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Shadow Rangers is the fourth episode of Power Rangers Turbo.
Synopsis[]
Divatox hires a special monochrome Chromite, who captures the Power Rangers and creates evil Shadow Ranger doubles from their shadows. Only Tommy is spared this fate, and he'll need to figure out how to save his friends and stop a paint can-camouflaged detonator at a construction site from blowing up Angel Grove.
Meanwhile, a rash of minor thefts is occurring around Angel Grove.
Plot[]
At the Angel Grove Racing Technologies garage, Justin and Tommy are testing out an engine in one of the stock cars. Justin starts it up, but the RPM dials go higher than average. Justin cannot ease up on the acceleration due to his shoelace getting caught on the pedal, forcing Tommy to grab him before the engine blows up. Tommy does not blame Justin for this because he did not check the accelerator before testing.
Meanwhile, Divatox asks Porto if his newest monster is complete. Porto says it is, having Elgar walk out the Shadow Chromite onto the main deck wedding style. Porto adds that he gave the Chromite the special powers Divatox requested and unveils the reflecto detonator. This pleases Divatox as she cannot wait to use the monster against the Power Rangers.
While Tommy and Justin continue to fix the stock car, the latter notices that his brand-new CD is missing from the CD pile. Seeing that causes Tommy to recall several items gone missing the last couple of weeks, including his sunglasses and Justin’s basketball. Elsewhere, Porto and the Shadow Chromite teleport down to a construction site. They set the reflecto detonator, Porto explaining that it will detonate once the radioactive paint drips onto the ground and reacts to the sun. Shadow Chromite is ordered to stay and guard the detonator.
Meanwhile, Adam and Tanya walk and talk about the jobs they acquired since graduation as the former got a job at a local stunt show. Kat meets up with them, only to run into the Shadow Chromite taunting at them. After he pushes the Rangers back, they decide to morph. However, the Shadow Chromite uses a ray during the morphing sequence, which disrupts the process, and creates Shadow Ranger copies of them from behind. The Shadow Rangers attack their good counterparts, overwhelming them before cornering them together. The Shadow Rangers take the powerless Rangers away to the Shadow Chromite’s cave.
Back at the garage, Justin creates a homing device to help find the thief. Alpha 6 contacts Tommy and Justin, warning them about the situation at the construction site. The two find the Shadow Chromite and the Shadow Rangers, and Justin morphs on the spot. Unfortunately, the Shadow Chromite uses his ray on Justin, creating a Blue Shadow Ranger in the process. The Shadow Rangers attack Tommy and Justin, overwhelming the two due to their strength and numbers. Justin gets captured by the Shadow Rangers as Tommy gets sucker-punched by the Yellow Shadow Ranger.
After the Shadow Chromite and the Shadow Rangers leave with Justin, Tommy teleports to the Power Chamber to think of a plan. Tommy asks Dimitria for suggestions about defeating the Shadow Rangers, but she only responds by asking Tommy questions. Tommy gets frustrated by the lack of help Dimitria is giving him, but Alpha 6 reminds him that Dimitria can only speak in questions due to being from Inquiris. Realizing how different Dimitria is from Zordon, Tommy begins to think of what the Shadow Rangers truly are.
Meanwhile, the captured Rangers find out their communications are blocked from the cell they are in. Kat overhears the detonator from the Shadow Chromite as he and the Shadow Rangers depart to find Tommy. The Pink Shadow Ranger stays behind to guard the other Rangers. Back in the Power Chamber, Tommy figured something out and does a review of the Shadow Ranger’s molecules. The Shadow Rangers are made of reflected light, and Tommy realizes what he can do to defeat the evil Rangers.
In Shadow Chromite’s cave, Justin activates his homing device so Tommy can track them. Thankfully, it works, but before Tommy could go for his friends, Shadow Chromite and the Shadow Rangers surround him. Tommy fights off against the Shadow Rangers, deliberately not morphing so he does not lose his powers like the others. Despite being outnumbered three to one, Tommy manages to throw the Blue Shadow Ranger into the shadows of a wall, causing it to disappear as there is no light source to keep it around. He does the same to the Green and Yellow Shadow Rangers, causing them to disappear as well. Shadow Chromite teleports away, and Tommy morphs to rescue his friends.
Tommy locates Shadow Chromite’s cave using the homing device and confronts the Pink Shadow Ranger. After a quick shoot-out with the Auto Blasters, Tommy fires at the two light crystals, destroying them and causing the Pink Shadow Ranger to disappear. With the Shadow Rangers gone, the Ranger’s jail cell is gone, and their powers are restored. However, Kat remembers that they still need to deal with the reflecto detonator, but the question now is how to find it. Fortunately, Justin discovers that Tommy’s headlights can see the Shadow Chromite’s footprints, letting them find the location. The other four Rangers morph as they return to the construction site to find the detonator. The Rangers fight Shadow Chromite as the paint can continues to leak out the radioactive paint. Shadow Chromite proves to be powerful for the Rangers, and they realize that the only way to stop him and the detonator is to block the sunlight. They summon the Turbo Zords and form the Turbo Megazord, using it to block the sunlight at Shadow Chromite’s location. With no sunlight, Shadow Chromite dissolves into nothing and the reflecto detonator disappears as well. Divatox is upset that the plan was a failure and calls her minions duds.
