| “ | How precious. The Three Little Bears and the Big Bad Wolf come to rescue Goldilocks. Get them. | „ |
| ~ Medusa ordering her ninjas to attack Rocky, Colt, Tum Tum, and Dave Dragon |
Mary Ann Rogers is the main antagonist of the 1998 film 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain. She goes by the name "Medusa".
She was portrayed by the late Loni Anderson.
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Medusa is a master criminal that had been arrested for her recent crimes she committed until she escaped from prison. Next year prior to the film's event, Medusa founded and created her own terrorist group at the freighter called the Tortuga as her secret base of operations, hiring her right-hand man Lothar Zogg, her Jamaican sidekick C.J., her three idiotic nephews Carl, Buelow and Zed, and her small group of both mercenaries and ninjas with their martial arts and resources. Medusa and her henchmen both started to prepare their plans to attack the Mega Mountain Amusement Park with their weapons and equipments. Medusa and Lothar starts off their plans by splitting mercenaries into three groups, locking the guests inside the holding tank of the roller coaster and taking over the park's command center operations.
During the following day, Medusa and her henchmen sneak in through the park sewage and then infiltrate the park with their disguises. While inside the park, Medusa and Lothar spots the poster that advertises about Dave Dragon and the star force 5 making the performance. Knowing to be viable threats to their plans, Medusa sends Lothar and some few mercenaries to capture Dave while she and the other mercenaries are going to the park's control center operations. Medusa's mercenaries begins to commandeering and shutting many places and rides down, impersonating the park ride operators, kidnapping several guests and holding them hostage, including knocking the security guards out to prevent anyone in case who attempts to investigate or actually did get any suspicious about it. Medusa and her men arrive at the park's control command center operations, tricking the security guards into letting them in by pointing her gun at the guard named Smithers and taken him hostage as she and her men continues to take over the park's control command center operations and used it as their base of operations, removing the park's operators and disabling the all technologies and cutting off the phone connections. Medusa also watches C.J. hacking into the park's central computer mainframe control systems and controls all the park's surveillance cameras and closed-circuit television monitors.
Medusa had C.J. dial and call the park owner, Harry Jacobson, with the video-telephone from his mansion, using the security guard as the pawn, she demands Jacobson to pay her $10 dollars ransom and threatens to cause accidents on the rides. After fending Klaus and the thugs that attempts to capture Dave at the backstage after his performance and waking him up to inform about the park being compromised, the great deal with several guards unconscious and phone disconnections, he thanks the kids and goes off on his own to fight them. Amanda intercepts the radio that was left behind from the mercenaries after their chase and switches the transmit onto channel 9 news on the tower, knowledge about them and request Tum-Tum to call out a fire alert to them, which causes the fire and police units to be called and attempts to investigate the park. However, C.J. and one of Medusa's mercenary spots the police and alerts her about them, where she orders her men to attack them, leading to a big shootout. This causes the FBI led by the boys' father Sam Douglas to be called in and arrive at the scene.
In the meantime, Chief Young informs Sam about the park's terrorist attack and FBI Tech analyst Andrew intercepted Medusa's call on the FBI van monitors, where Sam and Young meet her on the monitors. After Rocky and Sam's conversations, Medusa reminds Sam, Young and Andrew about her plans to make Jacobson pay her some large amounts of money. Sam orders one of his fellow agents to bring Jacobson to the park, Andrew to analyze her and another agents to bring the park engineer about the ride safety conditions. Since the Police and FBI are called, Medusa retaliates by instructing C.J. to interface the Avalanche ride and proceed to increase the speed level, nearly putting the lives of riders in danger. The boys are worried about the riders at their risk due to their call, but Amanda gives them some of her arsenal weapons and utilizes them for their fight. After the boys fought some of Medusa's mercenaries with Amanda managed to override and shut off the Avalanche ride's power control with her laptop and saving the guests, Medusa angrily demands C.J. interconnect the Avalanche's ride monitors on kids where they argue with her before C.J. capture their face on the camera and print them out. Knowing they will interfere with her plans, Medusa summoned Lothar to have her nephews to capture the kids.
Meanwhile, Dave tries to infiltrate Medusa's operations after following Lothar to the park's control command center operations and sucker punching one of Medusa's guard on the face when he tricks him into opening the door under the bunny disguise, spies at Medusa and her henchmen watching the news broadcast as her plans are working on progresses where Jacobson should pay until she discovered and orders her men to seize him. Even though Dave fights them, Medusa trips him down after she uses her own whip, allowing her men to capture him and she tried to seduce him to be her slaves, but he rejects her offers and she orders her men to tie him up on the chair before C.J. asks him to sign his sister's autograph desperately, much to her annoyance. After Colt, Rocky and Tum Tum evade and take her nephews down with the carnival's games items and their ninjitsu skills in their chase, C.J. calls Medusa that she witnesses her nephews on the Master Blaster ride and both screaming in panic on the monitor screen with Dave snickers at her expense, making her call for Lothar, who decides to deal with the situation by himself since they failed their task anyway. Meanwhile, Amanda utilizes her laptop to gain access into the park's mainframe central computer systems to lock all of the rides out. While the SWAT team arrives, attempts to storm the park and stop Medusa while Dave taunts her about it, she has her men rigged the fence with electricity to shock and prevent them from entering the park. Dave argues with Medusa as she mocks him with his repeated before ordering C.J. to hack into the park's ride systems. When C.J. proceed with Medusa's plans to hack into the ride systems, he wrestles the controls as Amanda manually locks down some of the ride access. However, Medusa intervenes and quickly has her access locked out on the Zinger Turbo Loop roller coaster and suspends a roller coaster train full of passengers at the top of a loop inversion. Dave angrily attempts to attack Medusa before she subdues him and orders her mercenaries to take him away. Knowing Dave won't be a problem, Medusa threatens Harry further with the Zinger Turbo Loop roller coaster full of passengers to their deaths if he does not pay her a large sum of money, forcing Sam tell Jacobson to pay the ransom, to which he reluctantly agrees and leaves to gather his money at the bank with the police's assistance. While Medusa's mercenaries scares off some of the park's guests away from the Zinger Turbo Loop ride, few of her men imprisons Dave at the Twister II roller coaster middle holding tank bottom, where it is full of guests that are held hostage, and tortures him.
