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The fifth season of ''[[Power Rangers]]'', which began with a feature film, ''Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie.''

 

 

As the season progresses, Zordon and Alpha return to their home planet of Eltar, to be replaced by Dimitria, an alien with a mysterious connection to Divatox, and Alpha Six, her [[Jive Turkey]] robot assistant. Not long after, Tommy, Kat, Adam and Tanya, having recently graduated high school, each choose a successor to serve in their place on a new Turbo team. T.J., Cassie, Carlos and Ashley join Justin to fight Divatox's continuing threat.

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* [[Big Bad]]: Divatox

* [[Chest Insignia]]: A triangular team logo patch on the shoulder.

* [[City of Adventure]]: Angel Grove

** ''Configuration One'':

** ''Configuration Two'':

*** [[Mysterious Protector]]: '''Phantom Ranger'''

* [[Home Base]]: the Power Chamber

* [[Mooks]]: Pirhanatrons

* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: A ''rangers'' mainstay, it was played straight with Tanya and Kat, but was subverted with the second team. Yellow Ranger Ashley was the girly fashion designer, while Cassie was a more tomboyish musician.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]:

** [[Sword and Gun]]: Turbo Swords and Auto Blasters

** [[By the Power of Grayskull]]: "Shift into Turbo!"

** [[Invocation]]: (first team only):

 

 

* [[Aborted Arc]]: Dimitria and Divatox possibly being sisters. {{spoiler|[[Power Rangers in Space|The next season]] "finishes" this arc somewhat; when Divatox is "cleansed", she is dressed a lot like Dimitria. This is probably the best resolution we are going to get.}}

* [[The Cameo]]: Rita, Lord Zedd, King Mondo and Queen Machina appear during the snippet of the Millennium Message that Blue Senturion shows Divatox.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The Millennium Message, which is forgotten immediately, but has serious consequences the next season. However, in an unproduced script called "Rangers in Concert", the Blue Senturion actually shows Tommy, Adam, Tanya, and Kat the full message, which tells them who their replacements are, leading into the next trope...

* [[Cool Car|Cool Cars]]

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: Rangers defeated, going into space to rescue Zordon only because they can't just stand idle, the villains have something big in the works...

* [[Cousin Oliver]]: Justin.

* [[Dance Battler]]: Once Catherine Sutherland started doing her own fight scenes, Kat's fighting shows a lot of ballet influence.

* [[Downer Ending]]: The Zords are destroyed, the replacement mentor has gone MIA, the Command Center is raided and destroyed, and the Rangers have lost their powers.

** Even worse, the original mentor has been captured by the being that every [[Big Bad]] on the series (so far) answers to.

* [[Ear Worm]]: [[In-Universe]] example; it's used as a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnCZvf0NEuk form of attack] in "The Song of Confusion".

** As part of possibly giving them their own spin-off.

* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: {{spoiler|Possessed Kim and Jason in the movie}}

** [[Don't Explain the Joke|Get it?]] Because it sounds like inquiry/inquire? Question?

* [[Flying Car]]: Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster.

** There are a few other justifications, Tommy intentionally dove, Kat was suffering heat stroke (she did just stop to get a drink after all, was resting and commenting on the heat), was escaping a python and then fell. Then her Zeo Morpher strap comes loose while she is falling, since they didn't know they were getting the Turbo Powers she was at a real risk of losing half of her [[Transformation Trinket]]. It's justifiable she would grab that, and finish morphing since it was right in front of her face or grab the morpher, turn around and do a three point dive which would take longer then saying four words.

* [[Forgot the Call]]: Divatox in "Trouble by the Slice".

* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Hmm... Let's use the [[BFG|Turbine Laser]] against [[Humongous Mecha|Metallasaurus]], when we have our own [[Humongous Mecha|Megazord]].

* [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: "Honey I Shrunk The Rangers".

* [[Invisible Main Character]]: When Bulk and Skull stopped being monkeys in "Honey, I Shrunk the Rangers" as a result of over-radiation from the torpedoes used to blow up a monster, they became these until "Stitch Witchery".

* [[It Got Worse]]: T.J. sacrifices the damaged Rescue Megazord to try to destroy Goldgoyle... it fails. Goldgoyle destroys the Turbo Megazord and the Rangers sacrifice their weapons in a desperate attempt to destroy him. Then in rapid succession, they learn Eltar has fallen, Dimitria and Blue Senturion leave, Divatox destroys the Power Chamber and everyone learns Dark Specter has captured Zordon. Arguably, the worst day for a Ranger team ever.

