 This article is about an episode in Power Rangers Beast Morphers.
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Game On! is the third episode of the second season of Power Rangers Beast Morphers and the twenty-fifth episode overall. It's also the 900th overall Power Rangers episode. It features the reveal of Evox being in Mayor Daniels' body.
Synopsis[]
It's not all fun and games when Devon's favorite video game is brought to life in the form of a new Robotron.
Plot[]
At the Riptide Gym, the Rangers arrive to cheer Devon on, who's competing in the Coral Harbor Annual E-Sport Championship tournament of Backstreet Brawler 3. Mayor Daniels also arrives to cheer his son on in the finals. He is competing against a girl named Kerry Dixon, who is supported by her little brother Louie.
Nate explains to Mayor Daniels how Backstreet Brawler 3 works: the gaming consoles use augmented reality, where players can control a holographic fighter. The competitors choose their characters, with Devon choosing his favorite, Sensei Bones and Kerry selecting Sinister Sasha. After wishing each other luck, the judge starts the fight. Devon's avatars knocks his opponent's avatar into the judge, so he issues a warning. Confused as to how that happened, Nate tells Mayor Daniels how the game uses hard light technology that's capable of making contact with any physical objects.
The Mayor excuses himself to make a phone call outside. During the fight, Devon is keeping up the pressure on Kerry, when all of a sudden, she hits his avatar with a combination of moves that causes his character to freeze up. He tries to get his character to move, but nothing works. Just as Kerry's about to finish Devon off, a morphed Robo-Blaze and Robo-Roxy teleport in and blast the avatars. As the crowd flees, the Robo-Generals steal Kerry's gaming console. As they try to leave with it, the Rangers confront them and morph. The Robo-Generals some a group of Tronics, so the Rangers fight them while their enemies leave the Gym with the console.
Kerry and Louie escape outside, thinking they're safe, until they see Robo-Blaze and Robo-Roxy with the Robotron Maker and hide. The Robo-Generals use the Robotron Key on Kerry's console and it turns into a Robotron called Gamertron. The Rangers show up after beating the Tronics, and Devon tells Nate and Steel to deal with Robo-Blaze and Robo-Roxy while, he, Ravi, and Zoey deal with Gamertron. Another fight ensues, and Gamertron uses her powers to create holo-clones of Devon, Ravi, and Zoey. Kerry laves her brother to get a closer look of the fight. The real Rangers do their best to fight the clones, and are revealed to have their Beast Powers and weapons as well. they are too powerful and eventually fire blasts of their Beast-X Cannons at the Rangers. Nate and Steel manage to hurt the Robo-Generals with their Striker Morphers' Striker Beast Blast and go to check on the others. Knowing that the clones are too strong, Devon opts that they retreat for now, so the Rangers fire a combined Beast Blast from their blasters and retreat. Angered at their cowardly retreat, the Robo-Generals assure Gamertron that she'll get her chance to crush the Rangers before teleporting away. Louie appears and checks on his sister, where she explains that the Robotron is an evil version of her gaming console, and has an idea.
At Grid Battleforce, Devon arrives with a spare console so Nate can study it and try to exploit any possible weaknesses against Gamertron's Ranger clones. Devon gets a phone call from the gaming tournament and has to go to the Riptide Gym about an announcement concerning the championship match. At the Gym, Devon arrives where the judge and Kerry are arguing over the match. Devon learns from the judge that rematch won't be taking place unless Kerry has another console, despite the fact that hers was stolen and she doesn't have enough money to buy another one, meaning Devon wins by forfeit. Devon then gives Kerry his gaming console, as he has another one and doesn't want to win by forfeit, and because it's the right thing to do. Kerry thanks Devon for this, and the judge announces that their rematch will take place at the Riptide Gym at 6:00. Devon, Kerry, and Louie leave the Gym. Meanwhile, Ben and Betty are cleaning up the mess at the Gym from the attack, and come across a game called Dance Fiesta. When they activate it, Juan, a holographic dancer, materializes. Betty willingly becomes his dance partner, and is instantly infatuated with him.
