Characters / Power Rangers: Recurring Characters

Characters in Power Rangers who play major roles over multiple seasons.

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Rangers

Introduced in Mighty Morphin

Season 1

Jason Lee Scott

Jason Lee Scott

^{Mighty Morphin Red Ranger 1}

^{Gold Zeo Ranger 2}

Played By: Austin St. John

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers Wild Force | Power Rangers Mega Force | Power Rangers Beast Morphers

Ranger Forms: Mighty Morphin’ Red Ranger, Gold Zeo Ranger

Jason was one of the orignal five teenagers from Angel Grove that became Power Rangers. Summoned by Zordon, Jason became the Red Ranger and the leader of the Mighty Morphin team. He would lead the team for the first two years until he left for the World Peace Conference with Zack and Trini.

Two years later, Jason returned when Tommy called him back for a favor, becoming the second Gold Zeo Ranger after Trey granted him the powers after the Triforian was separated into his three personalities.

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• Adaptational Badass: Zig-zagged with regards to his feud against Tommy. He lacks the more decisive win his Zyuranger counterpart had against the Green Ranger but was able to fight to a draw against Tommy in their first Karate contest, with Jason solidly winning the final two rounds. So whereas Tommy might be more powerful than Jason in-costume, Jason may very well have the edge over Tommy in an unmorphed hand-to-hand bout. Played completely straight when it comes to his less-than-friendly feud against Goldar, with Jason progressing to the point where he could at least stalemate or defeat Goldar a few times. Geki from Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger wasn't able to defeat Grifforzar once.
• Age Lift: Riki was a kid, whereas Jason is a teenager.
• All-American Face: He's basically a Ranger equivalent to characters like Superman and Captain America. He plays this trope straight forward in the episode "Food Fight", wearing American flag-themed clothing.
• All-Loving Hero: He's the team's leader, and one of the friendliest people you would ever meet.
• Animal Mecha:
  • Season 1: Tyrannosaurus Dino Zord
  • Season 2: Red Dragon Thunder Zord
• Badass Arm-Fold: Yes, somehow he finds a way to fold those muscular arms.
• Bling of War:
  • Used Tommy's gold Dragon Shield on occasion.
  • As the Gold Ranger, he has gold shield that takes up almost the entire torso. The suit even sports gold kneepads and elbowpads.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Especially when morphed, he gets particularly loud and "in your face" when taunting and gloating at monsters, especially Goldar.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: In the Turbo movie, he’s captured and brainwashed by Divatox and Maligore along with Kimberly.
• Breakout Character: Upon his return in Zeo, Jason gets screentime equal to (if not surpassing) Tommy, a Love Interest, and a subplot about his temporary powers.
• The Bus Came Back: After leaving in the second season, he returns in Zeo. And it somehow left Zack, and Trini back in that peace summit in Switzerland.
• Captain Obvious: He tended to narrate things that were happening in front of him. At full volume.
  "LOOK AT 'IM, THAT DUDE'S HUGE!"
  "IT'S GREEN RANGER!"
  "OH MAN, HE FROZE THE ZORDS. WE'RE HISTORY!"
  "AHHH! TOXIC FOAM!"
  "THAT ZORD HAS SIX HEADS!"^note Just for the record, the thing he was pointing at had seven heads.
• Cast from Lifespan: The Gold Ranger powers are tied into Jason's life force, and so the Machine Empire does their best to wear him down, which causes his powers to start fritzing by the end of Zeo. It gets bad enough that Jason nearly dies. This is a result of Trey being a Human Alien with Bizarre Alien Biology, which makes powers made specifically for him not mesh perfectly with human biology.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "It's Morphin' Time!" initially belonged to him. It became a Borrowed Catchphrase as the other Rangers would say it when he wasn't there.
  • "Back to action!" when the team left the Command Center and returned to the field.
  • "Log on!" when the Rangers jumped into their Zords.
  • "Let's bring 'em together!" when the team formed the Power Blaster or the Megazord.
• Character Tics: Tucking his thumbs behind his belt when listening to somebody.
• Chekhov's Gun: The green Power Coin in "Return of an Old Friend".
• Color-Coded Characters: The first real subversion in the franchise, more than Trey. At no point does Jason ever wear any clothes that have even a hint of gold on them. The only gold on him at all times is his custom communicator. His outfits are primarily black or dark gray, the usual getup of a Black Ranger... which his Sentai counterpart is designated as.
• Composite Character:
  • Of Geki from Zyuranger, Ryu from Dairanger, and Riki from Ohranger as he is the Red Ranger in two season and then comes back as the Gold Ranger.
  • Since he is the Red Ranger who steps down as leader when the White Ranger joins, he’s also partially Goro Sakurai / Spade Ace from J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai.
• Defeating the Undefeatable: In the first season, Goldar defeated and dominated Jason almost every time they fought. There were a few moments where Jason was able to fight Goldar more evenly and get in some decent hits, but those battles were always interrupted somehow and ended inconclusively. In the second season, however, Jason showed Goldar exactly what he was made of when Goldar kidnapped his friends and began draining their powers in "Missing Green." Not only did Jason defeat his longtime rival in combat to save his friends, but he also humiliated Goldar and kicked the winged warrior to the curb after Goldar made one final attempt to stop him from escaping. Though Austin St John would leave the show not too long after this episode, his victory over his archenemy served as a nice bookend to his feud with Goldar.
• Deadly Upgrade: From a glance, the Gold Ranger powers are a lot stronger than the Red Ranger powers he once had, but as they weren't made for an Earth human, they slowly drained his life force.
• Determinator: "Isn't the smallest chance of victory enough of a reason for us to keep on fighting? The world needs us, Rangers!"
• Dual Wielding: While wearing the Dragon Shield, Jason often uses his Power Sword along with the Green Ranger's Dragon Dagger.
• Fake Shemp:
  • After "Opposites Attract", when his actor, along with Zack and Trini's, left the series, anyone with a basic knowledge of television handlings of written off characters could easily see that they were being filled in by body doubles from behind and stock footage from earlier episodes until they could be fully written out.
  • In Megaforce when all the Legendary Rangers join the final battle.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Choleric. He's Hot-Blooded, an excellent leader, and extremely practical on the battlefield.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: As the Red Ranger, his main weapon is the Power Sword. Like any leader, his signature weapon is a simple sword.
• Heroic Build: He has a truly impressive physique.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Zack and later Tommy.
• Hot-Blooded: An interesting variation, due to stock footage constraints; in civilian scenes, Jason's a laid-back guy, but when Rita starts one of her schemes, he quickly grows more excitable and louder to match the footage of Geki.
• Jumped at the Call: The only one of the original five to agree with Zordon before the Putties showed up. "He chose us to save the world. I say we do it."
• Large Ham: Something about morphing makes his presence bigger.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: Not only does he get to use the Dragon Shield (the so-called "first Battlizer") until Tommy gets back, but in the second season he also gets the first self-transformable Zord.
• The Leader: He started the tradition for the Power Rangers. Even before the five of them got their powers, Jason is clearly the alpha of the group. His greatest fear is failing them as a leader. When he came back for Grid Connection, Jason leads the Legendary Dino Rangers against Goldar Maximus and Snide's army of foot soldiers.
• Lovable Jock: Jason is a jock, but he's got a big heart to match his big muscles.
• Magic Staff: His signature weapon as the Gold Ranger is the Golden Power Staff.
• Manly Man: Jason is a highly-skilled martial artist and athlete who fights with a Cool Sword, speaks in a loud, deep commanding voice, and rides a T-Rex mecha (which later gets upgraded to a dragon).
• Meaningful Name: It's no coincidence that being the leader of a team of mighty heroes, he shares his name with the leader of the Argonauts from Greek myth.
• Mentor Archetype: To Billy, whom he starts teaching more martial arts so he can defend himself better without morphing. This is ironic considering Austin St. John and David Yost were the youngest and oldest of the original main cast respectively
• Mid-Season Upgrade: After Tommy leaves following the events of The Green Candle, Jason has access to the Dragon Shield and the Dragon Dagger, the latter of which was retroactively considered the first Battlizer. He didn't use them very often, however, most likely due to them reminding him of his failure to save Tommy's powers.
• Mix-and-Match Weapon: When he temporarily had the Dragon Power Coin, Jason wielded the Dragon Dagger, a dagger that works as both a weapon and a means to summon the Dragonzord.
• Mr. Fanservice: Frequently wears shirts that show off his arms or pectorals, such as tank tops, sleeveless shirts or low-cut V-necks, even the occasional Shirtless Scene.
• My Greatest Failure: Jason blamed himself for not getting the Green Candle in the first place when he had the chance, even though Tommy in that episode explicitly did all he could to talk Jason out of going back to get it. He had no choice, as Zack had to remind him that Tommy's life was more important than his powers. In the second season, after Tommy's Green Ranger powers finally run out completely, he writes a letter to Jason telling him not to blame himself for what happened. And it doesn't fully go away, even years later in Zeo, he confesses to the team that the entire debacle of Tommy's kidnapping and brainwashing by Gasket brought back very bad memories that still haunt Jason to this day, from trying to save him from his original brainwashing to, in particular, the failure to save the Green Ranger powers. It drives him all the more to save his friend.
• No Indoor Voice: After morphing, Jason shouts all his lines.
• Odd Name Out: The only original ranger whose name doesn't end with an "ee" sound, probably just a coincidence or it could be to symbolize his status as the leader. Zack rarely being called by his full name (Zachary), Kimberly sometimes being called Kim, Trini having a rather unique name and Tommy not coming in until later made this trope almost unnoticeable. ^note  Jason's surname "Lee" does literally contain the "ee" sound.
• One-Man Army: In "Missing Green", he takes down a squad of Putties, destroys a monster in the Red Dragon Thunderzord, and beats Goldar in a one-on-one fight to save his friends.
• Out of Focus: In Season 2. Even prior to Austin St John's departure, Jason's screen time and dialogue are reduced due to a combination of the focus on Tommy and his fading Green Ranger powers, and St John refusing to show up for ADR recording.
• Put on a Bus: Left Angel Grove with Zack and Trini to attend the International Peace Conference in Switzerland in "The Power Transfer". Eventually The Bus Came Back in Zeo, but only Jason was on it. He'd return three more times later in the Turbo film, in Wild Force for "Forever Red", and in Beast Morphers for "Grid Connection".
• Pyramid Power: As the Gold Ranger, Jason's main Zord was Pyramidus.
• Red Is Heroic: He is recruited by Zordon after Rita Repulsa is freed from her Space Dumpster to become the Red Ranger, he was the first Red Ranger of the 'modern era', he was officially named as the leader of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
• The Resenter: Implied with his actions and words in the Turbo movie. While he was Brainwashed and Crazy, he makes some offhand comments in "Forever Red" that suggest that maybe the brainwashing was just bringing some buried resentment towards Tommy to the surface.
• The Rival: To Goldar, and Tommy during his time as the evil Green Ranger.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The manly man to Billy's sensitive guy.
• Ship Tease: He begins courting a former biker girl called Emily in the later stages of Zeo. It's unclear if it goes anywhere beyond here, but if the ending of the season is any indication...
• Signature Move: As the Gold Ranger, Jason likes to use the Gold Rush.
• Sixth Ranger: Joins the Zeo Rangers two-thirds into the series and remains with them up until the finale when the Gold Ranger powers are returned to Trey.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: Some of his outfits look like he ripped the sleeves of them.
• Spirited Competitor: Jason loves martial arts, and he spends a lot of his free time sparring with his friends and training for competitions.
• Standardized Leader: He's righteous, courageous, and responsible, a straight-up boy scout. Tommy's "darker and edgier" presence also makes him seem cleaner cut by comparison.
• The Stoic: Before morphing, he is a calm guy.
• Strong as They Need to Be: As is normal with Red Rangers, Jason is someone who under normal circumstances needs help to take down a monster of the week, but is capable of fighting at the level of a general or other major villain in one-on-one battles, this is best displayed. in his rivalry with Tommy, since the only time he was able to fight him was in a one-on-one duel.
• Super Mode: As mentioned above, he gained the power to use the Green Ranger's powers in the form of the gold Dragon Shield and the Dragon Dagger.
• Swapped Roles: Jason was the original MMPR Red Ranger and Tommy was the Sixth Ranger of the team. In Zeo, Tommy is the Red Ranger and Jason the Sixth Ranger. Jason makes it clear to the latter though that he has no intention of trying to reclaim his old role since he knows that the Rangers will be in good hands with Tommy holding the reins. Indeed, even years later this holds true as it is still Tommy leading the team of ten reds on a mission whilst Jason maintains his role as a somewhat distant Big Brother Mentor.
• Time to Step Up, Commander: An interesting variation in Zeo, as, despite now being The Sixth Ranger, he WAS the leader of the original team until Tommy became the White Ranger and is essentially Tommy's equal, so despite Rocky being The Lancer, when Tommy is kidnapped, Jason takes temporary command, as evidenced by him being the one to shout "Back to action!" with the full team.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Jason acts a lot more arrogant and generally 'angry' in Forever Red than he ever was previously and original dialogue indicates he was supposed to be even more cocky: "Back aside kid, I'll show you how the original Red Ranger gets it done." The reason is that apparently Austin St. John wanted to add some "bite" to the character as compensation for returning to the franchise, and this can be seen as early as Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie where (while Brainwashed and Crazy) he seemed to have anger issues towards Tommy. When he returns in Beast Morphers he’s dialed it back down.
• Trademark Favorite Food: He loves sushi, as it contained valuable protein and carbohydrates, but admitted he also had his junk food problems, as he liked big bowls of ice cream (though not as big as Zack would eat), cheeseburgers, fries, and milkshakes.
• Tranquil Fury: A consistent character trait is his barely contained rage any time his friends are in trouble.
• Two First Names: Jason, Lee, and Scott can all be given names.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: Unlike Geki and Burai, Jason and Tommy aren't brothers.
• The Unreveal: There's no explanation of how he regained his Red Ranger powers for Forever Red when he gave them to Rocky and the original Tyrannosaurus Dino Coin was damaged when the Thunderzords were destroyed. This gets more confusing in "Grid Connection" when Devon (the Red Beast Morpher Ranger) found a meteorite that reforged into the Coin, implying Jason lost the powers again sometime after the Legendary Battle. Though if Dino Fury has anything to say, the Green Morphin Master simply borrowed his Power Coin so she could allow Devon to summon Jason for help.
• Verbal Tic: Finishes his sentences with "bro" and "man" when talking to the other men on the team.
• Vocal Evolution: During his appearance in Beast Morphers, thanks to Austin himself aging, Jason's voice is much more subdued.

Zack Taylor

Zachary "Zack" Taylor / Black Ranger I

Mastadon

^{Mighty Morphin Black Ranger 1}

Played By: Walter Emanuel Jones

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always

Ranger Forms: Mighty Morphin’ Black Ranger

Zack was one of the original five teenagers from Angel Grove that became Power Rangers. Summoned by Zordon, Zack became the Black Ranger and would hold the powers for the first two years until he left for the World Peace Conference with Jason and Trini.

Thirty years later, Zack became a congressman in Washington DC.

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• Action Politician: By the time of Once and Always, he's become a Congressman. He's still perfectly capable of kicking ass six ways to Sunday as the original Black Ranger.
• Adaptation Personality Change: He's way more easy-going than either Goushi or Daigo.
• AM/FM Characterization: He loves hip-hop and dance music. It even forms his fighting style.
• Animal Mecha:
  • Season 1: Mastodon Dino Zord
  • Season 2: Lion Thunder Zord
• Badass Bureaucrat: His experience in participating in international conferences influenced his decision to enter politics.
• Big Eater: Not as much as Rocky but he has quite the appetite; known for devouring huge bowls of ice cream.
• Bling of War: He wore Tommy's dragon shield once in the first season finale "Oyster Stew" where his romance with Angela also concluded.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Well, boisterous dancing bruiser. He'll deliver a smooth line and do a smooth move before taking out his opponent. It's cocky, flashy and a little unnecessary but still pretty cool.
• Casanova Wannabe: His interactions with Angela had shades of this.
• Character Catchphrase: "The hand is quicker than the eye."
• Dance Battler: The most iconic aspect of his character, incorporating dance moves into his fighting and even coming up with his own dance fighting style, "Hip Hop Kido". In earlier episodes, hip-hop dance music even played in the background during his fight scenes.
• Deadpan Snarker: Not to Kimberly's extent, but he does throw a few snarks around.
• Determinator: Most prominent is his solo battle with the Knight Monster. Though not as much as Jason, he does have the tendency to brashly go after monsters (Primator, Stag Beetle) even if it sends him over a cliff.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: A downplayed example. Walter Emanuel Jones is missing his left middle finger. Goushi, the Black Ranger in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger has a complete set of fingers.
• Dogged Nice Guy: With Angela; a minor running gag is her shooting him down.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: He has straight hair in the first season, then he wears braids midway through the second.
• Fake Shemp: After "Opposites Attract", when his actor, along with Jason and Trini's, left the series, anyone with a basic knowledge of television handlings of written-off characters could easily see that they were being filled in by body doubles from behind and stock footage from earlier episodes until they could be fully written out.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine.
• Fun Personified: By far the most fun-loving and spontaneous of all the rangers. He cracks jokes, pulls pranks, does magic tricks, and finds an excuse to dance at almost every turn, even in stilts. Zordon fittingly describes him as having a love for life.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: As noted above, he's Jason's best friend.
• Honor Before Reason: In Once And Always, when arguing with Billy over breaking the bad news to Trini's daughter Minh about her mother being killed in action, while it's clear he wants to tell Minh the truth, he still wants to adhere to Zordon's rules of maintaining their secret identities, even though the rule has been willingly broken twice in the Zordon Era for the sake of saving others. Although it ends up moot when Minh walks in and overhears their argument and secret anyway.
• An Ice Person: The Mastodon Zord could shoot ice storms to freeze enemy monsters.
• Indy Ploy: He comes up with unusual tactics to beat the monsters in several episodes. He figures out how to wreck the Knasty Knight's sword and recharge the Power Sword, he realized the Megazord could absorb the Goo Fish's slime and convert it to energy, he comes up with the idea to thaw out the Megazord by spinning when it was frozen by Goatan and he finds a way to both trap the Peckster's beak and later beat him back with the Megazord's Eye Beams when Peckster had knocked it down.
• The Lancer: Best friends with The Leader and foils him with his more playful demeanor.
• Loves My Alter Ego: His crush Angela brushes off his asking her out, saying that she might date him if he was a Power Ranger. Cue Zack having an anguished expression while Jason expresses sympathy for him.
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: Poor Zack out of all the Rangers tended to have the misfortune of the whole Secret Identity thing getting in the way of trying to date his girlfriend.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: He is recruited by Zordon after Rita Repulsa is freed from her Space Dumpster to become the Black Ranger, he is the first Black Ranger of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in the "modern" era.
• Mr. Fanservice: Though not as eye-catching as Jason or Tommy, he is noteworthy for giving Power Rangers its first-ever Shirtless Scene, in "Big Sisters".
• Number Two: When Jason went missing (captured) during the Evil Green Ranger Saga, Zack stepped up as The Leader. He was the one saying 'This is The Plan' and doing the Morphing Call. He's shown to lead the team on other occasions when Jason is absent, even piloting the Dragonzord in Battle Mode several times.
• Parental Substitute: After Trini dies, Zack becomes Minh's guardian.
• The Prankster: "The hand is quicker than the eye" aids in pulling a fast one on people, like Bulk and Skull. He also winds up his friends occasionally.
• Purple Is the New Black: His outfits sometimes had purple in them.
• Put on a Bus: Left Angel Grove with Jason and Trini to attend the International Peace Conference in Switzerland in "The Power Transfer".
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The manly man, along with Jason, to Billy's sensitive guy.
• Soul Brotha: A relatively mild example but he is a pretty good, albeit slightly stereotypical, representation of young black culture and whatever was cool and hip in general during the '90s. And yes, he would occasionally utter words such as "jammin", "groove" and "phat".
• Spell My Name With An S: Is it Zack or Zach? Various sources have used either one, but officially it's Zack.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: The Power Axe is not only an axe, it can change into a mini cannon for Zack to use.
• Wearing a Flag on Your Head: A couple of Zack's outfits had him wear the Pan-African colors, which are derived from the flag of Ethiopia and have become a general symbol of black pride.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He hates bugs, especially spiders. He also mentions this when fighting a beetle monster. In "The Island of Illusion", his biggest fear is a huge anaconda.

Billy Cranston

William "Billy" Cranston

^{Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger}

Played By: David Yost

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Mega Force | Power Rangers Beast Morphers | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always | Power Rangers Cosmic Fury

Ranger Forms: Mighty Morphin’ Blue Ranger, Blue Ninja Ranger

Billy was one of the original five teenagers from Angel Grove that became Power Rangers. Summoned by Zordon, Billy became the Blue Ranger and served in that role for three years even after the original members left to pursue their futures.

After the Zeo Quest and the Power Coins were destroyed, Billy stepped down from Ranger duty and became a technical advisor for the Zeo Rangers, providing them new weapons and Zords whenever needed.

Billy later founded his own tech company, known as Cranston Technologies, after the events of Zeo. But he does help his fellow Rangers when his presence/expertise is needed.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: Neither of his first two Sentai counterparts were The Smart Guy on their respective teams.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Dan and Shoji and were hotheads who acted without thinking. Billy is sensible and rational, but also sensitive, similar to Saizou.
• All There in the Manual: Billy's last name was actually never said during the series but was provided via related merchandise and confirmed by Word of God. Once & Always confirms it, as he is the C.E.O. of a firm called Cranston Tech.
• Animal Mecha:
  • Season 1: Triceratops Dino Zord
  • Season 2: Unicorn Thunder Zord
  • Season 3: Wolf Ninja Zord & Blue Shogunzord
  • In Zeo he freaking builds three of them.
• Artistic License – Physics: "Negatively charged proton molecules"? Admittedly, most people think it's just an excuse to hide that something else is causing the power rejection.
• Back for the Finale: The very first Blue Ranger of the Power Rangers franchise returns to the main cast for the final season set in the original continuity.
• Badass Bookworm: In season two, he becomes a full-on badass just as physically capable as the other rangers, even knocking down Goldar unmorphed. And of course, he's still a genius, singlehandedly saving the team on several occasions with his inventions.
• Blind Without 'Em: Well, at least until he switched to contacts. When he switched bodies with Kimberly, he still needed to use them while posing as her.
• Blue Means Smart One: He is recruited by Zordon after Rita Repulsa is freed from her Space Dumpster to become the Blue Ranger, Billy is the first Blue Ranger of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and was The Smart Guy of the original team.
• Brought Down to Normal: Due to the events of the Mighty Morphin' Alien Rangers miniseries, he's depowered, but still here.
• Butt-Monkey: In the very early episodes, Billy tended to be on the receiving end of some rather embarrassing mishaps. Besides being a favorite victim of Bulk and Skull's, Jason clutched him with his legs while swinging on a climbing rope and later in the same episode he clumsily dropped his Power Morpher over a cliff where he was fleeing from a putty. Three episodes later have him accidentally jump onto a runaway cart which sends him riding out of control. There was also the time he and Kimberly swapped bodies via one of his machines, though that last one was due to Squatt crossing the cables.
• Character Catchphrase: "Affirmative". David Yost even used it to name his clothing company.
• Character Development: He starts out as the stereotypical nerd, being easy pickings for bullies like Bulk and Skull. During the early episodes, a single putty would cause him to run away. But as the series progresses, his fighting skills and confidence rise, causing him to grow out of his helpless nerd role and become a real hero. During the third season, he becomes the second in command for the team, with the others relying on his intelligence and wisdom and ability to invent things to win several of their fights. In Zeo, Billy has grown into an even more confident leader and serves as Zordon's Number One alongside Alpha. After graduating from high school, he basically serves this role full-time.
• Characterization Marches On: He's The Smart Guy at first, only good for spouting Techno Babble, his first actual fight (unmorphed) had him flee from a single Putty up onto a cliff, forcing Trini to overcome her fear of heights in order to save him from the footsoldier. Fast forward a good thirty episodes and you have in "A Fishy Situation" Kimberly calling for help, and not being able to reach the other three, and Billy figuring out a plan in order to beat a gang of Putty Patrollers with just the two of them.
• Chick Magnet: Despite being portrayed as a stereotypical nerd, Billy has the most episodes involving a romantic subplot.
• Composite Character: Took from Dan of Zyuranger, Shōji of Dairanger, and Saizō; of Kakuranger and Zeo he also gains elements from Naoyuki Miura of Ohranger, though he shares the latter's position with Zordon by proxy.
• Demoted to Extra: Sort of. While he still got billing in the credits, he is no longer a Ranger in Zeo, just Mission Control.
• Determinator: Nevermore apparent than in the season 3 episode "Another Brick in the Wall". Monster of the day Brick Bully turns Tommy, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha into bricks, leaving Kat and Alpha to turn them back while Billy goes to face the monster alone. At first, Billy gets thrown around like a doll by Brick Bully before and after Brick Bully is made giant, but eventually, Billy gains the upper hand and manages to beat Brick Bully by himself.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: Neither of his Sentai counterparts have visual problems.
• Double Weapon: The Power Lance is a two-sided trident.
• Dual Wielding: Billy could use the Power Lance as a Double Weapon, or he could separate it into two shorter tridents and wield one in each hand.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic.
• Give Geeks a Chance: He got an incredible amount of romantic subplots.
• The Glasses Come Off: Starts slowly during the helmetless scenes beginning in "The Mutiny". He officially lost them after the movie (during season 2) and when he returned to the show, they explained he replaced them for contact lenses.
  David Yost: the glasses came off actually when we went to shoot the movie in Australia and that's because I told [laughs], I told the (movie) producer, this is without the creators or producers of the TV show knowing, I told the producers of the movie that I would rather not wear my glasses and they were like, okay [laughs] like they didn't really think anything about it.

