Lord Zedd

* TV Series
* 1995 Movie

**Lord Zedd** was a major villain and was the true leader of the Evil Space Aliens.

## Contents

* History
* Past
* Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
* Unholy Matrimony
* Rita and Zedd's plans
* Zeo
* Turbo
* In Space
* Dino Thunder
* Operation Overdrive
* Beast Morphers
* Dino Fury
* Comics
* Past
* Necessary Evil
* Video game appearances
* Power Rangers Super Legends
* Power Rangers Legacy Wars
* Power Rangers Battle For The Grid
* Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition
* Puzzle and Dragons
* Personality
* Family
* Powers and Abilities
* Powers
* Abilities
* Weaknesses
* Arsenal
* Behind the Scenes
* Portrayal
* Design
* Etymology
* Notes
* Appearances
* See Also
* References

## History

### Past

It was mentioned by Rita that Zedd also tried to take the Zeo Crystal for himself in the ancient past. But because the Crystal was protected by a forcefield which damages the forces of evil, the attempt caused his skin to burn off, which gave him the flayed and grotesque appearance that he is widely known for. Due to the mocking tone Rita told this, it is not known if she was joking or if this fact is real.

Due to some unspecified failure, Lord Zedd stripped Goldar of his wings. Because he did not think Earth was important enough to warrant his attention, being to him just being a stepping stone/base to conquer the solar system, he left Rita Repulsa to conquer it while he pursued the conquest of other systems, leaving a ragtag group of minions behind to help her.

### Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

A year after Rita was released from Zordon's dumpster, Lord Zedd arrived on the Moon, conjuring a thunderstorm over the Moon Palace which made Goldar realize who he was and horrified Rita. As the race began, Zedd appeared above the Palace in the clouds before berating Rita for being utterly useless before shooting lightning at them. After declaring that he'd take command, Zedd went into his throne room where Rita and her thugs went to greet him. Goldar arrived first and met him in the throne room, terrified by Zedd's snake before he turned it into his staff. Despite not initially recognizing Goldar, Zedd remembered him as the cowardly minion, and returned the wings that Rita took away when he realized his cowardly nature would make him a good follower. Zedd then spied on the Power Rangers only for Rita to enter and beg for forgiveness and another chance but Zedd gave her a dressing down because she was "not fit to destroy a cockroach."

After watching the Power Rangers get called to the Command Center, he realized that Zordon was still alive and Goldar suggested sending Putties to destroy the Rangers. Zedd got a good laugh out of that and showed off his own Putty Patrollers. Despite her pleading with him, even kissing his feet, Lord Zedd punished Rita by stripping her of her powers and vaporizing her wand. He then shrunk her and imprisoned her within a space dumpster identical to the one Zordon had trapped her in before having his Putties hurl her into the depths of space. He then mutated a piranha from the lake into the monstrous Pirantishead, who assumed command of the Tyrannosaurus Dinozord and Dragonzord. The Rangers barely survived the attack, but managed to regain control of their Zords. Furious, Lord Zedd attempted to destroy the five Dinozords, only for the Rangers to turn the tables and transform the remains of them into the more powerful Thunderzords. The Thunder Megazord destroyed Pirantishead which led Zedd to decide to stay on Earth and try to destroy the Rangers, leading to his succeeding schemes.

After the Rangers' acquisition of the Thunderzords, Lord Zedd attacked again and again, each assault deadlier than the last. His monsters were created from objects on Earth with the power of his staff, and he made them grow using grenades - Zedd would throw the grenade down to the monster who would then catch it, pull out the pin and throw it to the ground to make itself grow. He once desired Kimberly to be his queen based on her good looks and tenacity, and sent Goldar to capture, brainwash and train her into being so, but his plan failed when it was discovered that the magic dust that was used to entrance her didn't work and that she was really doing a Rita impression to fool Goldar and buy the Rangers enough time to rescue her. Zedd has hated Kimberly ever since.

