Mesogog

* Original form
* Superpowered Form

(Dino Thunder)

**Mesogog** is the main enemy of the Dino Rangers. He was the uncontrollable humanoid dinosaur-like monster form of scientist **Anton Mercer** who wished to conquer the world and return it to the era of dinosaurs.

## History

### Creation

Anton Mercer was on the verge of a scientific breakthrough during an experiment involving dinosaur DNA, when he was accidentally transformed into Mesogog, an evil mastermind with plans to revert the earth to the age of dinosaurs and turn the human race into reptilian creatures like himself. As a result of the accident Mesogog and Dr. Mercer were distinct personalities with the same body in a Jekyll-Hyde relationship. Each is aware of the other's existence, but also both dislike their situation (Dr. Mercer, for having a villainous alter-ego that he can barely control and Mesogog, for having a human half holding him back). In his Mesogog form, he was equipped with cybernetic technology and psionic powers that he uses to torture his enemies.

In order to enact his plans, Mesogog seized the Tyrannodrones, who were part of a dinosaur-related project that Tommy Oliver and Anton were making along with the Raptor Riders and the Biozords. When Tommy Oliver went to the island where Anton Mercer's Lab was, Mesogog sent the Tyrannodrones in an attempt to capture and/or kill Tommy while he also destroyed the island itself, during the explosion some of their experiments were scattered across the outskirts of Reefside (including the eggs of some dino creatures), Tommy managed to escape and believed that Mesogog died in the explosion when in reality he went into hiding for a few years.

After the island where Anton Mercer's Lab was sank beneath the sea, Mesogog brought it back in order to serve as his headquarters for the future. Mesogog eventually came across the body of Terrance "Smitty" Smith, who was a partner of Tommy and was grievously injured by an explosion at his lab. He rebuilt him with cybernetic technology into a black armored cyborg who would later be known as "Zeltrax". At some point Mesogog also captured a woman named Elsa and empowered her to serve him. Mesogog also learned that Anton Mercer had an surrogate son, Sam, who would prove to be useful in the future.

### Getting the Gems

Years later, in 2004, Mesogog resurfaces after three high-school students recover the Dino Gems, sending his Tyrannodrones to catch the students and recover the Gems for him. After the three students manage to beat Mesogog's army thanks to their new powers given by the Gems, Mesogog sends his Tyrannodrones one more time to capture one of the three students, this time he succeeds and captures Kira Ford. Mesogog meets Kira and asks her where are the Dino Gems but she tells her that she gave them away. Unfortunately for Mesogog, Kira then gets into a tussle with his henchwoman Elsa as she tries to run away from her and Zeltrax, finding an Invisiportal and getting away.

The next day, Mesogog orders an attack on Reefside, freeing the Biozords so they can begin their rampage through the city streets. Zeltrax then arrives with his ship and begins his attack as commanded by Mesogog but Tommy Oliver and his three students show up, they then morph into the Dino Rangers, the Rangers then defeat the Tyrannodrones and Zeltrax. The Dino Rangers tame the Zords, form the Thundersaurus Megazord and destroy Zeltrax's ship with their Tyranno Drill. When Zeltrax returns to the Island Fortress, Mesogog punishes him and Elsa for their failure with a psionic brain-blast and warns them as a lesson that he doesn't take defeat lightly.

After Mesogog realizes that Tommy found three eggs containing the unborn Raptor Riders, he orders to initiate the Geno-Randomizer and create a monster so he can stop Tommy from training the new dino creatures, unfortunately he's unsuccessful as Tommy manages to train the Raptor Riders and send them to aid the Rangers, who then quickly destroy his monster. Mesogog later finds a mysterious energy crystal stone that contained some great power but couldn't find a way to open it, so he sends his army to kidnap Tommy Oliver so that he can forced him to help him open the stone.  **TV STORY-**Wave Goodbye Mesogog tortures Tommy by draining him with his life-force extractor while telling him that his goal was returning Earth to its prehistoric roots, when Tommy (who asks why Mesogog can't settle for world domination like all the other villains, although the prehistoric reversion may be his own method of doing so) continues to refuse helping Mesogog, he keeps draining his life.

Just as Mesogog gives Tommy an ultimatum, the Ranger later go to his fortress in their Raptor Cycles to rescue Tommy. Mesogog meets the three Rangers in his fortress, but is stopped by his lackeys, though he and his army later confront the Rangers as they just freed Tommy from his captivity, with Mesogog taking on Tommy himself and beating him until he managed to steal the stone and run away with the Rangers through an invisiportal. When his lackeys follow the four heroes, Tommy uses the stone to block one of Zeltrax's attacks, revealing the stone to be the Black Dino Gem, which lets him transform into the Black Dino Ranger, adding a fourth Ranger to Mesogog's enemies.  **TV STORY-**Back in Black

### Thunder Storm

For some reason, Mesogog believed his first assault on Reefside would be credited to Lothor. It was never revealed if somebody actually suspected Lothor was involved with that. Mesogog eventually overcame his prejudices and teamed-up with Lothor when he discovered that he had "Evil Power Rangers". Mesogog was not fully allied with Lothor, because he did not trust him completely. When Lothor and Mesogog's team-up idea failed, Mesogog betrayed Lothor and shrunk him inside of a jar to add to his collection of experiments. (Lothor and his jar were presumably destroyed with Mesogog's lab at the end of the series.) However, Mesogog had previously told Elsa he already intended to get rid of Lothor even if the team-up resulted in a success.

