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 This article is about a/an villain in the Power Rangers comic sub-franchise by Boom! Studios.
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- For the original TV version of this character, see Rita Repulsa.
- "My name is Rita Repulsa... and you have all made a terrible mistake."
- ―Rita introduces herself to the Power Rangers after meeting them face to face for the first time.[src]
Rita Repulsa is an evil witch from space who threatens the Earth, leading her old enemy Zordon to assemble the Power Rangers to stop her.
After Divatox freed her from the imprisonment by the hands of Lord Zedd, she took her father's place as Dark Specter's general and became Mistress Vile.
History[]
Past[]
Lady Fienna and Eldin receive different visions of the future looking into the Morphin Grid.
Over ten thousand years ago, Rita's father Master Vile met with an ally of Zordon called Lady Fienna and they fell in love before eventually getting married. However, he kept his true nature a secret from her. They receive a vision of the future as they look into the Morphin Grid. In Lady Fienna's vision, she would glimpse her future daughter as the Mystic Mother. In Master Vile's vision, Dark Specter would corrupt his head and show him what Rita would become first. 
COMIC STORY- Power Rangers Unlimited: Edge of Darkness
Fienna eventually discovered his true nature and fled when she was pregnant with Rita. She went to Zordon for safety and gave birth to Rita in his accompaniment before trying to raise the baby. However, Master Vile never stopped searching for his lost wife and daughter and, when he found them, sent the Tenga Warriors who re-captured the six year old Rita and mortally wounded Fienna. Vile then raised her in his psychopathic and cruel ways. COMIC STORY- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 17
Along with her brother, Rito Revolto, Rita was raised to embrace the practices of evil and dabbled into the art of dark magic. She crafted for herself a scepter through which to channel her evil. Rita left Vile and joined up with the forces of Lord Zedd, acting as his commander whenever he was unable to oversee an invasion himself. A little over ten thousand years ago, she was invading the Breel homeworld with another emissary of Zedd's named Montaur with Montaur as the field commander and Rita as the puppet mistress. They were victorious due to Montaur's tactics and sheer numbers of Putty Patrollers but the twisted Montaur desired to commit genocide to make more people afraid of her and Zedd. Disgusted, she vaporized him when he turned to head to the Breel castle and presumably start such an atrocity. COMIC STORY- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 5
Rita went to the planet Claydoious and recruited a dog like creature named Finster who had just accidentally killed his wife Plepra and was worried over how the other natives would treat him when they found out. Rita played on his desire to create "beautiful art" (AKA hideous abominations) and convinced him to join her as she could make them real and he happily accepted. COMIC STORY- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2017 Annual
Gaining renown for the destruction she wrought upon Regda 2, Sorcery 7 and Tarmac 3, Rita amassed a large army of monsters and Putty Patrollers to serve her. After conquering Myrgo, a couple offers their son as a tribute so they wouldn't die. Rita sends them away, but keeps the baby, as she sees him as a little Squatt. COMIC STORY- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 6
On the Planet of the Pongies, Rita recruits alchemist Baboo after she sees his skills after “accidentally“ petrifying the entirety of King Batuee and his forces. In reality, the petrifying potion was on purpose. COMIC STORY- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 7
During her reign of terror, she led a group of minions to conquer Earth, a planet populated by humans. Goldar and his brother Silverback were already working for Lord Zedd as were their warrior race but he eventually turned against his brother when he planned to kill Zedd as he felt the arch-villain was wasting their time in simple invasions. He killed Silverback under orders from Zedd and was then assigned to Rita and her fledgling Evil Space Aliens. COMIC STORY- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2016 Annual
Having conquered many worlds in the service of Lord Zedd, Rita established a Moon Palace on the planet's moon. She launched attacks against the world but her invasion was halted by the powerful sage called Zordon. A mighty wizard from Eltar, Zordon and Rita's servants and warriors had many confrontations; the pair built up a lasting competition as they won and lost battles. Rita, seemingly admitting her failure, called for negotiations to be made between her camp and the warriors of Earth.
Meeting with Zordon, Rita revealed the depths of her treachery and trapped Zordon in a time warp. Before Zordon was gone, the wizard revealed he was prepared with his own fail safe. Conjuring up a space dumpster, Zordon sealed away Rita and her chief aides and servants and cast them into space. Inside the dumpster, Rita was forced to live through the lives of her numerous victims. which caused her endless trauma as she would live a love-filled life only for her own self to attack the planet she was on.
