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The fifth season of ''[[Power Rangers]]'', which began with a feature film, ''Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie.''
 
Shortly after the events of ''[[Power Rangers ZEOZeo]]'', the Rangers (minus Rocky, who injured his back in training) are charged with defeating the space pirate Divatox, who intends to marry the demon Maligore and gain his power. Zordon tells the Rangers that the Zeo zords are not powerful enough to face this new threat, and gives them new Turbo powers and Zords. Joined by a new Blue Ranger, the twelve-year-old Justin, the Turbo Rangers destroy Maligore, while Divatox swears revenge and heads for Earth.
 
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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* [[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...
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: T.J., Carlos, Ashley, and Cassie, not to mention T.J. and Cassie were introduced to us [[Put Onon a Bus|by BUS.]]
* [[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...
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* [[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.
** [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Yes this is the only PR series where the villain manages to legitimately defeat the Power Rangers. It's a fleeting victory, but one nonetheless ([[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Mighty Morphin]] ended similarly with the power coins destroyed and the Command Center blown up, but it left what we saw kind of vague, which obviously led to ''[[Power Rangers ZEOZeo]]''. There is no question what happened in this series).
* [[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".
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: Bulk and Skull were turned into chimps for the first part of the season.
** As part of possibly giving them their own spin-off.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: {{spoiler|Possessed Kim and Jason in the movie}}
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** [[Don't Explain the Joke|Get it?]] Because it sounds like inquiry/inquire? Question?
* [[Flying Car]]: Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster.
* [[Forgot About His Powers|Forgot About Her Powers]]: Kat, in the film. Her series [[Backstory|back story]] established her as a former aspiring champion diver, with Kimberly helping her overcome her fears of diving accidents. In the movie, however, she falls off a very high cliff above a pool of water, and instead of assuming the proper diving form, Kat tries to morph and fails horribly. [[Marty Stu|Tommy, as usual, swoops down to save the day with a perfect dive]]. Invoked to justify a [[Damsel in Distress|Damsel In Distress]] moment and showcase Lerigot's [[Chekhov's Skill|healing powers]].
** 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".
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* [[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.
* [[Passing the Torch]]: the episodes were even ''titled'' "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Passing The Torch]]".
* [[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.
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]: The Phantom Ranger leaves shortly after his spotlight episode later in the season. In the final episode, Dimitria, Blue Senturion, Justin. Two of these four have serious hatedoms, ol' Blue's not exactly popular, and Phanty still presents more questions than answers, so some of this is an [[Author's Saving Throw]].
** And that's not mentioning Rita, Zedd and their forces in [[The Movie]], Rocky, Zordon and Alpha 5 in the opening episodes, the rest of the former [[Power Rangers ZEOZeo|Zeo Rangers]] halfway through the season, Detective Stone at the end of the season... Pretty much everyone who was a member of the [[Power Rangers ZEOZeo]] cast, with the exception of Bulk and Skull, when you think about it.
* [[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.
* [[Recruit Teenagers Withwith Attitude]]: The in-universe explanation for why the old Rangers left. The basic premise of the Power Rangers since the beginning was that it was comprised of, well, teenagers with attitude. However, Tommy, Katherine, Tanya, and Adam had recently graduated high school and were on the verge of no longer being teenagers. Thus, they had to add youth to the group, removing everyone other than the only high schooler on the cast (Justin) with younger teenagers with attitude (T.J., Cassie, Ashley, and Carlos).
* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: T.J. sacrificing the Rescue Megazord doesn't accomplish anything.
* [[Sentient Vehicle]]: Lightning Cruiser and Storm Blaster
* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Blue Senturion. There's debate as to how well he succeeded and/or how ''spectacularly'' he failed. The spectrum runs from "thanks to him, Dark Spector was defeated and Rita and Zedd were purified" all the way to "he is responsible for the death of Zordon and (before it was established an [[Alternate Universe]]) the [[Power Rangers RPM (TV)|rise of Venjix]]."
* [[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.
* [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: Justin suspects the other Rangers of being replaced by robots in "The Robot Ranger". Turns out he's a [[Robot Me]], too.
* [[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."
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