The most potent man in the universe was also part of the greatest toyline in the universe . MotU ’s giant , wildly varied mixed bag of hoagy and villains set it apart from its ‘ fourscore counterparts — admittedly , some more so than others . So here are all 60 original action figures , scientifically rank by awesomeness .
1 ) Skeletor
Sorry , He - Man , but if there ’s one form in the toyline ’s first wave that made it an instant hit , it was Skeletor . A heavily muscle wizard , wielding a faculty with a Aries the Ram ’s skull on it , and also his own head was a skull ? So awesome .
2 ) Trap - Jaw
If Skeletor got kids interested , Trap - Jaw made them fans . He was a perfect encapsulation of Masters of the Universe ’s “ everything except the kitchen sink ” concept . Is he a monster ? A cyborg ? A plagiariser ? A dude with multiple weapon attachment and a steel jaw ? A guy who had a little ring on his helmet so he could rope down down cosmic string - lines ? He was all of those things and more .
3 ) He - Man
Compared to his wildly wide-ranging friends and foes , He - Man was almost staid in comparison . But as the steroid ridden , overly bronze barbarian who fight down Skeletor and his minions , he had his own appeal . He was the right Goth for the proper time — at no item in history will kid ever again be concerned in a mostly naked hero name “ He - Man . ”
4 and 5 ) Moss Man and Stinkor
If you remember anything about Masters of the Universe , luck are it involves one or both of these figures , who had the special legal action feature of smelling like true pine - colloidal solution and patchouli , respectively . I ca n’t magnify how mindblowing this was for shaver in the mid-‘80s — we did n’t even lie with this was potential . And the good part is at this very second , more than half of the 30 - year - sure-enough physical body still smell .
6 ) Kobra Khan
reasonably much every MotU figure had an action figure , but only one frame in reality fired something — Kobra Khan , who sprayed water when his head was pressed down . Not only was he an awesome serpent - man — an idea so popular Mattel made several more of them — his spray characteristic resulted in a perfect ray of piddle that had a truly impressive reach . Few MotU figures offered more fun than Kobra Khan .
7 ) Man - east - face
Another fantastic instance of the toyline ’s insanely grand esthetic . So Man - E - Faces is a man … and a freak … and a robot . All thanks to a knob on the top of his head teacher that tolerate him to rotate actual grimace . It was like three unbelievable exchangeable action figure in one , and that did n’t sound nearly as unimpressive then as it does now !
8 and 9 ) Fisto and Jitsu
These two cat has the Masters of the Universe figures ’ traditional action punch , but augment with giant “ metallic element ” handwriting , which were wholly awing . Yes , Jitsu seems kind of racialist , and “ Fisto ” is a name so ridiculous George Lucas finally used it , but the theme of two dudes so devoted to punching and karate - chopping thing that they welding giant appendages to their hands was very compelling .
10 ) Teela
While Teela ’s character on the show was utterly fine , she was n’t as mysteriously awesome as Teela ’s figure , which came with a really badass serpent - themed armor / headgear . A heroine … that wear down a serpent motive ? Could some Snake River be good and not vicious ? No other toyline was as reform-minded when it came to re - evaluating traditional evil iconography in Western culture .
11 ) Horde Trooper
The Horde Trooper trope had one of the best action feature in the bank line — when you weight-lift the push on his chest , his chest of drawers and head teacher “ exploded . ” Now , he was almost certainly supposed to be a golem , but the cartoon rarely acknowledge , allowing children to imagine He - Man at long last had the chance to off one of his foeman .
12 ) Dragstor
An odd figure with a great action feature . He had a roulette wheel on his bureau ; enclose a rip - cord and pull as fast as you could , and Dragstor would speed across ( quiet ) floor at what seemed like several hundred miles - per - hour . Plus , when the ripcord was pulled , the spinning wheel could be used to impose pain on little blood brother , which was no small welfare .
13 ) Webstor
This spider - man , if you will , spun no web of his own , but had a backpack with a line and grappling bait on it that he could “ mount ” when the string was pulled . There was a sentence in the ‘ 80 when every nipper wanted a wrestle hook more than anything else in the world , and Webstor arrived right in that mellisonant blot .
14 ) Scareglow
Scareglow ’s action characteristic was having a paint - job that shine in the darkness , which was not that unusual . However , he was technically a skeletal frame wearing a mantle , so that was pretty awesome . Plus , he was described as “ vicious Ghost of Skeletor ” , which blew our unseasoned minds . Was Sacreglow another one of Skeletor ’s minions , or did … did Skeletor conk out ? !
15 ) Ram - Man
An incredibly simple action characteristic became on of the lines most darling toys , and helped kids see the potential of Masters of the Universe . This was a beau who commit his full life to bump down things with his head . The destruction factor alone made him a knock - out ( pun obviously intended ) .
16 ) Leech
Suction cups were also pretty cool back in the mid-‘80s . It was a elementary clip .
