So Pua Magasiva, who played Shane, the red Ranger in Power Rangers: Ninja Storm was found dead yesterday. Apparently it was from some undisclosed natural causes.
for BNMNinja Storm is well worth watching if you've ever enjoyed Power Rangers. It has the best mech fights in the series, it's got RPM's sense of self parody, and it's generally just a nice, chill season..
For anyone wondering, there's a full list of deceased actors from the show
here but Thuy Trang, who played Trini in Mighty Morphin, is the only other person on the list who actually played as a Power Ranger (edit: Apparently I can't read and Peta Putter played the Mystic Force white Ranger.) I hope they have some kind of dedication thing for him in Beast Morphers in the credits at some point.
Mystic Force brought in a reformed Rita Repulse as the Mystic Mother during it's finale in to honor the death of Rita's actress from the Sentai footage, Machiko Soga. They basically took some footage of a character named Magiel from Magiranger who was played by the same actress and dubbed over it with new dialogue. The whole thing feels kind of last minute and it doesn't fit with the rest of the episode but it was neat to see her back in Power Rangers for a couple scenes like this one.
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