@Kenjamin LoL! Any of guys ever play the SNES game? I was playing it on my emulator a couple days ago, and....lol,....~~shrugs shoulders~~..Ehhhh,...now maybe Billy knew some fighting technique that nobody else did, and yanno, in all fairness, I'm no martial arts master, but....(can't not laugh while typing),...if you did play the SNES game,....do you remember Billy's.....style???, of attack? It was something like this, stand facing the camera (or player) with feet spread apart just a bit. Oh crap!! An enemy approaches! (hold the top of your head with one hand, and punch with other). Sweet, got 'em! :-D .......the hell?! Hahaha!
Her (along with Lord Zedd) opposed almost all of the Rangers of the Zordon Era, and she would eventually power up a team of Rangers. A legend is an understatement
Probably the best repurposing in any season of Power Rangers was the Mystic Mother, where the writers took advantage of the Magiranger counterpart being played by Machiko Soga, who had portrayed Bandora, Rita's Sentai counterpart, in what would unfortunately become her final performance. Honestly it was a perfect tribute to her for Power Rangers to repurpose what was meant as a separate character into a fully redeemed Rita, even having her complain that the Mystic Force villains were giving her a headache in case there was any doubt who it was meant to be. And yes, Thrax should've been more than just a oneoff villain for an anniversary episode.
In any Tokusatsu hero shows produced by Toei, Magiel is Machiko Soga's good guy first and last during her lifetime, Toei really like her villain archetype roles since the late 70s.
@@jonecuntapay9561 she also played one of the main antagonists, Queen Hedrian in Denshi Sentai Denjiman (1980-1981). She also had a more heroic sidekick role as the voice of a baseball-shaped robot named Ballboy in 1984's Seiun Kamen Machineman.
I remember watching mystic force and when mystic mother showed up I did a spit take. I was so happy that not only was Rita brought back, but she was a supreme force of good.
Damn... Just looked at the list of Power Rangers actors that have passed away since the recent news of Jason David Frank and so many characters I remember have passed away years ago inluding Rita Repulsa. Sad to think about as Rita always stuck in my mind and here I was thinking she would still be alive and well 😔
Same.. Watching this video with that revilation was bittersweet. But I'm glad to see her character at least got a truly complete story, and a satisfying conclusion (it's poetic that both she and Tommy ended up following in Zordon's footsteps in the end).
This was a well done video. Rita is by far one of the most iconic villain from Power Rangers. I really enjoyed how you included the information on Rita that is given to us fans from The Boom! Studios comic series. I think that information is just so wonderful and helps us to understand Rita better.
Too bad we never got to see a live action version of Rita’s mom. Oh well, at least we got her in the comics. I think the flashbacks with Rita’s mom in said comics took place before Power Rangers mystic force.
What I love about the comics they can get more complex. The stories were always hinder because they had to fit into the reuse footage and with comics they can go all out
She was always my favorite of the Power Rangers villains. I don't know how well this would go but I would love a series focused more on her showing her backstory. Kinda like an adaption of the comics.
Netflix brought me here. Also I am not surprised that the story went over my head when I was 5 years old, had to rewind many times just to soak this in as an adult.
Sadly the woman who played Rita Repulsa passed away in the early 2000s after she played the Good Mother. I think she was in her 50s or 60s I think. 😥 😞😳😔.
@@DancingRasputin Actually in original Magiranger in japan the good mother was played by same actress who played Rita's original in Zyuranger which is why Power Rangers made the cameo a bit more canon
She is one of the main reasons of the success of the early years of the Power Rangers, a very hilarious villainess. It was quite interesting to see how she made Lord Zedd fall in love for her throught magic just to see how he genuinely fell in love with her.
Fun fact: Rita and her gang were originally supposed to be defeated and sealed back in her dumpster by the Power Rangers in the episode "Doomsday", much like how her Super Sentai counterpart Bandora was, however with the huge popularity of MMPR Saban decided to keep her around and have more episodes for season 1 filmed. Honestly going back and watching that episode, it really does feel like a season finale and I'm a bit disappointed that it didn't end the way it was supposed to, especially since they ended up writing Rita out for a while at the beginning of season 2 anyways.
If this is a joke or reference to the series, thats fine. But in reality the moon rotates like the Earth over time. It rotates at about the same pace as the Earth spins so it doesn't look like it moves at all to us.
