Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Characters

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Our Heroes

Tommy Oliver / Green Ranger -> White Ranger | (Actor: Jason David Frank)

Zack Taylor / Black Ranger I | (Actor: Walter Emanuel Jones)

Kimberly Ann Hart -> Pink Ranger I | (Actor: Amy Jo Johnson)

  • Amy Jo Johnson: The role that made her famous.
  • The Archer: Subverted - she uses the Power Bow, but doesn't have the character traits.
  • Bob Haircut
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Averted in a Crowning Moment of Funny. Goldar kidnaps Kim and gives her a mind control spell which will turn her into a copy of Rita for Zedd to marry. The spell doesn't actually work... but Kim does a pitch-perfect Rita impersonation (including "I'm having a headache!") to hold Goldar, Squatt and Baboo off long enough to be rescued by Billy and Trini.
  • The Chick: Not only that but she was the template for all Power Ranger chicks thereafter (minus the valspeak).
  • Fainting
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: First with Jason, then with Tommy.
  • Ill Girl: Without her power token, she becomes weaker.
  • Rule 34: Granted, many of the Rangers could qualify for various reasons (Trini for She's a Man In Japan, the male Rangers for being Estrogen Brigade Bait or Chick Magnets, all the brainwashing), but Kimberly had a whole newsgroup dedicated to her. And like Austin St. John, Amy Jo Johnson was rumored to have starred in porn.
  • Sesquipedalian Smith
  • Spoiled Sweet
  • Stepford Smiler: In Season 3, during her power leech.
  • Valley Girl: Early on. Barely used any valspeak by season 3, as the whole concept was a more than a bit dated by 1995, the height of the grunge era.

Billy Cranston / Blue Ranger | (Actor: David Yost)

  • 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.
  • Blade on a Stick: The Power Lance is essentially a two-sided trident.
  • Chick Magnet: A new one in every episode.
  • Double Weapon: His Power Lance.
    • 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.
  • Genius Bruiser: Starts off as a Straight A nerd but then becomes a power ranger.
  • 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. He would wear them two more times in Power Rangers Zeo.

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.

Trini Kwan / Yellow Ranger I | (Actress: Thuy Trang)

Jason Lee Scott / Red Ranger I | (Actor: Austin St. John)

Adam Park / Black Ranger II | (Actor: Johnny Yong Bosch)

Aisha Campbell / Yellow Ranger II | (Actress: Karan Ashley)

  • Cute Bruiser
  • Chekhov's Gunman
  • The Chick
  • Genki Girl
  • Platonic Life Partners: With Adam and Rocky.
  • Secret Keeper: With Rocky and Adam from "The Ninja Encounter" to "The Power Transfer".
  • She's a Man In Japan: She is Trini's successor, plus the fact the her mechas are used by male Yellow rangers in Japan.
    • Note by the time Aisha became the Yellow Ranger, they were no longer using Zyuranger footage and all the scenes with the Rangers were American footage, thus preventing this.
      • Actually, they still reused Stock Footage, most especially the Thunderzord summoning sequence, but it was indeed to a much lesser degree than Trini.
  • Three Amigos

Rocky DeSantos / Red Ranger II | (Actor: Steve Cardenas)

Katherine "Kat" Hillard / Pink Ranger II | (Actress: Catherine Sutherland)

Catherine: Chip?
Johnny and Steve: French Fry.

Their Friends

Zordon | (Voice actor: David Fielding -> Bob Manahan)

Alpha 5

"No, Rangers, I cannot accept that. Zordon would not accept that."

Ninjor | (Voice actor: Kim Strauss)

Ernie | (Actor: Richard Genelle)

Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier & Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch | (Actors: Paul Schrier and Jason Narvy)

  • Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other
  • Badass Normal: Bulk held the record for most reps at the Juice Bar with 1,000. He was only beaten by Jason after several attempts.
  • 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.
  • Determinator
  • Directed by Cast Member: Paul Schrier directed numerous episodes.
  • Fat and Skinny
  • Heterosexual Life Partners
  • Ho Yay (not as much as some of the Rangers had with each other, but it was there)
  • I Just Want to Be Badass
  • Iron Butt Monkey
  • 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 Crowning Moment of Awesome in Power Rangers in Space.
  • 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 afterwards when they brag about it, however.
  • 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. 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.
  • Secret-Chaser
  • Smarter Than You Look: In Season 2, they try to discover the Rangers' identities... and most of the times, they are really close, but the Rangers screw up their work.
    • 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.
  • Those Two Guys
  • 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.

Lt. Jerome Stone | (Actor: Gregg Bullock)

The Aquitan Rangers

Their Enemies

Rita Repulsa | (Actress: Machiko Soga -> Barbara Goodson)

Divatox: (at the Cimmarian planet meeting) Honestly, you need to get out of that dumpster more often.

