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Professor Phenomenus
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- eccentric (if not schizophrenic) brilliant scientist; on a quest to hunt down aliens; resident of Mirinoi (since 744-End2)
603-SOSh
The day after seeing the Dark Fortress in the night sky, Bulk read about Professor Phenomenus, an expert on
aliens, in the newspaper.
Later, in the middle of nowhere, Bulk and Skull talked with Phenomenus
through a customized mailbox with contraptions on it, reading
"Phenomenus Ingenious Inc."
At the mention of aliens, the Professor screeched up to Bulk and Skull in his modified purple RV,
which had an Angel Grove license plate of "E=mc2".
The Professor had brown eyes.
The Professor often wore a cranial device with a
microphone extending from it; like almost all of his inventions, the
device was covered with thick diagonal yellow and black lines.
The Professor excitedly recruited Bulk and Skull, giving them lab coats, after
hearing their experience of nobody believing their UFO sighting and
being called crazy.
On the side of the Professor's RV was,
"Phenomenus Ingenious Inc." and the quote: "Universal dispersal of alien intruders."
Later, the Professor stopped the RV outside a NASADA guard booth, and Bulk and Skull assumed he'd brilliantly
stopped there because of their top-secret alien
spacecraft or their satellites and telescopes the size of cannons, but
he had actually stopped because of a flat tire.
Suddenly, the Professor's alien detector inside the RV went off, and the
three looked under the RV as the Professor called out, "There! Aliens!" while using the chirping striped wand
device.
Skull told the Professor
it was a NASADA sign, and the Professor replied
with what would be his trademark reply, "Perhaps to the untrained eye!"
Bulk asked the Professor
if he was sure he was a world-renowned
scientist, asking for some I.D., but three Quantrons suddenly appeared in front of the
sign, startling them but making the Professor laugh.
605-NvSS
Driving down a road,
the Professor told Bulk and Skull that
there were aliens right here on Earth, a concept which intrigued them, yet why they
would've found this unusual after five straight years of attacks from evil space aliens is unclear.
The Professor explained that the aliens came as seedling aliens, eggs which grew larger with "each breath
of the horrible creatures' insides," then one day broke out and
attacked.
The Professor stopped and had himself, Bulk, and Skull explore a
watermelon patch, where he thought a watermelon was an alien pod; when Bulk
pointed out that it was just a watermelon, the Professor laughed,
"Perhaps to the untrained eye!"
After getting a watermelon, the Professor shook
it and yelled for the evil alien to come out,
then said they'd take it back to the lab for molecular analysis.
As Bulk held the
watermelon, he thought it moved, and the Professor warned him to hold it
away in case the alien popped out and latched
onto his face.
The Professor used a stethoscope and said he
heard a heartbeat and thought it was scratching to come out; in a panic,
Bulk threw the watermelon into the air, making it
splatter onto his head, and the Professor laughed triumphantly upon
discovering it was seedless.
607-ARAT
In a park near
some very large power lines, the Professor set down a bowl of celery and
carrots, then ran back to hide in a trash can beside which Bulk and Skull were in cans of their own on
their stakeout in which the Professor thought a rabbit was an alien; Skull's skepticism
was met with a laugh of, "Perhaps to the untrained eye!"
After sanitation workers had dumped old food into
their three bins, the Professor declared, "This is the price you pay for
science!"
Later, Skull was asleep
when the rabbit approached the bowl of food, and the Professor began to
creep up on the "furry little alien" but turned
back to shh his assitants as Bulk was harassing
Skull to wake him up; while the Professor's back
was turned, Voltage Hog
appeared near the rabbit, making it hop away.
Seeing the monster now having taken the place of
the rabbit, Bulk and Skull were
terrified, and as they fled, Bulk dragged a
reluctant Professor away to the RV.
Some time later, Skull,
impressed that the Professor had known the rabbit was an alien, said he'd never doubt him again.
In the RV, the Professor was examining a small
vial when Bulk grabbed it and shook it teasingly;
in a panic, the Professor shouted to be careful, as it would explode if
spilled.
608-WPCS
Downtown in front of a large glass skyscraper,
standing with a microphone near his RV and some equipment, the Professor
told a growing crowd of reporters and onlookers:
"I have developed the most powerful plutonium fuel ever made!"
The Professor unveiled a rodlike canister with
clear blue liquid inside its transparent rod.
The Professor said that with the fuel, he would
send his two assistants up into the universe
to find aliens.
