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digi-lov · 8 months ago
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Lucemon: Chaos Mode BT7-111 Alternative Art by Emiliano Santalucia from the Premium Binder Set
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usagirotten · 1 year ago
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Teela, Captain of the Royal Palace Guard, graces the Masters of the Universe figure by Mondo
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A new figure has been revealed which may excite fans of the Masters of the Universe franchise. The Warrior Goddess Teela has been given a new 1/6 scale figure, but it's a "Timed Edition" release, so collectors will want to order one for themselves during the brief window that sales are live.  
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  The Teela 1/6 Scale Figure – Timed Edition by Mondo pays homage to the iconic character from Masters of the Universe. This collectible figure is meticulously crafted and comes with an array of features: - Height: Standing at 11.5 inches, Teela commands attention with her presence. - Material: The figure is made from high-quality PVC and ABS materials. - Weight: It weighs approximately 5 pounds. - Design Elements: - Faux Fur: Teela features faux fur elements, adding a touch of realism to her outfit. - Weaponry: She comes equipped with an impressive arsenal, including a spear, a serpent staff, a sword, a sword sheath, and a shield. - Portraits: Teela has three different portraits: - Neutral Portrait: Capturing her stoic demeanor. - Angry Portrait: For those intense battle moments. - 200X Portrait: Inspired by Mattel’s 200X line. - Epic Serpent Headdress: A striking headdress befitting the Mystic Guardian of Grayskull. - Free Shipping: Available to the United States, Canada, UK, and the EU. - Payment Plans: Convenient payment plans are offered. - Release Date: Expected to ship in July 2024. - Limit: Each person can purchase up to 3 figures. - Pre-Order Window: Open from April 2nd to April 12th, 2024. - Artists Involved: - Concept Design: Emiliano Santalucia - Sculpt: Tommy Hodges - Paint: Mark Bristow - Packaging Art: Florian Bertmer - Packaging Design: Jordan Christianson - Photography: Raúl Barerro - Art Direction: Hector Arce Read the full article
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steelthroat · 1 month ago
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So anyway
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I bought more stuff, because i am very weak
Gorgeus sketch by Emiliano Santalucia
Blaster is such a gorgeous guy 🫠
Guess who bought 50€ worth of tf comics at the Comicon!??
ME
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selketshaula · 5 years ago
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Dynamic fusion - intro 04 by Emiliano Santalucia
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digi-lov · 1 year ago
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MetalGarurumon (X Antibody) EX5-026 English Exclusive Alternative Art by Emiliano Santalucia from EX-05 Theme Booster Animal Colosseum
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digimontcgcatalog · 1 month ago
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Zudomon Ace BT14-026 Alternative Art
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destino-terra-dos-sonhos · 5 years ago
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She-Ra, Rainha Angela, Cintilante, Gélida, Abelhinha, Serena, Felina, Feiticeira, Teela, & Maligna por Emiliano Santalucia. 😎😍❤️🔥👊🏻💪🏻
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Chunky
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allspark · 6 years ago
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The recently-announced SDCC Exclusive Transformers x Ghostbusters MP-10G Optimus Prime is going to be available through more than one channel, so to speak. The figure celebrating the 35th anniversary of both franchises is even popping up ahead of the convention!
E-commerce platform NTWRK  is debuting the product today, June 25th, at 6pm on a broadcast at this link, with lots of additional…
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johnny-dynamo · 3 years ago
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MOTU by  Emiliano Santalucia
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jazzluca · 3 years ago
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BRAWN ( Deluxe ) Movie Studio Series 80
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Anche BRAWN, il buon vecchio italico Cammello, ha avuto l'onore di un cameo nei gloriosi 5 minuti ambientati su Cybertron nel film di "Bumblebee", e quindi eccolo pure lui a completare la prima wave di quei Transformers comparsi lì appunto solo come robot, ma cui è stata creata una modalità alternativa ad hoc proprio per produrne il giocattolo.
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Partiamo da questa, una volta ogni tanto, ovvero una sorta di CAMIONCINO CYBERTRONIANO, quasi sulla falsariga dei furgoni stile Ironhide e Ratchet, ma un po' distante invece dal mezzo originariamente concepito da Emiliano Santalucia, più aerodinamico sebbene abbastanza massiccio. Resta la bella trovata delle ruote anteriori pronunciate in avanti, ma la forma nel giocattolo finale ricorda appunto più un camioncino, per via anche delle ruote più piccole, ma sopratutto pare un camion da trasporto materiali, dato che nella parte posteriore c'è proprio un signor foro dove si nasconde la testa del robot, che sempre guardando il concept design iniziale, doveva invece sostituirsi al parabrezza.
