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* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: For the series as a whole; badly needed after the [[Dork Age]] of Bruce Kalish. The return of Judd
** Also, news of a crossover with ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' indicates that Saban will ''NOT'' be [[
* [[Author's Saving Throw]]: After a long line of [[Dork Age]] silliness, RPM is funnier, smarter and pulls out all the stops in an attempt to convince Disney to continue the series - or at least finish it with a bang. The attempted rescue didn't work on Disney, [[Power Rangers Samurai|but the series was saved anyway.]]
* [[Base Breaker]]: Gem and Gemma. There is a good reason fans call them the [[Fan Nickname|Marmite Twins.]]
** Also, some hate the series for making everything the previous Ranger teams fought for be for nothing. Mind you, [[Word of God]] says this is [[Alternate Continuity|not the case]]...[[Armed
*** Moot point. It's an [[Alternate Universe]], confirmed by the synopsis for the team-up with ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'', which almost exactly matches ''Shinkenger vs Go-Onger''.
* [[
* [[Broken Base]]: The season is a fan favorite. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5uBvJgNa4s The theme song], on the other hand is very polarizing, especially considering that there was a contest to see which song would be used, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysd1Kc3U7_I this song] was the more popular choice and the song used wasn't even one of the choices. (Although the actual theme song ''did'' arguably better fit the theme of the series).
* [[Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch]]: A lot of people who didn't watch RPM don't believe that the cartoony designs work well in the setting.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Venjix. Destroying computer systems was part of his programming. Destroying ''humanity'' and turning the world into a barren wasteland? That was all him.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]:
** Dr. K keeps a laser cannon in the fridge - not ''stored'', but primed and ready to fire. She also made an experimental weapon which turned out to blast clothing off, and can control the base's ventilation systems with her violin. And yes, all of these get used against bad guys multiple times. She also once simply plugged her violin into an amplifier to create an impromptu sonic cannon at one point, and is so [[No Social Skills|lacking in social skills]] that most of her statements come out as so bizarre they're awesome.
** Gem and Gemma, emphasis on CRAZY, but still awesome in their own way.
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*** ...and the PaleoZord's glowing dragon motif making it intact from ''Go-Onger'' in 'Ancient History.'
** When James Maclurcan visited the set of ''Go-Onger'' in Japan, [http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f73/sungel/12080534212161.jpg taking pictures with the actors while posing with his helmet] from ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'', people were expecting a formal Sentai-and-PR collaboration - instead, we get that very helmet being dug up from the ruins in 'Ancient History.' Of course, this could be [[Harsher in Hindsight]], if that's something left over from other Ranger teams' attempts to stop Venjix.
** The little-known Kiwi show ''[[
*** The show had an episode in which Rose McIver's character had to rescue Milo's and Olivia's characters from an underground toxic waste dump. Guess who rescues Ziggy and Dr. K from the cave in "If Venjix Won"?
*** Even earlier in that episode, Milo's character Bolek throws a tomato at Olivia's character Lilith. It seems that the two actors have experience giving each other's characters a difficult time.
*** In another episode earlier in the series, the traveling circus troupe stay overnight at a place called Greentown. The tunnels look exactly the same as the Alphabet Soup complex Dr. K, Gem, and Gemma grew up in. And, yes, a character played by Olivia Tennet spends some time in that complex.
*** Rose's character Garland falls in love with a tortured and mysterious boy from the future named Timon who, like Dillon, has been infected by the [[Big Bad]].
** A couple of Olivia Tennet examples:
*** Remember all of those "Odin's beard" comments from Flynn? Olivia recently appeared as a one-shot character on the Kiwi comedy ''[[The Almighty Johnsons]]'' as a potential mate to the show's main protagonist named Axl, who is the human incarnation of the Norse god Odin. Sadly, he has no beard.
*** And remember the scene in "The Dome Dolls" when Ziggy wakes up from the male-specific sleeping gas and then mentions his dream to Dr. K about being on a date with her? Well, it turns out that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Fs-Gk_Pyo Olivia has been dating Milo Cawthorne]. [[I Knew It!|The Kiggy shippers rejoiced, natch]].
