Okay so just to get this straight. In the mini comics, Keldor had a kid with Evil-Lyn before he had acid thrown on him and sometime before after becoming Skeletor Evil-Lyn hid said baby. But does Skeletor even remember the kid?

The event your talking about happened specifically in the Classics-line comics. The mini-comics that were published in the 2010s and came with the Classics toys. This was Skeleteen's first appearance in a MotU media that made it through production. Previously, Skeleteen had only ever been a "concept character" and never made it past the concept phase.

(I have to add disclaimers like that now because there's an Anon out there who is apparently very offended when people mix canons.)

Yes. Keldor and Evil-Lyn had a baby together. Then, when Evil-Lyn saw the way Keldor changed after he became Skeletor, she feared for her child's safety and handed the baby over to Mighty Spector.

It's unclear whether or not Skeletor remembers that he had a kid. It never comes up again Skeletor is already dead and Skeleteen returns as an enemy working under the command of the Unnamed One.

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Old Evil-Lyn, from MOTU comics

Palette Portrait Commission for @emperorsfoot

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Even in her twilight years, Evil-Lyn is the most striking woman on Eternia.

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CRACK THEORY TIME!

So, a while ago when the first promotional images for Revelation came out, I made this post commenting that Orko's new design resembled the Unnamed One, a villain from the Classics mini-comics.

Well, what if-

When Orko and Scareglow clashed during Orko's "great personal sacrifice", Scareglow's negative energy corrupted him and turned Orko into the Unnamed One? Orko's not dead, he's just not quite himself anymore.

#orko #gorpo the unnamed #gorpo #the unnamed one #scareglow #scare glow #trollan #trolla #revelation spoilers #revelations spoiler #motu #masters of the universe #classics mini comics #fall of eternia arc #fan theor #crack theory

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@why-must-a-blog-be-named recently shared a page from one of the old Ladybird Masters of the Universe books from the 80s and I caught something interesting.

During Skeletor's speech to rev up his army he describes them as "one planet, one people, one leader".

I thought this was really interesting because it's the exact same thing Keldor thinks when he's exiled in the 2010s Classics reboot of the mini-comics.

At the time I thought it was just the writers trying to make Keldor|Skeletor a sympathetic villain and show the moral decay of his villain arc.

Now I realize it was probably an homage to the Skeletor of the 80s Ladybird books.

But, this does also support my on-again-off-again headcanon that Skeletor is actually the hero of the story, we're just meant to see him as the villain because the story is told from the perspective of the faction Skeletor is fighting against.

Skeletor's forces, both in the Ladybird books, and in most incarnations of the franchise are very diverse by Eternia's standards. Aside from Evil-Lyn and Tri-Klops, there are no 2 members of the Evil Warriors that are the same race and Keldor himself is mixed. The Evil Warriors are one of the most diverse groups on Eternia.

While the majority of the Masters are human. Buzz-Off is a non-human, and Stratos is a non-human. But everyone else is human, and especially the leaders of the Masters. Man-at-Arms, the Sorceress, Captain Teela, King Randor, and , of course, He-Man himself. It makes me wonder if there just aren't a lot of opportunities for non-humans. Buzz-Off and Stratos might only have been allowed to join the Masters at all because they're bot leaders of their respective city-states.

We know Eternia is not a perfect Utopia because Keldor was able to find and unite enough people under his cause to become a real and viable threat to the monarchy in the first place.

I would not be surprised if our heroes are not as all-loving and altruistic as we're meant to believe.

#keldor #skeletor #masters of the universe #motu #ladybird books #mini comics #secret origin of skeletor #classics mini comics

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Y'all wanna read my rant about how much I hate what Skeleteen looks like under his helmet?

Well, too bad! I'm gonna post it anyway!

First, in case you didn't already know, this is Skeleteen:

He's the son of Skeletor and Evil-Lyn and that skull is not his face, its a helmet he wears to make him look more like Skeletor.

Under the helmet he looks like this:

And I hate it.

I could talk about how this in no-way looks like a teenager, but teenagers do turn into adults and I am willing to believe that his detractors continue to call him "Skeleteen" well into his 30s out of a lack of respect and a refusal to admit his legitimacy. Whatever. I'm used to teenagers not looking like teenagers in my media.

My big issue with what he looks like under the helmet is that he doesn't look like his own person. He just looks like a clone of his father.

To be clear, this is what Skeletor looked like before he became Skeletor:

They're identical.

Right down to the shitty over-dramatized shading they did on one side of the face. The only significant difference between them is that Keldor (Skeletor) has a goatee while Skeleteen does not.

Earlier in this run of the comics, they make a big deal about Skeleteen being the son of Evil-Lyn.

The only reason the Faceless One allowed Keldor to take the Havoc Staff was because the Faceless One had a vision of Keldor fathering Skeleteen with Evil-Lyn.

Evil-Lyn is important, and the fact that Skeleteen is her son is important.

Then the artists go and make him just look like Keldor 2.0.

That's bullshit.