#goldar

[atopfourthwall]

[chernobog13]

Kaiju comparative anatomy from the book An Anatomical Guide to Monsters by Doctor Kaiju (Shoji Otomo): Guilala, Goldar, the yokai Hyakume, Garamon (not Pigmon, because this one's a robot), and some schmo named Godzilla.

[blueey-jayzilla]

Random sidequest I've been doing is watching power rangers, I love these two so much.

[the-most-humble-blog]

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THEY WERE JUST TEENAGERS -- AND THEY SAVED YOUR SORRY PLANET (Revised) (A Blacksite Eulogy for the Original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)

While you were crying over your $16 Panera sadness sandwich, while your parents were mid-divorce over "ethical bacon," five teenagers were curb-stomping space fascists in color-coded armor.

Not Navy SEALs. Not government black ops. Not your 43-year-old CrossFit uncle.

Teenagers. With SAT flashcards in one hand and alien war medals in the other.

They didn’t ask for consent forms. Didn’t request a trauma counselor. Didn’t post vague “I’m not okay” stories on Instagram.

They got sucked into a glowing space tube by a floating wizard head and immediately started dropkicking lunar necromancers.

AND YOU DON’T RESPECT THEM ENOUGH.

They weren’t trained. They weren’t insured. They weren’t even legal adults.

Half of them probably still got picked last in gym class -- and still picked violence before calculus.

Meanwhile, you’re sitting in a beanie complaining about “late-stage capitalism” as if you ever faced down a kaiju with your ex's mixtape still in your Walkman.

💀 THE ENEMY ROSTER:

Rita Repulsa: A menopause sorceress with vape smoke hair and the vocal range of a goat sacrifice. Dropped monsters like SoundCloud rappers drop EPs: frequently, and without meaning.

Goldar: Literal winged monkey dipped in melted Rolexes. Spoke like Optimus Prime after a gravel smoothie. Absolutely roid-raged. Still got folded like a lawn chair.

Putties (or “Puddies,” idk, clay lives don’t matter): Zumba class rejects made of wet cement and poor life choices. Ran up just to get obliterated like background dancers in a Taekwondo musical.

How were they treated? Like Home Depot demo walls.

Spin kicks. Flying elbows. Double-knees to the sternum with zero OSHA compliance.

Sometimes they didn’t even morph. Just squared up in jeans and teenage spite.

🧠 YOU THINK YOUR FINALS WERE HARD?

Try being 16 with:

🦖 Dino mechs to pilot 💥 Death lasers in your zip code 📚 A biology test on mitochondria due by 4th period

If you failed? You didn’t get a B-minus. You got vaporized into stardust by a kaiju with neck piercings.

🛡️ NO HR. NO THERAPY. NO FMLA.

They didn’t sue Zordon for endangerment. Didn’t unionize against Alpha 5’s annoying ass. Didn’t even ask for a mental health day.

They just backflipped into unpaid intergalactic warfare like it was a damn gym elective.

Explosions? Flipped over ‘em. Monsters? Chopped their necks. Existential trauma? Repressed it like 90s kids were born to do.

Because they knew the truth: The adults weren’t gonna save sh*t.

YOU GETTING THIS YET, DUMMY?

No super-soldier serum. No Hogwarts scholarship. Just vibes, flips, and unresolved rage.

You owe your peaceful childhood to five hormone-riddled teens who got drafted into alien war crimes by a wall-mounted lava lamp and didn’t even flinch.

They were the last generation to morph without whining.

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER:

This post is protected under Article 7 of the Galactic Satirical Combat Doctrine. Filed under: Nostalgic Delinquent Appreciation, Color-Coordinated War Crimes, and Child Soldier Recognition Day.

If you’re offended: Go journal about it in lowercase. The Rangers were pulling zords out of volcanoes while you were asking your mom if PG-13 movies had kissing in them.

🛐 BLACKSITE CHALLENGE: “WOULD YOU HAVE MORPHED?”

Ask yourself:

When Zordon called, when the sky cracked open, when Rita sent yet another worm demon to destroy your zip code…

Would you have pulled your coin and morphed up? Or would you have asked for conflict de-escalation training and a gluten-free snack break?

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Reblog if you damn well know the Rangers deserved hazard pay, group therapy, and 401(k) plans by 17

🦖 Reblog this if you ever shadowboxed a Putty in your kitchen wearing socks or

Send it to the friend who still yells “IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME” before therapy

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[awesomecoyote337]

Drag and Tokusatsu Villains: The Shared Language of Camp

There’s a surprisingly natural overlap between drag performance and tokusatsu villain design, especially when viewed through the lens of camp.

