Leave it the Four Horsemen, right? I mean – should anyone really doubt their abilities at this point? I think I own around 400 action figures designed and sculpted by them, so where does “underwhelmed” come from? I dunno, but it is always good to be pleasently surprised by a new toy, so credit to Mattel in that category as well, they got her through production very nicely. Glad I did because, like the lady before her, Evil-Lyn came through production very nicely and turned out to be a very striking, very cold looking figure. However, after jumping to conclusions with January’s Adora only to find that the production figure turned out beautifully, I wanted to save my true judgement until I had the figure in had. I suppose when you are surrounded by crazy-looking characters like Moss Man and Optikk you can tend to get a little over-shadowed, no matter how important you are in the annals of the Eternian Mythos. So, I am not quite sure what I was expecting because really, the prototype nailed her classic look (good for me because I am very much a classic MOTU guy). That is how she was back in 1984 and that is how she remains today. At her literal base, Evil-Lyn is a yellow-skinned, blue-costumed, 90% repaint of Teela. Not that I thought she looked bad, mind you – she looked exactly how I pictured she was supposed to be. I have to admit that when I first saw the prototype pictures of Evil-Lyn I was a little underwhelmed. That’s right, Ron, you know how you are always asking who Number Two works for? Well, on Eternia, it is Skeletor. However, Skeletor’s powers should not be trifled with so, for the time being, she is the unchallenged Number Two to Skull Face himself. In fact, and I am not just saying this because of her name, I think at her core Evil-Lyn is even more mean and ruthless than Skeletor himself (let’s face it, she would usurp him at every single chance that came along). She is bad, she has always been bad and I am quite sure she will always be bad. Evil-Lyn does not share that distinction, however. Throughout the storied history of Masters of the Universe, Skeletor has been portrayed in a variety of ways – from Evil Lord of Destruction in the mini-comics, to comic bone-head in the Filmation and New Adventures series and back to sinister half-brother of King Randor in the 200x mythos. However, I can assure you that Evil-Lyn will not be there to spread hearts and flowers quite the opposite, actually, and as far as I am concerned, not only can she make the Heroic Warriors quake in their boots, but her comrades as well. Not that I am complaining, mind you, as the Skeletor’s crew is my favorite MOTU faction, but it is good to get a little femininity in the Dark Hemisphere. Meg Foster also played villainess Hera in the series Hercules The Legendary Journes and Holly Thompson in the 1988 movie They Live.We are getting a very well-established stable of Evil Warriors already early on in this line and the carverns of Snake Mountain are starting to get a little crowded. She is depicted as a powerful magic-wielder, but she rarely uses magic in the film except when she casts illusions. Meg Foster's scary blue eyes add to the characters menace quite well. Evil-Lyn deserts Skeletor after he absorbs the "Power of the Universe" without sharing it with her.Įvil-Lyn is wearing knee-length leather boots, lavender catsuit, shiny metal breastplate and vambraces, and elaborate jewelled crown. Evil-Lyn successfully recovers the key, summons Skeletor and they take He-Man (Dolph Lundgren) back to Eternia as a prisoner. Then Evil-Lyn shows up and has an interrogation collar put on Kevin, which forces him to tell the truth, revealing that Lubic has the key. Later a cop, Lubic (James Tokan), takes the key from Kevin believing it to be stolen. She is losely based on the Evil-Lyn character from the 1980s He-Man cartoon.Įvil-Lyn is a henchwoman to Skeletor (Frank Langella) and spends most of the film trying to retrieve a "cosmic key" which has ended up on Earth in the hands of a teenager, Kevin Corrigan (Robert Duncan McNeill), who thinks it's a synthesizer. Evil-Lyn Evil-Lyn (Meg Foster) is a villainess in the 1987 live-action film Masters of the Universe.
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