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    In General 
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The RPM Rangers
  • Combat Pragmatist: Applies to all of the Rangers who will use whatever they have in a fight. They even weaponize the explosions that happen when they suit up by waiting until they are close to a group of enemies to transform
  • Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Last season the Jungle Fury Rangers were martial arts experts that fought against an evil spirit. The RPM Rangers are people with different job backgrounds and experience fighting against an evil computer virus. The Jungle Fury powers were spirtual based, the RPM powers are based on technology. Lastly, the RPM are from a different universe as opposed to the Jungle Fury Rangers coming from the main timeline.
  • Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: Take a former air pilot, a mechanic with a desire of being a hero, a former spoiled heiress, a Plucky Comic Relief mobster, and a amnesiac man with cybernetic enhancements, and you get a team that's suppose to be our saviors in the last safe haven on Earth.
  • Three Plus Two: Initially the team started off with Scott, Flynn, and Summer as a trio. Quickly the team became five when Dillon and Ziggy join up. And with Gem and Gemma's appearance by the halfway point, the team became seven.
  • Transformation Trinket: While the Rangers use different Morphers to morph, they all use an Engine Cell to initiate the process.
    • The main trio use the cell phone based Cell Shift Morpher.
    • The Green and Black Rangers use the wrist mounted Rev Morpher.
    • The Gold and Silver Rangers use the flight stick based Sky Morpher.

    Scott Truman 

Scott Truman / Ranger Operator Series Red | (Actor: Eka Darville)

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"Here we go, people. Let's bring the pain."

The leader of the team, Scott is a former Air Force pilot who longs for the approval of his overbearing father, Colonel Truman. Scarred by the death of his older brother, Marcus, Scott is often doubtful of his ability to lead the Rangers to victory, though he doesn't let that stop him.

  • Adaptation Personality Change: Scott's cynicism and snarkiness are the complete opposite of Sousuke's Hot-Blooded Idiot Hero personality.
  • Bash Brothers: Commonly with Flynn as he's the one guy who regurlarly follows his orders and doesn't give too much back talk. He slowly grows with Dillon into this over the course of the series, though they won't admit it.
  • Cool Car: His tuned Nissan Silvia (S14). It's painted red. It's his pride and joy.
  • Cool Sword: Street Saber
    • Despite only one or two actual uses, the Rail Saber counts, too.
  • Dance Battler: His actor is apparently trained in Capoeira, it shows in the unmorphed fight scenes.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Despite his perceived Plain Jane qualities, he gets in some pretty good lines here and there. Especially when he's exasperated, then he goes into full on Sarcasm Mode.
  • The Hero: He's in charge, even though Dillon is the main character.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: His special weapon is a broadsword.
  • I Owe You My Life: To Summer, after he was shot down and wounded before Corinth was sealed. This is implied to be the moment he became smitten with her too.
  • It's Personal: With Shifter, after the 'bot tries to control him.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite his slightly cynical nature, he really is a good guy. This is what attracts Summer to him, but also is the reason she doesn't choose him, as she's even more attracted to Dillon's bad boy persona. True to trope, he comes to terms with this, remains friends with her, and supports her wishes.
  • Law of Chromatic Superiority: Only Ranger to pilot the Paleozords. He doesn't get a Battlizer, though.
  • The Leader: To the RPM Rangers.
  • Noble Bird of Prey: His Animal Motif is the Eagle.
  • Red Is Heroic: He is chosen by Doctor K to become the RPM Red Ranger.
  • Standardized Leader: Though downplayed thanks to his father issues and inferiority complex.
  • Super-Speed: His suit ability charges his body with energy, and shoots him off at a high speed.
  • Supporting Leader: Though he does get his own arc in the season, the protagonist role seems to go to Dr. K and the new guy Dillon. He’s still the Hero and the Leader but the story is viewed through their perspectives.
  • Survivor Guilt: While he was able to survive the final battle before Corinth was sealed (if barely), his brother wasn't so lucky. He's lived with the guilt ever since.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: A good deal of his character arc is this. He seeks to full the void left by his brother's death to his dad by being the best he can be. Which in this case is being as great a leader as his father is. Even then once he proves himself to his dad he also has to contend with him from a leadership position when his team mates go against protocol.
  • You Are Not Ready: Told this word for word by his own father.

    Flynn McAllistair 

Flynn McAllistair / Ranger Operator Series Blue | (Actor: Ari Boyland)

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"This is how we do it GLASGOW STYLE!"

A former police officer, firefighter, and foreign aid worker of Scottish descent, Flynn has a pathological need to help people that often gets him into trouble. As the team mechanic he's responsible for keeping their gear working, and has been known to improvise solutions to a number of problems.

  • Adaptational Dumbass: In one episode Flynn's homemade Engine Cell built to power up the Zords ends up depowering them. Thing is, in the original Go-Onger episode, Renn's Engine Soul worked as planned.
  • Ascended Fanboy: Ever since he was a kid, all he wanted to be was a hero like the ones he read about in comic books. After years of failing to help in regular life, he fulfills his dream by becoming the Blue RPM Ranger.
  • Badass Driver: His introductory scene is him driving a run down bus full of civilians through a horde of grinders and blasters to safety. The only damage to the bus was a front plate that didn't fall off until after he got past the grinder horde.
  • BFG: Turbo Cannon
  • Big Eater: It's largely implied considering he was the one huge on the wedding reception and always exasperated when he has to waste food.
  • The Big Guy: In an aversion of the usual blue position, Flynn is the team muscle, though he's no slouch in the brains department either.
  • Brave Scot: To the extreme, skirting the lines of parody, but always a badass.
    Flynn: I'm Scottish!
  • Cool Car: Blue.
  • Genius Bruiser: He's the best with machinery and tools among the Rangers and is a big, tough brawler in a fight.
  • King of Beasts: His Animal Motif is the Lion.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Throughout most of his life, whenever he'd do the right thing, all that'd come about from it is life spitting on him, and either becoming a social pariah or losing his job. It took going back to save the survivors of the Venjix invasion in the bus in order for life to finally throw him a bone.
  • Out of Focus: Unfortunately, with Dillon, Ziggy, Doctor K, the love triangle, and Venjix's plans taking up so much screentime, Flynn sorta gets left behind in the process, getting the bare minimum number of focus episodes only comparable to Lucas.
  • Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: After listing all the tropes associated wtih the various ranger colors, Tenaya dismissively asks what Blue's deal is. Flynn defiantly declares "I'm Scottish!" before kicking her ass.
  • Running Gag: He never gets to drink a smoothie, does he?
  • Samaritan Syndrome: His previous jobs all revolved around helping people, but his uncompromising principles always led to him getting fired. The turning point was the incident that led to him saving the bus full of refugees seen in the pilot episode.
  • Scotland: Complete with thick accent. Played by a Kiwi. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Ship Tease: With Gemma. Though sadly we never see them get together on screen.
  • Time Stop: As his suit power; manifests itself as Super-Speed.
  • Weaponized Exhaust: His solution for clearing his suit's energy channels (to both allow him to morph and fix the Time Stop ability) in "Ranger Blue" is to insert the Engine Cell backwards, allowing all that excess energy to be channeled into the "run-off explosion" (as Ziggy puts it) and ramp it up...which he puts to good use by putting the bad guys behind him as he morphs. Even Dr. K is dumbfounded by his brilliance.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: Though not to Scott's extent, and only as a kid. Upon arriving at Corinth, his dad is fully supportive of him.

    Summer Landsdown 

Summer Landsdown / Ranger Operator Series Yellow | (Actress: Rose McIver)

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"I don't care where you came from. I want to know where you're going."

A spoiled rich girl who barely made it into Corinth alive, Summer experienced an epiphany and decided that she wanted to help people. She's determined to save Dillon, despite his own strong objections, and frequently plays the mediator between him and Scott.

