Power Rangers Beast Morphers

This article is about a/an series entry (the "26th" and "27th") in the Power Rangers franchise.

Power Rangers Beast Morphers is the 26th (season 2 being the 27th) season of Power Rangers and the first to be produced under the franchise's acquisition from Hasbro, under their film production division Allspark Pictures. The series borrows footage, costumes, and props from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.^[1]

Production

Following the announcement on February 16, 2018, that Hasbro will be taking over Bandai America as the master toy licensee for Power Rangers from 2019 onwards^[2], Power Rangers Beast Morphers was announced during Hasbro's panel for the New York Toy Fair 2018.^[1]

On May 1, 2018, it was announced that Hasbro had purchased the Power Rangers franchise outright from Saban^[3], making Beast Morphers the first Hasbro-era season. On August 18, 2018, the main Ranger cast was revealed to fans at Power Morphicon 6 during a Hasbro panel with a teaser trailer for the show screened at the event.

Plot

Set in the future, a secret agency combines a newly discovered substance called "Morph-X" with animal DNA to create the Power Rangers Beast Morphers team. The Rangers must fight off an evil sentient computer virus bent on taking over the source of all Ranger power, the Morphin Grid itself.

Characters

Rangers

Main article: Beast Morphers Rangers

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Allies

Grid Battleforce

Main article: Grid Battleforce

• Commander Shaw
• General Burke
• Blaze
• Roxy
• Betty Burke
• Ben Burke

Beast Bots

Main article: Beast Bots

Civilians

• Mayor Adam Daniels
• Muriel Reeves
• Sudsey

Legendary Dino Rangers^[4]

Main article: Legendary Dino Rangers

RPM^[7]

• Doctor K
• Colonel Mason Truman

Dino Charge^[6]

• Keeper

Villains

Main article: Evox's Virus

Main article: Cybervillains

• Evox Virus
  • Evox
  • Scrozzle
  • Vargoyle
  • Tronics
  • Gigatronics
  • Blaze's Megazord

• Robotrons/Gigadrones
  • Season 1
    • Cycletron/Cycledrone
    • Needletron/Needledrone
    • Shoveltron/Shoveldrone
    • Slicertron/Slicerdrone
    • Meltatron/Meltadrone
    • Railtron/Raildrone
    • Vacuutron/Vacuudrone
    • Antennatron/Antennadrone
    • Drilltron/Drilldrone
    • Tooltron/Tooldrone
      • Delta Model Gigadrone 1
    • Clonetron/Clonedrone
    • Tubatron/Tubadrone
    • Tubatron 2.0/Tubadrone 2.0
    • Burnertron/Burnerdrone
    • Turbotron/Turbodrone
    • Shockatron/Shockadrone
    • Unidentified Gigadrone 1
    • Unidentified Gigadrone 2
    • Spiketron/Spikedrone
      • Delta Model Gigadrone 2
    • Infernotron/Infernodrone
  • Season 2

Arsenal

Main article: Arsenal (Beast Morphers)

Transformation Devices

• Beast-X Morpher ◆◆◆
• Striker Morpher ◆◆
• Beast-X King Morpher ◆◆◆ ^[9]

Multi-Use Devices

• Morph-X Keys ◆◆◆◆◆

Individual Weapons and Team Weapon

• Cheetah Beast Blaster ◆
• Cheetah Claws ◆

Sidearms

• Beast-X Cannon ◆◆◆
  • Beast-X Blaster ◆◆◆
  • Beast-X Saber ◆◆◆
• Striker Saber ◆◆

Vehicles

• X-Bike ◆◆◆

Other Devices

• Transporters
• Neural Aligners
• Gigadrone Detectors
• Cable Strike

Zords

Main article: Zords (Beast Morphers)

Beast-X Megazord System

Legend:◆ piloted mecha, ❖ aux mecha, ● other

• Beast-X Ultrazord ◆◆◆◆◆^[10]
  • Beast-X Megazord ◆◆◆
    • Racer Zord / Racer Zord Cheetah Mode / Racer Zord Battle Mode ◆
    • Wheeler Zord / Wheeler Zord Gorilla Mode ◆
    • Chopper Zord / Chopper Zord Jackrabbit Mode ◆
  • Striker Megazord ◆◆
    • Wrecker Zord / Wrecker Zord Mantis Mode / Wrecker Zord Battle Mode ◆
    • Jet Zord / Jet Zord Scarab Mode ◆
• Beast-X King Zord^[11] ❖

Episodes

Main article: Episodes (Beast Morphers)

1. Beasts Unleashed
2. Evox's Revenge
3. End of the Road
4. Digital Deception
5. Taking Care of Business
6. Hangar Heist
7. A Friend Indeed
8. The Cybergate Opens
9. Silver Sacrifice
10. Thrills and Drills
11. Tools of the Betrayed
12. Real Steel
13. Tuba Triumph
14. Sound and Fury
15. Seeing Red
16. Gorilla Art
17. Ranger Reveal
18. Rewriting History
19. Target: Tower
20. Evox: Upgraded
21. Hypnotic Halloween
22. Scrozzle’s Revenge

Video Release

• to be added

Toyline

Main article: Power Rangers Beast Morphers (toyline)

• Beast Morphers' toyline was officially launched in Spring of 2019. In addition, the Red, Blue, and Gold  Beast Morphers Ranger appear in Hasbro's Lightning Collection waves 2 and 3.

