Zodak (200x)

Steven Melching's "Snake Pit," which aired on 29 March 2003, brings him in through a story Adam had taken for a bedtime scare. Man-At-Arms tells it properly: King Hiss and his Snake Men nearly conquered Eternia until the Elders and the mystic Zodak sealed them in the Void, a timeless prison deep inside Snake Mountain. With Kobra Khan loose and working his way toward that prison, the Sorceress sends Man-At-Arms, Adam and Teela into the Mystic Mountains to ask Zodak for help. He hears them out and answers, "I will handle this. Alone."

He nearly manages it. Zodak walks into Snake Mountain, demands Kobra Khan and leaves Skeletor's warriors in such a state that one of the heroes concludes he never needed them. But down at the Void, Khan has already opened the prison and General Rattlor is free, promising to feed Zodak to King Hiss "just like your brother." When the Snake Men begin to rise, Zodak tells He-Man to get out because he has unfinished business; He-Man answers, "We get out together," and together they seal the Void again.

His last scene is an admission: "It was foolish of me to attempt to stop this evil on my own." Christopher Judge plays him in clipped, unhurried lines that suit a man who does not ask for company, and the rest of his story tests whether he meant what he said.^[2]

The second season, branded Masters of the Universe vs. The Snake Men, opens its Snake Men story with the brother.^[3] "Rise of the Snake Men Part 1" begins far in the past, with Zeelahr, brother to Zodak and ambassador to the Elders, carried off as a meal for King Hiss while he begs his brother to warn the Elders. In the present the Snake Men take down Zodak and seize the key he used to seal them away.

Part 2 opens with Zodak stepping into view to tell the Masters it is already too late, and he does not seem to mind much. The Masters wonder aloud how three warriors could disarm a Cosmic Enforcer unless he wanted Hiss free; when Teela presses him, he puts her on the ground. He tells He-Man that Hiss killed his brother, and then he sums himself up: "My brother, my battle, my vengeance." He-Man offers him Hiss in return for working with the Masters, and while Hiss poisons the Sorceress inside Castle Grayskull, it is Zodak who defeats the Snake King in the crystal chamber and shows the Snake Men their fallen leader.

Hiss survives. In "Second Skin" Zodak is too deep in meditation to be woken, a still figure in a glowing porthole, while the Masters chase the Serpent Ring without him. He is back for the series finale, Dean Stefan's "Awaken the Serpent," first shown on 10 January 2004. Hiss greets him there with "Zodak, what a nice surprise," and Zodak is the one who tells the history of Serpos, the Snake God the Elders turned to stone, before he scrapes together a force field for the heroes. The series ended there, with the grudge left unfinished.

Later series went back to the original. In "The Scepter and the Sword," the last episode of the 2024 Netflix series Masters of the Universe: Revolution, Evil-Lyn thanks "Lord Zodac," and he welcomes her to the Cosmic Enforcers because she has brought balance to herself and to the universe. He is the Filmation Zodac in name and spelling, and the Zodac entry covers that version.

Neither live-action film uses him. The 1987 Masters of the Universe has no Cosmic Enforcer, and Zodac is not among the cast named for the 2026 film on our film cast page.