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Power Rangers

And All Was Right With the World

Happy Birthday! It’s The Avengers, If They Were the Power Rangers [Video]

by Susana Polo | 1:13 pm, March 20th, 2013

It’s not your birthday? …well, it’s not my birthday. You’d think that something this awesome could only be created for such an occasion.

Anyway, Rob Bricken of io9 makes a valid point:

Iron Man is the Red Ranger, naturally, Captain America is Blue, Hulk is Green… and then it gets tricky. Let’s say Thor is Yellow, because of his blonde hair; Black Widow has to be black because of her outfit and her name, which means Hawkeye by default is the Pink Ranger.

Hawkeye. No matter how you play it, he’s always the Strong Female Character.

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Our Adorable Past

Hillary White Paints Pop Culture into the Old Masters

by Susana Polo | 10:16 am, February 20th, 2013

Hillary White‘s DeviantArt gallery is full of handpainted portraits of popculture figures as if they were the original subjects of artists like Francois-Xavier Fabre, Frans Hals, Anthony Van Dyck, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and John Singer Sargent. Most of them are for sale. We thought you might be interested in that sort of thing.

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Things to Do With Your Kids

Kindergartner Confesses To Plans of World Domination

by Susana Polo | 12:10 pm, November 19th, 2012

I think I have just the role model for this little one.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Power Rangers Go Pop!

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:05 pm, September 25th, 2012

Funko has unveiled their latest Pop! figures (we were previously excited about the Game of Thrones collection) and it’s the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers! (via Comics Alliance)

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Power Grid

10 Places In Which We Can’t Believe Anyone Lives

by The Mary Sue Staff | 12:55 pm, August 23rd, 2011

TVTropes has a great entry called Crapsack World, which covers any setting where the innate horribleness of the environment, both physically and morally, taints the entire world view of the characters and most of the plot. However, one of the obvious tenets of the Crapsack World setting is that it can’t be escaped from: there’s nowhere else to go.

Not so for the Crapsack city, vampire stricken town, or other murder, war, and crime plagued locations. Considering these places’ incredible frequency of death, unlawfulness, or unexplainable phenomena you’d think everybody would have moved out years ago. And yet… as far as you can tell they still function in much the way a normal community would.

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Fangasm

This Man is Very, Very Enthusiastic About His Power Rangers Memorabilia, and It is Awesome

by Alanna Bennett | 5:44 pm, August 16th, 2011

For us, one of the defining factors for being a nerd is sheer enthusiasm. In the words of one John Green:

“Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.”

Well, this guy is very enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness. And the Power Rangers. Mostly the Power Rangers. And we are unabashedly happy for him, for we have surely had similar reactions when confronted with the geeky things we love. We also remember when they got their ninjeti coins and new zords and saved all those children on that runaway monorail.

And yes, this is what a fangasm looks like.

(via I Heart Chaos)

Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Mighty Morphin Stormtroopers

by Susana Polo | 5:06 pm, July 7th, 2011

Man, I bet their Zords are awesome. I bet one of them is a rancor. (Diary of a Deathstarlette)

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Power Grid

10 Token Tomboys

by The Mary Sue Staff | 10:13 am, February 28th, 2011

So, you’re adapting a story for a new medium and you notice that everybody is pretty… male. Or, perhaps there’s the one girl, dressed in a pink skirt, dating the leader guy and getting captured a lot. It occurs to you that the six or seven male characters you have run a range of different personalities, and it wouldn’t be fair to only give girls one kind of character to look up to. So you add a tomboy.

Or maybe someone asks you to add more female characters for representation’s sake. So you add a tomboy. Or maybe there were no girls at all. So you add a tomboy.

Here are some characters added for the sake of gender diversity. (And we’re sure glad they were!)

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