Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Monsters Season One / Characters

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Season One Monsters

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In General

Beastman: While the Zyuranger monsters had a mythology/folklore theme (though this didn't translate into MMPR), the Zyu2 monsters were mostly this; shark-man, mantis-man, mole-man, rhino-man, etc.
Canon Foreigner: The "Zyu2" monsters, who never appeared in Zyuranger and were created exclusively for Power Rangers.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Some of the Zyu2 monsters were killed in a different way than intended in the original footage. This would be very obvious when the Ultrazord would blast a monster, but the Power Sword's slash would still appear over it before it exploded, and vice-versa.
Early-Installment Weirdness: Some monsters such as Giant, the Minotaur, Spidertron, and Hatchasaurus don’t talk beyond grunts, roars, and laughing. While this would never be gone from the franchise entirely after Mighty Morphin', it becomes significantly less common afterward.
Golem: Technically, Finster's monsters are these, as they're all clay sculptures brought to life. On occasion, when a monster is destroyed, we're shown a pile of rocks falling to the ground.
Suicidal Overconfidence: Season 1's monsters possibly have more "run right at the Megazord while it's charging its finishing attack" moments than monsters in any other season. Sure, they're probably trying to stop it from using the finisher, but it's still an awful idea.
Technicolor Death: Monsters killed by the Megazord's Power Sword had very flashy deaths, with sparkling rings of light bursting off them before they exploded. The Zyu2 monsters also bled lots of lightning.

The Monsters

Bones

^{Skeleton warriors}

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

The very first monster in the entirety of the Power Rangers franchise, Finster created this skeleton creature to lure the Rangers in and trap them in a time warp, just as Rita had done to Zordon ten thousand years ago.

All There in the Manual: According to his Bandai figure's trading card, Bones' height is 198 centimeters (6'5"), his weight is 21 kilograms (46 lbs), and he has a hobby of collecting fossils.
Attack Its Weak Point: Bones can reassemble himself from any attack... Unless you destroy his head.
Badass Cape: Bones wears a striking black and red cape.
Borrowin' Samedi: With his feathered top hat, fancy cape, and skeletal appearance, Bones is clearly based on the Baron.
Dem Bones: Not surprising given that he is a skeleton monster.
Earthquake Machine: By stabbing his sword into the floor, he can cause the ground to shake and a large crevasse to open up.
Eye Beams: He possesses these, but never uses them against the Rangers.
Faceless Goons: His skeleton warriors are literally these - They have no faces on their skulls.
Flying Face: In his boss battle in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for the SNES, you continue to whittle him down throughout the fight until he's literally just a floating skull spitting fireballs at you.
Informed Ability: Zigzagged. When relaying Bones' abilities to the Rangers, Zordon tells them that Bones can fire energy bolts out of his eyes, jump long distances, and make himself invisible. While we do see Bones doing these things on the Viewing Globe, so he apparently does have these powers, he never uses any of them in his battle against the Rangers.
- And in the meanwhile, Zordon says absolutely nothing of Bones' reassembling ability, nor his destroy-the-head weakness, which the Rangers have to encounter and figure out on their own.
Invisibility: According to Zordon, Bones has this ability, but he never uses it while fighting the Rangers.
Losing Your Head: Bones' head is entirely capable of thinking, speaking, and acting on its own when not connected to his body, though it does leave him quite vulnerable to opponents who know his weakness.
Mooks: He has his own squad of Putty-like skeleton warriors to help him.
Off with His Head!: In a rare case of a monster being defeated without a Finishing Move, the Rangers figure out that they can permanently destroy him by throwing his head down a pit.
Overrated and Underleveled: Finster states that, when creating Bones, he set the Monster-Matic at full power. One would reasonably assume that he should be one of Finster's most powerful monsters ever because of this, but instead he's repeatedly physically overpowered by single Rangers with relative ease, has a glaringly obvious weak point, and doesn't even require a finishing attack to be destroyed. According to Finster, this was because Bones was "overcooked".
Pocket Dimension: While it isn't his personally (as is usually the case with MMPR monsters), Bones is still in charge of luring and trapping the Rangers into Rita's time warp.
Pulling Themselves Together: As long as his skull is still intact, Bones can reassemble himself even after being blown completely apart.
Pun: "Here, let me help you get a-HEAD!"
Scary Skeleton: He's an evil, (almost) unkillable skeleton monster with a sinister voice.
Starter Villain: The first proper monster the Rangers fought against, and the first monster of the entire Power Rangers franchise.
- He's also the first monster you face in the SNES MMPR game.
Technicolor Blade: The blades of the skeleton warriors' swords appear to be red, green, and other such colors. Bones' sword takes on a similar appearance while inside the time warp.
Vocal Dissonance: Instead of a traditional 'spooky' voice of some kind, as one might expect from a skeleton/zombie monster (or a French Creole accent as homage to Baron Samedi), Bones has a reverberating, robotic voice.
Warmup Boss: He's the boss of the first level in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers game on the Super Nintendo.
Your Head A-Splode: What happens to Bones' skull once Trini tosses it into the crevasse in the ground.

Giant

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

An enormous armored warrior summoned by Rita to fight the Rangers after Bones' destruction.

Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Usually, most giant monsters in the series are either the episode's Monster of the Week grown to giant size or the Monster of the Week just permanently is giant-sized. The Giant, however, is just a randomly giant-sized monster thrown in at the last minute to replace Bones.
Badass Normal: Aside from his sword, the Giant has absolutely no weapons or powers whatsoever. No eye beams, no fire breath, no regeneration, no flight, nothing.
Curb-Stomp Battle: The Giant gets in a couple of hits with his sword, but after that, the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord wails on him for the rest of the fight.
Early-Installment Weirdness: Instead of simply making Bones grow after he was defeated, Rita sends the Giant as a replacement monster to fight the Zords in his stead. Also, rather than being created by Finster, the Giant is summoned by Rita using a magic spell.
Moe Greene Special: When Jason cannot free himself from the Giant's grasp, he pulls out his Blade Blaster and shoots the monster in the face.
Monster Knight: Themed after one.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Even with Bones destroyed, the Rangers were still trapped inside the time warp Rita had sent them to. In his attempt to reach them to attack them, the Giant broke through the barrier between dimensions, which allowed the Rangers to escape back to the real world.
Our Giants Are Bigger: A giant themed monster.
Shoulders of Doom: The Giant's shoulder pauldrons look like the skulls of some type of animal.
The Speechless: Besides some grunting and groaning, the Giant never speaks during his fight with the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord.
Summon Magic: Rita uses a summoning spell to bring forth the Giant on Earth.
"Moondust soft and pliant, send to Earth a giant!"

The Minotaur

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With shield (early colors)

^{With shield (final colors)}

Voiced By: Tom Wyner ("Teamwork"), Ryan Cooper (MMPR: Once & Always)

A minotaur monster that was sent to deal with the male Rangers while Goldar and the Putties ambushed the girls.

Attack Reflector: His shield sends the Rangers' Blade Blaster beams right back at them.
Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Kimberly fires a Power Arrow and Trini tosses her Power Daggers, knocking the Minotaur's club and shield out of his hands.
Breath Weapon: He's shown breathing fire on the Viewing Globe, but he never does when fighting the Rangers.
The Bus Came Back: He returns thirty years later, rebuilt into a new cyborg form by Robo-Rita in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always.
Carry a Big Stick: He wields a spiked club as his main weapon.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In Zyuranger promotional stills, the Minotaur's shield is shown to be silver in color, but in the episode itself, the shield is colored black and red.
Horn Attack: He leaps into the air head-first and smashes his horns against the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord, flooring the mech.
Horns of Villainy: Being the type of mythological creature that he is, as well as one of Rita's evil minions, the Minotaur has a pair of large, curved horns jutting from his head.
Implacable Man: He overpowers Jason, Zack, and Billy quite soundly, with the three Rangers unable to make any headway in their fight with him. Once he grows to giant size, Alpha notes that the Minotaur just keeps coming, no matter what attacks the Zords use.
Left Your Lifesaver Behind: He briefly discards his shield after using it to successfully fend off the Mastodon Dinozord's freezing mist, for some reason.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Along with his club, the Minotaur wields a horned shield that can block physical attacks and reflect the Rangers' blasts.
Make My Monster Grow: One of the rare occasions where the Zord fight isn't the final showdown. Zordon and Alpha realize the Dino Zords are proving ineffective against the Minotaur and call the Rangers back so they can grant them the Power Weapons.
Never Given a Name: Most of Finster's other monsters are given creative, descriptive, and alliterative names, but this one in particular is simply called "the Minotaur."
No-Sell: He barely even notices the Rangers' Blade Blasters, the Triceratops and Sabertooth Tiger's tail cannons, and the Mastodon's freeze mist.
Our Minotaurs Are Different: The Minotaur is quite possibly the most direct adaptation of the original myth into one of Finster's monsters. There's no real outlandish tokusatsu flourish to him the way there is with monsters like King Sphinx or Eye Guy.
Play as a Boss: He's one of the playable characters in the Sega Genesis Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fighting game.
Playing with Fire: He can spew flames from his mouth.
Shock and Awe: He has the ability to emit multicolored electric bolts from his horns.
Spell My Name with a "The": He's known simply as "the Minotaur."
Spikes of Villainy: He has spikes on his arm gauntlets.
Tome of Eldritch Lore: The Minotaur is listed on page eleven of Finster's monster encyclopedia, opposite Knasty Knight.
The Voiceless: He never speaks and only makes animalistic grunts and roars.
- Suddenly Voiced: This changes with Robo-Minotaur in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, who is fully capable of speaking.
We Can Rebuild Him: Robo-Rita does this to him thirty years later, turning him into Robo-Minotaur.
The Worf Effect: He's strong enough to handle himself against the Zords but loses when the Rangers brandish their new Power Weapons.

King Sphinx

King Sphinx ^notea.k.a Fly Guy

^{Early color scheme}

Voiced By: Richard Cansino (A Pressing Engagement), Tony Oliver (Original Pilot)

An Egyptian-themed sphinx monster sent to isolate and destroy Jason.

Adaptational Wimp: Very downplayed, both displayed abilities to blow Rangers away with their wings and both fell to the same finisher, but Dora Sphinx could trap his victims inside a tree with the wind gusts from his wings, whereas it merely teleports them back to the Youth Center here.
Adapted Out: His Zyuranger counterpart had a human form that was never used in Power Rangers.
Advertised Extra: Despite only being in one episode of the entire series (aside from a brief flashback in "Island of Illusion Part II"), King Sphinx was nevertheless all over the merchandise for the first season of the show, from the action figures to the trading cards to the coloring books. He easily eclipsed Finster and Scorpina (who were main villains) in terms of exposure, and if one weren't super familiar with the show, it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to assume he was one of the main cast.
All There in the Manual: According to his Bandai figure's trading card, King Sphinx is 10 cubits (15 feet) tall and he weighs one ton, which clearly doesn't line up with what we see on screen. His card also says that Finster created him from a handful of Egyptian sand and that rain can dissolve him into a sandy puddle.
Big "YES!": When Finster asks Rita if she's satisfied with his selection of King Sphinx, she responds with this.
Blow You Away: He uses his wings to blow Kimberly and Zack into the air, then teleport them away, demorphing them in the process. Later, during the Zord fight, the hurricane winds he generates from flapping his wings even manage to push the Megazord back.
The Cameo: The head of King Sphinx's suit later showed up as a decoration in the Zoom Comics store in Big Bad Beetleborgs. Apparently the rest of his suit had completely fallen apart, which is why he was never resurrected in MMPR like Eye Guy and various Zyu2 monsters were.
Cat Folk: King Sphinx's face is extremely feline.
Dual Boss: He's this along with Goldar. Together the two of them isolate and attack Jason in the quarry, then later fight the Megazord.
Early Installment Character-Design Difference: While in the episode itself, King Sphinx's shoulder pads and loincloth are shown to be yellow, blue, and red, early promotional stills from Zyuranger show there was a point where the suit was colored differently, with the pads and loincloth entirely yellow. Most of King Sphinx's MMPR merchandise reflected this simpler, all-yellow color scheme.
- The final suit also has the feathers of his wings to be faintly colored with red, white, and yellow markings, whereas the earlier color scheme had the feathers completely the same shade of blue as his skin.
Egyptian Mythology: He is clearly based more on the Egyptian sphinx than the Greek variety.
Fireballs: King Sphinx could launch fireballs in the shape of question marks and hieroglyphs from his scepter.
Flashback-Montage Realization: In "Island of Illusion Part II," when Jason begins to vanish due to doubting his abilities as a leader, it is recalling his perseverance in his fight with King Sphinx that allows him to regain his confidence and avoid fading away.
I Have Many Names: He was called Fly Guy in the original pilot episode.
Loincloth: This, along with his headdress and shoulder pauldrons, is all King Sphinx wears.
Magic Staff: He wields an Egyptian scepter as his main weapon. In addition to close-quarter combat, he can also use it to fire question mark-shaped fireballs at the Rangers.
Oh, Crap!: He immediately recoils and says, "Uh oh!" when he sees the Megazord finish forming. He also panics later when the Zord charges up the Power Sword for its finishing attack.
Our Sphinxes Are Different: Whereas mythical sphinxes usually have the head of a human and the body of a lion, King Sphinx has the exact opposite. Also, he's blue.
Shock and Awe: The cobra on his headdress can fire bolts of electricity.
Teleportation: During his fight with Jason, King Sphinx teleports them both from the park's theater stage to the quarry to do some "real fighting."
Wind from Beneath My Wings: He can create powerful winds by flapping his wings, enough to teleport away the other Rangers.
Winged Humanoid: He's a vaguely human-like sphinx monster with wings.
Wings Do Nothing: He has a pair of large wings, easily as big as Goldar's, but King Sphinx does not display the ability to fly.
You're Nothing Without Your Phlebotinum: King Sphinx pins Jason down with his scepter and tells him that he's nothing without the other Rangers. The monster receives a kick to the head for his trouble.

Gnarly Gnome

Voiced By: Steve Kramer

A gnome monster created by Finster that takes a few of Angel Grove's teenagers hostage by using the hypnotic music of his magic accordion so he can do the same to the Power Rangers.

Adaptation Species Change: He was a goblin in Zyuranger, while in MMPR he's a gnome.
Alliterative Name: Gnarly Gnome.
Auto-Revive: Gnarly Gnome is very clearly blown to pieces by the Power Blaster, but Rita immediately revives him and grows him to giant size. Why she never tried this with other monsters destroyed at human size is anyone's guess.
Back from the Dead: Gnarly Gnome is the only monster of Rita's to be explicitly shown being destroyed by the Power Blaster and subsequently resurrected by Rita before being grown to giant size.
Bizarre Taste in Food: One of the few Monsters of the Week to be shown eating, Gnarly Gnome eats a dish prepared for him by Baboo using what looks like multicolored rubber balls roughly the size of golf balls.
Boss Battle: He's the boss of the second level in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on the Super Nintendo.
Fat Bastard: As he awaits the Rangers in the cave, Gnarly Gnome keeps rudely demanding that Baboo cook his food faster.
Grew a Spine: The normally timid Baboo tells Gnarly Gnome to back off when the latter keeps demanding that he cook faster.
Hostage Situation: Gnarly Gnome hypnotizes a few teenagers and holds them hostage with the intent of hypnotizing the Rangers themselves once they come to the rescue.
Ignored Expert: Finster tries explaining to Rita that musical monsters aren't very reliable, only for her to scream at him and threaten to turn him into a slug.
Improbable Weapon User: His arsenal includes a garden rake and an accordion.
Invisibility: He has the ability to turn invisible, but only uses it when he tries to ditch Squatt and Baboo when the Rangers are on their way. He resumes his visibility once they call him out on it.
Involuntary Dance: He forces the girls he hypnotizes to dance with the Putties while he waits for the Rangers to arrive.
It Only Works Once: During his fight with the Megazord, Gnarly Gnome uses his music to disorient the Rangers and make them hallucinate him as a floating building, allowing him to get in close and land a hit on the Zord. When he tries this a second time though, this time making them think he's a giant boulder, the Rangers are wise to the trick and the Megazord punches him in the face, causing him to drop his accordion.
Literally Shattered Lives: When the Rangers blast Gnarly Gnome with the Power Blaster, he is blown into little clay chunks which fall to the ground.
Logical Weakness: His accordion music can't affect deaf people, which is how Melissa avoids being hypnotized.
Magic Music: He can control people's minds and even make people hallucinate with the music from his accordion.
Master of Illusion: When fighting the Megazord, Gnarly Gnome casts hypnotic illusions that cause the Rangers to see him as a floating building and then a giant rolling boulder.
Mind-Control Music: He can play this from his accordion, affecting humans and Putties alike.
Monstrous Humanoid: Gnarly Gnome is one of the only two Monsters of the Week in the entire series that looks even remotely like a human being (the other being the Frankenstein Monster).
Our Gnomes Are Weirder: And gnarlier.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: Referenced directly by Rita when she's explaining to Finster what type of monster she wants.
"Make me a musical monster that will mesmerize those pathetic Power Rangers and bring them to their knees! Like the Pied Piper, only meaner!"
Playing with Puppets: As he's waiting for Baboo to finish cooking his food, Gnarly Gnome uses his hypnotic music to force the girls he's captured as well as the Putty Patrollers to dance for his own amusement.
Shock and Awe: Gnarly Gnome can unleash multicolored lightning from his garden rake. He can also fire white and orange lightning from his helmet's horns.
The Slacker: He'd rather have Baboo cook for him and have the Putties dance for his entertainment than properly stand guard over the girls he's captured. Also, when the Rangers arrive in the area to rescue the hostages, he tries to have Squatt and Baboo retie his boots for him instead of doing it himself.
Surveillance Station Slacker: Gnarly Gnome, Squatt, and Baboo all fall asleep instead of staying alert and preparing for the Power Rangers' arrival. Rita understandably screams at them over this.
Technicolor Death: In addition to the usual lightning effects, orbs of colored light fly out of him when he dies. In Zyuranger, his counterpart had eaten souls which were now being released.
Teleport Spam: He does this in his Boss Battle in the Super Nintendo game, teleporting all around the stage in order to avoid being hit. The lower he gets on health, the faster and more erratic his teleporting becomes.

