Every Power Rangers fan has a favorite era of the franchise, whether that be the classic Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the follow-up Time Force, or even RPM, everyone has at least one favorite team and corresponding Megazord–though one daring storyline decided to eliminate (or, rather, combine) that choice entirely, thereby creating the ultimate tribute to the franchise: the Mega Megazord.
While Power Rangers began as a hit live-action T.V. series geared towards a younger audience, the franchise has grown into something so much grander with rich lore and decidedly adult storylines–and a lot of those aspects of the series were established outside the television programs within the realm of BOOM! Studios’ ongoing comic series. Within the relatively new landscape of Power Rangers’ comic book continuity, readers are thrown into a modernized version of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers era, though that isn’t to say all the other corners of the franchise that occurred after the events of the original MMPR have been forgotten. In fact, one Power Rangers book actually combined some of the greatest eras into one during an epic crossover event the likes of which none of the separate teams have ever seen, and that event was known as Shattered Grid.
Shattered Grid Showed the Mega Megazord in Action (with a Variant Cover Detailing It)
In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Shattered Grid by Kyle Higgins, Daniele Di Nicuolo, and Diego Galindo, the immensely villainous Lord Drakkon has decided to eliminate every version of the Power Rangers across the timestream, which means it was going to take nearly all of them to stop him. After a devastating attack launched by Lord Drakkon against a few different Power Rangers teams at once (including the Samurai Rangers, Time Force, Mighty Morphin, and RPM), the Rangers who weren’t badly impacted regrouped and quickly came up with who had a functional Zord. After realizing that they had more than enough to create a make-shift Megazord, the Rangers continued merging the battle mechs until they had a robotic amalgamation of cosmic proportions: the Mega Megazord–and it was used to put an end to Lord Drakkon’s time-sliding villainy once and for all.
What’s interesting, though, is that the Mega Megazord actually wasn’t named that in the comic itself (instead referred to as only the “Whatever-we’re-calling-it” Megazord by the Mighty Morphin Red Ranger, Jason), but got the title on the Legend Comics and Games Fresno exclusive variant cover created by artist, Dan Mora–who also did a bit more than seemingly just naming it. While the Mega Megazord was utilized by Daniele Di Nicuolo in the Shattered Grid finale in a more action-heavy exhibition of its power, Mora offered way more insight into the Mega Megazord itself by including a guide to its makeup, and all the specific Zords that went into its creation–which is an awesome detail that wasn’t explicitly stated in the comic.
The Mega Megazord takes arguably the most iconic aspect of Power Rangers (the Megazord), and merges the Zords of every beloved era into one, only for its significance to grow even more in-canon when it’s literally used to save the Power Rangers multiverse–proving that, in the grandest way possible, the Mega Megazord was the ultimate tribute to the franchise.