Billy Cranston (2016 comic)

2016 comic

2017 movie

World of the Coinless

The Return

This article is about a/an Ranger in the Power Rangers comic sub-franchise by Boom! Studios.

Billy Cranston

Blue Ranger

Black Ranger

Gender:

Male

Seasons:

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios)

Colors:

Blue
Black (temporary)

Homeworld:

Earth

First Appearance:

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 0

Last Appearance:

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 121

Number of Episode Appearances:

128 (Mighty Morphin (Boom))
3 (MMPR: Pink)
6 (JL/PR)
10 (MMPR/TMNT)
5 (Godzilla vs MMPR)
1 (Ranger Academy)
1 (HyperForce)
Full list of appearances

Blue Ranger

Black Ranger

Blue Ranger
Black Ranger

William "Billy" Cranston is the genius Blue Ranger of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

During the events of Go Go Power Rangers, he temporarily assumed the form of the Black Ranger, and developed a prototype combat exosuit.

History[]

Past[]

Billy was chosen by Zordon to wield the power of the Triceratops Power Coin to become the Blue Power Ranger. He is responsible for creating the team's communicators, based on Zordon's own technology and regularly performs maintenance on the individual Zords. Despite his confidence in his own superior intellect, Billy feels self-conscious about his lack of athletic ability in comparison to the rest of the team, as well as his role as a hero. In his youth, he was good friends with Eugene 'Skull' Skullovich, though the friendship eventually soured and became more antagonistic. He is a frequent target of Bulk and Skull's bullying.

Rise of Drakkon[]

As tensions rise between Tommy and the rest of the team, a new enemy calling himself the Black Dragon attacked the Command Center directly. Destroying the building and Alpha 5, the group fought a losing battle against the enemy before Jason and Trini set up teleportation to a pocket dimension for safety. Just as the teleportation sequence was initiated, Billy was pulled from the ray of blue light and knocked unconscious as his friends escaped. The Black Dragon used his Power Coin to connect to the Morphing Grid and caused the other four to lose their powers.

Trapped in the Dark Dimension, Billy finds himself in the company of Goldar whom is being punished for his failure in the aftermath of Tommy's joining of the Power Rangers. Eventually, the two are able come to an understanding and Billy is able to escape in time to help Tommy defeat the Black Dragon, which he reveals to be mechanical much like the Zords. The two unmorphed rangers destroy the power source, but find themselves trapped in its rapidly shrinking body.

At the last moment, the two escape but find themselves in an alternate future where Tommy never joined the Power Rangers and became an evil white ranger named Lord Drakkon. Escaping from an army of Mastodon Sentries, they find the ruined remains of various Zords and the White Ranger's blade: Saba, who guides the two and explains the history of the worlds formation. Shortly after, the two come into contact with the rebellion; consisting of alternate versions of Zack, Trini, Aisha, Kat and Bulk. Reclaiming his deceased counterparts morpher and coin, Billy feigns surrender to allow Alternate Trini the chance to get close and destroy Lord Drakkon's morpher and coin with it. The rest of the rangers show up in the alternate future to rescue Billy and Tommy, where they use the remainder of the Black Dragon's power to send them all home.

After the Black Dragon arc, Billy becomes committed to being more athletic and becomes a bit more muscular in physique. While things seem to be normal in his life, his parents are in an overprotective state given he and Tommy had to stage a ruse to explain their long absence by teleporting under some debris for rescue workers to find them. So from the perspective of Billy's mother, her son was buried alive for several days and this created the very real adult fear she could have lost her child. Billy is a little annoyed by his mom's paranoia, but Trini tries to tell him to consider her feelings. He does try to be understanding but hopes for things to be a little more normal in the future.

Shattered Grid[]

Participating in a final push against Drakkon's Tower on the Moon in the World of the Coinless, Billy manned his station in the Dragonzord Battle Mode led by Kimberly, who Jason entrusted with Tommy's Dragon Armor. Within one of the several Megazords present, the Rangers led the fight against a massive army of Ranger Sentries. Eventually, however, the Megazords were overwhelmed by the arrival of Lord Drakkon's immense Zord, Serpentera, whose assault forced the Rangers out from their cockpits onto the ground. COMIC STORY- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 30

Necessary Evil[]

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Unlimited Power[]

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The Eltarian War[]

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The Death Ranger/Charge To 100[]

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Recharged[]

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Darkest Hour[]

