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Dulcea
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- master warrior of Phaedos
MMPR: The Movie
Wearing a cloak and holding her staff, Dulcea
watched the teens as they walked along a beach
soon after arriving on Phaedos.
A Tengu later grabbed Kim by the shoulders using its feet and flew
around with her but then dropped her once the cloaked Dulcea had
appeared on the scene.
Dulcea sustained a drop of several stories off a
cliff without injury.
Dulcea discarded her cloak, revealing a skimpy
green suit, and fought the Tengu with her
staff; she eventually pulled her staff into two halves and spun them
around, making a whistling that hurt the teens'
ears and made the Tengu fly away.
Dulcea's sticks
didn't have handles at first, then they did after she'd been twirling
them, then didn't when she reassembled her staff.
Dulcea was impatient and dismissive with the teens, ordering them to return to wherever they
had come from, as the ground was supposedly littered with the bones of
those who had tried for the Great Power and failed.
Dulcea swept Tommy off
his feet and pinned him to the ground with her staff to get his
attention, telling them to leave Phaedos
before it was too late.
Dulcea knew of Zordon
and was deeply concerned when she heard that something had happened to
him.
Dulcea instantly seemed to believe the teens the moment they mentioned Zordon's name.
Dulcea was the master warrior of Phaedos.
Just after she had fought the Tengu Warriors, Dulcea was shocked to hear that Ivan Ooze was free; this indicates either that
she was unfamiliar with the Tengu or that Tengu were known to be used by villains other than Ivan.
Dulcea called Ivan a
monster and said that if they didn't hurry, the teens' planet was doomed.
On the long journey on foot to the Ninjetti temple, Dulcea didn't
tell the teens where they were going.
When Aisha asked how they
could survive the journey to the monolith while all others had died,
Dulcea told them they were chosen by Zordon and
that she had faith in his wisdom.
When Tommy asked Dulcea
if she could help them, Dulcea said they would call upon the "sacred animals of the Ninjetti" for help.
Once night had come, Dulcea poured a glittery
dust from a pouch on her belt into her palm, told the teens to close their eyes and look deep inside for
the animal spirits within them, then blew
the dust into the fire, after which blue glitter swirled over the area
and then gathered around the teens, suiting
them up in the Ninjetti suits.
Adam was disappointed that
his ninja animal was a frog, but Dulcea
kissed his forehead band and alluded to the frog one kissed to get a
handsome prince.
Dulcea told the teens
that they must journey to the monolith without her, because if she
stepped beyond the plateau leading to the Neola Jungle, she would age as
rapidly as Zordon was, outside of his time
warp.
With a blue glitter cloud and then a gleam of
yellow light, Dulcea turned into a white owl, then she flew away.
Ivan recognized the
whirling sticks the Tengu described, as
belonging to Dulcea, whom he described as a "miserable, manipulating,
loathsome she-devil of a witch."
Dulcea later watched in owl form as the Rangers teleported
away from the monolith after
obtaining the Great Power.
There appeared to be
white cuffs on Dulcea's owl legs.
MMPR: The Movie (early script
revision from 10/31/94)
During Ivan Ooze's
rule of Earth six thousand years ago, a rebel
factor known as the Order of the Meledon
eventually lured Ivan into a hyperlock chamber; in the
final revision of the movie, Zordon would
describe those who trapped Ivan as a group
of young warriors like the Rangers.
According to legend, the Master Warrior on Phaedos was the only person who knew the
secrets of the Great Power.
Dulcea had a pet anteater creature named
Snoggle which could talk in an alien language.
The Great
Power originated in another time and another dimension, brought to
Phaedos long ago by the Nathadians, a people
whose only surviving descendant was Dulcea; they had built the great
monolith to protect the Power.
According to Dulcea, the only way to obtain the
Great Power was to achieve the
highest state of being, by learning the ancient art of Ninjetti, the genesis of what
would be known as the Ninja on Earth; it was
the perfect union of mind, body and spirit.
In the language of the Nathadians, "Nin" stood
for "man" and "jetti" stood for "animal"; thus, "Ninjetti" was man and animal,
together as one.
Dulcea and Zordon had
both belonged to an interstellar peacekeeping force known as the Order of the Meledon.
As a member of the Order of
the Meledon, Zordon was widely regarded
as the finest commander in the galaxy, a true legend; if not for him,
Dulcea told the teens, the universe would be a very different place.
Over time, the Order's enemies were defeated,
and Dulcea returned to Phaedos, while Zordon moved on to continue the struggle
elsewhere; prior to modern day, Dulcea hadn't heard from Zordon for centuries.
Dulcea said that Zordon was always an inspiration and that if he
died, a piece of all of them would die, and the force of good within the universe would be dealt an irreparable blow.
"Dulcea."
Updated 5/7/05.
Edited by Joe Rovang. Content owned by Disney, used without permission.
