While the Power Rangers franchise is full of iconic villains, one if its best antagonists does not hail from the show’s parent series Super Sentai.
Despite how the Power Rangers franchise draws much of its material from the Japanese series Super Sentai, the series’ best villain is not from its parent show. Power Rangers features a lot of enemies, some of which hail from its monster-of-the-week format, while others have more staying power. Oftentimes, Power Rangers pulls its weekly villains from the Super Sentai series, but then develops its ultimate antagonist for each season independently.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT At its most basic level, each Power Rangers season tells the story of a group of people, often teenagers, chosen to battle the forces of evil by transforming into master combatants with signature weapons and robots. Each Ranger team faces its own weekly and season-arc villains, although the most popular antagonists also often return in each season along with the Rangers.
Lord Zedd Was Power Rangers’ First Original Villain While Lord Zedd has become one of the hallmark antagonists of the Power Rangers franchise, he has also earned his laurels as the series’ first original villain. Prior to his introduction in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers season 2, the main antagonist was Rita Repulsa, whose character is based on and dubbed from the evil sorceress Bandora in the Super Sentai season Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.
Lord Zedd Was Power Rangers' Best Villain As the first new villain for the Power Rangers, Lord Zedd has been a hallmark antagonist of the series for years. This is largely because his introduction allowed the series’ producers to take the show in a different direction, even while following the main plot of its Japanese counterpart. To distinguish Power Rangers from Super Sentai, Lord Zedd changed the tone of the show by upping the ante for what a Power Rangers villain could be.
Even more so, the Power Rangers Lord Zedd distinguishes himself as a more serious villain by being willing to use more brutality and targeted attacks against the Rangers. His monsters were stronger and more resilient against the heroes, forcing the Rangers to search for other ways to even the playing field.
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