YMMV / Power Rangers Beast Morphers

• Awesome Ego: Steel will be the first to point out how awesome he is. He's also right, being a robot with super strength, a good head for combat, and fierce loyalty to the team, especially Nate.
• Base-Breaking Character: Ben and Betty are this. Some find them an improvement over Victor and Monty thanks to them actually trying to help the rangers, while others find them just as annoying because their antics rarely factor into the plot. Meanwhile, others tend to find them quite endearing due to how hard they try to help the main cast, but feel they're rather unfit to be comedic relief as it just seems like the universe is just screwing them over at times.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "The Silva Switch" has Steel (swapping places with Nate for the day) somehow burst into a cheesy song and dance about how it's wonderful to be human with everyone joining in. It comes out of nowhere and then disappears without any explanation.
• Broken Base: The Reveal that Evox was Venjix, while openly accepted by most, was seen by many to be a rushed idea, as well as thinking it was an unnecessary move to make Beast Morphers more interesting, especially since this was not an anniversary reunion.
• Catharsis Factor: After witnessing everything this death-cheating, omnicidal monster has ever done from RPM to now, atrocities and all with a cliffhanger ending left untouched for years, seeing Evox/Venjix finally get Killed Off for Real by human DNA to his base code by the Beast Morpher Rangers is always infinitely satisfying and a good reason to give your loudest cheer. Venjix shutdown, finally complete!
  Random YouTube Comment: So long, Venjix! And this time, stay down!
• Character Rerailment: Goldar started out as a dangerous and competent warrior in Season 1 of Mighty Morphin’ before undergoing Badass Decay into a Butt-Monkey and a nitwit. This series undoes all of that and shows him to once again be a deadly and competent foe for the Rangers.
• Complete Monster: Venjix returns as Evox.
• Continuity Lockout: A major problem with the second season. The amount of nods to previous seasons often outweighs any actual explanation for new viewers, not to mention the show’s big last-second twist relies on the target audience knowing the significance of a character from a show that came and went before the target audience was even born. Namely that Evox is actually a reborn Venjix, the Big Bad of one the darkest Power Rangers series: Power Rangers RPM.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Both forms of evil Roxy gained a considerable fanbase. Possibly for being the first female human/humanoid villain since Tenaya, but also for what Ramirez brings to the role^note This makes things amusing considering what's revealed in the series finale.
  • Scrozzle is also pretty popular, due to his original character design, as well as his snarky, eccentric personality. Many are disappointed that Hasbro doesn't currently have any plans to produce a Scrozzle action figure. Given that he's taken prisoner by Grid Battleforce rather than destroyed at the end of Beast Morphers, many fans anticipate him showing up in a future Dino Fury team-up. Much to those fans' delight, Scrozzle returns in the second season of Dino Fury.
  • You'd be hard-pressed to find a fan who doesn't find Steel to be utterly hilarious and awesome.
• Epileptic Trees: The Ranger vault includes a Delta Enforcer, which is even used in the finale. How did it wind up in the past? Did SPD send it back through time or, considering that SPD is set only 20 Minutes into the Future (specifically five years after Beast Morphers' airing), did Nate actually invent it?
• Fanfic Fuel: The last two episodes have probably brought in a lot of ideas of how the RPM and Beast Morphers rangers are going to interact. Also, what type of adventures did Ben and Betty have trying to arrest Scrozzle during the one year Time Skip?
  • The Ranger tech vault. How and when did Nate acquire so much technology from previous ranger teams? Did they donate it to him? For what purpose? How much stuff is actually in there?
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show has become quite popular in Japan already. Some fans have made fanart of the characters and translated names and relevant terminology into Japanese to better tag and search for the show. All of this despite not airing in the country.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • One of Hasbro's other best known franchises is, of course, Transformers, with fan reaction to its Beast Era spawning the infamous "TRUKK NOT MUNKY" meme. Now, Hasbro is handling the Power Rangers toys... and what does their very first line feature? A truck that becomes a monkey!^note Of course, both Optimus Primal and Gorisaki Banana are gorillas, which are actually apes and not monkeys... but that's just being pedantic. Made more hilarious when you look at Cheetor, Optimus Primal and Rattrap^note And Rattrap specifically his Beast Machines incarnation which had wheels instead of legs., and then look at Cheeda Nick, Gorisaki and Usada. Also back when Over-Time was releasing Go-Busters subs, a screencap of Gorisaki riding Cheedah in bike form had a caption of "That's so primal, Cheetor."
