Superstition Strikes

This article is about an episode in Power Rangers Dino Fury.

Superstition Strikes
Power Rangers Dino Fury, Episode 28x06
Air Date(s)	April 3, 2021 (Nickelodeon) June 15, 2021 (Netflix)
Production Information
Written by	Alwyn Dale Becca Barnes Maiya Thompson
Directed by	Michael Hurst
Episode Guide
Previous	Winning Attitude
Next	Stego Search

Superstition Strikes is the sixth episode of Power Rangers Dino Fury. It features the debut and only appearance of the Dino Fury Megazord Hammer Formation.

Synopsis

Amelia thinks she’s cursed with bad luck and is reluctant to help the Dino Fury Rangers, afraid she’ll cause more harm. But when monsters attack the base, she learns the truth about luck. Will her luck change in time to save her fellow Rangers?

Plot

At Area 62, Mucus is sitting on Void Knight’s throne, where Boomtower reprimands her for sitting there and acts like him until a door opens and the latter exits. Mucus asks Void Knight what is behind the door, and the latter tempts her into opening it herself, only to find that it is electrified. Void Knight warns Mucus and Boomtower that due to their recent losses, they are on thin ice with him, and promises not to destroy them if they can defeat the Rangers, so Mucus teleports away to come up with a plan.

Meanwhile, reports of a Sporix Beast occur near the BuzzBlast area, leading the Rangers to teleport down and investigate. They see a soap-covered being on a ladder, but Amelia grabs a hose and sprays it, revealing that it was her grandfather, Ed "Pop-Pop" Jones all along. After some introductions, Pop-Pop reveals that he was hired to clean all the windows at BuzzBlast, and the Rangers offer to help him due to the number of windows on each story he must clean. As the Rangers get to work, Amelia accidentally walks under a ladder, making her and Pop-Pop fearful as it is considered bad luck to do it. Ollie is skeptical about that claim, but Amelia rips her sweater on the ladder, which makes her nervous that it's already started. She goes back home to change as Ollie continues to make jokes of her worries.

While walking through the park and avoiding pavement cracks, Amelia sees a Sporix Cell pop out of the ground and hatch into the Sporix Beast, Smashstone. Amelia morphs into the Pink Ranger but struggles against him as he blasts her, causing her to demorph. Amelia tries to call for help, but her Dino Fury Morpher is damaged by the blast, making her signal unstable and unable to call anyone for help. Smashstone finds her and walks closer to her. Fortunately, the rest of the Rangers teleport in to help her, but when she deflects a blast from Smashstone with a trash can lid, it redirects the blast at the Rangers, knocking Izzy and Javi down. Zayto and Ollie fight against Smashstone as Mucus, who teleported in, steals Amelia’s damaged Morpher. Zayto uses his T-Rex Dino Key to attack Smashstone with a T-Rex Fury Strike, but the latter absorbs the attack and redirects it back at him and Ollie. Before anything else can happen, Mucus takes Smashstone back to Area 62 as the Rangers demorph and regroup.

However, Amelia feels guilty that her bad luck hurt Izzy and Javi, which Ollie continues to rudely mock her claims, and is more in despair that she lost her Morpher, meaning she can't morph into the Pink Ranger. Javi wonders what could their enemies do with it, but Amelia points out that it got blasted, so it's unclear. Zayto calls Solon to explain what happened, while Ollie, Izzy, and Javi try to tell Amelia that this bad luck stuff can happen to everyone. Zayto informs Amelia that Solon is already working on a new Morpher for her. Amelia has Zayto teleport her to Dinohenge so she can help Solon while the others go back to help Pop-Pop wash the windows at BuzzBlast.

After Zayto leaves, Solon asks Amelia for help with her new Morpher and hands the cyborg dinosaur a circuit board which is the last of its kind, meaning without it, Amelia will never morph again. After hearing that, Amelia is reluctant to help Solon build her new Morpher due to her continuous streak of bad luck that has happened to her today. So, Solon continues to work on the Morpher alone while Amelia goes off to think.

Back at Area 62, Void Knight is very impressed that Mucus got Amelia’s Morpher because it's the key to bypassing the forcefield protecting the Rangers' base and teleporting straight into the Dinohenge Chamber. As Void Knight begins to repair the Morpher, he explains that he will have Boomtower infiltrate the base and steal the Rangers' collection of Sporix Cells while Smashstone distracts them by attacking the city.

The Rangers, minus Amelia, are still helping Pop-Pop with the windows at BuzzBlast, where he's impressed with their window washing skills, when Zayto gets a call from Solon that Smashstone is causing trouble on Factory Lane. He informs the other Rangers that they need to go and leave Pop-Pop to go deal with the Sporix Beast. Back at Dinohenge, Solon informs a dejected Amelia that her new Morpher is done and that she should go join the other Rangers. However, Amelia says she can't, so Solon asks her what's wrong. She tells her that she's reluctant to join them because she still has bad luck and worries about everything bad that could happen, like if the new Morpher gets stolen, or if its her Saber or her Ankylo Dino Key. Solon tells that the team needs her, but Amelia is scared that her bad luck will endanger the others. Solon points out that she is having a bad day, but it does not mean she is jinxed, and brings up that luck is not something she can measure or hold in her hand, but that's more in her mind and affects the way she sees things. She further explains that Amelia's mental focus is so focused on the bad stuff, that she's not seeing the positive stuff and the only way that she can see them is if she goes out there and sees them for herself. Despite Solon's advice, Amelia does not believe what she is trying to tell her and refuses to endanger the other Rangers.

