 This article is about an item in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
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- "(Lord Zedd): I have the perfect tool to shatter the Black Ranger’s confidence! The Mirror of Regret.
(Goldar): Of course your evilness! What is the Mirror of Regret?
(Lord Zedd): Fool! Must I explain everything to you?! It is a window into the scenes of less confident days. Scenes to shatter the Black Ranger’s confidence." - ―The Evil Space Aliens regarding the Mirror of Regret.[src]
The Mirror of Regret
The Mirror of Regret was a magical mirror that made its only appearance as a major plot device in the episode of the same name.
History[]
Adam is acting as a tutor to a young bullied karate student named Shawn who has self-esteem and confidence issues. Lord Zedd decides to sabotage this by ruining his confidence with the Mirror of Regret via Goldar.
Said mirror is, as Zedd puts it, "a window into the scenes of less confident days." Anyone exposed to it for a significant amount of time would have their confidence drained out of them like a plughole in a bath tub. The only way to reverse the effects is for the victim to regain their confidence themselves without anyone else's help.
As Adam mentors Shawn in Angel Grove Park, Zedd sends Goldar and the Putty Patrol to ambush Adam in the park. They arrive shortly after Shawn leaves and Adam decides to pack up and leave with Goldar having snuck up on him. Even so, Adam believes that Goldar cannot defeat him so the latter sends in his Putties to teach the Black Ranger a lesson.
Though he slays many of them, which includes a now infamous bit where the Putties are so pathetic that Adam manages to defeat eight of them in a tug of war, Goldar blinds Adam by throwing up mist with his sword which allows him to summon the Mirror and show him a memory of him not being picked for kickball. Adam is unfazed by this but Goldar has two Putties restrain Adam and force him to look into the Mirror of Regret and watch a bully call him a pipsqueak which has a profoundly detrimental effect on Adam.
Seeing a high chance of success, Zedd creates the Skelerena monster who he sends with an army of Putties to destroy the other Power Rangers. However, the Mirror of Regret eventually shows Shawn doing well which helps him regain his confidence, breaking the spell. Breaking free of the Putties, Adam then destroys them and Goldar has to retreat with the Mirror of Regret which he then presumably placed into storage in the Moon Palace.
With Adam's confidence restored and Goldar sent packing, he morphs and joins up with the others which allows them to summon their brand new Power Cannon to finish off Skelerena. 
TV STORY-Mirror of Regret
The ultimate fate of the Mirror of Regret is unknown but it was presumably destroyed at the beginning of Power Rangers Zeo when the Moon Palace was gutted by the Machine Empire.