Skeletor has been voiced in nearly every MOTU continuity by an actor with substantial range, and each performance brings out a different version of the character.
Alan Oppenheimer’s 1983 Filmation Skeletor was a melodramatic schemer in the classic Saturday-morning villain register. He gets memorably bad ideas, takes them too far, and is foiled by his own grandiosity. Brian Dobson’s 2002 MYP Skeletor is sharper, angrier, and more competent: a Skeletor capable of credible long-game strategy.
Mark Hamill’s 2021 Revelation Skeletor is widely cited as the definitive performance of the role. Hamill brings the Joker-voice gravitas he is best known for, but uses it to render a Skeletor with genuine pathos: a defeated, embittered figure capable of surprising tenderness alongside the cruelty. The Revelation arc that gives Evil-Lyn her own godhood arc puts Skeletor in a co-lead position rather than the villain position, and Hamill’s performance carries the change in role with full conviction.
The Revolution sequel continues Hamill’s Skeletor and develops the character’s confrontation with his own origin story in a manner that ties together the Filmation, 200x, and Revelation continuities.