#evil warriors

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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

EP:  Creatures from the Tar Swamp 

[lemaistrechat]

Phases of Skeletor’s Life

Sources are what I’ll call “the main 80s continuity”. This includes both Filmation cartoons, mini-comics packed with the action figures near the end of the line but not before, the newspaper comic and The New Adventures of He-Man.

PHASE 1, Backstory. Skeletor was either a demon from another dimension who always had a bare skull for a head, or King Randor’s brother Keldor. If the latter, his experiments with magic caused him to uncontrollably cross spacetime (”The Search for Keldor”).

He studied magic under Hordak (making it possible that his extra-dimensional demon homeland was Horde World, but no writer has explicitly said so) and arrived/returned to Eternia with his invasion fleet. As the Horde conquest failed, Skeletor was stranded behind enemy lines at the end of a half-successful commando mission to steal the King and Queen’s twins (She-Ra, “The Secret of the Sword”/”Reunions”)

Between the Horde invasion landing and its failure, they made Snake Mountain their base. Skeletor convinced Zanthor, a member of the Council of the Wise, to betray its Golden Discs of Knowledge to him, using knowledge their contained to shape the Snake Mountain base. Zanthor was banished to a phantom dimension by Zodac and the rest of the Council of the Wise, then they disbanded. (He-Man episode “The Golden Discs of Knowledge”)

Besides Hordak any other named Hordesmen in the invasion force, and briefly Zanthor, Skeletor’s earliest allies were Beast Man, Mer-Man, Trap Jaw (AKA Kronis), Tri-Klops and Evil-Lyn. The 2002 continuity showed the order they joined Keldor (Beast Man -> Kronis / Tri-Klops or vice versa -> Evil-Lyn, Mer-Man implicitly last) but this one didn’t. Fisto also held his forest domain as a fief from Skeletor for some time, defecting when Prince Adam was 16. (He-Man episode “Fisto’s Forest”)

PHASE 2-1 (Filmation Season 1)

Skeletor and Beast Man reassemble the Evil Warriors. They spend many months on various schemes to take over Eternia, though rarely in the full group of six. Prince Adam is 18.

PHASE 2-2 (Filmation Season 2)

New Evil Warriors join: Clawful, Webstor, Whiplash, Kobra Khan, Two Bad, Spikor and Modulok.

PHASE 2-3 (Filmation She-Ra)

Skeletor meets Hordak again. They briefly team up (”Secret of the Sword”/”Battle for Brightmoon”), then fight whenever they meet (”Gateway to Trouble”, “My Friend My Enemy”, “Of Shadows and Skulls”, “Horde Prime Takes a Holiday”, Christmas Special). Modulok soon defects to the Horde. Prince Adam turns 20 or 21. Skeletor, Beast Man and Trap Jaw are last seen together assaulting the Bee People’s Hive starship (She-Ra, “Assault on the Hive”).

PHASE 3, honorary Snake Man and new Evil Warriors

One day when only he and Kobra Khan are at Snake Mountain, Skeletor goes spelunking into unexplored caves beneath Snake Mountain. King Hiss is released from mystic confinement. Rattlor and Tung Lashor are summoned from the Etherian Horde to join him. Hypothetically, Skeletor and King Hiss are independent allies living together and each planning to backstab the other when He-Man and Hordak are defeated, but all the old Evil Warriors stop coming to Snake Mountain and the pair act like co-commanders of the Snake Men. King Hiss manages to free Sssqueeze and Snake Face from where they were mystically banished. The robots Blast Attack and Twistoid are added to this group. (mini-comics “King of the Snake Men”, “Snake Attack”, “The Ultimate Battleground!”, “Revenge of the Snake Men”, “Energy Zoids”. Alternate telling in “Vengeance of the Viper King” newspaper comic.)

Eventually the Snake Men are banished again. Either before or after this, Skeletor summons Scare Glow and Ninjor from across space and time to serve him. This doesn’t seem to work out long-term. (”The Search for Keldor” mini-comic, “Ninjor Stalks by Night” newspaper comic)

With the Snake Men gone, Skeletor summons alien mercenaries Saurod and Blade. Evil-Lyn and Beast Man return to him, though at one point they also try to run away from him and conquer Blade’s home planet Merrian.

PHASE 4, The New Adventures

Some time later, Skeletor has become a cyber-lich, with advanced prosthetics all over his remaining flesh.

He lives at Snake Mountain with none of the Evil Warriors except a tribe of humans who wear ram hides. He also has a different staff from the old Havoc Staff.

He makes his way onto a starship from Primus and joins the Mutants of Denebria led by Flogg. (New Adventures, “A New Beginning”)

On the moon of Nordor, he finds a power crystal that changes his body/armor again. (New Adventures, “Sword & Staff”)

He falls in love with a Mutant woman, Crita.

His beloved Crita schemes her way into a position of power independent of Flogg as the Queen of the Gleanons of planet Necron. When a peace treaty is signed between the rulers of Primus and Flogg’s Mutants, he and Crita do not abide by it and attack He-Man and his friends. He-Man knocks them into a small spacecraft and sarcastically officiates their wedding before tossing it into orbit. (”The Final Invasion”)

That was the last we saw of him before continuity reboots. Really.

[droidmom]

Masters of the Universe 2002 - The Price of Deceit

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ROUND 1

[jidblogger]

Different

The Horde: Bunch of villains who don’t want to be villains and are sad most of the time.

The Evil Warriors: A Bunch of Villains who LOVE being villains and will even burst out into perfectly choreographed Broadway style musical numbers about how much they love being evil

There, that’s the difference! 

[sylvanlore]

Five Snake Mountain Headcanons

Skeletor

Only a very few select servants are allowed into his quarters to clean, and all of them are mute and illiterate.

