Trakeena (Patricia Heaton)

Trakeena in the 2012 reversion of  Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: The Rise of Trakeena ,is now portrayed by Patricia Heaton.

Power Rangers LG: The Rise of Trakeena
It was slated that it has been 10 years after the Lost Galaxy season (while being between with Lightspeed Rescueand its Ranger-teamup 2-parter ) when Trakeena was destroyed perminently. In 2010, Anthony Marsh, Jr, the fanantic behind his PRLG-subcontinuity, recreated the villainess somewhere "Under a very dark influence" making her a self-celebrity.

Appearence; within Power Rangers LG: The Rise of Trakeena
Marsh compared Trakeena to that of the Soulcalibur character Ivy (despite the character now sporting cleavage to her costume, unseen from the TV show ). Although, Trakeena is based on the Steerwoman Shelinda character from, Marsh decided to base her on Beauty Zonnette from Power Rangers: Turbo 's Sentai counterpart Gekisou Sentai Carranger. Trakeena is still in her original black insect costume but with the addition of cleavage (displaying half of her hanging breasts like Ivy in the Soulcalibur games). Her head doesn't sport her insectile head piece that she normally wears in the show (since it was dropped)- despite this film is a fan-made origin backstory of what happened after Lost Galaxy's 3-parter finale episode " Journey's End " .Marsh also made Trakeena akin to that of a drag-queen, sporting nothing but a sexual goth attire. Her makeup scheme is very stylized and sexually attracted, making her loosely akin to that of Harley Quinn (from the Batman comic books), and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. Lipstick color has changed throughout the film (including lip color shade, hue, effect, and tone) but Marsh liked the effect of putting glitter on her lips.

Trakeena also has a huge set of hair on her head. She likes it "messy, but a little stylish" and she has been wearing a wig. When wearing any makeup and/or drag queen-based images, her looks are barely sexually attracted. For a revision of her original black suit however, Marsh originally intended on recreating her costume as an influence to that of Ivy from the Soulcalibur games (though the Soul series of video games have nothing to do with Power Rangers) but he felt the character's appealed busty cleavage would make Trakeena much seductive and attractive (unlike Divatox in Power Rangers: Turbo's film). Her costume would resemble Ivy's but the filmmakers behind PRLG:TROT felt it would be "Too revealing and sexually exploited". This was also the same reason when the producers behind the Power Rangers TV series, when and before either the Lost Galaxy season or the name and character by as Trakeena was even brought up, when Saban observed footage of the character's Sentai equivalent Steerwoman Shelinda  of  Seijuu Sentai Gingaman  sporting a lot of cleavage and bare skin within a swan suit and cape until the American producers can even think of a bug suit that would be very appealing among most fans.

Marsh seemed to liked the idea as he got very appealed and enticed by it.

Makeup Scheme
Within Power Rangers LG, Trakeena has sought a huge inspiration and influence for a makeup scheme from other celebrities (and other movie/TV show/video game characters) throughout the movie

http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Rangermaniaguy2010/Trakeena_(PRLG_(film))#Makeup_schemes_and_Costume_revision

Campaign- The Queen of DarknessEdit
Her "Queen of Darkness" gimmick spawned a very attractive campaign, consisting 4 top generals ( Deviot, Villamax XXIV  , Jet Rocket, and a Shadow-Viper ), 100+  Stingwingers , 100+ Viper soldiers, 12 "Obey" banners that display "Obey The Queen of Darkness" on them (one of them had a very controversial but threatening message relating to death), and 14 different monsters of her own.

Power Rangers LG: The Rise of Trakeena
As the main title villainess, Trakeena, unlike in the other Power Rangers-based material (EXCLUDING Power Rangers: Super Legends ) has a very much larger and major role in the film. She is officially the main star of the movie. The insectile mother of Tony Marshall the 2nd gen. Red Galaxy Ranger (a humanoid), of whom she missed the most. She is known as "The Queen of Darkness" and now in a pseudo-drag queen fashion and image.

Original Story Premise
", in which the sexy, evil, leather-clad bug-babe wishes she wants to be "the most beautiful girl in the universe". After sending the Hexuba monster Crumummy to a beauty-snatchin' spree, she goes off to the Central Dome to a seduded area, where she can't be seen, and morphs herself as "Tracy". However, in this annual movie version, she is called " Tracy Turner ".

