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Rise of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - "Mask of the Masked Rider"

Prince Dex of Edenoi was given the powers of the Masked Rider by his dying grandfather, King Lexian, following a devastating final assault on Edenoi's capital by the evil Count Dregon. With Edenoi's defenses crippled, Dregon set his sights on Earth. Dex soon followed, teaming up with the Power Rangers and forming a strong alliance with them, counting them as some of his first and closest friends.

Dex's past is riddled in tragedy, Edenoi having been under constant siege since before he was born. His planet made for an easy target, as most of the population were pacifists, save for the Masked Rider Warriors that stood guard against incursions. Sadly, they were all wiped out in Dregon's final attack, leaving only Dex and his Ectophase Activator as the last remnants of the Rider Warriors.

Around the Rangers, Dex says everything extremely deadpan, making it hard to tell whether or not he's joking, but he will soon clarify with an equally deadpan "That was a joke." or "Was that not funny?"

He comes into inadvertant conflict with Tommy as she starts to worry about him replacing her on the team, threatened by the "newer and cooler green guy". The two soon reconcile as Tommy apologises for projecting onto him, with Dex saying that, as someone who also had never had friends before now, it's understandable that she would be worried about losing them again.

#rotmmpr #power rangers #mmpr #masked rider #kamen rider #dex stewart #OKAY im glad i got this one out of my system #three guesses who i was thinking of while designing dex's civilian form lmaoo #dex is one of my fav bits of rise bc i think he's one of the most clever and dumb jokes i could think of that ALSO moves things forward #essentially he's a meta joke about people considering rider to be more ''mature'' than sentai or pr even though it has the same target demo #+ a purposeful and comedic over-correction on the original saban's masked rider since that show ended up being more of a sitcom than even p #while ALSO referencing the fact that kamen rider black got an adult-oriented reboot last year #plus i just thought ''mask of the masked rider'' was a silly subtitle for the mini-arc he'd appear in #his suit is also deliberately designed to be a lil more complex and ''modern superhero design'' than the rangers' suits #to contrast against them and match his like. different tone than them #but ye. he's very much tied into tommy's arc on the team where they both have the sort of. tendency to just say shit #that they think is completely normal. but is so deeply fucked up to everyone around them #obvs dex to a much more extreme degree since he's a victim of actual genocide lmao #and both he and tommy learn how to work in a team over the course of the masked rider arc #i also imagine tommy would have a lil dream sequence where she imagines dex replacing her as the green ranger #and he morphs into a form that looks kinda like kamen rider j or zo #i won't be designing the other masked rider warriors but just know. I AM AMAZON. would be canon.

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