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.
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Imagine if the snake men were allowed the same level of variety as the Serpentine from Ninjago
Hang on a sec I gotta google something-
...I'm gonna assume this Ask is specifically in reference to the Snakemen as depicted in the newer CGI/Core Masters of the Universe.
Because in the 200x version, the Snakemen did have the same level of variety as the Serpentine from Ninjago (as far as a 1 minute google search was able to show me).
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Snake mantis, Kongobatha diademata, Nanomantidae
Photographed at Airlie Beach in Australia by Steve & Alison1
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The scene was powerful in the book, but there was just something about watching reaper collect the bodies of the dead tributes in the arena. The way he removes the weapons from their hands, lays them out nicely, giving them the smallest bit of dignity in death. The contrast to the capitol gasping in shock as he pulls down the flag, not in rebellion, but in mourning. The way mourning in the hunger games IS an act of rebellion. “How are you going to punish me now?” The feed then immediately cutting to the news of the death of one capitol boy, whose death will be avenged upon those who had nothing to do with it. Only certain deaths are allowed to mean anything. God. Suzanne Collins knows what she’s doing.
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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.
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