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This page highlights the differences between the Super Sentai and Power Rangers franchises.
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Currently on its 48th season. | Currently on its 30th season. |
Speak exclusively in Japanese with subtitles. | Speak exclusively in English. |
Earlier Super Sentai team in history came in 1975. | Earliest Ranger team came 65 million years ago in the form of the Ancient Dino Fury Rangers. |
Super Sentai was nearly canceled once; Chojin Sentai Jetman would have been the last Sentai season had it not been successful (preceding season Chikyu Sentai Fiveman performed poorly in viewership ratings) | Power Rangers has nearly ended or been cancelled multiple times. It was supposed to finish after the Mighty Morphin Season 1 episode "Doomsday" but continued due to popular demand; it was planned to be cancelled after the finale of Power Rangers In Space, "Countdown to Destruction" but ratings let it continue; it was supposed to end after Power Rangers Wild Force's finale upon Disney's buyout, but they let the show continue by cutting costs via filming in New Zealand, and Disney planned to end it after Power Rangers RPM's "Danger and Destiny", but Saban bought the franchise back. |
Created and produced in Japan. | Created and produced primarily in America. From 2002-2023, produced in New Zealand. |
All series have been created by Toei. | All series to date licensed from Toei, then adapted by others. Power Rangers was first adapted by Saban Entertainment from 1993 to 2001, then bought by Disney in 2002 although they used the remains of Saban Entertainment to complete Wild Force before taking over fully for Ninja Storm. They continued until RPM in 2009 at which time the rights were brought back by Saban in the form of Saban Brands from Power Rangers Samurai until Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel where Hasbro brought the rights. Since Power Rangers Beast Morphers Season 1, Hasbro has been creating new episodes via its subsidiary Allspark Pictures and later Entertainment One. |
Airs exclusively on TV Asahi. | Has aired on multiple channels and networks over the years. Fox Kids, ABC Family, ABC Kids, Toon Disney's Jetix block, Nickelodeon, and Netflix. |
There have been 94 Super Sentai Movies. | There have been four Power Rangers movies. |
All movies have been theatrical. | Three movies have been theatrical but one was a TV movie. |
Toylines developed exclusively by [Namco] Bandai | Toylines initially licensed and produced by Bandai [Namco], then by Hasbro. |
First two Super Sentai series were initially considered non-canon in the franchise. | All Power Rangers series are considered part of the main series except for Power Rangers HyperForce. |
Most recurring Sentai Ranger is AkaRed. | Most recurring Power Ranger is Tommy Oliver. |
First aired in 1975. | First aired in 1993. |
First series was Himitsu Sentai Gorenger, not Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. | First series was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 1. |
First team had four males and one female member. | First team had four males and two female members. |
Very first team lacked a specific theme. | Very first team were based around dinosaurs. |
First two Sentai teams lacked a Giant Robo which wasn't introduced until Battle Fever J (the third Super Sentai Season). | First Power Rangers team had Zords. |
First mecha in the show's history were machine based. | First Zords in Power Rangers' history were dinosaur based. |
First main antagonist was humanoid in shape but physically didn't resemble one. | First main antagonist was humanoid. |
Bandora's master was Dai Satan, a massive disembodied head in the sky. | Rita's master was Lord Zedd, a skinless freak with his brain exposed. |
Dai Satan was true main antagonist of Zyuranger. | Lokar was just a very powerful minion. |
Dai Satan was killed by Ultimate Daizyuzin. | Lokar's ultimate fate is unknown post-Doomsday although Power Rangers: Soul of the Dragon stated that he is still alive in the Talos Dimension. |
The Zyurangers, Dairangers, Kakurangers, Ohrangers and Carrangers had no connection beyond all being Rangers. | The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' second team became the Zeo Rangers and then the first set of Turbo Rangers. |
The Zyurangers never switched membership and the Dairangers only switched membership fifty years later due to being too old to fight the Gorma Tribe. | Due to actor payment issues in Season 2, half of the team was replaced halfway through three new members. |
The Kakurangers never switched members. | Kimberly Hart, the original Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger, went to the Pan Global Games partway through Season 3 and was replaced by Katherine Hillard. |
The Ohrangers battled the Machine Empire Baranoia. | The Zeo Rangers battled the Machine Empire. |
All of the members of the Machine Empire, except for the Butlers Acha & Kocha who became good, were killed by the Ohrangers although Empress Hysteria committed suicide instead. | Only Louie Kaboom was actually destroyed for good by the Zeo Rangers. Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa destroyed the main leaders but they were rebuilt and weren't destroyed for good until two years later. |
Prince Buldont became Kaiser Buldont thanks to his father's influence. | Prince Sprocket didn't get such a development as this form became a separate character: his older brother Prince Gasket. |
Final villains of Ohranger were Kaiser Buldont and his cousin Princess Multiwa. | Final villains of Power Rangers Zeo was a giant sized King Mondo and an army of Cogs. |
All Barlo Soldiers were destroyed by the end of Ohranger. | The Cogs survived Zeo and were later used in the United Alliance of Evil and six years after that. |
Gekiso Sentai Carranger was a comedic series satirising the Super Sentai franchise. | Power Rangers Turbo was sometimes comedic and sometimes played dead straight. |
The main antagonists of were the Space Bosozoku Bowzock, a biker gang formed to destroy various planets across the universe. | The main antagonists of Power Rangers Turbo were Divatox's Crew, space pirates whose leader (Divatox) wanted to marry Maligore but the Turbo Rangers stopped them so they came to conquer Earth as revenge. |
