Laura Jacobs

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**Laura "LJ" Jacobs** is **Discovery Blue**, the Blue Ranger of the Discovery Rangers. An established Discovery operative, she dreams to become top race car driver, and because of her passion in racing, she previously served as the QDV and the QAV specialist, pilot and flight navigator of Isis III. She is 26 years old.

She is also referred to as **Blue Discovery Ranger** - a variation of her label in the show.

## Personality

Laura is a adrenaline-minded tomboy who is compassionate, kind-hearted, outgoing, and always willing to trust others and give them the benefit of the doubt, even when no one else is willing to. Because of this, she is quite popular with the boys and often seen taking care of everyone else. She is also skilled at and enjoys racing cars (both skills that were benifacial to her earning the title of the Isis III mission's pilot), dreaming to become a top race car driver and mostly looks up to her father, the founder and CEO of Jacobs Motors. Laura acts as the team's big sister - especially towards Jimmy at times - and usually the one who defuses tension among the others, and has absolutely no tolerance for under-handed attacks.

It is also suggested at times that Laura is the closest of the Discovery Rangers to Michael; she was the first member of the group to reach out to him and respect him in any way, contrary to the others, who did not initially trust him, nor believe his encounter with Master Bird. Another example of this is when she asked Michael if he was okay following his second encounter with Scermazu.

## Power and Abilities

* **Instinctian Power:** As a result of being imbued with a portion of the spirit of Master Michelle Fieng during Xenu's reawakening, Laura gained the following abilities:
	+ **Hearing:** Laura possesses super-sensitive hearing. However, because of this, if she is exposed to noise that is too loud she will faint.
	+ **Super Speed:**
	+ **Amphibiousness:** Laura possesses a natural affinity for swimming along with the ability to breathe both air and water.

## Discovery Blue

* Default
* Primal Exertion

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**Arsenal**

* Omnimorpher
* Primal Defender

**Zord**

* Shark Omnizord

**Attacks**

* **Instinct Slash:** After pressing the trigger on the Primal Defender to charge up its energy, Laura and the other Rangers transform into a giant claw which slashes the opponent. During the fight with the Generation 9 Stormbreaker, Laura performed an alternate version with Daniel where an aura resembling a beast's fangs manifests around the opponent and chomps the opponent as the two rangers first perform a jumping downward stab followed by a lateral slash.
* **Mega Instinct Blast:** After pressing the trigger on the Primal Defender to charge up its energy, Laura shoots a spinning cube shaped energy blast, similar to the Primal Defender's normal projectile but larger and more solid.

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In her **Primal Exertion** form, the Blue Ranger gains a dorsal fin on her back. In this form, she can swim through the ground as though it were water, allowing her to surprise attack her opponents as well as perform a somersault attack where she uses her fin to buzzsaw through enemies. Alternatively, she can perform an aerial spin attack after jumping and homing in on her target, repeatedly striking them in mid air with her spin attack.

Laura, along with the other rangers in their Primal Exertion forms, is able to channel her power along with Discovery Red - Gorilla Form's power into a gigantic fist that the Red Ranger can use to smash down onto the enemy in his **Dynamic Gorilla Fist** attack.

**Arsenal**

* Omnimorpher
* Primal Defender

**Zord**

* Shark Omnizord

## Trivia

* Laura is the first female Blue Ranger since Maddison Rocca of Mystic Force.
	+ She share a lot of similarities with said ranger.
* She also shares a few similarities with Tori Hanson of Ninja Storm.
* She shares a number of similarities with a few Yellow Rangers:
	+ Ronny Robinson of Operation Overdrive
	+ Summer Landsdown of RPM
* She also shares a few traits with a handful of Pink Rangers:
	+ Mia Watanabe of Samurai/Super Samurai.
	+ Sarah Thompson of Ninja Steel/Super Ninja Steel
* She is the first Ranger since Noah Carver of Megaforce to have a shark motif.

## See also

* Sela - *Super Sentai* counterpart in *Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger*. see comparison page.