Back at Grid Battleforce, Nate has finished examining the gaming console and does not have a way to beat Gamertron, and there has been no sign of her or Robo-Blaze or Robo-Roxy. Before they can come up with a strategy of how to beat them, Commander Shaw comes in and tells the Rangers that there's a young woman here to speak with them about the Robotron, but will only talk to the Rangers, so she advises them to morph to hide their identities. The morphed Rangers arrive in the Command Room and it's revealed to be Kerry that wants to talk to them. She explains to them that it was her console that was turned into the Robotron that made the Ranger clones (which they already know). She tells them that she has a way for the Rangers to beat the clones, with a secret move that can beat any fighter. Steel wonders how can a move in a game help in a real battle, where Nate surmises that since it's based on the same game, then it can have the same weaknesses. Kerry explains that the secret move is a precise combination of strikes that will cause your opponent to freeze in place. Devon realizes that was what happened to his fighter during the initial match, where Kerry reveals that its a bug that she discovered in the game by accident, meaning that she's winning by cheating. Kerry apologizes for cheating, and reveals that she did because her family needs the prize money to pay for a surgery her brother Louie needs so he can play soccer again. Devon points out to Kerry that she has worked hard to become a good gamer, but if she cheats to win, then she is no winner at all. Suddenly, the alarm goes off, and the Commander informs the Rangers that Gamertron has hijacked a shipment of Backstreet Brawler 3 game consoles in Sector Zulu 7-5, where Evox can use them to mass produce an army of Gametrons. The Rangers ask Kerry to show her the secret technique one more time.
At the hijacked truck, the driver is tied up and Gamertron opens up the truck and is about to create an army of herself, but the Rangers blast her away from the truck. Devon instructs Nate and Steel to escort the truck back to the base while the rest of them deal with the Robotron. Gametron then creates more Ranger holo-clones and the real Rangers engage them in a fight. The Rangers use Kerry's secret technique and manage to immobilize the clones, before destroying them with a Beast-X Blast. Devon then proceeds to combine his weapons into a Beast-X Cannon before destroying Gamertron for good.
Afterwards, the Commander alerts the Rangers of an incoming Gigadrone in Sector Foxtrot 0-5 and head back to base to get their Zords. A Beta Model Gigadrone, Gamerdrone teleports into the city and projects a mysterious dome around itself and several buildings. The Rangers are approaching in the dome in the Beast-X Ultrazord and use their lance weapon to make an opening for them to enter it to confront the Gigadrone. Suddenly, the Ultrazord's Morph-X levels are starting to drop. Nate discovers that the done is syphoning off all the Morph X inside the enclosed area, including the Ultrazord. Realizing they have to finish this quickly before they run out of Morph-X, the Rangers hit Gamertron with an Ultra Blast before Devon summons the Cheetah Beast Blaster to finish it off with a Beast-X Ultra Strike, which causes the dome to disappear.
At the Riptide Gym, the Rangers and the Mayor arrive as the Championship rematch is about to start soon. Betty tries to tell Juan she wants a love affair, but he just wants to dance and do nothing else. Juan does not want to listen to Betty, so Ben saves the day by shutting him down for good, with Betty declaring her brother a hero. The judge announces that the rematch is about to start, and Devon and Kerry begin their match, where Kerry opts not to use her secret move to win. After a long and hard fought fight, Devon wins and is declared the champion and wins the prize money and the trophy. Seeing that Kerry opted not to win by cheating, Devon gives her the prize money and is happy with the trophy, so now Louie can get his surgery and play soccer again. Kerry and Louie thank Devon for this and Devon tells her that he can't wait for next year's tournament. Mayor Daniels comes over and congratulates his son on his well earned victory, but starts coughing and claims to be feeling under the weather before he goes outside. The other Rangers, Ben, and Betty come over and congratulate Devon on his win before they take a selfie to commemorate the victory. Meanwhile outside, Mayor Daniels continues to cough and falls to the ground when suddenly, Robo-Blaze and Robo-Roxy appear and help him up. Mayor Daniels suddenly transforms into Evox, where the evil virus has been pretending to be Devon's dad for some time, and the trio teleport back to the Crystal Dimension.
