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    In General 
  • Adaptation Species Change: The Dairanger monsters were originally humans who turned into monsters with a martial arts technique. Here, they're created from objects, plants, or animals.
  • Adapted Out: The Cotpotros, Pot Taoist, Birdcage Vagabond, Telephone Sensei, and General Kamikaze were not adapted. Nor were the Duke of Trumps (movie exclusive) or the Gorma Temple Guards.
  • Canon Foreigner: Pirantis Head through Turban Shell, the last batch of Zyu2 monsters. There’s also Wizard of Deception and his three rat monsters, who were all completely original creations, and Turkey Jerk and Snow Monster, who were created out of the Chunky Chicken and Primator suits respectively.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Due to the Thunder Zords being introduced earlier than planned, the last batch of Zyu2 monsters, who were originally killed with the Megazord or Ultrazord instead have the Thunder Saber's slash awkwardly superimposed over them.

The Monsters

    Pirantis Head 

Pirantis Head

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Voiced By: Scott Page-Pagter

A large piranha monster, the first created by Lord Zedd. He was created to defeat the Rangers, primarily to take away their Zords.
  • Accidental Misnaming: When he returns in "A Reel Fish Story," Zedd simply calls him "Piranha." Not even "Piranha Monster." Just "Piranha."
  • Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
  • Adaptation Species Change: In Hamilton Comics' retelling of "The Mutiny," he clearly looks more like a goldfish-themed monster than a piranha-based one.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Pirantis Head" as opposed to "Pirantishead," according to his Bandai figure and Spin Fighter.
  • Back from the Dead: Lord Zedd resurrects him later in the season to join his fellow revived sea monsters in fighting the Rangers.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Using his flute, he could take control of both the Dragonzord and Tyrannosaurus Dinozord.
  • Bright Is Not Good: Though the piranha he was created from possessed the species' usual dark, muted colors, Pirantis Head himself is adorned with bright whites, pinks, and greens.
  • The Bus Came Back: He was one of the fish monsters that came back in "A Reel Fish Story."
    • He also appears in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comics by Marvel, set during Season 3.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Pirantis Head was intended to be destroyed by the Ultrazord in the original Zyu2 footage (note the explosion on his chest), but at this point in MMPR the Dino Zords had been written out and replaced by the Thunder Zords, so it was changed to the Thunder Megazord's Thunder Saber.
  • Fiendish Fish: He uses the Dino Zords to attack Angel Grove and has no problem personally attacking civilians.
  • Fish People: He's a large, humanoid piranha.
  • Freeze Ray: When Pirantis Head's beam isn't taking control of a machine, it has this effect on them; he uses it to freeze the Mastodon, Pterodactyl, Triceratops, and Sabertooth Tiger Dinozords, rendering them useless.
  • Godzilla Threshold: The Rangers have spent a good chunk of the episode hearing about how deadly and powerful Lord Zedd is. When Pirantis Head begins to attack Angel Grove, they immediately call for the Dino Zords, even though the monster isn't giant-sized yet. The only previous time Zordon greenlighted this was against Samurai Fan Man, who would necessitate the Ultrazord to finish off, having easily survived the Dragonzord Battle Mode finisher.
  • Kick the Dog: When Bulk and Skull's four-wheelers are broken down, Pirantis Head uses his fish flutes to bring them back to life. Then send them speeding wildly out of control, with Bulk and Skull still on them.
  • Killer Robot: Pirantis Head turns Jason and Tommy's Dino Zords into this with his fish flutes.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: Once Zedd decides to make him grow, he proclaims that he’s hungry and thinks of the Rangers as lunch. Justified- he’s a piranha after all.
  • Non-Action Guy: As powerful as he was, he mainly just stood around taunting the Rangers, allowing the Dino Zords and the Z-Putties to do the fighting for him. That having been said, when he needed to fight, he definitely could.
  • No-Sell: A negative (for Pirantis Head) example. He could not control the Thunder Zords as he could the Dino Zords; he seemed to be playing his fish flute when faced with the Mega Thunderzord, but the Megazord showed absolutely no reaction, forcing Pirantis Head to fight it the traditional way.
  • Out of the Inferno: The Rangers finally get a chance to deal with Pirantis Head directly and shoot him with the Power Blaster. There's a huge explosion, and the monster violently sparks (he jumps up and down complaining about a hot foot), but once the smoke clears, he's completely unharmed.
  • Piranha Problem: When Zordon announces that Lord Zedd has created a monster out of a piranha, a stunned Zack asks "As in 'man-eating?'"
  • Punny Name: His name is likely a reference to Portishead.
  • Quirky Miniboss Squad: Pirantis Head is resurrected along with Goo Fish, Slippery Shark, and Commander Crayfish to battle the Rangers in Season 2's "A Reel Fish Story."
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Pirantis Head has shiny, red eyes.
  • Right-Hand Attack Dog: The Tyrannosaurus and Dragonzord become this to Pirantis Head while under his control.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: He's only around for the season premiere, yet he's the monster that takes out the Dino Zords and necessitates the creation of the Thunder Zords. He's also the first one to change the status quo in such a way.
  • Technopath: According to Alpha, his flutes allow him to take control of any kind of machine.
  • Transformation Sequence: Lord Zedd's lightning hits the surface of a river and ensnares a lone piranha. The energy crackles over the fish before we see its face begin to be replaced by its more monstrous appearance, at which point the fully formed Pirantis Head rises out of the water.
  • Turned Against Their Masters: A forced example, as Pirantis Head takes control of the Tyrannosaurus and Dragonzord and turns them against the Rangers.
  • You Don't Look Like You: In the Marvel story "I'd Like to be Under the Sea" (set circa Season 3), Pirantis Head looks roughly the same body-wise, but his black/white/pink/green color scheme is gone. He's now completely gray in color, with his fins and gloves a solid green.
    • When he appeared in Hamilton's "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Saga," his body's proportions more closely match Pudgy Pig (an oversized head with arms and legs) than his television counterpart, and his design is clearly more based on a goldfish than a piranha, as he's bright orange, extremely cutesy, and most notably, visibly lacks any teeth.

    Primator 

Primator

Voiced By: Paul Schrier (First Appearance), Richard Epcar (Second Appearance)

A white ape monster created from Zack's gorilla costume.
  • Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
  • The Bus Came Back: One of the monsters to return in "Zedd's Monster Mash."
  • Dirty Coward: Tries vainly to flee the battle as soon as the tables start to turn.
  • Killer Space Monkey: Though he was originally Zack's ape suit, brought to life by Lord Zedd.
  • Kryptonite Factor: Reflective surfaces is his weakness, whether it be Alpha's shiny dome or Kimberly's mirror, as they cancel his transformations.
  • Shapeshifting: As with Twin Man from Season 1, Primator can change his appearance to the Rangers in both civilian and morphed. Unlike Twin Man, he doesn't have a preference.
  • Shock and Awe: Uses lightning-based attacks when forced to fight openly.
  • Stock Animal Diet: Being an ape, he enjoys a banana shake.

