      • Steve Cardenas (Rocky)
      • Michael Chaturantabut (Chad/Blue Lightspeed Ranger)
      • Daniel Southworth (Eric/Quantum Ranger)
    • Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly) actually had a gymnastics career before joining the cast. David Yost (Billy) was a gymnast as well, and you can tell costuming had a hard time downplaying his athleticism in the early days, before Billy Took a Level in Badass.
    • Nakia Burrise (Tanya), Emma Lahana (Kira) and Steven Skyler (Antonio), the latter a Glee alumnus, all got to showcase their singing.
    • Catherine Sutherland (Kat) and Walter Jones (Zack) had backgrounds in dancing which was incorporated into their characters' fighting styles.
  • Channel Hop:
    • Started on Fox but when the Fox Kids block died it went over to ABC and Disney's cable channels (but, strangely, not Disney XD when it launched).
    • When Saban's new company got it, they struck a deal to have it aired on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. Once Saban Brands bought out 4Kids Entertainment's assets, they took advantage of the included CW programming block and scheduled Power Rangers Lost Galaxy as part of the Vortexx launch lineup.
      • And starting with Super Megaforce, Cartoon Network aired the series in Latin America and Brazil, despite its US broadcasting rights still belonging to Nick. Oddly enough, that is true also in Southeast Asia, where it also airs on CN from Wild Force onwards, when it should have been airing on Disney Channel Asia (during the Disney era) or Nick Southeast Asia (in the Neo Saban era).
    • By the time of Dino Fury, season 1 aired on Nickelodeon, but come season 2, it moved to Netflix, making it the first time it moved from cable TV to online streaming in the US. And with that, probably the end of the 20 episode rule.
    • In the UK, it was on ITV/CITV from MMPR through to RPM, and Channel 5 for Samurai, Super Samurai and Megaforce. It was also on Sky One for the first 145 episodes, then Fox Kids/Jetix from Alien Rangers through to RPM, then Nickelodeon/Nicktoons for Samurai, Super Samurai and Megaforce, then Pop for Super Megaforce. Latterly, Kix airs old episodes - its success there is likely why its sister channel Pop has decided to take over from Nickelodeon as the show's UK home.
    • Power Rangers has the dubious honor of going through the most Hollywood studios out of most any television franchise, going from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment to WEA (through its WarnerVision division, both those companies handled video releases only) to Twentieth Century Fox to Disney to Lionsgate to Paramount in various different capacities.
    • In Canada, the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers aired on Global and YTV, until complaints by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council yanked the show off Canadian airwaves (Outside of households that had access to a FOX or ABC affiliate). The show would later end up on Family Channel, which aired Lightspeed Rescue and Wild Force, along with the rest of the Disney-produced seasons. When Saban reacquired the franchise and moved it to Nickelodeon, the show returned to YTV with Samurai. But after YTV's parent company, Corus Entertainment, gained 100% control of Teletoon, the show would move to the latter network note  just as Corus acquired new episodes of Super Megaforce.
    • In Italy, Italia 1 aired the series from Mighty Morphin to Lost Galaxy. Lightspeed Rescue and Time Force aired on Fox Kids/Jetix alongside reruns of the older series, then it came back on Italia 1 for Wild Force and Ninja Storm plus Lost Galaxy reruns. Fox Kids/Jetix added these two series to their rerun blocks and got Dino Thunder too, and then Rai 2 aired from S.P.D. to Jungle Fury. Samurai was aired on Italia 1 once again, with K2 airing RPM some time later alongside reruns of Mystic Force and Operation Overdrive, Megaforce and Dino Charge both aired on Boing and Pop got the show's rights in time for the airing of Ninja Steel (plus reruns of Operation Overdrive, Jungle Fury and RPM)
  • Creator Backlash: Between being a well known kids show that can inspire Typecasting/I Am Not Spock for ambitious actors alongside a very low budget that pays them the bare minimum and a rough filming schedule, some actors have regrets from being a part of the show.
