| “ | You are weak, Anton. Weak and pathetic. As long as l am alive, my plan to bring back our time of glory will go on as scheduled... Power Rangers or no Power Rangers. | „ |
| ~ Mesogog to his human half. |
| “ | Whatever made you think you could get away with betraying me? | „ |
| ~ Mesogog to Elsa after she exposed his alter ego. |
| “ | You destroyed my plans of creating a perfect world. However, I was able to absorb enough Dino Gem energy to complete my transfiguration. Witness the face of your final battle. | „ |
| ~ Mesogog's last words before transforming into Mesomonster. |
Mesogog is the main antagonist of Power Rangers Dino Thunder.
He is the ruthless and treacherous humanoid dinosaur-like monster who wishes to conquer the world and return it to the era of dinosaurs.
He is also one of the three archenemies of Tommy Oliver, along with Goldar and Zeltrax, as well as the archenemy of Conner McKnight and Trent Fernandez-Mercer.
He was played by Latham Gaines.
Biography[]
Creation[]
When Dr. Anton Mercer crafted a groundbreaking experiment had been performing with dinosaur DNA, he accidentally transformed himself into the monstrous megalomaniac, Mesogog, who sought to send Earth back into the age of dinosaurs with all humans transformed into reptilian hybrids like himself. They continued from then on to shift between Mercer and Mesogog in a Jekyll and Hyde relationship with each aware of the other, but having two distinct personalities.
Mesogog recruited Elsa and a cyborg warrior named Zeltrax, whom he created from the remains of Terrence "Smitty" Smith, a former associate of Tommy Oliver's, to aid him in his attempts to conquer the world. Mesogog also utilized an army of creatures called Tyrannodrones, dinosaur based humanoids that Mercer and Tommy had created. He then set up his lab/base, which was full of genetic samples that he could use to create monsters, and was ready to put his plans in action.
Getting the Dino Gems[]
Years later, in 2004, Mesogog resurfaces after three high-school students recover the Dino Gems, sending his Tyrannodrones to catch the students and recover the Gems for him. After the three students manage to beat Mesogog's army thanks to their new powers given by the Gems, Mesogog sends his Tyrannodrones one more time to capture one of the three students, this time he succeeds and captures Kira Ford. Mesogog meets Kira and asks her where are the Dino Gems but she tells her that she gave them away. Unfortunately for Mesogog, Kira then gets into a tussle with his henchwoman Elsa as she tries to run away from her and Zeltrax, finding an Invisiportal and getting away. But Mesogog plans were interrupted when Tommy managed to steal the three Dino Gems and use them to create the Dino Thunder Power Rangers.
The next day, Mesogog orders an attack on Reefside, freeing the Biozords so they can begin their rampage through the city streets. Zeltrax then arrives with his ship and begins his attack as commanded by Mesogog but Tommy Oliver and his three students show up, they then morph into the Dino Rangers, the Rangers then defeat the Tyrannodrones and Zeltrax. The Dino Rangers tame the Zords, form the Thundersaurus Megazord and destroy Zeltrax's ship with their Tyranno Drill. When Zeltrax returns to the Island Fortress, Mesogog punishes him and Elsa for their failure with a psionic brain-blast and warns them as a lesson that he doesn't take defeat lightly.
After Mesogog realizes that Tommy found three eggs containing the unborn Raptor Riders, he orders to initiate the Geno-Randomizer and create a monster so he can stop Tommy from training the new dino creatures, unfortunately he's unsuccessful as Tommy manages to train the Raptor Riders and send them to aid the Rangers, who then quickly destroy his monster. Mesogog later finds a mysterious energy crystal stone that contained some great power but couldn't find a way to open it, so he sends his army to kidnap Tommy Oliver so that he can forced him to help him open the stone. Tvicon.png TV STORY-Wave Goodbye Mesogog tortures Tommy by draining him with his life-force extractor while telling him that his goal was returning Earth to its prehistoric roots, when Tommy (who asks why Mesogog can't settle for world domination like all the other villains, although the prehistoric reversion may be his own method of doing so) continues to refuse helping Mesogog, he keeps draining his life.
Just as Mesogog gives Tommy an ultimatum, the Ranger later go to his fortress in their Raptor Cycles to rescue Tommy. Mesogog meets the three Rangers in his fortress, but is stopped by his lackeys, though he and his army later confront the Rangers as they just freed Tommy from his captivity, with Mesogog taking on Tommy himself and beating him until he managed to steal the stone and run away with the Rangers through an invisiportal. When his lackeys follow the four heroes, Tommy uses the stone to block one of Zeltrax's attacks, revealing the stone to be the Black Dino Gem, which lets him transform into the Black Dino Ranger, adding a fourth Ranger to Mesogog's enemies.
