 This article is about a/an comic book issue in the Power Rangers comic sub-franchise by Boom! Studios.
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Go Go Power Rangers #16 is the sixteenth issue of the Go Go Power Rangers comic by Boom! Studios that focuses on the daily lives of the Power Rangers. This issue concludes the "color swap" event of the ongoing storyline, features the debut appearance of Alpha 1 as well as slowly building towards the Green with Evil story event.
Synopsis
The Rangers have swapped costumes and powers...and nothing's working right! Can Trini step up to lead the team and stop Rita from acquiring the ultimate weapon?
Plot
Over 10,000 years ago, Rita Repulsa is on a planet chasing after an alien named Loriyan who was assigned by her to retrieve the Dragon Power Coin he had stolen from Ninjor and bring it to her. The thief betrayed her by keeping it and she is ready to execute him. Loriyan prepares to defend himself by morphing into the Green Ranger, but his morph is incomplete and unstable. Loriyan justifies his theft as now he can become very rich by selling the Dragon Power Coin to the highest bidder and lunges at Rita to attack. Rita easily knocks him away with an energy blast of magic from her hand, the Green Ranger suit gets ripped apart from the blast and the helmet cracks open to reveal Loriyan's face. Rita tells Loriyan what a fool he is as he is unable to even stay stably morphed as only those who are of certain quality can use the coin properly. Loriyan, battered and bleeding, begs for his life to his empress and claims the coin tempted him with its power. Rita says she does not plan on killing him as he was so loyal to her for so long before this and promises he will allowed to be together with the coin...forever.
In the present day on Breel, Trini and Jason have managed to get a signal to contact Zordon again, but Jason is more distacted by the fact he can hear Trini counting the number of guards outside the Temple of Repulsa inside his head. Zordon inforns the two that Alpha and he have found a way to break through the interference long enough to teleport them home but within a very limited window of time. They must discover what Rita is up to fast and bring her back or leave immediately. Trini says she has a plan but may need some help, but Jason knows from her thoughts that she doesn't. Trini says she is confident they can at least find out what Rita is up to before they leave.
Upon exiting the Temple with the Dragon Coin, Queen Adriyel plans to depart with Rita back to Earth and instructs her guards to protect the temple and the kingdom in her absence. Rita however does not want the Queen to accompany her as she must guard Breel and will call for her when she feels it necessary. Adriyel orders her men to kill Rita, as she never really was loyal to the sorceress and simply was using her to get the Dragon Coin out of the Temple to claim for herself and wanted to fake loyalty to Rita to overthrow her and gain control of her forces. Before Adriyel can strike down Rita, Trini appears and demands the Queen hand over the space witch to be taken back to Earth for her crimes. Adriyel arrogantly believes that a Power Ranger is no threat to her and orders her en to attack while she deals with Rita. Trini calls Alpha and says she is ready ordering for the other Rangers to be teleported in to back her up. The planets environment switches the colors of the three, with Billy being Black, Zack becoming Pink and Kimberly noticing her bow is missing and surprised she is now Blue. Billy says he feels "funny" while Zack takes his new color pretty well. Billy soon acts unusual as the color swap to Black has made him stronger and feel braver and Kimberly feels smarter while Blue as she executes on the fly strategies using the teleportation system to aid Zack in using his bow to hit enemies.
Covers
Dan Mora
Miguel Mercado
Audrey Mok
Errors
- to be added
Notes
- Movie Variant Cover Reference: Clueless
- This marks the first time that Violet Arias has been featured on a cover of the comic series.
- Despite this, Violet does not appear in this issue.
- This marks the first time that Violet Arias has been featured on a cover of the comic series.
- TV Series Retro Variant Cover: Power Ranger Punks
- The main cover of this, along with the two preceding issues were shown in Power Morphicon 2018 to highlight a Jason-Trini romance as well as the new color assignments. No variant covers were shown at the same time.
- This comic issue continues the analysis of what effects each color in the Morphin Grid gives a Ranger in terms of stat boosts shown in Issue 14 and Soul of the Dragon, with Kimberly saying that being Blue boosted her intelligence.
- While what happened to Loriyan in this issue is not shown, based on the final panel of the previous issue, Loriyan's final fate was a horrific one as Rita chained him to a throne in the treasure chamber of the Temple of Repulsa and left him to eventually die of either starvation or old age. Even if he escaped his chains, Loriyan would have been trapped inside the chamber for all eternity.
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