    • Austin St. John, Walter Jones and Thuy Trang campaigned for a pay increase since the show's popularity exceeded all expectations, and walked off when their demands weren't met. They did generally remain on good terms with the cast and production team, with John and Jones returning to the show at different times.
    • David Yost (Billy, the first Blue Ranger) hid from the fandom after the show ended, as he revealed in a 2010 interview he was gay and that he quit the show after being passively harassed by the behind-the-camera staff. But Yost made it clear that he still enjoyed the experience of playing Billy, loves the fans who support him and frequently goes to Power Morphicon to hang out with former cast mates. However, when Saban invited him to cameo in Super Megaforce, Yost declined, comparing it to an abusive ex trying to get back together with you. He has seemed to have eased up years later (notably, after the franchise was completely out of Saban's hands), returning in a big way for the 30th anniversary in both the Netflix special and Power Rangers Cosmic Fury.
    • Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly, the first Pink Ranger) also fell under this during the late 90's and early 2000's. At the time she was trying to make it as a singer/songwriter/actor and didn't want to talk about it. After a respectable career beyond the show she has come back to appreciate her time on the show and has even said that she would love to play Kimberly once again if asked to, though she has declined several invitations to return, which include Megaforce and the 30th anniversary special. Still, she's active in other corners of the franchise, such as the comics.
    • Though very proud of her role as Aisha, Karan Ashley has spoken negatively about how her departure was handled. She was promised a 10-episode arc but the show instead let her go after the cast was turned into children, and she has never made an appearance in the show until the 30th anniversary special.
    • While Steve Cardenas liked his time on the show, he's not too fond of his performance during his early tenure as Rocky since he had no prior acting experience. It's noticeable during the last few episodes with him onscreen that his performance improved going into Zeo.
    • Heather's actress Sarah Brown has said the reason why she stopped acting along with refusing to attend fan conventions relating to Power Rangers and VR Troopers is that co-creator (and then-fiancé) Shuki Levy was physically abusive to her and that Haim Saban and his wife Cheryl were complicit in such a thing. She also pleaded her fans to boycott the Power Rangers franchise, Saban and Levynote  because of this.
    • Catherine Sutherland has said that she's not a fan of the romance between Kat and Tommy.
    • With the exception of Jason David Frank, the three original Turbo Ranger actors were disappointed to learn that their characters were going to be written off the show to make way for new recruits. Catherine Sutherland even expresses that the filmmakers could have at least kept them around until Power Rangers In Space. And to make it worse, they had to find out about this information from a newspaper article. Blake Foster, the only actor that was not written out, was upset to see the old cast go all at once, despite quickly warming up to the new cast.
    • Christopher Khayman Lee stated that none of the cast were that thrilled about the Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation crossover, especially since said crossover was only a few episodes in and was sewn into the overarching plot, meaning it couldn't be considered non-canon. He admits that he enjoyed getting to beat the crap out of three of the turtles, however. He also revealed that he didn’t like Andros' tears bringing back Karone in "Countdown to Destruction", as he felt it was too cheesy, even by this series' standards.
    • Tony Oliver, a former producer from the days of Mighty Morphin'-Turbo, didn’t like that Zordon was killed off due to his preference for the character.
    • Danny Slavin (Leo, the Red Galaxy Ranger), for the record, did get along very well with his castmates, producer Scott Page-Pagter and director Koichi Sakamoto as well as the writers. However, there was always a lot of tension between him and Saban's management, which soured his relationship with the franchise for many years. He later admitted he only did the role to pay for law school, and was disillusioned during the Lightspeed Rescue crossover when Amy Miller (Trakeena) was being slighted on her salary and left the set in protest; it was also partly due to the fact that he had already fallen out with management. He nearly sat out the "Forever Red" reunion, until a friend and producer convinced him to have a few unmorphed scenes filmed late in the process. Eventually he returned for Super Megaforce's version of the Legend War, despite having not acted in 10 years. Like Amy Jo Johnson, he seems to have gotten over his old shame; he can now be seen frequenting Power Morphicon, Comic-Con, and other related fan conventions.