** This wasn't [[Power Rangers Turbo|the first time]] a parody [[Super Sentai]] series was adapted into a [[Darker and Edgier]] plot. But this one was much better received.
* [[Hilarity Ensues]]: Ziggy is a lovable coward, comic relief guy who accidentally becomes the Green Ranger. He proceeds to be...A lovable, slightly less cowardly, comic relief Power Ranger who bumbles his way through fights. And usually win.
* [[Ho Yay]]:
** Scott and Dillon. Particularly in "Dome Dolls", notice where their hands are after succumbing to the "XY sleep agent"...then again they did spend an episode [[Chained Heat|chained to each other]] [[Chains of Love|so it's not that surprising]].
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** Green Ranger falls in love with the techie chick. Shades of ''Lightspeed Rescue'', anyone?
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Yet another aspect of ''RPM'' that is unique among ''Power Rangers'': The Rangers' actors all had substantial prior acting experience ''before'' becoming Rangers, as opposed to the majority of the other seasons where the show serves as the first big job for many young actors.
** Ari Boyland of ''[[
** Rose McIver from ''[[The Lovely Bones]]'' as Summer. She filmed scenes for that movie before joining the cast of ''RPM''.
** Li-Ming Hu and Olivia Tennet from ''Shortland Street'' as Gemma and Dr. K respectively.
** Dan Ewing from ''[[Home and Away]]'' as Dillon.
** Adelaide Kane from ''[[Neighbours]]'' as Tenaya 7.
** Prior to ''RPM'', Rose McIver and Olivia Tennet starred in a little-known children's post-apocalyptic fantasy series titled ''[[
** Plus Olivia had a bit part in [[The Two Towers]] as the girl who flees with her brother when Orcs invade Rohan. Now all we need is for someone to have been in [[The Return of the King]] and we'll have the whole trilogy.
** Olivia Tennet and Rose McIver appeared in episodes of [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] and [[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]] respectively.
* [[Scapegoat Creator]]: Judd Lynn, coming in to replace Eddie Guzelian midway through the season. Even before the episodes he actually created had aired, some fans had him pegged for stuff he could possibly do to screw up the season.
* [[Ship Tease]]: Summer and Dillon, Summer and Scott, K and Ziggy, Flynn and Gemma. Really, Gem was the only one out of the loop.
* [[Stoic Woobie]]: Dr. K.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: The last scene of the episode "Ghosts". Doctor K's reaction was sweet and touching.
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** The final battle of Go-Onger was pretty dang epic for how comical the series was. {{spoiler|Venjix doesn't even grow himself to giant size at all and gets blown up by a ''building'' getting dropped on his head.}} They couldn't have used the Go-Onger footage for a true final battle?
*** Well, it's possible they couldn't edit the footage as the Go-On rangers appear without their helmets.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Barring Gem and Gemma (who are nuts) and [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Koichi's wife]], most Asians seen in the show appeared in the pilot's prison brawl.
** Add to the list that there is [[Token Girl|only one]] woman in all of Corinth who has clearance to operate the HQ.
** They made an active attempt to avert this in "The Dome Dolls", making it a point that the problem was losing a portion of their defense force and not losing men specifically.
* [[The Untwist]]: It took twenty-five out of thirty-two episodes to confirm that {{spoiler|Tenaya is Dillon's sister}}. [[I Knew It!|Everyone Knew It]]. No, literally, '''Everyone''' knew it...The fact that this particular subplot [[Power Rangers in Space|was done before]] made the whole thing completely obvious.
** [[The Un-Reveal]]: Until then, most obviously in "Prisoners", the series seemed to be playing keep away with the secret.
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Everything that's happened so far is because {{spoiler|Dr. K wanted to go outside the Alphabet Soup facility, where she had been imprisoned (under the pretense of a sun allergy) for the last decade}}. Since it was never intended for the Venjix Virus to spread beyond {{spoiler|Alphabet Soup}}, this also crosses with [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]].
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