Badass Women Week: Trakeena

In the beginning, Trakeena was far from a badass, villainous or otherwise. She was spoiled, shallow, and cared little about anything but herself. Following the death of her father, though, she became a force to be reckoned with.

She began her path to badassery a little before that, really. Upon discovering her father wished for her to enter a cocoon that would greatly increase her power but strip away her beauty, she fled to the planet Onyx. While on Onyx, she met Villimax, who trained her in martial arts and swordplay. She then returned home, only to find her father dying from a battle with the Galaxy Rangers. Trakeena was finally in a position to be a badass.

As Queen, Trakeena was both powerful and ruthless. In fact, she became the first villain to outright kill a ranger. 10 episodes after her rise, she killed Kendrix, the pink ranger. If that's not an example villainous badassery, I don't know what is. She clearly cared little for life, ordering her army to fire upon evacuation shuttles filled with civilians in the finale, something not even Villimax, her loyal general and trainer, would do. She also turned all her stingwingers into suicide bombers. Trakeena cared only for her revenge on the rangers, even going into the cocoon that she intially refused. Eventually, she fought the rangers in her mutant form head on, only killed by blasts from the red rangers battlizers at point-blank range. Yeah, that was a badass death.

In her first appearance, Trakeena was one of the most pathetic villains seen at that point. By the end of Lost Galaxy, she had become an ice cold monster, willing to snuff out the lives of thousands, both of her enemy's people and her own. She only wanted her revenge, and would do anything for it. Trakeena's life and death were both memorable, earning her rank as one of PR's badass women.