Anyone who says Super Sentai is superior to Power Rangers in every single way without exception is just still bitter that in 1993-1994 they got stuck with this boring, inconsistent, nonsensical piece of shit and his two nothing sidekicks for their main antagonists, while Power Rangers gave us one of the greatest and most iconic villains in all of science fiction, superhero fiction, and tokusatsu.
Honestly? You are correct here, Zedd especially in season 2 gave off a lasting memorable impression of a sinister dark overlord, even after he was toned down in season 3 onwards, if you wanted to create an iconic villain they did a fantastic job at it. Never really cared about Shaddam, he wasn’t even the leading big bad of the series until the end but hey they still used him in Power Rangers in a humorous way
Yeah, Dairanger's writing is awful, this isn't something that many sentai fans on here contest
>>23856195I always forget MMPR figured out a way to use Shaddam, albeit briefly. Even with the metal face he strikes me as a design they'd want to avoid at all costs.
>>23857028Why? Is it because his outfit kinda looks like a Cenobite?
>>23857050I guess because he's dressed like a Cenobite, also like a BDSM suit (which also is like a Cenobite), plus that they show the actor's face (obviously there was Rita and Scorpina, but the show seemed to shy away from that sort of thing after Season 1)... "Normal guy in leather" just doesn't really match anything else adapted or created for MMPR either before or after. Also the Zord fight they used is fairly short and doesn't even have a proper ending (so there wasn't even the excuse of 'Yeah, the character is iffy, but that Zord fight is so awesome how could we NOT use it in MMPR?') so they kinda had to fudge one with the Thunder Saber. Just doesn't seem worth the trouble to force Shaddam into one scene for no real reason. They could've easily had the Rangers escape the storybook and then just have Zedd randomly create Pot Taoist, Birdcage Vagabond, or Lt. Zilong.
>>23856190Power Ranger faggots are a special level of autistic. I'd love to make fun of you, but frankly I just pity you too much. May god have mercy on your souls.
>>23858295Well I'm sorry it's not the 1,000th thread with a half naked anime girl as the OP image. I'll try better next time.
Zedd is barely even a character beyond going "I'm such a bad guy bro!"This fedora tipping faggot alone mogs the entirety of PR's attempts at villains.
>>23856190Yeah I guess you could say Zedd was a SUPER MEGA WIN for power rangers :^)
Zedd was only fun to watch after he married Rita
>>23858295They're just modern Robotechfags.
>>23856190>one of the greatest and most iconic villains in>tokusatsuSure.>superhero fictionHe'd rank as a C-lister at best.>science fictionNo.
>>23856190Batman and Spider-Man both have at least 10 more iconic villains individually, let alone characters like Doctor Doom or Thanos. Not even close to being one of the greatest.
>>23856190Lord Zedd mogging Shadam doesn't make Powerful Rangers better by itself. Shit, Bulk and Skull mog literally every tokusatsu comic relief ever in my eyes but that doesn't change the fact that Super Sentai as a franchise is the superior OG and PR is but the shadow. Also, in 2021-2023 we got Zenkaiger, Donbrothers and King-Ohger while you got three fucking seasons of Ryusouless: Lame and Gay Edition so what goes around comes around.
>>23856190Shitty b8 thread.
>>23862089Batman sure but Lord Zedd rapes anything from the Spider-Man movies (/co/shit doesn't apply).
>>23862089Spider-man villains are overrated. For all that everyone talks about them, they never really like them enough to buy thngs related to them. It's why you see this push for multiple spider-man. Spider-man villains don't sell, only Spider-man variations do. The exception being Venom, but even that's an obviously Spider-man adjacent design.
>>23856190Zedd is a good design, but I don't think a single design is enough to defend a 30 year old lackluster franchise
>>23862099>the Spider-Man movies>MoviesFuck off
>>23858295More specifically, MMPRfags. They encompass fans of MMPR and Neo-Saban eras.
>>23862357I don't rate any of that shit but you need to go back to /co/.
