Blue Wind Ranger
- "Power of Water!"
- ―Tori after she morphs[src]
Tori Hanson is the Blue Wind Ranger and is the first female Blue Power Ranger in show history.
Biography
Ninja Storm
Tori is the logical and sensible member of the Ninja Rangers and a tomboy. She can be charmed by her teammates and loyal to her friends but sticks up for Cam when her fellow Rangers pick on him and has an innate skill for ending conflicts with words instead of fists. Tori has an affinity for water, surfing in her spare time and mastering water based fighting techniques while training at the Wind Ninja Academy. She also has a crush on Blake Bradley, the Navy Thunder Ranger which, while "obviously mutual", was never acted upon (most likely due to the show's targeting a younger audience).
Tori's ninja training has endowed her with skills independent of her Ranger powers. Like her fellow ninja, Tori possesses superhuman speed and can move faster than the eye can see (referred to as "ninja streak"), leap higher than an average person, evade detection by normal people and focus her inner energies to resist mental attacks and manipulation. Her training based on her affinity for water allows her to move across water as if it were solid ground, create high-powered bursts of water as an offensive weapon and manipulate and control water for a number of effects such as creating objects.
As the Blue Ranger, Tori relies on the power of water to thwart evil, and pilots the Dolphin Zord.
In the finale, Tori becomes an instructor at the Wind Ninja Academy.
Dino Thunder
Legacy of Power
The Wind Rangers were featured in a chronicle of Power Ranger history compiled by Tommy Oliver shortly after he formed the Dino Rangers, which was found by the nascent Ranger team in the Dino Lab. Legacy of Power
Thunder Storm
When Lothor returns in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, Tori temporarily becomes evil alongside her teammates. They battle the Dino Rangers, but are set free by their comrades, Cam, Blake and Hunter. The Ninja and Dino Rangers then team up to do battle with Lothor and Mesogog's combined forces, with her teaming up with Yellow Dino Ranger Kira Ford. Afterwards, the Wind Rangers lose their powers, leaving things to the next generation. Thunder Storm
Operation Overdrive
In Operation Overdrive, Thrax, son of Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd, gathered all four factions determined to find the jewels of the Corona Aurora, Flurious and the Chillers, Moltor and the Lava Lizards, Miratrix and Kamdor, and the Fearcats, Mig and Benglo. Tori, Adam Park, Kira Ford, Bridge Carson and Xander Bly would be called upon by the
Sentinel Knight to take the place of the Operation Overdrive Rangers when they lost their powers as Thrax's alliance damaged the Morphing Grid. The team later went to a warehouse in Angel Grove where they discovered Alpha 6, who managed to repair the Morphing Grid and give the Overdrive Rangers their powers back. Both Ranger teams confronted Thrax's Alliance in a final battle, Tori fought alongside Rose Ortiz, the Pink Overdrive Ranger, against Moltor who they defeated. The Sentinel Knight then appeared and used the Sword Excelsior to destroy Thrax and the Rangers caused the other enemies to flee.
It is also revealed that Tori now runs her own surf shop. She is the only Ninja Storm Ranger to currently possess her Ranger powers due to the Sentinel Knight; as she offers her phone number in case the Overdrive team ever needs help again. She presumably still has those powers after the end of "Once a Ranger."
The Wind Ranger trio joins the battle.
Tori and the other Ninja Rangers returned as part of the army of Legendary Rangers that helped the Mega Rangers defeat the Armada once and for all, fighting in a huge battle against hundreds of X Borgs and dozens of Bruisers. Legendary Battle
Personality
Tori personality is like a tom-boy, she is quit mature and is willing to help others.
Ninja Powers
- Superhuman Speed: Due to their Ninja training, Tori and her fellow Ninja Storm Rangers can move faster than the eye can see.
- Superhuman Agility: Due to their Ninja training, Tori and her fellow rangers can move leap higher than the average person.
- Stealth: Due to their Ninja training, Tori and her fellow Ninja Storm Rangers are able to evade detection by normal people.
- Telepathic Defense: Due to their ninja training, Tori and her fellow Ninja Storm Rangers can focus their inner energies to resist telepathic attacks and manipulation.
- Water Manipulation: Tori's training based on her affinity for water allows her to move across water as if it were solid ground, create high-powered bursts of water as an offensive weapon, and manipulate and control water for a number of effects, such as creating objects.
- Ninja Beams: From her Wind Morpher, Tori can fire blue energy lasers.
Blue Wind Ranger
Ranger Costume
Zords
Arsenal
Appearances: NS Episodes 1-16, 18-38, DT Episodes 31, 32, OO Episodes 20, 21, SM Episodes 20 & LBEV
Ranger Key
The Blue Wind Ranger Key.
The Blue Wind Ranger Key is Tori's personal Ranger Key. This key along with the majority of the Core Ranger Keys are seen lining the Command Center's interior walls. This key is mainly used by Noah Carver (Super Megaforce Blue) who uses it to fight as the Blue Wind Ranger.