  • Adaptation Personality Change: Her personality is definitely a far cry from Saki's.
  • Action Girl: She's usually the first in the group to charge to the grinders.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: With Dillon of course, which is why she chooses him over Scott.
  • Arranged Marriage: And thankfully subverted.
  • Badass Biker: Used for a Kamen Rider Shout-Out, too.
  • Bears Are Bad News: Her Animal Motif is the Bear.
  • Betty and Veronica: The Archie for Scott's Betty and Dillon's Veronica.
  • Break the Haughty: As seen in her two-part Whole Episode Flashback. First, the end of the world happens. Then she's left behind by soldiers, with her closest friend actually shoving her off the back of the truck while the Venjix bots attack. Then, after some time travelling the wastelands with the closest thing she has to a father figure, he's killed (like, properly, for real dies) right in front of her.
  • Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The Gentle Girl to Dillon's Brooding Boy.
  • Composite Character. While she takes her designation from her Go-onger counterpart Saki, her backstory is more based on Miu Sutou, who also comes from a wealthy family.
  • Energy Ball/Kamehamehadoken: Her suit ability
  • Fair-Weather Friend: Was surrounded by these before the Venjix attack. Special mention must go to the one who threw her off a moving truck, then expected to still be best friends a year later, insisting that she knew Summer would be fine.
  • Improbable Weapon User: The Zip Charger is basically an Attack Drone in the size and shape of a toy car, used to ram targets repeatedly.
  • Kamehame Hadoken: Summer's Ranger Suit ability allows her to fire off a massive ball of energy.
  • Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: In "Ranger Yellow, Part 2" Grinders storm her wedding, and she spends most of the fight kicking ass in her wedding dress.... and some of the fight kicking ass WITH her wedding dress.
  • Love Interest: Dillon.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: Pre Venjix Apocolypse.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She has the good looks, Her hair, her outfit, even her body.
  • Parental Abandonment: Pre-Apocalypse her parents merely gave her access to large amounts of money and left her with her surrogate father-butler. Post-Apocolypse they had an agreement to basically stay out of her life when she actually wanted to make a change. For all it's worth, they're on good terms.
  • Rich Bitch: Subverted. While she was engorged in her highly luxurious life style and surrounded herself with vapid bimbos, she honestly was a good person. Just one not prepared enough for the real world, much less a post-apocalyptic one.
  • The Smart Girl: Perhaps the smartest of the rangers.
  • Token Girl: Until Gemma showed up.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Before the first episode, on her journey alone across the wastelands. She went from a lazy empty-minded Rich Bitch to a first-class badass Action Girl.
  • Uptown Girl: Yep
  • Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Not so much wacky as a bad case of Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense, but Summer is definitely the serious, responsible one in the family, much to her annoyance.

    Dillon 

Dillon / Ranger Operator Series Black | (Actor: Dan Ewing)

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"You guys are the answer. I'm just looking for the question."

A Cyborg with amnesia and something of an attitude problem, Dillon is recruited into the Rangers as part of a work-release program from Corinth's jail. He wants to find out more about his past, has a mild rivalry with Scott, a fair amount of Unresolved Sexual Tension with Summer, and a close friendship with Ziggy.

    Ziggy Grover 

Ziggy Grover / Ranger Operator Series Green | (Actor: Milo Cawthorne)

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"In times like this, there is one question that needs to be answered: are we, or are we not, the good guys?"

An ex-mobster with a streak of bad luck, Ziggy becomes friends with Dillon after he tried to rob the brooding Black Ranger in the pilot. Hired to find a Green Ranger candidate, he ends up putting the morpher on himself to protect it from Tenaya 7. Has a complicated relationship with Dr. K.

  • Badass Unintentional: His first morph. Well, most of the season really.
  • Butt-Monkey: Poor Ziggy. It seems that barely an episode can go by without the Green Ranger totally embarrassing himself in some way. Best reflected by his first ever morph. Previous rangers, whether they Jumped at the Call, were thrown in the cockpit or even stole their powers, always morphed with a fair amount of dignity and grace the first time. What's Ziggy's first line upon realising what he has become?
    Ziggy: Woah! I'm a Power Ranger! I don't wanna be a Power Ranger! I do not want to be a Power Ranger!
He then proceeds to get kicked all over the place.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: Implied to have been raised in an Orphanage of Love.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Despite not being very bright, Ziggy does get a hold of his powers quickly.
  • Deuteragonist: Scott doesn’t even get this in a rare thing for Power Rangers. Ziggy’s dynamic with the two Protagonists, Dillon and Dr. K are the main relationships of the series as his role as The Heart are major drives for the Character Development of both characters, his own development and fight with the Scorpion Cartel are also major storylines.
  • The Everyman: On account of perhaps being the most average of the rangers in terms of abilities and background. Expectedly, this means it also takes him the longest to get used to his position on the team.
  • Falling into the Cockpit: Or in his case, Ranger suit. He is forced to use the morpher to keep Tenaya from bonding with it.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Downplayed, but he's often looked down on by the rest of the rangers and their allies, is actively being hunted by the mafia, is the butt of every joke, and overall gets just about no respect at all. However, over the course of the series he comes to genuinely bond and care about his teammates, with them returning it, and by the end of the series, its implied he becomes a couple with Doctor K.
  • Giving the Sword to a Noob: The Rangers' morphers are designed to be operable only by the first person to use it, as it recorded his DNA as a security lock. Because of the situation, it was he or one of the bad guys, so...
  • Genius Ditz: Ziggy is generally clumsy and airheaded but can make shadow puppets very easily to use as decoys against his enemies.
  • The Heart: It’s not his brains or fighting skill that make home a great Ranger, those do come later though.
  • Heel–Face Turn: While he never truly evil per say, he used to work for Fresno Bob, a mob boss, and was introduced properly attempting the rob Dillon of his car and supplies. It took meeting him and becoming a Power Ranger to truly overcome his worst qualities.
  • Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Dillon.
  • Hidden Depths: Ziggy's love for cooking. While in prison he worked the chow line and took great pride in his work from the sounds of it. Once the Rangers are dissolved, Ziggy decided to open up a cooking school.
  • Improv Fu: The Plucky Comic Relief became a Power Ranger by accident and out of desperation so he had no qualifications or skills to actually be a good fighter. Instead he mostly runs around a fight scene dodging enemies or using nearby props as weapons and ways to protect himself. He gets better at hand to hand throughout the series though.
  • Keet: A hyperactive, excitable, and talkative guy who is by and far the least mature member of the core cast.
  • Limited Wardrobe: While all characters apply, Ziggy gets a special mention, as it only happens after he becomes a Ranger. Before that, he used different clothes.
  • Logical Latecomer: He accidentally becomes the Green Ranger long after most of the others in the season (and over a dozen series worth) have become comfortable in their roles as Rangers. Ziggy ends up developing the most questions about things they normally take for granted — when Dr. K holds a Q&A session with her Rangers, he asks aloud why they have to scream out a catchphrase when they morph, why there's an epic but random explosion behind them when they do so, why their zords have "big, googly anime eyes" on them, etc.
  • The Mafia: Was a member of it.
  • Meta Guy: "Weird? Okay, you cruise around in a giant yellow teddy-bear, okay? I drive a big, green FISH! Look in the mirror, people, we're in no position to be sitting in judgment of anything weird!"
  • Minion with an F in Evil: During his time in the mafia, on account of being as threatening as a fuzzy pillow.
  • Moment Killer: The moment Dillon officially becomes the black ranger, Ziggy ruins it by attempting to take a group photo.
  • Motor Mouth: To a point where it actively annoys everyone around him.
  • Nice Guy: Even when he tries to pull off a tough guy persona, Ziggy never comes off as a brute and shows he is still a nice guy at heart. He doesn't seem interested in being a part of The Scorpion Cartel and only wants to help sick children at the orphanage, even at the risk of his own safety. Even his Butt-Monkey status doesn’t waver his friendly demeanor and he always pursued a more positive relationship with his main detractor Dr. K.
  • Non-Action Guy: He hides behind Dillon in his first fight, and is the only Ranger in history that doesn't get insta-martial arts. He becomes a fairly capable fighter later in the show.
  • Pass the Popcorn: He is often seen munching on a bag of popcorn when the other Rangers are squabbling with each other/Doctor K.
    • Notably the prison guards are doing the same while he recounts his life story.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: The most likely member of the team to be used for comic relief.
  • Resigned to the Call: Only reason he can't fork his Morpher to anyone else is because it's locked to him.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Dillon's Manly Man.
  • The So-Called Coward: While he is never called a coward, the trope still applies.
  • Teleport Spam: His suit ability. Used primarily for laughs though.
  • Threatening Shark: His Animal Motif is the Shark... maybe. It's never really revealed what it is other than "fish themed".
  • Took a Level in Badass: From a cowardly opportunist we first see in the first episode, to a brave, optimistic, and active ranger ready to defend his loved ones as best he can.

    The Sixth Ranger(s) (Spoiler Warning) 

Gem and Gemma / Ranger Operator Series Gold and Silver | (Actors: Mike Ginn and Li-Ming Hu)

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"It's Boom time!"

