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Character Name: Kimberly Hart
Series: Power Rangers (2017 film)
Timeline: Three quarters of the way into the movie, after Goldar pushes the Rangers into the pit but before the creation of the Megazord.
Canon Resource Link: Wikipedia page

Character History:

Kimberly Hart was born in Angel Grove sometime in the year 2000. (Film never gives her exact age but considering they were talking about Jason’s college scholarships, I’m assuming they’re seniors so I’d say they’re about 17.) She grew up with a fairly active and charmed life, being the popular girl in school and participating in sports like gymnastic, which eventually transitioned into cheerleading. Kimberly is lucky to have grown up in a fairly normal household, but as she climbed the mountain behind her house that contained the local Angel Grove gold mine, she often thought of life she could have beyond their small idyllic town.

As she continued to be a member of the popular clique, her behavior began to warp towards that of the “mean girl” variety. In a lot of ways she does it without thinking of the consequences, just reacting to the behavior expected of her, but that all comes crashing down when she targets the wrong person – one of her best friends, Amanda Clarke. After showing a picture shared in private with her to her now ex-boyfriend, Ty, with a slut shame-y comment attached, Ty called Kimberly “the meanest girl he’d ever met” in front of everyone, and Kimberly retaliated, more out of anger than actual justification, and punched out his front tooth.

(They put it back.)

In the aftermath of the incident, Kimberly was taken to the principal’s office and forced to confront the way her actions affected the people around her as Mr. Clarke was asked to identify the picture of his daughter. That’s when the shame actually set in, but not enough for her to own up to her actions. She lied about the circumstances, doing her best to keep herself out of trouble and not tarnish her image, but she still had to answer for the assault, so she was assigned to detention for the rest of the year.

In attending Saturday detention, she received a text from Amanda and another one of her friends, asking her to meet them in the restroom. When she goes, she is confronted by her friends about her actions, and while she tries to scramble to regain their trust, they’re not having it. They drop her from their friend group to think about what she’s done. Kimberly, in true dramatic teenager fashion, takes the scissors that were used to cut her from a picture to chop off her hair to a trendy shoulder bob. Her parents were less than pleased when they picked her up from detention.

Still feeling melancholy and broody, she decided to hike up the mountain behind her house to try and clear her head. There, she runs into Jason Scott and they have an awkward teen conversation, as awkward teens are wont to do, up until they hear an explosion out of nowhere. They rush towards the sound of the blast – caused by Billy Cranston – and are joined there by Zack Taylor and Trini. At first, it mostly just results in a lot of confused yelling, but in the process, the cliff face gives way, revealing a strange other-worldly glass and glowing coins hidden within. Taking a pickaxe, Zack hacks away at the face until the coins are freed, and each of them take one, Kimberly selecting pink. It’s at that point that mine security caught up with them and they made a mad dash for the exit, all piling into Billy’s mom’s van. It seemed like they were in the clear until they approached a railroad crossing and were hit by an oncoming train.

Yes, literally hit by a train.

The next thing Kimberly remembers is waking up in her own room, with no idea of how she got there and completely uninjured beyond a few scrapes and bruises. She proceeds to sleep through Sunday, and when she’s getting ready to go to school on Monday, a malicious text from her ex-friends causes her to crush her phone in her hand. Literally. Jason corners her in the hallway at school and they agree that they need to go back to the mine to find out what happened to them. Kim goes to find Billy at lunch so the three of them can talk and when they place their three coins down on the lunch counter. First they start to float. Then, after they slam back down again, the counter starts to boil, causing quite the scene of exploding lunch food around them. The three of them are very quick to agree that the answers they’re looking for are in the mountain.

The three of them arrive, passing the remains of Billy’s mother’s van as they go, and they encounter Zack hacking away at the wall Billy blew up. The four of them compare their stories and Trini arrives not long after, but she’s not as interested in banding together to figure this out. She takes off again, trying to get away from the people who irrevocably changed her life, and just casually scales a mountain like a spider, no big deal. Naturally, Kimberly is not one to be outdone, and she follows soon after, along with Zack, leaving Jason and Billy to catch up. They stop on the edge of a cliff shortly before they fall over, but Trini is not one to be deterred and leaps from one cliff face to the other and lands safely on the other side. Zack follows along with Kimberly and Jason, leaving Billy as the long straggler. Eventually, after some coaxing from Kimberly and Jason, Billy makes the jump, but in his celebratory success, he loses his footing and tumbles back over the cliff and into the ravine below.