Pudgy Pig

Voiced By: Dave Mallow

A pig monster sent down to eat all the food on Earth when the Youth Center's Cultural Food Festival makes Rita feel nauseous.

Adaptational Intelligence: The second Pudgy Pig is far more articulate.
Alliterative Name: Pudgy Pig.
Back from the Dead: A second Pudgy Pig was later sent to attack the Earth, created from a pig named Norman that Bulk and Skull had adopted. This makes Pudgy Pig the first monster to be resurrected for a second fight against the Rangers.
Beware the Silly Ones: In addition to eating the Power Weapons, Pudgy Pig shows that he's not as dim-witted as one may initially think, intentionally using his intimidation factor as a large, ravenous monster to terrify Bulk and Skull at the Food Festival, and then laughing at them as they flee.
Big Eater: His entire gimmick is this.
Brought Down to Normal: The second Pudgy Pig was transformed from a normal pig rather than recreated by Finster. Once the Rangers discover this, they eventually revert him to his original form.
Bullying a Dragon: Bulk and Skull taunt Pudgy Pig at the Food Festival, which only makes him angry, and the two flee in terror in response.
Burp of Finality: He lets out a quick burp after swallowing the Power Sword.
The Bus Came Back: He returns in "A Pig Surprise" later in the season.
- He also appears in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comics by Marvel.
The Cameo: He is one of the monsters briefly hallucinated by the Rangers in "Island of Illusion Part I."
Cephalothorax: He's a huge pig head with arms and legs.
Classical Mythology: Believe it or not, but Pudgy Pig's Zyuranger counterpart, Dora Circe, is in fact based on/inspired by the enchantress Circe from Greek mythology, who was renown for turning her enemies into animals. The best-known example of this is in The Odyssey, where she turns Odysseus' crew into pigs.
Cool Helmet: He wears a Roman gladiator-style helmet.
Death by Gluttony: He's so ravenous and eager for food no matter where it comes from that the Rangers were able to trick him into eating a spicy radish, which weakens him and forces him to cough up their weapons.
Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: While rampaging through the Food Festival, Pudgy Pig bumps into Bulk and Skull. Bulk tries to mock him by turning his nose up so it resembles a pig's snout, then snorting at him. Pudgy Pig roars at him in return, sending the two bullies scurrying.
Disc-One Final Boss: The second Pudgy Pig is merely intended to keep the Rangers distracted as Goldar grows to giant size and destroys Angel Grove.
Extreme Omnivore: He can eat anything without a problem, even the Ranger's Power Weapons.
Fire-Breathing Diner: Once Pudgy Pig has swallowed the spicy sandwich, a cloud of yellow smoke explodes out of his mouth, complete with a steam whistle sound effect.
Flash Back: When the Rangers make an appearance on a talk show in Season 2's "Lights, Camera, Action," the host asks them for an example where they had to use their heads to overcome a monster. Kimberly brings up the original Pudgy Pig and using his intolerance to spicy food against him, complete with flashbacks to their first and second fights with him.
Hulk Speak: Pudgy Pig can speak, but only straightforward phrases like "I'm hungry!" and "More food!" Averted with the second Pudgy Pig, who can put more complex sentences together as he tries to woo a female pig he encounters on a farm. He's pretty wordy in the Marvel comic, as well.
I'm a Humanitarian: Zack warns Bulk that if he doesn't give the second Pudgy Pig his sandwich, the monster just might eat Bulk instead. Subverted when Norman/Pudgy Pig shows no interest in harming Bulk.
Improbable Weapon User: He wields a huge knife and fork upon his creation but never uses them when fighting the Rangers (in either MMPR or Zyuranger).
Informed Ability: Zordon says that Pudgy Pig can consume all food on Earth in only 48 hours (two days), but the monster's eating pace does not reflect that fact, given the time he was taking just to consume all of the food in Angel Grove. He might have held himself back so he could enjoy the food he ate.
Interspecies Romance: After fighting the Rangers, the second Pudgy Pig escapes and makes his way to a farm somewhere in Angel Grove. As this incarnation is made out of a real pig instead of a clay creation of Finster's, he falls in love when he spots a female pig.
"Come with me to the pig sty! We make such beautiful bacon together!"
I Warned You: When Rita asks for Finster to make her a Pudgy Pig, he tells her that he has one ready but that it's not his best work. Later, once Pudgy Pig is destroyed by the Rangers and Rita is screaming over the failure, Finster reminds her that he did warn her.
Jabba Table Manners: He has no problem throwing himself face-first into the nearest meal, nor does he have any hesitation in eating bad food out of garbage cans. Kimberly finds him absolutely disgusting.
Kryptonite Factor: He hates spicy food, which causes him to get sick and expel all the food he's eaten. Once the Rangers figure that out, they use it to their advantage to get their weapons back.
Missing Time: Pudgy Pig abruptly ends his fight with the Rangers by firing a beam at them that envelops them in a magical vortex that teleports them to the park and demorphs them. But instead of this happening instantly, as with most other instances of teleportation in the show, enough time has passed for the monster to make his way from downtown to the Youth Center.
Mugging the Monster: Bulk mocks Pudgy Pig when the monster is attacking the Food Festival. It doesn't go so well for him. Luckily for Bulk, the monster merely scares him off without physically harming him
No Fourth Wall: At one point during his rampage at the Food Festival, he turns towards, then sniffs at, the camera.
No Kill like Overkill: In the Marvel story "Glutton For Punishment" (set circa Season 3), Pudgy Pig is resurrected once again and sent along with the Tenga Warriors to attack a nuclear power plant in Angel Grove that had been shut down for being unsafe. After being grown to giant size by Lord Zedd, he began to absorb the energies radiating from the plant. The Rangers decide to give Pudgy Pig what he wants and have the Ninja MegaFalconzord rip the power plant from the ground and shove it into his mouth, safely destroying him and the plant simultaneously.
Non-Malicious Monster: In his second appearance, he wasn't hostile and just wanted food out of genuine hunger more than anything else. This can be seen in the Youth Center, where instead of attacking Bulk and Skull, he just stands there begging them for Bulk's sandwich and thanks him for the sandwich.
Nothing but Skin and Bones: While it can't be done perfectly due to how his suit is designed, this trope is emulated when Pudgy Pig is fed spicy food and vomits up all the food he's eaten as well as the Power Weapons; his suit "deflates" to show how empty he's become.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Pudgy Pig, a goofy-looking monster Finster was borderline embarrassed of, was able to give the Rangers a good thrashing, devour their weapons, and dump them through a time warp.
One-Track-Minded Hunger: His mission is to eat all the food on Earth, so, naturally, he pretty much only thinks about eating.
Our Monsters Are Weird: Quite possibly the most quintessential example in all of Power Rangers, he's a huge pig head with arms and legs wearing a Roman gladiator helmet. Even knowing he's based on Circe from Greek mythology doesn't help lessen his weirdness any.
Pig Man: And a huge, grotesque one at that.
Reasonable Authority Figure: When the second Pudgy Pig appears, Zordon initially tells the Rangers to destroy him once and for all, but when the Rangers explain that he's been made out of Norman, he eases off and tells them to simply get him under control.
Self-Deprecation: When Lord Zedd first arrives and the Rangers fight the Z-Putties for the first time, Kimberly wonders aloud what Zedd may have in store for them next. Zack quips "I got a feeling it ain't Pudgy Pig.", as if Pudgy Pig were a monster of low intimidation value
Stock Footage: The second Pudgy Pig's fight with the Rangers is simply the footage of the fight with the first Pudgy Pig replayed, minus him eating the Power Weapons.
Stout Strength: Pudgy Pig is obese but strong, able to smack the Rangers around with ease.
This Is Gonna Suck: Finster's reaction to seeing Pudgy Pig once the monster comes to life.
Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: He can't handle spicy food at all. When he's eventually tricked into eating a spicy radish by the Rangers, he immediately begins to throw up all the food he's eaten at that point, as well as the Power Weapons.
Took a Level in Kindness: The Pudgy Pig created from Norman was much less aggressive than the original and was even capable of falling in love with a female (normal) pig he encountered.
The Un-Favourite: Pudgy Pig is not a monster that Finster is proud of.
Unusual Pets for Unusual People: When Bulk and Skull show up at Adopt-A-Pet Day, the former says he wants a pet that's "cool and different, like me," which is when Kimberly gives him Norman. Bulk seemed to genuinely care for the pig until Rita turned him into Pudgy Pig.
Unsuccessful Pet Adoption: Zigzagged. Bulk owning Norman falls apart due to the latter turning into Pudgy Pig and terrorizing him and Skull. However, the farmer who owns the female pig that Norman/Pudgy Pig falls in love with adopts him to be together.
Villainous Glutton: Finster created him to eat all the food on Earth and he's going to do his best to accomplish that goal.
Villain Teleportation: Is capable of teleporting encased within a large fireball.

Chunky Chicken

Voiced By: Robert Axelrod

A chicken monster created by Finster sent to capture a girl named Maria in order to gain access to the ancient Power Eggs for Rita.

Adaptation-Induced Plothole: His footage comprises two separate yet nearly identical cockatrice monsters; as a result, Chunky Chicken randomly gains and loses a hat throughout the episode.
Adaptation Species Change: In Zyuranger, Chunky Chicken's counterpart Dora Cockatrice was, well, a cockatrice (a dragon-like beast with a rooster's head). In Power Rangers, he's presented as an ordinary, everyday chicken.
Alliterative Name: Chunky Chicken.
Composite Character: There were two Dora Cockatrices created by Pleprechaun in Zyuranger, even though they looked nearly identical. In Power Rangers, footage of both Cockatrices is used to portray a single monster.
Dual Boss: He briefly fights the Rangers alongside Goldar, with Goldar dealing with the boys and Chunky Chicken facing off with the girls.
Feathered Fiend: A large, nasty chicken monster.
Flight: He has the ability to fly, menacing the tied up Maria as he does so.
Informed Ability: Rita says that Chunky Chicken is disgusting and that just looking at him makes her sick, but he looks rather fluffy and borderline adorable more than anything else. Though perhaps it's a case of Evil Cannot Stand Cuteness.
Genre Savvy: Downplayed. He knows that charging the Megazord finisher is a bad idea so he tries to duck it instead, but he didn't count on them using a nearly vertical version of the Power Sword finisher.
Mocking Sing-Song: The giant Chunky Chicken clucks the classic "Nana Na Nana Na" tune at the Megazord before disappearing into one of his portals.
Parrying Bullets: He knocks aside one of Kimberly's Power Arrows with his shears.
Shear Menace: He wields a pair of garden shears when fighting the Rangers. He also uses a pair of oversized scissors that can cut through the fabric of reality itself, which allows him to zip back and forth during the Zord fight.
Take Our Word for It: Chunky Chicken taking Maria to the cave where the Power Eggs are located and forcing her to open the chest containing them, as well as him later hiding Maria before fighting the Rangers at Goldar's behest, all takes place off screen, with only dialogue from Chunky Chicken and Goldar themselves indicating that the two events even happened.
Thinking Up Portals: The scissors he wields during his fight with the Megazord allows him to do this.
Would Hurt a Child: He has no qualms about cutting the rope keeping Maria from dropping a deadly height to the ground below.

Eye Guy

^{Main Eye}

Voiced By: Doug Stone (First Appearance)

An eyeball monster created by Rita to capture intelligent children and harvest their smarts, he was sent to Earth to do the same to Billy's friend Willie.

Antagonist Title: "I, Eye Guy."
Attack Its Weak Point: He can only be destroyed by attacking his main eye.
Back from the Dead: Finster selects him as one of the monsters, whom he said were among Rita's favorites, to resurrect in the second season for "The Wedding."
Boss Battle: He's the boss of the third level in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on the Super Nintendo.
The Bus Came Back: One of the monsters that came back for Season 2's "The Wedding."
The Cameo: He is one of the monsters briefly hallucinated by the Rangers in "Island of Illusion Part I."
- He can also be can be seen briefly in the Machine Empire's army in "Countdown to Destruction Part I" and among the monsters attacking Queen Bansheera when she falls into the Shadow World in the Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue finale.
Classical Mythology: While it's understandable to assume Eye Guy is simply some freaky monster covered in eyeballs, his design is, in fact, based on Argus, the giant with one hundred eyes from Greek mythology (his Zyuranger counterpart's name is even "Dora Argus").
Eat That: As a wedding gift, Eye Guy presents Lord Zedd with a caged spider. He says it could serve as either a decoration or a light snack.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: He is made of eyes.
Eye Beams: Because of course he would have the ability to shoot lasers from his eyes.
Eye Scream: Billy destroys Eye Guy's main eye (currently separated from his body) by shoving the blade of his Power Lance directly into it, which nearly causes the monster's destruction.
Eye Spy: Eye Guy is fully capable of seeing and even speaking through his main eye when it's separated from him.
Faceless Eye: When he first appears to Rita in the palace, his body forms out of a bunch of hovering eyes that come in from various directions and merge.
Fireballs: He can shoot these from random eyes around his body.
Flash Back: When Finster brings up using Eye Guy, we see a flashback of the work the monster had done on the planet Regda 2, where his mission had also been to abduct a child to drain their intelligence and give it to Rita. We later see a brief glimpse of this attack in the Boom comics.
- Eye Guy's fight with the Rangers is one of the monster attacks Lord Zedd recalls and discusses in Lord Zedd's Monster Heads.
Go for the Eye: Billy says exactly this the instant the Rangers' fight with Eye Guy begins, then again when his main eye opens during the Zord fight.
No-Sell: The Power Blaster hits Eye Guy and blows him apart but does not destroy him. This marks the first time a Monster of the Week defied a finishing attack, as all the monsters that had been hit by the Blaster before had been destroyed by it (the Minotaur and Pudgy Pig were killed outright, and while Gnarly Gnome was grown to giant size, Rita clearly had to resurrect him first).
Oculothorax: Eye Guy's main eye is one of these when it's not connected to his body. It's this form he uses to lure in and capture children.
A Planet Named Zok: Rita had used Eye Guy back in the day to attack a planet called Regda 2.
Pocket Dimension: Within his main eye lies "the Internal Vortex," where he keeps children prisoner.
Pulling Themselves Together: Does this with his eyes after he's blown apart by the Power Blaster, reforming his body. He does the same thing during the Zord fight after being hacked apart by the Megazord's Power Sword.
Pungeon Master: He makes several "eye" related puns.
"Eye-eye, my queen!"
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Eye Guy's main eye, and a good deal of the eyes on his body, are red.
Remote Body: Eye Guy can separate his core eye from all the other eyes that make up his body and remotely control it. When the body was blown apart by the Power Blaster, he simply reassembled it. When Billy tracked down his core eye and stabbed it with his Power Lance, Eye Guy immediately started to explode and was only saved by Rita making him grow.
Shock and Awe: Eye Guy can fire lightning bolts from his main eye when it's open.
Sorting Algorithm of Evil: In Lord Zedd's Monster Heads, Zedd notes that Eye Guy was a result of Rita realizing early on in her invasion that she needed to start making her monsters "infinitely more powerful" than she had been previously.
Stock Footage: The "alien child" shown being captured by Eye Guy on Regda 2 is clearly just a Japanese girl from the Zyuranger episode.
- All footage of Eye Guy during the fight with the Thunder Zords in "The Wedding Part III" is pulled entirely from his original Zord fight in "I, Eye Guy."
Third-Person Flashback: Eye Guy is one of the old monsters reminisced about in the Halloween VHS special Lord Zedd's Monster Heads. Zedd speaks about the event in perfect detail, as if he witnessed it himself... Which is impossible, considering the fight with Eye Guy took place LONG before Lord Zedd arrived on the moon.
Too Dumb to Live: Eye Guy is fully capable of protecting his main eye from harm simply by closing it. One wonders why he doesn't just leave it closed all the time, as he's still perfectly capable of moving around and fighting while it's shut.
Torpedo Tits: The two large eyeballs on Eye Guy's chest are capable of firing off Pac-Man-esque chomping energy blasts.
Would Hit a Girl: He grabs Aisha and throws her off a second-floor balcony in "The Wedding."
Would Hurt a Child: Eye Guy has no qualms about capturing kids and draining their intelligence for Rita.
You Can See That, Right?: Eye Guy asks Salaguana this when Zedd creates a pipe organ and a bench, then forces Snizard to begin playing the Wedding March.