Further Battles with Dino Rangers[]
Mesogog began sending his monsters against them, only to be bested again and again. However things began to sway in the dinosaur hybrid's favor when Mercer's son, Trent, found his lab and the White Dino Gem that Mesogog had in his possession. It transformed him into the White Dino Ranger, who fought against the rangers but was disloyal to Mesogog until Trent found out that he was also Mercer. The White Ranger joined his side, but Zeltrax convinced the dinosaur hybrid that Trent was a traitor, so Mesogog hooked him up to a machine that would drain his life energy. However Mercer regained control of their body and freed Trent before it could take all his life energy and told him to fight alongside his friends, the other Power Rangers.
Thunder Storm[]
Mesogog and Lothor.
Later, Mesogog joined forces with the returned Lothor, who had turned the Wind Ninja Power Rangers evil. But he regarded Lothor as an idiot and did not trust him completely, planning to get rid of him as soon as the other rangers were destroyed. However, the Dino Thunder Rangers, the Thunder Ninja Rangers, and the Green Samurai Ranger turned the Wind Ninja Rangers good again and defeated Lothor and Mesogog's forces. Mesogog and Lothor fought with the dinosaur hybrid emerging the victor, shrinking the evil ninja lord and putting him in one of the jars where he kept genetic samples for monsters.
Final Battle[]
Some time after this, the dinosaur hybrid succeeded in using a formula that separated him from Mercer, increasing his mental instability and determination to see his plans succeed. As a result, his insanity and determination increased as he creates his last and most powerful monster, a cycloptic amoeba-like monster called Ugly Monster. It took a bit of deception from the Rangers (using the Dino Gems as bait) to destroy the cannon and Mesogog's base.
The Mesomonster, Mesogog's final form.
Mesogog rid himself of Elsa, needing her energy to power a cannon he was using in his plans, but the rangers used a bit of trickery with the Dino Gems to destroy the cannon and Mesogog's base. However the dinosaur hybrid was able to survive and reappeared after the rangers' defeated Zeltrax, using energy he has absorbed from the gems to mutate into the Mesomonster. He took on the Rangers, proving nearly invincible and even split into four copies of himself, but the Rangers used all the energy in the Dino Gems to destroy the Mesomonster.
Personality[]
| “ | It's demented, I love it. | „ |
| ~ Mesogog, after hearing Elsa's idea. |
While mostly calm, tranquil, and unemotional, Mesogog is a sadistic, evil, sinister, manipulative and cold-hearted mastermind who will do anything in his power to ensure his dream of bringing the Earth back into the age of the dinosaurs is brought to fruition. Mesogog was also highly authoritative and aggressive, as Elsa and Zeltrax feared him, enough to obey any order from him and try not to incur his wrath. He was also very abusive, oppressive, and merciless towards his minions, and punished them by telepathically attacking them if they failed him. Mesogog hated the Dino Thunder Power Rangers and stopped at nothing to destroy them. Despite his villainous tendencies, he also had a mature, polite, and sophisticated side although his politeness seemed more like hatred and abuse on his victims with it being kept as a facade for the sake of mocking them.
Along with his sophisticated side, he had a very deadpan, cynical, and charmingly sarcastic sense of humor, making jokes or snide comments about other people whenever he felt like it. Despite Mesogog's appearance, he was also very intelligent, manipulative, deceptive, and a knowledgeable mastermind, being able to create very advanced technology and use them for his own benefits. He was also shown to be quite devious and an excellent master manipulator that could influence people all too well if he knew their weaknesses. He was also very confident, later heightened to arrogance, egomania, and narcissism, all of which were ironically his main weaknesses which led to his defeat by the Dino Rangers.
Mesogog had a considerable amount of hatred for his human counter-part, Anton Mercer, as much if not even more so than the Rangers. Mesogog had expressed sheer disgust for Mercer's kind and generous nature, with the latter always willing to help humanity. Like Elsa, Mesogog knew that Mercer was a weakness, but not solely because of his vulnerability as a human vessel; Mesogog also saw Mercer as an inconvenience and unnecessary influence over his actions that often kept Mesogog from completing his plans.
As a result of removing Mercer from his being, Mesogog's behavior took a more terrifying turn. No longer influenced by Mercer's humanity, elements of Mesogog's calm and stable psyche was all but shattered. What was left was a much more twisted, sadistic, and perhaps most notably, animalistic version of his former self. He took endless joy in tormenting Mercer, and was quick to make his minions expendable as seen when he sacrificed Elsa and her powers in order to supply energy to his transfiguration cannon with absolutely no hesitation or remorse. He still maintained his insane desire to return the world back to the era of the dinosaurs.
