[tempest]

Why does Power Rangers always have a mentor? I can understand having a mentor if the rangers are teenagers or kids, but sometimes the rangers are adults playing adults and yet they still put in mentor figures. Operation Overdrive had the rangers being all adults and a robot and yet they had a mentor figure. These people are adults. If something's wrong, they can figure it out on their own. I mean there's six of them for crying out loud. In RPM all the rangers were adults too, but at least there, they had a mentor figure because she was the one that developed the suits and zords, so it would stand to reason that she would be involved in their activities. Is it because they have to have a parental figure for the kids to look up to? The only season I can think of at the top of my head that didn't have a mentor per se was Time Force.