Thank you for this video. I never read that comic, and never would have thought that Rita's mom had the dragon shield, but it makes sense to me that Rita would still hold on to part of her past as she made the Dragonzord Power Coin, or straight up inherited the Dragonzord shield and power, then fused it with psyhco-green's evil energy to make it even more powerful. And yes, I love the fact that Rita still uses a dragon motif in Mystic Force as the Mystic Mother when she gives the rangers a dragon option for their megazord.
but some points are forget - ritas mom wears the dragon shield but it didnt tell how the dragon coin getting the shield - well i know it but it was cool to mentioned it maybe
Always and forever be one of the best PR Villians of all time. Never could enough of her opening line in the theme song opening as well when she threw her magic wand to make the monsters grow. 😎👍🏻⚡⚡
Greatest over the top, campy, cheesy, shrieking, actress to grace film. Barbara Goodson's interpretation was an absolutely perfect fit for the show! Pretty interesting back story of the character
In the orginal super sentai series Witch Bandora aka Rita Repulsa the main reason she hates the rangers is she blames them for the death of her son. I highly recommend watching the original Japanese series ZyuuuRanger which the first season of mmpr is based on. It has a slightly different feel and gets a little bit darker story wise. All in all can't go wrong with either version.
While japanese give their characters a back story and character development, gringos treat the shows for kids in an extremely basic way, MMPR were like an 80s saturday morning cartoon, with Rita being a basic "runing away at the end of the episode" villain.
So this is what happened to one of my fav. kid villains I used to enjoy watching while the power rangers were on screen. Thank you for sharing your video and informing me of what really happened to her right before it became a canceled show years ago. :)
I was so Excited to See Rita Again in Mystic Force, Wish Zed Would have shown up too, But damn did it ever make me happy to see she became the Guardian of Magic and Earth.
My head canon: Rita (now known as Mystic Mother) knows about the existence of Robo-Rita (from Once and Always), the resurrection of Lord Zedd (from his evil essence) via Reaghoul from Dino Fury, and Zedd teaming up with Squid Ink, Inc. in Cosmic Fury. And she also knows about the Morphin’ Masters (my guess is that Zayto later gets to meet him so that both him and Mystic Mother can keep an eye on Zedd, who is now imprisoned in the planet Nibyro).
Fun fact. In Zyuranger she was actually imprisoned for 170 million years. Not 10,000 like MMPR. Also right after she is let free in Zyuranger she kills the astronauts unlike MMPR when she doesn't. She's a lot more villainous in Zyuranger!
In Ryusolger special there is actually a character named Rita who is most likely a cameo to both Bandora (original japanese name for Rita Repulsa) and Rita Repulsa.
What happened to Rita Repulsa? They ran out of Japanese Zyuranger Footage. They had to throw her English shadow double into a dumpster until they found a replacement that was as close to the Japanese face of Bandora that they could get. Then once they got their new actress so they could show her face again, Finster decided to give Rita an on screen facial makeover to get around the fresh look she would have in order to woe Lord Zed. Both Rita and Lord Zed became the main antagonists to the Power Rangers during season 3 while swapping over Kakuranger Footage and their own Power Rangers footage filmed at a nice viewing parkland. Then when Ohranger introduced the Machine Empire antagonists, Rita and Zed decided to become Grey Nomads for a while until they found a Bomb to deliver as the perfect congratulation present to their "friends". Then they almost got back until Carranger had a super sexy antagonist that was too sexy for the family friendly show that required a new American Actress to become a female pirate captain that somehow came from space. And then there was the Power Rangers in Space season that used footage from Megaranger and of course because there was no Bandora in Megaranger, there was no Rita or Zed in Space except in those Alliance of Evil scenes with all the past Antagonist Empires.
Rita called Jason, Zack, Billy, Trini, Kimberly, Tommy, Adam, Rocky, Aisha, and Kat all by their names instead of their Ranger color designations at times
Rita became the good witch in Mystic Force, I believe I don't know what happened to Lord Zedd after the cleansing wave. It would have been nice, if he was an archaeologist to have discovered a lost Power Ranger powers with Tommy and through then does the new team discover their powers, weapons and Zords, as each Ranger must prove their worth to gain their unique weapon and their Zord. A kind of one shot using a modified Dairangers team suit (to look different to The MMPR White Ranger) I don't know how Thrax survived the cleansing wave.
@@antonioro1229 If they were born of bad they'd be dusted. Anyone who has goodness and were in the side of evil was made good. So Lord Zedd was turned back into his human-like form before touching the Zeo Crystals. Rita was born partly of good, so her bad side was destroyed. Rito must have been pure evil, born of Master Vile and an unknown woman who must be pure evil as well. Rita, as sometimes agreed (not officially canon) to have been pregnant when the wave hit, so how did *Thrax survive to be evil?
