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14 unusual facts about Power Rangers


Altruistic suicide

In the Power Rangers series, Power Rangers in Space, in their season finale, Countdown to Destruction, Part 2, long-standing franchise character Zordon instructs Andros to destroy his energy tube, which would destroy all the evil in the universe at the time, but take him with them.

California Heaven

California Heaven was created by Todd Fisher and Stewart St. John, a writer of such television shows as Disney Channel's Seventeen Again, The Incredible Hulk, The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and Sabrina, the Animated Series.

Cory Tait

Tait did an interview with 'MMA Prospects UK', where he describes that his inspiration in taking up martial arts was 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers and hyper activity'.

Gekisō Sentai Carranger: Zenkai! Racer Senshi

Toei was so impressed by Bandai of America's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for the Super Nintendo, a title initially released only in America, that Toei decided to make a game of that same style based on a Super Sentai series rather than an American Power Rangers adaptation.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Album: A Rock Adventure

Go, Go Power Rangers was released December 2, 1994 in the US and December 14, 1994 in the UK.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the Album: A Rock Adventure (released as Power Rangers the Album: A Rock Adventure in the UK) is a soundtrack compilation of several songs performed by Ron Wasserman, under the pseudonym of "Aaron Waters" (also sometimes credited as "The Mighty RAW"), from the first two seasons of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Olivia Tennet

After her time on that show ended, she portrayed the role of teenage genius Dr. K on Power Rangers RPM, the seventeenth season of the Power Rangers series which premiered in March 2009.

Paul Frank Industries

On August 17, 2010, Saban Brands bought Paul Frank Industries; it will be under the same ownership as the Power Rangers franchise.

Rey-Phillip Santos

He is best known for his small roles and stunt work on James Cameron's Dark Angel and the Power Rangers TV series.

Richard Brancatisano

Before appearing in Power Rangers, Richard performed as Corey in the 2005 season of Boyband: The Musical, put on by Ricochet Working Productions, an Australian theatre company, and in the theatre production "Vin," as the lead character, Vin.

Super Ranger Kids

Originally released in 1997, the film is a pastiche of the American television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the first Power Rangers series, and, by extension, the Japanese Super Sentai series Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, which formed the basis for Mighty Morphin.

The Extremist

"War" was used by Disney to promote products for the Power Rangers franchise at their theme parks, while "Rubina's Blue Sky Happiness" is dedicated to Satriani's wife, Rubina, and is the second track named after her.

Vampire Blvd.

This cave was used in many of the film and television Westerns that were filmed in the 1940s and 1950s and was commonly used as a location for the television series Power Rangers.

Yu Narukami

Soejima compared him with the Blue Ranger from the Power Rangers franchise as such character tends to stand silent to follow the orders from his leader.


Broken Path

Broken Path/Broken Fist/Attack Of The Yakuza is a Martial Arts Action film starring Power Rangers alumni Johnny Yong Bosch and Daniel Southworth.

David de Lautour

He has appeared in the television shows Being Eve, in which he played Adam le Beau, What I Like About You in which he played Ben Sheffield, Xena: Warrior Princess as an angel and another character named Icus and Power Rangers: Jungle Fury as RJ.

Dub localization

The only exception of this is the tokusatsu series Power Rangers, because in an adaptation of the fighting scenes of the Japanese series of the same genre; Super Sentai, but with different history and exclusive characters of the American version, such as Zordon and Lord Zedd of the first series, converting to a different franchise series and therefore is not considered a dub localization.

Mazinger Z

This is often interpreted as the root of later series like GoLion, called Voltron, Defender of the Universe in the United States, the Transformers, and the giant robots in the Super Sentai Series (the basis for Power Rangers).

Milo Cawthorne

Cawthorne is currently married to fellow actress Olivia Tennet, whom he has been dating since they co-starred as Dr. K and Ziggy/Ranger Operator Series Green on Power Rangers: RPM.

Ninja High School

The comic often features parody versions of other comics or television shows, usually Japanese, like Kamen Rider, Power Rangers, Harry Potter, Superman, The Powerpuff Girls, Terminator, Ninja Gaiden, Transformers and the Gundam series.

Paul Kirchner

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, he wrote and drew comics features for He-Man, GoBots, ThunderCats, G.I. Joe and Power Rangers magazines, published by Telepictures (later Welsh Publications).

Peter Keefe

Keefe's work on the series is credited with introducing American audiences to Japanese animation and influenced later children's programs like Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon and Power Rangers.

Power Rangers Collectible Card Game

The Power Rangers Collectible Card Game is an American trading card game created by Bandai based upon Saban's Power Rangers Series television franchise.

Pua Magasiva

Pua Magasiva (born August 10, 1980) is a Samoan-New Zealand actor, who is perhaps best known for his roles as Shane Clarke, the Red Ranger from Power Rangers: Ninja Storm, and Nurse Vinnie Kruse in New Zealand soap Shortland Street.

Rita Repulsa

However, during the final confrontation in "Countdown to Destruction, Part 2", when Zordon sacrificed his own life (at the hands of the Red Space Ranger Andros), Rita was transformed into a normal human, along with Lord Zedd, who had also been transformed into a normal human being.

Tanya Sloan

Tanya Sloan, originally named Kenya Sloan, is a fictional character and hero in the Power Rangers universe, appearing in the television series Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo.

Villain of the week

Some series alternate between using such antagonists and furthering the series' ongoing plotlines (as in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fringe and The X-Files, where fandom is often divided over preference for one type of episode versus the other), while others use these one-time foes as pawns of the recurring adversaries (as in Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and their American equivalent, Power Rangers).

Z Densetsu: Owarinaki Kakumei

The sentai genre (the word sentai means literally "squadron") evolves around a team of costumed superheroes fighting villains and includes such popular television shows and franchises as Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger (remade into Power Rangers for the US), Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Metal Hero.