Power Rangers Beast Morphers - Tools of the Betrayed - Episode Review

At Riptide, Devon fights a blindfolded Ravi and Zoey. They finish and Betty and Ben come with a reality headset. They get called about Blaze. Devon tells Betty and Ben for nothing to happen to it. Betty uses it and she is surfing in the game but knocking everything out in the actual place. She falls but she says she is fine. A shark comes up to her and she and Ben fall and breaks the headset. Gold and Silver fight Tronics. The others arrive and Blaze is about to make a Robotron when Devon slices the laptop in half Blaze leaves. The Rangers clean up the Tronics. 

Back at base, Devon tells the commander. Betty and Ben show Zoey the broken headset. She tells them he will be less mad if she says she did it. Betty is against it. Zoey takes the blame. Ben and Betty lie. Zoey takes Devon. Evox is mad at Blaze. Blaze leaves and Roxy plots. Scrozzle fixes the Robotron Maker. Roxy asks if his computer and break things apart. Her plan is to break the weapons of the Rangers. Nathan makes a Gigadrone detector. Zoey says she hated the gigadrone that came from under the one. Devon enlists Ben and Betty's help set up the detectors. Each Ranger takes one as well. Roxy spots Ben and Betty. She opens a truck cargo bay and gets a wrench. She makes a Robotron out of the wrench. He 'undos' a bike. She puts a chip on him and spots Zoey. Tooltron is tasked to take apart Zoey's wrist communicator and he takes apart the Gigadrone detector. Roxy leaves. Back at base, Commander tells Nate to activate them. He says Ben and Betty's unt isn't working. They access the camera and see it is apart. Zoey, Ben, and Betty came with ice cream. Ravi thinks he didn't do it. They show it is in pieces. 

Devon figures Ben and Betty broke his headset. Zoey admits she covered for them. Devon says why should he believe Zoey. Zoey pulls the friend card and Devon talks about honesty. Zoey leaves. Jax follows Zoey. He says he believes her but Devon had a point. Zoey says she needs space. The boys fix the broken detector and it is linked. Roxy and Toolreon appear. The boy Rangers morph. The weapons are taken apart. Tooltron wants to take about Steel. Blue hands Steel a hubcap and the ray destroys the detector again. Roxy fights the four while Tooltron runs to het Silver. Red speed runs on Roxy. Blue uses his beast power but Roxy leaves. Zoey's morpher is taken apart and Tronics are sent after her. Tooltron collects her jackrabbit power on the chip. The other Rangers and Cruise arrive.  Cruise gives her her morpher and the blasters. They destroy the evil blaster and the tronics. 

Zoey morphs and the Rangers fight Tooltron and the Tronics. Red and Gold destroy Tooltron. The Rangers head back to base when Scrozzle returns and gets the chip. He scolds Roxy for leaving the data chip behind. He makes a delta gigadrone and the detectors go off. All zords are deployed. Wrecker Zord goes into battle mode Beast X Megazord is formed. Gigadrone arrives and another comes out of him. It is a new Gigadrone. The two Megazords fight them. They destroy the Gigadrones. Devon apologizes and gives a carrot smoothie toe Zoey. She apologizes as well for being dishonest. They agree to be friends forever. Ben and Betty give him his new headset. Betty tells him about the shark. The shark comes and he freaks out and slips on a familiar skateboard (Chase's with the Kiwi on it) and Ben catches the headset. 

Episode Review:

A solid episode, the plot made sense and all the characters came together. The Ben and Betty plot was not forced in and meant more to the A plot. I did notice that there was very little Blaze in this episode.

GRADE: B

Power Rangers Beast Morphers – Thrills and Drills – Episode Review

Episode Summary:

Evox speaks to Skrozzle about the failures of Roxy and Blaze. Data will be collected of the three Rangers from a Robotron to upgrade them. Roxy has a plan. The five Rangers and Betty train at the Youth Center. Ben puts Betty on turbo mode on a treadmill and hilarity ensues. Ravi gets kicked in the face. He says he has a toothache. He doesn’t go to dentists. Flashback to dentist drill and Ravi shakes. Nate says he fears spiders. They get called. Roxy grabs a drill and makes a Robotron and places a chip on him. The Rangers arrive. Tronics are called. The Rangers morph. Roxy transforms and the two groups fight.

