Dora Ladon

This article is about a monster in Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.

Dora Ladon
Episode	Ep. 13: Fire! The Golden Arrow
Sentai Show	Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger
Voice Actor	Yoshio Kawai

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"You can run but you can't hide. I'll hunt you down and plant my seeds on you!"

―Dora Ladon's first words when aiming at a group of fleeing civilians.^[src]

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

―Dora Ladon reacting to the Howling Cannon and his final words before his death.^[src]

Dora Ladon (ドーララドゥーン, Dōra Radūn, 13): A snake Dora Monster with a lizard-like head, cobra-headed hands, two piles of snakes for legs, and a torso that is actually his large mouth whose source of power was the golden-apple on his head. The creature was created in order to steal the youth from children.

History

Dora Ladon's folklore

Noticing that she is starting to get wrinkles, Witch Bandora became envious of the youth of children and sought to stave off the ravages of time on her body. To this end, she created Dora Ladon a creature whose magic arrows would could rob children of their youth. Those affected would begin growing a stalk from their head which would produce a single apple. As the apple grew in size, the child would grow older and become weaker. In the end, Bandora sought to harvest these apples and feed upon them to maintain her vitality.

Since the apple atop of Dora Ladon's head was the creature's weakness, Bandora had the forethought to consider Mei, the Zyurangers resident archer as a threat to her plans. To eliminate this threat, Totpat was sent in disguise to trick Mei into eating an apple that put her into a deep sleep. Unaware of Dora Ladon's weakness, the other Zyurangers were hopelessly outmatched by the monster. Meanwhile, the magic apple forced Mei to live out a nightmare where she was in perpetual danger. However, after she willingly sacrificed herself in the dream she was able to break the apple's spell. Joining her comrades, Mei struck Dora Ladon's apple with a Petra-Arrow. This left the creature vulnerable enough to be destroyed by the Howling Cannon. Upon the creature's destruction, all the children affected by its arrows were restored to normal.  TV STORY-Ep. 13: Fire! The Golden Arrow

Personality

Dora Ladon was a relentless and cruel creature who relished in tormenting children. His near invulnerability also made him arrogant.

Power and Abilities

Powers

• Energy Projection: Dora Ladon can also fire energy beams from his hands. These beams also have serpentine characteristics.
• Life-Force Draining: Dora Ladon could use magic to drain life-forces. This was done by firing one of his snake arrows into the air. It would then stand suspended in the air over an intended target, typically children, and begin to spin raining down magical energy. Once this magic comes into contact with this energy would cause a victim to begin growing a stalk from the top of their head. From this stalk, an apple would grow that would slowly leach the youth from the intended target causing them to rapidly age akin to someone suffering from Progeria. Eventually, this apple would grow to such a size it would completely absorb the host. According to Bandora, consuming these massive apples would grant youthful vitality. However, upon Dora Ladon's destruction, his victims were returned to normal.

Life-Force Draining Arrow

Life-Force Draining

Keiko & Jun with a stalk from their heads

This stalk on Keiko's head is unpickable

Keiko & Jun with a stalk and an apple from their heads

People are running with an apple stalk caused by Dora Ladon

Children are suffering from an apple stalk caused by Dora Ladon

An apple grows from Jun's head

Jun turns into a giant apple

Tomoe turns into a giant apple

Keiko turns into a giant apple

Keiko inside a giant apple

Abilities

• Snakes: From his maw when it is opened, Dora Ladon could regurgitate snakes that could be used for various purposes. Primarily, he shot the snakes from his bow, but could also fire them as projectiles from his mouth. These snakes could either become rigid like arrows our coil and constrict around a target in an attempt to crush the life out of them.

Snake Maw

A maw full of snakes

The other four Zyurangers trapped by Dora Ladon's Snakes

Weaknesses

• Ptera Arrow: Dora Ladon is susceptible to PteraRanger's Ptera Arrow as she is fully recovered, aiming it with the Golden Arrow. This arrow is enough to hit Dora Ladon's arrow and apple in just one hit.

Dora Ladon's Broken Arrow

Dora Ladon is hit by Ptera Arrow in his Apple on his head

Arsenal

• Bow: Dora Ladon's primary weapon, this bow was used to fire his serpent arrows.

Serpent Arrow

Bow

• Apple: Dora Ladon has an apple that he wears atop his head. This apple grants him invulnerability making him virtually invincible. Direct attacks on the apple with energy weapons caused the apple to deflect the energy back at its source. This apple's only weakness was if it was struck with an arrow.

Apple

Invulnerability

Broken Apple

Behind the Scenes

Portrayal

• Dora Ladon is voiced by Yoshio Kawai.

Design

• His design is based on Ladon, a dragon from Greek mythology who guarded the apples in the Garden of the Hesperides.

Concept Art

Dora Ladon Concept Art

Etymology

to be added

Notes

• Dora Ladon, alongside the Dora Knight, Dora Skelton, Dora Cockatrice, Dora Sphinx and Lamp Fairy Gin's Dora Gin form were seen on Witch Bandora's Dora Monster Guide Book pages.

Appearances

• Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger
  • Ep. 13: Fire! The Golden Arrow
  • Ep. 15: Destroy! The Dark Super Sword (picture in monster book only)
  • Final Ep.: Viva Dinosaurs (flashback; archive footage only)

See Also

• Snizzard - Power Rangers counterpart in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Season 1). See comparison page..