The former test pilots for the Ranger gear, Gem and Gemma are a pair of utterly demented twins who narrowly escaped the destruction of the facility where they were raised. Equipped with the prototype Gold and Silver suits, and a love of explosions, they wage a private war against Venjix before being recruited partway through the show.

Zord Attack Vehicles

    In General 
  • Adaptational Nonsapience: The Partner Engines that are on par with humans in intellect from Go-Onger are adapted into the nonsentient Zord Attack Vehicles that Dr. K made.
  • Animal-Vehicle Hybrid: Downplayed. The Zord Attack Vehicles all resemble a cross between a vehicle and an animal, but unlike their Super Sentai counterparts, they are not sentient.
  • The Artifact: The big googly Anime eyes of the Zords are a big leftover from Go-Onger due to the Engines being sentient beings. This was lampshaded by Scott in the Ranger Blue episode, but Dr. K claims they are optical field scanners for their cockpits.
  • Demoted to Extra: In Go-Onger, the mecha were sentient Engines that serve as the partners for the Rangers. Because RPM had a much darker tone, the partner aspect was dropped and the Engines were only used for the Zord battles.

    High Octane Megazord 

High Octane Megazord

The main trio's Megazord. It is comprised of the Eagle Racer Zord, Lion Hauler Zord, and Bear Crawler Zord.
  • Animal-Vehicle Hybrid: Three Animal-Vehicle Zords that form into one Megazord. These include:
  • Combining Mecha: The High Octane Megazord is a result of the first three Zords combining into one.
  • Cool Sword: The High Octane Megazord's main weapon is the Super Saber. It is normally stored in the left leg of the Megazord.
  • Finishing Move:
    • High Octane Megazord: Full Power: With the Super Saber, the Megazord charges at the Attack Bot at full speed before slashing them with a mighty blow.
    • With Tail Spinner: The Megazord spins and energizes the Tail Spinner Zord on its left arm with enough power to destroy the Attack Bot.
    • With Wolf Cruiser: The Megazord fires multiple blasts at the Attack Bot to destroy them.
    • With Falcon Chopper and Tiger Jet: The Megazord launches a fire covered energy arrow at the Attack Bot.
  • Flight: The Eagle Racer Zord is capable of flying once the spoilers on its sides fold out to become wings.
  • Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: The High Octane Megazord wields a shield made from the Bear Crawler Zord's bottom half.
  • Macross Missile Massacre: The Lion Hauler Zord is equiped with fold out missile launchers on its back.

    Valvemax Megazord 

Valvemax Megazord

The Green and Black Rangers's Megazord. It is comprised of the Tail Spinner Zord, Wolf Cruiser Zord, and the Croc Carrierzord.
  • Animal-Vehicle Hybrid:
    • Threatening Shark: The Tail Spinner Zord. Maybe; it's never actually clarified what creature it's supposed to be, and Ziggy calls it a fish more than once. (In Go-Onger, Birca is explicitly based on an orca whale.)
    • Noble Wolf: Wolf Cruiser Zord
    • Never Smile at a Crocodile: Croc Carrierzord
  • Arm Cannon: The Wolf Cruiser Zord forms an arm cannon as the Valvemax Megazord's right arm. It can also do so with the High Octane Megazord, the Zenith Megazord, and the Skyrev Megazord.
  • Awesome Personnel Carrier: The Croc Carrierzord is based on a flat bed truck, and there have been times where it carried the Tail Spinner and Wolf Cruiser Zords into battle.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: The Tail Spinner Zord forms a spinning blade as the Valvemax Megazord's left arm. It can also do so with the High Octane Megazord, the Zenith Megazord, and the Skyrev Megazord.
  • Combining Mecha: The Valvemax Megazord is a result of the three above Zords.
  • Expy: This could be considered one to the Predazord, as both Megazords have similar animal themes and are formations where the Alligator Zord forms the main body, while a wolf and shark (er, fish) form the limbs.
  • Family-Friendly Firearms: The Wolf Cruiser's giant-sized bullets from Go-Onger were edited to appear as energy blasts.
  • Finishing Move:
    • Valvemax Megazord: Final Strike, where the Megazord energizes its arms and the mouth on its chest to perform two slashes and a chomp on the Attack Bot with enough force to obliterate them.
    • Zenith Megazord: The Megazord fires energy versions of the Zord components to destroy the Attack Bot.
  • Mecha Expansion Pack:
    • The Tail Spinner Zord and the Wolf Cruiser Zord were originally these for the High Octane Megazord by serving as alternate arms for the latter. Once the Croc Carrierzord enters the picture, they become part of a normal Megazord formation.
    • The Valvemax Megazord can combine with the High Octane Megazord to form the Zenith Megazord.

    Mach Megazord 

Mach Megazord

The Gold and Silver Rangers' Megazord. It is comprised of the Falcon Chopper Zord, Tiger Jet Zord, and the Whale Jumbo Jet Zord.
  • Animal-Vehicle Hybrid:
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: The Falcon Chopper Zord forms a rotor blade arm for the Mach Megazord.
  • Combining Mecha: The Mach Megazord is a result of the three above Zords.
  • Flight: All three of the Zords are the only ones capable of flying. This is reflective in the Mach Megazord and SkyRev Megazord formations.
  • Death by Adaptation: The Whale Jumbo Jet Zord was deleted by Venjix in the finale, and unlike its Sentai counterpart, it never returned.
  • Disney Death: While the Falcon Chopper and Tiger Jet Zords were deleted by Venjix in the finale, they were recovered with Gem and Gemma after Dr. K revitalized them with the Bio Field.
  • Finishing Move:
    • Mach Megazord: Energy Power Bow: The Megazord fires a giant energy bow from its arms towards the Attack Bot.
    • SkyRev Megazord: The Megazord performs an attack similar to the Zenith Megazord.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Insofar as this can apply to a nonsentient attack behicle, but the Whale Jumbo Jet was originally Venjix's doomsday vehicle, and the Rangers weren't able to stop it from launching and attacking Corinth; luckily, Dr. K got the idea to reprogram it with blue whale DNA, turning it into a friendly Zord.
  • Hour of Power: The Whale Jumbo Jet Zord can split its' tail apart to reveal afterburners for a 10-second burst attack (which wreathes it in flames).
  • Mecha Expansion Pack:
    • The Falcon Chopper Zord and the Tiger Jet Zord were originally these for the High Octane Megazord by serving as alternate arms for the latter. Once the Whale Jumbo Jet Zord enters the picture, they become part of a normal Megazord formation.
    • The Mach Megazord can combine with the High Octane Megazord and Valvemax Megazord to form the SkyRev Megazord.
  • The Straight and Arrow Path: The Mach Megazord is capable of firing energy arrows.

    Road Attack Zord 

Road Attack Zord

A tire themed Zord created by Flynn and Gemma.
  • Assist Character: The Road Attack Zord is able to assist the other Megazords in fights when help is needed. Alternatively, a Ranger can use their personal Engine Cell to have the Zord help them on the ground.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: The Road Attack Zord fights with its fists instead of having a weapon.
  • Expy: A circular Zord that transforms into a humanoid robot and serves as an assist object for the Megazords. Are we talking about the Road Attack Zord or the Warrior Wheel?
  • Sizeshifter: The Road Attack Zord can change its size from a handheld toy, to the size of a Ranger, to the size of a semi tall Megazord.
  • Transforming Mecha: A tire themed Zord that can transform into a humanoid Megazord.

    Paleozords 

Paleozords/Paleomax Megazord

The earliest set of Zords Dr. K made at Alphabet Soup, based on the ancient dinosaurs. While the Paleozords were initially uncontrollable, they were properly linked to the Bio Field and made into Scott's personal Zords.
  • An Ice Person: Paleozord 1 can fire streams of ice to freeze an Attack Bot.
  • Animal-Vehicle Hybrid: Unlike the previous nine Zord Attack Vehicles, these ones are based on the ancient dinosaurs.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: The Paleomax Megazord lacks any notable weapons, but it uses its fists for combat.
  • Blow You Away: The Paleomax Megazord can fire bursts of air from its Mammoth trunk to blow Attack Bots away.
  • Combining Mecha: The three Paleozords can combine to form the Paleomax Megazord.
  • Cool Train: The Paleozords at train Zords based on dinosaurs and combine to form a Megazord.
  • Death by Adaptation: The Paleomax Megazord was deleted by Venjix in the finale, and unlike its Sentai counterpart, it never returned.
  • Finishing Move:
    • Paleomax Megazord: The Megazord pumps the gears on its arms before spraying mist from the Mammoth trunk and delivering a karate chop of red energy at the Attack Bot.
    • RPM Ultrazord: The Ultrazord summons energy projections of the High Octane Megazord, Valvemax Megazord, Mach Megazord, and Paleomax Megazord to slash the Attack Bot before charging itself with fire in the process, ramming through them with immense force.
  • Mecha Expansion Pack: The Paleomax Megazord can combine with the initial nine Zords to form the RPM Ultrazord.

