[Den-O]

I think it's safe to say that in terms of US childrens' shows that Power Rangers revolutionized an industry. Whether it was the amazing empowerment of teens, diversity of cast, longevity or what have you there's no denying the impact left on children's programming to this day. However that's the lasting impact of heroes.

What about the villains?

Rita Repulsa was evil sure, menacing? Yes. Scary? Hell no. Lord Zedd, now there's a scary dude. Basically naked, covered in a metal ribcage, with a bitchin' staff, and a raspy voice that could chill you to the bone when your 6. Pretty sure if a giant red naked man with magic powers comes at you with an army of monsters you should be terrified.



Zed completely changed the game with his approach to villainy in Power Rangers. I think most of us could agree that no Ranger villain since has really come up to his level. He was powerful, utterly in control of minions, ruthless, exacting, and vengeful. And really until Rita love-potioned him he was the perfect villain. But as we all know that was done in an effort to tone down Zedd after parental concerns that he was "too evil" for kids.





Having the two of them be an evil power couple was pretty awesome too though. Watching the 2 of them menace the rangers together was just plain awesome but Zedd was still the real player in that game. Even after ebing toned down and being forced to live in a space-winebago, his impact was so significant that 15 years later we even got his son, Thrax, for the Power Rangers anniversary. In my opinion, for a US creation Zedd was formidable and awesome until he was toned down.

And I mean, what other villain do you know that can rock this?