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'''Our Heroes'''▼
 
Characters from ''[[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]]'' include:
▲'''==Our Heroes'''==
 
=== {{color|red|Scott Truman / Ranger Operator Series Red}} | <small>(Actor: Eka Darville)</small> ===
{{quote| ''Here we go, people. Let's bring the pain.''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't scratch his car.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: The Betty to Dillon's Veronica for Summer's Archie.
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* [[Standardized Leader]]
* [[Super Speed]]: His suit ability charges his body with energy, and shoots him off at a high speed.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]
 
=== {{color|blue|Flynn McAllistair / Ranger Operator Series Blue}} | <small>(Actor: Ari Boyland)</small> ===
{{quote| ''This is how we do it GLASGOW STYLE!''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Of superheroes.
* [[Badass]]: Definitely.
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* [[The Spock]]
* [[Time Stop]]: As his suit power; manifests itself as [[Super Speed]].
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Though not to Scott's extent.
** Only in his youth. Upon arriving at Corinth, his dad is fully supportive of him.
 
=== {{color|gold|Summer Landsdown / Ranger Operator Series Yellow}} | <small>(Actress: Rose McIver)</small> ===
{{quote| ''I don't care where you came from. I want to know where you're going.''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: And thankfully subverted.
* [[Badass Biker]]: Used for a ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' [[Shout -Out]], too.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: The Archie for Scott's Betty and Dillon's Veronica.
* [[Biker Babe]]
* [[Break the Haughty]]: As seen in her two-part [[Whole -Episode Flashback]].
* [[Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl]]: Gentle Girl to Dillon's Brooding Boy.
* [[The Chick]]
* [[Energy Ball]]/[[Kamehame Hadoken]]: Suit ability
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* [[The Kirk]]
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]
* [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands|New Skills As The Plot Demands]]: Some of her abilities are established from the beginning, implied or at least foreshadowed... and then some [[Ass Pull|appear out of nowhere]], like hypnotizing.
** She's also (apparently) the second in command, despite the fact that the numbers on their uniforms imply otherwise.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: We don't see her folks until her spotlight episode.
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* [[Rich Bitch]]: She got better, though.
* [[Token Girl]]: Until Gemma showed up.
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Before the first episode, on her journey alone across the wastelands. She went from a lazy empty-minded [[Rich Bitch]] to a first-class badass [[Action Girl]].
 
=== {{color|green|Ziggy Grover / Ranger Operator Series Green}} | <small>(Actor: Milo Cawthorne)</small> ===
{{quote| ''In times like this, there is one question that needs to be answered: are we, or are we not, the good guys?''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Turbo Ax. Ironic, given his fighting prowess.
* [[Badass Unintentional]]: His first morph. Well, most of the season really.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: And how!
** With dashes of [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] on occasions, depend on [[Rule of Funny|what's funnier]].
* [[Giving the Sword Toto A Noob]]: The Rangers' morphers are designed to be operable ''only'' by the first person to use it, as it recorded his DNA as a security lock. Because of the situation, it was he or one of the bad guys, so...
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Dillon.
* [[Improv Fu]]
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* [[Mentor Ship]]: With Dr. K.
* [[Meta Guy]]: "Weird? Okay, [[Action Girl|you]] cruise around in a giant yellow teddy-bear, okay? I drive a big, green FISH! Look in the mirror, people, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|we're in no position to be sitting in judgment of anything weird!]]"
* [[Non -Action Guy]]: He hides behind Dillon in his first fight, and is the only Ranger in history that doesn't get insta-martial arts.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Sensitive Guy to Dillon's Manly Man.
* [[The So -Called Coward]]: While he is never called a coward, the trope still applies.
* [[Teleport Spam]]: His suit ability. Used primarily for laughs though.
 