Video Games

• to be added

Notes

• This is the first Hasbro-era season.
• This is the first season/incarnation since Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to be split into two or more sub-seasons, yet does not contain "Super" in the title of the season (as previously seen with seasons such as Power Rangers Super Samurai and Power Rangers Dino Super Charge).
• This is the first season to have its toy line produced by Hasbro instead of Bandai America.
• This is the first season since RPM to start with only 3 Rangers on the main team and the first since RPM not to feature a Pink Ranger. Coincidentally, they both have some similarities:
  • The Blue Ranger gets a wheeler.
  • The Red Ranger gets a race car.
  • There is a helicopter/animal Zord.
  • There are both Gold and Silver Rangers.
  • The villains are sapient computer viruses.
• This season debuts a brand new Power Rangers logo. Apart from the 2010 "reversion" of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, this is the first time the logo has been completely redesigned since Zeo.
• This is the first time a Power Rangers season has adapted the Sentai out of order, as Go-Busters was skipped over initially.
• The core three Rangers made their debut in comics, rather than on television for the first time ever. This happened in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 29.
• The Beast-X King Zord is the first Zord to serve as an alternative to the Red Ranger's main Zord that did not originate in the Sentai's summer movie (Spino Zord), nor has an associated ranger (MMPR Dragonzord)
• This season shares similarities with its first concurrent Sentai, Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger:
  • Both teams start off with three Rangers.
    • However, the colors of the Ryusoulgers match that of the preceding teams (Ninja Steel and Dino Charge) before Yellow and White/Green and Black morphed.
  • Both use wrist-mounted morphers and a key gimmick.
    • Beast Morphers is more expanded in the toyline than the series.
  • Both combine animals with themes the other show's creators experimented previously.
    • The Spy motif was common in the early Sentai series (ex. Gorenger, JAKQ).
    • Saban had created Mystic Knights of Tir Na Og which ran around the same time as in Space.
  • Both feature a Gold sixth Ranger.
  • Both series only start off with two main villains (Tankjoh and Kleon, Blaze and Roxy), neither being the big bad.
    • However, Evox (the big bad) and Scrozzle are introduced in episode 2 and Gaisoulg previously appeared in the 4-part Super Sentai Strongest Battle.
    • Both also mention other villains who end up lasting very briefly.
      • Vargoyle only appeared in 3 episodes and Uden only in 1
  • Both saw the debut of the core Zords/mecha before a focus on the Red Ranger's, which can be its own robot.
  • For the first time, both started in March (3/2 and 3/17 respectively).
  • Both are the first season of a new era (Hasbro and Reiwa).
  • Tyramigo and the Beast Bots act as allies/companions to the Rangers.
  • Both Evox and Druidon took the lives of those close to the Blue Rangers.
    • Master Blue sacrificed himself for Melt against Dragon Minosaur.
    • Roxy became an evil Avatar.
  • The comedic reliefs of the series support the Rangers.
    • Ui was fascinated by the Ryusoulgers world and sought to find their village.
    • Ben and Betty work for Grid Battleforce.
  • There is a sibling pair.
    • Towa and Bamba are Ryusoul Green and Ryusoul Black respectively.
    • Canalo has a younger sister, Oto
    • Ben and Betty are comedic relief.
    • Steel is treated as a brother for Nate.
      • It is common for younger siblings to share DNA with their older siblings.
  • Both involve a parent as a mentor.
    • Naohisa (Ui's father) is a paleontologist and offers service and lodging to the Ryusoulgers.
    • Commander Shaw is Ravi's mother and operates Grid Battleforce (or the Coral Harbor branch of.)
  • Both feature unique monsters.
    • The Minosaurs are created by using humans, a trait of Kamen Rider.
    • The Rangers fight giant robot versions of the monsters they fight, a trait from Battle Fever J that was previously seen to an extent in SPD 13 seasons earlier.
  • Both of their swords are sidearms with two functions.
    • The Ryusoul Ken can use souls for armors or mecha summon.
    • The Beast-X Saber doubles as binoculars.Evox's Revenge
• The second half of Beast Morphers will air 20 years after the similary themed Lightspeed Rescue
  • Interestingly, both shows have one of the mentor's children as a Ranger (albiet a gender swap.)
    • Even though Nate and Ravi are not actual siblings like Ryan and Dana, Commander Shaw has responsibility to take care of both.
• On April 1, 2014, an adaptation of Go-Busters was announced as an April Fools joke, titled Power Rangers Energy Chasers.

See Also

• Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters - Super Sentai counterpart . See comparison page.

References

Mighty Morphin (s01) • Mighty Morphin (s02) • Mighty Morphin (s03) • Alien Rangers (mini-series) • Zeo • Turbo • In Space • Lost Galaxy • Lightspeed Rescue • Time Force • Wild Force • Ninja Storm • Dino Thunder • S.P.D. • Mystic Force • Operation Overdrive • Jungle Fury • RPM • Samurai • Super Samurai • Megaforce • Super Megaforce • Dino Charge • Dino Super Charge • Ninja Steel • Super Ninja Steel • Beast Morphers Power Rangers: The Movie (alternate continuity) • Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie • 2017 movie (alternate continuity)
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