Terror Toad

Terror Toad is a frog-like monster from the American live-action series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He is one of the many monsters created by Rita Repulsa to destroy the Power Rangers. He is the main antagonist of the episode Power Ranger Punks.

Characters Consumed

 * Trini Kwan
 * Zack Taylor
 * Jason Lee Scott
 * Billy Cranston

General
The Terror Toad is a confident, intimidating character, driven by hunger. During battle, he enjoys mocking the Rangers as he demonstrates his overwhelming might, laughing and taunting the rangers as he delivers devastating blows or shrugs off blows. He takes even greater delight in ultimately swallowing the Rangers, complimenting their taste. He is also prone to anger when the battle is not going entirely his way, as seen when he is struck on his head near his powerful horn, and after his horn is later cut off. Terror Toad is not seen outside of battle, so it is unknown how he behaves outside of this environment.

Motive
The Terror Toad devours his victims mainly to sate his enormous hunger. He is effectively subservient to his mistress, Rita Repulsa, and attempts to eliminate the Power Rangers as she demands, but clearly enjoys carrying out his mission for his own benefit and savours each victim as a meal. In the case of Jason, however, he seems to primarily devour him out of spite in retaliation for Billy and Kimberly cutting off his horn.

History
In the episode Power Ranger Punks, Terror Toad is created by Rita Repulsa's servant Finster to destroy the Power Rangers. He is sent to Earth and battles the Rangers Trini, Jason, and Zack (the other two Rangers, Billy and Kimberly, are indisposed after drinking a potion created by Rita's servant, Baboo, that turns them into nasty bullies). The Rangers are aware of his appetite, but not what that appetite is for, and have no apparent knowledge of his abilities.

The Terror Toad proves to be a powerful foe, easily absorbing the Rangers' attacks and countering with powerful strikes that send them flying and crashing to the ground. After knocking Zack, Jason, and finally Trini to the ground, the Terror Toad fires a beam of energy resembling a tongue from his horn that wraps around the Yellow Ranger and transforms her into a yellow energy sphere. The sphere is then drawn into the Terror Toad's mouth and he swallows Trini whole in this form, after which an image of her helmet materialises on his belly. The Terror Toad continues to battle the Red and Black Rangers, reflecting their Blade Blaster projectiles back at them and easily dominating them with his strength and surprising agility. The Rangers anger the toad when they strike his head either side of his powerful horn, but after more failed attacks against him, Jason and then Zack are knocked down by the monster who again fires his energy tongue, this time at Zack. The Black Ranger is converted into a purple energy sphere and the Terror Toad swallows him as well.

The Terror Toad battles the lone Red Ranger, but Billy and Kimberly soon arrive after being cured of the punk potion. The Blue and Pink Rangers, forearmed with the knowledge of how to defeat the monster, then cut off the toad's horn, leaving him unable to use his energy tongue. This infuriates the Terror Toad and, in retaliation, he shoots out his physical tongue and wraps it around the Red Ranger. He then pulls Jason into his mouth and swallows him whole. In doing this, however, he also exposes the weak spot on his neck to the Blue and Pink Rangers. With only two Rangers left, the Terror Toad begins to approach them hungrily. After the toad delivers a powerful dive-punch to the both of them, the Blue Ranger attempts an attack by leaping into the air. However, the Terror Toad fires his tongue once again and catches him in mid-air. The toad pulls the Blue Ranger into his mouth and swallows him whole.

The Terror Toad is then joined by Baboo who stops an attempt by Kimberly to attack the monster. Alongside Baboo, the Terror Toad begins to approach the lone Pink Ranger, intending to devour her to secure their victory. However, Kimberly then fires a flurry of arrows into the Terror Toad's neck, which knocks him over and forces him to regurgitate the swallowed Rangers. After the newly-freed Rangers deliver several powerful strikes against him, the Terror Toad is destroyed when Kimberly fires an arrow into his mouth.