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Anche così comunque il veicolo non è affatto male, considerando che l'originale G1 era un fuoristrada, anche se ora è più arancione senape che verde, con il primo colore che definiva più la parte robotica di Cammello.
I dettagli si sprecano, al solito, ma il vero tocco di classe è la griglia frontale che si ribalta di 90° per rivelare un foro cui si può innestare l'apposita punta di un trapano, che è un cacchio di signor omaggio ad una puntata del cartone animato originale dove appunto il buon Brawn tirava fuori quell'arnese per scavarsi un tunnel sotto terra.
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Sebbene sia solo un accessorio, la trivella dona maggior "personalità" al veicolo, e differenziandolo ulteriormente dall'ormai comune auto cybertroniana: peccato solo che non sia effettivamente retrattile, ma già il fatto che il foro scompaia e lasci il posto alla griglia non è male, così come la punta della trivella trova posto sulla punta del fucile d'ordinanza del nostro, dal design comune a quelli di Ratchet e Wheeljack, ma dallo stampo diverso, con un forellino sotto che gli permette di essere montato sul veicolo.
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Inoltre, la punta della trivella, di nuovo, può sistemarsi anch'essa in un altro punto del fucile, ovvero  su una spina sopra lo stesso. Anche il fucile, vista la sua stazza, cambia un po' la fisionomia del veicolo, volendo, coprendo pure un po' il succitato foro dietro la cabina.
Un bel veicolo, insomma, che può diventare una trivella o un mezzo d'assalto, grazie agli accessori, ed un ottimo antipasto al robot, grazie anche alla TRASFORMAZIONE, che vede imitare parzialmente quella del G1, con le parti laterali inferiori con le ruote che diventano le gambe, con un'interessante passaggio nel ribaltamento degli stinchi attraverso i talloni "tagliati". Come dicevo all'inizio, la testa salta fuori dal retro del veicolo, non prima di aver dispiegato le braccia nascoste sotto la carrozzeria, ruotato il bacino, ed infine un altro bel tocco è il parabrezza che si fonde al resto del corpo, divenendo di fatto la schiena e non un qualche zaino in più.
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Il ROBOT pare uscito dal film, da quanto è dettagliato e fedele, ed a monte il design stesso è davvero indovinato citando il G1 originale, con la schiena rialzata dietro la testa, l'aspetto paffuto e la testa a cupola, anche se  magari unico neo è nel design / scultura della sola bocca, per quanto dettagliatissimo e fedele, sia chiaro.
Come altezza, è alto quanto Bumblebee versione B-127, anche se teoricamente, sempre guardando i G1, dovrebbe essere più alto, ma è Bee che per i film è un po' cresciutello, quindi vabbè. La colorazione pure è fedele al G1, con torso senape ed arti verdi militare, più avambracci grigio / argento, e in quanto a posabilità siamo al top, con lo standard post WfC più la rotazione dei pugni che in un deluxe non è così scontata.
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Delle armi ho già detto, e sfruttando la spina ora dietro la  schiena, il fucilone si può sistemare a riposo lì appeso grazie ad un apposito foro laterale.
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Infine, un gran bel modello per i fan del personaggio e della G1 in generale, che presenta una versione cybertroniana / realistica davvero ben fatta esteticamente che tecnicamente, con la ciliegina degli accessori davvero azzecati che valorizzano in generale il giocattolo tutto.
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digi-lov · 2 years ago
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Zudomon Ace BT14-026 English Exclusive Alternative Art by Emiliano Santalucia from BT-14 Booster Blast Ace
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digimontcgcatalog · 2 months ago
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Lucemon: Chaos Mode BT7-111
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clarenecessities · 4 years ago
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As my followers may have picked up from my long, spiraling rants, I’ve undertaken a new research project, courtesy of the death grip She-Ra has on my brain. And guess what? It’s finally at Disseminate Information Stage! So I’m going to lay out all of the gods, demigods, and godbeasts of the Masters of the Universe. With sources!
This table is more of a cheat sheet. We’re gonna tackle this god by god, with a section on Actual Lore & a meta section to help you decide how valid you think they are, because frankly some canons are more canon than others.