Mr. Ticklesneezer

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

An elf monster created from Trini's doll, Rita wanted to use his collecting obsession to capture the Rangers.

All Just a Dream: In actuality, he never truly fought against the Rangers in real life, only in Trini's dream.
Goofy Buckteeth: He has buckteeth and likes to collect things that he should not such as buildings. He's also much less of a threat than the other monsters.
Nice Guy: Possibly one of the nicest monsters Rita created. When the Rangers told him people can get hurt from his collecting, he replies that isn't his intent.
Non-Action Guy: Mr. Ticklesneezer is not a fighter as his only notable power is capturing objects inside bottles.
Punch-Clock Villain: He openly states that he's only obeying Rita's orders because he has to.

Knasty Knight

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

A black knight monster summoned by Rita to fight Zack on his birthday.

Adaptation Expansion: It's revealed in "Green with Evil Part II" that he was responsible for collecting the Sword of Darkness from Zordon's forces and gifting it to Rita.
Alliterative Name: Knasty Knight.
All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Knasty Knight" as opposed to "Nasty Knight," according to his Bandai figure and his episode's VHS box.
- In a more literal sense, Knasty Knight is right there in the manual, in Finster's monster encyclopedia which catalogues all his various monster creations. On page twelve, specifically.
Black Knight: Fits this trope to a 'T.'
Captain Obvious: When recalling how Knasty Knight was destroyed by the Power Sword, Lord Zedd comments "That encounter didn't go as well as planned."
Chekhov's Gunman: In "Happy Birthday Zack," Knasty Knight seems to be just another random Monster of the Week. But later, in "Green With Evil," we find out he was the one responsible for giving the Sword of Darkness to Rita, which she uses to control the evil Green Ranger.
Cool Sword: While forging the sword along with Baboo, Finster says that, once completed, Knasty Knight's sword will be able to cut through any material in the universe, as well as host great magical powers.
Epic Flail: He has one on his shoulder, but only uses it in Zyuranger. MMPR couldn't use the footage because it featured him attacking the unmorphed Mammoth Ranger.
Evil Wears Black: He's quite a vicious fighter (nasty, even) and his armor is almost entirely black.
Flash Back: Knasty Knight's fight with the Rangers is one of the monster attacks Lord Zedd recalls and discusses in Lord Zedd's Monster Heads.
Flashback-Montage Realization: In "Island of Illusion Part II," when Zack's increasing self doubt is causing him to fade from existence, it is recalling his perseverance in the fight with Knasty Knight that allows him to regain his confidence and restore himself.
Forging Scene: Even though Knasty Knight himself is summoned by Rita, his sword is created by Finster and Baboo the old fashioned way.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Zack manages to figure out a way to redirect Knasty Knight's own energy back at him, which not only burns his sword but restores the Megazord's Power Sword. His now ruined sword is now vulnerable to the Megazord Power Sword.
Informed Ability: Finster says Knasty Knight's sword will be able to cut through any material in the universe, but its blade doesn't seem to hurt the Rangers and Zords worse than any other monster's sword.
King of Beasts: A trio of golden lions adorn his shield.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: The Rangers unite their Blade Blasters to fire off their powerful Tower Formation blast at Knasty Knight, but he manages to not only catch the blast with his shield, but also push it right back at them (although the latter takes visible physical effort).
Magic Knight: Not just skilled in traditional swordfighting, Knasty Knight also has the ability to use the Rangers' own power against them, charring their weapons in the process.
Monster Knight: But of course.
Oh, Crap!: He begins visibly panicking the moment he realizes his sword is caught in the Megazord's tractor beam and the Rangers begin reversing his own energy back at him. Moments later, he utters an "Uh oh" as the Megazord charges its finishing attack.
A Planet Named Zok: Rita had previously employed Knasty Knight on a planet known as Tarnac 3, where he "made space dust" out of their finest warrior (which we would later learn was fighting for Zordon).
The Quiet One: He can speak just fine, but doesn't do it very often.
Summon Magic: Knasty Knight is not created by Finster, but rather summoned by a spell cast from Rita.
"Moon of ivory, stars of old... Candlelight that's spun of gold... Sky of fire, wind of fright... Bring to me a Knasty Knight!"
Sword Beam: He can fire crimson energy blasts from the tip of his sword blade.
Third-Person Flashback: Knasty Knight is one of the old monsters reminisced about in the Halloween VHS special Lord Zedd's Monster Heads. Zedd speaks about the event in perfect detail, as if he witnessed it himself... Which is impossible, because the fight with Knasty Knight took place before even the Green Ranger was introduced, let alone Lord Zedd.
This Cannot Be!: He can't believe his eyes when he sees the Megazord re-energize and then restore the Power Sword to full strength.
Tome of Eldritch Lore: Knasty Knight is listed on page twelve of Finster's monster encyclopedia, opposite the Minotaur.
Too Dumb to Live: Knasty Knight has a perfectly good shield which has already been proven capable of reflecting the Rangers' energy attacks back at them, but for some reason he doesn't even attempt to use it to save himself from the Megazord's finisher. It probably wouldn't have worked, or at the very least broken from the impact, but it certainly wouldn't have hurt.
Wrecked Weapon: His most dangerous ability was to burn the Rangers' weapons and make them decay. He even does this to the Megazord's Power Sword until Zack figures out how to reverse its effects.
- Destroy the Villain's Weapon: He later finds himself on the receiving end of this when the Megazord repairs the Power Sword by reflecting his energy back at him and frying his own sword in return and uses it to chop Knasty Knight's now-ruined sword in half.

Pineoctopus

^{Pineapple the Clown}

Pineapple Portrayed By: Vernon Ballesteros

Pineoctopus Voiced By: Mike Reynolds

A pineapple-octopus monster who initially disguises himself as a clown named Pineapple to trap the Rangers at a fake carnival conjured up by Rita.

Adaptational Jerkass: His Zyuranger counterpart was far from a nice guy, but he never showed any desire to betray the boy he called a "kicking genius." Here, he just turns Sylvia to cardboard For the Evulz.
Adaptational Superpower Change: In Zyuranger, his counterpart used sneezing powder. In Power Rangers, his powder turned anyone he sprinkled it on into a cardboard cutout. It's one of the rare times that Power Rangers made a monster's power deadlier than its Super Sentai equivalent. Zigzagged as the Zyurangers were not immune to the sneezing powder when morphed, while the Power Rangers' suits protected them from being turned into cardboard.
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He disguises himself as Pineapple the Clown at the carnival. He commands a squad of Putties that have also disguised themselves as (human) clowns.
The Cameo: He is one of the monsters briefly hallucinated by the Rangers in "Island of Illusion Part I."
Collateral Damage: Pineapple attempts to sprinkle Billy with his cardboard cutout dust, but ends up accidentally hitting a Putty with it instead.
Combat Tentacles: He has six tentacles all around his torso, though only two of them are used as arms.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: He was destroyed by the Guardian Beast Tyrannosaurus in Zyuranger, as destroying him with Daizyujin would have caused his sneezing powder to spread. In Power Rangers, the Rangers destroy him with the Megazord's cranial laser. This was the first time Power Rangers had a monster destroyed differently than its original Super Sentai episode.
Dual Boss: Even though Rita believes that Pineoctopus is "wonderfully wicked" on his own, Baboo points out there's the possibility of failure and suggests that he should have some help, so she sends Goldar to fight the Rangers along with him.
Hand Blast: Pineoctopus can fire explosive energy orbs from his two arm-tentacles.
Human Popsicle: Well, Monster Popsicle. Once Zack freezes him solid with the Mastodon Dinozord's ice spray, the rest of the battle is just a formality.
I'm Melting!: Of the From the ground up variety. When finally cornered by the Rangers after they beat his Puttes, Pineapple seemingly melts or deflates, and Pineoctopus rises up from his human remains.
Lured into a Trap: He does this to Sylvia, then later tries it again with Billy, though the latter doesn't work.
Missing Child: Trini understandably panics when Sylvia is lured away by Pineapple.
Monster Clown: His Pineapple the Clown disguise radiates such a creepy menace that it's a relief when he assumes his true form. He keeps giving Trini's young cousin Sylvia creepy stares and is a little too handsy with her as he lures her away from the teens, even stroking her hair at one point. Depending on how you feel about clowns, Pineapple is quite possibly more menacing than any of the show's rubber suit Monsters of the Week. Actor Vernon Ballesteros gives a great "sinister, faking friendliness" performance. His true form is a downplayed version of this trope, retaining a few clown-like traits and still making a clown pun during the battle.
Not Even Human: Pineapple reveals he's more than just a creepy clown when he sheds his human guise and reveals the monstrous Pineoctopus underneath.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Pineoctopus stops Goldar from further thrashing the Rangers, saying that they were his.
Our Monsters Are Weird: A clown that transforms into a pineapple/octopus hybrid that turns its victims into cardboard cutouts. It's definitely an odd one.
Plant Aliens: He's a plant-themed creature, specifically a pineapple.
Pun: Pineapple says that Sylvia looks a bit board (bored) after turning her into a cardboard cutout. He also makes a few clown puns (including one in monster form).
Rhymes on a Dime: When trying to entice Sylvia into joining him for his juggling act, Pineapple says "Juggle my eggs and make them fly / Won't one of you give it a try?"
Shoo Out the Clowns: When his cardboard cutout dust simply makes Goldar, Squatt, and Baboo start sneezing, Pineoctopus tells them to go away, and they return to the moon. The irony being it was a clown monster doing the shooing out, not being shooed out.
Slasher Smile: Pineapple makes a few of these while watching Sylvia and the teens throughout the episode.
Tentacled Terror: He possesses six, though he only uses two.
Third-Person Person: He repeatedly refers to himself as "the mighty/great Pineoctopus."
Title Drop: Well, almost. Pineapple says "No more clowning around!" when cornered by the Rangers, even though the episode's title is "No Clowing Around."
Villain Teleportation: Pineapple is capable of teleporting with a shimmering ripple effect.
Vine Tentacles: Pineoctopus can unleash a pair of vines from his head, which lash the Rangers across their chests and knock them to the ground.
Would Hurt a Child: He casually turns Sylvia into a cardboard cutout, and even jokes about it, when cornered by Trini.

Terror Toad

Voiced By: Michael Sorich

A giant toad monster sent down to eat the Rangers.

Absurdly Sharp Claws: His most common method of attack is to wear the Rangers down by striking them with his sharp claws.
Acrofatic: Like other corpulent Sentai/Power Rangers beasts, the Toad is rotund but no less of a dangerous foe for it.
Adaptational Early Appearance: The Terror Toad's Zyuranger counterpart appeared about halfway through the show, after Burai (Tommy's counterpart) was introduced, but in Power Rangers he appears fairly early on before Tommy makes his debut.
Adaptation Personality Change: The Terror Toad is a lot more talkative than his Zyuranger counterpart.
Adaptational Wimp: His Sentai counterpart wasn't too bothered by the loss of his horn, claiming that it would grow back. Terror Toad is both horrified and outraged by its loss.
Alliterative Name: Terror Toad.
Amphibian Assault: The ravenous Terror Toad is capable of ensnaring people with his tongue and swallowing them whole.
Amphibian at Large: Terror Toad looks roughly about a head taller than the Rangers.
Attack Its Weak Point: The only way to truly destroy him is to cut off his horn and attack him by shooting inside his mouth.
Attack Reflector: When the Rangers fired their Blade Blasters at him, he created a force field around his belly that deflected the laser blasts right back at them.
Black-Hole Belly: Terror Toad swallows two of the Rangers whole, yet his body remains the same size.
Curb-Stomp Battle: The Terror Toad dominates the Rangers through most of the fight, until the very end when they turn the tables on him.
Eatingthe Enemy: He ate the Rangers, first by turning them into energy spheres to eat and then catch them with his tongue and swallowing them whole.
Feed It a Bomb: Well, more like "launch an exploding arrow down its throat."
Flashback-Montage Realization: In "Island of Illusion Part II," when Kim begins to vanish, it is recalling her fight with the Terror Toad that allows her to regain her confidence and avoid fading away.
Flashback Nightmare: In "Crystal of Nightmares", when the Rangers are subjected to the titular Crystal of Nightmares, Billy is forced to relive the experience of being devoured by the Terror Toad, causing him to lose his confidence.
Frog Men: The 'evil man-eating toad' type, specifically.
Green and Mean: As a toad, naturally, his skin is green.
Horn Attack: An unconventional example as the Terror Toad's horn can fire a Transformation Ray that turns the Rangers into energy spheres for him to swallow, and it can also fire destructive energy blasts.
Informed Ability: The Terror Toad's claims that his power grows each time he swallows one of the Rangers. Although he does dominate the Rangers for most of the battle, there seems to be no measurable evidence of this (likely because his Zyuranger counterpart did not have this ability).
Kevlard: His rotund stomach can No-Sell a kick from Jason.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: His mouth is lined with dozens of sharp teeth, though they mainly seem to be for show.
Mysterious Past: Finster comments that Rita's crew had great success with the Terror Toad on Sorcery 7, but no details are ever given. Though it's not hard to guess given the monster's appetite.
Nigh-Invulnerability: He was essentially invincible and took no damage from the Rangers' attacks, even shrugging off their Power Weapons. His only weakness was the secondary face beneath his neck folds.
One-Hit Kill: If the Terror Toad swallows one of the Rangers, they are trapped inside of him, effectively removing them from the fight.
One-Track-Minded Hunger: Based on his dialogue, he seems very single-minded in his mission to devour the Rangers.
Overly-Long Tongue: The Terror Toad uses his as a lasso to ensnare and pull the Rangers into his mouth after his horn is broken off.
Past Victim Showcase: An image of each Ranger's helmet appears on his belly after he has eaten them. The images apparently have no practical purpose, but serve as a cruel reminder of the Rangers that are trapped in the Terror Toad's belly.
Pun: "How about going for a little spin, bud?" and "Now you've made me hopping mad!"
Spell My Name with a "The": He is most often identified as "The" Terror Toad, though he is sometimes referred to as "A" Terror Toad.
Stout Strength: Despite his large girth, the Terror Toad is very strong.
Untouchable Until Tagged: The Terror Toad takes almost no damage in the fight, until Kim hits the weak spot on his neck, freeing the other Rangers from his stomach, at which point the Rangers dominate him with blow after blow.
Villainous Breakdown: Billy and Kim cutting off his horn activates his Berserk Button, and he takes Petty Revenge by devouring Jason. Though he was planning on eating him regardless.

Madame Woe

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Voiced By: Alex Borstein

An elemental sorceress that mistakes Billy's date, Marge, for a Power Ranger.

