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First Look at Elizabeth Banks as Rita Repulsa in Power Rangers Movie
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Akibaranger. It's a Sentai parody show.
Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger
What are they gonna add? Vr troopers, and beetleborgs?
CreeperBlocks
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Can't get crazier than the the "My Waifu" powerup
Which Power Ranger series is this from?!???
Sir_Crocodile
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and kamen rider
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
+ Masked Rider, Digimon, Samurai Pizza Cats, Mystic Knights of Tir Ag Nog...
Haloid1177
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Akibaranger. Not truly a PR series but just a satirical take on otaku in general. It was pretty solid.
My initial thoughts are, the costume isn't bad, but that's not what I expect of Rita. That's a new character/ villain or like Lord Zedds grunt or something. Not Rita. And also I'm not expecting something like the old look, but that's a little too sexual. Like if you told me that was Divatox I'd be fine
Unspeakable Evil
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Bring back Bettleborgs
Watch Black panther have a better looking Ranger suit than the actual Rangers!
Sibersk Esto
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MrCunningham
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If Rita isn't portrayed by an overacting Japanese woman with a hilariously dubbed English voice, then I am not interested.
Sir_Crocodile
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Good Guy Ghost
Beetleborgs was good shit.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Looks generic AF
She looks like a Mortal Kombat character and those are the epitome of generic
She looks like a Mortal Kombat character and those are the epitome of generic
OdysseusVA
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Another franchise she has ruined
TAKE THAT BACK
If saban is willing drop that power rider money for tv shows, it would be worth it
Dash_Riprock
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Unless you told me it was Rita, I would have no idea who this is.
Just another generic comic book villainess.
Just another generic comic book villainess.
My childhood is a lie
SpacePirate Ridley
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Why even change her main color, red.
Why even call it the same if you are going to trhow the original to the bin to just create a new character design wise.
Of course Rita neede to be redesigned, but they needed to add the red and a better done hair with riboons thingy where people said, yep, thats a redesigned Rita.
At least that concept seem to try to have the hair form, and you could say, well that tries to imatate Rita somewhat.
But why the fuck someone decided green was the only way to go.
Why even call it the same if you are going to trhow the original to the bin to just create a new character design wise.
Of course Rita neede to be redesigned, but they needed to add the red and a better done hair with riboons thingy where people said, yep, thats a redesigned Rita.
Wish they had kept a TAD closer to the original... Even this concept art was more faithful and still had that new "green" aesthetic.
At least that concept seem to try to have the hair form, and you could say, well that tries to imatate Rita somewhat.
But why the fuck someone decided green was the only way to go.
SparksterMeta0
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She looks more one of her minions.
Scorpina, I think.
Scorpina, I think.
Just cool her down with Water Gun.
Pokemaniac
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As a Power Rangers villain costume, it's actually pretty good.
Terrible design for a Rita Repulsa costume, though. It doesn't even try to take inspiration from the original.
The more I hear about this movie, the more I just keep thinking "why?".
Terrible design for a Rita Repulsa costume, though. It doesn't even try to take inspiration from the original.
The more I hear about this movie, the more I just keep thinking "why?".
DragonKnight
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They are making a power rangers movie based off the originals!? Day 1/0.
Meh
The villain designs in Power Rangers were always straight trash outside of Zedd so I'm not too concerned about staying faithful to them. I mean, seriously, look at these fuckers.
Shut your whore mouth, Goldar is badass!
But aren't Kamen Riders also all about that posing?
It shocked me too when I found that out a few years ago.
JonnyDBrit
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She really does look more like she'd be one of the Lieutenants, rather than the lead villain.
Mind you, if the earlier suggestion about this motif somehow connecting her to the green ranger were to have any merit, then I can sorta see the reasoning in such a choice. Really, what has me curious is the statement that she's somehow meant to be connected to the Rangers directly, presumably beyond being an old foe that their mentor failed to put down. Which raises the question of what exactly you can do in that framework. Have Rita be the one who created the powers?
Mind you, if the earlier suggestion about this motif somehow connecting her to the green ranger were to have any merit, then I can sorta see the reasoning in such a choice. Really, what has me curious is the statement that she's somehow meant to be connected to the Rangers directly, presumably beyond being an old foe that their mentor failed to put down. Which raises the question of what exactly you can do in that framework. Have Rita be the one who created the powers?
That's... not Rita.
I can understand "modern and edgy re-imaginings" and whatnot, but when your version of the character ends up looking nothing like the original one, shares completely no similarities, I think it can be said that it's a failed attempt at re-imagining. Especially when you take a character so characteristic as Rita, with her voice, big hair/hat combo and the dress, and turn her into a generic green "alien warrior" (wasn't Rita a witch?) with rope fetish. :/
I can understand "modern and edgy re-imaginings" and whatnot, but when your version of the character ends up looking nothing like the original one, shares completely no similarities, I think it can be said that it's a failed attempt at re-imagining. Especially when you take a character so characteristic as Rita, with her voice, big hair/hat combo and the dress, and turn her into a generic green "alien warrior" (wasn't Rita a witch?) with rope fetish. :/
Salty Rice
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I would like the design if it wasnt for Rita Repulsa.
This looks more like a cross between Echantress and Poison Ivy than Rita. Put her in a Batman movie instead.
This looks more like a cross between Echantress and Poison Ivy than Rita. Put her in a Batman movie instead.
Meh
The villain designs in Power Rangers were always straight trash outside of Zedd so I'm not too concerned about staying faithful to them. I mean, seriously, look at these fuckers.
Goldar looks badass you take that back.
(Movie Goldar however looks awful)
Goldar looks badass you take that back.
(Movie Goldar however looks awful)
Probably going to end up looking like a Michael Bay version of Bayonetta's angels...wait
People buy nostalgia
yanipheonu
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Oh boy. Just now realized we're going see a bastardized version of a Japanese product double bastardized into a movie.
This movie is going to be crazy isn't it?
This movie is going to be crazy isn't it?
Saban continues to milk the shit out of that theme
Wububububububububub POWER RANGERS *cue breakdown*
DrForester
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Ahhhh! After 10000 years I look like crap.....
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