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“ | After all, you are nothing more... than my lesser self. | „ |
~ Lord Drakkon revealing himself to be an alternate version of Tommy Oliver. |
“ | I don't know... how you... survived... but I promise... to make your second death all the more painful! You understand, kids? You were no match for me when I was but a man. What hope do you stand now that I am a GOD?! This is my world. Here, my destiny is all the more certain. As they always have, your "friends" will fail you, Tommy. Just as they did me. | „ |
~ Drakkon taunting and threatening the Mighty Morphin Rangers, Tommy in particular. |
“ | We will invade their worlds. We will tear down everything that might protect them. And then when it's too late, when they're powerless and alone, they will realize the truth. They could've been gods. | „ |
~ Lord Drakkon in the Shattered Grid live action trailer. |
Lord Drakkon is an evil Power Ranger supervillain who controls the mysterious Black Dragon Zord and fought the Power Rangers. Drakkon served as the main antagonist in the Shattered Grid arc of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic books by Boom! Studios. He is a sinister and older version of Tommy Oliver from an alternate reality where he rules his Earth with an iron fist from a dystopian and futuristic Angel Grove where he is in total control.
Like his original self, he was portrayed by the late Jason David Frank.
Biography
Being Tommy Oliver from alternate reality, Lord Drakkon's backstory as Tommy matches his prime counterpart's until his climactic final battle against the Red Ranger, Jason Lee Scott. When Tommy was freed from the alien witch Rita Repulsa's curse, instead of joining Zordon and his Rangers, Tommy fled, wandering from city to city, avoiding the Rangers as they tried to find him. As a result, it allowed Rita to sway him to her cause once again, telling him why she had chosen him and that he was meant for great things, to bring peace to the world as its one leader. Rita also told him of Drakkon, another young man in whom she saw potential and whom had successfully built a legacy with her guidance. Tommy, intrigued, left with Rita and continued to serve her, this time in his own volition. Believing Rita Repulsa meant to better the world through conquest, Tommy aided Rita in taking over the Earth, one city at a time. Over time, their conquest caused Rita Repulsa herself to become popular to Earth's population; seeing salvation from their troubles.
Eventually, Tommy led Rita Repulsa's forces into one final battle against Zordon's last battalion of Rangers and Zords just as Zordon was on the verge of creating White Ranger Power. Tommy breached the Command Center as Jason was being infused with this new power, interrupting the process before it could finish. After killing Jason in one final battle, he stole the new Ranger Power and forcefully combined it with his Green Ranger power, resulting in his Ranger armor assuming its signature appearance. The triumphant Tommy, now Lord Drakkon, then emerged from the Command Center clutching Jason's shattered helmet.
Due to his new powers, Tommy and his forces singlehandedly defeated the rest of the Rangers, destroyed their Zords, and successfully conquered the planet Earth. While he originally did so in Rita Repulsa's name, his hunger for power grew and he became a ruthless monster and an oppressive tyrant far worse than his creator, something Rita herself had not foreseen. A testament of his fall from grace was his backstabbing on Rita after Rangers' destruction and after the sorceress taught him her spells, such as brainwashing. He then gained the loyalty of Rita Repulsa's elvish alchemist Finster, who he turned into the cyborg Finster 5, using Alpha's body parts.
Now rechristened "Lord Drakkon", Tommy drew upon the Power Coin energies to create Ranger Sentries, each serving a specific role in his army. However, he lacked Billy's coin, as Trini hid it away. The former Rangers and those who were against Tommy's rule formed the resistance group called "The Coinless". Unknown to Drakkon, Skull had infiltrated his army as a Tyrannosaurus sentry.
Ever since the death of Billy and Matthew by Lord Drakkon’s regime, Kimberly Ann Hart began her solo quest for vengeance against the dark lord Power Ranger. However, Drakkon managed to enslave her with one of Rita Repulsa's brainwashing spells quickly, turning her into his brainwashed Ranger Slayer.
Personality
Being Tommy Oliver who willingly chose the path of evil, Lord Drakkon is a ruthless sociopath, who rules his subjects with an iron fist, possessing a warped vision of the world with a God complex. He detests any connection that he has of his alternate-reality self, considering him to be a polluted and weak shadow of the powerful image of himself that he has cultivated. His hatred of this connection he has, no matter how distant, shows that his rage and contempt spans the multiverse, which paints him as being truly a dark mirror of the man that his alternate and younger self is striving to become. In many ways, Drakkon represents the absolute worst fears that Tommy from the main universe has about himself. This version of Tommy is ruthless and cunning, using his knowledge of the Power Rangers to systematically weaken them and destroy the Command Center.
Lord Drakkon is also incredibly arrogant, believing his hybridized powers made him superior to every other Rangers that existed before and after him, a self-proclaimed superiority so great that he would rather die in combat than be shamefully defeated and imprisoned by his hated younger counterpart. The said arrogance seems to grow into troubling signs of a god complexity where in the live-action promotional trailer for Shattered Grid, he believes all Power Rangers aside himself have squandered their chance to become gods with their powers in order to help others, turning themselves into nothing more than mere servants of humanity to his beliefs.
