Let’s not forget that the native guy was the red ranger
And the white boy and girl were blue and pink respectively.
“White power”… “ranger”
And he was edgy and whiney…
God it was so fucking obnoxious to play Power Rangers in kindergarten. “You’re a giiiiirrrrlll, so you have to be the pink ranger.”
so wanna play pink ranger?
Can we play Warrior Cats instead? I get to be Fireheart, you have to be Tigerclaw.
Deal
At least they had diversity…?
True, and honestly I didn’t notice as a kid
Jason was Native? Pretty sure Tommy was Native in the canon (confirmed when they are seeking the Zeo Crystals), but I don’t recall Jason ever being identified as Native. Although Tommy did then become the Red Zeo Ranger, so that’s not great. Is that what you were referring to?
Austin St John is native
TIL
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I think it was probably an even bigger mistake to have the Black Ranger fight with break dancing Kung-Fu moves, but what do I know.
But wasn’t all that fighting taken from the original Japanese show?
Most of the in-costume stuff is, and the Black Ranger doesn’t break dance in that. But there’s usually an out of costume fight with Putties before that.
This is the case. They are mimicking the original Japanese choreography and movement style.
Hip Hop Keto
Should have cast a russian as the red ranger. I mean if you’re ALREADY being racist…
You could cast a person with depression as the blue ranger. Oh…I see you have that covered. And a female sex symbol as the pink ranger. Oh, thats covered too.
If you’re going to go full racist, red wouldn’t be Russian. They’d be native American.
It could be either. I was thinking red scare communists, since the show was just after the fall of the soviet union.
But your way works too.
Huh? How is being a communist, racist?
It’s not, and calling one a red isn’t either, but ok
Nothing burger
Honestly, I think it’s more commendable that the rangers were so diverse at the time than it’s outrageous that the Black and Asian characters wore those colors. They could have easily casted all white kids back then. The characters were treated with respect by the producers and were well liked by fans. This is only an issue to people 30 years later.
In Captain Planet, it always bothered me that the South American dude got a ridiculous power like “heart” while everyone else got something useful.
The powers should have been:
European: The power to take stuff from others without them noticing.
North America: The power to buy stuff and vacuously talk themselves into bad ideas, and project their voice over long distances.
Asia: small stature to squeeze into tight spaces, and has the power to reproduce and instantly make many copies of themselves.
Africa: Summon large animals and inflict malaria on enemies.
S America: Bring all the others together with a universal love of drugs, and drives around on a bulldozer.
Don’t diss Ma-Ti he fought leopards barehanded before he had any powers and averted thermonuclear war without any help from the others. While we’re on the subject I think Earth and Fire should swap owners.
Honestly couldn’t care less about it, at least they were casted in the 90’s.
What’s he got to say about Billie’s actor being bullied off the show for being gay?
https://ew.com/article/2010/08/26/original-power-ranger-harassed-gay/
“asshole move made with full awareness” is probably a better term than “mistake”
On the other side, the Yellow Ranger had a visible bulge so let’s call that progressive.
I have a vague memory that the original show from Japan had a man in the yellow costume and when it was adapted for American audiences they wanted yellow to be a woman. This lead to a effectively trans character because of an occasionally noticeable bulge.
Power Rangers is a patchwork work edited with footage from a few different shows. Robots from one, costume fights from others. It was not really a reboot, they just took the footage of this yellow-costumed guy fighting and use it directly.
The 90’s were fucking awesome.
Leave it in the 90’s, weirdos.
It happened and ended, lessons were learned no harm was done.
Related key & peele skit https://youtu.be/mOyE_l80D4Y
Still one of my wifes favorite sketches of theirs.
I’m just goin to leave this here.
Damn age restricted video
How did I not notice this before now?
This went way over my head and I was thinking: the writer’s taken their mask off as a racist??
Didn’t make the colour connection
The pink for girl and blue for boy was there too.
Is red the odd one out?
/s (not sarcasm towards racism, but about the way producers were thinking)