=== {{color|black|Dillon / Ranger Operator Series Black}} | <small>(Actor: Dan Ewing)</small> ===
{{quote| ''You guys are the answer. I'm just looking for the question.''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]
* [[Badass]]: After the first few episodes, it's hard not to think he's a badass.
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't damage ''his'' car, either.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: The Veronica to Scott's Betty for Summer's Archie.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Towards Ziggy.
* [[Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl]]: Brooding Boy to Summer's Gentle Girl.
* [[Cool Car]]: The other one in the garage. And [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|it's painted black]].
* [[Deflector Shields]]
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]
* [[Everyone Has Pistols]]: Rocket Blaster
* [[Half -Human Hybrid]]
* [[Hand Cannon]]: Rocket Blaster
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Ziggy.
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* [[I Was Just Passing Through]]
* [[The Lancer]] <ref>Can also qualify as [[The Big Guy]] due to his cyborg parts giving him increased combat prowess.</ref>
* [[Laser -Guided Amnesia]]
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Dillon is Tenaya's brother.}} Though the fans already knew it anyway.
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: Dillon isn't his real name {{spoiler|and he ''never'' actually learns the real one.}}
* [[Phlebotinum Rebel]]
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Manly Man to Ziggy's Sensitive Guy.
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=== {{color|goldenrod|Gem}} and {{color|silver|Gemma}} / Ranger Operator Series {{color|goldenrod|Gold}} and {{color|silver|Silver}} | <small>(Actors: Mike Ginn and Li Ming Hu)</small> ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Action Girl]]: Gemma
* [[The Berserker|The Berserkers]]
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* [[Elemental Powers]]
** [[An Ice Person]]: Gemma's favored Cloud Hatchet setting.
** [[Playing Withwith Fire]]: Gem's favored Cloud Hatchet setting.
* [[Genius Ditz]]
* [[Genki Guy]] and [[Genki Girl]]
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* [[Only One Name]]: Each
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: "We love to blow things up!"
* [[Single -Minded Twins]]
* [[Ship Tease]]: Gemma/Flynn
* [[Sixth Ranger|Sixth Rangers]]
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* [[Wrench Wench]]: Gemma, who helps Flynn finish the Road Attack Zord.
 
'''==Their Friends'''==
 
=== Dr. K | <small>(Actress: Olivia Tennet)</small> ===
{{quote| ''"I've made errors. But I've also learned that even the most flawed human is better than the most perfect machine."''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Adorkable]]
* [[Adorkable]]: She is a cute immature teenager who doesn't know social etiquette.
* [[Badass Labcoat]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do NOT call the suits "spandex". "Tights" seem to be OK, though.
* [[Broken Bird]]: {{spoiler|Being [[No Social Skills|brought up simply to]] [[For Science!|develop technology and software]] all her life, and being told she was photosensitive to keep her from going outdoors, will do that.}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Genius' Sweet Tooth]]
* [[Hot Scientist]]
* [[Little Miss Badass]]
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* [[Mentor Ship]]: With Ziggy.
* [[Musical Assassin]]: Her violin packs quite a punch.
* {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: She's the one who developed the Venjix virus albeit just for the building she was in and nothing beyond that. But in truth this should extend to the organization that was looking after her. As if they had just let her get out once in a while. She would never have made it in the first place and even then should've at least let her install the firewall. They knew what she was a genius so they should've at least heeded her words.}}
* [[No Social Skills]]: Justified. {{Spoiler|She was raised by an underground military project that raised her to develop weapons and nothing else, so she didn't knew how the world worked outside until the Venjix Virus unintentionally freed her}}.
* [[No Social Skills]]
* [[Not That Kind of Doctor]]
* [[One Letter Name]]
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: Attempted, with somewhat predictable results.
* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: She is noticeably shorter than most of the cast.
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: The whole series is her trying to fix the disaster she caused.
* [[Teen Genius]]: She was old as her actress was during filming(eighteen, to be exact).
* [[Teen Genius]]
 
=== Col. Mason Truman | <small>(Actor: James Gaylyn)</small> ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Badass Normal]]
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]
* [[Colonel Badass]]
* [[Dying Like Animals]]: A turtle. His main argument with Scott is over whether they should stick to defending the dome or take the fight to Venjix.
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: ''Most'' of the time
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: ONLY regarding Dr. K. {{spoiler|He tries to arrest her, the only person in the world who fully understand the Ranger technology and therefore, the only person capable of stopping Venjix, after discovering she created it.}}
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=== Corporal Hicks | <small>(Actor: Damien Avery)</small> ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Despite not being listed as a main character, Hicks has a considerable amount of screentime throughout the series. Especially when it's revealed {{spoiler|that he was a [[Half Human Hybrid]] under Venjix's control since day one.}}▼
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Classically Trained Extra]]: Look at Damien Avery's [http://www.damienavery.com/bio/resume.php resume]▼
▲* [[Ascended Extra]]: Despite not being listed as a main character, Hicks has a considerable amount of screentime throughout the series. Especially when it's revealed {{spoiler|that he was a [[Half -Human Hybrid]] under Venjix's control since day one.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Half Human Hybrid]]: First of the secret hybrids to be revealed.}}▼
▲* [[Classically -Trained Extra]]: Look at Damien Avery's [https://web.archive.org/web/20091011050343/http://www.damienavery.com/bio/resume.php resume]
▲* {{spoiler|[[Half -Human Hybrid]]: First of the secret hybrids to be revealed.}}
* [[The Klutz]]
 
=== Vasquez | <small>(Actress: Mia Koning)</small> ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: To Hicks
* {{spoiler|[[Half -Human Hybrid]]}}
* [[Performance Anxiety]]: When all of the male soldiers are taken out, she cracks under the pressure to run the command center herself.
* [[Voice of the Resistance]]: It's Vasquez who provides the radio transmissions that lead any survivors to Corinth.
 
