#saurod

[lemaistrechat]

I was today years old when I discovered that Masters of the Universe had 1985 and 1987 Burger King meals.

The first one emphasized ‘85 characters like Two Bad and Spydor alongside the core characters.

Orko’s just whistling, living his best life.

The second one, featuring characters from the very end of the line.

Obligatory:

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

SPENT A TOTAL OF $120 BETWEEN THESE TWO COMICS -- TRUE STORY!!

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on THE greatest Skeletor cover of the entire 1980s decade (IMHO), cover art to "Masters of the Universe" Vol. 1 #12. March, 1988. Star Comics (a Marvel Comics subsidiary). Cover artist unknown.

PIC #2: The flipside to the Skeletor cover -- Cover art to "MOTU" Vol. 1 #13. May, 1988. Star/Marvel Comics. Artist unknown.

Resolution at 1000x1527 & 996x1524.

Anyway, I've been completely obsessed by this Skeletor cover ever since I first laid eyes on it many years ago, and I just couldn't pass up owning the shit when I found it for $80 on eBay a few years back. Didn't even think twice about it, I just bought the shit no questions asked! As for the He-Man cover, that one ran me a bit less, at $40 flat, but it was the proberbial Yin to Skeletor's Yang, so, I absolutely needed to complete the "set," so to speak.

Sources: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_Vol_1_12 (Marvel Database 2x).

[gurumog]

Masters of the Universe (1987) The Cannon Group, Inc. Dir. Gary Goddard

Frank Langella as Skeletor Robert Towers as Karg Tony Carroll as Beast Man Pons Maar as Saurod Anthony De Longis as Blade

[emperorsfoot]

Hey, since you like the idea of the Evil Warriors raising children so much, I thought I'd "ask" all about Pig Boy.

Circa 1986, Mattel ran a contest where the winner would get a role in the upcoming HE-MAN movie. Since the winner was a third grader, the director and VFX team had to figure out a small role for a little Eternian boy. Thus Skeletor's retinue as ruler of Eternia included Pig Boy!

Unlike Saurod, Blade, Gwildor and to a lesser extent Karg, it seemed that Pig Boy was forgotten by the fandom... until Revelation part 2, where he helps the evil defenders of Castle Grayskull in the Skelegod era:

He's got to be someone's ward or adopted son, but whose? Where did he come from? There could be some connection to Imp's species (Hordak's species?!). Adding him to the Evil Warriors family from the Classics-ized version of Lou Scheimer's post-Filmation He-Ro Son of He-Man pitch would also raise questions about Slob Boar... what do you think?

I find it interesting that you specifically mention Blob Boar in your Ask because Scott Neithlich the head writer for the Classics-Line comics says that he intended Slob Boar to BE Pigboy all grown up.

[birindale]

Hmmm what about snake men like rung lashor look up he man snake men and the one who made them the unnamed one

Ahhh, yeah, that's Masters of the Universe Classics canon. I appreciate a lot of what MOTUC was trying to do, vis a vis consolidating the canons, but they made some.... decisions, with their writing, so I just pick and choose which bits I like.

The Unnamed One being Gorpo, which was Orko's working-production name until they realized they'd have to flip the G like they did for Superman's S when they used stock footage? Incredible. Genuinely hilarious & a pretty spooky big bad to boot! Love that.

Adora turning into Despara for a couple decades, marrying Sea Hawk & having twins named Hope & Honor? After being de-aged like thirty years to account for the Despara stuff? No, thank you.

I elected to ignore Snake Men as a 'species' and look at them as more of a faction. I divide the reptilian Etherians we see between the "lizardy" (lizardfolk, as is commonly held in fanon) and the "humany" (draphosites, for the homeworld of Saurod the Klybian Lizardman).

MOTUC has some cool names for stuff & I like having fun with those, but their lore... does not spark joy.

[fancoloredglasses]

Masters of the Universe (which was worse, this or The New Adventures of He-Man? Let me know in the comments!), Conclusion

(Thanks to Warner Bros.)

[All images are owned by Mattel and The Cannon Group MGM. Please don’t sue me]

PREVIOUSLY ON...

The years-long struggle between He-Man and Skeletor has culminated with Skeletor stealing a device known as the Cosmic Key (able to open a portal to anywhere) from an inventor named Gwildor to breach Castle Greyskull and capture the Sorceress. He intends to use the power of Greyskull to steal the Sorceress's power, giving him dominion over the entire universe (somehow)!

