[Starman]

So, this started as a joke with my friend and it turned into a legit idea for a Sentai/Ranger series I'd actually like to see. It would probably start off as a parody series in tone before it slowly built up into something more series.

Thunder Sentai Hyperman (Thunder Squadron Hyperman-yeah, it's pretty straightforward.) OR Power Rangers Thunder Force!

Cause Hyperforce is already a thing...

The series would follow our heroes, a group of slackers. They cut class, read manga, and goof off without any real aspirations. But, worst of all, they spend all their time watching...Super Sentai and letting their lives pass them by! Their teachers are usually annoyed with them, their at the bottom rung with their classmates, and their family lives aren't much better. But, hey, they have each other, so who cares what they think!

But then, just like in their shows, boom! Monsters start appearing out of nowhere! With seemingly no source. And one of them tries to eat an alley cat that "Red" ends up running into. For better or worse, our teen heroes try to fight and stop this monster before it can do any harm!

And they get their tails kicked.

But then, their cellphones begin to shimmer brightly and a mysterious app appears.

"Time To Go HYPER!"

And after pressing the app, they properly transform into rangers!

So, before moving forward, let's talk more about the show's themes:

Our 'Slacker Rangers' are all teens who have dreams for their future, but have given up on them. Through a mix of various traumas and incidents, they don't believe they have a future and have already given up. The monsters are the creation of a drug called...'EX-Factor' (cause I couldn't think of a better name), usually given to people down on their luck. After injecting themselves, they gain what they wanted most, at the cost of becoming grotesque monsters that give into their greed and desires.

The overall theme of this series would be hope. Losing hope, giving up on hope, falling into despair, and then finding that hope again and taking your life back!

Thunder Red: The loudest of the group. Only the "leader" because nobody wants to argue with him, cause he ALWAYS finds something to argue about. (It also helps he knows Judo and lives in a dojo.) He's usually the first one to lead the charge into a fight. He fights with a spear and pilots 'Red Rescue', his personal Zord, which is essentially a Firetruck, because his dream was to become a Fire Fighter, having given up on his dream after being stuck inside of a burning building and developing a fear of fire.

Thunder Blue: Aloof, calm, collected...lazy. He'd rather sleep than do anything, so Red is usually dragging him around everywhere. He fights with a pistol and pilots 'Blue Justice', which is a police car. He gave up on his dream after his father was arrested. His father WAS a bad man, and might even turn into a monster later on, but as far as he knew, his father was a good person who took care of him and his mother and when he was taken away, they fell on hard times.

Thunder Yellow: Obnoxious is the right word to describe him. He's always telling bad puns and is usually the butt of most jokes-he's most likely gonna get beaten up the most, usually by Red. He's also usually the one thinking they should run from a fight. Speaking of, he fights with a pair of yo-yos, which is a constant prop for him, and pilots 'Yellow Speeder', an ambulance. His dream was to become a doctor, but no matter how hard he studies, he's barely scraping by and a teacher even told him to not bother with medical school, saying he'd never make it.

Thunder Green: Wannabe lady's man who's always getting rejected. He thinks he's smooth, but isn't. He fights the most with Green, and can back it up since he knows boxing, but usually it doesn't amount to much of anything. He fights with an axe and pilots 'Green Rush', a drill. This...sadly, doesn't tie into his dream, which is to become a musician, and is even musically inclined. But his father, a fisherman, wants him to take over the family business and even destroyed an instrument he had bought with his own money in his childhood.

Thunder Black: Resident nerd. He knows everything there is to know about electronics and is an otaku. If he's not shoving his latest manga in someone's face, he's playing some kind of gaming device, or trying to reenact a cringy anime trope 'in real life'. But what he truly goes crazy over is cars. He fights with a pair of daggers that can be brought together to form into a sword, and pilots 'Black Shimmer', a race car. His dream is to go into programming video games, but his parents disapprove of his love for video games. He has the best grades of the group and is even pushing to live Blue's dream, but that's not what he wants to do.

When these five zords come together, they become 'Thunder King'!

Throughout the series the five of them will be in constant contact with 'Senpai', someone who graduated a few years ahead of them and acts as their confidant and counselor. Despite her job as a freelance reporter, she sees it as her duty as their senior and older sister figure to help these five get on track. Her role is to help these five stop their acts of delinquency, get them socially adjusted to society properly, and just help them. But whenever they're in REAL danger, she becomes...

Thunder Pink: A mysterious 6th Ranger who comes in to save the day every once in a while and disappears just as quickly. She fights with a sniper rifle, and usually helps them from a far-off distance unseen. But when things get REALLY hairy, she rides upon 'Pink Dream', which is a dragon that becomes its own proper mech and fights as 'Thunder Dragon'. It CAN combine with the Thunder King and becomes 'Thunder Dragon King!'

Throughout the series, the team's interactions with 'Pink', their mutual support, and through all the fighting, the rougher parts of the personalities start to smooth out and they start to drop/tone down their worst traits-they'll even get meta and joke about it as they become better people.