Power Rangers SPD/YMMV

• Angst? What Angst?: Omega Ranger sure is chipper for a guy from a Bad Future that becomes stuck in another time and can't demorph without turning into a ball of light. And remember, Omega is an older version of Sam, the kid that considered B-Squad his first real friends. In his original timeline, B-Squad died - a fact that doesn't particularly concern Omega at all when interacting with them.
  • It might have to do with the fact he managed to Set Right What Once Went Wrong in his timeline on his first mission. Also, he is from a Bad Future where B-Squad died, why wouldn't he just relax and hang out with them in the world were they didn't?
• Crowning Music of Awesome: The theme song is the first Ron Wasserman piece Power Rangers has used in years.
  • During the climactic fight in "Once A Ranger", each retro Ranger's theme song played during their segment of the fight (most had two shown). This is the theme that plays the longest, through Bridge and Mack's second sequence against Flurious all the way to the end of Adam's fight with Thrax.
• Ear Worm: As stated, the theme song... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuUKOPzRR-A
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Bridge. Everyone loves Bridge.
  • Hell, in the aforementioned Operation Overdrive 15th Anniversary special, which featured 5 former Rangers returning, Bridge was included as the SPD representative, and as the Green Mystic Force & Blue Ninja Storm Rangers were used, they gave him an off-screen promotion to Red Ranger to justify his inclusion.
  • This may even be true in-universe: at the start of the series, Jack and Sky and Syd and Z have their respective personality clashes, but Bridge is the first to accept the newcomers while maintaining his relationship with the holdovers. And when the team presses Piggy for information on the alien who abducted Bridge in "Missing", Piggy says, "Oh, no. Not Bridge. He's the one of you I dislike the least."
  • Z and Syd are two of the most popular female Rangers, especially in the Disney seasons.
• Evil Is Sexy: Morgana, though she wouldn't think so.
• Fan Nickname: The four unnamed A-Squad Rangers = Rachel, Cliff, Ivan and Beevor (the last being the most visibly alien one), To which Bruce Kalish approved at a convention so they are somewhat canon.
  • Tinkersam... pretty straightforward actually...
  • The Sentai version, Dekaranger, was known for its vehicles with names like Machine Husky and Machine Bull (as in bulldog), but these never made it into SPD except by accident. Enter the Jeep Wrangler, already a staple of the filmed-in-New Zealand seasons, now repainted in SPD colors, which led the fans to dub it Machine Dingo. Never mind that the dingo is native to Australia and not New Zealand...
  • The Battle Thong. Due to this seasons battlizer including (at least in its first mode) a, well...
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Jack/Z or Jack/Syd, as opposed to Jack/Ally.
• Fan Yay: Doggie Cruger became an instant Bara icon, which he still is to this day.
• Foe Yay: Morgana and Z. That shot of the former pinning the latter against a tree is (in)famous amongst the fandom.
• Fridge Brilliance: One episode has mind control wear off of the Rangers when they morph. So (comics aside) we know the A-Squad was Not Brainwashed the moment we see them in morph.
• Fridge Logic: Where the hell does Cruger's nose go when he turns into the Shadow Ranger?
  • This was lampshaded in Dekaranger. Kruger simply hung his head and said "Don't ask me that."
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Omni, the final villain of the series, is a extremely powerful sentient space-ship, capable of warping people's minds to serve him. Sound familiar?
  • In the first episode, Sky says that Bridge is not Red Ranger material. Cue the 15th Anniversary Special (See above). In that same episode, Kruger asks Sky if he'd follow Syd into battle if she was a Red Ranger, only for him to scoff that she's a girl. A dozen or so episodes later, and the A-Squad is revealed to be female... and a couple of years later...
  • Power Rangers beat Super Sentai in the first Female Red race.
• Ho Yay: Tons, specifically between Skye and Jack, Skye and Bridge, & Syd and Z.
• Memetic Mutation: Buttery! * finger wiggle*
• The Scrappy: Sam. Specifically Future-Sam, mainly because we don't know a damn thing about him. That he does appear in the finale, for all of three seconds, without his costume, was seen as an insult by the fanbase, and he rivals Cole and Justin for Most Hated Ranger Ever -- those two win because they have personality quirks and flaws that make them unlikeable -- Sam is hated because he lacks any of this, due to the writers bypassing him as often as possible. Bruce Kalish has acknowledged that Sam could have been handled better.
• Unfortunate Implications: Jack and Z were introduced as thieves who steal for the poor. Not exactly the worse from two who were supposed to be rangers, except for the fact that they're Black and Hispanic respectively. It doesn't help that they're portrayed as homeless themselves.
  • Another, albeit minor one is that they made the Green ranger Jewish. However, Bridge being Jewish is only mentioned once in a throwaway gag.
    • Matt Austin, Bridge's actor, is Jewish himself and has said that this was essentially a Throw It In.
  • The team acting as Judge, Jury, and Executioner, with only a very weak Hand Wave justification.
    • Though in their defense, unlike the Super Sentai version, the group don't actually kill the Monster of the Week and just imprison them instead.
  • Jack's departure from SPD could be seen as this, given that it was done within three episodes (The latter two being a two-part finale) most likely to make way for Sky becoming the red ranger. As mentioned above Jack is black and Sky is white.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: More like characters traits from Dekaranger. In the original series, the rangers had several specializations like Hoji being a sniper and their guns suggested those characteristics. Those were never used in SPD.
• The Woobie: Even after R.I.C. proves how completely Badass he is, the other characters still have a hard time taking him seriously and use him as, among other things, a refrigerator.