=== Fresno Bob | <small>(Actor: John Summer)</small> ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't call him Bobarino.
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: He traded Tenaya equipment to destroy humanity, just so he could get his hands on Ziggy.
* [[I Owe You My Life]]: How Bob and Ziggy eventually bury the hatchet.
* [[Shaming the Mob]]: Attempted by Ziggy to end their rivalry.
 
'''==Their Enemies'''==
 
=== Venjix | <small>(Voice actor: Andrew Laing)</small> ===
{{quote| ''I brought a legion. What did ''you'' bring?''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: More like virus, but still.
* [[Badass Boast]]: His first line: "I am Venjix! Your world is now MY world, and YOUR time is now OVER!"
** Another one in "Embodied:" "I am Venjix! The one, immortal ME!"
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Sports a truly magnificent one in his most advanced body
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Of [[2001: A Space Odyssey (Film)|HAL 9000]] and [[Terminator|Skynet]], with the [[Tron|MCP's]] voice thrown in for good measure.
* [[Composite Character]]: Of Land Pollution Vice-Minister Hiramechimedes and Yogoshimacritein of ''[[Engine Sentai GoongerGo-onger]].''
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: When he faces off against the Rangers for the first time. If it wasn't for {{spoiler|Gem and Gemma}} he would have easily won.
* [[Cyber Cyclops]]: In his cylinder form.
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* [[Kill All Humans]]
* [[Make My Monster Grow]]
* [[Mid -Season Upgrade]]: {{spoiler|He eventually gains an Attack Bot that serves as his avatar when he wishes to combat the Rangers.}}
* [[NamesName's the Same]]: No, he's ''not'' the same Venjix from "Forever Red".
* [[One Steve Limit]]: An aversion - he has nothing to do with the [[Power Rangers Wild Force|previous]] Venjix. Complete coincidence, or a reference that was taken too seriously? ''You'' decide.
* [[Orcus Onon His Throne]]: For the earlier episodes; all he did was [[Make My Monster Grow]].
* [[Take Over the World]]
 
=== Generals Crunch & Shifter | <small>(Voice actors: Charlie McDermott and Mark Mitchinson)</small> ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[The Brute]]: Shifter
* [[The Dark Chick]]: Crunch, in what little face-time he has.
* [[Giggling Villain]]: Crunch.
* [[Non -Indicative Name]]: The big guy who looks like he could crunch you is Shifter. The shifty-looking guy is Crunch.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: Both are capable combatants and {{spoiler|Shifter becomes a legitimate threat to both sides after he strikes out on his own}}.
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]
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=== Tenaya 7/Tenaya 15 | <small>(Actress: Adelaide Kane)</small> ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* {{spoiler|[[Cain and Abel]]: The Cain to Dillon's Abel}}
* [[Chekhov MIA]]
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* [[The Dragon]]
* [[Expy]]: Arguably, of {{spoiler|[[Power Rangers in Space|Astronema]]}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Half -Human Hybrid]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}
** {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: ...then is promptly reprogrammed into Tenaya 15.}}
*** {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Mind Screw]]: She gets better in the end.}}
* [[Leitmotif]]/[[Calling Card]]: A whistled, instrumental version of The Farmer in the Dell.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|She's Dillon's long lost sister.}} It was obvious to the fans, though.
* [[The Mole]]: As her original purpose.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]
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=== General Kilobyte | <small>(Voice actor: Leighton Cardno)</small> ===
{{quote| ''You put a human against a machine, the machine will win every time.''}}
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
 
{{tropelist|Tropes exhibited by this character include:}}
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: RPM makes him a major villain, as opposed to his Go-Onger counterpart which only appeared for three episodes.
* [[Badass in Aa Nice Suit]]: His mantle has the appearance of a tie and lapels.
* [[The Dragon]]: Replaces Tenaya 7 in this role.
* [[Enigmatic Minion]]: {{spoiler|His loyalty never wavers, but he's ''very'' protective of his position, leading him to occasionally go behind Venjix's back.}}
* [[Evil Brit]]
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen]]
{{quote| "You think because I look like a human girl, I can't bring it."<br />
"No, I think that because you are ''programmed'' like a human girl you cannot "bring it"." }}
* [[Politically -Incorrect Villain]]
 
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