  ''No Pink Spandex: Interview with David Yost Part 1''
  • He also stated in the same interview that because the glasses weren't real, they began to affect his vision (they had no prescription, but the chemical they used to prevent glare affected them enough to bother him.)
• Honest Corporate Executive: By Once and Always, Billy has started his own tech company called Cranston Technologies and seems to be a decent boss even though he never disclosed the Command Center underneath the building.
• Honorary True Companion: During the first half of Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, Billy acts as a temporary mentor to the team, providing their new morphers and basically serving as their Blue Ranger while Ollie has been turned to evil by Zedd, until he has to leave to help other Rangers deal with Zedd's latest conquest.
• Improv Fu: Kind of sucked at fighting, but he managed by using this, though by the time he left the team he was better at hand-to-hand combat.
• Lethal Chef: In "Switching Places", he reveals his terrible cooking skills when he tries to make a cheese soufflé. It explodes.
• The Mentor: Becomes a mentor for the Dino/Cosmic Fury Rangers in Power Rangers Cosmic Fury. He even gets to deliver Zordon's famous line, "May the Power protect you."
• Minored In Ass Kicking: His forte is smarts, but his ass-kicking is still good.
• Missing Mom: We meet Billy's father in "Return of an Old Friend" but there is no mention of a mother. David Yost would later write a script titled "Billy's Transformation" which would have explained that his mother died from cancer, but the suits found it too dark. Billy mentions his parents in plural terms when leaving with Cestro in Zeo, inferring his mom's survival, so maybe they're divorced.
• Mission Control: Steps down as a Ranger and takes this role in Zeo.
• Mr Fix It: He may not be the most macho ranger, but he knows his way around machines.
• Nerds Are Sexy: He holds the series record for romantic subplots and had the first one. Zack was shot down at the same time.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In Once and Always, Billy tried to gather particles from the Z-Wave in an attempt to bring Zordon back to life, only to accidentally gather Rita's evil essence instead and create Robo-Rita after said essence possessed Alpha 8. It's thanks to that mistake that caused the death of his long time friend Trini when she saved him from a deadly blast.
• Non-Action Guy: At first, but he becomes more proactive. Justified in Zeo due to him stepping down from active ranger duty. One time in "Bulk Fiction", when the Cogs attacked him in the open, he attempted to flee despite his advancements in martial arts. Upon being restrained, Billy instead uses his remote toy car to misdirect the footsoldiers until they get tired and flee. Not exactly the best moment of his battle record.
  • To be fair, it is often all-but-explicitly stated that fighting Cogs unmorphed is a bad idea as no other Ranger attempts to face them unmorphed unless absolutely necessary; Billy may simply recognize that his old skills aren't much use against the threat posed by the Cogs without his old powers and chose to flee.
• Number Two: By season 3, he's the team's second-in-command through a combination of his experience and technical know-how.
• Progressively Prettier: Initially portrayed as a stereotypical geek, in baggy clothes, and with Nerd Glasses. The Movie sees him going without his glasses, and wearing clothes that show off his biceps.
• Put on a Bus: In "Rangers of Two Worlds", Billy decides to stay on Aquitar after his rejuvenation as he found kinship with an Aquitian he met before,
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: David Yost has gone on record as stating he did not like the homophobia on the set directed towards him, and literally walked out and did not come back while they were filming the two-parter "King For A Day."
• Rapid Aging: Apparently the explosion of the original Command Centre messed with his molecules more than he thought (when combined with the fact he managed to re-age himself with a device back when the entire team became children last season) they aged him into an old man, forcing him to have to go with the Aquitians homeworld to restore his youth. He winds up staying there when he falls in love with one of the female scientists and that is the last we see of him until Power Rangers Megaforce. Albeit as a Fake Shemp.^note Both aspects were intended to hide the above fact that the production staff had forced out David Yost.
• Red Herring: Was suspected by Rocky (and fans) to be the Gold Ranger. Tried to be said Ranger - but particles his body received from the Command Center's explosion rejected the power.
  • Blatant Lies: Most people think it is his Rapid Aging which is why he is unable to accept the powers.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The sensitive guy to Jason and Zack's and later Tommy's manly men.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Instead of saying 'I like this music' he'll say something like 'the lyrics of this song surpass its contemporaries in this genre'. This was toned down somewhat as the series went on.
• The Smart Guy: He built the communicators, the flying car, fixed Alpha, fixed the Command Center and in Zeo he builds the Zords.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: With Trini. Billy is The Smart Guy who comes up with inventions to save the day on occasions, while his Platonic Life-Partners Trini is a strong and competent Lady of War who values honor.
• Super Costume Clothier: After the Dino Fury powers are destroyed, Billy creates new morphers and costumes for them, deliberately retaining the dinosaur aesthetic. The actual costume design seems to have only been a wireframe blueprint though, as he's as surprised as everyone else when Amelia, the Pink Dino Fury Ranger, becomes the Red Cosmic Fury Ranger.
• Survivor Guilt: In Once and Always not only did Trini die jumping in the way of a blast Robo-Rita intended for Billy, but it was due to Billy's experiment trying to resurrect Zordon that Robo-Rita even exists. Billy is clearly riddled with guilt, and when Minh tells him it's his fault Trini died he agrees with her.
• Teen Genius: With a high school education, he can do some amazing techy things, from inventing teleporters to robot repair.
• Took a Level in Badass: In the first fight, he's awkward and has to be bailed out by his teammates. After training with Jason's class at the Youth Center, he's as formidable as the other Rangers. He takes even more levels in Badass as the show progresses, as the third season even shows him defeating a monster solo.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Guacamole cheeseburgers, though he likes a lot of fast food, such as pizza, French fries, and hamburgers.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He was afraid of fish after one bit him as a kid. Using this to her advantage, Rita sends a fish monster and casts a spell on Billy to make his phobia grow. He got over it and even lampshaded it in a later episode with another fish-themed monster.

Tommy Oliver

Dr. Thomas James "Tommy" Oliver

^{Mighty Morphin Green Ranger}

^{Mighty Morphin White Ranger}

^{Zeo Ranger V - Red}

^{Red Turbo Ranger 1}

^{Black Dino Thunder Ranger}

Played By: Jason David Frank

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers Wild Force | Power Rangers: Dino Thunder | Power Rangers S.P.D. | Power Rangers Mega Force | Power Rangers Ninja Steel

Ranger Forms: Mighty Morphin’ Green Ranger, Mighty Morphin’ White Ranger, White Ninja Ranger, Red Zeo Ranger, Red Turbo Ranger, Black Dino Thunder Ranger

The Sixth Ranger.

Tommy Oliver started off as the late joiner to the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Originally brought in under Rita Repulsa's corruptive influence under the "Green With Evil" five-part storyline, Tommy would eventually be reformed by its end and would become one of the greatest rangers of all time.

Tommy's journey as a Power Ranger did not start off on the right foot as Rita used her magic to corrupt him into her evil Green Ranger. As the Green Ranger, Tommy fought against the Rangers until Jason freed him from the spell. Tommy would join the Rangers whenever he could, but he suffered losing his Green Ranger powers (twice) and briefly left the team. Fortunately, Zordon saw more in Tommy and created the White Ranger powers for him. Now back on the team, Tommy became the leader of the Rangers and lead the team against Rita and Lord Zedd's monsters.

During Master Vile's Orb of Doom spell, Tommy and the rest of the team was turned into children and Zordon sent them on a quest to recover a Zeo sub-crystal to restore the timeline. Tommy recovered the red sub-crystal and, once time was restored, he became the Zeo Ranger V Red. Tommy would continue to lead the Rangers as the Red Ranger during the Zeo era and later, the Turbo Rangers before retiring and giving the powers to T.J. Johnson.

After receiving a degree in paleontology, Tommy would serve as the science teacher at Reefside, only to find himself mentoring a new team of Power Rangers in the fight against Mesogog. It wouldn't be long though for Tommy to resume the powers and became the Black Dino Thunder Ranger.

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• The Ace: Franchise lore holds him as one of the greatest, if not the greatest Power Ranger to ever live. He was pretty much the strongest fighter during the Mighty Morphin' days, assumed command after Jason departed, and continued to show tremendous leadership skills throughout his remaining tenure as a Ranger. Dino Thunder would make him the only former Ranger to become a mentor, and later crossover appearances would establish him as the leader of the veteran Power Rangers.
• Adaptational Badass: His Green Ranger counterpart in Zyuranger was no slouch but the way Tommy's been portrayed in MMPR has been taken to near memetic levels. In the Japanese series, while Burai was a dangerous and powerful fighter, he was still defeated and beaten down decisively by Geki in the end. Mighty Morphin' edited out the final scenes of the Red Ranger cutting down the Green Ranger, thus making Tommy look invincible and nigh unbeatable. His White Ranger incarnation is an even bigger example of this. Whereas Tommy as the White Ranger was able to defeat Goldar and multiple other monsters all at once, his Kiba Ranger counterpart from Dairanger was nowhere near the most powerful member of the team and was, in fact, taken down by Ryu Ranger with a single punch. Back to Burai, Tommy's not as plagued with his counterpart's inability to join the fray, especially after he regains the Green Ranger powers. His next four Sentai counterparts (Tsuruhime, Goro, Kyosuke, and Asuka) are also badasses, but they're not Living Legends like him.
• Adaptational Heroism: Even as a villain, Tommy was a good person who was Brainwashed and Crazy when he fought the Rangers until the spell was broken. Burai's villainous actions, on the other hand, were him acting on his jealousy towards Geki and of his own free will and had to be talked down.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He is not introduced as a vengeance-obsessed villain like Burai or a pervert like Kou.
• Adaptational Personality Change: He's more passionate and extroverted compared to Goro Hoshino.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Unlike Tommy and Kat, Goro and Momo never became romantically involved. Same goes for Kyosuke and Yoko as well as his and Kimberly’s Zyuranger counterparts.
• Adventurer Archaeologist: By Dino Thunder, he's a doctor in paleontology and an experienced Power Ranger.
• Age Lift: His Dairanger counterpart Kou was a nine-year-old boy.
• And Starring: Jason David Frank is the last to be credited in Dino Thunder, but is featured with this. He deserves it, because it's effin' TOMMY OLIVER we're talking about.
• Animal Mecha:
  • Season 1: Dragonzord (as the Green Ranger)
  • Season 2: White Tigerzord (as the White Ranger)
  • Season 3: Falcon Ninja Zord & White Shogunzord (as the White Ranger)
  • Zeo: Zeo Zord V (As Zeo Ranger Five)
  • Dino Thunder: Brachio Zord (as Black Brachio Ranger)
• Artifact of Power: By the time of Ninja Steel Tommy wields the Master Morpher, which looks similar to his original Power Morpher, but it allows him to morph into any of his five Ranger forms.
• Badass Bookworm: Managed to earn a Ph.D. since graduating, and still kicks as much bad-guy butt as before.
• Badass in Distress: In some episodes, he gets into trouble because of forgetfullness or power incontience.
• Badass Native: His Native American roots become the focus of some storylines.
• Badass Teacher: In Dino Thunder, as the science teacher at Reefside High.
• Big Good: Mentor to the team in Dino Thunder and later this for the Power Rangers as a whole.
• The Big Guy: The most experienced fighter.
• Blessed with Suck: The Green Ranger powers become this in Season 2. As his powers fade, they become unstable, fluctuating unpredictably, causing Tommy great pain whenever that happened. Their weakening state also leads Lord Zedd to focus much of his monsters on Tommy in order to drain them faster.
• Bling of War: As the Green Ranger, he had a solid gold chest plate. As the White Ranger, he had one that was gold mixed with black and brown.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Why he was the 'Evil' Green Ranger for a while.
• Breakout Character: For the series, but established during the Mighty Morphin' run especially. The producers intended him as a temporary visitor who departed after the "Green Candle" saga. Following his withdrawal, however, the fans wrote torrents of heartfelt letters and pleaded for his return. These fans certainly got their wish, as Tommy eventually became the leader of the Power Rangers and would go on to become the face of the franchise.
• Broken Ace: If the events of "Fighting Spirit" are any indication.
• By the Power of Grayskull!:
  • It's Morphin Time: Dragon Zord / Tiger Zord / White Ranger Power / Ninja Ranger Power Now
  • It's Morphin Time: Zeo Ranger Five, Red
  • Shift in to Turbo: Red Lightning Turbo Power
  • Dino Thunder Power Up: Brachio Power
• Cerebus Retcon: You know all that dark stuff that happened to Tommy in the first five seasons? It all comes crashing down. "Fighting Spirit" in particular lends itself to this; eleven years as a Ranger left Tommy wondering if the morpher defined him as a human being. It didn't; his will to survive superceded any powers he had.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Subverted after "The Green Candle." After he loses his powers he disappears completely without explanation until "Doomsday Part II," four episodes later before vanishing again until "Return of an Old Friend Part I" then again in the second season, before remaining for good.
• Co-Dragons: As the evil Green Ranger with Goldar.
• Composite Character:
  • For the first three seasons, he combines Burai and Kou. And by complete coincidence, he's very similar to Soukichi Banba as the Sixth Ranger turned leader.
  • Then in subsequent seasons he’s also this for Gorō Hoshino / Oh Red, Kyousuke Jinnai/ Red Racer and Asuka / AbareBlack.
  • Finally, virtue of being the leader of the Rangers as a whole, he incoporates Tsuyoshi Kaijō/ Akarenger.
• Cool Old Guy: Though not old by any stretch (his actor turned 31 near the end of filming Dino Thunder), he is this compared to the other Rangers given the age gap between them. More so later when he’s still making appearances in his mid forties.
• Cool Sword: As the Red Zeo Ranger, Tommy wields the Zeo Sword. As the Red Turbo Ranger, Tommy wields the Turbo Lightning Sword.
• Cool Teacher: He's a school teacher and a Power Ranger.
• Criminal Amnesiac: Had his mind messed about by Prince Gasket in "King for a Day."
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • As the evil Green Ranger, he could take on several rangers by himself and defeat them easily. His first defeat was handed to him by the Megazord. After that, they had him doing his own thing for a while but coming whenever the other Rangers summoned him (this had to be done to keep him in time with Burai). Then came "The Green Candle", where he was curb-stomped himself.
  • He then does this to Goldar in Season Two unmorphed after Lord Zedd drained the last of his powers. After this, Goldar was never the same again.
  • In the Season Two episode "Something Fishy", he (as the White Ranger) single-handedly defeats four past fish-based monsters, without suffering so much as a scratch.
  • He's on the receiving end of one in his battle against Lord Zedd, where the emperor completely kicks his ass into next week in a one-sided curb-stomp.
• Darker and Edgier: His intro is easily the darkest story of the original Rangers.
• Dark Is Not Evil: The Black Ranger.
• Deadpan Snarker: "We can talk about your Dino Easter Egg theory..."
• Decomposite Character:
  • He takes on part of Tsuruhime of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger. Tommy retains her role as the White-costumed Supporting Leader of the team with a Rookie Red Ranger. Tsuruhime's costume and "Beast General Fighter" Mecha were used for the White Alien Ranger, her Crane Mecha was given to the Pink Ninja Ranger as the Pink Crane Zord, and her "Giant Beast General Fighter" Mecha was shared by the White and Pink Ninja Rangers as the White Shogunzord. "Holy Stealth Beast Tsubasamaru", an independent Mecha not assigned to any one individual, became the White Falconzord.
  • He shares the Red Racer role with T.J.
• Determinator: In "Green No More" Part II, unmorphed, exhausted and powerless, he knocked Goldar on his butt.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In an early episode of Dino Thunder, he gets attacked by a T-Rex before he got his powers. Being a complete balls of steel badass, He proceeds to kick it in the face.
• Discard and Draw: It happened to the full team, but it's associated with him more than anyone because he traded powers before them during this season.
• Distressed Dude: He was victim to this several times, if he wasn't off lollygagging or who knows. This is of course because the Sentai Stock Footage didn't involve the Sixth Ranger unless they had no alternative.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: For the first stretch of episodes (forty give or take) he was the most hostile towards Bulk and Skull due to them trying to force themselves on Kimberly in his debut. Upon returning in "Return of an Old Friend", he mainly writes their antics off with laughter like his teammates. Probably justified as he's gotten used to them enough to know they're ultimately harmless compared to the aliens he fights.
• Empathic Weapon: As the White Ranger, Tommy wields Saba. Saba is a talking sword gives him advice.
• Evil Is Hammy:
  • As the evil Green Ranger he was hammier than Rita.
  • Again in ''King for a Day," when Prince Gasket brainwashed Tommy into thinking he was their king and that the other Power Rangers were his enemies. He then proceeds to act just as hammy as he did when he was the evil Green Ranger.
• Evil Laugh: Has one when he's the evil Green Ranger. Got it back when he was brainwashed in "King for a Day."
• Fake Shemp: Happens a couple of times to him in a sense due to brief shots of his Zyuranger counterpart Burai getting mixed in.
  • When Tommy awakens after Rita puts a spell on him, the silhouetted person getting up is his Zyuranger counterpart, Burai. You can tell it is Shiro Izumi and not Jason David Frank by the hair, and because "Tommy" is wearing what Burai normally wears when he's not suited up, with the broad shoulder pads.
  • This gaffe appears again, much more clearly, in the episode "Shellshock". In it, when the Green Ranger appears, his helmet is off, and one can clearly see Burai instead of Tommy.
• Four Is Death: He's the fourth Ranger on the Dino Thunder team and is wearing his fourth color overall. Over the course of the series, he gets frozen in amber, hit with two different instances of Power Incontinence, and is briefly put in a coma.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic.
• The Generic Guy: To an extent in Mighty Morphin', his only unique characteristics are just being Kimberly's boyfriend, his rivalry with Jason, and forgetfulness. It goes to a full extent once both Jason and Kimberly respectively leave. When you take away the coolness factor, you'll realize he doesn't have much in the way of a distinct personality. In fact, even on this very page, despite his character having the longest list of tropes, only two of them have to do with his actual personality (Determinator and Large Ham).
• Good Is Not Soft: Tommy threatens to kill a Brainwashed and Crazy Trent if the latter pushes him too far. He has also killed Zeltrax twice who was once Tommy's friend before turning evil.
• Good Wears White: Tommy is given a second chance at being a Power Ranger when Zordon secretly recruits him to become the White Ranger. As the White Ranger.
• Great White Feline: Tommy's original White Ranger suit and Zord are based on a white tiger. Following the tendency of this trope to symbolize importance, Tommy became team leader after acquiring these powers.
• Green and Mean: While under the control of Rita Repulsa, after Tommy becomes the Green Ranger, his personality changes he began acts more cruel and cold. He was eventually freed from Rita's control and become a good guy.
• Happily Married: A blink and miss it moment, but it looks like he and Kat are married. The tie in comic Soul of Dragon confirm that.
• The Hero: After a year and a half of being a team leader as the White Ranger, Tommy finalizes his transition by becoming Zeo Ranger V - Red. And he’s this until the second half of Turbo.
• Hero of Another Story: His time between Turbo and Dino Thunder as well as his time afterward as he was apparently still active well into his 50s.
• Heel–Face Turn: After The Sword of Evil was destroyed the spell was broken.
• He's Back!: Happens twice in Dino Thunder, when he morphs for the first time, and later when he recovers from being in a coma with access to Super Dino Mode.
• Hot Teacher: If you like older guys.
• I Was Quite a Fashion Victim: Kira is very amused by a photo of his MMPR-era mullet. Tommy retorts that it was the style at the time. In "Fighting Spirit", his own subconscious gets in on it:
  White Ranger: Finally cut that hair, huh, Tommy?
• Invisibility: When harnessing the powers of the Black Dino Gem, Tommy is able to turn invisible.
• Knight of Cerebus: When he was under Rita's spell in the "Green of Evil" five-parter. Up until that point, all the Rangers' problems were wrapped up in less than 30 minutes.
• Large Ham: Unlike Jason, he's a passionate guy even when he's not morphed.
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: As the Red Ranger, Tommy is in charge, gets his own individual Zord, and is usually the one to use the Battle Wheel.
  • Averted with his other colours where, despite not being red, he still tended to maintain a position of authority. He led a team as the White Ranger, mentored a team as the Black Ranger and led pretty much the entire ranger community as the Green Ranger.
• The Leader: He was promoted to this trope when he became the White Ranger. He’s this to the Rangers as a whole.
• Leitmotif: "Go Green Ranger Go"/"White Ranger Tiger Power", used often as Theme Music Power-Up.
• Living Legend: He's near-universally regarded as the "Greatest Ranger Ever", having been four different ranger colors and led three different ranger teams.
• The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: In the infamous three-part "There's No Business Like Snow Business", Tommy rescues a famous snowboarder from going over a cliff. She develops feelings for him but receiving Kim's earlier letter makes him hesitant about starting anything with her. Nothing comes of it due to his ranger duties getting in the way of him getting to know the snowboarder and eventually she dismisses him as a flake when he bails on her the second time.
• Mentor Archetype: Takes it from his Abaranger counterpart.
• Mirror Match: In a deleted scene from Dimensions in Danger, he fought against his clone as the Black Dino Thunder Ranger.
• Mix-and-Match Weapon: As the Green Ranger, Tommy wields the Dragon Dagger. It's a dagger weapon that doubles as a flute to summon the Dragonzord.
• More than Just a Teacher: In Dino Thunder, he appears to be a simple high school science teacher, while keeping secret his identity as the Black Ranger.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: He is kidnapped by Mesogog’s force to release the Black Dino Gem and succeeds but uses it for his own uses to transform into the Black Dino Ranger.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's more likely to cover up his muscles than Jason but still, he offers quite a bit of eye-candy.
• Official Couple: Used to be with Kimberly in the Mighty Morphin' days but she breaks it off. After a failed attempt at getting with a snowboard champion, he starts a casual relationship with Katherine and it's implied by the end that they're going steady. The Christmas Episode is stated to be canon with Tommy and Kat being married with children (at least in broad strokes); the generally accepted timeline is that the two became serious after leaving the team, married some point prior to "Forever Red" (with Kat staying off-screen), and by "Dimensions in Danger" had a son named JJ.
• Older and Wiser: By Turbo, Tommy has been a Ranger for more than five years, he has matured more and is less reckless. When he returns in Dino Thunder, it’s even more pronounced as he’s become the mentor to three kids who are just as reckless as he once was.
• Out of Focus: Interestingly, Tommy does not have any relevant plot points when he held the Turbo powers, only coming in to help out whenever the time for battles came.
• Parental Substitute: To Justin before his departure.
• Passing the Torch: Like Jason before him, Tommy passes the role of leader onto a successor in the form of T.J. He does it again in Soul of the Dragon when he gives his Master Morpher’s final morph to his son, signifying his complete retirement.
• Power Incontinence:
  • During his twilight days as the Green Ranger. Because the repower was meant to be a temporary thing, Tommy found himself getting weaker through every fight and at one point, could not summon the Dragonzord. Made no better by the fact Lord Zedd would specifically target him to make sure the powers went away.
  • Twice in Dino Thunder; the first time, he got stuck in his morphed form by the White Drago Ranger, and the other time, he got stuck in his invisible form.
  • When he’s older and he’s using his damaged Master Morpher. It still functions, but it set to a predetermined morphing set and every use causes a coin to disintegrate.
• Put on a Bus: Not once, not twice but three times and The Bus Came Back all three times.
  • When he first lost his Green Ranger Powers, he left and got them back temporarily. Then he permanently lost them and left again, only to return again as the White Ranger.
  • Halfway through Turbo, so he could go to whatever really accelerated program takes you from high school to Ph.D. in less than seven years. Didn't appear again until Power Rangers Wild Force (for the "Forever Red" special) and Power Rangers: Dino Thunder.
• Retired Badass: Always temporarily. He either loses his powers or settles down a bit though it's not long before he takes up a morpher once more. He would stay retired (well, semi-retired) until "Dimensions in Danger". He finally becomes this for good as an old man in “Soul of the Dragon”
• Red Is Heroic:
  • Tommy Oliver goes on a quest to a Native American Tribe to retrieve the Red Zeo Subcrystal after his Falcon Ninja Coin is destroyed by Rita & Zedd and becomes the Red Zeo Ranger of Zeo Rangers Team.
  • He upgrades his powers to battle Divatox on the Island Of Muranthias and becomes the Red Turbo Ranger of Turbo Rangers Team. After graduating Angel Grove High School, Tommy takes interest in race car driving. Shortly after becoming the Red Turbo Ranger, Tommy decides to retire and passes his powers to TJ Johnson.
• The Rival: He's introduced as Jason's opponent in the finals of a karate tournament and they end up tying, which establishes their relationship immediately. Played with to a degree, as he and Jason get along perfectly fine in the beginning, but Tommy's time as the Green Ranger sparks some tension between them that takes a few episodes to resolve.
• Same Character, But Different: Justified since every time we see him after Turbo, it’s been years.
• The Scapegoat: Finds himself as this to Lord Zedd in early Season 2. Zedd would go after any Ranger if he could and the one with weakening powers would naturally be a tempting target, but he also made it clear that he loathed Tommy simply for essentially being Rita's greatest failure and the symbol of everything that went wrong with her tenure. By the time of "The Green Dream" (wherein his powers have declined to the point of not even being able to summon his Zord), Tommy laments how the Big Bad has been gunning for him and won't let up until his powers are gone for good.
• Seen It All: Tends to give off this vibe at times. Then again, he is considered by many to be the greatest Ranger in history for a reason.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The manly man to Billy's sensitive guy.
• Sixth Ranger: Trope Namer alongside his initial counterpart Burai.
• Spared by the Adaptation: His Zyuranger counterpart, Burai, bit the dust. Here, Tommy gets a fate much worse than death. He loses his Green Ranger powers, but eventually becomes the White Ranger.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: He has more screen time than the other original rangers put together and would later end up with the longest tenure.
• Stable Time Loop: Fan theory is that Tommy's clone is also his ancestor. This adds one more bit of Memetic Badass: Tommy willed himself into existence.
• Stern Teacher: Especially when compared to Randall, who is literally an enemy.
• Still Got It: Though it's not like he ever lost it.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Strongly resembles his long-lost brother, David Trueheart. It was actually Jason Frank's brother Erik Ray Frank playing David.
• Supporting Protagonist: He's a veteran Ranger and gets more focus in Dino Thunder, but Conner's still the actual leader of the team.
• Swapped Roles: In Mighty Morphin, Tommy was the Sixth Ranger and Jason was the Red Ranger. In Zeo, Tommy is the Red Ranger and Jason the Sixth Ranger. Jason even ends up losing his powers just like Tommy did. Notable as Jason himself makes it clear to Tommy that he's fine with his bro continuing as the team leader and doesn't intend to reclaim his old position. Even years later during Forever Red, Tommy is the one leading the ten reds whilst Jason is a somewhat distant and cocky Big Brother Mentor to the lesser veterans.
• Super Soldiers: What the other Rangers suspect the White Ranger is at first.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Extremely tall and immediately catches the eye of Kimberly in his introductory episode. Trini even calls him gorgeous.
• Tangled Family Tree: Tom, David, Sam, the White Stranger...
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Played With as the White Ranger, whose counterpart Kou never fought alongside the Zyurangers. However, the Rangers here are already using the Dairanger mechas by the time Tommy becomes the White Ranger.
• Time-Passage Beard: He's grown a pretty cool-looking patch of stubble on his chin in Wild Force since we last saw him. He’s shaved it off when we see him in Ninja Steel. But then has grown considerable scruff in Soul of the Dragon.
• Token Competent Minion: During his time as Rita's brainwashed slave, the Green Ranger proved to be the evil witch's most dangerous asset by far. He defeated the Rangers in battle twice, thrashed their Zords, snuck into the Command Center and cut off their connection to Zordon, and nearly killed Jason. By contrast, Goldar repeatedly failed to defeat the Rangers in battle, even getting his ass kicked by Jason when the latter didn't have access to his morpher, Finnster's monsters were all destroyed, and Baboo and Squatt were nothing but comic relief.
• Took a Level in Dumbass:
  • When he makes the transition from Evil Green Ranger to Good Green Ranger, he does some stupid things like constantly forgetting his communicator and getting captured by Putties. They even have an entire episode focused on his forgetfulness. This is simply because the footage of his Sentai counterpart was limited.
  • On an unrelated note there's one episode where he's training for football and when he tackles a football dummy, he gives it a roundhouse kick. The look on Ernie's face is priceless.
• Trademark Favorite Food: According to the profile card with the Dragonzord toy, Tommy's favorite subject was history. His favorite food was Corn Flakes and raisins. Tommy's hobby was playing the blues on a flute.

