What Power Rangers Series Do You Feel Were Carbon Copies?
 

What shows do you guys think were copies of the source series rather than Power Rangers series?

Two blatant ones come to mind

Zeo
Samurai

From start to finish they were an excact copy rather than a Power Rangers adaption. (Minus the weird stuff from Bulk and Skull)

Zeo wasn't a carbon copy. If it wanted to really be a carbon copy they would relocate to Colorado and instead of teleporting with their communicator they would fly out of a mountain with fighter jets and wear military uniforms. And yeah the machine empire is pretty much the same but that won't cut it. Samurai definitely is close so I agree with you on that.

...Did you even watch Ohranger?

Zeo and Ohranger are... not... copies... of each other...

One is a show about a military force. One is about teenagers who get stuck singing.

...In what way was Zeo a carbon copy? It's borderline nothing like Ohranger.

Are we supposed to act like it's bad if a Power Rangers series is similar to their Super Sentai counterpart? Like Time Force follows a very, very similar plot to Timeranger, but it still did its own thing.

Also, Zeo is nothing like Ohranger. I have zero idea where you got that idea.

I agree. Time Force is close to Timeranger, yet I love both, while on the other hand Mystic Force I felt could have done more its own thing and to take the point further, in Samurai I only liked certain things because they were pretty much the same as a show I prefer, which they can't really take credit for!

It is a bit tricky to see how Zeo is like Ohranger really other than like the odd bit especially given PR still had the continuing cast too, it just sort of did some things similar and some things not but a closer adaptation would make a cool alternate universe show!

Wild Force, anyone?

I think the real" carbon copy" is Samurai, because... well... it's really Shinkenger episode-by-episode just moved in America. Time Force and Wild Force, even though they have similar episodes with Timeranger and Gaoranger, at least they have a different plotline that differentiate them from the Sentai counterpart (Ransik and the Alex storyline for Time Force, Cole's parents and Master Org for Wild Force. Also Cole being a jungle boy instead of a vet who can talk to animal... I think it makes more sense).

I recommend watching Super Samurai if that's what you think.

I believe quite a few series have portions that are basically lifted from Sentai; at least from my understanding. For instance, In Space and Lost Galaxy are without a doubt very different shows from Megaranger and Gingaman; but they do very much lift certain plotlines and arcs like the Nezirangers and Black Knight almost wholly.

In those days it was just easier to lift individual episode plot points and adjust a few bits and pieces to make it fit the P.R. story better. A typical answer was to switch the monster around.

It's no great surprise that P.R. has straight-up ripped Sentai off, but it varies from the minor to the extreme.

Zeo is in NO FRIGGIN WAY a copy-and-paste of Ohranger! The two are so vastly different from each other that I'm semi-surprised that Ohranger was even adapted at all.

What is with all these weird users lately? Just dropping by and leaving random comments and not elaborating on what they mean.

I’m beginning to think some of them have some kind of disorder.

You just summed up 95% of the fandom.

...Super Samurai is also that though.

Both Oh and Zeo teams had fought the Machine Empire.

...Okay? Every Power Rangers season fights the bad guys from the Sentai season. That doesn't mean every season is a copy.

...Because Zeo is adapted from Ohranger. By that logic almost EVERY season of PR is a carbon copy.

...What!?

Not a really hardline defense.

Spoilers for Ohranger and Zeo abound!

Ohranger is predicated on an ancient Earth power being unearthed and sourced by a military organization. Zeo is about an ancient Outer Space power being recovered and sourced by a floating head and teenagers.

Baranoia is about machines from space (but with an Emperor who was actually made on Earth) coming to conquer the Earth cause they have something of a god complex and view themselves as better than humans. The Machine Empire's origins are subject to debate, but they predominately come to Earth to conquer it and use its resources for their army and while there isn't an overt god complex against humans, one could say there is a sub-textual one.

Red Puncher was made long before Baranoia formally invaded Earth and resulted in the death of its original pilot. Red Battlezord was newly created during the Machine Empire invasion and didn't kill Tommy.

Riki, Dorin, and Paku have ties to the Earth and were essential in driving the Emperor from Pangea. Trey of Triforia has no immediate allies in his mission, no ties to the Earth prior to Zeo, and we aren't informed of his prior exploits against the Empire (if there are any at all).

The Blocker Robos were made by the military commander to use as a Trojan Horse. The Super Zeo Zords have ill-defined origins from deep space and were used only in battle and not as a deception.

The Emperor is presumed dead after grasping a sword he has no prior history with, while Mondo is heavily damaged and rendered temporarily inoperable due to grasping a sword he has history with.

Bomber the Great is a disgraced former member of Baranoia who failed at taking over Baranoia in the past and only leaves Buldont alive to satisfy succession requirements before he blows him up! Louie Kaboom's origins aren't directly tied to the Empire, but he tries to take over in the present in a "bloodless" coup without trying to kill Sprocket cause the Empire has no succession rules apparently.

Buldont marries his cousin after being empowered by his Father's energy reserves and seeking revenge on Bomber the Great to honor his own desire for revenge and his parent's wishes. Gasket is a disgraced older son and brother to Sprocket who married the daughter of his Father's never-before-seen rival and who has Louie Kaboom sent to his doom cause Machina was desperate.

Ohranger and Kakuranger team-up in a special which makes absolutely no sense in terms of continuity! Zeo and the Rangers of Aquitar team-up in a two-parter which astonishingly makes more sense in terms of continuity.

Baranoia conquers Earth for six months and lays waste to it with an untold number of off-screen human deaths without its original Emperor. The Machine Empire never conquers Earth or subjugates humanity even though Mondo returns.

Hysteria is protective of her grandson. Machina is never given a grandson that we know of.

Buldont and his wife die despite threatening human babies in a manner that makes Hysteria cringe. Gasket and Archerina don't threaten babies, defeated explosively, and flee from a rebuilt daddy without upsetting Machina directly.

Hysteria defies the Ohranger's belief, at gunpoint, that Baranoia couldn't learn the capacity for love when she commits suicide to save her grandchild! Machina is temporarily damaged from being blown-up by a trick present and never seems to learn what it means for humans to love each other cause she doesn't have an obvious grandchild and is turned to sand years after the Empire's failed invasion of Earth.

I really can't see the similarities between the two!

no no, you see, the mere FACT that they use the same villains from the same footage MUST MEAN that they're copies

I mean, there is a history of vets talking to animals in cinema history. :p

IMO even if a jungle boy did make more sense, I'm afraid I did prefer Kakeru to watch anyway (lol).