| “ | You fools...are finished!! | „ |
| ~ Goldar's most famous line after having severely shaken up the Dino Megazord near the end of his first battle. |
Goldar was one of the main antagonists of the Power Rangers franchise, a gorilla/griffin warrior serving Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd. He was the archenemy of Jason Lee Scott and was one of the two archenemies of Tommy Oliver (the other being Zeltrax).
Goldar served as the main antagonist of the episodes "Day of the Dumpster", "A Pressing Engagement", "Green With Evil parts I, II and III", "Doomsday", "Crystal of Nightmares," "A Pig Surprise", "Return of an Old Friend", "Mirror of Regret," "[1]". and the overarching antagonist of the "A Star is Born" and "The Ninja Encounter.
History
Mighty Morphin
Goldar was freed after 10,000 years of imprisonment along with Rita and the rest of her minions. He led the sorceress's first invasion on Angel Grove and, unlike many other henchmen, was quite capable of fighting the Power Rangers. However, Goldar was defeated by the Rangers and their Megazord and would continue to battle many times after that, facing defeat each time. He developed a particular hatred for Jason, the Red Ranger, and Tommy, the Green Ranger, since they were the ones that usually defeated him. After Scorpina was freed, Goldar fought alongside her and he later piloted his own zord, Cyclopsis.
After Lord Zedd came to the moon and took over from Rita, Goldar eagerly accepted his new master and received the restoration of his wings. He led many missions in Zedd's name and often faced Tommy, now the White Ranger, but would get defeated each time and sent back to his master in disgrace. Goldar was aghast when Lord Zedd married Rita and wondered what could have made his master do something completely out of his mind. He found out what the sorceress did to his master and removed the love potion from his system, only to be floored by finding out Zedd still loved Rita. After Rito Revolto came to the moon, Goldar often worked with him but detested his stupidity and stench, though they later became friends of sorts. Goldar managed to prove quite useful in Zedd's plan to activate the Shogunzords since he defeated Ninjor, allowing his master to capture him.
Zeo
Goldar and Rito were sent to the Command Center to destroy it with an implosion generator. The two spent a great amount of time arguing, lost in the tunnels below but managed to find the Command Center and stole the Zeo Crystal before activating their bomb, destroying it. However Goldar and Rito got messed up as they were teleporting out and lost the Crystal and their memories (also in Goldar's case, his wings). They wandered around Angel Grove, where they eventually met Bulk and Skull, who took them in in exchange for the two becoming their servants. However one day, as they were napping Zedd and Rita found their way into their dreams where they restored their memories and Goldar's wings. The pair found their way back to their masters and helped them in their plots to take out the Machine Empire.
In Space
After blowing up the Royal House of Gadgetry, Goldar accompanied Zedd and Rita to the meeting of the United Alliance of Evil on the Cimmerian Planet. He took part in Dark Specter's galactic invasion, helping his masters' attack on the Vica Galaxy and subduing the Gold Ranger. Goldar's fate is left unknown and it is presumed he was destroyed or purified by Zordon's energy wave. It is confirmed twenty-two years later that Goldar was destroyed by Zordon's energy wave.
Beast Morphers
Goldar's sword is one of the many villain relics in Ryjack's collection that are acquired by Evox and his minions (what exactly killed Goldar is not made clear but he was most likely a victim of Zordon's energy wave). On Evox's orders, Scrozzle uses Ryjack's reanimizer powered up by diamonds on Goldar's sword, reviving Goldar as an even more powerful version of the original known as Goldar Maximus. Upon learning that Evox is the one who resurrected him, Goldar Maximus pledges his loyalty to Evox and killed Sledge.