He-Man and his allies Duncan (Eternia's Man-at-Arms) and Duncan's daughter Teela recruit Gwildor (who just so happens to have another Cosmic Key) to stop Skeletor and save the Sorceress. However, they are forced to retreat through a portal that Gwildor opened to a random location (that location being Earth). Upon landing, they lose track of the Cosmic Key.

On Earth, we are introduced to Julie (who recently lost her parents) and her sorta-kinda ex Kevin, who find the Cosmic Key. The two get separated as Skeletor's forces attack, with Julie meeting He-Man and his friends (who force Skeletor's forces to retreat) and Kevin running into a police detective named Lubic, who ain't buying Kevin's story.

Now, onto the conclusion of our review! If you would like to watch the film, it’s available on Tubi or behind your favorite paywall.

Back on Eternia, the Goon Squad returns, but without the Cosmic Key or He-Man.

So Skeletor uses Saurod as an example for the price of failure. He then sends Evil Lyn back to Earth with the surviving Goons and a shit-ton of troops, and once they find the Cosmic Key...

This is very much unlike Skeletor. He’s usually not afraid to get his hands dirty.

Back on Earth, Kevin and Lubic arrive at Julie’s house, but no one’s home. The phone rings and it’s Julie. She tells Kevin to stay put, but he plays coy since he doesn’t want Lubic to know what’s going on (why?) Then Lubuc asks about what the Cosmic Key and begins pressing buttons.

Of course, Lubic playing with the Cosmic Key alerts Evil Lyn and the Goons.

Back at the house, Lubic thinks Kevin stole the Cosmic Key and confiscates it and leaves. A bit later…

…the goons arrive, looking for the Cosmic Key! Kevin is overpowered (naturally), then Evil Lyn puts an electric collar on him.

Kevin is put in a trance by the collar and tells Evil Lyn that Lubic has the Cosmic Key, so the Goon Squad leaves to track him down (leaving Kevin in his tranced state; nice guys!), departing just as Gwildor’s stolen car arrives.

Once they get the collar off of Kevin, he comes back to reality and freaks. Fortunately, Julie manages to talk him down.

Then Gwildor comes out dressed in Julie’s mother’s clothing, which gets Kevin started again. Once again, Julie talks him down and he finally tells them that Lubic was heading to Charlie’s, so Julie drafts Kevin and off they all go. Let’s hope they arrive before Evil Lyn’s forces.

Well, since it’s a car, I would say they do.

Unfortunately Lubic isn’t too happy with them, despite the fact that they claim the Cosmic Key is theirs. Worse, Evil Lyn and her goons are closing! After Teela disarms Lubic, He-Man tells Gwildor to compute the way home while Teela gets the non-combatants to the back of the store.

I don’t think the store’s gonna help protect them. In the back, Gwildor tries to explain how the Cosmic Key works.

Unfortunately, Gwildor can’t find the right tune to get them home.

Outside, He-Man and Duncan are holding their own against the Goons (though I can’t say the same for the store, which is gonna wind up one big insurance claim by the time this is over! Though I’m not sure if “Alien Invasion” is covered under a business insurance policy)

Inside, Lubic convinces Teela to join the fight, so she hands Lubic’s revolver to Kevin and heads out. As Lubic and Kevin argue as to who’s in charge, Julie looks outside…

…and sees her mother, who beckons her outside (You think it’s a trap? I think it might be a trap) Julie naturally heads outside where her mother tells Julie that she and Julie’s father faked their death for a secret project that involves the Cosmic Key, and she needs Julie to bring it to her. In the chaos of Kevin, Lubic, and now Charlie fighting, Julie grabs the Cosmic Key and brings it to her mother, who transforms into...

(I KNEW IT!!!! Of course, the film’s special effects budget was so bad they didn’t actually show the transformation)

With that, Evil Lyn calls the retreat. He-Man and his allies (along with Kevin and Julie) give chase, while at Charlie’s…

So rather than help Charlie assess the damage to his store, Lubic’s going on the warpath. Nice to know he has his priorities straight. He then demands that Evil Lyn’s goons surrender.

Yeah, that worked about as well as I expected.

Meanwhile, Evil Lyn signals to Skeletor that she has the Cosmic Key.

Oh, THAT’S not good! Skeletor and whatever forces aren't quashing resistance on Eternia come through a portal. He then sends them to capture He-Man (You may ask: why not kill him? For once, Skeletor has a valid reason (other than the censors won’t allow killing): He-Man’s a martyr if he’s killed, but if his will is broken, so will Eternia’s be)

Skeletor’s air forces find He-Man, so he and the others enter a building and head to the roof where he borrows Gwildor’s grappler, shoots down one of the pilots, and takes his skimmer.

