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+ | His true second form was a humanoid dragon warrior with a white-skinned human face with two horns on his head and fins on the sides of his head, his eyes are now green with white eyelids, he has a set of black and red wings behind his back and a gold-armored body, he has red shoulder pads with spikes coming out of them, black and gold wristbands encrusted with green jewels, five-clawed fingers, three-clawed feet, and the Star Power is now colored red and located on his chest, and much like how it was on Diabolico. He is now taller then Loki and Vypra. |
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- "Momma!"
- ―Olympius' first words (as Impus) when Vypra mentioned Queen Bansheera's name.[src]
- "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! I am Olympius, son of Queen Bansheera. Bow down before me now, or you will feel my power."
- ―Olympius introducing himself to the Lightspeed Rangers.[src]
- "That is not going to happen"
- ―Prince Olympius after Diabolico handed Carter the key to the Shadow World entrance before killing Diabolico and his final words before his death.[src]
Prince Olympius was the son of Queen Bansheera (the identity of his father is not known) and was the secondary antagonist of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue.
Biography
Prince Olympius initially appeared as the infant Impus, who was cared for by the Demons in Bansheera's absence. Diabolico considered little Impus to be a threat because Bansheera threatened to give Impus the Star Power.
He eventually gained it when Diabolico was destroyed by the Lightspeed Solarzord, maturing into the humanoid dragon warrior, Olympius. He took Diabolico's place as the Rangers' main antagonist, but because he was naive, he was not as adept as his predecessor. 
TV STORY-The Cobra Strikes
During his first encounter with the Rangers, Olympius wiped the floor with them and later gained access to the Aquabase when he captured four of the Rangers and assumed their forms. Carter Grayson (Red Ranger) was able to see right through him and foiled his plans, which resulted in Olympius falling into the sea and losing most of his personal power along with the ability to shape-shift. As a result, he was no longer a physical match for the Rangers. Vypra and her Battlings retreated but left the Thunderclaw monster behind to kill the Rangers although he failed. TV STORY-Olympius Ascends
When Vypra and Loki took charge, they attempted to exert their control over the Prince. However. after the attempt to revive Bansheera went wrong and she came back deformed, he finally stood up for himself and forced the two back into line. Olympius had managed to revive Bansheera, but little did he know that instead of treating him like a prince, she treated him as just another expendable pawn like the rest of her minions. His plans to win her affection were unsuccessful, and he quickly lost favor with her. TV STORY-The Queen's Return
Eventually, Olympius managed to destroy the Rangers once by using a device that allowed him to use the Rescue Bird against them, but Carter went back in time and was able to prevent Olympius from pulling the trigger and killed his Mantevil monster. TV STORY-Yesterday Again
When he discovered that Vypra and Loki were to take his place as second-in-command, he plotted to eliminate them by using the monster, Vilevine, to bury the two of them alive. He then claimed that the Rangers had killed them which put him back in Bansheera's favors. However, Vypra and Loki survived and were able to resurrect Diabolico. TV STORY-As Time Runs Out
Significantly later, Olympius attacked Miss Fairweather alongside Freezard when she was testing out the new Thermo Blasters and had him eat her and four of the Rangers with Carter managing to escape with Fairweather when they were confronted by Vypra, Loki and Diabolico. Bansheera recalled them to the Skull Palace and berated them for the interruption and forced them to work together. Olympius later returned with Freezard under the pretense of returning the Rangers but tricked Carter although he managed to free the others and take out Freezard. Jinxer made him grow and Olympius darkened the sky but the Omega Megazord was quickly summoned and easily finished off the monster with its double slash. TV STORY-In the Freeze Zone
After Infinitor proved himself too much for the Rangers, Olympius arrived and gloated about his power although both retreated when the Rangers used their Spectra Blast. Olympius then tells Infinitor that Miss Fairweather and her brother Clark are working on an invention that can defeat him, for which Infinitor says that "they must be destroyed!", Olympius then orders the Monster to do so. Unluckily for him, the new Mega Battle armors proved too much for him and he was destroyed. After the Lightspeed Megazord and Max Solarzord arrive to fight the now giant Infinitor, Olympius darkened the skies which allowed the monster to defeat both them and the Omega Megazord but he was killed when the Omega Megazord used a variant of the Fire Circle finisher on him when it plucked the Lightspeed Megazord Saber out of the ground. TV STORY-The Mighty Mega Battles