Ravi’s tooth hurts. The Rangers continue the battle. Roxy blows Gold and Silver away. The Robotron and Roxy go down a tunnel. The Rangers try to track them. Devon tells Ravi to see the Dentist. Betty and Ben take Ravi to the dentist. Ravi sees a woman in pain. He sees a man with a scary drill. Ben and Betty run off. Ravi does too. The dentist checks and the drill was a handyman. Zoey checks on her zord for the bad guys. Nate gets an idea and asks Ravi if he went to the dentist and he says no. Ravi goes on a  search with Nate and Steel in the storm drains. Nate bumps into a spiderweb and freaks out. They bump into Roxy and a Robotron. Yellow and Red get the Zords ready. The Robotron is drilling below. A spider crawls on Nate. Nate grabs the spider and sets it down and is proud of himself. They reach the base of the tower. Ravi and the brothers morph. Scrozzle releases a Gigadrone. Roxy, the Robotron, Silver, Gold and Blue burst from the ground and fight.

Ravi fights the Robotron and has a toothache. Ravi gets big biceps and brings down the Robotron and he collects the info on the chip. Roxy laughs and explains to Robotron. Red and Yellow don’t see the Gigadrone. They get shot from below. They figure the Gigadrone is underground. Roxy tells the Robotron to drain the tower. Blue fights Drilltron. Red calls Blue, he says he’s busy. Blue continues fighting Drilltron. He uses his Beast-X Blaster and destroys the Drilltron. Nate and Steel fight Tronics. Ravi and Smash deploy their zord. The three form Beast-X Megazord. They use Hyperstrike to take the Gigadrone out. They destroy the Gigadrone. The duo blast the villains but Roxy leaves. The five reunite. Ravi says if Nate can face his fear, he can too. He goes to the dentist. Roxy gives the chip to Scrozzle. She wants the upgrade but Blaze says they need three powers. Evox says it is Blaze’s turn. Ravi come s out to find the others and they are proud for him. Ravi spooks Nate with a fake spider and Nate wasn’t scared.

Review:

Good episode with a common child fear which is the dentist. I am surprised that in twenty-six years, dentistry has never been covered. 

GRADE: A-

Power Rangers Beast Morphers - Silver Sacrifice - Episode Review

Summary:

Nate and Steel have a heartfelt talk about being brothers. Meanwhile, Blaze and Roxy make a new bot to go after the Rangers for Steel. Scrozzle fixes the gate. Nate and Steel go jogging and then see the new zords Wrecker and Jet zords. They meet the General and Steel shows off the morpher and zords. Betty and her brother Ben slide off the zords into bubbles. Nate says to the General he needs Morph-X in the zords and he gives him a bunch of forms. Betty offers to fill out the paperwork. The trio calls Nate to 'hang.' Roxy and Blaze overheard this and they go after them. They go to the popular hangout when they are attacked by Roxy and Blaze.

Tronics are called and the Rangers fight. Nate takes Steel to safety. The others run off. Roxy reminds Blaze they are listening in. In the base, they tell the General that Evox still wants to upload into Steel. The General wants to shut him down and laughs at the idea that Steel is his brother. Betty goes after the General. The Rangers protest. The commander apologizes. Blue says that they have to destroy the Cyber Gate. Steel hides. The General asks for Steel. Commander says the Rangers are gone too. Betty finished the paperwork but it gets shredded. They try hitting reverse and the pink papers come out of the shredder. 

Roxy and Blaze hear where the Rangers are. The Rangers find Tronics. General tells the Rangers to hand over Steel. Blaze and Roxy have Betty and Ben. General doesn't know what to do. Steel steps up and says to take him in. He says its the only way. Roxy gets Tronics to take Steel away. Ben and Betty reunite wth the General. Nate cries. Roxy and Blaze leave. General realize they are family, he tells Nate to get his brother back. The four Rangers morph and fight. Evok comes through the gate to enter Steel. Steel jumps out and is rejected. Evok growls. Evok says he is incompatible with Steel because of the human DNA. Steel sends Evox back home and the gate exploded. They call the Gigadrone.