He then attacks Evil Lyn’s forces to try to get the Cosmic Key back. He-Man uses the grappler to retrieve the Cosmic Key from Evil Lyn (oh, Skeletor’s gonna be PISSED!)

Back at the rooftop…

…Skeletor has found He-Man’s friends! Duncan and Teela open fire, but Skeletor’s magic stops the blasts.

Skeletor tells them to surrender of be filled with more holes than the plot of this movie. Surprisingly, they do and Skeletor’s forces surround them. About that time, He-Man shows up. Skeletor tells him to surrender, and he’ll spare the others…

Surprisingly, He-Man relents. Skeletor then returns to Eternia with He-Man, leaving the others behind. Fortunately, he left Gwildor’s copy of the Cosmic Key behind, so they could return to Eternia, but…

What’s worse, Julie was hit by one of Skeletor’s curses, and without Eternian healing magic she’ll die!

Gwildor explains that the music that played when the Cosmic Key was activated was erased when Skeletor zapped it, rendering it useless even if he could fix it. After a few moments of concentration, Kevin whistles the exact tune from the Cosmic Key (WHAT ARE THE ODDS?)

With that glimmer of hope, Grildor works on repairing the Cosmic Key and setting up a jury rigged adapter as Kevin goes to Charlie's to find a keyboard that wasn't destroyed (Don't worry, Charlie can add the cost to his insurance claim, assuming they believe him)

Meanwhile, Lubic (remember him?) has assembled a SWAT team bunch of beat cops to battle Skeletor’s forces. Too bad Skeletor left, leaving Lubic more or less a laughingstock.

Meanwhile at Castle Greyskull, Skeletor returns with He-Man in chains and prepares to take the last of the Sorceress’s power once the moon rises.

Blade then hands Skeletor He-Man’s sword, which he places next to the throne.

Back on Earth, Kevin returns with the keyboard (and about a dozen cops led by Lubic (the rest went home laughing their asses off) close behind) Julie and Kevin share A Moment as Gwildor hooks the keyboard up. But then…

(Thanks to Papa Ganteng)

With that, it’s all over except the fallout…starting with Lubic.

Lubic decides there are worse places to retire to.

Julie is healed from Skeletor’s curse and she decides Jersey isn’t a great place to move to after all, and with that she and Kevin say their goodbyes to He-Man and the others. Gwildor tells them the Cosmic Key could send them to their past or future if they so choose, but they just want to go home.

Julie then wakes up in her bedroom (surprisingly not trashed) in the morning. She goes downstairs to find…

…her parents are still alive! Gwildor sent them back in time to the day they died, meaning Julie could change their future! Julie and Kevin (and Lubic) get their happy ending as we fade out.

Now, normally this would be the end of the review, but I found a YouTube creator who (with a bit of help from Watchmen) made what could’ve been the beginning of the movie…

(Thanks to Jordan Gingold)

[he-mania]

[spockvarietyhour]

[storiesfromthetoyshelf]

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[eamonart]

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[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.

[cultfaction]

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[amosdeluniverso]

SAUROD - Tercer y ultimo personaje basado en la película con actores. Este tiene su onda, lastima que no le hicieron musculos como al resto de los personajes. Le moves una perillita en la espalda y saca chispas por la boca (tipo un encendedor). Trae una pistolita negra imposible de conseguir.

[the-fabled-yarnspinner-blog]

The #canonfilms #mastersoftheuniverse movie mercs! From left to right: #blade #beastman #karg #saurod #motuclassics #motuc #motumonday

[inukruger]

Happy 30th Anniversary of Master of the Universe. #masteroftheuniverse #blade #saurod #beastman #karg #80s #80smovies #80smovie #heman

[virovac]

Hypothetical potential gender portrayal changes Masters of Universe Characters

I wouldn’t  necesariyl commit to it or plan it, but would not limit voice actor auditions , so these would be open

All the snake men aside from King Hiss or Snakeface

One or both of Two-Bad’s heads. (look up  gynandromorphism) 

Spikor

Sy-Klone

Scare Glow (they’re a skeleton ghost , who’s gonna argue?)

Saurod

Roboto 

Though Saurod could be female and voiced by a man, as a reference to  a few classic sci-fi stories involving uplifted dinosaurs where it was impossible for humans to tell 

On a a side note, Sy-Klone would get a big expanded role if I was in charge, having a day job in peace time as a a weather reporter. And the toy would have swap out display images on the chest.