We are pleased to welcome you back to our channel and to yet another wonderful film that we have for you. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will be the subject of today’s discussion, along with none other than Alpha 5 and what makes him the most humanlike robot ever.
Powerful Morphin In the first episode of Power Rangers, Alpha-5 made his appearance. The talking device was Zordon’s right hand as well as a vital ally for the Power Rangers in their conflict with the evil forces.
He was around for all three seasons of the first season, even offering advice and assistance to the Turbo teams and the Power Rangers Zeo. Apart from the fact that he uses cutting-edge technology to save the day and utters the phrase “Ay Yi Yi Yi Yi!” Under duress, there is a lot to learn about Alpha-5, one of the Power Rangers’ most trustworthy confidants.
Alpha 5 surprisingly displays a wide range of emotions for a robot, giving him a very human-like character. He worked primarily in the Command Center, only leaving three times, and largely always adhered to Zordon’s directives. But who is this Alpha 5 and what sets him apart from other people? Let us learn more about him in-depth.
Who is Alpha 5
We all know that Alpha 5 is a fictional character from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television series. He resides in the Power Rangers’ operational hub, the Command Center, with their leader Zordon. He is a robot. He is an artificial intelligence that is fully self-aware.
Alpha 5, a recurring supporting character in the series, is a Power Ranger. He is in charge of updating the Command Center and providing the Rangers’ operational communications requirements. He serves as their technician and also makes weapons for the Rangers to use against their foes. He has a golden spaceship-shaped head, and when he speaks, a visor lights up.
One of his visual cues is an inverted yellow stylised lightning bolt that resembles the Power Rangers’ lightning bolt symbol. He has it on his chest. The character is described as having an innocent, childlike disposition. He frequently behaves like a fictitious younger sibling when the Power Rangers truly want to spend time with him.
On the planet Edenoi, King Lexian built the fully sentient, multi-purpose robot known as Alpha thousands of years ago. He has many lovely memories of that world in his memory banks, but we never get to view them. As a result, we are unable to comprehend what his “early existence” there was like. An old acquaintance of Alpha’s from his time spent on Edenoi is Lerigot, the wizard of Liaria. However, how and when they first met have never been mentioned.
He takes Alpha 4’s place as Zordon’s second Alpha automaton (who is also speculated to have been constructed by the Edenite monarch). Later, after becoming his buddy and adoptive father, Zordon replaced his creator and “father,” King Lexian of Edenoi, by becoming his devoted assistant. Alpha does, however, add that the monarch brought them together and brought up the boy as if he were his own son. As a result, Alpha 5 contributed to Zordon’s creation of the Command Center and the original Power Rangers.
Prior to the release of Rita Repulsa, Alpha was in a shutdown state. On Zordon’s instructions, a new and robust Power Rangers squad was assembled with the help of Billy Cranston, Zack Taylor, Trini Kwan, Jason Scott, and Kimberly Hart.
From that point on, he served as the Power Rangers’ advisor, mechanic, tech guru, and an all-around buddy from the Power Rangers Turbo up to Mighty Morphin. Zordon and the Rangers both adored Alpha, who even served as Tommy’s only tutor during his time as a wicked Ranger while Zordon was away in another reality.
In the comic series, Alpha was wholly destroyed in the wreckage once the Command Center was crushed, with just his head remaining. Rita talked with Alpha as she was seated on her royal throne, telling him that serving her would have been preferable to serving the ancient sage out of blind loyalty. His visor eyes started to light, indicating that he was nonetheless operational, and she cruelly ordered that his body be boiled down and made into a bedside lamp.
Rita and Finster then reprogram him, but he is eventually saved by the Rangers and restored to perfect condition, proving that Rita never actually carried out her promise to boil down Alpha’s body. He later exchanged many messages with the Rangers. Later, he was the Pterodactyl Dinozord’s pilot.
