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A [[Darker and Edgier]] and [[Lighter and Softer]] ''[[Power Rangers]]'' fanfic by Ellen Brand. Expect lots of angst. Lots of it. And lots of crossovers. Pretty long and engrossing, so consider dedicating several weekends to it.
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A''[[Personality Conflicts]]'' is a series of [[Darker and Edgier]] and [[Lighter and Softer]] ''[[Power Rangers]]'' fanficfanfics by [https://www.fanfiction.net/u/33577/Ellen-Brand Ellen Brand]. Expect lots of angst. Lots of it. And lots of crossovers. Pretty long and engrossing, so consider dedicating several weekends to it.
=== Tropes featured in [[Personality Conflicts]] include: ===
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The stories in the series are:
* [[Aborted Arc]]: ''For Want of a Nail'' was intended as an alternate universe to Personality Conflicts where Rito and Goldar never dropped the Zeo Crystal in the finale of MMPR. When the PC series went on protracted hiatus the "elseworlds" project got discarded.
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/212560/1/I-wish I Wish]'', a prequel [[Song Fic]]
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20210208025714/https://www.fanfiction.net/s/212557/1/Personality-Conflicts Personality Conflicts]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/214349/1/Fathers-and-Sons Fathers and Sons]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/214415/1/Shadow-Dancers Shadow Dancers]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/214427/1/Dying-of-the-Light Dying of the Light]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/214463/1/Things-Left-Undone Things Left Undone]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/214523/1/Crystal-s-Shadow-Crystal-s-Light Crystal's Shadow, Crystal's Light]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/215917/1/Two-of-Hearts Two of Hearts]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/215943/1/Crystal-Blue-Persuasion Crystal Blue Persuasion]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/215972/1/Revelations Revelations]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/215992/1/Dark-Mirror-Trilogy Dark Mirror Trilogy]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/233350/1/The-More-Things-Change The More Things Change]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/233381/1/Who-You-Gonna-Call Who You Gonna Call?]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/233399/1/Inner-Demons Inner Demons]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/234969/1/Worlds-Enough-and-Time Worlds Enough and Time]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/235004/1/Thicker-Than-Water Thicker Than Water]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/235031/1/Family-Ties Family Ties]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/235054/1/GreenEyed-Monster GreenEyed Monster]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/247393/1/Final-Frontier Final Frontier]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/260779/1/Blows-So-Red Blows So Red]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/264803/1/Zordon-s-Trial-Arc Zordon's Trial Arc]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/268465/1/Aftermath Aftermath]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/405367/1/Shadows-of-the-Future Shadows of the Future]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/405369/1/Phantom-Quest Phantom Quest]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/405371/1/Mirror-Mirror Mirror, Mirror]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/405373/1/Firebird-Run Firebird Run]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/405381/1/AGPD-Blue AGPD Blue]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/405375/1/Birthday-Blues Birthday Blues]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/405388/1/Once-Upon-a-December Once Upon a December]''
* ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/405389/1/Allied-Powers Allied Powers]''
 
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* [[Aborted Arc]]: ''For Want of a Nail'' was intended as an alternate universe to ''Personality Conflicts'' where Rito and Goldar never dropped the Zeo Crystal in the finale of MMPR. When the PC series went on protracted hiatus the "elseworlds" project got discarded.
* [[After the End]]: ''Shadows of the Future''. {{spoiler|The real Shadowborg beat [[The Other Darrin|the other]] [[Power Rangers RPM|Venjix to conquering the world by eleven years!]]}}
* [[A God Am I]]: Nyghtmayr was there. {{spoiler|Shadowborg gets there in the original timeline.}}
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* [[Arc Welding]]: This series is rife with it. With standalone episodes in the original series as well as standalone fics within itself.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Chris.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: Gasket tells his mother {{spoiler|after killing King Mondo and usurping control of the Machine Empire for himself}} that his father-in-law King Aradon is always looking for new robot concubines.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Ellen has a weird thing for twin/clone love triangles.
** Ellen has a great enthusiasm for kid-heroes, which crops up more and more throughout PC's expanded universe. Aside from the (canon) Beetleborgs and (sort-of canon) PC Turbo Rangers, the [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]], [[Danny Phantom]], and [[Detective Conan]] casts all play enormous roles in their respective corners of the universe.
** Ellen loves to place strong women in situations where they can prove their own strength against a somewhat misogynistic regime. See [[No Woman's Land]] below.
** Benign non-crossovers using analogous versions of alternate universe characters leads to [[The Mighty Ducks (Animationanimation)|Duke L'orange's]] counterpart The Black Falcon among dozens of other lawyer-friendly cameos. Ellen seems to enjoy non-crossover [[Mythology Gag|Mythology Gags]]s at least as much as she does crossovers.
