When Mighty Morphin Power Rangers debuted on August 28th, 1993, no one had any idea
that the series would explode and lead to 24 seasons with 20 different themed series,
plus a handful of feature films and comics to boot.
Those original rangers have become utterly iconic, and every series since has tried to
recreate the formula, from characters right down to the ranger’s suits aesthetics.
While some of those attempts have been great, others have been flaming train wrecks that
look more like oversized toys that action heroes.
So today, we’re taking a look at our picks for the cringiest of the cringe with our list
of the top 10 Worst Power Ranger Suits.
But before we begin, I’ve got a very special guest who will be joining us today-
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Also, before we jump it, it’s important to note that we’ll be looking at Power Ranger
suits specifically from the television series, not including any from the comics or any of
the feature films.
Let’s get to it!
10 Super Ninja Steel Starting off our list is the most current
series of the franchise, Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel.
Despite trying to echo in the essence of ninja apparel, the costumes go off the rails a bit.
Their sashes all look like horrible ninja stars-meet-Beyblades gone wrong, and some
of their helmets feel reminiscent of the demogorgon from Stranger Things.
They’re just horribly designed.
The whole season has a selection of cringe worthy outfits for the rangers, including
this black hooded get-up which looks like it’s made of form rather than anything substantial,
and their Morphin Armour, which is at least a bit more bearable than their regular armour.
9 Power Rangers Lost Galaxy When you think of the Power Rangers, it doesn’t
seem likely Charlie Brown would come to mind.
But apparently this 1999 series wanted to bridge that previously non-existent gap by
borrowing his iconic jagged line designs and slapping them on these suits.
Luckily not all of their outfits are a steaming pile of garbage – the Magna Defender, who
ROCKED A CAPE wasn’t too shabby, and the Ranger’s helmets were a bit of a saving
grace, featuring some redeemable designs.
8 Power Rangers Dino Thunder Green Ranger Jason David Frank returned as
Dor Tommy Oliver in this series, and despite having a cool narrative, there seems to be
a mix of many ideas that went into the Rangers’ costume designs.
While the helmets are pretty cool and tie in well with the dinosaur motif, the excessive
diamonds along the Ranger’s legs and arms are a bit too excessive and overwhelming.
7 Power Rangers Pirate Armada Based off of the Japanese version and its
35th anniversary pirate motif, the Pirate Armada series features outfits that are just
comical.
For starters, they’re belts are part of their transformation process – characters
would pop in old Power rangers action figures to become these swashbuckling heroes, and
their outfits were adapted to pirate-esque jackets with popped collars.
6 Power Rangers Wild Force From decent helmets to laughable ones, our
number 8 spot got a little too crazy with the theme of ‘wild force’.
Shark helmet, anyone?
Well, that’s not the only animal they took inspiration from.
There’s also a hawk, a bull and a tiger helmet that are equally unfortunate, and these
days, really haven’t aged well.
They feel more like knock off Black Panther outfits than notable Power Ranger threads.
5 Power Rangers Jungle Fury Speaking of Black Panther knock offs, Jungle
fury feels like the dollar store version of the Marvel hero combined with horribly designed
ninja gear with a pinch of race car driver aesthetic.
It’s just all over the place.
The white and purple ranger’s outfits are arguably the most laughable, but shout out
to the Spirit Rangers who all feel like they crawled out of a low budget shape of water
meets kung fu movie.
4 Power Rangers Mystic Force I guess they’re wizards now?
Mystic Force’s designs felt a little off compared to the Rangers of the 90’s that
we adored.
Released in 2006, this series was arguably trying to profit on the Harry Potter magic
craze that had swept up their demographics’ hearts.
Except, rather than capitalize on it, it felt like a cheap rip off.
How did they see out of those awful helmets?
What’s with the lame insignia on their capes?
Too many questions, not enough patience.
Moving on,
3 Power Rangers Zeo Zeo is what nightmares are made of.
From their odd Azec inspired breastplate designs, to their unfortunate visor pieces in their
helmets – I don’t even want to know the logic behind the yellow ranger’s helmet
– perhaps the most terrifying aspect of these costumes is the odd little lips that
are supposed to emulate the mouthpieces that other successful suit designs managed to pull
off.
These mouthpieces fall short, and are just downright derpy.
2 Power Rangers Megaforce 2013’s Megaforce was supposed to be a special
series – it was the 20th anniversary season, and it was supposed to adapt the 2010 acclaimed
Super Sentai series.
While some parts of the Megaforce suits make sense – ie, the helmet mouth pieces that
are similar to the ones from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers suits – almost everything
about these suits don’t make sense.
There are a lot of extra details going on here that feel over the top and excessive
– especially their chest emblems - and the weapons feel like they’re giant plastic
toys.
But perhaps the worst detail is the pants and skirts.
The pants for the gents sit way too high, and the skirts look redundant and cheap.
Both make the top parts of their outfits look like sad, tight cropped jackets.
1 DinoCharge Taking it one step further into atrocious
territory, nothing quite tops the armour from 2014’s DinoCharge.
For a show that is seriously lacking in quality vfx, I wouldn’t expect much anyway.
Where to begin?
The sashes are ridiculous, the dinosaur graphics look cheap, the scaled sleeves are painful
and the one spikey shoulder pad?
No thanks.
The one redeeming quality is their helmets, but even they can’t save these suits from
being downright awful.
If you can get past the suits though, the show itself was one of the better recent series
of Power Rangers, and worth a watch.
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