17 ) Man - at - subdivision
Like Trap - Jaw , He - Man ’s good - hand man was another mix of fantasy and scifi . He was armored a fleck like a gladiator , but the armor had al sorts of tech - calculate details on it . What for ? No thought . All I do it that giving the barbaric - look He - Man and scifi - esque acquaintance was one of the things that made Masters of the Universe seem like it could admit anything .
18 ) role player
Faker was a golem built to be impersonate He - Man . You may notice a fault here , in that Faker is light blue sky , which seems like a item that would be hard to miss . Even though we did n’t sympathise how this was potential — and know were technically just buy another He - Man figure in a wholly inappropriate color — we all bought Faker anyways , because the idea of an evil blue He - Man running around was just too awesome to push aside . Plus , he had a gummed label hidden on his chest of drawers that showed his robot working , including a tape . A tape !
19 and 20 ) Modulok and Multi - Bot
This monster and automaton , severally , came with several bit so you could make your own interpretation of these villains with as many arms and leg as you wanted . This was a pretty nerveless feature , especially when you combined them . Of course , every net variation look like of ridiculous , but still , it seemed like the potential was there .
21 ) Roboto
This robot had a decipherable chest that had cogwheel visible inside , which spun as Roboto move . This absolutely blew kids ’ minds back then , and it ’s still pretty cool - looking , even now .
22 ) Sy - Klone
His trunk spun and his sleeve were sluttish , so he could turn into sort of a whirling dervish of punches , an immensely utilitarian great power when battling Skeletor ’s forces .
23 ) Mosquitor
This Horde warrior had a clear chest scale which “ blood ” could be view to squish around . It was cheerily loathsome .
24 ) Ninjor
He was a ninja . ‘ Nuff said .
25 ) Evil - Lyn
Before G.I. Joe ’s Baroness , Evil - Lyn was teaching vernal boy the temptingness of bad fille . The fact that her sorceress was one of Skeletor ’s only competent minion helped out considerably — although I reckon boys would have been even more interested if her figure had showed an actual skin - tone instead of a sickly white-livered .
26 ) Tri - Klops
I ’m not sure I can properly explain why this figure , which had a spinning headstall that allowed him to have one of three cartoonish evil centre , was so , so awesome . Maybe it was because we were told each eye had a special superpower . perhaps it was because of his overall pattern , which was large . Maybe because we could sham him getting angrier and angrier through his eyes . I do n’t have it away . I just love Tri - Klops was awesome .
27 ) Tung Lashor
The coolest - looking of the Snake Men , he had a long tongue ( or , “ tung ” ) that could extend from his mouth to … do whatever , really . In hindsight , it ’s super - weird , but it seemed nerveless at the time .
28 ) The Sorceress
Back in the ‘ 80s , when it was probably marginally true that most boys did n’t want action figure of girl , they still all need the Sorceress . She was the guardian of Castle Grayskull ! She was an important part of the Masters macrocosm ! Also her falcon - motive was pretty awesome .
29 ) Spikor
The approximation of an MotU gladiator was not bad in concept , but not so majuscule in murder . He was n’t tough — I think of , he was treat in spike and had a trident shot out of his arm — but he could have been so much more .
30 ) Beast Man
Skeletor ’s loyal minion did n’t have much going on , but as one of the earliest figures , his wonderful color scheme and noesis that he was a animate being - humanity that control beast made his iconic despite his want of an action feature .
31 ) Hordak
As Skeletor ’s former chief and actual conqueror of She - Ra ’s planet of Etheria , the part of Hordak was pretty great in concept , but the figure was a bit ho - hum . He was n’t as cool - looking as Skeletor — more monstrous than fiendish — although he did have his own variety of magnificence . Still , most of his appeal came from the approximation that even Skeletor was terrified of him .
32 ) Rio Blast
Honesty , once Mattel added a rodeo rider figure , kids recognise the Masters of the Universe line was probably nearing its remnant . But despite his completely useless sheriff ’s badge , Rio Blast did have several hidden arm , admit I inside his dresser and his thighs , so that sure enough counted for something .
33 ) Snake Face
What ’s almost as cool as having several laser gunslinger hidden throughout your intact consistency ? Having snakes hidden in your face , which would burst out through your centre and rima oris . Sure , they could n’t do much once they were out , because they were reasonably tiny , but they certainly were memorable .
34 ) Rattlor
As a youngster who was convinced the last thing I would discover before I died was a rattlesnake ’s rale , I can distinguish you this Snake Man ’s action feature was more daunting than you might surmise .
35 ) Mantenna
This Horde villain had gargantuan heart that could extend from his head teacher . He was a goofball on the show , but he was wonderfully weird - looking for as a figure , and the eyes were great for pip imaginary rays at He - Man or moment of shock .
36 ) Buzz - Off
aboveboard , I have no idea how Buzz - Off manages to be so damn wizard when he looks so wholly ridiculous . Is it the smile ? The fact that we all assume he could prick his enemy to a horrible , afflictive last if he wanted to ? Maybe a spot of both .
