Psycho Rangers
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| Series |
Power Rangers in Space Power Rangers Lost Galaxy |
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| First appearance | Rangers Gone Psycho (Power Rangers in Space) |
| Last appearance |
To The Tenth Power The Power of Pink (Power Rangers Lost Galaxy) |
| Status | Deceased |
| Homeworld | Unknown |
| Zords | Psycho Monsters |
| Portrayed by | Patrick David (Psycho Red) Michael Maize (Psycho Black) Wally Wingert (Psycho Blue, voice) Kamera Walton (Psycho Yellow) Victoria Davis (Psycho Pink, voice) Justin Nimmo (Psycho Silver) |
To The Tenth Power
The Psycho Rangers are a fictional group of villains that appeared in the American television series Power Rangers. The group first appeared in Power Rangers in Space as recurring villains and returned for two episodes in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. Created by veteran Power Rangers writer Judd Lynn, the group is based on the Jaden Sentai Neziranger from the Japanese series Denji Sentai Megaranger, which served as the basis of in Space.
The Psycho Rangers were created by Astronema, acting as evil counterparts to the Space Power Rangers, who they were designed to kill. Astronema intentionally created them to draw on the power of her master Dark Specter, in order to weaken and eventually overthrow him.
Although various evil Power Rangers had made numerous appearances in previous Power Rangers series, the Psycho Rangers are the first recurring evil Rangers in the series as well as the first evil Rangers to be independent villains (previous evil Rangers were merely tools of other villains). Also, unlike other evil Rangers, each Psycho Ranger was given a distinct personality. Although they're much stronger than the Power Rangers, the Psycho Rangers are not good at working together as they are prone to in-fighting.
The Psycho Rangers were a team of five evil Rangers (six in "Five of a Kind"). They were found to be in the possession of Astronema, who would employ them to battle and destroy the Space Rangers. Astronema connected their powers to that of Dark Specter, intentionally causing him a great loss of power every time they battled. Astronema planned to use this to her advantage so that she could destroy him and usurp his position as leader of the alliance. Unfortunately for her, the Psycho Rangers were impatient and unwilling to follow her carefully laid schemes due to their bickering, and were destroyed by the Space Rangers before Dark Specter was destroyed.
The Psycho Ranger team consisted of Psycho Black, Psycho Blue, Psycho Yellow, Psycho Pink and their leader Psycho Red. In their first battle with the Space Rangers, the Psycho Rangers read their minds, learning each of their fighting styles and creating their own unique fighting styles designed to counteract the Space Rangers'. However, due to this technique they had to fight each of their Ranger counterparts (Psycho Red had to fight the Red Ranger, Psycho Blue had to fight the Blue Ranger, etc.). T.J. discovered a way to confuse them by mixing up the colors, using a chessboard complete with figures for each of the Power Rangers and Psycho Rangers. The idea was a success and the Psycho Rangers proved easier to handle, but unfortunately for the Power Rangers, the Psycho Rangers were still deadly enemies when this strategy was used, more so than they expected. So for the next battle, thinking the Psychos want to be picky about who they fight, T.J. decided to spray all the Power Ranger figures blue with a can of blue spray paint. That way, they could confuse the Psychos about which color Ranger to take out first.
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