@@theautisticcreative2619 you missed my point. While your logic is sound. It falls apart the moment you remember that there were villains in lost Galaxy, a tribe of super demons in light speed rescue, master orc in wild force, Lothor in ninja storm, master of darkness in mystic force, and so forth. I'm just saying. A number of series really shouldn't have taken place if what zordon said was actually true Also random nonsensical autocorrect Would've been wiped out as well
@@antonioro1229 My apologies for missing your point. The demons in Lightspeed were trapped with magic, so it must have cancelled the wave out as the seal on the tomb must have blocked the evil energies. Master Orc was actually human who ate an evil seed, well the modern day one anyway, the orgs might have survived due to being turned to stone, which hid their evil energies, it's also possible that with orgs that are in a human disguise are able to hide their evil energies, as their horns must be the source of their evil energies. Lothor was human and a trained ninja, his evil grew and was sent away, the monsters he found must have survived as, I assume, some kind of eggs in some special ancient place or waited in a with so much evil energy the Zordon wave was too weak to over come the evil coming from that planet. If Eltar is the Ranger homeworld and a place of good then there has to be a place of evil that breeds monsters. So logically some monsters survived by being too young to leave the planet at that time or are there in reserve waiting to be recruited by a boss matching their frequency that matches a Ranger's frequency, some returned to recharge their evil batteries and that's why some older monsters survived as well, while others survived by going into some some kind of suspended animation or being sealed away, so that hid their evil energies on other planets before the wave came. Evil will always find a way to exist. which could be the answer you're looking for.
there's a theory that much of zordon's energy had been drained by dark specter already. so maybe with dark specter's death it was starting to return to him slowly. but he may have only had enough energy to wipe out the invading armies of rita repulsa, lord zedd, the machine empire, divatox, havoc, and astronema while turning a few good. even starting in galaxy we see reused monsters and footsoldiers like piranhatrons in onyx. if zordon's wave was supposed to take out all evil there wouldn't be a show after in space. no trakeena, demons, etc. also zedd did become an archeologist in the video game power rangers super legends but i don't think that counts as canon to the show though.
You should do a vid on making your own roster of characters that would be in a PR game (Shattered Grid). The roster would be like 25-30 slots big but you can only choose up to 3 characters per season, ex: PRMM Jason - red, Tommy - Green, Rita. Drakkon and Ranger Slayer wouldn't count as any particular team or verse.
Oh wow I never knew Rita came back as good let alone played such a seemingly important roll in helping the Rangers succeed, that's really cool. Wish i had been watching while that was going on but honestly i'm not exactly sure what season i stopped watching, i remember them being"in love" but i don't remember them being changed back to human, but i Do sorta remember Rita's dad being around. The last thing i kinda remember was some sorta aquatic alien ranger squad was around? I saw the first two movies but don't recall which one had Ivan Ooze🤷♂️ i'm all kinds of lost😅 but i still enjoy hearing about the Power Rangers. Hopefully i can piece together the timeline i remember and possibly do some catching up afterwards. i Just found out about\saw that dark Power Rangers short 15min live action video.... That Was Friggin Awesome 👍
Yes! It's poetic that Zordon's greatest rival ended up following in his footsteps. And Zordon's greatest _pupil_ (Tommy), also did the same for the Dino Thunder Power Rangers.
I now wonder where her brother Rito comes from, I don’t see him fleeing with Rita and Fienna. And if Fienna passed away, Rito can’t be her full brother. Or am I missing something?
My head cannon is that vile being her father was a lie that was told to her after a memory wipe spell. The truth is that she was the original green ranger hence her having the dragon coin. It also explains why she was "cleansed" instead of killed by the light wave and her strong connection to the morphing grid.
I was a HUGE Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fan as a kid, had a lot of their toys and rewatched the episodes countless of times, but unfortunately not sure why but I stopped after Zeo. I wish I stayed a fan but as time passed I grew the mentality of "oh, another power rangers? Geez theyre really milking it"... 25 years later and here I am watching clips and wondering what happened to my Power Rangers, the MMPR's I fell in love with as a kid. I kind of want to sit down and just watch them ALL.
If your a PR fan you know what happened to rita ,she was turned human at the end of PR in space and became the mystic mother in mystic force. Not that hard to know.
😊 I think it was good that Rita became good at the end. 😕 But what of Zedd? Rita's got a new job and career and there's no mention of what Zedd is doing?... Are they even still married? And why wasn't they're son Thrax effected by Zordon's energy when he was destroyed?
