Thursday, April 17, 2008

Power Rangers/Super Sentai Villain Comparison: Lightspeed Rescue/ GoGoFive

Diabolico / Zylpheeza
Zylpheeza deeply loves his brothers and sister, he was sinister and killed by GoGoV. He was revived but killed by his brother Salamandes. Diabolico on the other hand didn't care about his teammates, either his queen Bansheera, who he betrayed. To begin with, he somehow broke free from his imprisonment all the demons were in and stole Ryan (Titanium Ranger) as a child and raised him. Diabolico was killed, came back and tried to help the Rangers. Both had their powers given to their Salamandes/Olympius. Both were then upgraded and used as a puppet. Diabolico returned one last time as a spirit to pull Queen Bansheera into the demon shadow world.

Loki/Cobolda
Loki is brawny and dumb. Cobolda's strategies always relied more in strength than thought. Secretly coveting the rank of Dark King, he tried to take it over after Zylpheeza's death but was overpowered by Salamandes. He and his older brother Zylpheeza were close because they survived together when they were younger. Loki and Cobolda both died in the same way. Cobolda/Loki fought the GoGo V when given a bazooka and was killed by Zylpheeza/Diabolico, who was being controlled by Grandiene/Bansheera.

Vypra / Venus
Vypra was the first villianess to be played by an American actress to wear the same outfit as her Japanese counterpart other than Rita. Venus is the only daughter, she is a queen of disguise to gather information or just cause havoc. Venus' strategies were particularly cruel and fearsome. Vypra battles the Rangers in her high speed dune buggy, the Vyprari. Both felt great respect for Zylpheeza/Diabolico. Near the finale, Venus planned to use a spider to siphon off Matoi's life-force to resurrect Zylpheeza failed when the other GoGo V were able to separate the spider from Matoi, by striking the other spider that was on Zylpheeza's chest. Venus placed the spider on her own chest and sacrificed her life so Zylpheeza could live. Vypra was killed by Queen Bansheera, who absorbed her energy to gain a bodily form. But somehow turned up on Time Force for revenge from a grave.

Drop / Impus
He is youngest, being just an infant, he had to be carried by Pierre and would only say 'Drop.' He had abilities of high sorcery and fire. Upon Zylpheeza's death, he received the Dark King Star and using energy that was transferred from Zylpheeza, Drop underwent a maturation inside a cocoon. During that time his soul took on the form of a human boy with pyrokentic (fire-strater) powers who Matsuri befriended. Impus was the only one to be the son of Queen Bansheera, other than all of them being related to her. Impus was cared for by the trio of demons. When Diabolico was destroyed, Impus received the star power he possessed, and transformed into Olympius. Drop became Salamandes.

Salamandes / Olympius
Drop's monsters were always strong and serious, while Olympius' monsters were goofy-lookinh, probably to counter balance the seriousness Salamandes brought to the series. He lost Grandienne's affection with the failure of the Infinity Clan monsters. Using the star gem, both tried to trap the GoGo Five in hell and ends up being banished there by Grandienne. They escaped as a strong form but is done in by the heroes and later resurrected as a dragon and were destroyed by the heroes in the finale. They had the same fate and both were treacherous, serious, and selfish.

Jinxer / Pierre
Both were in charge of Impus/Drop and were sorcerers and made the monsters big with their cards. Both were very loyal to Salamandes/Olympius, helping him out when no one else would. Jinxer was killed when the Omega Megazord was destroyed while he was piloting it. Pierre was seemingly squished by the GoGo Five's efforts but came back in Timeranger vs. GoGoV, using his Saima Magic he made the Londers Prisoners immune to the Timeranger's weapons. He merged with Boribaru and became PierreBori. He was killed by the TimeRobo Alpha, using the energy from Victory Robo. Pierre was the only one not related to the other demons.

Triskull / King Gil
Triskull was a villain that Trakeena brought in her return, King Gil was actually son of Witch Grandienne. Triskull was just destroyed. King Gil tried to overthrow Grandienne and she had Pierre dropped into hell. He came out in the GoGoV vs. Gingaman teamup and became that big monster that they used as Trakeena's final form.

Grand Witch Grandiene / Queen Bansheera
Queen Bansheera was off in unknown parts when Diabolico and the demons were released. She returned as an energy being, and eventually returned to her solid state. She advises the newly matured Olympius in his attacks on the Power Rangers. Queen Bansheera was so obssessed with defeating the Rangers that she betrayed her own followers. She absorbed Vypra to regain her full bodily form, abandoned Olympius in the shadow world, and set up Loki to be destroyed while battling the Rangers. She was finally vanquished when the Rangers threw her back into the tomb, trapping her in the shadow world.

The mother of the Saima Clan, Grandienne was seperated from her children long ago. A short while later she arrived in this dimension but is trapped halfway because Mondo interrupts the spell. She advises the newly matured Salamandes in his attacks on the GoGo V. Grandienne banishes Salamandes to Hell after disappointing her and she leaves to complete her transfer to our dimension. She fights GoGoV and weakens them. She sent all of her energy into resurrecting Salamandes and Zylpheeza into their final forms and loses all her power with their destruction.


1 comment:

Unknown said...

Actually, Diabolico did care somewhat for his comrades. After Vypra was absorbed into Bansheera and she forced him to kill Loki. To me, I think of Diabolico as the Piccolo of Power Rangers.

Diabolico: "I have grown to hate Queen Bansheera more than you!"
That was probably the nicest thing you would ever hear from your hated nemesis.

And as for Diabolico rescuing Ryan while still contained....I think that Diabolico used an Outer Body Technique to do that. Just a theory I guess.