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Asklepia, Benevolent Snake Goddess
Lore: Asklepia is one of two snake goddesses, the benevolent twin sister of Serpentia. We know very little about her abilities, but the Snake Clan (a clan of human warriors) were said to worship her, and they were famed for their architecture and healing. She had the ability to curse and deform people--to what extent is uncertain, but she’s known to have condemned a fallen priest named Ka, whose disfigured likeness now adorns Snake Mountain.
Behind the Scenes: First appearing in the 1987 comic “Il Nero Cristallo Del Potere“, Asklepia remained nameless for over 30 years, until Masters of the Universe Classics (MOTUC) released a few choice bios. For the unfamiliar, MOTUC seeks to reconcile the often contradictory canons into one overarching narrative, which is great in theory, but in practice is kind of like putting ice cream on a hot dog. And calling it a Chilly Dog ® as if that makes it taste better. But I digress. In 2019 they released a bio for the Staff of Ka which finally put a name to the less-evil Snake Goddess, in an obvious nod to Asclepius and the asklepian (that staff+snake icon people put on medical stuff).
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Sharella, the Green Goddess and/or “Avatar” of Asklepia
Lore: Contradictory
Long Version: Okay I’ve put avatar in quotes because it is... contentious. Basically, and you’ll see here why I felt the need to make this post instead of relying blindly on the wikis, Sharella was introduced (in the ‘87 licensing guide) as a tribal leader who had joint custody of Gray, the original name of He-Ro’s alter ego, while he was growing up. This was further developed by Emiliano Santalucia’s concept work, wherein she was the leader of the Green Tiger Tribe (GTT) specifically. While the comic concept was not run through licensing & is thus not “canon”, the idea of her leading the GTT persisted. This teeny tiny image of her from Tytus and Megator’s 1987 Italian box art was all we had until 2008, when one of He-Man’s accessories described her as the “warrior woman ally” of Queen Veena, “who had been changed into the immortal green-skinned avatar of the Goddess Asklepia”. In 2009, MOTUC released a figure for The Goddess, apparently forgetting they’d done that shit the year before because the packaging did say “K’yrulla” was her real name. They had to cover it up with a sticker. 
So who’s The Goddess? Way back in the days before Mattel solidified any of the lore around MOTU, there were mini-comics released with the toys. Initially, the Goddess served a similar function to the Sorceress in the cartoon, and was in fact sometimes called the Sorceress. She facilitated He-Man’s transformations, gave him missions, was generally magical and mysterious, etc. If you know who the Sorceress is, and you can picture Teela, but green? That’s about it.
Back to Sharella, though. The Third Ultimate Battleground rolled around in 2015, and for the first time since some packaging in the 80s, we saw Sharella in action! She was shot through the heart with a poison arrow. Yeah. But don’t worry, she received a blood transfusion from Moss Man (who we’ll get to later), and was transformed into the Green Goddess! She’s immortal now. How Asklepia figures in here is sort of unclear, which is weird since this is still part of the MOTUC line, but whatever. Whatever! Queen Grayskull (the aforementioned Veena) received a bio in 2015 as well, which described Sharella as her apprentice who became “The Goddess”.
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Horokoth, Aspect of the Mother Goddess
Lore: DC went a little batshit (pun intended) with the lore for the Eternity War. Here the Goddess is three combined aspects, “Serpos” (Serpentia) for the Snake Men, Zoar for the human “Eternians”, and a third, invented deity called Horokoth, who represents the Horde. Horokoth is “the coming destroyer. The darkness at the end of days.” and is represented by a bat.
Behind the Scenes: That last link has a clearer picture of her, it just didn’t crop well. Also, I confess I couldn’t bring myself to read Eternity War. As thrilling as the prospect of a cohesive narrative is, if I wanted to see Adora slit her brother’s throat there’s the edgier side of deviantArt to peruse. Therefore I know little of Horokoth outside of a few still images of Hordak. The bat was almost certainly selected for the Horde’s vespertilian emblem.
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Hordeous, God-Beast of Horokoth
Lore: A “primordial”, bat-like godbeast of Horokoth, created in response to the god Saz’s feline races. Their face was “forever infused“ on the surface of Horde World by Horde Lord (Hordak and Horde Prime’s father in the MOTUC canon) to grant their family power and immortality.
