#the new adventures of he-man

[skeletor000]

[Skeletor and Flogg in episode 21, Skeletor's Revenge]

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[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.

[hasbr0mniverse]

This day The New Adventures Of He-Man was released

[taonpest]

Okay, out of curiosity, I decided to start "The new adventures of He-Man" because Skeletor looked very goofy AND HOW COME NO ONE EVER TALK ABOUT IT???

First and foremost, I. Wasn't expecting to see a Catboy and a kronenberg spaceship? We're off to a great start, lads sksksksk

And you know me, I am the so called ✨Skeleslut™️✨, you know I took a shit ton of screenshots of him sksksks But I. Need to talk about him. I was a little disappointed when I heard a. More normal voice. I am someone that I guess people will find weird for that but uh. Most people like dark, deep voice I DON'T. WEIRD SQUEAKY VOICES ARE MY THING. So yeah. I thought I'd be disappointed by that? But idk, the voice actor does...something. And it's nice. Let's say that his voice is good for this version of Skeletor. 🤔

Okay now the rest. I've never been fond of the chara designs in any motu series (except Revelation, I think it nailed it (not for He-Man though)). I always found them...really random? Though I don't like the style itself I have to admit that there was coherence in the design in the CGI series. I feel like it's not really the case here? Especially for He-Man. But you know what? Okay, roule ma poule, they're here to sell toys first and foremost so I guess not everyone is not as regardant as I may be when it comes to this. Otherwise? HE'S FANTASTIC. I MEAN. FUCKING LOOK AT HIM. 😭😭

MY FUCKING GOD. HE'S SO FUCKING EXPRESSIVE I LOVE IT.

And like. I've only watched the first episode so far, so I guess we'll see more of his impulsive side later but holy fucking shit. He's so different from everything I've seen of him so far?? Like. He's always been seen as a threat, and I get why, he did a lot of fucked up, evil shit, but like. He's fucking ridiculous, I can never take him seriously. But here? At least I can take a little seriously. In a few minutes, I saw the control he has over his minions, I've seen the "master strategist" he's supposed to be. I know that Skeletor manipulating people before but like. Idk I feel like it really works this time. And also we see him taking over a fucking air fleet in the blink of an eye. AND STILL, he plays along the rules, says that the...captain? Of the mutants is still, well, the captain when at that point it's evident that Skeletor is in charge now. Yeah, he seems fairly competent for now!

ALSO. THAT MAN IS SO SO SASSY AND QUEER I LOVE HIM.

I'll redraw that timber shot for sure. 💖 That's the bi representation I deserve. <3

[ryanmoody]

Masters of the Universe Origins He-Man 40th Anniversary 4-Pack

Hope to get it and doesn't sell out in 2 minutes.....

[fairytalemovies]

[catulhu333]

Keldor, Skeletor and Tex Hex

As I mentioned in a reply, BraveStarr was supposed to be in the same continuity as Filmation He-Man and She-Ra cartoons. It is interesting the main recurring villain, Tex Hex (originally just Tex)

has an origin shares similarities with the set-up in the mini-comics Keldor origin for Skeletor - like Hex was transformed by the demonic cyborg sorcerer Stampede, Keldor would be transformed by the "Unnamed One":

200X He-Man series had Hordak be the one who transformed Keldor, as did latter MOTUC and DC Masters of the Universe comics:

Still, I wondered if the Unnamed One might had been intended to be Hordak (or Horde Prime).

Stampede is cyborg who like 80s Hordak also used magic, though is gigantic and outright demonic like Filmation's Horde Prime, also engulfed in smoke with green lights.

This made me wonder if Filmation didn't re-use and adapt some unused ideas they collaborated on and co-created with Mattel.

A bonus - in The New Adventures of He-Man, episode "Planet of Junk", Skeletor even transforms into a (copyright friendly) likeness of Tex Hex, possibly to reference the connection between the two:

Also check out BraveStarr, it's awesome.

[evilblot]

I guess being the Mattel CEO's office pet is finally paying off uwu💅✨

[shadowwingtronix]

5 Still More Strong Women Characters I Grew Up With

BW Media Spotlight breaks out 5 Still More Strong Women Characters I Grew Up With

When doing yesterday’s article I linked to two previous articles about strong women characters from my youth, proving that the strong female isn’t some new thing to fiction, I noticed I used Web Woman here twice. This was a result of me forgetting who was in the first list when I did the second list. So to correct that oversite and to prove I didn’t just run out here are five more women who…

[stilitrash]

Fionna was so damn h0rny in this episode and I completely support her <3

[r0semultiverse]

Okay; so, this was an Ice Prince Finn scarecrow!