Bulk and Skull
emerged from behind the RV in silver spacesuits with white helmets, with
their nicknames in large print; on one side of the suits was a striped
rectangle.
When asked by a reporter
whether it was true that the canister could destroy the entire city if it broke open, the Professor said yes,
but that it would be safe in his laboratory at the top of the skyscraper
behind them.
Gesturing, the Professor accidentally knocked the
canister off its podium, making everyone scream in terror, but Bulk fumbled and eventually caught it.
A reporter asked how he
would protect the fuel from those who would use it for evil purposes,
and another asked again if the fuel was safe; the Professor, only
answering the latter question, replied, "Completely."
Later, Elephantitan began headbutting
the skyscraper to knock it over and destroy the city.
Seeking shelter from falling ceiling debris a
while after everyone else in the restaurant also at the top of the
building had fled, Cassie and her date Lenny went through a wooden door,
on which were a bright yellow sign reading, "Caution: Radioactive
Materials," and a normal door sign reading, "Plutonium Room."
In the room, which was probably part of the
Professor's lab, was a large tank with digital controls, with a striped
sign reading, "Radioactive Plutonium Reactor."
After the tank's alarm sounded, and a display
flashed "Overheating," Lenny
realized in a panic that the door had locked them in, and he started
yelling for help, but no one was around.
Soon, the Professor's RV drove up beside the
building, and the three got out and looked up, with the Professor
distraught over his plutonium fuel as the Blue and Black Rangers were failing to stop Elephantitan from still trying
to push the building over.
After a while, the reactor began sparking and
leaking white gas, then later, as it continued sparking, it leaked
glowing blue gas.
The plutonium area was a part of a larger
warehouse-like area.
The Rangers' Megatank carefully removed the
plutonium canister from its reactor and poured neutralizer over it which
made its contents stop glowing.
Bulk, Skull, and the
Professor, having hidden behind the RV as giant Elephantitan pushed the
skyscraper over onto them, were somehow unhurt afterward, as was the RV,
despite all of them being covered in rubble.
The Professor was less enthusiastic about
surviving than Bulk and Skull, probably
due to his being distressed over the destruction of his lab and his
plutonium fuel.
Beside the rubble of the skyscraper, rubble from
which Bulk, Skull, and
the Professor were emerging, Cassie met up with
the four Rangers; she stood in front of
the Rangers and angrily shouted up at the
monster, "All right, you've caused me a lot of trouble!" then summoned
her Morpher and morphed to give him some trouble in
return.
609-CrIn
One night, the Professor had the RV parked by a
fence downtown, and he told Bulk that with these
inventions they could hear everything that was happening in all of Angel Grove, especially concerning aliens; the two of them wore striped headphone
inventions with small dishes extending from either earpiece.
The Professor told Skull
to turn it up, and when Skull did from the back
of the RV, the feedback hurt the Professor's and Bulk's ears.
Afterward, the Professor looked into the sky,
startled while Bulk didn't see whatever it was,
and then used a viewing device to look into the sky and shouted,
"Invasion!!" and rushed into the RV.
Bulk looked into the
viewer and saw the thousands of parachuting Craterites descending into the city; the Professor then sped away, dragging
Bulk by the headphones.
The next day, the RV was parked in a plaza
downtown as the Professor worked on an invention to catch the aliens, saying once the invention was done there
would be nowhere to hide.
Later, after the Rangers had destroyed the Craterites, Bulk
and Skull rushed into the Surf Spot with
the Professor's invention, connected to the RV outside with a long
cable.
To the crowd, perhaps directed toward the teens, Bulk shouted that
they knew who they really were, and Skull told
the "sinister space aliens" to show themselves,
or, Bulk said, they'd blast them with their space
alien stripper and reveal their true
identities.
As Bulk held out the
device, large bubbles from the device dissolved his and Skull's clothes, leaving them only in underwear,
and they ran out as everyone laughed.
610-Wasp
In the woods,
Sting King scolded Waspicable for picking flowers
rather than being evil; meanwhile, elsewhere in the woods, the Professor observed a beehive and was sure it
was an alien pod.
Bulk was awed, but Skull told the Professor with annoyance that it was
a beehive, making the Professor laugh, "Perhaps to the untrained eye!"
Wearing gloves and a helmet, the Professor
carefully took down the beehive and then shouted for the evil space alien inside to come out; he suddenly cried out
that it lived but, realizing there were bees inside, threw it down and
ran away with Bulk and Skull.