Rise of Drakkon[]
In an unspecified modern year, the dumpster crashed on the Moon and a pair of curious astronauts stumbled upon the strange container and broke the seal that kept Rita's evil at bay. Released from her prison, she destroyed the dumpster and quickly set her sights on Earth. Reoccupying her Moon Palace base, which had lay vacant for eons, Rita sent her chief warrior, Goldar, to Earth to lay siege to the world. However, Rita was met by her opponent Zordon, who had managed to re-establish contact with Earth and gather new warriors. Beginning her second invasion of the planet, Rita's monsters were constantly defeated by Zordon's new Power Rangers, teenage humans who wielded the mighty Power Coins. These events (which happened in the franchise's first episode "Day of the Dumpster") became known as "Arrival Day" in the comic continuity.
After the Black Dragon arc, Rita is oddly absent from the story as she goes to search for the Wizard of Deception to craft her the Green Candle.
HyperForce[]
When the HyperForce Rangers travel to Briarwood in the year 2005, the Mystic Mother meet the HyperForce Rangers when they are teleported to the Mystic Dimension, she confesses that she had sensed the HyperForce Rangers and had actually been the one to summon them there. Mystic Mother learns from the HyperForce Rangers the plan to revive Zordon and tells them about her past as Rita Repulsa and that Zordon's revival must be stopped at all cost to maintain the future. Mystic Mother then helps Chloe, Marv, Eddie and Jack confront their insecurities to unlock their full potential with upgraded weapons for the entire team, before teleporting the Rangers back to their time ship. 
TV STORY-What Happened to Rita Repulsa
"Dumbbot" makes an offhand comment about Rita Repulsa that gets him struck by a bolt of lightning, Rita Repulsa goes to the arena to yell at the deceased Zac for all the damage to the arena, while Vesper Vasquez shrinks and Rita Repulsa randomly blows up. TV STORY-Villain Special
In the year 1998, Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd meet "The Leader", who become curious as to who would dare approach them. TV STORY-Rebirth... Kind Of
While Aisha tries to distract Goldar with a dance as Andros uses his Galaxy Glider to strike Goldar. Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd discuss Thrax's potential to succeed and replace Dark Specter,Thrax falls over in a massive explosion, unleashing a wave of dark energy upon Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd, strengthening them. Rita and Zedd decide that a direct attack with their new found dark powers may not be wise without a plan and teleport away. TV STORY-Finale (Part 1)
Mr. Ashford tells Chloe Ashford that he has been planning this for a long time, though some things will need cleaned up as not everything has gone to plan with Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd unexpectedly being powered up by Thrax's death.
The Hyperforce Rangers and Time Force Rangers back in the year 3017 the group finds three giant sculptures of Rita Repulsa, Lord Zedd and Thrax.
Back at the palace on the moon in the year 1998 the dark powered enhanced Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa return home. Fueled by the dark energy of Thrax's anger and the knowledge of their future fate to become good should Zordon die the two tear the palace apart. Rita says that they should have Goldar clean up the mess, but after Zedd informs Rita that Goldar never came back home, the two decide that they can make a new and better Goldar with their enhanced powers. Rita and Zedd then begin to plot their path to victory. TV STORY-Season Finale
Personality[]
Although Rita in the comics isn't written as jokey and over the top as her television counterpart, she will not tolerate war crimes unless someone forces her hand as can be derided from the incident with Montaur. Rita is undeniably evil but she is a world conqueror, not a destroyer and seems to be aware that war crimes tend to unite people against a common enemy and she would be heavily outnumbered should the Breel decide to rise up. It's even implied that the only reason she actually won in the invasion was because she only killed those resisting her (the warriors) and left the civilians who just wanted to exist peacefully alone besides occupation. She only actually attempts to destroy the Power Rangers as they are in direct opposition to her, even giving them a chance to join her in Go Go Power Rangers Issue 1. The comics also convey that Rita was a good and kind person as a child as she helped heal the Phantom Ranger with her mother and her upbringing by Master Vile was partially the factor of what turned her evil, as her father was manipulative and at times abusive to his daughter.
Disguises[]
- Rita Repulsa disguised as Kimberly to keep Matthew Cook captured, with the aim of keeping him locked up.