    Salaguana 

Salaguana

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Voiced By: John C. Hyke (First Appearance), Dave Mallow (Second Appearance), Bob Papenbrook (Third Appearance)

A fire-breathing half iguana, half-mythical salamander monster created by Lord Zedd out of Miss Applebee's pet iguana.
  • Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Salaguana" as opposed to "Saliguana," according to his episode's VHS box and his Spin Fighter.
  • Back from the Dead: Finster selects him as one of the monsters, whom he said were among Rita's favorites, to resurrect later in the second season for "The Wedding."
  • Bloodless Carnage: Salaguana suffers no noticeable injury after having his tongue hacked off by the Thunder Saber.
  • Breath Weapon: His main ability is breathing powerful streams of flame from his mouth.
  • The Bus Came Back: Salaguana is one of the monsters to return in "Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park" and "The Wedding."
  • Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Salaguana is saved from being blown up from the Power Blaster by Lord Zedd, only to be killed by the Thunder Megazord a few minutes later.
  • Class Pet: Salaguana is created out of the pet iguana kept in Miss Applebee's classroom.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Salaguana was intended to be destroyed by the Megazord's Power Sword in the original Zyu2 footage (note the red lightning effects), but at this point in MMPR the Dino Zords had been written out and replaced by the Thunder Zords, so it was changed to the Thunder Megazord's Thunder Saber.
  • Fiery Salamander: The "sala" half of Salaguana does not come from the real-life amphibian, but rather the mythological creature known for being able to live within fire.
  • Green Is Gross: At Zedd and Rita's wedding reception, Salaguana is seen holding a large metal beer stein which a Z-Putty proceeds to fill for him with some sort of strange green liquid.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He spends a good deal of his fight with Billy and Zack getting enraged over every little thing. Which makes sense, as he's hot-headed.
  • Hybrid Monster: Salaguana is a combination of salamander and iguana.
  • Lizard Folk: He's a humanoid lizard monster.
  • Logical Weakness: As he's part iguana and thus cold-blooded, Billy deduces that a cold-based weapon could keep him from utilizing his fire breath.
  • Multipurpose Tongue: Salaguana can shoot his tongue out and lasso it around the Thunder Megazord. It is quickly severed.
  • No One Should Survive That!: Salaguana is dumbfounded when the Red Dragon Thunderzord withstands a blast of his fire breath.
  • No Ontological Inertia: Miss Applebee's iguana is shown being returned to normal after Salaguana is destroyed.
  • Nothing but Skulls: Salaguana brings a small statue with a large skull head as a gift to Rita and Zedd's wedding.
  • Playing with Fire: Being part mythical salamander, Salaguana can breathe fire.
  • Quirky Miniboss Squad: Salaguana is among the resurrected monsters chosen by Finster to attack the Rangers in the abandoned theater in "The Wedding." He ultimately joins Grumble Bee, Robogoat, Dramole, Socadillo, and Eye Guy in fighting the Thunder Zords in "The Wedding Part III."
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Salaguana has solid red eyes.
  • Reptiles Are Abhorrent: He's an evil, fire-breathing iguana monster.
  • Spikes of Villainy: Salaguana has small spikes all over his upper arms and thighs.
  • Stock Footage: All footage of Salaguana during the fight with the Thunder Zords in "The Wedding Part III" is pulled entirely from his original Zord fight in "Putty on the Brain."
  • Tail Slap: Salaguana leaps up and spins around, whipping Trini and Kimberly with his tail in "Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park."
  • Tongue Trauma: He gets his tongue sliced off by the Thunder Saber and is clearly in agony afterwards.
  • Transformation Sequence: We see Miss Applebee's iguana disappear from its habitat before rematerializing as Salaguana in front of Bulk and Skull.

    Bloom of Doom 

Bloom of Doom

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Voiced By: Alex Borstein

A flower monster capable of spewing poisonous pollen created by Lord Zedd, sent to single out and destroy Kimberly after her jealousy causes tension between her and Trini.
  • Adaptation Expansion: She's one of the Zyu2 monsters to be adapted into Power Rangers.
  • Ambiguous Gender: Thanks to a case of Inconsistent Dub, Trini and Kimberly's failed attack on the Bloom of Doom involves the exchange: "Where'd she go?" "Trini, I almost had him!" A minor case, as this is the only instance where the Bloom is referred to as male, the monster is clearly voiced by a woman (Alex Borstein, to be exact), and she is universally accepted as a female monster.
  • Antagonist Title: "Bloom of Doom."
  • Be Careful What You Say: Zedd creates the Bloom of Doom when he overhears Kimberly calling her gardening boring.
  • Botanical Abomination: A twisted flower monstrosity created by Lord Zedd, likely to mock Kimberly's failing gardening club.
  • Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: The Bloom of Doom claims that Kimberly's insane jealousy has ruined her friendship with the others, so no one will be coming to save her.
  • Combat Tentacles: She has two long vines for arms and can emit electricity through them.
  • Dark Action Girl: She's the first female monster created by Lord Zedd and has no problem getting her hands (well, vines) dirty.
  • Designated Girl Fight: The Bloom of Doom quickly gets the male Rangers out of commission with her incendiary pollen, leaving just Trini and Kimberly to fight her. She then has an extended solo fight with Kimberly in her Pocket Dimension. When Kimberly ultimately escapes, the Bloom only really fights her and Trini, with the other Rangers only showing up long enough to finish her off with the Power Blaster.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: She fights the Megazord and Dragonzord and is killed by the Power Sword in the original Zyu2 footage. In MMPR, she's simply destroyed by the Power Blaster without growing to giant size at all.
  • Enemy Summoner: Surprised to see all six Rangers facing her together, the Bloom summons a squad of Z-Putties to help even the odds in her favor.
  • Eyes Do Not Belong There: She has an eye in the center of her main blossom.
  • Foul Flower: A flower monster with no qualms about taunting Kimberly and Trini over their recent tension, in addition to the usual desire to destroy the Power Rangers and the Earth.
  • Garden of Evil: The Bloom warps Kimberly and herself to a dark realm full of cacti.
  • Hypnotic Eyes: The Bloom of Doom's eye produces a minor hypnotic effect on Kimberly as the monster teleports her to her Garden of Evil, briefly making it difficult for the Pink Ranger to think straight.
  • Inconsistent Dub: During their first fight with the Bloom of Doom, Trini and Kimberly refer to the monster as both male and female.
  • Informed Ability: The Bloom refers to her pollen as poisonous and Billy later calls it "incendiary pollen," but it doesn't seem to affect the Rangers too badly. The worst we see is the Rangers rubbing their eyes when they retreat to the Command Center, as if they'd simply gotten some dirt in their eyes.
  • No-Sell: While Kimberly's first use of the ribbon weapon seems to deal some damage to the Bloom, the monster completely ignores her second attempt at using it.
  • Petal Power: The Bloom has the ability to unleash a burning pollen from her petals.
  • Plant Aliens: She's an extraterrestrial flower monster.
  • Plant Person: She's a humanoid flower monster with arms and legs, though her torso is much less human-like.
  • Pocket Dimension: She warps Kimberly and herself to a dark void filled with dying cacti and a thick mist covering the floor.
  • Power-Up Letdown: The ribbon weapon Zordon gives Kimberly to wield against the Bloom ultimately doesn't amount to much and plays no part in actually defeating the beast.
  • Shock and Awe: The Bloom is capable of sending electric shocks through her vine arms, nearly beating Kimberly with them in her Garden of Evil.
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Trini throwing her Power Daggers at a 90 degree trajectory is the only way to pierce the barrier between dimensions and free Kimberly from the Bloom of Doom's clutches.

    Robogoat 

Robogoat

Voiced By: Steve Kramer

A robotic goat monster created from a drawing.
  • Adaptational Badass: Zig-zagged as his blasts do more damage in the final cut to the Thunder Zords than he did to the Megazord in the original Zyu2 footage. That said, it takes the Ultrazord in Zyu2 to defeat him while the Thunder Megazord power sword finishes him off here.
  • Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
  • The Bus Came Back: One of the monsters to return in "Zedd's Monster Mash" and "The Wedding."
  • Informed Ability: His powers are drawn from mystical and mechanical sources.
  • Oh, Crap!: Has one of these when the Rangers get up and charge up the Thunder Saber. He stops charging to let out an "Uh oh," following it up with "You don't scare me!"
  • Verbal Tic: Being a goat, he tends to dr-a-a-a-a-a-g out certain sounds.

    Octophantom 

Octophantom

Voiced By: Eddie Frierson

An elephant-octopus monster sent to capture the Rangers and drain their powers.

