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== The rangers in the Shinkenger adaption will have a relation to Cam and the Green Samurai Ranger powers. ==
* He was the first samurai themed ranger after all. It could be possible he founded his own academy to exist alongside the Wind Ninja Academy and was able to create new samurai ranger powers based on his old ranger form.
** That's not a bad idea, Tommy came back for the second dinosaur season so why can't Cam come back for the samurai season? Also with it being a quasi-sequel to [[Affectionate Parody|Affectionate]] [[Self -Parody]] ''Ninja Storm'' there's less reason to try and cut out or explain away all the ''Super Sentai'' goofery.
*** Jossed
 
== The Shinkenger adaption will have a [[Poorly -Disguised Pilot]] for an American adaption of [[Kamen Rider Decade]]. ==
* Saban will try to do again what it did with [[Masked Rider]]. The crossover footage is already there for them to use this time though. And going one step further, a [[Kamen Rider Decade]] adaption will be a whole series of [[Poorly -Disguised Pilot|Poorly Disguised Pilots]] for several potential Kamen Rider adaptions, with special appearances by [[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]].
** Except Tsukasa didn't transform into Decade at all during ep #20 of Shinkenger. The only time Decade fought alongside the Shinkengers was during the Decade eps.
*** That's what I meant. Saban can use the footage from the Decade episodes.
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*** Also Ji means old man in japanese so I am pretty sure Ji isn't his actual name, just a formal title for their mentor.
 
== There won't be a [[Poorly -Disguised Pilot]] for [[Kamen Rider Decade]]. ==
The most they'll probably do is a [[Shout -Out]], with some random guy in the background, about 20 episodes in, taking pictures of the Rangers in battle.
* With a [[The Red Stapler|magenta Blackbird Fly]].
** Jossed - episode skipped.
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== Saban [[Multiple Demographic Appeal|is actively out to cultivate its]] [[Periphery Demographic]] this time ==
[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|The original]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome|theme tune]] [[Rearrange the Song|is back, with any "Mighty Morphin" references replaced.]] [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|Bulk is back,]] [[Those Two Guys|as the uncle and mentor to Skull's son.]] Apparently Saban has been watching as certain other kids' franchises reactivated old fans with newer installments (the example that comes to mind best right now being ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'') and they want a piece of the pie. Obviously they're not abandoning the kids, that would be rather dumb for a [[Merchandise -Driven]] superhero show and would only lead to [[Broken Base|a chunk of the older fans]] [[Unpleasable Fanbase|proclaiming that the show is]] [[Ruined FOREVER]] while the more natural demographic for this kind of show flips to [[Cartoon Network]][[hottip:*:<ref>[[Network Decay|Now with 50% less animation!]]</ref>, but at the same time, hey, more people watching leads to better [[Ratings]] and thus to a better chance of not being [[Cancellation|canceled]] (again) in favor of [[Cash Cow Franchise|more]] [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]] [[Adored Byby the Network|reruns]], right?
 
== Kimberly is Spike's Mother ==
 
If the Forever Red [[Word of God]] holds and Kim is married to Skull, Kim would be [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Spike's Mom.]] Of course what this doesn't answer is whether Kimberly is the biological or adoptive mother.
* Let's do a little math here. Spike's actor has apparently said that the character is 15-years-old. For Spike to be 15-years-old, he would have to have been conceived during Zeo, the season in which Kim sends the infamous Dear John letter. Wild Mass Guess to your heart's content.
* However, Spike's actor has also said that Bulk is Spike's literal uncle. Clearly this means that all of the time travel in the series has altered the characters' ancestry to the point that Bulk and Kimberly are now brother and sister.
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** Or Kim is Spike's Mom and Bulk married Skull's sister.
** The problem with that particular Word of God is that Kimberly sent that letter to Tommy ''while she was overseas'', with implication that whoever she'd met, they were ''very'' serious about their relationship, so how in the hell did she wind up marrying Skull when she hasn't been seen in ages? ....Come to think of it, how the hell did Bulk even get ''Back to Earth''??
* Obvious he hitched a ride with the [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (TV)|Galaxy Rangers]] when they [[Crossover|teamed up]] with [[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (TV)|the Light Speed Rangers]]
 
== [[Kamen Rider W|Kamen Rider Skull]] will appear. ==
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* This makes so much sense... perhaps after the possible Decade reference, after all, Decade did have a Kamen Rider Skull card.
* That could explain why Spike is living with Bulk; it's not exactly easy to raise a child and run a detective agency ''with'' a full-time apprentice, if the [[Kamen Rider Double|original Kamen Rider Skull]] is anything to go by.
* Wait. In the [[Power Rangers]] verse, Masked Riders are uniformly Endenoian royalty (the ''series'' is cast out of canon, but the [[Poorly -Disguised Pilot]], which was more than a little different, wasn't). Does this mean Skull is Dex's long lost brother or something?
** He can be a Rider [[Serial Numbers Filed Off|in everything but name]]
*** He can't be a ''Masked'' Rider, but he can be a ''Kamen'' Rider. Semantics, it's fun.
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******** Not jossed. Somebody posted the names of the RPM cast for a Samurai episode on IMDB.
********* ''Anyone'' can edit the information on that site, so take this news with a grain of salt.
********** RPM crossover confirmed. https://web.archive.org/web/20111229183508/http://www.cynopsis.com/editions/kids/092711/
 
== [[Tempting Fate|If the RPM crossover does happen then it'll be a two parter!]] ==
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* Confirmed-ish. It was aired as a single, hour-long episode, but episode guides are listing it as "Part 1" and "Part 2". I assume when its eventually aired in its proper chronological order, it'll be split into two episodes.
 