Behind the Scenes: Yes they’ve used some words wrong, but they’ve got the spirit, right? Hordeous was (allegedly, this is secondhand) an invention of the MOTUC crew in answer to Horokoth. Now, the Horde Supreme bio predates Horokoth’s introduction by about 3 years, but obviously the comics were in production already. There’s an undated sketch of Horokoth Hordak from an undated interview (thanks for nothing you useless website) but in that same gallery there’s an orko sketch labeled 2012 so. We’re good right? That makes sense, timeline-wise. Anyway the comics slam dunked Horde Prime out of existence and combined him with Horde Lord so it’s contradictory anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Serpentia, Malevolent Snake Goddess
Lore: The evil counterpart of Asklepia, Serpentia is the goddess of the Snake Men. The priest Ka of the Snake Clan forsook Asklepia in her favor, destroying Asklepia’s sacred orb and stealing the Serpent Ring (an artefact capable of transforming humans into Snake Men) from the Ophidian Spire with King Hsss. In DC’s triune interpretation of the Goddess, Serpentia (here ‘Serpos’) is blood, passion, and desire. A primal and primordial force appearing to the Snake Men in their own image.
Behind the Scenes: Okay yes I’ve reused the Asklepia pic but in my defense they are twins and this is the easiest one to crop. So here’s the thing about Serpentia: we only got a name for her in 2019. We knew there was a snake goddess, and she was pretty evil, or at least hostile towards mammalian life (see: the source of the pic I chose for her). Where Asklepia references the asklepian, ‘Serpentia’ is a much more heavy-handed snake reference, even though Anguis was right there. Those Masters Mondays came through for us, though, with the shield and staff of Ka, Ssssylph, and of course MOTUC’s Dark Despot Skeletor, which is. something. Though only recently named, Serpentia has been a shadow over Eternia since the Snake Men’s introduction in 1985 (or, depending on how much of the presented backstory you accept, even sooner in the form of Skeletor’s lair, Snake Mountain).
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Serpos/Sarcedon, God-Beast of Snake Mountain
Lore: Contradictory, but the gist of it is he’s a very large snake with elemental magic and a grudge, that was turned to stone and became Snake Mountain.
Long Version: Snake Mountain was conceived of towards the end of 1982, but wasn’t revealed to the public until September of 1983, with the debut of the Filmation cartoon. For another year, the snake coiled around its summit was simply a carving, its mouth hollowed out for Skeletor to stand in and loom. But in 1984 the Snake Mountain toy was released, completely discarding the Filmation design in favor of the hewn face of the figure we now call Ka. Instead of a snake carving winding its way up the peak, the Mattel toy featured a ‘striking serpent’, alive and attached to the mountain itself. From there, it was an easy leap to make to ‘this carving comes alive’. So easy, in fact, that they did it twice!
First attempted in 1985 in the newspaper storyline “Vengeance of the Viper King”, the snake was here called Sarcedon, the World Destroyer. At the dawn of time, he was said to crush Eternia within his deadly coils. He burrowed deep into the ground, causing fearsome storms that nearly destroyed the planet. Only a fearless hero (implied to be He-Ro) could defeat and imprison Sarcedon. Using a macguffin called a Mirror of History, He-Man forced Sarcedon to behold his own reflection in a reference to the Medusa myth that kind of missed the point of it being reflective. Sarcedon was sent back in time, Snake Mountain was restored, the good guys win, blah blah blah.
That was the last of it until the MYP cartoon in 2004. Serpos as a name was actually first invoked by Mer-Man in a 1982 minicomic, but like it probably wasn’t about the snake. Anyway in the MYP cartoon the Snake Men get this thing called the Medallion of Serpos that lets them un-petrify the snake around Snake Mountain, grow two more heads, and unleash his godly wrath. He breathes fire, trashes Eternos, beats up He-Man, then turns his attention on Castle Grayskull to consume the Orb of Power (containing the strength and wisdom of the Elders, who had first trapped him in stone). He-Man cuts off Serpos’s extra heads with a sword upgrade, the Elders are somehow magically restored to life, and they re-petrify him. Snake Mountain is restored, the good guys win, blah blah blah.
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Zoar, the Fighting Falcon
Lore: Contradictory, but it sure is a bird!
Long Version: While Sharella’s backstory is fraught because of the comics couldn’t decide what they wanted her to be, Zoar was similarly tangled up by the toyline. Initially male, he went through several color schemes, some prettier than others. Though there was a vague association with the Sorceress before the cartoon (recall that pre-Filmation, the Sorceress was just the Goddess), Filmation made them literally inseperable by designating Zoar as the Sorceress’s falcon form, to which she was confined when leaving Castle Grayskull.
Some of the comics and Golden books showed Zoar as being flipping enormous & ridden into battle as a steed by Teela and Man-at-Arms. Pre-Filmation, Zoar was always referred to as male, but post-Filmation, always female, as an incarnation of the Sorceress.
