#spikor

1. Trap Jaw

He’s lost at least his right arm and jaw. Both legs below the knee may also be prosthetics. Note the parts shared with Man-E-Faces (credit to Battle Ram Blog https://battleramblog.com/ ): I don’t think the fiction has ever talked about Man-E’s body below the head, so maybe he counts, maybe he doesn’t?

2. Tri-Klops: blind. Never addressed in the ‘80s, confirmed in 2002.

3. Mekaneck. As explained in the ‘80s episode “Search for a Son”, he would be quadriplegic if Man-At-Arms hadn’t found him with a broken neck after a camping accident and gotten him a cyborg neck.

4. Fisto. Lost his right arm below the elbow. Seen on-screen in a 2002 episode.

5. Jitsu. A rarely-used character, Jitsu must be included because he clearly mirrors Fisto.

6. Spikor. Lost left hand. Like Trap Jaw’s multiple attachments, he can swap between an extending trident and a blacksmith’s hammer. In the ‘80s cartoon, he went from having two intact hands to his trident without the injury being addressed.

7. Rio Blast.

... he’s got a hollow torso and thighs. I don’t know, folks. The UK comics and 1987 Mattel style guide say this poor man was given his cybernetics to save his life after defending his home world Loredos from an attack by Horde Prime, and then the Astro-Jail he was working in was hit by a meteor, which he got stuck to and it subsequently crashed into Eternia.

8. Rotar. Lost at least both legs. Man-At-Arms saved his life.

The erasure of masculinity also creates monsters.

Only the allowance of true authentic masculinity and letting it flow naturally instead of making it a performance creates real men.

Spiker (1986)

With a cover eluding that its Volleyball movie with super powers but its not. Its about a man who joins the Olympic volleyball team by leaving his friends , his medical school and career as well as a change to play for competitive cash. Joins the team and he hates it and his coach hates him.. BUT its the 80s so he has to show he is no quitter so he can win a sport in the Olympics no one will care about. For five minutes there is a communist spy story but they move past it. Now imagine ditching your whole life for a shitty part of the Olymics and right after you win your life must obviously go no where. So much pride. Oh yeah and the dad from Jack Frost is in it and plays so much Volleyball for no money that his wife leaves him, but hey he is in the Olympics so he has his pride. Wooooo for the honor of not even getting your name added to Nes Super spike v'ball. When it starts you think this must be a sun and sand sex comedy but no it’s just karate kid with no action and depressing. Which makes perfect for the RiffTrax boys to comment and make it literally hilarious to hype how dramatically and intense these actors are about the lamest story in American history. Boom Shack a Lacka ... nope. 

To quote the riffs “hates quitters more than Joe Camel” . I guess the moral is true cause they should have quit making this shitty movie but thank goodness they didn’t cause now we can all make fun of it for being a piece of shit. Good times. I wish I could come up with more VolleyBall or Olympic puns but I couldn’t even think how to add a pun based on the word Spike into this.  That is literally how unimportant Volleyball is without beaches . bikinis and coolers full of Michelob... hell do they even make Michelob anymore?

It would have been cooler if it was competitive Frisbee and they were on the beach with girls in bikinis... and they put blades on the frisbee.... and it killed an armed guard by getting him in the neck... oh yeah, Im gonna go watch Hard Ticket to Hawaii, fuck you guys, I’m outta here. Wooo party in the sun times baby!!

Funny riffs all around but seriously how much cooler would it have been if it was of Spikor from Masters of the Universe... 

Adora’s home planet turns out to have a huge transhumanist  transapientist community.

Entrapta gets permission to let Hordak leave his house arrest on Etheria to attend with her.

Bow and Huntara are their chaperones.

But could some Ex-Horde supersoldiers and other Ne’er-do-wells plan on causing trouble? Or are they just here to sincerely enjoy an exchange of ideas?

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Another mini-comic both penciled and inked by Bruce Timm.

Poor Rattlor, physically abused AND miscolored.

Military amateurs think about tactics, professionals think about logistics. Though it’s not clear how destroying crops (”FEAST on the Eternians’ MISERY!”) benefits him.

Spikor has his own home and works as a blacksmith, which would be why he’s rarely at Snake Mountain for Skeletor to use as a henchman. In the Filmation cartoons, he was only a henchman in “Visitors From Earth”, “The Games” and the Christmas Special.