== Deker is [[Luke, I Am Your Father|Jayden's father]] ==
Going with the "Deker was a red ranger" WMG, he could be Jayden's father.
* We see Jayden's father in flashbacks in ep. 10, but there's still a possibility that:
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== RPM isn't an [[Alternate Universe]]...yet ==
RPM is the future for the present continuity, but the RPM Rangers and Venjix will be a [[Terminator Twosome]] and come back in time for the team up episode. Venjix will escape from his prison and go back in time to conquer the past (as the future now has prepared for his return, since K is just that prepared to do that) and the RPM Rangers go back after him. Or possibly Venjix escapes and can't be stopped in the future so the RPM Rangers go back in time to stop him from ever existing and Venjix goes back after them to stop them. They team up with the Samurai Rangers to defeat him and ultimately destroy him for good while also preventing Venjix from ever being created in the Samurai timeline to begin with. This will either [[Ret -Gone]] ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' or split the timeline so Venjix never exists in the Samurai timeline but since Venjix was completely destroyed in the past, the RPM timeline is free of his tyranny as well. Continuity problems solved and everyone has a happy ending.
** Except totally ruining {{spoiler|Dr. K's character development, and she along with Gem and Gemma would be in Alphabet Soup for the rest of her life.}}
*** {{spoiler|Unless of course they destroy Alphabet Soup to stop Venjix from being created in the first place, thus saving both the world and Doctor K and Gem and Gemma.}}
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== The Samurai who defeated the Nighlock in the past will be refered to as the [[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger|Shinkenger]] ==
''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' was able to work in a [[Shout -Out]] to Go-Onger. This would be a perfect way for Samurai to do the same.
* RPM only did that to explain the Gunjiro bus (which has GO-ONGER in big letters on the side) in the background of a fight scene. It did also allow them to use a few extra scenes of Go-onger footage.
 
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Their spinswords are actually their zanpakto. The weapons they turn into are their shikai and the megablades are their bankai. The Baracuda blade is in a state of constant release.
* Wouldn't this require the Rangers to have been [[Dead All Along]]? ... Then again, this would explain [[Fridge Logic|why all the instances of death were changed to being away on business]]...
* Alternately, a spiritually aware human patterned the Samurai Ranger powers after seeing Shinigami. Said human most likely saw a captain in action after creating the original powers. Believing the captain's different style of clothing was an indicator of an elite Shinigami ([[Asskicking Equals Authority|which it kinda is]]), the Black Box was created (but not finished until the series needed a [[Mid -Season Upgrade]]). This is why Super Samurai Mode adds their version of a captain's haori. The fact that it comes with this later upgrade can be seen as proof that the Rangers aren't sponsored by the Gotei 13 (and they're not Urahara's prototype for Karakuraizer, either). If that ''were'' the case, a white haori would have been part of the Red Ranger's outfit from the beginning, and the ability to trade among the other Rangers wouldn't exist.
 
== The subway train from Clash of the Red Rangers is a [[Doctor Who (TV)|TARDIS]] ==
Perhaps Professor Cog and the Grinders unknowingly traveled through the Samurai dimension via TARDIS. This particular one could've been an untested advanced craft invented by the Time Lords where basically one day, someone accidentally turned on the randomnizer and like the Den-Liner from [[Kamen Rider Den -O]], it not only travels through time but through other dimensions and universes.
 
And probably like the Doctor's own TARDIS, it probably has a mind of its own hence why it took Scott Truman/Ranger Red to the Samurai dimension because he needed to be there. In other words, it assisted him in tracking down Professor Cog. And yes, the inside of the subway does look normal but think about it, a TARDIS can be bigger on the inside so no doubt it'd be an endless hallway of seats and poles. Then again, it could be all cloaked.
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Is a reference to Kamen Rider Den-o, it did travel through dimensions much like the Den-liner does in Decade's season. Bonus points that the electric sign on said train in the end had the word(third word) that looks like decade on it as it passes on screen. Me thinks there may be a subtle clue there.
 
== The [[Five -Token Band]] was deliberate ==
* Well, not exactly deliberate, but a odd side-effect. After the first team of Samurai rangers defeated the Nighlocks, they didn't know where the next attacks would occur. So their ancestors fled to the five corners of the world: North America (Jayden,) South America (Mike,) Europe (Emily,) Africa (Kevin,) and one stayed in Asia (Mia.) After several generations, it was discovered that the next attack was going to occur in the U.S (or wherever ''Samurai'' takes place, but all the English speakers make me think it's the USA,) and the parents of the current Team Samurai immigrated to the United States to prepare. Since [[Kids Are Cruel]], the other four team members pulled a [[John Barrowman]] and picked up American accents to avoid being teased. This explains how Jayden might have a Japanese surname (all of his predecessors were male and the name stuck), it explains why Serena didn't bother with an accent (she was thicker skinned than Emily and didn't give a damn) and if Jayden and Antonio settled in a place with thick accents (Canada, New England, or Minnesota), why the Flashback Rangers had them as well (I know the Kiwi accents don't really lend themselves to this theory very well, but I'm grasping at straws with that.)
** Maybe Jayden's family went to Australia or New Zealand instead of America.
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The Jayden we know will turn out to be a stand-in to the real Jayden, a toddler who is too young to fight. Lauren will be either Jayden's older sister or a babysitter who accidentally finds out about the Rangers' secret.
 
== It will be revealed that all the Nighlock who serve Serrator serve him because they made a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]] ==
Serrator recruited Dayu and Deker this way, and was the one who made them Nighlock in the first place. Who's to say that's not his default recruitment tactic? Though to avoid making the Rangers unknowing killers, any human turned Nighlock in his ranks will be [[Psycho for Hire]] style people who actually enjoy being Nighlock or [[Tragic Villain|Tragic Villains]] who no longer knew who they were.