“ | Geki: Goushi, everyone, calm down. Barza, who is that child Kai who was with Bandora? Barza: I am unsure but, according to the Dino Apocalypse, the battle between the Gods and evil happened once during the dinosaur era. It is all because the Queen of the Fairy Tribe lost her son to a dinosaur. The Fairy Tribe's Queen hated the dinosaurs so much that she sold her soul to the devil. Mei: What do you mean? That Queen is Bandora? Dan: And that boy is... Impossible! Goushi: Impossible. That's her son and prince. Boi: Are you kidding? He's been resurrected? |
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~ Barza about Bandora's origins. |
“ | Evil spirits that sleep within the Earth... Grant your power to Dora (name of beast)! | „ |
~ Witch Bandora's catchphrase when making Dora Monsters grow. |
Witch Bandora is an extraordinarily powerful and formidable sinister spell-caster who caused the extinction of an ancient civilisation along with the dinosaurs in charge of the Bandora Gang, the main servant of Dai Satan and the main antagonist of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.
She is played by the late Machiko Soga, who previously played Doctor Kate in Kamen Rider Stronger, Queen Hedrian in Denshi Sentai Denshiman and Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan and would later play Queen Pandora in Jikuu Senshi Spielban.
Biography[]
Past[]
170 million years ago, Bandora was originally queen of the Fairy Tribe on Earth until her son Kai was inadvertently killed by a Tyrannosaurus. Torn by grief, Bandora went mad and sold her soul to Dai Satan for the power to avenge her son and slaughtered the dinosaurs. At part of the pact, Bandora lost almost all memory of Kai, though it reflected in her hatred towards all children, as she and her followers were all sealed away on the planetoid Nemesis. Forseeing that she would likely return however, the ancient peoples placed their greatest warriors, the Zyurangers, in suspended animation to fight Bandora the moment she was freed.
Zyuranger[]
However, in 1992, Bandora is released by astronauts who are sent to explore Nemesis when it appears near the Milky Way. Killing the adult astronauts as her way of thanks, Bandora takes two child astronauts hostage to kill at her leisure as she and her posse return to Earth and creates the Bandora Palace. However, the Zyurangers are revived and fight off Grifforzer and the Golem Soldiers although Dora Titan is able to kidnap the children anyway. Although the Zyurangers save the children, Bandora moves the Bandora Palace to the moon, which she considers an ideal world due to the stillness of the Moon and Bandora considers Earth to be annoyingly noisy. From there, her forces constantly attack the Earth with Dora Monsters and Golem Soldiers but each attempt is defeated. Her usual targets are children, presumably a remainder of the pain of losing Kai, sending Dora Monsters after them sometimes.
Eventually, Dai Satan sends a reanimated and loyal Kai to ensure Bandora summons him while defeating the Zyurangers. Though Bandora makes attempts to cuddle her now distant child, she sheds tears over Kai's second death all the way to heaven which ultimately stripped her of her powers as she and her henchmen are sealed away once more by Daizyujin in a vase that he hurls into the vastness of space. Undaunted of her imprisoned state, Bandora vows to rebuild her powers and challenge Daizyujin once more no matter how many eras and years it might take her. For now though, she is happy with spending quality time with the baby of Grifforzer and Lamie as its god-grandmother.
Akibaranger[]
When @Na replaces the Super Sentai Series with her own Super ©Na Series, she appears as Bandora in her version of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger where she is called Great Witch @Na.
Personality[]
“ | Ah ha ha ha ha ha! Listen up, you stpid humans! I am the most powerful witch of all time, Bandora! I will turn the Earth into a lifeless rock! There is nothing as beautiful as a desolate wasteland. Humanity is garbage! You believe in love. You should hate and kill each other. | „ |
~ Bandora's announcement upon arriving back on Earth. |
In many ways, Bandora is an ideal boss a subordinate can have: mostly tolerant of her minions' failures and hence they go unpunished most of the time even with their mistakes. The harshest punishment they get is being clubbed by Bandora with her magic wand for their incompetence. But when they pull off something satisfactory, they get rewarded with recognition and vast praises. Bandora has a luck with her men: they are genuinely loyal to her and although her minions plot in rare occasion it is for their personal issues and never outright treasonous so internal conflict that exists in most villains are very nearly non-existent. This could be that due to vastness in the power gap her minions do not dare crossing her. But even so, the relationship between Bandora and her men are genuinely harmonious.
However, Bandora displays no mercy to humanity and to the Zyurangers, and would go any length and measurement, even risking her own life to annihilate them. Such cruelty, coupled with compassion she displayed to her minions, was attributed to the tragedy which claimed the life of her only son, Kai, who fell to his death after being chased away by the angry horde of dinosaurs for breaking their eggs for fun. Not only her loss being the reason why she established a pact with Dai Satan to begin with, but also of her apparently viewed her men as family of sort, though it apparently took the arrival of the baby of Grifforzer and Lamie to fill the void Kai left behind.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Immortality: Despite usually appearing very old, Rita is over 65 million years old but is just as capable as ever.