  • Related to this, there was at one time a working concept called Transformers Transtech which would have involved the cast of Beast Wars and the newly rebuilt technorganic Cybertron as society recovered from Beast Megatron's attack. The returning characters, including Cheetor and Optimus Prime (the truck one), would have transformed into animal themed vehicles, with Cheetor being a cheetah-themed race car and one concept for Prime featuring a truck mode with a gorilla face on the front.
  • When purchasing the show back from Disney, presumably to keep the price down Saban had told them that Power Rangers Samurai was going to air on The Hub, a channel that was owned by Hasbro, and not Disney's rival Nickelodeon. Now, Hasbro owns the series — which has aired on Nickelodeon since 2011 — starting with this season.^note  Nowadays, The Hub is called Discovery Family, with Hasbro maintaining a minority stake despite most of its programs gone from the lineup.
  • One of the many Broken Bases concerning Power Rangers Megaforce was them having to adapt the rather dull Tensou Sentai Goseiger in order to adapt the far more desirable Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, with some fans saying Saban should've pressured Toei to either let them outright skip Tensou Sentai Goseiger or at least adapt the two sentai out of order^note especially since the Goseiger suits are far more ornate than the more simplistic Gokaiger suits, with the base breaking even further due to Dino Charge skipping Gobusters. Now we have a series that's adapting a Sentai out of order.
  • In 2014, Amit Bhaumik ^note Writer for Power Rangers: Wild Force made a Fan-Pitch that suggested the Power Rangers Series adapted from Go-Busters should be a Semi-Sequel to Power Rangers: RPM. Turns out, Power Rangers: Beast Morphers IS a Semi-Sequel to Power Rangers: RPM, with the Big Bad being revealed to be Venjix!
  • In 2015, Chip Lynn said to a fan that he couldn't see Go-Busters going together with Power Rangers RPM. Guess what happens in the series finale?
  • Even though the dino-themed successor of Beast Morphers's Super Sentai counterpart has already been adapted for Power Rangers, Beast Morphers will be followed by a series adapted from another dino-themed series.
  • In the Distant Finale, Steel takes the unlikely career path of becoming a movie star. Mashin Sentai Kiramager would do the exact opposite, with a screen idol turned blue Ranger.
  • During "Making Bad", Robo-Roxy states that bringing back Lord Zedd would be a bad idea as he'd turn on them all. Reghoul didn't get this memo and, as per Robo-Roxy's words, it bit him in the ass once Zedd was freed from the compliance collar.
    • Moreover, Scrozzle stated that Lord Zedd was a "slimeball" for how he killed King Mondo and his family via a bomb disguised as a gift. Guess who ends up freeing Scrozzle from prison?
  • Fans were not pleased that the Gold Ranger's animal motif was changed from a rhinoceros beetle to a praying mantis, especially since his suit and equipment still had an obvious beetle-theme. Three years later, Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger, a series with an insect themed team, would feature a ranger with an actual praying mantis motif. Specifically, Himeno Ran, the Yellow Ranger of that season. Not only that, but one of the first auxiliary mecha announced was a rhinoceros beetle.
• I Knew It!:
  • The fans have rejoiced when it was revealed that in "The Cybergate Opens," Nate Silva, along with the robot later named Steel, would respectively become the Gold and Silver Rangers.
  • Many fans correctly guessed that Evox is actually the Venjix Virus and that Randall Ewing is actually a pseudonym for Venjix's voice actor Andrew Laing, when it was revealed in the penultimate episode "Source Code".
• Improved Second Attempt: The second season of Beast Morphers is seen by many as a second try at what Super Megaforce attempted as an anniversary season. The Morphin Grid actually an important part of the series as opposed to hardly acknowledged, the heroes and villains acknowledge past seasons and use characters and objects from them to advance the story in a way that isn't just fanservice, the returning Rangers aren't treated as cameos for the sake of older fans but actively take part in advancing the plot during their appearances, past villains return, and the main villain is actually a returning past villain. Even the much mocked Central Theme of Megaforce that talks about the importance of humanity is done in a more organic manner by having Steel be a robot who has a fascination with humans.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: The main criticism of the theme song, as it's the first in a long while to only be around 30 seconds long. Notable in that it's courtesy of contested Power Rangers theme song composer Noam Kaniel, whose contributions during the Neo-Saban Era were generally agreed to have been... less than stellar (Samurai and Megaforce in particular, as they're literally rehashes of "Go Go Power Rangers" with very little else to them substantially). What doesn't help is that, as Linkara pointed out, it's positioned a little before the midway part of the episode, so by that time it becomes kind of a pace breaker. Thus far, the Beast Morphers theme's length has been the only real complaint fans have had this time around.
