History Characters / PowerRangersRecurringCharacters

* AdaptationalBadass: His Green Ranger counterpart in ''Zyuranger'' was no slouch but the way Tommy's been portrayed in MMPR has been taken to near memetic levels. In the Japanese series, while Burai was a dangerous and powerful fighter, he was still defeated and beaten down decisively by Geki in the end. ''Mighty Morphin''' edited out the final scenes of the Red Ranger cutting down the Green Ranger, thus making Tommy look invincible and nigh unbeatable. His White Ranger incarnation is an even bigger example of this. Whereas Tommy as the White Ranger was able to defeat Goldar and multiple other monsters all at once, his Kiba Ranger counterpart from ''Dairanger'' was nowhere near the most powerful member of the team and was, in fact, taken down by Ryu Ranger with a single punch. Back to Burai, Tommy's not as plagued with his counterpart's inability to join the fray, especially after he regains the Green Ranger powers. His next four Sentai counterparts (Tsuruhime, Goro, Kyosuke, and Asuka) are also badasses, but they're not {{Living Legend}}s like him.

* BigBrotherMentor: To Billy, whom he starts teaching more martial arts so he can defend himself better without morphing. This is ironic considering Austin St. John and David Yost were the youngest and oldest of the original main cast respectively.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: ...''No, really''. Rewatch "[[Recap/MightyMorphinPowerRangersS2EP43TheWeddingPart3 The Wedding]]" and see Zedd get his groove on to that old Jewish wedding standby "Hava Nagila."

* HiddenDepths: He genuinely falls in love with Rita, and ends up becoming friends with Goldar. Zedd might be a world-conquering maniac, but he's quite capable of healthy relationships. [[spoiler:It gets to the point that the resurrected version of him at "his most evil" ends up bickering with an illusionary Rita like old time's sake and the Morphin' Masters and Zayto believe this illusionary life could be the key to redeem him even at that point.]]

* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:To Bajillia Naire throughout all of ''Cosmic Fury'' as she pretends to be his loyal servant by providing him with an army to take over the Universe and powers him up with the captured Morphin Masters' energy so she can reduce him to a power source for her plan to wipe out all good in the Universe (while killing Zedd in the process like Andross did to Zordon at the end of ''In Space'').]]
* VillainCred: Zedd seems to be the worst of the worst when he first arrives, a villain that gave even BigGood Zordon himself pause, destroying the Dino Zords and depowering the Green Ranger shortly after his arrival, and later even destroying [[spoiler:fellow BigBad King Mondo]]. Any cred he had seems to be thoroughly lost by the time of ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace'', however.

* GreenMeansNatural: He was picked by Adam Park to succeed him as the second Green Turbo Ranger of the Turbo Rangers.

* GreenMeansNatural:
** Adam goes on a quest to Korea to retrieve the Green Zeo Subcrystal after his Frog Ninja Coin is destroyed by Rita & Zedd and becomes the Green Zeo Ranger of Zeo Rangers Team.
** During the events of Power Rangers Turbo, he briefly becomes the first Green Turbo Ranger of the Turbo Rangers but decides to retire and passes his powers to Carlos Vallerte.

* AbortedArc: Her initial plan in marrying Zedd was to eventually seize power and control over his sect. After the wedding, however, once Zedd starts making plans [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments to have a child]] with her, she freaks and tells Finster to make an antidote for the love potion. While the antidote subplot does come back to the forefront in Season 3, her initial plan to overthrow her new husband is never brought up again, as in the whole reason she wanted to wed him in the first place.[[note]]She grumbles about it in late Season 2 on occasion but it doesn't amount to anything.[[/note]] Even better, she seems to genuinely love her "Zeddy" after a while, and even with the antidote in place, Zedd states that Rita is the best thing to ever happen to him.

* EvilMentor: After he brainwashes [[spoiler:Ollie Akana, Dino Fury Blue]] for a second time, he takes an active interest in making sure [[spoiler:Ollie]] stays evil. As a result, the FallenHero becomes one of the cruelest, most competent recurring henchmen for the 30th anniversary season.

* CatchPhrase:
** "It's Morphin' Time!" initially belonged to him. It became a BorrowedCatchPhrase as the other Rangers would say it when he wasn't there.

* CatchPhrase: "The hand is quicker than the eye."

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Affirmative". David Yost even used it to name his clothing company.

* {{Catchphrase}}:

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi!"

* CatchPhrase: "I have such a headache!" Usually, [[DefeatCatchphrase after the Rangers thwart her latest scheme]]. [[spoiler: It's still something she deals with as the Mystic Mother when evil invades her palace.]] A lot of merchandise liked having Rita say "It's very good to be very bad!" but she never said this in the show itself.

* IconicSequelCharacter: Lord Zedd is such an iconic character in the Zordon Era (and in the franchise in general) that people who didn't watch ''Power Rangers'' growing up will be surprised he didn't appear until Season 2. To be clear how long it took, Season 1 was ''65 episodes''. This is the likely reason that (like Rita as the Mystic Mother and Goldar as Goldar Maximus before him) he was reintroduced to the franchise.

* SmarterThanYouLook: In Season Two, they try to discover the Rangers' identities, and came shockingly close on several occasions, only to be thwarted at the last second by either their own incompetence, direct interference by the Rangers themselves, or simple bad luck.

* NoSell: Zedd is attacked by five Dino Fury Rangers and two Sporix Beasts simultaneously and effortlessly dismisses all their efforts.

** [[spoiler:Both Scrozzle and Boomblaster reveal that (at least partially on Scrozzle's part) say that they joined his side because he pays them, and Scrozzle even says it's pretty good. Keep in mind, the Lord Zedd from ''Dino Fury'' was him revived at his most evil. Nulleye joined because he offered good dental. (despite not having any teeth which Void King points out)]]

* SealedEvilInACan: In ''Dino Fury'' season 2, he gets sealed up by the Morphin' Masters, but at the end of the season somehow manages to escape from them.

* BlueMeansSmartOne: In Power Rangers In Space,
he travels into space after the Power Chamber is destroyed by Divatox in order to rescue Zordon from The United Alliance Of Evil. After boarding the Astro Megaship and meeting Andros, he joins forces with him and becomes the Blue Space Ranger of the Space Rangers team and TheStrategist, and he tends to be more cautious and level-headed than his teammates.

%%* MementoMacGuffin: Her locket.

* OnlyOneName: His last name is never revealed, even with a Zeo episode (Mondo's Last Stand), where the b-plot revolved around one of his uncles and a baby food company said uncle founded. ''If there was only one time to reveal his last name...''
* PutOnABus: Between [[Film/TurboAPowerRangersMovie Turbo the film]] and [[Series/PowerRangersTurbo the television show]], leaving to go help his army buddies build a bridge. His last appearance is several blink-and-you'll-miss-it shots towards the end of the film. His last speaking role was in ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''.

"[[ItMakesSenseInContext AHHH! TOXIC FOAM!]]"

* GoodWearsWhite:

* GoodWearWhite:

* ChildrenEverAfter: In ''Operation Overdrive'' its revealed that before becoming purified, Zedd and Rita had a son named Thrax who disliked his parents for becoming good and wanted to restore their evil legacy.

* PrimaryColorChampion: Tanya primary color is yellow, Tanya becomes Yellow Zeo Ranger of the Zeo Rangers.

* TheReval: In "Countdown to Destruction" T.J reveal his secret identity to the world.