Season 2

Rocky DeSantos

Rocky DeSantos

^{Mighty Morphin Red Ranger 2}

^{Zeo Ranger III - Blue}

Played By: Steve Cardenas

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo Power Rangers Mega Force | Power Rangers Ninja Steel | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always

Ranger Forms: Mighty Morphin’ Red Ranger, Red Ninja Ranger, Blue Zeo Ranger

Rocky DeSantos was a teenager from Stone Canyon when he, Adam, and Aisha found out the identities of the Power Rangers. When Jason Lee Scott left for World Peace Conference, Rocky was chosen as his replacement for the Red Ranger powers.

During his tenure as a Ranger, Rocky would also assume the Blue Zeo Powers.

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• Animal Mecha:
  • Season 2: Red Dragon Thunder Zord
  • Season 3: Red Ape Ninja Zord & Red Shogunzord
  • Zeo: Zeo Zord III
  • Once And Always: Tyrannosaurus Dino Zord
• Badass in Distress: Was one of the Rangers captured by Lord Draven.
• Blue Is Heroic: Rocky goes on a quest to Mexico to retrieve the Blue Zeo Subcrystal after his Ape Ninja Coin is destroyed by Rita & Zedd and becomes the Blue Zeo Ranger of the Zeo Rangers Team.
• The Bus Came Back: In "Once And Always", the first time he's appeared unmorphed since Turbo.
• Big Eater: Eats and talks about food, more than his predecessor. "A Ranger Catastrophe" probably has the most notable example. A part of his Butt-Monkey status below is that he almost never really gets a chance to actually dig in because of the action.
• Butt-Monkey: Rocky has the absolute worst luck. Throughout the series all manner of unfortunate things happens to him, starting with being demoted down to Blue Ranger, getting unfairly blamed for problems, nearly being turned into a plant by a monster created from a plant he'd accidentally created. It eventually reaches its apex in the transition between Zeo and Turbo when he's hospitalized.
• Career-Ending Injury: Rocky injures his back while practicing for a martial arts tournament. This takes him out of commission and requires Rocky to pick Justin as his replacement on the team.
• Characterisation Click Moment: In Mighty Morphin', Rocky was little more than a replacement meant to fill in for Jason as the Red Ranger and had no outstanding traits, at least in comparison to his fellow replacements. This was largely due to Steve Cardenas' lack of acting experience which the man himself admits wasn't very good in his early tenure. In Zeo, due to being able to emote more distinctively, Rocky is shown to have some comedic quirks that were otherwise not visible before and his civilian plots are more interesting to watch.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Was first introduced as a powerless ally who occasionally assisted the Power Rangers behind the battlefield. Later became a Ranger himself to replace Jason.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: Whereas Jason was a serious-minded leader, Rocky was a laid-back goofball who served as the comic relief and was not the leader.
• Cool Old Guy: Admittedly he's not that old in Dimensions in Danger, but he seems to be impressed with the Ninja Steel Rangers skills.
• Cool Sword: As the Red Ranger, Rocky wields the Power Sword.
• Dual Wielding: As the Blue Zeo Ranger, Rocky wields a pair of Zeo III Power Axes. These are a pair of tonfas.
• The Everyman: Had no real outstanding qualities or personality traits. Especially when compared to the others, who's character traits were rather stereotypical.
• The Generic Guy: He wouldn't get much significant characterization until Zeo.
• Heroic BSoD: Went through one in "Mondo's Last Stand" when he was convinced that Jason was replacing him.
• Hurricane of Puns: When he got turned into a plant in "A Few Bad Seeds." He also made some suggestive comments about Kat:
  Rocky: Nice leaves!
  Kat: I'm sorry? "Nice leaves?"
  Rocky: Yeah, nice leaves! Your branches aren't too bad, either
• I Always Wanted to Say That: In "Invasion of the Ranger Snatchers," the Rangers are on horseback, and Rocky says "Let's head 'em off at the pass!"
• The Lancer: In Zeo, his comedic and goofy persona helps balance out Tommy, the almost perfect leader. That said, Adam is subtlety implied to have become the new second-in-command by the start of Zeo.
• Mr. Fanservice: Like Adam and Tommy, he pretty much wore mostly workout clothes, particularly sleeveless shirts.
• Number Two: Due to replacing Jason, he somewhat takes the lead when Tommy's not present
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Aisha.
• Plucky Comic Relief: This is pretty much his role on the team in Zeo and he's not very happy about it.
• Put on a Bus: Injured his back during a martial arts practice in the Turbo movie, which forced him to quit his duties as a Ranger, allowing little Justin to step in as the new Blue Ranger. This was because Fox wanted Justin. (For the record, Cardenas has no regrets, because he liked Justin and wouldn't have gotten to meet Blake Foster otherwise.) Rocky would appear much later in "Dimensions in Danger", this time back as the Mighty Morphin' Red Ranger.
• Rookie Red Ranger: In title only... Rocky was never the leader.
• Running Gag: A sporadic one. For as much as he is a Big Eater, he almost never gets the chance to dig in because the plot calls. And understandably, he's somewhat annoyed each time.
• Secret-Keeper: With Adam and Aisha from "The Ninja Encounter" to "The Power Transfer".
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Manly Man to Adam's Sensitive Guy. Even though he's not particularly manly himself.
• Small Name, Big Ego: In "Invasion of the Ranger Snatchers", Rocky gets a job as an extra in a sci-fi film and frequently tries to get himself hired as the lead, feeling his talents are wasted in his current position. He actually succeeds in replacing the lead actor at the end of the episode.
• Stock Ninja Weaponry: As the Blue Zeo Ranger, Rocky wields a pair of Zeo Power Tonfas
• Those Two Guys: With Aisha out of the picture, Rocky and Adam are seen together for the majority of their scenes. This is more prominent in the latter half of Zeo.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: In his earlier appearances, Rocky was considered fairly smart and mature. He even taught his own chemistry class. In Zeo his goofy tendencies have pretty much completely taken over his entire character.
• The Unreveal: There's no explanation on how he managed to regain his powers, especially since Jason used the exact same powers during Forever Red. Although, it might confirm a long-running fan theory about how the Sword of Light copied the powers instead of transferring them during The Power Transfer.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Rocky's final appearance up until "Ninja Steel" is attending high school graduation along with his teammates in the Turbo premiere. However, it is never stated if Rocky left Angel Grove like the previous Rangers who left the team.

Adam Park

Adam Park

^{Mighty Morphin Black Ranger 2}

^{Zeo Ranger IV - Green}

^{Green Turbo Ranger 1}

Played By: Johnny Yong Bosch

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Operation Overdrive | Power Rangers Mega Force | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always

Ranger Forms: Mighty Morphin’ Black Ranger, Black Ninja Ranger, Green Zeo Ranger, Green Turbo Ranger

Adam Park was a teenager from Stone Canyon when he, Rocky, and Aisha found out the identities of the Power Rangers. When Zack Taylor left for World Peace Conference, Adam was chosen as his replacement for the Black Ranger powers.

During his tenure as a Ranger, Adam would also assume the Green Zeo Powers and the Green Turbo Powers.

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• Actually, I Am Him: During Adam's Zeo Crystal quest, Adam is told to seek out a sage named Kai-Ogi, who initially appears to be an irritating older man who is just in Adam's way. Adam tries to brush him off. When Adam realizes his mistake, Kai-Ogi lampshades this trope.
• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Unlike Goushi or Daigo, and similar to Jiraiya, he's a quiet, shy, reserved fellow. At first, anyway.
  • Adam is level-headed and introverted compared to Shouhei Yokkaichi.
• Animal Mecha:
  • Season 2: Lion Thunder Zord
  • Season 3: Frog Ninja Zord & Black Shogunzord
  • Zeo: Zeo Zord IV
• Badass Armfold: Often, starting pretty much as soon as he arrived.
• Badass Normal: He is the only Retro Ranger not to have civilian powers to fight evil with in Operation Overdrive. He keeps up with the rest of them with little effort.
• BFG: As the Green Turbo Ranger, Adam wields the Turbo Thunder Cannon.
• The Big Guy: He's still quiet and gentle but is seen practicing martial arts more often than any other character, and that's saying a lot on this show.
• The Bus Came Back: First in "In Space" then in "Operation Overdrive"
• By the Power of Grayskull!:
  • It's Morphin Time: Mastadon, Black Ranger Power
  • Zeo Ranger Four, Green
  • Shift Into Turbo: Desert Thunder Turbo Power
• Characterisation Click Moment: In Mighty Morphin', he was a quiet, shy nice guy as a way of distinguishing himself from Zack. Johnny Yong Bosch claimed it was in Zeo where he realized that Adam could be funny, so he became more sardonic.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Was first introduced as a powerless ally who occasionally assisted the Power Rangers behind the battlefield. Later became a Ranger himself to replace Zack.
• Composite Character: Goushi from Zyuranger, Daigo from Dairanger, Jiraya from Kakuranger, Shouhei from Ohranger and Minoru from Carranger.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: Whereas Zack was an energetic, outgoing extrovert. Adam was more shy and introverted until Character Development kicked in. Also, while Zack was African-American Adam was Asian-American.
• Deadpan Snarker: Johnny Yong Bosch claims that about halfway through Zeo (Power Rangers being his very first acting job).
• Dual Wielding: As the Green Zeo Ranger, Adam wields a pair of Zeo IV Power Hatchets. These are hand sized axes Adam uses.
• Emerald Power:
  • Adam goes on a quest to Korea to retrieve the Green Zeo Subcrystal after his Frog Ninja Coin is destroyed by Rita & Zedd and becomes the Green Zeo Ranger of Zeo Rangers Team.
  • During the events of Power Rangers Turbo, he briefly becomes the first Green Turbo Ranger of the Turbo Rangers but decides to retire and passes his powers to Carlos Vallerte.
• Foreshadowing: The fact that Adam could morph with a damaged Power Coin means that the old powers, despite being damaged or destroyed, could indeed be repaired for future crossovers.
• Frog Ninja: After the team gets their new ninja powers in season 3, his spirit animal is revealed to be a frog. He also pilots the Frog Ninjazord from then on.
• Genius Bruiser: He does martial arts and he is rather smart.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Adam only debuts in the second season but is one of the most tenured, recognizable, and respected rangers in the franchise.
• Implied Love Interest: There's some subtext after Tanya breaks things off with Shawn that Adam may have started a casual relationship with her.
• The Lancer: With Rocky gone, Adam falls into the role by default in Turbo.
• The Leader: Becomes this to the Retro Rangers in Once A Ranger as he has the most experience of the group, has more of a personal connection with Thrax (as he fought against Rita and Zedd years ago), and is the one who helps Hartford repair the Overdrive Morphers.
• The Mentor: Serves this to Carlos in Always A Chance.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: By fighting Zedd's forces with the Power Rangers, Adam proved himself to be a suitable replacement for Zack as the Black Ranger. Zack transferred his powers to Adam using the Sword of Light, he is the second Black Ranger of the 'modern era' of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
• Mr. Fanservice: Often wore workout clothes baring his chest and pecs, and occasionally wore shorts.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Aisha.
• Power Incontinence: Was hit by this during In Space. While he could still morph into the Black Ranger using a damaged Power Morpher, he had painful fluctuations due to its connection to the Morphin Grid being severed. Once the Sentinel Knight repairs the Morpher, he no longer has to worry about it.
• Put on a Bus: Halfway through Turbo, though he came back for a single adventure only a year later (and again in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive).
• The Quiet One: Uh huh.
• Secret-Keeper: With Rocky and Aisha from "The Ninja Encounter" to "The Power Transfer".
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Rocky's Manly Man.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: The Power Axe is not only an axe, it can change into a mini cannon for Adam to use.
• Those Two Guys: He and Rocky share a majority of their scenes, noticeable since Aisha left at the end of Mighty Morphin.
• Took a Level in Badass: When he first became the Black Ranger he could beat the monster of the week mostly with the help of his teammates. When he returns in Once A Ranger he solos Thrax who is wielding Zedd's staff and is able to beat him (not destroy him though) while the rest of the team are doubling or tripling up to fight off other bad guys.
• Weapon Specialization: Axes for the first two power sets. When Adam wielded the Black Mighty Morphin Ranger powers, he used the Power Axe. When he wielded the Green Zeo Powers, he used the Zeo Power Hatchets.
• Wrecked Weapon: In Space revealed that still carried his damaged Power Morpher with the original Mastodon Power Coin, and Alpha warned him that using it would severely hurt him. This is proven true as Adam was in pain by the powers fluctuating on and off. It gets repaired by Sentinel Knight in “Operation Overdrive” and now he’s able to use it arguably better than before.

Season 3

Katherine Hillard

Katherine Hillard

^{Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger 2}

^{Zeo Ranger I - Pink}

^{Pink Turbo Ranger 1}

Played By: Catherine Sutherland

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Mega Force | Power Rangers Ninja Steel | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always

Ranger Forms: Mighty Morphin’ Pink Ranger, Pink Ninja Ranger, Pink Zeo Ranger Pink Turbo Ranger

Like Tommy, Kat started off as one of Rita's minions through mind control and was responsible for stealing the White Falconzord and Kimberly's Ninja Coin. However, Kat's guilty conscience began to overpower the spell and she broke free from it. After reclaiming the Pink Ninja Coin, Kat became the new Pink Ranger after Kimberly left to compete in the Pan Am Global Games.

Later, she became the Pink Zeo Ranger and the Pink Turbo Ranger.