Cast[]
- Rorrie D. Travis as Devon Daniels (Grid Battleforce Red)
- Jazz Baduwalia as Ravi Shaw (Grid Battleforce Blue)
- Jacqueline Scislowski as Zoey Reeves (Grid Battleforce Yellow)
- Abraham Rodriguez as Nate Silva (Grid Battleforce Gold)
- Jamie Linehan as Steel (Grid Battleforce Silver) (voice)
- Kevin Copeland as Mayor Adam Daniels
- Randall Ewing as Evox (voice)
- Colby Strong as Robo-Blaze
- Liana Ramirez as Robo-Roxy
- Kristina Ho as Betty Burke
- Cosme Flores as Ben Burke
- Teuila Blakely as Commander Shaw
- Molly Leishman as Kerry Dixon
- Tanner McKay as Louie Dixon
- Dai Henwood as Judge
- James Davies as Juan
- Lori Dungey as Gamertron (Voice)
Errors[]
- Nate describes Backstreet Brawler 3 as "augmented reality" using hard light holograms, but that doesn't match the defintion of augmented reality. AR games are ones where camera footage (usually from a phone) has elements from the game added to it on the device's screen. The best known such game is Pokemon Go, where the Pokemon in the game are found in real-world locations the player must visit. This game which simply projects hard light holograms into reality itself has more in common with virtual reality.
- Gamertron says she has captured a truck full of consoles, but the boxes say "Backstreet Brawler 3 Gaming Consoles". However, since both Devon and Kerry are seen placing game cartridges into the console, it's unclear what the console actually is.
- Before Devon shoots Gamertron, she doesn’t hold anything but when it comes to the shot of her exploding, she is holding a staff.
- The reason for this error is that, in the original plot, Filmloid showed the Rangers their greatest desires which only Hiromu fell for although he snapped out of it. Filmloid tries to break him emotionally by killing them with energy bolts from his staff but Yoko (Zoey's counterpart) and Ryuji (Ravi's counterpart) took the hit instead. This entire scene was cut due to Devon's counterpart's face being very visible.
- When Devon finishes off Gamertron, Ravi and Zoey simply disappear during the finishing blast. They run up immediately after, but as the clones had been defeated and there were no Tronics, it's entirely unclear where they would have gone.
- Kerry refers to Gamertron's Rangers as "his Rangers" at one point, but she's a female.
- When Gamertron is destroyed, Zoey also says "Got him!"
- Somehow Robo-Roxy's cape ends up on her head during the first fight, when moment earlier it wasn't.
Notes[]
- In the S.P.D. episode "Stakeout", Sky and Jack are seen playing a video game in which the characters also appear as holograms just like in Devon's game. Perhaps this was a reference to that season since S.P.D would take place 5 years later.
- Scrozzle does not appear in this episode and the human Blaze and Roxy are not present either.
- Extreme Brawler 3 appears to be a parody of either Street Fighter or Tekken but with a more modern VR twist.
- The gaming consoles in the episode are original creations, however, the trophy sports a gold PlayStation 3 DualShock controller and the controller Gamertron is created from happens to be a modified Logitech F710 gamepad.
- Sensei Bones, the character Devon dressed up as in "Hypnotic Halloween" appears as Devon's video game avatar.
- This episode is the first milestone episode to feature a female monster of the week since most others either didn't have monsters or only had male villains.
- The Evil Grid Battleforce Rangers are the first true clone Evil Ranger team since the Evil Overdrive Rangers 13 years earlier in "Red Ranger Unplugged" since Duplicon merely copied the Rangers' suits onto Vivix and didn't create whole new beings in "Double Ranger, Double Danger".
- This is the first episode where Evox morphs out of his Mayor Daniels disguise in full view.
- This episode shares the same title as the Dino Thunder episode.
- However, this episode uses an exclamation point ("Game On!") whereas the Dino Thunder episode has no punctuation ("Game On").
- Juan is portrayed by James Davies; who previously portrayed Chase Randall in Power Rangers Dino Charge and Power Rangers Dino Super Charge, and voiced Spoil in the Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel episode "'Monster Mix-Up'".
See Also[]
- Mission 20: 5-Man Concentration! Great Go-Buster! - Super Sentai counterpart in Go-Busters. See comparison page. (fight footage & story)
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