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Nadira's Questioning/Sympathy about Humans


Did anyone else love this? I was just rewatching certain episodes since I remember this one being my favorite as a kid, and wow, I remember still watching this when I was like 5 or 6, and even now it still gives me chills at the scene where Nadira goes to Frax asking why mutants and humans hate each other, and that she's not sure that she hates humans the way her father does. As a little kid, this was probably my first real exposure to the idea that "villains" or the "bad guys" aren't just one dimensional bad people, and that there's layers to everything and to not just blindly follow what your parents believe in. I don't know, I still find it so beautiful that this kids show showed that the bad guys can have redemption too, and it was quite nice to know these kinds of things as a little kid. Lame, I know.

Nadira: Frax? Frax?
Frax: Nadira, if you're here to destroy me then just get it over with.
Nadira: I'm not here for revenge. I want to know...WHY do mutants and humans hate each other so much?
Frax: Ah, hate. There's a subject I know very well indeed. Humans rejected your father and taught him to hate. Then he destroyed me and soon I was filled with hatred as well. It's a vicious cycle that never ends Nadira.
Nadira: But...I'm not sure...if I hate all humans.
Frax: Ha! Don't make me laugh. You're an evil mutant with a heart as black as coal just like your father. Now get out of my sight. You sicken me.
(Bots come in to take him away to destroy him)
No, what do you want to do with me now!? No! No!
(as he gets dragged away)
Nadira:...I'm sorry...for what my father did to you, Dr. Pharanx.
Frax: What? (to himself in his old human voice: There's hope for her)...Nadira! Wait! Wait, I was wrong! You don't have to hate! You can break the cycle of hatred! Never give up, never give up! (taken away to be killed)

I thought this was so powerful, at least as a child who invested hours and hours of his life into these characters who you always thought of as just a bunch of terrible villains out to kill my beloved power rangers, and then you come to second guess the old idea we're instilled with to "kill the bad guy" in every game, show, movie, etc and instead wonder "what makes a bad guy a bad guy?"

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