Blaze and Roxy leave. The Rangers fight the Tronics and the Gigatron. Back in the cyber dimension, Sxrozzle sends down a big robot. Cruise and the Racer zord ae deployed. Devon goes to battle mode. General says to forget procedure and excuse the zords. Jet and Wrecker Zords are deployed. The Gold and Silver Ranger enter. The Zords go to beetle mode and drain the other gigatronics. Yellow and blue fight the Gigadrone. They use the Beast X Cannon to destroy it. Gigatronics are destroyed by the new zords. Red destroys the Gigadrone. Back at the base, they wrap everything up. General says Steel is needed for the Ranger family. 

Review:

Good episode but a little hammy.

GRADE: B-

Dark Kamen Riders 2.0

Updated from original 2010 post...
Here is a fan drawing of the Dark Riders in the Alternative World. There is a lot of Kamen Riders that rival the lead one, many evil, but here are the ones that are considered the Dark Kamen Riders and some other evil ones.

Shadow Moon
In Kamen Rider Black RX, Nobuhiko Akizuki, who had been abducted by Gorgom to become one of their new kings. Shadow Moon is both the stepbrother and best friend to Kohtaro Minami, who had been abducted alongside Nobuhiko but managed to escape.

Kamen Rider Ryuuga
Same thing with the last one, above is Onyx is from KRDK. He also appeared in Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final, I have expressed how much I don't like his design since it is just a repaint of Ryuki. He later appeared in Kamen Rider Decade in the Negative World, he murdered and assumed the guise of the World of Negatives counterpart of Hirohiko Sato. He is part of Kamen Rider Diend Complete Form.

Pseudo-Rider Alternative
Pseudo-Rider Alternative is a Dark Rider who assumed the guise of the World of Negatives counterpart of Tanaka, Natsumi's high school teacher. Though ordered by Otoya to keep an eye on Natsumi rather than kill her, he intentionally decides to attack Natsumi, resulting in Dark Kiva beating him merciless. Alternative is then later destroyed by Diend. Although referred to as Alternative, the suit is actually that of Alternative Zero. Kamen Rider Alternative and Alternative Zero were not technically Dark Riders in Kamen Rider Ryuki.

Kamen Rider Ohja
Even though not officially a Dark Rider, I consider him so because he is just pure evil and even though a lot of Kamen Riders go against the main one (Knight for example), Ohja is nonredeemable.

Kamen Rider Orga
In the alternative world of Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost, there were two riders. The Orga gear was given to Yuji Kiba after he had been fooled into thinking he had been betrayed by the humans. He appeared in the Negative World in Kamen Rider Decade. Orga is part of Kamen Rider Diend Complete Form. He who murdered and assumed the guise of the World of Negatives counterpart of Kenji Sakata.

Kamen Rider Dark Kabuto
In the production of the Dark Kabuto costume, the production team took a Kamen Rider Caucasus costume and repainted it black with red circuitry details. Souji Kusakabe was originally a human infant used in Negishi's experiments in hopes of turning all of humanity into Natives. He appeared in the Negative World in Kamen Rider Decade. He murdered and assumed the guise of the World of Negatives counterpart of Kazuyoshi Aoyagi.

Kamen Rider Nega Den-O
He appears in Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka. Negataros and a select few Imagin are stray Imagin who evaded the fate of the other evil Imagin when Kai ceased to exist in the final episode. Negataros has to deal with both the DenLiner Police lead by Ryotaro Nogami, an inside man in the form of Yuto Sakurai, further worsened by the brief meddling of Wataru Kurenai.

Kamen Rider Dark Kiva
In the Kiva Series, the Checkmate Four's original King is referred to as the Dark Kiva, the lord of all Fangires and the original Kiva who was a threat to humanity in his time. However, Dark Kiva does not require the use of a being such as Tatsulot to achieve this form, and has no chains on his body as Kiva needs to control his power. In the Negative World of Kamen Rider Decade series, Otoya Kurenai is a young man who leads the Dark Riders, using his connection to Kivat-bat the 2nd to become Kamen Rider Dark Kiva.

Kamen Rider G4
He appears in Kamen Rider Agito The Movie: Project G4 in 2001 and is part of Kamen Rider Diend's Complete Form. The G4 suit then began to malfunction, ultimately killing Mizuki. Beginning to move on its own, the suit attempted to rise again to continue the fight, forcing Hikawa to destroy it with the Scorpion.