    • Paul Schrier jokingly calls Lost Galaxy "the couch season" because of how little Bulk had to do.
    • Amit Bhaumik, lead writer of "Power Rangers Wild Force S1E34 Forever Red", which was setting Tommy up to be the heir to Zordon in the defunct Hexagon season, has expressed his distaste for how clumsily Tommy was brought back, stating and implying on multiple occasions that transforming legendary Power Ranger and leader "Tommy Oliver" into reclusive paleontologist "Dr. Oliver", especially given the short span of time between the end of Power Rangers Wild Force and the beginning of Dino Thunder, made little sense for his character.
    • James Napier (Conner) seems to consider his time on the show as this. After returning for the Power Rangers S.P.D. teamup, he has never even vaguely mentioned his connection with the franchise, and it's been said that he only took the role to use the money towards a career in filmmaking, which he followed through with, even becoming a success in his home country with his 2015 film The Dark Horse. He is also one of the few Power Rangers actors to not attend a single Fan Convention; as of 2023, he seems to be the most blatant case of old shame in the entire series (beating out Danny Slavin, who seemed to have warmed up in later years), unless he himself speaks on the matter.
    • Emma Lahana (Kira) was open about her time on the show for a while and often engaged with fans, but has become significantly more sour regarding it over the past several years, expressing genuine annoyance at constantly being called "Kira" instead of her real name to the point of directly asking people to stop doing it, as well as more or less regarding her tenure as a stepping stone to bigger things. As of 2023, she's kept her distance.
    • Additionally, Jason David Frank was not happy when he was not invited back for the Dino Thunder/SPD team-up episodes as a cost-cutting measure.
    • Producer Jackie Marchand was not fond of the finished version of "Once A Ranger", which cut out scenes that would have made the Overdrive team's decision to leave explained better and made more sympathetic. She says the aired version "didn't reflect well on the Overdrive team and made them seem like assholes".
    • Eddie Guzelian was saddened by Disney not bothering to get his ideas for the end of the series, or allowing him to ensure his original vision would be fulfilled. Ari Boyland later said his dismissal was "traumatic".
    • Some of the cast have hinted in interviews that they would have preferred the original vision to the direction it went in, although they don't know it themselves. Adelaide Kane later outright said that she took Eddie Guzelian's departure very badly, and she jokes that she's still bitter about Tenaya-7 not becoming a Ranger herself.
    • Ari Boyland wasn't too happy at how Out of Focus Flynn was in the second half of the series. He recalls the experience of reading the scripts for each episode and going "wow, I don't do anything." Like the fans, he would have liked to see Flynn's Ship Tease with Gemma be expanded on.
    • Mike Ginn wishes there could have been a backstory episode for Gem and Gemma like the other Rangers and Dr K got.
    • Cameron Jebo (Silver Ranger Orion) has stated some of his negative feelings towards the season on Twitter - namely, he points out how Orion is barely there, and the show's writing issues.
    • Ciara Hanna has also expressed similar feelings towards the season's writing.
    • Once their contracts to Saban expired, the rest of the Megaforce cast were free to openly express their own criticisms of the show. The biggest one being that they practically begged to do more than fight scenes but were shot down every time.
    • For a different variety of example, when Ron Wasserman recorded new versions of several songs from the series, he intentionally did not redo "White Ranger Tiger Power" because of the Unfortunate Implications of the song's title. In a later YouTube comment, Wasserman stated that the implications of the title/lyric made the song an old shame of his from the beginning.
