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"Show them what Demon power can do. DESTROY THEM!!!"
―Vypra ordering her foot-soldiers to fight the Time Force and Lightspeed Power Rangers in battle and her final words before her permanent destruction.[src]

Vypra was one of the three demons working to revive Queen Bansheera and the only Demon with a humanoid appearance. As her name applies, Vypra is themed after a viper. Alongside Loki, she was one of the two quaternary antagonists of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, and later on appears as the main antagonist of the Power Rangers Time Force team-up episode "Time for Lightspeed."

History[]

Past[]

Five thousand years before the events of the series, Vypra and other demons terrorized the Earth. She, along with the other demons, were captured and imprisoned in a tomb by the Sorcerer of the Sands. Tvicon TV STORY-Sorcerer of the Sands

Lightspeed Rescue[]

Vypra from A Matter of Trust 01

Vypra confronts the Rangers.

Vypra is released in the year 2000 with the other Demons when a group of adventurers open the tomb and the villains return to their lair where they plot to destroy Mariner Bay and rebuild the palace of Queen Bansheera. They send Ghouligan but he is destroyed by the new Lightspeed Rangers. Tvicon TV STORY-Operation Lightspeed

Vypra meets the Power Rangers for the first time when she leads some Batlings in a scheme to destroy Mariner Bay with earthquake spikes. After the Rescue Blasters destroy them and her Batlings, Vypra retreats and is able to escape whilst the Power Rangers fight Quakemon. Tvicon TV STORY-Trial By Fire

Vypra from Wheels of Destruction 01

Vypra drives her Vypari.

After the failure of the attack by the Gold Beaked Monster, Vypra unleashes her new Vypari which the Rescue Rover is inadequate against in battle. She later returns after the destruction of Elestomp but the Rangers have access to their new Lightspeed Cycles which are able to destroy her Vypari and force her to retreat. Tvicon TV STORY-Wheels of Destruction

After Impus becomes Prince Olympius and traps four of the Rangers inside of himself, the Demons prepare an invasion force to attack the Lightspeed Aquabase. Vypra has Jinxer create Thunderclaw as muscle and leads the attack but they are unable to gain access when Olympius fails and they leave Thunderclaw to fight after it becomes clear that they have failed. Tvicon TV STORY-Olympius Ascends

Vypra from Up to the Challenge 01

Vypra's mystical energy fire.

On the day of a special galactic alignment, Loki and Vypra see the chance to use its power to resurrect Queen Bansheera so hire Spellbinder to harness its energy. They are successful in resurrecting Bansheera into a physical form but Spellbinder's defeat leaves her in a hideously deformed state that they need more energy to free her from. Tvicon TV STORY-The Queen's Return

After Olympius loses favor with his mother, he discovers that Bansheera is considering promoting Loki and Vypra to second in command. He trues to eliminate them by having Vilevine bury them alive but Loki and Vypra survive and retaliate by resurrecting Diabolico from the dead to deal with him. Tvicon TV STORY-As Time Runs Out

Vypra, Diabolico and Loki later confront Olympius whilst he attacks the Power Rangers with Freezard only for all of them to be returned to the palace to meet with Queen Bansheera. The two sides reunite under the common goal of bringing back Bansheera although tension remains. Tvicon TV STORY-In the Freeze Zone

Vypra from Wrath of the Queen 01

Vypra being absorbed by Queen Bansheera.

After Arachnor captures four of the Power Rangers, Vypra reappears in her newly rebuilt Vypari to destroy Carter and his new Trans Armor Cycle. However, the Vypari is destroyed once again by the new cycle so Vypra is forced to retreat. Tvicon TV STORY-Web War

Fed up with her failures, Queen Bansheera tells Vypra outright that she will take her life energy as punishment. Fearing for her life, Vypra attempts to flee when Bansheera's power lifts her off the ground. Kicking and screaming, Vypra tries in vain to escape her fate before she is absorbed into Bansheera's body, allowing the Queen to complete her transformation into her final form. Tvicon TV STORY-Wrath of the Queen

Time Force[]

Zompira

Resurrected Vypra.

One year after Bansheera's defeat, Vypra returns from the dead with an army of Demon Warriors serving her as a replacement for the Batlings. She is seen digging herself out from a nondescript grave although no explanation is given as to how she got there or how she managed to resurrect herself after she was absorbed into Bansheera's being. She forms an alliance with the Mutants and their leader Ransik to obtain an artifact called the Solar Amulet which she will use to ressurect Quarganon the Super Demon. With the sun aligned perfectly with the stars, she uses the Solar Amulet's dark magic from the Shadow World to revive Quarganon in Silver Hills. However, after a brief battle, she is destroyed once and for all by Wesley Collins using a blast from his Red Battle Warrior saber which obliterates her whilst Quarganon is destroyed by Carter using the Trans-Armor Cycle. Tvicon TV STORY-Time for Lightspeed

Personality[]

Vypra was a very violent and abusive demon who was completely loyal to Queen Bansheera, but would become treacherous if betrayed, as seen when Vilevine tried to kill her and Loki. When confronted with the reality that she was going to be absorbed, Vypra proved cowardly and tried to flee to no avail.

After returning from the dead, most of Vypra's redeeming qualities were lost and she became very cold and distant. Her sole aim was to resurrect Quarganon and conquer Earth which caused shortsightedness and led to her defeat.

