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Thulsa Doom is a necromancer from one story about Kull by Robert E. Howard (Delcardes' Cat). He is mentioned as having a skull-like face and wearing a hood (which probably later inspired aspects of the Masters of the Universe villain Skeletor). He also is an enemy of the Celtic hero Cormac mac Art, another Howard character further expanded by Andrew J. Offutt. Thulsa Doom hates Cormac as he is the reincarnation of his older enemy Kull, who is responsible for his long imprisonment.

A character of the same name, but with no common trait at all with the original,is the key villain in the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian
is played by James Earl Jones. This new Thulsa Doom is human-looking (more like the snake-men whom Kull fought ), though he can transform into a big snake. Thulsa Doom is a kind of main badguy that is nasty and manipulative. The use of a person with brown skin color, straight black hair and blue eyes is supposed to give an indication of lost or forgotten race, according to commentary of the special edition DVD.

A recent addition to Thulsa Doom lore can be found at (humor). In this addition, Thulsa Doom enters the 'real world' through the body of another and tries to assume power. He is opposed by a band of heroes.

Thulsa Doom and Skeletor Connection

Somehow when Mattel decided to create He-Man's villain, they chose the template as Thulsa Doom instead of the snakeman Thoth-Amon as the main villain. It's interesting to see that Thulsa Doom's story line where he controls some of the snake men and resides in a snake fortress is largely used for Skeletor, as well.

The fact he doesn't trust Thoth-Amon becomes a source for the story for Skeletor not trusting King Hiss, and struggles with him for the right to control the serpent men. This appeared in He-Man 2002 when Skeletor and King Hiss are in a power struggle to rule Snake Mountain. In the older series, Skeletor appears to be controlling a few snakemen as well as [[Hordak[[.

When the original He-Man came out (which was CLOSE to Conan the Barbarian), Skeletor's template was closely based on Skeletor. Both characters are resemmbling as skull-headed sorcerers.

Question on Thulsa Doom's Head

Both Marvel Comics and other incarnations seem to either have his head floating, attached with a spine or even gives him a fleshy neck and material eyes.

Category:Characters in written fantasy Category:Fictional magicians Category:Fantasy film characters Category:Robert E. Howard

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