A long while later, Olympius and the Triskull were deliberating over what to do with the life force that they were stealing from innocent civilians. Olympus wished to use it to restore Queen Bansheera but Triskull had a hidden agenda of using it to restore Trakeena's ultimate insect form. However, after the death of Triskull and whilst Trakeena prepared to mutate herself again, Olympius revealed that he knew of the treachery and corrupted the life force with a poisoned dagger, mutating her into a Demon form. He knew that at least one of his enemies would be killed and they could destroy the other easily although Trakeena quickly fell when the Galaxy Rangers lent their Lights of Orion powers to the Omega Megazord to form the Orion Omega Megazord which destroyed her with one attack. TV STORY-Trakeena's Revenge
Sometime after, as an attempt to destroy the Rangers, Olympius employed the services of the Shadow World's Gatekeeper to trap the Rangers in the Shadow World roaming with defeated demons. However, he himself became trapped at Diabolico's bidding when the gateway was destroyed and the key was stolen. TV STORY-Sorcerer of the Sands (episode)
He was later forced to absorb the destroyed Demons, evolving into an even more powerful dragon-like version of himself. However, he still needed more power to escape the Shadow World. Jinxer, still loyal to Olympius, placed a Star Power link inside the Aquabase generator to provide Olympius with more energy. Olympius was a difficult opponent until Angela Fairweather broke the link to the Aquabases energy and weakened Olympius enough for the Rangers to defeat him. His Star Power was destroyed by the Omega Megazord's double slash during the battle and seemingly killed by the Lightspeed Solarzord's finishing move. However, Jinxer later found him alive but cripplingly weakened and was forced to raise him back to health. He recuperated under the care of Jinxer, with the others not knowing he was still alive. TV STORY-Olympius Unbound
Once fully healed, he returned to the service of Queen Bansheera, never realizing that she had abandoned him when he had been trapped in the Shadow World and considered him as expendable as her other minions. TV STORY-Wrath of the Queen
He later took revenge on Diabolico in the penultimate episode of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue by besting him in battle and had his mother turn Diabolico into a mindless slave. Olympius and the mindless Diabolico attacked the Rangers. However, the demonic child's plans were derailed when Diabolico regained his mind and rebelled against him. Olympius struck down Diabolico, but the combined Mega Battle blasts and the Trans-Armor Cycle's wheels and laser blasts destroyed Olympius.
This was not the end of the duo, though, as Queen Bansheera transformed them into new Super Demon forms, with Diabolico now back under her control. With their newfound power, they were able to cripple the Omega Megazord and even destroy the Supertrain Megazord and Lightspeed Solarzord so the Rangers were forced to resort to the new Lifeforce Megazord. Though it was still dangerous to its users, due to using their very life force to power itself, Olympius and Diabolico were no match and quickly perished against the new machine. TV STORY-Rise of the Super Demons
Family
- Queen Bansheera: Mother
Appearance
Olympius's physical appearance varied radically over the course of series.
Impus
His first form resembled a a cross between a Furby and a baby dragon, he is mostly colored in red and has big round eyes with light brown eyelids and a light brown single hair on top of his head, his has two-clawed fingers that peeks out from under his head, he is always seen with a binky in his mouth, he has fin-like ears and is always seen warped in wings similar to that of a baby, there appears to be a small devil-like tail appearing from underneath, in terms of size, he is small, about the same size as Loki's hand.
Impus (Cocoon Form)
In his cocoon form, he is a red-colored pill-shaped cocoon with black bars around it. It bears a resemblance to a caterpillar cocoon.
Olympius
His true second form was a humanoid dragon warrior with a white-skinned human face with two horns on his head and fins on the sides of his head, his eyes are now green with white eyelids, he has a set of black and red wings behind his back and a gold-armored body, he has red shoulder pads with spikes coming out of them, black and gold wristbands encrusted with green jewels, five-clawed fingers, three-clawed feet, and the Star Power is now colored red and located on his chest, and much like how it was on Diabolico. He is now taller then Loki and Vypra.
Olympius (Powered Up Form)
The first dragon form was a more demonic version of himself, with his well known white face with a malebolgia-like jaw. He also gains a long dragon tail.
Olympius (Super Demon Form)
His second dragon form was more like Godzilla mixed in with a Dragon, with a prominent reptilian snout, and without his white face.
Personality
As Impus, he acts like a young baby, occasionally saying words like "Mama!" in a baby-like tone.
