>>113178697Are you on /a/ where your insane theory that low-quality mass-produced Japanese tv shows created the MCU would fly unchallenged?
Or are you on /co/ where your insane theory that a show which was big in the 1990s in the West just looks like an insane theory? By the time Power Rangers came along Marvel in particular had been making hugely popular tv shows - or rather, studios had been making them under license - for DECADES. Those shows - live action and cartoon - did more to inform the popular consciousness of superheroes than anything some spandex nip in a bad bike helmet ever managed.
And it's not as if Marvel operated in a vacuum back then either - DC shows, even "independent" shows based on comics by anybody other than DC or Marvel were hugely popular long before Sentai translated into something anybody in the West gave a shit about. The Ninja Turtles were on their third movie by the time MMPR debuted in 1993. Their cartoon had been running for six years already. In that time, DC had rebooted Batman and put out two movies. Prior to that, there had been 4 Superman movies between 1978 and 1987, the first of which was insanely popular the world over. During that same period Marvel's Incredible Hulk show had put out 5 years of stories and made a household name of stars Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby, who was still putting out Hulk specials right up until his death in 1993, with three in the final three years of the 1980s. Ferrigno has appeared in every Hulk movie since.
But yeah an obscure Japanese tv show that nobody outside Japan gave a shit about until 1993 is the reason we have superheroes today. Sure kid. Keep eating those tide pods.