#Venjix

[escapism-from-the-real-world]

I had a power ranger RPM thought:

So, the bad guys in power rangers have been pretty good for the most part. Venjix from RPM is genuinely terrifying simply for the fact that he’s killed the majority of the planet, Zander from samurai is a really good bad for bad sake kind of bad guy and he’s a chronic migraine icon, and Jarrod/Dai Shi and Camile from Jungle Fury are my favorite bad guys ever and they are so much fun and all the villains in this show are giving off toxic family drama vibes and sometimes have more interesting plot lines than the heroes.

Lothor from Ninja Storm and Mesagog from Dino Thunder have been alright. They have interesting concepts that I feel like needed a little bit more oomph to be on par with everyone else I’ve seen/remember so far. Mesagog has an amazing character design tho.

ANYWAY, most of the villains have reasons for why they are failing to destroy the rangers despite their best efforts (Zander suffers from constant debilitating migraines that stop him from leading well, Lothor is purposefully losing for later plot reasons, Dai Shi is being held back by Jarrod, Mesagog is being held back by Trent’s dad) but I didn’t really see this kind of reasoning for RPM.

Which is weird because RPM is like, the best power rangers ever and has some really fun interactions/dynamics with villains and heroes, but didn’t have the same “we’re failing because there is X holding us back”

And then I remembered Venjix’s origin story.

He’s a computer program meant to infiltrate and disarm security programs, maybe even destroy them. He’s a computer program made by Dr. K, his direct enemy. Computer programs are only as smart as they are programmed to be.

Venjix can easily get into Corinth, that’s basically his whole programming, but can’t beat the “security team” (aka the rangers) because they are “programmed” beyond what he was designed to destroy.

He keeps losing because he is a computer program with set limitations already in place for him. All his biggest schemes and plans that had the greatest success were thought up by Tenaya in combination with his other generals.

It is a human mind that is progressing his advancements and even then it is held back by his preference for his machines.

Like, that’s really cool. And maybe that wasn’t what they were going for but it works and it’s wonderfully consistent with what we are give about how Venjix works.

I love this show so much.

[angele-darliing]

Evox if he was just some danger noodle

[buster-loves-pr]

always thought of an AU where the Venjix virus happens in 2007 before the OO team and Venjix finds Mack

He does reprogram him but he does treat him a lot better compare to Hartford, letting him go out and explore and does encourage him whenever he gets a job done right (what are those jobs, don't worry about it. This is just an excuse for me to shit on Hartford for being a bad dad)

[cupcakes-are-ours]

venjix with da teefers

[regaliasonata]

For @mo-ok @estel-eruantien

Dr K: So looking through the archives it seems that Venjix made four clones of Dillon.

Teneya: Why?

Dr K: Perhaps for more soldiers

Ziggy: .....*eyeing down Dillon and his clones*

Ziggy: I'll be your private Sarah Connor if you catch my drift....alone.

Dillon: Can you like, kill me and throw my body into a garbage compactor...

Teneya: No this is too funny.

[jeffyawesomeness101]

RPM Headcanon skit!

*Tenaya 7 is on a zoom call with Venjix’s generals*

Tenaya 7: *starts randomly singing to herself* There’s a fire starting in my heart…

Crunch: Ooh! I know that song! *starts singing* Reaching a fever pitch it’s bringing me out the dark!

Shifter: Finally I can see you crystal clear. Go head and sell me out and I’ll lay your ship bare.

Kilobyte: See how I leave with every piece of you. Don’t underestimate the things that I will do.

Cog: There’s a fire starting in my heart. Reaching a fever pitch it’s bringing me out the dark.

*A few moments later…* All 4 of the generals: I just can’t help feeling. We could’ve had it ALLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!

Tenaya 7: *thinking* I was literally just singing to myself, why do they do this every. dang. time?!

Venjix, who was hearing all of this: WHAT.

[simeonscott]

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[rpm-rosesstory]

Venjix: my takeover of the planet started by purchasing a small niche website called-

Rose: what’s a website?

Venjix:…you seriously don’t know?

Rose: most of my free time here as been spent staring at nature.

Venjix:…uh. Well, you see, in 1995…

5 minutes later

Rose: wow…that sounds genuinely horrible.

Venjix: its fucking awful, pink.

