 This article is about a/an Ranger in the Power Rangers comic sub-franchise by Boom! Studios.
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William "Billy" Cranston is the Blue Ranger of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in the alternate universe series, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Return.
After his time as a Ranger, Billy started up a telecommunications business and uses the money from his company to fund his top secret projects.
History[]
Billy's early history closely follows the TV series. Jason, Trini, and Zack went to the Peace Conference in Switzerland. But instead of transferring their powers and leaving the team like in the main timeline, they stay on and use teleportation to come to Angel Grove when they are needed. All six Rangers graduate from Angel Grove High.
Billy later attends Tommy and Kimberly's wedding in 2000 and is shown working as a lead researcher in a laboratory. After a year of planning, Rita and Zedd launched an attack in Serpentera on the Command Center and completely destroyed it, killing Zordon and Alpha 5 in the process. A traumatized Kimberly cries as Trini wonders what they should do…Tommy suggests that they take the fight to Rita and Zedd on the Moon in retaliation for the death of their allies, intending on ending the two villains once and for all. 
COMIC STORY- MMPR 30th Anniversary Special
The final battle on the Moon in 2001.
Billy is part of the diversionary Zord attack on the Moon with Jason, Trini, and Zack while Tommy and Kimberly infiltrates the Moon Palace and prepares the Benevolator, a device that the Rangers made filled with Morphin Grid Energy that would theoretically incapacitate the enemy of all evil by releasing a wave of purification. Rita stumbles upon the Rangers in her bedroom and the Benevolator gets damaged in the battle.
Outside, Jason is facing Goldar in his Zord and ordering his team to hold the line as they need to keep stalling the enemy army until the device is activated. Lord Zedd revels in watching the final battle against the Power Rangers, but is concerned that his wife has not returned yet, ordering Finster to go find her.
Just as Rita is about to kill Tommy, powering up her wand with a huge amount of energy, an arrow fired by Kimberly pierced her heart, killing her. They contact Jason about the damaged Benevolator who is struggling to hold their positions outside as Goldar is smacking them around. Billy says that there is a fail safe detonator that activates the Benevolator in ten seconds.
Billy adds that there is something he forgot to mention, the Benevolator’s power is proportional to the amount of dark energy it comes in contact with. Unfortunately, with all the new monsters that have been spawned, he calculates that the force of energy released will set off an explosion that will make a huge hole in the Moon the size of Angel Grove. Jason says there is no other way as their Zords are taking heavy damage and they are about to be overwhelmed.
Kimberly is crying, refusing to leave her husband, but he reminds her that she promised him if things got bad she would bail out. He tells her that he loves her and gives her one last kiss as Jason shouts over the comms that they need to detonate now as the Zords are failing, ordering Billy, Zack and Trini to bail out as their Zords get ripped apart by the enemy forces, with all four of them teleporting out just in time. Lord Zedd relishes in victory, only for the last thing he would ever hear being Squatt rushing in and giving him the tragic news that his wife is dead as the Benevolator detonated.
The Rangers teleported back to Earth and watch the lunar explosion from the ruins of the Command Center, they at first celebrated except for Kimberly who is horrified and in tears. They then realized that Tommy isn’t with them as Trini goes to comfort her best friend over the death of her husband as Kimberly starts to grieve. Instead of blowing a hole on the Moon’s surface, the Benevolator’s explosion blew off a large chunk off of the Moon. COMIC STORY- MMPR: The Return #2
Following their final battle with Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd on the Moon, the team disbanded and swore to never morph again. Billy now runs a telecommunications business and uses the money from his company to fund his top secret projects. COMIC STORY- MMPR: The Return #1
Billy, Jason, Kimberly, and Zack trapped in Selena's forcefield on the Moon.
Selena Repulsa, the daughter of Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd, disguises herself as Trini's relative to gain access to her Power Coin and Power Morpher in her safety deposit box. She captures Jason, Zack, Billy, and Kimberly along with their Morphers and takes them prisoner on the Moon. Selena reveals her true identity and her plan to use the Morphin-Matic, an upgraded version of the Monster-Matic machine using Lord Zedd's Z Staff, the Rangers' Power Coins, and the last of Finster's magic clay, to bring her mother back.
A surviving Finster activated the Morphin-Matic, but the machine soon went dead. Wondering why it didn't work, Kimberly revealed that Selena only had 5 Power Coins as there were 6 Rangers. Selena scoffed and said that Tommy's Power Coin was destroyed as she had the Putties search for it and never found it. Kimberly said that Tommy wasn't morphed when he activated the Benevolator to which Finster told Selena she was telling the truth. Just then, Finster's sensors went off revealing that the Dragon Power Coin was coming to them. Selena pulled Kimberly out of the forcefield demanding to know where it is as a female Green Ranger teleports in front of the Rangers: Olivia Hart, Kimberly's daughter. COMIC STORY- MMPR: The Return #3
Personality[]
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Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger[]
Ranger Costume
Arsenal
Relationships[]
Allies[]
Rangers[]
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (The Return) - Teammates
Others[]
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Behind the Scenes[]
Design[]
Billy (The Return) Concept art
Billy's appearance was designed by Dan Mora.
Etymology[]
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Notes[]
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Appearances[]
Power Rangers (Boom! Studios)
See Also[]
- Billy Cranston - The original TV version of the character.
- Billy Cranston (2016 comic) - The Boom! Studios universe version of the character.
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