However, the Rangers seldom spent meaningful time with Alpha due to their responsibilities as the guardians of Angel Grove, which grieved him in the tv show. Only after being turned malevolent by Finster’s charisma-altering disc, when his inner hatred devoured his central processor, did his sorrow and desire for Zordon and the Rangers’ love comes to the fore. Alpha is never allowed to leave the Power Chamber/ Command Center and is always left there alone. This sparks his eventual inclination towards wickedness.
Rita had Finster cast a love spell on him to make him fall deeply in love with her as she came back to the Moon Palace soon after being exiled by Lord Zedd at the very beginning of Season 2. Zedd had Finster rebuild his greatest monsters to murder the Power Rangers as just a wedding present when they decided to create a gift. Alpha was left in command when Zordon temporarily went into slumber. Alpha walked outside the Power Chamber to gather flowers, but Putties emerged and seized him before Finster slipped a disc through his back, turning him evil.
Zordon recognized his switch when he came inside and attempted to stop him. Still, Alpha changed his appearance to make him appear sillier before silencing him as well as teleporting all of the Power Rangers— who were in Australia— to the Specter Theater, where their weapons would not be available. They would not be able to teleport out. Later, after they had departed, the Rhinoblaster and the Peckster had vanquished the Power Rangers in their Zords, while Zordon tried to talk to Alpha once more, but he terminated the line and transferred them back to the Spectre Theater.
Fortunately, the Power Rangers managed to fool the two monsters, later on, escape, and return to the Command Center, where Alpha made an effort to act composed. Billy, however, saw the infected disc and took it out, which got rid of the infection and put Alpha back on the right side of things. All of this happens in the Television series. While in the comic narrative, Rita explicitly alludes to some sort of history associated with Alpha after she says that he may have served her better than Zordon in a brief conversation.
While it’s possible that future episodes of the television series may address this, it’s also possible that it’s a reference to the time Finster and Rita turned Alpha wicked. He was totally devoted to her because the virus reprogrammed him.
Alpha 5 was substituted by Alpha 6, his “brother,” who Zordon had coded in the Command Center before he left when the chance to travel to the planet Eltar presented itself. When he and Zordon returned to see the experienced rangers pass on their talents in the episode called the “Passing the Torch,” it was his last appearance. Oddly, he was still in his older robot body rather than his newer, shinier one.
Since then, there have been no reports of Alpha 5. Amit Bhaumik, the author of Wild Force, had stated that he believes Alpha was destroyed during the conflict when Dark Specter attacked the planet Eltar. However, there is absolutely no official evidence of this. Some series fans think he survived but fled and went into hiding. Richard Horvitz could still perform Alpha’s voice, and both the cast and the audience still cherish and remember Alpha. Bhaumik implied that Alpha 5 was actually Alpha 7 but that it had been strengthened and given a database function.
In the Television series, Alpha 5 is shown in a history of the Power Rangers written by Tommy Oliver not long after he found the Dino Rangers, which the burgeoning Ranger team discovers in the Dino Lab. Tommy doesn’t specify Alpha’s present whereabouts, though.
This Alpha may have a star system named after him, but it is sadly destroyed by a gang of high-class alien criminals led by Gineka, Delapoo, and Chiaggo on the orders of an intergalactic armaments dealer named Broodwing. But this is not left unavenged, especially with the help of the B-Squad Rangers, particularly Bridge Carson.
Development of The Character
Alpha’s catchphrase was created during the production of the Power Rangers series by Richard Horvitz, who is credited as “Richard Wood.” In the episode “Forever Red” (the Power Rangers Wild Force), Horvitz also provided the voice of Alpha 5’s eventual replacement, Alpha 7.
For eighty-nine episodes in the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” series and the Alpha’s Magical Christmas holiday special, Romy J. Sharf technically portrayed Alpha 5. In the second and third seasons, Sandi Sellner depicted Alpha 5 for 45 episodes. For the remaining of Alpha 5’s performances in the series, Donene Kistler— who was also the show’s production assistant— took over. Later, Kistler would play Alpha 6, the replacement for Alpha 5 in the Power Rangers In Space and Power Rangers Turbo television series.