* [[Kid Appeal Character]]: Justin

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Divatox only becomes a competent villain in the finale. Every actual victory or close victory against the Rangers was done only from someone more competent than she is, such as her mother (advice on separating the Rangers from their leader), General Havok (Metallisaurus and kidnapping the Phantom Ranger) or Goldgoyle (effectively a hired mercenary). Her raid on the Command Center at the end was appropriately nasty, but it comes across as a victory she really didn't earn.

* [[MacGuffin]]: The Millennium Message, Justin's lucky coin.

* [[Male Gaze]]: The camera focuses on both Kat and Kim's asses, and Divatox's cleavage, just a bit too much during [[The Movie]]. It's averted, however, after Tommy saves Kat from drowning -- there's a rather noticeable blurring of Catherine Sutherland's chest, to hide her wet t-shirt clinging to her body.

* [[The Movie]]: The series' debut: ''Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie''.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Tommy wearing all white whilst training for and taking part in a martial arts competition in [[The Movie]], whilst Rocky & Adam both have at least an item of clothing in their Ranger color.

** During a monster tour, Bulk tries to interest the crowd by suggesting they may see Eye Guy, Pudgy Pig or the Peckster - some of [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]' more memorable monsters. Additionally, their stop is at a lake that was used very often in MMPR, which they even mention.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Justin. His mom dies and his dad leaves him in an orphanage. Even after his dad comes to live with him again, he's still a workaholic.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Tommy and Kat for Justin.

* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Blake Foster was a huge fan of the show and absolutely thrilled when he was offered the part of the Blue Ranger. Even at Power Morphicon in 2010, he said that being a Power Ranger was every kid's dream and that he kept his helmet and costume.

* [[Punny Name]]: The Blue Ranger's initial zord is called 'Mountain Blaster' and was intended for Rocky.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Detective Stone took over running the Juice Bar, because the actor playing Ernie had to leave the series due to health reasons.

* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: T.J. sacrificing the Rescue Megazord doesn't accomplish anything.

* [[Sentient Vehicle]]: Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster

* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: Divatox's monster/henchmen qualify as by the end of the season, she sends out her strongest monster, who proceeds to curb stomp BOTH Megazords for the victory. It comes off a bit jarring because of how swiftly it all happens.

* [[Space Police]]: The Blue Senturion.

* [[Submarine Pirates]]: Divatox is an intergalactic space pirate whose HQ is a fish-shaped submarine known as the Subcraft.

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Alpha 6. Justified at least in that Alpha ''5'' clearly had four similar predecessors, so the trend already existed in-universe.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Tanya and Kat (again), then later Cassie and Ashley.

* [[Totally Radical]]: Alpha 6, who replaced 5's "Ay-yi-yi" catchphrase with "Yo, yo, yo."

* [[The Unsolved Mystery]]: ''Nothing'' about the Phantom Ranger is ever resolved, outside the fact that he needs his Power Ruby to survive. We don't even know his actual name or title; "Phantom Ranger" is a term that T.J. coined to describe the mysterious invisible warrior that appeared.

* [[Villain Ball]]: [[Double Subverted]] at the end of the season. Divatox manages to decisively defeat the Rangers, destroying their powers, but before she can finish them off she is ordered to withdraw.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: There were originally plans for Bulk and Skull to get their own [[Fawlty Towers]]-esque spin-off series, where they run a hotel with a Mexican Elvis Presley impersonator called "El Vez". Which explains why both Paul Schrier and Jason Narvy left the series so that the producers could add chimpanzees to the show roster (with Schrier and Narvy still providing voices, though).

** Somewhere exists a directors cut of the Turbo movie. I believe it was around forty minutes of footage cut from the final product...

** Originally Adam and Tanya were to stay on and act as mentors to the new Rangers. This was because Jason David Frank and Catherine Sutherland were the only ones requesting to leave the show. They only stayed on for Turbo so they could work out their replacements, and the execs decided on a near entire cast replacement.

** An unfilmed episode called "Rangers in Concert" would have not only focused on Carlos (whose surname was originally "Chavez") and Ashley (who was originally called "Missy"), along with Jenny Hunter (Lt. Stone's niece, from "Cars Attacks", and she would've been called "Ashley") and Tanya's KAGV intern Michael (who was obviously a prototype of T.J.), but also have the Blue Senturion showing the current Turbo Rangers (who would've been fighting the Rockin' Roach) actually see the ''full'' Millenium Message, thus knowing who their replacements were in "Passing the Torch".

* [[Wrench Wench]]: Ashley, who took auto-shop in "The Turn of the Wretched Wrench" only as a [[Take That]] to her slightly sexist father, only to find herself loving it.

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