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Power Rangers is an American entertainment franchise built around a live action children’s television series featuring teams of costumed heroes who battle evil with martial arts and giant robots.

Power Rangers is an American entertainment franchise built around a live action children’s television series featuring teams of costumed heroes. The series is notable for its use of brightly-colored heroic costumes, highly choreographed martial arts battles, and frequent use of giant, combining robots.

The first television series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, ran from 1993 to 1996. It was followed by multiple other television series, two films, numerous video games, a card game, and a live stage show. A third film and a new television series are scheduled for release in 2017.

For more information, refer to the Power Rangers Wikipedia article, which is the source of the information in this page.

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Why whenever ANYTHING gets hit in the Power Rangers do sparks fly?

Along the same vein as Why do consoles explode in Star Trek? Why is it that whenever anything hits something in the Power Rangers, sparks fly? There seems to be no explanation for it other than a cool special effect.
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Is Lord Zedd walking around in just a metal codpiece?

I was perusing DeviantArt and came across some Power Rangers artwork. (See below.) My first thought was "He [Lord Zedd] looks naked!" I'm not sure why I never thought of it before. Maybe because I could tell it was a rubber suit? Regardless, now…
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Do the Power Rangers’ 'Zord machines' ever cause collateral damage when it's morphin' time?

Like when each Power Ranger has their different "big robot Zord suit", the mega robots they use to fight the bad guys, when they activate and travel from wherever, does collateral damage occur during travel? I mean especially in the television…
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How do the Power Rangers back their operations financially?

Unlike Batman and Iron Man, both billionaires capable of funding any operation they like, the Power Rangers don't appear to have substantial resources. How do they back their operations financially? Running humongous robotic machines to defeat giant…
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Does the Power Rangers' strict use of proportional power derive from a specific principle or mandate?

In all (or nearly all) of the incarnations of the Power Rangers, the Rangers follow an apparently strict protocol on only responding to threats with proportional power. They typically start fighting hand-to-hand in their street clothes, "Suiting Up"…
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What claim did Rita have on the Power Coins?

When the history of the Power Coins are revealed it is said that Zordon and Rita flipped for the coins and Zordon won 5 of the coins and Rita won the 6th. This would imply that Rita had some claim on the Power Coins and the Zords (since she also got…
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Why didn't Rita and Zedd turn into ash?

The release of Zordon's good energy from his tube in, Power Ranges in Space, turned all evil villains into ash, with the exception of Rita, Zedd, Divatox, and Astronema. These 4, it turned them human. Why is that? If it could turn Zedd human,…
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In Power Rangers, what are Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier and Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch's respective ethnicities?

I know Paul Schrier (Bulk's actor) and Jason Navry (Skull's actor) are both Ashkenazi Jews in real life. But, at the same time, I have NEVER saw the surnames Bulkmeier and Skullovitch in real life. However, Farkas is a name of Hungarian origin, and…
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Did Zordon know about the Samurai Rangers and Nighlocks?

In Power Rangers Samurai, we know it is the same universe as the original Power Rangers, Zeo, Turbo, and in Space, because we saw Bulk and Spike, Skull's son. Did Zordon know about the Samurai Rangers and their enemies?
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