After seven or so schemes of just draining Tommy's powers, Lord Zedd decided to finally start his endgame and steal Tommy's powers once and for all. He later saw five punk teens (Justin, Zane, Bobby, Tina and Kristen) harassing a kid named Stewart as well as Tommy, Billy, and Zack; Zedd decided to make them his Dark Rangers to attack and destroy the Rangers. To do this, he decided to use the Green Crystal to take Tommy's powers to some personal use and use it to corrupt and empower the teens. When the punks confronted the Rangers (minus Tommy who was getting the negative results of his bioscan at the Command Center), Zedd zapped them with his lightning and teleported them to the so-called Otherworld where he would be operating from for the remainder of the two-parter. Zedd and Goldar met them there and hypnotized the five before Zedd proclaimed their goal to take over the world with their aid. Goldar pointed out that Tommy still had his powers so this was doomed to fail, but Zedd pointed out that the Crystal was still stealing his powers and he would soon create a monster to waste even more of it which pleased Goldar. With his minion sated, and inspired by Kimberly earlier finding a oddly large seashell at the beach, Zedd used his magic to create the TurbanShell monster from it.

Sometime later, Zedd was reminding Goldar of his plans for the Green Crystal when, to his amazement, TurbanShell showed up as he needed to "recharge his shell." Zedd berated him for letting the Rangers get away when he had them at his mercy and sent him away to fight. Presently, Zedd kidnapped Tommy and teleported him into a wheat field that was also in the Otherworld. Turbanshell confronted him there and, with Tommy's weakening powers, he was easily able to absorb his remaining powers into his shell. Zedd held up the Green Crystal which absorbed his remaining powers and began his next steps. With the Green Crystal fully charged, Zedd used it to surround the Command Center in a crushing forcefield and captured the remaining Power Rangers. He then introduced them to his newly powered Dark Rangers and revealed that he wished to use them to conquer the Earth. However, Zedd managed to shoot himself on the foot when he decided to send the Rangers back to Earth to make them watch TurbanShell destroy the city. His undoing came when Tommy escaped Goldar and returned to Angel Grove before returning to the Otherworld and smashed the Crystal. To Zedd's horror, this de-powered and teleported away the Dark Rangers at which point Tommy left to Zedd's despair. However, this was ultimately a success for Zedd since Tommy ultimately lost his powers once and for all as a result of this scheme.

It's the finals for the Ninja Martial Arts Competition and Lord Zedd takes a liking to three cruel dark colored ninjas from Casper City and fancies them as his new evil team of ninjas. By the time that Jacob Anderson has been rescued from a potentially fatal stroller crash, everything is ready and Zedd assigns Goldar the mission of kidnapping the teens, although not before they won the competition, which was likely a decision made to ensure that they were as competent as they claimed and aren't just tooting their own horns. However, later that afternoon, they still haven't been kidnapped and Zedd demands to know why. Goldar's responds that they have been defeated in the competition by new Stone Canyon arrivals Rocky DeSantos, Adam Park and Aisha Campbell, Annoyed, Zedd decides to make them his new Dark Rangers instead since they are far more competent and he only needs the best to defeat the Power Rangers. However, as Zedd points out, the Black Ninjas were chosen because they were cruel and vindictive whereas this new trio are just as pure as the Power Rangers, so how would this work? Goldar then offers to search the planet for better candidates, but Zedd refuses because they are the best fighters he can find and he needs good fighters to defeat the Power Rangers; therefore, he orders Goldar to capture them anyway. Zedd then sends down Goldar with some Putties as backup, and was very happy when Goldar successfully kidnaps the trio and their teacher, Mr. Anderson.

Goldar reports back to Zedd and tells him that he needs more time to break them which Zedd rebuts since it is only a matter of time until the Rangers find them. Goldar reminds him how strong they are so Zedd decides to distract the Power Rangers with a toxic monster before using his telescopic vision to spy out some blossom trees. Using his magic, Zedd throws up quite a lot of wind which tosses some flowers off of the trees he creates his Terror Blossom monster from the fallen petals. The Terror Blossom later resurrects the Hatchasaurus who summons Putties but they are decimated and he is knocked down so Lord Zedd makes him grow. After the Thunder Megazord obliterates the monster, Zedd laments the defeat although it has distracted the Power Rangers but Cardiatron has survived the destruction of the Hatchasaurus and quickly starts to reassemble the monster. Zordon tells the Power Rangers to destroy Cardiatron to prevent the Hatchasaurus from returning, but Zedd realizes that it is still alive and blasts it with his lightning, allowing the heart to reassemble the monster much faster; the Rangers are forced to fight the Hatchasaurus once again. Even so, the two Megazords make short work of him. When Jason, Zack, and Trini frozen by the Terror Blossom, but then freed by Billy's inventions, Lord Zedd makes the monster grow and sends Putties to protect his captives, but they are easily defeated and his monster destroyed with the hostages being freed and finding out who the Power Rangers really are.

