Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Difference between revisions

* [[City of Adventure]]: Blue Bay Harbor

* [[Evil Plan]]: Lothor's [[Take Over the World]] plan, {{spoiler|and general bitterness at his good guy family.}}

** [[Big Bad]]: Lothor

** [[The Dragon]]: Zurgane

** [[The Dark Chick]]: Shimazu

** [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Marah and Kapri

** [[The Hero]]: '''{{color|red|Shane}}'''.

** [[The Chick]]: '''{{color|deepskyblue|Tori}}'''.

** [[Elite Mooks]]: Kelzak Furies and Wolfblades.

* [[Motifs]]: [[Elemental Powers]] with [[Animal Motifs]]

*** [[Blow You Away]] and [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]]: Shane

*** [[Dishing Out Dirt]] and [[King of Beasts]]: Dustin

*** [[Making a Splash]] and [[Heroic Dolphin]]: Tori

** [[Shock and Awe]] and [[Japanese Beetle Brothers]]: Blake and Hunter

* [[Never Say Die]]: Enforced as usual, except for one bit when fighting ninja ghosts:

{{quote| '''Dustin:''' These guys are fearless!<br />

* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]

** [[Not Even Bothering With the Accent]]: Grant Macfarland as Lothor, {{spoiler|less so as Sensei Kanoi}}.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Tori can do this by herself. Unmorphed she's fairly tomboyish, but once she morphs, her mannerisms and gestures are far more girly.

** Blame it on the borrowed footage. Nanami was a 24/7 Girly Girl.

** [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: the Wind Rangers' Ninja Swords and Cam's Samurai Saber

*** [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: the former become Laser Blasters [[Sheath Strike|when sheathed]]

** [[Drop the Hammer]]: Dustin's Lion Hammer

** [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Tori's Sonic Fin (a megaphone) and Blake's Navy Antler (a set of pincers)

* [[Acting for Two]]: Grant McFarland as Sensei and Lothor

** Jason Chan as Cam and Cyber-Cam.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Lothor.

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: After becoming a Ranger, Cam creates a virtual copy of himself to take over as [[Mission Control]]. Cyber-Cam ties Real-Cam up before his programming gets fixed.

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Tori's infamous line in the first episode, implying that Power Rangers are merely comic book characters. The line was meant to play the trope straight, but some fans thought it indicated that continuity was being rebooted. References to ''Ninja Storm'' next season were meant to correct this misconception.

{{quote| '''Beevil:''' I'm wanted on 12 planets for theft, forgery, conspiracy, destruction of property-<br />

'''Marah:''' Don't forget littering!<br />

* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]

* [[Continuity Nod]]: About every third or fourth episode has an offhand reference to something that happened earlier in the season.

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Arguably what made Lothor one of the most effective and memorable [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] to date.

* [[Dark Magical Girl]]: Marah & Kapri. It's strongly implied that they're not evil so much as desperate to win Uncle Lothor's approval. When Lothor {{spoiler|leaves them in his self-destructing base, Cam grudgingly saves them because, hey, they're not the only ones stuck with him as an uncle. They immediately pull a [[Heel Face Turn]] and spend all their energy trying to impress their cousin instead--which definitely paid off in the [[Reunion Show]].}}

* [[Dummied Out]]: Shurikenger had a mild baseball theme; his morpher was a ball and his sheathed sword was like a bat. This motif was taken out of ''Ninja Storm'' because the makers presumably didn't want kids imitating the show to [[Batter Up|smack each other with baseball bats]].

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Dustin's given name is Waldo.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: The Thunder Rangers, pre-[[Heel Face Turn]].

* [[Fake Nationality]]: New Zealander Grant McFarland and Malaysian Jason Chan as the Japanese Kanoi and Cameron Watanabe.

* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Cam spends the first half of the series resentful that he isn't a Ranger.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Cam. [[Your Mileage May Vary|However]], before he becomes a Ranger, he has legitimate complaints as to why he's held back and after he becomes one he's much more of an equal in the group.

* [[Keep Away]]: Wind Rangers vs. Thunder Rangers over Sensei in a hamster ball, uh, I mean force field; in "Thunder Strangers Part 3".

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]

* [[Lost Aesop]]: "All About Beevil". So is the lesson to trust people sometimes or not trust anyone?

* [[Love Potion]]: Used in "I Love Lothor". While MOTW Mr. Ratwell gets a number of civilians to love Lothor, Marah and Kapri try to get some attention from the Rangers but only make Cam and Blake fall in love with Tori.

* [[Magical Security Cam]]: Given a handwave about surveillance drones.

* [[Magic Music]]: the Lightning Riff Blaster, a guitar that can summon a Mammoth zord.

** In "Tongue and Cheek," Marah refers to the guys from [[Power Rangers ZEO|Triforia]] as being [[Literal Split Personality|three times as cute]] than those from other worlds.

* [[Ninja]]

** [[McNinja]]: The only one who's supposed to be Japanese is not a ninja, but a samurai.

** [[Ninja Log]]: Done with spare costumes most of the time, but at least once with actual logs (in "Nowhere To Grow").

* [[Supernatural Martial Arts]]

* [[They Call Me Mister Tibbs]]: In "Beauty and the Beach", Kapri is offended when the Tori doppelganger addresses her as "ma'am".

* [[Unwinnable Training Simulation]]

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Zurgane has one of these after the Rangers defeat him in "General Deception, Part 2".

{{quote| "Will there never be a day that is marked for victory? Will I always have to suffer at the hands of the Power Rangers? TELL ME, WHEN WILL IT END?!"}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Very early materials suggested that the rivalry between the Wind and Thunder Rangers was supposed to play out a lot longer than it did (and possibly be the central conflict of the series, rather than a traditional villain), with kids even being encouraged to pick sides for themselves.

** The Tori character may well have become a carbon copy of her ''Hurricanger'' counterpart (aspiring [[Idol Singer]] Nanami) had Emma Lahana, who auditioned for this role before becoming Kira in [[Power Rangers Dino Thunder|the following season]], gotten the part instead of Sally Martin.

* [[Word of God]]: Doug Sloan has said more than once that Tori's [[Arbitrary Skepticism]] in the premiere was meant to be taken as just that and never as an indication of a continuity reboot.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: the ''entire season'' is revealed to be this in the finale, in which {{spoiler|Lothor reveals that he was intentionally sending [[Monsters of the Week]] (and later his own generals) to their doom, so that their evil spirits would fill the nearby Abyss of Evil to overflowing, resurrecting his own forces along with the other ancient evils imprisoned there.}}

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