The Onyx Tavern: Podcast #161 - Evil Rangers

I dont mind it. But its kind of hit or miss.... I liked Green Ranger series. Hated Pink Ranger (Kat) Enjoyed the time force (Eric) Thunder Rangers were cool also. Are we counting Psycho Rangers?? Other than that I dont see any other ones that stood out...

Well, the Psycho Rangers were just five random monsters being granted the abilities to become a group of evil Power Rangers, thanks to Astronema and Dark Specter. But in terms of writing in human characters as evil Power Rangers, it's best to just let the Psycho Rangers speak for themselves as their own set of evil characters.

Now, out of all the story-arcs and subplots that involved human characters being evil Power Rangers, I woukd say that the A-Squad Rangers and the Dark Rangers are the weaker ones in terms of story-telling for several reasons. The Dark Rangers were reduced to being a missed opportunity because of the fact that Saban at that time didn't bother to spend the extra amount of money to just bring in the Dairanger suits and give it to the actors that were chosen to be Lord Zedd's Dark Rangers. *sigh!* You cheap bastard. The A-Squad should've been given a better motivation as to why they would so easily sell out SPD and Doggie Cruger, other than "wanting to be on the winning side!" Like really, which winning are they are referring to? Grumm or Broodwing? Broodwing had the better resources and he could easily offer the A-Squad some money or more power if they had joined him. But Grumm?! He's just a puppet working for Omni. Koragg, well...I think it would've been better if they didn't make him to be Nick's father and Udonna's husband, because of sentai footage and plot. But rather, make him be the long-lost son, Bowen, instead.

But I would say the Zen-Aku arc and the three-part episode, "White Thunder" were some pretty decent contenders to the Green with Evil mini-series, despite the fact Rita Repulsa's plans to make Tommy the evil green ranger has a huge ton of flaws and I mean it. It does have flaws. But Ryan as the evil Titanium Ranger?! Yeah, that is just kind of lame, in my opinion. Same for the evil Zyuoh The World arc in Zyuohger....Booooring!!!

Now Doomwing being Zenowing's negative half and being the evil silver ranger, thanks to the dark energem's powers...I was not expecting that. Hell, I would say it literally broke away from the traditional formula of how to write in an evil Power Ranger, since it didn't need to rely on the rangers using the power of "friendship is magic" and the heart of the cards to rescue Zenowing and "mind control". Instead, Archnanon used the dark energem's powers to make an evil clone of Zenowing and have him be the silver ranger, while the real Zenowing is left in the back seat. And the rangers had to use science to separate Zenowing from Doomwing.

Actually, redgoldranger1. The A-Squad consisted of four humans and an alien. But there is a bit of a problem with the revalation of them being evil-by-choice. They weren't even fully-flushed out as charactets being evil-by-choice since we've been following the B-Squad in the entire season of SPD. But I would've preferred if the A-Squad had sold out Doggie Cruger and SPD for either money, a position of power, or at least new world order or something. But being on the "winning side"?! Yeah, that is not good enough. I mean, just say that Gruumm paid them money because they were already dirty cops from the beginning, and that's it.

That would be the blue ranger of the A-Squad.

It is directly shown that he is an alien.