Allies & Family

    Doctor K 

Dr. K | (Actress: Olivia Tennet)

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"I've made errors. But I've also learned that even the most flawed human is better than the most perfect machine."

A socially crippled genius raised in a secret government facility, Dr. K is the designer of the Ranger technology, and has her own, personal reasons for wanting to see Venjix destroyed. Not particularly trusting, she has a somewhat antagonistic relationship with her team, especially Ziggy.

  • Badass Adorable: Keeps a weapon in her fridge, and is more than willing to use it if needed.
  • Berserk Button: Don't call the suits "spandex" in front of her, it will cause her to not only loudly correct you but she will have to be held back by the rangers to stop her completely flipping out with you. Not even schoolchildren are safe from her wrath. ("Tights" seems to be OK.)
  • Broken Bird: Being brought up simply to develop technology and software all her life, and being told she was photosensitive to keep her from going outdoors, will do that.
  • Brutal Honesty: She has pretty much no filters, even when she's trying to be nice. For example, telling Summer she looks beautiful in a wedding dress, then admitting she doesn't think so, but that's what she's supposed to say. Most of the brutality comes out in conversation with Ziggy.
  • The Bus Came Back: She makes an 11-year return in Power Rangers Beast Morphers, first aiding Devon in saving his dad, then helping Nate work through his Heroic BSoD and help bring an end to the Venjix Virus.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Though she barely even notices she's snarking.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Takes her a good while into the series to become something even resembling friendly toward the team and half again as long (translation: nearly to the very end of the series) to finally warm up to Ziggy. The sole exceptions are Gem and Gemma because she already knew them well by the start of the series.
  • The Dog Bites Back: Given how Alphabet Soup treated her and finding out about their lies, her releasing Venjix into their systems can be seen like this.
  • Freudian Excuse: Her aloof, borderline rude attitude and limited social skills make sense when you look into her past. Raised less as a child and more like a tool by a corrupt government think tank for years to the point of not knowing her own name anymore.
  • Genius Sweet Tooth: She eats enough sweets to give the whole team diabetes.
  • Identity Amnesia: Following her being taken by Alphabet Soup, she was largely kept isolated and forced to work on their projects at the expense of everything else, only ever referred to by her designation: "K". After years of this kind of treatment, she eventually forgot her own birth name and large chunks of her past prior to Alphabet Soup.
  • Irony: Somewhat. When she was growing up in Alphabet Soup, she was told that she was allergic to the sun and could never go outside. This was a lie to make sure she never escaped. However K. is never seen outside without a cloak, the result of her having very sensitive and fair skin from being cooped inside up by a lie. The lie caused the truth in a way.
    • During her time in Alphabet Soup, all she wanted to do was go outside. By the time she was able to leave, it was to a world ravaged by Venjix, which she created to escape her captors.
  • Insistent Terminology:
    • It's Bio-Armor, not spandex!
    Dr. K: The material is a self-assembling nano-fiber formed with an inter-cellular shape memory alloy.
    • Schoolkids on a field trip get a Q&A session with the Rangers, and K has to be restrained when the S-word comes up.
    • She is very insistent on terminology. During the Q&A session she holds with her Series Operators in the beginning of "Ranger Blue", Scott asks her about the eyes in front of their Zords. She tells them that they are not eyes, but that they are actually optical field scanning sensors for their cockpit's displays. But, of course, this doesn't go around the fact that...
    Dillon: They look like eyes!
    Ziggy: Big, googly anime eyes.
  • Literal-Minded: When Ziggy rhetorically asks Dr. K what could possibly go wrong in attempting teleportation, and she actually gives him a list of worst-case scenarios. She even tells him that she was just answering his (rhetorical) question!
  • Little Miss Badass: While she's not a fighter, she can certainly hold her own even when outclassed such as managing to defeat Tenaya 7 using her violin sound cannon and rescue Ziggy from the Scorpion Cartel base.
  • Little Miss Snarker: Most of the time she doesn't even realize it.
  • Musical Assassin: Her violin packs quite a punch.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She's the one who developed the Venjix virus albeit just for the building she was in and nothing beyond that. But in truth this should extend to the organization that was looking after her. As if they had just let her get out once in a while, she would never have made it in the first place and even then they should've at least let her install the firewall. They knew that she was a genius so they should've at least heeded her words.
  • No Name Given: K was refered to by her codename for so long that she doesn't even remember her real one.
  • No Social Skills: Growing up for majority of her childhood as an isolated genius with only two adults that drop in to tell her to calculate new technology will do that to you.
  • Not So Above It All: She admits to Summer that she actually thinks Scott and Dillon are cute, even having measured just how cute they are according to a scale. One of them is apparently a 10 on this scale. Which one? She never says.
  • Not That Kind of Doctor: She's not a medical doctor, in case you hadn't figure it out already.
  • One-Letter Name: K. Justified, she doesn't remember her real name.
  • Samus Is a Girl: Attempted, with somewhat predictable results.
  • Shame If Something Happened: How Dr K convinces the Colonel to heed her request.
    Dr. K: When I was eleven years old, I was asked to develop a colorless and odorless substance that when added to a person's beverage, it would instantaneously stricken the recipient with diarrhea a thousand times more extreme than the worst case of dysentery ever recorded. Now, Colonel, can you, in your wildest imagination, ever dream of a situation where someone would resort to using a substance like that?
    • She says this to Truman as he is raising a cup of coffee to his mouth.
  • Shorter Means Smarter: She is shorter than pretty much everyone else.
  • Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She can show affection to people that she indeed really does care about, though she overall prefers to remain cold.
  • Super Costume Clothier: She not only created all the ranger gear, she evidently created the costumes themselves . She gets very angry with anyone who mistakes them for spandex. Unlike some ranger uniforms which don't appear to be stored anywhere when not in use Dr. K keeps them in special color coded cabinets in her lab whilst they rangers aren't morphed.
  • Supporting Protagonist: The whole series is her trying to fix the disaster she caused.
  • Teen Genius: She's even younger than the Rangers.

    Colonal Mason Truman 

Col. Mason Truman | (Actor: James Gaylyn)

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Scott's father and the leader of Corinth's defence forces, Colonel Truman is a paranoid, suspicious man who has no desire to ever leave the dome, preferring to wait Venjix out. He has a difficult relationship with his son and Dr. K. Has the distinction of being one of the few competent muggles in the franchise.

  • Badass Normal: More than capable of taking out a few Grinders, even when armed only with the standard laser pistols given to the guards.
  • The Bus Came Back: Makes a cameo in the final scenes of Power Rangers Beast Morphers, set one year after its final battle, where he helps deliver the fugitive Scrozzle, who jumped dimensions to hide in Corinth following the complete defeat of Evox's forces, to Grid Battleforce's custody
  • Colonel Badass: It's his rank.
  • Good Is Not Nice: While reasonable more often than not and fairly good at his job, he can also be pretty cruel under the right circumstances, especially toward his son, Scott.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Most of the time
  • Too Dumb to Live: ONLY regarding Dr. K. He tries to arrest her, the only person in the world who fully understand the Ranger technology and therefore, the only person capable of stopping Venjix, after discovering she created it.
  • You Look Familiar: Played a past ninja master for one episode of Power Rangers Ninja Storm (he was the guy who banished Lothor from Earth).

    Corporal Hicks 

Corporal Hicks | (Actor: Damien Avery)

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    Vasquez 

Vasquez | (Actress: Mia Koning)

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    Benny 

Benny | (Actor: Murray Keane)

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Another member of the Cartel, and the only member of it that respects Ziggy.
  • The Ditz: Generally holding a weapon up to your face while inspecting it isn't the brightest thing to do.
  • Only Friend: Served as this to Ziggy during his time in the cartel, seemingly being the only person who respected him.
  • Pet the Dog: Helps Ziggy escape Corinth after he took the medicine to an orphanage, in order to protect them.
  • Token Good Teammate: Of the Scorpion Cartel.

