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This article is about an evil Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

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"Lord Goldar."

―Fake Billy's first words upon being created and addressed by Goldar.^[src]

"You wouldn't dare."

―Fake Billy reacting to all six morphed Power Rangers and his final words before his destruction.^[src]

A clone of Billy Cranston who also used the Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger powers who served as the titular main antagonist of the Season 2 finale "Blue Ranger Gone Bad".

History[]

The clone is created from a statue crafted by Billy's arts and crafts partner, Violet and given the mission of impersonating Billy to steal the Power Morphers and leave the Rangers helpless against an attack.

To this end, the Putty Patrol attack the Rangers and Lord Zedd uses some vines to wrap up and take him to the Dark Dimension. He then reveals himself to Billy before joining back up with the other Rangers and playing along as his counterpart to gain the others' trust.

However, the other Rangers begin to suspect something was wrong when Billy uncharacteristically begins lifting weights at the Youth Center with no prompting. In the meantime, Fake Billy rounded up the Morphers and put them in a backpack before leaving under the pretence of lifting more weights.

Their suspicions were fully raised when Fake Billy refused to let Kimberly have her communicator (which he had taken under the pretense of needing to adjust them) and they realized that this wasn't really Billy. With the jig up, Goldar was forced to deploy with the Putties and Billy turns against his "friends" before fleeing with their Morphers. Kimberly snatches the bag and a fight ensues between them, Goldar, the Putties, and Fake Billy which ends with Fake Billy regaining the bag.

However, Billy returns (having escaped from the force field he was trapped in by using a disc he has to reflect the beam back at the projector) and they have a wrestling match over the Morpher-filled bag which ends with both morphing into the Blue Ranger. They are initially confused over who was who but Kimberly reveals the fake by asking what the hologram disc is (Fake Billy answering a mirror). They morph and take the clone out for good with their combined Blade Blasters and Saba's eye blasts. Fake Billy manages to deflect several bolts with his hand but they get through and he is hit several times before warping into red energy and vanishing forever.

Personality[]

Fake Billy was a very evil and psychotic villain, intent on destroying all of the Power Rangers and clearly sadistic since he reveled in the idea of the real Billy being trapped in an eternal sleep. Like all other villains, he remained deeply loyal to Lord Zedd. He was, however, not a great actor since he failed to convince the Rangers that he was Billy which was his eventual downfall.