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The 14th season of ''[[Power Rangers]]'', based on ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]''. After an earthquake hits the city of Briarwood, a stranger appears and asks for help locating someone in the nearby forest. But the local townsfolk are superstitious about the woods, and the only one brave enough to volunteer is Nick, [[I Was Just Passing Through|a wanderer just passing through]]. A group of locals join him, not wanting to be shown up by an outsider.

Succeeded by ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]''.

 

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* [[Action Girl]]: Vida and Madison.

* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]

* [[Big Bad]]: Morticon, then Imperious, then Sculpin and the Ten Terrors.

** [[Bigger Bad]]: The Master.

* [[Chest Insignia]]: Team "M" logos on the belt, personal symbols on the faces of the helmets.

* [[City of Adventure]]: Briarwood.

* [[Great Offscreen War]]: The last war with the Underworld twenty-ish years ago.

* [[Home Base]]: Rootcore.

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: With the unique twist that the Rangers actually become their own Zords, rather than piloting them from within.

** [[Combining Mecha]]

** [[Transforming Mecha]]: The Solar Streak train.

* [[Mooks]]: Hidiacs. They exist only to be killed off en mass in [[Serial Escalation|increasing showy feats of magic power]]. Lampshaded by a [[Genre Savvy]] one.

** [[Elite Mooks]]: Styxoids.

** Heroes: [[Elemental Powers]] with [[Mythical Motifs]] and [[Fairy Tale Motifs]].

*** [[Shock and Awe]] and [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]] (Garuda, aka Thunderbird): Chip.

*** [[Making a Splash]] and [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: Madison.

*** [[Blow You Away]] and [[Our Fairies Are Different]]: Vida.

*** [[Green Thumb]] and [[A Load of Bull]] (Minotaur): Xander.

*** [[An Ice Person]] and [[Winter Royal Lady]]: Udonna.

** Villains: [[Monster Mash]].

*** [[Fish People]]: Sculpin, head of the Ten Terrors.

*** [[Mummy]]: Imperious.

*** [[Night of the Living Mooks]]: the Hidiacs and Styxoids.

*** [[Wolf Man]]: Koragg the Knight Wolf. Crossing over into the heroes' [[Fairy Tale Motifs]], he's also a [[Black Knight]].

* [[Precursor Heroes]]: the previous generation; including Udonna, Daggeron, Leanbow, and Calindor.

* [[Rookie Red Ranger]]: Nick.

* [[Super Mode]]: Legend Mode. The senior wizards have Ancient Mystic Mode.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Vida and Madison - interestingly reversed from ''Magiranger''; Urara has about the same personality as Madison, but is ''her'' team's Tomboy because Houka is ''just that girly''. And appropriately enough, Vida ''hates'' the color pink.

* [[Word Power]]:

** [[By the Power of Greyskull]]: "Magical Source, Mystic Force!" (possibly just an [[Invocation]] and the real [[By the Power of Greyskull]] is "Galwit Mysto Ranger!")

"We call forth the magic! Power Rangers Mystic Force!" }}

 

* [[Acting for Two]]: Barnie Duncan not only played Toby but he also once reprised his role from ''S.P.D.'' as Piggy.

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Mystic Mother, as a tribute to the late Machiko Soga. "Known as [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Rita]] in the dark days..."

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Nick, though he's coming back.

* [[The Cameo]]/[[Continuity Nod]]: The Mystic Mother, played by Machiko Soga (best known for Rita Repulsa stateside).

** Jenji also shares a scene with ''S.P.D.'''s Piggy in "Ranger Down".

* [[The Charmer]]: Xander fancies himself as one - though trying "Plan Xander" on the monsters usually gets his ass kicked.

* [[Chekhov MIA]]: Nick being adopted {{spoiler|1=+ Udonna's search for her lost husband and missing baby = Surprise!}}

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Phineas seems to be a harmless [[Comic Relief]] character who occasionally gives advice to the Rangers at first. {{spoiler|It isn't until later do we find out that he was the one who rescued Bowen and brought him outside the mystic realm to protect him.}}

* [[The Chosen One]]: Nick.

* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]].

** Code two in [[Super Mode]] also works this way.

* [[Cool Train]]: the Solar Streak Megazord.

** Jenji also demonstrated some butt kicking moves when the Rangers were incapacitated.

* [[Curiosity Causes Conversion]]: Itassis.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: The world without the Rangers in "Dark Wish".

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Udonna reaches the edge when she finds out {{spoiler|Leanbow has been turned back into Koragg, realizing that either he or the Rangers will destroy the other, in addition to her son already being lost. Subverted when she finds Nick's blanket, which belonged to her lost son...}}

* [[Don't Go in The Woods]]: Invoked in the premiere.

* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: When trying to infiltrate the Underworld in "Light Source":

* [[The Drifter]]: Nick.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Koraag teaming up with the rangers against the Four Barbarian Beasts.

* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]

* [[Fusion Dance]]: Nick fuses with Fireheart for his Battlized mode, and the other Rangers merge to make the Mystic Lion zord.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Upon becoming Power Rangers, some of the teens wondered aloud when they got all their "cool stuff" like Zords.

* [[Good Costume Switch]]: {{spoiler|Leanbow as the Wolf Warrior, who wears a red version of his old Knight Wolf armor.}}

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: The Rangers need to collectively get one out of their system when Xander starts turning into a tree in "Petrified Xander".

* [[Hybrid Monster]]: Phineas the "troblin" (half-troll, half-goblin). [[Tragic Mulatto|He's an outcast with both the trolls and the goblins]].

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: as Bruce Kalish's second season, every title had two words (though they fudged it with "The Snow Prince").

* [[Inconsistent Dub]]: Production can't keep track of which spell does what.

* [[Inept Mage]]: Clare.

* [[Instant Runes]]: The Rangers, the old guard, the bad guys, and Legend Warrior Mode each have a pretty mystic seal (the Legend seal is only seen in the zord cockpit, though).

* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]

* [[Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand]]: Vida to {{spoiler|Totumbo the energy terror}} to cement his [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[Land of Faerie]]: If Briarwood Forest doesn't strictly qualify, then it is at least very close.

* [[The Legions of Hell]]

* [[Literal Genie]]: Jenji a few times.

* [[Magic Warrior]]: Clare inherited the powers of the Gatekeeper from her mother (even though she only used them in only in a lone two-parter).

* [[Magical Security Cam]]: Averted; Nick and Vida have to swipe security footage of them morphing in "Fire Heart", and it's not even [[Stock Footage]].

* [[Make a Wish]]

* [[Master of Delusion]]: averted; Toby starts getting annoyed at his employees running off, and they eventually own up to him.

* [[Mega Neko]]: Jenji.

* [[Mind Rape]]: The Master shows Daggeron his coming death in the finale (thankfully, it doesn't quite work out that way).

* [[Mythology Gag]]: The Pheonix Unizord resembles a non-evil [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Cyclopsis]]. Which is quite fitting, {{spoiler|given that the Mystic Mother was Rita.}}

* [[Nice Hat]]: On the megazords of all things. The Mystic Titan megazord has a [[Robe and Wizard Hat|pointy wizard hat]] and the Solar Streak megazord has a turban.

* [[Noble Demon]]: Koragg.

* [[Not Worth Killing]]: Koragg pulls this a ''lot''.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: {{spoiler|Subverted with Leanbow. His Ancient Mystic mode looks much more demonic than his "Koragg" armor, even though he uses the former as a hero and the latter as a villain.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Reforged Into a Minion]]}}: Koragg.

* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Nick.

* [[Right Behind Me]]: Xander griping about Daggeron in "Inner Strength".

* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: The Rangers have robes; it's the ''megazord'' that has the hat!

* [[She's a Man In Japan]]: Reversed; the female Heavenly Saint Snowgel became the Snow Prince in the U.S.

* [[Ship Tease]]: Chip and Vida, because the fans damn well don't let how much Nick hogs up the whole season slow them down.

* [[Sigil Spam]]: "M" designs are ''everywhere''.

* [[Significant Anagram]]: Leelee Pimvare. She even spells it out when we first hear it: "Pimvare" <-> "Vampire".

* [[Taken for Granite]]: Madison and random civilians in "Rock Solid", and Jenji in a later episode.

* [[Theme Tune Rap]]: Say what you will about it, but at the very least it's better than [[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive|the other one]].

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Matoombo is alive and well at the end, even though The Master basically [[Body Horror|tore him apart from the inside]].

* [[You Look Familiar]]: Three subverted examples here - Barnie Duncan and John Tui, previously Piggy and "Doggie" Cruger in ''S.P.D.'', are virtually unrecognizable without their heavy prosthetics in the roles of Toby and Daggeron, apart from their distinctive voices. And Kelson Henderson is ''completely'' unrecognizable under prosthetics, hideous dentures and a different voice in the role of Phineas. Mystic Mother is ''almost'' this, sharing an actress with [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Rita Repulsa]], but it's explained they're one and the same.

** Played straight with Antonia Prebble (Clare), who previously played two one-shot characters: Krista, "the tree girl" and Conner's prom date in ''[[Dino Thunder]]'', and the unmorphed Nova Ranger in the ''S.P.D.'' finale.

 

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