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* [[BigBad Lord Drakkon]] is an AlternateUniverse version of Tommy Oliver who, in his reality, chose to serve Rita Repulsa instead of joining the Power Rangers.
** ''ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangers2016'': Assisting Rita in [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]], Tommy eventually managed steal the White Ranger powers and combined them with his preexisting Green Ranger ones, thus becoming a Green-White hybrid Ranger who managed to [[HeroKiller destroy the Power Rangers and their allies]], with him personally killing Zordon, Alpha 5, and Billy. He then killed Rita while promising to continue her work by [[ICanRuleAlone ruling the world in her place]]. Now rechristened Lord Drakkon, he drew upon the energies of the Power Coins to create mass-produced Ranger Sentries and brainwashed the vengeful Kimberly of his world, transforming her into the Ranger Slayer. Attempting to kill the main world's Power Rangers when they are brought to his world, Drakkon, defeated due to overconfidence, ends up in the main world and is incarcerated by the Promethea Company. When the Saba from his world tries to execute him, Drakkon flips the script and destroys the sword, using his remains in addition to magical incantations to create portals so he can escape into space between universes. With this new power, Drakkon tricks Ninjor into rebuilding his Morpher to recover part of his powers, then imprisons and {{brainwash}}es him before moving on to steal an artifact from the Command Center and refuel it by [[KillingYourAlternateSelf killing the Tommy]] of the main world.
** ''[[WebVideo/PowerRangersHyperforce Hyperforce]]'': Drakkon, upon returning to his world, [[OffWithHisHead beheads one of his hostages]] to force the Hyperforce Rangers to help him to get Serpentera from Scorpina. Drakkon also has his men place [[ExplosiveLeash bombs in their necks]] to keep them to keep them in line. Later, Drakkon seriously injures one of the Rangers while they try to avoid giving him Serpentera.
** ''[[ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangersShatteredGrid Shattered Grid]]'': Invading the worlds from multiple series to get their Morphers, Drakkon [[OtherMeAnnoysMe kills multiple versions of himself]] until he is almost defeated. Drakkon is saved by his loyal servant Finster 5, who [[UngratefulBastard Drakkon then kills]] after Finster 5 tells him to stop empowering himself for his own safety. Drakkon then goes on to destroy the multiverse and create a world in its place [[ItsAllAboutMe where everyone loved him]], only for that world to soon fall apart thanks to his insecurities.
** ''[[ComicBook/PowerRangersDrakkonNewDawn Drakkon New Dawn]]'' & ''ComicBook/PowerRangers2020'': Drakkon's [[VillainousLegacy dark legacy]] continued to live on through such events as the creation of the Empowered and the FaceHeelTurn of Kiya, one of the Omega Rangers, who deluded herself into thinking the main Tommy Oliver, now the White Ranger, to be the second coming of Drakkon as a result of the physical and mental scars of his actions. It is also revealed he trapped Jason in a Ranger suit in which he was ForcedToWatch Tommy's achievements, and arranged for Dark Specter's forces to invade Earth and annihilate his enemies should he ever be deposed.

* ''[[VideoGame/PowerRangersBattleForTheGrid Battle for the Grid]]'': [[BigBad Lord Drakkon]] is a faithful adaptation of his dreadful comics counterpart. Choosing to side with Rita Repulsa after being freed from her spell, this alternate Tommy Oliver, christened Lord Drakkon, destroys the Rangers and eventually [[TheStarscream murders and usurps Rita]], conquering his world. Unsatisfied with this, Drakkon turned his attention to the entire [[MultiversalConqueror multiverse]]. Drakkon steals the powers of numerous Ranger teams to strengthen himself and enslaves any Rangers that impress him, in particular the Kimberly Hart of his world, whom he dubs his Ranger Slayer. When Finster 5 saves his life and begs him not to risk it again by empowering himself further, Drakkon [[UngratefulBastard brutally kills him]]. Murdering other versions of himself to prove he is "superior" to his "weaker" selves, he secretly knows he's the weak one, and even when the Prime Tommy Oliver tries to save his life, Drakkon chooses death over accepting help from a good version of himself and giving up his power. A tyrant unable to accept his failings, he tries to force his will on everyone and everything rather than bettering himself.

