“ | If I can't rule the present, then I'll just rule the past!!! | „ |
~ Ransik's first words on-screen and his most famous quote. |
Ransik is the main antagonist of Power Rangers Time Force and a supporting character in Power Rangers Wild Force.
He was the leader of the Mutants, the former arch-enemy of Jen Scotts and the apparent killer of Alex.
He was played by Vernon Wells who also played Bennett in Commando, Wez in Mad Max 2, Jeremiah Stone in Miner's Massacre, and Mr. Igoe in Innerspace.
Biography[]
Past[]
One thousand years in the future, children are born in labs, with traits designated by their parents. Ransik is a product of this tampering, born from an accident in a lab.
During one of the required genetic enhancement sessions, one of the vials containing embryonic biomass unexpectedly fell and shattered, spilling the contents into a drain where the staff believed that the biomass would die out due to exposure to the outside world. However, instead of dissolving, the sewer environment around the said spilled biomass unexpectedly caused it to mutate, and from the amalgamation of toxic waste and mutated biomass, a full-grown adult man was born. Possibly due to inherited memories of his parents' DNA donor, the creature, whom named himself Ransik, developed intelligence equivalent with that of full-grown man, but was forced to raise himself in the underground, rejected from society. As the first mutant, he organized factions of other mutants to take the world away from those who fear and hate his kind. He was also presumably married to a female mutant where from their union, his daughter Nadira was born.
While roaming the dark parts of the city, he found three statues which were actually imprisoned Orgs. Since they had the same goal as him, to destroy humanity, Ransik set them free. The Org spirits copied his DNA and created bodies for themselves, making them Mut-Orgs. In exchange for freeing them, the Mutorgs gave Ransik the power to pull weapons from his body. At one point before he organized factions of evil mutants, Ransik was bitten by the poisonous mutant known as Venomark. Alone and dying, Ransik was taken in by Dr. Ferricks, who developed a serum which Ransik would need to take for life. Ransik turned on Dr. Ferricks, stealing the serum and his Cyclobot technology, and laying waste to the lab. Jen stated many people tried to help him in spite of the mere sight of his hideous look which would terrify anyone who saw him, but Ransik was too consumed by hatred that reaching him was extremely difficult causing him to deny any help from humans.
Power Rangers Time Force[]
By the year 3000, Ransik's plans to conquer the world and wipe out humanity have always been foiled by the Time Force organization. As such, he invents a portal to go back to 2001 to conquer it instead but is finally captured by Time Force and sentenced to cryo-containment. However, he is broken free by Nadira and his general Frax which leads to him killing Time Force Red Ranger Alex and escaping back into the past with the Cryo Prison. From it, he launches an attack with his generals and an army of Cyclobots to conquer the past and change history. However, he is thwarted by the time travelling Time Force Rangers joined by Alex's ancestor Wes Collins so Ransik withdraws and a war on humanity commences.
Eventually, he discovers that Venomark has been freed by the X-Vault (by Frax though he didn't know that) and confronts the Mutant to get revenge though he has to retreat when the venom starts having an affect again. When he gets to his serum room however, he finds all of the vials smashed by Frax who he swears to destroy but doesn't as the robot has the last intact serum. Ransik pleads with him that they both hate and must destroy humans, but Frax points out that Ransik has the hatred for humans and not him. He then reveals that he is in fact Dr Louis Ferricks who survived his apparent death long enough to reforge himself as a cyborg who joined Ransik to get revenge. He then smashes the last vial before retreating as an enraged Ransik tries to annihilate him which forces the Mutant leader to attack Collins Industries and steal the permanent cure for Venomark's venom although this leaves Albert Collins on his deathbed.
With Gluto's help, Ransik eventually finds and captures Frax who he lobotomises into his slave and has him use Doomtron to destroy Silver Hills. He later leads an attack on the Clock Tower where it's destroyed only for Frax and Doomtron to be destroyed who he then berates for ruining "his" Doomtron. Nadira tries to make him see reason and that his hatred for humans is unjustified, but he loses his temper and throws her down before storming off. Immediately after, Ransik is confronted by the five Time Force Rangers and chooses to finally destroy them himself since he has nothing left to lose. Despite being very heavily outnumbered, Ransik is able to fight off and demorph all five Rangers with even Wes in the Red Battle Warrior armour failing to faze him. Whilst chasing Jen into a warehouse though, he injures Nadira after mistaking her for Jen. Upon discovering this, Ransik is horrified at what he had done. Nadira, using another baby she rescued, a little boy, as an example, got Ransik to see humans aren't as bad as he thought, and that Mutants can love too. Realizing that Nadira is right and how close he had come to losing her, Ransik decided to end his hatred of humans because it only causes more suffering. He then hands the baby to Katie and turns himself over to Jen to serve time for his crimes. Upon being returned to the year 3000, he is placed in a regular jail cell instead of being cryofrozen.
