"What If?" Power Rangers: Legacy

"What If?"

Power Rangers: Legacy

A concept for a season to expand on the Power Ranger universe I came up with a while back on the Mighty Morphin Super Sentai Facebook page as part of a 30-Day Ranger Challenge. It's main, behind-the-scenes purpose would be to fill plot-holes, for which there are many in Power Rangers.

- Episode Count -

50 episodes, with three movie specials.
The 900 Year War (prequel movie)
Invasion Earth (movie roughly half way through the series)
End of Time (epilogue movie)

- The Synopsis -

When the offspring of two great evils emerges as a player in the galaxy, the forces of good begin to crumble under his power. The forces of evil continue to grow, becoming an even bigger threat once the power to corrupt the time stream is gained. A hero from the future sets out on a mission to gather heroes from various times, to ensure the time line occurs as it is supposed to, and put an end to the evil that plagues all of existence.

- The Rangers -

Quantum Ranger - Eric Myers
Solaris Knight - Daggeron
Green Samurai Ranger - Cam Watanabe
Magna Defender - Mike Corbett
Omega Ranger - Sam
Zeo Gold Ranger - Jason Lee Scott

- Team Info -

When the timeline begins to become corrupted, the Omega Ranger is sent on another mission into the past. He gathers his chosen Ranger team, with the Quantum Ranger serving as field leader while a modified Solar Streak Megazord (outfitted with a time-travel drive) becomes the mode of transportation for the team in their travels through time. Each ranger also has access to their own personal zords, brought with them on the Solar Streak Megazord by being stored in a pocket dimension storage device from the future the Omega Ranger installs.

- The Villain -

Birthed by mixing of the evil energy of Rita and Lord Zedd, Thrax came to be in a timeline one dimension over. After being exiled by the forces of good in his own universe, the end result of a war that raged on for hundreds of years, Thrax entered the Ranger Prime universe seconds after the Z-Wave dissipated. Even in a weakened state, his evil energy was so strong that it allowed evil to take a foot hold in the galaxy again (events detailed in the "The 900 Year War" special). Slowly his strength began returning, and Thrax set out to conquer a universe not his own. His plans kept him off Earth for a few years, arriving around 2001, the time of Time Force. By scanning their time ship he gained the ability to travel the time stream. Splitting his essence through time, Thrax began to alter the timeline at multiple points, creating a temporal storm due to the paradoxes he was unleashing. It was the detection of this storm, before their timeline could be altered, that alerted the SPD of the far future, sending the Omega Ranger on another mission through time.

- Notes -

* The series would have the Rangers travelling through time, through every past season and more, working with characters from each timeline to stop Thrax and his machinations.

* On each stop on the timeline, the Rangers face more than just Thrax, as he generates all sorts of minion and monsters for the Rangers to fight while working on his evil plans, as well as teaming up with past villains.

* This would address various continuity issues (such as the previously mentioned evil surviving the Z-Wave, why the Rangers couldn't keep their Zeo powers, how certain rangers still had [or regained] their powers for crossovers, the origin of Serpenterra and how it came to be on the moon for "Forever Red," etc). Basically, through the telling of a brand new story it would work to resolve as many continuity issues as it could.

* The "Invasion Earth" special would have the Rangers meeting a significantly younger-than-in-MMPR Zordon and his apprentice Gosei as they face off against the evil Space Witch Rita Repulsa during her invasion of Earth. It would also lead to the creation of Robo Knight, and the trapping of Zordon in a time warp and Rita and crew in a space dumpster.

* Thinking Thrax is defeated for good, the series ends with all the Rangers returning to their home times. Thrax survives, however, though severely weakened and lost in time. The series ends with Thrax discovering a great power source, the Corona Aurora, doing battle with Sentinel Knight, and getting trapped in a space dumpster.

* The "End of Time" epilogue movie would have the Ranger team reuniting one last time, taking place in the far, far future, days (so to speak) before time literally ends and the universe with it. After being physically destroyed in Operation Overdrive, the essence of Thrax survived, moving freely through time. Arriving at the end of everything, Thrax sets about a plan to restart the universe moments after it ends, a new universe created by pure evil. The Rangers must stop him one last time, and end his threat forever.


So, that's the rough run down for the season idea. What do you think?