The original Mighty Morphin team is back after a decade away, and their newest enemy has just revealed exactly why she wants them destroyed.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #2 pulls the mask off the mysterious figure who has been stalking the reunited team: Rita Rabiosa, a version of the Rangers' oldest foe pulled from an alternate dimension and consumed by grief.
Her target is deeply personal. Rabiosa sets her sights on Trini, the first of the Rangers to become a parent, vowing a life for a life and threatening to destroy the hero's child. In her telling, the Rangers of her own reality were responsible for the death of her child, and she has come to return the favor.
To reach them, she says she ripped a hole through space and time, crossing between worlds for a single purpose. Her framing is pointed: she insists she too acts out of love, the love the Rangers supposedly took from her.
It is a notably darker angle for a franchise built on bright colors and clean morality. By hinting that the Rangers may bear some responsibility for a child's death, even in another dimension, the story hands its villain a genuine grievance rather than simple evil.
The specifics of what happened in Rabiosa's world remain unrevealed, leaving the door open for exactly the kind of moral gray area the modern Power Rangers comics have increasingly embraced.
