Ninjor

Mattel's 1987 style guide sets out who he is: "This awful assassin has come from another world to serve Skeletor," a master of "many martial arts weapons" whose job is to remove the Heroic Warriors one by one. The minicomic packed with him, The Search for Keldor, puts him among the beings Skeletor calls up from across time and space.^[4]

Star Comics gave him more to do. In "Long Live the King," the story in Masters of the Universe #7 (May 1987), Skeletor attacks Eternia with Ninjor and Blast-Attak as new allies, backed by Scare Glow and Faker. The Masters of the Universe newspaper strip built a whole story around him, "Ninjor Stalks by Night," which Dark Horse reprinted in its 2017 collection of the strips, and in the winter 1987 issue of the US Masters of the Universe Magazine he slips past Clamp Champ and Rio Blast.

Every later Ninjor was made for collectors long after the vintage line closed. Masters of the Universe Classics sold him in February 2015 as the Club Eternia figure under the name Ninja Warrior, with sculpted armor in place of the cloth, a quiver, a spare unmasked head and a card bio in which he secretly reports to Horde Prime.^[5]

Origins brought back the five-and-a-half-inch figure in 2021, with a removable plastic tunic that has sheaths for his weapons, and Mattel now sells an Origins Ninjor under its Fan Favorite banner. Masterverse made a seven-inch Ninjor for its New Eternia line, Funko made a Pop! of him as a 2020 New York Comic Con exclusive, and the 2024 Turtles of Grayskull crossover turned him into a dragon-headed demon with removable wings.