Smashstone is attacking a warehouse and scaring people away, as the rest of the Rangers teleport in and morph to fight him. However, continuous blasts from his volcano blasters' makes it impossible for them to engage him in close combat, so Zayto calls Amelia for assistance, who is still reluctant to go help, just as communications in the base go down. Suddenly, Boomtower teleports into the base, shocking Amelia and Solon, where he shows off Amelia’s repaired Morpher and demands that they hand over the Sporix Chest. However, Solon manages to distract the robot as he does not notice Amelia sneaking behind him to grab her new Morpher. When he does, Amelia morphs, and slashes the old Morpher off his wrist, destroying it again. Amelia grabs Boomtower and teleports them both out of the base and to the warehouse where the Rangers and Smashstone are. The Sporix Beast is confused as to why he is here and not at Dinohenge, with Boomtower saying that he was tricked. After Amelia mocks Boomtower about how easy it was to trick him, he angrily charges at her, with Ollie joining her in fighting him while the others go up against Smashstone. After some fighting, Smashstone grows into a giant.

Zayto summons the T-Rex Champion Zord and transforms it into its Battle Mode, with Izzy and Javi joining him in the cockpit as Ollie and Amelia continue to fight against Boomtower. However, Smashstone still proves to be a challenge to them, even redirecting a Bite Blast right back at them. Back on the ground, Amelia gets the upper hand against Boomtower, catching him off guard from his misspelling of "Dune" instead of "Done", forcing the latter to retreat. Before entering the Megazord fight, Amelia gets an idea; an ankylosaurus has tough armor, so if they use her Ankylo Hammer Zord in conjunction with the Megazord, it should be enough to defeat Smashstone. Amelia and Ollie call Solon to send in the Ankylo Hammer and Tricera Blade Zords, where they combine with the T-Rex Champion Zord to form the Dino Fury Megazord Hammer Formation. After joining the others in the cockpit, the new Megazord formation attacks Smashstone, but not even its hammer is strong enough to break through his volcano blasters. Deciding to go with brute force, Amelia swings the hammer up for a powerful hit, but accidentally hits a concrete pipe, leading to a domino effect that luckily causes the debris to clog up Smashstone’s blasters. Seizing the moment, Zayto calls for the Mega Fury Saber and the Rangers defeat Smashstone with a Mega Hammer Slam, causing him to revert back into a Sporix Cell. Before Boomtower can grab the Sporix Cell, Izzy grabs it first using the Elasto Dino Key's Elasto Lash, forcing the former to retreat empty-handed.

Later that day, the Rangers finish helping Pop-Pop clean the windows with Zayto commenting how Amelia’s luck has changed since earlier that day. Amelia admits that she learned from Solon that luck is all mental based, and her change in positive perspective helped give her good luck. Suddenly, Ollie breaks the wing mirror of the van, but still does not believe in superstition until he is hit with a string of bad luck that leads him to fall onto a palate of boxes.

Cast

• Russell Curry as Zayto (Dino Fury Red Ranger)
• Hunter Deno as Amelia Jones (Dino Fury Pink Ranger)
• Kai Moya as Ollie Akana (Dino Fury Blue Ranger)
• Tessa Rao as Izzy Garcia (Dino Fury Green Ranger)
• Chance Perez as Javi Garcia (Dino Fury Black Ranger)
• Josephine Davison as Solon (voice)
• Jared Turner as Void Knight (voice)
• Torum Heng as Mucus (voice)
• Mark Mitchinson as Boomtower (voice)
• Barry Duffield as Smashstone (voice)
• Greg Johnson as Ed "Pop-Pop" Jones

Dino Fury Keys

Dino Fury Keys in Superstition Strikes:

• Dino Fury Red - Red (T-Rex Fury Strike), Red (T-Rex Champion Zord)
• Dino Fury Pink - Pink (Ankylo Hammer Zord)
• Dino Fury Blue - Blue (Tricera Blade Zord)
• Dino Fury Green - Elasto
• Dino Fury Black - N/A

Errors

• When Smashstone hatches, the path Amelia was on disappears.
• Izzy is sent flying to the car behind her, despite not being hit by Smashstone's blast.
• During the quick close-ups of Ollie and Javi during the second battle, the production crew can be seen reflecting off their helmets for a split second.
• When Boomtower loses Amelia's Morpher, he has his strap still attached on his wrist, but when he teleports in the next scene the strap disappears.
• Amelia suggests changing the Dino Fury Megazord into its "Ankylo Formation". But when this is actually done, it's referred to as "Hammer Formation".

Notes

• Total Sporix Beasts Collected:
  • Void Knight: 2
  • Dino Fury Rangers: 3
• This episode introduces Amelia's grandfather, making her the last of the core Dino Fury Rangers to reveal a relative to the audience.
• This is the first episode where the Ranger Hotline is not used to report a Sporix Beast since it was set up.
  • It is used in the episode, to mistakenly report a suds-covered Pop-Pop as a Sporix Beast, but not for Smashstone who is reported correctly later off-screen in the episode.

See Also

• Ep. 10: Invincible Counter - Super Sentai counterpart in Ryusoulger. See comparison page. (fight footage & story)

External Links

• Watch Superstition Strikes on YouTube