** ''ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangers2016'': Assisting Rita in [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]], Tommy eventually managed steal the White Ranger powers and combined them with his preexisting Green Ranger ones, thus becoming a Green-White hybrid Ranger who managed to [[HeroKiller destroy the Power Rangers and their allies]], with him personally killing Zordon, Alpha 5, and Billy. He then killed Rita while promising to continue her work by [[ICanRuleAlone ruling the world in her place]]. Now rechristened Lord Drakkon, he drew upon the energies of the Power Coins to create mass-produced Ranger Sentries and brainwashed the vengeful Kimberly of his world, transforming her into the Ranger Slayer. Attempting to kill the main world's Power Rangers when they are brought to his world, Drakkon, defeated due to overconfidence, ends up in the main world and is incarcerated by the Promethea Company. When the Saba from his world tries to execute him, Drakkon flips the script and destroys the sword, using his remains in addition to magical incantations to create portals so he can escape into space between universes. With this new power, Drakkon tricks Ninjor into rebuilding his Morpher to recover part of his powers, then imprisons and {{brainwash}}es him before moving on to steal an artifact from the Command Center and refuel it by killing the Tommy of the main world.

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** ''[[WebVideo/PowerRangersHyperforce Hyperforce]]'': Drakkon [[OffWithHisHead beheads one of the hostages]] to force the Hyperforce Rangers to help him to get the Serpentera from Scorpina. Drakkon also has his men place bombs in their necks to keep them. Later, Drakkon seriously injures one of their members while they try to avoid it.

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-->-- '''Jindrax''' to '''Master Org''', ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'', "[[Recap/PowerRangersWildForceTheMastersHeraldPart2 The Master's Herald, Part 2]]"

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* ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'': [[BigBad Dr. Viktor Adler]] was [[FromNobodyToNightmare once a kind ecologist]]. After his crush married his colleague, he became [[DrivenByEnvy jealous and paranoid]]. Eating the remains of [[GreaterScopeVillain Master Org]], he used his new powers to murder the couple and [[WouldHurtAChild attempted to murder their baby son]]. Hating nature because it reminded him of their "betrayal", he revived Master Org's plot to destroy all non-Org life. Reacting to defeats badly, it was common to see him [[BadBoss destroying Org statues in fits of rage]], murdering dormant Orgs in temper tantrums. When Retinax didn't recognize him, Adler killed him, and when Toxica and Jindrax discover his secret he brainwashes them. Teaming up with the Mut-Orgs, Adler attempts to have them destroy a nuclear power station in a plot to irridiate the earth and reduce it to a lifeless, polluted hellscape. His worst act is slowly killing Cole's friends while fighting Cole just because he was the son of the couple he was jealous of, claiming he'd enjoy their suffering "even more than [his] parents!" Reviving the three General Orgs as slaves bound to his will, he ate the Org Heart to make himself invincible, seeking to cover the world in black clouds that spawn Orgs to [[KillAllHumans destroy humanity]]. A petty, jealous and cruel man who has long stripped himself of any good, Adler is one of the franchise's most evil [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans]], and one of its darkest characters.

* ''[[Series/PowerRangersRPM RPM]]'' & ''[[Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers Beast Morphers]]'': [[BadBoss Venjix]] is a sapient ComputerVirus who was created by Dr. K and [[AIIsACrapshoot became rogue]] after being unleashed on the world's computers, creating an army of robots and using them to [[KillAllHumans exterminate 99% of the human race]]. When the last elements of humanity hole up in the domed city of Corinth, Venjix makes repeated attempts to destroy the city in order to wipe out what is left of humankind. To this end, he enslaves people to work in his factories to make his machines and [[UnwillingRoboticisation forcefully roboticizes them]], even brainwashing Dillon's sister into becoming Tenaya 7. After Tenaya goes against him, he has her forcefully turned into his loyal slave Tenaya 15. It's eventually revealed he's taken over the minds of half the city in order to force them into compliance with his orders. Returning as Evox on the prime Earth, he makes copies of two potential Rangers, leaving the real ones in comas. Taking over the body of Mayor Daniels, he would use him to make a series of Morph-X towers around the world, before attempting to use them to wipe out all human life across the Earth.

* ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Dino Super Charge]]'' [[labelnote:Episodes]]"[[Recap/PowerRangersDinoChargeRecipeForDisaster Recipe for Disaster]]" through "[[Recap/PowerRangersDinoChargeWorgworld Worgworld]]"[[/labelnote]]: The vicious [[TheManBehindTheMan Lord Arcanon]] committed genocide upon Heckyl's world to gain the Energems and grant himself complete [[GalacticConqueror universal control]] millions of years ago. Kidnapping soldiers to fight for him, Arcanon engages the Power Rangers and kidnaps Heckyl, brutally torturing him for the Energems. Attempting to [[BadBoss execute any of his minions]] who [[YouHaveFailedMe fail him]], Arcanon fights the Rangers once more, this time having corrupted an entire city into zombie-like beings to use as {{human shield}}s.

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* ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'': [[BewareTheSillyOnes Ivan Ooze]] is a [[EvilIsHammy bombastically evil]] enemy of Zordon, who once "ruled the world with a reign of unparalleled terror". Awoken in the present day by Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa in order to help defeat the Power Rangers, Ooze uses a group of monsters to distract the Rangers so he's able to destroy the Command Center and leave Zordon to slowly die. Double-crossing Zedd and Rita and taking over their operations, Ivan intends on digging up the Ectomorphicons to help branch out his ambitions of conquest to a universal scale. After giving some of his Ooze to children so that he can brainwash the adults so he can force them to dig up the Ecto-Morphicons for him, Ivan then sends a group of monsters to destroy the Rangers when they try to get their powers back--[[BadBoss killing them]] when [[YouHaveFailedMe they fail]]. Ivan Ooze eventually [[PsychicAssistedSuicide orders all of the adults to commit suicide]] when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he no longer needs them]] and orders the Ectomorphicons to devastate Angel Grove. When one of his Ecto-Morphicons is destroyed by the Rangers, Ooze [[VillainOverride forcibly takes over the other]] to try and kill the Rangers himself.
* ''Film/PowerRangers2017'': [[BigBad Rita Repulsa]], the former Green Ranger, was once a noble hero before her {{ambition|IsEvil}} drives her to [[FallenHero slaughter her comrades and mortally wound]] her former friend [[BigGood Zordon]]. Resurfacing countless years later, Rita descends on the fishing town of Angel Grove and starts brutally murdering innocent people for their gold to regain her powers--in one instance tearing a homeless man apart to get at his gold teeth--burning down an entire populated building to demonstrate the power of her Putties. Capturing and then killing a man to draw in the Rangers, Rita tortures the location out of Earth's Zeo Crystal out of the Rangers and then callously kills Billy (temporarily) in front of the others once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he wears out his use to her]]. Finally rising up a monstrous Zord of her own making that she calls Goldar, Rita starts decimating Angel Grove to find and take the powers of the Zeo Crystal. Rita's ultimate goal is nothing short of absolute godhood by harnessing the power of the Zeo Crystal--consequentially killing off all life on the planet, something Rita is only too gleeful to do. [[AdaptationalVillainy Barely resembling]] her [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers original incarnation]], Rita brings a level of incredible seriousness to this [[VileVillainSaccharineShow otherwise lighthearted and fun film]] and is ultimately nothing less than a psychotic, murderous monster.

** [[ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangers2016 2016 comic]]: Assisting Rita in [[TakeOverTheWorld conquering the world]], Tommy eventually managed steal the White Ranger powers and combined them with his preexisting Green Ranger ones, thus becoming a Green-White hybrid Ranger who managed to [[HeroKiller destroy the Power Rangers and their allies]], with him personally killing Zordon, Alpha 5, and Billy. He then killed Rita while promising to continue her work by [[ICanRuleAlone ruling the world in her place]]. Now rechristened Lord Drakkon, he drew upon the energies of the Power Coins to create mass-produced Ranger Sentries and brainwashed the vengeful Kimberly of his world, transforming her into the Ranger Slayer. Attempting to kill the main world's Power Rangers when they are brought to his world, Drakkon, defeated due to overconfidence, ends up in the main world and is incarcerated by the Promethea Company. When the Saba from his world tries to execute him, Drakkon flips the script and destroys the sword, using his remains in addition to magical incantations to create portals so he can escape into space between universes. With this new power, Drakkon tricks Ninjor into rebuilding his Morpher to recover part of his powers, then imprisons and {{brainwash}}es him before moving on to steal an artifact from the Command Center and refuel it by killing the Tommy of the main world.