After making all the men on the station lovesick, Tracy "stalks" Tony Marshall ( Tobey Maguire), the Red Ranger, to a local Wendy's restaurant. When she orders the same burger/fry meal Tony had earlier (even before she even came), she puts red poison dust ontop of the hamburger patty. Interrupted, despite that the manager at the restaurant said they were all out of burgers, Tracy follows Tony to the Holiday Inn (in the script, Marsh mentioned the Days Inn hotel, in a earlier script- Motel 6) and she is introduced to his friends. When Crumummy returns to steal the beauty from partygirl Brittney Allison (Diora Baird ) and secondary Pink Ranger Carrie Miller (Kristen Wiig), the five main Power Rangers swing into action for the second time in a row with the mummified cat-like creature. Later, a plan of Tony being K.O.'ed by a poisonous glass of mango-orange juice, in which she poured more red poison dust, failed. Despite the plan failed, She sends Crumummy to battle the Rangers again, and Tracy morphs back into Trakeena and sends the Stingwingers to "Take No Prisoners!" and flee away by teleporting back to the Scorpion Stinger. 6 days later, Trakeena is at the Onyx Tavern, meeting Villamax 's son Villamax XXIV ( the 24th) (Chris Klein), Kegler (voiced by Tom Kenny), and Decepticon pretender Jet Rocket (Stephen Rannazzisi) for the first time. When Jet asks where's she has been and all, he harrasses Trakeena sexually, expecially referring to her hanging breasts in her cleavage in which he remarked the way the cleavage on Elvira, Mistress of the Dark was done. When the two leave, Trakeena, who refuses to meet Jet and the other villains on a Thursday, says "Maybe.......Maybe Not." seductively (giving them a sign that she was not coming). During Tony and A.J.'s rescue mission in the segment "The Legendary Galaxy Book", Trakeena appears, along with the Neo-Vipers (a group off black-suited armored supersoldiers from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,), and she endevers Tony to certain things. In the scene, a late Easter egg surprise is featured: Trakeena using certain soundbytes of lines Ivy said in ''Soulcalibur III. ''(voiced by Lani Minella). By the time she has left the battle site, she tells the two Power Rangers (though unmorphed) "Enjoy your glorious defeat" and then a very wicked evil cackle laugh track is cued. 10-12 days later, she is found in Terra Venture 's Clinic Asylum, covered in a ill-fated drag-queen image, resembling Batman villainess Harley Quinn. She crys for some help, but it has been realized at the start of the scene, she was obviously talking to herself and not the Red Ranger, who and the other Power Rangers arrives at the asylum later. She subdues the Rangers by backsassing every single word they had to say to her and our heroes try to convince her dozens of times for her to make her remember exactly what actually happened at the end in the finale of Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy. The team then makes referrences of what happened to her during the 10+ year old season but she says she doesn't care "As if I'll ever listen" she says. On the plusside, a reference to Countdown to Destruction was made, and she said she didn't care for that.. Trakeena then becomes "dellusional" much more and she sweet-talks the Red Ranger calling him her little "Honey Bunny" and such of sorts to help her conquer and destroy Terra Venture and the entire universe so that way together they can rule the galaxy as "mother and son". Tony is truly the son of the evil insectile bug-queen herself, and she doesn't even know her son (of whom she missed so much over the years, considering Tony a "missing" child) is ironicly a Power Ranger. When a referrence, by A.J. Weems, about the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men was made, she joins in a small conversation about it and as Wendy Jane compares the troubling mother/son bond in the movie to that of Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen)'s issues with his mother, in which Harper when through despite countless years of torment. After a huge talk, A.J. releases and uncuffs Trakeena from the immobile stasis cuffs attached from her wrists and Tony promises her not to do anything stupid or anything. Tony also promises to Trakeena if she'll be off the psychological drugs the doctors gave her. As the Power Rangers leaves, Trakeena takes a rest.

([Missing Time]- during the time, this is when Susan Frishman was fired. ) 4 days later, or so, Trakeena finds the Hexuba monster Impostra lurking in her throne bedroom, as the green one-eyed medusa monster vows to the bug-queen that she'll get Jet Rocket making him know that nothing won't hit him. In the segment "The Queen's Evil Game", she sees the Red Ranger again and turns heel on him. The two battle at the Desert of Despair at sunset, until she was interrupted by Teska and Tubak. When the Red Ranger disappears from the battle, she gets mad at Deviot (voiced by Frank Welker) for letting him getting away and Jet later calls him a "dumbass". On Halloween day (October 31, 2010), She appears in the ship, fighting the stingwingers for a small training practice of fighting, but when a stingwinger accidently breaks one of her fingernails on her witch-like hands, she zaps 10 of the overgrown buggers and makes a promise to herself that she will make a better ruler of the universe someday. After the Rangers' zord battle with Tubak, Face-Stealer, and Vampirus was subdued for 2 minutes, Trakeena shows up and tells the heroic force that "maybe not today, and maybe not here, but mark my words you will pay for destroying my father. When youre' all gone, evil will reign from here to forever. " When Tony said "you'll never defeat us!", Trakeena laughs in a Elvira-ish sort of way and teleports back to her ship. In the segment, " The Doctor is In.....", Trakeena joins Dr. A.J. (who is obviously Yellow Ranger A.J. Weems in disguise) for a therapy session as she confesses what has been bothering her for countless years of misery. In Dr. A.J. 's alliance with the following villains, Trakeena appears as a very demented dame (resembling a dead man's widow) and she begins to flurt with the teenage therapy doctor. She is obviously in a cougar relationship with Dr. A. J. In the doctor's asylum-based alliance of insanity, she joins him, along with Villamax XXIV (who is currently having egotistic mental problems), Keglar, and Onyx Tavern alien intern Waspfly and the Neo-Vipers. She also confesses that she "loves" him for trying to help her. In the segment folllowing, "A Queen WIth Benifits", she meets the Red Ranger, who visits again, asking if she is alright. She says she still isn't. In " Sins of the Mother ", the 7th segment of the "Enter the Dark Galaxy" saga, she appears full time, but still in the asylum where the Red Ranger finally met her again after a much anticipated long wait. She confesses to him again, this time in a calm but demented and manic manner. Bug-babe then realizes that the other villains- Deviot, Villamax XXIV, Jet Rocket, Captain Mutiny , Barbarax , and the mysterious Shadow Ranger- took her place while she was absent half of the movie. Now she tends to show the universe who's the real ruler of all as nobody messes with her. As of now, this is where The Rise of Trakeena really begins, the Red Ranger asks a guard at the Terra Venture Clinic Asylum to release her immediately (since she has been desperate to make a sudden comeback for chaos and destruction) and then the two escelate a fight consequently and the insectile queen plans a vile desire of having Red Ranger to join her in a mother-son bond in ruling the unvierse together, something she never thought of doing before.