Significant Appearances in TV Series
Alpha 5 made his television debut in the pilot episode of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and supported the show’s main characters. Alpha 5 has periodically been engaged in direct encounters with hostile troops despite the fact that he is not a warrior. Rita dispatched the indoctrinated Green Ranger to the Command Center in “Green with Evil: Part 1”; he inserted a viral and malicious CD-ROM into Alpha’s internal workings, causing him to spasm violently.
In one of the episodes, Alpha 5 departed the Power Chamber on Zordon’s orders to find the “Singing Squash,” a mystical object that may be used to break a curse cast on Kimberly and Billy. He came upon Putty Patrol by Rita, but he was able to defeat them by using the magical squash and his internal defense. Alpha subsequently trapped the Green Ranger in a force field after Billy fixed his circuitry and eliminated the infection, but Rita freed him even before Alpha would expose his identity.
Alpha ran across Lord Zedd’s army three times in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers season two. When he went to save a young child who got lost in Angel Grove Park in The Wannabe Ranger, the Primator, a gorilla monster that could take on several forms, attacked him. He pretended to be Billy and tried to get Alpha to take him to the Power Chamber.
The Rangers had to disable Alpha’s self-destruct sequence since he had turned it on to defend the Command Center but was unable to stop it once the Primator fled. Later in this season, he left the Power Chamber to free the Rangers. They had been imprisoned within an image by the Photomare demon after being transformed into toddlers and having experienced regression.
Both Goldar and Photomare approached Alpha in his effort to take the picture, but he could freeze both bad guys using a gadget he had and escape. He was attacked by the Putties and the Finster when he went on a stroll outside the Power Chamber in “The Wedding” toward the end of this season.
Finster put a disc into Alpha’s circuits, just like the Green Ranger had, but this CD changed Alpha into a malicious, annoying brat who helped Zedd and Rita by enticing the Rangers into an abandoned theatre (which Finster continued to load with monsters). Alpha separated the Thunderzords and Zordon from the Rangers as well. When Zordon cries for him to cease irritating him, Alpha first changes Zordon’s appearance humorously before turning him off entirely. When Billy finally got the disc off Alpha, he was immediately back to normal.
In season 3, it was shown that King Lexian, the Masked Rider’s great-grandfather, had built Alpha on the planet Edenoi in the Andromeda constellation. Later, without a sick Kimberly, the Power Rangers join forces with the Masked Rider to battle Count Dregon and his army in a spinoff episode.
The Command Center was initially in danger until Alpha destroyed an implosion generator Rito and Goldar had placed there. However, the pair’s second effort, in which they managed to get into the Power Chamber’s basement and put Lord Zedd’s explosive device, was successful. The Center was eventually turned into ruins after the explosion when they later planted one of the explosive devices on Alpha 4’s torso. The inoperable remnants of Alpha 4, Alpha 5’s predecessor, were found.
As he is eventually found alive and well within the backup base, the Power Chamber, Alpha 5 is later proven to have weathered the occurrences of Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers. Alpha 5 continued to aid Billy while the Rangers (now known as the Power Rangers Zeo) fought the Machine Empire. Alpha had a disastrous outcome after brief contact with the Cogs on receiving a jolt of electricity from one of the weapons.
Alpha 5 accompanied Zordon when he headed for his native land of Eltar (in the “Shift Into Turbo”), upset that he was abandoning the Rangers behind. Later, in “Passing of the Torch”, which saw Tanya, Tommy, Kat, and Adam leave their Ranger positions, the two made a brief appearance again. The original body of Alpha 5 is displayed in this episode. His part in the Power Rangers franchise is overtaken by Alpha 6; hence this would be his final appearance in the franchise. In “The Robot Ranger,” Alpha 5 was last identified as the person who invented the robotic Turbo Rangers.
