Power Rangers: Mythos Force is an independent fan-created universe mixing Ranger mythology, original characters, homemade designs and a cast that still argues about Time Force like the rest of us.
There is a certain age where you are apparently supposed to stop caring about Power Rangers. (Bump those people honestly. You don’t need that negativity in your life.)
Nobody ever tells you exactly when though.
One day you are arguing about the best Sixth Ranger, defending unnecessary explosions behind perfectly good buildings and knowing exactly which morph sequence had no business going that hard. Then adulthood shows up and somebody decides that all of that is supposed to become nostalgia.
Young Sage clearly missed that memo.
When I sat down with Sage and members of the Power Rangers: Mythos Force team, I expected a conversation about suits, characters and what they were trying to make. We got there eventually. We also argued about Time Force, Mystic Force, Lost Galaxy, Psycho Rangers, whether Tommy Oliver is actually the best fighter, and why a Ranger absolutely needs to pose while something explodes behind them.
So, yes, journalism was happening. (My work methods….differ)
But underneath all the nerding out is a much more interesting story.
Mythos Force is an independent, unofficial fan-created Power Rangers universe led by Sage, who created the project and plays Takeo, its Red Ranger. His idea combines the basic language fans already understand, color-coded heroes, morphers, helmets and team dynamics, with mythological creatures including a phoenix, leviathan, minotaur, griffin and hydra. (That’s definitely a lot to say, but I guarantee its worth it!) Sage describes the project as built from original character concepts, lore, suits, morphers and designs rather than adapting footage from Japan.
At some point, Mythos Force stopped being a game
We had a little heart to heart moment that I thought was important to take time and space when Sage started talking about his brothers.
Mythos Force originally belonged to the three of them. Sage, Armani and Walter had kicked around the idea of mixing mythology with Rangers long before there were actors training, helmets being made or people online waiting to see what came next. Walter wanted to be the Black Ranger. Armani wanted blue. It was one of those ideas that lived between brothers first, the kind of thing you can joke about for years without knowing whether anybody else will ever see it.
Then Walter was murdered.
Sage told me he stopped creating for a while after that. His family was grieving, everything slowed down, and something that had started as a fun idea suddenly carried a completely different weight.
Eventually, he came back to it.
“I felt that it was on me to make our dream come to life,” he said. “This is ultimately for Walter.”
There really was not much to add after he said it.
You could hear the difference between Sage talking about Ranger lore and Sage talking about why he needs to finish this. He still jokes. He still gets excited about suits and characters and can absolutely spend an hour arguing with somebody about Ranger seasons. None of that disappeared. The project just means more now.
That personal connection also runs through the way he is building the team.
Sage talked openly about wanting Mythos Force to look different from the Ranger teams he grew up watching. As a Black creator, he wanted more people from different backgrounds standing inside the universe instead of feeling like there was room for one person of color at a time. His roster includes Black, Latino, Asian and other characters by design.
“I needed to give us something back,” he told me.
What made that hit even harder for him was seeing kids respond to it in real life.
Meet The Rangers
At the center of Mythos Force is a new generation stepping into a fight that started centuries before any of them were born. In the story, the Mythos Rangers inherit their power through bloodlines connected to the Ancient Guardians, meaning nobody simply stumbles into a Morpher by accident. The power is passed down, along with the responsibility that comes with it.
With Mortivar free again and hunting the Mythos Crystals, Sage leads the team as the Red Ranger, joined by Gavin as the Blue Ranger, Ariel as the Green Ranger, Taj as the Yellow Ranger, and Janae as the Pink Ranger. Yvette enters the universe as the Dark Pink Ranger, while Key plays the Evil Purple Ranger and Andreass steps in as the Evil Crimson Ranger.
Looming over all of them is Priest as Lord Mortivar, the fallen Guardian whose hunger for absolute power started the Great Mythos War in the first place. That setup gives Mythos Force a little more mythology under the hood than just assembling a color coded team and sending them into battle. These characters are inheriting something old, complicated and already carrying consequences.
