Goldar (known as Flydar in the pilot episode) is a fictional character from the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

A powerful yet overconfident warrior that serves under the command of Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd, he is one of the chief antagonists of the titular protagonists in the show's first three seasons.

Goldar is depicted as a bipedal Manticore-like alien from Titan, who wields a sword, and wears a gold-plated suit of "Titanian Armor", with a matching helmet which looks like a mix of ancient Greek and Egyptian visual design.

[1][3] Much of the footage for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series was taken from the Japanese TV show Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger and used as the basis for its costumes, Zords, and villains.

[1] Scenes were shot with North American actors and spliced together with recycled footage from Zyuranger together to make a brand new show with radically different plots and storylines.

From the first episode, "Day of the Dumpster", to "Lions and Blizzards", the Goldar costume looked like Grifforzar, where the snout would move awkwardly whenever the character is talking.

[1] Although Goldar is shown with the ability to fly in early episodes, the wings on the Sentai original costume were designed to fold behind the character.

This pattern also happened when Lord Zedd was introduced as well; in addition to insulting the now apparently incompetent golden warrior, he often blamed Goldar for his own failures and had a habit of silencing him frequently.

When Lord Zedd arrived on Rita's Moon palace in the second season, Goldar eagerly defected and regained his wings in the process.

As Zedd and Rita flee from the Machine Empire, one of their Tenga Warriors is seen carrying Goldar's detached wings after his failure to destroy the Rangers, despite successfully blowing up the Command Center.

Unlike Rito, Goldar went with Zedd and Rita to the Cimmerian Planet for Dark Specter's conference, where he was responsible for revealing Andros' identity as a Power Ranger by removing his cloak.

[1][7][8] Loryn Stone from Nerdbot was of the view that Goldar stood out from the rest of the Power Ranger's ensemble cast of characters as a "legitimately terrifying" antagonist.

[5] Goldar appears as a thoroughly bumbling sidekick who serves Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa and does not carry a sword, unlike his television counterpart.

He serves Ooze as his right-hand man while the sorcerer brainwashes the Adults in Angel Grove and helps in instructing them on digging up Ivan's war machines the Ecto-Morphicon Titans.

[10] In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Dean Israelite envisioned Goldar to be a kaiju-like a beast that would be a physical manifestation of Rita’s evil, as opposed to an individual with a distinct personality.

Goldar's molecular essence was scattered after he was vaporized by Zordon into a cloud of microscopic gold particles during the opening action sequence on Ancient Earth.

As Rita orders Goldar to retrieve the Zeo Crystal from underneath the local Krispy Kreme shop, the Rangers confront him with their Zords for the first time, which culminates in them assembling the Megazord.

He serves as the main villain in the Mighty Morphin' section of the game Power Rangers: Super Legends voiced by Nolan North.

Lord Zedd then appears in a time hole and tells him to contaminate Angel Grove's water supply, zombifying everyone there to form an army of Z-Putties.

The "chase" ends at Angel Grove, where Goldar is ready to contaminate the water supply, however, the Power Rangers stop him and he is forced to grow.

The action figure features Goldar's trademark sword and battle FX accessories, as well as fully articulated wings.

[18] Goldar's iteration in the 2017 reboot film was recreated as an action figure for the Power Rangers Movie Interactive Megazord series by Bandai.