Lord Zedd

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Lord Zedd is an extraterrestrial television villain who features in Power Rangers.

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Biography

Lord Zedd was a powerful extraterrestrial warlord who came to forge his own empire and being the self-proclaimed 'Emperor of Evil'. During this time, he was known to had enslaved a number of other evil beings to be his servants with these including Goldar and Rita Repulsa. He came to see the planet Earth as not worth his attention and left Rita Repulsa with the task of conquering it whilst he directed his attention to other systems.

It was said that at one point he sought out the Zeo Crystal but the relic could not be touched by evil beings and thus it remained out of Zedd's reach.

A year after Rita was released from Zordon's dumpster, Lord Zedd arrived on the Moon, conjuring a thunderstorm over the Moon Palace which made Goldar realize who he was and horrified Rita. As the race began, Zedd appeared above the Palace in the clouds before berating Rita for being utterly useless before shooting lightning at them. After declaring that he'd take command, Zedd went into his throne room where Rita and her thugs went to greet him. Goldar arrived first and met him in the throne room, terrified by Zedd's snake before he turned it into his staff. Despite not initially recognizing Goldar, Zedd remembered him as the cowardly minion, and returned the wings that Rita took away when he realized his cowardly nature would make him a good follower. Zedd then spied on the Power Rangers only for Rita to enter and beg for forgiveness and another chance but Zedd gave her a dressing down because she was not fit to destroy a cockroach. After watching the Power Rangers get called to the Command Center, he realized that Zordon was still alive and Goldar suggested sending Putties to destroy the Rangers. Zedd got a good laugh out of that and showed off his own Putty Patrollers. Despite her pleading with him, even kissing his feet, Lord Zedd punished Rita by stripping her of her powers and vaporizing her wand. He then shrunk her and imprisoned her within a space dumpster identical to the one Zordon had trapped her in before having his Putties hurl her into the depths of space. He then mutated a piranha from the lake into the monstrous Pirantishead, who assumed command of the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord and Dragonzord. The Rangers barely survived the attack, but managed to regain control of their Zords. Furious, Lord Zedd attempted to destroy the five Dinozords, only for the Rangers to turn the tables and transform the remains of them into the more powerful Thunderzords. The Thunder Megazord destroyed Pirantishead which led Zedd to decide to stay on Earth and try to destroy the Rangers, leading to his succeeding schemes.

After the Rangers' acquisition of the Thunderzords, Lord Zedd attacked again and again, each assault deadlier than the last. His monsters were created from objects on Earth with the power of his staff, and he made them grow using grenades - Zedd would throw the grenade down to the monster who would then catch it, pull out the pin and throw it to the ground to make itself grow. He once desired Kimberly to be his queen based on her good looks and tenacity, and sent Goldar to capture, brainwash and train her into being so, but his plan failed when it was discovered that the magic dust that was used to entrance her didn't work and that she was really doing a Rita impression to fool Goldar and buy the Rangers enough time to rescue her. Zedd has hated Kimberly ever since.

Zedd was among the attendees of the alliance of evil that received the call from Dark Specter who had captured Zordon and was draining his power. Upon seeing the victory, Lord Zedd celebrated this event and hailed an age where his master would rule the universe.

The energy wave struck Zedd where he was transformed into a human form where he departed with the similarly mortal Rita.

Overview

Personality and attributes

At first, Zedd was a very menacing, formidable, dangerous, antipathetic, egotistical, narcissistic, and destructive. He is extremely diabolical, opprobrious, vituperative, sadistic, and blasphemous, so he abuses his lackeys, silencing Goldar and others frequently and blaming them for most failures rather than taking responsibility for those failures himself.

Powers and abilities

With his magic, he was capable of mutating animals and turning them into monsters in service of him.

A notable weapon was his Z Staff that was a silver staff with a Z symbol at the top.

Amongst his most powerful weapons was Serpentera that was a colossal Zord that he piloted with a co-pilot.

Notes

  • Lord Zedd was portrayed by actor Ed Neil and featured as an antagonist in the setting of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
  • Actor Mark Ginther portrayed the character in Might Morphing Power Rangers: The Movie.

In other media

Video games

  • In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition, Lord Zedd appeared as the final antagonist in the setting of the competitive fighting video game.
  • In Power Rangers Super Legends, Lord Zedd appeared as the main antagonist in the setting of the video game.
  • In Power Rangers Legacy Wars, Lord Zedd appeared as a playable character in the mobile video game.
  • In Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Lord Zedd appeared in the setting of the fighting video game where he was introduced as a playable character in DLC content.

Comics

  • In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2016 Annual (2016), Lord Zedd featured in the setting of the comic published by BOOM! Studios. It was shown that he was once Zophram a former Guardian of Eltar and Zartus' and Zordon's mentor who was corrupted by the power. After choosing this dark path, he changed his name and tried to get the Zeo Crystal which deformed his skin into a more fleshy and zombie-like state. Zedd later conquered various planets across the universe before moving on to Zordon and Eltar.

Appearances

  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:
  • Power Rangers Zeo:
  • Power Rangers in Space:

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