As they soon rested behind a tree, with Bulk a bit exasperated as the Professor laughed
heartily that they'd outrun them, Skull shouted:
"You said they were aliens! You wouldn't know
aliens if they came up to you and said--"; just
then, Waspicable said to them,
"Hello, boys."
Terrified, the three ran, and Waspicable amusedly fired several
eyeblasts at the ground behind them and delightedly chased after them,
calling out for them to wait for him.
At the RV, the Professor fumbled with his keys to
unlock the door as Waspicable
approached and blasted near them, remarking if "they" wanted evil, he'd
show them evil.
When Waspicable charged, they ran
around to the other side of the van; when the monster looked under the
van and then leapt out at them, just their stiff pants and shoes
remained, and they were sneaking away pantsless, but they screamed once
they were discovered.
Waspicable told them to go ahead
and run some more, as this was great, at which point Pink Ranger leapt in and kicked
the monster back.
Looking back to tell the three she'd take over
from here, Pink Ranger quickly
covered her visor and apologized, telling them she wasn't looking.
Bulk and Skull ran
with Bulk carrying a reluctant Professor who was
shouting that that was his alien.
612-GrEv
Outside a fenced-in area was a Phenomenus
Ingenious Inc. mailbox, flag up, with a keypad attached to it; on the
fence were "Flammable," "Oxidizer," and "Radioactive Materials" warning
signs.
Inside the fence was a table setup with various
inventions on it; beyond that was a building, in front of which was the
Professor's RV.
The Professor prepared to test an a small
double-barreled invention which Astronema
would call an Evilyzer; he told Bulk and Skull that with the device they
could give anything an attitude.
The Professor had Skull
place a three-wheeled robot toy on the table, and the Professor
considered, "Good or evil?" with Bulk and
Skull mischievously excited.
The dial was initially turned to "Good," but the
Professor turned it to "Evil," saying, "Let's see how evil we can make
it."
After the Professor had delivered a dose of green
energy waves to the toy, nothing seemed to have happened, but then the
robot face contorted into a grimace, and it spoke threateningly to them;
frigthened, they fled into the RV, but the toy drove off the table and
flew into the RV after them.
Outside, Ecliptor,
probably unnoticed, took the Evilyzer and
walked off with it.
Later, in a field of tall plants, perhaps corn,
Bulk, Skull, and the
Professor took a break from their running; they pretended not to be
afraid, but the toy drove up to them and laughed at the idea that they'd
thought they could get rid of him that easily, and the three ran
screaming in the direction from which they'd come.
625-AACh
In section 4-C of a top secret laboratory
somewhere, Quantrons stood in the control
room as the scientists were all unconscious; Lizwizard sucked up information
from both the scientists and the computers through his long tongue,
which was plugged into an interface port using a printer cable-like plug
at the end of his tongue.
After Lizwizard had uploaded all of the
top secret data to the Dark Fortress's
computer, Astronema was pleased that Lizwizard could now build the
"grand weapon" and she could control the Earth,
but he was missing a key piece of information which he then sought from
Professor Phenomenus, whom he knew by name.
At a compound somewhere (with "poison" bins
outside), the Professor, Bulk, and Skull emerged from the RV to set up something or
perhaps work on the RV's trailer; they were suddenly chased by Lizwizard; during the chase, the
monster shouted, "Come on, Professor. Just consider it a science
experiment!"
Once the three had stopped and were cowering, Lizwizard fired two green warning
blasts near them.
Lizwizard told them to relax, as
they wouldn't feel anything.
Black
Ranger leapt down, landing between the three and Lizwizard; he had them run and
then proceeded to fight the monster, doing poorly against the monster's
tongue attack and invisibility.
626-SOLk
The Rangers fought
giant Batarax in the Astro Megazord; the monster told them their
defenses were useless and then emitted a steady sonic blast from the
speakers in his ears, paralyzing and weakening the Megazord.
As the Megazord
nearly collapsed, the monster's signal was suddenly neutralized; Batarax looked down toward the
ground and planned to change frequencies, and the Megazord's display showed red sonic beams
coming from giant Batarax and
blue sonic beams hitting him from a device atop a van, quite probably
Professor Phenomenus's RV.
As giant Batarax reached down toward the
unseen van, the Megazord caught his arm
with the Astro Megazord Saber in
whip form, then blasted out the speakers in his ears with the Astro Megazord Blaster.
629-DSR1
Bulk, Skull, and the Professor were at a campsite at
night with the Professor looking at the stars with a telescope, hoping
to spot a UFO; meanwhile, Bulk and Skull
were roasting marshmallows.
