#rattlor

[carelessapples]

rattlor but he looks like an actual rattlesnake now

[emperorsfoot]

[mammaonii]

Can we all agree that he man from 2002 had some of the best monster men

Rattlor

Two bad (merged is my favorite)

Buzz off (a favorite of mine)

And they'd even have these character cards with there info

Please I need them back 🥲 they were so cool

[lemaistrechat]

Masters of the Universe: Snake and Lizard Men

Reptilian humanoids started appearing in MotU in the first, 1983, season of the Filmation cartoon.

Here’s Lizard Man, a supporting hero who appeared in four episodes.

Here is Fang Man, a bad guy who only appeared in “The Time Corridor”.

Bands of unnamed reptile men then appeared as wizards’ henchmen in two episodes, “House of Shokoti” and “Ordeal in the Darklands”.

So it already looks like we have two races of lizard people on Eternia. In Season 2, Kobra Khan was introduced.

In the very last episode, “The Cold Zone”, writer J. Michael Straczynski revealed that Kobra Khan had left the underground Repton civilization to commit crimes with Skeletor and friends. While their name was generically reptilian, named characters such as King Pythos indicate the entire people’s snakiness.

In 1986, the Snake Men faction was introduced to the toy line and its accompanying mini-comics. Members King Hiss, Sssqueeze and Snake Face were treated as having been banished by the Elders to a timeless dimension while living their evil lives thousands of years ago. Writer Steven Grant alluded to Kobra Khan’s people as descendants.

However, by the time kids would have opened this comic, the entire first season of (literal) sister show She-Ra would have aired, in September-December 1985. There, two other characters identified as Snake Men, Rattlor and Tung Lashor, were seen as members of Hordak’s Etherian Horde.

Both the mini-comic “King of the Snake Men” and newspaper comic arc “Vengeance of the Viper King” addressed these two being magically teleported from Etheria to Eternia to join King Hiss.

Unnamed Snake Men made two further appearances in the 80s: as hunter-gatherers who preceded Eternia’s first humans on the planet in the newspaper comic arc “Terror Takes Time” and as disorganized enemies of the five good wizards (Elders?) who organized under Hordak in the Power Tour stage show.

So much for official Snake Men. But we’re not done:

Almost simultaneously with him joining the Snake Men, Kobra Khan was seen commanding a band of evil lizard men (not to be confused with Lizard Man the hero) in the mini-comic “The Fastest Draw in the Universe”.

Jump forward to the summer of 1987 and fans were introduced to Saurod, a blue-scaled, bronze-armored mercenary employed by Skeletor in the live action film. He also appeared in all sorts of comics (mini-comic with the 3 film-related action figures, monthly comic, newspaper comic).

(pictured: Classics toy from 2015.)

While his armor looks like a fuller version of the partial plate armor we saw in the Repton culture, whether he was even native to Eternia was not explained at the time.

Then there’s one more before the Classics era. When He-Man traveled to another solar system in The New Adventures of He-Man, the Mutants of Denebria has their own lizard person, Lizorr.

He was said to be from the Gorn Desert of Denebria (a homage to the original Star Trek’s reptilian Gorn). His name suggests there’s no connection between his people and any Eternian Snake Men who ended up making their homes on Horde planets in the past two millennia or more.

[queenofspoons]

Today was Vintage MOTU Figure Spa Day, I followed the same tutorial I used to clean my vintage Battle Armor Skeletor from last fall. Didn’t get a before image but they where varying levels of dirty and some of guys where kind of sticky.

The Teela needs the most TLC because she’s missing paint and I may have to look into how to repaint vintage toys but that will have to wait until I get back from an upcoming vacation because the supplies for that are probably not in my budget at the moment.

[southernpeach13]

I love these dorks so much

[tomkrohne]

The Snake Men

[edgar-allan-possum]

2021 MOTU Snake Men headcanons

Nobody can really tell me I'm wrong about these so far, so I'll continue to believe them until someone contradicts me.

The Snake Men call themselves "The Sons of Serpos" and believe that Serpos is a primordial mother goddess who was the broodmother of the first snakes. Other Eternians shorten it and just call them all Serpos.

Tung Lashor and Rattlor were generals in King Hsss' army that were the templates for the magically created Lasher and Rattler gestalt forms.

The giant snake that Skeletor unleashed in Leviathae was a Kobra Khan, and there was also a Kobra Khan individual in the past.

Serpos' fossilized corpse is Snake Mountain, just like in the 200x series. Dunno if she could come back to life in this version, though.

[brainpollution]

The Snake Men have arrived!