Interesting Facts About Alpha 5
The only two Alphas who followed the original on the show were Alpha-6 and Alpha-7, even though there were other Alphas who preceded him that viewers never met (thus the “5” designation). During Power Rangers Turbo, Alpha-6 replaces Alpha-5 and makes appearances throughout the seasons In Space and Lost Galaxy, acting as the Rangers’ helper on the Astro Megaship. Alpha-7 was portrayed by Richard Steven Horvitz, who had previously voiced Alpha-6 three times during the character’s appearances.
In addition to Alpha-5’s voice and mannerisms, Alpha-7 seemed to physically share traits with both his forebears and the original figure. Horvitz also contributed voice acting to different iterations of numerous franchises. He provided the voice of Mantamobile in Time Force and Smogger in Lightspeed Rescue. Later, Horvitz contributed vocals to shows like Invader Zim, The Angry Beavers, and others. In the “Power Rangers: Wild Force,” Alpha-7 makes a cameo, helping the Red Rangers in the “Forever Red” team-up episode.
Alpha-5 has a youthful charm despite being a Power Rangers advisor and thousands of years old. Being rather naïve, Alpha-5 frequently fails to recognize when indoctrinated Power Rangers visit the Command Center. Additionally, he has a souvenir that many children will remember: a teddy bear.
Numerous episodes feature Alpha-5 walking the Command Center with the teddy bear. The teddy bear makes its first appearance later when Rita Repulsa is freed from her space trash jail in the series’ opening episode, while it is unknown who gave it to him or how long he has owned it.
Tommy (played by Jason David Frank) visits the Power Chamber in the wee hours in the episode “Inner Spirit” in Power Rangers Zeo after having a reoccurring dream that has been causing him to lose focus. Not only does he wind down for the evening, but he also sleeps with his teddy bear! Alpha-5, wearing a sleeping cap and emerging from what is probably his bedroom, scans the area for the visitor while holding his teddy bear.
Alpha trips over and sobs in agony as he gets wrapped in paper as a result of a computer reading. Robots that can withstand damage and keep moving are common in science fiction novels. Since they are machines and therefore do not experience pain, they are more effective. Alpha-5, in contrast, has been designed to feel pain, which makes him more human. The Rangers coordinate a city-wide campaign to sweep up pollution in the first season’s episode, “Clean-Up Club,” which is the very first-time viewers witness this.
Although he may have had a pre-programmed reaction to falling over on that occasion, he has responded to unpleasant events in other incidents. In the episodes “Island of Illusion” and “Ninja Quest,” he gets electrocuted, which also makes him weep. He may not feel pain exactly the same way that a person does, but he is built to comprehend it and take lessons from it.
Zordon was a “warrior for good” who was frequently found engaged in combat with Rita and her goons 10,000 years before the occurrences of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series. Alpha-4 collaborated with Zordon prior to Alpha-5, although the latter robot has been with him ever since their confrontation with Rita Repulsa left him trapped in a tube. Lord Zedd dispatched Rita to invade Earth, and when Zordon learned about the power coins, he got in Rita’s way. Zordon imprisoned Rita in space while she utilized magic to trap him in a time warp after two thousand years of conflict.
Considering that Zordon exists beyond time, it is most likely Alpha-5 who assisted in devising a strategy to keep him contained in the massive plastic tube in the Power Chamber. Following the fight with Rita, Alpha constructed and developed the Command Center under Zordon’s guidance and utilized the power coins to make the weaponry that the Power Rangers could eventually wield.
It’s possible that Alpha was dispatched to deploy those weapons in position, similar to the Megaship that was utilized in Power Rangers in Space since Zordon braced for the impending confrontation with Rita by dispersing weaponry around the galaxy as well.
Even though Alpha-5 refers to himself as a robot, it may be a misnomer as bots are constrained by the programming they have been given. Instead, Alpha-5 is constantly changing and picking up new skills from individuals around him. Alpha-5 isn’t entirely dependent on his programming, but he can be reprogrammed, as seen by the numerous episodes where a villain installs malware within him to turn him evil.
