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This Villain was Headlined on April, 2011. |
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“ | Zordon: Power Rangers, the thing I have feared most has happened. Lord Zedd has returned. Billy: Who's Lord Zedd? Zordon: Rita and her minions’ lord and master. Kimberly: You mean there is somebody worse than Rita? Zordon: I’m afraid so. Lord Zedd has been ruling over darker places within another galaxy. Eons ago, he left Rita in charge to carry out his orders. Since she has failed to do so- Trini: He’s come back to finish the job. Tommy: Will we be able to defeat him, Zordon? Zordon: I do not know, Rangers. I fear your Zords may not be powerful enough to defeat Lord Zedd’s magic. Alpha: Lord Zedd’s power is unmatched by any we’ve ever seen before. |
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~ Zordon introducing Lord Zedd. |
“ | ZEDD! ZEDD, you snivelling Weasel! "Z", "E", "D", "D"! MY NAME IS LORD ZEDD! | „ |
~ Zedd's most famous quote. |
Lord Zedd, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Evil, is the main antagonist of the Power Rangers franchise. He is the overarching antagonist of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers season one, the main antagonist of seasons two and three (alongside Master Vile), one of the secondary antagonists of Power Rangers Zeo, and a minor antagonist in Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie and Power Rangers In Space.
Over twenty years later, Lord Zedd was resurrected by Reaghoul as a major antagonist in Power Rangers Dino Fury seasons one and two and was the main antagonist of Power Rangers Cosmic Fury.
He is a tyrannical alien warlord, the true master of the Evil Space Aliens and the husband of Rita Repulsa. Zedd is the archenemy of Zordon, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and the Cosmic Fury Rangers.
He was voiced by the late Robert Axelrod who also voiced Lokar, the Goo Fish and the Two-Headed Parrot in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as well as Mutantrum in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Outside of Power Rangers, he is best known as Wizardmon in Digimon Frontier. He was played in-suit and in his human form by veteran actor Edwin Neal who also played Rygog in Power Rangers Turbo and Nubbins Sawyer in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In Power Rangers Dino Fury, he is voiced by Andrew Laing, who also voiced Venjix/Evox in Power Rangers RPM and Power Rangers Beast Morphers. In Power Rangers Cosmic Fury, he is voiced by Fred Tatasciore who previously voiced Goldar and the Putty Patrollers in Power Rangers 2017 but is more well known for voice roles such as Yosemite Sam in New Looney Tunes, Shao Kahn in the Mortal Kombat Legends duology and Kakuzu in Naruto.
Biography
Past
Lord Zedd's past and even his birth planet are unknown but he first emerged as a major threat when he came into conflict with Zordon of Eltar. According to Rita, he gained his signature flayed skin appearance when he attempted to grab the Zeo Crystal and was mutilated by the Crystal's protective force field. At some point, he created a number of minions and Rita Repulsa joined him as a minion and sent her to fight Zordon on Earth "eons ago."
An unknown amount of time later, the Evil Space Aliens were forcibly annexed into the United Alliance of Evil because Zedd feared Dark Specter but Lord Zedd was allowed to continue his conquests. Some 10,000 years ago, Zedd sent Rita and a group of lesser minions to fight Zordon and the planet Earth since he was busy with his own attacks. Whether he didn't know his minions were there sealed in a dumpster or knew and just refused to help them because he deemed them a failure is unknown.
Season 2
Lord Zedd comes to Earth after hearing of his top minion Rita Repulsa's failure to defeat the Power Rangers. Finding this to be a disgrace, he magically first stripped the space witch of her Magic Wand with his signature Z Staff imprisons her inside her Space Dumpster, hurls her into space from the Moon Palace, and takes over the job of destroying the Rangers himself. Zedd then uses his powers to create Pirantishead who defeats the Dinozords and assumes control of the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord and the Dragonzord. After the Rangers get their Zords back under control, Zedd angrily opens a crevice in the Earth that swallows all pf the Dinozords with the exception of the Dragonzord. However, the Rangers strike back with their new Thunderzords and defeat Pirantishead but though Zedd is not ready to give up so easily.
Later, after it became clear that Tommy's Green Ranger powers are truly starting to fade, Zedd begind creating monsters specifically designed for the task for draining him. Eventually, he uses a green crystal and a monster called TurbanShell to take the last remnants of Tommy's powers to fuel his team of Dark Rangers. However, Tommy foils Zedd's plans though he still loses his powers so Zedd creates special candles from the wax of the Green Candle that Rita used to drain Tommy's powers in the first place for Billy, Zack, Trini, and Kimberly. He plans to use them to drain the four's powers as well but Jason, who is haunted by the fact that he failed to save Tommy's powers in the same situation, overcomes his doubt and manages to foil this plan as well. After the Rangers are rejoined by Tommy, now the White Ranger, Zedd realizes that they are much more formidable than he wants to admit.
