#lizorr

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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.

#motu #classic shera #new adventures of he-man #he-man #snake men #lizard men #lizard man #kobra khan #reptons #king hiss #rattlor #tung lashor #sssqueeze #snake face #fang man #saurod #lizorr

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Heck, whatever I’m adding Lizorr to the Snake Men, its my She-Ra AU

Yeah he’s a shameless ripoff of Gorn from Star Trek, And they were a poor-man’s Tongue Lashor who despite having tongue as a listed power, didn’t have it as an action figure in the toy.

But I like him and he got no respect working along the Space Mutants, only got one fight scene and then forgotten/

He’s also from the same series Mara was lifted from (The New Adventures of He-Man), so also a plus.

I’ll go with the idea they were born on a post-apocalyptic world that the man who would later be Horde Prime used as a testing ground for genetically engineered soldiers against the native, including the Snake Men. Thus a hybrid like Kobrah Khan rather than an original Horde Prime “out of the workshop” creation.  They gets shanghaied into a pirate crew, brought to Eternia and joins the Snake Men after ditching the crew. And gets banished to Etheria with the rest of them/

He fits in fine with the extras from the original toy-packaged minicomic

I like the idea of him being kind of like a WH40k Ork when it comes to technology: doing it instinctually.

They wouldn’t speak, but unlike Rogelio its because he has no idea what’s going on. They gradually learning Etherian language, but even then Lord Gr’asp is usually the one giving him orders thanks to him speaking many languages or Vypor (who will be included in a post of ideas about all of these guys) beaming telepathic commands.

Also considering making them a woman as there’s no hint otherwise really in older media and I’ve gone mad with power. Hey, they already changed Light Hope’s gender presentation.

#gorn #the new adventures of heman #spop au #snake men (motu) #lizorr #employee benefits au

[1980sactionfigures]

Lizorr - He-Man (Mattel)

#he-man #mattel

[virovac]

More on my Ex-Horde Space Pirates au

Premise: Hordak, Entrapta, and Catra in the aftermath of the defeat of Horde Prime, escape to space to avoid punishment for their crimes/avoid being confronted by those they have hurt. They join a the Space Mutant fleet.

The Space Mutants come from the same "He-Man in Space" spinoff as Mara. The New Adventures of He-Man. A weird time in He-Man history. Most of the hero designs were Samey white dudes in different suits of armor. But villains had potential.

So onto notes

The character “ButtHead” will probably not be seen unless I can think of a redesign. However, once I learned that they were unable or unwilling to call him that in the cartoon,(referring to him just as BH) I want a running gag of Hordak unable to bring himself to say his actual name.

Staghorn does not exist in my au, he is the one design I consider near-unsalvageable. I considered a gender swap but even that couldn’t fix it.  I might make a suspiciously similar substitute called Power Fork.

Catra first called Slush Head “mush-brains”, “slime face”, and was surprised her insults were so close to his work-name. (his wife calls him by his non-U.S  market name, Kalamarr)

Hordak finds Slush Head an infuriating mix of commendable qualities and incompetence. However, he values Slush Head’s counsel on matters concerning relationships and morality. (Slush Head is, in canon I think the only married  reoccuring villain in the He-Man and She-Ra franchises. His wife is a pretty cute fish woman named Felca. After one of the heroes, Saggitaurus saved her, Slush Head asked him to be the best man at the wedding. Hilariously enough, according to an episode summary Skeletor was incorporating their wedding into his evil plan and had to give her a pep talk when she was considering calling the wedding off)

Karatii’s prototype character Crystoll exists alongside him. She is a living crystal duplicate of him he fought while they were exploring one planet (a classic space-adventure plot honestly) who then joined the crew

Communications officer Crita is the first heterosexual woman Catra has ever met, and Catra didn’t know such a thing was even possible.

Lizorr was picked up from a planet that was a testing ground for supersoldiers. He is actually unknowingly descended partly from prototypes of an articifical army Horde Prime was working on before deciding to clone himself.

Optikk’s actual brain is in his torso. The red circle on his chest is a another biomechanical sensory organ. He feels no pain in his giant artificially created eye.

Unlike the old cartoon, the Space mutants don’t come from a world they are all native to.

Because ...they’re Space Mutants They should be an organization and culture that started in space.

Some designs in my head for the mutants are closer to actual toys than the show. Slush head has actual gelatinous face, not a fishman wearing a reverse diving suit.

Hoove has a bug-eyed, partially melted face.

(His upgrad” figure will be split into another character Too-Tall, likely a relative with cybernetics improved by Entrapta  The gimmicks were completely different anyway)

I’m thinking Grizzlor may have actually come with the trio of Hordak, Catra and Entrpata, as he would fit in well design-wise.

@shadsiethewriter

#spop au #space mutants