Skeletor
| Skeletor | |
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| Masters of the Universe character | |
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Art by Alex Ross
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| Created by | Mattel |
| Portrayed by |
Alan Oppenheimer - Filmation (1983 - 1987) Frank Langella - live-action film (1987) Campbell Lane (1990) Brian Dobson (2002 - 2004) |
| Information | |
| Aliases | Keldor |
| Species | Gar/Demon |
| Gender | Male |
| Title | Lord of Destruction Overlord of Evil |
| Family | King Randor (half-brother) |
| Significant other(s) | Evil-Lyn |
| Relatives |
Prince Adam/He-Man (nephew) Princess Adora/She-Ra (niece) Queen Marlena (sister-in-law) |
Skeletor (/ˈskɛlᵻtɔːr/) is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the Masters of the Universe franchise created by Mattel. He is the archenemy of He-Man. Depicted as a muscular blue humanoid with a purple hood over his yellow bare-bone skull, Skeletor seeks to conquer Castle Grayskull so he can obtain its ancient secrets, which would make him unstoppable and enable him to conquer and rule the fictional world of Eternia. However, the incompetence of his henchmen is always an impediment to achieving his ambitions.
In the 2002 series, Skeletor was once a man named Keldor whose face was accidentally splashed with a corrosive liquid. He survived, but at the cost of his face.
The first minicomics that accompanied the 1981–1983 line of Masters of the Universe toys presented the earliest version of continuity, and showed many differences from the more widely known continuity of the later cartoon made by Filmation, and the later minicomics which complemented it. He-Man was depicted as the scarcely superhuman champion of a tribe of stone-age jungle-dwellers. There was no royal court of Eternia, King Randor, Queen Marlena, or Prince Adam yet.
These very first mini-comics, which were actually more like storybooks, with a single image per page footed by prose, stated that Skeletor was originally an inhabitant of another dimension, populated with others of "his kind." During "The Great Wars," an ambiguous concept which is largely ignored in later continuities, a hole was opened in the dimensional wall and Skeletor was thrown from his world into Eternia. Significantly different from the lonelier and entirely self-serving Skeletor of later depictions, the villain's key motivation in this first story is to reopen the rift between his world and Eternia, thus allowing Skeletor's race to invade and conquer Eternia alongside him. This was the initially stated reason behind Skeletor's desire to obtain the powers of Castle Grayskull, not merely seeking power for its own sake as is generally the case in later depictions. However, as this first incarnation of the franchise's continuity was particularly short-lived, many questions about this version of Skeletor's origin are left unanswered.
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