When three of the Rangers, Jason, Zack, and Trini are leaving Angel Grove for the World Peace Conference in Switzerland, Zedd unleashes the titanic Serpentera which could have easily wiped out the Rangers' Zords but he is unable to since the zord's power drains very quickly. Because of this, the Rangers manage to transfer the powers to Rocky, Adam, and Aisha before Zedd could attack and they defeat Silver Horns which thwarts Zedd's plans.
Soon, the time comes for Zedd to undergo his Centennial Recharge; a state of slumber when he will recharge his evil energies. However, Rita returns with a plan for revenge and contacts Finster, who makes her a love potion which she pours into the recharging machine. This makes Zedd fall in love with her upon his awakening, instantly marrying her and losing his menacing personality for a more comedic one. Now with both Zedd and Rita to deal with, the Rangers are barely able to win their battles. The schemes they come up with include the creation of an evil clone of Tommy, Tom Oliver, and sending the Rangers to the past.
Season 3
Zedd is not happy when Rito Revolto, Rita's brother, shows up, who often calls him "Ed", much to his chagrin. Later, Goldar manages to get the love potion out of Zedd's system but Zedd has since developed real feelings for Rita. Zedd and Rita eventually manage to capture Kimberly to force the Rangers to act as the pilots for their newly discovered Shogunzords.
When Tommy attempts to rescue her, the Emperor of Evil engages the White Ranger himself and easily defeats him in combat. The only reason Tommy survived is because he destroys the Z-Staff and forces him to leave. Later, when Master Vile arrives on the Moon seeking the Zeo Crystal, Zedd is pushed off to the side much to his fury. From that point onwards, Zedd constantly belittles and argues with Vile and is ecstatic when the overlord throws a tantrum and leaves after his defeat at the hands of the Aquitan Rangers. Thanks to the Orb of Doom turning back time and transforming the Rangers into children, Zedd only has an aquatic group of aliens, who weaken on land, to deal with. During this time, he and Rita succeed in destroying the Ninja Power Coins but only after Billy returns to his normal age by using them to power a machine he created. Zedd eventually gets his hands on a map of the Command Center and manages to find a weak point in its defenses. Zedd sends Rito and Goldar to plant a bomb and steal the Zeo Crystal which they are eventually successful at doing but only after the Crystal returns the planet back to normal.
Power Rangers Zeo
Whilst the Evil Space Aliens are celebrating however, the Moon Palace is attacked by the Machine Empire's Quadrafighters. With no form of air defence, they are forced to abandon the gutted Moon Palace and flee in Serpentera to the M-51 Galaxy much to Zedd's misery. Despite this incredible set-back and being forced to flee in Serpentera humiliatingly, Zedd swears that he will return someday and finally conquer the Earth.
Much later, Rita and Zedd return after the defeat of Somnibot as the Machine Empire have become an intergalactic laughing stock for failing to defeat the Zeo Rangers. Reclaiming Rito and Goldar and operating out of an RV, Rita and Zedd use a series of plots to prevent the robots from emerging the victors. They create Louie Kaboom, a robot intended to successfully take over the Machine Empire while King Mondo is still in the process of being repaired after his latest defeat. Unfortunately, Rito loses the remote to control him, and he gains sentience. Although this works for a while, Louie is removed out of the picture due to Prince Gasket's arrival, who, with his fiance Princess Archerina's aid goads him into destroying the Rangers by a kamikaze attack. The plan fails, but Louie is destroyed.
When both Goldar and Rito try servicing the mobile RV, they end up breaking a vital component, causing the RV to remain stuck on reverse acceleration while Zedd and Rita are stuck inside. After regaining control, they notice Gasket's latest plan as he has brainwashed Tommy into thinking he is the ruler of the Machine Empire and that the Rangers are his enemies. Rita is pleased to see the Rangers fight against each other, until Lord Zedd realizes that if Gasket wins, then the Machine Empire will take over the planet while they'll be stuck hiding on the Moon. To counter this, Finster suggests that they teleport the rest of the Rangers to the arena, and end up doing so.
