The 10 Most Bizarre Power Rangers Monsters

Like Ultraman, Kamen Rider and pretty much every other television series of the tokusatsu genre, Power Rangers — and its original Japanese counterpart Super Sentai — would be nothing without the monster-of-the-day bringing the hurt on a team of heroes in chromatic spandex. This entire concept has been around since 1975 and wasn’t properly introduced to North America nationally until 1993, when the series Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger was repackaged as Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. Having said that, 37 years in conjunction with a new Super Sentai series essentially being produced on a yearly basis meant there had to be a new monster for every episode made. That’s a lot of monsters, but the masterminds behind the creatures’ design didn’t let such a daunting task stop them from getting the job done, especially with inspiration being found in everyday life. Family pet? Monster. Hairdryer? Monster. City bus that reeks of vomit and urine? Monster.

But sometimes drawing inspiration from every conceivable object or living organism isn’t the best way to go as the end result sometimes varies from being too creative, frightening or just plain defies categorization. And these 10 bizarre Power Rangers monsters more than prove that!

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