This is a show where the premise involves most of humanity being wiped out by a sentient computer virus called Venjix that has devoted itself to launching constant assaults on the last outpost of the human race in order to kill the majority of the population and enslave the rest. There’s a sequence of episodes devoted to the origin stories of each of the characters — of which Dr. K’s is the climax — where you find out that Ranger Yellow’s parents are trying to sell her into an arranged marriage because they’ve gone broke, and that the reason she became a Power Ranger is because she watched the only person who ever actually cared about her die in front of her when the virus attacked. She never learned his first name either. It’s kind of a recurring theme.
And it goes on from there. Ranger Green is wanted dead by the mob, Ranger Red is trying to live up to the legacy of a brother who died in the initial war against Venjix. The Gold and Silver Rangers who show up in the middle of the season were Dr. K’s only friends at Alphabet Soup, two twins who finish each other’s sentences and return to the show revealing that they survived and engaged Venjix in asymmetrical warfare from the Cursed Earth and are now obsessed with explosions. They’re often the comic relief, but when you get right down to it, they’re essentially a cheerfully traumatized pair of child soldiers.
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