The Eternity Wars comics describe Zoar as the third aspect of the Goddess, the ‘Great Preserver’ whose light would shine through the universe for eternity. They pull off a sort of tripartite priestess thing where it’s Serpos/Zoar/Horokoth represented by Teela-Na (the Sorceress)/Teela/Evil-Lyn.
MOTUC, of course, had to reconcile all of these contradictory canons. How’d they do it? “In the folklore of Eternia, the golden falcon symbolized the godhead Zoar, a powerful deity of Preternia. As a god, Zoar could appear in both male and female guises and while the blue-tipped female falcon was associated with the Sorceress of Grayskull, the golden falcon represented Zoar's masculine nature.” So Zoar is genderfluid now, and the Sorceress is merely borrowing their form when transforming into a falcon. This bio also established that Zoar had anointed the first Sorceress, Veena (Queen Grayskull), which explains why she has wings for no apparent reason.
Also it’s not offically MOTUC but the scultors of the line, Four Horsemen, made a single anthro Zoar for Power-Con 2013. In case you need that for some reason.
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Glorybird, Emissary of Zoar
Lore: Many millennia ago, there were three siblings, who were very poor and mistreated by their stepmother, but had hearts filled with kindness and love. Zoar, recognizing their resilience and desire to help people, sent an emissary named Glorybird. Glorybird bestowed upon each sibling a divine gift, but as they used their new powers to fight for good, their stepmother revealed herself to be a Celestial Witch & attempted to sacrifice them to Zoar’s “greatest enemy”, Horokoth.  
Backstory: Okay, so the Star Sisters (and Glorybird) were in exactly one episode of She-Ra, primarily to set them up as new toy designs. While prototypes were made for these, the figures weren’t actually produced until MOTUC released figures for them in 2012. Though they were referenced in Princess Prom, and we saw a brief cameo in a background, Glorybird was absent until the introduction of the Star Siblings in Season Five.
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That’s right! This bird is a god, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Saz, God of All Felines
Lore: One of the “Gods of the Multiverse” (he is the only member named explicitly), Saz was a blue-furred, feline deity responsible for the creation of all cats, humanoid or otherwise. He transformed himself into an enormous cat-beast to defeat Serpos and Hordeous, whose progenitors created them in envy of his children. Though Serpos was defeated, Hordeous escaped into the cosmos, and Saz himself vanished mysteriously.
Behind the Scenes: “By the whiskers of Saz!” is a fun pseudo-swear made by various cat races throughout MOTU, first in He-Man’s “The Cat and the Spider” and later in She-Ra’s “Magicats”. That was the only real mention of him until... okay, so MOTUC bios aren’t always attached to the product. Starting in 2018, they did this thing called Masters Mondays where they put unposted bios on the org forums. So while we’ve had the sword since 2010, we didn’t get the background on it until March of 2020. And then a couple weeks later, the Cat Mask of Catra bio referred to him as a “mystical being” instead of a god, but the mask was from 2011 so. He may not have been a god yet. It really depends on when the bios were actually written.
Saz wielded a blade probably best described as a falchion, whose quillon & langet formed a vaguely triangular shape around a deep red gem. I want to be clear that while it looks totally rad, this sword would be very impractical and have poor structural integrity were it not made by a literal god. Do not make swords like this. Also it’s almost certainly riffing on the Sword of Omens from Thundercats (affectionate).
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Sabe-Or, Son of Saz
Lore: A green-furred, orange-striped paladin, Sabe-Or is one of the only named Ancients. He inherited his father’s blade upon Saz’s mysterious disappearance, and lived for centuries more. Upon his death, he transferred his “heroic essence” into a group of Eternian tigers, forever transforming them into the Green Tiger Tribe, whence both Granger (steed of King Grayskull), and Cringer, steed of Prince Adam.
Behind the Scenes: So “Battle Cat Man” is a concept that’s existed since they decided to make their hero ride a wicked tiger into battle. If you show a kid a superhero, and a supertiger, apparently the natural inclination of most children in the 80s was to combine the two. There are so many custom action figures. So, so many. Sabe-Or is visually a clear reference to this concept, and canonically seems to be the closest we’re going to get outside of the Thundercats crossover, unless you count Cowarros from 4H’s Mythic Legions line (I do, because it means Purrrplor is also canon and I fucking love calling him that).
