He's not even one of the memorable Power Rangers. He was on, like, one season from the early 2000s, and then briefly again a couple years back.

When Amy Jo Johnson kills someone, then maybe we can talk.

Some guy who had a small non-speaking role on that show back in the day is on death row in California for a double murder.

Don't be too harsh on him Homer, he may have been on one of the latter incarnations of the show, but he was still a red ranger. That's nothing to be scoffed at.

Rita Repulsa would have fucked this lamer to Angel High and back.

Nuts to that. Red was lame! The hierarchy of coolness, in descending order, went Pink, White, Yellow, Green, Blue, Black, Red.

Oddeye - fucked, or fucked?

... of course, all Power Rangers were just lame ripoffs of the infinitely superior Sailor Moon franchise, so the hierarchy of coolness is necessarily graded on a generous curve. ("White Ranger Cool" is only equivalent to about "Sailor Uranus Cool", or possibly, to use a different universe example, "Kento of Hardrock Cool")

Furthermore, as per Benoit Rules, this incident means that whatever cool points the Red Ranger has are now forfeit, his character retired permanently, and locked away in the vault.

Yeah.. the "leader" of the group is usually the least coolest one: Teen Titans has Robin, X-Men has Cyclops, etc. there are a few exceptions; Optimus Prime was always the coolest of the Autobots, and Twilight Sparkle isn't necessarily a lame leader, but usually we root for the Wolverines and Rainbow Dashes and Green/White Rangers.

Was it green or white that started out as a morally-ambiguous possibly-bad guy? (I'm too lazy to check Wikipedia.)

Yeah. He was the new kid at school and kind of a jerk, much like Wolverine. He was sort of the AC Slater to the Red Ranger's Zach Morris. Mostly he wanted to get into the Pink Ranger's pants, who was the Kelly Kapowski of the group. But then he was hypnotized by Rita Repulsa or something and went to the dark side because he was promised more power than the other rangers. But the spell was broken and he was allowed into the Power Rangers. But as long as he was the green ranger, he could still be manipulated by Rita so he ended up leaving. But then he came back as the White Ranger who couldn't be controlled or manipulated by the bad guys.

God, that was without wikipedia. :(

to be fair Zest, Tommy really wasn't a Wolverine so much as Cyclops that could hold his own and showed he didn't need that Wolverine angst to be center stage ( Basically Grant Morrisons crack at Cyclops and on onwards ). He held the same type of appeal but in a very different way when you look at the characters. The Original Red Ranger held a very Leonardo like appeal without a Raphael in the group and the Green/White Ranger just had this Raphael/Leonardo vibe that I think helped his character stay as I guess "relevant" as it has against other Rangers (original american incarnation excluded as they basically get a free pass lets be honest).

So would this qualify as a... CHIMP out?

I'm surprised no one has gone off about the video using the samurai sentai costume in the preload, since he was from a different series.

Think his murderous rage is related to how lame the wildforce costumes look?

I think he woke up one day and thought "Oh god, not only was I a Power Ranger but I was the shittest Red Ranger of all time" and then stabbed his room-mate to death.

I'm not sure what to make of their costumes. Why do they all have that gold sash? Are they the mayor? But how? How can EACH of them be the mayor?

they are obviously all royalty, duh

Mayors of different cities. duh!

Why weren't they Power Rangers Mayor Force, then? Why wasn't their robot called The Municipality? Why didn't they fight evil with rezoning laws and collected parking meter money?

ANSWER ME.

The did, but the stupid American localization made it about animals and simple shit like that.

Wait, you expected a Power Rangers story to be compelling?

>> I could write a mini-biography on the guy.

Don't leave us hanging!!!

I want to know everything about this guy. Like, he's a successful (?) Power Rangers actor in his mid-to-late 30s, yet he's living in an apartment with a roommate and a sword?

@Robots sharing is caring. Inquiring minds want to know.

Please share, Rooster teases are no fun.

Even successful (by non-superstar standards) in LA often have to live in apartments with roommates. Nice places there aren't cheap, and Power Rangers money only goes so far.

And Robots is just jealous because he's a Robots and not a Zord. :)

Well, now that he's a murderer instead of a b-list nobody, it's time to cash in on that mini biography.

Lifetime Movie Network Presents 'Seeing Red: the Ricardo Medina Jr. Story'

Update: I've been getting comments on my facebook wall, there's people out there that believe in my innocence. Also, I'll recount what I know about the guy later this evening.

Being a Ranger in Japan isn't the admission of career failure it is in this country. So while the American rangers almost all went on to obscurity, being a Ranger is actually a pretty common way for up-and-coming Japanese actors to get their first big role. A lot of former Reds are stars now, which ensures they'll have enough expensive lawyers to keep anyone from finding out when they stab someone.

the only path to failure in Japanese entertainment I know of is an aging idol, or an idol hooking up with someone.


oh, is it a career ending thing when one of those bishonen actors comes out as gay?

Space Chief was played by Sonny Chiba. That makes him the first proto Power Ranger, I think, except for maybe Prince of Space.