Adaptational Early Appearance: Madame Woe appeared in the second half of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, but in MMPR, she appears a few episodes before Tommy arrives.
All There in the Script: According to the script for "Peace, Love and Woe," the location Madame Woe traps her victims in is known as the Blue Dimension.
- It's also clarifies that her name is indeed spelled with an 'e' - It's Madame Woe, not Madam.
Attack Its Weak Point: Her forehead jewel is both her strength and weakness. Once Billy crushes it, she's at the Rangers' mercy.
Breath Weapon: She blows a gust of wind from her mouth at Billy. It causes sparks, naturally.
Cassandra Truth: Marge tells Madame Woe that she isn't a Power Ranger, but the sorceress doesn't believe her and captures her anyway.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Madame Woe is completely unbeatable in the Blue Dimension, avoiding all the Rangers' attacks while her own powers are boosted. Even when Billy fights her with the power of the entire team, she still beats the ever-living tar out of him. It's only thanks to a lucky leg sweep that Billy can remove her jewel and render her powerless.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Her Zyuranger counterpart was destroyed by the Zyurangers' Thunder Slingers, but as the weapons weren't introduced yet in MMPR, here she's destroyed by the Power Blaster.
The Dreaded: Baboo seems quite frightened by the idea of summoning Madame Woe, saying she's almost as horrible as Rita is.
Elemental Powers: She can control the wind, rain, heat, and cold thanks to her jewel.
Flashback-Montage Realization: In "Island of Illusion Part II," when Billy begins to vanish because he thinks he's failed the team despite his intelligence, it is recalling his fight with Madame Woe that allows him to regain his confidence and avoid fading away.
- Mythology Gag: When Quagmire tries to help remind Billy of his fight with her, he refers to Woe as "a nightmare queen" who fought Billy "in a land of dreams." His description is oddly less fitting of Madame Woe and seems to be referring more to Dora Raiger, her counterpart from Zyuranger, who actually did capture children in their dreams.
Flight: While she can hover in the real world, Madame Woe can outright fly in her alternate dimension.
Fragile Speedster: She can disappear and reappear in the blink of an eye. She uses this to frequently avoid the Rangers' physical blows.
Glowing Gem: Her crystal glows each time she uses its power.
Idiot Ball: Madame Woe mistakes Marge for a Power Ranger because... she's there, essentially. Even Rita calls her out on this.
Rita: "I can't understand you! I specifically told you to get the Power Ranger, Madame Woe! Not the girl!"
Inconsistent Spelling: In the Sega Genesis game, her name is spelled "Madam Woe," while on her trading card, it's correctly spelled "Madame Woe."
Innocent Bystander: Marge gets captured by Madame Woe because she's waiting to meet Billy at the park, where Rita told Woe that she could find him.
Leitmotif: Madame Woe's theme sounds oriental.
Lightning Lash: She can send electric bolts through her braids, which she uses to electrify Billy during their one-on-one.
Making a Splash: In her alternate dimension, she manipulates a small pool of water to spray the Rangers with a firehose-like stream.
Mistaken Identity: She captures Marge because Rita had told her that one of the Rangers would be at the park at 4:00 (as Billy had plans to meet Marge there). When Madame Woe arrives, Marge is the only one there, so she assumes she's the Ranger Rita spoke of.
Mysterious Past: Madame Woe's origins aren't entirely clear. At the start of the episode, Rita tells Finster to start work on her, but the first time we see her, she's already alive and treated as a separate entity that Rita calls upon.
Non-Standard Character Design: She's clearly more human-like and has an ethereal quality to her compared to Finster's usual brutish, beast-like monsters.
Oh, Crap!: After the Rangers form the Power Blaster, she fearfully says "Woe is me!" and puts her arm up to shield herself from the blast.
Play as a Boss: She's one of the playable characters in the Sega Genesis Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fighting game.
Pocket Dimension: Madame Woe's most notable ability is to use her crown jewel to send people to another reality filled with dead trees and mist known as the Blue Dimension, which is what Rita calls upon her for. A good deal of the fight between her and the Rangers takes place there.
Power Crystal: The blue jewel in Madame Woe's forehead is the source of her powers. She's also able to make the Rangers burst with sparks just by making the crystal glow.
Prehensile Hair: Madame Woe can use her long braids to either ensnare foes like grappling cables or lash them like whips.
Pun: "Woe is me!"
Valkyries: With her horned crown, flowing robes, and long hair braids, Madame Woe seems quite reminiscent to the common "viking opera singer" depiction of Valkyrie Brünnhilde from Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
Villainous Friendship: Whether Madame Woe is a Monster of the Week or a separate, sentient being, Rita seems to hold a certain amount of respect for her, asking for her involvement in getting rid of the Rangers as a favor, rather than simply ordering her to do so.
White Mask of Doom: She wears a white, emotionless mask upon her face, with closed blue eye lids and small red lips. Her power crystal is housed within the mask's forehead.
Wolverine Claws: Madame Woe's finger nails are long and sharp to the point that they look like knives and they're sturdy enough to slash the Rangers.

Snizard

Voiced By: Bryan Cranston ("Foul Play in the Sky"), Michael Sorich ("Zedd's Monster Mash" and Lord Zedd's Monster Heads), Bob Papenbrook ("The Wedding Part II"), Unknown ("The Wedding Part III"), Daniel Watterson (MMPR: Once & Always)

A snake-lizard hybrid monster sent down to battle the Power Rangers while Kimberly was trapped in a pilotless plane.

Adaptational Wimp: In Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, the destruction of his Zapper Apple just made him lose some of his power, but he still was a dangerous threat that required the Howling Cannon (Power Blaster) to finish off. In Power Rangers, he dies as soon as his Zapper Apple is destroyed.
Adaptation Species Change: Snizard's Zyuranger counterpart was a ladon, a type of dragon from Greek mythology. Power Rangers went the more simple route and made him a combined snake-and-lizard monster.
Advertising-Only Continuity: He would occasionally be referred to as "Snizard Lips" in various merchandise.
Attack Its Weak Point: The Zapper Apple on his head was the weak spot Kimberly had to aim for in order to destroy him. This was similar to how Hercules killed the ladon in the original myth. In Zyuranger, it was just a standard Wrecked Weapon.
Attack Reflector: With his Zapper Apple, Snizard can reflect the blasts of the Blade Blasters right back at the Rangers.
Back from the Dead: Zigzagged in "Zedd's Monster Mash" as it's not entirely clear if the haunted forest dimension is some type of afterlife reality and if the monsters there are actually alive or not. Played straight later in "The Wedding."
The Bus Came Back: He was one of the monsters that came back in Season 2's "Zedd's Monster Mash" (the monsters in which were said to be among Zedd's favorites) and "The Wedding."
- He returns thirty years later, rebuilt into a new cyborg form by Robo-Rita in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always.
The Cameo: He is one of the monsters briefly hallucinated by the Rangers in "Island of Illusion Part I."
- Eagle-eyed viewers will be able to spot him in "Countdown to Destruction Part I" if you know exactly where to look, as the crown of his Zapper Apple (with the apple no longer in it for some reason) is the only visible part of him.
Cephalothorax: He's technically one of these, as his mouth can open all the way down to his waist, revealing that he's essentially just a large snake head with arms and legs.
Classical Mythology: Snizard's Zyuranger counterpart, Dora Ladon, was based on the ladon, a dragon that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides. This also explains the golden apple cradled within the crown of his Zapper Apple.
Decapitation Presentation: Literally, as Snizard's wedding present to Rita and Zedd is seemingly a severed human head in a picnic basket.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: While Power Rangers had Snizard die immediately after Kimberly struck his apple, the Zyurangers still had to use the Howling Cannon (Power Blaster) to complete the job.
Early-Bird Cameo: Snizard can be spotted in Finster's monster encyclopedia in "Happy Birthday Zack," four episodes before his debut in "Foul Play in the Sky."
Hidden Depths: He is tasked with playing the organ for Rita and Zedd's wedding. He does a pretty good job.
Inconsistent Spelling: It's never been made concrete whether or not this monster's name is spelled with one or two 'z's. The original Bandai figure spelled it "Snizard" (which would make the most sense, as the monster's name is a portmanteau of "snake" and "lizard," the latter of which is spelled with a single 'z') while the Lightning Collection figure spells it "Snizzard." For what it's worth, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always uses the "Snizzard" spelling.
Let's Split Up, Gang!: When the Rangers manage to get away from the monsters in the abandoned theater, the monsters split off into duos to track them down, with Snizard and Robogoat pairing off.
Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: He plays a slightly off-key version of "Here Comes the Bride" at Zedd and Rita's wedding.
Monster Threat Expiration: Zigzagged in "Zedd's Monster Mash." None of the monsters Doomstone spams at the Rangers are very effective, including Snizard. But he is the only one of them to land any blows on the Rangers before being taken out, flooring both Tommy and Billy.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Snizard not only has countless sharp teeth in his regular mouth, but also his full-body torso mouth, meaning he has two rows of teeth running down each side of his body.
No-Sell: He casually brushes the Rangers off when they bring their Blade Blasters down on his head, and when they trying shooting him with them, he barely even budges and his crown reflects their beams back at them.
Oddly Shaped Sword: His Bandai figure came with a sword made out of a cobra.
Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Snizard is 50% snake, 50% lizard, and 100% pure evil.
Rimshot: Lord Zedd asks Snizard if he can play the Wedding March, to which the monster replies "No, but if you hum a few bars, I can fake it." A rimshot can be heard after his response.
Snakes Are Sinister: Snizard is half snake and sends regular sized snakes from his innards (which he calls "tonsil snakes") to bind the Rangers and drain their energy. His legs are also comprised of large masses of regular snakes tangled together.
Sssssnake Talk: Present, but very downplayed. With his original voice (as performed by Bryan Cranston), Snizard mainly sounds like he's emphasizing his 'S's rather than drawing them out like most snake-themed characters. This aspect is completely absent in all subsequent appearances, though.
Stock Footage: Zedd and Snizard's exchange about playing the Wedding March in "The Wedding Part III" is reused in its entirety in Lord Zedd's Monster Heads and dubbed over with new dialogue to recontextualize it being about playing music for Zedd's Halloween party rather than his and Rita's wedding. Snizard's "If you hum a few bars..." response is even reused, despite being dubbed over by a different voice actor.
The Straight and Arrow Path: He wields a bow and arrow, probably in reference to how Hercules killed his mythological counterpart. This is also how he's killed, as Kimberly shoots a Power Arrow directly into his Zapper Apple.
Tail Slap: He spins around and smacks Jason with his tail, knocking him to the ground. In "Zedd's Monster Mash" he knocks the White Ranger to the ground with one of these as well.
Third-Person Flashback: Snizard being resurrected by Doomstone to fight the Rangers is one of the events reminisced about in the Halloween VHS special Lord Zedd's Monster Heads.
Tome of Eldritch Lore: Snizard gets a two page spread in Finster's monster encyclopedia. One page shows the monster normally, while the other shows him with his torso mouth fully open.
Too Many Mouths: In addition to his large torso mouth, Snizard's arms are cobras and his hands are their heads, meaning each of his hands has their own mouth.
Vampiric Draining: Snizard's tonsil snakes drain the Rangers of their strength, noticeably weakening them, although it isn't specified if they're draining the teens' life force, their Ranger powers, or both.
We Can Rebuild Him: Robo-Rita does this to him thirty years later, turning him into Robo-Snizard.
What Happened to the Mouse?: As Snizard never grew to giant size in Zyuranger there was no useable Stock Footage for "The Wedding Part III" to use in the final fight against the Thunder Zords, meaning he just completely disappears from the story with no resolution.
William Telling: The myth of William Tell is referenced as Kimberly shoots the Zapper Apple atop Snizard's head.

Dark Warrior

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

A stealthy, army-colored ninja monster that kidnapped Trini's uncle for his invisibility potion.

Adaptational Early Appearance: Dark Warrior appeared in the second half of Zyuranger, but here, he appeared a few episodes before Tommy arrived. A scene with Titanus attacking him had to be removed for obvious reasons.
Antagonist Title: "Dark Warrior"
Arm Cannon: Wields a wrist cannon capable of shooting white energy blasts at the Rangers. It was also his strongest attack.
Katanas Are Just Better: One of his weapons is a katana
Lightning Bruiser: Ninja speed aside, the Dark Warrior is strong enough to best the Rangers.
Ninja: Of course.
Stock Ninja Weaponry: He wields a traditional chain and sickle.

Genie

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

A jackal-headed genie monster released by Baboo and Squatt to fight the Rangers.

Adaptational Villainy: In Zyuranger, the Genie (or Djinn as he was called) was more of a Punch-Clock Villain since he obeyed whoever held the lamp and genuinely liked it when his masters treated him nice, despising Bandora. Here, he is a one-dimensional baddie who loyally served Rita and never even granted one wish.
All Webbed Up: The Genie is capable of shooting web to restrain his opponents and electrocute them
Big "NO!": Let one out when he was destroyed.
Cutting the Knot: The only way the Rangers could defeat him was Alpha 5 and Zordon destroying his lamp.
Death by Adaptation: Unlike his Zyuranger counterpart, he died in the end.
Our Genies Are Different: This one has the usual garb but with the bodily appearance of an anthropomorphic jackal. He also doesn't seem to have much in the line of wishes. He is, however, a fearsome warrior, nearly drilling through the Megazord's cockpit window.
This Is a Drill: The Genie's main weapon is a staff with a drill at the end of it.

Shellshock

Voiced By: Richard Epcar

A tortoise monster created by Baboo and Squatt from one of Finster's unfinished creations by adding random junk onto it.

And I Must Scream: Shellshock's stop ray has this effect, even though his victims often don't realize what's happened to them given how quickly it acts.
Animal Motif: Themed after a tortise.
Antagonist Title: "The Trouble with Shellshock."
Batter Up!: One of Shellshock's main weapons is a baseball bat, which he uses to pelt the Rangers with numerous baseballs, as well as the more traditional use of whacking people with it.
Beware the Silly Ones: Shellshock is certainly one of the more cartoonish of Power Rangers' monsters (and that's saying something), but he does a surprisingly good job at keeping the Rangers on the ropes, to the point that even Rita is impressed. Jason flat out says his Zord can't beat Shellshock on its own, which is more than the Giant can say, not to mention the other monsters the Tyrannosaurus could at least hold its own against.
Body Horror: When Shellshock brings out his baseball bat, he's not just holding it normally. It's actually a completely new arm that ends not in a hand, but rather a fleshy stump that the bat itself is a part of.
The Cameo: He is one of the monsters briefly hallucinated by the Rangers in "Island of Illusion Part I."
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Shellshock says this word for word as he spends the initial part of his giant monster rampage calling out for Jason to come and fight him.
Doting Parent: Squatt and Baboo are this to him, even cheering him on during the Zord fight.
Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: The pollen of the mythical Deandra Flower shorts out his traffic light, as well as temporarily disorients him.
Freeze Ray: A rare non-ice-related example, fired from Shellshock's stoplight.
Giver of Lame Names: Baboo considers naming their monster "Greta" or "Peitouche" before Squatt points out those are lousy names for a turtle and suggests "Shellshock." Thankfully, they go with the third option.
Glowing Flora: Both the Deandra Flower and its pollen - Shellshock's one weakness - glow with a yellow light.
Hammerspace: Shellshock's shell presumably has the rest of his body inside it, but also has room for a baseball bat, a pirate hook, an endless supply of baseballs, and a cannon.
Hook Hand: Shellshock can withdraw his left arm into his shell and replace its hand with a pirate hook to use as a melee weapon.
Improbable Weapon User: His main weapon is a traffic light that can either freeze its opponent or make its target run non-stop. He can also pull a baseball bat out of his shell and hit baseballs at his targets.
New Powers as the Plot Demands: Shellshock's go beam is first shown hitting the Rangers' basketball, which causes it to explode into pieces. But when the same beam later hits Trini, it simply sends her body into perpetual motion and she finds herself unable to stop running.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Zapping Trini with his go beam apparently makes her capable of running all the way to the Mountain of Hope and acquiring the Deandra Flower.
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A tortoise monster with a traffic light on his shell, a pirate hook hand, and a cannon head.
Not-So-Harmless Villain: Shellshock, a monster created by Squatt and Baboo of all people, turns out to be this when his random, quirky abilities actually manage to take out four of the six Rangers and the two most powerful Dino Zords.
One-Hit Kill: His stop ray immediately turns anyone it hits into living statues and takes them out of the fight.
Our Monsters Are Weird: One of the more notable examples, being a turtle with a traffic light in his back.
Power Fist: Squatt gives Shellshock a brass knuckle when he's adding weapons to his monster mold, but we never see Shellshock actually use it in battle.
Red/Green Contrast: Shellshock's stop ray comes from his traffic light's red light and his go beam comes from the green light. We never get to see what the yellow light does (not even in Zyuranger).
Reptiles Are Abhorrent: A rare example of a turtle character being the abhorrent one, as opposed to a snake or crocodile.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Shellshock, Squatt, and Baboo pull this after receiving a single shot from Jason's Blade Blaster as opposed to any meaningful beatdown.
Shout-Out: Upon being grown to giant size, Shellshock boasts "Wait'll those Teenage Mutants see what a full grown turtle can do!"
This Cannot Be!:
- Goldar is in utter disbelief that a monster created by Squatt and Baboo actually defeated the Rangers in battle, even briefly.
- Squatt and Baboo later have this reaction when Trini uses the Deandra Flower to weaken Shellshock and undo his stop ray.
Unusual Weapon Mounting: He can withdraw his head into his shell and replace it with a powerful cannon.
Weaponized Headgear: The cannon that he can replace his head with. It's strong enough to knock even the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord for a loop.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: After being overpowered by the Tyrannosaurus and Dragonzord, he pretends to have gotten dirt in his eyes, causing them to lower their guard so he can hit them with his stop ray.
Wrecked Weapon: The pollen from the Deandra Flower shorts out his traffic light.