With the Machine Empire now becoming an 'intergalactic joke' (as Rita calls it) due to their series of setbacks, the Evil Space Aliens decide to finally strike. They learn about the Gold Zeo powers and how they are fading with Jason's life-force. As King Mondo plans to corner Jason by sending his Cogs after him, he encounters Rita and Zedd, who summon the Tengas and intend to take the powers for their own plans. The Royal House of Gadgetry arrives, and since both the parties are at odds with each other than the Rangers, they wage an all-out war which turns out to be a draw. Zedd cunningly leaves, while revealing to the others that he has a plan to take down the Royal House of Gadgetry once and for all.
Eventually, Zedd feigns a surrender by using a bomb to blow up the Royal House of Gadgetry, leaving the empire to crumble. With their mission complete, the Evil Space Aliens go on holiday before returning to again menace the Earth. Despite this however, they are forced to retire from villainy before they can return after Rita gets pregnant.
Turbo
Roughly a year later, the space pirate Divatox calls Rita to get advice on how to fight the Power Rangers when the newly formed Turbo Rangers pursue her in the Ghost Galleon. Zedd is not involved in the conversation though since he's asleep and Rita instead complains about Zedd's snoring and tells Divatox to run instead of attempting to fight.
Rita and Zedd are later seen in the Millennium Message that Divatox tricks the Blue Senturion into showing her; revealing that she will work with the rest of the United Alliance of Evil to help conquer the universe much to her disgust.
Power Rangers in Space
A year later however, Zedd and his army are forced back into villainy when Dark Specter calls a meeting of the entire United Alliance of Evil to celebrate his conquest of Eltar. At the conference on the Cimmerian Planet, Zedd tells Rita about Divatox's destruction of the Power Chamber and later toasts Dark Specter after he reveals that he has captured Zordon. When Andros is revealed as having infiltrated the meeting, Zedd attempts to strike him down with the Z-Staff but it is deflected and the Ranger escapes.
Later that year, Rita and Zedd lead their forces in a planet in the M-51 Galaxy and manage to defeat Trey of Triforia. When they learn of Dark Specter's death at the hands of Darkonda, Rita and Zedd decide to defect from the UAE but Zordon's Energy Wave washes over the planet. This process destroys thier entire army but Rita and Zedd are spared, being turned into ordinary humans that take the opportunity to dance. Although Rita would go on to become the Mystic Mother, what happens to Lord Zedd after this is unknown.
Dino Thunder
“ | A new villain, Lord Zedd, was destroying Earth and, with three Rangers leaving, a new power source had to be found. Trini, Zack and Jason passed on thier powers and the three new Rangers stepped forward. And just in time as Rita and Zedd teamed up to form our most powerful enemy yet, bringing with them a new terror; Rito. The new team fought bravely but it wasn't enough; Rito destroyed our Zords but a Ranger never gives up. Zordon sent us on a quest to find Ninjor, a warrior from the past who showed us the secrets of the ancient ninja. Our quest complete, we gained new weapons, new Zords and new enemies but, along with new enemies, came new friends. When Kimberly chose to leave, Katherine was the only choice. Katherine assumed the Pink Ranger power and just in time. We were under attack. We got out just as Rita and Zedd succeeded in destroying the Command Center. | „ |
~ Tommy summarising the fight against Lord Zedd. |
Lord Zedd is featured in a chronicle of Power Ranger history compiled by Tommy Oliver shortly after he formed the Dino Rangers, which is found by the nascent Ranger team in the Dino Lab.
Beast Morphers
Twenty-four years after his purification, Lord Zedd's staff is one of the many villain relics in Ryjack's collection that are acquired by Evox and his minions. Zedd is Scrozzle's choice during the villains' discussions until Roxy reminds everyone of what Zedd and Rita did to King Mondo and his family. Fearful that Zedd would secretly plan to betray Evox as well, the idea is abandoned and Scrozzle dumps the Z-Staff.
Power Rangers Dino Fury
Twenty three years after Lord Zedd's purification, Reaghoul successfully recreates Lord Zedd’s pre-Z Wave self as his minion and has him infiltrated Area 62 to steal Void Knight's Sporix Beast collection for his own purposes. Lord Zedd is soon confronted by Void Knight, Slyther and Mucus before revealing himself before his foes. As they gawk in horror at the overlord, Zedd engages and completely decimates the group but is stopped from finishing Void Knight off when Reaghoul commands him to stand down as he decides to propose an alliance with Void Knight's group instead. With the aid of Wolfgang and Brineblast, Zedd captures four of the Dino Fury Rangers after Reaghoul and Void Knight make a deal to get more Sporix. When Ollie arrives to help, Zedd tries to attack him but he teleports before the warlord can get his hands on him.
