Honestly, one of my biggest issues with Cosmic Fury is the fact that they just turned Kyuranger’s main villains into absolute clowns just so they could have Lord Zedd back as the villain. It’s not even because they’re delegated to more minor roles, many major villains in Sentai have been put into more minor roles in PR and vice versa, it’s because they’re treated as absolute jokes for the purpose of hyping up Zedd. Like don’t get me wrong, it’s the anniversary season, so of course they’re gonna bring back one of the most iconic PR villains, but it doesn’t mean you dumb every other villain down to emphasize how threatening he is. Like seriously
Ikagen: Opened all kinds of whoop ass on the Kyurangers, had a hand in killing the Rebellion’s previous leader which gave Shou massive survivor’s guilt, and severely demoralized Lucky after one of their confrontations.
Inkworth: Is reduced to being a butler, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, there’s plenty of badass butler characters, but Inkworth is just constantly pushed around by Zedd and Bajillia (as an aside why did the Naires need to exist?) Credit where credit is due, he put up a good fight, but other than that…
Scorpio: Singlehandedly drives Stinger’s character forward at first, planned to usurp Don Armage, shows barely any remorse for the atrocities he committed, and offlined Champ for several episodes.
Krymzo: …A dance-themed MotW that’s dispatched with barely any difficulty.
Kukuruga: A highly capable fighter and one of the villains who serves directly beneath Don Armage himself, had major involvement in the devastation brought to Lucky’s home planet and tried to emotionally devastate him by convincing him that he was the one who killed Lucky’s father.
Doodrip: An absolute idiot who’s delegated to being laughingstock and another one of Zedd’s punching bags. Sure he brainwashed Ollie but that doesn’t do much to make him better.
Quervo: Literally the willing vessel of the sentient universal embodiment of despair and suffering that wants to destroy the universe solely because he was jealous of Tsurugi.
Omwhyzo: His only personality trait is “simps for Squillia” and is defeated by Tarrick, who wasn’t even armored at the time.
Seriously, this is supposed to be the last season of the original PR continuity, and instead of making villains beside Zedd and Bajillia actually threatening, they make every other villain comic relief and act like clowns that got lobotomized from eating too many lead paint chips. At least In Space, Wild Force, and RPM, other “final seasons” had actual stakes and villains that are treated as legitimate threats, and the comic relief doesn’t take up 90% of the antagonistic cast.