General Crunch

This article is about a villain in Power Rangers RPM.

General Crunch
Gender:	Male
Villain Type:	Scientist
Season:	RPM
Homeworld:	Earth
First Appearance:	The Road to Corinth
Last Appearance:	Danger and Destiny
Number of EpisodeAppearances:	32 Full list of appearances
Actor:	Charlie McDermott

General Crunch is the one scientist of the Venjix Computer Network.

Biography

At one point he drove Venjix to blow him to pieces when he first asked if Venjix would rather wait until the rangers defeat an attack bot before downloading into it a growth program, and later wonders out loud why Venjix hasn't launched a full-scale attack while the city defenses were down (in other words, was pointing out flaws in Venjix's plans). After Venjix decided that both General Crunch & General Shifter had become obsolete, they were blasted & destroyed. After sometime though, both generals were rebuilt and given their positions back in Venjix's evil machine order. He fought the rangers personally for the first time TV STORY-Ranger Blue, where he defeated Ziggy and Summer in combat, showing the true fighting potential behind his confused personality.

When Tenaya hacks into Venjix's database TV STORY-Danger and Destiny, Crunch breaks into the control tower and begins to fight with Tenaya, easily overpowering her. However, when Doctor K reverses the deletion of Gem and Gemma, they shoot down the control tower with Crunch still inside. Crunch is destroyed when it crashes into the ground.

Personality

General Crunch is not so serious and gives the appearance of being less intelligent unlike his co-general, General Shifter. And while he appears to be confused, dumb, and a bit of a blabbermouth, often angering Venjix, he also displays a highly-tuned sense of strategy.

Creations

• Balloon Bot

Notes

• He somewhat breaks the Fourth Wall, by questioning Venjix on why he doesn't take certain actions; such as waiting for the rangers to badly damage an Attack Bot before downloading the growth program to it, and not launching a full scale attack when Corinth City's defenses are down. In this way, Crunch is kind of voicing the audience watching the show. 
• Depending on the opinion of the viewer, Crunch's statements may be insulting Vinjex's intelligence/ common sense.

• General Crunch never made the action figure line that went along with the show. However, an unarticulated collectible figure was made for the Adventure Sets. It comes with the Trax Adventure Set and the Engine Adventure Set.

See also

• Air Pollution Minister Kitaneidas - Super Sentai counterpart in Go-Onger. See comparison page.