The Professor spotted an enormous asteroid
heading for Earth, thrilling Bulk and Skull, but the Professor explained
that this asteroid would destroy everything, as its force would be
equivalent to several hydrogen bombs, and the impact would make the Earth as they knew it cease to exist.
At this point, the Professor hurried his
screaming assistants to the RV.
The next day, as General
Norquist was being driven out of NASADA,
the Professor watched with his viewer device and, as the car prepared to
pass by, drove the RV out from its hiding place in the bushes, blocking
the car's path.
The driver, in camouflage fatigues, and the two
uniformed guards held the three back as the Professor shouted about
having to see the commander, and as Bulk and
Skull shouted about a national - no, world -
emergency, Norquist curiously got out and asked
about the emergency.
The Professor said there was an asteroid heading
straight for Earth, but Norquist seemed skeptical.
Later, following General
Norquist's announcement to the world that an
asteroid capable of wiping out life on the planet was headed for Earth, a channel 6 reporter asked the Professor,
incorrectly pronouncing his name "Phenonemus," what their viewers should
be doing if the world was on the brink of
destruction; his reply was to panic, and Bulk
and Skull did so.
Soon, people were running everywhere in panic,
and military personnel were trotting alongside the personnel truck at NASADA, with the Professor, Bulk, and Skull trotting
behind them before the three stopped.
The Professor saw a sign pointing to a restricted
area where an experimental spacecraft was located, and when a
loudspeaker called all guards to report to area C, making two uniformed
guards leave, the three went to the experimental spacecraft area.
The Professor soon beheld the large Saturn V-like
rocket on a launchpad nearby and planned to blast off into space before the asteroid hit.
The Professor, Bulk, and
Skull got into the rocket from its gantry, and
the rocket quickly lifted off.
630-DSR2
In the desert,
the Professor, Bulk, and Skull had crashed their rocket but had survived the
crash unharmed, thinking they were on an alien planet.
Bulk, Skull, and the Professor found a payphone with a
shoe on the phone; they looked over a rock formation and were
disappointed to find a town in the distance, realizing they were still
on Earth.
Frightwing leapt in and
confronted the three, telling them his name and that Astronema had sent him to destroy them once and
for all; he then chased them, calling them Power Rangers.
The three soon came to a rock wall dead end;
panicking, Bulk and Skull tried to have
the monster take the Professor.
Suddenly, the six Rangers got in front of the three and told
the monster to stay where he was after he'd been blasted.
Standing amongst the Rangers, the Professor boldly told the
monster, "These, by the way, are the Power
Rangers, and you are about to get your behind kicked!"; he then made
crazy gestures and took an offensive stance, at which point the Rangers, Bulk, and Skull all posed with him simultaneously.
Bulk, Skull, and the Professor hid behind a rock while
the Rangers fought Frightwing.
Yellow
Ranger loudly called out Carlos's name when
Black Ranger was knocked
down.
After Red
Ranger's Silver-boosted
flying kick, the Satellasers
enlarged Frightwing, and the
Rangers summoned the Mega Voyager.
Once the Winged Mega
Voyager had destroyed giant Frightwing in midair with the Mega V-3 missile mode, the Professor, Bulk, and Skull cheered and
met up with the six Rangers to thank
them.
When Blue
Ranger asked what the three had been doing out in the desert, they laughed weakly, and the
Professor told them he couldn't answer that.
Red
Ranger offered the three a lift back to town; soon, the excited
Professor sat on the red Galaxy Glider
with Red Ranger behind him; the
Professor laughed and gave Red
a thumbs up.
Once Red
Ranger had called out, "Galaxy
Gliders," and Silver,
"Hang ten!" the Professor laughed, and Bulk
and Skull were nervous, as the gliders flew them away.
638-MTSC
After the Vacsacker monster had appeared in
the plaza downtown, causing people to flee, Bulk,
Skull, and Professor Phenomenus confronted him,
with Bulk telling him to hold it right there.
Bulk and Skull
were dressed as punks, but the Professor was dressed in a brown zoot
suit.
Bulk, telling the monster
not to make him use this, was wielding a striped gun-shaped device with
two thin barrels, but the Professor informed him that it was his new
toaster rather than an alien blaster; it was a striped toaster attached
to a blaster handle.
Vacsacker shot a red ray from his
cannon arm, making the three vanish, and he then started beaming away
crowds of fleeing people as well, sending them all to Astronema's Secret
City.