The remaining teenagers freak out for a moment, thinking that they had just killed Billy, but soon Billy responds to Jason’s insistent shouting and says that they needed to come down to see what he found. The boys follow easily, but Kimberly and Trini remain behind. Trini looks like she’s going to bail again, but Kimberly asks her to stay behind so she can have a sip of her water. Trini lets her have it, and Kimberly apologizes, before pulling her over the cliff with her. They land in a surprise pool of water, and upon exploring to the bottom, they find a hidden cavern that’s covering space ship. Being the nosy teenagers that they are, they make their way inside where they meet Alpha 5 and Zordon, two beings that have been hiding under Angel Grove for more than three hundred million years. They are told that they were chosen to be Power Rangers, Rita Repulsa’s oncoming threat to the world at large if she manages to find the Zeo Crystal, and how that had to morph and save the world.

Being the cynical teenagers that they are, they balk at the suggestion and bail. Except they can’t figure out how to get out of the cavern until Jason shows them and makes them all look silly. But before that, he gives them an inspirational speech about how he’s coming back to try and find out what was really going on with them. The rest of the rangers sleep on it, and decide to return to Zordon for their training. They fail at morphing the first go round, but Zordon chalks it up to the need for training so they go to train.

Insert training montage here.

As they grow as a team, they get better and better as fighters, but they still aren’t morphing. This seems to come to a head when Alpha tries to inspire them by introducing them to their Power Zords, but Zack seems to take this introduction as “you should take one for a joyride” and takes his Mastodon Zord out for an uncontrollable ride. This does not sit well with Jason which pushes them into a knock down drag out fist fight with each other, rather than the virtual reality putties. This does not sit well with Billy who forces them apart, and in that moment he manages to morph but only briefly. Zordon, frustrated with their lack of progress, sends them home.

On their way out, Zack convinces them to spend part of the night out in the mine with him. They decide to have a bonfire bonding session where they share their stories in an attempt to make them a better team, but when it comes time for Kimberly to share, she asks them to skip her, not ready to share her secret shame at that particular moment. She needed to break in to Jason’s bedroom while he was sleeping to do it instead.

After waking her fearless leader from a dead sleep, she confesses what she did to Amanda and how she doesn’t want to be the person that she is. She doesn’t want to be a terrible person, but she doesn’t know how to pull herself out of this spiral. Jason gives her a dramatic leader speech about how she’s not an awful person (yet), she simply did a terrible team, and she can make her own choices to be better. Kimberly takes those words to heart as they’re texted by Trini to meet them at the high school. There she reveals that Rita attacked her at her house and wanted to know where the Zeo Crystal was. Despite the fact that they still haven’t morphed, Jason tells them that Zordon only wanted them to morph so he could come back to life and convinces them to go after Rita now, before she can attack Angel Grove.

They go. They get their asses royally kicked because Rita is an out of their league stone cold badass.

After she captures them and binds them to the side of a boat, she tortures and interrogates them until Billy reveals where the Zeo Crystal is. Once she receives her answer, she lets them go, but not before dropping Billy down off the boat and into the water below. The Rangers try to get themselves free to save him, but by the time they pull him back onto the docks, Billy had already drowned. Completely crushed, they pick him up and carry him back to the Command Center and see if there’s anything Zordon can do. He tells them he can’t, and the realization that Billy’s loyalty and willingness to die for them is what they needed the entire time. As each Ranger admits that they love the people in the room enough that they would die to protect each other, in that dramatic teenage way, the morphing grid opens and while they thought Zordon would come through and back to the land of the living, Zordon sacrifices his opportunity and sends Billy back instead.

With the team reunited, the Rangers, focusing on their strong bond of friendship, are able to finally morph into the Power Rangers they were meant to be and return to Angel Grove to battle Rita once and for all. They call on the power of their Zords, go head on against Goldar, Rita and her army of putties, and cause immense, immense amounts of property damage. Their assault, however, is not enough to stop Goldar from finding the crystal and digging up a large pit to extract it from the Earth. The Rangers make a final stand, forming a line in front of the pit that Jason orders them to hold for as long as they can. They do the best, but Kimberly’s Zord takes a fireball from Goldar and her Zord bursts into flames. Trapped and unable to breath, the Zords slowly slide back into the pit, no matter what they do to try and stop it. Reaching fruitlessly for each other, the Zords fall back into the pit and towards almost certain death …

… and with that, Kimberly wakes up in Wonderland.

Abilities/Special Powers:

Power Rangers are super strong and highly durable, able to take a great deal of physical damage, but still susceptible to things like magic/drowning so I’m assuming that as long as you can get it past their skin, you can do some damage. They can also scale mountains without defined handholds and jump can summon armor that helps protect them from harm. This armor also provides a mental connection to their Zords, which are obviously not coming to Wonderland.