- Teleportation: Rita can teleport to any location at will by instantly vanishing into thin air.
- Magic: Being a witch, Bandora had immense magical powers that made her stronger than any of her minions until she lost them by crying.
- Eclipse Generation: By using her crystal ball and chanting, Bandora was able to cause an eclipse and slowly strip Daizyuzin of its power.
- Monster Transformation: By chanting and using her crystal ball, Bandora could turn objects into "monsters" as seen when she turned a spinning wheel into the Magic Spinning Wheel.
- Ally Summoning: By using her crystal ball and chanting, Bandora was able to summon Dai Satan to aid her in her plans.
- Immobilisation Beams: As seen during the battle against Dora Artaeus, Bandora could unleash red energy from her mouth to restrain Dragon Caesar and render it helpless.
- Building Movement: Arguably Bandora's greatest demonstration of her magic was when she brought the Bandora Palace from the Earth to the Moon and then in reverse.
Arsenal[]
- DoraSceptre: Witch Bandora's signature weapon is a large gold-black magic wand that she can cast spells.
- Energy Beams: Bandora could fire red lasers from her Magic Wand that were strong enough to obliterate her Dumpster, rip apart skyscrapers and annihilate the Land of Despair in an instant.
- Monster Growth: Bandora's signature ability where she could throw her wand to Earth to open a chasm from which the planet/moon's geothermal energy brought upon by dark spirits encase her monster and make them grow. This was accompanied by the phrase "evil spirits that sleep within the Earth... Grant your power to (Dora Monster)!"
Gallery[]
Quotes[]
“ | Aaaaah! Kai! Kai! Kai! Kai! Kaaaaaaaai! | „ |
~ Queen Bandora's first words when she found Kai dying. |
“ | Ohhhhh ahhhhh! I slept well. Bookback, how long was I asleep? So, you were the ones who rescued me. Thank you very much. Oh Earth, my dearest home. I've returned as promised. After 170 million years, I will have my revenge! | „ |
~ Bandora after being released from her prison. |
“ | Listen up, you foolish people I am the greatest witch of all, Bandora! Do-do-ra-do-ra. Do-do-do-ra-do-ra. Do-do-ra-ra. Do-do-ra-ra Bandora. Bandora. Viewing so far away the Earth is like a mysterious blue sapphire Aside from my Dora Scope, the planet's just a swarm of filthy trash As I trush up the precious Earth, there's a gang of the stupid human race. Now all of my minions will crush them in a landslide like mashed potatoes. What do I hate the most in this world? Children! Children! Anything but them! The goal is to be tough, make them cry, shut them up! More worst like infested rampant mold! Do-do-ra-ra Do-do-ra-ra, Bandora! I hate children, I just want to bully them! When I see a crying child, my minions get excited. I'll be in love with all of my magical powers I'll have to stick to being pathetically worried. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha! | „ |
~ Witch Bandora's theme song "Dora dora! Witch Bandora" as performed in the 18th episode. |
“ | You will pay, Zyurangers... You will pay for taking Kai from me! | „ |
~ Bandora upon being confronted by the Zyurangers in the Bandora Palace. |
“ | What? | „ |
~ Bandora when Daizyuzin appeared to banish her and her last words before being imprisoned once again. |
“ | Do-do-ra-do-ra Do-do-do-ra-do-ra. Do-do-ra-ra. Do-do-ra-ra. I hate children the most in this world. Hate them, hate them, I really hate them. Hard to handle, they cry loudly, will not do anything, they are awful. Hu hu hu hu hu hu haaaa! Do-do-ra-do-ra Do-do-do-ra-do-ra. I hate children, let us bully them. I am happy when a child is crying. I will turn you into a rock with my magic or I can turn you into a tree. Uh ha ha ha ha ha ha! Remember this, Zyuranger. I have not given up yet. I will regain my magical powers and come back to Earth. Hu hu hu. | „ |
~ Witch Bandora after being imprisoned. |
Trivia[]
- Bandora is the first main villain to have a Power Rangers counterpart by virtue of Zyuranger being the first adapted Sentai.
- Unlike most main villains in Sentai, she survived and had a somewhat bittersweet ending.
- Bandora's actress, Machiko Soga, also played Heavenly Arch Saint Magiel, in Mahou Sentai Magiranger. Although Magiel and Bandora had no association in Magiranger besides sharing the same actress, she was turned into Rita Repulsa (Bandora's counterpart) as a tribute to Soga who died earlier in 2006.
See Also[]
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