[lemaistrechat]

Skeletor’s cyborg body

In 1988, Mattel introduced the Laser Light variant of Skeletor. Designed by David Wolfram, who originally called the design “Bio-Mechazoid Skeletor”, Skeletor now had a red or bronze breastplate (that didn’t cover his sides or collarbone), backpack and lower legs as well as tubing and other technological prosthetics going into his blue skin.

The head design has been somewhat controversial for making everything normally hidden by his hood light blue instead of the bone color.

Wolfram went on to design Skeletor for the relaunched toy line called simply HE-MAN, the one that had the New Adventures cartoon in 1990.

Original “New Adventures” design, 2010s MotU Classics version (photo by Action Figure:Barbecue):

While the parts where his skin are exposed, the (repainted) prosthetic feet and Giger-esque stuff on his head remain very similar, his lower legs are different, left hand has been replaced by a non-glowing version of Laser Light’s (ditto his right) and the bronze backpack and breastplate are gone in favor of a new metal chest piece.

Check out what’s happened to his spine!

Now here’s where things get interesting. In the New Adventures cartoon, the detailed design was simplified into this:

You’d think his flesh was just as smooth as the original.

You know what this is reminding me of?

The way cartoon Hordak was understood to be a cyborg despite looking like a darker Skeletor from neck to knees.

The undead Skeletor was starting to lose the functioning of his flesh and becoming more like his old teacher?

(1989 minicomic, which skips directly from Original Skeletor to the first “NA” body)

[aaandbackstabbed]

Della and Donald: you’ve told us this story many times

Scrooge: and you’ll hear it again!

[pepperpixel]

“Can't remember when we walked past the O.R. sign!

(sur-ger-y!)

Can't remember passing out with her hand in mine!

(my-my-mind!!!!)

I remember waking up with my mind repaired.

(A-OK! ^^)

I remember when I realized, she wasn't there...”

Amnesia was her name….. is. so. horrifically. sadly fitting for these two in literally every single line. And I’m gonna NEED ALL OF U GUYS TO GO LISTEN TO IT NOW OK… THIS ISNT A DRILL GO GO GO GO!!!

Anyway… uhh. the fact Betty “blessed” this guy to like. An eternally long lifespan w THIS FUCKED UP OF A MENTAL STATE IS SO SCREWED UP GHGH- Like poor Simon god damn…! u kno he’d rather just keep on not sorting out his baggage and trauma forever too cuz it’d be too complicated… too much… force him to admit things about himself and about BETTY that he really really doesn’t want to… better to just leave it all unexamined.. pack it all into lil boxes so he can just try to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist… HE GOTTA LIVE FOREVER W IT THO… *ME BANGING ON SIMONS DOOR AT 3 IN THE MORNING*: “SIMON U GOTTA ACCEPT URSELF!!!! LOVE URSELF!!!! ACKNOWLEDGE N ACCEPT EVEN THE “BAD” PARTS OF URSELF!!!! SIMON PLEASE!!!!! SIMON EVEN PPL WHO LOVE YOU AND WHO YOU LOVE CAN HURT YOU!!!! ACKNOWLEDGE IT!!! ACKNOWLEDGE THE HURT AND ACKNOWLEDGE UR FEELINGS!!!! AND URSELF!!!!! SIMON!!!!” anyway… gGHGH YEA, SRRY. SIMON PETRIKOVS MENTAL ILLNESSES MAKE ME FEEL LIKE IM GONNA EXPLODE. ANYWAY HAVE SOME ART. W a bunch of diff versions cuz I’m indecisive!

[martyrbat]

batman/tmnt adventures #1

[ID: the outside of a house in Gotham City which is surrounded by other dilapidated, abandoned buildings. One side is pristine, with crisp white paint and dark green shutters on the clean windows. The other side is decrepit, the green paint chipped and worn as the bordered up windows are framed with dirty white shutters. The front lawn is also split, one side mowed and the bushes by the door trimmed neatly as the opposite side has an overgrown lawn and the shrubbery neglected. The pathway leading up to the door is the same, where the number two hangs on it.

Batman is shown on the roof, his cape billowing around him. He uses the side of the broken skylight to drop down in the building, where he then proceeds to fights several henchmen to reach a split living-room. In the room, Harvey Dent is sitting in an armchair with his back to us and is watching the TV—which is currently playing My Little Pony. One of the characters exclaims, “—this is just the most scrumptious day!” as Batman calmly announces, “Harvey. It's time to go home.” END ID]