Putty Patroller

Putty Patrollers are artificially-created foot soldiers of Rita Repulsa, an alien sorceress who sought to conquer Earth, and combated the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Biology
Putty Patrollers are humanoids made from a clay-like substance put through a machine known as the Monster-Matic. They bear grey skin, with some black markings somewhat resembling cracks on their torsos. While most of their bodies appear somewhat soft, smooth, and spandex-like, they are as durable as stone, with enhanced strength as well. In addition, their hands and faces better resemble hard rock, with their faces sporting a permanently scowling expression and red eyes. Their bodies also have belts and boots built into them, and some Putties have spherical balls of rock or stone blades replacing one of their hands. Putties can also shapeshift to disguise as other lifeforms, such as Humans, which also allows them to speak the language of the species they transform into. Z Putty Patrollers, a modified version of the standard Putties, created by magical energy rather than the Monster-Matic, and bear an armored chest with a Z-shaped emblem. While significantly stronger than the standard Putties, and with the same abilities, Z Putty Patrollers could be instantly disintegrated by a sufficiently strong blow to their Z emblem, as it disrupted the energies that held them together.

Culture and society
Putties are loyal to their creators, ready to serve them in whatever task they need, usually functioning as foot soldiers and supporting far stronger alien monsters. While almost entirely identical in appearance, some Putties display distinct personalities, especially when disguised as another lifeform. No Putties carry true names, but some carry numerical designations, and some are specifically made or equipped to be thematically fitting for whatever monster they're sent to support. Putties have a language of garbled, incomprehensible sounds, although they become fluent in English when disguised as Humans. Additionally, they normally display bizarre behavior with strange, dance-like movements, but act a lot less erratically when disguised. In combat, Putties usually use nothing more than their fists, although they are capable of handling vehicles and other technologies.

History
Putty Patrollers were created by Finster, an alien sculptor who worked for Rita Repulsa, an evil sorceress who sought to conquer planets. On Earth, after 10,000 year imprisonment, Rita detected the disembodied Eltarian wizard Zordon creating a team of Human Power Rangers to defend the planet, and had Finster create a batch of Putties to attack the Rangers, where they morphed into their Ranger forms for the first time and defeated the Putties. Despite their initial failure, Rita continued to create and deploy Putties to fight the Ranger or otherwise harass them, as some of the sorceress' schemes ultimately became little more than bizarre antics.

On certain occasions, Putty Patrollers were modified to better fit the theme of the monster they supported, and even created "Super Putties," which had greater strength and were able to split into more Putties, although complete vaporization was able to permanently destroy them, and Rita presumably ran out of the substance needed to create them. After more failed attempts of trying to destroy the Power Rangers, Rita Repulsa was expelled to space by her superior, Lord Zedd, a corrupted Eltarian turned nobleman of the United Alliance of Evil. Zedd replaced Rita's standard Putties with a stronger version, the Z Putty Patrollers, who were created directly by his staff. Shortly after their creation, Zedd deployed the Z Putty Patrollers to Earth, where they were able to nearly overpower the Rangers, even after they morphed, with the Rangers only saved by the discovery of their weak point. Despite their glaring weakness, these Putties remained in use until the arrival of Rito Revolto, Rita's more monstrous yet dimwitted brother, arrived on the moon with Tenga Warrior eggs, with the avian soldiers replacing the Putties.

In 1998, Dark Specter, the alien monster in charge of the United Alliance of Evil, summoned all his forces to prepare for an assault on the known universe, where Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa, returned to his side and now married to him, were accompanied by Z Putty Patrollers. Later that year, Z Putty Patrollers were utilized in the United Alliance of Evil's assault on the Vica Galaxy, which was led by Zedd and Rita. However, during the invasion, Dark Specter was destroyed near Earth, and Zordon willingly had Red Space Ranger Andros destroy him, releasing his energy in a wave across galaxies. Zordon's energy wave instantly disintegrated most of the United Alliance of Evil's forces, including all remaining Putties, although Rita and Zedd were purified into Human-like forms.

While no more Putties were ever created, in 2020, a rhino-like alien criminal named Ryjack resurrected a squad of original Putty Patrollers to combat the Grid Battleforce Rangers, Earth's most prominent active Ranger team at the time. While Ryjack reasoned that the Putties would be effective due to their experience in fighting Rangers, they and the Vivix, another group of resurrected alien foot soldiers, were handled with ease by the Grid Battleforce Rangers. The resurrected Putties and Vivix were later used to dig a tunnel under the Grid Battleforce headquarters to access the Ranger vault, a stockpile of Power Ranger weapons and technologies from different teams. However, the Rangers catch them in the act, and, accompanied by Captain Chaku, an alien police officer hunting Ryjack, quickly destroy the Putties and Vivix with energy blasts, rendering the Putties utterly extinct.

Appearances

 * Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993)
 * Power Rangers Dino Thunder s01e04 "Legacy of Power"
 * Power Rangers Beast Morphers s02e10 "Intruder Alert!"
 * Power Rangers Beast Morphers s02e11 "The Greater Good"
 * Power Rangers Beast Morphers s02e12 "Finders Keepers"
 * Power Rangers Beast Morphers s02e13 "Grid Connection"