    Stag Beetle 

Stag Beetle

Voiced By: Wendee Lee

A horned beetle monster created from a Stone Canyon sports team poster. Lord Zedd sent the monster to drain Tommy of his Green Ranger powers.
  • Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
  • The Bus Came Back: One of the monsters to return in "Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park" and in Season 3's "Ninja Quest."
  • Death by Disfigurement: His pincers are chopped off moments before he's killed.
  • Dirty Commies: Implied when he refers to the Z-Putties as his "clay comrades".
  • Energy Absorption: He was made as part of Lord Zedd's plan to drain Tommy's Green Ranger powers.
  • Kamehame Hadoken: After absorbing the Green Ranger powers, he can fire green energy balls. Also, every time he uses this attack, it drains a bit of the power.
  • Power Pincers: Has these for hands.
  • Sissy Villain: Downplayed. He cries out, "My beautiful pincers!" when his pincers are chopped off.

    Invenusable Fly Trap 

Invenusable Fly Trap

Voiced By: Alex Borstein (First Appearance), Richard Epcar (Second and Third Appearances)

A Venus flytrap monster used as part of a plan to hold Trini's neighbor Hallie hostage on Venus Island.
  • Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
  • All There in the Manual: Her name is spelled "Invenusable Fly Trap" instead of "Invenusable Flytrap," according to her Bandai figure and Spin Fighter.
  • Black-Hole Belly: She could easily fit four of the Rangers in her stomach, apparently either by shrinking them down or her body acts as an alternate dimension.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Has a Zord battle in the original Zyu2 footage where she loses to the Megazord. This was first discovered from a Viewmaster slide of Invenusable Flytrap holding one of Zedd's growth bombs.
  • Eating the Enemy: She could consume the Rangers by opening up her chest and firing a wave-like beam that pulled them into her stomach.
  • Gender Flip: She becomes "he" in "Rangers Back In Time" when recreated by Zedd.
  • The Bus Came Back: Would return later in Season 2 in "Zedd's Monster Mash," "Rangers Back in Time," and "The Wedding." S/he would also return in Season 3's "Master Vile and the Metallic Armor."
  • Kill It Through Its Stomach: After she eats the Rangers, they combine their energy to fry her insides. She spends the remainder of the battle holding her stomach in agony, doubled over in pain, and helpless against the Rangers' attacks.
  • Villains Want Mercy: Zig-zagged, while her stomach's being fried, she just stands there holding her stomach in pain, begging for them to stop. After they break free, she has a brief Villainous Breakdown and screams in a blind rage attacking, despite being in too much pain to do much damage, even yelling "NOW YOU'VE MADE ME MAD", but once they form the Power Blaster, she's back to pleading for mercy again.
  • Wimp Fight: After her stomach was fried, she attacks by feebly flailing her arms around and screaming, proving far less effective than she was early on in the battle.

    Guitardo 

Guitardo

Voiced By: Tony Oliver

A guitar-playing cicada monster used by Lord Zedd to hypnotize the Rangers with music.
  • Adaptation Expansion: One of the Zyu2 monsters to appear.
  • Disappears into Light: For some reason, he turns into sparkles instead of exploding.
  • Informed Ability: Is said to be a mind-control monster, but the Rangers never appear to have their thoughts altered. Instead, he appears to have weight-changing abilities.
  • Magic Music: He's much more brutal with this trope than Gnarly Gnome was.
  • Mind-Control Music: While he doesn't go the "mindless slave" route, he does make Tommy incapable of holding his Dragon Dagger in the final fight. His mind control is also what results in the other Rangers floating in the air. Somehow.
    "Succumb to me, your thoughts are mine / Feel my music fill your mind!"

    Turban Shell 

Turban Shell

Voiced By: Barbara Goodson

A conch monster sent to attack Tommy and drain the last of his Green Ranger powers.
  • Adaptation Expansion: The last of the Zyu2 monsters to appear in MMPR.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Turban Shell" as opposed to "Turbanshell," according to his Spin Fighter.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Delivers these to the Thunderzords the first couple times. Even disrupting its power walk.
  • Puzzle Boss: Overpowers all the zords and is immune to their finisher until his one weakness is discovered. You have to both scorch his interior and freeze his exterior. Afterward, he stumbles around, dazed and confused and is finally weak enough to be vulnerable to the Thunder Saber.
  • Wake-Up Call Boss: Not that Zedd's monsters were pushovers, but Turban Shell was the first one where it gave the Rangers more trouble than needed, even breaking apart the Thunder Megazord in the second battle and interrupting its power walk through the blasts, very rarely done. It's likely that had it been in their arsenal at the time, they would have called on the MegaTigerzord to finish the job.

    Pipebrain 

Pipebrain

Voiced By: Brad Orchard

A pipe monster created from the Golden Pipe Trophy. He was created to face off against Jason while the other Rangers were captured.
  • Adapted Out: Many of the Dairanger monsters had human forms removed from Power Rangers, and Pipebrain is no exception.
  • Adaptational Late Appearance: Zig-zagged. On the one hand, he is the first monster from Dairanger to appear, similar to his Sentai counterpart. On the other hand, he appears later because of the leftover Zyu 2 footage.
  • Combat Tentacles: He has one on his left arm, which also has Shock and Awe properties.
  • I Surrender, Suckers: Pretends to be hurt to get in a few attacks against the Red Dragon Thunderzord.

    Trumpet Top 

Trumpet Top

Voiced By: Dave Mallow

A trumpet monster created from a trumpet that belonged to Zack's uncle.

    Mirror Maniac 

Mirror Maniac

Voiced By: Tom Wyner

A mirror monster created from Kimberly's mirror.

    Nimrod the Scarlet Sentinel 

Nimrod the Scarlet Sentinel

Voiced By: Brianne Siddall

A hand-lightning rod monster created from a stone fist statue. She can summon two other monsters known as AC and DC.
  • Adapted Out: Her human form from Dairanger was not used.
  • Combination Attack: With AC and DC, Nimrod can perform a powerful lightning strike.
  • Demoted to Extra: In Dairanger, she and her sisters were Arc Villains key to introducing the White Ranger; her sisters don’t even get their own episodes as they’re demoted to Monster of the Week duty
  • Meaningful Name: Other than being based on a popular rock band, AC and DC can also mean "alternative current" and "direct current," electricity terms for monsters that have electric-based powers. Also, despite Bugs Bunny's iconic redefinition of the word, "Nimrod" is actually the name of a great hunter from The Bible.
  • Oh, Crap!: Has one when she sees the MegaTigerzord walk through their lightning barrage, cowering in fear and making her minions attack so she doesn't have to be the one walloped.
  • Shock and Awe: Nimrod and her two monsters have this ability.
  • Shout-Out: AC and DC is a play on the rock band AC/DC.
  • Terrible Trio: She and her two goons serve as this trope.
  • Unrelated in the Adaptation: AC and DC were her sisters in Dairanger, and then later their ghosts (which is why they just fade away instead of exploding).
  • The Worf Effect: She and her two goons were strong enough to handle the Thunder Megazord and the newly created White Tigerzord but struggled against the MegaTigerzord.

    Pursehead 

Pursehead

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Voiced By: Richard Cansino

A coin purse monster created by Lord Zedd from a purse given to Kimberly by her mother for her date with Tommy.
  • Adaptational Wimp: In Dairanger, his counterpart Purse Priest was able to take on the entire team. Pursehead, however, clearly can't handle direct combat and gets taken out by the White Ranger alone.
  • Adapted Out: His Dairanger counterpart had a human form that was never used in Power Rangers.
    • He also had the ability to open his purse-head and reveal a red, more human-like head inside, which went unused in MMPR.
  • Advertising-Only Continuity: The VHS box for "Two For One" refers to the monster as "Purselips."
  • Carry a Big Stick: Pursehead's main weapon is a staff with a large mallet on one end and a fish-shaped club on the other.
  • Cyclops: Pursehead only has one eye in the middle of his huge purse head.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: In Dairanger, he was destroyed by the team's Qiryoku Bomber, but in Power Rangers, he was destroyed single-handedly by Tommy (since none of the Dairanger suits other than Kibaranger were adapted in MMPR).
  • Epic Fail: He dies from a blast of Saba's eye beams and a single kick from Tommy.
  • Freeze Ray: The Compact Ray he fires from his oversized compact mirror freezes the Rangers' minds, turning them into motionless statues.
  • Glass Cannon: He can one-hit KO the Rangers with his Compact Ray, but he can't handle fighting them head to head at all.
  • Improbable Weapon User: Aside from his staff, his weapons come from the items held inside Kimberly's purse. Her compact mirror becomes a freezing Compact Ray, and her dental floss becomes an energy lasso. Who knows what the lipstick would've become had Zedd not turned it into Lipsyncher?
  • Knows the Ropes: Pursehead can pull out a large dental floss container from within his head, then use the floss as a rope to lasso his opponents.
  • Monster Progenitor: He's this to Lipsyncher, though his destruction does not affect her.
  • One-Hit Kill: His Compact Ray is capable of freezing an opponent's mind, taking them out of the fight in a single shot.
  • Pun: "Silly White Ranger. I'm more trouble than you can HANDLE!"

