Inspired by He-Man.org’s Roast Gooble Dinner podcast, welcome to PGPoA’s latest MOTUC Bio Discussion!

Spikor

Real Name: Kleffton

Originally a blacksmith from the Eternian village of Nordling, Kleffton was fused with an enchanted suit of spiked armor and a mystic trident when he attempted to steal a sacred scroll from the city’s high priests. Banished from his home, Kleffton became an outcast, wandering into the Sands of Time. He was discovered by Skeletor, who saw his natural talent to forget weapons and recruited him to battle against the Snake Men. Now called Spikor, he serves Skeletor by creating new arms and armor for the Overlord of Evil. Spikor uses his spike-studded body and trident arm as might weapons!

“Kleffton”?

Spikor was established as a blacksmith in the original minicomic “The Terror Claws Strike” (he actually created Skeletor’s Terror Claws). Of course in the Filmation series he was an idiot, perhaps the most idiotic of all Skeletor’s henchmen, which is really saying something.

His hometown, Nordling, is a reference to Lee Nordling, who edited many of the original minicomics; but your guess is as good as mine as to what the heck “Kleffton” is.

Spikor’s origin strikes me as uninspired – how exactly did stealing a sacred scroll cause him to be fused with an enchanted suit of armor and give him a trident-arm? Is this one of those UK comics stories?