Spidertron

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

A spider monster that was sent to Earth via a fake statue.

All Webbed Up: Naturally he would have this ability as a spider.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: Among the more horrific of the insectoid monsters Rita sends.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Early on in the Megazord fight, the Rangers land a huge haymaker that knocks him down, but rather than being weakened, he gets up immediately, extremely pissed off, and creates a giant spider-web to trap the Megazord in, electrocutes it, lifts it and tosses it aside. In a panic, Jason says, "DISENGAGE THE MEGAZORD!" but the battle with the individual Zords goes even worse.
Giant Spider: Well of course.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His final fate, courtesy of the Dragonzord Battle Mode.
It's Personal: Zack utterly despised this monster both because it threatened his martial arts students and because he was terrified of spiders.
Kill It with Ice: Subverted. Zack tries to freeze Spidertron with the Mastodon Zord's ice storms, but it just shakes itself free.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Spidertron, naturally for an arachnid.
Non-Indicative Name: Despite the "tron" in his name, he appears wholly organic/ceramic.
No-Sell: Giant-sized, he was able to shrug off the individual Zord's attacks. At least until Dragonzord Battle Mode arrived. Zack managed to freeze him with the Mastodon Zord's ice blasts...for all of about three seconds, before he managed to shake the ice off.
The Voiceless: Doesn't talk except for roaring.
The Worf Effect: The Megazord is Worf at the beginning of the battle. The huge Megazord haymaker that would normally leave a monster reeling and stunned just pisses him off. He decides he's not going to play around and traps the Megazord in an exploding web, lifts them high in the air and tosses them aside, causing Jason to disengage the Megazord in panic. Later on, he plays Worf to the Dragonzord in Battle Mode. Did he really think charging a glowing drill was a good idea?

Spit Flower

Voiced By: Mike Reynolds

An insect monster that eats flowers to become stronger.

Attack Its Weak Point: Kimberly had to strike his spit sack to weaken him.
Canis Latinicus: According to Finster, the Spit Flower's scientific name is Flora expectorosis.
Garden of Evil: The Spitflower can turn any harmless little plant into a toothy gnawing monster, or as Alpha puts it, "Dangerous daisies!"
Made of Iron: Put it this way, it took three blasts from the Power Blaster to take him down, although the second one knocked off his mighty claw arm.
Power Pincers: Has these for arms.
The Voiceless: Doesn't talk except for laughing, roaring, and grunting.
The Worf Effect: Spitflower proves to be a match even for Dragonzord Battle Mode, which was able to annihilate Spidertron in the previous episode easily. Subverted when Spitflower itself plays Worf to Kim's bow, like several monsters before it.

Frankenstein Monster

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Portrayed By: Maroshi Tamura (Zyuranger footage), Jason David Frank (Power Rangers footage)

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

Rita's version of the Frankenstein Monster, created by Finster to infiltrate the Youth Center's costume party and distract the Rangers while he and the Putties harvest a supply of super putty.

Adaptational Villainy: This version of Frankenstein is far more vicious and evil than Mary Shelley's misunderstood outcast.
Adaptational Wimp: While hardly a weakling by any means, it still takes noticeably less effort to destroy him than it did his Zyuranger counterpart. In Power Rangers, the Power Staff outright destroys Frankenstein, while in Zyuranger it simply initiates his transformation into his second stage. Justified due to Decomposite Character. Even then, he was arguably one of Finster's finest creations, given that he gave the Dragonzord Fighting Mode a vicious beating even during its Theme Music Power-Up.
Breath Weapon: Frankenstein can spew a poisonous red gas from his mouth.
Bullying a Dragon: After Frankenstein tosses Sharkie aside, Bulk and Skull fight back, with the latter shooting Frankenstein in the forehead with a dart gun. The monster, now infuriated, proceeds to chase them out of the Youth Center.
The Cameo: Due to a stock footage mishap, he accidentally makes an appearance in "Gung Ho!" even though he isn't actually in the episode, as the Super Putties are that episode's Monster of the Week.
Catch and Return: He catches the Dragonzord Fighting Mode's energy fin projectile attack and pushes it back at the Zord.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Frankenstein is in complete control of the fight with the Zords, thrashing the Megazord, the Dragonzord, and the Dragonzord Fighting Mode without even breaking a sweat. It's easily one of the harshest beatdowns the Dino Zords ever received.
Deadly Gas: Frankenstein's gas breath causes the Rangers to start choking inside the Megazord's cockpit.
Decomposite Character: His Zyuranger counterpart was the first form of a three stage monster. In Power Rangers, the second and third forms were presented as a completely unrelated monster (the zombie and demon forms of Mutaytus from "Island of Illusion"). This also means he doesn’t get any help from Lokar, unlike his Zyuranger version.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Getting stabbed by the Dragonzord Fighting Mode's Power Staff is enough to successfully defeat Frankenstein, whereas it only made his Zyuranger counterpart Dora Franke stronger and mutate into his second form.
Epic Flail: Upon growing to giant size, he possesses an alternate version of his nunchucks, where one of the neck bolts been replaced with a large metal ball.
For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: He invades the Youth Center's costume party in his attempt to hunt down the Rangers, allowing him to move about among the partygoers (mostly) undetected.
Frankenstein's Monster: Finster's own version of Mary Shelley's tragic monster, with the design of the creature clearly inspired by Jack Pierce's iconic version of the Monster in the Universal 1931 horror classic. He's notable for being the only Monster of the Week in all of MMPR (whether created by Finster, Rita, or Lord Zedd) to be blatantly based on a pre-established character from Earth's pop culture. While plenty of monsters have had suffixes like "-stein" and "-zilla" at the end of their names, this is the only monster to ever actually be Frankenstein.
Grievous Harm with a Body: Near the end of the fight, he lifts the Dragonzord into the air by its tail, swings it around, and slams it into the Megazord.
Hoist Hero over Head: At one point he lifts the fallen Megazord over his head, spinning around with it before throwing it into a building.
Hurt Foot Hop: He does a brief one when Sharkie steps on his foot while dancing.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Frankenstein is ultimately beaten by the Dragonzord Fighting Mode's Power Staff.
Implacable Man: He hunts the Rangers down across Angel Grove and once he finds them, he walks through literally everything they throw at him.
Instant Chucks: Frankenstein can actually just pull the large metal bolts out of his neck, which are then suddenly connected by a chain, giving him an effective set of nunchucks. The concept uses a bit of Hammerspace mixed with a little bit of MST3K Mantra.
Lightning Bruiser: He's massive and strong, but as he's essentially a human and not a big bulky monster, he's a lot more nimble than he looks. When the Rangers jump at him, he's able to jump right back at them and knock them flat.
Made of Iron: Frankenstein takes everything the Rangers throw at him and brushes it all off before finally being destroyed by the Dragonzord Fighting Mode. Even then, the Zord was having notable difficulty and basically won by getting in a lucky shot.
Monstrous Humanoid: He's the most human-like monster in all of MMPR, which makes sense considering in the original novel and movies, the character is human.
Non-Standard Character Design: A scarce example of the Monster of the Week being played by a person in makeup rather than a rubber monster suit.
No-Sell: Fighting Frankenstein with the Megazord, the Rangers summon the Power Sword. The Megazord lifts its weapon high and brings it down hard on the Monster, who stands still, thrusts his chest out, lets the Power Sword bounce off, and laughs. Later, he catches the Dragonzord Fighting Mode's energy fin attack in his hands and throws it back.
The Quiet One: He's often misremembered as a silent monster, but he was actually capable of speaking, as he answered "I can!" when Rita asked him if he could destroy the Rangers. He had two other lines, "c'mere" at the dance and "yeah" in the cave.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Frankenstein's eyes are blood red.
Scary Stitches: Being the Frankenstein Monster, he naturally has these on his face.
Stranger Behind the Mask: The Rangers spend a fair amount of time at the costume party trying to figure out if the Frankenstein Monster is actually Tommy in a costume or not.
Super-Strength: The Monster has noticeable physical strength, even for one of Rita's monsters. He's able to hoist the Megazord into the air with his ball and chain weapon, as well as outright lift the Megazord overhead with his hands. Later he's also able to pick the Dragonzord up by its tail and swing it around.
Technicolor Toxin: Frankenstein's gas breath, which seems to be some level of toxic, is bright red in color.
This Is a Drill: He finds this out when he charges the Dragonzord Fighting Mode and ends up with a gaping hole in his torso.
Undeathly Pallor: Being a creature made of stitched together corpses, Frankenstein's skin is sickly bluish-gray in color.
Untouchable Until Tagged: Neither the Rangers nor the Zords get a single blow in on the Monster until the lucky shot with the Power Staff that destroys him. The closest they get before that is one single hit with the Power Sword that the Monster lets them land, and even then it's simply to make the point that the sword won't hurt him (which it doesn't).
Variable-Length Chain: The chain of giant sized Frankenstein's nunchuck-and-ball weapon wildly fluctuates in length throughout the Zord fight.
Villain Teleportation: He teleports in a multicolored fireball from Finster's laboratory to Earth.
Window Watcher: As he roams around Angel Grove trying to find the Rangers, he passes by Skull's (or Bulk's) house as they're trying on costumes and peers in through the window.

Super Putties

Super-powered versions of the Putty Patrollers molded by Finster out of a special super putty, strong enough to throw around fully morphed Rangers and capable of reforming after sustaining damage.

Adapted Out: In Zyuranger, they had the ability to fire explosive projectiles from their hands, a power that the original Putties lacked completely. For some reason, this was cut out of their MMPR appearance.
Asteroids Monster: When they're blown to pieces by a Ranger's attack, not only do they reform completely unharmed, but they form two new Super Putties instead of just simply healing the original.
Blade Below the Shoulder: Like the originals, some Super Putties had swords for hands.
The Bus Came Back: The Super Putties return several episodes later to assist Jellyfish Warrior against the Rangers in "Reign of the Jellyfish."
Conservation of Ninjutsu: When the second batch of Super Putties accompanying Jellyfish Warrior fight the Rangers, they don't display any of their special abilities such as superior strength or power to split into new Super Putties when destroyed (though, in defense of the latter, the Rangers never use their weapons to break them apart in this fight, either).
Fighting in the Playground: The Super Putties attack Trini and Kimberly as they're passing through the park. The ensuing fight takes place on and around the playground equipment.
Innocuously Important Episode: When Finster harvests the super putty in "Life's A Masquerade," it doesn't seem like it'll be that important a development. In "Gung Ho!," however, this leads to Finster creating the Super Putties which nearly defeat the Rangers, as well as introducing Titanus the Carrierzord.
Literally Shattered Lives: They break apart into chunks of clay whenever the Rangers manage to land a strong enough blow on them, but unfortunately it's not enough.
Meaningful Name: They are Super Putties because they are superior versions of the original Putty Patrollers and they're also made out of super putty.
No Body Left Behind: The Super Putties don't explode when destroyed by the special weapons, but rather fade away. Even the smoke generated from them getting blasted disappears along with them.
No-Sell: The Super Putties have absolutely no reaction to being shot by the Rangers' Blade Blasters.
Power Fist: Just as the original Putties did, some Super Putties have metal balls for hands.
Pulling Themselves Together: They do this whenever they've been shattered by an attack, making them essentially undefeatable.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Unlike the normal Putties (at least up until this episode), the Super Putties have solid red eyes.
Stop Motion: This technique is used to portray the Super Putties as they reform themselves and divide.
Super Powered Mooks: They're an upgrade to Rita's original Putties and noticeably so. They're so strong and relentless that they deliver a beatdown to four of the Rangers and can only be beaten by special weapons.
Villain Decay: Assuming their appearance in "Reign of the Jellyfish" wasn't just a case of Inconsistent Dub, the Super Putties were noticeably weaker than they were in "Gung Ho!," with the Rangers able to overpower and beat them without even needing to use the special weapons.

Wheel of Misfortune

Originally an antique spinning wheel that belonged to Kimberly's grandmother. It was put under a spell by Rita and turned into the Wheel of Misfortune.

Advertising-Only Continuity: The announcer of the episode's Cold Opening called it the Wheel of Destruction.
Antagonist Title: "Wheel of Misfortune"
Deadly Disc: Essentially it is a wheel and a monster.
Punny Name: Poking fun at a rather notable game show.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: The Ultrazord against a wheel monster that wasn't doing much damage to the zords, a wheel monster that Rita never even made giant for some reason.
The Voiceless: Did not talk, not even make grunting or growling sounds. He just made hissing, sparking, and whooshing sounds.

Mutaytus

Voiced By: Richard Epcar

A zombie monster sent by Rita to attack the Power Rangers.

All There in the Script: The spelling of "Mutaytus" comes directly from "Island of Illusion"'s script.
Decomposite Character: His Zyuranger counterpart was part of a three-mode monster. In Power Rangers, it was separated into two separate creatures: Frankenstein Monster and Mutaytus (second and third modes).
Epic Flail: Wields a spiked flail weapon similar to Frankenstein Monster's.
Metamorphosis Monster: Transforms into a more powerful form thanks to Lokar's Breath of Doom.
One-Winged Angel: After receiving a boost of power from Lokar, he becomes even more monstrous than before.
Spikes of Villainy: Has them in his second form.
The Worf Effect: Strong enough to handle both the Megazord and the Dragonzord, but lost to the MegaDragonzord.

Rockstar

Voiced By: Tony Oliver

A rock monster who accompanied Scorpina in collecting the Mirror of Destruction.

Antagonist Title: "The Rockstar".
Bare-Fisted Monk: Uses his fists more than often.
Death by Irony: He was destroyed by the item he was looking for.
Dishing Out Dirt: He can throw rocks towards his opponents, which can stick to them and prevent them from fighting effectively.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Instead of being immune to the mirror's effects as so often happens with monsters and magic artifacts, Rockstar is just as vulnerable to the Mirror of Destruction as everyone else (Scorpina and Goldar are both terrified of it despite wanting it themselves).
Too Dumb to Live: Do you really think looking into the MIRROR OF DESTRUCTION is going to end well for you, Rita's monster or not?

Samurai Fan Man

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

A samurai monster that captured Kimberly in his magic jar.

Blow You Away: With his giant fan, he can create gusts of wind.
Captain Ersatz: To Journey to the West. His weapons include a staff (like the one Sun Wukong/Monkey uses, but his staff can't extend), a rake (the weapon of choice for Zhu Bajie/Pigsy), a magic jar that's shaped like a gourd (an item used by Gold Horned and Silver Horned Great Kings/Jinjiao Dawang, Yinjiao Dawang against Wukong, though his version lacks Acid Pool inside it), and a giant fan (Iron Fan Princess's weapon when confronting Wukong).
Godzilla Threshold: After the Rangers get blown away, Zordon regroups them in the Command Center and breaks one of his own rules by telling them to use their Zords to crush the Samurai Fan Man while he was still small. However, they waited until he grew giant to summon their Zords.
Improbable Weapon User: His main weapon is a big Japanese-style fan.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He delivers this to the Rangers, their individual Zords, the Dragonzord Battle Mode, the Megazord, and the Dragonzord. In fact, the finishing move to kill monsters is used to simply make him drop the jar holding Kimberly so they can form the Ultrazord.
Pyrrhic Victory: Whoops the Dragonzord Battle Mode's ass, but mid-battle it manages to use its finishing strike to break the rope holding the jar, which was the idea behind forming it in the first place.
Suicidal Overconfidence: Unlike most monsters, he arrogantly charges the Ultrazord, which dispatches him in seconds as it does every foe to go against it. Sort of justified given how easily he handled the other zord formations.