Sometime after the defeat of the Beamcaster, Lord Zedd watches over the Earth and suddenly realizes that half of the Power Rangers have to attend a Swiss Peace Conference and delights in how crippled this will make the team. As such, he decides to go straight for the proverbial jugular and powers up Serpentera to destroy the Earth for good although he first sends down Squatt and Baboo to Earth with a special designed sleep machine to send everyone in the world to sleep and prevent Zordon from recruiting new Rangers. However, he soon realizes that they are headed to a Deserted Planet to obtain the Sword of Light that would allow them to transfer Jason, Zack and Trini’s powers to successors. As such, Zedd decides to annihilate them with Serpentera’s raw power. Zedd and Goldar set out in Serpentera shortly thereafter although Zedd, being the lazy and arrogant sort, forces Goldar to pilot it alone whilst he lounges around and monologues. Despite not having the capability to teleport, Serpentera arrives very shortly after the Power Rangers as Billy announces that the Sword of Light belongs to a statue. As five of the Power Rangers head for the statue, Jason summons the Red Dragon Thunderzord as well as the Thunderzord Assault Team to try and confront the colossal Evil Zord. They manage to briefly outrun it but have to dodge Serpentera’s jaws and Zedd is unimpressed by getting buzzed by a mosquito sized Zord.

As five of the Power Rangers head for the statue, Jason summons the Red Dragon Thunderzord as well as the Thunderzord Assault Team to try and confront the colossal Evil Zord. They manage to briefly outrun it but have to dodge Serpentera’s jaws and Zedd is unimpressed by getting buzzed by a mosquito sized Zord but soon has to have Finster send Putties to stop Rocky, Adam and Aisha Campbell to stop them from smashing his Sleep Machine. Zedd sits back as Serpentera makes quick work of Tor the Shuttlezord and the Red Dragon Thunderzord and delights when it crushes the two Zords but releases them after the show of force to probably make their demise more satisfying for him. Serpentera disintegrates a random nearby upside-down pyramid but doing that means that Goldar loses track of the Power Rangers due to his Zord’s size. Zedd, realizing that they won’t be able to find the statue before the Rangers, decides that there is no kill like overkill and decides to destroy the entire planet with the Rangers on it. Goldar refuses due to the power drain so Zedd does it himself by hitting a cliché big red button. As such, Serpentera unleashes a devastating lightning blast that consumes the planet’s surface.

It is thusly revealed that the previous attack was a false cliffhanger since Serpentera returns to blasting the not-destroyed city. After the Stone Canyon trio destroy the Sleep Machine, Serpentera continues attacking the city before Zedd decides again to destroy the city. Once more, Goldar refuses due to the power drain so Zedd does it himself by hitting a cliché big red button. As such, Serpentera unleashes a devastating lightning blast that consumes the planet’s surface. This seemingly kills the Power Rangers and destroys the planet so Zedd makes his way back but soon realizes that the Power Rangers escaped in good time. Zedd then returns to Earth in Serpentera but realizes that the Power Rangers have survived and isn’t able to arrive quickly enough to stop Rocky, Adam and Aisha from getting the Red, Black and Yellow Ranger powers. Bored and realizing that Serpentera won’t reach the Earth anytime soon, Zedd spots a tick in the park and creates the Silver Horns monster to at the very least delay the Power Rangers Serpentera later arrives as Zedd makes Silver Horns grows and lands as Silver Horns meets the White Tigerzord. However, it runs out of power due to the excess used to destroy the Deserted Planet and Goldar and Zedd sit out the fight as the Thunder Ultrazord takes out Silver Horns. Once he is destroyed, Zedd asks if they have enough power to which Goldar responds that they only have enough to return to the Moon Palace. Enraged, Zedd kicks the cockpit in frustration before withdrawing, although not before swearing revenge for this in the future.

