Power Rangers Turbo/Characters

Our Heroes

Tommy Oliver / Red Turbo Ranger I | (Actor: Jason David Frank)

• A Father to His Men: Somewhat literally, he becomes Justin's father figure until he gets Put on a Bus.
• The Hero
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Official Couple: With Kat.
• Older and Wiser
• Parental Substitute: To Justin.
• Put on a Bus: Halfway through, so he could go to whatever really accelerated program takes you from high school to Ph.D. in less than seven years. Didn't appear again until Power Rangers Wild Force (for the "Forever Red" special) and Power Rangers Dino Thunder.

Adam Park / Green Turbo Ranger I | (Actor: Johnny Yong Bosch)

• BFG
• The Lancer
  • The Big Guy (sometimes)
• Put on a Bus: Halfway through, though he came back for a single adventure only a year later (and again in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive).

Kat Hillard / Pink Turbo Ranger I | (Actress: Catherine Sutherland)

• The Archer
• The Chick
• Compressed Vice: Kat's eating disorder in "Weight and See".
• Dance Battler: You can see some ballet influence in her fighting, now that Catherine Sutherland's doing her own stunts.
• Official Couple: With Tommy.
• Put on a Bus: Halfway through, and Word of God (from two separate production regimes (specifically, Wild Force's head writer and Dino Thunder's showrunner)), at that confirms that she married Tommy several years later.
• Team Mom: At least to Justin.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Tanya's Tomboy.

Tanya Sloan / Yellow Turbo Ranger I | (Actress: Nakia Burrise)

• The Big Guy
  • The Chick (sometimes)
• Cute Bruiser: Adam's training from the previous season pays off!
• Deadpan Snarker
• Power Fist
• Put on a Bus: Halfway through, and never heard from again.
  • Executive Meddling: She and Adam were originally going to stay on after Tommy and Kat left, but they decided to get rid of all four veterans instead.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Kat's Girly Girl.

Justin Stewart / Blue Turbo Ranger | (Actor: Blake Foster)

• Adorably Precocious Child: Only twelve years old and he seems to be the first to ever get the hint when a bad guy is on the prowl.
• Ascended Fanboy
• Beware the Nice Ones: Big Burpa didn't see Justin coming in "Bicycle Built for the Blues" after she put him on that bike of doom!
• BFG: Two actually.
• Cousin Oliver
• Darker and Edgier: When you think about it - his mom's dead, his dad apparently abandoned him, and he looks up to the other Rangers, Tommy in particular, as parental replacements. Ridiculously like Evangelion.
• Executive Meddling: The reason for his presence in the show -- FOX was forced to hire a child actor.
• Kid Appeal Character
• Kid Hero
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Once got bitten by a radioactive ant and got super-strength in "Little Strong Man", but unfortunately had to give it up to continue being a Power Ranger.
• Put on a Bus: "Chase into Space". Came back for Power Rangers in Space episode "True Blue to the Rescue".
• Sizeshifter/Older Alter Ego: Whenever he morphed into a Ranger, his body's height grew to match those of the other rangers (while his voice is still sounded like his usual 12-year-old self), for no apparent reason given.
• The Smart Guy (Badass Bookworm)
• Tagalong Kid: Inverted, since he can actually put up a good fight.
  • Further inverted after the cast turn-over, which makes him the most experienced Ranger of the five.
• Tomato in the Mirror: In "The Robot Ranger", Justin begins to freak out after he discovers all the other rangers are robots -- then the reveal is that he's one, too! Then the real Justin walks out and reveals that the whole thing was an experiment to see if they could build perfect robot rangers for Zordon and Alpha.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: His dad wants to be there for him, but has difficulty finding a job. It's resolved by the end of the series, and keeping the family together is the main (in-universe) reason he doesn't go into space with the other Rangers. His brief reappearance in Space reinforces the happy ending.