Kamen Rider Gaoh
Appears in Kamen Rider Den-O: I'm Born!, he is a king of bandits from the Warring States era and leads a troop of Imagin with which he plans on using to take over the DenLiner. On his journey, he also obtains Yukimura's help in unearthing the GaohLiner.

Kamen Rider Arc
He appeared in the movie Kamen Rider Kiva The Movie: King of the Castle in the Demon World. Arc appears part of Kamen Rider Diend Complete Form. Arc's name comes from a Japanese word for "evil."

Kamen Rider Core

Kamen Rider is the main antagonist in the final portion (Movie War Core) of the film, Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W featuring Skull: Movie War Core. Kamen Rider Core is purely an energy-based Rider, he was created from the Sasori, Kani, and Ebi Core Medals, which appeared to house his consciousness, merging with the Memory Memory which held the memories of all of the older Showa Era Kamen Riders and the True Gaia Memory, thanks to the Pteradon Yummy gathering them.

Kamen Rider Eternal
Jun Kazu is the main antagonist of Kamen Rider W 's last story arc. He is a researcher of Foundation X wearing a lab coat at almost all times. He also appeared in Kamen Rider W Returns: Eternal, a prequel to the main TV series.\

Kamen Rider Jam/Mars

Kougane is Kamen Rider Mars who is the main antagonist in Kamen Rider Gaim: Great Soccer Battle! Golden Fruits Cup!. It later returns in the series finale as the female Kamen Rider Jam, serving as the series' final villain.

Another Riders

Kamen Rider Zi-O revealed evil Kamen Riders such as Another Riders. They are a group of monstrous Kamen Riders whose powers are derived from their original counterparts.

Let me know if I'm missing any. 

Super Sentai Color Stats 2019

(UPDATED 8/12/19)
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Red: 47 (All including Time Fire and female Shinken Red and Phoenix Solider)
Crimson: 1 (Hurricanger)
Red Orange: 1 (Zyuoger)
Orange: 3 (Battle Fever J, Toqger and Kyuranger)
Yellow: 38 (All except for JAKQ, Battle Fever J, Changeman and Kyoryuger)
Light Green: 4 (Toqger, Zyuohger, Midoninger, Kyuranger)
Green: 22 (Goranger-JAKQ, Denji, Bioman, Flash-Live, Zyu-Dai, Oh-Car, Ginga-Time, Hurri, Deka-Magi, Go-Onger to Shinkenger, Gokaiger, Kyoryuger to Ryusoulger)
Blue: 38 (All except...)
Light Blue: 6 (Kakuranger, Hurricanger, Magiranger, Kyoryuger, Zyuoger, Kyuranger)
Navy: 2 (Hurricanger & Kyoryuger)
Pink: 31 (Goranger-Denji, Goggle-Mask, Turbo-Five, Zyu-Time, Deka-Bouken, Shinkenger to Gokaiger, Kyoryuger-Ninninger, Kyuranger, Patranger, Ryusoulger)
Violet: 3 (Gekiranger, Kyoryuger, Kyuranger)
Black: 22 (Battle Fever J, Goggle-Dyna, Change, Mask-Zyu, Kaku-Oh, Mega-Ginga, Gao, Abare-Deka, Bouken, Go-Onger, and Goseiger, Kyoryuger, Kyuranger, Ryusoulger)-- 23 if you count Black Puma of Go-Busters.
White: 15 (JAKQ, Change, Jet Dai, Oh, Gao, Abare, Deka, Magi, Geki, Ninninger, Zyuoger, Kyuranger)
Silver: 11 (Mega, Gao, Deka, Bouken, Go-Onger, Goseiger, Gokaiger, Go-Busters, Kyoryuger, Kyuranger, Lupinranger vs Patranger,)
Gold: 10 (Dekaranger, Magiranger, Go-Onger, Shinkenger, Go-Busters, Kyoryuger, Ninninger, Kyuranger, Lupinranger vs Patranger, Ryusoulger)
Grey: 1 (Kyoryuger)
Black/Silver/Gold: 1 (Zyuoger)

