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Zordon
First Appearance:	Day of the Dumpster (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
Last Appearance:	Countdown to Destruction, Part 2 (Power Rangers in Space)
Status:	Deceased
Affiliation:	Order of Meledon (in theory)
Homeworld:	Eltar
Weapon(s)/ Gear:	Energy Tube Command Center Power Chamber
Zord(s):	None
Powers:	'' * Telepathy Energy transfer
Portrayed by:	David Fielding (voice) Robert L. Manahan (voice) Nicholas Bell ("") Winston Richard ("")
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Zordon is a fictional wizard in the Power Rangers franchise, appearing in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television series and many of its subsequent incarnations.

Although the Power Rangers had, in the continuity, predated Zordon, Zordon is generally credited with creating the first group of modern Power Rangers, as well as coining many of the phrases that are still used today. Among the most notable of these terms is the "Zord", a term for the various building-sized mechanical or biomechanical robot machines used in the series, and the "Megazord", a term for any arbitrary merger of Zords into a bigger, usually humanoid Zord.''

The Power Rangers saga begins with a story of a battle of gigantic proportions between him and his nemesis, Rita Repulsa, over 10,000 years ago. Zordon and his assistant robot Alpha 5 eventually found the box containing the original five Power Coins, as well as a map to the Temple of Power, home of the coins' creator, Ninjor. Zordon also prepared for the eventual arrival of evil by placing key weapons across the solar system (such as the Mega Voyager which he left on a moon of Jupiter). His experience over the ages gave him knowledge of various peoples and objects all across the known universe, many of which became key to aiding his Rangers.

Character History

In the course of the intergalactic struggle between Zordon's good and Rita's evil, Rita managed to trap Zordon in an interdimensional Time Warp before she and her minions were sealed away in a Space Dumpster by five warriors assembled by Zordon. With Zordon gone, the day-to-day upkeep fell to the duties of his loyal robot, Alpha 5.

After the battles ceased, Zordon decided to use Earth as his new base of operations, setting up in the deserts of California. This worked out ironically well as Rita's dumpster eventually crash-landed on the Moon of Earth, proceeding to launch her attacks in the vicinity of Zordon and Alpha's Command Center

When Rita was released in the early 1990s, Zordon, with the help of his trusted assistant, Alpha 5, sought out five "teenagers with attitude," thus creating the first generation of Power Rangers. Each Power Ranger received a Power Coin - one of the five coins discovered by Zordon and Alpha long ago.

Zordon acted as a mentor and advisor for the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and later the Zeo Rangers, and remained in this role until early along in the adventures of the Turbo Rangers.

Early on during , Zordon returned to his home planet to provide aid to the war-torn world of Eltar, to be replaced by Dimitria. Months after his departure, Eltar was attacked and Zordon was captured by the forces of evil. The evil monarch, Dark Specter, imprisoned Zordon and began draining his powers for his own gain which, in turn, nullified the Turbo Ranger powers.

In the next series, Power Rangers in Space, the Rangers would spend time throughout the season trying to locate and rescue Zordon. Their attempts would typically end with the Rangers' coming close to locating either Zordon himself or key pieces of information that might help them to find him, but fail regularly.



However, in the Power Rangers in Space finale, Zordon's ultimate fate would be decided. By this time, the Space Rangers had failed to secure the universe from the invading forces. Andros, the Red Space Ranger, complicated matters by allowing the Commander of the United Alliance of Evil, Astronema (his long-lost sister, real name Karone) to continue her evil efforts, rather than be forced to harm her. Though Andros would refuse any course of action that could harm Astronema, he would accidentally knock her unconscious when she ambushes him in her Dark Fortress. Discovering the abducted Zordon to be on the Dark Fortress, Andros is attacked by Astronema's caregiver, Ecliptor. Knowing that only one option was left to protect the universe, the same way all the Rangers under his charge had before that time, Zordon instructed Andros to kill him by shattering his tube, resulting in the release of his omnipotent good energies, a phenomenon unofficially known as the Z-Wave.

Notes

• Since the end of Power Rangers in Space, the new generations of Rangers have had to battle evil that was not destroyed by Zordon's energy wave. These beings exist because they either did not exist until after the wave or because they existed, at the time of the wave, in universes or dimensions separate from our own. In the case of machines, it is understood that those that were not activated during the time of the Z-Wave were not affected by its power, which is how Lord Zedd's personal War Zord, Serpentera, and the remaining generals of the Machine Empire, survived.
• Although Zordon was killed, many other characters in later incarnations served in much of the same role as Zordon - in some cases, the role of Zordon is divided into two characters, one being the philosophical mentor and the other being the technical genius of the Power Rangers team, examples include:
• Captain Mitchell and Miss Fairweather in
• Princess Shayla in
• Sensei Kanoi Watanabe and his son Cam in
• Ironically, Tommy Oliver (the original Green & White Ranger and the third Red Ranger) in
• Doggie Cruger in
• Udonna in
• and in
• Due to Zordon's influence on much of the first part of Power Rangers, there remain persistent rumors of Zordon's return in a future incarnation. So far, such rumors remain unsubstantiated.
• In "Once a Ranger, Part I", Adam says that he knows a friend who would be able to fix the universal morphing grid who was revealed to be Alpha 6. Alpha wondered aloud what Zordon would do in such a situation.

See also

Power Rangers Characters by Era and Generation  •  • [ e]
General:		List of characters | Minor characters
Ranger colors:		Red • Yellow • Blue • Black • Green • Pink • White • Other
Zordon	I	Jason Lee Scott • Trini Kwan • Zack Taylor • Kimberly Hart • Billy Cranston • Tommy Oliver
	II	Rocky DeSantos • Adam Park • Aisha Campbell
	III-IV	Katherine Hillard • Ninjor • Aquitian Rangers • Tanya Sloan • Trey of Triforia
	V-VI	Justin Stewart • Blue Senturion • Carlos Vallerte • Ashley Hammond • Cassie Chan • T.J. Johnson • Phantom Ranger • Andros • Zhane
Post-Zordon/ Independent	VII-X	Lost Galaxy Power Rangers & Magna Defender • Lightspeed Rescue Power Rangers • Time Force Power Rangers & Quantum Ranger • Wild Force Power Rangers
	XI-	Ninja Storm Power Rangers • Dino Thunder Power Rangers • S.P.D. Power Rangers • Mystic Force Power Rangers & Clare • Operation Overdrive Power Rangers

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Countdown to Destruction Green with Evil Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Minor Power Rangers characters Power Chamber

Power Ranger World Tour Live on Stage Power Rangers in Space Return of an Old Friend Villains in Power Rangers in Space