He has forbidden all cults and religions around Snake Mountain, unless they are centered around him.

He personally trained one group of acolytes whose sole purpose is to protect Snake Mountain with magic spells.

He has a whole slew of researchers and mages who examine all magical artifacts and tomes for him before he puts his hands on them, in case they are cursed.

There has been so many assassination attempts on him that he has become immune to several poisons.

Evil-Lyn

She loves jewelry, fancy outfits, and anything to spoil herself, and her quarters are gaudily decorated with only the best and finest.

She has a full royal bath in her quarters, with musicians, masseurs, hair stylists and servants attending her every need.

Twice a year she goes on a shopping/stealing spree. No-one wants to go with her.

She hides her age with glamours and make-up. She hates the fact that she is getting older, and tries to find an eternal-youth potion or spell in her free time.

She refuses to keep servant girls around her if they are young and pretty.

Tri-Klops

He knows elven and dwarven crafts, and can infuse enchantments into his works.

He spent some of his youth in dwarven mines, and is perhaps the only outsider in Eternia who can read dwarven runes, and speak their language.

Without his visor he is completely blind. His other senses are hyper sensitive, to the point he can taste and smell the difference in different metals when working in the forge.

He was trained in swordsmanship by his mother.

He's a fantastic singer.

Trap Jaw

Robert Baratheon has nothing on this hoe. Half of the bastards in the Dark Hemisphere are probably his.

Dad-sneezes, dad-snores, ass-scratches, dad-jokes.

His own father was a travelling merchant from the Dark Hemisphere. Kronis often visited Eternos City in his childhood, and once even played with Randor and Duncan. None of them remembers it.

Before he was recruited by Keldor, he was a highly successful and powerful bandit chieftain.

He regularly goes for a drink in the taverns around Snake Mountain. And eats the glass as well.

Beast Man

He was a shaman of his people. Controlling animals is a taboo among the Beastmen tribes, and so he was exiled.

The whip he wields once belonged to a slaver who tried to tame him. He killed the slaver, took the whip, and for a time became a slaver himself.

He can't handle cooked food or dairy, and only eats raw meat, fruits and vegetables.

He can neither read nor write.

He is not allowed near the good furniture.

Mer-Man

He has no wife, but several concubines in his sea palace, who all fight for his favor.

He looks down on the other Evil Warriors as uncivilized, uneducated and unrefined.

If he stays on land for too long his scales starts to itch.

He plays an instrument unique to the Merfolk, which sounds like a mixture of a harp and bass.

He was once tasked with overseeing the sewers of Snake Mountain, and nearly started a rebellion.

Snake Mountain

There is a whole city of workers living in and around Snake Mountain, consisting of guards, soldiers, servants, cooks, smiths, researchers, clerks, and the like. Outside the mountain there can be found all manner of shops and entertainment, from butchers, tanners and miners, to taverns, brothels and temples.

Each of the Evil Warriors oversee dozens of subordinates in their different spheres. Beast Man have animal handlers that helps him maintain his menagerie; Tri-Klops have assistant inventors and smiths working in his forges and workshops; and Trap Jaw handles security and leads the guard patrols in and around Snake Mountain.

Before Skeletor came to power, hundreds of rivaling warlords, merchant princes, nobles, bandit chieftains and cultists were fighting for power in the Dark Hemisphere. Even now the occasional rebellion has to be put down, but this is the longest period of peace the Dark Hemisphere has enjoyed for centuries.

Every region of the Dark Hemisphere under Skeletor's control pay tribute to Snake Mountain. Gold, food and drink, pelts, fabrics, leather, timber, slaves and magical artifacts, and everything else the inhabitants need. The trade lines are extremely important for Snake Mountain's survival and carefully guarded.

There are sections of Snake Mountain were not even the cleaners are allowed to go, only Skeletor and his Evil Warriors, and sometimes only Skeletor. The Void, where the Snakemen were trapped, is one such place.

[waterfire1848]

I’m sure someone has thought of this already but a No Way Home AU with He Man?????

200x Adam who just got his identity revealed and the villains from Revelation, CGI and the 80s series coming into his world.

Eventually, the Adam’s from the other worlds will come through to help him defeat their villains.

The villains will meet up with the 200x Evil Warriors except Revelation!Evil Lyn cause she got reformed.

Maybe the two She Ra’s show up at some point???????

[generic-doomsday-villain]

evil-lyn when shes informed there will be a meeting at snake mountain tomorrow

[onlyhurtforaminute]

EVIL WARRIORS-FLIEGE

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[lemaistrechat]

The Evil Warriors from He-Man 1983. He-Man 2002 used almost the exact same group, with Stinkor replacing Spikor and Kobra Khan never being loyal to Skeletor.

Evil Warriors who almost never get attention: Jitsu (1 ‘83 episode), Faker, Scare Glow (Revelation), Blast Attak (1 Revelation episode), Ninjor, Twistoid, Saurod and Blade (’87 movie).

[madamecheesecake]

Dark Forest/ EVIL 😈 WARRIOR CAT DESIGNS!! We've got Tigerclaw/star, Mapleshade and Hawkfrost. Tigerclaw/starts design was inspired by Crystal-Silverlight's design. Enjoy!

[jidblogger]

To many modern adaptions of Skeletor are too dominant I feel.

It’s like Skeletor up here..........The Evil Warriors down here

IDK I sorta want a Skeletor that can get knocked down a peg by his Evil Warriors or at least Evil-Lyn and maybe Tri-Klops instead of Skeletor just dominating over them.

But that’s just my sensibilities for yuh 

[emperorsfoot]

Important observation about the Evil Warriors by @basenji18

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