Adam Park
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| First Appearance: | The Ninja Encounter, Part 1 (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) |
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| Last Appearance: | Once A Ranger, Part 2 (Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive) |
| Number of episode appearances: | 144 |
| Episodes: | 82-224, 275, 624-625 |
| Status: | Retired as a Ranger |
| Affiliation: | None |
| Homeworld: | Earth |
| Relatives: | unknown |
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| Portrayed by: | Johnny Yong Bosch |
Adam Park is a fictional major character from the universe of the American children's television franchise Power Rangers, played by Johnny Yong Bosch. He is a main character in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series, as well as three of its successive incarnations Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo, and Power Rangers: Turbo making him the second longest reigning ranger, second only to Tommy Oliver (Billy Cranston made more episode appearances than Adam, but was not an active ranger in Power Rangers Zeo). He also appeared in the Power Rangers in Space episode Always a Chance. Adam is also half-Asian and half-Caucasian.
Adam is shy, sensitive, and spiritual. His training of martial arts has made him a disciplined and efficient fighter specializing in Shaolin kung fu.
Fictional character history
In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Adam first met the Ranger teens during an attempt to save his teacher's baby alongside his friends Rocky DeSantos and Aisha Campbell. The three of them lived in the fictional city of Stone Canyon, California and were visiting Angel Grove for the Final Round of the Team Ninja competition. To the Ranger teens surprise, the Stone Canyon trio was not there as spectators, but to compete in the final round of the tournament (they won). Adam (along with Aisha and Rocky) eventually moved to Angel Grove permanently and enrolled in Angel Grove High School.
Adam's new friendship with Billy, Kimberly and Tommy would lead to his, Aisha's and Rocky's constant entanglement in Lord Zedd's schemes. In one encounter, the three Stone Canyon teens are kidnapped by Goldar and chained together inside a cave. A snake whose bite will render them evil permanently is set loose on them by Goldar. Their attempt to escape almost succeeds, but ultimately fails; it is the Morphed Kimberly, Billy and Tommy who rescue them. Billy manages to wrestle the snake away so that the teens can be freed, however, despite Kim's destruction of the snake, the injuries it caused to Billy's neck while Morphed force Billy to remove his helmet to prevent suffocation. Though able to breathe again, Billy's identity as a Power Ranger, along with Kim and Tommy's, are revealed to Adam and his friends. The three teens would be taken to the Command Center where the identities of Jason, Trini and Zack would be revealed to them and they would take an oath not to reveal the identities of the rangers.
When Zack Taylor, the current Black Ranger, left to attend the World Peace Conference as an ambassador in Switzerland, Adam was selected to take his place. During this time, he was targeted by Scorpina, who disguised herself as a girl named Sabrina in order to manipulate the shy teen into alienating his friends before facing an ambush alone, perpetrated by the Scorpion Warrior. Even though Aisha didn't trust Sabrina, she attempted to get along with her for Adam's sake. This led to her being able to interfere when Scorpina lured Adam on a hike to a remote part of the park. Though the encounter left Adam's confidence in himself weakened, he would soon recover when he gained the attention of a girl Aisha had been trying to hook him up with.
At the beginning of the third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Adam gained new ninja powers of the Frog, becoming the Black Ninja Ranger. He also gained the ability to pilot the Frog Ninjazord and later the Black Shogunzord. He was also later granted the power of the Metallic Armor.
When Master Vile (Rita Repulsa's father) came to Earth to retrieve the zeo crystal, the Rangers managed to retrieve it first. To ensure that Master Vile couldn't get it again, the Rangers split the Zeo Crystal into five sub-crystals and sent them to different points in history.
In Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers
Vile then turned back time using the Orb of Doom, turning the Rangers back into children. The Rangers soon recruited the Aquitian Rangers to fight in their stead. Billy had then created a device which would restore their them to their old selves. He used the Ninja Coins as a power source, testing it on himself. This worked, but it allowed Goldar to capture the coins and Zedd destroyed them.
Adam had to recover the Green Zeo Sub-Crystal. He was transported to the past Korea, near where his grandmother was born. He met Kai-Ogi, a local sage, and found the sub crystal behind a waterfall.
In Power Rangers: Zeo
When Adam's fragment of the Zeo Crystal was reunited with the four other fragments, he became Zeo Ranger IV for Power Rangers: Zeo. He gained the Zeo Zord IV (which resembled Taurus the bull) and Super Zeo Zord IV.
In Power Rangers: Turbo
In Power Rangers: Turbo, he became the Green Turbo Ranger. He gained the power of the Desert Thunder Turbozord. In this series we see that, after graduating from Angel Grove High School, he has become an acclaimed stuntman, and his character received even more focus than before. In "Passing the Torch", he chose Carlos Vallerte to take his place as the Green Turbo Ranger, and he left the show.
In Power Rangers in Space
However, Adam would return for an episode in the following series Power Rangers In Space (specifically the episode "Always a Chance"). Adam helped Carlos, the Black Space Ranger, reclaim his confidence as he helped him train harder. He was shown to still have his original Power Morpher from when he was the Black Power Ranger. However it and the Mastodon Power Coin in it were damaged. [1].
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He used the cracked morpher to become the Black Power Ranger once again and help Carlos in his battle against LizWizard. However, due to the lack of a connection to the Morphing Grid, the Black Ranger powers quickly faded away and left Adam incredibly weak (very nearly killing him). But he survived and decided not to risk morphing again.
In Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive
He appears alongside Kira Ford, Xander Bly, Tori Hanson, and Bridge Carson, in a 15th anniversary team-up episode Once A Ranger. With the Operation Overdrive Power Rangers powers disabled by the villain Thrax, the Sentinel Knight restored the former Ranger's powers so they could defend the Corona Aurora jewels. In the first part, Adam mentioned he knew someone who could restore the Overdrive team's powers and is surprised to find out that his former teammate, Tommy, is now a doctor from Kira. And in the second part, it will be revealed that the person Adam was talking about to fix the Overdrive Trackers, will be none less than Alpha. Which Alpha, it is still a mystery. Rumors say it could be Billy, but it is no more than rumors. Some say Billy and his wife on Aquatar, has a kid, and he sent him to earth under the safety of Adam. Why, who knows, but this is also another rumor.
Ranger Power Notes
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive is the second series out of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers where he will use his same powers from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers thus making him the only non-red Ranger to use the same abilities for three different incarnations of Power Rangers. This is his second crossover appearance since Power Rangers In Space's Always a Chance. He also is the fourth person to wear a Saban-era Ranger Uniform during a Disney Power Rangers Series, with the third being Sky's father in Power Rangers S.P.D., armed with the Red Time Force Ranger uniform, the second being the A-squad SPD rangers wearing the Space Ranger suits, sans the black ranger, and the first being Tommy Oliver who wore the MMPR Green and White suit, and the Zeo Red suit during his coma in Power Rangers Dino Thunder.
References
- ^ "Japanese magazine scan on Lord Zedd's Son in team up episode". Retrieved 2007-05-09.