639-Ghst
In a control room, Astronema had Quantrons bring in the guinea pigs, and they
brought in the Professor, Bulk, and Skull; the control room wasn't visible through an
opaque viewing window from the testing room where the three were
located.
Astronema fed in
three data cards and activated
the Data Laser, a beam apparatus
which lowered and then dissolved them with a red ray which scanned them
onto the data cards.
Later in the control room, Silver Ranger opened a file
cabinet drawer which contained hundreds of data cards all lined up;
quickly figuring out the computer, he proceeded to restore everyone with
the blue ray after his first three test subjects, which turned out to be
Bulk, Skull, and
Professor Phenomenus.
The Professor reassured his assistants, saying
they had been changed into data
cards by aliens and almost transformed into mindless zombies, but
they were okay now; Bulk and Skull
appeared overwhelmed.
643-CTD2
The night after Astronema had conquered the Earth and told the people of Angel Grove to bring her the hiding Rangers or she would destroy the planet the next morning, a small group of
survivors, guarded by a Quantron standing
somewhere in the general area, huddled around a fire and talked about
having to do something about the situation; among them were Bulk, Skull, and the
Professor.
Frustrated the next morning by the people not
having brought forth the Rangers, Astronema planned to let the destruction of Earth begin, but Bulk cried
out for her to wait.
Boldly emerging from the crowd, Bulk declared that he was the Blue Ranger; after Skull and the Professor had looked at each other,
surprised, Skull mustered his courage and
stepped forward, declaring that he was the Black Ranger, and the Professor
joined in by declaring that he was the Red Ranger.
Now more and more people came forward, calling
themselves Rangers as well; this
frustrated Astronema to the point of having
her forces attack.
701-QsQ1
Upwards of a year after 643-CTD2,
Professor Phenomenus stood with Bulk at the front
of one of numerous lines of people clamoring to get one of the last shuttle flights to Terra Venture before its departure.
The Professor told the agent looking at his open
passport, "Of course it's real! I am one
of the most acclaimed astronomers of all time!"; Bulk was not nervous, so it's unlikely Phenomenus
was running a scam, or at least not one Bulk knew
about.
Instead of paying attention to the ticketing
process, Bulk was thinking that they'd forgotten
something; meanwhile, Skull had slept through
the ringing of his alarm clock.
Bulk and the Professor
were elated as they took back their accepted passports.
After their flight, apparently the second to last
flight from Angel Grove, Bulk was still sure they'd forgotten something, and
the Professor searched his bag and found toothpaste, underwear (tie-dyed
boxer shorts), and a green bottle of "anti-alien gel," at which point
the two suddenly screamed as they realized they'd forgotten Skull.
The two remained where they were, sobbing, for a
while.
717-StlB
Bulk and Professor
Phenomenus worked behind the counter of the Comet Cafe, both wearing brown
outfits which seemed African in design.
Mike had thought the two
were in the Science Division, and
the Professor replied that they had been, but they obviously hadn't been
ready for intelligence of their caliber; Bulk,
rolling his eyes, said they'd been canned.
744-End2
As legions of Stingwingers terrorized people who were
being evacuated to shuttles
after the city dome's crash on Mirinoi's moon, Bulk and
Professor Phenomenus were among the fleeing people, both in their brown
Comet Cafe robes.
After they'd landed on Mirinoi, Bulk and
Professor Phenomenus shrieked happily and hugged; Phenomenus exclaimed
they'd made it, wherever they were.
745-End3
As people ran screaming in the direction the city dome was traveling on its collision
course, Professor Phenomenus pulled Bulk away to
flee.
As people ran screaming through the camp, the
Professor frantically pulled on Bulk as the city dome roared overhead.
When the Rangers
leapt down after surviving the crash of the city dome (slowed by the Galaxy Megazord), everyone rushed forward
to congratulate them; Pink
Ranger and Bulk immediately hugged.
Bulk and Professor
Phenomenus were excited, and Bulk high-fived with
Pink Ranger.
Other Sources
The following bio (perhaps referring to the
period between 702-QsQ2 and 717-StlB during which Bulk and Phenomenus worked in the Science Division) comes from the Fox Kids website:
This scatterbrained professor has boundless energy and enthusiasm. He
helps the Power Rangers by providing
scientific insight to their intergalactic problems. He is often found
conducting seemingly crazy experiments to find answers to the Rangers' latest dilemma.
"Professor Phenomenus."
Updated 5/15/05.
Edited by Joe Rovang. Content owned by Disney, used without permission.
