Aisha Campbell
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| First Appearance: | The Ninja Encounter, Part 1 (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) |
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| Last Appearance: | Hogday Afternoon, Part 2 (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) |
| Number of episode appearances: | 74 |
| Status: | Retired |
| Affiliation: | None |
| Homeworld: | Earth |
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| Portrayed by: | Karan Ashley |
Aisha Campbell is a fictional character from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV Show. She became the second Yellow Ranger, replacing Trini Kwan. She stayed until the end of the third season, when she was replaced by Tanya Sloan. She is portrayed by Karan Ashley.
Spirited and full of energy, Aisha was always up to the challenge as a Power Ranger.
[edit] Character History
Aisha made her first appearance alongside friends, and fellow Stone Canyon High School students, Rocky DeSantos, and Adam Park, in Season 2 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. When visiting Angel Grove Park, she and her friends attempt to rescue their teacher's runaway baby (strapped into its baby cart) before it plummets over a hillside. Aisha almosts saves the baby before Kimberly Hart intervenes a split second before, with the aid of Billy Cranston and Tommy Oliver. The joint rescue attempt serves as the jumping off point for Aisha, Rocky and Adam's friendship with the Ranger teens. The Ranger teens attend (as spectators) the Team Ninja Finals event being held at the Angel Grove Youth Center. The winning team trio turns out to be Aisha, Rocky and Adam.
Aisha, Rocky and Adam would continue to aide the Rangers when the three Stone Canyon teens would find themselves embroiled in Lord Zedd's latest plot to destroy all humans. Goldar captures the three Stone Canyon teens in a cave, binds them in chains, and releases a large snake onto them; its bite would turn them evil and make them a part of Zedd's army. They attempt to escape, but are re-captured and only set free later by the Power Rangers. Though freed, the Stone Canyon teens are still covered by the snake. The Blue Ranger wrestles it off but it coils around his neck preventing him from breathing. Though Kimberly manages to kill the snake, the damage to Billy's neck still prevents him from breathing, requiring him to remove his helmet, revelaing his identity to Aisha and her friends. Tommy and Kim follow Billy's lead and make their admissions.
Entrusting them with the identities of the Power Rangers, Zordon places Aisha and her friends under oath to protect this vital information. Aisha and her friends would continue to aide the Rangers again, most notably Aisha; Zedd's Beamcaster monster places everyone, including the Power Rangers, under his command, Aisha's technical experience from working at a radio station allows her to repair a device that cancels the monsters brainwashing signal.
When the time comes for Jason, Zack and Trini to retire from Rangerdom, Rocky, Adam and Aisha take their places on the team. Subsequently, the new members of the team will transfer to Angel Grove High and begin to regularly hang out with the other Ranger's.
In season 3, after Kimberly learns that her mother is marrying her French Artist fiancee (and subsequently relocating to France), Aisha and her family allow Kimberly to live with them for the rest of the school year.
Aisha's strong friendship with her fellow rangers allows Aisha to remain immune to the Hate Master's hate spell. She resists the spell that led to the corruption of her fellow team mates and forces the monster to retreat in order to recharge.
Aisha is a huge animal lover. This being the case, she decides to become a volunteer at a local Veterinarian Clinic where she provides care to a stray white cat Kimberly finds in the park. Kimberly is allowed to keep the cat, which eventually turns out to be Katherine Hillard, a friendly blonde teen girl from Australia who was transformed and turned evil by Rita Repulsa in an attempt to inconscpicuously get to Kimberly's coin; a plot to remove the veteran from the team. After Kimberly's eventual departure, a plot by Zedd to retrieve the powerful Zeo Crystal sees the crystal broken down into sub-units, referred to as sub-crystals, and scattered throughout time.
After the Rangers are de-aged by a time reversal spell performed by Rita Repulsa's father, Master Vile, each young Ranger must go on a quest to retrieve a piece of the crystal. On Aisha's quest, she is sent a village in Africa that is in a state of destruction after the surrounding wildlife had began to attack the villagers. Young Aisha meets a young girl named Tanya and manages to find her Zeo Subcrystal. However rather than return to the future, Aisha stays in Africa, offering to use her Veterinary knowledge to try and help cure the aggressive wildlife. Young Aisha sends Young Tanya back to the future with the Zeo Subcrystal in her place. The next and last time Aisha would be heard from occurs in Power Rangers Zeo, when she sends a letter and the tiki Auric to Tanya, who is living with the current Pink Ranger, Aisha's friend Kat, much the same way Kimberly lived with her before.
[edit] Trivia
- Aisha's ancestor Miss Alicia is the first known female African American Power Ranger.
- Presumably, Aisha may still have her Sabertooth Tiger Power Coin, considering that Adam has a hold of his coin. However her coin(and probably Rocky's) is probably unstable in the same way Adam's was as in "Always A Chance" due to the morphing grid overload.
| Preceded by Trini Kwan |
Yellow Ranger 1994-1996 |
Succeeded by Tideus |
[edit] See also
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Power Rangers Characters by Era and Generation
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| General: | List of characters | Minor characters | |
| Ranger colors: | Red • Yellow • Blue • Black • Green • Pink • White • Other | |
| Zordon | I | Jason Lee Scott • Trini Kwan • Zack Taylor • Kimberly Hart • Billy Cranston • Tommy Oliver |
| II | Rocky DeSantos • Adam Park • Aisha Campbell | |
| III-IV | Katherine Hillard • Ninjor • Aquitian Rangers • Tanya Sloan • Trey of Triforia | |
| V-VI | Justin Stewart • Blue Senturion • Carlos Vallertes • Ashley Hammond • Cassie Chan • T.J. Johnson • Phantom Ranger • Andros • Zhane | |
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VII-X | Lost Galaxy Power Rangers & Magna Defender • Lightspeed Rescue Power Rangers • Time Force Power Rangers & Quantum Ranger • Wild Force Power Rangers |
| XI- | Ninja Storm Power Rangers • Dino Thunder Power Rangers • S.P.D. Power Rangers • Mystic Force Power Rangers & Clare • Operation Overdrive Power Rangers | |