Other Color Stats

• 2 teams with the color sheme of Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, and Black (Liveman, Go-Onger)
• 3 teams with Pink and White females (Changeman, Magiranger, Ninninger)
• 3 teams with Blue and White females (Jetman, Magiranger, Zyuohger)
• 4 teams with lone female Yellow Rangers (Abare, Geki, Busters, Lupin)
• 3 fan 'Rangers' in a series (White Racer in Carranger and AbarePink in Abaranger and Pink Cat in Go-Busters)
• 3 sixth rangers that were Green in a TV series (Maskman, Zyu, Hurri)
• 4 Non-Red Ranger led teams (JAKQ, Kaku, Time, Geki)
• 4 teams with color scheme Red, Blue, Yellow, White, and Black (Jetman, Kaku, Gao, Abare)
• 5 rangers with pink trim (Change, Jet, Gao, Goseiger, Ninninger)
• 7 teams with members of unique colors (Hurri, Deka, Geki, Kyoryuger, Toqger, Zyuoger, Kyuranger)
• 5 female Blue Rangers (Liveman, Jetman, Hurri, Magi, Zyuoger)
• 5 teams with Green and White in a TV series (JAKQ, Dai, Deka, Magi, Zyuoger)
• 5 teams with Pink and White Rangers (Change, Dai, Deka, Magi, Ninninger)
• 6 teams with color scheme that has only been used once [JAKQ: Red, Blue, Green, Pink and White; Battle Fever J: Red, Blue, Black, Pink, and Orange; Change: Red, Blue, Black, Pink, and White; Geki: Red, Blue, Yellow, White, and Violet; Go-Busters: Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold and Silver; Zyuohger: Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, White]
• 5 male White Rangers (JAKQ, Dai, Abare, Deka, Geki)
• 6 teams with White and Black (Change, Jet, Kaku, Gao, Abare, Deka)
• 7 teams that start with Red, Blue, and Yellow (Sun Vulcan, Live, Hurri, Abare, Geki, Go-On, Go-Busters)
• 8 female White Rangers (Change, Jet, Kaku, Gao, Swan, Mother, Ninninger, Zyuohger)
• 9 teams with Black and Green (Live, Zyu, Oh-Car, Ginga, Geki, Go-On, Kyoryuger, Lupin vs Patranger)
• 7 teams with Red entering pre-existing team (Dai, Mega, Ginga, Gao, Deka, Magi, Geki)
• 9 teams with the color scheme of Red, Blue, Yellow, Pink, and Black (Goggle, Dyna, Mask, Turbo, Five, Zyu, Mega, Bouken, Gosieger)
• 11 teams with no Pink Ranger (Sun Vulcan, Live, Jet, Kaku, Gao-Abare, Geki, Go-On, Go-Busters, Zyuohger)
• 13 teams with Pink and Yellow female rangers (Bio, Flash-Mask, Five, Oh, Car, Mega, Deka, Magi, Shinken, Gosei, Gokai, Toqger)
• 12 teams with a sole female Ranger, in this case being a Pink Ranger (Goranger-Denji, Goggle-Dyna, Turbo, Zyu-Dai, Ginga-Time)
• 16 female Yellow Rangers (Bio, Flash, Mask, Five, Oh-Mega, Abare, Deka, Bouken, Shinkenger, Goseiger, Gokaiger, Go-Busters)
• 14 Rangers with two or more colors [King Ranger, Gao Silver, KabutoRaijer, KuwagataRaijer, Deka Master, Deka Break, Deka Swan, Deka Bright, Magi Shine, Bouken Silver, Geki Chopper, Go-On Gold, Go-On Silver, Shinken Gold, Zyuoh the World]
• 17 teams with the color scheme Red, Blue, Yellow, Green and Pink (Goranger -JAKQ, Denji, Bio, Flash, Zyu, Dai, Oh, Car, Ginga, GoGoV, Deka, Magi, Shinken, Gokaiger, Toqger)
• 16 Females with no Skirt (Miss America, Goggle Pink, Dyna Pink, Bioman-2, Changeman-2, Flashman-2, Fiveman-2, Dekaranger-5)
• 19 male Yellow Rangers (Goranger, Denji-Dyna, Live, Jet-Kaku, Ginga-Hurri, Magi, Ninninger-Zyuohger)
• 37 teams with Red Ranger leaders (Goranger-Dai, Oh-GoGoV, Gao-Bouken, Go-On-Zyuoger)
• 43 Females with Skirt (Momo Ranger, Denji Pink, Maskman-2, Blue Dolphin, Turbo Pink, Jetman-2, Pteraranger, Houhouranger, Ninja White, Ohranger-2, Carranger-2, Megaranger-2, GingaPink, GoPink, TimePink, GaoWhite, Hurricane Blue, Abare Yellow, Magiranger-3, Boukenger-2, Geki Yellow, Go-onger-2, Shinkenger-3, Goseiger-2, Gokaiger-2, Go-Busters-1, Kyoryuger-2, Toqger-2, Ninninger-2, Zyuohger-2)

