r/powerrangers

I found one of the weirdest unanswered plot holes in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and now I can’t unsee it.

During the Alien Rangers arc, Master Vile uses the Orb of Doom to reverse time on Earth. The Rangers become children. Civilians become younger too. The world is basically pushed backward.

Then Billy builds the Regenerator.

The plan is to age all the Rangers back up.

But only Billy gets restored before Goldar and Rito steal it.

So now we have a very strange situation:

Everyone else is still trapped as children.

But Billy is normal again.

And somehow the show just moves on like that is not horrifying.

Because here is the real question:

Where did child Billy Cranston go?

If the world is still reversed, then Billy’s father should be expecting child Billy.

His teachers should be expecting child Billy.

His classmates should know child Billy.

His neighbors should recognize child Billy.

But child Billy is gone.

In his place is older Billy.

That does not make Billy “fixed.”

That makes Billy a walking missing-person case.

Think about it from the outside world’s point of view.

A child named Billy Cranston disappears.

Then an older guy shows up who:

knows Billy’s name

knows Billy’s home

knows Billy’s friends

knows Billy’s life

looks exactly like an older version of him

and cannot explain where the child went

That is not a superhero plot.

That is a police interview.

And it gets worse.

Billy is now physically older while Tommy, Rocky, Adam, Aisha, and Kat are still children.

Inside the Ranger circle, that makes sense. They all remember who they really are.

But no one else knows that.

To normal people in Angel Grove, Billy is now an older teen/young adult hanging around a group of children while the child version of himself is missing.

How does he go home?

Seriously.

Does he walk in and say, “Hey Dad, I know I was a child yesterday, but I fixed myself with alien tech”?

Does his dad remember him as a teenager?

Does his dad remember him as a child?

Does his dad call the police?

How does Billy go to school?

How does attendance work?

Are teachers just ignoring that one student aged up while everyone else stayed little?

The show uses Billy’s restoration as a convenient way to keep the genius character active, but it never deals with the real consequence:

Billy no longer belongs in civilian life.

He cannot go home normally.

He cannot go to school normally.

He cannot explain himself normally.

He cannot reveal Zordon, the Command Center, the Alien Rangers, the Power Coins, Master Vile, or the Regenerator.

Everything that proves Billy is innocent is also everything he has to keep secret.

So the darker implication is this:

For that entire stretch of the Alien Rangers arc, Billy Cranston should have been the number one suspect in the disappearance of young Billy Cranston.

Not because he did anything wrong.

Because the truth is too insane for anyone outside the Ranger circle to believe.

The show eventually remembers that Billy’s body was damaged by the whole aging/restoration mess in Zeo.

But it never answers the civilian question:

Why did nobody ask where young Billy went?

Hey all! Just looking for some advice. My kids have watched the first 12 seasons of Power Rangers. My son still wants to try more ranger teams but my daughter said she was only interested in episodes where Zordon-era Rangers returned. So we watched all of those and now all that's left for her is Once and Always (and Cosmic Fury).

She started MMPR at 4 years old (which might have been a bit too young) but she's 6 now and I'm not sure if the opening of O+A will be too much for a 6 year old.

She saw Kendrix die but Kendrix also came back so that didn't feel as mature as what happens in O+A. What would y'all suggest?

Just throwing this question out there..

What was your reaction to the reveal of who the Gold Ranger was in Power Rangers Zeo? Was it one of disappointment? Were you OK with it?

We are putting aside the events that followed the reveal where they tried to give the powers to Billy and ultimately Jason returned to the show. This is about the initial reveal. All that build up of who it could possibly be with even Billy being a red herring only for it to be a random alien guy that splits into 3 versions of himself? I mean I honestly didn't know how to take it as a kid. I was kind of expecting more from it. Trey was not my first choice at all. What didn't help was that Brad Hawkins voiced Trey in his debut and it immediately made me think that it was Ryan from VR Troopers, which honestly back then would have been super hyped.

The Billy hints were happening far too much for me to eventually believe that it was Billy. I would have even considered Tommy's brother, David for the role although explaining how he got the powers in the first place would have proven quite difficult. Part of it felt like they knew the reveal may not get the best reaction so they had the surprise lined up as a back up. At times you even wonder why Jason wasn't considered as the first option? I'm guessing they wanted to do something different then swerve us later? Kudos to them for that.

I feel like an important deciding factor in whether or not you liked the gold ranger reveal is if you often remember Zeo Gold as Trey or as Jason first. If it's Jason then the reveal didn't have too much of an impact on you. Again for me personally I don't have anything against the Trey character I just think that if you are going to build suspense around a character reveal you really don't want the end result to be "random guy we have never seen before".

Thoughts..?

Hey! Yesterday i saw someone sold this toys in Wallapop Spain(a secondhand app), And its crazy because we they are not out yet and we didn´t see the White tigerzord at the Toy fair in New York