I don’t consider expanded universe explanations for things cannon to the show cause to me it’s like how a movie director explains something in a movie they he/she didn’t explain properly after the fact to me character backstory would have to come from the sentai season being adapted from so with Rita is would have to be backstory for the witch Bandora from the sentai Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger cause her original appearance was not an actress we casted for our version of the character but actual Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger footage of the witch bandora badly dubbed with an English speaking voice we did get our actress to play her in the wedding of Rita and zedd and we got the actress reveal in the beauty mask scene when finster mixes up a beauty mask then removes it showing a “younger” face referring to the actress being younger than Machiko Soga who played the witch bandora
Love Rita,Lord Zedd,Goldar,Scorpina,Rito,Master Vile,Astronomer,Trakeena,Loko(the big head in the sky Rita summons) and definitely Finsta,Baboo and Squat,king Spinx and Oooze
Just saw the trailer of the new Power Rangers Movie and Ive have watched over and over again I really love the tributes they did to the original actors we've lost I like how they did the story .If you haven't seen the trailer it's a must watch.
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AAAH After 10,000 years I’m free it’s time to CONQUER EARTH!!!!!!
Alpha! Rita's escaped!!! Recruit a team of teenages with attitude!
Lol
I missed that intro
MAKE MY MONSTER GROW!!!!
@Kenjamin LoL! Any of guys ever play the SNES game? I was playing it on my emulator a couple days ago, and....lol,....~~shrugs shoulders~~..Ehhhh,...now maybe Billy knew some fighting technique that nobody else did, and yanno, in all fairness, I'm no martial arts master, but....(can't not laugh while typing),...if you did play the SNES game,....do you remember Billy's.....style???, of attack? It was something like this, stand facing the camera (or player) with feet spread apart just a bit. Oh crap!! An enemy approaches! (hold the top of your head with one hand, and punch with other). Sweet, got 'em! :-D .......the hell?! Hahaha!
I had no idea she became the Mystic Mother. That’s freaking cool.
'Ah after 10,000 years I'm free, it's time to conquer earth!' Still a great line to this day. Rita is a great Power rangers villain.
How did she know how to speak English after having been locked away for 10,000 years?
Shame the movie didnt do it justice
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She became mystic mother
Her (along with Lord Zedd) opposed almost all of the Rangers of the Zordon Era, and she would eventually power up a team of Rangers. A legend is an understatement
Probably the best repurposing in any season of Power Rangers was the Mystic Mother, where the writers took advantage of the Magiranger counterpart being played by Machiko Soga, who had portrayed Bandora, Rita's Sentai counterpart, in what would unfortunately become her final performance. Honestly it was a perfect tribute to her for Power Rangers to repurpose what was meant as a separate character into a fully redeemed Rita, even having her complain that the Mystic Force villains were giving her a headache in case there was any doubt who it was meant to be.
And yes, Thrax should've been more than just a oneoff villain for an anniversary episode.
In any Tokusatsu hero shows produced by Toei, Magiel is Machiko Soga's good guy first and last during her lifetime, Toei really like her villain archetype roles since the late 70s.
@@jonecuntapay9561 she also played one of the main antagonists, Queen Hedrian in Denshi Sentai Denjiman (1980-1981). She also had a more heroic sidekick role as the voice of a baseball-shaped robot named Ballboy in 1984's Seiun Kamen Machineman.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will always have a special place in my heart. Their legend will continue to live on.
Good show . I grew up watching it
Nothing will be better than the original power rangers
@@patrickjulien2631 *ahem* In space, SPD, Lost Galaxy, Time Force & Dino Thunder.
@@WindyREDPanda Different people, different opinions. OG Generation Fans prefer the originals, of course.
@@Moodboard39 me too when I was a little kid
Ah Rita, she was always the best part of the show, giving us lots of laughs.
Sadly, the actress who played Rita passed away a few years ago.
yup, both her and barza had some types of cancer
Her name is maschika sogo
@@danielstewart6055 machiko soga, you mean
How sad
Rest in peace empress
This literally broke my heart when hearing the news she passed away. Rest in peace you were my best childhood villain.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that Rita's staff looks an awful lot like the wand that Zordon was holding over her at 1:14.
Great observation 👍
some might even say - identical
I remember watching mystic force and when mystic mother showed up I did a spit take. I was so happy that not only was Rita brought back, but she was a supreme force of good.
That was the one of the greatest endings for the original antagonist of a franchise I've ever seen honestly
Yeah I love it :)
It was actually very satisfying even more so seeing her in comics
“Make my monster grow!” It’s a line that works in all situations, especially certain….. _romantic_ situations.
😂😂😂😂😂🍆
HEHE YEAH BOI!
The first of the PR villains. One of the best.
Agreed. She's iconic
Totally agree! Rita is iconic.
@@the6thranger The look on the Mystic Mother's face at 8 minutes and 24 seconds is funny
I wonder what zedd would have done if he was ressurected in beast morphers.