Sentai-like Tokusatsu to be mistaken for 2020, 2021, 2022 Sentai

UPDATED 8/12/19 9PM EST
This post is for the future. If anyone thinks they see the new upcoming Sentai but are tricked by someone who uses a pic of a non-Toei non-Sentai tokusatsu, they might be using this. So if the year is 2021 or 2030, here is a guide to Tokusatsu series that are Sentai-like and might be mistaken for the new Sentai or Power Rangers.

France Five (2000)

Country: France

France Five , originally titled Jūshi Sentai France Five (Musketeers Squadron France Five) and later known as Shin Kenjūshi France Five (新剣銃士フランスファイブ, translated as New Sword Musketeers France Five), is a French Mini series directed by Alex Pilot and produced by Buki X-4 Productions in the 2000s. It is an homage to Super Sentai and France Five has each member themed after certain aspects of French culture. This was rumored to be new Sentai series since 2000. 

Chouseishin Gransezar (2003)

Country: Japan

Episodes: 51

Gransezar was part of 3 series by Toho and Konami. It had 12 warriors. They all were from Japan.

Genseishen Justiriser (2004)

Country: Japan

Episodes: 51

幻星神ジャスティライザー 

Chousei Kantai Sazer-X (2005)

Country: Japan

Episodes: 38

超星艦隊セイザーX Third and last series of Toho/Konami's Star God Series.

Squadron Sport Ranger (2006)

Country: Thailand

Episodes: 32

Squadron Sport Ranger (Thai: ขบวนการ สปอร์ตเรนเจอร์ ) is a Thai Tokusarsu that premiered on August 6, 2006  on Thai Channel 3. Sport Ranger's theme is sports, which each of the Sport Rangers has a specialty in. The second season of the show, titled Sport Ranger 2 premiered on Channel 3 on February 5, 2012. Their silhouette recently went around the internet as the 2020 Sentai. 

Tomica Hero: Rescue Force (2008)

Country: Japan

It was the first season of Tomica Hero Series in Japan.

Tomica Hero Rescue Fire (2009)
Country: Japan

Episodes: 51

The second Tomica series in Japan.

Jushen Zhanjidu (2013)

Country: China

Episodes: 52

It is translated from "Jushen ZhanJiDui") is a Chinese Sentai series scheduled that aired in China in 2013 (and currently distributed online by Lookus). The motif for this Sentai series is the classic Chinese tale "Journey To The West", and each member of the team is named after a different character in the tale. The term for each individual member of the team is "Search God".

Battle Strike Team: Space Deleter (2014)

Country: China

Episodes: 52

(巨神战击队之空间战击队 Jùshén Zhànjīduì: Zhīkōngjiān Zhànjīduì) is a Chinese tokusatsu series, created and produced by Alpha Group Co. Ltd. It is the second series of China's ZhanJiDui franchise, and premiered in 2014.

Battle Strike Team: Rescue Engine  (2016)

Country: China

Episodes: 52

巨神战击队之超救分队 Jùshén Zhànjīduì: Zhīchāo Jiùfèn is a Chinese tokusatsu series created and produced by Alpha Group. it is the third series of the ZhanJiDui franchise, premiered in 2016.

Legend Hero Samgugjeon (2016)
 (레전드히어로 삼국전 L is a Korean-Chinese tokusatsu television series. Produced by MoonWatcher and Synergy Media. The Series is broadcasted in EBS1. It is available on YouTube with English subtitles.