    • Michael Taber (Riley, the Green Dino Charge Ranger) wrote on Twitter in 2017 that being on the show was the biggest regret of his entire life, but did not specify the reason why and deleted his post shortly after. He later revealed at a convention that he was drunk when he made the tweet, and claimed that what he meant to say was that he simply didn't have a desire to be an actor anymore and wanted to retire. Basically, he didn't regret his time on the show because of the show itself, but rather because his own personal endeavors caused him to lose interest in it. It's possible there's more to the story that he won't share, but given that he has talked about his role as Riley occasionally since, he's likely gotten over whatever it was that caused him to feel that way.
    • James Napier (Conner, the Red Dino Ranger) has never talked about his time on the show in any capacity since he left. Reportedly, he only took the role to make money towards launching his career as a filmmaker, and has never attended a single Power Morphicon or any other fan convention. Indeed, he has become very successful in his homeland as a director, with his 2015 film The Dark Horse even receiving universal acclaim as one of the best New Zealand films ever made. With this newfound success, as well as his complete silence on his role as Conner, it's safe to say that he doesn't want anything to do with the franchise ever again, and doesn't have any reason to.
  • Dawson Casting: Quite frequently. The first season had characters in high school played by actors in their early-to-mid-twenties, some of whom did a better job than others. Austin St.John is an aversion. He was 17 when they started filming just like his character.
    • Jason Chan was already 30 when he played Cam in Ninja Storm— although, to be fair, Cam's age is never specified and it's not uncommon for a Sixth Ranger like himself to be an adult.
    • Phillip Jeanmarie's character, Max, in Wild Force is said to be the youngest member of the team (quite possibly in his senior year in high school). However, it is actually Jessica Rey (Alyssa) who is the youngest of the main Ranger cast; but, with Jeanmarie, you wouldn't be able to tell.
    • The most notable aversion was in Lightspeed Rescue. Rhett Fisher (Ryan/Titanium Ranger) was literally the exact same age as his character, starting off 19 and turning 20 a few episodes in. Interestingly, he's actually 2 months younger than Dana's actress Alison MacInnis despite being the older brother. But since both characters looked their parts (late teens/early 20s) it worked just fine.
  • Executive Meddling: Originally all the villains were suppose to be vaporized by Zordon's wave in countdown (excluding Karone/Astronema of course). Fox Kids' BS&P forbade them to kill off the human villains.
    • This is why Wes and Jen didn't kiss at the end of Time Force. Although it's also why Eric survived.
    • Also in S.P.D., as far as making the Omega Ranger a ball of light when he wasn't morphed because the producers decided to spend most of the budget creating an all-original Zord/Monster fight for the finale.
    • There seems to be some of this going on since Saban took the rights back. As we understand it, Nickelodeon is making Saban stretch each adaptation out to two seasons, or limiting seasons to 20 episodes as they do with some of their original series thereby forcing Saban to take two years to do a full adaptation. Combined with longstanding contracts with Toei that don't let them skip any Sentai (at least until Dino Charge, where Toei decided to throw this rule out), it becomes kind of frustrating for fans as Rangers keeps falling further behind Sentai.
    • Disney never really appreciated the franchise, having had Power Rangers forced on their laps in order to acquire the Family Channel, Disney considered the entire series an embarrassment, and was always pushing for less violence... in a kids' action show. Continuous budget slashes and always wanting to cancel it, they were more than happy to sell it back to Saban the moment they bought out the gold mine of more evergreen boys' superhero properties.
  • Fake American: From Ninja Storm onward, production took place in New Zealand, with mostly local actors trying their darnedest to pretend they didn't have Kiwi accents. Subverted by Xander in Mystic Force, as Richard Brancatisano didn't even bother hiding his accent and was eventually handwaved as a native Australian that immigrated to the States.
    • However, Jeffery Parazzo (Trent) and Kevin Duhaney (Ethan), from Dino Thunder, actually came all the way from Canada. Regardless, they were obviously able to easily pass for American unlike some of the Kiwi actors.
    • The character of Chase in Dino Charge is a repeat of Xander in this respect, as James Davies is a native New Zealander.
