The gap between Zeo and TAPRM - your headcanon?

[blacklion400]

So, having recently marathoned through Zeo, I am about the watch Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (dear god that's such a bad title facepalm-icon) and I was curious, in your own personal canon so-to-speak, how to you resolve the issues and plot threads from Zeo that got left un-answered?

The main one of course being;

.What happened to the Zeo powers and where did the Turbo powers come from?

The other less important ones being;

.What happened to Bulk and Skull's trip to France and why did they, and Lt. Stone suddenly get re-hired into the police force?

.Why did Rita and Zedd suddenly quit trying to fight the power rangers, when they seemed quite determined at the end of Zeo?

.Where did Jason suddenly disappear to, as the movie suggests he's been away for a while?

If I've missed any let me know!

My own personal head canon for the first question is that Billy (as often suggested) had created the turbo powers. They were made from the zeo crystals as a back up to the zeo powers. However, they could only be used as an alternate, not at the same time. When going through the nemesis triangle, the rangers needed something less powerful to go through with them so it couldn't be detected by the triangle, and that the link to the zeonizers was also cut off when they went through it.

Jason I always assumed went off to live with Emily out of town somewhere. Emily kept her job at the youth centre for a while however, hence why we see her in one episode of Turbo (I think it's one ).

Bulk and Skull I've thought maybe they did go to France but got conned by the detective agency that had hired them (I wrote a little fan-fic about it once). When they get home they find that Lt. Stone has got his old job back, what with the detective agency going bankrupt. He pulls some strings and gets them their jobs back too.

As for Rita and Zedd I've never thought of anything that interesting for them, only that once they got home they managed to shut down and destroy the machine palace, then suddenly realised that fighting the power rangers would be a waste of time, and just basically quit.

Your turn

[Karone1]

I don't like the idea that a mere human can create powers so advanced like that. Not surprisingly, I do not like the premise of Lightspeed Rescue. As far as the Turbo powers, in the movie I think it is explicitly stated that the Rangers created those new powers themselves, with the help of Zordon and Alpha. It's a pitiful explanation, but still an explanation. As far as Jason's random disappearance, the obvious answer is that they didn't have enough room for him with just five Turbo Rangers characters. They could have replaced Rocky with him as the Blue Ranger, but that would essentially be a demotion. The very least they could have done is given him a proper send-off, like they did with Kimberly and failed to do in Season 2. I think it would have made more sense that the Machine Empire gave up trying to capture the Earth and just left, giving Rita and Zedd a default victory, as opposed to Rita and Zedd actually defeating the Machine Empire, then randomly leaving and paving the way for Divatox. But that's just me.

[mjohnson1989]

I'd go with Jason going off to live with Emily, seems most logical to me. As for Rita and Zedd, it seems as though their motivation during Zeo was defeating the Machine Empire rather than the rangers so once they'd done that it was enough for them

[Agent Z182]

On the Zeo powers, one theory I've heard is that they had evolved to the point were they were becoming to powerful for the Rangers to handle. Look at Tommy's "Zeo Flying Power Kick". In Zeo it was never used for anything other than to take down a cog. In "Forever Red", it sends a Machine General flying backwards into a cliff and causes him to explode! Billy probably created the Turbo powers while he was at Command Centre while studying the Zeo powers.

[c_dude]

Regarding Jason, I always figured that he left town after Zeo. He spent a couple of years at a peace conference in Switzerland with two of his oldest/closest friends (Zack and Trini), and then came home and spent some more time as a Ranger again with two more of his closest/oldest friends (Billy, as well as Tommy fits under closest, if not oldest). Once he lost the Gold Ranger powers, it was probably hard for him to remain in town powerless while te Rangers continued to battle, so he left town and went to Florida to spend time with the only one of is oldest/closest friends that he hadn't seen in years: Kimberly.

To me, it makes sense, having to get away, but reconnecting with a close friend whom he hadn't seen in years. That would also explain why he returned to Angel Grove WITH KImberly in the movie. After all, she did say that "WE came back to help out with the shelter", meaning they both returned to town. Just for the record though, I am one of those who does not buy the Jason/Kimberly "romance" that some people seem to imply. I see them more as a brother/sister type relationship (and not in the way Kimberly said that Tommy was "like a brother" in her letter... that just made NO sense lol!), which makes sense for Jason to want to reconnect with someone who is like a sister to him.