37 ) King Hiss
The king of the Snake Men was also great in construct , sad in execution . His action feature was that his torso divide apart to reveal a small torso made of snake . This was not only spectacularly unintimidating , but also pretty dandy . Also , why did these three unconstipated snakes get to emboss around all the much self-aggrandising Snake Men ? This never made signified to me .
38 ) Mer - Man
Infamously — well , infamously if you ’re a dude who still drop 30 minutes of most day thinking about He - Man — the Mer - Man action figure of speech looked nothing like the figure on the toy packaging , or in the He - Man cartoon . But he was still an evil sea warlord . We were all very conflicted about Mer - Man .
39 ) Zodac
No action feature article to mouth of , but the enigmatic Zodac had his own charm because no one knew what his deal was . Was he an alien ? Another barbarian ? A respectable guy ? A speculative hombre ? A neutral guy rope ? Why was his chest so damn hirsute ? We had at odds reports from the toy publicity , the cartoon and the mini - cartoon strip , and thus his mystery has endured .
40 ) Clawful
The idea of a lobster - man with a jumbo claw for a paw sounds potentially passably nerveless in hypothesis , but since Mattel gave this villain Caucasian - chassis colour limbs and trunk , but a vivid , lobster - red head and claw , he looked more like a discarded Red Lobster mascot idea than anything else .
41 ) Grizzlor
He was Hordak ’s version of Beast Man , but had genuine hair on his digit . This was not as exciting to boys as Mattel had hoped . Plus , one misstep to the Slime Pit and he was ruined forever .
42 ) Two Bad
Very memorable , and he had a keen look , but unfortunately he was plan so that his action feature film ended up being to punch himself repeatedly in his two face .
43 ) King Randor
This was an activity figure of He - Man ’s papa . He was a king , but he spent most of the time on the cartoon being disappointed in his son , and if kid wanted that they could get it from their veridical fathers .
44 ) Mekanek
He had an extendible neck opening , which is exactly as exciting as it sounds . tyke buy him mainly because he was one of the first MotU physical body useable ( and the one most likely to be left behind in toy memory board after all the others were sold ) .
45 ) Blade
A Masters of the Universe pic character who had a nerveless design , but 1 ) only depict up in the movie , which was jolly terrible , and whose claim to fame was being a dude with a sword . I ’m not sure if yu’ve noticed , but that wo n’t get you very far in MotU.
46 ) Snout Spout
Ol’ Spout had the same water - spraying action feature as Kobra Khan , but see endlessly worse with his goliath , goofy , robot elephant head . Also , he was technically He - Man ’s fire fighter and even as Thomas Kyd we could secern Mattel was scarper out of thought .
47 ) Sssqueeze
The lamest of the Snake Men , Sssqueeze had ridiculous long arms that could wrap around his opponents , but when he was n’t disable his foes , they looked middling goddamned stupefied lying on the ground . Stupider than Sauron , even .
48 ) Stratos
One of the first MotU form , Stratos had no action features to speak of but look kind of like a flying rascal person , so he had that run short for him . MotU name , Stratos had no natural action features to verbalise of but looked kind of like a flying monkey someone , so he had that go for him . Just not much else .
49 ) Extendar
Unlike Mekanek , who could only extend his neck , Extendar could extend his neck , arms , legs and body . This technically made him importantly more utilitarian than his predecessor , but he calculate dumb and by the metre he showed up we ’d all have used to Mekanek and felt like Extendar was ripping him off .
50 ) whiplash injury
He had a galosh buttocks piece which was somehow significantly less cool than it fathom . Also , his face made him look especially imbecilic , which for MotU was saying something .
51 ) Prince Adam
This anatomy was only in effect for imagining his transformation into He - Man , which confessedly happened a great deal . Still , in essence , his action figure was basically allow you to pull out a more interesting role , so he really was n’t that fun .
52 ) Clamp Champ
He had a clinch .
53 ) Orko
In the cartoon , Orko was far less useful than a sheik with a clinch , and the toy dog ’s action feature was that he ran around in circles , panicking like his hat was on fire . Still , at least he was a major TV show character .
54 ) Saurod
Another MotU movie design of an evil reptile warrior who was less interesting than all of the literal Snake Men .
55 ) Blast - Attak
Blast - Attak ’s action lineament was that he carve up in two , down the center , giving him two bodies , neither of which could suffer or conceivable be of any use in the fight against He - Man at all .
56 and 57 ) Stonedar and Rokkon
These dudes transform into tilt . Shockingly , figures that transformed into rocks were not as popular as figures that transmute into cars , jets , guns , boomboxes , etc .
58 ) Gwildor
This character from the He - Man moving picture was like Orko but uglier and without the benefit of being on the cartoon . At least we were used to Orko .
59 and 60 ) Rotor and Twistoid
Well before Beyblade did it in a much more sensitive way , Mattel tried to bring make tops cools with these two guys . The had the spinny bit at the bottom , and morbidly weighty body and head , but somehow veritable branch . Imagine MODOK as a top with less mode - sense , and you get the idea .
All photos from the ultimate Masters of the Universe resource , He - Man.org .
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