>>9110368>That said if I was making a show I'd probably have a season two focus on the snake men and Skeletor, being too weak after his defeat from the end of the last season, would take a back seat while King Hiss he's his ass kicked in and have him doing other stuff and maybe find out the horde is coming to set up a third season.>Then 4th season, after a shaky alliance with the masters to defeat the horde in the third season, he is back to being the main villain of the show.I like how it in the vintage fiction, the Evil Warriors would ditch Skeletor. Obviously this was because there were newer toys to advertise, but you can easily interpret it as having better things to do when Skeletor is losing.
Tri-Klops disappeared after Filmation Ep. 88, "Three on a Dare", only to briefly reappear in both the She-Ra pilot and the mini-comic "Hordak, the Ruthless Leader's Revenge!" Filmation Mer-Man onlly worked for Skeletor once more after that same episode (128, "The Games") and was only ever in two "Prince Adam era" mini-comics.
Eventually he was living with the Snake Men and couldn't command any 1982-5 Evil Warriors (footnote to pic related).