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- NOTE: This page is about the incarnation of Rita from the 2017 movie. The mainstream version can be found here: Rita Repulsa.
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“ | How cute. The Rangers found their costumes and their dino-cars. Well let's give them something else to play with...CRUSH THEM!!! | „ |
~ Rita summoning her monster army to battle the Power Rangers, and her most famous quote. |
“ | Rita was a Ranger too, and my friend. But she betrayed us, wanted more power. She lost her way... Now she is just Pure Evil. | „ |
~ Zordon, on Rita |
Rita Repulsa was a traitorous Green Ranger who betrayed her fellow Rangers to take the Zeo Crystal and the main antagonist of the 2017 film reboot of Power Rangers.
She was played by Elizabeth Banks, who also played Jaina Jansen in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Jenny Peterson in The Happytime Murders.
Biography[]
Past[]
In the Cenozoic Period of Earth where the last generations of dinosaurs still remained (albeit with their numbers dwindling), the ancient Green Ranger, Rita Repulsa, for reasons that yet to be revealed (albeit indicated that she may have switched sides to Lord Zedd), turned against her fellow Rangers and came to Earth to take the Zeo Crystal, a powerful artifact with which she could harness the power of life or death as well as the power to create and destroy worlds. She knew the crystal's extraction would render all life on Earth extinct, but did not care. To carry out her plan, she forged a special Magic Staff that enabled her to create an army of golem-like creatures called Putty Patrollers and a golden monster named Goldar that could pull the Zeo Crystal from Earth's surface as well as serve her as her sentient superweapon comparable to Zords. Her former allies, Zordon and the rest of the Rangers stood up and battled against her, but they ultimately lost the fight, as Rita managed to kill all but Zordon himself. In a last-ditch effort to stop her, Zordon ordered Alpha 5 to redirect a meteor in her and Goldar's direction. As result, Goldar was destroyed while Rita was sent flying into the bottom of the ocean. The meteor impact also nearly killed Zordon and render the last dinosaurs extinct, but Alpha 5 managed to send him into the Morphing Grid to keep him alive.
Power Rangers[]
In 2017, Rita's seemingly lifeless body is fished out of the ocean by boatmen who think that Rita's preserved body is already long dead but are unaware that her powers keep her alive. Upon awakening, she immediately kills them and sets out to Angel Grove. Old and withered due to age and lack of nourishment, Rita searches for gold to be absorbed as means to rejuvenate herself and restore her powers. She steals gold from anyone and anything she can find, often brutally murdering her victims in process and making news in Angel Grove. Eventually, Rita fully regenerates when she comes upon one of Angel Grove's jewellery stores. Sensing presence of other Rangers near her, she invades the home of Trini Kwan and demands the whereabouts of the Zeo Crystal. Unable to gain information from her, Rita deduces that Trini's fellow Rangers know the crystal's location so she then morphs into her battle-damaged Ranger suit to introduce herself and reveals that she killed Trini's predecessor in the past before goading her to rally her friends to met her at the docks.
The Rangers later confront her at the docks to defeat her but they yet to be able to master the ability to morph which allows Rita to subdue then before threatening to kill Zack if any of them refuse to tell them the crystal's location. This prompts Billy to tells her the crystal to save Zack but Rita unexpectedly kills Billy by strangling him to death and dropping his body into the water to retain her respect with Zordon before leaving. Now with her restored powers reaching its peak and knowing where the Zeo Crystal is, Rita enters a gold mine to reconstruct Goldar and an army of Putty Patrollers where she sends a squadron of Putties to obliterate the remaining Rangers and delay them. Though the Rangers, with newly revived Billy, quickly decimate the Putties, they delay the heroes long enough for Goldar to be fully resurrected. In response, the Rangers pilot their Zords against Rita Repulsa, Goldar, and her legion of Putty Patrollers.
In the heat of the battle, Kimberly in her Pterodactyl Zord, combines her strength with Billy in the Triceratops Zord by hurling the latter's Zord through Goldar, destroying him. Even so, Rita counteracts this by restoring her sentient doomsday weapon and upgrading him with more weapons. This ultimately escalates the battle as the Rangers combine into a Megazord that battles Goldar and they ultimately emerge victorious. Rita erupts out of Goldar's melting form and screams at the Rangers to wait and listen to her; that even though they may have stopped her and Goldar, other villains will still come to collect the Zeo Crystal themselves and that what the team has cannot last, screaming that they know she is right. Jason responds that they do not know for sure but will stand firm and order her to turn herself in to be judged by Zordon. This infuriates Rita to the point that she flies at the Zord only for the Megazord to backhand slap her into the atmosphere and send her flying out of the atmosphere. In space, Rita smiles as she finally freezes in the vastness although it is unknown whether she can also survive this or not.
She is presumed to return in the sequel.
