Power Rangers Megaforce is the twentieth season of the long-running television series Power Rangers. The show is produced by Saban Brands and began airing on Nickelodeon on February 2, 2013.[1] The show was part of the Power Rangers 20th anniversary.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]Kidscreen reported that Megaforce featured "the return of many historic Rangers."[10]Megaforce uses footage, costumes and props from the Japanese Super Sentai Series Tensou Sentai Goseiger.
The second season, and twenty-first overall, is called Power Rangers Super Megaforce[11] and premiered on February 15, 2014.[12]Super Megaforce uses footage, costumes and props from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. Their sentai counterpart shows are angel and pirate themed. The series also used footage from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger with footage with suits from before Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.
Plot
Season 1: Megaforce
When the evil Warstar aliens attack Earth, the supernatural guardian Gosei, assigned to protect the Earth by Zordon, and his faithful robot assistant Tensou recruit a group of teenagers - Troy Burrows, Jake Holling, Gia Moran, Noah Carver, and Emma Goodall - to combat the invading forces. Equipped with powers that grant them mastery over martial arts and other forms of combat, the teenagers transform into the latest champions of good: the Power Rangers Megaforce.[13]
Season 2: Super Megaforce
In the second Super Megaforce season, when an alien armada led by Prince Vekar - the brother of Vrak - plans to invade the Earth, Gosei gives the Megaforce Rangers new Morphers and special keys to allow them to become the Super Megaforce Rangers and also imbues them with the power to transform into any past "Legendary" Power Rangers. In course of time, due to their virtues and fighting spirit, they unlock various megazords of the past rangers (meeting several along the way.). An alien named Orion, whose home world was destroyed by the armada, then joins their ranks as the Silver Ranger, and gets all the legendary Sixth Ranger along with those of Robo Knight. Later, in a battle with the most powerful machines of evil, the Megazords of the Rangers as well as their Legendary Megazords are destroyed. After that, Troy and Orion enter the ship of Vrak and Vekar's father the Warstar Emperor Marvo, fight him, and unleash the ship's power, which destroys every other ship in the Armada. Later they both succeed in destroying Marvo and then they return to the ground. The Rangers then find that thousands of X-Borgs, the innumerable soldiers of The Armada, have been let loose on them. At this point, all the Legendary Rangers, whose powers the Rangers have been using throughout the series, appear to help them. Together, all the Rangers destroy the X-Borgs, saving the Earth.
Jason David Frank as Tommy Oliver, the Green Ranger and the White Ranger, and subsequently Zeo Ranger V, Red, the first Red Turbo Ranger and the Black Dino Thunder Ranger.
Troy, the new kid in school, has a dream on the school bus of many Power Ranger teams battling an unknown enemy army. Meanwhile, the Insectoid-like race known as Warstar plans to invade Earth. Gosei, an intergalactic wizard who was an apprentice of Zordon (mentor of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) awakens from his sleep and has his robot aid Tensou summon "a group of teenagers with attitude" to fend off Warstar's threats. The five new Power Rangers - Troy, Noah, Gia, Emma, and Jake - are summoned to Gosei's stronghold and are given their new Power Ranger gear, and then proceed to defeat the invading Warstar forces and win their first battle.
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"He Blasted Me with Science"
Jonathan Tzachor
David McDermott
February 9, 2013 (2013-02-09)
Warstar's scientist Yuffo is sent to study humanity to figure out how the invasion can be completed more efficiently and to discover a way to defeat the Power Rangers. Troy is approached by Creepox in the forest, trying to goad him into a fight, but Troy refuses. Yuffo proceeds to attack the Power Rangers, but they combine their weapons and are victorious. However, the alien threat is super-sized using a Warstar technology called Zombats, leading the Megaforce Rangers to learn to call upon their Zords. Meanwhile, Jake tries to impress Gia, only to get nowhere.