When Rocky enjoys playing Ernie's new play Pachinko game a bit too much, Lord Zedd casts a spell on it which causes Rocky to have an unhealthy addiction to having fun. His plan is to leave Rocky so carefree and annoying that the others will be at such a significant disadvantage that Zedd can easily destroy them and conquer Earth. Rocky thinks only about games but the others pick up on this so Zedd attacks them with the Putty Patrol after which he turns the automate into Pachinko Head. Once the monster easily turns everyone, except for Tommy, into giant pachinko balls, Zedd sets out in Serpentera to take over the Earth and then enlarges Pachinko Head after a battle in the fairgrounds. Serpentera arrives immediately after the Thunder Megazord slays the monster and rips apart the formation with its lightning. With the Red Dragon Thunderzord completely down and exposed, Rocky summons Tor to counteract it. Barely dodging the Zord’s foot, it rolls and enters Tor in Warrior Mode’s armor but Serpentera kicks it over and back into Shuttle Mode. Although it spends about half a minute grinding Tor into the ground, the attempt somehow drains over half of Serpentera's power and Zedd and Goldar are forced to retreat back to the Moon once again.

When the Power Rangers are going on Harvey Garvey's TV show to promote education, Lord Zedd sees it as a chance to get rid of them once and for all, or at least ruin their public image. As such, he sends down Goldar and an army of Putties to capture them so that he can create evil twins to spread bad messages and smear their reputations. However, when this fails, he has to abandon this plan in favor of creating the Showbiz Monster partway through the episode's filming and enlarges him but even that completely fails.

The Power Rangers go on a scavenger hunt and Lord Zedd sees it as a chance to get rid of them forever by sending them to the Lost Universe from which there is no return and leave the Earth completely open to being conquered. As such, as he opens the dimensional gateway to this universe, he sends down Goldar and the Putties to take the scavenger hunt items for him to make a monster and accomplish this. After three Putties make off with the bag, Goldar informs Zedd that they have hidden a toy cannon in the middle of the park as requested. Using the toy, Zedd creates Cannontop but the monster’s bad aim inevitably prevents him from accomplishing his only objective. As such, when he is hit by the Power Blaster but is unfazed, Zedd makes Cannontop grow but the Mega Tigerzord makes short work of him anyway even though Zedd manages to open the Lost Dimension’s gateway. Enraged, Zedd berates Goldar and erupts at Squatt and Baboo for speaking up, before giving Goldar another chance and swearing that this is not the end, even after this defeat.

Lord Zedd apparently picks up on a massive energy reading and goes after it in Serpentera, finding it to be a UFO piloted by a Bookala from the planet of the same name. This is because Zedd realizes that the gem powering the ship (a Lightning Diamond) can provide Serpentera with infinite power and thus he can easily conquer or destroy the Earth. Serpentera shoots down the vessel but the Rangers find it and initiate repairs so Zedd creates Weldo from a welding machine in Billy’s garage to steal the Lightning Diamond for him but he is easily slain. Frustrated, and somehow not seeing the fake Bookala doll, Zedd sends down Goldar and the Putties who manage to steal the Lightning Diamond. Zedd is his usual impatient self by strumming his fingers but Goldar appears with the Lightning Diamond to his shock whilst Goldar inserts the Lightning Diamond into the Power Grid. As they enter Earth’s atmosphere however, Bookala makes his escape attempt and Lord Zedd orders Goldar to fire on it but Serpentera is crippled by something. Zedd realizes too late that they have been tricked by the Rangers when Goldar takes the Lightning Diamond (which is in fact a fake designed to trick the villains) out of Serpentera's power grid and it fries into nothing. Shortly after. Bookala makes his mad dash for escape and Zedd orders Goldar to fire at the ship. However, this only succeeds in further damaging Serpentera to the point of it now not even being able to make the most barebones attempt at attacking Earth. Furious over his lost chance to steal the diamond, Zedd turns the fake Bookala into an evil version of the original to trick them into a trap. When this fails because he very dumbly creates the monster right in front of them Zedd enlarges his monster but the Zord fight fails and he and Goldar have to retreat back to the Moon Palace.

