Umi Sonoda



Knasty Knight was an evil knight summoned by Rita Repulsa to attack Zack on his birthday. He was one of the most powerful of Rita's monsters, used to eliminate many who opposed her. The Knasty Knight was featured on Page 12 of Finster's monster book. After Rita saw the Knight's picture, she remembered how effective Knasty Knight was used on Tarmac 3 and that he made "mince meat out of their finest warrior." Later that night, Finster and Baboo helped to forge the Knight's sword on Earth, which Finster said could cut through any material in the universe and possessed great magical powers. While Finster finished the sword, Rita summoned Nasty Knight with an incantation:

"Moon of ivory, stars of old, candlelight that's spun of gold... sky of fire, wind of fright, bring to me a Knasty Knight!"

After the sword hovered in the air and a tree split in half, the Knasty Knight appeared and took his sword in hand. The next day, Knasty Knight was sent out to attack the lone Black Ranger and they had a lengthy fight, which Rita, Baboo and Squatt watched on Earth. Black Ranger was attacked by Knasty Knight, and then Goldar, until the other Rangers arrived to help. Knasty Knight's sword attacks were also greatly resilient to the Rangers' Power Weapons, damaging them with a coating of black crust. Knasty Knight also blocked the Rangers' Tower Formation attack and sent it back at them. When Knasty Knight became giant-sized by Rita's wand, he even disabled the Megazord's Power Sword by taking away its energy. Rita looked on and instructed Knasty Knight on how to finish Megazord. However, Zack discovered that Knasty Knight was using the Rangers' energy against them. The Rangers managed to reverse this process by deflecting the Knight's energy back at him, as well as using some of their own energy. The Megazord was able to recover, restore the damaged Power Sword to normal and then Megazord used it to destroy Knasty Knight. Following the Knight's destruction, Rita fled back to her palace.

Knasty Knight appeared as the boss of the second level in the Game Gear "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" video game. He becomes a playable character later in the Link game and Versus mode game.

Scenes of the Black Ranger's fight with Knasty Knight appear in flashback in the episode "Island of Illusion, Part II" when Quagmire urges Zack to remember the time when he fought and beat Knasty Knight to keep from disappearing into nothingness.