*** Clark Lane and Lois Kent seem to hover between a [[Namesake Gag]] and Ellen's usual [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] tendency. They mostly just exist to make Parker O'Neil's own reporter-gag name less ridiculous by extension.
* [[Bad Future]]: Rocky gets transported to one where the Shadow Empire invaded Earth, all but six of the rangers are dead, those six and Drew are all [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|Shell Shocked Veterans]], and {{spoiler|Tasha's one of [[The Heartless]]}}.
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** Somewhat true for Zedd himself, being as the original identity of Prince Zedd the Zarakin royal is who both Zedd and Larry think of themselves "as," despite the former being the result of a magic spell and the latter the result of Earth's leylines messing with his brain.
* [[The Beard]]: Jason's parents pretended to be in love so that Jason's grandparents wouldn't know that Jason's real father was Korean. Surprisingly, it worked.
* [[Body Horror]]: Billy in the [[Bad Future]]. {{spoiler|This is somewhat less horrible by the fact that you're expecting [[Brain In Aa Jar]], or worse. Instead, he's simply all-black, has glowing green eyes, [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|can see Shadows for what they are]], and [[Evil Is Deathly Cold|is so cold, it burns]].}}
* [[Boldly Coming]]: Rocky gets all sorts of interesting offers on Danata.
* [[Broad Strokes]]: The televised events of the first four years and the general contents of the first six years of Power Rangers happened. Any larger mythology or backstory is relegated to the dustbin as Ellen constructs a new backstory for her own universe to incorporate multiple other franchises into a stable timeline.
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* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Everyone refers to the villains as villains.
** The United Alliance of Evil appears to function as a sort of hybrid military alliance and [[Weird Trade Union]] in practice. They even seem to have their own evil [[Obstructive Code of Conduct]] on recruiting planetary villains.
* [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]]: We're past the point [[Extreme Ghostbusters (Animation)|Extreme Ghostbusters]] should be happening internal to the [[Real Ghostbusters]] timeline with no signs of the original team retiring. Slightly averted in that Zack is very explicitly being groomed for the next generation team.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Too many to name, in many directions.
** PC does a surprisingly good job backing into continuity with the series. The United Alliance of Evil is not mentioned by name until Dark Specter shows up. The Intergalactice Police Force was used in Personality Conflicts prior to the [[Power Rangers Turbo]] writers picking the same name for the Blue Senturion's agency.
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** A LOT of other fanfic writers use Lita and her [[Spear Counterpart]] Cade as stock psychologists for their stories.
* [[Cerebus Rollercoaster]]: The series maintains a rather consistent dark tone up through ''The More Things Change'', at which point it becomes a more fun-loving series of adventures. It snaps back to dramatic with the arrival of Dark Specter.
* [[Main/Ptitle 3 um 6145 qw 2 af|ChekovsChekhov's Boomerang]]: It probably would have been a good idea to dig up all those shards left behind after the Mirror of Night exploded.
** The Tire Shield is actually good for something!
** Remember the Sword of Power? The show didn't.
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* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: Dealing with Tommy's mother's beliefs in the prequel.
** The revelation that the Archangel Michael exists (and by extension the Abrahamic God) in the [[Expanded Universe]] reduces the entire series and its own [[Fantasy Pantheon]] into a [[Crossover Cosmology]] of mammoth proportions.
*** I wonder if Ernie serves [[Interfaith Smoothie|Interfaith Smoothies]]s?
* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]: Eltare.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Shadowborg does this a lot.
* [[Death Byby Origin Story]]: [[Apocalypse How|Everyone on KO-35.]] And four Astro Guardians. Surprisingly averted by Tommy and David's biological mother Alex, who is still alive somewhere.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Though to be fair, multiple personality disorder is controversial at best, and we're dealing with magic here. Also, shaman is an Evenki word.
* [[Doomed Hometown]]: KO-35.
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* [[Expanded Universe]]: Many of Ellen's [[Danny Phantom]] stories (starting with Danny Shadow) are set in the PC universe circa 2004. Other than Lita publishing a book on metahuman psychology, Ellen makes a point to reveal very little about what happened to the characters.
** {{spoiler|The Shadow Empire didn't succeed in destroying the world.}}
** Ellen's [[Danny Phantom]] stories, Ellen's [[Sentinel]] stories, Ellen's [[Max Steel]] stories, Ellen's [[Action Man]] stories, Ellen's [[Detective Conan]] stories, and some of Ellen's [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] stories all take place in PC continuity to varying degrees of [[Broad Strokes]].
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Drew}}
* [[Fandom Nod]]: Notorious for this. See [[Mary Sue]] for the odd instances of overlap.
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** Not to mention {{spoiler|Kimberly and Skull}}.
** Gasket and Archerina have the marriage Rita wishes she'd had with Zedd.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Billy thinks of Tommy as this. Ryan almost becomes this.