Theodore Jay "T.J." Jarvis Johnson / Red Turbo Ranger II | (Actor: Selwyn Ward)

• Badass Bookworm
• Badass Driver
• Bald Black Leader Guy: He is the first African-American Red Ranger, followed by Jack Landors and Scott Truman. Neither of his successors were lacking on hair, though.
• Bald of Awesome
• Baseball Episode: "The Curve Ball"
• Chekhov's Gunman
• The Hero
• Heroes Prefer Swords
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: One season before the Battlizer, he and Justin got command of the two sentient super-vehicles.
• Name's the Same: Let's see... Friendly, easygoing, protective of his friends, the leader, his first initial stands for Theodore, the "J" part is an Embarrassing Middle Name and instead goes by his initials. Sounds familiar, huh?
• Nice Guy: Possibly one of the most laid-back and easy-going Red Rangers ever. The guy was even nice to Bulk and Skull!
• Rookie Red Ranger

Carlos Vallerte / Green Turbo Ranger II | (Actor: Roger Velasco)

• Big Brother Mentor
• BFG
• Chekov's Gunman
• Destructive Savior
• Does Not Know His Own Strength
• The Everyman
• Gentle Giant
• I Know Madden Kombat
• Ineffectual Loner
• The Lancer
• Spell My Name with an "S": Vallertes or Valertes?
  • Vallerte, without the S.

Ashley Hammond / Yellow Turbo Ranger II | (Actress: Tracy Lynn Cruz)

• Action Girl
• The Cheerleader
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Chekhov's Gunman
• The Chick
• Cool Big Sis
• The Ditz
• Genki Girl
• Plucky Girl
• Power Fist
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Cassie's Tomboy.
• Wrench Wench: "The Turn of the Wretched Wrench".

Cassie Chan / Pink Turbo Ranger II | (Actress: Patricia Ja Lee)

• Action Girl
• Alliterative Name
• The Archer
• Asian Airhead
• The Big Guy (Cute Bruiser)
• Chekhov's Gunman
• Deadpan Snarker
• Dreadful Musician
• Hey, It's That Voice!: She would later voice Jill Valentine in Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil: Revelations
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Ashley's Girly Girl.

Their Friends

The Blue Senturion | (Voice actor: David Walsh)

• Badass Biker
• By-The-Book Cop
• Chekhov's Gunman: Came from a thousand years in the future to deliver the "Millenium Message", which was intercepted before it got to Zordon. Cue serious repercussions the next season.
• Heel Face Revolving Door: Turned evil by Divatox in three different episodes: "The Millenium Message", "Stitch Witchery", and "Beware the Third Wish".
• The Sixth Ranger
• Space Police

The Phantom Ranger | (Actor: Alex Dodd)

• Ascended Extra: Compared to VRV Master.
• But Now I Must Go: In "Clash of the Megazords".
• Mysterious Protector: With Cassie filling the role of Sailor Moon.
• Riddle for the Ages: Who or even what he really is, was never revealed.
  • His toy claims that he's the combined spirit of every Power Ranger who is, was, or will be, backed up by Word of God statements.
• The Seventh Ranger

Rocky DeSantos | (Actor: Steve Cardenas)

• Put on a Bus: Injured his back during a martial arts practice in the Turbo movie, which enforced him to quit his duties as a Ranger, allowing little Justin to step in as the new Blue Ranger.
  • This was because Steve Cardenas suffered a legit back injury during production on the final episodes of Power Rangers Zeo and the fact that Fox wanted Justin. (For the record, Cardenas has no regrets, because he liked Justin and wouldn't have gotten to meet Blake Foster otherwise.)

Zordon | (Actor: Bob Manahan)

• Eccentric Mentor
• Sealed Good in a Can
• Put on a Bus: Took the first wormhole home two episodes in after getting a new body that happened to look like the communication tube-image he'd been using for 10,000 years. This did not end well. Appeared again the next season, for the last time.

Alpha 5 | (Voice actor: Richard Steven Horvitz)

• Art Shift: In the movie and the three-part premiere "Shift into Turbo", his head is shinier, he's is a little slimmer, and the curved lightning bolt on his chest is straight. It's similar to the design used by his successor, Alpha 6.
  • Yet, in "Passing the Torch", he is reverted to his previous design, again.
• Put on a Bus: Accompanied Zordon home, and presumed dead in the attack on Eltar.
• Verbal Tic: Ai yi yi yi yi!

