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- "You can't do this to us! We're the A-Squad!"
- ―Charlie's final words before getting arrested[src]
Charlie is the A-Squad Red Ranger and former leader of the A-Squad Rangers. After her team was sent out on a mission they secretly joined forces with Emperor Gruumm and became traitors.
Personality
Charlie was the greedy, arrogant, treacherous, sadistic, and self-serving leader of the A-Squad. She never interacted with the B-Squad Rangers (they didn't even know that she was a woman) and she showed arrogant contempt for them, saying that they're "not fit to shine their boots". Even Space Patrol Delta was unaware of her true personality, though Bridge Carson once noticed that something was "off" about her and her team's aura. However, despite her arrogance and confidence, she was also cowardly, as she actually feared to lose to the B-Squad and be captured.
Biography
As A-Squad's leader, she dealt with more serious attacks on Newtech City and Earth. She destroyed the first of Broodwing's robots in "Beginnings".
Before Emperor Gruumm attacked Earth, he sent his forces to the Helix Nebula in order to draw out the A-Squad. Charlie's team was dispatched, but shortly after, she sent a garbled distress signal as the team was overrun. SPD continued to search for the A-Squad but Anubis Cruger feared they'd been killed in action ("Walls", "Dogged").
In reality, Charlie and her team had betrayed SPD and joined Gruumm - Charlie would later say that "everyone wants to be on a winning team". On his behalf, they attacked and slaughtered the SPD outpost on Gamma 4.
Later, the squad faked having crashed on Gamma Orion and were "rescued" by the B-Squad (Charlie was annoyed at Jack for being surprised that she was "a girl"). Once they were back on Earth, Charlie kidnapped Cruger and took him to Gruumm's warship; she didn't care when Cruger denounced them as Rangers.
Her next act was to call out the B-Squad to meet them in battle, where Charlie and her Rangers pounded them into the dirt and mocked them. Unfortunately for Charlie, the B-Squad activated SWAT Mode and resorted to improvised battle tactics, and Charlie was taken down by Jack Landors. Charlie summoned a spare Zord to continue the fight and helped destroy the Delta Squad Megazord, but a rematch with the SWAT Megazord blew it to pieces. Laying defeated and about to be arrested, Charlie was outraged by the idea that the A-Squad could possibly be beaten by their "inferiors" and said the B-Squad couldn't do this since they were A-Squad, but Jack didn't care saying that she and the rest of her team are being demoted before placing them in confinement cards and the A-Squad position was disbanded after B-Squad refused to accept the position of A-Squad.
SPD comic strip
The UK's Jetix Magazine SPD strip had a different finale to the show: there, Charlie was brainwashed instead of corrupted. The B-Squad defeated her team saved her and were later promoted to A-Squad themselves.
A-Squad Red Ranger
Ranger Costume
Arsenal
Zords
- Delta Runner 1 (formerly)
Gallery
Notes
- Charlie is noted as being the first female Red Ranger in the franchise's history. Bruce Kalish and Greg Aronowitz had asked if they could make the B-Squad Red Ranger a girl; Disney gave a very firm no and were initially uneasy about making A-Squad's Red a woman. That's why Charlie's voice is distorted in "Walls": if Disney had said "nay", she could have been made into a man.
- Super Sentai would have its first female Red Ranger in its 33rd entry, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, when the real 18th head of the Shiba Clan, Kaoru Shiba, assumes leadership of the Shinkengers. The Power Ranger adaptation of Shinkenger - Power Rangers Samurai - would follow suit and introduce the second female Red Ranger, Lauren Shiba.
- Charlie and her team are the first Rangers to willingly turn evil.
- The A-Squad helmets are copies of the Power Rangers in Space helmets, with the uniforms being recycled motocross gear.
- Charlie is the only A-Squad Ranger to have an official name mentioned - and that is only in the closing credits and Gina Valera's CV.
- Charlie is one of the first evil Power Rangers to ever receive a similar Sentai counterpart of the series S.P.D. was adapted from after the main event.
- She shares her name with the Yellow Mystic Ranger.
Appearances
Power Rangers S.P.D.
- Episode 1: Beginnings (1) (morphed only)
- Episode 2: Beginnings (2) (morphed only)
- Episode 4: Walls (video recall and morphed only)
- Episode 36: Resurrection
- Episode 37: Endings (1)
See Also
- A-Squad - the SPD Ranger unit to which Charlie belongs.
- Jack Landors - the lower-ranked SPD Ranger that defeated her.
- Andros/Kenta Date - the owner of this Ranger's helmet.
- Lauren Shiba/Kaoru Shiba - first female Red Power Ranger that is good and first female Sentai Red Ranger.
- Assam Asimov - the Evil Neo DekaRed with similar traits after the main event.
