Fang Man

Fang Man belongs to a version of Eternia nobody in the main cast has seen: the distant past, before Castle Grayskull was built, when the Snake Clan and the Ape Clan shared the land and winged dragons lived on Dragosaur Isle. Filmation drew him as a blue-skinned reptile man with a crest of spikes, yellow eyes and a forked tongue, in red armor and boots, and gave him the isle's dragons to command. He calls them "my beauties," and he rides one into battle.^[1]

He is a single-episode villain, written for one plan of Skeletor's, and his scene is short. He treats the dragons as pets, and losing them hurts him more than losing the fight.

Larry DiTillio's "The Time Corridor," first aired on September 12, 1983, sends Skeletor back through a corridor in time with the Wheel of Infinity, to build a fortress on the spot where Castle Grayskull will one day stand.^[2] Once the Wheel is spinning it will grow faster and larger across the centuries until it destroys the castle, and the Sorceress sends He-Man, Battle Cat, Man-At-Arms and Orko after him. In the past they make friends with the Snake Clan and its leader Zilora, whose people call Skeletor "the Ghost Face," and they learn that he has taken over Ollo and the Ape Clan.

When the attack on the fortress goes wrong, Skeletor carries Zilora off and makes He-Man choose: "save Castle Grayskull or try to save this woman from Dragosaur Isle." The isle is Fang Man's ground. He-Man's party fights through its jungle and caves, past a carnivorous weed that nearly eats Orko, and Skeletor's side is waiting for them: "So He-Man and his friends have survived. Welcome, He-Man." The order comes, "Fang Man, attack!", and he sends the dragons in with "Get them, my beauties!"

The heroes put the dragons out of the fight, and Fang Man grieves before he threatens: "My beauties! You'll all pay for this." He gets a parting shot in return, "Here's something for your beauty to chew on, Fang Man!", and the episode moves on to Zilora's cage and the Wheel. He-Man cannot stop it, so he speeds it up until it breaks loose, and the explosion meant for Castle Grayskull goes off in the past instead.

Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Time Corridor (1983), 15:28 to 17:09, 1 minute 41 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.

This encyclopedia keeps its canon to Filmation, and the later shows are extra material. None of them has picked him up: Fang Man is not in the 2002 series, Revelation or Revolution, Filmation's She-Ra, the Dolph Lundgren movie or the 2026 film.

His plastic career began with Masters of the Universe Classics, which released a Fang Man in 2013 that has long since retired. The 2025 Origins Cartoon Collection figure is sculpted from the animation model, down to the red armor and the yellow eyes, and its Wheel of Infinity accessory is the device Skeletor carries into the past.^[3]