Jake brings his Snake-Axe in a guitar case to use as a weight to strengthen himself. But when Noah has trouble lifting Jake's heavy weapon, he begins to doubt his abilities until he learns that he can do anything if he believes in himself. Warstar sends Virox to infect humans with one sneeze, turning them into Loogies, Warstar foot soldiers, leading the Rangers to quarantine the infected. Noah's belief in his abilities enables him to unlock a new Zord combination and defeat the monster Virox. Afterward, Noah replaces Jake's heavy ax with a lighter metal for better balance, only for Jake to be initially unable to swing the ax properly.
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"Stranger Ranger"
Jonathan Brough
Seth Walther
February 23, 2013 (2013-02-23)
A civilian named Jordan falsely claims to be one of the Power Rangers, distracting the real Power Rangers from their attempts to focus their concentration on training for future battles, particularly the attacks of Dragonflay. The Rangers eventually defeat the Warstar monster. Jordan eventually admits to the public that he is not a Power Ranger, later telling Troy he has learned that it is better to be himself.
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"United We Stand"
Jonathan Brough
Jill Donnellan
March 2, 2013 (2013-03-02)
After finding and taking a picture of a very rare flower, Emma and Gia are hit with a curse by the newest warstar monster Beezara into hating each other, to the point where they can't even agree on the same thing, while turning the boys into her mindless and obedient slaves, fortunately, with their help, the girls are able to break the curse and destroy Beezara.
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"Harmony and Dizchord"
James Barr
Seth Walther
March 9, 2013 (2013-03-09)
The episode starts with Troy jogging where he finds Emma singing. Dizchord, a musical themed monster, attacks the city with music that produces physical pain to human eardrums, fortunately, the Rangers manage to turn the tables of the fight in an unorthodox way and defeat him with a song of their own.
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"Who's Crying Now?"
Jonathan Tzachor
Seth Walther
March 16, 2013 (2013-03-16)
After Troy defends a kid from bullies that want to crush the rare insect that he has found. Afterwards, Creepox, who was goaded by Vrak into fighting the rangers after his previous defeat at Troy's hand, first against the bullies from earlier, and eventually against the red ranger himself, despite the odds, the rangers defeat him once and for all, and discover that the bullies (who were saved from the kid they bullied before) have gained newfound respect for him and go on to learn more about his bug.
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"Robo Knight"
Jonathan Tzachor
Marc Handler
March 30, 2013 (2013-03-30)
Robo Knight awakens to help the Rangers when the Toxic Mutants awaken and threaten to pollute the environment with their monster Hisser.
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"Prince Takes Knight"
Jonathan Tzachor
David McDermott & Seth Walther
April 6, 2013 (2013-04-06)
Vrak and Psychotick capture Robo Knight in order to reprogram him to serve the Warstar.
The Megaforce Rangers must teach Robo Knight the meaning of teamwork at the time when Vrak and the Toxic Mutants unleash the powerful Shadow Serpent upon the city.
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"Ultra Power"
John Laing
Jim Peronto
September 14, 2013 (2013-09-14)
The Megaforce Rangers must find a powerful ancient weapon called the Wild Sword in the Black Mountains. Vrak plans to get to the sword first where he enlist the help of Distractor.
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"Last Laugh"
John Laing
Jill Donnellan
September 28, 2013 (2013-09-28)
Gia, Emma, Troy, and Jake are captured by Nojoke during his capture of laughing people. Noah and Robo Knight must overcome their differences to free the captive Rangers and defeat Nojoke.
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"Dream Snatcher"
Yuji Noguchi
Jill Donnellan & James W. Bates
October 5, 2013 (2013-10-05)
A dream-eating monster called Dream Snatcher preys on Emma after being powered up by the Aurora Box that belonged to Vrak's family. The Rangers and Robo Knight must rescue Emma's dreams and defeat Dream Snatcher before the Roots of Despair emitted from his victims rot the Earth.
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"Gosei Ultimate"
Yuji Noguchi
Marc Handler
October 12, 2013 (2013-10-12)
Gosei and the Rangers must work together to defeat Bluefur and Bigs once and for all when they use the power of the Aurora Box to make themselves stronger.