Ollie later returns to fight and manages to destroy Zedd's Compliance Collar with his Dino Dagger which makes him regain consciousness. Enraged at being forced and controlled, Zedd turns his focus towards Reaghoul, until he teleports away again with Mucus. Lord Zedd then brutally fights the other two monsters that are left along with the freed Dino Fury Rangers, managing to hold his own even with their forces combined. Realizing that he doesn't have his staff, Zedd teleports away claiming that he will return someday and burn planet Earth into ash. The return of Lord Zedd is enough of a threat for the Green Morphin Master to free the Dino Fury Gold Ranger from his stasis in the ocean.
During his time away, Lord Zedd breaks into Grid Battleforce and devastates the building before freeing Scrozzle from prison. He does this because has heard of Scrozzle's actions under Evox and wants to use his intelligence for his plan to create a new army of Sporix. After having Scrozzle retrieve his staff from the Crystal Dimension, he recruits Sizzurai.
Dino Fury Season 2
Returning to Area 62 with his generals shortly after Tarrick is turned into Void King, Zedd forms an alliance with the Void Family where they will give him aid and technology in exchange for a 50/50 split of the Earth. Having established a base on Earth, Zedd has Scrozzle build two generals from the data of Snageye and Boomtower; Boomblaster and Nulleye. He then has Sizzurai attack and brainwash Ollie who he then has lure the Power Rangers into a warehouse trap. After revealing the mind controlled Ollie and Boomblaster, he and Scrozzle teleport away and later call Boomblaster out of battle as well for "something important." The something important turns out to be a betrayal since Boomblaster withdraws and Lord Zedd's forces vanish off of Earth. As revealed by Ollie soon after, they have headed to Rafkon instead to gather information on how to create Sporix as they were first created by the Rafkonians.
After six hours of searching though, they find nothing and are confronted by the Rangers who followed them after hearing of his plan from Ollie. However, Zedd, Scrozzle and Sizzurai teleport away to build their Sporix Generator and leave Nulleye and Boomblaster to fight the Power Rangers. Soon after, they follow the Power Rangers straight to the Sporix Generator with Zedd sending Sizzurai, Boomblaster and Nulleye to confront them whilst Zedd and Scrozzle activate the Sporix Generator. Aiyon soon sees them but Zedd blasts him down only for Zayto to block two others with one of the deflected blasts killing Sizzurai. After de-morphing Zayto, he tries to kill the Power Rangers only for them to be saved and withdrawn by the Green Morphin Master.
Soon after, Scrozzle finishes repairing the Sporix Generator so (when the Rangers reappear) Zedd and his forces teleport themselves and the Generator to Pine Ridge which also destroys Rafkon in the process. Once there though, they are forced to wait for the Sporix Generator to activate and are confronted by Void King and Void Queen who are displeased with the betrayal. However, Zedd is able to convince them that he simply went to fulfil his end of the promise and Void King joins them for the fight as the Rangers return. He then sends Boomblaster, Void King and Snageye to fight them whilst he protects the Generator. Soon though, Boomblaster is killed and Void King retreats with Nulleye so they confront Zedd and Scrozzle with the latter abandoning his new master to save himself. Despite the betrayals, Zedd surrounds himself and the Sporix Generator with an impenetrable energy dome which even all of their most powerful Keys are unable to penetrate. Before Aiyon can perform the Dino Master Saber's ultimate attack though, the Green Morphin Master appears and destroys the dome instead much to Zedd's shock. Enraged, he enters an energy duel with Master Green who he begins to overpower until Aiyon knocks him back which allows her to trap Lord Zedd in a crystal. Although this also traps her in the process, the other Morphin Masters later free her and they take away Zedd's crystal to be stored away for the rest of time.
Within six months of Void Queen's redemption and the ultimate defeat of the Sporix however, Lord Zedd somehow escapes his imprisonment so the Dino Fury Rangers go after him.
Power Rangers Cosmic Fury
Lord Zedd is revealed to have been rescued from his cube by the owners of the arms-dealing organization Squid Ink Inc who want him to cause intergalactic conflict so they can profit off the conflict. Zedd views the battle between the Dino Fury Rangers, Billy, Mick and the Morphin Masters beating his Zentinals but, with help from Bajillia Naire and Scrozzle (now working for Squid Ink after betraying Zedd), they use the Master Captivator to capture all six of the Morphin Masters and has Ollie turned evil again thanks to Doodrip. Despite this, the Dino Fury Rangers, Billy Cranston and Mick Kanic escape so Lord Zedd is given control of Squid Ink's armada and moves to attack Earth.