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• The Ace: Has several hobbies and skills and does them perfectly. Adam and Tanya lampshade this.
• Action Mom: By the time Kat returns in Dimensions in Danger and Once And Always, she is a mother to her and Tommy's child JJ. And she still kicks butt.
• Adaptational Badass: Kat would fall victim to the Distress Ball a few times, but that's nothing to how bad Momo would hold it, being Ohranger's Damsel in Distress.
• Adaptation Species Change: Her monster form, Katastrophe, was a Nine-Tailed Fox in Kakuranger. In an extremely ironic twist, there was an ACTUAL cat monster, Bakeneko, in Kakuranger but her exposed mammaries, inappropriate for American children, combined with the suit being in pretty poor shape before being shipped left her unusable.^note Not helping matters is that Bakeneko only fought the Shogunzords, not the Ninja Zords, in the stock footage, so they would have had to introduce the Shogunzords earlier to make it work.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: Momo and Juri could get a bit catty with their bickering, especially in the early episodes of Ohranger. Kat meanwhile gets along great with Tanya and even invites the latter to stay at her house.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Momo and Goro never enter a relationship like their counterparts here. The same also applies to Kyosuke and Yoko.
• Ambiguous Situation: Her early appearances as a villain had shades of this. For all we knew her Australian origin might have just been a backstory that Rita made up for her to fool the rangers and her transformation into a cat, plus her monster form Katastrophe, strongly implied that she might be a monster with a humanoid shape like Scorpina before her. It isn't until "Follow that Cab!" that spelled out that she was an actual human that was brainwashed by Rita into doing her bidding.
• Composite Character: Aside from the ranger-related stuff, her transforming into a cat brings to mind the Flowery Kunoichi Gang a.k.a. Hanarangers that were otherwise Adapted Out of Season Three and her monster form Katastrophe was lifted from the separate Nine-Tailed Fox from Kakuranger.
• Compressed Vice: Kat's eating disorder in "Weight and See".
• Contrasting Replacement Character: Whereas Kimberly was your typical All-American Valley Girl, Kat was a shy Australian girl. Whereas Kim used gymnastics in her fighting style, Kat used her ballet skills.
• Dance Battler: Kat is a ballerina before becoming a ranger. You can see some ballet influence in her fighting, now that Catherine Sutherland's doing her own stunts.
• Depending on the Writer: Some episodes see Kat be as competent as the side rangers (AKA play second fiddle to Red as he gets all the glory), others especially the episode of Digster sees Kat being reduced to Damsel in Distress style of fighting. This can be partially attributed to her Ohranger counterpart being kidnap-prone.
• Designated Girl Fight: When the rangers are battling Gasket and Archerina Kat as Zeo Ranger 1 usually has extended sequences against her. They even had a real 1 v 1 girl fight with Kat getting her Pink Zeo butt pummeled until she was saved.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She first appeared in the uncut version of the Christmas Episode "I'm Dreaming of a White Ranger" released on VHS shortly before her first proper appearance in the "A Ranger Catastrophe" 2-parter, wishing the other Rangers a merry Christmas before they took off to save the North Pole. The scene, of course, caused some major continuity issues since she was portrayed as a friend to the Rangers and not Rita and Zedd's mind-controlled slave, but Kimberly was still the Pink Ranger. This scene was removed from the broadcast version and all future home video releases, likely because of the major Continuity Snarl it caused. The special clearly was meant to take place internal to "A Different Shade of Pink Part III". Right after Kat returns the power coin to Kimberly but before Kim left for Florida. It was cut for broadcast airings to avoid confusion.
• Femme Fatale: She infiltrates the team, gains their trust, disguises herself as a cat so she can spy on Aisha and Kim in their own home, steals Kimberly's power coin and on top of all that, tries to move in on Kimberly's boyfriend. A surprisingly good example despite being a kid's show.
• Fish out of Water: In more ways than one, being from Australia and being the lone new ranger in Season 3.
• Good Feels Good: She actually squees a little in excitement the first time she morphs, possibly an indication that it's far more a thrill than Rita's magic was.
• The Heart: Eventually becomes the caring member of the team.
• Heel–Face Turn: In "A Different Shade of Pink"; clearly Rita didn't learn the first time.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Kat only debuts in the third season but is one of the most tenured and recognizable rangers in the franchise.
• Meaningful Name: During her Brainwashed and Crazy phase, she could magically turn into a white cat.
• Last Girl Wins: She marries Tommy.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Her signature weapon as the Pink Zeo Ranger the Zeo Power Disc, which serves as a shield, but can also double as Deadly Disc.
• The Mole: Her initial appearances by way of Mind Manipulation was spying on the rangers.
• Ms. Fanservice: She likes to wear shorts and sleeveless midriff-baring tops like Kimberly, but oddly enough seems to have a thing for turtleneck tops. And a couple of times she appears in a swimsuit while diving, showing off her figure.
• Mythology Gag: Unintentional it might have been, her transforming into a cat is an inversion of the Hanarangers' situation from Kakuranger, where said team was transformed from cats.
• Official Couple: With Tommy. They get married and have a son.
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Young Katherine's actress, American-born Julia Jordan, well, can't pull off a decent Aussie accent to save her life. There were plenty of line reads where she didn't even try to hide it.
• Parental Substitute: To Justin before her departure.
• Pink Heroine: She replaced Kimberly Ann Hart as the Pink Mighty Morphin Power Ranger. As time went on, she would assume the identities of both the Pink Zeo Ranger and the Pink Turbo Ranger.
• Put on a Bus: Halfway through Turbo, and briefly seen in monster form in "Countdown to Destruction", though it clearly wasn’t meant to be her. She'd return years later in Ninja Steel's "Dimensions in Danger" having been captured by the special's villain and later helping out the then-current team alongside Tommy and Rocky.
• The Reveal: After several episodes of leaving it ambiguous, a flashback in "Follow that Cab!" all but confirms that Kat is not a humanoid monster/alien as was previously speculated, but an Australian teen that was captured and brainwashed by Rita.
• Sixth Ranger: Due to joining the team solo (like Tommy) instead of part of a set (like Rocky, Adam, and Aisha), she's something of an outsider until the Zeo era.
• Soapbox Sadie: The whole team is willing to help, but she really prides herself on giving back to the community.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's almost as tall as Tommy and quite attractive.
• The Straight and Arrow Path: While Kat never used the Power Bow as the Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger, her Turbo Wind Fire is a bow that she uses as the Pink Turbo Ranger. It wouldn't be until Once And Always where Kat finally uses the Power Bow as the Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger.
• Team Mom: Not in MMPR but in Zeo and Turbo she’s very mature and motherly.
• Token Competent Minion: Kat is this for Rita's forces in season 3. She infiltrates the Ranger team, posing as their friend and nearly kills Kimberly by stealing her Power Coin which was tied to her life force. If not for Kat snapping out of it, Rita would have dealt a powerful blow to the heroes.
• Took a Level in Badass: In "Weight And See", Kat personally takes on the Monster of the Week by herself and instigates the Megazord finishing move on him when fighting his giant form.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Girly Girl to Tanya's Tomboy.
• The Unreveal: There's no explanation how Kat was able to use the Pink Turbo Powers in Dimensions in Danger since she gave them to Cassie when she left and they disappeared after Eltar fell in the finale.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: While working for Rita, she could, much like Scorpina, assume monstrous form, in this case, a Cat Girl.
• Willfully Weak: Possibly as it's implied that the Zeo Powers are not only accessible but also stronger with age. Kat however chooses to use her Turbo powers when she returns in Dimensions in Danger.

Introduced in Zeo

Tanya Sloane

Tanya Sloane

^{Zeo Ranger II - Yellow}

^{Yellow Turbo Ranger 1}

Played By: Nakia Burrise

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers Mega Force |

Ranger Forms: Yellow Zeo Ranger Yellow Turbo Ranger

During the Ranger's Zeo Quest, Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger Aisha Campbell decided to stay in Africa to help the animals and sent a young girl named Tanya Sloane in her place. Once time was restored, Tanya joined the veteran Rangers as the Yellow Zeo Ranger.

Later, she became the Yellow Turbo Ranger.

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• Adaptational Nice Girl: Juri's remarks could get somewhat catty towards Momo and be somewhat critical of her male teammates, particularly Shouhei and Yuji. Tanya however gets along perfectly fine with Kat and is supportive of her friends, plus is later implied to be in a relationship with Adam.
• Cute Bruiser: Adam's training eventually pays off!
• Deadpan Snarker: Almost rivals Kimberly and Aisha with her snappy comebacks, though while Aisha was more outspoken, Tanya is more articulate.
• Dual Wielding: As the Yellow Zeo Ranger, Tanya wields a pair of Zeo II Power Clubs. These are a pair of threaded clubs.
• I Choose to Stay: She was offered a record deal in an episode of '"Zeo'', but she turned it down because of her Ranger duties. This is referenced in the following season, but she mentions she could always try again.
• Implied Love Interest: After breaking it off with Shawn, she and Adam are shown to grow closer and share a good number of their scenes together. It isn't confirmed as official, like with Kat and Tommy, but the subtext is there. A good example would be when Shawn gets together with an old nemesis of Aisha's and she brags about Shawn's flawless style of fighting, Tanya talks up Adam to them somewhat defensively, possibly inferring a relationship with the green ranger.
• Instant Expert: Despite having only become a Ranger in the last five minutes of Mighty Morphin', Tanya has no problem morphing or fighting with the others in the second episode. She also acclimated well to modern society in the US as if it’s no issue at all.
• Kick Chick: Her morphed fight scenes mainly have her using kicks; a byproduct of the Ohranger footage, as that was Juri's fighting style.
• Naïve Newcomer: The least experienced on the team. While she did pick up the pace as the season went on, she was seen taking lessons from Adam and Tommy to become a better fighter.
• Power Fist: Her signature weapon as the Yellow Turbo Ranger is a pair of Turbo Star Chargers.
• Primary-Color Champion:
  • When Aisha decides to stay in Africa to help the wildlife there, Tanya takes her place as the Yellow Zeo Ranger.
  • During the events of Power Rangers Turbo, Tanya becomes the first Yellow Turbo Ranger of the Turbo Rangers; she eventually gave her powers to Ashley Hammond and retired as a Ranger.
• Put on a Bus: Halfway through Turbo, and never heard from again. Tommy, Kat, Adam, and Rocky have all returned in future crossovers, but Tanya hasn't. She and Adam were originally going to stay on after Tommy and Kat left, but Executive Meddling decided to get rid of all four veterans instead.invoked
• Sassy Black Woman: Downplayed at least in comparison to her predecessor Aisha. Her real personality isn’t too outspoken, but under King Mondo's hate plague she really takes it up a notch when insisting Kwanzaa is superior to the other celebrated holidays.
• Ship Tease: A relationship between her and Adam is hinted at throughout the series.
• Stock Ninja Weaponry: As the Yellow Zeo Ranger, Tanya wields a pair of Zeo Power Clubs, which are nunchakus.
• Tomboy: Well, the most tomboyish female ranger up until that point.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Kat's Girly Girl.

Introduced in Turbo

T.J. Johnson

Theodore Jay Jarvis "T.J." Johnson

^{Red Turbo Ranger 2}

^{Blue Space Ranger}

Played By: Selwyn Ward

Appearances: | Power Rangers Turbo Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | Power Rangers Wild Force | Power Rangers Mega Force | Power Rangers Ninja Steel

Ranger Forms: Red Turbo Ranger, Blue Space Ranger

While on a bus ride to Angel Grove, T.J. saw Kat fight against Divatox's Piranatrons and helped her along with another passenger named Cassie. After rescuing Tommy from the Vortex of Eternal Doom and Sorrow, the former named T.J. the new Red Turbo Ranger and he became the leader of the new team.

After Divatox destroyed the Power Chamber, T.J. and the three other Turbo Rangers went into space to rescue Zordon and met Andros, who gave him the Blue Space Ranger Powers.

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• Ascended Fanboy: "What kid wouldn't want to be a Power Ranger?"
• Badass Driver: With the Cool Flying Car, Lightning Cruiser.
• Bald of Authority: A bald Red Ranger, followed by Jack Landors, Scott Truman, and Devon Daniels. Neither of his successors were lacking in hair.
  • Even when he’s the Blue Ranger, Andros may call the shots in a fight, but in pretty much every other situation the other Rangers defer to T.J. Mostly because he's the Badass Bookworm and one of the most level-headed Rangers in the entire franchise. The fact that they're used to following TJ's lead by then doesn't hurt either.
• Baseball Episode: "The Curve Ball" featured T.J. fighting against a baseball monster named Strikeout and bringing a bat to counter his pitches.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Justin, as a contrast to Tommy's Parental Substitute.
• Black and Nerdy: The most intellectual ranger and the one most adept at technology.
• Blue Means Smart One: In Power Rangers In Space, he travels into space after the Power Chamber is destroyed by Divatox in order to rescue Zordon from The United Alliance Of Evil. After boarding the Astro Megaship and meeting Andros, he joins forces with him and becomes the Blue Space Ranger of the Space Rangers team and The Strategist, and he tends to be more cautious and level-headed than his teammates.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He was introduced at the beginning of an important two-parter as a dependable ally. At the end of part two, he becomes the Red Ranger.
• Cool Sword: His signature weapon as the Red Turbo Ranger is the Turbo Lighting Sword.
• Deadpan Snarker
  Ashley: Who would [poison Darkonda]?
  TJ: Probably only half the universe.
• Genius Bruiser: TJ's both a skilled strategist and a skilled fighter.
• The Hero: Takes this role after Tommy's departure.
• Identity Amnesia: In "T.J.'s Identity Crisis".
• Law of Chromatic Superiority: One season before the Battlizer, he and Justin got command of the two sentient super-vehicles. However, his vehicle, Lightning Cruiser, can fly.
• Nice Guy: Possibly one of the most laid-back and easy-going Red Rangers ever. The guy was even nice to Bulk and Skull! Compare that to his predecessor's initial hostility towards the bumbling duo during the MMPR days...
• Only Known by Initials: His full name wasn't revealed until Wild Force, a good five years after his debut.
• Rookie Red Ranger: He was named Tommy's replacement, and was named leader of the new Turbo team.
• The Smart Guy: By far the most cautious Ranger and most likely to go into battle with a plan of attack. Tends to call out the other Rangers, especially Andros, when they're being too reckless.
• The Strategist: Always the one who comes up with a good strategy. The Rangers wouldn't have beaten the Psycho Rangers without TJ's planning.
• The Reveal: In "Countdown to Destruction" T.J reveal his secret identity as the Blue Space Ranger to the world.
• The Unreveal: It's unexplained how he used the Red Turbo Powers during "Forever Red" despite them disappearing after Eltar fell in the Turbo finale.

Cassie Chan

Cassie Chan

^{Pink Turbo Ranger 2}

^{Pink Space Ranger}

Played By: Patricia Ja Lee

Appearances: Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | Power Rangers Mega Force

Ranger Forms: Pink Turbo Ranger Pink Space Ranger,

While on a bus ride to Angel Grove, Cassie saw Kat fight against Divatox's Piranatrons and helped her along with another passenger named T.J.. After rescuing Tommy from the Vortex of Eternal Doom and Sorrow, Kat named Cassie the new Pink Turbo Ranger.

After Divatox destroyed the Power Chamber, Cassie and the three other Turbo Rangers went into space to rescue Zordon and met Andros, who gave her the Pink Space Ranger Powers.

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• Action Girl: The tougher of the two girls, and always ready with her satellite gun.
• Aborted Arc: Two arcs in fact.
  • Her singing career was brought up once more in "The Song of Confusion" after her introduction before it vanishes from the narrative. It gets briefly referenced again in the Lost Galaxy-In Space team up when she jams it up on the Wild Cat Galacta Beast before being thrown off.
  • Cassie was supposed to be headed for Stone Canyon in "Passing the Torch" before it got derailed and she became a ranger. This is never brought up again afterward.
• All Asians Know Martial Arts:
  TJ: Where'd you learn to do that?
  Cassie: My ancestors invented it.
• Alliterative Name: Cassie Chan
• Baby Carriage: Saved one from a nasty fall by shouting "Look out!" in "Silence is Golden" (while the Psychos were tracking the sound of her voice).
• Characterization Marches On: It's weird to see her acting somewhat selfishly and timid in "Passing the Torch" compared to the rest of her appearances, especially if comparing those episodes to Lost Galaxy's "The Power of Pink".
• Chekhov's Gunman: She was introduced at the beginning of an important two-parter as a dependable ally. At the end of part two, she becomes the Pink Ranger
• Cool Big Sis: To Justin.
• Cute Bruiser: As cute and delicate as she may look, she packs a huge punch.
• Cute Mute: Again, "Silence is Golden".
• Deadpan Snarker: If someone has a snarky comment, it's usually Cassie.
• Didn't Want an Adventure: In her first appearance, she repeatedly insists she's got no part in the fights, and is weirded out by the monsters and mooks, only being dragged in by her own curiosity and conscience. And then at the end of "Passing the Torch", she becomes a Ranger with nary a word about her change in opinion.
• Dreadful Musician: When first introduced, she's singing on the bus. Though not dreadful, she's more just annoying because she's singing pretty loudly in a confined space.
• Fascinating Eyebrow: She frequently has one eyebrow raised.
• Improbable Weapon User: Her "In Space" weapon is the Satellite Stunner, a mini satellite that shoots lasers.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: A headstrong and serious tomboy to Ashley's cheerful girly girl.
• Parental Substitute: To Justin after Kat's departure.
• Pink Heroine:
  • After saving Tommy Oliver from being thrown into the Vortex Of Eternal Doom & Sorrow, Katherine passes her powers onto her, becoming the new Pink Turbo Ranger.
  • She travels into space after the Power Chamber is destroyed by Divatox in order to rescue Zordon from The United Alliance Of Evil. After boarding the Astro Megaship and meeting Andros, she joins forces with him and becomes the Pink Space Ranger.
• Ship Tease: With the Phantom Ranger. Fanfics ensued. Also, with Carlos in a handful of episodes,
• The Reveal: In "Countdown to Destruction" Cassie reveal her secret identity as the Pink Space Ranger to the world.
• The Straight and Arrow Path: Her Turbo Wind Fire.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Zigzagged. She tries to stay clean while Ashley is more of a girly girl.

Ashley Hammond

Ashley Hammond

^{Yellow Turbo Ranger 2}

^{Yellow Space Ranger}

Played By: Tracy Lynn Cruz

Appearances: Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | Power Rangers Mega Force

Ranger Forms: Yellow Turbo Ranger, Yellow Space Ranger

Ashley was an Angel Grove High Cheerleader who was seen helping civilians get to safety during a monster attack. Following the battle, Tanya named Ashley the new Yellow Turbo Ranger.

After Divatox destroyed the Power Chamber, Ashley and the three other Turbo Rangers went into space to rescue Zordon and met Andros, who gave her the Yellow Space Ranger Powers.

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• Action Girl: She has her moments, particularly in "Grandma Matchmaker."
• Beware the Nice Ones: "Grandma Matchmaker", when Termitus tried to kill Ashley's granny.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: As the Yellow Space Ranger, Ashley can use the "Battle Blade"/"Blade Arm", which gives her an energy blade running the length of her arm, akin to Ryan Steele's Lightning Hand Command.
• Chekhov's Gunman: She's introduced as leader of the Angel Grove cheerleaders a few episodes before the veteran rangers leave.
• Cool Big Sis: Acts this way towards Justin.
• Damsel out of Distress: She's captured twice in the series. It goes much worse for her captors than it does for her as both times she is a Defiant Captive, manages to escape and helps the team take down the Monster of the Week.
• The Ditz: In Turbo, Not as much by In Space, but she still has her moments.
• Genki Girl: Has a perky attitude, and is rarely seen without a smile on her face.
• Made of Iron: Downplayed, but when Ashley is knocked down, she often keeps fighting and is quick to launch a kick at her opponent from the ground.
• Official Couple: With Andros.
• Pom-Pom Girl: Ashley becomes a heroic Power Ranger and her first scene shows her leading the cheer squad in rehearsal with such determination and attention to detail that another girl jokes that if she'd known cheerleading was so hard, she'd have joined the Army instead. Ashley takes the comment good-naturedly. Ashley also teaches a dance class for ten year old girls, is well-liked by her students, and makes sure they have rides home.
• Primary-Color Champion:
  • After protecting some civilians from a monster attack, Tanya passes her powers onto her, becoming the new Yellow Turbo Ranger.
  • She travels into space after the Power Chamber is destroyed by Divatox in order to rescue Zordon from The United Alliance Of Evil. After boarding the Astro Megaship and meeting Andros, she joins forces with him and becomes the Yellow Space Ranger.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: She is more likely to be a cheerleading girly girl while Cassie plays the serious and headstrong tomboy.
• The Reveal: In "Countdown to Destruction" Ashely reveal her secret identity as the Yellow Space Ranger to the world.
• Wrench Wench: "The Turn of the Wretched Wrench". Doubles as a Mythology Gag since her Sentai counterpart, Natsumi, is one as well.
• Wrestler in All of Us: One episode had her using multiple wrestling moves, including a leg whip, head scissors, armbar, and a gutwrench suplex all in the span of a few seconds.

Carlos Vallerte

Carlos Vallerte

^{Green Turbo Ranger 2}

^{Black Space Ranger}

Played By: Roger Velasco

Appearances: Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | Power Rangers Mega Force

Ranger Forms: Green Turbo Ranger Black Space Ranger

Carlos was an Angel Grove High soccer player who was seen helping civilians get to safety during a monster attack. Following the battle, Adam named Carlos the new Green Turbo Ranger.

After Divatox destroyed the Power Chamber, Carlos and the three other Turbo Rangers went into space to rescue Zordon and met Andros, who gave him the Black Space Ranger Powers.

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• All There in the Manual: In his biography from the Fox Kids website, Carlos is the youngest of four children and comes from a strict Mexican-American household.
• BFG: As the Green Turbo Ranger, Carlos wields the Turbo Thunder Cannon.
• Big Brother Mentor: To Justin again. Carlos is the closest to Justin of the new team and makes a point of introducing him to soccer, coaching his team, and helping him make friends his own age.
• Butt-Monkey: Of all of the Space Rangers, Carlos had this most. He gets turned into a Barrillian Bug during In Space, a vampire in Turbo, frozen in a block of ice by Darkliptor, takes a nasty blow for Andros in "Never Stop Searching" and surely could've been seriously hurt in "Always a Chance" had Adam not intervened and saved him.
• Characterization Marches On: In Carlos' first episode, he's a bit of a hot head that needed to learn the importance of teamwork. Once he becomes a Ranger, he doesn't show that level of hot headedness and becomes a team player.
• Chekhov's Gunman: He's introduced as a fellow member of Angel Grove High's soccer team a few episodes before the original team leave.
• Composite Character: Aside from the obvious combination of Green Racer and Mega Black, a lot of episodes that focus on Carlos are adapted from episodes that focus on Kenta Date (Mega-Red). This was probably done to compensate for Kouichirou's (Carlos' Megaranger counterpart) leadership role being given to Andros.
• Destructive Saviour: He once got Cassie hurt and almost quit being a Ranger for it.
• Distressed Dude: The only male Power Ranger captured and frozen by Darkliptor.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Sometimes Carlos does go a little overboard and unintentionally hurts his friends. In Turbo he accidentally injures a teammate's leg during a soccer practice and is accused of hurting him intentionally. In In Space, he accidentally hurts Cassie during a monster attack.
• Emerald Power: He was picked by Adam Park to succeed him as the second Green Turbo Ranger of the Turbo Rangers.
• The Everyman: Carried over from Turbo.
• Gentle Giant: He's easily the most muscular of the guys, but he's also mellows out significantly after his debut in Turbo.
• Heroic BSoD: Had one in "Always a Chance" after accidentally injuring Cassie when fighting Lizwizard. It took Adam Park morphing into the Black Power Ranger with a heavily battle-damaged Power Morpher to snap Carlos out of his self-doubt.
• Hot-Blooded: Not as much during In Space, but still has his moments.
• Human Popsicle: Frozen by Darkliptor in "T.J.'s Identity Crisis".
• I Know Madden Kombat: Apparently soccer can help you fight against monsters.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Long hair? Check. Pretty? Check. Although, he did cut it sometime between In Space and Turbo.
• Martial Arts Staff: As the Black Space Ranger, Carlos wields the Lunar Lance.
• Movie Superheroes Wear Black: In Power Rangers In Space, he travels into space after the Power Chamber is destroyed by Divatox in order to rescue Zordon from The United Alliance Of Evil. After boarding the Astro Megaship and meeting Andros, he joins forces with him and becomes the Black Space Ranger.
• My God, What Have I Done?: See Heroic BSoD above.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Nearly 6 foot tall with long hair and put in a ponytail, when it came time to wear the suit.
• The Lancer: Is this for the second iteration of Turbo and in In Space.
• The Quiet One: Rarely speaks unless needed.
• The Reveal: In "Countdown to Destruction" Carlos reveal his secret identity as Black Space Ranger to the world.

Introduced from In Space

Karone / Astronema

Karone / Astronema

As Astronema

As Karone

^{Pink Galaxy Ranger}

Played By: Melody Perkins

Appearances: Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | Power Rangers Mega Force

Ranger Forms: Pink Galaxy Ranger

As a young child, Karone was kidnapped by the bounty hunter Darkonda and was raised to be evil under the name Astronema. Rising to the rank of the Princess of Evil, Astronema became the Space Rangers' biggest threat in their hunt for Zordon, but became conflicted when she found out her true heritage. After a lot of hurdles, including being forcibly changed into a cyborg by Dark Spector, Karone was finally freed after her older brother and Red Space Ranger Andros saved her.

One year later, Karone came across the orphaned Pink Quasar Saber on Onyx and became the second Pink Galaxy Ranger after the original wielder, Kendrix Morgan, bestowed her the powers.