Drag characters and tokusatsu villains both operate in a heightened visual language that prioritizes spectacle over subtlety. Drag characters and tokusatsu villains often operate as larger-than-life personas: bold silhouettes, vibrant colors, ironic/punny names, and performative flair.

Camp is about a love of exaggeration, stylization over realism, and theatricality.

The same applies to many Tokusatsu villains from Japanese Super Sentai and its American adaptation Power Rangers.

Earlier Power Rangers seasons balanced camp with imported footage constraints.

If you compare Power Rangers Dino Charge to earlier series like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the difference becomes clear:

Take for example: Rita Repulsa vs Poisandra

Rita Repulsa from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers already fits surprisingly well into drag naming convention with names that are often playful, ironic, or pun-based and alliterative. (Rita Repulsa as in repulsive)

Rita Repulsa's design has towering, sculptural hair, heavy gold accents, flowing robes, and an exaggerated witch silhouette. Her personality is built on theatrical tantrums ("Oh I have such a headache!") and grand declarations ("Ah! After ten thousand years I'm free! It's time to conquer Earth!"). Her camp comes from excess emotion and theatrical delivery.

With Power Rangers Dino Charge, the franchise leans harder into camp than many previous seasons. The villains don’t just resemble drag archetypes—they function like them.

Poisandra's design is candy-colored bright pink, heart-themed, and has exaggerated lashes. She's Sledge's marriage-obsessed bride-to-be, embodying the "bridezilla diva" archetype. She isn’t just a villain who happens to be feminine, she performs hyper-femininity as villainy.

Rita is theatrical, but rooted in witch archetypes and still framed as a witch.

Poisandra is theatrical and conceptually stylized around a singular camp theme. Poisandra is theatrical in a way that feels closer to a drag performance of villainy.

Characters like Poisandra are built around a single aesthetic concept and designs feel like runway concepts, much like a drag runway category.

Wrench serves as the tech genius with a whiny, dramatic flair (Tin Woodsman-inspired armor with spade motifs and a crying face theme).

Curio, Wrench's stitched-together doll-like creation (made as an early wedding gift for Poisandra), in a shark-hat hoodie with glowing eyes and striped scarf.

In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, camp is present, but rooted in archetypes (witch, warlord, monster). Rita Ripulsa (witch), Goldar (the loyal warlord), and Baboo (the bumbling monster sidekick). The designs, while elaborate, are often rooted in sci-fi/high fantasy archetypes. (Knasty Knight, Minotaur, Genie, Cyclops, etc).

Older villains were often based on broad archetypes (witch, warlord, monster). Newer ones feel like runway concepts.

Cavity — confectionary/tooth decay theme

Puzzler — puzzle theme 

Gold Digger — treasure theme

Half-Bake — autumn theme

In short: early Power Rangers gave us camp within archetypes. Dino Charge gave us archetypes as camp.

The villains in Power Rangers Dino Charge function less like a traditional evil empire of "Evil Space Aliens" and more like a drag troupe or stage cast. They have extended banter scenes, recurring relationship arcs (Sledge and Poisandra’s toxic romance), and distinct gimmick-driven personas.

In the end, both drag and tokusatsu villains remind us that leaning all the way into exaggeration, stylization, and theatricality is what builds the most memorable characters.

[augment-techs]

In an attempt to be more active on tumblr blogs and sending asks and stuff :3

Favorite silly moment(s) from the GGPR comics! :33

....Oh, there are so many, omg...

Starting off: Jason's introduction and the utter joke that THIS is supposed to be a 15 year old (with the little narrative bubbles trying to impress this upon us even further and failing pretty miserably).

Their first unbelievable fuck-up happening on their literal first day. Because, really, they had one job--and THIS ABSOLUTELY PROVES that, yes, they're teenagers, they can't handle the one job.

Kim looking like a gutter rat is so pleasing to me. It gives me so much joy.

Actually, you know what? Her general humiliation is kind of a favorite reel for me. Like, especially with people she generally doesn't respect throughout canon. My pleasure in this never dims.

Awkward teenage super hero incidents by failing at speaking in code is pretty good, too. Honestly I think Matt gets points pretty early on for this...just this:

I have a lot of favorites, not least of all the early Dan Mora work. The Putty Infiltration Arc pleases me infinitely on rereading it, but silliness is hard to pinpoint, so this is the best I can do, really.

[sleeping-abnormality]

I’ve been rewatching power rangers recently

Anyway, these two are in love

[alphamecha-mkii]

Zord Ascension Project - Dino Megazord Inner Packaging Illustration Panel by Aditya Permadi