However, like all arrogant tyrants, Lord Drakkon's hubris proved to be his character flaw which, upon exploited, unveils a more cowardly side of himself he unknowingly developed by his ego. When he was finally stripped of his powers, Lord Drakkon was clearly in a state of shock, realizing that he had relied too much to his powers for so long to the point of him believing himself to be invincible. He quickly recovered though, and resorted to use psychological warfare against his foes, skills that he developed from his time as the servant and apprentice of his reality's Rita Repulsa. Also, in spite of his immense powers, it should be noted that his experience, as well as skills over them, still paled compared to his heroic younger counterpart, so much that even after finally recovering his lost powers, he chose to attack Tommy via ambush instead of a head-on attack.
When he discovers that HE was the only anomaly of Tommy Oliver in the entire Power Rangers multiverse due to choosing to use his powers for evil, it only increased Drakkon's anger and (ironic) self-hatred. As a result, Drakkon took joy in slaughtering his Mighty Morphin' and Zeo counterparts; which would later undone.
Quotes
“ | We will invade their worlds. We will tear down everything that might protect them. And then when it's too late, when they're powerless and alone, they will realize the truth. They could've been gods. | „ |
~ Lord Drakkon in the Shattered Grid live-action trailer. |
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Trivia
- His name is pronounced as "Drah-Kon", despite the spelling suggesting that it should be "dray-con", according to story writer Kyle Higgins and actor the late Jason David Frank, who also portrayed Drakkon in the Shattered Grid live action trailer.
- Making the pronunciation similar to Dr. Drakkon's name.
- Drakkon very likely wasn't able to steal the Zeo Crystal from underneath the Moon Palace; if he was foolish enough to try, Drakkon would have ended up just as maimed as Lord Zedd.
- Despite being a tyrant, Drakkon kept his version of Earth protected from the other factions of the United Alliance of Evil, Lothor, Octomus the Master, Xandred, the Warstar, Emperor Mavro,Galvanax, Bajillia Naire and the Troobian Empire; all of whom came from space or mystical underworlds.
- Scorpius would have no interest in Earth; the quasar sabers on miranoi would be comparable to the Lights of Orion.
- Diabolico and the demons couldn't be freed by accident; Drakkon keeps tight surveillance for any potential threats.
- Ransik wouldnt be stupid enough to go back to the 21st century; Drakkon would be a well documented villain worse than Hitler.
- Even if Master Org was able to raise an org army, and find Jindrax and Toxica, Drakkon had Ranger Sentries to outnumber them.
- Mesogog and Zeltrax wouldn’t exist; Anton Mercer wouldn't have been allowed to experiment with Dino DNA and Smitty wouldn't be caught in an explosion that required him to be turned into a cyborg.
- The corona auroa wouldn't be found and release Flurious and Moltor, while signaling the Fear Cats along with Kamdor and Miratrix.
- Dai Shi couldn't very released by accident as the Order of the Claw would be focusing on Drakkon as their enemy.
- Venjix would never be able to evolve into Evox, as there wouldn't be a Grid Battleforce for Dr K to donate the RPM Morphers to.
- Ironically, Drakkon quite obviously found a way to stop the Nighlocks from flooding Earth with the Sanzu River; given his tyranny would filled the entire world with the negativity of grief, rage and misery, which fills the river.
- Even if Sledge arrived via the wormhole from a parallel Dino Charge universe, Drakkon would destroy him and Sledge's Crew with ease; if Sledge wasn't stupid enough to try stealing the Power Coins, he would leave Earth alone.
- The Void family wouldn't have come to be, as Drakkon would lock up Tarrick and Sentura along with their daughter. Which would leave the Sporix Beats still contained with Zayto.
- Drakkon knew that even staying morphed couldn't do much to delay his aging; wanting to rule eternally. So he planned to access more and more of the Morphing Grid via different Ranger team morphers until her could steal its core to destroy the Multiverse and become a godlike being in charge of his ideal world.
- Drakkon showed a longing to be a Superman-like character in his fake reality; even making Zordon and Rita his parents.
- His unwillingness to ever de-morph is much like the version of Skeletor who would refuse to surrender the Power of Greyskull and stay "Skelegod" in Masters of the Universe Revalation.
- Ironically, despite swearing loyalty to his dimension's Rita Repulsa, who is implied to be far more trusting to her subordinates rather than punishing those trying to usurp her authority, this version of Rita was killed by Drakkon himself.
- This can be excused, however, since Drakkon is an excellent manipulator.
- Lord Drakkon is basically what Tommy would've been if hadn't join the team.
External Links
- Lord Drakkon on the Pure Evil Wiki.
- Lord Drakkon on the RangerWiki.
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