Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers
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"The fate of our world hinges on those six men... God help us all."
—Optimus Prime
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Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers! is a fanfic written by Thaeonblade. It is a Mega Crossover, featuring characters from various franchises, including Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, The Big O, Zoids, Vision of Escaflowne and many others.
The story takes place in Angel Groove which is administred by Seto Kaiba and he entrusted Simon the Digger, Roger Smith, Bit Cloud, Van of Fanelia, and Shinji Ikari as the protectors of the city, by blackmailing them into the job. Without means to refuse, they join forces to defend the city, which seems to have more than eyes meet.
The story has also a spin-off, the Parallel Works, which details the backstory of the plot and many characters.
Character Sheet in the works -- use the link above.
Tropes used in Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers include:
- Adaptational Badass: The main team, Kaiba himself and even much of the side cast show shades of this.
- The villains count as well: Asuka is basically The Dragon to Lelouch alongside Zero (impied to be Suzaku) and Makarov apparently had a plan that involved METEOR.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The new Jet-Alone.
- Alternate History: As detailed in Parallel Works #5, the main differences start during the American War of Independence (also name Washington Rebellion as a continuity nod to Code Geass) Benedict Arnold (and Benjamin Franklin) remain loyal to the independence movement and the slaves are freed to fight against the British, and the United States earns their independence with much more favorable terms. And Britannia emerges after a coalition of European countries defeated Napoleon.
- Minor in the grand scheme of things, but Nia joined the Dai-Gurren Brigade without Kamina dying.
- The Autobots and Decepticons awakened Adam and may have accidentally caused Second Impact. (Albeit Megatron was the one who accidentally awakened Adam.)
- And I Must Scream: Deathwing is angry because he was caught in the Second Impact and trapped inside the Earth, while being forced to hear Barney and Friends's theme song during his confinement.
- Badass: Take your pick.
- Barrier Warrior: Shinji in Unit 01.
- Better Than It Sounds
- Beware the Nice Ones: Pick a member from the team, really pick one.
- Big Bad Duumvirate: So far we have Gendo Ikari, Lord Genome, Kaworu, the Decepticons, and possibly that thing in Kaiba's basement.
- With the recent Parallel Works perhaps we should add Makarov?
- Big Brother Mentor: Who else besides the mighty Kamina?
- Big Damn Heroes: Kamina and Gurren in the battle against Deathwing and Heero Yuy in the battle against the zord.
- Black and White Morality: The Mecha Rangers and the Angel Groove Defense Force have to go up against various enemies that would most likely destroy the town For the Evulz...
- Black and Grey Morality / Grey and Gray Morality: ...but a lot of the major power players across the world, Kaiba included, seem to fall under this.
- Butt Monkey: Shinji
- Co-Dragons: Asuka and Suzaku/Zero appear to be this to Lelouch.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Shinji gives Deathwing a good bit of this that wouldn't be out of place in his own series.
- Combining Mecha: All of the main mecha combine into the MechaLord and it keeps combining with Gurren and Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon jet.
- Crapsack World: To put it lightly.
- Curb Stomp Battle: The entire second-half of the Deathwing crisis (which eventually culminates with MechaBreakerLordtearing the Dragon's humanoid form apart...AFTER HE BARELY SURVIVES A GIGA DRILL BREAKER!)
- ( Blackout vs Eva Unit 03 and an entire US army base armed with tanks and mobile suits, guess who wins?)
- Britannia-backed Germany (lead by the Baroness and Dilandau) against Luxembourg. Then they discover that Luxembourg has a Planet Buster. It doesn't work.
- Deconstruction Crossover
- Deconstructive Parody
- Despair Event Horizon: Shinji managed to stay next to it two times, but never passed it.
- Epic Fail: Mecha Lord's initial deployment against Ramiel
- Even Evil Has Standards: Neither Kaiba brother approves of how Shinji is treated by his father.
- Five-Man Band: The Rangers:
- The Hero: Simon (It's Simon...)
- The Lancer: Shinji (Does this need to be explained?)
