BOOM! Studios are set to introduce us to the newest team of Rangers: Power Rangers Supersonic!
Just recently, a brand new team has been added to the Power Rangers mythos thanks to BOOM! Studios via Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Year Two. If the team looks familiar to you then that would be because they are being adapted from the Super Sentai team, Chikyu Sentai Fiveman, which aired all the way back in 1990. They are one of the many unadapted Sentai teams that came before Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, known as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers overseas, thanks to Saban.
When the newest team are introduced in BOOM! Studios newest story, they will be hailing from a planet called Xybria, the home world of Trip, the Power Rangers Time Force Green Ranger. The team’s names are as follows:
Ace – Red Ranger
Brute – Blue Ranger
Gent – Black Ranger
Pyre – Yellow Ranger
Star – Pink Ranger
Trek – Green Ranger
During the storyline, the team’s sixth Ranger, Trek, becomes jealous of the romance between fellow Rangers Ace and Star, which will lead him to betray the team, using an explosion to kill them. In response to that event, he submits to Dark Specter, returning from Power Rangers In Space, who rewards Trek by turning him into the Green Psycho Ranger we all know, giving the villainous Ranger an origin story.
This is the first time in Ranger history that a Super Sentai team predating Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger/Mighty Morphin Power Rangers has been adapted but this isn’t the first time that fans will have seen the team. One of the suits did appear in Power Rangers Super Megaforce, as an unnamed Legendary mode used by Gia for a fight scene where she declared “Supersonic Yellow Ranger!”
The introduction of the Power Rangers Supersonic team may make fans of both Super Sentai and Power Rangers wonder if BOOM! Studios plans to introduce any other teams from before Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. Other potential teams that got names in Power Rangers Super Megaforce include Power Rangers Prism (Choushinsei Sentai Flashman), Power Rangers Dragon Blitz (Dengeki Sentai Changeman), Power Rangers Lightning (Hikari Sentai Maskman), and Power Rangers Squadron (Gosei Sentai Dairanger).
The story for BOOM! Studios will be written by Trey Moore. In Chikyu Sentai Fiveman, the Rangers are all school teachers and their forms are all based on different school subjects. The Red Ranger is Science, Blue Ranger is Physical Education, Black Ranger is Modern Foreign Languages, Yellow Ranger is Music and the Pink Ranger is Maths. It is unknown at this time whether that will play into the backstory for the Supersonic Rangers or whether they will have any further appearances in the comic book series.
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