Powers and Abilities[]

Powers[]

  • Strength: Whilst not as strong as Diabolico or Queen Bansheera, Vypra still possesses a great deal of raw strength, powerful enough to easily hold her own against all five Rangers, although Ryan was more than a match for her.
  • Monster Creation: Vypra is often in charge of creating her own types of monsters, some of which are based off of objects, such as Smogger and Treevil.
  • Batling Summoning: Vypra can summon bat-like warriors called Batlings to aid her in battle.
  • Demon Warrior Summoning: When Vypra returned, she summoned zombie-like warriors called Demon Warriors from the grave.
  • Purple Fire Breath: Vypra could spew out a wisp of purple colored flames from her mouth.
    • Hypnosis: Vypra could hypnotize anyone with her fire breath as seen when she did this to Brian.
  • Telepathic Communication: When infiltrating the Aquabase, Vypra was shown to be able to freely communicate with Olympius by focusing her mind on to him.
  • Energy Fire: Vypra's most powerful attack where she charged up her hand with blue fire and unleashed a massive wave of it powerful enough to take down four Rangers with one hit. However, she only did this once during the second battle over the earthquake spikes.
  • Teleportation: Vypra could teleport in and out of battle at will.
  • Lightning Ball: When Vypra returned, she was able to shoot a blue lightning ball from her hand that caused an explosion strong enough to send Eric and his fellow Silver Guardians flying.
  • Intangibility: Also when Vypra returned, she was able to become intangible as seen when Nadira slipped through her.
  • Black Magic: Vypra has an unspecified degree of knowledge in black magic.
    • Resurrection: Vypra was able to resurrect Quarganon with her black magic.

Abilities[]

  • Expert Fighter: Despite her appearance, Vypra was proved to be an expert fighter, proving to be a match for Carter during their first encounter and being able to fight all five Rangers with ease.
  • Agility and Reflex: Being themed after a viper, Vypra has quick reflex to avoid her enemies' strikes, easily able to dodge many kicks from Carter and even one of her own energy blasts which Carter kicked back at her.
  • Expert Driver: Vypra was very good at driving her Vypari.

Weaknesses[]

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Arsenal[]

Vypra Sword

Vypra's Sword

  • Sword: Vypra carried a small thin sword to use in combat.
    • Sword Blasts: Vypra could charge up her sword with blue energy and fire devastating energy blasts of the same color from its tip at her enemies. After fleeing from her first battle with Carter, it caused an underground car park ceiling to collapse.
      • Energy Boomerang: Vypra's sword blasts were also similar to boomerangs which could be seen when Carter kicked one back at her when he stopped her from executing the people in the underground car park.
      • Fire Generation: Vypra's sword blasts are capable of starting fires.
    • Energy Empowerment: Vypra could charge purple energy into her sword to slash with full force.
    • Growth Card Summoning: With her sword, Vypra was able to summon a Growth Card to revive Aquafiend.
  • Vypari: Vypra's personal vehicle that had large blasters mounted on top of it capable of firing yellow and blue energy lasers, can create a transparent purple force field, and teleport while leaving a trail of neon purple flame. It was initially damaged by the Lightspeed Cycles and although it was eventually repaired by the time Arachnor emerged, it was destroyed by Carter's new Trans-Armor Cycle.
  • Earthquake Spikes: In the episode "Trial by Fire," Vypra went into the city with some Batlings to stick spikes that could cause an earthquake powerful enough to level Mariner Bay. These were gathered up by the Rangers and obliterated by the Rescue Blasters.

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Behind the Scenes[]

Portrayal[]

  • Vypra was played by Jennifer L. Yen, although on a few occasions, distant shots of her Sentai counterpart were used where she was played by Kaya Hirasawa.

Design[]

  • Of the six Demons in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Vypra has one of the humanoid designs. She has light tan skin, chin-length black hair, and black eyes. Vypra also has blue eye lines and light-pink lips. For attires, she wears armor that is themed after a viper and a dragon/wyvern, consisting of a helmet that resembles either a viper or a dragon with a pair of demon-like horns protruding from the top (with the left horn being larger then the right horn) and a black colored crop top which exposed the middle area of her chest, she also has light/dark gray armor on both her shoulders and front chest, her stomach and navel is visible. Like Diabolico, Loki, and Olympius previously, Vypra has a pair of bat/dragon-like wings on her back, with the outlines being colored silver and the wings being colored blue. She also has a pair of silver colored bands on her forearms, as well as a pair of black colored fingerless gloves with gold braces around them that is covered in armor-like scales, while for her lower area, she wears black leggings covered in silver dragon-like scales on the outsides and the front of her waists with a strap covered in spikes and a demon-like belt around her waist, and a pair of silver boots with yellow colored demon eyes on the top.

Etymology[]

  • While Vypra's name and appearance were a reference to a viper. It may also be a reference to a wyvern since she was able to breathe fire.

Notes[]

  • Vypra was the only main villain in the franchise to be destroyed by the Trans-Armor Cycle.
  • Vypra is the only demon to get her own credit in the intro itself.
  • It is unknown how Vypra was resurrected whereas Bansheera killed her by absorbing her.

Appearances[]

Power Rangers Legacy Wars[]

Legacy Wars Vypra

Vypra as seen in Legacy Wars

Vypra is among the villains who feature in Power Rangers Legacy Wars. She is an Epic (Leader), Epic (Assist) character.

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