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Moss Man, Ancient Eternian Nature God
Lore: An ally of King Grayskull, Moss Man was something of an Eternian cryptid in the centuries leading up to He-Man Times. He has control over all plant life, the ability to meld with plants, and apparently can imbue sentience to said plants.
Behind the Scenes: Moss Man wasn’t featured in many episodes, because he’s a little... incredibly over-powered. He’s literally Bigfoot from 5000 years ago with magic powers. And like, since I don’t think the writers appreciate how long 5000 years is, you know what happened 5000 years ago? Stonehenge. This bitch is Stonehenge-old. But sure, you can trace a direct line of descent from his contemporary. smh. Anyway according to MOTUC his real name is Kreann’Ot N’Norosh so make of that what you will. Also his toys were pine-scented. I just love that.
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Evil Seed, Rebellious Creation of Moss Man
Lore: Created by Moss Man to help fight in the Great Wars, Evil Seed betrayed his master and turned to evil (who could have foreseen this...), finding joy in corrupting all forms of plant life for his own amusement. Moss Man imprisoned him in enchanted chains, keeping him restrained for many millennia.
Behind the Scenes: According to MOTUC, his real name is Sero Malustro, clumsy New Latin for “(to) plant evil-burnt“. Why his name is New Latin and Moss Man’s is... whatever that is, I have no idea. As you can see from the image I included, he originally had an artichoke head, which was upgraded for the Mike Young Productions (MYP) cartoon. Personally I think the artichoke rules.
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Volcana, the Fire Goddess
Lore: Canonically, she’s a fire goddess, and the mother of the Volcano Magus. Together, they are a rising force that seeks to conquer Etheria in the wake of Hordak’s defeat.
Backstory: Volcana has taken a long a twisted journey, but was first revealed to fans at Power-Con 2016 in a panel revealing previously unseen concepts and characters. After the first wave of She-Ra toys, a second wave was planned with a snow focus, to bring more attention the Filmation-neglected Frosta. This began with the introduction of a fire villain, an “evil lady that glows with heat” who would attempt to melt Castle Chill. That concept actually refers to a character named Amber (not Ember, as one might assume) who was reworked into a benevolent counterpart, Volcana’s twin sister.
Volcana was later fleshed out to be a Fire Goddess with flame-red hair, x-ray vision, and arms sculpted with flames. Her cape flew up with flame detail that rose up to control the volcano (of Volcanica, a proposed toyset that seems to have been reworked into the Crystal Falls). She was emphasized by Mattel to not start fires, which, honestly, is probably why they scrapped the character. He-Man couldn’t use his sword as a sword; a woman made of fire was basically doomed.
Now, though, we’re several decades in and lines made for collecters that are largely in their 30s and 40s can say whatever they want! So she’s canon, even if Amber isn’t. Yes there’s only one mention of her. Amber technically was mentioned in an unproduced episode titled “Amber Waves of Flame”, but as it was unproduced, it’s noncanonical.
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Volcano Magus, Sinister Son of Volcana
Lore: Living within a dormant volcano, the Volcano Magus of the German audio plays was the source of most of Catra’s power and all of her evil intent. He supplied her with magic for spells and schemes with which to assail the Crystal Castle, but neither she nor Clawdeen were aware of the dark influence he held over them.
In the MOTUC canon, he’s specified as the son of Volcana, a demigod from the “Region of Volcanoes” who craved the nature magic of the Whispering Woods. When he learned the Twiggets were inextricably linked to that magic, he used his powers to petrify the former Rebels (this was after the Horde's defeat) and kidnap three Twiggets to drain the magic from their souls. Twiggets, for the uninitiated, are like purple tree-elf things. According to MOTUC, Razz is a Twigget, though the ‘real’ name they assigned her doesn’t fit their naming convention. She is purple, I guess.
Kowl, who avoided petrification, read Razz's spellbooks to find a way to save his friends, and learned of an Entrapment Gem that she hid in a shoe, for some reason. He confronted the Volcano Magus, spoke in the ancient tongue of the First Ones, and sucked him into the Gem.
Backstory: Admittedly this stuff is second hand, as I don’t speak German & they only have transcriptions/translations for the He-Man tapes anyway, but if anybody can find me an audio file I will do my best to verify. The MOTUC stuff at least I can confirm 100% because it’s from 2019 & I do speak English, for better or worse.