After Doodrip, a former Squid Ink Inc. member who was fired by Zedd, fails to destroy the Rangers, he makes his way into invading the Dino Fury Rangers' base, Dinohenge, and begins destroying most of the dinosaur statues to render them powerless without their morphing abilities. After the Rangers escape into space, he only spares the Triceratops statue when Ollie insists on serving him. He then orders Ollie to destroy his allies while he sends down more fleets to finally invade Earth. Zedd has his fleets all over the world capture as many humans around the globe and keep them in prisons, especially having most of the Squidrills create a force field that disables most of the Power Ranger teams' Zords to shut down and capture them as well.
When Ollie returns with information regarding Zayto's whereabouts, Zedd has Ollie hand down a modified version of his Morpher to deal with Zayto and has Squillia aid General Omwhyzo in finishing the invasion whilst Zedd makes his way to invade Eltar, Zordon's home planet, just to spite his old enemy. As he builds his new fortress after conquering Eltar, he is then reported by Ollie that he failed. Instead of berating him, Zedd gives Ollie advice that he must give up his ways as a Ranger and give into his evil aspects, seeing potential in the brainwashed boy. Back at Eltar, Zedd berates Bajillia and Scrozzle for the failure to retrieve the Cosmic Dragon Zord and endorses Ollie with his idea of stealing the Rangers' Cosmic Fury Zords and having them destroyed. Zedd later informs Squillia and Ozwhymo about the Cosmic Fury Rangers setting course for Earth, ordering them to take care of the latter.
Zedd then gives advice to Ollie about staying on top and about power, and he then explains his intentions to the latter about using the Morphin Masters' energy for himself. After the Rangers liberate most of the people from Zedd's prisons, Zedd is seen back in Eltar where Scrozzle helps him get hooked up in preparations to absorb the Morphin Masters for himself and explains to Bajillia these exact intentions (which she knew from the beginning as she is the one who plotted it), which she leaves to retrieve her daughter. Zedd is then reported by a grieving "Squilla" (in actuality, Slyther in disguise) that Bajillia "perished" in battle, to which Zedd responds that he can continue without her.
When Mucus and Slyther make it into Zedd's fortress to destroy the Triceratops statue, Zedd takes notice alongside Ollie before it explodes, reverting Ollie back to normal, though he still pretends to be evil for a moment. Later on, Zedd sends a message to the Cosmic Fury Rangers, showing them a restrained Mucus and Slyther, preparing to torture them out of spite until Ollie attacks both him and Bajillia, now revealed to have survived from earlier, then warning the Rangers about Zedd's plans to turn himself into a Morphin Master. Zedd then strikes Ollie down, orders him to be chained up, and has the feed cut off.
Afterwards, Lord Zedd manages to make preparations and has the Master Captivator transfer all the Morphin Masters into Zedd, absorbing all their energy before the Rangers arrive too late. Once the process is done, Zedd fully becomes a Morphin Master under the new alias, "Master Zedd", as he begins to fight the Cosmic Fury Rangers and destroy all of their remaining Zords in battle. Overwhelming the Rangers in battle, he was soon back-stabbed by Bajillia and Scrozzle, trapping and absorbing him within the Master Captivator, revealing she played him for a fool and her intentions of using his wave of evil energy, combined with the Morphin Masters, to eliminate all good within the universe.
Once Bajillia is defeated, Master Zedd is confronted inside the Captivator by the Rangers and Zayto, who became a Morphin Master, and inform him about Bajillia's plan. Zedd declines, believing it would benefit him to rule everything in the universe unopposed but Zayto counters the argument that Zedd would be destroyed too if it happened. Left with no choice, Zedd reluctantly agrees to go along with Zayto's deal as he releases all the energy of the Morphin Masters, freeing both him and the Rangers.
In a turn of events, after he is returned to normal, Zedd planned to destroy the Rangers the first chance he gets. However, it's revealed he is now stuck on Planet Nibyro where he is to live the rest of his days living his worst nightmare; being with his wife, Rita Repulsa, and serving her. As a result, his fate is sealed unless he finds it somewhere in his heart to be truly noble, which Zayto believes even Zedd may have the potential of redeeming himself.
Due to his and Omni's destructive conquests in 2023, the various Ranger teams were forced to bring refugees of ruined worlds to NewTech City and force Earth to be home to them. Thus setting up the diverse society of 2025's Powers Rangers SPD.