Intergalactic bikers. | Space pirates. |
Formed by President Gynamo after some manipulation by Reckless Dash Emperor Exhaus. | Formed by Divatox to pillage the universe. |
Gynamo was the de-facto leader but Exhaus was the benefactor. | Rygog was the second in command. |
Exhaus' ultimate goal was to destroy Earth as the last step in forming the biggest highway in the galaxy. | Divatox's ultimate goal was to destroy or conquer the Earth as revenge. |
Exhaus' goal failed. | Divatox successfully destroyed the Power Chamber once and for all although she was unable to find and destroy the Power Rangers before being summoned by Dark Specter's Messenger. |
The Carrangers never switched membership. | Partway through the season, the adult Rangers left for college and were replaced by T.J. Johnson, Carlos Vallerte, Ashley Hammond, and Cassie Chan with only Justin Stewart as the Blue Ranger remaining from the original line-up. |
Instructor Ritchihiker had no relation to the Bowzock aside from being employed by them and later commanding the organization. | General Havoc was the brother of Divatox. |
Ritchihiker had two forms, a bright blue form and a brown-yellow form. | General Havoc was only shown to have a brown-yellow form. |
Ritchihiker usurped Gynamo as the leader of the Bowzock and kicked both him and Beauty Zonnette out of the Baribarian whilst forcing the others to obey him under threat of Braking. | General Havoc never tried to usurp Divatox and the Metallosaurus was only used as a weapon. |
Ritchihiker was killed by the destruction of Braking. | General Havoc survived his Zord's destruction and went to build another Metallosaurs but was unable to before he was destroyed a year later. |
The Ohrangers and Carrangers teamed up partway through Carranger to destroy Bara Mobile and the last remnants of the Machine Empire Baranoia. | The Zeo and Turbo Rangers never teamed up but the leadership of the Machine Empire was destroyed at the end of the following season and the organisation was brought down for good 6 years after that. |
The Carrangers and Megarangers had no connection beyond a team-up. | With the exception of Justin who moved away with his father, the second team of Turbo Rangers went into space and teamed up with the alien Ranger Andros to become the Space Rangers. |
Denji Sentai Megaranger was virtual reality based. | Power Rangers In Space was space themed. |
Main antagonists of Megaranger were the Wicked Electric Kingdom Nezirejia, a race of evil robots originating from Earth who desired to conquer the world. | Main antagonist of In Space was the United Alliance of Evil, a race of various aliens including the Evil Space Aliens, the Machine Empire, and Divatox's Crew who desire to conquer the universe. |
Supreme leader of the Nezirejia was Evil Electro-King Javious I, a villain only seen via his single eye. | Supreme leader of the United Alliance of Evil was Dark Specter, a gigantic rock and lava themed monster. |
Guirail was a loyal if extremely aggressive general. | Darkonda was a aggressive. disloyal, and ambitious as well as traitorous bounty hunter. |
Gurail had no past with the Megarangers. | Darkonda was the one responsible for kidnapping Andros' sister Karone for Dark Specter to raise into his second in command Astronema. |
Gurail was mutated into a giant mutant monster form named Mad Gurail. | Darkonda was mutated into a giant mutant monster form which was never given a special name. |
Mutated into Mad Gurail by a capsule given by Doctor Hinelar. | Mutated into his giant form by a capsule given by Ecliptor. |
Mutated Gurail because it was designed for Yugande and not him although Yugande was unable to take it because he was still wounded after thier time as Giga Gurail. | Mutated Darkonda because it was a ruse by Ecliptor to kill him since he was a treacherous psychopath. |
Giant mutant form was an utterly mindless creature who never spoke a word aside from growls and snarls. | Although initially mindless and feral, Darkonda regained his sentience once he was hit by the Astro Delta Megazord's spin attack. |
Part of Gurail broke off to form Gigire. | Part of Darkonda broke off to form Mutantrus who was only given a name in the end credits. |
Killed for good by the Mega Voyager's Voyager Sparten attack. | Darkonda survived the Mega Voyager's Mega V3 Missile Mode attack only to accidentally die when Dark Specter ate him mid-betrayal. |
All remnants of Javious were lost with the destruction of Hinelar City. | Dark Specter was destroyed when Darkonda shot a missile into him. Said missile could have destroyed the Earth as was it's original purpose. |
The Nezirangers were created from the now dead Gurail's DNA. | The Psycho Rangers were created from the Space Ranger's brainwaves. |
Final villain of Megaranger was Doctor Hinelar in Grand Neziros. | Final villain of In Space was Ecliptor after Andros seemed to accidentally kill Astronema. Tankenstein came in the previous episode. |
Grand Neziros was a giant, non-sentient mecha akin to the Mega Voyager. | Takenstein was a giant tank monster who initially appeared as a Humvee. |
Grand Neziros was taken into space by the Mega Voyager after being critically damaged and exploded, taking both the Mega Voyager and Doctor Hinelar with it. | Takenstein took to the skies and exploded in mid-air, taking the Mega Voyager with him. |
Nezirejia was defeated for good when Doctor Hinelar died although remnants came to fruition a year later. | The United Alliance of Evil were wiped out by Zordon's Energy Wave, with everyone except for Rita, Zedd, and Divatox turning into dust (since those three were purified into humans. |
Seiju Sentai Gingaman was originally supposed to be "Seiju Sentai Gaoranger" but had to change it for fear of being sued due to the release of the similarly named anime Yuusha-Oh GaoGaiGar. | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy was always going to be named that. |
Gingaman was nature themed. | Lost Galaxy was space trek themed. |
The Dekarangers killed (or "deleted") Alienizers. | The B-Squad Rangers contained members of the Troobian Empire with the only dead members being Omni and Shorty. |
Engine Sentai Go-Onger was a comedic series. | Power Rangers RPM was a dark and serious series. |
Engine Sentai Go-Onger was a race car based series. | Power Rangers RPM was post-apocalyptic. |