COMIC STORY- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 5 - Rita disguised as Mrs. Oliver in Tommy's nightmare. COMIC STORY- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 3
Forms[]
Rita Repulsa
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Power: Rita was the main antagonist of Season 1 as well as the secondary antagonist of Seasons 2 and 3, making her far stronger than any of her minions and monsters. Despite Rita's powerful displays of magic, she appears to be one of the weaker spell casters in the universe of Power Rangers, since she was easily dominated by Lord Zedd. Her magic also seems to be limited, as she has to rely on Finster and his Monster-Matic to create monsters and putties, whereas other spell-casters, like Zedd and Master Vile, are seen creating their own monsters.
- Mistress of Magic: A name given to her by Zordon. Rita Repulsa was shown to be skilled in the fields of magic. Most notable among her magic arsenal is her power to enlarge monsters and other beings with her staff, by throwing it towards the Earth with extreme accuracy.
- Virtual Immortality: Rita survived at least ten thousand years in a dumpster.
- Teleportation: Rita could teleport to any location at will.
- Group Teleportation: Rita could channel red energy into her fingertips to teleport herself and her minions back to the Moon Palace in a flash of red energy as seen in the episode "Best Man For The Job."
- Evil Being Summoning: Another magical ability notable to her was her ability to communicate and summon dark spiritual beings, as she summoned Lokar on two occasions and also the Ghost of Darkness.
- Curses: Rita was also adept at casting curses on her enemies, as she was able to immobilize the Dragonzord with dark magic, and trapped three of the Power Rangers inside a storybook.
- Magical Brainwashing: Also notable was Rita's ability to brainwash other people, turning them into their loyal and evil servants, as she did this to Tommy and Katherine with few complications.
- Ducking Teleportation: Rita ended Zedd’s rejuvenation chamber by ducking down and reappearing in his room.
- Energy Channeling: Rita was able to spew red energy streams to empower the Ghost of Darkness in order to summon the Wizard of Deception.
Abilities[]
- Durability: Rita survived her dumpster landing violently on Earth and explosively on the Moon without getting a scratch on her.
- Expert Zord Pilot: Rita was able to expertly pilot Serpentera with no issues in “The Wedding-part III.”
- Exceptional Stamina: Rita was able to tango for at least an hour with Lord Zedd as seen in the second-part of “Return of the Green Ranger.”
Weaknesses[]
to be added
Arsenal[]
Magic Wand
- Magic Wand: Rita's main weapon was a large wand which has many abilities.
- Energy Blasts: Rita could fire a pink beam of energy from her staff which explodes on contact. This were powerful enough to destroy the Dumpster that she and the others were trapped in for 10,000 years and obliterate the Island of Illusion with one shot.
- Monster Enlargement: Rita's primary ability with her wand. By chanting "magic wand, make my monster/Goldar grow" and throwing her wand to Earth, Rita could open a giant chasm in the ground which gives the monster enough energy to grow.
- Growth Lightning: Rita could also grow monsters by hitting them with a purple energy blast from the bottom of her wand. However, she only used this once in the episode "Switching Places" when she grew the Genie.
- Monster Creation: Rita could fire blasts from her staff's gem which can create monsters out of objects. However, she only used this power three (to create the Wheel of Misfortune, Brick Bully and the Impursonator although she intended to turn Kat back into Katastrophe but accidentally changed her purse instead) since she preferred to use Finster and his Monster-Matic.
- Teleportation Beam: Rita could fire a green energy beam from the pink jewel on her wand capable of teleporting other beings around. She only used this to teleport Tommy to a beach to fight her Putties in the episode "Jason's Battle."
- Wedding Bouquet: Rita held a wedding bouquet that she used to batter Goldar with to stop his wedding objection with in “The Wedding-part III.”
- Saba: After Goldar stole Saba from Tommy in the episode "Best Man For The Job", Rita used it to take control of the White Tigerzord and fight the Thunder Megazord until Tommy used a magnet to take it back.
- Tigerzord Control: Rita could summon and control the White Tigerzord via Saba to fight the Thunder Megazord.
