Power Rangers’ Blue Ranger Will Decide the Entire Franchise’s Future

Summary

• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #121 suggests Blue Ranger Billy Cranston may defeat ultimate villain Dark Specter, shaking up series expectations.
• Billy devises a risky plan to delay Dark Specter, seeking strength from friends old and new, setting up a potentially epic showdown in the series.
• Could Billy Cranston emerge as the most important Power Ranger of all time by defeating Dark Specter? The fate of the franchise may rest on his shoulders.

The fate of the universe of the Power Rangers is in the hands of Billy Cranston, the Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger. Billy’s legacy within the franchise has come to outlast most of his fellow Rangers, including replacing Tommy Oliver as the ultimate Ranger mentor. Still, it’s easy for his impact and relevance in the series to be overlooked or even underestimated.

That’s why some readers may be surprised to see the cover for the upcoming Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #121, which teases that the Blue Ranger may be the one to finally defeat Dark Specter. Taurin Clarke’s cover art for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #121 by writer Melissa Flores and returning special guest artists Hendry Prasetya and Matt Herms can be viewed below. Additional variant covers from Clarke, Bjorn Barends, and Mona Finden can be found further below.

By the end of The Darkest Hour, Billy Cranston could emerge as the most important Power Ranger of all time, if not the greatest.

Billy Cranston Could Save the Power Rangers

Where Does That Leave Tommy Oliver?

Dark Specter has been terrorizing the Power Rangers since the dawn of The Darkest Hour. The even has seen Dark Specter cement himself as the Thanos of the Rangerverse by using Rita Repulsa’s dark magic to capture and corrupt Rangers from across the multiverse. The infection that Dark Specter has created is spreading like a cancer beyond even the multiverse and throughout the Morphin Grid. However, as the issue’s solicitation promises, Billy has a plan. There are consequences of his “risky idea” that are hard to predict, but he’s prepared thanks to the allies who have his back.

More recent issues of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers have suggested that Tommy Oliver could be the one to topple Dark Specter’s reign of terror, but the summary of #121 tells a different story. Then again, the series set up even earlier how Blue Rangers make for the perfect problem solvers, putting Billy on a quest to stop the Shattering that Dark Specter has caused within the Morphin Grid. Even if he isn’t the one to actually destroy Dark Specter, Billy’s on a far more important mission to preserve the future of Rangerhood by saving the Morphin Grid.

The Blue Ranger Could Save the Franchise

The Franchise Ends with Billy Cranston

Defeating the final, ultimate villain of the franchise arguably asserts Billy Cranston as the most important Power Ranger in the franchise, pulling off the biggest win the team could ask for before they all ride off into the sunset.

It was recently announced that the conclusion of The Darkest Hour arc will also mark the end of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic series. With the future of the television show currently in flux, so is the franchise, but if the franchise as a whole ends with this comic series, then it would be huge for the series to end with the Blue Ranger on top. Defeating the final, ultimate villain of the franchise arguably asserts Billy Cranston as the most important Power Ranger in the franchise, pulling off the biggest win the team could ask for before they all ride off into the sunset.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
#121
will be available June 26 from BOOM! Studios.