- Key as the Evil Purple Ranger, Yvette as the Dark Pink Ranger, Taj as the Yellow Ranger, Priest as Lord Mortivar, and Sage as the Red Ranger and Creator.
- Ariel as the Green Ranger, Andreass as the Evil Crimson Ranger, Gavin as the Blue Ranger, and Janae as the Pink Ranger.
Sage and Gavin talked about appearing at a Toys for Tots event where children already recognized the characters. They spent hours signing autographs, and Sage remembered kids coming up to him saying they wanted to be like him when they grew up. That was one of the moments when he realized this thing he had been building was already becoming real to somebody else.That is a lot to put on something that started with a drawing tablet and a conversation with your brothers.
It also explains why the cast does not talk about the project like they are waiting around for Sage to make everything happen by himself. Everybody has to put something into it.
Ariel Gonzalez, who plays Nox, told me he joined after the project was already moving and quickly learned how physical the work could get. He considers himself athletic and still found himself waking up sore from training, joking with Sage about how much his body was hurting.
Gavin came in with a character that already felt close to his own personality. Yvette came from modeling and is learning another side of performance through the Dark Pink Ranger. Ariel arrived as the guy who could genuinely sit around with Sage and debate Ranger seasons, costumes and matchups because he had already watched all of it.
That mix is probably better for Mythos Force than everybody coming into the room trying to prove they are the biggest fan.
Some of them know the lore backward.
Some are learning as they go.
And according to the cast, their characters are not supposed to immediately know what they are doing either.
At one point they told me that when these Rangers start getting their powers, some of them cannot fight properly yet. There are mistakes. Somebody gets kicked in the face by accident. Everybody is trying to figure out what their abilities actually do while simultaneously being expected to save people. I love that.
Because if five regular people suddenly became Power Rangers tomorrow, somebody absolutely would press the wrong button.
And somebody else is getting kicked.
By the end of the interview, we had pretty much abandoned any idea that we were going to talk about this franchise like detached adults anyway.
We got into Time Force. Mystic Force. Lost Galaxy. Sixth Rangers. Morph sequences. Psycho Rangers. Somebody questioned Tommy Oliver’s status as the best fighter and immediately had people looking at him sideways. (I’m keeping the identity to myself for now)
I also defended one of my most important beliefs about Power Rangers: if the villain goes down and everybody does not turn around while something explodes unnecessarily behind them, I do not want it.
They agreed. As they should.
Sage and the cast started throwing around dream crossover ideas involving the Psycho Rangers, Jungle Fury and Time Force, with the kind of specificity that only happens when people have been carrying this franchise around in their heads for years. And that is probably the simplest way to understand why Mythos Force exists.
Nobody involved is trying to pretend they grew out of the thing they loved.
They are taking that affection seriously enough to make something with it.
Sage told me he wants audiences to meet these characters before everything becomes about the suits and the morphs. He wants people invested in who these Rangers are as people, because that is what he remembers responding to in older seasons of the franchise. Ariel made a similar point when we talked about what success would look like, saying he wants audiences to fall for the characters before the big Ranger moments arrive. Right now, the project is still being built in real time.
When we spoke, Sage had his physical Red Ranger suit, while the core Blue, Green, Yellow and Pink suits were still expected later. He also showed us the Red helmet and talked about the Black Anubis Ranger helmet that had recently come in. The rest of the cast immediately started asking whether they would eventually get helmets of their own to keep, which turned into exactly the kind of production conversation you would expect from a group of people who are extremely aware that they are finally getting to be Rangers.
So Mythos Force is not a finished television series sitting somewhere waiting for a premiere date.
It is still becoming whatever it is going to become.
There are costumes being finished, actors training, characters being developed and a creator trying to turn something he first imagined with his brothers into something other people can step inside.
That feels like a much more interesting place to meet the project than pretending everything has already been figured out.
Sage is still building.
The cast is still learning.
And the fans are already watching. (I know I am.)
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