    • In Overdrive, Samuell Benta (Will) and Rhoda Montemayor (Rose) were both British, but each managed to hide their native accents well. Meanwhile, Gareth Yuen (Dax) is Australian but speaks with a subtle Chinese accent, which makes sense due to Yuen being of Chinese descent; his natural Australian accent has slight hints of this as well.
  • Fake Nationality:
    • Although his race is never stated, Antonio from Samurai's last name is Garcia hinting at a Hispanic background, though he could just as easily be Filipino which would be closer to Steven Skyler's Thai/German heritage.
    • Of course there is also the two red rangers that have the last name of Shiba being played by white actors. In this case they are both of Japanese descent. Most likely descended from all Male Shiba's, thus keeping the last name of Shiba despite obviously not looking Japanese.
  • Fandom Life Cycle: In the odd case of being a 90's pop culture icon that's still ongoing.
    • Power Rangers as a whole is at Stage 6a, far from its glory days.
    • Mighty Morphin by itself is at Stage 5. Anything else within the Zordon Era is Stage 2.
    • Lost Galaxy through RPM can go down to Stage 1.
    • The Neo-Saban Era and the 2017 movie both brought about minor Newbie Booms, with each season of the former managing to be around Stage 2 while it was airing, with the same going for the latter film.
  • Follow the Leader: Many, some of which are Saban's own attempts to repeat the same concept: VR Troopers, Beetleborgs and Masked Rider.
  • Franchise Ownership Acquisition: The series was originally created by Saban Entertainment by way of repurposing some footage from Super Sentai. Disney would buy the series as part of a larger sale of Saban and Fox Family Worldwide properties from News Corporation in 2001. In addition, this also prompted a channel hop from Fox Kids to ABC Kids during the airing of Power Rangers Wild Force. Saban Brands, the Successor entity of Saban Entertainment, would buy back the Power Rangers series in 2010 from Disney, of which reportedly higher-ups at that company were displeased with the Power Rangers series being part of the Disney company's catalog due to its unfitting nature, thus ushering in the "Neo-Saban" era of the series. In 2018, history repeated, though this time with the franchise being bought out by Hasbro.
  • Friday Night Death Slot: A variant. Because the series was not an Edutainment Show, many ABC affiliates refused to carry it in its assigned late Saturday morning timeslot and often relegated it to air at 5am on Saturday or Sunday before the church shows or farm report. Some even threw it out entirely as they regarded the show as radioactive to their attempts to maintain that their children's shows were all educational. And on the stations where it ran when it was supposed to, that timeslot tended to be preempted for sports.
  • Genre-Killer: Ironically, the same franchise that began the American Tokusatsu show has also been responsible for pretty much any later attempt not being able to succeed - since more often than not, it'll be seen as a rip-off of Power Rangers by those who don't know anything about Tokusatsunote . In fact, there's only been one attempt after the boom of Follow the Leader shows during the 90s to localize a Toku show, and although that show did its best to avoid association with Power Rangersnote , thanks to its serialized nature, said show bombed in its home countrynote .
  • International Coproduction: Between Saban Entertainment/Disney/Saban Brands/Hasbro's Allspark Pictures from the United States, Toei Company in Japan, and later Village Roadshow in New Zealand.
    • Toei also has half of the copyright ownership of all things Power Rangers.
  • Just for Fun: Linkara's semi-serious analysis series, History of Power Rangers.
    • And the even less serious Overanalyzed series by Girls Heart Geeks on Youtube.
  • Milestone Celebration: "Forever Red" (10 seasons), "Legacy of Power" (500 episodes), "Once a Ranger" (15 years), Power Rangers Megaforce (20 years/seasons — officially), "Dimensions in Danger" (25 years/seasons), "Once and Always" (30 years).
  • No Export for You: In South Korea, from Ninja Storm onwards, Super Sentai series have been dubbed under the names of their respective Power Rangers seasons. Power Rangers is also not available in New Zealand (where oddly the show is being shot) until Samurai.
