I was not trying to watch Power Rangers. My kids
asked me if they could put something on while
I worked. I opened Prime and Green with Evil
was sitting there like a little movie. So I hit
play and went back to work, but it would not
let me ignore it. My attention kept getting pulled
back, not out of nostalgia, but out of curiosity.
I looked over at my kids and they were as locked
in as I was. And that is when I remembered why
this arc worked and why it still works. Green
with Evil is not just a cool new character showing
up. It is a disruption. It breaks the normal
flow of Power Rangers, and when you break the
rules, you open the world. You open the story.
You open possibilities the show did not have
before. So I want to walk through the specific
ways Green with Evil disrupts Power Rangers,
and why that disruption is what made it legendary.
Before Tommy, Power Rangers had a stable rhythm.
Before this arc, the show had a rhythm you could
trust. Rita shows up. She sends putties. She
sends a monster. They defeat the monster. She
makes the monster grow. The rangers fight it
in the Megazord. Then they win. It could get
silly. It could get hectic. But the world still
felt stable. The rangers felt like a solid team.
The machine worked. Green with Evil disrupts
that stability on purpose. And that is disruption
number one. The rhythm breaks. The arc introduces
an outsider who matters as a person. The first
move is brilliant. It is not ranger stuff. It
is character stuff. We meet Tommy as a human
being first, at a martial arts tournament with
Tommy versus Jason. Suddenly, we're watching
two people with real presence and real skill.
Even if you were coming in cold, you immediately
understand or get a sense of who Jason is. And
you immediately understand that Tommy can match
him. That means the conflict is not just colors
on suits. It is Jason and Tommy. The great thing,
too, is that by the end of the match, they have
a respect for each other, and I think that does
a lot for the audience, too, to have an understanding
of who they are, what their dynamic could be,
and kind of what we should feel about them. That
is disruption number two. The show gets personal.
Rita stops feeling harmless. Then the real disruption
starts. Rita watches the fight and decides, this
is my guy. That alone changes the vibe, because
now Rita is not just throwing monsters at a wall.
She's making a smart move. She sets a trap. She
strikes at the right moment and she turns Tommy
into a weapon. That is disruption number three.
Rita starts stacking real wins. What I like too
about this is we get to see Tommy have this fight
with the putties and prove himself once. Then
he's taken and she keeps making him prove himself.
So it's almost like a village. Like a villain
story origin where we get to see this guy going
through his own journey and having his own trials
that he keeps passing and that solidifies it.
And I think it makes it cooler. It makes him
even cooler than he was before. And it raises
the stakes. So now the show breaks the rule of
five. This is the big one. We did not know there
could be more than five Rangers. The show trained
you and me to believe that the team was complete.
Why would Zordon pick only five people if there
were more than five powers, right? Suddenly,
a six ranger exists. Even if you do not know
the lore, you feel the shift. The system is not
closed. The world is bigger than you thought.
That is disruption number four. The team concept
breaks open. Next, the power coin creates mythology
and history. And here's the part that still hits.
Rita has a power coin. that raises questions
the show did not have before. Why does she have
one? Where did it come from? What does that imply
about the past? Does that mean Zordon and Rita
have history deeper than what we thought? We
know there's something there because Zordon's
familiar with her, but how deep does it go? Does
that mean that there were other rangers before,
other battles, other losses? That is disruption
number five. The world suddenly has a much deeper
past than we had realized. The command center
is no longer sacred. And then Tommy walks into
the command center. He shuts Alpha down. Zordon
is helpless. Just sit with that for a second.
For a kid, the command center feels like a safe
place. It is the home base. It is the one place
Rita cannot touch. And Green with Evil says,
no, even this is vulnerable. That is disruption
number six. The safe place is not safe. This
next one is a real big one, I think. A Power
Ranger becomes the threat. Now the show does
something that is simple but powerful. The threat
is not a monster. The threat is a Power Ranger.
The threat is a person. It changes everything.
It means the power itself can be dangerous. It
means the heroes could be turned. It means the
thing you trust can become the thing you fear.
That is disruption number seven. The hero archetype
flips. I think that also ties into Zordon's rules.
of not escalating the fight, not using the power
for personal gain. We know it can be abused,
but we've never seen it be abused. And Tommy
isn't consciously abusing it, but he's being
forced to because he's forcibly been made evil.
But if the others went bad, that'd be bad news
for everybody. And we get to see that somebody
with that power can make the Rangers lose. They're
getting defeated. And because of all that, the
fights stop feeling routine. Tommy can, he's
already messed with the command center. and Alpha,
and now he can mess with the Zords. They've been
compromised. Jason can be isolated. He's tricked,
he's fooled, and taken away. He's taken off the
board for a while. Even if you know the show
is for kids, the framing makes the danger feel
real. This is the first time the series really
convinces you that the Rangers could lose, and
not just a small defeat, but a big loss. They
could lose the whole thing. This is disruption
number eight. Defeat becomes possible. It's good
stuff. I'm just getting excited talking about
it again. Anyway, this is why Green with Evil
sticks. Not because it's louder, not because
it's bigger, but because it breaks the rules
of the world and forces the story to expand.
Disruption elevates the arc, and it elevates
everything around it. It makes Power Rangers
feel less like a loop and more like a universe.
Green with Evil reminded me why these stories
stick. Not because they escalate, but because
they disrupt. If you want more reflections like
this on transforming heroes, identity, and why
these stories matter, subscribe. And I want to
hear from you. What moment first disrupted your
idea of what these shows could do and what they
could be? What did you think of Greedy with Evil
when you saw it, whether that was a long time
ago or recently? Let me know in the comments
because I genuinely want to read what your thoughts
are, what your feelings were about this. Thanks
for watching. This is MJ with Henshin Inspection,
signing out.