Powers and Abilities[]
Because in the film series Rita Repulsa depicted as former Ranger, she possesses all powers and abilities that typical Rangers had where her physical attributes enhanced by Morphing Grid to superhuman level and access to morph into her Green Ranger suit. Although, her Green Ranger suit sustained severe damage that left her face and some portion of skin of her right arm exposed, which she left that way as remainder of her betrayal against her fellow Rangers' generations she killed in the past. Also, every time she accessed her morph to don her Ranger suit, she had some small protrusions grew under her exposed skin for some reasons.
Although, how Rita managed to kill her fellow Rangers was not just her experiences as one of them, but also through meddling with powers within her power coin that made it somewhat "corrupted" compared with titular heroes' still intact power coins (which may also contributes slight mutations she had in her Ranger form. Through the said meddling, Rita gained the ability to manipulate earthly materials such as gold, rocks, concrete, etc. to create sentient army of golem-like monsters called Putty Patrollers and a sentient doomsday weapon and monster made of reinforced gold named Goldar. She usually performed this through her special staff she forged from gold and had her power coin embedded on it as both conduit of her terrakinetic powers and melee weapon.
Personality[]
This version of Rita Repulsa was considered to be much more homicidally unhinged than her TV series counterpart. When she betrayed the Rangers, she was revealed to be an incredibly malevolent, powerful, ruthless, destructive, and gleefully sadistic witch. More than that, she was described by Zordon as pure evil. She was proven to be extreme megalomaniacal as she enjoyed gloating about her massive power. Rita was also a psychopath; when she arrived to Angel Grove, she started to wreak destruction and kill people remorselessly. She was also a murderous maniac as she took great pleasure from harming people, killing them as well as antagonizing and attempting killing the Rangers. When fished out of the ocean and started her killing spree, perhaps due to her extremely emaciated state and brain damage sustained from surviving her imprisonment deep in the bottom of the sea, Rita Repulsa displayed more unhinged and feral personality than her post-regenerated self: When killing a man with golden tooth, she gave off an animalistic-looking evil grin before mauling the man to death with her bare hands. She behaved this way until she arrived at a local jewellery store in Angel Grove, where, upon consuming enough gold to regenerate, Rita lost this feral side.
Difference Between Film Series Incarnation and Mainstream Incarnation[]
- Mainstream Rita was an elderly alien sorceress who led an army of aliens against Zordon, whereas Rita's film incarnation is a fallen Green Ranger who used to be part of Zordon's Ranger Team.
- Mainstream Rita was imprisoned in a Space Dumpster 10,000 years ago, being discovered by astronauts on the moon at the start of the series. Rita's film incarnation however, was rendered comatose and have her still-living remains trapped in the ocean 65,000,000 years ago because of her being blasted by an asteroid directed by Zordon which also wiped out last dinosaurs until she was recovered by a fishing boat, resurrecting her in a severely weakened state.
- This version of Rita has no base of operations in the movie, instead attacking various targets in an attempt to regain full strength. However, it is possible that she will end up on the moon to establish a base there in the sequel, due to her being launched into space.
- This version of Rita is much darker, more evil, more menacing, more power hungry, and more obsessed than her mainstream counterpart.
- This version of Rita isn't confirmed to have any family members who are also evil.
Quotes[]
“ | With the Zeo Crystal, we could have ruled the Universe together. | „ |
~ Rita Repulsa's first words (in an alien dialect) to Zordon in the Cenozoic period before their deaths. |
“ | It's been too long since I raised my beautiful creatures. Did you miss me? | „ |
~ Rita to her Putty creatures as she creates them in the jewelry store. |
“ | Should I kill you?, I've killed the Yellow Ranger before. | „ |
~ Rita to Trini Kwan. |
“ | Zordon would lose respect for me if I left here without killing you, well, one of you anyway. | „ |
~ Rita to the Rangers before she kills Billy. |
“ | You are not worthy. | „ |
~ Rita to the Rangers as she exits the harbor. |
“ | Make my monster grow! | „ |
~ Rita as she revives Goldar. |
“ | Dig, dig, Goldar. | „ |
~ Rita to Goldar as she commands him to dig for the Zeo Crystal. |
“ | Zordon, judge me? Never! No matter what Zordon says, I know I AM WORTHY!!!! | „ |
~ Rita Repulsa's last words. |
Trivia[]
- Promotional material before the film's release stated that she was originally to collect the Zeo Crystal for Lord Zedd, hinting that he is the mastermind of the movie's events, however in the film she does not mention Zedd and instead desires the Crystal and the universe for herself, implying that she has either betrayed him or was planning on doing so before her freezing in space, or has no connections to him whatsoever.
External Links[]
- Rita Repulsa (Power Rangers 2017) at the Pure Evil Wiki.
- Rita Repulsa (Power Rangers 2017) at the RangerWiki.
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