He used the slang of the teens who were selected to be the Power Rangers initially in the show, calling them “dudes” and “dudettes,” but finally abandoning it and calling them by name or collectively as “Rangers.” Additionally, he has repeatedly been seen seeking to learn new skills via practice rather than through programming, like a human being would. He learned some dancing skills from Black Ranger Zack, while the other Rangers showed him some self-defense techniques.
Alpha seldom left the Command Center due to the way he looked. It is occasionally shown that he departs the Power Chamber to assist in saving the day, but it is also made clear during the course of the series that he likes a good party. A robotic person wandering the streets of Angel Grove attracts attention just as much as the monsters that the series’ main antagonists send to attack the town. Alpha ends up being quite alone, having only the Power Rangers and Zordon as companions.
Alpha-5 decided to join the Rangers at a masked ball at the Youth Center in “Life’s A Masquerade,” where he got to connect with the locals and even took home the costume contest victory! He also decked the Power Chamber with sparkling lights and handed a Santa hat to Zordon to wear in another holiday-themed episode wherein he genuinely gave kids presents and sang Christmas carols. He could, however, exit the Command Center for Halloween because people in Angel Grove would just perceive him as a person wearing a creative costume.
It must have been rather alone to live in the Power Chamber with Zordon. Alpha-5 must have maintained touch with a handful of his acquaintances on other worlds. However, it’s doubtful that he saw them frequently, considering how much time he spent preparing for battles against the evil forces or assisting the Power Rangers on various missions. The Rangers were the only group of people Alpha-5 interacted with, and given that they were too busy going about rescuing the world to do anything else except go about their daily lives without him, it’s understandable that he wished he could have spent more time with them.
In reality, Rita’s plan to get married to Lord Zedd and the software that turned Alpha evil during that time seemed to motivate his terrible deeds. The program made it a point to incite Alpha’s resentment at the Rangers for shunning and abandoning him. He attempted to eliminate Zordon and take control of the Command Center while the malware was being deployed. The Power Rangers eventually found and destroyed the dangerous software, but Alpha’s desire to interact with people more is barely mentioned.
Lerigot was among Alpha-5’s closest pals, but we don’t get to see him all that often in the show. Since Alpha seems to be from Edenoi, and Lerigot belongs to Liaria, we don’t know how or when the two met, but we realize that they have been friends since Alpha’s time on Edenoi. Lerigot initially appears in the Power Rangers: Turbo movie when it is revealed that Divatox intends to utilize him as a wizard of great power for her own evil ends. In the movie, she abducts his wife and kids and offers to trade them to the Power Rangers in return for Lerigot.
He reappeared for segments of Power Rangers: Turbo, too, when the Power Rangers required a mystical boost to liberate Zordon after the movie, which is really the sole big screen endeavor deemed as an element of the TV series canon. Zordon was trapped in a time warp, but Lerigot was able to free him so that he could escape to Eltar. Lerigot’s primary power is the opening of portals, so it’s a little odd that Zordon hadn’t had Alpha-5’s friend assist him before. However, in the Power Rangers universe, many personalities appear and then vanish, just like Lerigot, who never returns to Earth post assisting Zordon in escape.
The Power Rangers draw their strength from the morphing grid, which also supplies the energy needed to fuel their zords and forge weapons. This energy also enables the Rangers to endure blows from demons that would crush an average person. But it’s not only the Rangers that have access to it. Alpha employs the morphing grid to generate enhancements for the heroes on several occasions, but he also utilizes it for more commonplace tasks.
He is seen appearing out of thin air producing presents, garments, and even flowers. In fact, when he invites kids to celebrate Christmas with him in the holiday special straight-to-video Alpha’s Magical Christmas, he gives them all presents made from the morphing grid. This may appear to go against the notion of exploiting the Power Rangers’ powers for one’s own benefit, which Zordon warns against right in the initial episodes of the show, but because Alpha isn’t a Ranger in the traditional sense, perhaps he is exempt?