Video Game Appearances
Power Rangers: Super Legends
In the PlayStation 2 and PC versions of the video game Power Rangers Super Legends, Zedd returns as the main antagonist yet again, where he was corrupted and transformed back by a past version of himself. He proceedes to wreak havoc throughout time and it takes a combined team of Power Rangers from different times to defeat him. Zedd is defeated and flees to a void outside time, but he drops a time crystal in the process, trapping himself there for the rest of time.
Personality
“ | Solon: Lord Zedd was known across the cosmos as the Emperor of Evil. There were no limits to his power. Look at this. He once used the Rock of Time to turn the Rangers back into children. He had a horrifying and ginormous Zord of his own; Serpentera. Lord Zedd even stole the Green Ranger's energy to create his own team of evil Rangers. Ollie: Okay, so he's tough and terrifying. How did those Rangers defeat him? Solon: They didn't. In the end, it took a great sacrifice from their mentor Zordon. |
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~ Solon regarding Lord Zedd. |
In his debut appearance and 40 episodes after, Zedd started off as very menacing, formidable, dangerous, antipathetic, egotistical, narcissistic, and destructive. He is extremely diabolical, opprobrious, vituperative, sadistic, and blasphemous, so he abuses his lackeys, silencing Goldar and others frequently and blaming them for most failures rather than taking responsibility for those failures himself. However, there were cases where he acknowledged the failure was his own fault: in season 2's "Opposites Attract", when the core Rangers defeat Magnet Brain, he says he should've known science and monsters don't mix. During and after The Wedding, thanks to Rita's Love Potion, he becomes mostly loving, benevolent, compassionate, and appreciative towards Rita, but he still argues with her and others when he doesn't get his way; for example, during their first marital argument, he silenced Rita and demanded her respect from him when she blamed him for their recent failure, then refused to comply to her listening to him from then on. Master Vile and Lord Zedd absolutely hated each other; Zedd for Vile taking the reins of destroying the Rangers from him and Vile for Zedd marrying his daughter. As a result, Zedd was extremely disdainful, rebarbative, and contumacious towards Vile on multiple occasions.
When he was turned good by Zordon's Energy Wave, his negative personality traits were purged as his love for Rita was enough for Zordon's energy to turn him into a human being. When he returned for Dino Fury though, since Reaghoul resurrected a version of Zedd from prior to the Z Wave, he has returned to his original personality only even more angry and vengeful after being freed from his Compliance Collar.
Zedd studied up on every single villain that fought Power Rangers between 1999 and 2020; he saw that they all screwed up due to lacking the power to maintain their victories. Knowing full well that it's a fools errand to attempt defeating Rangers by whittling down resources, Zedd sought to become all powerful by stealing the Morphin Masters' powers. He told the brainwashed Cosmic Fury Blue Ranger that survival trumped any and all priorities; once you're knocker down as the top dog, you can't get that back.
Powers and Abilities
- Power: Lord Zedd is one of the strongest enemies in Power Rangers history, being able to invade and devastate the entirety of Grid Battleforce even without his staff and completely decimating the Dino Fury Rangers. Dark Specter was the only villain that he was ever known to fear.
- Durability: Lord Zedd could shrug off a slash from Aiyon with the Dino Master Saber.
- Growth Bombs: Lord Zedd could produce growth bombs in his right hand to throw to Earth and enlarge his monsters.
- Hand to Hand Combat: Lord Zedd was able to defeat all five Dino Fury Rangers, Brineblast and Wolfgang with his bare hands.
- Teleportation: Lord Zedd can teleport in strikes of lightning.
- Interplanetary Teleportation: Lord Zedd was also able to teleport between the Earth and Rafkon and back at will in those energy streaks.
- Projection: Lord Zedd could project his face into a storm during his opening appearance.
- Lightning Blasts: Lord Zedd could throw lightning bolts from his hands to frighten his minions.
Arsenal
- The Z-Staff: Lord Zedd's signature monochrome staff which had a pointed tip. It could fire lightning from the Z-tip for a variety of effects.
- Monster Creation: Lord Zedd could create monsters from objects with his lightning. He could even create monsters from absolutely nothing.
- Energy Streams: Lord Zedd could fire massive yellow energy beams from his Z-Staff that were strong enough to take down and instantly demorph Aiyon and with one hit.
- Charged Energy Streams: Lord Zedd could fire aim his Z-Staff into the sky and charge it with energy before firing a devastating yellow energy beam from his Z-Staff. This was his apparent most powerful attack since it would have killed the Dino Fury Rangers with one hit had the Green Morphin Master not saved them.
- Energy Dome Generation: Lord Zedd could charge orange-red energy into the Z-Staff to fire an energy stream into the air and form an impenetrable dome around him and the Sporix Generator.