[toyjunkie]

[thestargayzingetherian]

Darkness Among The Stars - Chapter 1

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52323895/chapters/132365494 Chapters: 1/? Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Adora/Catra (She-Ra), Bow/Glimmer (She-Ra), Perfuma/Scorpia (She-Ra), Mermista/Sea Hawk (She-Ra), Entrapta/Hordak (She-Ra), Adora/Perfuma (She-Ra), Bow/Perfuma (She-Ra), Adora (She-Ra)/Evil-Lyn (He-Man), Adora/Perfuma/Evil-Lyn Characters: Adora (She-Ra), Catra (She-Ra), Bow (She-Ra), Glimmer (She-Ra), Perfuma (She-Ra), Hordak (She-Ra), Evil-Lyn (He-Man), Mermista (She-Ra), Sea Hawk (She-Ra), Scorpia (She-Ra), Netossa (She-Ra), Spinnerella (She-Ra), Frosta (She-Ra), Mara (She-Ra), Huntara (She-Ra), Shadow Weaver | Light Spinner (She-Ra), Rattlor (He-Man), Grizzlor (She-Ra), Melog (She-Ra) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Alternate Universe - Space, Space Opera, Alternate Universe - Space Opera, Space Stations, Spaceships, Bounty Hunters, Alternate Universe - Bounty Hunters, Bounty Hunter Adora (She-Ra), Trans Adora (She-Ra), inspired by mass effect, Inspired By Independence Day, Aliens, Polyamorous Character, Hook-Up, Polyamorous Perfuma, nightclubs, Angst, Action/Adventure, Blood and Gore, Superpowers, Adora is basically space Wolverine mixed with venom and Prototype, slow ish burn, Smut, Threesome - F/F/F, Catra & Scorpia Friendship (She-Ra), Trans Female Character, Adora Has a Penis (She-Ra) Series: Part 3 of She-Ra: No Matter The Universe Summary: Adora Darkstar is one of the most renowned bounty hunters in the galaxy, for her noble nature and wanting to see justice in a lawless part of the galaxy… and also because she's a living killing machine hell bent on finding the monster who ruined her life. After receiving a tip that her worst enemy is on the space station Despondos, Adora finds more questions than awnsers about her past… and a strange alien catgirl who crosses her path. Little do either of them realise that what lies ahead of them could very well change the galaxy forever. (Catradora, Sci-Fi Space Opera AU)

[carelessapples]

kicking my feet a lil bit

[emperorsfoot]

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.

[agrownupgeekgirl]

Masters of the Universe Part 1

Awhile back, I got bored and was doodling with HeroForge(an online tool for making mini's for table top rpg's) and decided I was going to do all of the Masters of the Universe characters from He-Man and She-Ra from when I was a kid. I put my own twist on them and they are done with the items that were available when I made them in the first place. So I could probably update a few now but I wanted to share.

So from top to bottom. Beast Man, Buzz Off, Evillyn, He-Man, King Hiss, Kobra Khan, Lady Slither, Man at Arms, Merman, Orko, Prince Adam, Rattlor, Skeletor, Two Bad, The Sorceress, Stratos, Teela, Trapjaw, Triklops, and Tung Lashor.

My Snake Mountain guys are probably the biggest change, with Tung Lashor being based off a blue tailed skink instead of a frog.

She-Ra stuff will be in another post.

Part 2

[lemaistrechat]

MotU mini-comic by Bruce Timm: The Terror Claws Strike

Another mini-comic both penciled and inked by Bruce Timm.

Poor Rattlor, physically abused AND miscolored.

Military amateurs think about tactics, professionals think about logistics. Though it’s not clear how destroying crops (”FEAST on the Eternians’ MISERY!”) benefits him.

Spikor has his own home and works as a blacksmith, which would be why he’s rarely at Snake Mountain for Skeletor to use as a henchman. In the Filmation cartoons, he was only a henchman in “Visitors From Earth”, “The Games” and the Christmas Special.

Uh, Skeletor, buddy? Just cast some spells while he’s walking away from you.

[queenofspoons]

12 Hours later and everyone’s looking more shiny and cleaner looking.

I just found out that vintage Two Bads have a purple dye seepage problem which is why the silver boot is very purple looking. You can temporarily get rid of it with a magic eraser but it will just come back, I think I’ll leave him as is. Also he has slightly wonky legs but can be stood up.

Rattlor is my favorite of the bunch, his neck gimmick still works, I can’t believe the origins version isn’t going to have it. Only problem with him that his tail has kind of stiffened and I can’t display him with it lying behind him. Instead I have to display him with the tail in between his legs which looks kind of… uh suggestive.

Evil Lyn looks great but has some paint wear on the tips of her helmet, also she can’t stand up anymore which mess I have to lean her on things to get her to stand, I may look into getting a stand for her.

Teela on the other hand can stand and is probably the most worn of the four, though you can’t see it she has little dabs of red paint on the backside of her head,hand, right leg, and foot. Those should come out with nail polish remover hopefully, also this is the one I plan on restoring by repainting later this year after I’ve studied up on how to do that.

I saw she was stamped 1981 Taiwan on the back of her neck, could she be from the original set of figures from 1982? I may have to look into that, she looks oldest of the bunch.

Overall I’m happy how they turned out and I already want to go back to the vintage toy I got them.