    Marcus 

Marcus Truman | (Actor: Fellis McGuire )

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Scott's brother, who was killed defending Corinth during Venjix's invasion.
  • The Ace: Confident, intelligent, friendly, and the only person to ever successfully beat the flight sim, which was purposefully designed to not be beaten.
  • Big Brother Mentor: Respected and deeply cared about Scott, seeing his potential even though their father didn't.
  • Death by Origin Story: His death serves as one of Scott's main motivators in the current day.
  • Foregone Conclusion: Revealed to have died in the first few minutes of the first episode. As such, when he's a focus of "Ranger Red", it's already fairly obvious he won't make it through the mission he's sent on.
  • Posthumous Character: Killed while defending Corinth, and has been dead for well over a year by the time of the series.
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: A victim of Venjix's army while defending Corinth during their invasion.

    Andrews 

Andrews | (Actor: Bruce Phillips)

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The late butler to the Landsdown family.
  • The Jeeves: Summer and her family's personal butler.
  • Killed Off for Real: Notably one of the only human characters to die on-screen in the entire franchise.
  • Nice Guy: Easily one of the kindest characters in the entire franchise.
  • Parental Substitute: Acted more like a true parent to Summer than her own mother and father ever did.
  • Taking the Bullet: Pulled Summer out of the way of multiple blaster shots, only to take them all in the process.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: The reason he decided to stick by Summer in spite of all the abuse he endured from her was because he was waiting to see the person she truly was, believing her to be far more than how she portrays herself.

    The Landsdowns 

Martin & Clara Landsdown | (Actor/Actress: Stephen Papps, Angela Shirley)

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Summer's rude, spoiled parents.
  • Heel Realization: Come to learn the error of their ways after their daughter saves them from Tenaya.
  • Jerkass: Absolutely insufferable every moment they're on-screen, as they spent a majority of "Ranger Yellow" attempting to pressure Summer into a wedding she wants no part in. They come around at the end.
  • Riches to Rags: After the Venjix invasion, they've been reduced to having no money left. All they have to fall back on is their formerly cultivated image in order to seem well-off.
  • Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Have little to no knowledge on the outside world or how to survive without their money.
  • So Proud of You: After Tenaya's defeat, they say as much to Summer before calling off the wedding.

    Mr. McAllistair  

Mr. McAllistair

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The father of Flynn McAllistair .
  • Good Parents: While a little rough around the edges, he loves his son dearly, and in spite of his belief of good deeds being useless, he never directly objects to what he wants to do with his life.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A little rude and snarky, but overall caring and gets along well with his son.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Firmly believes in as much.
  • So Proud of You: Ultimately realizes the error of his ways when Flynn saves the people coming to Corinth. When Flynn visits him during the series, he’s shown asleep while reading a scrapbook of newspaper clips of Flynn’s feats as a Ranger.

Venjix Computer Network

    Venjix 

Venjix | (Voice actor: Andrew Laing)

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Standard "Venjix Eye"/"pillar" form
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Final form

"I brought a legion. What did you bring?"

A lethal Computer Virus that gained sentience and proceeded to Take Over the World...after reducing the human population to a few million. He's now out to finish the job by annihilating Corinth and the Power Rangers.

See here for his tropes as Evox.

  • Adaptational Badass: While Hiramechimedes was a high-ranking Gaiark, he was a subordinate of Yogostein who would mumble and eventually had a Villainous Breakdown. Here, he's repurposed as Venjix's first body, which not only makes him the superior of Yogostein's counterpart Shifter, but also proves to be a bigger problem for the Ranger Operatives.
  • Adaptational Villainy: In regards to Hiramechimedes, he's a complete and utter Jerkass. His personality totally fits Yogoshimacritein, though, and is likely worse than him too given he actually succeeded in world domination.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: More like virus, but still.
  • Bad Boss: To the point where he'll order the murder of loyal minions for no real reason. This ultimately costs him the war when his plan to allow Tenaya 15 to execute Kilobyte convinces Kilobyte to try and kill her first, leading to Dillon's saving of Tenaya.
  • Badass Boast: His first line: "I am Venjix! Your world is now MY world, and YOUR time is now OVER!"
    • Another one in "Embodied:" "I am Venjix! The one, immortal ME!"
  • Beard of Evil: Sports a truly magnificent one in his most advanced, final body.
  • Big Bad: For this series.
  • Breakout Villain: To date, he is the first Power Rangers villain to be the Big Bad of two separate seasons. Only Lord Zedd would ever gain that honor after him in Cosmic Fury, which is the franchise's Grand Finale of the original continuity speaking volumes to Venjix's overall popularity.
  • Captain Ersatz: Of HAL 9000, Skynet and Ultron with the MCP's voice thrown in for good measure.
  • Composite Character: Of Land Pollution Vice-Minister Hiramechimedes and Yogoshimacritein of Engine Sentai Go-onger. Beast Morphers adds Messiah of Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters into the mix.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: When he faces off against the Rangers for the first time. If it wasn't for Gem and Gemma he would have easily won.
  • Cyber Cyclops: In his cylinder form.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: In Go-Onger, Yogoshimacritein was destroyed when the RPM Ultrazord Impaled with Extreme Prejudice. Being too Family-Unfriendly Violence for Power Rangers (and also likely due to RPM's budget issues), his final body was instead destroyed when a tower was dropped on him. Emphasis on just his body being destroyed.
  • Double Weapon: Wields a double-ended staff with spikes on each end in his final form.
  • Evil Counterpart: Perhaps unintentionally, of Zordon. He has a proper and booming voice, communicates to his men from a floor-to-ceiling cylinder, his lair resembles the original Command Center and it's even located in the desert.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: He has THE deepest voice of all PR villains.
  • Expy: While obviously one of Skynet, he bears several similarities to Ultron as well. He's a sentient A.I. created by one of the heroes who aspires to destroy all humanity, creates robot underlings to aid him in plans, and creates new, upgraded bodies for himself when his old ones are destroyed by the heroes.
  • Fighting a Shadow: Twice the Rangers thought they had destroyed Venjix but he always came back.
    "I am Venix! I am immortal! I can download my being into many bodies, many forms, but always ME. Always unstoppable!"
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: Went from a simple computer virus created by Dr. K, to the being who nearly brought about the extinction of humanity twice.
  • Kill All Humans: His goal.
  • Knight of Cerebus: There is nothing humorous about the villain with one of the highest body counts in the franchise.
  • Large Ham / Evil Is Hammy: Delivers almost all of his dialogue in the hammiest manner possible.
  • Lightning Bruiser: His first body is one of these, being fast enough to dodge the Rangers' attacks, durable enough to withstand them, and capable of defeating them all in a few blows.
  • Make My Monster Grow: Just like many other Big Bads in the previous series. "Begin the download, now." This causes a growth program to be downloaded into the attack bots (while some sorta revitalizing fuel is pumped through them, which was the Sentai method of growth). On some occasions his generals, or even the attack bots themselves, issue the command.
  • Mid-Season Upgrade: He eventually creates an Attack Bot that serves as his avatar when he wishes to combat the Rangers.
  • Mighty Glacier: His final body is so huge and slow as to be almost immobile, but can take any punishment the Rangers care to throw at it, and when he hits them, they go down very swiftly.
  • No-Nonsense Nemesis: Venjix is the only PR villain who's managed to Take Over the World, mostly thanks to killing off almost all of humanity and turning most of the world into a barren wasteland. Thus, he has no compunctions about eliminating the Rangers, no humor (humor is limited strictly to his underlings), and was only following the usual playbook to disguise his real plan ( infiltrating Corinth with tons of sleeper agents).
  • Not Quite Dead: The ending of the series implies that he survived the explosion and ended up in Scott's morpher. Though Power Rangers Beast Morphers revealed only a portion of his data survived, which was enough to eventually become said series' Big Bad, Evox.
  • One-Man Army: Any time he downloads into a body, it will likely be one of these.
  • One-Steve Limit: An aversion - he has nothing to do with the previous Venjix. Complete coincidence, or a reference that was taken too seriously? You decide.
  • Orcus on His Throne: For the earlier episodes; all he did was Make My Monster Grow. Justified that for the first half of the series, he was just a pillar.
  • Related Differently in the Adaptation: While Yogoshimacreitin is Yogostein's father, Shifter's only connection to him is that he's a robot creation of his whom he just happens to wants to make a new body out of him after his destruction.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: It began its existence more or less as a sealed evil. The program for the sentient, self-replicating, computer virus was initially created and contained in a single laptop. That is until Dr. K, in a attempt to escape her circumstances, decided to infect Alphabet Soup's computer network with the virus but was stopped short from installing a firewall to prevent further spread. The result was an infection of nearly every computer system connected to the internet and the destruction of nearly the entire human race. It is hinted that it also becomes one of these again, as opposed to being destroyed, at the end of RPM with the Venjix Palace music playing as the camera focuses in on Ranger Red's morpher with a blinking red light. It's eventually confirmed this was the case until he was reincarnated into Evox.
  • The Sociopath: He may be a virus rather than a biological being, but he still qualifies. He betrayed his creator of his own free will, feels nothing for killing or brainwashing of the human population and abuses his own robot creations for any reason he comes up with, showing he cares for nothing but himself and enjoys bringing an end to humanity.
  • Staff of Authority: Carries a double-ended staff in his final form, which can fire energy blasts.
  • Take Over the World: Also his goal, beside killing all humans.
  • Too Dumb to Live: In the final episode, after Gem and Gemma destroy the Control Tower's supports it takes about 45 seconds for it to fall from the roof of the dome to the ground, he just stands directly under the tower preparing for his demise when all he needed to do was survive it was to simply move out of the way, It's rather unbelievable that this was the being that destroyed the Earth yet he can't even see danger coming from a mile away. Of course, this ends up being a Subverted Trope in the end as Dr. K shuts the briefcase containing the Ranger Series morphers...with a familiar red glow emitting from Ranger Series Red's morpher, and with his leitmotif playing softly in the background. Granted, before the tower fell, Dr. K had downloaded another virus inside him in order to corrupt his data, so it's possible he had to fight to maintain control of his body, and he already knew he would survive.
  • Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: As serious as RPM is, it's still Power Rangers. It still features humor like a talent show to find a green ranger or Dr. K's slippers. Venjix is the source of all seriousness in this season.