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• '80s Hair: As Astronema, her wigs can get voluminous.
• The Atoner: She wants to atone for her evil deeds as Astronema.
• Adaptational Heroism: Shibolena was NOT supposed to pull a Heel–Face Turn at the end of Megaranger or become Saya's temporary replacement in Gingaman. Shibolena also never saved civilian lives from her own Mooks.
• Adaptational Nice Girl: As Astromena, she's a little more affable than Shibolena and shows shades of Jerk with a Heart of Gold when saving a family from her own Mooks. Taken to a whole new level after filling in for Kendrix (albeit temporarily) in Lost Galaxy.
• Adaptation Species Change: She's a Human Alien whereas her Megaranger counterpart is a Nezirejian Cyborg and her Gingaman counterpart is human.
• And I Must Scream: The gist of what the cybernetics do to her. Her actual persona is suppressed, in favor of the programming of the cybernetics.
• Bad Boss: She heaps a ton of abuse on Elgar. Of course, Elgar really deserves it. However, she can be nasty to everyone else around her, too. Even Ecliptor isn't necessarily safe. However, compared to people like Grimlord, she's a Benevolent Boss by comparison.
• The Baroness: Sexpot variety. After her brainwashing, she becomes a downplayed blend of the sexpot and Rosa Klebb variety, as despite still being very attractive, she's less flirtatious.
• Berserk Button: She's very specific about that necklace she wears.
• Big Bad: The Rangers' primary enemy for In Space as the most prominent agent of the United Alliance of Evil.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: For the second half of In Space by Dark Specter.
• Card-Carrying Villain: She's not just evil. She's the Queen of Evil. At least, when brainwashed.
• The Chessmaster: Her plans to eliminate Dark Specter are quite well thought out.
• Color Motif: Black, red, silver and purple.
• Combat Stilettos: Her early outfits tend to include some large heels.
• Composite Character: Of Dr. Hinelar and Shibolena. She has Hinelar's role as the overall main villain of the show while taking Shibolena's general appearance and relation to other villains.
• Continuity Nod: Even without the multicolored wigs, she still changes her hairstyle far more often than anyone else. Maya alternates between two hairstyles (loose and a twisted half-up, half-down style), and Kendrix generally wears either a severe ponytail or a more relaxed one with a few locks to frame her face, unless there's a specific plot-relevant reason she isn't. Karone, who only appears in about seven episodes, wears her hair loose, in a ponytail, with one pink clip pulling it to the side, with a pink headband, like Baby Spice, braided half-up with pink stars. Also, while her outfit is more conventional, she still seems to have a thing for black leather...
  • The Girlish Pig Tails may or may not be a Shout-Out to Patricia Ja Lee, who regularly wore the style in Turbo and was originally going to be the replacement Pink Galaxy Ranger.
  • There's a Hoberman sphere like the one she and Andros were playing with when Darkonda kidnapped her in her and Maya's room after she moves onto the Terra Venture.
• Creepy Monotone: Once brainwashed and fitted with cybernetics, she speaks in an icy, emotionless, unfriendly voice. Often with a lot of saliva, which makes each syllable cut like broken glass. Despite this, she doesn't lose all of her Large Ham attributes.
• Cute Bruiser: Her first few appearances in Lost Galaxy anyway... she is the former Princess of Evil, after all.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: After she gets turned into a cyborg to make her a villain again in In Space she's noticeably more evil than before, as she seems to lack all emotions and humanity, and starts plotting against Dark Spectre, while she was genuinely loyal to him before.
• The Cutie: Easily slides into this role after Kendrix's departure.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Starts when she's kidnapped as a child and raised as evil. She's trying like no one's business to make up for it, though.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Or in Karone's case, no longer evil. She famously dons black leather while unmorphed.
• Dark Magical Girl: Looks like a Dark Action Girl at first, but...
• Dating Catwoman: With Zhane in "A Date with Danger". It's short because he failed to show up for their date on time due to an attack by a Monster of the Week, which Astronema didn't send so she didn't believe his reasons for being late.
• Designated Girl Fight: Between her and Trakeena in "Protect the Quasar Saber". The Mirror Match between her and "Astronema" in the following
• Detective Mole / Hired to Hunt Yourself: Dark Specter puts her in charge of finding out who's draining his power when the ones doing it are The Psycho Rangers, who she created specifically to drain Dark Specter's power.
• Disney Death: In the finale of In Space.
• The Dragon: Dark Specter's most dangerous servant and the one he trusts with personally harassing the Rangers.
• Dragon Ascendant: Once Darkonda kills Dark Specter in the penultimate episode of In Space, Astronema cements her place as the proper Big Bad of In Space by taking over as the head of the United Alliance.
• Dressed All in Rubber: Her earlier outfits.
• Easily Forgiven: Despite feeling quite guilty about it herself, nobody really gives her any grief about her past as Astronema. Even a warrior she turned to stone (and left there...for years) pretty much instantly forgave her. Though it does take her a little longer to forgive herself.
• Enemy Without: She fights a personified version of her former self as Astronema to prove that she really has reformed from darkness. They're both played by Melody Perkins.invoked
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She cares for Ecliptor, and despite her rough attitude towards her minions, she's never outright cruel to them. Also, she saves a mother and her son from one of her own Quantrons. In fact, she was the closest thing the series had to an Anti-Villain Big Bad for a long time.
• Evil Redhead: After she's brainwashed.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Several times, to the point where one of the Rangers remarked "I liked you better as a blonde." Though, to be fair, most of her hairstyle changes were non-expository and not for any reason.
  • she still changes hairstyles in between each episode of Lost Galaxy, and just like before, there's no particular reason given for it.
• Faux Affably Evil: As Astronema she often acts kind of cutsey and like a little girl, but it's invariably completely phony.
• Foil: To Kendrix. She's more childish, only wears pink hair accessories, preferring to wear a black leather outfit, and while she's no ditz, she isn't the genius Kendrix was either. Interestingly, she has even more in common with Maya than Kendrix did due to them both being tomboyish Human Aliens.
• Friendless Background: In "Invasion of the Body Switcher", while impersonating Ashley and after getting a present from Alpha 6, she mentions that nobody has been truly nice to her before. She also mentions in "The Rangers' Leap of Faith" that she never had friends.
• Friend to All Children: The second episode of Lost Galaxy featuring her shows her playing catch/tag with a bunch of kids and clearly enjoying herself. As she explains it, she never had much of a childhood and is trying to make up for the lost time.
• Gone Horribly Right: After her Heel–Face Turn, Dark Specter succeeds in kidnapping her and brainwashes her to be a completely evil being. Completely evil also seems to mean ambitious to the point of planning to destroy Dark Specter.
• Good Feels Good: She's much happier being a good guy than she was as Astronema. She lampshades it more much later in Super Megaforce.
  "I love being a Power Ranger!"
• Hair-Trigger Temper: As Astronema, of course.
• The Heavy: Since Dark Specter rarely gets involved with the conflict against the Rangers, she's the main threat in the series.
• Heel–Face Turn: This happens when she finds out Andros is her brother. She then gets captured by Dark Specter and made evil again via brainwashing and Unwilling Roboticisation. The finale is not an example of this because the brainwashing was removed.
  • High-Heel–Face Turn: The sole female villain introduced in the series, and she is the one who turns good of her own volition.
• Hellbent For Leather: The one thing she kept from her stint as Astronema. No wonder since she looks really good in it.
• Human Aliens: She's also from KO-35 like her brother.
• How Do I Shot Web?: "Galactabeasts, over here!!"
• Iconic Outfit: Karone's black leather outfit is easily recognizable among the fandom.
• Instant Expert: Zig-Zagged. She was trained to fight when she was evil; it was just which side she was up against that changed. She's also able to morph the first time without any difficulty whatsoever. Averted when she summons her Galactabeast for the first time. See How Do I Shot Web? above.
• It Runs in the Family: Her brother is a Red Ranger.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Astronema is a Card-Carrying Villain to the core, but genuinely cares about her own underlings (especially Ecliptor) and despite the Amusing Injuries abuse she heaps on Elgar for his failures, doesn't take her rivalry with Divatox out on him. Also, she saves a family from Quantrons, which shocked everyone so much the music stopped.
• Kaleidoscope Hair: While her purple hair is better-remembered, she also likes donning other hairstyles/colors. Once she gets brainwashed, she never does this anymore and keeps her red bob until the end.
• Knight of Cerebus: Before her Heel–Face Turn (and subsequent capture followed by brainwashing), she was a little flirtatious and mostly campy. Also, just like many Zordon-era's Power Rangers villains, she miserably failed in getting rid of the Power Rangers. When she returned to the service of Dark Specter in her brainwashed form, she drops most (not all) of her Large Ham antics and became a more threatening figure to Power Rangers, demonstrated via her plans with the Psycho Rangers and the increasingly dangerous Monster of the Week. Near the end, she regains her Large Ham attributes.
• Lady of War: Of the Cute Bruiser variety. She's a former Princess of Evil, is pretty handy in a fight, and is more rough-and-tumble compared to Kendrix.
• Large Ham: Jeminy Christmas...
  • Evil Is Hammy: Mostly keeps it in check after her Heel–Face Turn. When she's brainwashed into being evil again, she goes right back to being a ham.
  • Cold Ham: After her brainwashing, instead of the typical shouting, she's more eerily calm, towards the end some of her traditional Large Ham attributes return.
• Long-Lost Relative: She is Andros' long-lost sister. Though neither of them finds out until mid-season.
• Makeup Is Evil: Played with a bit. One of the first things she does after her Heel–Face Turn is ditching her wig(s) and most of her makeup. The rangers certainly think it's an improvement.
• Memento MacGuffin: Her locket.
• Make My Monster Grow: When a monster nears defeat, she calls out "Fire the Sattilasers!" and somebody does so.
• Ms. Fanservice: For starters she's gorgeous, she has a leather outfit, is equal parts flirty and intimidating, often does a Supermodel Strut and she's The Baroness. She also barely follows Color-Coded for Your Convenience when she becomes a ranger. The only pink she wears are things like hairclips and headbands. The fact that she's the first of only two Pink Rangers (the other being jen) to don a skintight leather outfit makes it all the more memorable.
• Not Me This Time: When the Rangers accuse her of helping capture Zordon, she replies that she wasn't one of the villains who took part in that venture.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: One of the most sympathetic examples of this trope, she became a villain because she was raised as one and thought the Power Rangers killed her family, although her "revenge" goes beyond the Power Rangers as she leads the invasion of Earth.
• #1 Dime: That locket of hers which doubles as a Tragic Keepsake we later find out.
• Only One Name: Either her villainess name or her true name, it's only one name.
• Panthera Awesome: Her main Zord is the Wild Cat Galactabeast.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: She attempts to disguise herself as Ashley in one episode, and while she does have the voice down, she doesn't do anything to change her mannerisms at all, and when her minions "attack" her and Cassie, all Astronema does is glower and slap at them.
• Pink Heroine: After Kendrix death, She become the new Pink Ranger of the Lost Galaxy Rangers.
• Purple Is Powerful: During her time as Astronema, her magic was manifested in purple energy, with which she could zap her enemies, teleport herself and in one ocasion turning herself into Karone.
• Reformed Criminal: Karone was a Brainwashed and Crazy supervillain most of her life.
• Related in the Adaptation: In Megaranger, Kenta/MegaRed is not related to either Dr. Hinelar or Shibolena, Karone's counterparts. And as Karone eventually becomes the second Pink Ranger of the succeeding team, this also extends to Saya/GingaPink.
• Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: During her attempted infiltration of the Dark Fortress, she ditches her larges wigs for one of these, which remains her haircut for the rest of the series.
• Sadistic Choice / Take a Third Option: During their fight, "Astronema" takes Leo hostage with a sword to the throat, while Karone has her trusty old staff pointed at her and taunts that she can't have it both ways. Realizing she can't fire the staff without possibly frying Leo as well, Karone offers herself in his place.
• Secret Test of Character: Sort of. In the episode right after she becomes a Ranger, she's forced to face an illusion of Astronema—without morphing. The illusion threatened to kill Leo, who was not only severely injured from the previous battle against the Monster of the Week but his hands were also tied. Faced with the Sadistic Choice of either letting her past self kill Leo or risk killing him herself while destroying her past self, Karone elects to Take a Third Option and tell Astronema to take her instead. This action surprises the illusion, who immediately vanishes.
• Senseless Sacrifice: After her Heel–Face Turn, Dark Specter threatens to destroy Earth's population with a giant asteroid unless the Rangers turn her over. She risks attempting to infiltrate his ship to stop him and gets captured (and subsequently brainwashed). Not only does Dark Specter not bother to stop the asteroid after getting her back, but the Rangers manage to do so themselves, making her whole infiltration attempt completely unnecessary.
• Ship Tease: With Zhane or Leo.
• Shock and Awe: She can shoot purple lightning from her fingers.
• Shoulders of Doom: When going in battle as Astronema, she tends to don some large shoulder-pads.
• The Starscream: After being brainwashed by Dark Specter to be pure evil (clearly, that worked only too well). Using the Psycho Rangers had two purposes: fighting the true Rangers (obviously) and weakening Dark Specter. She intentionally connected their powers to his, hoping that their frequent battles with the Rangers would weaken him enough for her to destroy him and usurp his position as leader of the alliance. Unfortunately for Astronema, the Psycho Rangers were impatient and unwilling to follow her plans, which led to them being defeated before this plan could succeed.
• Spiritual Antithesis: Being related to the Red Ranger and a brainwashed main villainess of the series, she literally a Power Rangers version of Rei/Maria from Choujin Sentai Jetman. And her relationship with Ecliptor, if Rei/Maria and Gray had a foster father-daughter bond instead of lovers.
• Stripperific: After reforming, she wears leather trousers and a leather corset-style top, with her midriff bared.
• Supermodel Strut: As Astronema, she often walks with a feminine gait that has her hips and legs swaying from side to side, such as in "From Out Of Nowhere Part 2" when she teleports to talk to the captured rangers. This was to showcase her flirtatious and campy nature. She largely stops doing this after she gets Brainwashed by Dark Specter and becomes a more serious character. This comes back at times when she becomes the Pink Ranger.
• Surrounded by Idiots: In one episode, Astronema calls her Quantrons nincompoops.
• Unwilling Roboticisation: After her Heel–Face Turn, Darkonda recaptures her and has cybernetic-implants forcefully grafted onto her, to erase all traces of goodness. It works a little too well.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Maya's Tomboy and again, she slides into this almost seamlessly after replacing Kendrix. She's got more of a tomboyish streak in her, though.
• The Straight and Arrow Path: As the Pink Galaxy Ranger, Karone wields the Beta Bow, her preferred form of the Transdagger.
• Woman Scorned: Zhane learns never to stand up a woman who can shoot lightning at you, whether intentionally or not.

Allies

Ranger Allies

Zordon

Zordon of Eltar

Played By: David Fielding (Face, Voice for the 1st half of Season 1) | Robert L. Manahan (Voice for the rest of his appearances)

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space

A wise wizard from the planet Eltar who was trapped in a time warp due to the battle against Rita Repulsa 10,000 years ago. He was the one who recruit the first five teens to become Power Rangers and served as the mentor to them and countless other Rangers for many years.

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• Adaptational Badass: Towards Barza. While Zordon became stuck in a time warp, which negates his ability to be directly involved in combat, he otherwise retains his powers to help the rangers, whilst Barza had lost his powers and didn't do much beyond being the team's adviser.
• Advertised Extra: Despite being shown in the credits of "In Space", and the search for him being one of the Ranger's main goals, he's only in four episodes out of forty-three, and of those four, one is the season-opening, and two are the finale.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: By virtue of being a partial adaptation of Daizyuzin. While the Megazord's sentient and divine counterpart is the Big Good of the season, he often acted more like a Jerkass God that punished the Zyurangers for questioning his decisions and wisdom. Meanwhile, Zordon is very helpful, guiding, and fatherly towards the rangers without once becoming authoritarian with them.
• Back for the Dead: After being held captive for the whole of the In Space series, he appears in the finale to tell Andros to destroy him, releasing the energy wave that destroys most of the active villains attacking the universe, as well as purifying some like Rita, Lord Zedd, and Divatox.
• Big Good: He chose the original team, he is the overall leader Jason defers to, and he has a history with Rita.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: His eyebrows are the only visible hair he's shown, although it’s never commented on.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Behold the Viewing Globe."
  • "May the Power protect you."
  • "You must keep trying, Alpha!" was his usual go-to motivation whenever said robot wasn't able to solve whatever problem of the day they were having.
• Composite Character: While footage of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger's Barza the Wizard was used for a pre-Time Warp Zordon, given Seasons 2 and 3 of MMPR adapted Gosei Sentai Dairanger and Ninja Sentai Kakuranger respectively, Chouriki Sentai Ohranger was adapted for Zeo, Gekisou Sentai Carranger for Turbo and Denji Sentai Megaranger for In Space, Zordon in an amalgam of Barza, Master Kaku, Sandayū Momochi, Chief Naoyuki Miura, Dappu, and Professor Kubota. Most of the time, however, he's more akin to Daizyuzin, being the team's supernatural benefactor and superior (since Barza lost his powers, the old man is more of Alpha than he is Zordon), since the Megazord is a non-sentient robot, unlike its counterpart.
• Crazy-Prepared: Contingency plans are something of a specialty of his.
  • In "Mighty Morphin' Mutants," he revealed that he had more powerful (yet visually identical) versions of the Rangers' Power Weapons prepared, just in case the originals were no longer enough.
  • Anticipating Lord Zedd's return, he put in motion the creation of the Thunder Zords.
  • He had plans for a Power Chamber in case the Command Center gets compromised.
  • Power Rangers in Space reveals he had many emergency plans in case something happened to him. This included a black box that allowed the NASADA shuttle to combine with the Astro Megaship to form the Astro Megazord. Or how he left the Mega V Zords on the moons of Saturn.
  • Power Rangers Megaforce adds that he also left a pupil back on Earth in case the planet was in great danger and a new team needed to be created.
• Death by Adaptation: A combination of type 1 of this and the "dies later" version of Spared by the Adaptation, as Barza the Wizard, Daizyuzin, Chief Naoyuki Miura, Dappu, and Professor Kabota lived to see the end of their respective series, but Zordon lived longer than Master Kaku and Sandayū Momochi did in theirs.
• Decomposite Character: He shares Commander Miura's position of Mission Control with Billy with the latter being the one to create the advanced weaponry and handle the ground operations.
  • Again when he's sharing Dappu's role with Dimitria plus Lerigot, who bears more than a passing resemblance to the infant.
  • He shares Professor Kubota's role with Andros.
• Demoted to Extra: Becomes this in Zeo. With Billy taking on the role of Mission Control, Zordon starts to feel redundant after a few episodes.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Both in that he lasts longer than Master Kaku and Sandayū Momochi did and that he dies giving up his life to stop the alliance rather than being killed in battle as they were.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: For the first half of Season 1, Zordon was voiced by David Fielding, who had also provided the footage for his face. Fielding plays him with a pseudo-English accent, and in general much less "human" than Robert Manahan, whose voice will be much more familiar to most viewers.
• Face Death with Dignity: His last moments is literally lecturing Andros to shatter his tube to depower or outright destroy as many evil entities in the universe as possible.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: He fills this role for almost all series that he isn't in. He mentored the original team, several of which show up to help later teams and is generally looked back on with great respect. Aside from that, he's responsible for the presence of the Mystic Mother and Gosei who are major forces for good in their respective shows.
• Heroic Sacrifice: His ultimate fate, at the climax of In Space is instructing Andros to shatter his capsule, which releases his life force in a World-Healing Wave that wipes out the enemy alliance's army and either disintegrates or redeems its leaders.
• Hero of Another Story: He was a warrior-hero like the Power Rangers before he was trapped. Occasionally we'll see footage of these adventures (where he looks like Barza from Zyuranger).
• I Cannot Self-Terminate: Not due to programming, magical rules, or honor codes, but because of a lack of limbs.
• Large Ham: Always spoke in a loud, booming voice and treated plenty of things seriously, such as when he found out Alpha 5 forgot to plug the command center's power cord back in after vacuuming.
• Mission Control: When the Rangers use their communicators, he's the one they're calling for.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Zordon never had the chance to bid farewell to all the rangers he has mentored. Only Andros was present in his final minutes (as he was the one who was forced to end Zordon), but he didn't mentor him.
• Not So Above It All: He's generally the straight-faced mentor figure, but after the events of The Mutiny even he joins in the "Everybody Laughs" Ending.
• The Omniscient: Whenever Rita or Zedd creates a monster, the minute it's up and about, Zordon pretty much always knows about it, its name, and its capabilities. Justified in season one, as it was mentioned that Rita had used certain monsters before on other planets.
• One-Man Army:"Power Ranger Punks" shows a flashback where he's as capable of it as his protégé.
• Oracular Head: He's trapped in another dimension so he uses a device to communicate. It only shows his head.
• Put on a Bus: Took the first wormhole home two episodes into Turbo after getting a new body that happened to look like the communication tube image he'd been using for 10,000 years. This did not end well. Appeared again the next season, for the last time.
• Science Wizard: He is described as a space wizard but has been known to rely more on technology he creates with his Robot Buddy Alpha. Some of the technology is powered by magical items.
• Sealed Good in a Can: Sealed at the same time as Rita, who named Sealed Evil in a Can. He’s freed at the beginning of Turbo. Apparently, the warp took its toll as he doesn't appear to possess a physical form anymore from what we're shown...and he's sealed into a communications tube by the villain of the next season...as in the same tube he was using to communicate with the outside world from the time warp. It's complicated.
• Spared by the Adaptation: As he's a combination of various Sentai mentor figures, he's this compared to Kaku and Sandayū, who died in their respective Sentai series. Though given In Space, Zordon's a combination of the "dies later" variant of this and type 1 of Death by Adaptation, given Barza, Daizyuzin, Miura, Dappu, and Kubota live to see the end of their respective series.
• Team Dad: Really cares for the Rangers on a personal level and tends to show concern for their real-life problems from time to time, instead of just focusing on their job as fighters.
• Unrelated in the Adaptation: Outside of hailing from his home world of Eltar, the Phantom Ranger was no known connection to Zordon, whereas VRV Master was Dappu's father.
• Vocal Evolution: He started off with a deep slightly British-accented voice before taking on a composed, if not dramatic American accent.

Alpha 5

Alpha 5

Played By: Romy J. Sharf (1992-1994), Sandi Sellner (1994-1995), Donene Kistler (1996)

Voiced By: Richard Steven Horvitz

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers Wild Force

Zordon's robotic assistant who mans the Command Center.

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• Amusing Alien: He is from Edenoi.
• Art Shift: In the movie and the three-part premiere "Shift into Turbo", his head is shinier, he's is a little slimmer, and the curved lightning bolt on his chest is straight. It's similar to the design used by his successor, Alpha 6.
  • Yet, in "Passing the Torch," he is reverted to his previous design.
• Annoying Laugh: "Eheh eheh eheh..."
• Canon Foreigner: He has no direct Sentai counterpart.
• Character Catchphrase: "Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi!"
• Chick Magnet: Alpha attended the Gym and Juice Bar's Halloween party in one episode, posing as a human in a costume. He got a lot of attention from the female attendees.
• Determinator: Gotta give the little guy credit, he doesn't give up on the Rangers or the fight against evil. Even Zordon threw in the towel in the movie.
• Endearingly Dorky: Alpha's slightly awkward and dorky personality appealed both to the real-world viewers and also to the women at the Halloween party he attended in one Halloween episode.
• Expy: Even though there was no robotic sidekick in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, there were similar characters in previous Sentai seasons. Namely Peebo (who Alpha was most closely based on, given the earlier plans for a Bioman adaptation had dubbed Peebo as Alpha 5), Mag, Colon, and Arthur G6. Of course, there was a sidekick in Zyuranger^note Gnome for precious few episodes., but not robotic.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: He went out in public during some Halloween episodes, as people assumed he was a human in a costume. When he attended the Gym and Juice Bar's Halloween party, he got a lot of attention from the female partygoers. When he helped Trini restore her cousin Cynthia at Billy's lab after she'd been converted to a cardboard cutout by the Pineoctopus, he went inert and posed as one of Billy's inventions to prevent Cynthia from noticing him.
• Hidden Depths: During the "Green With Evil" multi-parter, Alpha - as Zordon says - "displayed exemplary leadership capabilities." He even trapped Evil!Tommy and it took Rita's magic to free him.
• Like Brother and Sister: Alpha has often been compared to the Rangers' 'little brother' despite his great age due to his relative lack of real-world experience.
• Mission Control: He is the maintenance guy for the Command Center.
• Put on a Bus: Accompanied Zordon home, and presumed dead in the attack on Eltar. However, according to Amit Bhaumik, he was destroyed, but eventually rebuilt and upgraded into Alpha 7 offscreen.
• Robot Buddy: He's a robot and assists the heroes.
• What the Hell, Hero?: After most of the Rangers decide to give up following their defeat in "Green With Evil Part IV," he has this to say:
  Alpha 5: No, Rangers, I cannot accept that. Zordon would not accept that.
• Would Hit a Girl: By proxy. During the conflict with Prince Gasket and Archerina Alpha remote-controlled both the Red Battlezord and Super Zeo Megazord. While the ranger-piloted Zeo Megazord was going one on one against Gasket the Alpha piloted Red Battlezord was doing the same with Archerina. It should be noted that unlike the other two Zords on the scene the Red Battlezord uses punches and kicks rather than weapons.