As Olympius, he is more matured and is now Prince-like with his personality, his voice also gets deeper with a slight metallic tone, similar to his mother, but this time he is now ruthless, cold and will stop at nothing to destroy the Power Rangers, overall, he is arrogant, thinking that no one can stop him and thinking that he is better then Vypra and Loki, though he can be a bit naive at times, he is highly intelligent and incredibly manipulative, being able to trick the Red Ranger by using his ability to be one of the four Rangers.
Despite all of this however, he is shown that he can be calm if needed to be, while he maintains his arrogance, he can show some points of respect to his minions if they are respectful and is good allies with Jinxer (and to a slight lesser extent, Vypra and Loki), he is also highly loyal to his mother, Queen Bansheera and does truly love her, all of this was shown in the episode "The Queen's Return", he first expressed his joy in seeing his mother again after all this time, then got depressed when he thougt his mother was gone for good after the Titanium Ranger destroyed the crystal ball that was used by the Spellbinder, angrily standing up to Loki and Vypra when the formal attempted to harm him due to Olympius blaming them for what happened, expressing his relive and joy after seeing his mother has returned, and get enraged and now wants revenge on the Rangers when Bansheera told Olympius that her body got mangled up in a cocoon shape due to the ceremony being interrupted by the Rangers.
Powers and abilities
Being the son of Queen Bansheera and grating Diabolico's Star Power, Olympius is the second strongest and most powerful villains in Lightspeed Rescue (surpassed by only Queen Bansheera herself), his powers are far greater then Loki's, Vypra's and even Diobolico's abilities alone, and can easily take on the Rangers with ease.
Impus
While Impus lacks any abilities, he makes up for it by having sportive abilities to aid his allies.
- Monster Creations: In both forms, Olympius was responsible for the creation of a variety of different monsters. Most of them were either fire-elemental (like Fireor and Trifire) or reptilian (Freezard and Infinitor); others included a praying mantis-like monster named Mantevil, a plant-themed monster named Vilevine and an unhatched Monster Egg.
- Cocoon Transformation: After acquiring the Star Power, Impus will turn into a red cocoon, which is his first stage into transforming into the humanoid dragon warrior known as Olympius.
Impus (Cocoon)
- Flight: Impus can fly while in a cocoon.
- Dimensional Travel: Impus while in a cocoon form can travel to any dimension at will.
- Fire Lasers: Impus while in a cocoon form can launch liner fire lasers at the enemy.
- Supernova: If anyone shoots at Impus' cocoon, the cocoon will explode and will cause a massive blast of fire to appear around him similar to that of a Supernova which was strong enough to cause a massive crater in the ground below where he exploded.
- Olympius Transformation: After coming out of the cocoon, Impus will evolve into a humanoid Dragon warrior named Olympius.
Olympius
As Olympius, he gains many new abilities, and is proved to be a noteworthy adversary to the Rangers, but being new at wielding the Star Power put a great strain on him, so he had to slowly get used to his new powers, but even with that little weakness he is still powerful and can easily out match the Rangers' skill and weaponry.
- Strength: Olympius possesses far greater strength then Diabolico, even when his Star Power got destroyed, Olympius still displayed excellent physical strength, stamina and skills in using various weaponry, being able to snatch Carter's Rescue Blaster away from him using just one hand and end him flying with one kick.
- Durability: Olympius has thick skin that can resist the weapon fire of his enemies or other attacks such as all five. The most extreme show of his durability was shown in the final part of the two-part team-up episode "Trakeena's Revenge", where he got blasted by all five of both the Lightspeed and Galaxy Rangers' weaponry, including the Quasar Launchers andBattle Boosters, but he does not even get a scratch on him.
- Hand-To-Hand Combat: In addition to his raw strength, Olympius is also a skilled warrior, he can easily evade the Red Ranger's strikes and subdue him (as shown in the episode "Olympius Ascends"), defeat an army of undead demons (as shown in the episodes "Sorcerer of the Sands" and "Olympius Unbound") and even besting Diabolico twice, finally destroying him the second time.
- Speed and Agility: Olympius also has the ability to move fast in a blink of an eye.
- Teleportation: Olympius can teleport to any location at will by vanishing in a puff of fire.
- Batling Summoning: Olympius can summon an army of Batlings to aid him in battle.
- Reflection: Olympius can reflect an energy-based attack by swiping his hands which was shown during his first battle when he held out his hand to deflect blasts from Chad's V-Launcer.
- Extraordinary Leaper: Olympius can leap at an incredible distance.
