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Samurai Surprise is the fifth episode of Power Rangers Super Megaforce, the second season of Power Rangers Megaforce. This episode is a tribute to Power Rangers Samurai, thus features the return of Jayden Shiba and Mentor Ji, and the debut of the Legendary Samurai Megazord.
Synopsis[]
When a powerful monster named Matacore is sent by the emperor to take on the Rangers, they face a challenge like never before. Luckily, help comes in the form of a mysterious Samurai visitor and his mentor.
Plot[]
Noah Carver and Jake Holling see a motorcycle, which they find out is Mentor Ji's.
Prince Vekar sends himself, Argus and Matacore to fight the Rangers. They morph into Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, then Lost Galaxy. Noah hits the Prince and Argus making them surrender.
After the battle, Troy, Noah and Jake went to Ernie's BrainFreeze to hang out, when suddenly Jayden Shiba appears to help the Rangers. He gave them the Double Disc and disappear. Gia and Emma show up just when they're leaving.
When in the battle field, they morph into the Overdrive Rangers, the Wind Rangers, the Space Rangers, the Dino Rangers, the Zeo Rangers, the Time Force Rangers and some unnamed new powers and fought Matacore as the Samurai Rangers.
They then summoned the Legendary Megazord in Samurai Mode to defeat Matacore.
At the end of the episode Mentor Ji and Jayden leave Harwood County to the comment of the girls saying Jayden is cute, which makes Jake jealous.
Cast[]
- Andrew Gray as Troy Burrows (Megaforce Red/Super Megaforce Red)
- Ciara Hanna as Gia Moran (Megaforce Yellow/Super Megaforce Yellow)
- John Mark Loudermilk as Noah Carver (Megaforce Blue/Super Megaforce Blue)
- Christina Masterson as Emma Goodall (Megaforce Pink/Super Megaforce Pink)
- Azim Rizk as Jake Holling (Megeforce Black/Super Megaforce Green)
- Geoff Dolan as Gosei (voice)
- Estevez Gillespie as Tensou (voice)
- Stephen Butterworth as Prince Vekar (voice)
- Rebecca Parr as Levira (voice)
- John Leigh as Damaras (voice)
- Mark Wright as Argus (voice)
- Richard Simpson as Matacore (voice)
- Alex Heartman as Jayden Shiba
- Rene Naufahu as Mentor Ji
- Erika Fong as Mia Watanabe (flashback and mentioned only)
- Najee De-Tiege as Kevin (flashback only)
- Jeff Szusterman as Master Xandred (flashback and voice only)
- Shailesh Prajapati as Ernie
Power Cards[]
- Megaforce Red - N/A
- Megaforce Pink - N/A
- Megaforce Black - Snake Axe
- Megaforce Yellow - N/A
- Megaforce Blue - N/A
Legendary Ranger Modes[]
- Legendary Ranger Modes for Samurai Surprise:
- Super Megaforce Red Ranger - Mighty Morphin Red Ranger, Galaxy Red Ranger , Red Squadron Ranger (male version), Red Overdrive Ranger, Red Wind Ranger, Red Samurai Ranger
- Super Megaforce Blue Ranger - Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger, Galaxy Blue Ranger, Blue Mega Ranger, Blue Samurai Ranger
- Super Megaforce Yellow Ranger - Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger (skirted version), Galaxy Yellow Ranger (skirted version), Yellow Lightning Ranger, Yellow Space Ranger, Yellow Dino Ranger, Yellow Samurai Ranger
- Super Megaforce Green Ranger - Mighty Morphin Black Ranger, Galaxy Green Ranger, Zeo Ranger IV Green, Green Samurai Ranger
- Super Megaforce Pink Ranger - Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger, Galaxy Pink Ranger, Pink Prism Ranger, Time Force Pink Ranger, Pink Samurai Ranger
- All team Legendary Ranger Modes were not only Saban produced teams, but were also the first teams of their respective eras.
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Zordon Era
- Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Post-Zordon Era
- Samurai Rangers: Saban Brands Era
- At the same time, Troy also becomes the Disney Era's first Red Ranger (the Red Wind Ranger), meaning he used the first Red Ranger power of each existing era in this episode.
- Also, Noah and Gia have also used the powers of the first Blue and Yellow Rangers of each exisiting era in this episode as they became the Ninja Rangers in an earlier episode.
- With the exception of Lost Galaxy, the Super Mega Rangers transform into teams that were the first teams chronogically.
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers were the first known team of Power Rangers on Earth.
- The Samurai Rangers were the first PR team beginning centuries ago.
- Jake morphs into the first black and the first green regular Rangers. Incidentally, both those powers have been used by Adam Park.
- Another coincidence is that Jake (who is the last regular Black Ranger as well as the first Black Ranger of the Saban Brands era) also morphs into the last regular Green Ranger who happens to be the first Green Ranger of the Saban Brands Era.
- The Mighty Morphin' Legendary Ranger Mode marks the first time all the Super Mega Rangers morphs into all the core members of a team from the first Saban Era.
- The appearance of Yellow Mask and Pink Flash marks the first time Sentai Rangers from the Showa Era appear in an episode of Power Rangers.
- This episode marks the only time the Super Mega Rangers use the In Space Yellow Ranger Key, the Lightning Yellow Ranger Key, the Prism Pink Ranger Key, and the Time Force Pink Ranger Key.
Elements/Homages to Power Rangers Samurai/Power Rangers Super Samurai[]
- Jayden's advice to the Mega Rangers on how to beat Matacore is the same advice given to Mike in the Samurai episode, The Team Unites.
