Power Coins

The **Power Coins** are supernatural golden coins forged by the sage Ninjor which were used as the power source of the Original, Ninja and Alien Rangers. When Zordon and Alpha 5 created the White Tiger Power Coin, it took a great deal of planning, power and delicate precision in order to accomplish the task. The Morphin Grid is capable of manifesting Power Coins as well, however it requires a power source such as Morph-X. Where as Ninjor can create them at will while connecting them to the Morphin Grid with very little effort.

## List of Known Power Coins

### Dinosaur and White Tiger Power Coins

The original Power Coins drew their power from dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals and had an animal engraved on each one: **Black Mastodon**, **Pink Pterodactyl**, **Blue Triceratops**, **Yellow Saber-Toothed Tiger**, and **Red Tyrannosaurus**. The sixth Coin was based off a **Green Dragon**, but instead had a symbol resembling a three-toed dragon's footprint. Zordon gained possession of the first five coins after he and Alpha 4 found a map that lead them to the location of the Coins in the Desert of Despair. Unfortunately, Rita Repulsa somehow gained the sixth Coin on her own while battling the Desert's guardian, Rooten-Toomen, with the help of one of her warriors, Knasty Knight.

The Rangers could remove their Coins and transform them into **Power Crystals**. The holder places his/her thumb and index fingers on the edge of the Coin, heads facing out. The individual then elongates the crystal down to a point. The Rangers usually shout "Two-One-Power Up," and insert it into a slot on the helm of his/her Zord in order to control the war machines. Following the destruction of the original Dinozords, the power crystals were never used again.

The Coins can also emit powerful energy charges which have been used to re-energize Zordon.

When Tommy Oliver's Green Ranger powers were permanently drained by Lord Zedd's Green Crystal and Turbanshell monster, Zordon and Alpha secretly created the White Ranger, using the White Tiger Coin as their power source. The coin itself was created within the Power Chamber beneath the Command Center, which at the time was unknown to the Rangers. Zordon created this Coin using the Light of Goodness. It appears that creating even one Power Coin is extremely dangerous as it took weeks of planning and design as well as shutting down the entire Command Center in order for the White Tiger Coin to be created.

Later in the Power Rangers' battles, Rito Revolto, the brother of Rita, appeared in the Moon Palace. Leading a new army of monsters, he successfully overloaded the Thunderzords' power storage, shorting out several Command Center functions, destroying the Zords themselves and damaging the Rangers' Power Coins and their connections to the Morphin Grid. The damage caused all the Rangers' Power Coins and Morphers to crack physically and destroyed their connection to the Morphin Grid.

Three years later in 1998, Adam Park returned, attempting to help his successor, Carlos Vallerte, overcome a confidence issue after a botched mission. When Carlos decided to hang up his Morpher, Adam pulled his own damaged Morpher out. Despite Alpha 6's attempts to stop him, he successfully morphed into the Black Mastodon Ranger once more. However, due to the damage the coin sustained during the fight with Rito, the unstable connection to the Morphin Grid caused Adam to phase in and out of his morphed state, causing him excruciating pain, and nearly killing him.

Four years later in 2002, Jason Lee Scott after his Power Coin was disconnected from the Morphin Grid by the Sword of Light, he somehow managed to restore its connection to the grid and was able to morph again. He participated in an all-Red Ranger mission against the remnants of the Machine Empire during the events of *Power Rangers Wild Force*. It was never explained how Jason was able to restore the Power Coin's connection. Following this, five years more later in 2007 when Thrax appeared during the events of *Power Rangers Operation Overdrive*, Adam's Morpher and Mastodon Coin were properly restored by the Sentinel Knight.

All the Coins would again be utilized during the finale of *Power Rangers Super Megaforce* where the original six Mighty Morphin Rangers took part in the final battle against the Armada. It is not explained how the pink, blue, red and yellow Coins are restored. It was revealed in "Dimensions in Danger" that Tommy has access to the Master Morpher which allows him to morph in any previous Ranger powers he had. Rocky also participated in the battle as the Mighty Morphin Red Ranger, meaning that his Tyrannosaurus Power Coin was also restored since his Ape Ninja Coin was destroyed years back before the battle with Lord Draven.

In 2020, the Morphin Grid transformed an extremely powerful meteor using Morph-X into the original Tyrannosaurus Power Coin, and summoned its original wielder Jason Lee Scott. This caused the powers to be transferred back from Rocky to Jason. Jason then used the coin to morph into the Mighty Morphin Red Ranger to battle Goldar Maximus, but he also used it beforehand to summon the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as well as the Dino Thunder Rangers.

At present, the yellow, pink and blue Power Coins have been restored by unknown means. The Mastodon Power Coin was restored in 2007 by the Sentinel Knight with Adam Park as the wielder. Jason currently uses the original Tyrannosaurus Power Coin while Rocky uses the "Proxy Tyrannosaurus Power Coin" created by Billy & Alpha 9. The main difference is that the proxy coin can be used by any person while the original can only be used by the one assigned to them. Katherine was later given a "Proxy Power Coin" of the Pterodactyl Power Coin by Alpha 9 to become the Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger since her Crane Ninja Coin was destroyed years before and that held a different link to the Morphin Grid than her coin and the user of the original Pterodactyl Power Coin was Kimberly Ann Hart.

Before joining S.P.A., Adam transferred the Mastodon Coin and powers back to Zack Taylor.

The "Proxy Power Coins" although duplicates of the original Power Coins are the first known Power Coins to be created by humans. After Billy returned from Aquitar, he created his own version of the "Command Center" based on Zordon and Alpha 4's design and founded "Cranston Technologies" with his base of operations hidden beneath the building. Both himself and Alpha 9 created new Power Coins based on the original Dino Power. The White Tiger Power Coin which was created by Zordon and Alpha 5 was not recreated separately as it has been incorporated into the Master Morpher for Tommy Oliver. They are considered extremely dangerous to use as they have an active link to the Morphin Grid as the originals also have an active link too. Two people using the same active powers and link to the grid can kill both users involved.

#### Power Crystals

Whenever one Ranger was in great peril, and the others would need to assist them, the other Rangers could put their hands together and form a Power Crystal out of their morphing essence (their Coin). With it, they could transport themselves to wherever their Crystals were if a Ranger activated them. The Crystals could be transported through the Morphin Grid to a Ranger's Power Weapon, as first seen in "A Pressing Engagement". When Jason had his (Red) along with the other four, he could activate them, transporting his friends, Zack Taylor (Black), Billy Cranston (Blue), Trini Kwan (Yellow) and Kimberly Ann Hart (Pink) to his location. The Rangers become beams of colored light upon transport. They could also be used in conjunction with the Dinozords, by becoming joysticks to control the Megazord, projecting energy lightning bolts from all 5 Zords at once in the Megazord's Tank Mode, or as one concentrated blast through the cranial laser in Battle Mode. Tommy's Dragon Power coin could be used to form a green Power Crystal as well. Although it was never seen being created, Jason used Tommy's Power Crystal to control Dragonzord in battle mode within its cockpit in place of his own. When summoning and jumping into the Tigerzord, Tommy was seen holding a small crystal sphere, presumably this was the White Ranger’s version of a Power Crystal.