- Energy Lasers: Lord Zedd could fire a continuous red laser from the Z-Staff that were powerful enough to overwhelm the Green Morphin Master's own energy.
- Growth Bombs: Lord Zedd could produce growth bombs in his right hand to throw to Earth and enlarge his monsters.
Quotes
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
“ | I am Lord Zedd, Emperor of all I see. You have failed to complete the mission assigned to you. I will now resume command. Prepare the palace for my return. | „ |
~ Lord Zedd's first words when appearing in storm clouds over the Moon Palace. |
“ | QUIET! Those Power Rangers are nothing more than mere infants! YOU WERE DEFEATED BY CHILDREN! You dare call yourself an Empress of Evil?! You are not fit TO DESTROY A COCKROACH! | „ |
~ Lord Zedd's famous excoriating of Rita. |
“ | They have won this time, but none of us shall rest until the Rangers are completely destroyed. And THE EARTH IS REDUCED TO MERE CINDERS!!! | „ |
~ Zedd deciding to remain in command of the Evil Space Aliens to annihilate the planet Earth. |
“ | Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ah ha ha ah ha ha ha ha! Welcome Rangers. Perhaps you’re wondering where you are. Well, you’re now in my dimension known as The Otherworld. Ha ha ha! I’m afraid you’ll find that your Morphers are useless here and Zordon cannot help you either. With this Crystal, I have sealed off his precious Command Center forever! Ha ha ha ha ha! And now dear friends, it’s time to meet your replacements. | „ |
~ Lord Zedd when meeting the Power Rangers for the first time and introducing his Dark Rangers to them in the episode "Green No More-part I." |
“ | What beauty. What magnificence. Where did you come from, fair lady of my dreams? Rita, yes, Rita. Rita of the stars. Of the Sun! Of the…universe. I’ve been looking for you for so long. I love you fair creature. Say you will be my wife. | „ |
~ Lord Zedd falling in love with Rita. |
“ | This is incredible! Of all the insufferable, wretched, despicable, unbelievably stupid maneouvers. You said you could do it. Rita said that you could do it. Rito Revolto; weren’t you going to PUT AN END TO THE POWER RANGERS?! | „ |
~ Lord Zedd after the initial defeat of Rito Revolto. |
“ | Huh huh huh huh ha. Greetings my friends. Isn’t anyone going to ask me how my trip was? Hm, not a bad place. A little tacky. When I take over, I’ll have my darling wife redecorate it. Huh huh huh huh huh. Oh Alpha, you can come out of hiding. | „ |
~ Lord Zedd after being teleported to the Command Center. |
“ | Alright Power Rangers, this is your dilemma. You agree to pilot my new fleet of Zords and do all my evil bidding. Or, you can refuse my offer in which case we can all sit around and have a jolly time watching the Pink Ranger waste away! Save your breath, Zordon! I’m giving the commands around here. Now, I’ll give you a moment to make your decision. | „ |
~ Lord Zedd's ultimatum about the Shogunzords. |
“ | Ah, now they really are Power Brats! I just can’t believe the old coot did it. You know what this means, don’t you? I'll never hear the end of it!!! | „ |
~ Zedd after Master Vile regressed the Power Rangers into children. |
“ | Ya ha ho ho ho! Yes, come my Queen. Let us greet our new subjects. Ha ha. | „ |
~ Zedd after enlarging himself, Rita, Rito and Goldar. |
“ | Yeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!! never thought I would be happy to see the goody goods triumph but, Goldar, I am very very happy! Now, we will finish what Master Vile started. This time however, we shall play by my rules! Haaaaaaaaaaa! | „ |
~ Zedd after Master Vile left in disgrace. |
“ | Lord Zedd: Think about it; Billy's device is designed to remove the Earth's impunities! But he never took into account lunar toxic waste! Rita: I think I see where you're going with this. I like it! Zedd: Na ha ha! After we dump our own space waste into the water, those galactic do-gooders will be destroyed forever! Ha ha ha ha ha! And I can think of no-one better to toxicate the lake than our very own Eric and Merrick the Barbaric. Rita: Those are rube, rude dudes and I love 'em. Ha ha ha ha ha! |
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~ Rita and Lord Zedd's plan for the Barbaric Brothers. |
“ | Rita: Well, well, well what we have here? Oh, this looks good. Ah, those pitiful parched alien do-gooders are leaving the lab to find water. Ha ha ha ha! Lord Zedd: Excellent, they’ll have a surprise waiting for them when they come back! My Arachnofiend will create a sticky situation. Rita: Itsy, bitsy spider crawled up the waterspout. Lord Zedd: But this little spider will wash the Rangers ouuuuuuuuut! |