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink[]

to be added

Justice League/Power Rangers[]

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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles[]

to be added

Godzilla vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers[]

to be added

Ranger Academy[]

Some time after Billy ended his tenure as the Blue Ranger, Billy graduated from Angel Grove High and became a teaching assistant at the Angel Grove Institute of Technology. One morning, he received an unexpected contact from the Headmaster of Ranger Academy on his laptop during a Skype call from his father. She offered him a position at the school and at first, Billy was suspicious of her because nobody contacted him in advance about the call. He also was suffering from imposter syndrome from his regular teaching job, so he was not confident he could handle the task. After a bit of counseling and bonding with a cadet named Cora, Billy considered the prospect and later accepted the position of a Professor of Blue Campus. COMIC STORY- Office Hours

He is later seen in the classroom trying to teach his students about Spectracite, but turns his attention towards Sage who is distracted and sternly asks if his lesson is boring her. Lindy covers for Sage by saying that she is tired from lack of sleep because of studying all night and he suggests that she should study more responsibly and to pay attention as the lesson is important for their Morphin Trial. COMIC STORY- Ranger Academy Issue 3

HyperForce[]

Zordon cautiously silences the HyperForce Rangers, tells them that he is being aware that taking all six of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers including Billy out of their regular routines to help the HyperForce Rangers would be too big of a risk, Zordon instead chooses just one of them to help out. He announces the presence of the Yellow Ranger of this time period, Aisha Campbell. TV STORY-Aisha Campbell Returns!

Zordon warns the HyperForce Rangers that Lord Zedd has taken advantage of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' incluiding Billy absence and has sent down a monster to attack Angel Grove. TV STORY-We Need Megazord Power!

When Primator disguises itself as Marvin Shih, but the Rangers aren't buying it. Eddie Banks the HyperForce Blue Ranger, remembering from what he read in the archives of when the Mighty Morphin Rangers including Billy faced Primator. Eddie decides to use a mirrored piece of the ship to reveal the Primator's identity. TV STORY-Save Marv

While the HyperForce Rangers are seeing the destruction of Emperor Marvo, they also witness the arrival of every Legendary Power Ranger including Billy and the other Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and the start of the Legendary Battle. TV STORY-Stage 4: The Armada

Personality[]

Initially shy and insecure, Billy was still a highly intelligent individual that was always eager to learn, this resulted in Billy often speaking in what could only be described as technical jargon during his teenage years, talking with a more scientific terminology even in the most casual conversations, with only his friend Trini being able to understand him most of the time. During his time as a Blue Ranger, Billy slowly grew more confident and sought out to improve himself physically.

Blue Ranger[]

This is Billy's default Ranger form as given to him by Zordon through the Power Coin.

Zords

Arsenal

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

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Attacks[]

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Abilities[]

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Weaknesses[]

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While on the planet Breel, Billy's power was transferred to Kimberly and received Zack's power to become the Black Ranger due to the planet's unique environmental properties. While in the black spectrum of power, Billy's personality changed a bit as a side effect, becoming braver and stronger.^[1]

Arsenal

Billy experimented and developed a new prototype Ranger combat suit design with the help of Alpha 1 and operated it in Command Center simulations for tests. This Ranger suit is fully armor-plated and is equipped with strength enhancements greater than that of his normal Ranger suit, short-range jet propulsion for flight, and deployable wrist-mounted Horn Chain weapons based in design on similar ones equipped on his respective Zord.

Despite its impressive features, Zordon forbids its use in the field because of technical glitches such as a critical failure of the jet propulsion systems and a need to put the safety of his Rangers above all else. The suit was later critically damaged after Alpha 5 used it to distract Alpha 1 long enough for the Megazord in Tank Mode to fire on the evil robot, the damage rendering the suit unusable until it can be repaired. The armor is currently in storage in Billy’s lab at the Command Center.

TMNT Blue Ninja Ranger — Blue Ninja Ranger

When his ability to use his Ranger powers were disrupted by the Shredder, Billy gave his Morpher to Leonardo to use and donned ninja streetwear to help fight the Foot Clan. Despite being titled as a "Ranger", Billy's abilities are nowhere near as strong as his morphed form and are on par with how he is unmorphed.

Arsenal

Bo Staff

When the Power Node in the Command Center was destroyed. Billy combined his Power Coin with Mutagen to mutate into a humanoid Triceratops in order to fight off Krang and Rita's forces.