My periodic look at the legacy of the Power Rangers
Franchise continues as we also kick off a month of Halloween themed Top 5s for
T5W. Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, the 30th
Season of Power Rangers, dropped on Netflix last weekend. While I’ll have a First Impression of it
coming later for a special occasion, I wanted to take a look at some of the
meanest and nastiest big bads the various teams of Rangers have had to take on
over the years. Some may be clumsy, some
might actually be good at their jobs.
Most can be the stuff of nightmares and since this is October, those are
the ones I want to spotlight most. These
are my picks for the Top 5 Scariest Power Ranger Villains. Specifically, these are the big bads, the
lead villains or most prominent of their respective seasons as Monsters of the
Week are too many to sift through. Also
while they may have been highly efficient at kicking Ranger ass, some baddies
like Tommy and Astronema either had redemption arcs or became full on good guys
eventually, so they wont be on the list (come to think of it, that rules out
Ransik from Time Force too, damn I really liked him.)
#5-Scorpious (Power Rangers Lost Galaxy) He may seem confined to a single room but god this is one
ugly…well you know the Predator quote.
Scorpious is easily one of the more disgusting and nightmare inducing
villains of the franchise due to him being a very neatly designed practical
effect.
Yeah this limits his movement
but Lost Galaxy works around this with solid writing and always making Scorpious
an imposing figure whenever he’s on screen.
After all, this black eyed insect was once capable of controlling armies
which he’d use to enslave planets and capture valuable resources and artifacts.
He even tried to force his daughter,
Trakeena, into a forced evolution to look just like her Daddy dearest, father
of the year and ugly to boot.
#4-Mesogog (Power Rangers Dino Thunder)
One look at this guy and you’ll be having nightmares for
days.
I mean just look at his head.
Mesogog is a Humaniod Dinosaur who’s eyes
just scream evil, which helps make one take him a bit more seriously since he
does want to send Earth and Mankind back to the Stone Age.
Scarier still, Mesogog has a bit of a Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation going on as he shares existence in the same body
as the man who brought him to life, Dr. Anton Mercer.
Eventually, the two would separate, with
Mesogog now free to unleash his fury upon the Earth and the Dino Thunder team
without being held back by his Human influence.
It also gave him an even more horrific look and made him crazier too.
#3-Master Org (Power Rangers Wild Force)
Not every Big Bad the Rangers face is an Alien or Ancient
Creature.
Sometimes the deadliest of
enemies can be very much human.
Master
Org was once a scientist, Viktor Adler, who was in love with the Mother of Wild
Force Red Ranger Cole.
However, she
ended up with Coles Dad and put Adler in the Friendzone, Adler didn’t take that
well and was instrumental in the tragic death of Cole’s parents.
This darkened his heart to the point of no
return.
Adler only descends further into
madness as Master Org, wiping the floor with the Rangers multiple times and
bringing plenty of unresolved anger out against the child of the woman he
loved.
It’s a tragic fall from grace
that proves even humans aren’t immune to the darkness and can become the
scariest of Monsters.
#2-Venjix (Power Rangers RPM)
The scariest thing about Venjix isn’t that it’s mostly
faceless for the bulk of RPM.
No, it’s
earns the #2 spot on this list for being the one big bad to actually accomplish
what no other had up until that point: conquer the Earth and push Mankind to
the edge of extinction.
Yeah Venjix is
basically the Power Rangers answer to Skynet from Terminator, an AI that went
rogue and turned the planet into a Mad Max style wasteland.
With almost total control and an army of
killer robots at its disposal, Venjix is an absolute evil entity that seems to
be undefeatable.
And even when he seems
to be defeated, Venjix manages to find a way into another reality in Beast
Morphers to continue its reign of unstoppable terror.
#1-Lord Zedd (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
Hail to the King Baby.
It’s been almost 30 years since he first crushed Rita Repula’s castle on
the Moon but Lord Zedd still remains the most iconic and terrifying villain in
the entire Power Rangers franchise.
From
his H.R. Geiger inspired character design to his fear instilling voice to that
Z staff, Zedd is imposing and dominates every moment he’s on screen.
Plenty of times in his early days saw Zedd
come pretty close to ending the Rangers once and for all and he even managed to
go mano a mano with Tommy in his White Ranger form.
Clearly Zedd is such a popular terror that
he’s even returned as the big bad for the most recent seasons of Power Rangers
(Dino Fury and Cosmic Fury).
Of course,
if you’re gonna celebrate the history of the franchise, might as well bring big
the scariest villain who still reigns supreme.
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