I'll be honest. Not once during my childhood did I wonder how Skeletor was able to see

My mum always used the same explanation for anything unexplainable when I was young. It’s magic!

I wanna know how Skeletor maintains his gains! Dude is jacked!

"Is he He Mans Uncle?" I will always like the demon from another dimension version. He just seems so much more menacing as he literally has zero humanity that way. For the Keldor crew though? No version has been better nor will it be topped gor a while than that of the CGI Netflix show. It was written amazingly well and then Ben Diskin is damn near perfect as Keldor to the point i thought his Skeletor wouldn't seem like such a threat! Thankfully, i was very wrong. We were left with 2 incredible takes on them. I loved that show. Funny when it tried. Serious when it needed to be. All joy all the time.

We've NEVER seen Skeletor's neck.... Minutes later, shows Skeletor's neck (the version with regular eyes and a mullet) _💀😂_

The skeleton that I had in the 80's didn't have quite the same mould as He-Man's. He-Man's arms was even more buffed, with more "defined" biceps. On the other hand, the mould for Skeleton's arms seemed to be the same as many other characters.

Skeletor's appearance is a hold-over from when Mattel was still developing a Conan The Barbarian toyline. In Howard's original descriptions, Thulsa Doom was depicted as having a floating skull for a head. Milius was not able to get this effect for his Conan movie, so they just made him an Atlantean sorcerer of the Cult of Set with long, straight black hair. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulsa_Doom

Keldor was trained by Hordak who was trapped in the dark dimension of Despondos. However being trained by Hordak had a stipulation, Keldor had to find a way to help Hordak escape from Despondos. For a long time he ignored Hordak's request and left him stranded there. Till the day he tried to kill his brother Randor and it backfired terribly, leaving Keldor near death. He then ran to the spirit of Hordak to help save him. Hordak remembered Keldor going back on his word, so he said he still would save him however there would be a cost/punishment. So he turned him into Skeletor using his Magics (switching his face with a being of Subternia named Scare-Glow) and hence why can still see he operate like normal because it's a magical curse.

He's like Ghost Rider on steroids. 💀

So your explanation for everything is "magic". Convenient.

This was a very enjoyable video. Just to clarify, the original plan for the character was that he was Demo-Man a demon from another dimension with a skull head with a beard we wouldn’t see the return of that beard until the alternate head with the beard until the New Eternia figure last year. When the Filmation cartoon was made, a lot of changes were made to the storyline, including the introduction of He-Man’s secret identity Prince Adam and his father King Randor and the comics included with the toys adopted this new storyline and only then was it mentioned Kind Randor had a long-lost brother named Keldor and Skeletor wanted to keep his past a secret implying they were one and the same. In the 2002 cartoon Keldor was introduced as a blue skinned Gar, but it was never mentioned that he was King Randor’s brother. It wasn’t until the comics included with the Classics action figures that confirmed Skeletor had once been Keldor the half brother of King Randor and half Gar, also it was revealed that the humans were prejudiced against the blue-skinned Gar! The best way to think of him is a magic being’s skull on a living being’s body, he has all the functions of a man but he’s sustained by magic. The worst thing to happen to him was the American broadcast standards that demanded he become less scary, and the character became a joke. Skeletor was originally a very dangerous villain, and it was implied he raped the Goddess (an early version of the Sorceress) and fathered Teela! I’m not making this up read The Tale of Teela!

Skeletors curse was from Grayskulls new protector(he was the protector of Grayskull before he tried stealing its powers and was booted out)and was to render all but his skull invisible to warn of his evil.

I wanna know why he always makes fun of Beast man.

If you listen to the earliest Filmation episodes, it definitely sounds like Alan Oppenheimer is purposefully restricing the use of his lips as much as possible when voicing Skeletor.

Overlord , Ainz Ooal Gown

I miss the 2002 He-man series.

A live action including an origin story would be so 🔥🔥

Have y’all done a video on Luke Cage? He’s my favorite comic character.

The 2002 reboot of He-man & The Masters of the Universe already canonized Skeletor's origin as Prince Keldor, therefore this evil adversary is indeed He-man/Adam's uncle. He wouldn't know of Adora/She-Ra being the niece just yet!!!

One good thing about the 80’s was we didn’t need everything to have a answer for or for everything to be explained. How does he taste things or how can he see. Ridiculous. I wonder if on the he-man episode they ask why he wears furry underpants.

"Curse you, He-Man!"