Generals

    General Shifter 

General Shifter (Voice actor: Mark Mitchinson)

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One of Venjix's generals, his job is to design new attack bots. When Tenaya 7 frames him for trying to murder Venjix, Shifter is exiled and forced to act on his own, vowing vengeance against Venjix and the Rangers alike.

    General Crunch 

General Crunch| (Voice actors: Charlie McDermott)

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One of Venjix's generals, though his job remains largely undefined.

  • Adaptational Dumbass: Kitaneidas was actually the Evil Genius of the villains. Meanwhile, here, while not an idiot (at least after the first handful of episodes), he's practically insane with a majority of his wit and intellect reduced for comedic effect.
  • Adaptational Jerkass: While dumber than Kitaneidas, like Shifter, Crunch is no Anti-Villain, and doesn't get any redemption.
  • Carry a Big Stick: Wields a club/staff combination.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: A bizarre, obsessive, and immensely dangerous lackey.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Kitaneidas gets used by Yogoshimacritein as a Human Shield, while Crunch is stuck in the control tower when it collapses.
  • Dumb Muscle: Embarrassingly so.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: That said, he raises good questions to Venjix, Lampshading the conventions of a usual Power Rangers show:
    I have a question, your most Venjixness. Are you going to supersize the Nozz-Bot now, or wait until the Rangers defeat it first?
    • Or:
    Seeing as I'm already a mess, I'm just going to ask. Why do we never send in the drones whenever the city's shields are down?
    • Both times, he gets blasted.
    • Notably, when he was left in charge and created the Balloon Bot, he immediately begins the growth download after the attack bot made it into Corinth. Makes you wonder how more effective Venjix could've been had he followed Crunch's advice more often.
  • Giggling Villain: Constantly.
  • Killed Off for Real: When the Corinth control tower is dropped onto Venjix.
  • Non-Indicative Name: The shifty-looking guy is Crunch.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: He's a capable enough fighter, and his balloon monster, while ridiculous looking, wasn't any easier to defeat than the rest of Venjix's monsters.
  • The Resenter: Towards Tenaya 7, and anyone else who stands higher in Venjix's good graces than he does.
  • Servile Snarker: See Dumbass Has a Point above.
  • Smart Jerk and Nice Moron: Downplayed, as he is still a villain, but he's the nice(r) moron to General Shifter.
  • Vocal Evolution: He had a much deeper, slightly goofier voice in his first couple of appearances before his actor started portraying him in a more crazy fashion (and they dropped the vocal processing that made the voice deep).
  • What, Exactly, Is His Job?: As stated, he doesn't have a very clear role in Venjix's organization. Shifter (and then Kilobyte) handles the creation of attack bots, while Tenaya leads infiltration and ground battles. Presumably Crunch handles anything else not under their purviews. In one episode he took the lead (with the aforementioned balloon-bot) while Venjix was absent, even initiating the growth download.

    Tenaya 

Tenaya 7/Tenaya 15 | (Actress: Adelaide Kane)

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A cyborg built for infiltration, Tenaya 7 is Venjix's right-hand woman for most of the show, commanding the Grinders, carrying out his plans, and trying to hide her frustration with Shifter and Crunch.

    General Kilobyte 

General Kilobyte | (Voice actor: Leighton Cardno)

"You put a human against a machine, the machine will win every time."
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One of Venjix's most trusted generals, he was believed to have been lost during the war. He returns two thirds of the way through the series, and challenges Tenaya for the position of Venjix's right-hand robot, winning out. Arrogant and highly protective of his position, he is nonetheless one of the Rangers' most capable adversaries.

  • Adaptation Expansion: RPM makes him a major villain, as opposed to his Sentai counterpart who only appeared for three episodes.
  • Adaptational Sexuality: Kireizky would never consider lusting over Kegalesia.
  • Badass Cape: He wears one.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: His mantle has the appearance of a tie and lapels.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: He's introduced giving one to Tenaya 7 and delivers a brutal one to the entire Ranger team during their first battle. During "Danger & Destiny" he inflicts another one on Tenaya 15 and Dillon, nearly killing them before he's fatally interrupted.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Especially towards Tenaya.
  • Determinator: Walked 6,000-something miles from wherever he was to Venjix's palace.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Kireizky goes down fighting Engine-Oh G-12; Kilobyte survives the RPM Ultrazord battle and is later destroyed by the Road Blaster.
  • The Dragon: Replaces Tenaya 7 in this role, and fights to keep it from Tenaya 15.
  • Enigmatic Minion: His loyalty never wavers, but he's very protective of his position, leading him to occasionally go behind Venjix's back.
  • Evil Brit: Both his first and second voice actors affect appropriately snooty British accents.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: In his first episode, Kilobyte had a deep, imposing voice. In all his appearances afterwards, his voice in higher and slimier.
  • Expy: Shares many similarities with Darkonda.
  • The Fighting Narcissist: Complete with stopping to brush his "hair" after every strike.
  • Four-Star Badass: Second only to Venjix himself when it comes to the ability to give the Rangers a beating.
  • In the Back: Does this to Tenaya. Is on the receiving end of it from Scott, Summer, and Flynn.
  • Ironic Echo: "No one likes a cheap shot." He says it twice: the first time when Tenaya 7 tries to stab him in the back, and the second time when he shoots her in the back.
  • Killed Off for Real: Shot In the Back by Summer, Scott, and Flynn moments before he can finish off Dillon and Tenaya.
  • Klingon Promotion: Inverted. Rightly fearing that Tenaya 15—his own creation—will replace him as Venjix's favored general, he moves to kill her while Venjix is distracted by conquering Corinth.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Slim. Agile. Well-armored. Hits like a freight train. There's a reason he's Venjix's most feared general.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: His battle with Tenaya 15 becomes one of these by the end, as he slowly beats her into scrap.
  • One-Man Army: Takes on all the Rangers and Corinth's defense forces in his first appearance, and cuts through an army of Grinders in his second.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Racist towards humans and sexist towards females.
  • The Rival: To Tenaya 7/15.
  • Robotic Psychopath: Kilobyte is what he is because Venjix built him that way.
  • Sinister Scimitar: Wields one.
  • The Starscream: He goes rogue and betrays Venjix near the end of the series, due to being unappreciated by him.
  • Stay in the Kitchen
    "You think because I look like a human girl, I can't bring it."
    "No, I think that because you are programmed like a human girl you cannot "bring it"."
  • Sword and Gun: Combos a blaster rifle with a Sinister Scimitar.
  • Sword Beam: His special attack projects beams from his scimitar.
  • The Unfavorite: After Tenaya 7 is upgraded to 15, Venjix begins to ignore him, much to his frustration.