Dimitria | (Actress: Carol Hoyt)

• Figure It Out Yourself: Her schtick, as an Inquirian. Note that this only lasted for the first half of the series; after the new Rangers were introduced, she got a lot more direct.
  • Get it? Because it sounds like inquiry/inquire? Question?
• Woman in White

Alpha 6 | (Voice actress: Katrina Luciani)

• Robot Buddy
• Totally Radical: Supposedly a "hipper" version of Alpha 5, hence the Noo Yawk accent.
• Verbal Tic: Yo yo yo!

Ernie | (Actor: Richard Genelle)

• Put on a Bus: Left Angel Grove in "The Shadow Rangers" to go build a bridge for his Foreign Service Unit in the Amazon.
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: His actor, Richard Genelle, was suffering health problems at the time, so he had to leave the show.

Bulk & Skull | (Actors: Paul Schrier and Jason Narvy)

• Everythings Better With Monkeys: In the first half of this season, Bulk and Skull got turned into monkeys by Elgar in the "Shift into Turbo" three-parter. They were turned back into humans by one of Divatox's torpedoes in "Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers", which would lead to this next trope...
• Invisible Main Character: "Stitch Witchery", until the invisibility wore off, that is...
• Plucky Comic Relief
• Those Two Guys
• What Could Have Been: There were officially plans for Bulk and Skull to get their own Fawlty Towers-esque spin-off series, where they run a hotel with a Mexican Elvis Presley impersonator called "El Vez", hence Paul Schrier and Jason Narvy's initial absence from the series. When the spin-off idea was scrapped, they later came back on the set again.
• Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: Their subplot in the second half of this season.

Lt. Stone | (Actor: Gregg Bullock)

• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Sometime between Turbo and Space.
• Department of Redundancy Department: In The Movie. He hates to repeat himself. He HATES to repeat himself.
  • Lampshaded by Bulk in the same scene: "You just did, sir."
• Put on a Bus
• Surrounded by Idiots

Their Enemies

Divatox | (Actresses: Hilary Shepard Turner --> Carol Hoyt)

• Aborted Arc: Was going to be revealed as Dimitria's long-lost twin sister, which was hinted at in "Transmission Impossible". This was proven to be true after she got hit by Zordon's purification wave, as purified Divatox wore a pure white dress.
• Big Bad
• Breast Plate: In the Turbo movie.
• Catch Phrase: "VIVA LA DIVA!"
• Dark Chick
• Evil Is Hammy: With that catchphrase, could she be anything else?
  • Two flavors of ham, in fact, due to being played by two different actresses. Carol Hoyt played her more cold and calculating, whereas Hilary Shepard Turner played more a little more loony.
• Figure It Out Yourself
• Forgot the Call/Laser-Guided Amnesia: In "Trouble by the Slice". Bonus points for using an actual laser (or rather, a teleportation ray turned Up to Eleven, but still)!
• Make My Monster Grow
• Meaningful Name: Her name has the word DIVA in it for a reason.
• Stripperific
• The Other Darrin: Hilary Shepard Turner originated the role in the movie, but was on maternity leave for the first half of the TV series, and replaced by Carol Hoyt (who also played Dimitria). Fans... generally prefer Turner.

Elgar | (Voice actor: Derek Stephen Prince)

• The Dragon
• Dumb Muscle

Rygog | (Voice actor: Lex Lang)

• The Brute

Porto | (Voice actor: Scott Page-Pagter)

• Evil Genius

General Havoc | (Voice actor: Tom Wyner)

• Large Ham: Lampshaded in a blooper from "The Darkest Day" when two of his Chromites declare him "the general of ham acting".
• Put on a Bus: Survived his final fight with the Rangers and vowed to return one day with an even more powerful Metallasaurus. Made a couple cameos the following season.