Alpha 6

Alpha 6

Played By: Donene Kistler

Voiced by: Katerina Luciani (Turbo), Wendee Lee (In Space, Lost Galaxy)

Appearances: Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | Power Rangers Operation Overdrive

A newer model of the Alpha line. Alpha 6 came to Earth with Dimitira after Zordon and Alpha 5 went back to Eltar.

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• Ambiguous Situation: Alpha 5 was built on Edenoi by King Lexian, but, assuming what happened in “A Friend In Need” holds true, the planet exploded and took everyone (excluding Dex) with it, the technology needed to make more Alphas would've been lost forever. Therefore, how did Alpha 6 even come to be?
• The Artifact: He doesn't fill his usual role as the Mission Control in Lost Galaxy anymore, and only seems to be there as a reference to the Zordon Era.
• Hand Wave: He gets a new voice because his old one was damaged by the explosion at the end of Turbo.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Compared to the much nicer and more mellow Alpha 5, 6 can be rough around the edges (insulting Justin right when he's introduced, complaining that a moment between Justin and Kat is making him want to vomit), but he's still good.
• Nice Guy/Took a Level in Kindness: Not that he was ever an outright jerk, but as opposed to the previous season, Alpha 6 acts far less snarky than during In Space than he did in Power Rangers Turbo.
• Robot Buddy: He succeeded Alpha 5 in the role.
• Took a Level in Badass: Was rather helpless the previous season. During In Space, he and DECA get multiple Big Damn Heroes moments piloting the Astro Megazord themselves, and spend a good part of an episode effectively making a fool out of Ecliptor for an entire episode Home Alone style.
• Totally Radical: Supposedly a "hipper" version of Alpha 5, hence the Noo Yawk accent. It’s toned down in later seasons, but he still has traces of this.
• Verbal Tic: Yo yo yo!

Bulk and Skull

The Pair In general

Bulk and Skull are a pair of bullies turned good natured people that are the most recurring characters in the Zordon Era. They started off antagonizing the teens, but as the years went, they became decent Junior Police Officers, detectives, and workers in the real world.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Both of them, usually Skull, had a habit of hitting on the girls, mostly Kimberly. The usual response being clear rejection. By season 3, they stop trying to hit on them entirely.
• Angrish: In the episode "Rangers in the Outfield", their argument becomes incomprehensible after Skull riffs on Bulk's less-than-stellar batting. It was so bad that Rocky had to scream louder than normal to get them to stop and even then it didn't last long. Baseball must bring out the worst in them.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Usually, Bulk treats Skull like nothing more than a minion in his rather stupid schemes, insulting him frequently. But they do show genuine affection to each other at times. A notable moment is during Power Rangers Zeo, in which Bulk initially dismisses classical music as something for dweebs, not knowing Skull is secretly a practiced pianist. Once the truth is out and Skull plays before an audience, Bulk freely admits he was wrong about classical music and openly admires his friend for playing so well.
• Badass Normal:
  • They've defeated a couple of monsters, or at least assisted vitally in their defeat, without morphers or powers.
  • In "King for a Day, Part II," they fended off Cogs, the mooks that Rangers preferred to fight while morphed.
• Big Damn Heroes: Actually pull this for the Rangers when their memories get scrambled by confronting the Monster of the Week and deflecting its attack using mirrors concealed under ponchos.
• Big Eater: Bulk is often seen eating. As spelled out in the '95 movie:
  Skull: You hungry?
  Bulk: Always!
• Bizarre Taste in Food: They occasionally eat some strange things to the chagrin of the Rangers. While not always gross-sounding, it is invariably messy.
• Breakout Character: They manage to remain mainstays together in the series until In Space, with Bulk making solo appearances in both Lost Galaxy and Samurai, Skull making an appearance in the finale of the later. The two also appeared together in an episode of Wild Force.
• Butt-Monkey: Their entire role in the series is basically being the victim of all kinds of misfortune. In the early days, they do have it coming. Less so as time went on.
  • More so than usual in Turbo. They turned into chimpanzees, then when they turned into humans, they are turned invisible. Being invisible ironically proved a blessing since they were able to make money off it as street performers, and steal people's food. When they became visible, they went a through series of new jobs that they would get fired from almost immediately due to their bad luck or stupidity.
• Canon Foreigner: They have no Super Sentai counterparts.
• Cassandra Truth: Usually, whenever they tell people about their latest run-in with the current Monster of the Week or an encounter with the Power Rangers, no one within earshot believes them. Authority figures, usually Lt. Stone, also tend not to believe them whenever they mess up important assignments even when it sometimes wasn't their fault. It's somewhat justified given their past actions as delinquents, but even complete strangers tend to not have a very high opinion of them, let alone take their word on what actually goes wrong.
• Character Development: Bulk and Skull have the most character development of the entire cast. They start out as bullies but gradually turn into heroes themselves. On one occasion, they even take on a Monster of the Week to save the Power Rangers. Later on, they join the Angel Grove Junior Police, apparently to score with women, which they never seem to do afterward. Instead, they are always ready to help people in need, coming a long way from the selfish bullies they were at the start of the show.
• Characterization Marches On: Bulk and Skull were originally the school bullies of Angel Grove High, but as the show went on this aspect of the duo was downplayed, and eventually they became more like class clowns. It's a bit jarring to see them cheer on the Rangers attacking civilians on TV (it was really just a monster and four putties disguised as Rangers) when they would later admire the Rangers' heroic feats.
  • Skull, in particular, would undergo a big shift after the first forty episode arc. During the initial run, he was little more than Bulk's Yes-Man usually by repeating whatever his friend would say to the rangers with a "Yeah!" at the start. Starting from "Rita's Seed of Evil" this was toned down and he was given more to do in the dynamic. By the time the second season aired, the repeats were gone entirely, though the "Yeah!" would remain.
• Confusion Fu: Neither one of them has any real martial arts training, but the random nonsense they do has proven impossible for the putties and other mooks to counter, meaning they beat them on several occasions. They once led a successful Gladiator Revolt on an alien world this way, largely by accident.
• Covered in Gunge: They've been covered in everything from mud to cake frosting when their antics go sideways.
• Determinator: Despite receiving all the bad luck in the world, they still continue to come up with idiotic schemes. Giving up is apparently not in their dictionary.
• The Dividual: Sure, they could appear separately, but it would fall flat. They feed off of each other so much that neither of them functions alone as a character.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Downplayed, but it's clear they're not fond of their given names (and no one can blame them).
• Drives Like Crazy: When Bulk and Skull are trying to flee Angel Grove along with the rest of the townspeople, they steal a city bus:
  Bulk: Who taught you how to drive?
  Skull: Nobody! How am I doing?
  Bulk: You drive like a maniac!
  Skull: Thanks!
  • And at one point, they dreamed about piloting the Megazord- this ended about as well as you'd expect.
• Dumb Muscle: Bulk held the town bench pressing record before Jason broke it.
• Expy: They're basically Laurel and Hardy as '90s high-schoolers.
• Gang of Bullies: In the first season and the pilot, they were sometimes accompanied by (mostly) unnamed punks. A female member, Sharkie, appeared the most number of times before she was ultimately fazed out by “Life's a Masquerade”.
• Genius Ditz: They mostly come off as idiots, but they have some surprising moments of intelligence. During Season 2 when they attempted to uncover the Power Rangers' identities, they would sometimes come very, very close, and would have succeeded in exposing them if the Rangers themselves would thwart their efforts.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: In early seasons, they'd bully the Rangers at school and try to work out their secret identities.
• Hated by All: Downplayed in that nobody truly hates them, but their classmates view them as annoying morons and laugh at their misfortunes. In the Boom comics, the staff at a sandwich shop Bulk regularly visits groan and cringe whenever they see him coming.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: They are as tight with each other as the power rangers themselves are. They went through school together, become police officers together, and then jumped onto a colony ship together.
• Hidden Depths: While they initially appear as a duo of self-serving bullies, the pair do have the desire to become heroes themselves. This is first seen in their dream sequence in "The Crystal of Nightmares", where they dream about becoming Power Rangers (or at least superheroes).
• Horrible Judge of Character: During their attempts to find out who the Power Rangers really were, they never really saw their true civilian identities as possible candidates, finding the possibility laughable at times (despite the fact that they were caring, noble, and helpful, just like the Rangers).
• Hypocrite: In "The Mutiny", they thought the Rangers' civilian identities had "chickened out" when the Z-Putties arrived and placed scorn on them for it — yet they themselves were terrified of the Z-Putties.
• I Am Spartacus: Bulk does this in the finale when Astronema swears to destroy the Earth if the Rangers don't show themselves. Bulk is the first person in the crowd to declare himself a Ranger.
• I Just Want to Be Badass: Revealed to be their dream in the Crystal Nightmare. They dress up as superheroes and even try to drive the Megazord. They fail, mind you, but the intent is there.
• Iron Butt Monkey: They both take quite a bit of abuse whenever their schemes backfire.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Both of them. As the series went on, they slowly became less and less jerk and more and more heart of gold, which would lead to them delivering a Moment of Awesome in Power Rangers in Space.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: In Season Three, Skull decides he's done suffering all the humiliation in trying to find out the Rangers' identities and tells Bulk that they should quit. After a failed attempt to woo some girls by disguising themselves as the rangers and an untimely monster attack, Bulk agrees to fold too.
  Bulk: Skull, if I ever talk about the Power Rangers again, staple my mouth shut.
  Skull: With pleasure.
• Leitmotif: Listen to it here.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: On at least one occasion, Bulk and Skull defeat a monster themselves, after the Rangers themselves are defeated. Nobody believes them afterward when they brag about it, however.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Until the final episode, they weren't aware of who the Space Rangers were.
• Moral Myopia: Shown in "Mighty Morphin' Mutants". They smugly claimed to have no flaws, prompting Trini to point out that being rude and obnoxious might be considered bad qualities.
• Secret Chaser: Tries to find the secret identities of the Power Rangers in season 2.
• Smarter Than You Look: When they were determined to discover and reveal the Rangers' identities, they actually came shockingly close to doing so on several occasions, showing that they can be surprisingly good planners when they want to be. More often than not, their schemes were only thwarted at the last second by either their own bumbling nature getting the better of them, discreet interference by the Rangers themselves, or simple bad luck.
• Spin-Off: A pilot was actually filmed for a show about them running a hotel, but it was never picked up for series (this is why they got turned into chimpanzees during Turbo — to cover for their actors being unavailable).
• Those Two Guys: They're rarely if ever, seen without each other.
• Took a Level in Kindness: They started out as bullies and the first episode has them try to join Jason's karate class so they can beat people up. Over time, they became genuinely altruistic and even help save the world.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Skull loves frog legs.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • They may often hassle each other, moreso Bulk towards Skull, but the two are still inseparable best friends.
  • After their Character Development this eventually ends up being their primary relationship with the Rangers' civilian identities, especially after Season 3. They still trade verbal jabs with the team and the duo are still as likely to call them "dweebs" as much as before, but it's pretty noticeable that in spite of that there's an actual friendship with them.
• Weirdness Magnet: No matter the Evil Plan, no matter where in Angel Grove the attack is taking place, odds are Bulk and Skull will happen to be nearby when things go down. Their interactions with monsters occurred so often that Lord Zedd knew them by name. This trope was eventually Lampshaded in Season 3:
  Lt. Stone: I find it very odd that you two are the only ones in Angel Grove outside of the Power Rangers to face off with a different monster every week!
  Skull: Lt. Stone, it's true. Every time we turn around, well (sputters), there they are.

Bulk

Farkus "Bulk" Bulkmeier

Played By: Paul Schrier

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | Power Rangers Wild Force | Power Rangers Samurai

Bulk is muscle of the duo. After the events of Countdown to Destruction, he travelled to the new world with his old employer Professor Phenomenus on board Terra Venture. Years later, Bulk came back to Earth and spent a year with Skull's son Spike, teaching him the ways of the Samurai.

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• Accidental Hero: In the Boom comics, Bulk once helped the police catch a criminal who robbed his favorite sandwich shop by interrogating and delaying him until the cops arrived. He did it completely by accident, of course.
• Embarrassingly Painful Sunburn: Bulk tried to get a tan in to prepare for his audition for a karate dojo commercial. Skull accidentally spilled all the suntan lotion, so he applied mayonnaise to Bulk instead. Bulk was extremely unhappy about his ensuing sunburn, trying to save face by claiming that it would help make him a shoo-in for the ad.
• Goofy Print Underwear: Bulk wears a pair of underwear with pigs printed on.
• Honorary Uncle: To Skull's son Spike. At least we think it's honorary.
• Loophole Abuse: In a story from the comics, Bulk becomes a Homecoming King candidate without being a senior year student because the only requirement set by the rules is to have signatures from enough senior year students. The candidate isn't required to be a senior himself.
• Nice Guy: Bulk’s Character Development from previous years has stuck as he's firmly one of these by the time of Samurai.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Early on, whatever the situation, Bulk would act like he was the world's greatest expert on it... and pretty quickly wind up humiliated.
• Stout Strength: Bulk is pretty...well...bulky, but he also held the Gym and Juice Bar record for the number of successive weightlifting reps before Jason managed to break his record. He also manages to get on the football team, which his bulk is ideal for.
• Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket: Bulk once tried to star in an ad for a karate dojo and ended up serving as an example of what happens when one tries to learn karate without proper training. He also tried to claim one particular detention desk as his personal seat by writing his name on it...only it came out "BUULK" instead.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Bulk is actually extremely physically strong — he's got comparable powerlifting skills with Jason. The problem is he has no actual skill or discipline, so he gets made a fool of. In "Countdown to Destruction" he's able to choke out a Piranhatron with one hand.

Skull

Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch

Played By: Jason Narvy

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Lost Galaxy | Power Rangers Wild Force | Power Rangers Samurai

Skull is the slim man of the duo.

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• Hidden Depths:
  • Skull, of all people, is a classically trained pianist. He's absurdly good at it. Becomes a central point of Character Development between him and Bulk as the big doof initially derides Skull for it, but by the end of the episode, Bulk changes his mind and shows that he can be supportive of him like a real friend should.
  • An overlooked case for Skull appearing as early as late Season 1, combined with Genius Bonus: Skull's Halloween costume in Trick or Treat is of a stereotypical jail felon. You'd write off the very shabby costume as typical and befitting of Skull, but then you notice the 24601 written on his exposed chest...
  • This also applies to his parents, as a result. When they're seen in Return Of An Old Friend, along with the parents of the main cast, they're dressed and acting like stereotypical punks, functionally carbon copies of their son. Yet we learn in Zeo, that his mom is the one who put him through piano education, and seem well off enough to fund classical-level training, meaning that the Skullovitch family are rather wealthy and erudite people who seem to choose the punk style.
• Hopeless Suitor: Skull is this to Kimberly throughout a majority of Season 1. Understandably, Kimberly can't stand him due to his obnoxious personality. Of course, it doesn't help when he is strung along by her when she is under a monster's influence. It's worth noting that he stops hitting on her once she starts dating Tommy. By season 3, Kimberly thinks of him as a friend.
• The Hyena: Skull has a very memorable laugh he tends to use at every opportunity. "Return of an Old Friend" implies that it's a family trait from his mother's side.
• Relationship Upgrade: A debatable one for Skull's crush on Kimberly. Never brought into canon, but writer Amit Bhaumik said in a 2005 interview that he had wanted to have Kim be married to Skull in the episode "Forever Red" and name Kim as the mother of Skull's son Spike.^note  Spike was eventually made canon in Power Rangers Samurai, replacing his father in the duo with Bulk; who his mother is left vague. While unofficial, the idea is popular with some fans and the actors on the show have referred to the relationship when discussing the show with fans.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Skull at the very least is actually fond of kittens.
• Secretly Wealthy: By the time of Samurai, Skull picks Spike up in fancy limo, and he himself is dressed up, albeit with some punk detail. However, given that his being classically-trained in piano would probably not have been cheap, it implies that the Skullovitch family was always well off (and that their punk aesthetic is by choice), and he maintained being wealthy by the present.

Other Civilians

Ernie

Ernie

Played By: Richard Genelle

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo

The owner and bartender of the Angel Grove Youth Center.

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• Big Fun: He is one of the more obese people of the series, but also one of the nicest.
• Canon Foreigner: Ernie has no direct counterpart in the source material Zyuranger.
• Demoted to Extra: From Season Two onwards, his presence began to decrease as compared to the first season. Some episodes that featured the Juice Bar didn't have him at all. He was absent completely from the Alien Rangers arc whereas even Lt. Stone's childhood self got a few seconds of screen time.
• Hospitality for Heroes: He doesn't charge the Rangers for their refreshments. Even more of an example because it's widely speculated that Ernie knows the Rangers' identities, which is why he provides them free refreshments. It was originally planned to be canon and for Ernie to reveal that he knows their identities as well as being Zordon in disguise, but that idea was scrapped. It still comes off very clearly that Ernie does know who they are, but refuses to say anything.
• Mistaken for Badass: Twice in Mighty Morphin' Season Two, Bulk and Skull suspected him of being one of the rangers.
• Non-Action Guy: Doesn't take part in the action. In fact, he rarely encounters a monster at all.
• Only One Name: His last name is never revealed, even with a Zeo episode (Mondo's Last Stand), where the b-plot revolved around one of his uncles and a baby food company said uncle founded. It's never confirmed if Burble is Ernie's last name either, though there is an implication that Ernie+whatever his surname is common enough in Angel Grove the age goof is enough to throw both Bulk and Skull and the representatives of his uncle's baby food company off. If ever there was a time to reveal his last name...
• Put on a Bus: Between Turbo the film and the television show, leaving to go help his army/foreign service unite buddies build a bridge. His last appearance is several blink-and-you'll-miss-it shots towards the end of the film. His last speaking role was in Power Rangers Zeo.

Lt. Stone

Lieutenant Jerome Stone

Played By: Gregg Bullock

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo

Lieutenant Jerome B. Stone started as the head of the Angel Grove Junior Police Force and was Bulk and Skull's superior when they joined the force. After getting fired due to the two's bumbling, he decided to open up his own detective agency and hired the duo. After Ernie left, he became the new owner of the Juice Bar.

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• Ascended Extra: As with Ernie, Stone was promoted to the main cast after initially being a recurring character.
• Badass Normal: In "Graduation Blues," he stumbled upon Goldar and Rito - thinking an invasion was afoot. He chased them all over the park to try to arrest them. Granted, the two were amnesic and not up to no good, but Stone didn't know that.
• Department of Redundancy Department: In the movie. He hates to repeat himself. He HATES to repeat himself.
  • Lampshaded by Bulk in the same scene: "You just did, sir."
• Horrible Judge of Character: No matter how much they inevitably screw up, he never stops assigning Bulk and Skull to tasks.
  • However, he does finally get wise by the end of the series.
• I Should Write a Book About This: He knows so much about coffee that he has written a book on the subject, called In the Know About Joe.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Is loud and abrasive more often than not, especially towards Bulk and Skull, but it's never beyond the shadow of a doubt he has the best of intentions for Angel Grove's citizenry. His last scene in Zeo has him getting mad at Bulk and Skull for ditching his detective agency to go to France but gains a look of forlorn once they make it clear they're leaving.
  • Downplayed in Turbo. Since taking over the Juice Bar, he seems like a pretty chill dude when he’s not enduring Bulk and Skull's antics.
• Mean Boss: He switches between this and Benevolent Boss. He's prone to yelling and punishment, but of course, he's the boss of Bulk and Skull. Given their antics, anyone else would've fired them immediately, but Stone obviously has a soft spot for them.
• Put on a Bus: Disappeared after Turbo's finale. The writing staff ultimately felt that he along with Mr. Caplan and Miss Appleby had become superfluous to the show and ended Gregg Bullock's contract when the season concluded.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He seems to be rather tolerant towards Bulk and Skull, despite their incompetence. It's very telling that when Stone gets canned in "Bulk Fiction", both of them decide to quit the force and join up with him to form a detective agency, implying that they've grown a deep respect for the man.
• Surrounded by Idiots: A natural consequence of having Those Two Guys for subordinates. He becomes a tad more tolerant of them after forming his detective agency, but not by much.
• Shipper on Deck: He helps Ashley along in the beginning of "The Rival Rangers" to ask out a guy she's crushing on.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Not nearly as abrasive or loud in Turbo as he was in Zeo and MMPR Season 3. Even his relationship with Bulk and Skull is more cordial aside from a couple of occasions.

Villains

Introduced in Mighty Morphin

Rita Repulsa

Rita Repulsa / Mystic Mother

"Ahh! After ten thousand years, I'm free! It's time to conquer Earth!"

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^{Mystic Mother (Power Rangers Mystic Force)}

Played By: Machiko Soga (Zyuranger and Magiranger footage), Carla Perez (Season 2 and onwards), Julia Cortez (MMPR: The Movie)

Voiced by: Barbara Goodson, Susan Brady (Mystic Force)

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Mystic Force

Originally sealed in a space dumpster for 10,000 years after a long war with her arch-nemesis Zordon, the evil sorceress Rita Repulsa was freed after two astronauts accidentally opened it.

After being freed, Rita sent her sights on conquering Earth, only to face Zordon's Power Rangers.

Years after being struck by the Z-Wave, Rita became the Mystic Mother.