    Lipsyncher 

Lipsyncher

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Voiced By: Alex Borstein

A lipstick monster created by Lord Zedd from a tube of lipstick Trini gave to Kimberly for her date with Tommy.
  • Adapted Out: Her Dairanger counterpart had a human form that was never used in Power Rangers.
  • All There in the Manual: Her name is spelled "Lipsyncher" instead of "Lip Syncher," according to her episode's VHS box and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition.
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted as a slash from Jason's Power Sword leaves a mark on her face.
  • Be Careful What You Say: When she starts fighting Jason, she asks him, "Think those fists will stop me?" So he throws his sword at her face.
  • Bloodier and Gorier: Not the most severe example of this trope, but Lipsyncher is still the only monster in all of MMPR to be shown to bleed.
  • Breath Weapon: Lipsyncher can scream out destructive beams of sound from her mouth.
  • Brown Note: When giant-sized, Lipsyncher emanates a long, shrieking note that causes great distress to the Red Dragon Thunderzord (and presumably Jason inside).
  • Cool Sword: The blade to Lipsyncher's sword looks like a giant pair of lips.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: She is immediately in control of the Zord fight and wails on the Red Dragon Thunderzord until the Assault Team eventually arrives, which in turn curb stomp her.
  • Cute Monster Girl: She's already vaguely one of these in the show itself, but this aspect becomes even more apparent in her design for MMPR: The Fighting Edition, which really emphasizes her femininity.
  • Dark Action Girl: She has absolutely no problem getting her hands dirty and very nearly destroys Jason's Thunder Zord.
  • Death by Looking Up: Lipsyncher watches as the Red Dragon Thunderzord leaps off the Thunder Zord Assault Team and flies closer towards her, powering up its finisher.
  • Death from Above: The flying Thunder Zord Assault Team finally destroys Lipsyncher.
  • Eye-Obscuring Hat: The entire upper half of her face is hidden by her large lipstick cap hat.
  • Faux Affably Evil: The facade breaks as soon as her face is damaged, at which point she takes no prisoners.
  • Femme Fatale: She's one of the most feminine monsters in all of MMPR and comes quite close to destroying the Red Dragon Thunderzord on her own.
  • Graceful Ladies Like Purple: She acts all sweet and girly until her face is slashed by Jason's Power Sword, at which point all bets are off.
  • Gratuitous French: Before she begins to beat down the Red Dragon Thunderzord, she bids it "Au revoir."
  • Hurt Foot Hop: She does this when the Unicorn Thunderzord sends a series of boulders flying towards her, one of which drops down onto her right foot.
  • Makeup Is Evil: About as literal an interpretation of this trope as there possibly can be, as Lipsyncher literally is evil makeup.
  • More Deadly Than the Male: She poses a much greater threat to the Rangers than her male compatriot, Pursehead.
  • Musical Assassin: In the show, she can spew destructive sound beams as well as shriek out painful musical tones. In MMPR: The Fighting Edition, she can actually release giant musical notes (as in the actual symbols for music themselves) made of energy that detonates on contact with an enemy.
  • Never Given a Name: "Lipsyncher" comes from Zordon and the Rangers, but Lord Zedd - the monster's creator - only ever refers to her as "Lipstick Monster."
  • No-Sell: She doesn't even react to the Red Dragon Thunderzord's fire breath.
  • Pun: "What's the matter, Ranger? Can't face the MUSIC?" and "Time to KISS this world goodbye!"
  • Purple Is Powerful: Lipsyncher is purple and she gives the Red Dragon Thunderzord a rather sound thrashing.
  • Super-Scream: Lipsyncher is capable of emitting purple beams of sound from her mouth. A single blast from this beam can completely shatter a statue and knock the Red Ranger flat on his back.
  • Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Jason does this with his Power Sword and it results in a bloody gash across Lipsyncher's face.
  • Vanity Is Feminine: She's female and vain. Rather than bursting into tears when her face is injured, she freaks out and drops her dance majorette persona, becoming a vicious fighter.
  • Villainous Breakdown: She has one of these when Jason slices her beautiful face open.

    Magnet Brain 

Magnet Brain

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Voiced By: Michael Sorich

A magnet monster created by Lord Zedd from Billy's Polarizer device, sent to destroy the Earth by destabilizing the planet's magnetic polarity.
  • Brought to You by the Letter "S": He has a large 'N' (for 'north') and 'S' (for 'south') on each end of his Magic Staff. He also has one on each side of his giant magnet head.
  • Converging-Stream Weapon: Magnet Brain gets hit by the Power Blaster, but it only sends him flying back into a wall.
  • Cyclops: He only has a single eye, located between the north and south ends of his oversized magnet head.
  • Flamethrower Backfire: Magnet Brain fires energy blasts at Jason and Zack as they try to shoot him with their Blade Blasters, causing their guns to backfire on them.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: Billy creates a magnet device (a "Polarizer") intended to help him monitor a rare magnetic storm that takes place once every one hundred years. Lord Zedd transforms the Polarizer into Magnet Brain.
  • Hand Blast: He can fire swirling energy blasts from his hands.
  • Improbable Weapon User: After growing to giant size, he summons a huge magnet which he throws at the Thunder Megazord.
  • Inconsistent Dub: Zordon calls the monster "Magnetic Brain" at one point.
  • Magic Staff: He wields a magnet staff that he can use to alter the Earth's polarity. It can also hover and spin in the air on its own as it starts to work Magnet Brain's magic.
  • Magnetism Manipulation: Magnet Brain's main power, he can use his magnetic abilities to destabilize the Earth's polarity, fire magnetic blasts that cause the Rangers to either stick together or be forced away from each other, reverse the polarity on Jason and Zack's Blade Blasters and make them misfire, and use oversized magnets to restrain his opponents.
  • Mistaken for Quake: When Magnet Brain begins to disrupt the Earth's polarity, it causes Angel Grove to start shifting and quaking. According to Alpha, similar events are happening across the entire planet.
  • No-Sell: The Power Blaster hits him, but instead of falling over and exploding, he's simply thrown back and crashes into a wall. Despite this, he's able to keep fighting and battles the Thunder Zords soon after.
  • Pun: Right before creating Magnet Brain, Zedd says "And now, to introduce to Earth a monster with magnetic personality!"
  • Reverse Polarity: His mission is to do this to the Earth's natural magnetic pull during a rare cosmic storm, which would wreak havoc on the entire planet before ultimately disintegrating it completely.
  • Rhymes on a Dime: When the Rangers arrive to confront him, Magnet Brain taunts "North is south, up is down! I'm about to trash this town!" Seconds later, he says "Let's try a polarity switch and see if it makes you twitch!" before firing a blast from his staff.
  • Shock and Awe: When his giant magnet is stuck to the Thunder Megazord, he uses his staff to electrify it, shocking the Zord.
  • Suicidal Overconfidence: He declares "Magnet Brain fears no one!" as the Rangers summon the Power Blaster.
  • Sword Beam: Magnet Brain is destroyed by the Thunder Saber's finishing attack.
  • Wrecked Weapon: He gets quite upset when the Thunder Megazord rips his giant magnet in half.