Power Rangers Wild Force[]
A year later, Ransik is called on by Time Force to aid them against a new threat, the Mut-Orgs who were the beings who granted him his incredible power years before. Ransik agrees to help the Rangers, and travels to the year 2002 where the Mut-Orgs ally themselves with Master Org. Cole Evans tells Jen that Ransik is telling the truth in wanting to help, as his words came from his heart, which Cole had sensed. Before they start to hunt the Mut-Orgs, Ransik tells the Rangers, Princess Shayla, Circuit and Nadira, his story about how he unleashed them in the future and reveals that the Mut-Orgs bestowed him powers to turn any part of his body into a weapon. He also reveals that he's already seen the error of his ways, especially the Mut-Orgs' existence.
The next morning, the Mut-Orgs and Master Org go to a power plant with the intention of increasing pollution. Ransik concludes that they joined forces to try to rewrite history. The Rangers, Ransik and Nadira go to the plant and split into groups. Wes, Cole, Ransik, and Nadira go off by themselves to find the Mut-Orgs, who attack them in another part of the plant. Just as the Mut-Orgs power up their ultimate attack, Ransik, who is determined to fix his mistake, throws himself on them, causing an explosion which destroys their mutant halves and allowing the Rangers to defeat them. The explosion nearly kills Ransik but it instead destroys his mutant half and makes him wholly human.
Personality[]
As result of mistreatment and being shunned by society due to his appearance, Ransik was a homicidal, sadistic, wrathful, and destructive force to be reckoned with. He was also self-centred, egocentric, and only focused on his plans for world domination, treating everyone around him except for Nadria like an expendable pawn. He can also be described as ruthless and cunning and has a hatred towards both humans and robots. Whereas he viewed robots as wasted metal that he can abuse, his hatred on normal humans is worse: due to his hideous appearance, the mere sight on his deformed face instantly scared anyone who saw him, which also resulted in society shunning him and he had to endure their mistreatment. He later met other mutants who were also born in the same way like him, and were less fortunate due to having inhuman appearances.
Despite being ruthless, Ransik shows a loving side towards his daughter Nadira and that his desire to rule the world was second only to his fatherly instincts. When he found out Nadria developed a crush on Lucas, despite being upset about the news at first due to him and Lucas being enemies (as Lucas happened to be the Blue Ranger), he ultimately tolerated her decision to date him, even visiting Lucas and giving him dating advice, albeit in a twisted and somewhat violent manner. He did however, give Lucas gifts to give to Nadira to help him impress her. In exchange for this, he threatened Lucas saying if he didn't treat Nadira well, he would end him. He also spied on them during the date and reminded Lucas to give her the presents he gave him and later feigned ignorance when Nadira told him about the date so the credit of giving Nadira a wonderful time would go entirely to Lucas. He also even went as far as to forbid his minions from harming Lucas during the brief period they dated. Despite being Ransik's enemy at the time and not fearing Ransik himself, Lucas respected Ransik's instincts as a father and despite wanting to break up with Nadria he was afraid to out of fear of facing Ransik for doing so.
Ransik's fatherly instincts served as his first step for redemption after nearly killing Nadira with his own hands, having finally seen the error of his ways, he sought redemption just like his daughter did shortly before him. After his change of heart, he referred to the Rangers as his friends and nearly sacrificed himself to stop the Mut-Orgs. Afterwards, he was shown to still dislike Nadira's intentions towards Lucas but seemed more accepting of them. Ransik was notable for being one of the more serious Power Rangers villains. Whereas most villains in Power Rangers are melodramatic, burlesque characters, Ransik, like Astronema was much more of a cold, calculating mastermind with a penchant for convoluted Machiavellian evil schemes, often going for more realistic crimes such as bribery and stealing large amounts of money.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Power: Ransik is one of the most powerful enemies in Power Rangers history, being more powerful than any Mutant and easily managing to defeat five Power Rangers in combat with even Wes in the Red Battle Warrior armour failing to even faze him. Considering that he surrendered willing, it's unclear if he can even be defeated in combat.
