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. He was voiced by Michael J. Sorich.

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 attacks. 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.

Background
At least ten thousand years prior to the events of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the Terror Toad was in the service of Rita Repulsa and attacked the planet Sorcery 7. The details of this event are unknown, but given that his history is referred to as a great success, it is likely that he defeated and devoured the most powerful defenders of that planet, and may have devoured a significant portion or even all of its populace.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Season 1, Episode 12, "Power Ranger Punks"
The Terror Toad is (re)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 blocking the Rangers' attacks and countering with powerful strikes that send them flying and crashing to the ground. After knocking down Zack, Jason, and finally Trini, the Terror Toad, seeing Trini as an easy target, 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 materializes on his belly. The Terror Toad pats his belly, complimenting the Yellow Ranger's taste.

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. 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. An image of the Black Ranger's helmet appears on the toad's belly and he declares how tasty the Rangers, telling the Red Ranger he still has room for him, as he rubs and pats his belly.

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. The toad then yanks on his tongue, sending the Red Ranger flying towards him, and he catches him in his mouth. Jason attempts to resist, but the Terror Toad easily swallows him down, even as the Red Ranger futilely kicks and yells. In doing this, however, the toad also exposes the weak spot on his neck to the Blue and Pink Rangers as he swallows Jason. Subsequently, the Red Ranger's helmet materializes on his belly.

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, 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, despite Billy's protests, easily swallows him whole. Again, he briefly exposes his weak spot and the Blue Ranger's helmet is added to his belly.

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 fires a flurry of arrows into the Terror Toad's neck, which explode and knock him over, forcing 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 a large mouth and stomach that allows him to swallow his victims whole, and he utilizes 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 yellow energy that resembles a tongue. The energy tongue quickly snakes towards the intended victim and encircles them before tightening around their midsection, 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 about a third of their original size. Apparently compelled to do so, the transformed sphere then flies into the toad's mouth, allowing him to swallow it. This appears to be the Terror Toad's preferred method as he uses it when able to, and as his transformed victims are incapacitated and shrunk down, he is able to swallow them quickly and easily in a single gulp without exposing his weak spot. The energy beam has a good range, able reach a target from several yards away, and there appears to be no escaping once the victim is caught. It is arguably not foolproof as the target can potentially dodge it, and in each instance the Terror Toad deals with all his assailants before knocking his quarry to the ground with a heavy blow and using it on them. Since the Terror Toad wraps the energy tongue around his victims' midsections both times it is successfully used, this suggests that it may not simply be used on any part of the victim's body, which may make it easier to elude.

If the Terror Toad's horn is cut off, rendering him unable to use his his energy tongue, 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 (which does not appear to play any role in the consumption of the Rangers). Like his energy tongue, his physical tongue has a good range and is able to reach and wrap around victims from several yards away. Once he has ensnared a victim, it is very difficult if not impossible for them to get away as even the super-powered (albeit weakened) Jason, even with his arms free, could not escape the tongue's grip nor could he stop his descent into the monster's stomach.

Whenever the Terror Toad swallows one of the Power Rangers, a scaled-down, but otherwise accurate, image of their helmet appears on his belly (in the 2010 re-version, the helmets briefly glow after appearing on his belly) between two rows of red marks that resemble the teeth of an open maw. 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. The monster may have some degree of control over this ability, as the Yellow Ranger's helmet materializes at the exact point on the toad's belly where he was patting once she had been eaten, although the appearances of the other Ranger helmets do not follow any particular action or sequence. It is possible that these images are, in fact, extensions of the Rangers themselves, at least partially converted to manifest on the Terror Toad's belly, or they could just be replications produced by the monster. It is unknown if this phenomenon is unique to the Power Rangers as no non-Power Ranger characters are eaten, or if there is a limit to the number of images the Terror Toad can fit on its belly.

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, notably a yellow energy shield and a slightly modified energy mouth after Trini is eaten, and energy blasts after consuming Zack, although it is not clear if any of these become available to him as a direct result of having eaten one or more of the super-powered heroes (either gaining specific powers from particular Rangers or generally gaining enough power from those he captures to make use of more energy-based weaponry) or simply being part of a diverse arsenal.

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 at least four fully-grown human beings (be they whole or condensed into spheres) without noticeably expanding it. He gives no indication that physically swallowing Rangers whole has a greater impact on his appetite or capacity compared to eating them as energy spheres, and there is no apparent limit to how much he can eat (unless there is a limit to the number of images of his victims he can fit on his belly or if they otherwise indicate some limit to his stomach's capacity), 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 highly 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 than remaining as inert spheres. 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 (and still remain sufficiently incapacitated to not communicate with fellow prey). As discussed above, there is also a possibility that the victims, in fact, become the images on the monster's belly. 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.

Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_INnadVDKVc

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)