• Memetic Mutation: The second season's crossovers, excellent writing and clearing up a loose story end in RPM has made fans call the series "The best anniversary season ever”. It helps that the Central Theme of Humans Are Special is miles better than the attempt for Megaforce.
• Moral Event Horizon: See the page for examples.
• Narm Charm: In Silva Switch, Steel (in Nate's body, It Makes Sense in Context) starts singing a song about how it's great being human. It's so goddamn cheesy as hell, but it's also endearing since it fits into Steel's desires to be human.
• Older Than They Think: In a sense - while Beast Morphers is the first TV Series to have a team that doesn't wear spandex suits, it's not the first entry in the franchise to use a material other than spandex for its suits - that would be Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, which had latex suits. It wouldn't even be the second, as that would go to Power Rangers (2017), which had non-spandex suits.
• Shocking Moments:
  • Let's just say, save for the rumors (which, considering the factors prior to the announcement, leads fans gunning for Kyuranger and not even thinking of going back), VERY FEW, if any people were expecting Go-Busters to finally get an adaptation.
  • The second half of the second season is chalk full of them. From the epic five-episode team up with not only an adaptation of Space Sheriff Gavan for the first half but also all three Dino Ranger teams for the second half to the revelation of Evox's identity which fulfills a cliffhanger eleven years in the making, the season has no shortage of exciting moments.
• Special Effects Failure:
  • Roxy's whip wires in the first episode are rather clear and conspicuous CGI, especially coming right after a highly-praised fight using almost entirely practical effects. However, given the unpredictable and potentially dangerous nature of actual whips, prop or otherwise, this is an understandable sacrifice.
  • In "Source Code" when the Rangers are destroying the Grid Battleforce computers to stop Evox from getting into the Morphin' Grid, the flames and smoke from the blasted computers are pretty obvious CGI.
• Stock Footage Failure: Vacuutron's eyes change from red to orange depending on what footage is being used (red for American, orange for sentai).
  • In general, a lot of the monsters look subtly different from their Sentai counterparts, as a side-effect of having to be remade from scratch.
• Strawman Has a Point: In the very first scene, Blaze attacking Devon in karate class is meant to establish Blaze as a Jerkass, and Ravi and Roxy both admit later they should have stepped in. But the thing is that Devon really was slacking off in class, and when called on it he made excuses and ended up insulting Blaze in the process. As the teacher, Blaze was well within his rights to discipline him. There's no question that Blaze was completely out of line by starting a brawl and needlessly escalated things by bringing in weapons, but the show glosses over Devon's part in provoking the fight and treats Blaze as the only one at fault.
• Tainted by the Preview:
  • While the majority remain optimistic with Beast Morphers' announcement, the decline in writing and story in Dino Super Charge and Power Rangers Ninja Steel as well as the return of many of the writers and showrunners from those seasons leave many in the fanbase concerned and cautious about a Go-Busters adaptation.
  • Noam Kaniel's return as a composer has also caused discord seeing as many are dreading another Go Go Power Rangers revision/remix opening due to the lack of variety despite some deviations with Dino Charge (and to a lesser extent Ninja Steel) theme songs. Similar complaints to most of the generic music tracks in the Neo Saban Era have also resurfaced again following this announcement. Thankfully, with the official release of the theme song it was confirmed to be another Go Go Power Rangers in the vein of Dino Charge as opposed to Samurai, keeping the "Go Go Power Rangers" line but having its own original lyrics. Furthermore, Noam is not the only composer, as newcomer Matt McGuire splits composing duties with Noam on episodes.
