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"A fanlisting is a place for all fans of a particular show, movie, actor/actress, singer, etc. to come together and build the biggest listing of people from all around the world who are fans of that subject."

Sound simple enough? This fanlisting is a place for all fans of Lord Zedd to list their names. All you have to do to be a part of it is to read the rules then join - easy. And, don't fret if you don't have a website or online blog, you can still join. All you need to be elegible to join is a name, location, and a valid email address.

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Lord Zedd

What's to know about Lord Zedd? He's one of the most infamous Power Ranger villains and is well remembered by all who watched the original show. His debut episode was "The Mutiny", which aired in the USA in 1994, and later in 1995 for us in the UK (and I dare say elsewhere, too). His final TV appearance was made in "Countdown to Destruction" in Power Rangers in Space in 1998, though he did rear his head more recently for the Power Rangers: Super Legends video game in 2007. He was voiced by Robert Axelrod and played by Ed Neil.

Lord Zedd - Emperor of all he sees

Lord Zedd was the first Power Rangers villain to be completely original for the US version of the show - i.e., he had no counterpart in the Japanese Super Sentai series, from which most of the footage of Power Rangers was, and still is, ripped. He came complete with his own personal throne room, the "Chamber of Command" (this website's namesake), which contained that must-have bad-guy gadget: a rotating throne! Though he seems to have the ability to use magic without aid, his main source of power comes from his enchanted sceptre. (Also, like Rita, he has an incredible throwing arm, and can toss growth bombs to his monsters on earth from the moon, and manage to hit the target every time! Heheh. Now that's impressive!)

Zedd's impact went beyond his lunar base set-up and magical powers, of course - he also impressed on appearance! Here was a man made up of flesh and blood, encased in shining chrome, and audacious enough to flaunt his skinless form (how many other villains walk around in next to no clothes?). No one can deny that Zedd's "faceless-ness" added a chilling dimension to the character as well, which has arguably not been present in another Power Ranger villain since.; it gave him that same fear-inciting edge that makes the likes of Star Wars’ Darth Vader and A Christmas Carol’s “Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come” so darkly enchanting.

Zedd enters the Command Centre in "Mighty Morphin" series 3

When I watched the show as a kid, I was never young enough to be scared by Zedd - in contrast, I loved his skinless "ickiness" and his fear-factor, strange child that I was - but I get the impression that many other viewers, who were younger than me at the time, were rather creeped-out by this gruesome individual. (He is practically inside-out, after all.) In fact, so scary was he considered that the writers felt it necessary to dumb him down, so as to make him a little less fearsome for the kids. (Shame on you, writers! It's good to scare children once in a while.)

In terms of background information, Zedd seems to have no history whatsoever (except for the fact that he is "Rita and her minions' lord and master"), nor is there any explanation for why he looks the way he does (bar a hint, far later in series 3, that it might have something to do with the Zeo crystal - but we can't be sure). Most importantly of all, we have no idea what the Hell Zedd might want with planet Earth if he ever did manage to conquer it! (He contradicts himself a lot over this point, some times declaring he shall rule over the earth, and other times proclaiming he shall reduce it to "mere cinders"!) He must simply have been very bored ruling over those "darker places" to which Zordon referred and thus deigned to come on over to the Milky Way to tell Rita what a terrible job she was doing and show her how it was done.

It doesn't really matter why he's doing what he does - the important thing is that he came into our lives and brought a whole new bad-ass dimension to the Power Rangers series! (Even if it was only for a brief time... then the writers turned him into a pussycat...)

Nowhere to go but down...

Zedd sat pretty (well... y'know...) as one of the core Power Ranger villains for a whole two seasons. He made his greatest impression in the first two thirds of series 2, of course, when he ruled solo over the space alien band and entertained us week-in, week-out with his acerbic tongue and an unfailing but aimless ambition to take over the world. Then Rita showed up again and Zedd's funeral march began.

Zedd continued to have some great moments into the colourful but ultimately disappointing series 3 - with his entrance into the Command Centre, and fight with Tommy during the "Changing of the Zords" episodes being highlights - but Master Vile, and even Rito Revolto, seemed to have stolen his thunder, and he was left to rot in the position of hen-pecked husband, providing the comic relief practically in the same sphere as the Rangers' school friends, Bulk and Skull. Even the love potion which was said to have duped the Emperor into marrying Rita was cured, only to leave us with a man who apparently had liked Rita all along! o_0 It would have been so easy for that potion to have worn off, for Zedd to have lashed back against Rita and the Rangers - but apparently that was not the direction the series had wanted to go in. Pity.

Zedd and the White Ranger go mano-a-mano in "Changing of the Zords"

In 1996, the Machine Empire decided to roll on up and unceremoniously kicked Zedd off his perch. This fourth series, Power Rangers Zeo, set the stage for Zedd's final spiral down into inferiority and obscurity. He last reared his head in the Power Rangers in Space finale "Countdown to Destruction" where, given the ultimate insult and shove-off, he was rendered human and left to live "happily ever after" in an (apparently) evil-free universe.

Fortunately (or otherwise, depending on your point of view), some evil survived somewhere and several more Power Ranger seasons have since come and gone. ;) But there's been no sign of Zedd since. (Though there was a son, apparently - but the less said about him, the better.)

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This Website

This site was made with Dreamweaver MX and Adobe Photoshop CS2 software, Notepad and is hosted by Streamlinenet at my own expense. All images are captured by myself from the official (German) Mighty Morphin Power Rangers DVDs (using PowerDVD 5 software).

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About Me

I'm 24 years old, live in Lincoln in the UK, and have had a fascination with Lord Zedd all my life. He was nearly always my favourite MMPR character and I personally feel that he is one of the very best things to ever happen to the programme.

I run the "Chamber of Command" website at LordZedd.com which will hopefully soon host my revamped MMPR fanfic, which revolves very much around Lord Zedd. I also draw a lot of Zedd fanart and own that wonderfully bizarre Zedd plushy, amongst other things. :)

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Disclaimer

Lord Zedd, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and all other characters, names & distinctive likenesses © Buena Vista Home Entertainment. All content used without written permission for non-profit fan purposes. Since this is a non-profit site, and something of a free advert for the film, I'm hoping no one will consider sueing me. :) It's all done for the love of Lord Zedd. :D

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