Antonio Garcia

Antonio Garcia the Gold Samurai Ranger in Power Rangers Samurai. He controls the Element of Light.

Character History
As the Gold Ranger, Antonio is the sixth Ranger of the Samurai Power Rangers. Though his regular job is a fish seller, he is the tech wizard of the group. He also happens to be a childhood friend of Jayden, receiving the OctoZord from him and making a promise to see him again soon.

Antonio takes his role as the Gold Ranger with much enthusiasm and energy. He can be seen as Jayden's opposite, as he is as hyperactive and expressive as Jayden is reserved and stoic.

Golden Return
Antonio made his debut in Unexpected Arrival, he sent a letter to Jayden and the other Samurai Rangers, saying "See You Soon." The following day, Mia, Emily, Kevin and Mike found out about the note, and later headed into battle. When the Rangers had trouble, Antonio appeared and Morphed into the Gold Samurai Power Ranger. In the following episode he arrived at the Shiba House, but Ji didn't allow him to join the others initially. A short time later, though, he did become the 6th Samurai Power Ranger.

Antonio became the tech expert of the group and managed to unlock the ClawZord, Black Box, LightZord, and SharkZord.

Off Duty Ranger
Sometime later, Anontio decides to take a day off from his ranger duty and enjoy some fishing action. Well he is at the docks his looses his Samurai Morpher and he does not notice it is gone. An armored shell type Nighlok is sent to destroy the city, the ranger spring into action to counter the threat, though they are beaten. They try to contact Antonio but he does not answer, which by now his Morpher is in the hands of Bulk and Spike. The Rangers must defeat an armored Nighlok without Antonio's help. Kevin comes up with a brilliant plan to beat the Nighlok and the rangers win. Bulk and Spike ditch the Morpher in the spot they had found it and Emily and Mike find it and Antonio at the docks. They return it to him, as he doesn't even know it's missing.

Fishy Fear
At one point, he switched bodies with a fish, and gained a fear of fish. The other Rangers try to help him, but fail to do so. Ji gives Antonio the LightZord, and Antonio manages to bring it back to life, giving the team a new Zord. Ji also snaps him back into his senses. . After all of the contributions Antonio has brought to the team, Ji reveals that he has fully accepted Antonio as a Samurai Ranger.

Gold Samurai Ranger
As the Gold Ranger, Antonio has access to multiple modes.

Trivia





 * The symbol on his helmet (光) is the kanji for "light".
 * Early scripts listed his name as "Wesley" which was the same as the second Red Time Force Ranger.
 * Before he readies his morpher, he spins it for a few seconds before he activates his morpher. This quirk was first done by Mack Hartford, the Red Ranger of Operation Overdrive.
 * Antonio can also be described as cocky, such as the time he made his debut and saved the rangers from the Nighlok by asking them, "What? No 'thanks for helping' or a little 'what? what?'. Oh, I get it. You need a minute. Whenever I make an entrance, it's go big, or go home! Am I right?"
 * When Super Samurai was revealed on the Power Rangers site, two interesting zord-related inPRSS-lightemblem.jpges appeared on the site, both connected to Antonio. One was a zord emblem (like the other rangers) in the shape of a star in his bio. The other was a word puzzle containing the term 'LightZord' (Antonio's element).
 * His Sentai counterpart has the star motif placed on his personal control podium.
 * "Lightzord" was seen on the K-mart website as another name of the LightZord toy.
 * Antonio is the first direct successor of a Gold Ranger, Gem.
 * He is the first gold ranger to receive a Battlizer-like form, and the second sixth ranger to receive one; the first being Eric Myers in Power Rangers Time Force.