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Also referred to as "Shakira on Acid," Rita Repulsa was the head honcho
of the Evil Space Aliens, and without a doubt the laughing stock of the
entire show. Not that it wasn't cool to be some ugly woman that lived on
the moon and cooked Play Doh figurines in her Easy Bake Oven all day. But
anybody who's ever seen MMPR knows that Rita talked funny. Real funny.
To create Rita's character, they simply got some Japanese footage from
Japanese Power Rangers (Then known as Zyu Ranger), and dubbed over this
evil queen's voice. The dubbing was horrible. She never made any real sense.
It seemed like every five seconds, she'd be saying something like "I HAVE
SUCH A HEADACHE GOLDAR THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT" or "OH MY HEAD HURTS I HATE
YOU POWER RANGERS I WILL GET EVEN WITH YOU ONE DAY OH YES I WILL YOU'LL
SEE JUST WAIT." Why did they even bother dubbing over Rita's voice? She
would have made just as much sense if she were speaking Japanese.
Every episode of MMPR started off telling the story of how Rita came to be the most evil old bat in the world. 10,000 years ago, some warriors finally captured Rita and her henchmen, locking them up in a big rusty bucket on the moon, condemning Rita to smell Baboo's farts for 10 milennia. In 1993, when she was finally released by some dimwitted astronauts, she went back to her usual habits- Having Finster make clay toys for her to terrorize Earth with. Did she learn nothing from past experiences? Why didn't she just start making the monsters out of Legos or something? How about some sturdy paper maché?
Just like Ernie, Rita wasn't very good at what she did. She would make all these elaborate schemes to destroy the Rangers, yet they all sucked in some way. Take, for instance, the episode "Island of Illusion." Rita traps the Rangers on a deserted island, where each Ranger keeps seeing illusions of stuff like snakes, monsters, etc. Sure, it sounds like a good method of torture. But the Rangers discover that the key to beating the illusions is to "believe in themselves." Each Ranger thinks back to a time where they did something great, like winning the pie eating contest or something, and blam! The illusions are gone, and the Rangers are teleported home safely. Uh, Rita, why did you program such a stupid weakness into your master plan? Did you just set it up so that the Rangers would have NO CHANCE of dying on that island? Come on, think logically. Just send them to the island and freakin' nuke them or something.
Rita
was finally defeated in Power Rangers In Space, "Countdown to Destruction,"
when Zordon's wave of energy sweeped over the universe. But she wasn't
truly killed. The wave instead transformed her into a normal, and extremely
attractive human being, seen to the left. It was actually the actress who
played Rita, minus all that ugly hair and makeup. Honestly, I think MMPR
would have had higher ratings if they would have had Rita look normal all
the time.
Neal Gettling, meneedbrain@aol.com, writes: "It's too bad villains always seem to be overly stupid. If Rita were smart, she'd save up about 30 monsters and let them loose on Angel Grove all at once. And then, as soon as she got them down to Earth, she could Make them all GROWWW!!!!! The Power Rangers couldn't stop them, unless they actually used those blasters that killed Billy's clone in one hit. They blasted his ass back to the moon so fast he couldn't even touch a hair on the Rangers' heads. But they never use their blasters, because they're morons. Use your brains, you idiots."