Kids watching the program may find Alpha-5’s shuffle and little shimmy endearing, but the performers in the costume were unable to move about very effectively, which is why Alpha’s range of motion is so constrained.
Similar in style to the classic C-3PO outfit from Star Wars, but perhaps not nearly as recognizable for sci-fi aficionados, Alpha-5’s costume was constructed of several pieces that had to be put together around the actor. The actors who played Alpha over the years could not sit down while donning the outfit. A portion of the outfit would need to be taken off if a scene called for Alpha to be sitting in order to position the actor. It’s understandable why the robot needs to flap his arms around and stand before a console for so many of Alpha’s sequences.
Viewing the series makes it clear that Alpha-6 can walk a little bit more readily than Alpha-5. It must have made the Alpha-5 actors envious! Although the predecessor did have a little more mobility in the legs of the garment, the concept was continued over to the suit for Alpha-6 as well.
As technology advanced during the series, Alpha-5’s appearance somewhat changed. He had a significantly different head shape, brighter body, and more agile fingers in the “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” film than he had in the television series. However, BOOM! Studios chose to blend several design aspects to offer Alpha-5 a distinctive appearance for the comics when they produced the comic book franchise during the duration of the classic television series.
While the somewhat longer legs are a product of his makeover in season 3 and into the Power Rangers Zeo arc, the substantial shoulder plates of the design date back to season 1 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. His skull and chest are described in depth in Power Rangers: Turbo. Alpha’s head resembled a dome during the Turbo season rather than a flying saucer. His chest also lost some of its boxiness. While Alpha’s stylized lightning flash in the center of his chest was removed in the Turbo season and replaced with what appeared to be a downward-pointing arrow, the bolt of the lightning design similar to the Power Rangers logo was retained in the comics.
The Command Center is destroyed in the comic book series of 2016 when Alpha-5, the Rangers, Zordon, and a captive Scorpina are all inside, thanks to Rita’s actions and the assistance of Scorpina, who only made brief appearances on the show. While Zordon has been preparing the Power Rangers for various horrible scenarios in a “pocket realm,” where they finally manage to escape the advancing monsters, Alpha-5 isn’t that fortunate. The sorceress is quite imaginative.
Alpha’s body is repeatedly seen among the rubble of the Power Chamber, and it appears that the Ranger’s mechanical right hand is doomed (since, you know, he’s in bits). Rita sets up a new throne room where Zordon would sit and decides she likes how his domed head looks and wants to have it converted into a lamp. Rita definitely enjoys her trophies, despite the fact that we often don’t see her in this form on the show.
The setting for the 2017 film has changed. The television franchise has never used computer-generated imagery to depict the robotic cameos of the Power Rangers during the whole duration of the franchise— whether it is Alpha-5 or another subsequent character who functions similarly. In order to accentuate extraterrestrial characteristics or teleportation during battle sequences throughout the program, CGI has been used with varying degrees of success. Most of the characters have been played by people dressed in suits rather than being created digitally, perhaps due to financial constraints.
Alpha-5 has also transformed, and Zordon is no longer merely a floating head stuck in a time warp or tube; he is now a component of the spacecraft he inhabits. An actor doesn’t need to put on an uncomfortable outfit. Instead, this Alpha-5, played by Bill Hader, possesses a more natural appearance.
Instead of being just a collection of plastic and metal components, he has longer limbs, some muscle definition, and blinking eyes. He is entirely created using computer graphics. Concept design for the character initially drew mixed reactions, but the new Alpha-5 blends nicely into the Power Rangers’ new universe, where their armor and zords appear to be a little more anchored in reality.