@@NobaraGamezzz He couldn't have been resurrected since he was purified by Zordon's energy
Damn... Just looked at the list of Power Rangers actors that have passed away since the recent news of Jason David Frank and so many characters I remember have passed away years ago inluding Rita Repulsa. Sad to think about as Rita always stuck in my mind and here I was thinking she would still be alive and well 😔
Same.. Watching this video with that revilation was bittersweet. But I'm glad to see her character at least got a truly complete story, and a satisfying conclusion (it's poetic that both she and Tommy ended up following in Zordon's footsteps in the end).
This was a well done video. Rita is by far one of the most iconic villain from Power Rangers. I really enjoyed how you included the information on Rita that is given to us fans from The Boom! Studios comic series. I think that information is just so wonderful and helps us to understand Rita better.
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
@@the6thranger I really did enjoyed it and thank you for making it.
Too bad we never got to see a live action version of Rita’s mom. Oh well, at least we got her in the comics. I think the flashbacks with Rita’s mom in said comics took place before Power Rangers mystic force.
What I love about the comics they can get more complex. The stories were always hinder because they had to fit into the reuse footage and with comics they can go all out
She was always my favorite of the Power Rangers villains. I don't know how well this would go but I would love a series focused more on her showing her backstory. Kinda like an adaption of the comics.
R.I.P rita repulsa you are still missed, made my childhood fun, played the role so good
Netflix brought me here.
Also I am not surprised that the story went over my head when I was 5 years old, had to rewind many times just to soak this in as an adult.
I was obsessed with PR when I was five, I'm now 32! Rita was always my fave PR villain. Thanks for this cool upload
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Mine's is Lord Zed he's the main villian
It's taken me this long to notice that it's not a hat or crown but her hairstyle.
Sadly the woman who played Rita Repulsa passed away in the early 2000s after she played the Good Mother. I think she was in her 50s or 60s I think. 😥 😞😳😔.
@@DancingRasputin Cool. And 😆.
@@DancingRasputin Actually in original Magiranger in japan the good mother was played by same actress who played Rita's original in Zyuranger which is why Power Rangers made the cameo a bit more canon
She is one of the main reasons of the success of the early years of the Power Rangers, a very hilarious villainess.
It was quite interesting to see how she made Lord Zedd fall in love for her throught magic just to see how he genuinely fell in love with her.
Her horns still get me to this day! Will always hold a special place in my heart
That's not a horn, it's a cloth head dress and is depicted as a head dress in canon
For those who also don't know, Ron Wasserman's wife sung Rita's marriage song and their honeymoon song.
Fun fact: Rita and her gang were originally supposed to be defeated and sealed back in her dumpster by the Power Rangers in the episode "Doomsday", much like how her Super Sentai counterpart Bandora was, however with the huge popularity of MMPR Saban decided to keep her around and have more episodes for season 1 filmed. Honestly going back and watching that episode, it really does feel like a season finale and I'm a bit disappointed that it didn't end the way it was supposed to, especially since they ended up writing Rita out for a while at the beginning of season 2 anyways.
is that why the US govt. doesn't want us to know what's on the dark side of the Moon?
If this is a joke or reference to the series, thats fine.
But in reality the moon rotates like the Earth over time. It rotates at about the same pace as the Earth spins so it doesn't look like it moves at all to us.
Good to see Rita found love in her plans to conquer Earth.
the most memorable thing i was watching when i was a tiny little boy. now i know what really happen to this talkative duo
With modern story telling (like in the phenomenal BOOM! Comics) she could be a extremely complex and compelling character
Rita repulsa is mystic mother from power rangers mystic force , so that's where she ends up at the end of her adventure
Even i was shocked
The source of Good Magic, implying there was none before that.
Just FYI their son is the villain for most of power Rangers Hyperforce.
FYI - their*
@@joelthorpe4170 o My Zordon I’m stopped thank you ☺️
@@christianjaeger1787 oh* 😂😂
I had huge crush on Rita, it was a guilty crush. Longing for the villain
I loved that voice of hers
I had a huge crush on Lord Zedd
Thank you for this video. I never read that comic, and never would have thought that Rita's mom had the dragon shield, but it makes sense to me that Rita would still hold on to part of her past as she made the Dragonzord Power Coin, or straight up inherited the Dragonzord shield and power, then fused it with psyhco-green's evil energy to make it even more powerful.
And yes, I love the fact that Rita still uses a dragon motif in Mystic Force as the Mystic Mother when she gives the rangers a dragon option for their megazord.
