Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Annual 2017: Perfect

[superboyprime]

Trigger warning: Domestic abuse



Barging in on him, Finster's wife discovers that he's responsible for the fires, setting them to provide inspiration for his masterpiece...

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[beeyo]

Wow. That was dark.

[crinos]

I shudder to think what kind of fucked up backstories Squat and Baboo have.

[mas]

They actually covered them both
Squat was offered by his parents as a tribute to Rita (she had them executed afterwards anyways)
and Baboo was an alchemist who accidentally turned his king and his soldiers into statues when they wanted to be invulnerable.

[crinos]

Huh. Neat.

[icon_uk]

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers... y'know... for kids.

I could see the Finster from the somewhat angst ridden recent movie (Which is apparently getting a sequel) giving their Finster this origin.

[scorntx]

Yeah, but not the Finster of the original show.
That guy just seemed like a guy who got up each morning and made monsters because... hey, it's what he's good at. It's his job and he likes doing it.

No angsty, dark backstory.
Dude just makes pineapple-octopus-clown monsters out of clay for a living.

[icon_uk]

And admittedly works for the actual queen of evil magic and conqueror of entire planets.

[janegray]

Creepy in a well-written way. Kudos.

[oakie620]

Even with the mature tone of the comics in mind, "domestic abuse" are not words I ever associated with Power Rangers.

It certainly changes the way I'll look at Finster from this point on.

[thanekos]

Plepra, Finister's wife- as in Pleprechaun, his Zyuranger counterpart.

That's a very fanfic touch.

[bj_l]

Us this your first experience with the Boom MMPR? The whole is "thars a very fanfic touch."

I really wish Tom Taylor was writing it after reading Justice League/Power Rangers.

[tripodeca113]

Huh.
I'm not sure what to think about this.

[dr_archeville]

I'm reminded of this bit I've seen on tumblr:

every wikipedia entry for a comic book character is like

Classic Era: Professor Two-Apes was created when a bored alien glued two gorillas together with a magic rock. He later turned to evil when a colleague took credit for his research. In his debut appearance, Professor Two-Apes turned the Eiffel Tower into a banana.

Modern Era: Tu-Apes was the result of years of painful animal experimentation. He killed the doctor who created him, stole the blood-stained diploma off his wall, and now wears it around his neck. In the Conflagration crossover event, he was seen being beaten to death with one of his own spines. He was later resurrected by Satanists and currently suffers from a debilitating heroin addiction.

Just... why?

[crinos]

Heh, that reminds me of what they did with Two Bad in the 2003 He-Man cartoon.

Basically Skeletor hired the two greatest mercenaries in Eternia (despite warnings from his minions that these two guys hated one another) to kill He-man, and they failed because their intense rivalry meant they ended up fighting each other, so when they came back to Skeletor empty handed and blaming one another, the two villains (Who were called Tuvaak and Baadra) got fused together by Skeletor, who was like "Don't like each other? TWO BAD."

[wizardru]

OMIGOD.

That's...that's so painfully accurate.

[shadowpsykie]

holy shit....