“Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” is an interesting exercise to locate international television for the American public (and, more generally, Western). The show has been in combat images of the series “Super Sentai” “Kyoryu Sentai Zyurange” with clips of American actors playing adolescents to create totally original stories on a group of teenagers when they are not Fight bad creatures. The result was The first show “Power Rangers”, which remains a good time All these years later. It was also a monumental success in his time, which lasted three seasons while combining different generations of “Super Sentai” in a Frankenstein monster in a television series (even if the children who watch at home never realized that it was).

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But “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” was more than a simple superpower of the ratings; It was also a phenomenon of marstodon of merchandising and pop culture, generating a theatrical film and even a live tour in 1995. However, the series finally ended, with the show recovering via a mini-series entitled “Mighty More Alien Rangers”. This, in turn, has started a tradition to change the casting every season (which makes the Many “Power Rangers” birthday meetings Quite special) and led to the next incarnation of the franchise, “Power Rangers Zeo”. Before “Zeo”, however, Fox Kids decided to alleviate children in the new show with a series of short films.

After “Zeo” came “Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie” from 1997, which was to be an introduction to the new generation of heroes on “Power Rangers Turbo”. But while the transition from the original show to “Zeo” went well (even excluding short films), the transition to “Turbo” was horrible. The new series has ignored the return of the bad Zedd and Rita Répulsa from the end of “Power Rangers Zeo” while inexplicably incorporating new antagonists into the mixture.

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Seeing that “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” used short films to facilitate the transition to the “Zeo” era of the franchise, probably this show did the same thing before “Turbo”, right? This, finally, brings us to the bizarre story of “Scorpion Rain”, a fan hoax which has become an urban legend which has finally become canon of the “Power Rangers” property.

In 1998, a group of “Power Rangers” fans on Usenet saw A post downloaded By – among others – Derik Smith, Satu Sharp and Amit Bhaumik. The TIRO said it had seen an eight -minute short film that takes place after “Power Rangers Zeo” and presents new actors like the Rangers of Zeo Rouge and Rose fighting the robot of Lord Zedd, will be snapping (explaining what happened to Zedd before the events of “Turbo”). The post also insisted that the short film had only been broadcast in Australia and that is why he was unknown to the American public. Of course, because it was the 90s, everyone decided collectively not to give that the smallest meticulous examination, with all being a manufacture, a hoax and otherwise a lie.

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So how, exactly, has it become canon? Certainly, everyone finally agreed that it was a hoax, right? Well, here’s the thing. One of the conspirators, Bhaumik, later became editor -in -chief of “Power Rangers Wild Force”, which made its debut in 2002 as the season of the 10th anniversary of the franchise. That show the two scored The comeback of Jason David Frank And included the special 10th anniversary “Forever Red”, a crossover featuring the Red Ranger of each season to this point. The episode itself saw the rangers fight the remains of the Empire of the machine of “Power Rangers Zeo” and discovering the remains of the destroyed machine will serpene. It is true, will wind, that of the hoax “Scorpion Rain”. Being a history publisher, Bhaumik decided to reference the plot and the dialogue of his own fan-fiction in the barrel of the series, immortalizing forever “Scorpion Rain”.

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The cannon “Power Rangers” is, well, as meticulously thought that the global history of the franchise is closely written. The first “Power Rangers” show in particular shared continuityWith a series linked to the next (even if it does not make much sense, such as the way in which the “powerful morphine” of the 90s deeply becomes suddenly becomes A space opera with similarities with “Starship Troopers”). Even beyond, however, the property has in fact greater continuity and a shared cannon.

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After the “Power Rangers in 1999, Galaxy lost Galaxy”, however, continuity has stopped importing. Instead, the “Power Rangers” shows have become autonomous and began to take place in a rather nebulous period – a period that looks quite modern and is devoid of all the great science fiction elements (even if the literal stars of the universe “Power Rangers” were colonized canonies in 1998). Finally, in 2023, “Power Rangers Cosmic Fury” was directly linked to “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” and served as Coda in the original era of the property.

Now we have the news that there is Still another series “Power Rangers” on the wayAs produced by the creative team behind “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” and took place on Disney +. Although the Disney era of “Power Rangers” in the 2000s was considered a low point for the franchise, it has always given us great shows like “Dino Thunder”. The question is now: are we going to get a new series of short films before the last series?

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