- Enemy Consumption: If the foe he has battled is weakened, he can absorb them into his mouth to make himself stronger and transform into his Powered Up form.
- Star Power Absorption: From the Star Power located on his chest, he can capture his enemies within the Star Power. However in the episode "Olympius Ascends", he was weakened from the exposure to water, and he could no longer contain the Rangers inside the Star Power.
- Duplication: With the prisoners he has captured, Olympius can used his Star Power to turn himself into nearly identical duplicates of his prisoners.
- Flight: Being a Dragon-like demon, Olympius has the ability to fly thanks to the wings behind his back.
- Darkness Atmosphere: Oympius' signature ability. By saying the phrase "Darken the sky" Olympius can use his Star Power to cause black storm clouds to appear in the sky and block the sun, the sky will later turn red and storm clouds will fire blue lighting bolts, which can be used to power down the both the Lightspeed Megazord and the Max Solarzord as well as the Lightspeed Solarzord.
- Flamethrower: Olumpius can launch a continues stream of powerful flames from his hands which was strong enough to take out all four Rangers with one hit (since Carter was pinned under his foot).
- Fireballs: Olympius can also launch fireballs from his hands.
- Flame Wave: Olympius can also launch a wave of fire from his hands as well.
- Fireballs: Olympius can also launch fireballs from his hands.
- Lighting Laser: Olympius can also fire a pink energy laser with pink-like white lighting around it.
- Summoning Weapons: It is revealed that he can freely summon weapons, as shown when he made Diabolico's staff materialize in his hand.
Arsenal
- Double Bladed Spear: When in combat, Olympius primarily used a double-bladed spear.
- Energy Lasers: Olympius can fire light orange colored energy lasers from his spear which were strong enough to kill a weakened Diabolico with one hit.
- Materialization: He was able to make a brainwashed Diabolico appear in a flash of blue fire through his spear's energy laser.
- Fireballs: Olympius can also launch fireballs from his spear.
- Energy Lasers: Olympius can fire light orange colored energy lasers from his spear which were strong enough to kill a weakened Diabolico with one hit.
- The Rangers' Weapons: At times he even used some of the Rangers' own weapons against them, including Carter's Rescue Blaster in the episode "Olympius Ascends" and the Rescue Bird in the episode "Yesterday Again." The former was stolen when he fought Carter hand to hand and the latter was taken using a tractor beam.
- Tractor Device: Olympius also has a tractor devise that lets him fire a red colored tractor beam to hold objects and allow him to steal them. He used this to steal the Rescue Bird in the afore-mentioned "Yesterday Again."
- Poison Dagger: Olympius can conjure up a dagger with a poisoned blade, making it appear in his hands. it was only seen in the final part of "Trakeena's Revenge".
- Claws: Even without weapons, Olympius has clawed hands for combat.
Olympius (Powered Up Form)
In his more powerful draconic form, he displayed great powers by reflecting the Rangers' weaponry and firing his own energy. However, to maintain his strength in this form he needed another energy source, which was why he drained power from the Aquabase. Once the link to the Aquabase was broken, leaving him without a suitable energy source, he was considerably hindered. Even so, he managed to survive blows from the Omega Megazord and Lightspeed Solarzord that would have normally destroyed other monsters, weakening enough only to revert him back to his normal form.
- Strength: By absorbing his foes, Olympius is now far stronger then before.
- Durability: Olympius' skin is far more durable then before, as all five of the Rangers' Rescue Blasters did not make a scratch on him.
- Lighting Beams: Olympius can fire light orange colored lighting beams from his hands which were powerful enough to tear a hole in the Shadow World.
- Size Changing: Much like Diabolico and Queen Bansheera, he can change his size at will.
- Flight: Olympius retains his ability to fly like before.
- Flight Charge: Olympius can charge at full speed towards the enemy while flying.
- Dimensional Travel: Olympius can travel to other dimensions at will.
- Wing Twister Blast: Olympius can fire light green colored energy twisters from his wings.
- Fireballs: Olympius can also launch fireballs from his hands, similar to the way he did in his original form.
- Fireball Spread: Olympius can also launch a spread of green fireballs from his hands as well.
- Flamethrower: Olympius can fire a stream of flames from his hands like he can in his original form, but they are colored green and stronger.
Arsenal
- Claws: Olympius retains his clawed hands for combat.
- Heat Empowerment: Olympius can heat up his hands for an increase in power so that they are hot enough to melt the Lightspeed Megazord's Saber.
