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This is the current profile for Tommy Oliver, the original sixth ranger-
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Tommy_Oliver
And Jason the original Red Ranger-
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Jason_Lee_Scott
All I can think is NOPE!
Let me start off by saying that I am not diametrically opposed to power scaling. Scaling is good when used conservatively if logical or needed. If too liberally applied I think it over-inflates the abilities of characters that could affect an entire verse's rankings. Power Rangers has many powerful characters and there are planet-busters, but the Green/White and Red Rangers of the original Mighty Morphin series are not as powerful as these profiles suggest. It's actually kind of cringe-worthy in my eyes that this isn't instantly suspect.
I love Power Rangers. I still have all my Ranger figures and Megazords from the 90's. I watched the show until Lost Galaxy started and I couldn't take it any more. Came back for Lightspeed Rescue until Wild Force and stopped after that. Whether I grew out of it or I couldn't take the re-used premises again and again, I was a massive fan of it. I'm just saying this as a disclaimer because I'm sure there will be accusations by someone of down-playing or hating on the series.
So yeah, I watched the show, I played the Nintendo game (Shogunzord for the ************* win), I collected the fogures. Never in my time watching the show as a child or watching reruns as an adult did I ever witness anything from the original Rangers even approaching planet-level durability, strength or attack potency. I addressed here-
https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/145059#104
that the justifications for these rankings come from unjustified powerscaling from the MAGIC of the villains. To be fair, Rita Rapulsa and Lord Zedd do some crazy shit with their magic. It is my contention though that this is abusing scaling. Zedd having crazy magic doesn't mean that a punch from Zedd is planet level. It also doesn't mean that a Ranger surviving a few casual magic blasts from Zedd in a fight where he's clearly toying with him is proof of insane durability.
I'd like to appeal to the board to reconsider these rankings. There are times when power scaling is justified because of self-evident comparative stats. But Rita and Zedd having broken magic doesn't mean the Rangers are planet-level. I don't see it. It's like I watched a completely different show than is being cited. I even posted a link in the above referenced thread to a fight where the White Ranger supposedly had great showings and, again, Zedd toyed with him the whole time and there's no reasonable justification for assuming the hits Tommy took were even close to Zedd's peak magic power. Tommy was lucky to get away because Zedd's Z-staff broke after Tommy threw Saba at it.
I think we need to reexamine the scaling used for the few Power Rangers pages here and be careful importing some NarutoForums scaling. They get a lot of things right but they really applied scaling liberally to get the heroes' strength, durability and attack potency from the villains' unquantifiable magic feats.
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Tommy_Oliver
And Jason the original Red Ranger-
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Jason_Lee_Scott
All I can think is NOPE!
Let me start off by saying that I am not diametrically opposed to power scaling. Scaling is good when used conservatively if logical or needed. If too liberally applied I think it over-inflates the abilities of characters that could affect an entire verse's rankings. Power Rangers has many powerful characters and there are planet-busters, but the Green/White and Red Rangers of the original Mighty Morphin series are not as powerful as these profiles suggest. It's actually kind of cringe-worthy in my eyes that this isn't instantly suspect.
I love Power Rangers. I still have all my Ranger figures and Megazords from the 90's. I watched the show until Lost Galaxy started and I couldn't take it any more. Came back for Lightspeed Rescue until Wild Force and stopped after that. Whether I grew out of it or I couldn't take the re-used premises again and again, I was a massive fan of it. I'm just saying this as a disclaimer because I'm sure there will be accusations by someone of down-playing or hating on the series.
So yeah, I watched the show, I played the Nintendo game (Shogunzord for the ************* win), I collected the fogures. Never in my time watching the show as a child or watching reruns as an adult did I ever witness anything from the original Rangers even approaching planet-level durability, strength or attack potency. I addressed here-
https://vsbattles.com/vsbattles/145059#104
that the justifications for these rankings come from unjustified powerscaling from the MAGIC of the villains. To be fair, Rita Rapulsa and Lord Zedd do some crazy shit with their magic. It is my contention though that this is abusing scaling. Zedd having crazy magic doesn't mean that a punch from Zedd is planet level. It also doesn't mean that a Ranger surviving a few casual magic blasts from Zedd in a fight where he's clearly toying with him is proof of insane durability.
I'd like to appeal to the board to reconsider these rankings. There are times when power scaling is justified because of self-evident comparative stats. But Rita and Zedd having broken magic doesn't mean the Rangers are planet-level. I don't see it. It's like I watched a completely different show than is being cited. I even posted a link in the above referenced thread to a fight where the White Ranger supposedly had great showings and, again, Zedd toyed with him the whole time and there's no reasonable justification for assuming the hits Tommy took were even close to Zedd's peak magic power. Tommy was lucky to get away because Zedd's Z-staff broke after Tommy threw Saba at it.
I think we need to reexamine the scaling used for the few Power Rangers pages here and be careful importing some NarutoForums scaling. They get a lot of things right but they really applied scaling liberally to get the heroes' strength, durability and attack potency from the villains' unquantifiable magic feats.