Goldar accompanies Snide to the Dino Charge dimension and fights the Dino Charge Rangers, quickly overwhelming them and the newly arrived Beast Morphers Rangers. He easily took Koda down and stole his Energem before fighting off Ravi, Nate, Steel and Zoey Reeves|Zoey. He easily overwhelmed and demorphed them and destroyed their Morphers off-screen. They then went to find Scrozzle whom was assembling a secret weapon (which was soon revealed to be the Chimera Zord) to use against the Rangers and Goldar cut open a geode for him. Goldar and Snide later appeared alongside some Putties, Triptoids and Vivix to attack Jason, Zoey and Ravi when they tried to ambush Evox and Scrozzle from behind. He, Roxy, Snide and the army attacked but Ivan's Lightning Final Strike took out Roxy and the Z-Rex Blaster destroyed Snide with Tyler taking down Goldar. He refused to surrender but the Rangers combined the Ptera Saber, Dino Spike, Power Blaster, and Z-Rex Blaster into the Dino Power Ultra Blaster which took Goldar down once and for all.
Personality
| “ | You are only a human, and no mere human is a match for GOLDAR! | „ |
| ~ Goldar's pompous and slightly bigoted attitudes which was said to Jason in "Jason's Battle." |
Unlike many other henchmen, Goldar was one of the few who was capable of holding his own against the entire Power Ranger team. As time went by in the series, Goldar's character became less threatening and more comical, especially in the first feature film. He was a dangerous fighter initially, being able to defeat the original team in battle single-handedly. Later, however, he began to lose his edge, with Jason handing him his first major defeat in the episode Missing Green. After this point he was apparently less powerful, losing to the Rangers more and more in combat and eventually abandoned all pretense of a serious threat to become overly comedic.
Forms
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Power Level: Goldar was the fourth most powerful member of the Evil Space Aliens, stronger than Squatt, Baboo, and Finster and roughly on par with Rito Revolto. However, Rita, Zedd, and Master Vile were all still much stronger than him.
- Teleportation: Goldar could make himself vanish into thin air so that he can avoid attacks. Starting with Season 2, he always left in a large cloud of orange flame although he vanished in the same way as Season 1 in the episode "Goldar's Vice-Versa."
- Putty Summoning: Goldar could summon both versions of the Putty Patrol to aid him in fighting the Rangers.
- Tenga Summoning: After the Tenga Warriors replaced the Putties as the foot soldiers of Rita and Zedd, Goldar was able to freely summon them as well.
- Eye Fireballs: Goldar could shoot fireball blasts from his eyes which were powerful enough to cause massive explosions around Jason whilst fleeing from him and King Sphinx. When combined with Scorpina's claw barrage, it took down the Thunder Megazord and forced the White Tigerzord back into its default Tiger Mode.
- Self Growth-In the episode "A Star is Born," Goldar and Scorpina clearly enlarged themselves to aid Babe Ruthless given Rita being under the weather.
Abilities
- Master Hand to Hand Combatant: Goldar was not as good at hand to hand combat as he is at swordsmanship but was still easily able to take down all five Rangers (although Tommy was almost always able to overpower him).
- Master Swordsman: Goldar was better than any other villain at combat with a weapon, perhaps even more than Rita but excluding Zedd. Goldar constantly failed to beat Tommy in his Green Ranger form whilst Zedd could overpower him in his more powerful White Ranger form without breaking a sweat.
- Expert Zord Pilot: Goldar was able to expertly pilot both Cyclopsis and Serpentera with no assistance and overwhelm the Zords easily in both as well as piloting the Dragonzord to victory in the first part of the two-part episode "Return of an Old Friend."
- Chemistry Set-Up-Goldar was able to set-up a lot of chemistry equipment and similar equipment for Zedd’s bicentennial Sleep of Oblivion as seen in the first part of “The Wedding”, where he was given comments by Zedd.
- Wedding Planning-Goldar was able to expertly plan out Rita and Zedd’s wedding (much to his own outrage).
- Longevity: Goldar can live for millions of years.
- Strength: Goldar seriously shook up the Dino Megazord's cockpit with a single slash and an extremely powerful double kick was enough to knock back the Dino Megazord. Later on, in episodes such as "Eclipsing Megazord" and "Crystal of Nightmares", he was strong enough to take down the Megazord with Scorpina's help.