### Final Battle

Eventually Mesogog freed himself of his humanity by using a potion to separate out Dr. Anton Mercer. As a result, his insanity and determination increased as he creates his last and most powerful monster, a cycloptic amoeba-like monster called Ugly Monster. He also rid himself of Elsa when needing an energy supply to power his cannon. It took a bit of deception from the Rangers (using the Dino Gems as bait) to destroy the cannon and Mesogog's base.

In the second part of the two-part series final of Power Rangers Dino Thunder " Thunder Struck", Mesogog would later reappear after the Zords were destroyed as well as after the destructions of both Zeltrax his Zelzord, to which he appears in a garage-like area as Mesogog explains to the Rangers that while they did prevent him from creating a "perfect world", he was able to absorb enough energy from the Dino Gems to survive the explosion and complete his transfiguration, Mesogog then tells the Rangers to witness the face of their final battle and he 'evolve' into a self-replicating dinosaur-like monster, known as the **Mesomonster**. After a long and hard battle, the Mesomonster was shown to be far stronger then any other opponent the Dino Thunder Rangers had faced, even surviving the Triassic Battlizer's Battle Blast before replicating. With no options left, the Rangers combined all of their Dino Gem energy to form a gigantic T-Rex of pure golden energy. With the Rangers holding the four Mesomonsters in place with beams of golden energy, the Rex charged forth and munched down on the monsters. The Rangers spun around and posed as the Rex exploded behind them, taking Mesogog out once and for all.

Despite this, Dr. Mercer fortunately survived the whole ordeal, and was thankful to the Dino Thunder Power Rangers (especially Tommy) at the series' end.

## Personality

*"You are weak Anton, weak... and pathetic. As long as I am alive, my plan to bring back our time of glory will go on as scheduled, Power Rangers or no Power Rangers."*
―Mesogog to Anton Mercer.[src]
Mesogog (whilst mostly calm) was a villainous, cruel, cynical, sadistic, sinister, cold-blooded, psychopathic, monstrous, and ruthless terrorist that did anything in his power to ensure his dream of bringing the Earth back into the age of the dinosaurs. Mesogog was also highly authoritative and aggressive, as Elsa and Zeltrax feared him, enough to obey any order from him and try not to incur his wrath. He was also very abusive, oppressive, and merciless towards his minions, and punished them by telepathically attacking them if they failed him. Mesogog hated the Dino Thunder Power Rangers and stopped at nothing to destroy them. Despite his villainous tendencies, he also had a mature, polite, and sophisticated side although his politeness seemed more like hatred and abuse on his victims with it being kept as a façade for the sake of mocking them. Along with his sophisticated side, he had a very deadpan, cynical, and charmingly sarcastic sense of humor, making jokes or snide comments about other people whenever he felt like it. Despite Mesogog's appearance, he was also very intelligent, manipulative, deceptive, and a knowledgeable mastermind, being able to create very advanced technology and use them for his own benefits. He was also shown to be quite devious and an excellent master manipulator that could influence people all too well if he knew their weaknesses. He was also very confident, later heightened to arrogance, egomania, and narcissism, all of which were ironically his main weaknesses which led to his defeat by the Dino Rangers.

Mesogog had a considerable amount of hatred for his human counter-part, Anton Mercer, as much if not even more so than the Rangers. Mesogog had expressed sheer disgust for Mercer's kind and generous nature, with the latter always willing to help humanity. Like Elsa, Mesogog knew that Mercer was a weakness, but not solely because of his vulnerability as a human vessel; Mesogog also saw Mercer as an inconvenience and unnecessary influence over his actions that often kept Mesogog from completing his plans.

As a result of removing Mercer from his being, Mesogog's behavior took a more terrifying turn. No longer influenced by Mercer's humanity, elements of Mesogog's calm and stable psyche was all but shattered. What was left was a much more twisted, sadistic, and perhaps most notably, animalistic version of his former self. He took endless joy in tormenting Mercer, and was quick to make his minions expendable as seen when he sacrificed Elsa and her powers in order to supply energy to his transfiguration cannon with absolutely no hesitation or remorse. He still maintained his insane desire to return the world back to the era of the dinosaurs.

As the Mesomonster, Mesogog was far more destructive, monstrous, and violent. Having lost nearly every bit of sense in this form, he didn't talk, only speaking in growling noises, laughs, and roars.