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| “ | I wish to speak to you now. Where is the Eye of the Serpent? Rexor says that you gave to a girl, probably for a mere night's pleasure, hmm? What a loss. People have no grasp of what they do. You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered my servants, and my PETS! And that is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. Thorgrim is beside himself with grief! He raised that snake from the time it was born. | „ |
| ~ Thulsa Doom. |
| “ | My child, you have come to me my son. For who now is your father if it is not me? I am the well spring, from which you flow. When I am gone, you will have never been. What would your world be, without me? My son. | „ |
| ~ Thulsa Doom to Conan, before the latter kills him. |
Thulsa Doom is the main antagonist of the Conan the Barbarian franchise.
He is a powerful ruthless and undead sorcerer from the Kull the Conqueror short stories and Conan the Barbarian fiction stories. He is Kull's arch-nemesis, in which he made his first appearance in the Kull short story "Delcardes' Cat" by the late Robert E. Howard.
Since then, he has appeared in comic books and starred in the 1982 film adaptation as the main antagonist and nemesis of Kull. Later on, he started to appear in one of Howard's other creations, Conan the Barbarian. Thulsa Doom is the prototype for many of the future evil wizards, such as Thoth Amon, Thugra Khotan, and Xaltotun in later Conan stories.
In the 1982 film adaptation, he was portrayed by the late James Earl Jones, who also voiced Ommadon in The Flight of the Dragons, The Emperor of the Night in Pinnochio and The Emperor of the Night and a disguised Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
Comics Version[]
- He became Kull's primary foe.
- Posing as the nobleman Ardyon, he forms an alliance with four rebels within Valusia to dethrone Kull.
- Thulsa Doom sent members of the Black Legion to ambush Kull and Brule, though they won the fight.
Film version[]
- He is a ruthless cult leader, who leads his cult with iron fist.
- He invades Conan the Barbarian's village and kills all the people who live there, including Conan's parents.
- When his people capture now-adult Conan, Thulsa Doom has him tortured for trespassing.
- When Conan calls him out for killing his family, Thulsa Doom shows no remorse.
- He orders one of his concubines to throw herself from large height just to show Conan how powerful he (Thulsa Doom) is, thus showing no care about his minions.
- He orders Conan to be crucified on the Tree of Sorrows.
- When Conan and his friends come to save the princess, Thulsa Doom kills Conan's girlfriend Valeria.
- When Conan comes to avenge all Thulsa Doom's victims and free his adepts from his control, Thulsa Doom tries to brainwash him, showing absolutely no remorse for his crimes.
- Moreover, he tells that without him Conan wouldn't have become that famous.
- While his death is brutal, it doesn't make him sympathetic at all.
- He is indirectly responsible for the sequel events, as Queen Taramis, who wants to recurrent the god named Dagoth to use him to spread her power, uses Conan's tragedy of losing Valeria (who was killed by Thulsa Doom). Conan, who gets motivated, does everything Taramis asks him, failing to realize that he is finding himself in Taramis's trap. If it's not for Thulsa Doom, it's unlikely that Conan would have been bought on Taramis's promises.
External Links[]
- Thulsa Doom on the Villains Wiki