  • Recursive Import: Power Rangers was dubbed back into Japanese from Mighty Morphin to Lightspeed Rescue, that's including the Mighty Morphin and Turbo movies, then after Saban reacquired the rights to the series, dubs of S.P.D., Mystic Force, Samurai, and Megaforce were released. With the case of S.P.D., most of Dekaranger's cast voiced their respective counterparts, and for the dub of Mighty Morphin, Machiko Soga redubbed herself as Rita Repulsa. The 2017 reboot film was also dubbed and released in Japan.
  • Referenced by...: In Spider-Man: Far From Home, the merged Elementals that attack London are likened by Mr. Harrington and Mr. Dell to be something out of Power Rangers or Voltron.
  • Saved from Development Hell: The attempts in The '80s and early Nineties by Saban (and Marvel Comics before that — retroactively prophethic, since one of the reasons Saban managed to repurchase and thus save the series so easily is that Disney just finished acquiring Marvel at the time (both brands filled the same boys' superhero properties niche)) just to get the pilot picked up by a network, ANY NETWORK. It was only when Saban went to Fox Kids, and Margaret Loesch (who worked with Stan Lee on the Marvel attempt) who was the head at the time, that the show was picked up. This combined with the Uncancelled entry below, brings new meaning to the lyric, No one can ever take them down..
  • Screwed by the Network: Disney's actions towards the series, including the show's gradual disappearance from cable, scheduling RPM where it can constantly be pre-empted and timeshifted, and the lack of full-season DVD sets in the US.
    • Network to the Rescue: Saban bought the rights back.
    • While the series' airing on Nickelodeon brought with it large amounts of marketing and brought it renewed popularity, Nickelodeon also severely cut down the number of episodes per season, forcing Samurai to be dragged out for two years in order to fit in the whole story, and forcing Saban to adapt Tensou Sentai Goseiger as the twentieth anniversary season instead of the more appropriate Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
      • With Hasbro producing the toys after Saban ended its partnership with Bandai of America, the biggest obstacle to the franchise moving from Nickelodeon after the end of "Super Ninja Steel" was removed...but this change in partnerships came after Saban renewed their contract with Nickelodeon for 3 more yearsnote , meaning that at the bare minimum, Beast Morphers, as well as whatever comes after that, will suffer this fatenote . In the end, Hasbro struck a deal with Netflix to air reruns of the first half of Dino Fury, then moved premieres of the second half to Netflix exclusively.
  • Troubled Production: Read all about it here.
  • Underage Casting: Power Rangers usually averts this, by having the majority of their teams be high school students (played by 20-somethings,) but the occasional season will have a team of rangers with other professions that require extensive training still played by the typical 18-25 actors they always have. There's also the running joke about the "Impossibly Fast Doctorate Program," where characters have gained credentials in obscenely shorts periods of time. Dana Mitchell of Lightspeed Rescue was a paramedic played by 20-year-old Alison MacInnis, who was then a full-fledged pediatrician the next year. Similarly, by the time of Dino Thunder, Tommy Oliver (then-29-year-old-Jason David Frank) had finished college, gotten a Doctorate in Paleontology, and developed the Dino Thunder technology, all in the six year span since he graduated high school midway through Turbo.
    • In Time Force, Michael Copon (Lucas) was the youngest cast member at 18 years of age. Assuming that the Time Force agency is the futuristic equivalent of a police academy, and that Lucas is the same age as his actor, that would mean that he somehow managed to finish school, go through all the training required to work in law enforcement, and meet all the qualifications despite being young enough to be a senior in high school. This also goes for Erin Cahill (Jen), who was 21 at the time, though to a lesser extent. Deborah Estelle Harris (Katie) at 23 is a little more believable. Justified with Kevin Kleinberg (Trip), as Trip is an alien and therefore could be any age.
    • Will (the Black Ranger) from Operation Overdrive is played by the then-20-year-old Samuell Benta. While it's not impossible, it isn't likely that someone of that age would meet all of the criteria for being a professional spy and have that much knowledge of advanced security equipment without proper training unless they were a literal prodigy. However, Will's age is never stated, so it's possible he could be older than his actor.