  • Although the fanbase seems very excited for the upcoming adaptation of Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters, reports that none of the cast from Dino Thunder are returning (at least not in person) have left many unhappy - especially among those who believe that the Disney Era is already treated as the black sheep of the franchise.^note This may not necessarily be the show's fault since James Napier (Conner) and Emma Lahana (Kira) reportedly don't want to be involved in Power Rangers anymore . Also, the showrunners reportedly made early efforts to get Kevin Duhaney (Ethan), Jason David Frank (Tommy) and Jeffrey Parazzo (Trent) onboard, but those plans, for whatever reason, fell through (in the case of JDF, it's rumored that friction between Austin St. John and JDF may be the cause of this). Also not helping the matter is that the movie footage doesn't include the ranger forms of the latter two.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some fans are unhappy that the Gold Ranger's animal theme has been changed from a rhino beetle to a praying mantis. Others, however, don't mind the change or defend the change as necessary in order to avoid both the Gold and Silver Rangers having beetle themes. For extra irony, however, scientifically speaking, all rhinoceros beetles that Gold's motif clearly is, and actually was in Go-Busters, is the actual scarab. Gold's motif could have been simply called a "scarab" to avoid the long name of "rhinoceros beetle". "Stag beetle" is a short enough name to keep as is.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Some fans feel that Human Blaze and Human Roxy don't get nearly enough screen time or character development, considering they spent a whole season in a coma and awaken to find that they've been replaced with untrained rookies as rangers. The following season their reaction to Evox using their Avatar personalities in regenerating robots amounts to "that's freaky", and then it's never touched on except for a single episode near the season's end where Robo-Blaze impersonates the real one.
  • The Beast Bots barring Steel certainly count, given how they're Demoted to Extra in comparison to their Sentai counterparts, who were major characters. They had major relevance in earlier episodes, but after Steel's introduction, they weren't nearly as featured. The closest was Cruise, but even then he was mostly there to remind viewers the Beast Bots exist and to serve as Devon's personal vehicle.
  • The Dino Thunder Rangers have no importance in their appearance in "Grid Connection". By comparison, Evox had aligned himself with Sledge and his crew, and brought Goldar back to life, giving the Dino Charge and Mighty Morphin Rangers personal reasons to get involved. While Mesogog's secondary footsoldiers, the Triptoids, were among those restored, but it is hardly a reason. This made more sense in the Sentai, as Snide's Sentai counterpart was the clone of the counterpart of Zeltrax, a Dino Thunder villain. He has no connection with the Dino Thunder team. Furthermore, even if real life issues prevent them from being seen unmorphed, there is no attempt to have them even interact with the other rangers. The only on to actually speak is Conner, clearly not voice by James Napier or anyone who even sounds like him.
• Ugly Cute: The Dogotronic (a robotic dog assembled from salvaged Tronic pieces) in Episode 5 qualifies as this.
• Unexpected Character:
  • More like unexpected adaptation, as folks were predicting Saban Brands to adapt a Sentai series that came after Shuriken Sentai Ninninger for their Ninja Steel followup, with Uchu Sentai Kyuranger being a top prediction. No one expected the series to backtrack and adapt a Sentai series it skipped over.
  • The return of Austin St. John as Jason along with Brennen Meija, Yoshi Sudarso and Davi Santos as Tyler, Koda and Ivan, effectively confirming the adaptation of the Go-Busters/Kyoryuger crossover.
  • Episodes 10 and 11 of Season Two feature Captain Chaku, an American adaptation of Gavan Type-G from Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie.
  • Episode 9 of Season Two, 'The Evox Snare', is loaded with unexpected fan-service from earlier seasons, in particular Power Rangers RPM, from a reference to Ranger Black Dillon's predicament with Venjix, to photographs of the remaining RPM Rangers, to the return of Doctor K herself to the series (with Olivia Tennet reprising her role), who helps Devon come up with a means of separating his father from Evox. It even highlights the Mystic Morphers from Mystic Force and references some of the events of Dino Charge.
  • Episode 10 of Season Two, 'Intruder Alert', keeps the unexpected dropping, as Alien criminal Ryjack can revive old foes using a reanimator that carries with it a compliance collar that keeps them under his control, he uses it to bring Vargoyle back. He and Vargoyle confront the Rangers and Ryjack then uses the re animator to summon Putties from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and Vivix from Power Rangers Dino Charge
  • Episode 12 of Season Two, ''Finders Keepers': You think they'd save all of the past Power Rangers for the following episode did you? Think again. The Dino Charge Rangers, their mentor Keeper, and even their arch enemy Sledge (and his whole gang) show up in this story. On top of that, Evox gets his hands on all of Ryjack's collection, which includes Goldar's sword and Lord Zedd's staff
  • In the following episode, 'Making Bad': after a rather impressive clip show featuring notable villains from past seasons (Astronema, Koragg, Lord Zedd, and Psycho Red of the Psycho Rangers), Evox decides to bring back the original general of Power Rangers history. Yes. Goldar, now using the Neo-Grifforzer suit from the Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters team up movie, is back!