Rocky is acting as a volunteer lifeguard at Angel Grove Lake and is trying to motivate some children by claiming that he has never seen a monster in the lake. Inspired, Lord Zedd speaks to Goldar and decides to bring forth an army of fish monsters to destroy the Power Rangers through sheer numbers and prove Rocky wrong. After Bulk and Skull cause a false shark attack, Goldar informs Zedd that three of the Power Rangers have gone scuba diving and are thus unavailable but his master goes ahead anyway. Lord Zedd first resurrects the Slippery Shark right in front of Rocky, Billy and Aisha as they stand guard over the lake. Trying to follow that up, Zedd recreates Commander Crayfish, the Goo Fish and Pirantishead and then later on the Tube Monster who he then enlarges to destroy the city but they are all soon wiped out. Afterwards, Zedd asks Goldar what's for dinner and Goldar answers fish and chips much to his rage.

### Unholy Matrimony

Lord Zedd has to enter his thousand-year sleep to recharge his powers and leaves Goldar in charge of the Moon Palace in the meantime although no attacks shall be launched in his absence. However, Rita returns to the Moon Palace and has Finster create a love potion which she uses to brainwash Zedd into falling for her.

Rita eventually makes Zedd wake up using a feather and he immediately begins flirting with her and being overly goofy. Apparently hearing the loud flirting, Goldar appears and immediately orders the Putties to seize her but Lord Zedd stops him and declares his intent to marry Rita much to her utter horror. Rita and Zedd later hold a toast of dry ice to their wedding but the Power Rangers then escape the Specter Theater so Zedd drops everything and enlarges the Peckster and the Rhinoblaster after Rita comes up with the idea. The enlarged monsters easily defeat the Thunderzords and Alpha sends them back to the Specter Theater. With the Power Rangers recontained and both the Peckster and the Rhinoblaster standing guard, Lord Zedd begins his wedding ceremony with his monsters as guests and witnesses.

Goldar confronts Lord Zedd and asks if he is genuine about his feelings but his master brushes him off dismissively. A few moments later, Goldar and Finster approach Zedd with a positive status report but, once Zedd asks Goldar to have the musicians play, Goldar reveals that he forgot to hire so (although this was clearly an attempt to sabotage the wedding). Unfortunately for Goldar, Zedd improvises by making the Snizzard his piano player and the wedding goes ahead anyway. Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa then finally step up to the altar with Finster acting as the presiding priest. When Finster asks if anyone objects to the wedding, Goldar pipes up but Rita shut up with a smack from her wedding bouquet and thus finally marries Zedd much to Goldar’s anger and thus finally marries Zedd much to Goldar’s anger. During the afterparty, Rita and Zedd dance whilst flirting with each other.

Whilst the Power Rangers beat around the Peckster and the Rhinoblaster, Rita and Zedd discuss their wedding gifts for each other. Lord Zedd gets the trapped Power Rangers to do with what she wishes and Rita wants to be there when he destroys them which he happily accepts. They then decide to board Serpentera and go to destroy the Power Rangers themselves because there’s no kill like massive overkill. Leaving via the Season 1 balcony, they bid goodbye to their guests and claim that they will return as rulers of the Earth. Before they leave however, Rita tosses the bouquet which is caught in the Soccadillo’s mouth much to his joy. Inside Serpentera, Rita sits back on Lord Zedd’s command chair whilst Zedd pilots the Zord towards Earth. Goldar reports this to his master that the Power Rangers have outsmarted the immensely dense Peckster and the Rhinoblaster and have escaped. Zedd orders him to send the entire monster army to Earth and attack which he does at which point Zedd enlarges all of them. However, they are all wiped out and Rita and Zedd withdraw to the Moon Palace in disgrace.