Mistress Vile
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
to be added
Abilities[]
to be added
Weaknesses[]
to be added
Arsenal[]
to be added
Appearances: Boom! Studios Comics issues 101.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
Generals[]
Family[]
- Master Vile - Father
- Lady Fienna - Mother
- Rito Revolto - Brother
Others[]
Enemies[]
Rangers[]
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Jason Lee Scott/Mighty Morphin Red Ranger (I)/Red Omega Ranger (II)
- Zack Taylor/Mighty Morphin Black Ranger (I)/Black Omega Ranger (II)/All-New Black Ranger
- Trini Kwan/Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger (I)/Yellow Omega Ranger (II)/Red Omega Ranger (III)/All-New Yellow Ranger
- Billy Cranston/Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger
- Kimberly Ann Hart/Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger (I)
- Tommy Oliver/Mighty Morphin Green Ranger (II)/Mighty Morphin White Ranger
- Rocky DeSantos/Mighty Morphin Red Ranger (II)
- Adam Park/Mighty Morphin Black Ranger (II)
- Aisha Campbell/Mighty Morphin Yellow Ranger (II)
- Matthew Cook/Mighty Morphin Green Ranger (III)
- Katherine Hillard/Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger (II)
- Omega Rangers
- Space Rangers
- RPM Rangers
- HyperForce Rangers
Others[]
Behind the Scenes[]
Design[]
Concept Art[]
- Rita Repulsa in Godzilla vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers concept art was designed by Freddie. Williams II.
Etymology[]
- Being ugly and evil at the same time, Rita's surname is a pun on repulsive, i.e. unsightly or vile enough for one to keep their distance from.
Notes[]
- In MMPR #7, Rita clearly makes reference to some kind of history with Alpha when she speaks to him briefly, stating that he could have been better off serving her than Zordon.
- One issue reveals Rita was forced to live through the lives of her numerous victims while in the dumpster which caused her endless trauma as she would live a love-filled life only for her own self to attack the planet she was on.
Appearances[]
- Power Rangers (Boom! Studios)
- Go Go Power Rangers (Boom! Studios)
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 1
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 2
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 3
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 4
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 5
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 6
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 7
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 8
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 9
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 10
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 11
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 12
- Go Go Power Rangers: Back to School Special
- Epilogue
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 13
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 14
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 15
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 16
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 17
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 18
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 19
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 20
- Go Go Power Rangers: Forever Rangers Issue 1
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 21 (mentioned only)
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 22 (mentioned only)
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 25 (mentioned only)
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 26 (flashback and mentioned only)
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 27 (mentioned only)
- Go Go Power Rangers Issue 28
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 0
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 1
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 2
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 3
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 4
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 5
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2016 Annual
- Unlockly Heroes
- A Spot of Trouble
- What Makes a Ranger
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 6
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 7
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 8
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 9
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 10
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 11
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 12
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 13
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 14
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2017 Annual
- Trini's Vacation
- Perfect
- Sabrina's Day Out (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 16
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 18 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 20 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 21 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 22
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 23
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 24
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special Issue 1
- Pet Project
- The Sweetest of Dreams
- Sealed
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 29
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 30
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 40 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 42 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 51 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 53 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 101
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 102
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 103
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 104
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 105
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 106 (flashback and mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 107
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 108
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 109
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 110
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 111
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 30th Anniversary Comic Special
- What Time is It?!
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 112 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 113
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 114
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 115
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 116
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 117
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 118
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 119
- Mighty Morphin (Boom! Studios)
- Mighty Morphin (Boom! Studios) Issue 5 (mention via flashback)
- Mighty Morphin (Boom! Studios) Issue 12 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin (Boom! Studios) Issue 14 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin (Boom! Studios) Issue 15 (mention via flashback)
- Power Rangers (Boom! Studios comic title)
- Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 1 (mentioned only)
- Power Rangers (Boom! Studios) Issue 16 (mentioned only)
- Power Rangers: Ranger Slayer (mentioned only)
- Power Rangers: Drakkon New Dawn
- Power Rangers: Drakkon New Dawn Issue 2 (mention via flashback)
- Power Rangers Unlimited
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink Issue 3 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink Issue 4 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink Issue 5 (mentioned only)
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink Issue 6
- Godzilla vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Godzilla vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers II
- Go Go Power Rangers (Boom! Studios)
- Power Rangers HyperForce
- Episode 12: What Happened to Rita Repulsa
- Special Episode: Villain Special
- Episode 23: Rebirth... Kind Of
- Episode 24: Finale (Part 1)
- Episode 25/Finale: Season Finale
See Also[]
- Rita Repulsa - The original TV version of the character.