Yeah I thought that was an awesome back story :)
but some points are forget - ritas mom wears the dragon shield but it didnt tell how the dragon coin getting the shield - well i know it but it was cool to mentioned it maybe
Always and forever be one of the best PR Villians of all time. Never could enough of her opening line in the theme song opening as well when she threw her magic wand to make the monsters grow. 😎👍🏻⚡⚡
She became the Mystic Mother which was where the Mystic Force Rangers got their powers.
They used a lot of scenes from the Japanese version of Rita, no wonder when I was a kid I always thought the vocal doesn't match her.
I had skipped a lot of Ranger seasons and Mystic Force was one of them. Pretty cool to hear that she was the Zordon to that season of Rangers.
After hearing her voice at the beginning of the intro, coupled with that rocking tune, it is hard to forget
Greatest over the top, campy, cheesy, shrieking, actress to grace film. Barbara Goodson's interpretation was an absolutely perfect fit for the show! Pretty interesting back story of the character
I love that she started her own Rangers team.
In the orginal super sentai series Witch Bandora aka Rita Repulsa the main reason she hates the rangers is she blames them for the death of her son.
I highly recommend watching the original Japanese series ZyuuuRanger which the first season of mmpr is based on. It has a slightly different feel and gets a little bit darker story wise.
All in all can't go wrong with either version.
While japanese give their characters a back story and character development, gringos treat the shows for kids in an extremely basic way, MMPR were like an 80s saturday morning cartoon, with Rita being a basic "runing away at the end of the episode" villain.
@@calinfus80s Very true.
I can't believe that in the classics, this character was portrayed by three actresses.
I miss those day. RIP to Rita
So this is what happened to one of my fav. kid villains I used to enjoy watching while the power rangers were on screen. Thank you for sharing your video and informing me of what really happened to her right before it became a canceled show years ago. :)
I was so Excited to See Rita Again in Mystic Force, Wish Zed Would have shown up too, But damn did it ever make me happy to see she became the Guardian of Magic and Earth.
Rita was as comedic and funny as she was evil and I always loved her character for that.
My head canon: Rita (now known as Mystic Mother) knows about the existence of Robo-Rita (from Once and Always), the resurrection of Lord Zedd (from his evil essence) via Reaghoul from Dino Fury, and Zedd teaming up with Squid Ink, Inc. in Cosmic Fury. And she also knows about the Morphin’ Masters (my guess is that Zayto later gets to meet him so that both him and Mystic Mother can keep an eye on Zedd, who is now imprisoned in the planet Nibyro).
Fun fact. In Zyuranger she was actually imprisoned for 170 million years. Not 10,000 like MMPR. Also right after she is let free in Zyuranger she kills the astronauts unlike MMPR when she doesn't. She's a lot more villainous in Zyuranger!
She the legends for many old times children. Sincerely love this villian character.
Rita as the Mystic Mother actually a tribute to Machiko Soga who passed away at the time Mystic Force still broadcasted.
I loved her and zed, they made the villains fun
damn, never imagine The Power Ranger Comic Books could be so Dark
RIP Machiko Soga March 18 1938-May 7 2006
I'm sorry to hear about your previous lotr channel. May the power protect the broken sword, as well!
Thank you 🤙⚡
Rita looks like she'd belong in Final Fantasy 8. She's like a cross between the Wicked Witch of the West and Shredder from TMNT.
I had a crush on Rita back in the day idc, she was fine can’t tell me no different 🤦🏽♂️
Me too. I loved Rita.
Maybe the most impressive part of the continuity is that there were astronauts going to the moon in the early 90s.
Zedd’s look was fire af. I used to draw him all the time because he reminded me of carnage
I litteraly have zero clues as to what happens in power rangers lore but this was indeed wholesome
I still want to know what happened to Finster, Squat, and Baboo. Those were 3 of my favorite villains.
The life and times of Rita. Great video. I didnt know half the story. And had already forgotten half of that!
Wow, it seems I payed no attention to this show as a kid. 😳 didn't even realize there was this deep a story.
In Ryusolger special there is actually a character named Rita who is most likely a cameo to both Bandora (original japanese name for Rita Repulsa) and Rita Repulsa.
What happened to Rita Repulsa?
They ran out of Japanese Zyuranger Footage.
They had to throw her English shadow double into a dumpster until they found a replacement that was as close to the Japanese face of Bandora that they could get.
Then once they got their new actress so they could show her face again, Finster decided to give Rita an on screen facial makeover to get around the fresh look she would have in order to woe Lord Zed.
Both Rita and Lord Zed became the main antagonists to the Power Rangers during season 3 while swapping over Kakuranger Footage and their own Power Rangers footage filmed at a nice viewing parkland.