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"Raising Spirits"
James Barr
Jim Peronto
October 19, 2013 (2013-10-19)
In this Halloween special, the Rangers meet a medium whose crystal ball curiously shows them previous battles - and raises their suspicions by acting in favor of the creatures and villains shown. The fortune teller reveals his identity as a mutant named Glytcher and attempts to cause all electronics in the city to malfunction. With Emma's help, the Rangers must find a way to defeat him and save Halloween.
Metal Alice converts Vrak into a robot/cyborg to attack the Power Rangers when she is visited by a robot known as Messenger who informs her the invasion will soon begin.
In this Christmas special, Robo Knight learns the true meaning of Christmas from a group of children when he disguises himself as a donated Christmas toy and is shipped in a charity crate to Africa. Once in Africa, he tells the children in an African village about his life and the heroic actions of the Power Rangers.
The Armada has begun their invasion on Earth, and the Power Rangers fight hard against the X-Borgs that the Armada has unleashed. Gosei presents them with new Morphers that unlock a Super Mega Mode, which allows them to access the powers of every previous team of Power Rangers in their fight against the monsters Headridge and Tentacus.
Troy discovers a plot by the Armada to attack major cities around the world with missiles and must fight Cybax and the X Borgs on his own as the others are busy rebuilding the city.
After being defeated in battle by a master swordsman monster called Skatana, Noah wonders if he is worthy to be a Power Ranger anymore and ends up training to counter Skatana's attacks.
The Power Rangers take the Sky Ship to Animaria to look for the Red Lion Wild Zord. They soon find themselves in competition against General Peluso who is also after the Red Lion Wild Zord.
The emperor unleashes a powerful monster called Matacore to combat the Rangers. When fighting Matacore, the Power Rangers meet Jayden (the Red Samurai Ranger) and Mentor Ji who provide a disk to help them fight Matacore.
After the magnetic monster Pacha Chamak steals the Power Rangers' weapons, Jake and Emma consult with Casey Rhodes (the Jungle Fury Red Ranger who is now a part-time zookeeper) to learn a special form of martial arts.
When the Armada sends down X Borg platoons after X Borg platoons, the Megaforce Rangers have their encounter with the Silver Ranger even when they are facing off against Gorgax.
The Silver Ranger, who is known as Orion, explains his origins to the Rangers, Gosei, and Tensou. Meanwhile, Damaras sends Commander Osegain to Earth in a plot to destroy Orion.
When the Rangers are sidelined by an energy-draining monster named Skeltox, Jake must get over his jealousy of Orion and help him master the powers of the Sixth Rangers in order to defeat Skeltox.
A love potion made by Invidious accidentally makes Levira fall in love with Jake. Upon discovering this, Invidious plans to eliminate Jake so that he can have Levira for himself.
When the Legendary Megazord is damaged in a fight against Desolar (who is stealing the happiness from humans in order to cure Prince Vekar's cold), Emma uses unconventional methods to defeat this unusual monster.
A body-swapping monster named Tranceferer switches Jake and Noah's bodies while on a mission to swap the bodies of high-ranking people. While Tranceferer continues his mission, the monster Turtlelini is sent down to distract the Rangers, causing Jake and Noah to handle fighting in each other's bodies.
The Rangers are lured away from Earth and into Corinth by Professor Cog, who locks the wormhole to Corinth. While the Rangers work to tame the Turbo Falcon Zord, Professor Cog and his Grinders attack Earth and run into competition in the Armada form. The Rangers must find a way to tame the Turbo Falcon Zord and find a way back to Earth to stop Professor Cog.
Following Prince Vekar's destruction, Vrak resurfaces and makes his latest plan to destroy Earth with the help of a reprogrammed Robo Knight.
With two of the drills in the Earth that were placed by Vrak, the Rangers must rescue Orion from Vrak and free Robo Knight from Vrak's control before the final drill can be placed.
Emperor Mavro comes to Earth following the deaths of his sons Vrak and Prince Vekar and replaces Prince Vekar's fleet with his fleet. He also plans to punish Damaras for what happened to Prince Vekar, yet gives a chance to Damaras to redeem himself by destroying the Power Rangers.