In the meantime, Medusa berates her nephews for making the boys escape and threatens them if they failed her once more again, but Carl learns the on-ride camera picture at the Twister II roller coaster photo booth showing footage of Rocky with Jennifer both riding on it earlier and gets one to find her. Eventually, Medusa's nephews found Jennifer at the line and capture her as Carl starts lying about Rocky. Medusa manages to have her nephews kidnap Jennifer, tying her to the bottom of the Zinger Turbo Loop roller coaster's track and use her as a bait to keep the kids from interfering by threatening to release the train, causing it to run over her if they don't cooperate, but Rocky goes off on his own to rescue Jennifer. While watching Medusa's nephews tying Jennifer up on the bottom of the roller coaster track from the surveillance monitors, she sent Lothar to stop the kids. Rocky arrives and battles with Lothar with a sword while attempting to rescue her. After the fight at the top of the roller coaster loop, Rocky knocks Lothar off with the yo-yo around his ankle, causing him to fall and literally bounce out of the park into the hands of the authorities that are stationed outside of the park, much to Medusa's anger while watching from the monitors. When C.J. alerts Medusa about Jacobson arriving via his helicopter from the monitors, she orders her men to gather all their belongings and then releases the brake train that attempt to crush Rocky & Jennifer. Rocky frees and saves Jennifer from the passing roller coaster train. After Jacobson arrives at the Mega Mountain with Medusa and her men heading over at the fountain, he then begins to give Medusa the $10 million ransom from bag by bag as they pick them up in process. But as the final one drops, Amanda manages to use her helicopter to cut it open, destroying it as all of the money rains down and the park guests start to snatch it all, much to her dismay. Unfortunately, Medusa quickly discovers Amanda with her remote-controlled helicopter, captures her and escapes with her men before Sam and the police raids into the park.
Rocky meets up with his brothers, they spots Amanda and run into Dave. After the boys inform Dave about Amanda's capture, they all unite to save her. Meanwhile, Medusa reminds Amanda about her plans to use her as a hostage to escape, then she will be her personal slave to work off the lost money. Medusa estimates that in 50 years they will be even. The boys and Dave confront Medusa that she then orders her ninjas to attack them, which Dave assists and fights them off and faces her remaining mercenaries, but she incapacitates him. During the boys fight with Medusa's ninjas and some of her mercenaries escapes the park, Amanda struggles with one of Medusa's mercenaries holding her arm and then furiously shoves him down. Medusa reappears and recaptures Amanda once again, to which Medusa changes her mind that she decides to handcuff Amanda on the pipe and give her a little "surprise".
After the boys are able to fight many ninjas before they catch up to Medusa, she compliments their skills, but then decides to even the odds by shooting all the lights out. After darkening the hall, this gives her ninjas the upper hand because they have night vision goggles. While the boys are taken care of by the ninjas, Medusa continues to give Amanda a little "surprise". Instead of being Medusa's slave, she places the time bomb next to Amanda and activates that she will be blown to bits by it and leaves behind that she is also planning to destroy the park as she escapes her way back to her ship.
Despite the disadvantage, the boys manage to overcome their weakness to see in the dark and make use of their senses inability (the same problem with their obstacle course at the beginning from Mori's advice), successfully defeats the ninjas with their night vision goggles and rescue Amanda. The boys connects Amanda's laptop with the time bomb that she's attached to deactivate it, but they can't disarm the time bomb due to her laptop having insufficient power supply as they tried to plug it to the power cord until it ends up short-circuited instead. Thinking quickly, the boys decided to attach the time bomb taped with a few oxygen tanks and attempts to break its valves with the hammer and send it away. But despite the boys' ninjutsu skills, they lack the physical strength to break it. Luckily, Dave arrives and breaks the valves with a pipe wrench, where they send the oxygen tank-taped time bomb off like a torpedo directly towards Medusa's escape route ship. After Medusa returns back to the ship, she, her nephews and C.J gloats at their success. Just as Medusa and her henchmen attempted to escape with their money, they’re shocked and horrified to witnesses a torpedo with her time bomb approaching towards her ship, causing them to dive off the ship before the timer runs off and explodes, destroying her ship on impact. The explosion draws and alerts the authorities' attention, Medusa still clutching on her bag of money after she swims away and reaches the shore, but the police quickly arrives and seize her at the beach, much to Medusa's distraught. Medusa pouts as she surrenders herself to the authorities.
With Medusa's plans foiled, Medusa and her henchmen were arrested and sent to prison with a lengthy sentence for their crimes. The boys and Amanda are commemorated and hailed as heroes by the news media and public for saving the park before they decide to give the credit to Dave and declared him as a real hero for helping them to save the park instead when interviewed by the news media, who is grateful at the boys and then thanks them graciously. In the same time, News reporter Susan Blankenship and media interviews Dave about the highlights of his heroic actions that the network is planning to sign him up with a long-term contract and revive his show, to which he happily obliges for his fans.
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