Wow, Power Rangers Bruce Timm style?

[NinjaJack]

These are not from the rumored animated sseries(which might be canned) but from excellent fan artist GWRRB

Original Mighty Morphin` Power Rangers

Dragon Shield Jason

[BCVM22]

Sure glad that's not real in any form.

That's right. You heard me.

[NinjaJack]

Eh, what would be wrong with a well done Ranger show?

[BCVM22]

Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman. They change with the times a little, they may get a little muddled times - Batman breaks his back and hands the mantle to Azrael; Superman gets a new lightning-themed costume and set of powers; Wonder Woman goes blind, loses her royal position, whatever - but they're characters, icons, concepts even, that remain staples of American popular culture and conciousness through and through.

Power Rangers? I still wonder how and why they keep going. I know the annual new sentai shows give them plenty of cheap, pre-made footage to use, but I'm still incredulous that Power Rangers itself keeps getting renewed year after year.

Besides, compare the two. Someone of any age, any time can wear a t-shirt, a belt buckle, a tie, a hat with the "S" shield on it and it's a timeless symbol. I challenge anyone over the age of 10 to do so with anything Power Rangers-related.

In the great, unsifted ether of history, I'm glad that Bruce Timm and others decided to put their creative energies into something like the DCAU rather than Power Rangers.

[Ace]

I wish it was real. I would so watch a Power Ranger cartoon
(especially if it looked like that)

ACE

[Alph]

Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman. They change with the times a little, they may get a little muddled times - Batman breaks his back and hands the mantle to Azrael; Superman gets a new lightning-themed costume and set of powers; Wonder Woman goes blind, loses her royal position, whatever - but they're characters, icons, concepts even, that remain staples of American popular culture and conciousness through and through.

Power Rangers? I still wonder how and why they keep going. I know the annual new sentai shows give them plenty of cheap, pre-made footage to use, but I'm still incredulous that Power Rangers itself keeps getting renewed year after year.

Besides, compare the two. Someone of any age, any time can wear a t-shirt, a belt buckle, a tie, a hat with the "S" shield on it and it's a timeless symbol. I challenge anyone over the age of 10 to do so with anything Power Rangers-related.

In the great, unsifted ether of history, I'm glad that Bruce Timm and others decided to put their creative energies into something like the DCAU rather than Power Rangers.

You seem to be forgetting that public perception has zero impact on how good a show is. If the DCAU team made a PR show, I'm sure it would rock hard, and that's all that would matter.

[BCVM22]

You seem to be forgetting that public perception has zero impact on how good a show is. If the DCAU team made a PR show, I'm sure it would rock hard, and that's all that would matter.

My point was the difference in the characters and the concepts. The bit about public perception of the characters/concepts in the present day was an afterthought.

[Bat_Girl]

I don't get the appeal of Power Rangers, every season had a new bunch of characters, which got confusing and it was so cheesy. Like live-action anime or something.
Power Rangers suck, I watched it a little when I was younger but to watch it now would be boring and pathetic.

[Robin2099]

Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman. They change with the times a little, they may get a little muddled times - Batman breaks his back and hands the mantle to Azrael; Superman gets a new lightning-themed costume and set of powers; Wonder Woman goes blind, loses her royal position, whatever - but they're characters, icons, concepts even, that remain staples of American popular culture and conciousness through and through.

Power Rangers? I still wonder how and why they keep going. I know the annual new sentai shows give them plenty of cheap, pre-made footage to use, but I'm still incredulous that Power Rangers itself keeps getting renewed year after year.

Besides, compare the two. Someone of any age, any time can wear a t-shirt, a belt buckle, a tie, a hat with the "S" shield on it and it's a timeless symbol. I challenge anyone over the age of 10 to do so with anything Power Rangers-related.

In the great, unsifted ether of history, I'm glad that Bruce Timm and others decided to put their creative energies into something like the DCAU rather than Power Rangers.

Maybe I'm misreading your post here, but these were just ideas that someone drew that looked pretty cool. You almost come across as bitter that this might of led to a PR cartoon and that the DCAU would of never existed because of it.

[Alph]

You mean "would have".

[BCVM22]

You almost come across as bitter that this might of led to a PR cartoon and that the DCAU would of never existed because of it.

Of course not. No point wasting brain cells on something that didn't happen. I'm simply not sure that even had Timm and Co. worked on it, a Power Rangers animated series could have been the groundbreaking series B:TAS was.