Method of Consumption
The Terror Toad has two methods of consumption. For the first, he can conjure a large yellow mouth from the horn on his head that appears to be made of energy, which then shoots out a long tendril of energy that resembles a tongue and is about as wide as a Ranger's helmet. The energy tongue quickly snakes towards the intended victim and encircles them before tightening around their abdomen, after which they start glowing. Once it has fully wrapped around the victim, the tip of the tongue licks their head and they are subsequently turned into a sphere of energy approximately half the victim's previous height in diameter. Apparently compelled to do so, the transformed sphere then flies into the toad's mouth, allowing him to swallow it. The advantage of this method is implied to not expose or reveal his weak spot, and it appears to make his prey easier to capture and swallow in a single gulp.

If the Terror Toad's horn is cut off, he will resort to his secondary method, in which he launches a long red physical tongue from his maw and wraps it around his victim's midsection like a lasso. He then pulls them into his mouth and swallows them whole. When the Terror Toad swallows a victim this way, the flaps on his neck undulate with his chewing, revealing his weak spot, a secondary physical face with a mouth that does not appear to play any role in the consumption of the Rangers.

Whenever the Terror Toad swallows one of the Power Rangers, an image of their helmet appears on his belly (in the 2010 re-version, the helmets glow after appearing on his belly). The images apparently serve no practical purpose, aside from psychologically tormenting the remaining Rangers as they serve as a cruel reminder of the Rangers that are trapped in the Terror Toad's stomach. It's possible that the monster has some degree of control over this ability, as the Yellow Ranger's helmet materialized at the exact point on the toad's belly where he was patting once she had been eaten.

The Terror Toad also claims that his power grows whenever he swallows one of the Rangers, indicating that he may siphon their energy. He unleashes different powers during the battle, although it is not clear if these become available to him as a direct result of having eaten one or more Rangers.

Appetite
The Terror Toad has an incredibly large appetite. He ravenously devours four of the Power Rangers and intends to do the same to Kimberly, without showing any sign that he is getting full or that his appetite is waning. He has a large stomach, as evidenced by his bulbous belly, which is capable of containing a fully-grown human being. Given his ability to turn his victims into energy, there is no apparent limit to how much he can eat, and there is no indication as to how long a meal might last in his stomach.

Status of Swallowed Prey
The state of the Rangers while inside the Terror Toad's stomach is unconfirmed, since no interior shots are ever shown. Since Jason and Billy were spit out as energy spheres, despite being swallowed whole, it is likely that those who are swallowed whole by the Terror Toad are turned into energy inside his stomach. Upon release, Trini and Zack ask questions that suggest that they have no knowledge of what occurred between their conversion to energy spheres and their release, and that there is no interior footage also suggests that nothing more visually exciting happens to the devoured victims. It is possible that the Rangers change back to their physical forms once inside the monster, as seen with the Invenusable Flytrap, however this would similarly require the victims to be shrunk down or sent to another dimension. In any case, those swallowed by the Terror Toad are completely incapacitated as, unlike the Invenusable Flytrap, they cannot communicate with their uneaten comrades and can do nothing to affect their escape. The Terror Toad also claims that his power grows each time he swallows one of the Rangers, indicating the Rangers in his stomach may have their energy siphoned, although they do not seem weakened after being released from his stomach.

Gallery
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Quotes
"How about goin' for a little spin, bud?" (first words, said to Trini)

"Yum, yum, yum. Delicious!" (said after eating Trini)

"It's supper time!"

"Whenever I swallow one of you, my power grows!"

"This fightin's makin' me hungry!"

"Like to fly, kid? Here, try it!" (said to Zack)

"You Power Rangers are pretty tasty." (said after eating Zack)

"Don't worry. I've got plenty of room left inside for you!" (said to Jason)

"Nooooo! Not my horn! Ohhh... now you've made me hopping mad! You're going to pay for this, and I'm going to start with YOU!" (said before eating Jason right after his horn gets cut off)

"Time for dessert." (said while approaching Billy and Kimberly)

"Four down and only one to go." (said after eating Billy)

"Now I'm REALLY peeved!" (said after throwing up Zack, Trini, Billy and Jason)

"No more Mr. Nice Toad!" (last words)