Then when Ohranger introduced the Machine Empire antagonists, Rita and Zed decided to become Grey Nomads for a while until they found a Bomb to deliver as the perfect congratulation present to their "friends".
Then they almost got back until Carranger had a super sexy antagonist that was too sexy for the family friendly show that required a new American Actress to become a female pirate captain that somehow came from space.
And then there was the Power Rangers in Space season that used footage from Megaranger and of course because there was no Bandora in Megaranger, there was no Rita or Zed in Space except in those Alliance of Evil scenes with all the past Antagonist Empires.
Thank you I have been confused about this
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Finally got some answers to what happened to her
:D
3:10 Right, so Rita was like....the original Green Ranger, right? She had this Power Coin and never used it? I'm sure i've seen something about it.
I’d like to see a Wicked style retelling of Rita’s backstory
Lord Zedd & puddies would be dope Halloween costumes
Man, the comic books are deep.
Rita called Jason, Zack, Billy, Trini, Kimberly, Tommy, Adam, Rocky, Aisha, and Kat all by their names instead of their Ranger color designations at times
Rita became the good witch in Mystic Force, I believe
I don't know what happened to Lord Zedd after the cleansing wave.
It would have been nice, if he was an archaeologist to have discovered a lost Power Ranger powers with Tommy and through then does the new team discover their powers, weapons and Zords, as each Ranger must prove their worth to gain their unique weapon and their Zord. A kind of one shot using a modified Dairangers team suit (to look different to The MMPR White Ranger)
I don't know how Thrax survived the cleansing wave.
Honestly, I don't know how anyone after the "in Space" series survive the cleansing way.
@@antonioro1229 If they were born of bad they'd be dusted.
Anyone who has goodness and were in the side of evil was made good.
So Lord Zedd was turned back into his human-like form before touching the Zeo Crystals.
Rita was born partly of good, so her bad side was destroyed.
Rito must have been pure evil, born of Master Vile and an unknown woman who must be pure evil as well.
Rita, as sometimes agreed (not officially canon) to have been pregnant when the wave hit, so how did *Thrax survive to be evil?
@@theautisticcreative2619 you missed my point. While your logic is sound. It falls apart the moment you remember that there were villains in lost Galaxy, a tribe of super demons in light speed rescue, master orc in wild force, Lothor in ninja storm, master of darkness in mystic force, and so forth.
I'm just saying. A number of series really shouldn't have taken place if what zordon said was actually true
Also random nonsensical autocorrect Would've been wiped out as well
@@antonioro1229 My apologies for missing your point.
The demons in Lightspeed were trapped with magic, so it must have cancelled the wave out as the seal on the tomb must have blocked the evil energies.
Master Orc was actually human who ate an evil seed, well the modern day one anyway, the orgs might have survived due to being turned to stone, which hid their evil energies, it's also possible that with orgs that are in a human disguise are able to hide their evil energies, as their horns must be the source of their evil energies.
Lothor was human and a trained ninja, his evil grew and was sent away, the monsters he found must have survived as, I assume, some kind of eggs in some special ancient place or waited in a with so much evil energy the Zordon wave was too weak to over come the evil coming from that planet.
If Eltar is the Ranger homeworld and a place of good then there has to be a place of evil that breeds monsters.
So logically some monsters survived by being too young to leave the planet at that time or are there in reserve waiting to be recruited by a boss matching their frequency that matches a Ranger's frequency, some returned to recharge their evil batteries and that's why some older monsters survived as well, while others survived by going into some some kind of suspended animation or being sealed away, so that hid their evil energies on other planets before the wave came.
Evil will always find a way to exist.
which could be the answer you're looking for.
there's a theory that much of zordon's energy had been drained by dark specter already. so maybe with dark specter's death it was starting to return to him slowly. but he may have only had enough energy to wipe out the invading armies of rita repulsa, lord zedd, the machine empire, divatox, havoc, and astronema while turning a few good. even starting in galaxy we see reused monsters and footsoldiers like piranhatrons in onyx. if zordon's wave was supposed to take out all evil there wouldn't be a show after in space. no trakeena, demons, etc. also zedd did become an archeologist in the video game power rangers super legends but i don't think that counts as canon to the show though.
You should do a vid on making your own roster of characters that would be in a PR game (Shattered Grid). The roster would be like 25-30 slots big but you can only choose up to 3 characters per season, ex: PRMM Jason - red, Tommy - Green, Rita. Drakkon and Ranger Slayer wouldn't count as any particular team or verse.