[Pomegranate]

I don't get the appeal of Power Rangers, every season had a new bunch of characters, which got confusing and it was so cheesy. Like live-action anime or something.
Power Rangers suck, I watched it a little when I was younger but to watch it now would be boring and pathetic.

You got that right, Bat Girl ! Now that I think about it, Power Rangers and its ilk are racist, because they always reject the original Japanese actors and settings in favor of non-Asian(usually American) actors and settings.

[BCVM22]

You got that right, Bat Girl ! Now that I think about it, Power Rangers and its ilk are racist, because they always reject the original Japanese actors and settings in favor of non-Asian(usually American) actors and settings.

Eureka, you may be on to something! Certainly the fact that putting dubbed dialogue over Japanese live-action would look utterly horrible has nothing to do with it!

I suggest you continue on this line of thought and report your findings back to us.

[Pomegranate]

Eureka, you may be on to something! Certainly the fact that putting dubbed dialogue over Japanese live-action would look utterly horrible has nothing to do with it!

I suggest you continue on this line of thought and report your findings back to us.

You don't really get what I'm trying to say, now do you ? I actually prefer a 100% accurate dub of a foreign live-action program over an American adaptation of it, because it retains the integrity of the original source material and it's not as racist as your run-of-the-mill American adaptation of that very same foreign live-action program.

[BCVM22]

You don't really get what I'm trying to say, now do you ? I actually prefer a 100% accurate dub of a foreign live-action program over an American adaptation of it, because it retains the integrity of the original source material and it's not as racist as your run-of-the-mill American adaptation of that very same foreign live-action program.

I'm still chuckling at the fact that you call it "racist." There was a Japanese live-action Spider-Man show once; the main character was Japanese. Was that "racist?"

It must be a fun, fun place in that little world of yours.

[Sketch]

Well it's a neat concept but and the art looks plenty good but something about it just doesn't work for me. Power Rangers shouldn't look like that in animated form. Maybe something more like The Batman would suit it better. They're too riggid looking without having faces. I'll bet the human designs would be great looking though.

Yeah... Jeff Matsuda should draw Power Rangers animated. That could be very awesome.

[Pomegranate]

I'm still chucking at the fact that you call it "racist." There was a Japanese live-action Spider-Man show once; the main character was Japanese. Was that "racist?"

It must be a fun, fun place in that little world of yours.

You don't think replacing Japanese actors of a toku series with American actors is racist at all ? If not, then what about the time when 4Kids turned a black person from One Piece into a white person, when they used to hold the license to One Piece, that is? Is that not racist at all ?

[Megalon]

Chill out BCVM22. No reason to get so high and mighty here. When you get right down to the basics, the concepts for Batman, Superman, or any other comic book hero is no less cheesy than that of the Power Rangers. It's all in the execution, and I see no reason why a Power Rangers show couldn't kick ass with the best of `em.

[BCVM22]

You don't think replacing Japanese actors of a toku series with American actors is racist at all

Not in the slightest. It's called "localization," i.e. making a product easier to sell in a new market. Not for a second do I think that the producers feel "These Asians are terrible! Time for some *sinister laughter* American actors!"

[Alph]

You don't think replacing Japanese actors of a toku series with American actors is racist at all ? If not, then what about the time when 4Kids turned a black person from One Piece into a white person, when they used to hold the license to One Piece, that is? Is that not racist at all ?

First of all, "American" is not a race. It's a national identity consisting of multiple different races, including (you guessed it) Asians. And there are plenty of Asian power rangers. There are also black people, white people, hispanic people, I think at least one middle-eastern dude, and everyone's favorite Native American: Tommy Oliver. Oh yeah, and there's a few aliens as well, including one that looks like a big rubber anthropomorphic dog. So Power Ranger's is about as unracist as the DCAU is.

And you might like dubbed live action, but a greater number of people think it's cheesy (yes, even more cheesy than power rangers already manages to be, believe it or not). So the reasons for swapping footage is purely for cultural and linguistic reasons, which is a perfectly legitimate reason to change something (since it has to do with practicality, and not elitism like racism does).

And for the record, the Japanese versions are actually the more racist versions, if you want to point fingers (which you shouldn't). I'm not dissing the Japanese, but it's pretty obvious that they like their homogeny (exactly how many black or white dudes are in any given Sentai series?).