    Gatekeeper of the Dark Dimension 

Gatekeeper of the Dark Dimension

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Voiced By: Mike Reynolds

A key monster that guards the entrance to the haunted forest dimension where Lord Zedd's minion Doomstone keeps Tommy trapped.
  • Adaptational Wimp: His Dairanger counterpart could fire off oversized keys like rockets, open and shut the large key blades on his head like scissors, and even steal people's souls. In Power Rangers, Gatekeeper can... lock doors.
  • Adapted Out: His Dairanger counterpart had a human form that was never used in Power Rangers.
  • Affably Evil: He doesn't seem to be noticeably sinister or malicious compared to most other monsters, instead simply wanting to do a good job since Lord Zedd has given him such an important assignment.
  • Blind Shoulder Toss: After being unable to locate the right key on his key ring, he simply declares "phooey" and tosses it over his shoulder.
  • Cool Key: His oversized Master Key, which he ultimately uses to lock the door to the Dark Dimension.
  • Cyclops: Gatekeeper only has a single eye in the middle of his face.
  • Demoted to Extra: His Dairanger counterpart was a pretty serious threat, even lasting for two whole episodes instead of the usual one, but in Power Rangers he's edited down to a single scene, his only role being to trap Tommy in the Dark Dimension.
  • Deus ex Machina: His only purpose in the episode is basically to give a reason why Tommy simply can't teleport himself out of the forest.
  • Exposition: Almost the entirety of his dialogue is this.
  • Flash Back: Gatekeeper trying to lock the door to the Dark Dimension is one of the moments Lord Zedd recalls and discusses in Lord Zedd's Monster Heads.
  • Forgetful Jones: He can't remember which of the keys on his key ring is the proper key for the door to the haunted forest, so he just pulls out his Master Key.
  • Informed Ability: He says once he locks the door to the Dark Dimension, that no one will be able to escape. Naturally, Tommy is back home by the end of the episode.
  • The Lonely Door: The wallless door that he locks with his Master Key in order to trap Tommy within the haunted forest.
  • Pocket Dimension: Gatekeeper doesn't seem to be in the Dark Dimension when he locks Tommy inside it, instead standing in an empty black void with fog hiding the floor. The only other thing in the area with him is a lone door, which he proceeds to lock.
  • Skeleton Key: After fumbling with his key ring for a moment, he decides to just forget it and use his Master Key to lock the Dark Dimension shut.
  • Thinking Out Loud: Gatekeeper is a bit of a motor mouth in his brief appearance, going over how Zedd has given him the job of watching over the Dark Dimension and making sure it stays locked up, as well as depositing Tommy inside for Doomstone and his resurrected monsters to deal with.
  • The Unfought: His only role is to lock Tommy within the haunted forest for Lord Zedd. He is never seen fighting the Rangers.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He only appears in one scene and is never seen nor heard from again.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: He disappears without a trace after locking Tommy in the Dark Dimension.

    Doomstone 

Doomstone

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Voiced By: Tom Wyner

A mysterious tombstone monster who presides over Lord Zedd's Dark Dimension, resurrecting previously destroyed monsters to help keep Tommy trapped there.
  • Adaptational Villainy: While he and his Quirky Miniboss Squad compatriots eventually get a tragic reformation in Dairanger, Doomstone is a standard Monster of the Week with no real redeeming qualities.
  • Adapted Out: His Dairanger counterpart, Company President Gravestone, had the ability to open his head up and reveal a flamethrowing apparatus within. This power wasn't carried over to Doomstone, as none of his Dairanger footage was utilized in "Zedd's Monster Mash."
    • Gravestone's teammates, Boss Kamikaze and Teacher Telephone, never made it into Power Rangers, not even in crowd scenes.
  • All There in the Manual: The announcer in the episode's "Today on Power Rangers..." segment seems to refer to Doomstone as "the Halloween Monster."
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Though he didn't engage the Rangers directly very often, when he did, it was with simple hand-to-hand techniques.
  • Boss Rush: Once he's faced with three morphed Rangers, Doomstone starts spamming them with resurrected monsters, sending Primator, Rhino Blaster, Invenusable Fly Trap, and Snizard after them one by one.
  • Bowdlerise: In Dairanger his suit had a large cross sticking out of his back, which was removed in Power Rangers for obvious reasons. The cross symbol on his forehead was also altered into what looks like a minus symbol. Finally, the skeletal parts of his body were painted gray, although that may have been more of a stylistic choice, since there was obviously no issue with other skeleton monsters such as Bones, Skelereena, and Rito Revolto.
  • Co-Dragons: Pumpkin Rapper and Robogoat act as these to him for a majority of his fight with the Rangers.
  • Conservation of Ninjutsu: His resurrected monsters are noticeably nowhere near as powerful as the originals, with even top tier monsters like Primator and Invenusable Fly Trap getting taken down with only a couple of kicks.
  • Cyclops: He only has a single eye in the middle of his giant tombstone head.
  • Demoted to Extra: Company President Gravestone was a recurring side villain who was part of a trio of monsters known as the Gorma Three Stooges. In Power Rangers, Doomstone only appears in this one episode where he never gets a proper fight against the Rangers and isn't even really focused on any more than the returning monsters.
  • Domain Holder: While it's never explained explicitly, Doomstone appears to be a being of at least some importance within the Dark Dimension.
  • Flash Back: Doomstone and his resurrected monsters are among the encounters Lord Zedd recalls and discusses in Lord Zedd's Monster Heads.
  • Gratuitous English: He has "Here is MHLCAEH" (with the 'C' being backwards) written across his head.
  • Mysterious Past: We're never told if Doomstone is a creation of Lord Zedd's, if he's a resident of the Dark Dimension that simply works for him, or what.
  • Necromancer: This is the only special ability he displayed while fighting the Rangers; by the end of the episode he'd resurrected Pumpkin Rapper, Robogoat, Primator, Rhino Blaster, Invenusable Fly Trap, and Snizard.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: He speaks in a 'spooky,' vaguely Bela Lugosi-like voice.
  • Non-Action Guy: Despite his apparent rank within the Dark Dimension and ability to revive old monsters, Doomstone himself doesn't attack Tommy directly very often, only intervening when it looks like his monsters may be losing the advantage.
  • No Name Given: Despite him being universally known by fans as "Doomstone," the necromancing tombstone monster is never actually referred to as, well, anything. The episode's "Today on..." segment implies that his real name may actually be "the Halloween Monster," but it's never officially stated in the episode itself.
  • Sore Loser: As it becomes obvious that his attempted Boss Rush isn't working, he bemoans that the Rangers are "taking all the fun out of my celebration!"
  • Taught by Experience: When Tommy tries to morph shortly after arriving in the Dark Dimension, Doomstone leaps out and snatches his Morpher from him before he can do so. He holds onto it for most of the fight.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Once Pumpkin Rapper grows to giant size, Doomstone suddenly disappears and isn't mentioned not only for the rest of the episode, but for the rest of the series as well.

    Terror Blossom 

Terror Blossom

Voiced By: Dave Mallow

A cherry blossom monster created from several flower petals.
  • Informed Ability: According to Zordon, Terror Blossom's petals are very poisonous. The most damage they did, though, was freezing three of the Rangers.
  • Green Thumb: He has a head of cherry blossoms.
  • Necromancer: Was able to resurrect Hatchasaurus by creating a cloud of flower petals.
  • Technicolor Death: Instead of simply exploding into a fireball when defeated, he explodes into a huge cloud of petals.

    Four Head 

Four Head

Voiced By: Alex Borstein

A four-headed monster created from a statue by Angel Grove High's art class for a world teen summit.
  • Adapted Out: Her four human forms from Dairanger were not used.
  • Attack Reflector: She could reflect any attack that comes her way, as shown by deflecting the Megatigerzord's finishing move.
  • Composite Character: Four Head's Dairanger counterpart was actually the combined form of the Gorma Four Deva Kings, a recurring enemy group of that Sentai. Since Power Rangers tries to go away with using human enemies from the Sentai (with a few exceptions like Rita/Bandora and Scorpina/Lamie), they turned the combined form into one monster.
  • Demoted to Extra: Her Dairanger counterparts lasted a little longer than she did.
  • Punny Name: "Four Head" sounds like "forehead."
  • She's a Man in Japan: Her Dairanger counterparts were four males.