### Rita and Zedd's plans

With the Power Rangers contemplating what time period that they would like to be born into, Lord Zedd wishes for a world without the Power Rangers and that he can just send all of them back in time. Goldar points out that the Ghost of Darkness can summon the Wizard of Deception but Zedd reminds him that he is a creation of Rita’s and she is not on good terms with him, for some reason. When Goldar points out that he can just demand Rita obey him, Zedd reminds him that Rita is far too bullheaded to just roll over and obey them. Zedd then sends Goldar with his honest regards to try and get her to commit to this plan which Goldar reluctantly does. Before he can leave though, Zedd tells his general to tell Rita not to fail him and questions why he married her which delights Goldar but has to backpedal on his statement when Zedd confronts him about it. Goldar’s unseen method of convincing succeeds and Rita summons the Wizard of Deception via her creation in a plan to banish the Power Rangers to the past and kill Tommy with an evil clone. Later, when the Wizard of Deception ambushes Tommy. Zedd sees this, and has Goldar send down the Putty Patrol to aid him in knocking out the White Ranger. This succeeds and Tommy is put into a coma whilst the Wizard creates Tom Oliver. After the Power Rangers split up for no reason, Zedd checks in on his minion and learns of the success in the plan so far and takes joy in this. However, he warns the Wizard of Deception that the Power Rangers always return but the Wizard tells him that this is unlikely since he plans to send them “very far away indeed.” Delighted, Zedd gloats to Goldar about how his and Rita’s combined power has improved their circumstances which Goldar decides to outright ignore. Even though the villains have a strong advantage, the Wizard of Deception is inevitably killed and this plan fails miserably after Tommy steals his wand and uses it to rescue the Power Rangers.

On the week of Angel Grove High's school president elections, Rita decides to take advantage of this for her own plans but Lord Zedd turned out to be sexist and claim her to be useless as a villain due to her gender before leaving to plan. When Goldar reports that she has created her own plan to exploit the elections, Zedd shrugs him off but tells him to spy on his wife before leaving to plan. Once her White Tigerzord plot fails, Zedd gloats and flexes much to her frustration.

Lord Zedd is not involved with Rita's plot revolving around the Grumble the Magic Elf storybook plot since he is asleep.

When Rita's brother Rito Revolto arrives on the moon (even with Tengas and a Vampirus as very late wedding gifts) Lord Zedd is disgusted by the skeleton's stupidity, and bellows with rage every time Rito calls him "Ed."

Rita's love potion is eventually removed from Zedd thanks to Goldar after discovering Rita's original plot with "help" from Finster. To everyone's surprise, however, Zedd has grown to truly love Rita on his own and thus the love potion is now redundant.

After the Tenga Warriors kidnap Kimberly after the efforts from the brainwashed Katherine Hillard, Zedd has her held hostage to force the Rangers to use the Shogun Zords in his service, Lord Zedd battles Tommy personally to keep him from saving Kimberly from an alternate dimension. Though Zedd easily gains the upper hand against the White Ranger, mocking him relentlessly in the process, Tommy uses Saba to shatter Zedd's Z-Staff which forces him to retreat. Kat eventually rescues Kimberly and becomes the new Pink Ranger when she goes to Paris.

When Master Vile arrives on the moon, Lord Zedd is pushed to the side as Vile takes over in his search for the Zeo Crystal. He expresses disdain for his father-in-law who constantly puts him down.

Once Vile leaves after his army was defeated by the Aquitian Rangers, Zedd is ecstatic as the "old coot" is gone and he resumes his attacks on Earth. The Rangers have since been turned to children due to Vile's Orb of Doom and all that stand in Zedd's way are the Aquitian Rangers.

Goldar and the Tenga Warriors stop Billy from using a device to restore his and the Rangers' ages. Taking the Ninja Power Coins that have been used to power the device, Goldar holds them aloft which allows Rita and Zedd to vaporize them.

Rita and Zedd assign Goldar and Rito the mission of planting a bomb under and inside of the Command Center after Alpha 5 defused one outside it by order of Master Vile.

While they attempt to set things right, Rita and Zedd plot their boldest move yet: they will destroy the Command Center and steal the powerful Zeo Crystal for themselves. The plan is ultimately a failure; Goldar and Rito's implosion device does go off but the Rangers, Zordon and Alpha 5 escape to a fortified Power Chamber underneath the wreckage. The Zeo Crystal turns up in the rubble as Goldar and Rito lost it during their getaway.

### Zeo

Despite the setbacks, Rita and Zedd celebrate their most significant victory over Zordon's forces by throwing a massive party in the throne room. Their good feelings, however, do not last as the Machine Empire, longtime rivals of both Rita and Zedd, stage a coup and force Rita and Zedd to flee the moon in Serpentera.

