Kimberly Hart
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| Kimberly Hart | |
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| From Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers | |
| Title(s) | Pink Power Ranger Pink Ninja Ranger |
| First appearance | Day of the Dumpster (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) |
| Last appearance | Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (Power Rangers: Turbo) |
| Status | Retired |
| Affiliations/Relatives | None |
| Homeworld | Earth |
| Weapons/Gear | Power Morpher Pterodactyl Power Coin Crane Ninja Coin Power Bow Power Cannon (shared w/ Other Rangers) Pterodactyl Thunder Whip (movie only |
| Vehicles | Pink Shark Cycle |
| Zords | Pterodactyl Dinozord Firebird Thunderzord Crane Ninjazord White Shogunzord (shared w/ Tommy) |
| Portrayed by | Amy Jo Johnson (teenager and adult) Maxxe Sternbaum (child) |
Kimberly Ann Hart (commonly referred to as just Kim) was a fictional character in the Power Rangers universe. She was played by actress Amy Jo Johnson (teen/young adult) and Maxxe Sternbaum (young girl).
She was also played by Johnson in the pre-television pilot as "Kimberly" (the second name didn't come until the TV series).
Kimberly was one of the original five Power Rangers chosen by Zordon when Rita Repulsa attacked Earth following her release from containment. Kimberly received the Pterodactyl Power Coin and became the Pink Power Ranger. She was a capable gymnast and would later show that she also has some musical and artistic talent.
She was an avid gardener, which would lead to her being in charge of designing Angel Grove High's float for a parade. Kimberly once, in the early episode "Different Drum", taught an aerobics class while using American Sign Language to interpret for a student with a disability.
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[edit] Character history
[edit] In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Kimberly starts the series as a typical valley girl, but with a heightened awareness for her friends. Throughout the series, she is the member of the team most likely to fire off a sarcastic or witty retort. Though as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers progresses, she becomes a more friendly and kind hearted person.
Skull, one of the local bullies, had a crush on her until she became involved with Tommy. However in season 3, it is shown that Skull still had some feelings for Kimberly when she was placed under a spell that made her—albeit briefly—reject Tommy.
All the members of the team possessed unique fighting styles. She used a blend of gymnastic maneuvers followed by punches, elbows and kicks. She often used the environment around her as a springboard for her attacks. Kimberly was often called upon to finish off monsters with physically visible weaknesses such as the Terror Toad's second mouth once he had been weakened by losing his horn and the Snizzard’s golden apple on top of its head.
As Jason, Trini and Zack left the team and Rocky, Aisha and Adam joined the team, Kimberly became second-in-command to Tommy
Midway through the third season (1995), Amy Jo Johnson requested that Kimberly was written off the show. The character was accommodated with a 10-episode story arc focused on Kimberly, leading up to her departure. Kimberly was replaced by Katherine Hillard, played by Catherine Sutherland. The veteran Ranger was targeted for elimination when Katherine (aka "Kat"), under Rita's spell, stole her power coin, granting her access to the Ninjazords.
The coin being in the hands of evil also served to drain Kimberly of her life force as the Ninja Powers were linked directly to the life of the Ranger, unlike the Dinosaur-based power set. To take advantage of this, Rita launched a campaign to keep Kim overexerted in battle, knowing that, at the same time, she was focusing all of her personal time to gymnastics training for the Pan Globals. Her coach, the famous Gunthar Schmidt, grew increasingly impatient with Kimberly's apparent lack of dedication to her training. On one occasion, Kimberly trained late at Ernie's Gym and Juice Bar after hours and, depleted, she fell from atop the balance beam. She is discovered unconscious on the floor by Katherine which overrides the evil spell she is under. Katherne calls '911' and Kimberly is hospitalized. She recovered, but almost abandoned her gymnastics training after that, until she is encouraged to go back to it. In a turn of events, Katherine took a dramatic approach to inspiring Kimberly to pursue gymnastics again by revealing to Kimberly a scrapbook of her own athletic achievements in the sport of high diving. After hitting her head on the board, she gave up on the sport, just short of her entrance into the Olympics. Katherine lured Kimberly to a local pool where she arrived just in time to see Katherine perform a fearful, yet expert high dive for her first time in years. This, and Zordon's declaration that her recruitment as a Ranger is over, prompts Kimberly to leave in order to train full-time with Gunthar Schmidt.
Tommy Oliver, played by Power Rangers veteran Jason David Frank, was Kimberly's boyfriend and the two shared many dates and tender moments. Unfortunately for him, during Season four of the Power Rangers series, titled Power Rangers Zeo, Kimberly later met someone else while pursuing her athletic career, and broke up with him in a dear John letter.
In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, the Pink Ranger suit was modified with metal and PVC plating and a new helmet design, as well as no skirt.
[edit] In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
The character of Kimberly appeared in this movie. Due to the alternate timeline of this movie, it is unknown whether Kimberly had control of the Pteradacty Dinozord, or the Firebird Thunderzord, although she still had the Pteradactyl Power Coin. She also used a weapon not existent of the show: the Pteradactyl thunder whip. Kimberly was depowered by Ivan Ooze and had to travel to Phaedos. There she gained the power of the ninjetti and the Crane Ninjazord.
[edit] In Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
Kimberly returned briefly during Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, when she and Jason Lee Scott (another of the original Rangers that had since left the group) are captured by Divatox while scuba diving and sacrificed to Maligore, Divatox's fiancé. As a result, the ex-Rangers became evil. Tommy was deeply troubled by this and took off his helmet, hoping Kimberly would remember him. After being cured, she helped the Turbo Rangers take on the villains.
[edit] Monsters Defeated by Kimberly
- The Terror Toad:Kimberly shot three arrows from her power bow into Terror Toad's neck, making him fall over and releases the four swallowed rangers from his mouth in the form of energy spheres. The Terror Toad was later destroyed by her Power Bow's arrow.
- Snizzard:It was then that Kimberly arrived and saved her teammates. After defeating a group of Putties that Snizzard had summoned, Kimberly slew the reptilian monster by firing an arrow of her own into his Zapper Apple.
- Evil Pink Duplicate Ranger: After the duplicate ranger fooled Trini in attacking Kimberly she fired an arrow from her Power Bow, and defeated it.
- Evil Pink Mutant Ranger: Kimberly continued to fire arrows from her power bow, the the other ranger's finally finished them all off with ther power blaster.
- Bloom of Doom:Trini frees her by launching her daggers at a 90-degree trajectory course, shattering the dimension and releasing both Kimberly and the monster. Kimberly, freed of the evil spell, teams up with Trini, and pummeled the monster.
- Guitardo:Once Kimberly shows up, she helps Tommy and they combine Kimberly's power bow (now strung like a harp) with Tommy's Dragon Dagger. Kimberly blasts the Dragon Dagger straight into Guitardo, obliterating him.
- Artist Mole:Kimberly finally arrived and destroyed the creature's palette, along with the monster itself, causing the colors to return to the Rangers and Ninjor.
| Preceded by none |
Pink Ranger 1993-1995 |
Succeeded by Kat Hillard |
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