All NEW Power Rangers

You've probably seen at least one of the incarnations. Five young people are chosen to get special powers and wear cheesy costumes in order to fight off some evil alien person. Eventually the fight culminates into a Godzilla "homaged" beat up consisting of the Ranger's giant robot versus a lame giant monster (inspired by non-threatening things such as pizzas - I shit you not) which usually blows up from a sword swing or energy weapon of some sort.

The final result was pretty tacky and well deserved to be mocked. But what if seen from a different, darker angle? Like the way Tim Burton reinvented Batman.

First, let's not make it a kids show. Move the age bracket higher. Adult themes. Give our heroes complex personalities. Characters dying. In-feuding. Throw in some black humor. Brand them vigilantes that the authorities aren't too fond of (well, they do destroy several city blocks each week). But keep the bald head guy in the tube.

Second, make everything less tacky and more cool. Give the Rangers cool Matrix inspired clothes. Equip them with wicked looking weapons (like the swords from The Stormriders). Their personal vehicles are mean, evil looking things. And their giant robot looks more like screwed up version of the machines from Evangelion.

Third, make the villians true bastards. Ones so twisted and evil you just want them to die, but have a certain sense of humor that people love them anyway. Give them monsters that would make H.R. Geiger crawl under his bed. And obviously let them win more than 2% of the time.

Fourth, how cool would this be if they fought in a surreal, hyperknetic, wire-fu loaded type of way?

This would culminate in a show that would be so badass, all memories of the original version would be wiped clean.

Plus, such reinventing might work with other kid shows. Pokemon anyone?