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• Aborted Arc: Her initial plan in marrying Zedd was to eventually seize power and control over his sect. After the wedding, however, once Zedd starts making plans to have a child with her, she freaks and tells Finster to make an antidote for the love potion. While the antidote subplot does come back to the forefront in Season 3, her initial plan to overthrow her new husband is never brought up again, as in the whole reason she wanted to wed him in the first place.^note She grumbles about it in late Season 2 on occasion but it doesn't amount to anything. Even better, she seems to genuinely love her "Zeddy" after a while, and even with the antidote in place, Zedd states that Rita is the best thing to ever happen to him. Considering Zedd had way more victories with Rita at his side than without, he was right!
• Adaptation Expansion: She played a much larger role in later seasons, while Bandora and her lackeys were sealed off after the Dora Talos incident.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Bandora was Affably Evil and used to act nice to her subordinates, except for a few angry moments. Rita gets angry much more often and is often cruel to her subordinates.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Her Sentai counterpart is a genocidal Child Hater with a sympathetic backstory compared to Rita's overly petty attitude.
• Adaptational Name Change: She's known as Witch Bandora in the original Zyuranger series.
• Adaptational Wimp: In the original Sentai Witch Bandora could defend herself from the Rangers and was powerful enough to toss them around sometimes with her magic even if she was never a front-line fighter. In Power Rangers, Rita is a Non-Action Big Bad through-and-through.
• Advertising-Only Continuity: Bandai apparently thought her outfit was a little boring as it was on the show, and so whenever Rita made an appearance in a book or on a toy her brown dress with gold trim was replaced with a purple dress with pink trim. This same color scheme was used for her outfit in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Live stage show as well. Her planned-yet-unmade 6" action figure was going to use her show accurate color scheme, though.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: In the movie, Rita wasn't afraid to openly flirt with Ivan Ooze right in front of Zedd's face. While her "Finally, a real man!" may have just been a jab to get under Zedd's (non-existent) skin, her initial "He's so handsome!" seemed fully genuine.
• Alliterative Name: Rita Repulsa. And Mystic Mother
• Bad Boss: In contrast to her Sentai counterpart, who always averted You Have Failed Me. When the Rangers defeat the latest monster, she's prone to taking her frustration out on her underlings - even if they had absolutely nothing to do with what went wrong. Especially towards Goldar after marrying Zedd, due to Goldar switching loyalties. She appears to still treat him badly even after she comes to truly love Zedd.
• Becoming the Mask: At first her marriage to Zedd was simply a Revenge scheme, but just like he came to love her without the potion, she came to genuinely love him back.
• Big Bad: She is the lead villain first season, commanding all the others.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Zedd once she marries him in the end of Season 2, more so in Season 3 given that they make monsters grow together.
• Big Good: Mystic Force reveals she eventually became the Mystic Mother, the supreme force of good for all good magic in the Power Rangers universe. Ironically, according to Word of God she also created the Mystic Force powers and connected them to the Morphing Grid, meaning she essentially becomes a successor to Zordon.
• Butt-Monkey: She's this in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Live: The World Tour, serving no real purpose other than to be shrunken and tortured by Lord Zedd (despite seemingly being an active minion of his), much to the Evil Space Aliens' delight. Even Squatt and Baboo openly mock her in this incarnation.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Rita LOVES to gloat about her evilness; especially when she comes up with a plan to defeat the Power Rangers.
• Character Catchphrase: "I have such a headache!" Usually, after the Rangers thwart her latest scheme. It's still something she deals with as the Mystic Mother when evil invades her palace. A lot of merchandise liked having Rita say "It's very good to be very bad!" but she never said this in the show itself.
• Composite Character: Power Rangers Mystic Force reveals that she went on to become the Mystic Mother, who was a separate character in the original Japanese series (since they were both played by Machiko Soga, the writers decided to combine the characters).
• Continuity Nod: Mystic Mother being played by Machiko Soga. She was "known as Rita in the dark days." In other words, she's Rita Repulsa post Z-wave-induced Heel–Face Turn.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While Rita's a very petty villain, her plans have the potential to cause mass destruction. Particularly the Green Ranger saga.
• Daddy's Little Villain: Rita seems eager to impress her equally villainous father, Master Vile.
• Dope Slap: Now and then Rita would openly whack Goldar, Squatt, and Baboo with the head of her magic wand when they'd failed her.
• Enfant Terrible: Rito mentions she once burned their house down when she got a birthday present she didn't like. Said present was a dragon, rather than the planet she wanted.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She seems to genuinely love her father and brother, and while her marriage with Zedd started as an Evil Plan, the two eventually did fall in genuine love with each other.
• Evil Is Hammy: Practically all of her lines are delivered in a screaming screechy witch voice, resulting in her always stealing the show when on screen.
• Evil Is Petty: A good deal of her plans were started just because the Rangers were personally irritating her and she wanted to ruin their day.
• Evil Plan: The big one is "Conquering the nearest planet" I.E. Earth. The episodes have smaller ones focused on the Monster of the Week.
• Evil Versus Evil: Not in the original series, but, by the time of Zeo, Rita and Zedd come into conflict with the Machine Empire. They are the ones who ultimately blow up the Machine Empire imperial house.
• Expy: Like her Japanese counterpart, she was clearly based on the Wicked Witch of the West.
• Fairest of Them All: In "Green With Evil Part III," Rita asks Squatt and Baboo who's prettier between Scorpina and herself, though it's not entirely clear if she's actually insecure about it or if she's just messing with them.
• Fake Shemp: During Rita's first encounter with Lord Zedd she was filmed from behind (with some random person in her outfit) with spliced in Zyuranger footage for her reactions.
• Final Boss: She is the last boss fought in the Game Boy Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers game.
• Good Is Not Soft: She might not be evil anymore but her tongue is as sharp as ever when she returns as Mystic Mother.
• Heel–Face Turn: After being purified by the energy wave, she becomes the Mystic Mother, Empress of all good magic.
• Horrifying the Horror: This seemed to be the main reason Rita and Zedd obeyed Dark Specter in Power Rangers in Space. In "Countdown to Destruction Part I," they have absolutely no qualms about telling Astronema off and informing her that they had their own plan ready to go, but once she informs the couple that their orders come directly from Dark Specter himself, they quickly fall in line.
• Hot Witch: She's actually rather pretty if you can get past her weird clothing and hair. This is especially true of her second actor (Carla Perez), who is a fair amount younger and prettier (which the show explains by having Rita use some sort of de-aging magic.
• I Always Wanted to Say That: Rita says "I've waited a long time to say this!" right before raising Saba into the sky and shouting "Tigerzord Power!"
• Incoming Ham: "AHH! AFTER 10,000 YEARS I'M FREE! IT'S TIME TO CONQUER EARTH!"
• Love Redeems: Her and Zedd's love for each other means that instead of being killed by the Z-Wave, they're purified of their evil and restored to human form.
• Magic Staff: Her iconic Magic Wand that she tosses to Earth every episode. Aside from making her monster grow, Rita would use her wand to cast all sorts of magical spells.
• Make My Monster Grow: The Trope Namer. After yelling out "Magic wand, make my monster GROW!" she throws her wand to Earth and causes a fissure to erupt, the heat and energy released in turn enlarging her monster. In Season 3, she and Lord Zedd would cross their staffs to emit a lightning storm that causes the monsters to grow.
• Maker of Monsters: While she normally relied on Finster to make monsters for her, Rita was fully capable of making monsters on her own, and whenever she did they'd usually prove to be a serious threat to the Rangers. However, it seemed to require a great deal of effort for her to create such monsters, which is why she didn't do it too often.
• Meal Ticket: She only married Lord Zedd to overthrow him, but later developed feelings for him.
• No Indoor Voice: She screams practically every one of her lines.
• Not Quite Dead: Everyone, good and bad, thinks she is except she escaped by turning herself into energy. She pulled herself back together after the final battle.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When Zordon and Alpha summoned the teens for the first time, they didn't believe them and rejected the offer to become the Power Rangers. If Rita had heard that and not sent down her Putties under the assumption that they had become the Rangers she could've saved herself years of headache. One could even argue that her misjudgment would doom the plans of various villain groups in the many years to come^note Thinking about it, with no Mighty Morphin' Rangers, Earth would be without Rangers until potentially Wild Force. Many other teams would directly or indirectly owe their use of the Morphing Grid to the legacy built on by Zordon's various teams. At the very least, there would've been far fewer Rangers to hamper their plans when the time came for the United Alliance of Evil to invade the universe.
• The Nth Doctor: Finster's make-over in "The Wedding" takes Rita from Machiko Soga to Carla Perez.
• Non-Action Big Bad: She's not the type of villain to get into a direct fight with the Rangers, she sends monsters and/or plots against them instead. Indeed, the only physical fight she gets into is a Cat Fight with Divatox.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Living in that dumpster for 10,000 years. (see below)
  Divatox: (at the Cimmerian Planet conference) Honestly, you need to get out of that dumpster more often.
• Really 700 Years Old: When Finster gives her a make-over to make her look more youthful, she comments "I don't look a day over eleven thousand!"
• Redemption Promotion: Outright states good is more powerful than evil, and she's the leader of all good magic whereas she was a lackey to several more powerful villains as a bad guy. While she doesn't get to show much power, she's capable of empowering Clare into a true sorceress so she can help the Rangers win, and manages to effectively play the Master for a fool.
• Reformed Criminal: As mentioned above, she used to be known as Rita Repulsa.
• Remote Body: The closest Rita ever came to fighting the Rangers personally was when she stole Saba and used the White Tigerzord to fight the Thunder Megazord.
• Sealed Evil in a Can:
  • Trope Namer. She was originally trapped in a "space dumpster" on the moon for 10,000 years until astronauts accidentally released her. Her line from the intro sequence is rather iconic:
    "Ahh! After 10,000 years, I'm free! It's time to conquer Earth!"
  • Her boss Lord Zedd eventually returns, and displeased with her failure puts her back in her dumpster (or a different one) and sends her off into space again. She gets out twice. The first time the Rangers catch her and reseal her, the second time she stays out for good.
• Surrounded by Idiots: It takes a total of three episodes for her to reach this conclusion. Her stupid minions are the cause of her headaches.
• The Unfought: Except for the Game Boy Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers video game, none of the video games she's appeared in featured her as a boss.
• Unholy Matrimony: She married fellow villain Zedd. Started as a power play but grew into something more...
• Vocal Dissonance: Her iconic shrill remains even after her makeover.
• Wicked Witch: She's a witch who uses her magic to cause trouble. In fact, she was actually based on the genuine article.

Lord Zedd

Lord Zedd

"I am Lord Zedd, emperor of all I see!"

^{Power Rangers Dino Fury}

Played By: Ed Neil (TV series), Mark Ginther (MMPR: The Movie) Voiced by: Robert Axelrod, Eduardo Borja (Latin American Spanish), Steve Blum (Power Rangers: Super Legends), Tony Oliver (Power Rangers Super Megaforce Nintendo 3DS game), Andrew Laing (Power Rangers Dino Fury), Fred Tatasciore (Power Rangers Cosmic Fury)

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Dino Fury | Power Rangers Cosmic Fury

After Rita failed to defeat the Rangers multiple times, Lord Zedd came to the Moon Palace and sealed her in a dumpster again in retribution. Once she was gone, he took over as the head of the Evil Space Aliens and focused on succeeding where Rita had failed.

Years after being purified from the Z-Wave, Lord Zedd was brought back at his most evil thanks to the necromancer Reaghoul.

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• Actually a Good Idea: In the movie, when Ivan Ooze silences a complaining Rita by covering her mouth with a gob of ooze, not only does Zedd not get upset, he pumps his fist and says "Finally! Someone shut her up!"
• Ambiguously Jewish: ...No, really. Rewatch "The Wedding" and see Zedd get his groove on to that old Jewish wedding standby "Hava Nagila." Come to think of it, there's something familiar about his staff that turns into a snake.
• Arch-Enemy: To Zordon.
• Bad Boss:
  • In the beginning of his tenure as Big Bad, he frequently insults his minions and blames them when a plan goes wrong, despite them not even taking part in said plan. After Executive Meddling made him much milder, he also tones down in insulting and blaming his minions and becomes a Benevolent Boss. He even goes as far as to save an amnesiac Rito and Goldar from being Bulk and Skull's slaves.invoked
  • In Dino Fury's "Rafkon Revealed", as he tried blasting the rangers with his Z Staff, he gets his own general Sizzurai destroyed when Zayto deflects it. Accidentally? Yes. Is he remorseful? No chance.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Zedd accomplishes much after he marries Rita, such as capturing Ninjor, nearly killing Kimberly, allowing Rita's brother Rito Revolto to destroy the Thunder Zords and blowing up the Machine Empire in the Power Rangers Zeo finale "Good as Gold," just to name a few exploits. In Season 2, he didn't just achieve a few victories against the Rangers, he flat out beat them. The three replacement Rangers and Bulk and Skull both had episodes where Zedd would have flat out won if they hadn't stumbled upon the situation by pure luck. If Goldar had used the black hole maker instead of taunting Tommy in "Green No More," he would have had another opportunity to win. And if the Machine Empire hadn't arrived out of nowhere, there would've been nothing keeping Zedd from conquering the world after destroying the Command Center in "A Hogday Afternoon."
• Being Evil Sucks: Zedd laments "This job used to be fun" at the end of "Changing of the Zords Part III."
• Berserk Button:
  • Whenever Rito calls him "Ed"... It just doesn't end well. At all. Then again, Rito is a walking Berserk Button for all the villains.
  • Alpha 5 does this as well when Zedd invades the Command Center in "Changing of the Zords Part II":
    Lord Zedd: Oh, Alpha, you can come out of hiding.
    Alpha 5: [trembling] I don't like you... Ed!
    Lord Zedd: IT'S ZEDD, YOU BLINKING BUCKET OF BOLTS! LORD ZEDD!
  • He also hates his rival Count Dregon. Even mentioning his name riles him up.
    Lord Zedd: I hate him! I despise him! He's too evil for his own good!
  • He also hates it every time the Serpentera is out of power. He doesn't even want to hear anyone say it either.
    Goldar: We must recharge, master.
    Lord Zedd: Don't even say it! I hereby proclaim: No more using the word 'recharge' ever again!
• Beware the Silly Ones: A truly bizarre example. When he's first introduced in Season 2 he's shown to be much more menacing than Rita. However, after Executive Meddling softened his personality and gave him some goofier quirks, he actually scored a few more long-term victories than he ever did when he was "scarier."invoked
• Big Bad: The overall main antagonist of the original series as Rita Repulsa's master, personally stepping in as the leading villain of the second season, about four-fifths of the third, and the Alien Rangers miniseries. He is also the main villain of the recent final season, Cosmic Fury, making him the Final Boss of the overall original continuity. Due to his frequent appearances in other Power Rangers media, he can be considered this for the franchise as a whole.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Rita post-marriage, although Zedd is still seen as the one in charge.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Shoved out of the limelight for his father-in-law, Master Vile, by the end of the third season, though he still tries to assert his authority when he can and reclaims the position in full by the beginning of the Alien Rangers mini-series.
  • Happens to him again in Season 2 of Dino Fury. Although he does enter into a brief alliance with Void King and Void Queen to acquire Boomtower's schematics for Scrozzle, he quietly abandons their deal and becomes the Arc Villain of the Rafkon arc instead.
• Big Bad Wannabe: He's sent running by the Machine Empire at the beginning of Zeo, and is reduced to operating from a camper van as he and Rita scheme revenge. They do manage several successful strikes against their foes and end the series prepared to return for revenge, but by the time of Turbo have completely given up their vendetta aginst the Rangers.
• Bizarre Alien Senses: He can view things on Earth's surface, or even across the galaxy, using telescopic vision.
• Body Horror: He has no skin, his brain is exposed, and who knows what's behind that faceplate? Worse is that Rita later implies along with his purified self being human in appearance that he wasn't originally like this, but the Zeo Crystal's protective ward did this to him.
  • The recent origin story comic book series confirmed this. His skin was burned off when he tried to steal the crystals & magic kept him alive in his mangled state.
• Brainwashed Bride: Rita Repulsa uses a love potion to trick him into marrying her, with the plan to take control. Once married to him, Rita eventually gives up her magic practices and teams up with him in their villainous pursuits. Even though the love potion's effects are ultimately undone, he has genuinely fallen in love with Rita on his own.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": He's big on the "Z" theming, from his Putties to his staff and even his head crest.
• Burning with Anger: Zedd's entire body would glow red whenever he was really angry about something
• But Not Too Evil: It is known among fans that Moral Guardians started complaining about him being too scary, forcing the showrunners to tone down his menacing attitude. However, the writers significantly compensated in the next season by upping his effectiveness and the number of long-term successes. Many of Season 3's Darkest Hour moments, of which there were quite a few, were brought about by him. All without reverting to his pre-marriage personality.
• Canon Foreigner: He is the first main villain whose overall design is original to Power Rangers rather than Super Sentai.
• Character Development: When he was introduced, he was firmly focused on conquering the Earth and abused his minions. After marrying Rita, his focus shifted to screwing with the Rangers’ lives, and he developed more dynamic relationships with his underlings.
• Colour-Coded Emotions: In "The Mutiny Part I," it's stated that the Chamber of Command (the main throne room of Zedd's palace) changes its color to match Zedd's mood. At first, this seems to be the case, as the room's lighting is blue when he's calm and red when he's angry. However, this aspect of the room is quickly forgotten about after "The Mutiny Part III" due to stock footage of Zedd being used randomly with no thought given to what color the room is at the time.
• The Comically Serious: Dino Fury has him playing the straight man to his underling Scrozzle's wacky henchman.
  Zedd: WE DON'T HAVE TIME FOR GLITTER!
• Composite Character: As with Dai Satan in regards to Bandora, he's Rita's boss and he takes Emperor Gorma XV's role as leader of the Dairanger monsters.
• Dark Lord on Life Support: Possibly. He has some kind of liquid flowing through those tubes across his body, but what connection, if any, it has to his health, is never precisely made clear.
• Deadpan Snarker: He can dole out some withering put-downs when the situation calls for it.
• Demoted to Dragon: Zedd is this to the sorcerer Reaghoul for a decent amount of "Old Foes." It doesn't last forever, though, and Zedd is understandably infuriated.
• The Dreaded: The villains are all terrified as he made his first appearance. In Dino Fury after all those years, he is still remembered as this. The villains are openly scared of just the sight of him and question how Reghoul maintains control over him. Also, Solon plays a montage of some of Zedd's greatest hits (using the Rock of Time, taking Serpentera into battle, and stealing Tommy's Green Ranger powers to create the Dark Rangers) to demonstrate his fearsome reputation. When Ollie asks how the previous Rangers defeated Zedd, Solon says they didn't and that it took a sacrifice that can't be replicated to end his threat to the universe.
• Enemy Mine: The Dino Fury Rangers are forced to temporarily join forces with monsters of the week Wolfgang and Brineblast to even stand a chance against an enraged Zedd. They still barely make a dent.
• Enraged by Idiocy: While it's not uncommon for villains like Zedd to lose his temper, as soon as Rito joins the group, Zedd loses his temper even more.
• Establishing Character Moment: Lots of villains make their appearance by sitting in a chair and dramatically swivelling around to face the camera. Only Lord Zedd teleports into Rita's throne room already sitting on a throne of his own...before dramatically swiveling around to face the camera. The skinless flesh, the fluid flowing through the tubes around his body, and the sinister close-up of a python slithering across his flesh is all you need to immediately know that this is a very different kind of Power Rangers villain.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While originally he marries Rita due to a Love Potion, he does eventually fall in love with her genuinely, to the point the spell being broken changes nothing. He could be surprisingly sweet to her at times.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Some of his schemes involve trying to pit the Rangers against each other or trying to break their spirit by endangering others. His efforts only have the exact opposite effect, which always stuns him.
  "I don't understand it. The more I divide them, the more they come together."
• Eviler than Thou: Zedd was clearly superior to Rita in pretty much every way. Her inferiority to him made him mad.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Reaghoul finds this out the hard way once Ollie destroys Zedd's compliance collar.
• Evil Is Petty: Targets Ollie the Dino Fury Blue Ranger to be his Brainwashed and Crazy "pet" - twice - because Ollie once called him "Radiator Face".
• Evil Mentor: After he brainwashes Ollie Akana, Dino Fury Blue for a second time, he takes an active interest in making sure Ollie stays evil. This becomes very relevant in the finale: from his time as Lord Zedd's pupil, the un-brainwashed Ollie understands how Zedd sees the world. Using Zedd's own teachings, Ollie and his team negotiate with Zedd and persuade him to surrender.
• Evil Overlord: "I am Lord Zedd, emperor of all I see." Scrozzle refers to him as the "emperor of evil" in Dino Fury.
• Evil Plan: When he first sets up shop, his first multi-episode objective is to finish off the Green Ranger. Then he went to conquering the planet and wiping out the others.
• Evil Versus Evil: Not in the original series. In Zeo, however, Zedd and Rita return midway through the season and start competing with the Machine Empire for the right to conquer Earth. In the very end, Zedd and Rita are the ones who get the last laugh on the Machine Empire by blowing them to bits.
• Fate Worse than Death: Lord Zedd's final fate is stuck in his worst nightmare on the planet Nibyro: being forced to cater to his nagging wife Rita Repulsa. However, the possibility is raised that he might, with time, actually reform.
• Faux Affably Evil: When first introduced, he falls under this trope, being capable of feigning polite manners and a reasonable attitude, but quickly showing himself for the savage, ruthless, power-hungry individual that he really is.
• Final Boss: He is the final boss faced in Power Rangers: Super Legends as well as the Nintendo 3DS Power Rangers Super Megaforce game. Although not a proper battle, his revived form as a Morphin Master serves as the final foe in Cosmic Fury and the original continuity altogether.
• Forced Sleep: When a security guard watching over Ivan Ooze's hyperlock chamber notices Zedd and his crew arrive at the construction site and attempts to wake his fellow guard, Zedd simply zaps them both with a ray from his Z-Staff, knocking them both unconscious.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Zedd's visor would often glow or just briefly flash red when he was infuriated about something (though not as angry as when his entire body would glow).
• Godhood Seeker: His final motivation in Cosmic Fury. He gives a brief Motive Rant on the subject:
  There is a saying in this universe: "No peace for the strongest, only survival." ... People of power, including Rangers, will always try to tear the top dog down. And if you're down, you're done for. That's why I must become the strongest being there is.
• Greater-Scope Villain: In the first season, being Rita's superior but too distant to be actively involved in the plot.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: The console versions of Power Rangers: Super Legends reveal that his purification in Power Rangers in Space didn't stick, although it's worth noting that the canonical status of said game is very questionable.
• Heel–Face Turn: After being purified by the energy wave in Power Rangers in Space, he becomes good.
• Hidden Depths: He genuinely falls in love with Rita, and ends up becoming friends with Goldar. Zedd might be a world-conquering maniac, but he’s quite capable of healthy relationships. It gets to the point that the resurrected version of him at "his most evil" ends up bickering with an illusionary Rita like old time's sake. The Morphin' Masters and Zayto believe this illusionary life could be the key to Zedd redeeming himself someday.
• Hijacked by Ganon: He is one of the franchise's most iconic and classic villains and he returns to take over as the Big Bad at the tail end of Dino Fury and into Cosmic Fury.
• Hijacking Cthulhu: The sorcerer Reaghoul does this to the resurrected Zedd in "Old Foes" thanks to a compliance collar around his neck. It doesn't last long.
• Horrifying the Horror: This seemed to be the main reason Zedd and Rita obeyed Dark Specter in Power Rangers in Space. In "Countdown to Destruction Part I," they have absolutely no qualms about telling Astronema off and informing her that they had their own plan ready to go, but once she informs the couple that their orders come directly from Dark Specter himself, they quickly fall in line.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Lord Zedd is such an iconic character in the Zordon Era (and in the franchise in general) that people who didn't watch Power Rangers growing up will be surprised he didn't appear until Season 2. To be clear how long it took, Season 1 was 60 episodes. This is the likely reason that (like Rita as the Mystic Mother and Goldar as Goldar Maximus before him) he was reintroduced to the franchise.
• It's Personal with the Dragon: Morality-flipped. Of the Dino Fury Rangers, Zedd's biggest gripe is with The Lancer, Blue Ranger Ollie, for predictably petty reasons. When backed into a corner, Ollie decides that the least bad option is to break the compliance collar Reaghoul put on Zedd so the two villains will attack each other and give him a chance to free his friends. With a new lease on life, Zedd expresses his gratitude by making Ollie the focal point of two subsequent evil schemes.
• Jaded Washout: From "The Wedding" onwards, he acts like a less sinister Evil Overlord and more a frustrated married guy, but in terms of results, he becomes more effective. Reversed in Dino Fury, though Justified since he was brought back "at his most vile".
• Knight of Cerebus: His first appearance makes him this trope, as he effortlessly gets rid of Rita, is built up by Zordon as a genuine threat, causing him to give the Rangers new Zords and acts much more menacing than the whiny Rita. He flat-out beats the group several times and was only stopped by luck, used much more powerful monsters, had plans that pushed the Rangers to their limits (seriously they won by the skin of their teeth a lot in Season 2), used mind control, attacked the rangers on a personal level and tried to break their team, had plans that were pure Nightmare Fuel like locking Tommy in a graveyard dimension to fight a never-ending supply of monsters, possessed a Zord-dwarfing Zord, and blew up a planet.
  • Zedd's appearance in Season 1 of Dino Fury had him as one of the toughest opponents the Dino Fury team fought up to that point, and allowed him to be an Arc Villain in Season 2 as a third-party antagonist that even Void Queen and Void King treated with surprise and cordiality.
• Laughably Evil: As a result of parental complaints, he was retooled to be a more light-hearted character, something that notably began when he got married to Rita Repulsa.
• Laughing at Your Own Jokes: In "From Out of Nowhere Part I," Zedd laughs as he finishes telling Rita a joke that ends with "...And then I said, 'that's no dumpster, that's my wife!'"
• Lightning Can Do Anything: Zedd launches lightning bolts from his Z-Staff to transform animals or objects into monsters, make monsters grow, teleport people from place to place, or just do whatever magical thing he needs to be done at the time.
• Like a Son to Me: In "The Wedding Part II," Lord Zedd tells the various gathered monsters that they are all like mutant sons to him.
• Love Redeems: His and Rita's love for each other means that instead of being killed by the Z-Wave, they're purified of their evil and restored to human form.
• Magic Staff: His iconic silver Z-Staff, with a large 'Z' on top and a curved spike on the bottom. Him wielding it seems to also be a bit of a Power Limiter seeing how he abandoned his fight with Tommy after it was transformed back into a snake (and he didn't transform it back into his staff until later), and similarly abandoned his fight with the Dino Fury team much later on to retrieve the Z-staff from Grid Battleforce despite handing the Rangers their asses.
• Make My Monster Grow: In Season 2, Zedd summons a grenade and tosses it towards the monster, allowing it to grow. Sometimes, the monster will grab the grenade and slam it to the ground to properly activate it. In Season 3, he and Rita cross their staffs to emit a lightning storm that causes the monsters to grow.
• Maker of Monsters: Zedd has the ability to create monsters out of people, animals, or inanimate objects by zapping them with lightning from his Z-Staff. Upon the monster's destruction, the original creature or item is always returned to normal.
• The Man Behind the Man: At the start of Season 2, it's revealed that Rita answers to Lord Zedd and was charged with conquering Earth for him. Her failure led to him taking a more direct role.
• Mind-Control Device: Reaghoul controls Zedd for a brief while with a compliance collar worn around Zedd's neck (similar to the ones Ryjack used in Beast Morphers).
• More than Mind Control: While he was under a love potion when he marries Rita, by the time it's broken, he's legitimately fallen in love with her.
• Never My Fault: Done spectacularly after his first defeat.
  Goldar: I'm sorry you failed, excellency.
  Lord Zedd: I didn't fail, you simpering twit! You failed! You all failed! Just like you failed before!
• Never Say "Die": Once freed from his compliance collar, Zedd threatens to "squeeze every drop of magic" from Reaghoul's body.
• No-Sell: Zedd is attacked by five Dino Fury Rangers and two Sporix Beasts simultaneously and effortlessly dismisses all their efforts. Then in Cosmic Fury, he shrugs off the Finishing Move from the Cosmic Blaster.
• Oh, Crap!: Void Knight and his crew have this reaction when they realize the person breaking into their base is Lord freaking Zedd.
• Orcus on His Throne: This trope goes for any Ranger Big Bad, really, but it becomes really evident when (as noted above) Zedd effortlessly clobbers Tommy.
• Pet the Dog:
  • When he first shows up Zedd decides Goldar's snivelling attitude will make him a good servant and rewards him by restoring his wings.
  • Both Scrozzle and Boomblaster reveal that (at least partially on Scrozzle's part) say that they joined his side because he pays them, and Scrozzle even says it's pretty good. Keep in mind, the Lord Zedd from Dino Fury was him revived at his most evil. Nulleye joined because he offered good dental (despite not having any teeth, which Void King points out).
  • He's surprisingly gentle, almost fatherly, with the brainwashed Ollie in Cosmic Fury. He seems to take a twisted pride in mentoring the boy in the ways of evil.
• Physical God: In the penultimate episode of Cosmic Fury, he absorbs the energy of the Morphin' Masters — the Power Rangers equivalent of gods — into himself and becomes a nigh-unstoppable force of pure evil. He's able to curb-stomp an entire fleet of Zords with a blast from his staff.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Zedd's visor is a dark red and would often glow brightly whenever he's enraged.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Once Zedd is freed from Reaghoul's mind control, he immediately turns on the sorcerer and pummels the Dino Fury Rangers, Wolfgang, and Brineblast simultaneously until he simply loses interest and leaves.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: In Dino Fury season 2, he gets sealed up by the Morphin' Masters. At the end of the season, he's been freed by his latest chief henchwoman, Bajillia Naire, leading into the events of Cosmic Fury.
• Serpent Staff: Zedd's staff displays the ability to transform into a snake and back in his debut episode. During part three of "Changing of the Zords," Tommy tosses Saba at it and breaks it, causing the staff to temporarily change back to a snake for the rest of the episode.
• Shock and Awe: Aside from the special variety he used when wanting to accomplish something magical, Zedd could also fire ordinary lightning bolts from his Z-Staff when wanting to inflict pain and destruction.
• Smooch of Victory: Master Vile finally leaving after being beaten by the Alien Rangers makes Zedd so happy he gives one of these to Goldar, much to Goldar's horror.
• SNK Boss: In Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition he is this, especially on higher difficulties. Zedd has hard-hitting attacks, can zone you like crazy with his magnet hand and lightning strikes and teleport out of combos.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Lord Zedd pretty much has the same problem as Rita Repulsa, even when married to her. It gets even worse when Rita's brother Rito joins the crew.
• Third-Person Flashback: In the Halloween VHS special Lord Zedd's Monster Heads, we see Lord Zedd reminsence about several monster attacks he was not present for, such as Knasty Knight, Eye Guy, and Terror Toad. Not just that they were monsters that fought the Rangers, but every little detail about what they did and said during their respective fights. How he possesses this very specific knowledge is never explained.
• Took a Level in Badass: Zigzagged. On the one hand, his retool into Laughably Evil really hit his direct effectiveness hard^note for starters, originally, he could make his own monsters which were much more powerful than Finster's, but then Finster was put back in charge as the monster-maker again and he came up with some plans that were notoriously silly — like the time he created a monster charged with turning Tommy into a gluttonous junk food addict. But on the other hand, he also still won many times even after getting married to Rita, with long-term consequences that played out even as late as Zeo. He destroyed the Thunder Zords and damaged the Dino Zord power set beyond practical use for seven years, stole the Crane Coin and Falconzord, was allowed into the Command Center, handed Tommy his ass before retreating after a forced stalemate, destroyed the Ninja Coins, then later used subterfuge to undermine the Machine Empire twice, the latter forcing them to abandon conquering independent of the United Alliance of Evil.
  • His fight against the Dino Fury Rangers, Brineblast, and Wolfgang in "Old Foes" reminds us that Zedd is indeed a force to be reckoned with, even without his Z-Staff or any minions backing him up.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Big time. Zedd is a hulking, skinless, faceless humanoid with an exposed brain. Rita is a cute (if shrill and nagging) Human Alien witch.
• The Unfought: In all the video games he's appeared in, the only ones where the player gets to face him in a boss fight are the Game Boy and Sega Genesis versions of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie game, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition, Power Rangers: Super Legends, the Power Rangers Super Megaforce 3DS game, and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Mega Battle.
• Unholy Matrimony: With Rita; it was part of a ploy to make him seem less evil by the producers. In-Universe, she triggered it by feeding him some Love Potion, but Goldar eventually gave Zedd an antidote — only for Zedd to reveal that he had fallen in genuine love with Rita after spending so much time with her! In fact, Zedd can be surprisingly saccharine in expressing his feelings for Rita, and she ultimately comes to love him back.
• Unwitting Pawn: To Bajillia Naire throughout all of Cosmic Fury. She pretends to be his loyal servant, providing him with an army to take over the Universe and giving him the resources to powers himself up with the captured Morphin Masters' energy. All this is in service of reducing him to a power source for her own evil plan to wipe out all good in the Universe (while killing Zedd in the process like Andros did to Zordon at the end of In Space).
• Villain Cred:
  • Zedd seems to be the worst of the worst when he first arrives, a villain that gave even Big Good Zordon himself pause, destroying the Dino Zords and depowering the Green Ranger shortly after his arrival, and later even destroying fellow Big Bad King Mondo. Any cred he had seems to be thoroughly lost by the time of Power Rangers in Space, however.
  • Reinstated in Dino Fury, as he's treated with much of the same threat and menace he had in his introductory appearance.
• Villain Has a Point: In Power Rangers Beast Morphers, Scrozzle suggests resurrecting Lord Zedd, as he's more than evil and strong enough to get rid of the Grid Battleforce Rangers. But Robo-Roxy points out that Zedd, being Zedd, would never agree to work for Evox and would double cross him the first chance he gets, even referencing the 'peace offering' he used to kill the Royal House of Gadgetry in Power Rangers Zeo. Scrozzle realizes she's right and drops the idea. Power Rangers Dino Fury would see Robo-Roxy proven right as Reaghoul did bring back Zedd and had the foresight to use a compliance collar on Zedd — only for Zedd to go after Reaghoul the second he's freed.
• Villainous Breakdown: Zedd seems to be almost near tears by the end of "Changing of the Zords Part III."
  "They broke my staff... They stole my Zords... This job used to be fun."
• Villainous Friendship: He eventually grows quite chummy with Goldar, even kissing him on the forehead at one point.
  • He and Hydro Hog seem to have a fairly friendly dynamic with each other when Zedd summons the latter in "A Hogday Afternoon Part I."
• Villain Respect: Has this for Tommy, so much so that in "White Light " he planned to tun him evil and make him his heir. Fortunately Zordon's plan derailed Zedd's.
• We Will Meet Again: Aside from the usual "I'll get you next time, Rangers!" whenever his monsters would be destroyed, Zedd's two most notable uses of this were against the Machine Empire in "A Zeo Beginning Part II" and the Dino Fury Rangers in "Old Foes."
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The original Zedd who got purified is never seen again after In Space, not even when the revived version of his pre-wave self threatens the universe in Dino and Cosmic Fury
• World's Strongest Man: After absorbing the powers of the Morphin Masters, Lord Zedd becomes the most powerful being in the universe, and one of the most powerful of all time, rivaled only by Dark Specter.
• Worf Had the Flu: Not that Zedd had a poor showing against the Rangers in "Old Foes" by any means, but it's strongly implied that things would've gone even worse for them if Zedd had had his Z-Staff with him.
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: In "Old Foes," Zedd says this when the people he's trying to fight (or murder) keep teleporting away before he can lay a finger on them.