- Durability: Goldar was struck by the energized Power Sword and Thunder Saber and a fireball from the White Tigerzord in Warrior Mode only made him and Scorpina fall down.
- Agility: Whilst fighting the Dino Megazord for the first time, Goldar was able to quickly dodge around the Megazord and land some blows without being hit.
Weaknesses
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Arsenal
- Sword: Goldar wielded a large golden sword to aid him in combat. It was sharp enough to take down Rangers with one hit each and cleave straight through the middle of a building.
- Flame Wave: Goldar could engulf his sword in flames and fling a large horizontal wave of fire at his enemies strong enough to seriously shake up the Dino Megazord in Tank Mode and knock around the Mastodon, Triceratops, and Sabertooth Tiger Dinozords with one hit.
- Teleportation Casting: The flame waves from Goldar's sword could also teleport his enemies to any location at will as seen in "Missing Green."
- Fireballs: Goldar could fire blue energy from his sword that turned into orange fireballs capable of causing massive explosions and knocking down all five Rangers with one hit.
- Homing Fireballs-As seen during the battle with King Sphinx, Goldar could fire fireballs that homed in on his enemies and forced them to dodge towards his allies.
- Teleportation Stab: When charged up with dark gold energy, and stabbed into the ground, Goldar's sword could unleash a wave of the same golden energy to teleport beings away. He did this to Tommy and some Putties in "The Green Candle."
- Energy Chain Generation: Goldar could fire golden energy from his sword's tip that formed energy chains strong enough to restrain Tommy. He only did this in "The Green Candle."
- Flamethrower: Goldar was able to release a stream of flame from the tip of his sword to disintegrate a clumsy Putty in "Mighty Morphin Mutants".
- Lightning Channelling: Goldar could channel blue lightning into his sword and fire them from the tip. Instead of being used as an attack, it was instead used to power up the Crystal of Nightmares.
- Fire Channelling: Goldar was able to channel fire into his sword at will for a variety of attacks and special moves.
- Fire Ropes: By channeling fire into his sword, Goldar could release long yellow streamer-like ropes from the tip of his sword. He only did this in the episode "The Ninja Encounter Part I" to kidnap the future Power Rangers.
- Lightning Strike: When combined with Scorpina's fin blade, Goldar could fire forth blue lightning from his sword with enough power to take down all five Rangers.
- Teleportation Beams-Goldar could fire golden-white energy beams from his sword to teleport beings to any location he chose as seen with Kimberly and Shawna.
- Flame Wave: Goldar could engulf his sword in flames and fling a large horizontal wave of fire at his enemies strong enough to seriously shake up the Dino Megazord in Tank Mode and knock around the Mastodon, Triceratops, and Sabertooth Tiger Dinozords with one hit.
- Cyclopsis: Goldar's personal War Zord that he had for at least 10,000 years.
- Dragon Dagger: Temporarily stolen from the Command Center by Billy (who was under the Dramole's spell) who gave it to Goldar who used it to use the Dragonzord against the Rangers. It was later retrieved by Tommy along with the Power Coins.
- Z-Staff: Goldar borrowed Lord Zedd's staff to brainwash Tommy to get the Sword of Light in the episode "The Green Dream."
- Serpentera: Goldar was the pilot for Serpentera whereas Zedd just sat back and watched.
- Mirror of Regret: A mirror that showed someone their greatest failures which was used to try and destroy Adam's self-confidence. It was only used in the episode of the same name.
- Saba-Goldar stole Saba from Tommy in the episode "Best Man For The Job" for Rita to use to summon the White Tigerzord.
- Lightning Blasts: Goldar forced Saba to fire white lightning beams from his eyes strong enough to take down all six Rangers with one hit.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Strength: Goldar was much stronger as Goldar Maximus as shown when he sent Koda flying with a single sword slash which de-morphed him and knocked him unconscious.
- Shockwave Kick: Goldar could unleash a yellow shockwave with his kick as shown when he attacked Sledge upon his resurrection.