>>23862053>>23862089To clarify, I wasn't suggesting that Zedd is on the same level as, say, Darth Vader, Thanos, Dr. Doom, or the Joker. But at this point in time, he's pretty recognizable (who doesn't know Lord Zedd, unless you've been living under a rock for the last 30+ years?) and when he teamed up with a DC villain, they considered him roughly on-par with Brainiac. I didn't say he was THE greatest villain ever, but he's definitely up there.
>>23862349That's fair they're definitely not close to Batman villains in popularity, but there's still no way Zedd is on par with Doc Ock or Green Goblin.
>>23856190I cant even argue because all I remember is everyone in Dairanger crumbled to mud in the end. The fucking Kibaranger was annoying and not cool too. I dont even think my kid self would have liked him since I hated what's his face in turbo.
My favorite part of Power Rangers is that they leaned into Lord Zedd and Rita being trailer trash during the Machine Empire.
>>23867419>The fucking Kibaranger was annoying and not cool too.It's stunning how much of a useless load Kou is in Dairanger. He's never around unless the plot is about his stupid mother, he's never around as part of the team in any filler episodes, and half his screen time he's turned evil.
>>23862539You need to go back to grade school and learn to comprehend what you read.
>>23856219Really? I was always under the impression that Dairanger was held in fairly high regard.
>>23861947When he first showed up he was fun to watch in a "Emperor Palpatine/ultimate evil" type way, but that wore off roughly about the same time the Green Ranger powers ran out. Then, yeah, he was boring up until Rita came back.
>>23872786Dairanger is liked because the main 5 have good chemistry and the fight scenes are very good thanks to each character having their own fighting style based off a martial art. Tokusatsu is all about the spectacle especially older shows. People will like it even if the plot is crap so long as it looks cool and in most cases that's basically what happens as most Tokusatsu plot pre 2000s is generic and forgettable at best with stuff like Jetman being a rare exception.
>>23862097I dunno, I thought it was halfway decent.
>>23867419That kid ranger in turbo now looks like pic related, feel old yet?
>>23856190Shadam was the end of an era. After him almost every main villain had a full body costume. There were still villainesses but they also became full costume after go-onger as well. Also I just found out his actor was the VA for Dokoku.
>>23856190So there was 1 case where PR (debatably) had a better character than Sentai?After ninja steel/mega force I literally cannot any PR > Sentai arguments seriously. Like it's obvious that the PR playbook is to either poorly copy the Sentai episode for episode or just try to remake the original MMPR to bank on nostalgia. If PR was actually good ninja steel would actually be better than ninninger and Saban would actually adopt the more unconventional seasons instead of just skipping to Ryousoulgers because it has le dinosaurs, just like MMPR!!! and re-using go go power rangers.I will say however, that the Disney ranger action scenes were better than their sentai counterparts simply because they didn't spam CGI all the time like their sentai counterparts.
>>23879874>1 caseAt least 2, you forget Ransik.Dunno how Lothor compares to his Sentai counterpart, but it's got to be close.
I've never seen Megaranger; how do Dr. Hinelar, Yugande, and Guirail compare to Astronema, Ecliptor, and Darkonda?
>>23879874>the Disney ranger action scenes were better than their sentai counterparts simply because they didn't spam CGI all the time like their sentai counterparts.What in the fuck are you talking about? PR used CGI just as much as Sentai if not more. Also the Kalishplosions were at their height of cringe in the 2000s (yes I know Sakamoto had a hand in that too but they mellowed it out in the later Sentai).
>>23886166>>23886167Found them on X.
>>23878673>wanting to participate
What was the Sentai season where the mechs were specifically called Zords? I also recall a scene where the Red Ranger was fighting solo against the MOTW, which was chainsawing through the Megazord, almost reaching his face.
>>23887959>What was the Sentai season where the mechs were specifically called Zords?Pretty sure you're thinking of Go-Busters (which became Beast Morphers), where "Megazords" is used for both the Rangers' mechs and the enemy's giant robots.
>>23861307Hey, he's also Al Bundy
>>23866941>who doesn't know Lord ZeddProbably most people who were either never into Power Rangers or were born after the craze. So, most people in general don't know him.
>>23886166>>23886167i was wondering which local hero this was but searching mirai for mirai sentai only brings up timeranger
>>23888896No wonder he's dimes.