Goldar

Goldar

"You are only human. And no mere human is a match for Goldar!"

^{Goldar Maximus (Power Rangers Beast Morphers)}

^{Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie}

Played By: Takashi Sakamoto and Kazutoshi Yokoyama (Zyuranger footage), Danny Wayne Stallcup (American footage; Season 1-2), David Wald^note not the voice artist (American footage; Season 3), Kerry Casey (MMPR: The Movie) Voiced by: Kerrigan Mahan (Zordon era), Adrian Smith (Power Rangers Beast Morphers), Alejandro Mayen (Latin American Spanish, original version), Ricardo Tejedo (Latin American Spanish, remastered version), Nolan North (Power Rangers: Super Legends)

Appearances: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | Power Rangers Zeo | Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space | Power Rangers Beast Morphers

A griffin-like monster in gold armor, Goldar served as Rita's, and later Lord Zedd's, main general in their war against the Power Rangers.

While thought to be dead after being hit by the Z-Wave, Goldar was reincarnated into Goldar Maximus after the robot Scozzle used the Reanimizer with diamonds on his sword.

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• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Goldar is more active in speaking here than his Sentai counterpart, especially from Season 2 onwards.
  • He's more comedic in the 1995 movie and doesn't even try to help an imprisoned Zedd, to who he expressed his undying loyalty in the show.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Goldar is not as loyal as his Sentai counterpart, Grifforzer, best shown when Lord Zedd appears. When he begins to arrive, he begins to disrespect Rita any time she speaks and even throws her under the bus to Zedd when he informs him of her failure. When Zedd shrinks Rita to be sealed into a new dumpster, Goldar is perfectly happy to place her in it.
  Rita: I have a headache.
  Goldar: Deal with it!
• Adaptational Species Change: Interesting variation; in Zyuranger he was based on a manticore with intended lion elements. In Power Rangers, in the "Green with Evil" saga, he compares himself to a lion when tormenting Jason, not to mention his partnership in most early promotional material with King Sphinx. However, all future instances would have him compared to an ape i.e. flying monkey. The somewhat drastic alteration to the costume's head didn't help to clear things up.
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • While it's averted in the first season, this is justified in the following two seasons, since the Gorma Tribe and the Youkai Army Corps are the main villains of Dairanger and Kakuranger respectively. Played straight later in Zeo, where he and Rito end up being Bulk and Skull's "butlers" as a result of memory loss.
  • Played even straighter in the '95 movie where he is portrayed as being more humorous, swordless, and even has a supposed crush on the Pink Ranger. Tony Oliver, one of the original producers for the series and the voice of Saba, was not impressed with "how stupid" they made him.
• All There in the Manual: His Bandai figure's trading card gives his height as six feet tall and his weight as 250 lbs. His homeworld is Titan, a moon of Saturn.
• Bling of War: As his name suggests, he appears as an ape-like being with golden armor.
• Came Back Strong: When resurrected in Power Rangers Beast Morphers as Goldar Maximus, he's intentionally powered up in the process. This results in him becoming powerful enough to easily overpower and kill Sledge, a previous Big Bad.
• Composite Character: In Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters, Neo-Grifforzer was a clone of Grifforzer, Goldar's Super Sentai counterpart. In Power Rangers Beast Morphers, Neo-Grifforzer was adapted as a resurrected Goldar.
• Death by Adaptation: In Zyuranger, he is merely sealed again, and given sort of a happy ending. In the Fighting Edition video game, he dies. In Power Rangers Beast Morphers, it's established that he was killed by the Z-wave. Just about any video game appearance, he makes has him get blown up like any other monster.
• Defiant to the End: In Beast Morphers; upon being cornered by three Ranger teams, he snarls "I'll never surrender to Rangers!"
• Dirty Coward:
  • Had the Megazord on the ropes in their first battle, until the Power Sword was summoned at which point he turned tail.
  • In the movie, he decides enough is enough when Ivan enters the fray and flies back to the moon.
• The Dog Bites Back: Throughout Season 1, Goldar is Rita's most loyal sycophant despite her constant verbal and physical abuse of him. Lord Zedd's taking over in Season 2 changes that. Now, given Zedd's The Man Behind the Man status, Goldar expressing loyalty to him made sense. However, Goldar also proceeds to mock Rita to her face, claims that he had always criticized her for her failures (though he may have meant "I've told myself that.") and took great pleasure in her exile. When she comes back and marries Zedd, he's still noticeably terse towards her.
• Dope Slap: Goldar wasn't above smacking Squatt or Finster on the head, or whacking Rito with his sword when they'd failed or done something stupid.
• The Dragon: Rita's most powerful minion and the one who goes out fighting.
• Dragon Ascendant: In the movie's stinger, he proclaims himself King of the Universe with Mordant as his dragon. Too bad for them that Zedd and Rita had been freed from the snowglobe and none-too-happy with their sellout. Funny thing is, before Zedd was conceptualized, Goldar was supposed to overthrow Rita as the Big Bad of Season 2.
• Dual Boss: He was this to the Rangers countless times, fighting alongside Scorpina, Rito Revolto, and numerous monsters of the week.
• Dumb Muscle: He becomes this over time, see Took a Level in Dumbass for more.
• Fireballs: Goldar frequently shot fireballs from his sword and out of his eyes, especially in the first season.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That: After having become a joke in Season 2 and 3 to wherein one battle, the White Ranger even feels sorry for him, he delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Ninjor, who effortlessly took out Vampirus in his debut episode. Thus, he reminds us of the proud warrior he was in Season 1 and reverses a season and a half of Badass Decay with that one battle.
• Gold Makes Everything Shiny: His iconic namesake armor.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: During Season 3 and more so in Season 2. At least Season 3 gives him the benefit of some victories (such as beating down Ninjor, which helps lead to his capture). Season 2 sees him routinely defeated in battle, even once by an unmorphed, powerless Tommy. The unmorphed Tommy fight seems downright excusable when in "Opposites Attract," he got knocked flat on his butt by an unmorphed Billy, the least-experienced of the original team...BEFORE Billy got down to fighting the Putties.
• Informed Species: He's said to be an ape at a few points. However, his black fur and skin are really his only ape-like traits. He has a muzzle like a lion, a wolf-like tail (and either wolf ears or horns, going by his helmet), and wings. In the original show, his counterpart Grifforzer is said to be a combination of manticore and griffin, which makes a lot more sense.
• Meaningful Name: "Goldar" wears a suit of golden armor.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: He seems to be a combination of human, ape, and some kind of wolf-like creature (given that apes don't have tails or protruding muzzles.)
• Mook Lieutenant: He often leads Putties (and later, Tengas) into battle against the Rangers.
• Non-Action Guy: While very much averted in the TV series, he never really does much in terms of action in the film, flying away from the carnage after Ivan heads off to battle. Hell, he doesn't even carry a sword there whereas his series counterpart is seldom seen without it.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Goldar's eyes are solid red.
• Super-Toughness: In "Goldar's Vice-Versa," when he and Scorpina are fighting the Thunder Zords, they are blasted by the Thunder Ultrazord and merely get knocked back. Not only are the Thunder Zords notably stronger than the Dino Zords, but Zordon had specifically boosted the Ultrazord's power output for this particular fight. It was the first time in the franchise, and the only time in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, that an Ultrazord failed to kill its target.
• Ship Tease: With Scorpina, before her disappearance.
• Sword Beam: Goldar could fire a variety of laser beams and lightning bolts from his sword. When resurrected as Goldar Maximus, his sword's beams were powerful enough to kill Sledge in a single blast.
• The Rival: To Jason, and later Tommy.
• Took a Level in Badass: It only lasts a single episode, but in "Goldar's Vice-Versa," he and Scorpina are so tough the Rangers require the Thunder Ultrazord to drive them off (and even then the Ultrazord wasn't able to kill them). Compare that to Season 1, in which the original Megazord alone was able to defeat them.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: From Season 2 onward, which is jarring if you're more familiar with his Season 1 persona. Seriously, late in Season 1, he took the forefront of conceiving several plans himself (even if most of them weren't as thought-out as Rita's) and throughout most of the season delivers exposition on various things. Come Season 2, it's like he couldn't think over anything complex without Zedd having to spell it out for him, especially in the episodes leading up to Rita's return. By Zeo his brain cells have degenerated to the point that he's only an iota smarter than Rito.
• Vocal Evolution: He started off with a gruff voice before taking on the No Indoor Voice growl we hear in the later seasons.
• Villain Decay: He gets hit hard. In early episodes, he's a nightmarish opponent. But once he loses the element of surprise and they get accustomed to him, he slowly loses his edge. Unmorphed Jason hands him his first true defeat, and then unmorphed Tommy handed him another. Around the time of Rita and Zedd's wedding, he's become little more than a joke and a parody of himself. Finally reversed completely in Power Rangers Beast Morphers, when he's resurrected and powered up to the point of being able to easily kill Sledge.
• Villainous Crush: Implied to have one on Kimberly in the movie, much to Ivan's disgust.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: He was a threat to the rookie power rangers, but among the rangers they became stronger, Goldar was only a threat when he accompanied the monster of the week on duty, for the second season only one ranger (usually the red or the sixth) was able to defeat him on his own with relative ease.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He wasn't shown being purified or turned to dust by Zordon's wave in the Grand Finale for In Space, leaving his fate up in the air for years in real life. It wasn't until late into Power Rangers Beast Morphers that revealed that he's dead, presumably from the Z-Wave that wiped out most of the evil alliance in '98. That is until he's resurrected by Evox.
• Winged Humanoid: Although he lost his wings for an unexplained reason, his true form is a winged ape. Zedd gives them back when he arrives. He never actually used them to fly in the regular series (but did so once in the movie). He loses them again in the first half of Zeo but regains them after Zedd makes him swear to never partake in anything good again.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once he has been resurrected as Goldar Maximus by Evox, the first command he is given is to destroy Sledge, which Goldar does with one blast from his sword.

Introduced in Turbo

Elgar

Elgar

Portrayed by: Danny Wayne Stallcup

Voiced by: Derek Stephen Prince, Hernán López (Latin American Spanish)

Appearances: Power Rangers Turbo | Power Rangers in Space

Divatox's dim-witted nephew. Despite being dumber than a sack of potatoes, he acts as Divatox's lieutenant. After the fall of the Power Chamber, Elgar was reassigned to the Dark Fortress under Astronema's orders.

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• Ace Pilot: For all his flaws, he is a surprisingly good Zord pilot, easily trouncing the Rangers and the Blue Senturion. He would've finished off the Rangers, had it not been for a malfunction that resulted in the arm falling off, forcing him to retreat.
  • The one time he piloted a Velocifighter during In Space he was also fairly competent at the controls, though he still didn't succeed in destroying the target as intended.
• Adaptational Comic Relief: While Zelmoda is still dim-witted, he's a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass with a more sinister face.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Both Elgar and Zelmoda aren't portrayed as intelligent even within their own gang, but Power Rangers Turbo emphasized Elgar's idiocy much more often than Carranger did for Zelmoda, who is in fact more menacing in both appearance and actions.
• Adaptational Villainy: He never reforms like Zelmoda did in Carranger.
• Bald of Evil: Has no hair, except for one time when he used one of the Wicked Wisher's wishing coins to get some. It didn't last.
• Beware the Silly Ones: One of the goofiest and dumbest henchmen in Power Ranger's history, but is also a capable fighter if the Rangers underestimate him and lead the charge to destroy the Power Chamber and smashed Zordon/Dimitria's plasma tube.
• Butt-Monkey: Either when working for Divatox (Hilary Shepard Turner's version) in Turbo or Astronema in Space.
• Cool Sword: Uses one that appears to be made out of playing cards. "Time for the cards to cut you!"
• The Ditz:
  • In the first episode, he gets sent to place a bomb in a power plant, which he does easily enough. Then he gets lost trying to find the way out, and when next seen is wandering around the place, now trying to look for a gas station.
  • In another episode, he removes the torpedoes from their launch system so that he can clean them up.
  • Or when Divatox is sent tumbling to the ground by an earthquake, Elgar is convinced she's looking for something.
  • In one episode of Space, he foolishly frees Ashley (who was magically disguised as Astronema) and later attacks the real Astronema believing her to be Ashley in disguise.
• Death by Adaptation: He dies in the following season, but his Sentai counterpart survived at the end of Carranger and even reformed going to school to get a proper education and becoming a cook.
• Dumb Muscle: Emphasis on the dumb part.
• Flanderization: In the movie, while he was still stupid, he could still accomplish basic tasks and not meander about when he fought the Rangers. His voice was also deeper and less dopey sounding.
• Humongous Mecha: Elgar is, surprisingly, a good pilot of these. Elgar was beating both the Rangers and the Blue Senturion in a Zord fight with the Terrorzord, until one of the arms fell off, causing Elgar to retreat to the Space Base. And when Elgar returned, with the Terrorzord fixed, he once again only lost when the monster of the week accidentally transformed the Terrorzord into a camel, with Elgar sitting on it.
• Lighter and Softer / Bowdlerise: The suit was redesigned slightly when it was brought over from Japan; Zelmoda's◊ wild eyes and Joker-esque grin where softened significantly, giving Elgar a mostly dumb◊ look instead. It gets weird in several scenes where they use Zelmoda's Stock Footage as Elgar suddenly changes appearance without warning. Of course, the American suit was made on a larger budget than the original.
• The Load: On his best days, Elgar's a nuisance and a distraction. On his worst, he does more to sabotage Divatox's schemes just by being there than the Rangers ever do. Divatox does eventually get wise to this, such as when trying out a new flying car Porto's made for her, and Elgar says he made the fuel. Divatox quickly backs out and suggests Elgar try it. The car doesn't go more than a few feet before it goes boom.
• No Indoor Voice: Most of the time, Elgar yells his lines.
• Reduced to Dust: His final fate curtesy of the Z-Wave.
• Smart Ball: Elgar is dumb, but he did have two notable flashes of brilliance in Turbo.
  • He prevented Divatox from accidentally telling the Blue Senturion who she really is, making it easier for her to get the robot to show her the Millenium Message.
  • In the fall of the Power Chamber, Elgar wisely smashed the Plasma Tube to prevent Zordon and Dimitria from coming back.
• Unexplained Recovery: In the movie, Divatox shoved him into Maligore's pit. Come the first episode, he shows up again none the worse for wear, aside from smelling burnt (and complaining of his nose changing color).

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