Trakeena is seen twice during this segment. At the Terra Venture Community Mall (resembling City Place at Silver Spring, Maryland where this scene was filmed) at the food court, She talks to the Red and Yellow Rangers, although she was dearly missed for a while and continues a scheme of destroying Terra Venture, which she also did in the past. Later, she appears in Tony's dream illusion during a dream sequence with a galactic realim as the dream's background and Trakeena does something she refuses to show and express- thus never seen in Power Rangers history (with villainesses who refuse to turn good at the end but rather stay evil)- "show positive emotions". She shows him her seductive side until after Tony wakes up from his little dream by A.J., she fades out from the dream effect, leaving Tony "all dazed out" and confused. Outside the Asylum, although already being released, She meets up with Villamax XXIV and Waspfly as she demands world order to the colony as she tends to put fear in the hearts of every individual person aboard Terra Venture so that way, she'll show them (including the Power Rangers), as desired, that there's only one ruler in the galaxy and that's her.

The rest of the film have her doing what she has done in the past- such as destroying Terra Venture.

5 to 6 Months Later....
Trakeena (now played by Patricia Heaton, rather than Kate Walsh here) is currently hiding in the background on Terra Venture, like she was doing when the Rangers accidently released here from the Asylum. 2012 has arrived, Trakeena is briefly seen, masked, in " A Queen's Secret Affair ", hardly, where she used a soundbyte of Glenn Close's character from the movie Fatal Attraction that she used to try and practice how she'll allure the Red Ranger with her seductive personality until using her newfound psychiatric borderline behavior later.

" The Final Search " for Trakeena had began, as the Power Rangers look around in the Central Dome of Terra Venture at the park to find the still-missing insectile Queen of Chaos. Guess what? It came to realization that she hasn't disappeared elsewhere after her theraputic session from Oct. 12, of 2010, she was hiding behind the bushes the whole damn time, playing dead (or she may've been dead this long since her 12-year-later defeat)! The Red Ranger tossed Trakeena around (while still conscous or so), brushing her hair off her face slowly, realizing that the real Trakeena is actually dead. The other LGs regroup with Tony to take Trakeena to a nearby ER at the Medical Hall of the space colony.

Trivia

 * Patricia Heaton was cast to play the character following Kate Walsh 's optional consideration for the role by the production crew. Walsh declined from portraying Trakeena because she had other things on her schedule.
 * When cast, Heaton said she never was a fan of the franchise and wasn't sure if her 4 sons watched it when they were little children, but she asked "Why am I in it?"
 * Following Kate Walsh 's fallout from being almost cast, Heaton was observed photos of  Amy Miller 's original version of the character from Power Rangers but she decided to have her "a bit cruel, but trying to find the softness of her heart while she tries to rid the psychotic demon that was running in her soul, like she is being possessed by black magic or whatever".
 * In the 2012 reversion, Heaton's voice was redubbed by voice actress Kathleen Delaney  (Rouge the Bat, Sonic X) becuase the filmmakers felt having Patricia's actual voice being heard on screen would make Trakeena sound a bit too older, so they decided to make her a little older, but with a seductive and psychotic tone of voice.
 * Heaton's version of Trakeena is compared to actress Glenn Close, mostly influenced by her portrayal in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction, which became one of Anthony Marsh, Jr's favorite movies and inspiration for Trakeena's portrayal in the film.
 * One note the filmmakers perferred about Heaton's Trakeena: The female version of Hellraiser.
 * Heaton, who the filmmakers considered to play for Amy Rolle's recasting in the 2012 reversion, disliked the role, but did appear in the film. Heaton also didn't like the character appearence neither, saying she "Found her very discriminating of what and how women, even if they should play a villain in a kids film, should look like or how they should be played. I never was a fan of this stuff. Why was I involved in it, knowing I'm busy on something else?"