Tanya Sloan
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| Series |
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Power Rangers Zeo Power Rangers Turbo |
|---|---|
| Title(s) | Yellow Zeo Ranger Yellow Turbo Ranger |
| Color(s) | Yellow |
| First appearance | Hogday Afternoon, Part I (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) |
| Last appearance | Legendary Battle (Power Rangers Super Megaforce) |
| Status |
Retired Love Interest : Adam Park. |
| Homeworld | Earth |
| Zords | Zeozord II Super Zeozord II Dune Star Turbozord |
| Portrayed by |
Nakia Burrise Khanya Mkhize (child) |
Retired
Tanya Sloan, originally named Kenya Sloan, is a fictional character and hero in the Power Rangers universe, appearing in the television series Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo. She is played by Nakia Burrise and is introduced as living with an African tribe while being the daughter of African American explorers. She is also shown to celebrate Kwanzaa in the 1996 holiday season. She is the first Yellow Ranger with a female Sentai counterpart and, therefore, also the first with a skirt as part of her uniform. She is the second Yellow Ranger of African descent after Aisha Campbell from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
When Master Vile reversed time and turned the Power Rangers into children, five of them were sent through time to collect the fragments of the Zeo Crystal. The then-current Yellow Ranger, Aisha Campbell, traveled to Africa, where she encountered the young Tanya Sloan, who saved her from a lion. Though she found her Zeo subcrystal, Aisha wished to stay in Africa to help save the local animals from a plague, so Tanya agreed to return to Angel Grove with the subcrystal in her place. When the five Zeo subcrystals were finally reunited, and Master Vile's tampering with time was undone, Tanya became a teenager along with the other Rangers.
Being the most inexperienced of the group, she offered to pass the powers from Aisha's subcrystal over to Billy Cranston; however, he declined and Tanya became Zeo Ranger II Yellow. Tanya began her tour of duty as the newest member of the Power Rangers team while having to cope with the Machine Empire invasion as well as having her world turned upside down by entering Angel Grove as an orphan. Luckily, Tanya adapted quickly to her new lifestyle and began to learn martial arts from Tommy Oliver and Adam Park. To help her cope with her temporal displacement, Tanya lived with Zeo Ranger I Pink Katherine Hillard, who also helped Tanya enroll at Angel Grove High School.
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