Legends of Power, Week # 44 : Beware The Full Moon

LEGEND OF POWER - WEEK # 44
The Zenaku Saga
Power Rangers Wild Force

            I did say this is the countdown of the 50 Greatest Power Rangers STORIES. Multi-parters are considered 1 story. I will NOT count whole seasons. That being said, this is the second multi-parter on here. Yet, this multi-parter lasted about 6 episodes.

            Wild Force has started about a few months before. Since then, they found Cole (Rick Medina who was also Deker for PR Samurai) and found quite a few Wild Zords. The team seemed to have started to come together. Then, on one night, General Nyzer hatched a plan to bring out the Duke Org, Zenaku. Along with Jindrax and Toxica, it worked. Zenaku was freed on the night of a full moon. And Zenaku BEAT THE HELL OUT OF THE RANGERS.

            Seriously, almost every match in the first 4 episodes, Zenaku was dominating them and the Wild Force barely escaped. And each time, they lost one of their secondary Wild Zords. The Wild Force was wondering what was going on.  And Princess Shayla told them that she remembered that he was defeated by the SIX Warriors. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. WHOA. SIX Warriors. Since the series started, you said FIVE Ancient Warriors. WHAT DO YOU MEAN SIX?

            After Shayla was kidnapped and noticed that Zenaku was bleeding and the fact that he can summon his own Wild Zords with a flute dagger, similar to Tommy’s but black and cresent shaped, the Rangers figured that he was once human. Zenaku was gaining his memories but Nyzer put the stop to that with some damn bug that flew into his brain …EWWWWWWWW.

            The Rangers and Zenaku had a final battle … and with the help of Animus … found out that Zenaku was Merrick, the Sixth Ancient Warrior that used to do all sorts of naughty things with Shayla. Yet, after he is freed, he feels he’s not fit to join the Wild Force and does this Lone Wolf thing for several episodes.

             This saga was both reminecent of Green With Evil yet with a different spin on it and the stakes seemingly much higher. We got a guy who was supposed to be fighting with the Wild Force, trapped by some freaky curse. We got a tragic love story. We got the Rangers having to get smarter and stronger over time in order to beat Zenaku  … hell, they ONLY beat Zenaku cause of some Deus Ex Machina. I’m NOT kidding! 

            The mystery of Zenaku was great and Zenaku himself was just AWESOME. I would have rather seen him stay as a main general. It also helps that he was voiced by Lex Lang, who was Sanosake in the Rurouni Kenshin Anime as well as Ecliptor in Power Rangers in Space. His weapons were awesome. His Wild Zords cool. And he was a BIG threat.

             Yet, the Merrick story ended up being part of the reason it got bogged down. The fact that Shayla didn’t say 6 Ancient Warriors from the beginning was also a BIG boo boo storywise. It made it be more obvious that it was shoe-horned in. The saga as a whole was good but still some gaping flaws to it.


Hence why it made # 44.



NEXT WEEK: Pinocchio!  

COUNTDOWN SPECIAL #3 - HECTOR'S TOP 10 BEST OF THE BAD

This time, Hector goes through his top 10 Best Baddies in Comics. Take it away!

10.Professor Zoom/Reverse Flash-he absolutely hates Barry Allen and anyone associated with him. The lengths that he would go to are horrible from going back in time to push him down the steps when he was a kid to killing his mother and framing his father he’s a complete psycho and quite dangerous.





9.Lex Luthor-believes himself to be God’s gift to Metropolis. He does not like anyone taking his glory with unlimited resources and genius level intelligence, Luthor is definitely a force to be reckoned with.








8.Animus-cocky a smart ass and mad powerful this son of Hellsyn is no laughing matter with his sharp tongue and hell powers he’s no laughing matter and very entertaining to read about be sure to read about him in Angel Savior exclusively from J1Studios.




7.Violator-disguised as a disgusting fat little clown he is no Ronald McDonald. he hates Spawn for being considered as to lead Malebogia’s army . Violator believes he deserves to do this. When in his demonic form Violator is a problem.



6.Jason Wynn-unlimited reach in the government and ties with the Violator Wynn is the reason Al Simmons is Spawn using him to do his dirty work then disposed of him willing to do anything to cover his tracks getting on his bad side is not a good idea

5.Doctor Doom –ruler of Latveria master of both magic and science he is Reed Richards match in intellect definitely a serious threat and not one to be taken lightly.




4.Norman Osborn- completely insane maniacal and manipulative there isn’t much Osborn can’t do I mean the man made the nation believe he had reformed then attacked Asgard. They don’t come much worse than Norman Osborn.









3.Venom-a man with a majorly bruised ego and an alien symbiote giving him enhanced strength and mimicking spider powers can you say bad combo a fan favorite although portrayed as a hero at times venom is in my opinion is at his best as a villain sorry to any fans of the recent Venom incarnation of Flash Thompson.





2.Joker- the clown prince of crime with only one former identity (Red Hood)unless you count his identity in the first Tim Burton film (till this day my favorite) stopping at absolutely nothing to torment Gotham and Batman there’s not much of a motive to his madness you could never turn this guy into a hero he shall always be one of the greatest villains of all time.



1.Crime Syndicate – there is a good reason why this team made the list it’s an exact evil counterpart to the Justice League from a different dimension. With the powers of the Justice Leagues but no morals to hold them back, they’d put one hell of a fight on your hands.

Bad guys like this are what make our heroes so heroic and what keeps us cracking open new issues and of course keeps us clashing. Hector Ramirez deucing out until next time friends keep clashing.