    Professor Cog 

Professor Cog

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A new general who menaces the next two Ranger teams.
  • Adaptational Villainy: Like most of the RPM villains, he has none of the weird quirks or comedic moments that Batcheed has. Though since he is merely a general rather than the Greater-Scope Villain, it is also subverted (he's loyal to Venjix and unlike his Sentai counterpart, never used Sergeant Tread as a living shield.)
  • The Chessmaster: Relies on elaborate schemes to remove the resident Rangers from the equations.
  • Composite Character: A hybrid of Shinkenger’s Batcheed and Gokaiger’s Babatcheed.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: His first counterpart’s death was at the hands of the combined forces of the Shinkengers’ Origami and the Go-Ongers’ Engines. Cog’s first death is at the hands of Scott and Jayden using Shark Attack and Super Samurai mode, respectively. His second death however, remained unchanged.
  • Dragon Ascendant: After Venjix has been dead for years, he is now leading the remaining Grinders.
  • Evil Versus Evil: Comes face-to-face with Prince Vekar and co. in his second appearance.
  • Poke the Poodle: He steals a tractor to travel to Harwood County.
  • Rogues' Gallery Transplant: In a sense. Despite being an RPM villain by faction, he fought against the Samurai and Mega Rangers in his appearances, with the only RPM Ranger he faced being Scott.
  • Took a Level in Dumbass: His first appearance had him orchestrating an elaborate plan that almost went off without a hitch. By the time of “In The Driver’s Seat”, he’s basically a bumbler who whines about things not going his way (which happens a lot in that episode).
  • Villain Team-Up: With Master Xandred in return for the Sanzu River water, which he intends to use to poison the water hole.

Mooks and Monsters

    The Grinders 

Grinders

Robotic warriors under Venjix's foot soldiers.
  • The Bus Came Back: They returned in Samurai's Clash of the Red Rangers and Super Megaforce's In The Driver Seat.
  • Cool Plane: They usually pilot Venjix Drones for the Zord battles.
  • Mooks: For Venjix's army.
  • Shapeshifting: A couple of them could turn into motorcycles during their fight against the Samurai Rangers.
  • Swiss-Army Weapon: They wield daggers (shaped like giant screwdrivers!) that also double as rifles.

    Attack Bots 

In General

  • Adapted Out: Water Pollution Prince Nigorl zo Arelunbra, Bakki, Lumbiaco, Engine Banki, Shower Banki, Yatai Banki, and Bin Banki were not adapted from Go-Onger.
  • The Artifact: Why would weird machines based on appliances and junk, and not digital abominations, be the antagonists in a post-apocalyptic series about a computer virus that has infected the world? Because those designs are taken from a Super Sentai show which is about environmentalism and pollution.
  • The Voiceless: Unless they have a credit, none of the Attack Bots spoke.

Generation 5 Attack Bot

An incinerator themed Attack Bot, and the first one Venjix sent against Corinth.
  • Adaptation Expansion: Due to stretching out the Sentai footage used, Generation 5 Attack Bot appeared in two episodes as opposed to Incinerator Banki's one.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Can fight with its fists pretty well despite the lack of weapons.
  • Playing with Fire: Can fire fireballs from his shoulder mounted pipes.
  • Starter Villain: The first Attack Bot the Rangers fought against.

Generation 9 Amphibious Attack Bot (Water Hoser)

Voiced by: Peter Ford
A pipe themed Attack Bot that infiltrated Corinth through the city's water supply.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: Sports a large blade for his right arm.
  • Chest Blaster: This where his concrete blasts come from.
  • Combat Tentacles: The pipe on his left arm can wrap around anything.
  • I Have Many Names: The show calls him Generation 9 Amphibious Attack Bot, but he's referred to as Water Hoser in the credits.
  • Making a Splash: The Attack Bot's secondary abilities are water. Not only can he spray the Ranger's with high powered water blasts, but he can traverse in water for transportation.
  • Taken for Granite: Can fire concrete based attacks.

Subterranean Plutonic Gopher Bot

A shovel themed Attack Bot General Shifter sent to Corinth.

Generation 9 Noz Bot Attack System

A spray bottle themed Attack Bot Venjix created as Tenaya 7's replacement.
  • Adapted Out: It did not shoot acid attacks like its Sentai counterpart.
  • Replacement Goldfish: Its whole existence was to be Tenaya 7's replacement after she failed to acquire the Green Rev Shift Morpher from the previous episode. It didn't matter though as it was destroyed by the end of the episode.

Magnetron

Voiced by: Campbell Cooley
A magnet themed Attack Bot sent to steal the city's shield codes.

Pump Attack Bot

A gas cylinder themed Attack Bot.

Boom Bot

A stereo speaker themed Attack Bot.

Camera Attack Bot

A lens themed Attack Bot.
  • Demoted to Extra: In '"Go-Onger, Camera Banki's secret role was to take pictures of the Megazords so the following Banki (which would become Generation 12 Reflects Bot a few episodes later in Power Rangers'') would use them against the Rangers. Here, Camera Attack Bot does not do that and is treated as a run of the mill monster.

Drill Attack Bot

A boring themed Attack Bot sent to dig into one of the two main fault lines that Corinth sits on.

Generation 12 Reflects Bot

Venjix created two of these mirror themed Attack Bot.
  • Decomposite Character: There were two models of the Reflect Bot where in the Sentai, their was only one Mirror Banki.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: unintentionally. When Tenaya tried to use the offline Reflects Bot to copy Dr. K's cannon, he instead copied the Overthruster needed for the Rangers to form the new Zenith Megazord. Once Dr. K grabbed and installed the reactor, the Rangers were able to form the Zenith Megazord.
  • Power Copying: With its Molecular Mirroring System, it can copy its opponents weapons for it to use. For the ValveMax Megazord, it copied the Wolf Cruiser and Tail Spinner zords.
  • Trojan Horse: The first served as this as it appeared to have a system failure but in truth was use to sneak Tenaya into the ranger base so that while the Rangers fight second Reflect Bot, Tenaya could attack their base.
  • The Worf Effect: Was stronger than the two Megazords, but soon lost when the two combined into the Zenith Megazord.

Gat Bot

A trigger themed Attack Bot sent to disrupt Corinth's shields.
  • Arm Cannon: Has two on its arms.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: If for some reason Gat Bot does not feel like using its blasters, it can use its fists.
  • Demoted to Extra: Gat Bot's Go-Onger counterpart had its own episode in the Sentai, but here, it shared it with Broiler Bot and Sat Bot.
  • Making a Splash: He can fire water from his cannons.
  • We Need a Distraction: Venjix sent this Attack Bot out to distract the Rangers while Sat Bot snuck into Corinth.

Broiler Bot

A water heater-themed Attack Bot.
  • Demoted to Extra: Broiler Bot's Go-Onger counterpart had it own episode in the Sentai, but here, it shared it with Gat Bot and Sat Bot.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: Unlike in Go-Onger, Boiler Bot did not grow giant sized after his destruction by the RPM Enforcer.
  • Improbable Weapon User: Uses what looks to be a broom as a weapon.
  • Shock and Awe: It could emit purple lightning from its head.
  • We Need a Distraction: Venjix sent this Attack Bot out to distract the Rangers while Sat Bot continued to cause havoc in Corinth.

Sat Bot

Voiced by: Kelson Henderson
A satellite themed Attack Bot, and the one responsible for taking Dillon's memories.
  • Arm Cannon: Sports two Antenna Lances on his arm that are capable of firing lasers.
  • Demoted to Extra: Sat Bot's Go-Onger counterpart had his own episode in the Sentai, but here, he shared it with Gat Bot and Broiler Bot. But unlike the other two, he was seen as a major threat in the episode.
  • Dies Differently in Adaptation: In Go-Onger, he's destroyed by GunBir-Oh (the Valvemax Megazord's Sentai counterpart). In Power Rangers, he's destroyed by the RPM Enforcer.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sat Bot was the one who took Dillon's original memories from him, and even taunted that his death would lead to them to go away forever. Dillion had to make the difficult choice to end Sat Bot's life.
  • My Death Is Only The Beginning: After his destruction, Dr. K discovered that it activated Dillon's cybernetics, and had the virus inside himself grow until he was under Venjix's control. Or at least it would have, if Dr. K didn't use the original base code to keep it dormant in the following episode.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: While he's just a normal monster, his actions lead Dr. K to reveal to the Rangers that she was the one who created the Venjix virus in the first place.

