With Skeletor it actually makes sense as he was once a human with good intentions, corrupted and turned into the monster he is. And he was alot more evil and competent in the original pack in comics.

Quote from: Omega on July 24, 2021, 07:40:55 AM
With Skeletor it actually makes sense as he was once a human with good intentions, corrupted and turned into the monster he is. And he was alot more evil and competent in the original pack in comics.

  Some iterations of Skeletor were human or humanoid once. In others, he's purely monstrous and demonic. The original minicomics suggest he's one of a race of similar beings, while the series bible--which actually post-dates those first four--establishes him as the last survivor of Infinita, Eternia's counter-planet which is pretty much Apokalips with the serial numbers filed off. Filmation only refers to him as 'a demon from another dimension.'

  The introduction of Hordak as his mentor in 1985 adds a bit of development to the character, with one storybook suggesting he was a yellow-faced humanoid before theft of some of Hordak's "Etherium" turned him into the skull-faced monster we know and love. At the tail end of the line, hints were dropped that he might actually be King Randor's vanished brother Keldor, but it wasn't until the early 2000s that we got any confirmation that that was the direction they were going before cancellation.

   The 2002 relaunch went with the Keldor Origin, removing the idea that it was an unknown secret, and adding in the element of Keldor as a half-"Gar" (blue elf, essentially) and thus only a half-brother to Randor. Later material has leaned all-in on the Keldor Origin, and played up the racial divide and added 'victim' elements to the background. I don't know or care what Kevin Smith's Revelation pastiche is doing with the character, and who knows what the next relaunch (which is coming out but has been kept very quiet on the details, it seems) will use?

   

Quote from: Armchair Gamer on July 24, 2021, 09:16:25 AM

Quote from: Omega on July 24, 2021, 07:40:55 AM
With Skeletor it actually makes sense as he was once a human with good intentions, corrupted and turned into the monster he is. And he was alot more evil and competent in the original pack in comics.

  Some iterations of Skeletor were human or humanoid once. In others, he's purely monstrous and demonic. The original minicomics suggest he's one of a race of similar beings, while the series bible--which actually post-dates those first four--establishes him as the last survivor of Infinita, Eternia's counter-planet which is pretty much Apokalips with the serial numbers filed off. Filmation only refers to him as 'a demon from another dimension.'

  The introduction of Hordak as his mentor in 1985 adds a bit of development to the character, with one storybook suggesting he was a yellow-faced humanoid before theft of some of Hordak's "Etherium" turned him into the skull-faced monster we know and love. At the tail end of the line, hints were dropped that he might actually be King Randor's vanished brother Keldor, but it wasn't until the early 2000s that we got any confirmation that that was the direction they were going before cancellation.

   The 2002 relaunch went with the Keldor Origin, removing the idea that it was an unknown secret, and adding in the element of Keldor as a half-"Gar" (blue elf, essentially) and thus only a half-brother to Randor. Later material has leaned all-in on the Keldor Origin, and played up the racial divide and added 'victim' elements to the background. I don't know or care what Kevin Smith's Revelation pastiche is doing with the character, and who knows what the next relaunch (which is coming out but has been kept very quiet on the details, it seems) will use?

   

Aforementioned Series Bible here: https://old.he-man.org/cartoon/exclusivefeatures/exclusive-mastersseriesbible-intro.shtml

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on April 04, 2021, 02:35:55 PM
Evil Races are Bad Game Design

Evil races, or evil classes, are bad game design?