Emperor Mavro launches an attack on Earth by calling all Armada forces across the galaxy to drop what they are doing in their positions and head to Earth. He also sends Levira to fight the Rangers to redeem herself for the death of Prince Vekar and Vrak and to make up for Damaras' failure.
When Emperor Mavro and his remaining fleet continue their attack on Earth; the Megaforce Rangers receive help from every Power Ranger that came before them in the final battle against the Armada. Notable returning Power Rangers include Tommy Oliver (Green Mighty Morphin Ranger), T.J. Johnson (Blue Space Ranger), Cassie Chan (Pink Space Ranger), Leo Corbett (Red Galaxy Ranger), Damon Henderson (Green Galaxy Ranger), Karone (Pink Galaxy Ranger), Carter Grayson (Red Lightspeed Ranger), Dana Mitchell (Pink Lightspeed Ranger), Wesley Collins (Red Time Force Ranger), Mike (Green Samurai Ranger), and Emily (Yellow Samurai Ranger).
Emperor Mavro launches an attack on Earth by calling all Armada forces across the galaxy to drop what they are doing in their positions and head to Earth. He also sends Levira to fight the Rangers to redeem herself for the death of Prince Vekar and Vrak and to make up for Damaras' failure.
When Emperor Mavro and his remaining fleet continue their attack on Earth; the Megaforce Rangers receive help from every Power Ranger that came before them in the final battle against the Armada. Notable returning Power Rangers include Tommy Oliver (Green Mighty Morphin Ranger), T.J. Johnson (Blue Space Ranger), Cassie Chan (Pink Space Ranger), Leo Corbett (Red Galaxy Ranger), Damon Henderson (Green Galaxy Ranger), Karone (Pink Galaxy Ranger), Carter Grayson (Red Lightspeed Ranger), Dana Mitchell (Pink Lightspeed Ranger), Wesley Collins (Red Time Force Ranger), Mike (Green Samurai Ranger) and Emily (Yellow Samurai Ranger).
Guest Stars: Sean Cw Johnson, Alison MacInnis, Danny Slavin, Selwyn Ward, Patricia Ja Lee, Jason David Frank, Jason Faunt, Reggie Rolle, Melody Perkins, Hector David Jr., and Brittany Anne Pirtle. A television special that combines the episodes "The Wrath" and "Legendary Battle," along with alternate dialog and additional footage not seen in either episode's original airing. This special first aired on Nicktoons instead of Nickelodeon.[37] The special is not counted as a numbered episode towards the season or Power Rangers franchise overall, but in-universe, it is considered in continuity over "The Wrath" and "Legendary Battle" as the definitive ending to the season.[38]
^This episode aired in France on September 13, 2013.
^This episode aired in France on September 16, 2013.
^This episode aired in France on September 17, 2013.
^This episode aired in France on September 18, 2013.
^This episode aired in France on September 19, 2013.
^This episode aired in France on September 20, 2013.
^This episode was made available on the Nickelodeon website for early access streaming on February 9, 2014.
^This episode was made available on the Nickelodeon website for early access streaming on August 22, 2014.
^This episode was first broadcast in Russia on September 14, 2014, then in France on September 15, 2014, and in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2014.
^This episode was first broadcast in France on September 16, 2014, and then in Russia on September 20, 2014, and the United Kingdom on September 24, 2014.
^This episode was first broadcast in France on September 16, 2014, and then in Russia on September 21, 2014, and the United Kingdom on September 25, 2014.
^This episode was first broadcast in France on September 17, 2014, and then in the United Kingdom on September 26, 2014, and Russia on September 27, 2014.
^This episode was first broadcast in France on September 17, 2014, and then in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2014, and Russia on September 28, 2014.
^This episode was first broadcast in France on September 18, 2014, and then in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2014, and Russia on October 4, 2014.
^This episode was first broadcast in France on September 18, 2014, and then in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2014, and Russia on October 5, 2014.
^This episode was first broadcast in France on September 19, 2014, and then in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2014, and Russia on October 11, 2014, and as part of the extended version on November 24, 2014.
^This episode was first broadcast in France on September 19, 2014, and then in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2014, and Russia on October 12, 2014, and as part of the extended version on November 24, 2014.