Weaveworm

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Voiced By: Richard Cansino

Scorpina's pet silkworm monster, created by Finster, that accompanied her in order to trap the Rangers inside a cocoon.

Adaptational Wimp: In Zyuranger, the Weaveworm's counterpart Dora Silkis had the ability to sting and mind control people. In MMPR, this plot is excised entirely, leaving spewing silk as his only special power.
All There in the Script: "Weaveworm" comes from "A Star Is Born"'s script, as he's never referred to by name in the episode itself.
All Webbed Up: One of the rare occasions where a non-spider has this ability.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: A hulking yellow caterpillar with empty black eye sockets, incapable of coherent speech.
Demoted to Extra: The Weaveworm's Zyuranger counterpart had an entire episode dedicated to him, but in Power Rangers, he had to share one with Babe Ruthless. This was done because he spent most of his time in his larval form during the Sentai, as the episode focused more on Mei (Kimberly's counterpart in Zyuranger) fighting against Lami (Scorpina's counterpart) than it did the usual Monster of the Week fight.
Killer Rabbit: Even when only the size of a normal silkworm, he's still capable of ensnaring the Rangers in a tightly woven cocoon.
Made of Iron: Megazord lands a nasty haymaker, the monster tumbles back and gets up like nothing happened.
Metamorphosis: He initiates this once it's time to face the Rangers head-on.
Metamorphosis Monster: He turns from a little (though still sizeable) caterpillar into a huge bipedal monster.
Never Given a Name: He's only ever referred to as Scorpina's pet worm.
No Body Left Behind: Yes, all monsters explode when struck down by a Zord's finisher, but going off of the silhouette seen within the rushing energy, the Weaveworm is absolutely shredded by the MegaDragonzord's finishing attack.
One-Hit Kill: At giant size, the Weaveworm is able to instantly generate a cocoon around the Megazord. It effectively traps the Zord and ends the fight. If the Dragonzord hadn't arrived and cut through the cocoon, the monster would've won.
Projectile Webbing: The Weaveworm can spew red strands of silk from his mandibles, which he uses to cocoon the Rangers, then later the Megazord.
Right-Hand Attack Dog: He's Scorpina's pet, even though he was created by Finster according to Goldar.
Sizeshifter: He was able to grow to giant size on his own, without Rita's assistance.
The Speechless: He is incapable of speech, even in monster form. He simply makes little grumbling noises during his fight with the Zords.

Babe Ruthless

Voiced By: Richard Epcar

A baseball-playing goblin/satyr monster created by Finster and sent to Earth by Goldar.

Adapted Out: His Zyuranger counterpart, Dora Pixie, had a human/Cupid form that went unused in Power Rangers.
Badass Boast: "When Babe Ruthless pitches his lightning, all in its path shall be punished!"
Baseball Episode: Downplayed, as he's a random baseball monster that appears in an episode that otherwise has nothing to do with baseball. Zordon refers to him as "Babe Ruthless, the baseball monster." He wears a ballcap and baseball gloves (or just outright has baseball gloves as hands) and says things like "Play ball!" and "Batter up!" throughout his fight with the Zords.
Deadly Gas: He has a nozzle on his ballcap capable of spraying a (presumably toxic) red gas of some kind, but it's blocked by the Dragonzord Fighting Mode's Power Staff.
Demoted to Extra: Babe Ruthless' Zyuranger counterpart had an entire episode dedicated to him, but in Power Rangers, he had to share one with Weaveworm. This was done because he spent most of his time in human form in Zyuranger, as he was a Cupid monster and only turned monstrous for the Zord fight.
Dual Boss: He battles the Dino Zords along with Goldar and Scorpina.
Ear Wings: While he can't fly with them, Babe has little bat wings for ears.
Fangs Are Evil: Babe's got some nasty-looking teeth jutting from his jaws.
Fauns and Satyrs: He has a pair of hooved goat legs.
Hand Blast: He tells the Rangers to try his "curve ball," then fires a burst of energy from his right hand at the Zords.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He hurls a large red ball at the Zords, only for the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord to send it back with its tail, hurting Babe with it instead.
Idiot Ball: He sees the Dragonzord Fighting Mode brandishing a revving drill and runs right at it. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How the Dragonzord Fighting Mode finishes him off. Of the three monsters that died this way, his was the only death that wasn't edited to show less of the impalement.
Make My Monster Grow: Goldar is seemingly able to make him grow without Rita's assistance (either that, or he's a Sizeshifter).
Punny Name: "Babe Ruthless."
Shock and Awe: He's capable of firing electric blasts from his hands.
Shout-Out: His name is a reference to famous baseball player George Herman "Babe" Ruth.
Technicolor Toxin: The gas Babe sprays from his ballcap is pinkish red in color.
This Is a Drill: He finds this out the hard way when he runs right at the Dragonzord Fighting Mode's staff.
Torso with a View: The Power Staff leaves a gaping hole in Babe's stomach. In the reverse angle, the Dragonzord Fighting Mode can be seen through it.
Weaponized Ball: He has the ability to summon a large red ball, about the size of a medicine ball, into his hands.
Weaponized Headgear: His ballcap has a horn on it that acts as a nozzle for spraying a harmful gas.
We Hardly Knew Ye: He only appears in one scene for a Zord fight.

Fang

Voiced By: Tony Oliver

An egg-eating monster that Rita manipulated to attack the Rangers.

Adaptation Species Change: He was not one of Bandora's creations in Zyuranger, but a prehistoric monster from beneath the earth. Hence why you never actually see him pop out of the monster machine.
Adaptational Intelligence: He's able to speak in coherent sentences, unlike his Zyuranger counterpart, who only spoke in growls.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: He was destroyed by Goryujun in Zyuranger, but was destroyed by the Ultrazord in Power Rangers.
Gender Flip: He was a female in Zyuranger.
Trademark Favorite Food: Loves eating Gooney Bird Eggs, since they're apparently very rare to find.
Tragic Villain:
- His Zyuranger counterpart was manipulated by Bandora to attack the Rangers for destroying her eggs (when it was Bandora's minions that did it). This led to the Zyurangers reluctantly destroying her despite trying their best to reason with her. though. Oh, and the Gooney Bird Eggs he likes to eat? They were originally her children!
- He was originally just desperate for some lunch and didn't care about fighting the Rangers. He only went after them when Rita tricked him into thinking they stole the eggs he wanted to eat. Jason even tried to reason with him, saying that Rita lied to him, but he wouldn't listen and attacked them anyway.

Cyclops

Voiced By: Richard Epcar

A cyclops monster sent down to distract the Rangers while the Green Candle burned Tommy's powers away.

The Bad Guy Wins: Despite being destroyed by the Rangers, he did succeed in distracting them long enough for the Green Candle to burn out.
Cyclops: But of course.
Eye Beams: Can shoot out lasers from his eye.
Shapeshifting: He has the ability to transform into the Ranger's zords, primarily the Megazord, Dragonzord Battle Mode, Dragonzord, and Tyrannosaurus Dinozord.

Hatchasaurus and Cardiatron

Voiced By (Hatchasaurus): Kirk Thornton (First Appearance), Steve Kramer (Second appearance)

Voiced By (Cardiatron): Richard Cansino

A bird-dinosaur monster sent down to attack the Rangers. Cardiatron was the computer nucleus inside him that could heal and regenerate all wounds.

Adaptational Intelligence: Cardiatron didn't talk in the Sentai (and wasn't considered a separate monster, just Dora Anteus's heart).
Adaptation Name Change: A storybook adaptation of "Birds of a Feather" changed the Cardiatron's name to "Romeo," so they could have Jason pull a "Wherefore art thou?" joke.
Attack Its Weak Point: The only way to truly destroy Hatchasaurus was to destroy Cardiatron.
Big "NO!": Cadiatron gives one as Jason's about to destroy it.
Brains and Brawn: The sentient heart Cardiatron providing the intelligence that makes Hatchasaurus function while Hatchy himself is little more than a roaring beast, albeit more powerful than most.
The Bus Came Back: He was brought back in Season 2's "The Ninja Encounter."
Healing Factor: With Cardiatron inside him, he can regenerate from all wounds.
Suddenly Speaking: The Hatchasaurus gains the ability to speak when Terror Blosson revives him.
The Voiceless: Hatchasaurus doesn't speak in his first appearance; he only roars and snarls like the Minotaur and Spidertron before him. Cardiatron becomes this in their second appearance, while Hatchy becomes the articulate one.
Weaksauce Weakness: His skinny arms leave him vulnerable to being restrained for long periods of time by the Megazord, despite his great strength. He never once escaped a Megazord wrist grab.

Polluticorn

Voiced By: Michael Sorich

A unicorn monster sent down to pollute the Earth.

Adaptational Villainy: Downplayed as he was a villain in both. His Sentai counterpart is actually the polar opposite of his Power Rangers self. His Zyuranger counterpart was an environmental extremist Knight Templar who hated humans for their polluting and making animals go extinct and befriended a young boy to help him further his agenda. Power Rangers turned him from a somewhat Tragic Villain into a For the Evulz pollution monster. That recycling center he attacked? Originally a factory being attacked for pollution.
Attack Its Weak Point: If his horn is cut off, he grows weaker
Blow You Away: He can flap his wings at high speeds and blow his enemies away and also damage them with energy blasts.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Downplayed. He was originally defeated by the Megazord riding Titanus and doing a special supercharged version of the Power Sword strike. Here the part with Titanus is edited out.
Hellish Horse: Polluticorn intends to cover the world in pollution.
Irony: An anti-pollution monster became a pollution-themed monster in Power Rangers.
Shock and Awe: His most powerful attack is firing lightning beams from his eyes.
Unicorn: He is themed after one.

Twin Man

Voiced By: Bryan Cranston

A mirror-themed knight monster sent down by Scorpina to ruin the Ranger's reputation in both their civilian life and Ranger life. He and four Putties copied the appearance of the Rangers.

Monster Knight: Another one like the Knasty Knight.
The Psycho Rangers: Maybe one of the early prototypes in the franchise's history.
Shapeshifting: Like Cyclops, can of shapeshifting into anything, though he primarily picked Jason's appearance. His powers can extend to the Putty's as he could change them into the other Ranger's appearance.
Suddenly Voiced: Twin Man's Zyuranger equivalent never spoke.

Octoplant

Voiced By: Brianne Siddall

A narcissistic plant-based monster with tentacle-like vines.

The Fighting Narcissist: Not as pronounced as Octophantom, but it leads to her demise much as it does him later on.
Inelegant Blubbering: After getting hit by the Power Sword, she's actually crying on her way down before exploding.
She's a Man in Japan: Her Zyuranger counterpart was a male.
Too Dumb to Live: Oh sure. Look at yourself in a building's mirror during a Megazord fight. Surely the Rangers can understand.
Vanity Is Feminine: She's female and vain.

Goo Fish

Voiced By: Robert Axelrod

A fish monster sent down to exasperate Billy's fish phobia.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the first Zyu2 monsters to appear.
The Bus Came Back: He was one of the fish monsters that came back in Season 2's "A Reel Fish Story."
Covered in Gunge: One of his main abilities is to spray his opponents with sludge that hardens and weighs them down. It holds Jason, Trini and Zack in place, and later gums up the Megazord's legs.
Eye Beams: He can fire energy bolts out of his main eye, and particularly enjoys targeting victims he's already restrained with his slime.
Fish Person: A walking talking one, and it would not be the last of the Zyu2 monsters to have this motif.
Gonk: Goo Fish is pretty hideous, even by Power Rangers monster standards.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Billy backflips over him several times, causing him to goo himself in the confusion. He's badly injured by his own goo and has to be grown by Rita afterwards.
Informed Species: He really doesn't look much like a fish, more like a fanged one-horned cyclops.
Mix-and-Match Critters: He looks like several different fish creatures all put together, resulting in him having one mouth in the center of his face and another one on the side of it.
Poisonous Person: The aptly named Goofish has venomous spittle, which he himself is susceptible to for some reason.
Trauma Button: His main role was to exasperate Billy's fish phobia, made worse by the fact that Rita amplified the Blue Ranger's fear with a spell
Villainous Breakdown: When they reverse the effects of his goo, he screams, "NO! NO! YOU CHEATED!"

Goatan the Storm-Bringer

Voiced By (Lion part): Richard Epcar

Voiced By (Goat part): Tony Oliver

A lion-goat chimera monster created from the Noble Lion Trophy.

Adapted Out: His Zyuranger counterpart's snake tail is ignored.
Automatic Crossbow: One of his weapons.
Classical Chimera: His upper goat is a lion, his lower half is a goat (with a goat's head on the chest), and his Zyuranger counterpart even had a snake tail.
Innocuously Important Episode: He was the last monster from the original Zyuranger footage. The remaining monsters to appear in Season 1 would be from Zyu2 footage. Furthermore, with his appearance, Zyuranger would be the only Super Sentai series to have all of its monsters be adapted for Power Rangers.
Improbable Weapon User: One of his weapons is a hockey stick, possibly a Visual Pun related to his being able to generate ice storms.
No Ontological Inertia: A rare aversion, as the Noble Lion Trophy is not restored upon his destruction.
Too Dumb to Live: The monster lets Zack attack from atop a cliff, surprised that the kinetic energy allowed the attack to stun him as badly as it did.
Weather Manipulation: He has the ability to control the weather to his liking.

Fighting Flea

Voiced By: Romy J. Sharf (First Appearance), Wendee Lee (Second Appearance), Barbara Goodson (Third Appearance)

A flea monster used by Rita to give Jason a terrible itch.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
Alliterative Name: Fightning Flea.
Big Creepy-Crawlies: A giant flea monster.
Oh, Crap!: He asks the Rangers if they can't talk things over right before they blow him up.
The Bus Came Back: He would return a couple of times, such as Season 2's "Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park," and Season 3's "Ninja Quest" and "Master Vile and the Metallic Armor."
Villainous Breakdown: Loudly protests that he thinks it's unfair that Jason broke free from his itch spell.

Jellyfish Warrior

Voiced By: Doug Stone

A jellyfish monster.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
Big "NO!": His final words before his destruction.
Combat Tentacles: True to his animal sake, the Jellyfish Warrior has long white tentacles in place of fingers on his left hand that he can use to whip his enemies.
Hand Blast: He can shoot bullet-like energy blasts from the fingers of his right hand.
Insult Backfire: When proclaiming he's trapped the Rangers:
Zack: Oh yeah, well you're the one who's caught, slime!
Jellyfish: Flattery will get you nowhere, little mastodon!
Zack: Little!?
Improbable Weapon User: His main weapon is an umbrella.
Kill It with Ice: When he uses his umbrella to block the Triceratops and Sabertoothed Tiger Zords' energy blasts, Zack chills him with the Mastodon's ice storms. He becomes so cold he can't hold onto his umbrella.
Kryptonite Factor: He is frail to cold temperatures (which is very true to jellyfishes in real life).
Pocket Dimension: He sent the Rangers to his own dimension, where he was invulnerable to any attacks. The only way the Rangers could escape was Zack firing at him with the Power Axe in Cannon Mode.
Sissy Villain: Downplayed, but is weirdly vain about the long tentacles on his one hand, getting upset when the Rangers attack it.
Spin to Deflect Stuff: His umbrella can deflect everything from the Rangers' weapons to the Triceratops and Sabertoothed Tiger Zords' energy blasts. Mastodon disarms him with a freeze blast that makes him drop it.
Teleportation: He used this ability in the Megazord fight, using it to dodge any attacks the Rangers try to strike with.

