Why did they bring Rita back?

[Drivemax Megazord]

Zedd was much better as a solo villain and more bad ass. Rita should have never been brought back as a character. At least not full time.

[Rita's Pita]

I loved that she came back. She was even better since Carla Perez did such a great job. No disrespect to Soga, but rellying in the footage for dubs was more limiting. And not really possible once they ran out of footage. It was smart to hire an American Actor to play the role.

[MattEmily]

I think the plan was that they were always planning on bringing Rita back they probably just didn't know how to bring her back and then they likely decided to use her to soften Zedd by the 2 of them marrying due to the constant complaints that they were getting from Parents about kids being too afraid of Lord Zedd.

Why did they want to bring her back? I don't know maybe they didn't want all of the main villains from Season 1 to be completely gone but I do recall hearing that they had promised Barbara Goodson that Rita would return so that she could continue doing her voice.

[PRangerX]

It does make you wonder what a great villain Zedd could have been if they didn't water him down with Rita. Of course he did still do some pretty dark things. Like the arc where he takes Kimberly prisoner and tries to drain the Pink Energy and her life away from her.

[MattEmily]

It does make you wonder what a great villain Zedd could have been if they didn't water him down with Rita. Of course he did still do some pretty dark things. Like the arc where he takes Kimberly prisoner and tries to drain the Pink Energy and her life away from her.

yup Zedd did a lot of dark stuff when it was just him.


Nearly destroyed the Dinozords
Created Primator which made things hard for the Rangers when fighting him
Cast a spell over a jealous Kimberly to increase her jealousy over Trini regarding the club thing
Kidnapped Tommy to steal the Sword of Power
Drained Tommy's Green Ranger powers
Kidnapped 4 Rangers and tried to drain their powers
Kidnapped Kimberly and tried to turn her into his new Rita
Kidnapped Ninja Students and Mr. Anderson and tried to turn them evil
Brainwashed Rocky into just wanting to have fun
Almost succeeded with his plan of Adam losing all of his confidence due to the Mirror of Regret
Tricked the Rangers into fighting old monsters that weren't truly there.
Turned back time so the Rangers wouldn't remember who they were.

[mbozzo]

They brought Rita back because of how popular her character was. ;)

[Powermaster]

yup Zedd did a lot of dark stuff when it was just him.


Nearly destroyed the Dinozords
Created Primator which made things hard for the Rangers when fighting him
Cast a spell over a jealous Kimberly to increase her jealousy over Trini regarding the club thing
Kidnapped Tommy to steal the Sword of Power
Drained Tommy's Green Ranger powers
Kidnapped 4 Rangers and tried to drain their powers
Kidnapped Kimberly and tried to turn her into his new Rita
Kidnapped Ninja Students and Mr. Anderson and tried to turn them evil
Brainwashed Rocky into just wanting to have fun
Almost succeeded with his plan of Adam losing all of his confidence due to the Mirror of Regret
Tricked the Rangers into fighting old monsters that weren't truly there.
Turned back time so the Rangers wouldn't remember who they were.


It's kind lf wierd how he hated Rita so much yet tried to make Kimberly into another Rita to have a perfect mate.

[Goldar's Revenge]

I think it was more Goldar being used to working under Rita and figured thats what evil witches were supposed to act like.

[MMPR Guy]

yup Zedd did a lot of dark stuff when it was just him.


Nearly destroyed the Dinozords
Created Primator which made things hard for the Rangers when fighting him
Cast a spell over a jealous Kimberly to increase her jealousy over Trini regarding the club thing
Kidnapped Tommy to steal the Sword of Power
Drained Tommy's Green Ranger powers
Kidnapped 4 Rangers and tried to drain their powers
Kidnapped Kimberly and tried to turn her into his new Rita
Kidnapped Ninja Students and Mr. Anderson and tried to turn them evil
Brainwashed Rocky into just wanting to have fun
Almost succeeded with his plan of Adam losing all of his confidence due to the Mirror of Regret
Tricked the Rangers into fighting old monsters that weren't truly there.
Turned back time so the Rangers wouldn't remember who they were.


Didn't he turn back time after he married Rita?

[Inner Senshi]

I'm glad they did. Lord Zedd was getting too scary and they needed Rita to lighten him up.

[Turbo Guy]

That's why they were smart the next time they made an original villain and made her funny. I'm talking about Divatox of course.

[Viva La Divatox]

I wonder what it would have been like if Zedd and Rita divorced so he could marry Divatox.

[MattEmily]

That's why they were smart the next time they made an original villain and made her funny. I'm talking about Divatox of course.

She wasn't funny. Elgar with him being an idiot was the funny one and Elgar actually came from Carranger but the crew decided to make him an idiot and most of his stuff in Turbo was original so they had also made a new Elgar costume since they didn't like the Carranger costume or the head for the movie.

[Viva La Divatox]

I believe Divatox was very funny. So was Elgar though. He was a good sidekick to Divatox.

[Turbo Guy]

I think they were both funny. Which is why I love the Turbo Villains!

[Sentai Snob]

I really wish they would have gone with the Sentai main female villain rather than make there own attempt at an original villain based of her. They could have dubbed the Carranger villain like they did in Season 1. I would have called Turbo , Turboranger and dropped the unnecessary PR title too. But I digress.

[Cassidy Casablancas]

Power Rangers isn't the same without Rita.

[Astro Hawk]

Rita really should have stayed gone.

[MattEmily]

Didn't he turn back time after he married Rita?

There were 2 "time reversal" episodes. 1 that Zedd did but that was before Rita but still in the 2nd season and then there's the one that Master Vile had started so that would be a "nope" with the one that Zedd did since that was before Rita.

[Astro Hawk]

I wish we got more of the Zedd we saw in " Mutiny".

[Kimmy Repulsa]

I wonder why they got rid of Ria in the first place? They quickly brought her back. It would have been easy to bring Carla in earlier. Even though having Kimberly marry Zedd would have been preferable. Rita could have become a Ranger.