    Beamcaster 

Beamcaster

Voiced By: Dave Mallow

A radio monster created from Bulk's energy output meter and a fishing pole that belonged to Skull's dad.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Beamcaster" as opposed to "Beam Caster," according to his episode's VHS box.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Beamcaster looks ridiculous and talks like some evil Howard Cosell, but he likely came closer to achieving true victory for Zedd than any monster before him, hypnotizing the entire team!
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: His Dairanger counterpart was destroyed by the Chi-Power Bazooka (the Power Cannon's sentai counterpart), but because it was not introduced yet, he was destroyed by the Power Blaster instead. He was also the last of MMPR's monsters to be destroyed by the Power Blaster.
  • Improbable Weapon User: Wields a fishing rod as a weapon.
  • Mad Bomber: Beamcaster uses explosives for weapons.
  • Near-Villain Victory: Brainwashes the Rangers and Bulk and Skull (who would later save their bacon in a similar situation), as well as many Angel Grove citizens. Had it not been for Rocky, Adam, and Aisha, he probably would have had a victory in the bag.

    Silver Horns 

Silver Horns

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Voiced By: Michael Sorich

A tick monster created by Lord Zedd to buy time until Serpentera arrived on Earth; he's the first monster to face Rocky, Adam, and Aisha in their very first mission as Power Rangers.
  • Accidental Misnaming: In Lord Zedd's Monster Heads, when Zedd and Goldar are reminiscing about Silver Horns' fight with the Rangers, Zedd refers to him as "the Silver Horn."
  • Adaptational Intelligence: Downplayed, but his counterpart, Ikazuchi, only vocalized in monstrous growls and roars. Here, he is fully capable of speaking.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Silver Horns" as opposed to "Silverhorns," according to his Collector Set figurine and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition.
  • Bare-Handed Blade Block: Grabs the Red Dragon Thunderzord's staff with his hand while it's attempting to use the finisher on him, making this one of the few times a finisher has been blocked. This also doubles as a No-Sell.
  • Big Creepy-Crawlies: Though he doesn't quite look like one, Lord Zedd says (and Alpha later confirms) that he created Silver Horns out of a tick.
  • The Big Guy: Silver Horns is this for the Evil Space Aliens' side of the roster in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition on the Super Nintendo. His counterpart on the hero's side is the Shogun Megazord.
  • Cowboy: Speaks like one, Southern accent and all.
    "Yee-haw! I'm as happy as a wolf in a house full of hens!"
  • Cyclops: Silver Horns only has one eye on his huge, horned body.
  • Death by Looking Up: Silver Horns watches as the falling Thunder Ultrazord gets closer and closer...
  • Death from Above: Silver Horns is ultimately destroyed by the Thunder Ultrazord, which flies up into the air and then drops onto its targets.
  • Extendable Arms: He has this ability in MMPR: The Fighting Edition.
  • Flash Back: Silver Horns' fights with the Rangers and the Red Dragon Thunderzord is one of the monster attacks Lord Zedd recalls and discusses in Lord Zedd's Monster Heads.
  • Four-Legged Insect: Silver Horns is one of these, with his clawed arms and boot-like feet.
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: His lone eye lights up whenever he unleashes his lightning.
  • Implacable Man: Silver Horns spends a good deal of his battle with the Red Dragon Thunderzord casually laughing as he continuously clobbers the Zord and No-Sells basically all its attacks, including its finisher. Even when the White Tigerzord shows up to help, it doesn't make much of a difference. It finally takes the Thunder Ultrazord to put the monster down.
  • Informed Ability: Upon seeing that Silver Horns has been created from a tick, Zedd says, "His horns will suck the very life out of those Earthlings." Whether he was literal or dramatic is unknown, but either way, the monster never displays any life-draining abilities.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He delivers a thorough one to Rocky in his Red Dragon Thunderzord.
  • No-Sell: Virtually every attack the Red Dragon Thunderzord tries does not affect him until the Rangers summon the Thunder Ultrazord.
  • Playing with Fire: While he mainly used lightning bolts to attack, he was also capable of shooting flames from his horns as well.
  • Power Pincers: Silver Horns has these instead of hands.
  • Pulling Themselves Together: When Lord Zedd first creates him, we see segments of Silver Horns' body come together until he's fully formed.
  • Shock and Awe: Silver Horns could generate and shoot multicolored lightning bolts from pretty much every horn on his body.
  • Spikes of Villainy: Silver Horns is quite possibly the spikiest monster ever created by the Evil Space Alien crew (well, aside from Repellator).
  • Summon Bigger Fish: His apparent reaction to Lord Zedd arriving in Serpentera for backup (not that he needed it at that point).
  • Villainous Breakdown: A subtle one. When Tommy shows up in the White Tigerzord to help Rocky, Silver Horns starts taking the fight a bit more seriously. Immediately dropping the laid-back country boy persona, he says, "The sheriff has a deputy? No posse's gonna get ME!" and punches a mountain into pieces, hurtling a bunch of rocks at them. When the Red Dragon Thunderzord tries to attack next, it's instantly tossed back.
  • Vocal Dissonance: Silver Horns is a hulking, cyborg-looking monstrosity built like a tank whose torso is covered in enormous horns... That speaks like a stereotypical cowboy.

    Skelerena 

Skelerena

Voiced By: Tom Fahn

A skeletal hyena monster created from a picture of a hyena in a magazine.
  • Adaptational Intelligence: Downplayed. While Jin Matoba was unable to speak in his Garouki form, being a feral werewolf-like monster, Skelerena is fully capable of speaking and taunts the rangers at any opportunity.
  • Adaptation Species Change: Garouki was a wolf-beast in Dairanger but became hyena-based in Power Rangers.
  • Adaptational Villainy: While Jin Matoba of Dairanger was mostly a villain, he at least had a Noble Demon quality to him that wouldn't allow for any dirty tricks, and his monster form was more of a Brainwashed and Crazy situation. Skelerena, by contrast, is a straight-up monster and laughs at his opponents' misfortunes.
  • Adaptational Wimp: Compared to Garouki's skills in Dairanger, Skelerena never once attacked the rangers and instead just taunts them before he was easily destroyed by the Power Cannon. Most of this is due to all of his footage having him fight up close with the then-unadapted Dairanger suits and never becoming enlarged for a Megazord battle.
  • Adapted Out: His human form from Dairanger was not used.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Skelerena" as opposed to "Skelereena" or "Skelerina," according to his Collector Set figurine.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Skelerena didn't even lay a hand on the rangers before they whipped out the Power Cannon and destroyed him.
  • Death by Adaptation: While there are signs that Jin Matoba was still alive in Dairanger, Skelerena is confirmed to be dead by the end of the battle against the Rangers.
  • Demoted to Extra: His Dairanger counterpart, Jin Matoba, was actually the main rival to the Red Ranger, and the monster form, Garouki, was created when the villains powered him with Gorma energy. However, because they could not use his human form, his monster form was downgraded to Monster of the Week. He ended up being the first monster to be killed by the Power Cannon.
  • Dem Bones: Another skeletal monster.

