Power Rangers: Ninja Storm
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Power Rangers: Ninja Storm is the eleventh incarnation of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series. It is based on the Super Sentai series Ninpū Sentai Hurricanger (English: Covert Wind Task Force Hurricanger).
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Synopsis
A skateboarder (Shane Clarke), a surfer (Tori Hanson) and a motorcyclist (Dustin Brooks), are students of the Wind Ninja Academy, under the tutelage of Sensei Kanoi Watanabe and his son Cam. Although it seems as if they will never be good enough to be full-fledged ninja, they are the only three left when the evil ninja master, Lothor arrives on Earth and captures all the other students. The sensei, who was transformed into a guinea pig by Lothor, decided that they would become Wind Power Rangers and gave them morphers to allow them to transform. As the Wind Rangers, they fought to save the world from Lothor and his space minions, using Zords created by Cam for emergencies.
Over time, they were joined by the Thunder Rangers, Hunter and Blake, as well as Cam, who gained Green Samurai powers in a trip to the past.
Eventually, they managed to defeat all of Lothor's minions, unwittingly overloading the Abyss of Evil (to which they were all sent upon their demise). The Wind Rangers were able to stop evil from spreading across the Earth, and sealed Lothor away in the Abyss of Evil... along with their own powers.
Now powerless, Shane, Tori and Dustin became teachers at the rebuilt Wind Ninja Academy, aided by Cam and a newly human Sensei. Hunter took a job as the head teacher at the Thunder Ninja Academy while his brother Blake continued his racing career. And they lived happily ever after...
Thunder Storm
...that is until the following year, when the Ninja Storm rangers appeared in two episodes of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, entitled Thunder Storm (parts 1 and 2).
The former Rangers are shown settled into their new careers. Blake goes to Reefside (the location of the Dino Thunder series) to compete in a motocross tournament, and meets Conner, Ethan and Kira when he's there. They go to watch him compete, but are perplexed when he is suddenly called away after the race.
Meanwhile, Lothor claws his way out of the Abyss of Evil. He forms an alliance with Mesogog and, posing as Sensei Watanabe, brainwashes Shane, Tori and Dustin with evil power discs. They recapture the students of the Wind Ninja Academy, and beat back the three primary Dino Rangers.
Hunter, Blake and Cam enter the Abyss of Evil, and fight off Zurgane to rescue their lost powers. As the Wind Ninja and Dino Thunder Rangers duel unmorphed, Hunter, Blake and Cam appear and cure the Wind Rangers of their mind control by using the true Wind power discs. The two teams of Rangers - including Trent Fernandez and Tommy Oliver - meet with Mesogog and Lothor's combined force, obliterating it and causing Elsa to flee.
Mesogog and Lothor duel for supremacy. They seem to be evenly matched until Mesogog uses his mind powers to shrink Lothor to the size of an action figure - "Very collectible" - and trapping him a jar.
At the end, it is discovered that when the Ninja Storm Ranger's Powers were extracted from the Abyss of Evil they only had enough energy for one last battle so they return to their normal lives, leaving the Dino Rangers to protect the world. Both teams watch Blake win the Motorcross Tournament.
Rangers
- Shane Clarke, the Red Wind Ranger and leader of the team, with the Power of Air (played by Pua Magasiva)
- Tori Hanson, the Blue Wind Ranger, with the Power of Water (played by Sally Martin)
- Dustin Brooks, the Yellow Wind Ranger, with the Power of Earth (played by Glenn McMillan)
- Hunter Bradley, the Crimson Thunder Ranger, with the Power of Thunder (played by Adam Tuominen)
- Blake Bradley, the Navy Thunder Ranger, with the Power of Thunder (played by Jorgito Vargas)
- Cameron Watanabe, the advisor and assistant to the rangers, eventually the Green Samurai Ranger, with the Power of the Samurai (played by Jason Chan)
Allies
- Sensei Kanoi Watanabe - the sensei of the Wind Ninja Academy, turned into a guinea pig by Lothor (played and voiced by Grant McFarland)
Villains
- Lothor - the evil general who was once Kiya Watanabe, the brother of Sensei Watanabe (also played by Grant McFarland)
- Marah and Kapri - Lothor's nieces (played by Katrina Browne and Katrina Devine respectively)
- Zurgane - the main general of Lothor's army
- Choobo - the lieutenant, promoted general
- Vexacus - a renegade bounty hunter
- Motodrone - Once fused with a human named Perry, Motodrone was rebuilt and reprogrammed under Lothor's command.
- Shimazu - the incarnation of a Japanese legend