Katherine Manx

Template:Infobox Power Rangers Katherine "Kat" Manx is a fictional character in the TV series Power Rangers: S.P.D..

History

Kat is the technical expert for Earth's S.P.D. and a master of many sciences. She is a humanoid alien of an Unknown world with feline features and, despite her youthful appearance, is 147 Earth years old. Kat serves as the chief technologist in S.P.D. and was responsible for the invention of all of Earth's S.P.D. technology, from the Judgment Scanner to the Delta Command Megazord. During all S.P.D. missions, she can be found in the Command Center running ops and providing scientific assistance to the Rangers.

Kat was part of the early days of Earth's SPD branch, when it was a top secret organisation in 2001. She was one of several scientists, along with the B-Squad's parents, who worked with highly energized chemicals that led to the B-Squad's mutations. Kat is also a good friend to Commander Cruger, though she considers him a "stubborn old dog", and provides a reasoned argument against his more emotional decision. When General Benaag captured her, Cruger accepted the Patrol Morpher that she had given him and became the Shadow Ranger.

Kat serves as a mentor to Boom, a reject from the academy. Despite his apparent ineptitude, her teaching turned him into a technical expert.

Although Kat is a scientist by trade, she is not helpless in the field . Her cat-like physiology makes her exceptionally agile, and she is a skilled fighter. She led the defense of the Space Patrol Delta Base against the final Troobian invasion.

In "Katastrophe," Kat was granted the use of her own (temporary) Delta Morpher (given to her by Commander Birdie) to become the Cat Ranger, making her the first female Other Ranger. The Cat Ranger costume is half-orange and half-white with cat-like ears, making her the first 8th Ranger and marking the first time that a Power Rangers team has had three female rangers on one team. Her powers expired after an hour. Her costume was similar to those of the B-Squad, but she did not have a number on her Ranger form like the other members of S.P.D. Instead, she had a heptagon as her chest symbol. As Cat Ranger, she created blinding auroras and threw feather-like "Cat Stunners".

Trivia

• Kat is the first Ranger to wear orange in reality (Boom imagined himself as an Orange Ranger).
• Kat is the first Ranger to share a name with a previous Ranger: Kat from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Power Rangers: Zeo and Power Rangers: Turbo
• Her Japanese counterpart in Dekaranger (the show that S.P.D. was based on) is patterned after a swan instead.
• The last name of Manx is an allusion to the Manx cat, a tailless breed of domestic cat.
• In the "The Power Rangers Want You" features on the SPD DVDs, it was stated her homeworld has been conquered by the Troobian Empire.