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Oak, the Jackal God
Lore: Oak was the terrible Jackal God worshiped by the denizens of Zhar, an ancient civilization that once existed in a remote, forested region of Eternia. Long ago, Oak was imprisoned within a statue which could be found within the Temple of the Jackal. When Skeletor removed the statue from the temple, Oak broke free of the enchantment which imprisoned him and wreaked havoc on Eternia. Although the Jackal God was immensely powerful, he could be weakened by the elements of nature and was ultimately foiled by a rainstorm conjured by the combined powers of He-Man's sword and the magic of the temple's guardian priest.
Backstory: I have lifted this from a He-Man guide word for word as I cannot for the life of me find a copy of the Brazilian Editora Abril comic he came from, O Templo Do Chacal (1986). The description is like, suspiciously similar to the plot of the He-Man episode The Cat and the Spider, except the Grimalkin was never described as a god. The rest of it--statue, Skeletor, storm defeat--plays out almost the same. True pity I can’t find the original source, but I do trust this guidebook. You may be interested in Ceres from the UK comics--another dog-slash-statue who frankly might as well be a god himself, but as he’s not called one in canon he’s not going on the list.
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The Bitter Rose Goddess
Lore: As Man-at-Arms told the legend, “Every day, a woman climbed Rose Mountain to look for her husband to return from the war. Alas, he never came back. Her tears poured from her cheek and entered the ground. One day she disappeared, but where she stood was a single, solitary rose. It’s the only thing that grows on Rose Mountain.”
The Insect People, who lived at the base of Rose Mountain, believed that the Bitter Rose is all that held the mountain together (and when it was picked, they were proved right). After the flower was restored, it transformed into the Bitter Rose Goddess herself, who explained that she had been a prisoner of her love's sorrow, so bitter that she refused to allow anything else to grow on Rose Mountain. She blessed the surrounding area, blanketing the jagged peaks with roses, and disappeared.
Backstory: She’s kind of... barely a god. She showed up in one episode and no other media & has objectively less power than like, every single demon they ever brought in. I almost didn’t put her on this list.
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Mask-Ra, Goddess of Masks
Lore: A goddess who created the magical Masks of Power.
Backstory: Mask-Ra was first mentioned in 2019 and like, look, I’m gonna be real. I don’t respect her. She’s an invention of MOTUC (unless they were drawing on this concept art of Maska-Ra, which I doubt bc he was a Man-E-Faces precursor) and they retconned her into having created Catra’s mask, which is kind of redundant given the entire episode Magicats. This mask did not need two bios. There are no other mentions of her in any canon.
Potential other Masks of Power: The Deemos and Tyrella masks from the He-Man episode “Masks of Power”, lizard and canine masks from the mini-comic “Masks of Power”, Lord Masque’s Demon Mask from the He-Man episode “House of Shokoti, Part 1″, and whatever the hell Red Shadow has going on.
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Procrustus, Giant Guardian of Magic
Lore: During the creation of the various dimensions (5 in MOTUC canon but demonstratably higher everywhere else), the gods installed the four-armed, immortal giant Procrustus to guard their secrets at the heart of Eternia. There lay the Starseed, from which the entire dimension was created. It still held immeasurable power, and could be used to conquer entire universes. Hordak, in an attempt to access the Starseed, cracked Eternia in two with the Spell of Separation. Though he was (mostly) thwarted, from then on Procrustus was forced to hold the two halves of Eternia together from within, lest the planet break apart and the Starseed be exposed.
Backstory: First appearing in the mini-comic “The Magic Stealer!”, Procrustus is a lot more tangible than most gods. We know where he is, at all times, and he seems confined to one size. His powers appear to be largely physical, as he had to burrow out of the ground to investigate in the mini-comic instead of teleporting or like, magicking the dirt away. This was his only appearance until MOTUC released a figure for him in 2012. He also showed up in the Subternia map the next year, holding Eternia together.
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Standor, Cosmic Creator of Power
Lore: “Before time began, the great Gods of the multiverse convened in the Hall of Power to create all that was and all that will ever be. Head architect of this great task was Standor. A cosmic being of unlimited imagination, Standor helped lead his fellow deities by fueling their energies with raw creative force.”
Backstory: Released for Comikaze 2013 to celebrate the partnership of Mattel and Pow! Entertainment, Standor is literally just Stan Lee But a God. The prototype was called Standar--idk why they changed it, but I think it’s because it’s too easy to confuse with “Standard”. They made a bio for his sunglasses. I don’t want to talk about it.
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Bash-Or, Slain Mystic God-Beast
Lore: Very little is known of Bash-Or, the Ram. His last remnant was sealed within the Ram Stone by the ancient sorceror kings of Zalesia, imbuing it with his divine power to overcome any barrier, magical or otherwise.