In terms of practical skills, Kim is a trained athlete and gymnast. Also has the magical ability to cut her hair off on a whim but still manage to do it perfectly. Clearly it’s a superpower.

Third-Person Sample:

“No one dies alone.”

“Thank you for being my friends.”

Those words somehow manage to be the last things she hears before the roar of the flames block everything else out. She can feel them sliding back towards the abyss of the pit behind them, the grinding of metal against metal as they try to hold their ground, but even Kimberly knows they’re fading fast. The heat is consuming everything, and she can feel the pressure on her chest from trying to breath. Her eyes meet Jason’s through the flames, and on instinct her hand reaches for him, whether it’s to try and pull him out or have him do the same for her, she can’t really tell at the moment.

After that, everything fades to black, and there’s nothing but the sensation of falling, hard and fast. There’s a part of her that hopes that this is just some twisted nightmare, and when she hits the bottom she’ll wake up like none of this ever happened. She closes her eyes, prays for relief, and as she starts to pick up speed the longer she falls, she can’t help but count down the time to impact in her head.

Three … two …

She jerks up suddenly, and in a lot of ways, it’s like waking up. Her eyes look wildly around the room, trying to recognize where she is, but it’s not her room. It’s not the hospital. In fact, it’s not anything she recognizes in any sense of the word, and that puts her on guard more than anything. She glances down shortly after that, and she’s back in her street clothes again, but there are no wounds, no burns and no bruises. As he breathing starts to even out, she can’t help but wonder if she really did die in that pit. This isn’t really what she would have pictured in terms of Heaven.

And it’s not really what she would have expected from Hell, either.

She closes her eyes, taking an even deeper breath to calm the thoughts racing through her mind, and when she opens them again, she tries to focus on the details. She was sitting on a bed, in the middle of an empty room, and nothing really stands out, beyond the strange device sitting on her nightstand. She picks that up on a whim, figuring it’s probably going to be important eventually, and shoves it in her pocket as she gets up to make her way to the door.

Her head extends slowly out to look up and down the hallway, taking everything in again. The people seem to be moving freely, wherever this is, and while she probably should stop one of them and ask them for help, there’s a bit of panic in her gut that says that might not be the best idea. She doesn’t know anyone, from the looks of it, and if this is all in her head, she can’t guarantee that these conjured visions will very helpful. So she just tries to play it normal, closing the door behind her and striding down the hallway as though she has a purpose and knows exactly where she’s going.

(She doesn’t. But she’s trying.)

All the same, there’s a very tense teenager making her way down the hallway, looking a lot like a deer in the headlights, and if you sneak up on her she may punch you in the face very, very hard. Approach at your own risk.

First-Person Sample:

[And here is Kimberly, sprawled on her stomach on what is probably her bed, and taking some time to adjust the device so that she can get a good angle. This may involve using a mirror to make sure that she’s fitting in the frame, and will start talking as she does.]

Okay, so while this thing may have five bars at all times as far as Wonderland is concerned, it’s Face Time app definitely leaves something to be desired. After all, I have to make sure you get …

[And her smile widens when she finally gets the perfect angle that she’s looking for.]

… my best side.

[Yep. Some things don’t change, no matter what situation she’s in.]

Anyway, I’m Kimberly. I’m new. This is all kind of weird and crazy because I did not wake up this morning expecting to fall into a really old Disney Movie or the more recent remake, but here we are. At least this version of Wonderland doesn’t seem to have Johnny Depp being a creeper, but if that’s the case, don’t actually tell me. I really don’t want to know.

I just have a couple of questions for the viewing public if you guys aren’t too busy. They are probably questions that someone has asked before, but as I said – I’m new. One, has anyone ever tried to figure out what powers these things?

[She taps the device in her hand, which isn’t entirely visible, but the frame does jostle slightly.]

Like, maybe trying to redirect the signal so that it can … go elsewhere? I’m not exactly a science expert, but I’m pretty sure if they can find us anywhere in the world using the GPS on our phones, there has to be some way that we can reach out to somewhere other than here.

Number two: how many of us actually are there? I know it feels like a lot of people, and the mansion is literally endless, but has anyone ever tried to get a headcount? How do we know the difference between people going missing and people going home?

[Because from what she’s been told, that is a thing.]

And number three, because my priorities are clearly in order, please tell me that in one of these rooms, somewhere, there’s a mall because if I’m going to be here for years on end, I’d hope that I can at least get the latest fashion updates and not have to rely on my own memory of my wardrobe and those weird, creepy closets.

[and she gives a small shrug, because teenager’s gonna teenager.]

Anyway, that’s it. Hit me back.

[and thus ends the feed.]