- The battle between Noah and Argus is reminiscent of Jayden fighting Deker.
- Much like the fifth episode of Samurai, both teams gain an additional formation for their Megazords (Samurai: Beetle Blaster Megazord, Super Megaforce: Legendary Samurai Megazord
- Like the final battle of Super Samurai, a mentor to the current team of Rangers, in this episode Jayden, offers his assistance to the Super Mega Rangers through a Power Disc, more specifically, the Double Disc.
- Much like the final episode of Super Samurai, both episodes have a "Samurai" in their titles.
- Matacore’s arrival is similar to the typical arrivals of aboard Master Xandred‘s ship, with some violence breaking out, before being quelled by the arrival of a leader figure.
- Just like Samurai/Super Samurai, if the monster is going to be assisted by Bruisers in the giant battle, he is accompanied by three who are grown with them; in this episode a multitude of them arrive after he is grown which is similar to the giant Moogers.
Errors[]
- When the Rangers morphed into the Galaxy Rangers, the Rangers were in Super Mega Mode. This is because the Gokaigers had transformed into the Dynamen to use the Super Dynamite against Matacore's Sentai counterpart.
- Technically, the Double Disk is used incorrectly by Troy in this episode, as instead of creating a copy of the Fire Smasher (as it did in "Samurai Forever" as well as being used correctly by Noah), it instead unleashes a fire attack. An in-show explanation can be seen as the double-disc simply doubling the Fire Smasher's output, as Ji did once claim that the disk is there to double the power.
- This is due to conflicting stock footage usage, as the scene where Troy placed the Double Disk onto the Fire Smasher was from Shinkenger/Super Samurai, while the Fire Smasher attack was from Gokaiger.
- After their Super Mega Mode morph, Noah regroups with the other Rangers in his Mega Mode. The only explanation is:
- He transformed into Legendary Ranger Mode: Megaforce, which probably explains why he is able to go Super Mega Mode without his Legendary Morpher.
- When the Rangers transform from their Legendary Ranger Modes into Super Mega Mode, the background completely changes.
- When Gia says "Legendary Ranger Blitz" on Yellow Lightning Ranger, Gia was supposed to be saying "Legendary Ranger Mode, Lightning".
- Troy performs the Fire Power attack but uses the phrase "Mane of Flame" from Gingaman.
Notes[]
- This is the last appearance of Super Megaforce Red's Red Wind Ranger form.
- This is the only appearance of
- Super Megaforce Yellow's Yellow Lightning Ranger and Yellow Space Ranger forms.
- Super Megaforce Pink's Pink Prism Ranger and Pink Time Force Ranger forms.
- The Legendary Ranger Modes adapted from episode 12 of Gokaiger included footage of Yellow Mask and Pink Flash, but did not include footage of Midorenger, DenziPink and Green Sai.
- Super Megaforce Green's morph into Zeo Ranger IV Green is original footage, as Gokai Green changed from Midorenger to OhGreen in the original episode.
- Another example of original footage is when Noah in his default Megaforce Blue mode changes with his teammates in Legendary Ranger Mode to Super Mega Mode. The Goseiger costumes did not appear in the original Gokaiger episode. In show, possible, but unspecified reasons would be that he used his Megaforce key to morph into his Megaforce Mode.
- This episode marks the first mention of Vekar and Vrak's father, known only as, "The Emperor".
- Jayden's guest appearance in this episode marks the first appearance by a returning Ranger Legend.
- The scene were Jayden and Mentor Ji observe the Megazord fight is similar to Gokaiger's tribute to Gekiranger, the Sentai source of Power Rangers Jungle Fury, where the Legendary Red Ranger talks about the Rangers with his mentor. Ironically, the next episode is a tribute to Jungle Fury.
- When Troy morphs into the new powers his team previously acquired, he says "It's morphin' time!", though these powers did not have a morphing call before this episode.
- The Legendary Samurai Megazord's "Swordfish Slash" is in reference to the double blade of the Samurai Rangers' Swordfish Fencer Megazord.
- Jayden mentions Mia in this episode, saying that he sure finds Ernie's yogurt more tasty than Mia's cooking.
- There is flashbacks from the episodes "Day Off", "Trust Me", and "Samurai Forever".
- This is the second episode where the New Powers are used.
- This is the only episode where Vekar's suit is used in original Power Rangers Footage.
- When Vekar lands, It skips the appearance of Kaoru Shiba, Lauren Shiba's counterpart, due to Gokaiger footage.
- This episode marks the final unmorphed appearance of Jayden. He would later appear morphed with the other Samurai Rangers in Legendary Battle.
- This is also the final appearance of Mentor Ji.
See Also[]
- Ep. 11: The Serious Rebellion - Super Sentai counterpart in Gokaiger. See comparison page. (fight footage & story)
- Ep. 12: The Guaranteed Showy Samurai - Super Sentai counterpart in Gokaiger. See comparison page. (fight footage & story)
- Ep. 1: Let's Tenshin!!! - Super Sentai counterpart in Dairanger. See comparison page. (Red Squadron Ranger's costume)
- Ep. 1: The Mysterious, Beautiful Runaway - Super Sentai counterpart in Maskman. See comparison page. (Lightning/Blitz Yellow Ranger's costume)
- Ep. 1: Hurry! Save the Earth - Super Sentai counterpart in Flashman. See comparison page. (Pink Prism Ranger's costume)
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