Character Sheet: Axem Rangers

 AXEM RANGERS

Are you guys excited? I'm excited. You should be too. You know why? Cause today we get to cover all the freakin' amazing characters from Super Mario RPG and the Paper Mario (pre-TOK) series, and even the not so amazing ones too. Here's the full list:

1. Cheep Cheep

2. Bob-Omb

3. Spike

4. Tiny Mouser

5. Mouser

6. Paper Mario

7. Mr. L

8. Geno

9. Mallow

10. Flurrie

11. Tippi & Pixls

12. Kersti

13. Huey

14. Merlon

15. Star Spirits

16. Smithy

17. Kammy Koopa

18. Sir Grodus

19. Count Bleck

20. Dimentio

21. Yaridovich

22. Axem Rangers

23. Lord Crump

24. The Shadow Sirens

25. O'Chunks

26. Mimi

27. Croco

28. Booster

29. Jonathan Jones

30. Valentina

31. Jr. Troopa

32. Doopliss

33. Rawk Hawk

34. Francis

35. Culex

Today, let's cover a group of distinct and memorable members of the Smithy gang, a parody of the leather-clad teenage superheroes with questionable attitude themselves: The Axem Rangers. The Axem Rangers appear following your foray into Nimbus Land, accosting you as you try to lay claim to one of the eponymous seven stars. They fly in on board their airship, the Blade, and attack as one.

All five members are equipped with axes, hence the name and use them to fight. They also seem to be able to teleport similar to the characters they are based on. Individually, Axem Red can fire a glowing shot at you and vigor himself up. Axem Black can throw bombs at you. Axem Green is the spellmaster, using things like Meteor Blast and Static E! to fight you. Axem Yellow is the biggest of the group and will either jump high and body slam you or shoot a bubble at you. Finally, Axem Pink is the healer who can also shoot you with a petal blast. Toward the end of the battle, they use the giant head on the back of the Blade to fire a breaker beam at you. I think we've got plenty.

Here's the moveset I came up with:

Standard B: Bomb

This one is based on Axem Black, and the ranger on screen will throw a small black explosive at their opponent, exploding quickly similar to Snake's grenade.

Side B: Static E!

This one is based on Axem Green, and is also used to generally represent a spell seen frequently throughout the game. He will cast a spell forward, at which point the opponent will be blasted with static electricity.

Up B: Body Slam

I considered the teleporting they do, but I also wanted representation for at least all of the five, with red being the default first color swap. So the ranger on screen will leap high into the air and slam back down hard, similar to King Dedede's Up B.

Down B: Heal

This one is based on Axem Pink, and the ranger on screen will quickly heal themselves of a little bit of damage with a small burst of petals for good measure.

Final Smash: Breaker Beam

The Blade's head will appear and the Axem Rangers will appear behind it as it opens its mouth and fires a powerful beam across the stage.

Entrance: Definitely teleporting in like the Power Rangers they aren't.

Taunts: The various bits of banter between them, from their opening introductions to Red's insults of each one of them after they receive too much damage.

Thanks for reading! Next up, we'll cover Lord Crump and by extension, the X-Naut race as a whole.