** ''[[ComicBook/PowerRangersDrakkonNewDawn New Dawn]]'' & [[ComicBook/PowerRangers2020 2020 comic]]: Drakkon's [[VillainousLegacy dark legacy]] continued to live on through such events as the creation of the Empowered and the FaceHeelTurn of Kiya, one of the Omega Rangers, who deluded herself into thinking the main Tommy Oliver, now the White Ranger, to be the second coming of Drakkon as a result of the physical and mental scars of his actions. It is also revealed he trapped Jason in a Ranger suit in which he was ForcedToWatch Tommy's achievements, and arranged for Dark Specter's forces to invade Earth and annihilate his enemies should he ever be deposed.

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* ''Film/PowerRangers2017'': [[BigBad Rita Repulsa]], the former Green Ranger, was once a noble hero before her {{ambition|IsEvil}} drives her to [[FallenHero slaughter her comrades and mortally wound]] her former friend [[BigGood Zordon]]. Resurfacing countless years later, Rita descends on the fishing town of Angel Grove and starts brutally murdering innocent people for their gold to regain her powers--in one instance tearing a homeless man apart to get at his gold teeth--burning down an entire populated building to demonstrate the power of her Putties. Capturing and then killing a man to draw in the Rangers, Rita tortures the location out of Earth's Zeo Crystal out of the Rangers and then callously kills Billy (temporarily) in front of the others once [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he wears out his use to her]]. Finally rising up a monstrous Zord of her own making that she calls Goldar, Rita starts decimating Angel Grove to find and take the powers of the Zeo Crystal. Rita's ultimate goal is nothing short of absolute godhood by harnessing the power of the Zeo Crystal--consequentially killing off all life on the planet, something Rita is only too gleeful to do. [[AdaptationalVillainy Barely resembling]] her [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers original incarnation]], Rita brings a level of incredible seriousness to this [[VileVillainSaccharineShow otherwise lighthearted and fun film]] and is ultimately nothing less than a psychotic, murderous monster.
* ''[[VideoGame/PowerRangersBattleForTheGrid Battle for the Grid]]'': [[BigBad Lord Drakkon]] is a faithful adaptation of his dreadful comics counterpart. Choosing to side with Rita Repulsa after being freed from her spell, this alternate Tommy Oliver, christened Lord Drakkon, destroys the Rangers and eventually [[TheStarscream murders and usurps Rita]], conquering his world. Unsatisfied with this, Drakkon turned his attention to the entire [[MultiversalConqueror multiverse]]. Drakkon steals the powers of numerous Ranger teams to strengthen himself and enslaves any Rangers that impress him, in particular the Kimberly Hart of his world, whom he dubs his Ranger Slayer. When Finster 5 saves his life and begs him not to risk it again by empowering himself further, Drakkon [[UngratefulBastard brutally kills him]]. Murdering other versions of himself to prove he is "superior" to his "weaker" selves, he secretly knows he's the weak one, and even when the Prime Tommy Oliver tries to save his life, Drakkon chooses death over accepting help from a good version of himself and giving up his power. A tyrant unable to accept his failings, he tries to force his will on everyone and everything rather than bettering himself.
* [[Script/PowerRangersMaxLandis Unproduced Power Rangers script]], by Creator/MaxLandis ([[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byrce9WlDzqddUNJMDNSY3AzY00/view link]]): [[BigBad Rita Repulsa]], the [[FallenHero former Black Ranger]], is the leader of the Dominators who serves Lord Zedd. After being freed from her asteroid prison on Earth, Rita, after acquiring her scepter, plans to travel back to Zedd so that she can join him in his plans of [[GalacticConqueror galactic conquest]], all at a cost of destroying the entire Earth, a fact she's downright proud of. Torturing Zordon once she breaks into his lair, she sends a giant Goldar out to destroy Angel Grove as a way to distract the Power Rangers while she accomplishes her plan.