As the Mesomonster, he was far more destructive, obstreperous, aggressive and violent. Having lost nearly every bit of sense in this form, and he doesn't really talk, only speaking in growls and roars.
Powers and Abilities[]
Normal Form[]
- Power Bestowal and Enhancement: Mesogog was able to give Elsa her powers and increase them to add her to his cause.
- Laser Vision: Mesogog's main ability where he could fire clear yellow energy lasers from his eyes.
- Teleportation Cast: Mesogog's eye lasers were able to pull Zeltrax, Elsa, and Pollinator into the Island Fortress despite them being on the beach outside of Reefside.
- Pain Inducement: Mesogog's laser vision could also inflict massive pain on the opponent's head.
- Forehead Psionic Beam: By focusing energy, Mesogog could fire an orange or red psionic beam from his forehead that could torture his targets.
- Container Imprisonment: Mesogog's psionic beam can imprison anything in containers, as seen when he trapped Lothor inside a water-filled bottle.
- Forceful Takeover: Being created from Anton Mercer, Mesogog could force control away from his human host at will, but he lost this ability and no longer needed it after separating himself from his host.
- Invisiportal: Mesogog was able to use an Invisiportal to teleport between Reefside and his Island Fortress.
- Monster Creation: Mesogog could create monsters on his own even without the Geno-Randomizer, as seen when he fired blue and purple energy streams at a plant to turn it into the Jade Gladiator.
- Energy Absorption: Mesogog could absorb energy from the Dino Gems in order to transform into his second form.
- Mutation: Upon absorbing all of the Dino Gem energy, Mesogog could mutate into his ultimate form at will.
- Power: As the absolute antagonist in Dino Thunder, Mesogog was stronger than any monster or villain in the entire season including Lothor and Super Zeltrax.
- Strength: In the final part of the two-part team up episode "Thunder Storm", during his battle with Lothor, Mesogog demonstrated immense physical strength, since he was able to easily lift him over his head and toss him a very far distance.
- Durability: Mesogog had thick skin that is quite durable as shown during his battle with Lothor, where the evil ninja's energy lasers had no effect on him. However, his most impressive display of power was when he survived the destruction of his own Island Fortress without a scratch despite being right in the middle of it.
- Expert Hand to Hand Combat: While Mesogog tended to rely more on his psionic abilities, he was exceptionally lethal in hand to hand combat. This was best demonstrated when he was able to match Lothor, a master ninja capable of easily defeating several martial arts masters, in a fight that ultimately ended with him as the victor.
- Robotics Expert: Mesogog was also an expert in the robotics field since he was the one who rebuilt Terrence Smith as Zeltrax.
Arsenal[]
Enemies[]
- Lothor
- Conner McKnight (Archenemy)
- Ethan James
- Trent Mercer (Second Archenemy)
- Dr. Anton Mercer
- Kira Ford
- Shane Clarke
- Cameron "Cam" Watanabe
- Tori Hanson
- Dustin Brooks
- Blake Bradley
- Hunter Bradley
- Dr. Tommy Oliver (Third Archenemy)
- Tyler/Cybero Kiva
- Hayley Ziktor
Powers and Abilities[]
Mesogog has proven that he is quite skilled in hand-to-hand combat and possesses psionic powers that he can use as a means of torturing his enemies or his allies if they fail. He is quite intelligent in terms of genetic technology, having created a device called the Geno Randomizer that can take samples of animal, plant, and machine to create monsters. Mesogog can also sense Dino-Gems and as the Mesomonster, he is even more powerful, proving practically invincible and can split into copies of himself.
Trivia[]
- When Mesogog was about to launch his first attack on Reefside, the city where Dino Thunder takes place, he said that the people would probably attribute it to a returned Lothor.
- Some fans would compare him to Pinhead from the Hellraiser franchise. Both of their choices of garb hide most of the anatomy with long black leather (with the exception of the hands and head). Their personalities both show a cold and no-nonsese demeanor and, when they separate from their humanity, become more obstreperous, sadistic, and unruly.
- Mesogog is an example of the main antagonist in Power Rangers, who has no direct counterpart in Super Sentai, being entirely American-made. He replaces the role of Dezumozorlya, who was the main villain from Dino Thunder's sentai counterpart Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger.
- Mesogog's name is based of the Mesozoic Era
- In the episode, "Copy That", the intro misspelt his name as "Mesagog", same for some of the DVD boxes of the series.
- As Mesomonster, he doesn't speak in this form.
External Links[]
- Mesogog on the Power Rangers Wiki
- Mesogog on the Near Pure Evil Wiki
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