[AdzPower92]

The rangers themselves created the Turbo powers, I can only assume by transforming the zeonizers into the turbo morphers, some sort of change occurred where they reduced the power of the zeo crystal and then re-routed that power into speed to create the turbo powers.

[MMPRpinkninja]

I was never a fan of the rangers creating the Turbo Powers because it seemed odd. They just helped create these powers but then they showed confusion when introduced the the zords and powers? Tanya even said "They are just cars" I would have rather seen Lerigot leave a power source behind before he turned himself over to Divatox. The keys perhaps?

The time between the end of Zeo and start of Turbo was always confusing to me. Was it a matter of months? weeks?

I never bought into the Jason and Kimberly "romance" either. They were life long friends coming back to help their friends and hometown in a time of need. Why is that so hard to believe? How does that mean they are automatically together? Nothing about their interactions showed any change how they had always been around each other before.

[arcticphoenix87]

My head canon:

Zeo season premiere sets us up with the premise we are in a Cold War-esque fight between two Super Powers: Zeo Rangers, the MOST powerful rangers in the universe, versus the Machine Empire, the MOST powerful evil faction in the universe, who have just broke away from their alliance with Dark Specter. Explains why 5 (later 6) individuals have the power to fight back against thousands of Cogs and artillery.

Season progresses... mostly a stalemate, but the Machine Empire has a slight edge with their Neoplutonium armor. Day and night attacks makes the rangers fatigued. Dark Specter (still a secret behind the scenes), realizing that if the Rangers fail, knows that the Machine Empire will come for him next. Thus, he sends Rita and Zedd to negotiate a temporary alliance with the Rangers.

Zedd shows up on the viewing globe with a proposition. He has a weapon that is powerful enough to wipe out the Machine Empire (Surprise: Serpentera!) but it doesn't have a reliable energy source. That's where the rangers come in: all Zedd needs in one Zeo subcrystal to power Serpentera (again, these are the MOST powerful sources of energy in the universe) and Serpentera is good to go. Rangers don't trust Zedd, but they have no choice. Tommy agrees to Give his subcrystal to power Serpentera, since the Machine Empire recently destroyed/captured his Red Punchazord. We have a few interesting scenes of Billy and Finster working together to configure the Zeo Crystal with Serpentera.

With Serpentera powered, they successfully wipe out 95% of the Machine Empire's forces, including damaging the Royal House of Gadgetry who are taken hostage by Rita and Zedd. Of course Zedd is evil and double crosses the rangers, who sets Serpentera on a course for Angel Grove to wipe out Earth with the Zeo Crystal's power. The rangers can't disable it, but they realize they can overload Serpentera's engines if they sacrifice the other 4 Zeo Subcrystals in the its engine. Serpentera can't handle the additional power, and explodes and crashes on the moon (setting us up for Wild Force).

Rita/Zedd retreat with captured Machine King and Queen to be reprogrammed. Rangers won the war, but desperately need powers in case something happens. Zordon admits he doesn't have any backup powers to pull out of his ass, so Tommy suggests they build them from scratch with something modern: cars. Fortunately, there's just enough residual morphin' grid energy from the Zeo Crystal to power the Turbo keys, but the rangers will never again be as powerful as they once were. Fortunately their next villain (Divatox) isn't a "superpower", so the Turbo powers are sufficient to handle her threats.

[Dinorider37]

Originally Posted by arcticphoenix87

My head canon:

Zeo season premiere sets us up with the premise we are in a Cold War-esque fight between two Super Powers: Zeo Rangers, the MOST powerful rangers in the universe, versus the Machine Empire, the MOST powerful evil faction in the universe, who have just broke away from their alliance with Dark Specter. Explains why 5 (later 6) individuals have the power to fight back against thousands of Cogs and artillery.

Season progresses... mostly a stalemate, but the Machine Empire has a slight edge with their Neoplutonium armor. Day and night attacks makes the rangers fatigued. Dark Specter (still a secret behind the scenes), realizing that if the Rangers fail, knows that the Machine Empire will come for him next. Thus, he sends Rita and Zedd to negotiate a temporary alliance with the Rangers.