Oh wow
I never knew Rita came back as good let alone played such a seemingly important roll in helping the Rangers succeed, that's really cool. Wish i had been watching while that was going on but honestly i'm not exactly sure what season i stopped watching, i remember them being"in love" but i don't remember them being changed back to human, but i Do sorta remember Rita's dad being around. The last thing i kinda remember was some sorta aquatic alien ranger squad was around? I saw the first two movies but don't recall which one had Ivan Ooze🤷♂️ i'm all kinds of lost😅 but i still enjoy hearing about the Power Rangers. Hopefully i can piece together the timeline i remember and possibly do some catching up afterwards.
i Just found out about\saw that dark Power Rangers short 15min live action video.... That Was Friggin Awesome 👍
Yes! It's poetic that Zordon's greatest rival ended up following in his footsteps. And Zordon's greatest _pupil_ (Tommy), also did the same for the Dino Thunder Power Rangers.
MAGIC WAND! MAKE MY MONSTER GROW!
Make my poket/digital monster grow!
Happy Father’s Day Vile!
Asking the real questions here, who is Rito’s mom?
Unfortunately the actress passed away
I now wonder where her brother Rito comes from, I don’t see him fleeing with Rita and Fienna. And if Fienna passed away, Rito can’t be her full brother. Or am I missing something?
I have the same question honestly
He's what you would call a half brother, Vile must have found another lover after Rita was born.
My head cannon is that vile being her father was a lie that was told to her after a memory wipe spell. The truth is that she was the original green ranger hence her having the dragon coin. It also explains why she was "cleansed" instead of killed by the light wave and her strong connection to the morphing grid.
I was a HUGE Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fan as a kid, had a lot of their toys and rewatched the episodes countless of times, but unfortunately not sure why but I stopped after Zeo. I wish I stayed a fan but as time passed I grew the mentality of "oh, another power rangers? Geez theyre really milking it"... 25 years later and here I am watching clips and wondering what happened to my Power Rangers, the MMPR's I fell in love with as a kid. I kind of want to sit down and just watch them ALL.
Thanks for this, I never new her full story.
Rip machiko soga
Original Rita.
She passed away in her 70's. It took people a few days to find her body
seriusly the fact she was an evil witch and then became the most busted good magic user is just wow what a way to do it
probably the best villain because you just fell in love with them..they are fun though..very humorous
If your a PR fan you know what happened to rita ,she was turned human at the end of PR in space and became the mystic mother in mystic force. Not that hard to know.
I just met her!!! She was at the Big Fresno Fair! She's so beautiful and was very sweet.
Oops it was Carla Perez who we met 😊
@@gmn7654 🤦🏾
So wait… Ritas mother was the first to really hold the green power? She had the gold chest plate
Didn't even notice Fienna had the dragon shield on at first glance. Looks really good on her.
She looked young. I didn’t realize she was in her 50’s there
rita repulsa is so amazing
😊 I think it was good that Rita became good at the end. 😕 But what of Zedd? Rita's got a new job and career and there's no mention of what Zedd is doing?... Are they even still married? And why wasn't they're son Thrax effected by Zordon's energy when he was destroyed?
He's a greeter at Walmart now and he loves the job and great at it
@@emojimr4427 From master of evil to greeter at wal-mart... Impressive 👍😁
Love her! Didn’t know about her becoming good that was awesome!
I don’t consider expanded universe explanations for things cannon to the show cause to me it’s like how a movie director explains something in a movie they he/she didn’t explain properly after the fact to me character backstory would have to come from the sentai season being adapted from so with Rita is would have to be backstory for the witch Bandora from the sentai Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger cause her original appearance was not an actress we casted for our version of the character but actual Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger footage of the witch bandora badly dubbed with an English speaking voice we did get our actress to play her in the wedding of Rita and zedd and we got the actress reveal in the beauty mask scene when finster mixes up a beauty mask then removes it showing a “younger” face referring to the actress being younger than Machiko Soga who played the witch bandora
Could you do a history of the dragon shield?? Rita's mom is definitely wearing some form of it.
Yeah that would be a cool vid 😊
Rita is iconic and I like the clips from Zyurangers used in power rangers but I like the history of Bandora and how she became evil better.
Love Rita,Lord Zedd,Goldar,Scorpina,Rito,Master Vile,Astronomer,Trakeena,Loko(the big head in the sky Rita summons) and definitely Finsta,Baboo and Squat,king Spinx and Oooze
I don't know how you were able to read all this with a straight face
Just saw the trailer of the new Power Rangers Movie and Ive have watched over and over again I really love the tributes they did to the original actors we've lost I like how they did the story .If you haven't seen the trailer it's a must watch.
Rita will ALWAYS be the one true Power Rangers villain in my book.