    Scatterbrain 

Scatterbrain

Voiced By: Mike Reynolds

A kaleidoscope monster created from a kaleidoscope to erase the Rangers' memories of their own identities.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Scatterbrain" as opposed to "Scatter Brain," according to his episode's VHS box.
  • Beware the Silly Ones:
    • Scatterbrain looks even sillier than Beamcaster was but had even more success by wiping out all of the Rangers' memories.
    • He ended up having this trope thrown at him when he learned the hard way that the comic relief duo, Bulk and Skull, are not to be trifled with. This was thanks to the duo reflecting Scatterbrain's own beam towards the Rangers and helping them regain their memories, at the cost of losing their knowledge of learning their identities.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: He has a beam that can erase people's memories.
  • Meaningful Name: Scatterbrain's name is based on the term of the same name of someone who forgets things. Makes perfect sense for a monster like him to have an ability to erase people's memories be named that.
  • Near-Villain Victory: He actually succeeds in his mission to erase the Rangers' memories. The only thing that stopped him from taking them to Lord Zedd was Bulk and Skull pulling a Big Damn Heroes.
  • Showdown at High Noon: Has one with Bulk and Skull. While he ultimately wipes their knowledge of learning the identities of the Rangers, they were able to reflect his beam and helped the team regain their memories.

    Pachinko Head 

Pachinko Head

Voiced By: Michael Sorich

A pachinko monster created from Ernie's pachinko machine.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: EXTREMELY downplayed. His original counterpart was fun-loving and mischievous as well as violent. The "violent" part was only added to Pachinko Head's resume once he transformed five of the Rangers into giant pachinko balls.
  • Adaptational Wimp: His Dairanger form manages to No-Sell nearly every attack from their mecha, yet in Power Rangers, he's the Red Dragon Thunderzord's equal in hand to hand combat, and the Thunder Megazord easily overpowers him (while it didn't in Dairanger).
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: He uses his fists instead of having any weapons.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Serpentara's counterpart destroyed his Dairanger counterpart. Because it would not make sense for Lord Zedd to destroy his own monster, Pachinko Head was destroyed by the Thunder Megazord instead.
  • Playing with Fire: Pachinko Head is capable of firing an orange colored fireball from its eye.
  • Transformation Ray: Pachinko Head can turn his opponents into giant pachinko balls using a yellow colored ray from his right arm.

    Show Biz Monster 

Show Biz Monster

Voiced By: Bob Papenbrook

A video camera monster created from a TV camera when the Rangers guest-starred on The Harvey Garvey Show.
  • Adaptational Villainy: His Dairanger counterpart, Media Magician, was actually a sympathetic monster who, while initially evil, fell in love with Rin, the Pink Ranger. He only fought the Rangers again, when one of the villains, Gara, killed him and brought him back as a mindless giant. Here he's just another Monster of the Week.
  • Adaptational Wimp: Because he only appears in stock footage from a different Sentai, he never actually interacted with the rangers, not even showing his counterpart's pause attack. Most he could do was taunt them before going giant and being defeated by the Thunder Megazord.
  • Adapted Out: His human form from Dairanger was not used.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Show Biz Monster" as opposed to "Showbiz Monster," according to his episode's VHS box.
  • Cool Sword: Wielded one during his fight against the Thunder Megazord.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Was struck down by a single slice from the Thunder Megazord without even laying a hand on the Rangers.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Media Magician in Dairanger is killed off by Gara on the ground level, and is revived as a giant puppet that gets destroyed by Dairenoh. Here, the Showbiz Monster is fully sapient during his episode, so he's Killed Off for Real by the Thunder Megazord.
  • Technicolor Death: After being destroyed, the Show Bizz Monster dissolves into sparkles.

    Flame Head 

Flame Head

Voiced By: Alex Borstein

A furnace monster sent by Lord Zedd to light Angel Grove ablaze.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Flame Head" as opposed to "Flamehead," according to his episode's VHS box.
  • Breath Weapon: Unsurprisingly, Flame Head could spew streams of flame from his mouth.
  • One-Winged Angel: Slightly. When human-sized, he wears what looks like an Arab sheik hood that covers his face. However, when he's grown to giant size, the hood comes off, revealing a horrifying, fiery head underneath.
  • Playing with Fire: Given that he has flame in his name, this isn't surprising.
  • Sissy Villain: He has a female voice and acts more like a female villain than a male villain.

    Cannontop 

Cannontop

Voiced By: John C. Hyke

A cannon monster created from a miniature cannon model belonging to Billy's cousin.

    Bookala and Bad Bookala 

Bookala and Bad Bookala

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(Good) Bookala
Bad Bookala 

Voiced By: Dave Mallow (Bad Bookala)

A benevolent kabuki-themed alien in possession of a powerful diamond who crashes on Earth and his evil counterpart created by Lord Zedd after he fails to steal said diamond.
  • Adapted Out: The Kabuki Novice had the power to possess people and turn them into crazed Kabuki actors. Here, neither of the Bookalas are shown to be capable of such a thing.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: The real Bookala is a lot nicer than his Dairanger counterpart, who caused chaos by possessing others and had abducted the fiancé of Yufang, Rin's grandfather. Subverted though for his evil twin.
  • Aliens Speaking English: Downplayed, as Bookala has to learn the language of another planet by repeating words given to it by its inhabitants. Averted with Bad Bookala, however, who speaks English right out of the gate.
  • Alliterative Name: Bad Bookala.
  • Decomposite Character: He and Weldo were actually the same monster in Dairanger.
  • Evil Knockoff: Bad Bookala.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Bad Bookala has a much deeper, scratchier voice.
  • Extra Eyes: Bookala and Bad Bookala have the usual two eyes, as well as a third in their forehead.
  • Innocent Aliens: Bookala, who just wants to repair his ship and get home. Bad Bookala, not so much.
  • Kabuki Theatre: Downplayed. While Bookala is very clearly kabuki-themed, it isn't acknowledged or commented upon by anyone.
  • Let There Be Snow: Bookala creates a minor snowfall as a parting gift for the Rangers before leaving Earth.
  • The Load: While nice and well-meaning enough, Bookala is not the brightest, he's slow, his large bulk hinders him more than helps (he can't even seem to be able to get through normal sized doors), and the Rangers have to spend a large amount of the episode rescuing and helping him more than anything else. He's also the only person Weldo manages to hit with his Eye Beam.
  • Mineral MacGuffin: A good deal of the episode revolves around fighting over Bookala's Lightning Diamond and trying to keep it out of Zedd's hands.
  • Multipurpose Tongue: Bad Bookala can unleash a black tendril-tongue from his mouth, which he uses to ensnare the Thunder Megazord. It quickly gets severed by the Thunder Saber.
  • Non-Action Guy: Bookala seems to either be a pacifist or is simply incapable of physical confrontation.
  • Overly-Long Tongue: Bad Bookala's aforementioned tendril-tongue. It's unknown if the real Bookala shares this ability.
  • Parasol of Prettiness: Bookala has a parsol that he carries around with him.
  • Planet of Steves: Not only is the alien visitor named Bookala, but according to Zordon, it's the name of his home world as well.
  • Power Crystal: Bookala's Lightning Diamond, which he uses to fuel his spaceship as well as other magical uses, such as altering his size. Zedd wants the Lightning Diamond in order to give Serpentera an unlimited power supply.
  • Precision Crash: Bookala's ship is borderline crashing to Earth after narrowly escaping from Serpentera and it just so happens to land not only in Angel Grove, but in the exact same stretch of the park where Billy, Adam, and Aisha are having a picnic.
  • Protagonist Title: "The Great Bookala Escape." Also doubles as an Antagonist Title, thanks to Bad Bookala.
  • Pun: Bad Bookala tells the Rangers "I now sentence you to a severe tongue-lashing!" before attacking them with his extending tongue.
  • Sizeshifter: Bookala uses his Lightning Diamond to either shrink small enough to fit in his spaceship or to grow to human size.
  • Strange-Syntax Speaker: Bookala's sentences, while coherent, aren't in proper grammatical order. "I will see you again some day" comes out as "Again see you, I some day will," etc. Bad Bookala speaks in this same manner, though not quite as strongly.
  • Tempting Fate: Aisha's idea to make a decoy Bookala doll. Lord Zedd is known to make monsters out of things, especially items of importance that belong to the Rangers, and she goes and makes a doll replica of an alien being. Naturally, this doll is what Zedd creates Bad Bookala out of.
  • Third Eye: Both Bookalas have one of these in their foreheads.
  • Tongue Trauma: Bad Bookala gets his tongue sliced off by the Thunder Saber.
  • Tornado Move: Bad Bookala gets swept up in the Thunder Saber's tornado attack.
  • True Final Boss: After Weldo is destroyed by the Rangers, Bad Bookala ends up being this, going on to fight the Thunder Zords.
  • Weather Manipulation: Bookala apparently possesses this ability, as he makes it snow for the Rangers (as Billy had earlier lamented that it never snows in Angel Grove) before bidding them farewell. Bad Bookala seems to have not inherited this ability.