- Strength: Ransik could demorph Katie and Trip with single powerful kicks and instantly demorph Jen with a glancing slash from his dagger.
- Durability: Ransik survived multiple slashes from the Red Battle Warrior armour and even completely exploding without even a scratch. Even being shot in the backside by Katie's V-Weapon and direct hits from Wes' Red Time Force Cycle had utterly no effect on Ransik.
- Teleportation: Ransik could teleport to any location at will by making the area around him distort.
- Expert Swordsman: Ransik was able to simultaneously fight and completely defeat five Rangers at once.
- Energy Blasts: Ransik could fire yellow or blue energy blasts from either hand strong enough to destroy two Cyclobots with one shot or send Venomark flying.
- Weapon Generation: Ransik could pull weapons from his body made of bones such as his signature dagger. However, this was extremely painful and was usually accompanied by Ransik screaming in pain.
- High Pain Tolerance: Pulling weapons made of his bones out of Ransik's body was horribly painful but it didn't appear to faze him.
Arsenal[]
- Sword: Ransik's signature weapon was a long silver Sword made from his own bone marrow that he could pull from any part of his body (though typically his right knee).
Quotes[]
“ | Where am I? | „ |
~ Ransik's first words chronologically when waking up in Dr Louis Ferricks' lab. |
“ | (Ransik): Ha ha ha ha. Robots are a waste of metal. (Ferricks): Hmph. Actually, they can be quite useful. (Ransik): As slaves perhaps. (grabs Ferricks). (Ferricks): What're you doing?! (Ransik): Is this all the serum you have? (Ferricks): Yes but you musn't- (throws Ferricks away). (Ransik): You're as foolish as your robots. Huh huh huh huh huh ah ha ha ha ha ha ha AH HA HA HA HA HA HA! |
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~ Ransik betraying Dr Louie Ferricks. |
“ | (Ransik): It couldn't be. Venomark. (Nadira): What's wrong daddy? It's just another Mutant. (Ransik): Wrong. Venomark and I have a long history. Venomark attacked me one dark rainy night. The pain from his bite was so immense I couldn't even cry out for help as his venom rushed through my veins. My flesh began boiling and mutating right before my eyes. That would have surely been the end of me had not a most foolish and naive doctor stopped to help me. |
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~ Ransik after realising that Venomark had been released from the X-Vault. |
“ | (Frax): Can you believe it? It looks like someone's destroyed all your precious serum. (Ransik): When I'm done tearing you apart- (Frax): Ah, ah ah. A "stupid useless robot" like me might just drop your last vial. (Ransik): Wake up my old friend. We're both on the same side. Humans. Humans are our enemy. (Frax): Humans ARE YOUR enemy! I should know. I was human when you destroyed me. I am what remains of Dr. Ferricks. |
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~ Ransik when Frax betrayed him. |
“ | Worthless robot! Look what you've done to my Doomtron! Don't tell me you're crying over this ridiculous robot! Humans despise me! I have nothing but hate for all humans! | „ |
~ Ransik after Frax's death. |
“ | RAAAAAARGH! I don't need anyone! I'll destroy you myself! | „ |
~ Ransik initiating the final battle. |
“ | My heart has been filled with hate for so long, and that nearly cost me the one person I truly, truly love. I'm ready to pay for what I've done. | „ |
~ Ransik's redemption. |
Notes[]
- Ransik is the only main villain in Power Rangers history to defeat the Power Rangers in his final battle. The only reason they won in the end was because he willingly surrendered.
- Ransik was a Power Rangers exclusive character with no counterpart in Mirai Sentai Timeranger. The series' main antagonist was the counterpart to Gluto, the season's final antagonist was Frax and the true main antagonist who was behind the Mutants' escape from prison was the counterpart to Alex.
- Vernon Wells' previous role in Mad Max 2 was lampshaded in the 2nd part of the two-part episode "Movie Madness" when he and the Cyclobots acted out a long action sequence which parodied Max Max.
See Also[]
- Don Dolnero (role)
- Ryūya Asami (main antagonist role)
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