I do not remember where I got/saw/heard this, but I had always thought that Skeletor had something done to him that made the flesh and muscles transparent/invisible except for his skull. If this were ever canon, this answers all the questions, how he sees, smells, talks, and such. Does anyone remember this origin and where it was?

I always thought a cool way to explain skeletor's skull and lack of other features would be that his face is horribly disfigured but it is being covered/masked by a hologram of a skull.

Please do He Man and Cobra Commander as well as Serpentor

I really wish the Netflix version would continue. I liked it

I think Skeletor would be a good dad.

I never ask that question. He is a wiser and with his mystical there is no problem. 😮😮😮

Three minutes in, and you're already turning into a broken record, "Skeleton has a skull face despite his buff body." We get it, you don't have to restate the blindingly obvious every 30 seconds. And I'm not seeing why those two things are so mutually exclusive, especially in a fantasy setting such as this.

I always enjoyed the original mini-comics that came with the figures. The original stories were more interesting to me. I'd always hoped there would be an animated movie about them

The original mini comic character designs, that came with the original toy line, were my favorite.

When new information about a series comes out decades later, it's not a confirmation it's an alteration. Which is not a complaint for me I just hate to see people say it's been confirmed almost 30 years later

...aaahhhhh, the patchouli-skunk-man. I still remember and recall that action figure action aspect, it's like the folly of smell-0-vision. It sounds like a good idea, but that's only because of who's presenting it...,. ...Thanks for the post, absolutely appreciated.,...

Damn, the 80's & 2002 cartoons will always be the titular shows for me.

Great video and myself I always enjoyed Skelator's origin from the assa 02 series. I like that he trys to take the thrown by force he is beaten back by King Randor and gets acid splashed on his face. I also like that now near death Skelator asks for help from Hordak and gets it.

Skeletor is like the Joker. He doesnt want to kill He-Man ;he just wants to keep fighting. If He-Man died he wouldn't know what to do with his time.

Don't know if Skeletor needs food, but he does need air. In the original cartoon series, Skeletor launched a gambit where he starved the planet Eternia of oxygen to weaken He-man and the Masters, using a canister of compressed air to keep himself okay. The New Adventures of He-man later toys with that idea as both Skeletor and He-man are shown being perfectly okay in OUTER SPACE without a suit, thanks to their respective magics.

This was a fun video!

Thanks for making another Masters of the universe video hopefully you'll make more I would love to see one of two bad or scareglow

6:17 Simple: He forgot he doesn't have eyes, or a nose. 9:50 He also forgot he doesn't have those too

An old friend of mine pointed out that Skeletor is the only character in the original series with a moving jaw when they talked

In the Secret of the Sword it was hinted that Skeletor & Hordak were both pupils of magic & were friends at one point when Hordak returned to Eternia & met up with Skeltor he said "You know Skeletor your evil is almost a match for my own, together we'll make lie miserable for those Eterian fools." To which Skeletor replies "Yes, yes just like the old days" it ends with both of them laughing manically they join up to kidnap Adora. Now that we got a story about Skeletor I hope for one about Hordak he's the most mysterious villain on an episode of She-Ra we met the one who taught Hordak how to use magic when he was affected by poison that was secretly given to him by Catra. Who turned out to be in league with Skeletor to get rid of Hordak but She-Ra ends up saving Hordak leaving him to live to fight another day.

This is the original story that you show that Skeletor is the halfbrother of Adam’s father King Randor. But in the 80ties series was not canon. In some radio play cassettes I think this thematic was picked up but I am not sure. His head has been preserved by magic. He is still able to see, smell, talk (without a visible tongue and lips to form words) and even eat, drink and use potions.

Mark Hamill did a fantastic job as the VA in the Netflix sequel series

I guess him wearing a skeleton mask was just to easy an explanation.

The art in that Skeletor comic is surprisingly beautiful and unique for a character from such a kitschy IP

He sees with his heart.

Magic answers everything!!!!!!

A warrior doesn’t need a head just a good strong body- Megatron😉

I love Skeletor

The answer is magic.

I think these are questions that doesn't need explanation. Death is often illustrated as a spirit whose face is sheer darkness, yet it can see and take orders.

The only comic I ever read with He Man was in DC Comics Presents when Superman goes to Eternia.

“The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.”

All that matters is that I am able to see He-Man actin’ a FOOL!

I always look at him from a Dungeons & Dragons formula. A lich or man demon

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"we've never seen skeletor's neck"... but we see his neck throughout the entire video 🤣🤣

Skeletor is like Marvel's villain Red Skull

Hamlet with muscles.