The Blue Wind Ranger key is one of the five water-element Blue Ranger Keys that are used by Super Megaforce Blue for his Ultimate Ranger Saber Strike attack, which was used once against Skatana. This attack involved summoning manifestations of the five Rangers to attack the target, with Blue Wind Ranger being the fourth to go. Blue Saber Saga
Family
Gallery
Behind The Scenes
Tori is played by Sally Martin. In the US footage, her suit actors are Motoko Nagino and Kazuhiro Yokoyama. Her stunt double is Motoko Nagino.
Notes
- Tori is the first female Blue Ranger, and was later succeeded by Madison Rocca in Mystic Force.
- Coincidentally, they are both Blue Rangers, have hydrokinetic powers, and have a tail fin as their insignia.
- Tori marks the second time there has only been one female Ranger on a team for a full season after Delphine of Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers. This trait is later followed by Kira Ford of Dino Thunder, Lily Chilman of Jungle Fury, and Zoey Reeves of Beast Morphers.
- Tori's actress Sally Martin appeared in the Disney T.V. movie Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior as a character named Tory Hansen, who wears light shades of blue. The similarities of characters made some fans believe that Wendy Wu and Power Rangers live in the same universe, though Sally's role as Tori could just be a call back, or a joke.
- Tori was the first character seen in the pilot of Ninja Storm.
- Tori is the only Ranger to have kept the same pose her Sentai counterpart used after morphing.
- Tori and Kira Ford (Emma Lahana, who originally tried out for the Blue Wind Ranger part but lost it) have appeared in two team-up episodes together. The first was Thunder Storm which was the Ninja Storm/Dino Thunder team-up and the second was Once A Ranger when the Operation Overdrive Rangers lost their powers and Tori, Kira, Adam Park, Bridge Carson, and Xander Bly were recruited to replace them. Interestingly, her Sentai counterpart also appeared in GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs. Super Sentai, which makes her the only Ranger and her counterpart to appear in both Once A Ranger and Boukenger's Team-Up movie.
- The two-part episode Shane's Karma takes place on Tori's birthday and the cake that Dustin is holding at the end of the second episode has eighteen candles on it. This makes Tori one of the few Rangers whose age is stated in any way, directly or indirectly.
- Tori's serious tomboyish personality contrasts with her Sentai counterpart, Nanami Nono, who is more of a "girly-girl" type of character and is happy and easy-going. Tori is also different from her counterpart, as she is not a singer.
- Tori is the only Ninja Storm Ranger to be confirmed to be in school as she is seen studying for a test in Scent of a Ranger.
- When Tori appeared in the Dino Thunder team-up episode Thunder Storm, she was wearing a new ninja uniform because of her Sensei status. However, when she appeared in the Operation Overdrive episode Once A Ranger, she was wearing her old student ninja uniform.
- Tori is the first Blue Ranger since Billy Cranston to drive a Zord or Megazord that didn't come from the same Sentai footage her Ranger costume came from.
- In the episode, Eye of the Storm, it is shown that Tori is afraid of having her hair cut off.
Appearances
- Power Rangers Ninja Storm
- Episode 1: Prelude to a Storm
- Episode 2: There's No “I” In Team
- Episode 3: Beauty and the Beach
- Episode 4: Looming Thunder
- Episode 5: Thunder Strangers, Part I
- Episode 6: Thunder Strangers, Part II
- Episode 7: Thunder Strangers, Part III
- Episode 8: Nowhere to Grow
- Episode 9: Snip It, Snip It Good
- Episode 10: Return of Thunder, Part I
- Episode 11: Return of Thunder, Part II
- Episode 12: Return of Thunder, Part III
- Episode 13: Return of Thunder, Part IV
- Episode 14: Boxing Bopp-a-Roo
- Episode 15: Pork Chopped
- Episode 16: The Samurai's Journey, Part I
- Episode 17: The Samurai's Journey, Part II
- Episode 18: The Samurai's Journey, Part III
- Episode 19: Scent of a Ranger
- Episode 20: I Love Lothor
- Episode 21: Good Will Hunter
- Episode 22: All About Beevil
- Episode 23: Sensei Switcheroo
- Episode 24: Tongue and Cheek
- Episode 25: Brothers In Arms
- Episode 26: Shane's Karma, Part I
- Episode 27: Shane's Karma, Part II
- Episode 28: Shimazu Returns, Part I
- Episode 29: Shimazu Returns, Part II
- Episode 30: The Wild Wipeout
- Episode 31: Double-Edged Blake
- Episode 32: Eye of the Storm
- Episode 33: General Deception, Part I
- Episode 34: General Deception, Part II
- Episode 35: A Gem of a Day
- Episode 36: Down and Dirty
- Episode 37: Storm Before the Calm, Part I
- Episode 38/Finale: Storm Before the Calm, Part II
- Power Rangers Dino Thunder
- Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
- Power Rangers Super Megaforce (morphed only)
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