Later that day, Justin and Tommy use the homing tracker to locate the now missing CD Player, and it leads them to the Juice Bar. To their shock, someone is hanging up a banner that claims the establishment is under new management. With Kat joining them, they travel to the back of the Juice Bar to discover the thieves: monkey Bulk and Skull. The two stole the stuff as they wanted to make their new situation bearable as Tommy and Justin find their stolen stuff. Before they could go and ask Ernie what is going on, Jerome Stone comes out wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Stone reveals that Ernie left as his Foreign Service Unit called him down to the Amazon to help build a bridge. As such, Stone is now the owner of the Juice bar. Monkey Bulk tosses Justin’s basketball at Stone, causing it to land on the latter’s head and onto an old pizza that lands on him. As the Rangers laugh, Stone asks why he has the feeling he knows who the monkeys are.
Cast[]
- Jason David Frank as Tommy Oliver (Red Turbo Ranger)
- Blake Foster as Justin Stewart (Blue Turbo Ranger)/Blue Shadow Ranger (voice)
- Johnny Yong Bosch as Adam Park (Green Turbo Ranger)/Green Shadow Ranger (voice)
- Nakia Burrise as Tanya Sloan (Yellow Turbo Ranger)/Yellow Shadow Ranger (voice)
- Catherine Sutherland as Katherine "Kat" Hillard (Pink Turbo Ranger)/Pink Shadow Ranger (voice)
- Paul Schrier as Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier (voice)
- Jason Narvy as Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch (voice)
- Gregg Bullock as Jerome Stone
- Carol Hoyt as Divatox and Dimitria
- Donene Kistler as Alpha 6
- Katerina Luciani as Alpha 6 (voice)
- Kenny Graceson as Elgar
- David Umansky as Elgar (voice)
- Ed Neil as Rygog
- Lex Lang as Rygog (voice)
- Scott Page-Pagter as Porto (voice)
- Ken Merckx as Shadow Chromite (voice)
Releases[]
- Representing Turbo, Shadow Rangers was one of three classic Power Rangers episodes that were released as part of the Power Rangers Generations DVD included in issue 16 of the UK Jetix Magazine on November 3rd 2005.
Zords[]
Songs[]
- Fight (instrumental)
Errors[]
- Even though Justin's shoelace had become stuck on the accelerator, he has still removed his foot which should have eased off the gas.
- When Tommy and Justin left the car garage for the construction site, Tommy's hair was still curly, however, when they confronted the, his hair was then straight.
- When Shadow Chromite plants the detonator the suit zipper is briefly visible on his back.
- The Shadow Rangers created from Adam, Tanya and Kat appeared behind them, while Justin's appeared in front.
- Both the Pink and Yellow Shadow Rangers both stood in a shadow at different points in this episode but were left unharmed.
- Chromite seemingly walked out of the cave where the Rangers were being held (allowing them to track him) despite having teleportation abilities.
- When the Rangers find the detonator, the crew's reflections are visible off their helmets, and the stuntmen's faces can be seen through visors.
Notes[]
- Ernie's (who made his last on-screen appearance in Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie) departure from the Youth Center is mentioned.
- This marks a very rare time when a Megazord is used against a non-growing opponent; a similar situation happened in Carranger but in the comedic "The Nonstop Home Delivery Weapon" where the equivalent to the Turbo Megazord faces weapons bought by the monster-of-the-day from a catalog. The only other instance of this was when the Rangers summoned the Megazord in season 1 against Tommy while as the evil Green Ranger in Part II of the Green With Evil arc.
- With the exception of the Megazord formation and cockpit shots, this episode uses no Carranger footage.
- More Chromites would appear with General Havoc in "The Darkest Day".
- First time evil Power Rangers have been created since season 2's Green No More when Lord Zedd had created the Dark Rangers using the core 5's Power Coins.
- Tommy, when he says he'd like to keep his powers is surely referencing when he lost the Green Ranger powers in Season 1's "The Green Candle", Season 2's "Green No More", and the White Ranger powers in Season 3's Alien Rangers arc when his Ninja Coin was destroyed.
- There’s a business hour sign on the door where Bulk and Skull have all the stolen items. Reading Sunday’s to Thursday’s 10 to 7, Friday’s 10, to 10 and Saturday’s 10 to 11.
- In the dubbing for Latin America, the Chromite has a female voice while his voice in English is male.
- The Chromite is the first monster to be destroyed without growing by the Megazord, since it gives it a shadow, making it disappear forever.
See Also[]
- Ep. 26: The Nonstop Home Delivery Weapon - Super Sentai counterpart in Carranger. See comparison page. (story)