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~ Rita and Zedd's plan for Arachnofiend. |
Zeo
“ | What in the name of wickedness was that?! Get out of my way fools. Weeeeeeell, what is it? What do you see? Speak up sugar. What is it? | „ |
~ Lord Zedd after the Machine Empire's Quadrafighters attacked the Moon Palace. |
“ | Oh no, no way. Absolutely not. If you think I’m going to, you’ve got another thing coming. I absolutely refuse to move in with your father and that’s final! I can’t and I won't! | „ |
~ Zedd after Rita suggested moving to the M-51 Galaxy. |
“ | I have never been so humiliated. Ah, they haven't heard the last of me yet. I will be back one day and rule the galaxy with every bit of evil I possess. Mark my words. | „ |
~ Lord Zedd when fleeing in Serpentera. |
Power Rangers in Space
“ | This calls for a lava juice toast! To the universe! A universe that shall belong to the Dark Specter! | „ |
~ Lord Zedd at the United Alliance of Evil's conference. |
“ | Watch out Rita! | „ |
~ Lord Zedd reacting to Zordon's Energy Wave and his final words before his purification. |
Power Rangers Dino Fury
“ | Behold! It is I! | „ |
~ The resurrected Lord Zedd's first words when revealing himself to Void Knight. |
“ | After all this time, I'm free! I'M FREE!!! | „ |
~ Lord Zedd after being freed from his Compliance Collar. |
“ | Do I really need an introduction?! Ha! I was in the neighbourhood and thought you might like to meet my new servant. Once we destroy the Rangers, the Earth is ours. Half for you; half for me. I've travelled the galaxy gathering information and forming my plans. I sent a spikey friend of mine after the Rangers whilst Scrozzle retrieved my staff from the Crystal Dimension. Next, he's going to build me a powerful army of robots. | „ |
~ Lord Zedd upon returning to Area 62. |
“ | This is what you get for calling me "radiator face!" Turned from a threat into a pet! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! | „ |
~ Lord Zedd after Sizzurai took control of Ollie, |
“ | What?! Beyeeeeeegh! Huh? Those cowards fled so there is now no-one left that can stop the Emperor of Evil! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! | „ |
~ Lord Zedd after the Green Morphin Master saved the Power Rangers. |
“ | Coward! Once again, I have to do everything myself! But you won't stop me. Not when I'm moments from releasing the Sporix! | „ |
~ Lord Zedd when Scrozzle abandoned him. |
“ | Your power weakens! | „ |
~ Lord Zedd as he began to overwhelm the Green Morphin Master and his last words before being crystalized. |
Cosmic Fury
“ | There is a saying in this universe, "No peace for the strongest, only survival." Think of all the warlords and Emperors that came before me. They all failed and then were destroyed. People of power, including Rangers, will always try to tear the top dog down. And if you're down, you're done for. The only way to survive is to stay on top. That's why I must become the most powerful being there is. | „ |
~ Lord Zedd explaining his ultimate goal. |
“ | Don't tell me how to feel! Uuuuugh! I hate how much I love her. | „ |
~ Lord Zedd's last words after being trapped in a dream world forever. |
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Trivia
- Lord Zedd was the first villain in the series to be created exclusively for Power Rangers and not derived from a Super Sentai series.
- His theme replaced the Lunar Palace theme after Rita got kicked out. After Rita married him, Zedd's theme was also retired in favour of general ambience.
- Some parents complained about Zedd being too frightening to younger children. As a result, Zedd was toned down after marrying Rita (although this also disappointed some fans, as they preferred the darker and more serious villain).
- Lord Zedd is the only member of the United Alliance of Evil alive, his rivals are purified or destroyed.
- Lord Zedd is the second main villain as the defeat is indirectly caused by a secondary villain, (Bajillia Naire and Scrozzle), before to be defeated by the Rangers. The first is Trakeena betrayed and almost killed by Deviot and Olympius and later killed by the Rangers.
- Lord Zedd was likely chosen as the final villain of the original Power Rangers continuity in order to bring it full circle and because he is one of favorite Power Rangers villains.
- Robo Rita got the spotlight in the Mighty Morhin anniversary special, while Goldar returned briefly as a minion of Evox.
External Links
- Lord Zedd on the Power Rangers Wiki
See Also
- Lieutenant Colonel Shadam (role in Season 2)
- Daimaou (role in Season 3)
- Don Armage (role in Cosmic Fury)
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