** Drew seems to teeter on the cusp of it, which Shadowborg takes full advantage of.
* [[The Heartless]]: Happens a lot with the Shadow Empire, Nyghtmayr, Shadowborg, etc. The Shadow Empire was a failed attempt by a sorcerer to conjure forth Nyghtmayr and his Minor Demons from the Morpheus dimension without the Mirror of Night. The new form of Shadowborg was an attempt by Les Fortunes to recreate the original with powers he'd seen Nyghtmayr use, so they all do share a common origin.
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* [[Mary Sue]]: Jamie Zedden. Ellen confesses as much. To a lesser extent, Lita Kino manages to help Zedd do a [[Heel Face Turn]].
** Rocky's ex-girlfriend Jennifer is the counterpart to Ellen's former collaborator Jen Bigley. Somewhat averted in that Jen was also an actual character from the series.
** The series is riddled with in-universe counterparts to Power Rangers fandom members in cameo roles. Chris Sterling began as Ellen Brand offering Chris Funaro a cameo appearance in PC but in breaking the trial arc he turned into the unseen middle Sterling child passingly mentioned by Dana in ''[[Robotech]]''.
* [[The Masquerade]]: Reinforced by the [[SomeoneSomebody ElsesElse's Problem|perception filter]] generated by both the leylines and their Ranger powers. To acknowledge how insane their world is would collapse human society. In one of Ellen's [[The Sentinel (TV series)|Sentinel]] fanfics Blair blatantly tells the people around him that there is no reason for someone to [[Weirdness Censor|"fake" the superhuman activities in Southern California for publicity any more than for the world-famous, film-inspiring Ghostbusters to fake their paranormal work.]] No one pays him any attention.
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Oh, so many.
** Ryan and Katie Starr are an especially awkward case, as while the VR double of Kaitlin has all of the original's memories, Katie's total life experience as her own person can be measured in hours.
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* [[Morality Pet]]: Astronema seems to be the only thing keeping Ecliptor from sinking into the abyss of madness that consumed Dark Specter and Darkonda.
* [[More Dakka]]: 6 active Morphin Warriors ( {{spoiler|8 counting Peter and Tyler, 7 if you accept Billy's powers have been boosted since becoming a Ninjetti}}), 10 Zeo Rangers, 5 Turbo Rangers, 6 Astro Rangers, and one Phantom Ranger protect the Earth. Factor in the other two superhero teams on the planet and a Masked Rider and PC's Earth could rival most major comics universes for raw fighting capacity.
** Factor in Teddy and Parker's enchanted swords, Lita's augmented strength from the (inert) Dragon Coin, Chelsea's assassin training, Daystar's IGPF expertise, a Blue Senturion unit from the future, and the unlicensed nuclear acellerators strapped to the backs of the Ghostbusters and the supporting cast makes them even more formidable.
* [[Motive Decay]]: Explicitly stated by Dark Specter to be canon in this timeline. As the center of their local multiverse, Earth is bombarded with natural magic and renders villains either incompetent or forces them to [[Heel Face Turn]] out of guilt.
** In his scant appearances Count Dregon appears to have simply given up any effort to hold Edenoi or acquire the Masked Rider powers for himself. He is just tired and wants Dex dead.
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** {{spoiler|Inverted on the Ghostbusters side as well; Peter Venkman has Ranger powers of his own he never wants to use and only busts out in dire emergency in the classic sixth member tradition.}}
* [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: As soon as he's arrested, Trey figures out there is one in his line of succession.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Serena's boyfriend is named DARIAN. Katherine's surname is spelled HILLIARD in this continuity.
* [[The Starscream]]: Rita, even more so than in canon.
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: Well, Tommy has a long-lost twin brother in canon. Now we learn his clone is his adoptive family's ancestor. And {{spoiler|Master Vile is his father, making Rita and Rito his half-siblings}}.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Ernie always knew they were the Power Rangers.
** {{spoiler|So did most of their parents.}}
* [[The Unseen]]: A rare non-character version. There is an entire year of continuity separating the finale of [[Power Rangers ZEOZeo]] and the first [[Personality Conflicts]] story. During this time period the newly re-ascendant Rita and Zedd resume their attacks on Earth while the two factions of the Machine Empire continue theirs. While characters allude to some plots and a handful of characters from this period, it is never explored in any detail. See [[All There in the Manual]] above.
* [[Uriah Gambit]]: Shadowborg pulls one on Ziktor.
* [[We Are Asas Mayflies]]: Zedd's 20,000 years old, Dex and Trey a few thousand years old, Zordon and Rita are at least 10,000 years old. Master Vile has to be [[Over Nine Thousand|over 10,000]] years old.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Adam. Naturally, his father doesn't like the rangers at first.
* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: Nyghtmayr, Fyar, Hatryd, etc.
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