Mantis

Voiced By: Barbara Goodson

A praying mantis monster skilled in martial arts.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
The Bus Came Back: One of the monsters that returned for Season 2's "Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park."
Hypocrite: Criticized Trini for having her teammates come and help her, but she has no problem calling up putties to help herself. Then again, he may have just said that to break Trini's confidence.
Power Pincers: Thanks to being a praying mantis, he has green pincers for hands.
Slaying Mantis: Its Animal Motif.

Dramole

Voiced By: Michael Reynolds (First Appearance), Michael Sorich (Third Appearance)

A mole monster sent by Rita to hypnotize the Rangers with his hypnotic gas.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
Brainwashed and Crazy: He can hypnotize people by using gas emissions from his nostrils.
The Bus Came Back: Would return a couple of times in Season 2, such as "Rangers Back in Time" and "The Wedding."
Dies Differently in Adaptation: He was originally meant to be defeated by the Megazord in the Zyu2 footage.
Shock and Awe: He can fire red and yellow lightning from his eyes, strong enough to force the Megazord and Dragonzord back.
The Voiceless: At least in his first two appearances.

Grumble Bee

Voiced By: Dave Mallow

A bee monster sent by Rita to attack Billy.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
Bee Afraid: Though he's more comedic than most examples.
The Bus Came Back: One of the monsters that returned for Season 2's "Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park" and "The Wedding."
Hand Blast: He can shoot explosive stingers from his fingers.
Make Me Wanna Shout: His buzzing wings can generate sonic blasts to damage his opponents.
Poisonous Person: He can spray his opponents with painful toxic venom.
Pungeon Master: Not only bee-themed puns but school related puns as he was inspired by Billy's "B" grade.
Sensory Overload: With his vibrating wings, he can inflict this on his opponents.
Verbal Tic: Makes buzzing sounds whenever in motion.

Two-Headed Parrot

Voiced By: Robert Axelrod

A parrot monster with a second head on its chest.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
All There in the Manual: His Bandai figure gives the two heads names: Pete (top head) and Repeat (bottom head).
Beak Attack: Can fire an energy variant.
Trademark Favorite Food: It likes Pamango fruit, but it's also its Fatal Flaw as the two heads bickered over who would eat it.
Wolverine Claws: He has claws instead of actual weapons.
Villains Want Mercy: He begged the Rangers not to kill him with the Ultrazord but did not get his way. This is odd considering the Rangers have spared villains before and given them chances to surrender.

Peckster

Voiced By: Scott Page-Pagter

A woodpecker monster created by Finster to peck apart every building in Angel Grove.

At Arm's Length: Tommy does this to Peckster in "The Wedding Part III."
Ax-Crazy: Peckster comes off as borderline insane in "The Wedding," laughing maniacally and even dancing throughout the ordeal in the abandoned theater. At one point, when Grumble Bee reminds his fellow monsters to keep the Rangers in one piece as they're Rita's wedding present to Zedd, Peckster responds, "I'm sure Lord Zedd won't mind if a few pieces are missing!"
Back from the Dead: Finster selects him as one of the monsters, whom he said were among Rita's favorites, to resurrect in the second season for "The Wedding."
Balloon-Bursting Bird: How Zack outwits Peckster in "Fowl Play." At first, having the monster pop a few balloons with his beak, the final balloon ends up being a ball of some sort of material that Peckster gets his beak stuck in. He can't get himself free until Rita makes him grow.
Bash Brothers: Formed a duo with Rhino Blaster in "The Wedding."
Beak Attack: Peckster using his beak to peck his opponents is his main form of attack.
Beware the Silly Ones: Peckster's already a little silly in "Fowl Play," but in "The Wedding," he's giddily cackling every five seconds and even soft shoeing in the middle of fights.
Big Guy, Little Guy: Peckster is noticeably taller than Rhino Blaster is. In an interesting subversion, though, while Rhino Blaster is the serious/smart one of the duo, Peckster is clearly the leader.
Bird People: He's a humanoid woodpecker monster.
Blow You Away: He generates powerful windstorms when flapping his wings that can even send the Megazord sailing through the air.
Bumbling Henchmen Duo: Peckster and Rhino Blaster get taken out by a net dropping on them. It's not their finest moment.
The Bus Came Back: Returns in Season 2 for all three episodes of "The Wedding."
Captain Ersatz: Of Woody Woodpecker, if Woody were a homicidal alien bird monster.
Character Catchphrase: "Have fear, the Peckster's here!"
Dual Boss: Becomes this with Rhino Blaster in "The Wedding Part II," keeping the Rangers trapped in the abandoned theater and later fighting the Thunder Zords.
Feather Flechettes: Peckster can spit feather-like darts from his inside mouth.
Flight: Peckster is one of the few MMPR monsters with wings that are actually functional.
Flying Face: In one scene in "The Wedding Part III" as the Rangers try to find a quiet moment to come up with a plan, Peckster's disembodied head drops down from out of nowhere, hovers in front of them, and cackles "Peek-a-boo! I see you!" before disappearing. It's completely jarring as it had never even been hinted at that Peckster had the ability, nor does it accomplish anything story-wise. It just happens.
Feathered Fiend: He's a crazed woodpecker monster.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Peckster seems to be this to the other monsters in "The Wedding," judging by the exchange between Robogoat and Snizard.
"That stupid Peckster. It's his fa-a-ault they got away in the first place!"
The Guards Must Be Crazy: Peckster and Rhino Blaster warn the Rangers they'll be right outside "the door" as they guard them inside the abandoned theater, but there are multiple ways out of the current room, let alone the theater itself.
Informed Ability: Finster says Peckster's beak is strong enough to destroy any building with just a peck or two (at human size!), but the Rangers don't seem any more phased by the monster's beak than they do any other monster's attack.
It Has Only Just Begun: When the Rangers manage to block Peckster's beak with the Megazord's Mammoth Shield, Jason asks the monster if he's had enough, to which Peckster responds, "I haven't even begun to fight!"
Laughing Mad: Far more notably than most other Monster of the Weeks' evil laughing. It gets even worse in "The Wedding."
Lyrical Dissonance: When the monsters first surround the Rangers in the abandoned theater, Peckster leads them into singing the heroes a little song. The tune is bouncy and upbeat, sounding almost like a song you'd hear in a circus until you make out the lyrics:
Ba ba sha bee, ba ba sha boo / Gonna make a Ranger, Ranger stew
Ba ba sha bee, ba ba sha boom / Poor little Rangers, they're all doomed
Ba ba sha bee, ba ba sha bow / Nothing's gonna save those Rangers now
Ba ba sha bee, ba ba sha boo / The time has come for the Rangers' due
Quirky Miniboss Squad: Peckster is among the resurrected monsters chosen by Finster to attack the Rangers in the abandoned theater in "The Wedding."
Stock Footage: Peckster and Rhino Blaster's fight with the Thunder Zords in "The Wedding Part II" is made up entirely of footage from their original Zord fights in "Fowl Play" and "Football Season."
Villain Teleportation: Not seen until one of his last scenes in "The Wedding," in which he uses a bird wings-folding-in-on-themselves effect.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Even after he and Rhino Blaster get a net dropped on them and the Rangers escape the abandoned theater, the two of them can be seen among the group of monsters chasing the Rangers through the desert. But Peckster takes no part in the final Zord fight, leaving his fate up in the air.

Pumpkin Rapper

^{Pumpkin Putties}

Voiced By: Michael Sorich

A hip-hop jack-o-lantern monster created by Squatt and Baboo. Later resurrected by Lord Zedd to help ambush Tommy on Halloween.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
Back from the Dead: Zigzagged. Yes, he returns to fight the Rangers again in the haunted forest, but it's not entirely clear if the dimension is some type of afterlife reality and if the monsters there are actually alive or not.
Boastful Rap: A good deal of his lines are these.
The Bus Came Back: He's one of the monsters that returned for Season 2's "Zedd's Monster Mash," whom Goldar said were among Zedd's favorites.
"I thought we turned you into squash, Pumpkin Rapper!"
"Maybe ya did, but it's time to get sad / Cause of Lord Zedd's power, we're back, and we're bad!"
The Cameo: Is seen in Zedd and Rita's army as they fight the Gold Ranger in "Countdown to Destruction Part I."
- A giant-sized Pumpkin Rapper is also prominent in the backstory of Lord Drakkon's rise to power as he and Rita conquer the Earth, seen rampaging through Washington D.C. and then fighting the Thunder Zords along with Lokar.
Combat Commentator: In "Zedd's Monster Mash," once Billy and Kimberly arrive to help Tommy and Doomstone starts resurrecting one monster after another, Pumpkin Rapper steps back from the action and begins quipping and commenting as the Rangers fight each new monster.
Darker and Edgier: When he's badly injured by the Hyperforce Rangers, Pumpkin Rapper decides to try and use his Monster of the Week death explosion to try and take them with him. The explosion ends up killing a lot of unjustly locked up prisoners the Rangers had intended to rescue.
Don't Wake the Sleeper: The Rangers surround the Rapper's pumpkin and begin to mock him with a rap of their own, waking him up. He is not amused.
Elite Mooks: His Pumpkin Putties appear faster than the Rangers can take them out, according to Kimberly.
Eye Beams: He can fire a pink energy blast from the cannon in his left eye.
Flash Back: Zedd and his minions recall Pumpkin Rapper and the other monsters fighting Tommy in the haunted forest in Lord Zedd's Monster Heads.
Garden of Evil: The pumpkin patch in which the pumpkins that Pumpkin Rapper and his pumpkin Putties come from grow, where a good deal of the fight occurs.
Genre Savvy: When he finds himself critically injured by the Hyperforce Rangers, Pumpkin Rapper decides to not just explode uselessly and turns his death explosion into one last attack.
Gratuitous Rap: This is this monster's bread and butter. There's even a beat track that plays as he talks.
"Pumpkin rappin' is a-bout to happen!"
Informed Ability: Zordon warns that Pumpkin Rapper will attempt to "distract the Rangers with his clever raps and rhymes," but this never happens.
Magical Eye: Pumpkin Rapper's left eye hole has a visible cannon located inside it.
The Mole: Michael Hicks, a captain of the Coinless resistance force in Lord Drakkon's reality, is ultimately revealed to be Pumpkin Rapper in disguise.
Oh, Crap!: When the Thunder Megazord charges up its saber, Pumpkin Rapper is seen quivering at his impending doom.
"You brats! What's with that...?"
Plant Mooks: He has his own brand of Putty Patrollers that appear from the other pumpkins in his patch. They look like ordinary Putties but have pumpkins where their heads should be (one even has a pumpkin on its hand in place of the usual ball or sword). When defeated, they revert into ordinary pumpkins.
Produce Pelting: Pumpkin Rapper summons two exploding pumpkins he throws at the Thunder Megazord and White Tigerzord.
Pumpkin Person: His head is a huge, upside-down jack o' lantern.
Rhymes on a Dime: He raps no matter what, even when he starts losing the battle.
Shapeshifting: In Power Rangers Hyperforce, it turns out that Michael Hicks, a captain of the Coinless resistance force, is in fact Pumpkin Rapper in disguise.
Shock and Awe: Pumpkin Rapper's most powerful attack is the Mega Pumpkin Shock, in which he lassos the Rangers in vines and delivers a massive electrical shock. It's apparently quite deadly, as Alpha says the Rangers wouldn't be able to take a second hit.
Sinister Suffocation: When his pumpkins latch onto the Rangers' heads, they begin to deprive them of air.
Suicide Attack: He does this when he realizes he's about to lose his fight against the Hyperforce Rangers.
Taking You with Me: Decides to do this in his fight against the Hyperforce Rangers, killing a lot of innocent prisoners in the process.
That Makes Me Feel Angry: Pumpkin Rapper has this reaction when his slumber is disturbed by the Rangers mocking him with a rap of their own.
"Ooh, you Rangers make me mad! / Wakin' me up with a rap that bad!"
Took a Level in Badass: When he returned in "Zedd's Monster Mash," he was a match for the Thunder Megazord and White Tigerzord. In "Trick or Treat" the Rangers didn't need to use a Megazord at all to beat him.
True Final Boss: At first, it seems that Doomstone will be the ultimate threat of "Zedd's Monster Mash." After all, he's a brand new monster who seems to be in charge of the haunted forest dimension and who has the ability to resurrect old monsters at will. Initially, Pumpkin Rapper seems to be nothing more than one of his many pawns. But when the rest of the Rangers arrive to help and Zedd decides it's time to grow a monster to giant size, it's Pumpkin Rapper he decides to enlarge, not Doomstone.
Vine Tentacles: Pumpkin Rapper has a long vine he can wield as a whip; he uses it to smack the Blade Blasters out of the Rangers' hands.
Washington D.C. Invasion: In the Boom comics, Rita invaded Washington D.C. at one point as she and Lord Drakkon conquered the Earth, and a giant Pumpkin Rapper was seen dangerously close to the Capitol Building.

Socadillo

Voiced By: Brianne Siddall

An armadillo monster able to roll itself into a ball to crash into enemies.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
Adaptational Wimp: Downplayed, the Ultrazord finisher was meant to be used against him, and there may have been some footage of him fighting Dragonzord in Battle Mode.
All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Socadillo" as opposed to "Soccadillo," according to his Bandai figure.
Be the Ball: Tends to bowl over his competition while rolled up. Strangely, it's treated as a different form altogether in-universe. On a more humorous note, the putties take this to the next level and use him like a soccer ball before turning him on Jason and Zack.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Meant to be defeated by the Ultrazord as the Zyu2 footage showed.
Flunky Boss: Unlike your average Monster of the Week, he is smart enough to have some Putties help him fight.
Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball: He can roll himself up into one of these, doing a real number on the Rangers and the Zords whenever he hits them. Due to his shell, he's Nigh Invulnerable while in this form.
Tactical Suicide Boss: It's explicitly stated that while he's in ball form he's immune to the Rangers' attacks. Why he doesn't just stay in a ball and keep ramming thier Zords until they break instead of unrolling periodically is unclear.

Slippery Shark

Voiced By: Steve Kramer (First and Third Appearances), Scott Page-Pagter (Second Appearance)

A hammerhead shark monster able to travel through the ground.

Accidental Misnaming: When he returns in "A Reel Fish Story," Zedd simply calls him "Shark Monster."
Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
Alliterative Name: Slippery Shark.
Battle Boomerang: Wields a fin-like boomerang in battle, both like a regular boomerang and a sword.
Berserk Button: He flips out when the Megazord chops his fin sword in two, but it doesn't last long as he has an Oh, Crap! reaction when the Megazord brandishes its sword. He's quickly destroyed after that.
The Bus Came Back: One of the monsters that returned for Season 2's "Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park" and "A Reel Fish Story."
Dirty Coward: Had a serious Oh, Crap! moment whenever the Rangers had the upper hand.
Fragile Speedster: He's "slippery" because he's really fast, but he's not very durable. Zack nearly cripples him with one shot from the Power Axe. After he's grown, he becomes a lot slower after the Megazord catches him long enough for the Dragonzord to slash him with its tail.
Hate Plague: When somebody touches his fin boomerang, they develop a heated rivalry with another. This happens between Jason and Tommy.
Shark Fin of Doom: Much like a real shark, his dorsal fin sticks out when he burrows through the ground.
Shark Man: Based on the hammerhead variety instead of the more iconic great white.
Threatening Shark: While not a maneater, his spell does threaten to destroy Jason and Tommy's friendship until he's overcome
Tunnel King: Can burrow through the ground as akin to how a normal shark swims through water.
Villains Want Mercy: Initially subverted when he seemed to ask for mercy when trapped in a net before cutting his way out. Played straight when faced with the Power Blaster and later the Megazord Power Sword.

Lizzinator

Voiced By: Doug Stone (First Appearance)

A super-strong lizard monster with a Schwarzenegger-like Austrian accent.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
Bare-Fisted Monk: Is quite strong in hand-to-hand combat.
The Bus Came Back: One of the monsters that returned for Season 2's "The Wedding" and Season 3's "Ninja Quest."
The Cameo: Appeared bumping into Robogoat during the chase after the rangers in "The Wedding." For some reason, he does not appear in the zord fight afterward despite Robogoat being a part of it.
Captain Ersatz: Is basically Schwarzenegger reborn as an evil pun-spouting reptilian.
Made of Iron: He was one of Rita's most durable monsters, primarily because he was made out of super metals from another galaxy.
Oh, Crap!: He realizes when Titanus appears that his impending doom is moments away.
Shout-Out: One to Arnold Schwarzenegger for his voice. Even his name is a play on Schwarzenegger's most famous role The Terminator.
Super-Strength: Can break through walls like wet cardboard and lifts cars like it's nothing.
Untouchable Until Tagged: The Zords don't get a single hit in on Lizzinator until they form the Ultrazord.
Wolverine Claws: Uses these for the lack of weapons.
You Need a Breath Mint: Lizzinator can spew a fog-like "Super Stink Breath" from his mouth.