  • Sealed Evil in a Can (Trope Namer)
  • Suffering For Your Art: Voice actor Barbara Goodson was getting jerked around by Saban during pre-production. She was given the part, and told to voice Rita like the Wicked Witch. She did, and was fired. They decided to try to make Rita sound angrier, and rather than let Goodson try, they forced her to reaudition. According to her, she did, and said, "You want angry? [Rita's screech comes out of nowhere] I'LL SHOW YOU ANGRY!" Not knowing she would have to do the part for seven years. She mentioned going through a lot of water and cough drops, and we thank her for suffering through.
  • Took a Level In Badass: Linkara argued that this actually happened to her and Zedd post-marriage.
  • Unholy Matrimony: With Zedd. Started out as a power ploy, but grew into something more...


Goldar | (Voice actor: Kerrigan Mahan)

  • Bling of War
  • The Dog Bites Back: Throughout Season 1, Goldar was Rita's most loyal sycophant despite her constant verbal and physical abuse of him. Lord Zedd's taking over in Season 2 changed that. Now, given Zedd's Man Behind the Man status, Goldar expressing loyalty to him made sense. However, Goldar also proceeded to mock Rita to her face, claimed that he had always criticized her for her failures and took great pleasure in her dumpster exile. When she came back and married Zedd, he was still noticeably terse towards her.
  • The Dragon
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: During Season Three.
    • Arguably more so in Season 2. At least Season 3 gave him the benefit of some victories (such as beating down Ninjor, which helped lead to his capture). Season 2 saw him routinely defeated in battle, even once by an unmorphed, powerless Tommy.
  • Those Two Bad Guys: With Rito.

Squatt & Baboo | (Voice actors: Michael Sorich and Colin Phillips)

  • Demoted to Extra: In the third season, when Rito and Goldar took their place as the bumbing duo.
    • Note that they essentially served as Rito and Goldar's de-facto minions, which was arguably an improvement. In the second season, all they seemed to do was cower in fear of Lord Zedd or get yelled at by him.
  • Evil Counterpart: To Bulk and Skull, to the limited extent that one pair is evil and the other is good. Lampshaded by Rita the first time she saw Bulk and Skull:

"Great. A human Squat and Baboo."

Finster | (Voice actor: Robert Axelrod)

Scorpina | (Actress: Ami Kawai)

Lord Zedd | (Voice actor: Robert Axelrod)

  • Badass: Kicked Tommy's ass with no effort.
  • Bad Boss --> Benevolent Boss
  • Big Bad: Of the second season, much of the third season and Power Rangers Zeo.
  • Body Horror: He has no skin, his brain is exposed and who knows what's behind that face plate. It's been implied that the Zeo Crystal's forcefield did this to him when he tried to claim it.
  • But Not Too Evil
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Some of his schemes involved trying to pit the Rangers against each other or trying to break their spirit by endangering others. His efforts only had the exact opposite effect, which always stunned him.

"I don't understand it. The more I divide them, the more they come together."

  • Evilly Affable
  • Executive Meddling: Not of their own choice but parents found Zedd to be too scary at the start (who could blame them, in the introduction in addition to his appearance. The guy had a snake wrapped around his arm.) Thus had to tone him down later to make him more of a laughable villain. It's wasn't too much to dampen his character as he was still a force to be reckon with however.
  • Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: YMMV on that.
  • Jaded Washout: From "The Wedding" onwards, although he actually scored more victories like this.
  • Large Ham
  • The Man Behind The Woman: At the start of Season 2, it was revealed that Rita answered to Lord Zedd and was charged with conquering Earth for him. Her failure led to him taking a more direct role.
  • 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.
  • The Other Darrin: Was voiced by Robert Axelrod in the series, and by Steve Blum in the 2007 Playstation 2 video game Power Rangers: Super Legends.
  • Space Jew: Rewatch his wedding in "Married".
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Zedd accomplished a lot of things when he married Rita, like capture Ninjor, nearly kill Kimberly, allow Rita's brother Rito Revolto to destroy the Thunderzords, blowing up the Machine Empire in the Power Rangers Zeo finale "Good as Gold", just to name a few.
  • Took a Level In Badass: Linkara argued that this actually happened to him and Rita post-marriage.
  • Unholy Matrimony: With Rita.

Rito Revolto | (Voice actor: Bob Papenbrook)

Master Vile | (Voice actor: Tom Wyner)

  • Big Bad: At the end of the third season.
  • Demoted to Extra: He only appeared in seven episodes (with two cameos in later seasons). His Kakuranger counterpart had a more sizable role.
  • Eviler Than Thou: During his tenure, he often tried to demonstrate he was this to Zedd.
  • Genre Savvy
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: At the end of "Alien Rangers of Aquitar", after the Aquitan Rangers defeat his latest monster, Vile decides to head back to his own galaxy, much to Zedd's delight.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Apparently the case in his own galaxy, as states before running off that he's going back home, where the bad guys can WIN.

Ivan Ooze | (Actor: Paul Freeman)

Lokar

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