Skeletor and minions become Sailor Moon villains

[BitVyper]

If they replace the villains of a particular season of the TV show or arc in the comics, how do they do?

[Guy Smiley]

Can they (other than Scare-Glow, who was a ghost, IIRC, and therefore almost certainly can) be purified?

Probably doesn't matter, though, since they can be electrocuted, whipped, and set on fire. Also bubbled.

Let's see:

Beast Man: Talks to animals. Probably has some sort of episode where he releases all the zoo animals and reenacts Jumanji until he is inevitably set on fire.

Mer-Man: Mook, IIRC. Not terribly impressive.

Trapjaw: Kind of scary. I think he could bite their henshin items in half if he had a chance. Also, I believe he had lasers.

Triklops: Now we're talking. Triklops had a bunch of different abilities, IIRC. I don't remember what they all did, though, so I might be misremembering. He's also supposedly nearly as strong as He-Man, which is... impressive.

Faker: And now we have a blue robot He-Man. IIRC he is basically the same, physically, which means Pre-Crisis Superman levels of strength. If Skeletor wants the easy win, he just has Faker toss Mt. Fuji at Juuban.

Evil-Lyn: Evil hypno-witch who can use illusions to disguise herself and may have some other esoteric powers. She's already practically a Sailor Moon villain, and I don't expect much to change with her addition.

Kobra Khan: Sleep mist. That stuff is pretty nasty. He also can do snakey things like elongating his arms, but really all it should take is sleep mist to win a fight. In a scenario, however, he probably tips his hand putting a concert to sleep or something and is forced to flee the senshi's superior firepower. It turns out that he's an agent for the next season's baddies, King Hiss and the Snake Men, of course.

Skeletor: Oh boy, Skeletor! Yeah, with CIS he's probably still screwed. Maybe. Although he might actually be able to pull off some of those schemes of his that were originally foiled by a class 100+ brick hurling the threat into the Sun. And if all else fails he can still do stuff like summon Cthulhu. (Okay, a wannabe Cthulhu. But it was still a tentacle mohster powerful enough to give himself and He-Man combined a rough time.)

I guess I really need to just go back and watch the original series again - It's hard to say if Skeletor could do better than an existing Sailor Moon villain, since Saturday Morning cartoons in the 80s were filled with inept villains and incredible strokes of hero luck in order to keep the moral guardians from rioting at the possibility that evil was being portrayed as potentially competent. I never saw any of the later series, so I don't know if their versions make up for that.

[dupersuper]

Beast Man gets inappropriately aroused...?

[The Master Meglomaniac]

Can they (other than Scare-Glow, who was a ghost, IIRC, and therefore almost certainly can) be purified?

Probably doesn't matter, though, since they can be electrocuted, whipped, and set on fire. Also bubbled.

Let's see:

Beast Man: Talks to animals. Probably has some sort of episode where he releases all the zoo animals and reenacts Jumanji until he is inevitably set on fire.

Mer-Man: Mook, IIRC. Not terribly impressive.

Trapjaw: Kind of scary. I think he could bite their henshin items in half if he had a chance. Also, I believe he had lasers.

Triklops: Now we're talking. Triklops had a bunch of different abilities, IIRC. I don't remember what they all did, though, so I might be misremembering. He's also supposedly nearly as strong as He-Man, which is... impressive.

Faker: And now we have a blue robot He-Man. IIRC he is basically the same, physically, which means Pre-Crisis Superman levels of strength. If Skeletor wants the easy win, he just has Faker toss Mt. Fuji at Juuban.

Evil-Lyn: Evil hypno-witch who can use illusions to disguise herself and may have some other esoteric powers. She's already practically a Sailor Moon villain, and I don't expect much to change with her addition.

Kobra Khan: Sleep mist. That stuff is pretty nasty. He also can do snakey things like elongating his arms, but really all it should take is sleep mist to win a fight. In a scenario, however, he probably tips his hand putting a concert to sleep or something and is forced to flee the senshi's superior firepower. It turns out that he's an agent for the next season's baddies, King Hiss and the Snake Men, of course.

Skeletor: Oh boy, Skeletor! Yeah, with CIS he's probably still screwed. Maybe. Although he might actually be able to pull off some of those schemes of his that were originally foiled by a class 100+ brick hurling the threat into the Sun. And if all else fails he can still do stuff like summon Cthulhu. (Okay, a wannabe Cthulhu. But it was still a tentacle mohster powerful enough to give himself and He-Man combined a rough time.)

I guess I really need to just go back and watch the original series again - It's hard to say if Skeletor could do better than an existing Sailor Moon villain, since Saturday Morning cartoons in the 80s were filled with inept villains and incredible strokes of hero luck in order to keep the moral guardians from rioting at the possibility that evil was being portrayed as potentially competent. I never saw any of the later series, so I don't know if their versions make up for that.

In the 2002 show Skeletor was less powerful then his 80s counterpart, but far more competent. He was enough of a skilled swordsman to fight both He-Man and Randor to a stand still. He his plans were more complex, he once tried to start a war between two races on Eternia and he was generally more ruthless, he once tried to sacrifice Evil-Lyn to a Cthulhu like beast for betraying him. Tri-Klops seemed to be the "evil genius" of the group making some pretty dangerous devices for Skeletor, like a giant Skeleton monster. Beast Man used his powers more effectively, summoning giant beasts to assist him. Kobra Khan shot acid instead of sleep gas. Most of them were more dangerous, with the exception of Clawful, who is more intelligent in the old show.

[dupersuper]

In the 2002 show Skeletor was less powerful then his 80s counterpart, but far more competent. He was enough of a skilled swordsman to fight both He-Man and Randor to a stand still. He his plans were more complex, he once tried to start a war between two races on Eternia and he was generally more ruthless, he once tried to sacrifice Evil-Lyn to a Cthulhu like beast for betraying him.

If only he'd get inspired by the Xmas spirit...