Backstory: Bash-Or was revealed in the bio for the Ram Stone, September of 2020, but his spirit (previously referred to as ‘the Spirit of the Ram Stone’) was twice utilized by Skeletor in the MYP cartoon, to great effect, before the stone was destroyed.
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thanksjro · 5 years ago
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An addendum to that Getaway post.
There are many different flavors of Getaway. This is because none of the artists who worked on MTMTE/LL seem to agree just what exactly his facial situation is. Not to say that things get totally out there with the character interpretation; there are base lines that just about everyone hits. It’s simply the variety of the details that are present that fascinates me.
Anyway, here’s a comprehensive list of all the varieties of Getaway one could potentially run into within IDW 2005.
MILNE
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Alex Milne’s Getaway is the most common variety, and likely doesn’t have a mouth; Milne seems to prefer avoiding giving the robots true mouths whenever possible. Has some rather intense cheekbones.
SANTALUCIA
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Emiliano Santalucia’s Getaway was the character’s foray into the IDW publications. It’s difficult to say, given that it was only a cameo, and this isn’t exactly a close-up, but it looks as if he’s got a face plate here. Not sure what his eyes are doing. Perhaps they were meant to be yellow this early in the publication run.
RAIZ
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James Raiz’s Getaway looks like a wise old tortoise. Appears to have a face plate that lets his chin ornament poke out, though it’s a little hard to tell in some panels.
GRIFFITH
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Andrew Griffith’s Getaway has a face plate. Cheekbones are also present.
ROJO
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Atilio Rojo’s Getaway looks like a Muppet. Arguably the friendliest in appearance. Has a chin-mouth.
CAHILL
Brendan Cahill’s Getaway is interesting, in that he changes every issue.
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During “Dark Cybertron”, he doesn’t have a face plate OR any discernible layers in the facial region, but MAY have a weird chin-mouth situation going on. Shading could be working again me here, but that could be a mouth.
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In issue #40, it looks like he’s got a chin ornament, which peeks out from under his… initial face layer? These may actually be the same layer, it’s difficult to tell. He’s got a little coin slot going on, which is possibly meant to be a vent or hinge, or maybe even just a slot for fluid intake.
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Later on in #47, he’s got a hinge/vent/something down by his chin, without any ornamentation to be seen.
All of Cahill’s takes on Getaway follow the same general idea for a majority of his face, in that it’s a smooth, singular piece, with indentations that suggest cheekbones. Also, he’s got bags under his eyes like he hasn’t slept in three days.
TEN
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Ten’s Getaway follows Cahill’s line of thinking with the single, solid piece. This makes sense, considering Cahill is the one who actually drew everything in Ten’s mural.
ROCHE
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Nick Roche’s Getaway is a very severe looking individual. He’s got a face plate and cheek bones that could slit a man’s throat. Funky little chin guard going on- it’s different, in that it seems to sit on top of the face plate, as opposed to poking out from under. Perhaps is ornamentation of the plate itself as opposed to the chin.
SAKAMOTO
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Hayato Sakamoto’s Getaway appears to have a face plate, for the singular panel that he has it. All other artistic renditions of this character by Sakamoto involve grievous facial harm. This is intentional, seeing as his mouth has been sawed off for the safety of others. The layout of his teeth seems to imply a traditional face situation, though I’ve no idea where his lower jaw ran off to if that’s the case.
LAWRENCE
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Jack Lawrence’s Getaway has a chin ornament and an oddly loose-fitting face plate- and likely has a proper mouth under it. Much like Milne likes to avoid mouths whenever possible, Lawrence, in turn, likes to slap them on any robot he can. Not confirmed, but given Lawrence’s take on both First Aid and Hoist, it certainly could be a possibility.
SU
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E. J. Su’s Getaway seems to have a face plate. Has a little chin ornament.
COLLER
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Casey Coller’s Getaway has a big chin, but no mouth, if this panel of the scraplets eating him is any indication. Definitely has a face plate going on, and the cheekbones are back.
You know, I think the artists at IDW might have a collective thing for good bone structure.
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allspark · 8 years ago
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Artist Emiliano Santalucia has shared his design sketches for the Titans Return Leader Class Soundwave figure via Facebook.
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Titans Return Soundwave Sketches by Emiliano Santalucia Artist Emiliano Santalucia has shared his design sketches for the Titans Return Leader Class Soundwave figure…
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