Mantenna

Mantenna is a four-legged insectoid Horde warrior, and nearly everything about his character is built around his one physical trait: telescopic eyes that pop out on stalks, originally a press-mechanism play feature on the 1985 vintage figure. On screen that gimmick usually shows up as a visual gag, his eyes bulging, crossing or extending at a moment of alarm, rather than as a power he deliberately uses in a fight.

His first appearance is "Into Etheria," the first episode of the series, where he stands in Hordak's chamber with the rest of the Horde.

Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Brigis (She-Ra: Princess of Power, 1986), 3:26 to 5:15, 1 minute 49 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.

Several of Mantenna's clearest appearances cast him as the Horde's field operative for snatching someone specific. In "Brigis," he lures a village girl named Jarine out of the protective field around her home village with a false promise of a flower field, setting the whole episode's rescue plot in motion. In "The Missing Ax," he is the one who recognizes Bow as a rebel and captures him outside Horde-held Greenthatch after two village boys, Thad and Kyle, blame a made-up robber for their father's missing ax, only for his own eyes to cross and tangle while trying to fire on She-Ra later in the same episode. In "The Unicorn King," Hordak sends him with capture bots specifically to enslave the unicorns of Unicorn Island.

None of these assignments end well for him. Jarine escapes with Adora and Bow's help, Bow is freed once She-Ra gets the truth out of Thad and Kyle, and the unicorn mission ends with Mantenna adrift with Hordak in a sinking rowboat after the Sea Fright goes down.

"Zoo Story" gives him the clearest comic low point: She-Ra bluffs the captured Mantenna with a threat of the Trolls of Spikeheart until he names the location of a Horde outpost, and the episode later leaves him sitting in the mud, caked head to toe, while She-Ra and Bow look down at him. "For Want of a Horse" opens with him being punished alongside Grizzlor for offering a bad birthday-gift suggestion, dropped through Hordak's trapdoor for his trouble, before being struck down later in the same episode during Shadow Weaver's horse-stealing plot.

Across these episodes Mantenna is the Horde's working-level warrior, on screen in almost a third of the series and far more often outsmarted, bluffed or humiliated than close to winning.