Power Rangers/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

[[File:lordzedd.jpg|frame|Lord Zedd. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesome]] to some, [[Nightmare Fuel|scary]] to others.]]

 

 

 

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** Lord Zedd's personal Zord, Serpentera, is powerful enough to destroy an entire planet, can fly across the Galaxy almost as fast as the Rangers could teleport, and was more or less indestructible when compared to any weapon at the Ranger's disposal. It's only weakness was it's absurd energy usage. The only thing standing between the Earth and certain destruction is not the Power Rangers, it's the time between Serpentera's next recharge.

* The skeleton Rito Revolto could have gone this way if he wasn't made a comic relief character: his destruction of the Thunderzords (previously known to be undestructible) was a moment of high [[HSQ]].

** When he does the above advertising by saying his full name, and having a relatively rubbish disguise, [[Sunnydale Syndrome|no-one besides the heroes suspect a thing.]] [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bastardry]] of epic proportions.

** In the same movie, we learn that the stuff above Zedd's crown, tiara thing, isn't more exposed muscle, but an exposed, pulsating brain.

** Adam was fooling around during a ride on a torpedo and nearly got killed.

* ''Lost Galaxy'' had one episode featuring an Elvis-like lobster thing that after drinking a potion became a much more dangerous, and more monstrous, creature. He was called Radster, from the first episode. He proceeded to smack-talk with the Red Lion zord, then got blown up.

* The arc of ''Lightspeed Rescue'' in which Ryan gets a cursed "tattoo" burned into his back by the [[Big Bad]], and whenever he morphs the tattoo moves up his body even more, until it reaches his neck, at which point it will kill him. The tattoo moved during a [[Nightmare Sequence]], too.

* Frax's death in ''Time Force'' was a [[Dies Wide Open]] involving a scream and parts of his robotic face falling apart. This after his having been reprogrammed into a mindless automaton by the Big Bad.

* In the final arc of ''Mystic Force'', the Master has been incubating in the body of one of his followers, who has had a change of heart and intends to spend eternity in the "sleeping lake" to prevent his return. Just when it looks like he's about to succeed, he's prevented from reaching the lake by another villain. The Rangers, and the audience, are treated to the sight of the Master's hatching from him: parts of his body swell before tentacles burst out of him from within, causing bluish ichor to fly. Finally, his body bursts apart and falls about the Master's heretofore-unseen true form like an empty sack. Then, the Master promptly subjects one of the heroes to [[Mind Rape]], making him experience his own death at the Master's hands/tentacles. That scene was in [[Mahou Sentai Magiranger|its source series]] as well.

* One of ''Overdrive'''s main villains enhances some monsters by reaching into their chests and leaving devices inside that revive them as cyborgs; those monsters were typically defeated and unconscious at the time. Even though beaten ''Rangers'' monsters usually don't leave behind a body, it's still not too much of a jump to think that the villain is reviving a monster corpse, although the [[Mooks|Chillers]] he tried it on were still standing; on the other hand, foot soldiers can't take the upgrade as they start twitching, then their customary babbling noises get louder and faster... and then they burst apart, becoming an indoor mini-snowstorm.

** From the same series, it's subtly hinted across several episodes that Mack, the Red Overdrive Ranger, isn't human. [[The Reveal]] happens when this character finds himself as a talking severed head lying on a table. Turns out he's an android and his "dad" must finally explain (Rangerboard dubbed him "[[Fan Nickname|iMack]]" fairly quickly afterwards).

* ''Jungle Fury'' brings us Camille and her [[Overly Long Tongue]], which she uses in her human form as well as her monster form. Also, she hoarks up a [[Combat Commentator]] just in time for the Megazord battle, then eats him again after the [[Monster of the Week]] loses.

* Any time a series' Megazord gets destroyed is scarring, but the most heart-rending is the destruction of the Thunder Megazord and the White Tigerzord. The White Tigerzord's head falls off before the body, trailing wires and sparking, and collapses backwards. The Thunder Megazord stretches an arm out imploringly - the other falls off, then the entire zord falls apart bit by bit.

* From ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'', almost anything with Darkonda counts: his debut episode, where he infected Carlos and Cassie (the black and pink rangers respectively) with Barillian Bugs, caused them to [[Transformation Trauma|turn into giant human-sized versions of the bugs]]. In ''Flashes of Darkonda'', when he proves himself to be [[The Starscream]], Ecliptor decides he needs to be removed and proceeds to poison his new [[Super Serum]], turning it into a [[Psycho Serum]]. When Darkonda takes it, he beats up on the Rangers for a while, and then starts screaming in agony and terror, trembling, with streams of yellowish liquid oozing and spraying from his pores: he eventually mutates into a truly hideous form, and a giant chunk of his flesh falls away, turning him into a new monster. Oh, and he has nine lives.

* The final battle of "In Space" has Zordon dying, before he releases a wave of goodness that destroys evil. Sounds good until after destroying a few groups of monsters we see it heading towards Rita and Zedd, the amusing and lovable, though always effective, villains we've spent the entire series growing fond of are now faced with an inescapable wave of flaming death rapidly approaching them as Rita screams in terror for her husband to not let it get her. Thankfully everything ended up all right for her and Zedd.

** Retcons actually make the purification of Rita and Zedd quite horrifying. [[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive|Operation Overdrive]] shows that, while evil, they had a son, only a year or two prior to their purification. A son that wasn't purified with them, who continued to be a villain, and who seems to treat them as having died in the purification: a kid whose parents, one day when he was two, just left to go to work, and came back as unrecognizable, completely different people.

* One more from ''Mighty Morphin'': Rita's War Zord Cyclopsis, from ''Doomsday''. Rita brings her palace to Earth, giving her the power she needs to raise it from the mantle. It was scary enough to make the Megazord's knees tremble. It took the Ultrazord to beat it.

* [[Mind Control|"Hail Lord Zedd, Hail Lord Zedd..."]], and [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|"Hail Lord Fred, Hail Lord Fred..."]] for Bulk and Skull.

** [[Power Rangers RPM]]'s "Alphabet Soup", where people could very well be kidnapped and put to work by their own government for being too smart.

** Another RPM example is Ranger Yellow's backstory: the killer robots came on her birthday and she had to walk through the blasted wastelands alone.

 

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