Abilities
- Master Hand to Hand Combatant: Goldar was more skilled in hand to hand combat in his Maximus form as he was able to take on Ravi, Nate, Steel and Zoey at the same time without breaking a sweat.
Weaknesses
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Arsenal
- Broadsword: In his ultimate form, Goldar wielded a massive golden broadsword.
- Lightning Bolt: Goldar could engulf his sword in blue lightning to fire a devastating lightning bolt of the same color from it which was strong enough to destroy Sledge with one hit.
- Energy Empowerment: Goldar could charge up his broadsword with blue energy to strike at full force. It was only used to slice open a geode for Scrozzle.
- Energy Wave: Goldar Maximus could fire a gigantic blue energy wave from his broadsword which was his all-time most powerful attack since it was strong enough to de-morph Zoey, Nate, Steel and Ravi with one hit as well as knock all of them out cold.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
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Abilities
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Weaknesses
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Arsenal
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Zords
- Yellow Terrorzord
Enemies
- Zordon
- Alpha 5
- Jason Lee Scott (main Nemesis until his departure, returned as nemesis in Beast Morphers)
- Zachary "Zack" Taylor
- Billy Cranston
- Trini Kwan
- Kimberly Ann Hart
- Thomas "Tommy" Oliver (Arch Nemesis after Jason's departure)
- Adam Park
- Rocky DeSantos
- Aisha Campbell
- Katherine Hillard
- Tanya Sloan
- Delphine
- Aurico
- Crocus
- Cestro
- Tideus
- Andros
- Trey of Triforia
- Conner McKnight
- Ethan James
- Kira Ford
- Tyler Navarro
- Chase Randall
- Koda
- Riley Griffin
- Shelby Watkins
- Sir Ivan of Zandar
- Devon Daniels
- Ravi Shaw
- Zoey Reeves
- Nate Silva
- Steel
Gallery
Quotes
| “ | Good. | „ |
| ~ Goldar's first words when Rita announced her scheme. |
| “ | This isn't over! I'll be back! | „ |
| ~ Goldar escaping his first battle. |
| “ | Greetings Power Rangers! I just thought I'd stop by and say hello! Ha ha ha ha ha! Before I say goodbye forever! It's been nice knowin' ya! | „ |
| ~ Goldar after defeating the Power Rangers in "Return Of An Old Friend." |
| “ | I have returned! Who is it that has given me new life? | „ |
| ~ Goldar Maximus' first words upon being created. |
| “ | I'LL NEVER SURRENDER TO RANGERS! | „ |
| ~ Goldar to all 14 Dino Rangers after the Putties, Vivix, Triptoids and Tronics were destroyed and his final words before his ultimate death. |
Trivia
- The tone of Goldar's voice varied considerably throughout the first season of the series. This initially fuelled speculation that Mahan had not been the original voice of the character.
- In reality, Mahan had voiced the character with a gravelly, higher-pitched tone in the earliest episodes, however the resulting vocal strain forced him to experiment with other versions of the voice until he eventually settled on Goldar's iconic, low guttural inflection.
- Sound bites of Mahan's earlier performance were still used in later episodes, particularly in scenes where Goldar would fight or grow to giant size which usually consisted of growls.
- In reality, Mahan had voiced the character with a gravelly, higher-pitched tone in the earliest episodes, however the resulting vocal strain forced him to experiment with other versions of the voice until he eventually settled on Goldar's iconic, low guttural inflection.
- Goldar's original place of birth was listed as a planet called "Dredwing", but this was dropped. It was later stated that his birthplace was Saturn's moon Titan.
- Goldar shared his name with a heroic giant warrior from the Tokusatsu series The Space Giants. Like this Goldar for Grifforzer, the heroic Goldar was renamed for the American dub, his original name being Magma. The heroic Goldar fought an evil overlord who used giant monsters, much like this Goldar's masters.
See Also
- Grifforzer - Super Sentai counterpart in Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger
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