The Power Rangers film starts with Zordon, the final member of his squad still living on Earth, attempting to keep Rita at bay and save the magic coins for a future generation. Of course, Zordon fighting Rita isn’t the entire narrative. She murders the rest of the Power Rangers who were there with him, and there’s a reason he doesn’t move the battle to another planet; this reason is explained in a tie-in that was posted on the formal movie website.
Other Appearances of Alpha 5
In “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie,” Peta-Maree Rixon played Alpha 5 in the costume. The Alpha 5 outfit that Rixon wore was specially created for the movie, just like the other character attires in the film.
Alpha’s form changes and becomes more streamlined in “Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie.” His armor seemed to be shinier, and his lightning strike had changed to a straight downward arrow.
Alpha 5 is a Fictional character played by Bill Hader in the 2017 remake movie. Hader provided the character’s voiceover lines while acting out Alpha 5’s actions in a motion-capture costume. Lionsgate released a “chatbot” application to advertise the movie, which includes a wholly unique, impromptu conversation with Alpha 5.
The Alpha 5 in the movie has a bio-mechanical appearance and employs darker shades of red and blue colors than the original design, with a pair of eye filaments hanging from the head in place of a visor. Alpha 5 is Zordon’s artificial assistant, the same as in the original TV series. However, he has a less friendly connection with the teens and has doubts about their suitability as the latest Power Rangers.
Some media outlets called Alpha 5’s dramatically changed design from the first version “strange,” “horrifying,” or “nightmarish,” while others gave it mixed reviews.
Both the Los Angeles Times and the International Business Times reported on the vehement opposition of the series’ followers to the disclosure of Alpha 5’s makeover.
Most journalists agreed that casting Hader for the role of Alpha 5 was a good choice. Player One’s Phillip Martinez disagreed, claiming that the revamp complemented the Power Rangers version of the movie’s visual style despite its startling aesthetics. The casting, in the opinion of Jacob Stolworthy of “The Independent,” was “strange.”
GQ Magazine’s Joshua Rivera raised his reservations about the film’s creative direction and questioned if Hader would have adopted Alpha 5’s “traditional high-pitched fretting,” Alpha 6’s “oddly nasal Long Island trends,” or the “latest Stefon joint” approach to the part. “Hader’s dialed-down take” on the role “takes into account the movie’s calibrated refinement of the original,” Andy Webster said in a review of the 2017 movie for The New York Times.
The star of Alpha’s Magical Christmas, a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Season 2 direct-to-video musical Christmas special, is Alpha 5. While Alpha stays for Christmas with Zordon at the Command Center, the Rangers are gone helping Santa Claus prepare for the holidays at the North Pole. Even if Zordon is there, Alpha still feels sad because of his isolation. After cheering Alpha up by giving him a Christmas tree, Zordon teleports some kids to the Command Center so they may perform Christmas carols along with Alpha. Together, they sing songs like “Jingle Bells,” “Here We Come A-Caroling,” “Good King Wenceslas,” and “Silent Night.”
Tommy, Kimberly, and Billy travel to the Power Chamber in their ranger outfits after the kids depart via the “magical portal,” and the ensemble performs “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” to round off the show.
Boom! Studios’ comic book series, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, features Alpha 5 on a regular basis. It is a contemporary parallel retelling of the same-named TV series and is unrelated to any previous works or the 2017 movie reboot.
The Most Humanlike Robot Of All Time
Alpha 5 is an artificial intellect; thus, it cannot get old or pass away. Alpha doesn’t have a lot of offensive power, but in “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Live” and “Power Ranger Punks,” he has the ability to shock foes with white energy electrical charges. However, this merely temporarily stuns or shocks foes, dealing them minimal damage.
Alpha, according to Power Ranger Punks, is skilled at making tinctures and potions (his abilities rival those of Baboo and Rita), as seen by the creation of the anti-punk remedy from the “Singing Squash.” His on-screen counterpart made an effort to combat Ivan Ooze in a more conventional way but was unsuccessful. Additionally, he was the only designer of the first Command Center and later the Power Chamber.