THE EVIL WARRIOR FROM BELOW
Whiplash (200x)
In the 2002 series Whiplash is an Evil Warrior with a home under Eternia, and the people waiting there call him a traitor.
Garry Chalk voices Whiplash in the 2002 series, where Filmation's tailed Evil Warrior becomes a horned brute from the underground realm of Subternia. His big episode is "Underworld."
The record
The facts
BEFORE 2002
Filmation's Whiplash and his tail
Filmation's Whiplash is a green reptile in a ridged vest whose weapon is his own tail, long enough to swing like a club or wrap around a prisoner. He first airs in Paul Dini and Beth Bornstein's "To Save Skeletor" on September 17, 1984, voiced by John Erwin,[1] and spends most of his episodes guarding Skeletor's captives, with "Trouble in Trolla" as the one where he runs a scheme of his own. The Whiplash entry covers that version and the figures made from it.
Mike Young Productions kept the green hide and the tail for 2002 and built a bigger, horned brute around them, with a ridged chest and armored bracers. Everything below comes from that later show and is non-canon by this site's count.
[1] ^ The cast list for "To Save Skeletor" names John Erwin as Whiplash, alongside his He-Man and Prince Adam.
THE SIGNATURE EPISODE
Underworld
Steven Melching's "Underworld," first shown on December 13, 2002, starts with Skeletor out of ideas for getting into Castle Grayskull. Whiplash has one. When someone calls Subternia, the realm beneath Eternia, a place "about which we know little," he answers "speak for yourself," because he grew up there: "I can guide us." Skeletor, for once, approves: "A surprisingly interesting idea from you, Whiplash." The plan is to come up under the castle, whose walls are hard but whose underside, Skeletor reasons, must be soft.
The trip takes longer than Skeletor would like. Deep in the tunnels Skeletor complains that he "didn't sign on for a sightseeing tour" and asks whether they are lost, and Whiplash promises they will be there soon. Meanwhile King Randor's party, underground for peace talks between the Speleans and the Caligars, finds tracks and takes the first Caligar it meets for Whiplash himself. The Caligars do not care for the comparison: "How dare you speak that traitor's name."
The 2002 series mostly uses Whiplash as a pair of hands, and this is the one episode that remembers he came from somewhere. Randor wins safe passage from the Caligar leader Ceratus and faces Skeletor in the lost city below, and when Skeletor's group heads home, a reception committee is waiting for Whiplash: "Welcome home, traitor."[2] The script never says what he did to earn the word, and that welcome is the last the episode shows of him.
[2] ^ The subtitles have Skeletor's group meet the reception committee with "Friends of yours, Whiplash?" and Whiplash answer "Not exactly."
The classic series' Whiplash, cornering Orko in Trolla.
Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Trouble in Trolla (1984), 8:51 to 10:49, 1 minute 58 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.
AT SKELETOR'S ORDERS
Shadowbeasts, bounty hunters and a prison cell
Before "Underworld" he is already on the job. In Michael Reaves's "Night of the Shadowbeasts," shown on November 22, 2002, Skeletor's warriors are plugging the volcanic vents of Mount Barathrum so that its eruption will darken the sky, and when another of them asks why, Whiplash has the answer: "Because Skeletor said to." Later, when Teela falls, he is there to say she is "the least of your worries."
Larry DiTillio's "The Monster Within," two weeks after "Underworld," makes him a talent scout. Skeletor wants He-Man destroyed by someone more capable than his own warriors, and Whiplash brings in two bounty hunters he knows, Tuvar and Baddhra, and introduces them at Snake Mountain. The other henchmen are not grateful ("Nice going, scales-for-brains"), and when the two refuse to work together, Skeletor binds them into one body, the villain the Two Bad entry covers.
By "The Council of Evil Part 1," in October 2003, the Masters have rounded up Skeletor's warriors, and Whiplash is in a cell asking the others "what do you think our chances are?" Man-At-Arms answers that he designed the entire compound to hold them. Garry Chalk voices both of them.[3]
[3] ^ Metacritic's first-season cast list credits Garry Chalk with both Duncan, Man-At-Arms, and Whiplash, so the prison scene in "The Council of Evil Part 1" has him voicing the prisoner and his jailer.
AFTER 2002
Later series and the deluxe figure
Mattel's 2002-era toy line released a figure of this design, and the Origins 200X Cartoon Collection has since brought it back as a deluxe figure.
THE FIGURE TO OWN
The 2002 Whiplash on shelves now
Mattel's Origins 200X Cartoon Collection Whiplash is the deluxe-sized version of this series' design.
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IN BRIEF
From Mount Barathrum to a cell of his own
Filmation's Whiplash
He first airs in "To Save Skeletor" on September 17, 1984.
Night of the Shadowbeasts
He seals Mount Barathrum's vents on Skeletor's orders.
Underworld
He leads Skeletor into Subternia, where he grew up.
The Monster Within
He brings the bounty hunters Tuvar and Baddhra to Snake Mountain.
The Council of Evil
He ends up a prisoner in a compound Man-At-Arms designed.
Questions
Whiplash (200x) questions, answered
Who is Whiplash in the 2002 He-Man series?
A horned, green-skinned Evil Warrior with a heavy tail, who serves Skeletor and grew up in the underground realm of Subternia.
Who voices Whiplash in the 2002 series?
Garry Chalk, the same actor who voices Man-At-Arms.
What is Whiplash's biggest episode?
"Underworld," where he guides Skeletor through Subternia to attack Castle Grayskull from below.
Why do the Caligars call Whiplash a traitor?
The episode never explains it. They only refuse to hear his name and greet him with "Welcome home, traitor."
Did Whiplash create Two Bad?
No, but he brought them in. He introduces the bounty hunters Tuvar and Baddhra to Skeletor in "The Monster Within," and Skeletor joins them into one body.
Is Whiplash in the 2002 premiere?
Yes. IMDb's full credits for The Beginning, the three-part premiere shown on August 16, 2002, list Garry Chalk as Whiplash as well as Man-At-Arms.
Is the 2002 Whiplash the same character as Filmation's?
The tail and the green hide carry over, the backstory is new. The Filmation original is on the Whiplash entry.
Is Whiplash in Revelation or Revolution?
Neither cast list includes him.
Is Whiplash in the He-Man movies?
The 1987 film has no Whiplash, and no one has been announced to play him in the 2026 film.
Is there a 2002-style Whiplash figure on sale now?
Yes, the Origins 200X Cartoon Collection Whiplash.
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Compiled by the heman.org desk from the 2002 series episodes and their English subtitles (episode pages: Underworld, Night of the Shadowbeasts, The Monster Within), IMDb's full credits for The Beginning, the Filmation episodes and the cast list of "To Save Skeletor," Metacritic's first-season cast list, and TVmaze's Revelation and Revolution cast lists.
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