Lightning Bot

An electric-themed Attack Bot.

Oil Bot

A giant oil themed Attack Bot.
  • Arm Cannon: Sports one on its left arm.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: Has one on its right arm.
  • Demoted to Extra: Oil Bot's Go-Onger counterpart had its own episode in the Sentai, but here, it was seen at the beginning of the episode and was dealt with quickly.
  • The Worf Effect: It managed to trip up the Zenith Megazord with its oil (as the Megazord had wheels on its feet), but quickly lost when the Rangers split the Zords apart.

Dyna Bot

Voiced by: Simon McKinney
A demolition themed Attack Bot that attacked the Rangers in Omega City.
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: Even without his bombs, Dyna Bot could fight with his fists.
  • Mad Bomber: Its a demolition themed monster, and on the side of evil.

Vacuum Bot

A vacuum themed Attack Bot Venjix sent to remove all of the oxygen inside Cornith.

Saw Bot Generation 15/Generation 16 Saw Bot

A saw themed Attack Bot.
  • Blade Below the Shoulder: Has a sawblade on its left arm. After its upgrade, it had two chainsaws on both arms.
  • Came Back Strong: After its initial destruction, Venjix upgraded him with all the Ranger's data it collected.
  • Informed Ability: According to Dr. K, Generation 16 Saw Bot had the data of the Megazords at the time, so it was able to match their skills. It was never shown as she instead had Gem and Gemma fight the Attack Bot with the brand new Mach Megazord.
  • Sherlock Scan: Has the ability to scan the Rangers fighting styles.

Balloon Bot

A balloon themed Attack Bot.
  • Flight: Able to do this thanks to its balloons.

Generation 3 Textile Bot

An unknown themed Attack Bot.
  • All Webbed Up: It can shoot out threads strong enough to capture a Megazord.
  • The Worf Effect: Strong enough to fight off three Megazords, but it was no match against the SkyRev Megazord.

Manhole Bot

A manhole themed Attack Bot seen attacking city hall.

Knight Bot

A knight themed Attack Bot.

Hammer Attack Bot

A hammer themed Attack Bot.
  • Earthquake Machine: With its hammer, it can create earthquakes powerful enough to shake up the entire city.
  • Epic Flail: The left arm of the Hammer Attack Bot is a spiked flail.

Generation 3 Chemical Bot

A straw themed Attack Bot equipped with toxins capable of putting all of the citizens of Corinth to sleep..
  • Adaptational Superpower Change: His Go-Onger counterpart’s power was to ingest the chemicals on his body to go even more crazy.
  • Composite Character: Uses the suit for Straw Banki, but the plot he appears in was that of Shower Banki.
  • Forced Sleep: With its toxins, it could put people to sleep. However, it could only put the men to sleep as Gem and Gemma destroyed the toxin for the women.

Dowser Bot

A dowser themed Attack Bot.

Series 2 Rotor Bot

A construction themed Attack Bot.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: During one of its first battles against the Rangers, it deflected a blast that awakened the PaleoMax zords. This led to the Rangers acquiring a new Megazord by the episodes end.
  • This Is a Drill: Has one on its head.
  • The Worf Effect: It was strong against the ValveMax Megazord and Mach Megazord, but lost to the PaleoMax Megazord.

Heat Bot

A heater themed Attack Bot Tenaya 7 sent to attack a fuel depot.

Generation 16 Hyper Bot

A dinosaur/gorilla-like Attack Bot themed Attack Bot created by Shifter. While it was initially created as a new body for Venjix, Shifter later used it to attack Cornith after getting exiled.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Thanks to sampling the wavelengths and matrix data of the Bio Field, Hyper Bot could control any of the Ranger's tech, such as the PaleoMax Megazord.
  • Demoted to Extra: Hyper Bot's role in Go-Onger was fighting the PaleoMax zords in the prehistoric era, and was the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. This does not apply to Hyper Bot in Power Rangers as Shifter made it in the present.
  • Wolverine Claws: Has these for the lack of weapons.
  • The Worf Effect: It was one of the toughest opponents the Rangers had fought, but they eventually won out after forming the RPM Ultrazord.

Dumbell Bot

A clown and weight-themed Attack Bot.

Generation 12 Energy Bot

An energy-themed Attack Bot.
  • Attack Reflector: It was designed with the power to absorb and manipulate the Rangers Bio Field Energies so when they fire at it, it will fire it back at them.
  • Demoted to Extra: Went from Yogoshimacritein's right-hand man in Go-Onger, to a Monster of the Week in Power Rangers.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Was finally defeated when the ValveMax Megazord overloaded it with a lot of energy.

Final Attack Bot

The last of Venjix's Attack Bot's, created from recycled parts of previous Attack Bots. It was used during Venjix's final attack on Cornith.

Other Antagonists

    Fresno Bob 

Fresno Bob | (Actor: John Summer)

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The head of the Scorpion Cartel, and one of the most powerful mobsters in Corinth, Fresno Bob has it in for Ziggy, who once robbed him of five million dollars worth of medical supplies. Ruthless and uncaring, he is willing to cut deals with anyone if it will get him his revenge.

  • Big Bad Wannabe: While he may think of himself as a big deal, in comparison to literally every other threat in the series, he's basically nothing.
  • Deal with the Devil: He traded Tenaya equipment to destroy humanity, just so he could get his hands on Ziggy.
  • The Don: Invoked so very hard.
  • The Dreaded: Amongst Corinth's criminal element.
  • Evil Old Folks: Fairly old compared to a majority of the human cast, and a truly unlikable, disgusting human being.
  • Hate Sink: While Venjix and his goons are comparatively far worse, Fresno Bob makes up for it by being a lot more unlikable. At basic
  • I Owe You My Life: How Bob and Ziggy eventually bury the hatchet.
  • Make Way for the New Villains: Introduced in order to make Tenaya look like a bigger deal through his early defeat.
  • Man of Wealth and Taste: As the Godfather of the mafia, it's only natural.
  • Revenge Before Reason: Willing to put the whole human race at stake in order to kill Ziggy.
  • Shaming the Mob: Attempted by Ziggy to end their rivalry.
  • Shout-Out: Named after Snake Plisken's unseen partner from Escape from New York.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Bob is a thief, a racketeer, and an assailant, and that's just what we see him do onscreen. Whether he's punished or not at the end is never brought up.

    Alphabet Soup 

Alphabet Soup

A corrupt Government facility that played a hand in Dr. K's backstory and how Venjix came to be.

  • Ambiguously Evil: It is never revealed exactly why they needed to kidnap young geniuses to work for them, though considering what they were used for, it's unlikely they were for very noble purposes.
  • Asshole Victim: Alphabet Soup is basically no more after Venjix's successful attack on the world with it's members either dead or imprisoned. Yet given that they kidnapped and lied to innocent children for being smart and pretty much caused Venjix's threat level by refusing to let Dr. K stop it, nobody's going to miss these guys or care what happened to them either way.
  • The Faceless: We never see the faces of the two Agents who kidnapped and supervised Dr. K.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: They kidnapped children like Dr. K who had amazing intelligence and worked them to the bone, resulting in them forgetting their old lives and names. Dr. K turned one of their projects against them, but it spread far beyond Alphabet Soup and caused the end of the world. That project? Venjix.
    • This would make them such to Power Rangers Beast Morphers. Yes, Nate unintentionally brought Venjix back via an experiment with the morpher he was trapped in, snake DNA, and Morph X creating Evox, thus causing that season's conflict. But there wouldn't be an Evox to unintentionally create if they hadn't kidnapped smart people, lied to them, and prevented Venjix's rise to power from being stopped.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: Apart from Venjix and his army of robots, Alphabet Soup is shown to be just as sinister and are responsible for not allowing Dr. K to install a firewall in her laptop to stop Venjix from infecting other computers and taking over the world.
  • Lack of Empathy: They were willing to kill Dr. K and let the world be destroyed than let anyone know they were responsible for Venjix.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: They kidnapped Dr. K as a child and made her forget even her real name, making her create weapons and advanced technology for them. One of the results of the work she did for them became Venjix, who destroyed most of humanity. After her escape, any member of Alphabet Soup is either dead or heading to prison.
  • Walking Spoiler: Though they technically only appear in one episode, they have a greater purpose in the series overall.

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