    Weldo 

Weldo

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Voiced By: Eddie Frierson

A robot monster looking to steal Bookala's Lightning Diamond from the Rangers, presumably for Lord Zedd.
  • Decomposite Character: He and Bookala were actually the same monster in Dairanger.
  • Determinator: He chases the Rangers and Bookala relentlessly in search of the latter's Lightning Diamond.
  • Disc-One Final Boss: He appears to be the main threat of the episode when he first appears, but he's quickly killed off and replaced by Goldar and Bad Bookala.
  • Eye Beams: He can fire a purple laser from his single eye.
  • Gratuitous English: Both his forearms read "T-RW2."
  • Mysterious Past: There's no scene of Zedd deciding to create Weldo, the monster just appears, with the only reason to assume he's created by Zedd is because where else would he have come from? Furthermore, his creation is heralded by yellow lightning (as opposed to Zedd's usual white), and while his name and mechanical nature seem to imply he was created out of Billy's welding torch, we don't even see Zedd's magic transforming the tool into the monster.
  • One-Hit Kill: Billy destroys Weldo with his Blade Blaster, something never done to any other non-Putty enemy before or since.
  • One-Hit-Point Wonder: His eye beam packs a punch, but he dies from a single shot from Billy's sidearm.
  • Punny Name: A combination of "welding" and "Waldo."
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has a single red eye (the right one) with three light-up dots in it.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Billy delivers the fatal shot to Weldo in retaliation for him blasting Bookala.
  • Robot Hair: Despite looking otherwise completely mechanical, Weldo wears a white kabuki wig on his head.
  • Trick Boss: At first it seems as if Weldo will be the episode's Monster of the Week, but then he's taken out by Billy's Blade Blaster a few minutes later.
  • Trigger-Happy: He fires his eye beam incessantly inside Billy's garage.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: We don't see Zedd create him, he doesn't fight the Rangers, he dies in one hit, and we don't see Zedd get angry over his destruction.

    Jaws of Destruction 

Jaws of Destruction

Voiced By: Chuck Kovacic

A saw monster created from a woodshop buzzsaw from Angel Grove High
  • Adaptational Wimp: In Dairanger, Archbishop Saw was a Perilous Old Fool who was the second-in-command, outranking Shadam, and gave Ryo a really brutal beating before Chouryo betrayed him. Here, the Jaws of Destruction is easily killed by the Thunder Megazord. While he was the first monster to be killed by Dairenoh, his advanced age meant his reflexes and strength weren't what they used to be, his Power Rangers counterpart was introduced after the Megazord fought and defeated many other monsters.
  • Adapted Out: His human form from Dairanger was not used.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: For all he stands around talking about how he'll defeat the Rangers, the megazord just sort of stands there. When he actually attacks, it destroys him in one stroke.
  • Demoted to Extra: His Sentai counterpart was an Arc Villain instrumental to introducing Dairenoh, but here he is an unremarkable Monster of the Week.
  • Dual Wielding: Wields two giant saw blades.
  • Informed Ability: Zordon said that he was one of Zedd's most dangerous monsters sent to finish them off once and for all. It turns out to be a ho-hum Megazord battle.

    Tube Monster 

Tube Monster

Voiced By: Brad Orchard

An inner tube monster created from Bulk and Skull's rubber ring.

    Photomare 

Photomare

Voiced By: Kirk Thornton

A camera monster created from an instant camera.

    Rat Monsters 

Rat Monsters

A mob of mutant rats created by the Wizard of Deception to attack colonial-era Angel Grove.
  • Canon Foreigner: These monsters exist only in Power Rangers and did not originate from Dairanger.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: While they scared the colonists, the Power Rangers handled them with no problem. Did the Wizard of Deception really think that a few mook-level rat monsters would be able to take out a group of superheroes who see putties as a minor annoyance?
    • Subverted when Billy states that fight them while unmorphed may be a bad idea.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the White Ranger arrived to take the other Rangers back to the future, the rat monsters briefly scuttered away.

    Snow Monster 

Snow Monster

Voiced By: Gardner Baldwin

A yeti monster from the storybook Grumble the Magic Elf who attacks those trespassing his mountain valley.

    Turkey Jerk 

Turkey Jerk

A turkey monster created by Bulk and Skull in their latest scheme to uncover the Power Rangers' secret identities, only to be brought to life by Lord Zedd.
  • All There in the Manual: His name is spelled "Turkey Jerk" as opposed to "Turkeyjerk," according to his episode's VHS box.
  • Canon Foreigner: He's a wholly Power Rangers original monster, created out of a very heavily altered Chunky Chicken suit.
  • Idiot Ball: Not on his part, but rather Bulk and Skull's; he thought they were his parents. They could have turned him away from evil and made him good had they not been freaked out by his appearance.
  • Improbable Weapon User: Wields a laser turkey baster and a cranberry branch that explodes.

    Mondo the Magician 

Mondo the Magician

Portrayed By: Rintaro Nishi

Voiced By: Mike Reynolds

An evil sorcerer and old friend of Rita Repulsa trapped inside the "Grumble the Magic Elf" storybook.
  • Adapted Out: His human form from Dairanger was not used.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: Downplayed since he's still a villain Whereas Shadam was an Abusive Parent and sociopathic asshole, Mondo is genuinely friends with Rita and his actions are standard Monster of the Week fare.
  • Adaptational Wimp:
    • Shadam was the Big Bad of Dairanger (or at least, the final boss). This guy's just a monster of the week.
    • He was winning in Dairanger's battle but never fought Dairenoh. Here, he was taken out by the Thunder Megazord, though it did take two finishing strikes.
  • Alliterative Name: Mondo the Magician.
  • Ambiguously Human: He may be a human as he looks like a metal-covered person, but considering his Dairanger human form was never seen, it's hard to tell.
  • Demoted to Extra: His Dairanger counterpart was the main villain.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Two finishers from the Thunder Megazord take down Mondo. His counterpart Shadam had a more... horrifying death.
  • Noble Demon: Downplayed. While most monsters continue attacking when the zords are down, he waits for them to get back up to resume fighting.
  • One-Steve Limit: Shares the same name as the ruler of the Machine Empire.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: He was trapped inside the "Grumble the Magic Elf" storybook, and while he was briefly let out by Rita, he was sent back after the Rangers defeated him.

    Needlenose 

Needlenose

Voiced By: Tony Oliver

A Mexican-accented cactus monster created from a rare species of cactus. He was sent alongside Goldar to the year 1880 when Angel Grove was a Wild West town.
  • Alliterative Name: Needlenose.
  • Ascended Extra: General Cactus appeared in one episode of Dairanger, while Needlenose appeared in two episodes of Power Rangers.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Despite having no weapons other than his grenades, Needlenose is capable of hand to hand combat.
  • Mad Bomber: Needlenose can use Cactus Grenades to defeat his opponents.
  • The Paralyzer: Used poison needles to paralyze the Rangers.
  • Plant Aliens: He's a plant-themed creature.

    Vase Face 

Vase Face

Voiced By: Brianne Siddall

A ceramic monster created from a clay sculpture Tommy made in art class.
  • Adaptational Late Appearance: His counterpart was one of the earlier monsters in Dairanger. Here, he's the monster of the season 2 finale and is the last of the Dairanger monsters to appear.
  • Adapted Out: His Dairanger counterpart had puppets of himself to make the Ranger's fight them instead of himself. However, they were never used in Power Rangers.
  • Combat Tentacles: He could summon a clay like tentacles to trap the Thunder Megazord.

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