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Skeleton King
  • Character: Antagonist
  • Gender: Male
  • Personality: Evil
  • Voiced by: Mark Hamill

The Skeleton King is the main antagonist of the series and the Hyperforce's sworn enemy. His servants include the Formless.

Origin

The Skeleton King was originally a humble Alchemist. Who lived in the region later known as The Zone of Wasted Years. He's a very important individual as he's the creator of the Monkey Team. He sought to help the world with his knowledge on science and magic. During the old days, he created weapons as well as working on the Silver Monkey to assist his best friend, Captain Shuggazoom. He requested the Alchemist to make a substitute heroic force, which later became known as the Hyperforce.

At one stage, the Alchemist was studying the Netherworld, which contained a group of evil beings termed by the Verron Mystics as the Dark Ones. Captain Shuggazoom was at first worried that these evil creatures would breach the barrier the Alchemist created, but he assured him that they were all safe. Unfortunately, Mandarin accidentally caused a breach to occur by jumping on the main console, releasing two of the creatures into the world: a demon-like being who subdued the Alchemist, and a worm that would eventually become Dark One Worm.

Current Skeleton King

After the Alchemist's soul tainted with evil, he became the Skeleton King. His body turned half skeletal and half machine.

The Skeleton King wants nothing less than to destroy the Hyperforce and rule Shuggazoom City. He mostly uses Formless to attack, but often creates new creatures to lay waste on the city. As the series advances, Skeleton King broadens his means of attack, going as far as to pursue the Hyperforce at a psychological level. Such as in the episode, In the Grip of Evil, where he attacks all of them in a dream.

Later, he is revealed to be merely a servant to far more powerful entities, the Dark Ones, and his goal is to release the Dark One Worm, his true master. He completes this in the second season finale only for the worm to be decapitated. The worm regenerates and merges with the Skeleton King's head becoming the Skeleton King Worm, roaming the universe and destroying planets. Before he could destroy Planet Earth on his galaxy destroying quest, the Hyperforce destroy the worm.

In Soul of Evil, Skeleton King was resurrected by the witch Valeena, Mandarin, and a corrupted Sparx. He is stronger than ever, raises a new castle and army, and leads them in a final conquest against Shuggazoom, while the Hyperforce call upon all of their allies and prepared to fight their reborn nemesis in the last episode.

Trivia

  • Skeleton King's voice actor, Mark Hamill, is best known for playing Luke Skywalker in Star Wars and voicing the Joker in the DC Animated Universe. Ironically, he shares much in common with Star Wars antagonists Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine.
  • Though it doesn't show, Skeleton King still cares for the Monkey Team (his former self the Alchemist, has feelings for them that never left after he lost his soul).
  • He uses the same voice tone in Batman: the Brave and the Bold as the Spectre.
  • He has a room full of Chiro's toys from long ago, indicating an obsession towards Chiro. It could be either he wants to see the boy destroyed, or he's probably related to him somehow, perhaps being Chiro's father.
  • His armor design was also used on Megatron from Transformers Animated, and his skull-like feature is similar to Mon*Star's only more skeletal.
  • The Skeleton King's design and color scheme are homage to the 1970's Japanese toy series Henshin Cyborg's villain known as Dokuro King as well as other undead villains Horned King and Skeletor.

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