Rita and Zedd eventually return and exact revenge after the Machine Empire becomes a laughing stock due to their multiple defeats by the Zeo Rangers.

Rita and Zedd later have Finster build a missile to annihilate the Machine Empire after King Mondo's defeat, but it gains sentience as Louie Kaboom, who breaks free of their control and assumes command himself.

With the help of a bomb disguised as a gift, the ruling family of the Machine Empire is temporarily destroyed and Rita and Zedd once again ruled the moon for themselves. Rather than immediately resuming attacks however, Rita and Zedd opt to go on holiday and return to take their revenge at a later date.

### Turbo

Ultimately, Rita and Zedd opt not to resume their struggle with the Power Rangers and enter retirement in an unknown location. Zedd is asleep when Divatox calls Rita for advice to deal with the Power Rangers and his snoring it used to emphasize her point.

### In Space

Rita and Zedd join their comrades in the United Alliance of Evil under Dark Specter to mount a final assault on the forces of good throughout the galaxy. At a conference on the Cimmerian Planet, After discovering that Divatox has destroyed the Power Chamber and seemingly killed the Turbo Rangers. Rita turns to Zedd to confirm if this was true; to her horror, he explains that it is "kind of the talk of the universe now." Shortly after, once Goldar realizes that a mysterious Ranger has infiltrated the conference, Zedd tries to attack Andros with his staff but the Spiral Saber blocks it and Andros escapes on his Galaxy Glider.

Rita and Zedd attack a planet in the Vica Galaxy and capture Trey of Triforia, the former Gold Zeo Ranger. Before victory can be achieved, Zordon accomplishes his final, lasting victory over Rita and Zedd when he sacrifices his life in order to let his good energy wash over the universe and purify it of evil. Seeing the wave of good energy approaching, Rita screams for Zedd not to let it get her, but the wave finally washes over them. It destroys most of their army, but leaves her and Zedd alive as humans. Now purified, Rita expresses happiness that she and Zedd have been purified together and, at his request, engages in a dance whilst Trey looks on in confusion.

### Dino Thunder

Lord Zedd is featured in a chronicle of Power Ranger history compiled by Tommy shortly after he forms the Dino Rangers six years later found by the nascent Ranger team in the Dino Lab after Mesogog captures Tommy.

### Operation Overdrive

Before his purification, Zedd and Rita both had a son, Thrax, who was sealed away sometime before "Countdown" by the Sentinel Knight. During his rise to power nine years later, during the events of Operation Overdrive, Thrax mentions that he seeks to rebuild his parents' legacy, disgusted by the fact that they were "lost to goodness".

### Beast Morphers

Twenty four years after his purification, Lord Zedd's staff is one of the many villain relics in Ryjack's collection that are acquired by Evox and his minions. Evox plans to revive and gather the most notorious villains in the universe with Ryjack's reanimizer after reviving Sledge's Crew and Snide. Lord Zedd was one of the candidates to be revived (another being Astronema, Koragg, The Knight Wolf and Psycho Red), but were debunked, due to backfired reasons, until Evox decide to revive Goldar instead. Zedd was Scrozzle's choice until Robo-Roxy reminds everyone of what Zedd and Rita did to King Mondo and his family in the day after Jason return the Gold Zeo powers back to Trey of Triforia, out of fear that Zedd would secretly plan to betray Evox as well once revived. Horrified, Scrozzle rests Zedd's staff, Robo-Roxy is very disappointed, and Sledge despises him and not wanting him on his team. Instead, Goldar was resurrected into Goldar Maximus.

### Dino Fury

Lord Zedd is resurrected by Reaghoul but is wearing one of Ryjack’s Compliance Collers so is sent to infiltrate Area 62 to steal the entire Sporix Beast collection in their possession for an unknown purpose. Despite Lord Zedd last being seen purified, it is stated that Reaghoul has resurrected his original evil self from pre-The Wedding. only to be confronted by Void Knight. Slyther and Mucus who wishes to keep Void Knight’s lover Santaura alive. Zedd, having been wearing a cloak, discards it in favor of a dramatic reveal and then attacks them in a fit of rage. After intimidating Mucus into backing off, Zedd picks up Void Knight’s own saber and prepares to finish him off for his defiance only to be stopped by Reaghoul since he desires an alliance instead. Zedd along with other two monsters managed to capture four of the Dino Fury Rangers after Reaghoul and Void Knight make a deal to get more Sporix. When Ollie arrives to help, Zedd tries to attack him, but he teleports before he can get his hands on him, his anger tempered by Reaghoul when he tried to take his frustration out on the other Rangers.

