Guy, there’s the Black Power Ranger and the Yellow Power Ranger, with a black guy and an Asian girl respectively.
They knew.
Does the "White Power Ranger" seem like an odd title?
Submitted 12 hours ago by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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devolution@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Thats what I’m saying!
whimsy@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
(white) (power ranger), not (white power) (ranger)
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’m 41. Which means I was a kid when the original came out.
In all my years of knowing of the power rangers, I’ve never once thought of it as (white power)(ranger).
I did however go from thinking Rita Repulsa was grotesque as a kid, to thinking “Damn, she’s kinda hott!” as an adult. Plus she has that stick that makes her monster grow.
…I think every guy would find that usrful.
grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
tfw no evil moon milf gf
blindbunny@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
This comment is why I’m on lemmy
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 9 hours ago
I just went and had a looksie. Not nearly as repulsive in pics as I remember. I think attitude might be half of it.
qarbone@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The internet proves again, that you will always be able to find someone who shares your (degenerate) opinion.
If Rita wanted this monster to grow, all she had to do was back that dumpy up.
devolution@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Dumps like a truck, truck, truck, horns like what, what, what…
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It really depends where you put that small pause.
Its like saying spider-man without the hyphen.
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Wasn’t the white power ranger the green power ranger first, or am I misremembering the story (it’s been a while, sorry)?
toynbee@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
He was.
I remember only because at the time they were advertising that the green power ranger would be getting a power upgrade and I said to my older brother that I bet he would become the white power ranger (not being aware of the connotations at the time, nor anything else other than the kid’s show).
He said that wasn’t possible. How would they display the trademark white diamonds, he asked? It still boggles my mind that that was his only reasoning.
scytale@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
I grew up calling them “<color> ranger”. I don’t think anyone, at least in my part of the world at the time, called each member in full as a power ranger; only as a group.
HenryDorsett@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Southern US.
I was kid at the time it originally aired in America.
I agree, its <Color> Ranger, or as a group, The Power Rangers.
TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Northwest US, same.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Same and I’m from the southeast us.
MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah it’s like, “You don’t hear it?”
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
its his job title, not necessarily his ideology
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 hours ago
I mean, they made the Asian girl the yellow ranger, the “Native American” (actor wasn’t, character was) the Red Ranger, the black guy the Black Ranger, with Basic White People as gender-defaults Pink and Blue.
The White Power Ranger might be innocent but the producers knew what they were doing. He’s even more powerful than the others put together…
CerineArkweaver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
To be fair, Walter Jones (Zack) was given a choice of which color to be. After thinking that there was no way in hell they would let him be Red, he chose Black so he could be a Black superhero/role model.
Thuy was also the second one cast for the Yellow ranger after the original quit when she saw how shitty they were getting paid (which would eventually lead to Austin, Walter, and Thuy quitting in the second season when contract negotiations fell through)
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Are you saying he lives 2 lives where one may be ashamed of the other?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
Only if you expect the pink power ranger to go mincing about throwing glitter grenades.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
goodness no, we can’t show warcrimes on tv
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Amy Jo Johnson can do WHATEVER she wants! Every boys childhood crush!
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I mean…I didn’t till you said that
dickalan@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Only if you’re a racist piece of shit which it looks like you might be for even posing this question
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 8 hours ago
Said it above, but get a clue:
I mean, they made the Asian girl the yellow ranger, the “Native American” (not sure if the actor actually is but the character was) the Red Ranger, the black guy the Black Ranger, with Basic White People as gender-defaults Pink and Blue.
The White Power Ranger might be innocent but the producers knew what they were doing. He’s even more powerful than the others put together.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Only when taken out of context.
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Context is: “Hey honey, the clown cancelled for little Bobby’s 4th birthday, do you want me to call the White Power Ranger to replace them?”
Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Makes sense still. There are several colors of Power Rangers, and they are always referred to as the [Color] Power Ranger.
Does this sound off to you?