Kat Manx

Kat Manx, also known as SPD Kat Ranger, is a character from the Power Rangers S.P.D. series.
== Charactah Account ==
A humanoid cat alien that serves as SPD's head scientist, creating the Ranger powers back in the year 2001. At one point, she became the Kat Ranger after using a morpher provided by Supreme Commander Birdie.
Kat is intellectual, headstrong and resourceful lady with a calm and intuitive persona. She is naturally authoritative and willing to take the lead when necessary, and has a professional mentor-like relationship with the Rangers and Boom. Despite her analytical attitude she displays strong empathy; for example she listens to and advises B-Squad and is mostly understanding of their difficulties (for example when she acknowledges she's surprised B-Squad talks at all due to tight quarters) only losing her temper a handful of times. She also often counsels Cruger. In terms of the Rangers this could be argued to be a somewhat parental role from time to time and she is certainly greatly cared for by B-Squad. That said, she is clearly able to establish firm professional boundaries - often opting to take a professional attitude with Cruger when in front of other staff members. She also does not divulge much about her own feelings and personal life. For the most part she is able to put her own feelings aside to benefit SPD. She is intuitive and discerning, and uses this judgement to know when it may be appropriate or necessary to cross the line (e.g when she confides in B-Squad that Cruger told them they were "the best he's ever had", pushing Cruger to be the Shadow Ranger and knowing Bridge is lying when he says Grumm did not say anything further). She is occasionally playful and lets out strong emotions: her anger at Cruger and breakdown in the final battle being two big examples - as well as being known to crack a big smile out of relief or pride. She seems to consider this as a weakness though which may explain her hatred of goodbyes. Kat is shy in the face of praise and not exempt from making mistakes - on one occasion she trusted Piggy to provide safe hardware out of desperation.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
* Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2018 Annual
* Power Rangers
=== TV Series ===
* Power Rangers S.P.D
=== Video Games ===
* Power Rangers Legacy Wars
* Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
== Trivia ==
* Kat is the first Ranger to wear orange. However, she is classified as a White Ranger.
** Though her Ranger color was never overtly mentioned in-series, there are hints that she may have been intended to be an Orange Ranger. She eventually was much later categorized as a White Ranger by being included in the comic covers and through classification in Power Rangers Legacy Wars. Legacy Wars has also treated Kat as an orange ranger at certain points and Drakkon refers to Kat as an Orange Ranger in Battle for the Grid, furthering the ambiguity.
* In Greg Aronowitz' four part SPD Blog he repeatedly acknowledges the apparent love triangle between Kat, Commander Cruger, and Isinia Cruger, and the poor reception Isinia's return got as a result
** In Part 4 of the same blog, he confessed to introducing Dr Felix as a love interest for Kat to make up for the blow of losing Commander Cruger
* Her name Kat Manx is inspired by a Manx cat, a tailless breed of domestic cat.
* In the "The Power Rangers Want You" features on the S.P.D. DVDs, it was stated her home world had been conquered by the Troobian Empire.
* She is the oldest confirmed female Power Ranger, at the age of 147 years old.
* The toy-exclusive zord Blast Runner is often associated with her due to it possessing a similar color scheme and has the Kat Ranger's chest symbol on the backwall of the cockpit, although neither she nor her Sentai counterpart had ever piloted it in the show. In Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, a White Ranger pilots it instead.
* Unlike the B-Squad Rangers, Sam and Anubis Cruger, who were voiced by their respective Sentai counterpart in the Japanese dub of Power Rangers S.P.D., Kat was instead voiced by Rie Tanaka, who is well known as the voice of Virgo Zodiarts in Kamen Rider Fourze and Kujou Hikari (Shiny Luminous) in Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart, two prominent Toei-based works.
** Kat's respective Sentai counterpart in actress Mako Ishino had voiced the narrator of the Japanese dub.
* Her only appearance as a Ranger is in Episode 29: Katastrophe
* Kat is playable in Power Rangers Legacy Wars.
== Gallery ==
File:Kat Manx Render 01.png
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== External Links ==
* Kat Manx at RangerWiki
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