by PrfktTear » Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:28 am
I realize the names the Fighting Foe Men have affectionately been given this names to pay homage to some of the fine folks in who work at the Four Horsemen Studios, but even so, I have not bothered to learn them. In my head I'm just refering to them as their totem vehicle spirits, Roton, Talon Fighter, and Attack Track.
Having tossed the bio's out the window, I am free to decide who these mysterious Fighting Foe Men are. In my cannon, they are an elite task force serving at the pleasure of the king. Which King, I do not know. Could be King Grayskull, King Randor, or King He-Man... maybe all of the above? They work in tandem with the Masters, but not exclusively and while He-Man is usually busy wiping up Skeletor's mess. As we all know Eternia is ripe with mystical properties and there are plenty agents of evil whose plans must be thwarted.
One thing I cannot decide is exactly when the Fighting Foe Men should exist. I like the idea of them being from Pre-Eternia, serving at the hand of King Grayskull, but another part of me would like them to be contemporaries to our He-Man, maybe even serving for him as king as well as King Randor. I might borrow the bit from the bio where they were magically frozen for five thousand years.
In my story the Fighting foe Men are all alien to Eternia, or at least Roton and Attack track are. I imagine Roton as sort of a Martian Manhunter type character and personality. I don't think he's Gar, even though he has blue skin. His race was on the verge of extinction due to the Horde stripping his planet of all natural resources for their evil conquest of the galaxy. Few were able to escape and those who did have been scattered across the galaxy. It's his dream to one day reunite all of his people and rebuild their world.
I think of Attack Track as an Ensign Ro or Tasha Yar kind of character. She grew up a slave to the evil space Mutants. She witnessed both her parents being killed. Talon Fighter is the Hitter, a highly skilled martial artist, weapons expert, and one man hit squad. Formerly a soldier of the United Galactic Alliance, he was dishonorably discharged for his actions, which although justified, compromised an important mission. He is clearly the brawn of the team but also highly intelligent and quite the master strategist.