Our ability to smell comes from the olfactory bulb, which is actually located inside the skull 😁

Magic. That's the answer

fun fact, He-man figures came first as they were going to be for Connan the Barbarian but didnt they they would sell so made the cartoon to sell the toys. ya ya I know "childhood ruined" BUT I had them as a kid so I find it interesting. Battle damage figures👍👍

When you play Diablo 4, skeleton enemies also bleed, so you can kill them. (If it bleeds, we can kill it!)

See anything made up after the original show can't be the origin story. They use artistic license when they do a rehash. Just like Star wars or GI Joe, Heman was iconic. Unless you are sitting in the room with one of the original writers, you are just going to scuf it up. It's no longer theirs. So you can't say this is the lore with some japanese release no one has heard of.

I said “Hey, a-what’s going on?”

it is a floating skull it is a magical spell to hide his face and head do to the damage his head and neck are still there but the spell hordack places aopn him gave skelator the opset power of heman . as heman is brave and all that skelator is the polor opaset .

Where can we find the anatomy of Skeletor used as the thumbnail for your video?

Has me wandering if the transformation/curse changed how Skeletor lived, he sees through the curse for example

What happened to him is magic.

12:32 aaw man. not even with Evil-Lyn

Skeletor got magic that’s why he can still see Or he got sight and smell when he was turned to skeletor

I stiil got the Skeletor from Mattel here on the shelf .... its missing his armour tho

That story about the 2 Brothers being in line for the throne and 1 brother being jealous of the other brother. It sounds a bit like Thor and Loki😂😂

3:17 Hate to be pedantic, but he is not half human. He's half Eternian and half Gar. Adam is half Eternian and half human. His mother is from Earth. Eternians are humanoid, they are however not human. Randor is Eternian.

Skeletor is not He-mans uncle And skeletor does have a neck because the 1980's vintage figures (which I have ) skeletor does have a neck because the toys came out before the cartoon.

Não tem isso em português 😢😢

Yeah they were all muscular and buffed Accept for ram man

I always presumed that Skelitor uses magic to compensate for his senses.

Who does your narraration?

Brook can see and he openly recognizes that he has no eyes. They can see because they have magical orbital bones, duh.

i need the source of the mini Skeletor episode Pleas

They're fictional cartoon/comicbook characters....They dont need actual logic or reasoning for such questions. Skeletor can see without eyes, turn his skull without a neck, smell a fart without a nose and evil lyn gave him blue balls so bad it spread to the rest of his body...so what?! How does hordak transform into rocket?? We cant enjoy these characters unless we break down the science and physics of it all?? As kids we never asked those questions until teenagers but still just rocked with it anyways.

I love how you jump all over the place to different versions yet try to portray Skeletor's past as having a solid continuity. Does Skeletor have a neck? Yes and no. It's never been shown but it has been shown. What are you even saying?

So, your conclusion in 2023: Magic Me in 1983: Magic ( I was NINE) Sometimes...you dont _need_ to overthink things, and just use the power of...(say it with me..) _IMAGINATION_ Hmm..All powerful, magic spewing warlock/sorcerer. Maybe it's magic since he's casting spells constantly? 🤔 Again, I was 9 in '83.

I had skeletor while my brother had heman

Alan Oppenheimer the OG Skeletor

I can't blame Keldor for being furious at being passed over for being King. Keldor was King Miro 1st Born Son, not Randor. Sounds like Bigotry/Discrimination to me.

In master universe revelation when he French kiss Evelyn it shows that Skeletor does have a tongue but still without lips speech would be hard

he sees hears smells through magic, next.

It always bugged me that he is adams uncle. I had a argument with someone who claims that was the way from the begining but i dont ever remember it that way until recently It would of been cool of a decendents of heman & skeletor where hemans son is a asshole & skeletor's son is the protagonist😊

Skeletor and *SHADOW WEAVER* were supposed to have Childs!?? WTF!! 👀😶

Day 9 of asking for anatomy explored yujiro hanma

The new comics base somewhat after the new series show Skeleton as a alien race of skeleton people. So Weird.

it's all various quality degrees of fan fiction.

How does he pronounce anything with the letter P?

Is Skeletor as strong as The Incredible Hulk?💪💀💪🤢

If you're wondering how he eats and breathes, and other science facts....

The comments below do a better job explaining the different Skeletor origins than this video.

Human? He was grey with pointy ears lol

Skeletor Anatomy only looks undead .. ?