EVIL MASTER OF ODOROUS WARFARE
Stinkor
Stinkor is the figure you could smell, a skunk man Mattel sold in 1985 with the scent built into the plastic. Filmation would not put him in the cartoon, and he waited until Revelation for a speaking part.
Stinkor is a skunk-like Evil Warrior from Mattel's 1985 Masters of the Universe line, whose figure was scented to smell bad. Filmation refused to use him, so his first animated role came in the 2002 series, and Revelation gave the classic version his first lines in 2021.
The record
The facts
WHO HE IS
The figure that smelled
Mattel built Stinkor in 1985 around a smell. The figure is Mer-Man's body painted black and white, with Mekaneck's chest armor and a Castle Grayskull shield, and the plastic carries a scent that collectors still notice when they open an old figure today.[1] Mattel's spring catalog that year sold him as "the master of stink and destroy," promised that "Heroic Warriors can smell his unique scent from 50 feet," and pointed out the twist-action waist and "his own self-protecting gas mask."[2] Dave Stevens painted the card back.
The print around the toy took the joke at face value. The mini-comic packed with Stinkor and Moss Man, "The Stench of Evil!," has him threatening Eternia's wildlife with his smell until Moss Man beats him with a pine-fresh scent of his own. In the Golden Books story "He-Man Smells Trouble" even Skeletor cannot stand him, throws him out of Snake Mountain, and gets him back only after Stinkor teams up with Roboto and then tries to sell him out.
[1] ^ The Battle Ram Blog gives an approximate US release date of January 24, 1985, and reports that the smell is said to come from patchouli oil mixed into the plastic, though the blog's author finds the scent sharper than patchouli. It also notes that early cross-sell art and a test shot show Stinkor on Beast Man's body instead of Mer-Man's.
[2] ^ The Battle Ram Blog's quotation of Mattel's 1985 Spring Program catalog; the 1987 style guide gives his role as "Evil Master of odorous warfare."
OFF THE AIR
Vetoed at Mattel
Stinkor's smell made him, and it is also what kept him off television: he is the only figure from the first four years of the line that never appears in Filmation's He-Man or She-Ra. Robert Lamb, of Filmation's writing staff, remembered the studio's people visiting Mattel when the new figures were shown, and Arthur Nadel vetoing Stinkor on the spot as "basically a walking fart joke."[3] Lamb's own explanation was that only two skunks had ever worked as cartoon characters, Pepe Le Pew and Flower from Bambi. The veto left the classic Stinkor as a character who existed on the shelf, in the mini-comics and in storybooks, with no voice of his own.
The 2002 series was first to animate him, as Odiphus, changed into Stinkor by an accident in Tri-Klops's lab in "The Sweet Smell of Victory" (2003). That version has its own entry, which tells his story in full.
[3] ^ Robert Lamb's account is from James Eatock's article on He-Man.org, as quoted by the Battle Ram Blog.
REVELATION
A thief with a hoard
Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Kevin Smith's 2021 sequel to the Filmation series, sits outside this site's classic canon, and it gave the classic Stinkor his first speaking scene. It opens "The Poisoned Chalice," written by Diya Mishra. Teela and Andra, in gas masks, track a stolen relic to a cave piled with garbage ("Ah, holy hell, the smell!"), and the thief turns up to defend his hoard: "Get your soap-stinkin' fingers off my merch, ya dirty Merc!" It is Stinkor, in brown armor with gas tanks on his shoulders and a gas-mask face, and the fight ends with Teela leaving him in the splintered wreck of a market stall.
The relic is the Glove of Globolah, stolen from a temple whose priestess thanks Teela for "stealing it back," and Stinkor had taken it to sell to the highest bidder, because magic has left Eternia and magical relics are worth a fortune. When Andra asks if Teela knows "this stinker," Teela's answer is short: "Stinkor. Yes. From my old life." Jason Mewes voices him.[4] Decades after Filmation turned him down, he finally gets to talk, and the scene is still built on the smell.
[4] ^ TVmaze lists Jason Mewes as Stinkor in the guest cast of "The Poisoned Chalice," first aired July 23, 2021. The episode guide for "Hope, For a Destination" notes that he is credited there too, though Stinkor does not appear.
ELSEWHERE
Revolution, the films and the shelf
He is not in Revolution, the 1987 film or the cast so far announced for the 2026 film. Mattel has kept him in the collector lines, with a Masters of the Universe Classics Stinkor in 2013 and a Masterverse figure in his Revelation armor.
THE FIGURE TO OWN
Masterverse Revelation Stinkor
No classic-styled Stinkor is on sale at BigBadToyStore right now. The one in stock is Mattel's Masterverse figure of his Revelation design, with the brown armor, the shoulder tanks and the gas-mask face from "The Poisoned Chalice."
Masterverse Revelation Stinkor
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The Archive
Every Stinkor figure
Stinkor Mattel · 2013 Subscription Archive only 
Stinkor Mattel · Series 4 Archive only IN BRIEF
From the toy aisle to the garbage cave
Mattel's Stinkor figure
Mer-Man's body in black and white, Mekaneck's armor, and a smell in the plastic.
"The Stench of Evil!"
The mini-comic packed with him and Moss Man, whose pine scent beats him.
"The Sweet Smell of Victory"
The 2002 series makes him Odiphus, changed by an accident in Tri-Klops's lab.
Masters of the Universe Classics Stinkor
Part of the collector line's 2013 subscription.
"The Poisoned Chalice"
Revelation's relic thief, voiced by Jason Mewes.
Questions
Stinkor questions, answered
Who is Stinkor?
An Evil Warrior with a skunk's coloring who attacks with his own stench and wears a gas mask against it. Mattel introduced him in 1985.
Did the Stinkor figure really smell?
Yes. A scent was mixed into the plastic, usually said to be patchouli oil, and many original figures still smell today.
Why wasn't Stinkor in the Filmation cartoon?
Filmation writer Robert Lamb recalled Arthur Nadel vetoing him at Mattel as "basically a walking fart joke." He is the only figure of the line's first four years that never appears in He-Man or She-Ra.
What figure is Stinkor made from?
Mer-Man's body, painted black and white, with Mekaneck's chest armor and a Castle Grayskull shield.
Who beats Stinkor in the mini-comic?
Moss Man. In "The Stench of Evil!" his pine-fresh scent overpowers Stinkor's smell.
What does Stinkor do in Revelation?
In "The Poisoned Chalice" he has stolen the Glove of Globolah to sell. Teela and Andra track it to his garbage cave, fight him, and return it to its temple.
Who voices Stinkor?
Jason Mewes in Masters of the Universe: Revelation. The classic Stinkor had no voice, since he never reached Filmation's cartoon.
Who is Odiphus?
Stinkor's name before his transformation in the 2002 series, where an accident in Tri-Klops's lab turns Odiphus into Stinkor.
Which Stinkor figure can I buy now?
The Masterverse Revelation Stinkor is in stock at BigBadToyStore. The 1985 and Classics figures are secondary-market finds.
Compiled by the heman.org desk from the Battle Ram Blog's history of the 1985 figure (Adam McCombs), including its quotations from Mattel's 1985 Spring Program catalog, the 1987 style guide and Robert Lamb's account in James Eatock's He-Man.org article; the Revelation episode "The Poisoned Chalice" and its Netflix subtitles; TVmaze's guest cast; and the 2002 episodes "The Sweet Smell of Victory," "Separation" and "To Walk with Dragons" (episode guides and screencaps).
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