- Dragon Tail: In this form, Olympius posseses a long tail that he can use to bash his enemies with.
Olympius (Super Demon Form)
In his Super Demon form, he was at the peak of his power. By combining his powers with Diabolico he managed to destroy nearly all of the Rangers' Megazords, a feat that very few villains and monsters are capable of achieving. Eventually they were both destroyed by the Lifeforce Megazord.
- Strength: Being powered by Bansheera, Olympius is now far stronger then before.
- Durability: Olympius' skin is now more durable, he can take a Turbine Blast and a punch from the Supertrain Megazord and not even get a scratch.
- Mouth Tractor Beam: Olympius can spew out a blue colored lighting-like tractor beam from his mouth, which is powerful enough to pick up the Supertrain Megazord with ease.
- Lighting Beam: Super Demon Olympius' tractor beam can also be used to do physical harm to the enemy, similar to that of his regular Lighting Beam.
- Mouth Flame Beam: Olympius can also spew out a strong flame beam from his mouth, it is possibly an upgraded version of his Flamethrower ability he had in his previous two forms, but is far stronger.
- Force Field Generation: He can generate a powerful blue force field that can deflect attacks.
- Mega Beam: By combing his powers with Diabolico, they can fire a super strong yellow energy beam. This was the strongest attack to appear all season, destroying the Supertrain Megazord and Lightspeed Solarzord completely and critically damaging the Omega Megazord.
Arsenal
- Claws: Olympius retains his clawed hands for combat like before.
Behind The scenes
Portrayal
- Impus was voiced by Brianne Siddall while Olympius was voiced by Michael Forest in his only Power Rangers role.
Notes
- It is unknown who Olympius' father was but it is entirely possible that, given her pure evil nature, Queen Bansheera killed him when she had no further use for him.
- While Olympius' first televised appearance was Olympius Ascends, he first appeared in the VHS release (titled Power Rangers In 3D) of Trakeena's Revenge.
- The Star Power symbol on Olympius' chest varied differently in design between original footage and when compared to Sentai footage. In early episodes (as well as in Trakeena's Revenge), the symbol was flat shaped, while in later episodes, up until Olympius losing the Star Power, the symbol was raised similar to his Sentai appearance.
- Olympius has the most forms out of any villains in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, and the most forms out of any villain in the entire Power Ranger franchise thus far, having a total of five forms (including his cocoon form).
- As Impus, he was the secondary smallest villain in the entire Power Ranger franchise with Orbus just barely managing to beat him.
- In contrast with the Sentai, Impus transformed into Olympius before Bansheera returned whereas, in GoGoV, he grew as a result of the ceremony whose footage was used for the episode "The Queen's Return."
- Olympius, alongside Jinxer, is the only villain to remain loyal to Bansheera until the very end.
Appearances
- File:Icon-prlr.png Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
- Episode 1: Operation Lightspeed
- Episode 2: Lightspeed Teamwork
- Episode 3: Trial By Fire
- Episode 4: Riding the Edge
- Episode 5: A Matter of Trust
- Episode 6: Wheels of Destruction
- Episode 7: Cyborg Rangers
- Episode 8: Up to the Challenge
- Episode 9: Go Volcanic
- Episode 10: Rising From Ashes
- Episode 11: From Deep in the Shadows
- Episode 12: Truth Discovered
- Episode 13: Ryan's Destiny
- Episode 14: Curse of the Cobra
- Episode 15: Strength of the Sun
- Episode 16: The Cobra Strikes
- Episode 17: Olympius Ascends
- Episode 18: A Face from the Past
- Episode 19: The Queen's Return
- Episode 20: The Omega Project
- Episode 21: The Fifth Crystal
- Episode 22: The Chosen Path
- Episode 23: Yesterday Again
- Episode 24: As Time Runs Out
- Episode 25: In the Freeze Zone
- Episode 26: The Mighty Mega Battles
- Episode 27: The Great Egg Caper
- Episode 29: Trakeena's Revenge, Part 1
- Episode 30: Trakeena's Revenge, Part 2
- Episode 31: The Last Ranger
- Episode 32: Sorcerer of the Sands
- Episode 33: Olympius Unbound
- Episode 34: Neptune's Daughter
- Episode 35: Web War
- Episode 37: Wrath of the Queen
- Episode 38: Rise of the Super Demons
See Also
- Dragon Dark King Salamandes - Super Sentai counterpart in GoGoFive. See comparison page.
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