  • Un-Canceled: Five times, firstly because MMPR was originally only commissioned for 40 episodes, but proved popular enough to be brought back, then it was supposed to end with In Space, but improved ratings saved the show, then after Wild Force, the show was saved by a change to a cheaper shooting location and new production company, and after Jungle Fury, when European investment got it another season, after it would've been cancelled due to low ratings. RPM had production problems, and should've been the final end. But then Saban bought the franchise back!
    • The first time is debatable as it's typical for TV series to originally be picked up for a small number of episodes, usually 8-10 for prime time series, and be extended if successful. It was no different with Power Rangers as the show was given a 'trial' of 40 episodes. Since it was successful it was picked up for more.
      • Really only the final true is a true case of uncanceled. Though there were intentions to end In Space improved ratings early on meant that they knew the show would get more seasons long before In Space actually ended. As for after Wild Force, Disney had intentions to cancel it but were convinced to just move filming location to New Zealand to save costs. Disney canceling at RPM is the only true example of officially being cancelled with an entire year just being a rerun of the first season with reversions only to sell the old toys.
  • What Could Have Been: Has its own page, but three notable examples stand out.
    • Many seasons have examples of this for one reason or another, but two examples stand out just for the sheer size. In over two decades, there has been only two seasons of Super Sentai to be skipped over when it came time for adaptation: Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters and Ressha Sentai ToQgernote . Amit Bhaumik, probably best known for the Milestone Celebration "Forever Red", had an entire story outline prepared for the former, too; one he called Power Rangers: Cyber Corps.
    • While the franchise was still owned by Disney, there were plans for an animated series. A pilot script was written and initial designs◊ were made, but Toei wouldn't allow it to happen.
    • When Saban bought the franchise back from Disney, he convinced them to sell it to him at a lower price by claiming he would take it to The Hub (now Discovery Family). While he couldn't take it since the Hub was (and still is) co-owned by Hasbro, and at the time, the toys for Power Rangers were made by Bandai (who are rivals with Hasbro and their Asian partner Takara Tomy), suppose that Bandai had given the okay, and Margaret Losch was willing to put aside any bad feelings she had towards Saban that were a result of her ousting from Saban during the latter's merger with Fox Family. Would Power Rangers have faired any better on the Hub than it did on Nickelodeon, the network it actually went to? And would the franchise still be 3 seasons behind? (Ironically, even though Hasbro got the franchise years later, it never aired on Discovery Family, opting to just move to Netflix instead for the second season of Dino Fury.)
  • Word of Gay:
    • Dino Thunder showrunner Jackie Marchand revealed roughly thirty minutes into this interview that Hayley Ziktor was a lesbian, and there were plans to subtly reveal this in the finale. However, the scene never aired and the fan base didn't learn this until 2014, a full decade after Dino Thunder had concluded.
    • Michael Taber from Dino Charge confirmed that he played Riley as gay and with a crush on fellow ranger Chase.
    • Caleb Bendit from Power Rangers Ninja Steel revealed that he played Monty as gay and being in love with Victor and was told to "tone it down".
  • Word of Saint Paul:
    • Johnny Yong Bosch has said that Adam's remark about his returning to his dojo at the end of "Once a Ranger" was a lie, and he travels the world using his powers to help people.
    • His showing up as an S.P.A. officer (agent?) in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always would give that a lot of credence.
    • David Yost believes that Billy's mother, never introduced in the show, is dead due to cancer. He pitched the idea to Saban and wanted to explore the angle, but the show staff wouldn't bite possibly due to Saban's (usual) taboo about not referring to death.
    • Alan Palmer (Corcus, Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers and Power Rangers Zeo) thinks that Corcus was the youngest of the team and is quite likely now running things on Aquitar.
  • You Look Familiar: Own page here.

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