Zedd shows up on the viewing globe with a proposition. He has a weapon that is powerful enough to wipe out the Machine Empire (Surprise: Serpentera!) but it doesn't have a reliable energy source. That's where the rangers come in: all Zedd needs in one Zeo subcrystal to power Serpentera (again, these are the MOST powerful sources of energy in the universe) and Serpentera is good to go. Rangers don't trust Zedd, but they have no choice. Tommy agrees to Give his subcrystal to power Serpentera, since the Machine Empire recently destroyed/captured his Red Punchazord. We have a few interesting scenes of Billy and Finster working together to configure the Zeo Crystal with Serpentera.

With Serpentera powered, they successfully wipe out 95% of the Machine Empire's forces, including damaging the Royal House of Gadgetry who are taken hostage by Rita and Zedd. Of course Zedd is evil and double crosses the rangers, who sets Serpentera on a course for Angel Grove to wipe out Earth with the Zeo Crystal's power. The rangers can't disable it, but they realize they can overload Serpentera's engines if they sacrifice the other 4 Zeo Subcrystals in the its engine. Serpentera can't handle the additional power, and explodes and crashes on the moon (setting us up for Wild Force).

Rita/Zedd retreat with captured Machine King and Queen to be reprogrammed. Rangers won the war, but desperately need powers in case something happens. Zordon admits he doesn't have any backup powers to pull out of his ass, so Tommy suggests they build them from scratch with something modern: cars. Fortunately, there's just enough residual morphin' grid energy from the Zeo Crystal to power the Turbo keys, but the rangers will never again be as powerful as they once were. Fortunately their next villain (Divatox) isn't a "superpower", so the Turbo powers are sufficient to handle her threats.

That is a great head cannon. I really dig it.

Plus Tommy went on to race cars so it makes sense that he would pick the new team theme as he was the veteran ranger and Zordon favored him by that point.

[Shadowforce_71]

Originally Posted by arcticphoenix87

My head canon:

Zeo season premiere sets us up with the premise we are in a Cold War-esque fight between two Super Powers: Zeo Rangers, the MOST powerful rangers in the universe, versus the Machine Empire, the MOST powerful evil faction in the universe, who have just broke away from their alliance with Dark Specter. Explains why 5 (later 6) individuals have the power to fight back against thousands of Cogs and artillery.

Season progresses... mostly a stalemate, but the Machine Empire has a slight edge with their Neoplutonium armor. Day and night attacks makes the rangers fatigued. Dark Specter (still a secret behind the scenes), realizing that if the Rangers fail, knows that the Machine Empire will come for him next. Thus, he sends Rita and Zedd to negotiate a temporary alliance with the Rangers.

Zedd shows up on the viewing globe with a proposition. He has a weapon that is powerful enough to wipe out the Machine Empire (Surprise: Serpentera!) but it doesn't have a reliable energy source. That's where the rangers come in: all Zedd needs in one Zeo subcrystal to power Serpentera (again, these are the MOST powerful sources of energy in the universe) and Serpentera is good to go. Rangers don't trust Zedd, but they have no choice. Tommy agrees to Give his subcrystal to power Serpentera, since the Machine Empire recently destroyed/captured his Red Punchazord. We have a few interesting scenes of Billy and Finster working together to configure the Zeo Crystal with Serpentera.

With Serpentera powered, they successfully wipe out 95% of the Machine Empire's forces, including damaging the Royal House of Gadgetry who are taken hostage by Rita and Zedd. Of course Zedd is evil and double crosses the rangers, who sets Serpentera on a course for Angel Grove to wipe out Earth with the Zeo Crystal's power. The rangers can't disable it, but they realize they can overload Serpentera's engines if they sacrifice the other 4 Zeo Subcrystals in the its engine. Serpentera can't handle the additional power, and explodes and crashes on the moon (setting us up for Wild Force).

Rita/Zedd retreat with captured Machine King and Queen to be reprogrammed. Rangers won the war, but desperately need powers in case something happens. Zordon admits he doesn't have any backup powers to pull out of his ass, so Tommy suggests they build them from scratch with something modern: cars. Fortunately, there's just enough residual morphin' grid energy from the Zeo Crystal to power the Turbo keys, but the rangers will never again be as powerful as they once were. Fortunately their next villain (Divatox) isn't a "superpower", so the Turbo powers are sufficient to handle her threats.

only problem with that they were seen using Zeo Powers in TAPRM. Only reason for the upgrade is the Zeo powers couldn't get the rangers through the Nemesis Triangle.