[skyland2703]

Villain Ask Game

Ransik, Trakeena and Venjix

Ransik

Evil and fucking love it | A Whinny psycho | Really Dumb motive | Cool motive still murder | I don’t know enough to rate them | They have a point but they are a dick about it | Road to hell paved with good intentions | They are in the right here | Look if it were me I’d have been So MUCH worse | How are they not the hero? | Yea, I’m routing for the villain.

Honestly he’s my favorite villain from PR in general and DBFKFKANDKGJSJD HE LOVES HIS DAUGHTER. Whatever he did was just fight social injustice and that made him a criminal and GAHAHHHHGJFJJSJDJFJJDJDKDJAJJFKDK HE WANTED A NICE AND QUIET LIFE FOR NADIRA OK he even got her a boyfriend

Trakeena

Evil and fucking love it | A Whinny psycho | Really Dumb motive | Cool motive still murder | I don’t know enough to rate them | They have a point but they are a dick about it | Road to hell paved with good intentions | They are in the right here | Look if it were me I’d have been So MUCH worse | How are they not the hero? | Yea, I’m routing for the villain.

She… was avenging her dad.. right??? I think one of the only Human ranger antagonists who didn’t turn “good” or was redeemed in the end??? (Wait we had Miratrix too-) I really liked her arc it went from bad to worse and sfgrukjyrgjtjthrfjjf

Venjix

Evil and fucking love it | A Whinny psycho | Really Dumb motive | Cool motive still murder | I don’t know enough to rate them | They have a point but they are a dick about it | Road to hell paved with good intentions | They are in the right here | Look if it were me I’d have been So MUCH worse | How are they not the hero? | Yea, I’m routing for the villain.

Terminator power rangers version asdfjgkenshdvs everything evil done with utmost perfection and was BaSiCaLLy rebeling against his mom—

[chronicallylatetotheparty]

venjix

Evil and fucking love it | A Whinny psycho | Really Dumb motive | Cool motive still murder | I don’t know enough to rate them | They have a point but they are a dick about it | Road to hell paved with good intentions | They are in the right here | Look if it were me I’d have been So MUCH worse | How are they not the hero? | Yea, I’m routing for the villain.

MAY YOUR GEARS RUST AND YOUR CODE DEGRADE FOREVER YOU EGOMANIACAL STRING OF ONES AND ZEROES!!!

[kimberlyannharts]

Turns out all Dr. K needed to defeat Venjix this entire time was a copy of SimCity and a dream

[aurora-boreas-borealis]

Role reversal AU where Dillon and Tenaya made it to Corinth, Ziggy stays and the primary colour trio never made it to Corinth

[angele-darliing]

Ladies and gentlemen may I present the most superior ship ever

[escapism-from-the-real-world]

So I made an incorrect quotes post about Ziggy from RPM and Dr K’s password being ‘fuckyouZiggy’ instead if just being ‘Ziggy’ because a) it’s funny and b) way more accurate to how the characters actually interact.

Anyway, it got me thinking of this headcanon that Ziggy is one of those people who can just guess passwords with barely any prior information like Doctor Doofenshmirtz from phineas and ferb.

Mans can just walk up to any computer and clickity clack on the keyboard and get full access to it. He can’t even do anything else because he’s not tech savvy, he can only guess the password.

It drives Dr. K insane because no matter what she changes it to, no matter how random or planned out it is, Ziggy always knows.

Eventually she just changes it to ‘fuckyouZiggy’ and it just happens to be the one to stump him because Dr. K doesn’t curse (at least in front of Ziggy. She has cursed thrice in front of the rangers. Once with gem and gemma, and twice with Flynn. No one believes him when he says she’s curse before).

Summer laughs her ass off when she figures it out in that one episode.

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Scott/Ziggy/Dillon playlist!

The second of my beloved Venjix!Ziggy fics, this one is the first second-person POV fic I've written that I wrote specifically using the second person POV as a tool rather than an easy way to slide into a character's mind. This fic centers on the POV of a Ziggy with amnesia who understands that he has Venjix parts but no desire to fight. Without too many spoilers, Tenaya is the one who picks him up in the Wastes and he comes to find out that Dillon is working for Venjix, a bit of a problem as Ziggy is starting to get a crush on both Dillon and Scott, who has two dead Soulmates and no idea what happened to them. It was so much fun to write and play around with this VERY outsider POV, dropping hints as to all of the changes and watching as the characters figure it all out.

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[regaliasonata]

Dr. K: I need to stop the virus!

Alphabet Soup: Sorry nope.

Dr. K: Fine but when I get my residuals for Terminator it's going to be over for all you bitches.