- The Big Guy: Van (Personality wise and that he is the most vocal about his strength)
- The Smart Guy: Bit (Everyone has shades of this, but Bit is the more obvious)
- Team Dad version of The Face: Roger (Acts as the voice of reason and is pretty much the much sociable ranger)
- Guest Star Party Member: Rather than a permanent Sixth Ranger, we've had a Sixth Ranger Of The Week every so often. In order: Kamina, Seto Kaiba (using his Blue-Eyes White Jet), and most recently, Heero Yuy.
- Gambit Pileup: Kaiba has a plan, Gendo has a plan, Lordgenome has a plan, Lelouch has a plan, Zechs has a plan...
- Gorn: Not that much, but the violence is notably a bit more graphic when Shinji's the one doing it.
- Government Conspiracy: What the underground mines seems to be.
- Groin Attack: Shinji uses the horn of Unit-01 to strike the crotch of Cloverfield. His teammates then get horrified for this, though it was the only way he could see to destroy the creature.
- Hand Wave: Some minor issues such as how the pilots all end up in the same cockpit sometimes is told off with awesomeness or nobody even cares enough to ask.
- Hidden Depths: Kaiba initially seems like his abridged self, but gradually turns out to be as much a Chessmaster as his canon self.
- Ironic Echo: During the battle with Deathwing, Shinji basically throws his Hannibal Lecture / "The Reason You Suck" Speech back in his face.
- I Was Told There Would Be Cake: How Kaiba tricked Simon into joining. Simon claims that in the underground village he's from, people will die for a cookie.
- Jerkass: Kaiba is the most obvious example, but there are a few others.
- Large Ham: Lots, due to the nature of the fic, but Deathwing excels everyone.
- In the battle against Cyclopisis, everyone, even more stoic characters like Roger and Heero turns into hammy hotbloodeds.
- Ludicrous Gibs: The aftermath of the battle against Cloverfield.
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- Make My Monster Grow: Used to either summon and/or strengthen the Monster of the Week.
- Mind Screw: Getting inside Shinji's head in later chapters.
- Also Hitomi.
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- Monster of the Week: So far we've had Ramiel, Clover, Deathwing, Cyclopsis, and once (while Shinji was unable to fight), the other four Rangers had to fight a separate enemy on their own.
- Mood Whiplash: For one moment we have antics that can rival any abridged series, silly comments and so. And another, it's reminded that is a Crapsack World, guarded by a Well-Intentioned Extremist, people dying like animals almost parelling a Cosmic Horror Story.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Deathwing deals one to Shinji in Eva after he defeats Mecha Lord.
- Oracular Head: (Optimus Prime) The big question is how he got there.
- Person of Mass Destruction: The Rangers fight them mostly one at a time, here are the most notable:
- The Kraken from Clash of the Titans who ends up flooding a good chunk of the city by EMERGING FROM THE GROUND.
- The most recent was actually a dragon, Deathwing destroyed part of the Europe during his descent and walk to Angel Groove.
- Pet the Dog: Kaiba's entire relationship with the Dai-Gurren Brigade and other escapees from the underground mines.
- Redshirt Army: Kaiba bought his own defense force and they usually get their asses handed to them. But considering that they're volunteers...
- They're slowly becoming a Badass Army, though, as their supporting roles in relation to the Rangers increase.
- Refuge in Audacity: From Chapter one and onwards.
- Robotic Spouse: Dorothy. She even has a daughter.
- Shout-Out: Lots and lots!
- Shotguns Are Just Better: Gordon Ramsay (yes, that Gordon Ramsay) believes this.
- Sociopathic Hero: Shinji has tendencies to be one, even scaring his teammates.
- Take That: Kaiba smashes copies of The Neverending Story 3 to vent his anger.
- During the battle with Ramiel, he destroys a bunker of 4Kids' executives.
- The Atoner: Heero Yuy is this or a Defector From Decadence considering he used to work for Zakhaev and Makarov.
- Town with a Dark Secret: There should be a reason why those things keep attacking Angel Groove, right?
- Villain Team-Up: The bad guys from the each series join forces against the Mecha Rangers.
- Virgin Sacrifice: Some cultists tried to sacrifice Nia to the Kraken, apparently was Rossiu's idea. It didn't please Simon.
- Zeerust: The plot takes place in 2015 and there is already colonization of the Earth's orbit but the culture seems to be early early 2000.
