Power Rangers: Lord Drakkon’s name explained

Not every fan of Power Rangers May be aware of the origins of Lord Drakkon’s name. When Drakkon makes his on-screen debut, what might be under the helmet was a mystery – until two issues later, when Drakkon is revealed as Tommy Oliver. After that, Drakkon became the Boom! studios Power Ranger The best villain of the series, but the series only briefly delved into why Tommy chose the Drakkon codename.

in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Annual 2017The story “Search Party” – written by Kyle Higgins, with art by Goñi Montes – offers readers some additional context for the Drakkon version of Tommy’s origin story, including elucidating the background of his villainous moniker.

Namely, the story showcases the fateful conversation between the world of the coinless incarnation of Tommy Oliver, and the Rangers arch-enemy Rita Repulsa, IIn which they discussed the first dragon, and touched on why Tommy felt inspired to adopt the original name in his new way.

Why Tommy adopted the name “Dragon” – its significance to Power Rangers Cannon

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Annual 2017“Search Party” – written by Kyle Higgins; Art by Goñi Montes; Lettering by Ed Dukeshire

in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #9, Tommy Oliver and Billy Cranston find themselves transported to an alternate reality, better known to readers as “The World of the Coinless.” They are immediately shocked to find a cold, desolate, post-apocalyptic battlefield, centered around two towering statues of the Green Ranger and Rita Repulsa. When they stumble upon the long-dormant Saba, the White Ranger’s talking sword, the Ranger duo finally get some answers. Saba explains that they are in an alternate future where Tommy never joined the Rangers.

In this universe, Tommy’s introduction and opposition to the Rangers played out the same as in main canon, except when Rita’s spell was broken and Tommy regained his sense of self, he ran away instead of embracing the Rangers. Saba went on to explain that in this world, Tommy ran back to Rita, who talked Tommy into choosing to join her side of villainy. Although this conversion moment was initially related secondhand, It is later shown to readers in more detail in “Search Party,” by Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Annual 2017.

Tommy Oliver took the name “Dragon” from a previous villain – who was he?

The first dragon, explained

The “Search Party” one-shot story reveals that in the world of the coinless, a confused Tommy does not immediately run back to Rita Repulsa. Instead, Oliver just wanted to be left alone; He took to living on the streets, where he had to fight for his life just to stay, spending weeks from town to town. City. The Rangers tried to find him, tracking Tommy every time he morphed, but every time they stepped on the scene, he disappeared. Finally, as Tommy mourns a life he once knew, Rita finds him first.

Tommy made it clear that he was aware that Rita had brainwashed him, and just wanted everyone to leave him alone. Rita justified her actions, condemning Zordon for not choosing Tommy from one of his original “teenagers with attitude”, while claiming that the Rangers wouldn’t want him. Rita told Tommy that she recognized great potential in him, so much so that he reminded her of another great man named Drakon. Drakon lived on the 46th planet in the Toki system. Rita took the first dragon under her wing years agoAnd in her eyes he proved himself by helping her conquer the same planet.

She added that by conquering the planet, she and Drakon were able to bring peace to the entire Toki system, a peace that still stood to this, long after Drakon died. She didn’t specify how Drakon died – perhaps it can be presumed that she killed Drakon, just as Tommy would end up killing Rita, as Lord Drakon – But she said the world didn’t need multiple leaders, or multiple Rangers, just one, and she believed Tommy was capable of being the one. Fixating on the name Drakkon, he asks Rita to tell him more as they teleport away.

The existence of the first dragon extends the history of the Power Rangers canon

Tommy’s Drakkon identity has universal significance

Beyond the significance of revealing where the evil Tommy Oliver got his name, this caveat reveals a wrinkle of lore that exists in the universe of Power Rangers himself. The Power Rangers The franchise has always had its own story, as the story of the Rangers and the larger conflicts they often find themselves caught up in have proven to be immersive for fans over the past few decades. However, this one is different because it showcases the kind of stories that are passed down from generation to generation within Power Rangers himself.

Showing what in-universe lore looks like inside the Power Rangers Canon highlights to the reader how expansive the franchise’s universe is. For a world that contains a multiverse and a lot of Rangers from past, present and future, the world has always looked wide, but knowing how this shows that history and even folklore for Power Rangers Does not begin and end with what audience sees or reads. instead, The story of the original Drakkon shows how the world of Power Rangers is bigger than just the Power Rangers themselves.