Venjix (Energy Chasers)

## Quotes:

"**I am Venjix. Your world is now MY world, and your time is now over***.*”

—Venjix claiming dominance over the world

"**Hello Rangers. Have you come here to stop me? Now that I'm free from my digital prison, your time in this dimension will be brief...and painful!"**

—Venjix introducing his new humanoid form to the Rangers and before destroying the Chaser-X Ultra Megazord

## Summary:

**Venjix** is the main antagonist of *Power Rangers RPM* and *Power Rangers Energy Chasers*. A sentient computer virus, it was originally invented by Doctor K and nearly succeeded in taking over the world of RPM before being defeated by the RPM Rangers. However, Venjix survived by hiding inside a Cell Shift Morpher and the Morphin Grid itself which was brought to the prime dimension when two young engineers who where helping Doctor K experiment technology to develop new suits with the help of the Cell Shift Morpher with Morph-X and Animal DNA. Through this fusion, a portion of the Venjix virus escaped the Morpher and became a cobra-like avatar but before he could do any damage Doctor K trapped him in the Cyber Dimenison. He attempted to take over the Morphin Grid and subsequently clashed with Grid Battleforce and the Energy Chaser Rangers.

## Personality:

Venjix is the most ruthless and sadistic villain in the entire Power Rangers franchise, and with very good reasons. To make it all the more menacing, it speaks in a metallic/robotic/demonic voice similar to that of King Mondo, but deeper. He is an outright sadistic, malevolent, cruel, power-hungry, vengeful, ruthless, vicious, and manipulative being who is highly intelligent as demonstrated by his ability to conceal himself within Grid Battleforce's computer systems for years without being detected. Despite being a computer virus, Venjix is capable of exhibiting emotional behavior such as laughing. He is also ill-tempered, easily angered, and quick to resort to threats of violence to achieve his objectives. At the same time, he is also capable of cutting deals and forging alliances, as demonstrated by his recruitment of Vartron and Rytron. However, he will not hesitate to dispose of his allies once they are of no further use to him, as evidenced by him allowing the Rangers to destroy Rytron.

## Powers and Abilities:

### Powers:

* **Computer Hacking**: Being a computer virus, Venjix can infiltrate and seize control of computer systems with extreme stealth. He can also hide himself from any security scans that tries to detect him.
* **DNA Corruption**: His virus partly corrupted the Rangers' animal DNA, causing the Rangers to exhibit certain animal-related weaknesses. Ironically, Venjix himself is initially unable to infiltrate systems with human DNA. However, he later manages to hijack Commander Park's body via the Morph X shockwave that travels through the Cybergate.
* **Energy Beams**: Venjix can shoot red-pink or orange energy beams from any of his hands. One is enough to take down all five Rangers with one hit, and also destroy the Chaser-X Ultra Megazord.
* **Telekinesis:** Venjix was able to stop the Rangers' Hyper-Freeze Arrow from hitting him and launched it back at them.
* **Technopathy**: By sending a strand of his data up a Grid Battleforce computer, Venjix was able to control it to turn the force field of his cell back on to protect himself from a blast from the Energy Cannon.
* **Resurrection:** With enough Morph-X, Venjix was able to revive some of his fallen Robotrons. He does this by making his shoulders and waist glow with Morph-X and then generate up to four tentacles which reform into his Robotrons.
* **Teleportation:** Venjix can teleport between dimensions on his own.
* **Data Absorption:** Venjix can absorb data, as shown when he absorbed the access codes from the Grid Battleforce computers. He does this by shooting blue and red energy currents from his hands which suck up the data as a string of 1s and 0s.
	+ **Energy Absorption:** After gaining enough Morph-X, Venjix was able to absorb the Energy Cannon's blast when he stopped its attack from reaching him.
	+ **Weapon Absorption**: After downloading all of the Rangers' data from Grid Battleforce's computer, Venjix can absorb the weapons into him which effectively destroys them.

### Weaknesses:

* **Limitations:** Due to his high amount of complex coding and the amount of data he possesses, only high-powered machines, such as supercomputers, and a select few robots, made or modified specifically for such a purpose, have circuitry sophisticated enough and sufficient data capacity storage to contain Venjix's data.
* **Morph-X Dependency**: Venjix not only requires Morph-X to maintain his appearance as Commander Park, but due to prolonged exposure to human DNA, Venjix has become entirely dependent on Morph-X to survive.

## Forms:

### Avatar:

This form is Venjix’s avatar form used in the first half of the season, While a young Cyrus and Kale was experimenting with Morph-X and cobra DNA with old Ranger technology to develop new suits, they was unaware of Venjix's presence in the Red Cell Shift Morpher. As a result, what was left of Venjix took its chance and absorbed the new code. The cobra DNA allowed him to take the form of a giant solid cobra hologram.

### Upgraded:

This form is Venjix’s upgraded form used in the second half of the season, Although Venjix had planned on taking the body of Kanetrum, Scortron managed to learn how to build a similar frame from examining Venjix's old body data. Now able to traverse freely, Venjix has become deadlier than ever.

### Drone:

After gaining access to a Morph-X tower, Venjix managed to gain access to the Morphin Grid, and absorbed the tower and miscellaneous surrounding objects to form his new body. In this form, Venjix rivals the Chimera Zord in height and towers over Coral Harbor.

**Zords:**

* **Chimera Zord:** Venjix's personal and immensely powerful Zord which overwhelmed three Dino Megazords but was quickly destroyed by the Dino Charge Megazord using the Beast-X King Zord, with the aid by the Mighty Morphin' and Dino Thunder Megazords.
* **Omegadrone**: Venjix's personal drone which Scortron builds to help bring about Venjix's final plan to take over the Morphin' Grid. It overloaded and exploded with enough force to damage the Rangers' Zords.