The Blue Ranger later returns to fight and manages to destroy Zedd's compliance collar with his Dino Dagger which makes the former Emperor regain consciousness and angrily attack Reaghoul until he teleports away again with Mucus. Zedd then brutally fights the other two monsters that are left along with the Dino Fury Rangers who have been freed from their handcuffs, managing to hold his own even with their forces combined. Realizing that he doesn't have his staff, Zedd teleported away claiming that he will return someday and burn planet Earth to a cinder.

Lord Zedd's presence is enough of a threat for the Green Morphin Master to free the Dino Fury Gold Ranger from his stasis in the ocean.

### Comics

#### Past

Lord Zedd was once Zophram, the former Guardian of Eltar and Zartus' and Zordon's mentor who was corrupted by the power. After choosing this dark path, he changed his name and tried to get the Zeo Crystal, which deformed his skin into a more fleshy and zombie-like state. Zedd later conquered various planets across the universe before moving on to Zordon and Eltar.

Ten thousand years ago, Zedd (clothed in a cloak to disguise his deformed body) summoned the monkey monster Silverback and his brother Goldar to join Rita Repulsa and her ragtag member of space aliens to attack Earth. Silverback, already dissatisfied with Zedd because he was using his race (who he considered Zedd's elite warriors) being used for what is basically grunt work, decided to usurp Zedd and take power for himself. However, Zedd ripped off his cloak and mortally wounded Silverback with a massive energy blast and forced Goldar to kill his brother or meet the same fate. Once Goldar swore loyalty to him alone, Zedd sent him to Earth to join Rita.

#### Necessary Evil

After sending Dayne in an attempt to kill the Rangers, the Omega Rangers intervened by capturing Dayne which forced Zedd to implement his Plan B and turn his minions into his new Dark Rangers. However, before he could complete the process, the Omega Rangers stormed Rita's Moon Palace as a proactive move to deal with Zedd once and for all. Whilst his minions took on the Omega Rangers outside, Jason (as the Red Omega Ranger) managed to break into Zedd's throne room where he ordered some Putties to dispose of him. Once they were decimated however, Zedd regarded the mythical Omega Rangers and their proactive attacks on evil before deciding to take them on personally.

Despite putting him up a good fight, Lord Zedd easily defeated Jason and tried to feed him to a massive shark monster but Kiya obliterated it with her Omega Trident and Zedd was then surrounded by the entire team of Omega Rangers. Jason demanded his surrender so, with his minions defeated and few choices left, Zedd enlarged himself into a giant and gloated over how they were trying to defeat him in his own environment but was immediately defeated when Jason fought dirty by using his Red Omega Zord to crush Zedd underfoot after he refused to surrender which knocked him out. Now unconscious, Zedd was captured by the Omega Rangers (though Goldar managed to take his Z Staff) and placed Zedd in a gigantic containment dumpster which was itself placed in a massive copper chamber in Safehaven prison.

Although Lord Zedd was captured, Jason and Zordon had a severe conversation with each other following his defeat. Jason was just glad that one of the greatest evils on the universe was going to jail for good, but Zordon was worried that Zedd was manageable and his defeat would just cause other, more powerful villains to take over instead.

Lord Zedd later broke loose on his own when his minions found his dumpster and brought it back to the Moon. He berated his minions for being so inept (Goldar having acted as the leader of the group since Zedd was captured), but admitted that they did better than he thought. Rather than running away with their tails between their legs, they at least tried to destroy the Rangers which pleased him. He then returned to the Moon Palace.

After another failed Putty attack, Zedd had Finster create a special Putty that resembled Rita to act as the leader of his new Dark Rangers. As for the members of his new team, he chose his minions as their reward for their semi-competence in his absence at which point he successfully empowered with the Green Chaos Crystal.