  • Following that, did you ever think that the Big Bad of Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters, Space War God Voldos, would ever be adaptated into the Power Rangers franchise? No? How about as Evox's personal Zord?!
  • The episode 'Source Code' reveals that Evox was a spin-off of the Venjix Virus. Evox infiltrates Grid Battleforce, takes the Cell Shift Morpher from the Ranger Vault, and downloads the remainder of Venjix into his body, restoring him 100%. The revelation that Nate was responsible for creating Evox as a young boy (using data from the morpher, serpent DNA, and Morph-X), prompts Zoey to contact Doctor K in the RPM dimension and ask her to pay a visit to Nate in the flesh. She does so and together they come up with an Evox anti-virus the Rangers use to destroy Robo-Blaze.
  • In the finale, the rangers attack Evox with Legendary Ranger weapons - the Cloud Hatchet from RPM, Dino Saber from Dino charge, Delta Enforcer from SPD, Thermo Blaster from Lightspeed, and the Ninja Steel Super Blaster (which is particularly unexpected considering it was just a Megazord cockpit weapon in it's own season. And near the end we also get a cameo from Colonel Truman, who's apprehended Scrozzle in his own dimension, with the aide of along with Ben and Betty and hands him over to Grid Battleforce.
• Win Back the Crowd:
  • After Power Rangers Ninja Steel was considered inferior to Dino Super Charge by viewers and critics, combined with the arguments against skipping Tokumei Sentai Go Busters and Ressha Sentai ToQger, the Power Rangers fandom instantly exploded with the announcement of a Go-Busters adaptation.
  • Some older fans were ready to just stop watching the newer seasons altogether, since it'd seemed the creative spark and good writing just wasn't there anymore. However, with the adaptation of Go-Busters being announced over one of the following Sentai seasons, the trailers showing off some interesting sneak peaks, and the toyline being considerably higher quality and taking fan feedback into account thanks to how Hasbro's been looking at the feedback from fans from the last several seasons of the franchise as opposed to Bandai, who seemed to be putting in almost a minimum amount of effort and seemed to not even be doing a good job at that, it's certainly resparked older fan interest in it after they viewed the Neo Saban Era as only having a few good seasons and a lot of duds.
  • Examples of episode 1: "Beast Unleashed" Yeah that's right the first episode already got several examples of this:
    • The first preview and fight of the series proper is a civilian fight with next to no Wire Fu. Needless to say, those who missed unmorphed fights without civilian powers were pleasantly surprised.
    • The fact that within the first minute of the episode, it's made clear that Morph-X is the result of experimentation with the Morphing Grid won over a lot of fans who felt that the Neo-Saban era was going out of its way to ignore previous seasons of Power Rangers.^note Not that argument ever held any water, with Samurai bringing back Bulk, Megaforce tying Gosei to Zordon even before we get around to Gokaiger footage and actual returning Rangers in Super Megaforce, and Ninja Steel maintaining a connection to Dino Charge in Sledge and company returning outside of the big team-up episode. Ironically, it's the dinosaur series that's the only one not connected to past series.
    • Not to mention Mayor Daniels explicitly mentioning Rita, Sledge and Galvanax.
    • To top it all off, the fact that Blaze and Roxy's actors will be wearing their Avatar suits (which appeared much earlier than Go-Busters), along with the fact that Roxy's suit is recolored from her Japanese counterpart implies that Hasbro will shoot many more original fight scenes instead of recycling Stock Footage!
  • The long-awaited adaptation of Kyoryuger vs Gobusters in episode 13 of season two brings back Austin St. John as Jason for the first time since “Forever Red” as well as Brennan Mejia, James Davies, Davi Santos, and Yoshi Sudarso as their Dino Charge Rangers. And as a taster of the full thing, the Dino Charge Rangers show up in episode 12, as does Keeper, Sledge, Poisandra, Snide, and the rest of their gang!
  • The last two episodes have pretty much confirmed that Evox is indeed Venjix from RPM and allow him to have a true final battle with the Rangers, finally resolving an 11-year cliffhanger that most fans had given up on by then.
• The Woobie: Poor poor Nate. The season 2 finale just really shows just how much he was suffering by revealing that 1) he's the reason Evox/Venjix was created and 2) he has to see Steel, his brother, die in front of him.

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