Rhino Blaster

^{Football Putties}

Voiced By: Richard Epcar (First, Second, and Fourth Appearances), Scott Page-Pagter (Third Appearance)

A football-playing rhinoceros monster sent to lead a team of Putties against the Rangers just as Angel Grove High was having tryouts for its football team.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Rhino Blaster" as opposed to "Rhinoblaster," according to his Bandai figure.
Back from the Dead: Finster selects him as one of the monsters, whom he said were among Rita's favorites, to resurrect in the second season for "The Wedding."
Baseball Episode: Goldar comes up with the plan to team Rhino Blaster with the Putties in response to Tommy wanting to join the Angel Grove High football team.
Bash Brothers: Formed a duo with Peckster in "The Wedding."
Big Guy, Little Guy: While not tiny, Rhino Blaster is noticeably shorter than Peckster is. In an interesting subversion, though, while Rhino Blaster is the serious/smart one of the duo, Peckster is clearly the leader.
Big "NO!": When Tommy asks if he can spend his last few moments with the other Rangers, Rhino Blaster answers with, "Well, since I'm such a nice guy... NO!"
Breath Weapon: Rhino Blaster can blow fog from his mouth that sends the Rangers to a Multidimensional Vortex.
Bumbling Henchmen Duo: Rhino Blaster and Peckster get taken out by a net dropping on them. It's not their finest moment.
The Bus Came Back: Returns for a few episodes in Season 2 such as "Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park," "Zedd's Monster Mash," and "The Wedding."
The Brute: His fighting style mainly relies on hand-to-hand and his own brute strength, though he does have some other gimmicks.
Cool Sword: He uses a cutlass in the latter half of his fight with the Dragonzord.
Curb-Stomp Battle: The Green Ranger takes out the entire squad of football Putties before Rhino Blaster even knows he's there. Rhino Blaster didn't believe him at first until he saw for himself.
Dies Differently in Adaptation: Rhino Blaster was intended to be destroyed by the Ultrazord in the original Zyu2 footage (note the explosion on his chest, and how he just explodes instead of vaporizing in a column of light like Mutaytus and Weaveworm), but in MMPR it was changed to the MegaDragonzord (presumably to save time as it was a quicker combination).
Dual Boss: Becomes this with Peckster in "The Wedding Part II," keeping the Rangers trapped in the abandoned theater and later fighting the Thunder Zords.
Elite Mooks: Rhino Blaster's jersey-wearing football Putties are noticeably stronger than the usual variety.
The Guards Must Be Crazy: Rhino Blaster and Peckster warn the Rangers they'll be right outside "the door" as they guard them inside the abandoned theater, but there are multiple ways out of the current room, let alone the theater itself.
Horn Attack: Rhino Blaster isn't afraid to use his horn in melee combat. He can also fire lightning from it.
I Know Madden Kombat: The football Putties use tackles in the fight with the Rangers.
Jerk Jock: Being a monster designed around football, of which he is in charge of his own team of jersey-wearing Putty Patrollers, he certainly qualifies. He even refuses Tommy's last request to be with his friends before he dies (granted, it was part of Tommy's plan, but he didn't know that).
Monster of the Aesop: The villains forming a football team out of Rhino Blaster and the Putties are directly inspired by the football drama at the high school.
The Napoleon: While he doesn't have a complex about it, Rhino Blaster is fairly short for a MMPR monster, though he does make up for it with his speed and strength.
Pocket Dimension: Rhino Blaster is capable of sending the Rangers into an inescapable vortex. Tommy needs to throw the Dragon Dagger into the vortex to free them.
Quirky Miniboss Squad: Rhino Blaster is among the resurrected monsters chosen by Finster to attack the Rangers in the abandoned theater in "The Wedding."
Rhino Rampage: He's an aggressive, brutish rhinoceros monster.
Shock and Awe: He can shoot red lightning from his horn and sword.
Stock Footage: Rhino Blaster and Peckster's fight with the Thunder Zords in "The Wedding Part II" is made up entirely of footage from their original Zord fights in "Football Season" and "Fowl Play."
Unnecessary Roughness: The football Putties bring their swords out in the middle of the 'game.' Rhino Blaster himself isn't afraid to get his hands dirty either.
Use Your Head: He rams his head and horn against the Dragonzord a few times while fighting it.
Villain Teleportation: Not seen until one of his last scenes in "The Wedding," in which he uses a strange cloud-of-bats effect.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Even after he and Peckster get a net dropped on them and the Rangers escape the abandoned theater, the two of them can be seen among the group of monsters chasing the Rangers through the desert. But Rhino Blaster takes no part in the final Zord fight, leaving his fate up in the air.

Commander Crayfish and the Mutant Rangers

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^{Commander Crayfish}

^{The Mutant Rangers}

Commander Crayfish Voiced By: Tom Wyner (First Appearance), Wendee Lee (Second Appearance)

Mutant Rangers Voiced By: Jason David Frank, Amy Jo Johnson, David Yost, Thuy Trang, Walter Emanuel Jones

Rita's second team of evil Power Rangers, a group of Putties using the ancient Badges of Darkness to morph, lead by a fierce crayfish warrior.

Accidental Misnaming: When Commander Crayfish returns in the next season's "A Reel Fish Story," Lord Zedd calls him "the Cruel Crayfish." Potentially justified in that he wasn't Zedd's creation, so he was probably only vaguely aware of Rita's monsters.
Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
Alliterative Name: Commander Crayfish, and then later Cruel Crayfish.
Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: Said almost word for word by Commander Crayfish when he and the four Mutant Rangers are faced with the Ultrazord.
Commander Crayfish: "Let's finish them off, Mutants! Charge!"
[The Ultrazord is formed.]
Commander Crayfish: "Huh? Hold it! Pull back! Pull back!"
Beam-O-War: The Rangers and the Mutants fire their Power Blasters at one another and the two beams collide. It doesn't go so well for the Mutants.
Black Eyes of Evil: Commander Crayfish's eyes are solid black and he's the leader of the evil Mutant Rangers.
The Bus Came Back: Commander Crayfish was one of the fish monsters that came back in Season 2's "A Reel Fish Story."
By the Power of Grayskull!: "It's Mutant Time!"
Chest Blaster: Once grown to giant size, the Green Mutant Ranger can fire green lightning bolts from the diamond of his Dragonshield.
Conservation of Ninjutsu: The revived Commander Crayfish in "A Reel Fish Story" is noticeably weaker than the powerful warrior that was once Jason's evil counterpart.
Continuity Nod: Kimberly notes "Rita's created her own evil Rangers again!"
Converging-Stream Weapon: They had their own Power Blaster. While it can't destroy or even demorph the Rangers (at least not with a single shot), it was strong enough to knock the fight out of them and force them back to the Command Center. Their second use of it doesn't go as well, though.
A Day in the Limelight: For the original Putty Patrollers. They actually got to be Power Rangers for once and proved to be such a challenge that the Rangers needed the Ultrazord to beat them.
Disappointed in You: After knocking the Rangers flat with their Power Blaster, Commander Crayfish comments that he expected more from them.
Evil Counterpart: Commander Crayfish is one to Jason, filling in the position of the Red Mutant Ranger as the Putty Patroller that was chosen for that role failed training. He even uses the Mutant Power Sword intended for the Red Mutant Ranger.
Evil Knockoff: To the Power Rangers, complete with their own Power Morpher and Power Blaster equivalents. They are five fully morphed Putty Patrollers led by a monster as their "Red Ranger." Instead of the white used for the Rangers' suits, the Mutant Rangers' gloves, boots, and belts are all dark gray.
Evil Weapon: The Mutant Rangers have evil, "mutant" equivalents of the Rangers' own Power Weapons:
- Cool Sword: The weapon wielded by Commander Crayfish, to counter Jason's Power Sword.
- The Blue Mutant possessed a lance that, like Billy's, had the ability to separate into two smaller weapons.
- Devious Daggers: The Yellow Mutant had twin daggers that were just as effective as Trini's own.
- The Straight and Arrow Path: The Pink Mutant had a bow and arrow. At one point she and Kimberly shoot each other out of the air simultaneously with them.
- Oddly Shaped Sword: Instead of a "Mutant" version of the Dragon Dagger, the Green Mutant is given the Sword of Darkness, the weapon previously held by Tommy when he was under Rita's control. Oddly, no one comments on it, not even Tommy.
Fair-Play Villain: Tommy's not with the Rangers during the first fight with the Mutants, but Commander Crayfish holds the Green Mutant back until he shows up rather than have a numerical advantage.
Fantastic Slurs: At one point, Tommy calls Commander Crayfish an "overgrown seafood platter."
Fighting in the Playground: The Green and Pink Mutants ambush Tommy and Kimberly in the park, and the fight between the girls takes place on and around the playground equipment.
Fish People: Commander Crayfish is one of these, of the crustacean variety.
Giant Enemy Crab: Well, Giant Enemy Crayfish, at least.
Giant Mook: The Black, Blue, and Green Mutants, technically. It's the only time in the entire show that Putties are grown to giant size.
Hypocritical Humor: When Commander Crayfish and the Mutant Rangers do their pre-fight "Super Sentai" Stance and In the Name of the Moon, the Power Rangers have no idea what they're doing and end up more confused than anything else.
Invocation: Just as their heroic counterparts do, the Mutants call out "It's Mutant Time!" when the time comes for them to morph.
The Leader: Commander Crayfish serves as this for the Mutant Rangers as Goldar could not find a suitable candidate for the Red Badge of Darkness.
Mook Promotion: The Putties are given the Badges of Darkness, as well as their own Power Blaster, and go from being disposable Mooks to full on evil Rangers.
Oh, Crap!: The Rangers, when they realize the Mutants have their own Power Blaster.
- Commander Crayfish has this reaction later on when he's faced with the Ultrazord.
Power Pincers: Beng a crustacean, Commander Crayfish naturally has these for hands. Impressively, he's still perfectly capable of wielding his sword.
The Psycho Rangers: Another prototype version, the Mutant Rangers were easily the biggest and most powerful evil Rangers until the Psychos themselves. They even wielded evil duplicates of the Rangers' weapons, except for the Green Mutant Ranger, who possessed the Sword of Darkness.
Quirky Miniboss Squad: Commander Crayfish is resurrected along with Goo Fish, Slippery Shark, and Pirantis Head to battle the Rangers in Season 2's "A Reel Fish Story."
Rhymes on a Dime: After morphing in front of the Rangers, the Mutants pair off for this.
Blue Mutant: "I'm after you, Blue!"
Yellow Mutant: "Hey, Trini, you wanna play, too?"
Black Mutant: "Nice to meet ya, Zack!"
Pink Mutant: "Told ya I'd be back!"
"Super Sentai" Stance: Commander Crayfish and the main four Mutants do one of these when the Rangers arrive to fight them at the beach.
Talk Like a Pirate: At one point Commander Crayfish calls Kimberly a "little landlubber."
Transformation Sequence: The Putties pose with their respective Badges before we see morphing energy spark from them, at which point the Putties are wearing their Ranger uniforms.
Transformation Trinket: The Badges of Darkness, which were essentially evil Power Morphers (Zordon calls them "powerful psuedo-morphing devices") and allowed five Putty Patrollers to morph into the Mutant Rangers.
Villain Decay: The original Sword of Darkness provided a strength boost that turned Tommy into a team-wrecking powerhouse. This Sword of Darkness clearly does not do the same for the Green Mutant Ranger.
- Commander Crayfish himself in "A Reel Fish Story."
Villain Teleportation: The Mutant Rangers teleport in swirling clouds of Ranger-colored energy.
We Will Meet Again: The Pink and Green Mutants promise this after the fight at the park.
What Happened to the Mouse?: The Yellow and Pink Mutant Rangers are blown away when the Power Blaster energy beams collide but aren’t shown being destroyed and then vanish completely. Commander Crayfish and the other Mutants don't even comment on their disappearance.
What the Hell Is That Accent?: Commander Crayfish has an accent that's a mixture of Louisiana French Creole and a Jamaican accent.
Wolf Pack Boss: The Mutant Rangers in general are one of these, but especially so once Commander Crayfish and the Black, Blue, and Green Mutants are grown to giant size and form their 'tank formation.'

Oysterizer

Voiced By: Scott Page-Pagter

An oyster monster whose pearls cause people to freeze. The last of Rita's monsters she sends out against the Rangers before Lord Zedd arrived.

Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
The Bus Came Back: He was one of the monsters that came back in Season 2's "Rangers Back In Time."
Devious Daggers: Wields a knife as his main weapon.
Oh, Crap!: The Dragonzord forces him back on land, and he's beating the Dragonzord, but then the Megazord shows up to spoil the fun. Did he really think just because he was winning underwater that he could handle the Megazord on dry land?
Make My Monster Grow: He was capable of growing by himself without needing Rita's help.
Poisonous Person: He can spray acidic poison. It's so toxic that it all but cripples Zack until Tommy lends him the Dragon Shield.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Initially, Oysterizer curb-stomps Megazord, since a robot not designed to work underwater isn't going to fare well against a sea creature based mosnter on its home turf. Dragonzord is designed to be water-capable, and soon curb-stomps Oysterizer right back to dry land. The Megazord has a much easier time after that.
Villainous Breakdown: When the Megazord destroys his giant ecocyte pearl, he becomes EXTREMELY pissed off and loses all sense of strategy he had before and just goes into Attack! Attack! Attack! mode.

Characters / Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Monsters Season One

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Season One Monsters

The Monsters

Bones

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

Giant

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

The Minotaur

Voiced By: Tom Wyner ("Teamwork"), Ryan Cooper (MMPR: Once & Always)

King Sphinx note a.k.a Fly Guy

Voiced By: Richard Cansino (A Pressing Engagement), Tony Oliver (Original Pilot)

Gnarly Gnome

Voiced By: Steve Kramer

Pudgy Pig

Voiced By: Dave Mallow

Chunky Chicken

Voiced By: Robert Axelrod

Eye Guy

Voiced By: Doug Stone (First Appearance)

Mr. Ticklesneezer

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

Knasty Knight

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

Pineoctopus

Pineapple Portrayed By: Vernon Ballesteros

Pineoctopus Voiced By: Mike Reynolds

Terror Toad

Voiced By: Michael Sorich

Madame Woe

Voiced By: Alex Borstein

Snizard

Voiced By: Bryan Cranston ("Foul Play in the Sky"), Michael Sorich ("Zedd's Monster Mash" and Lord Zedd's Monster Heads), Bob Papenbrook ("The Wedding Part II"), Unknown ("The Wedding Part III"), Daniel Watterson (MMPR: Once & Always)

Dark Warrior

Genie

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

Shellshock

Voiced By: Richard Epcar

Spidertron

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

Spit Flower

Voiced By: Mike Reynolds

Frankenstein Monster

Portrayed By: Maroshi Tamura (Zyuranger footage), Jason David Frank (Power Rangers footage)

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

Super Putties

Wheel of Misfortune

Mutaytus

Voiced By: Richard Epcar

Rockstar

Voiced By: Tony Oliver

Samurai Fan Man

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

Weaveworm

Voiced By: Richard Cansino

Babe Ruthless

Voiced By: Richard Epcar

Fang

Voiced By: Tony Oliver

Cyclops

Voiced By: Richard Epcar

Hatchasaurus and Cardiatron

Voiced By (Hatchasaurus): Kirk Thornton (First Appearance), Steve Kramer (Second appearance)

Voiced By (Cardiatron): Richard Cansino

Polluticorn

Voiced By: Michael Sorich

Twin Man

Voiced By: Bryan Cranston

Octoplant

Voiced By: Brianne Siddall

Goo Fish

Voiced By: Robert Axelrod

Goatan the Storm-Bringer

Voiced By (Lion part): Richard Epcar

Voiced By (Goat part): Tony Oliver

Fighting Flea

Voiced By: Romy J. Sharf (First Appearance), Wendee Lee (Second Appearance), Barbara Goodson (Third Appearance)

Jellyfish Warrior

Voiced By: Doug Stone

Mantis

King Sphinx ^notea.k.a Fly Guy