Masterverse New Eternia Two-Bad In Hand Review

Two-Bad is a character in the popular Masters of the Universe toy line and accompanying cartoon series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Two-Bad is a two-headed Evil Warrior who is basically two different beings sharing the same body. His right half is a blue creature, while his left half is a purple, scaly creature with an eyebrow-like yellow band on his forehead. His two heads have the habit of continuously arguing with one another. The character’s name is a play on the phrase “too Bad”.

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In the Mini Comics:

Two-Bad was an evil warrior who possessed considerable strength, but whose two heads had a habit of constantly arguing with one another, both endlessly blaming the other for their mistakes while claiming sole credit for all their strengths. Their endless bickering earned the wrath of Skeletor.

Two-Bad helped Skeletor in a plot to capture Roboto, piloting the Land Shark as they pursued him. Their arguing allowed Man-At-Arms to surprise them, knocking both their heads together as they bickered over who would grab Roboto’s artificial heart

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In the 1980’s Filmation cartoon:

Two-Bad was one of Skeletor’s later recruits. His twin heads constantly argued with one another, creating a bumbling indecisiveness which led to numerous mistakes.

Two Bad assisted Skeleton in a plan to kidnap Zagraz the comet keeper, and objected to Zagraz’s assertion that he was Skeletor’s “friend”. Skeletor went on to explain that he knew he could trust a creature like Two-Bad because he hated and feared him.

Two-Bad later assisted Skeletor in an attempt to seize Man-At-Arms’ latest invention, the Sky Spy. Piloting the Collector, Two Bad managed to seize the ship, but the Collector was damaged, prompting Skeletor to forcibly throw Two-Bad from the ship with a parachute.

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The Vintage Action Figure:

The Mattel vintage Two Bad action figure was released in 1985, at the height of the MOTU Toys popularity. This figure continued the gimmick heavy releases with Two-Bad including spring loaded arms that were attached at the top of his shoulders next to his heads, that allowed you to flick each arm and have Two-Bad basically punch himself with the spring loaded action.

Here you can see the figure from the Toy Sorceress’ personal collection. He included an orange shield that clipped onto his wrist and had bright orange chest armor that was basically sculpted onto him. His colors in the center where Tuvar and Baddrah came together where basically melded in a very cool way with more of an organic blend and not a clear-cut line through the center of the figure.

Head:

Tuvar, in blue, has 3 raised crests running down the middle and the sides of his skull while Baddrah, in purple, has a single raised crest running down the middle of his skull. In addition, Baddrah has a scaled texture to the sides of his head and 3 small protruding horns. Tuvar also has his body texture on the back half of his skull. Baddrah’s ear design looks like a set of cones nesting within each other, giving him a unique look while Tuvar has more human looking ears with one giant silver earring in his right ear lobe.

Here we can see the side views of both Tuvar and Baddrah. It’s neat to see Tuvar’s earring and then Baddrah’s huge bushy eyebrows and scaly skin.

Chest and Back

The chest armor is very geometrical and the since piece of armor looks like it has been fused together, like Two Bad! The strap design is very intricate and follows the shapes that are seen on front of the chest armor to the back. There is a place to stow Two Bad’s mace or axe, which looks very much like a creature, making it appear that he is grabbing the mace with his mouth. This is a very cool design aesthetic, and it looks even better with the mace or axe attached to it.

Let’s take a look at how Mattel handed his bare chest and the transition between Tuvar’s chest and Baddra’s chest. We can see that they did a nice job at making the transition look very organic and tattered like two beings crashed together to become one.

Arms

Tuvar’s arm has a cone shaped piece of armor strapped to it with a large silver forearm bracer and a silver glove to match. The way the bracer and the glove were designed and painted make the two pieces look like real metal, giving it a more premium look. Baddrah has a light purple bracer and you can see his crackly, scaled skin running up and down his arm with some raised crests on his bicep and shoulder.

Tuvar is wearing a huge spikey orange colored shoulder armor. It straps on similar to how Man at Arms shoulder armor works as it’s a separate piece. It has several studded details on the strap as well that match the studs on the chest armor which is a nice tounch.

Waist

Two-Bad is wearing a classic studed red belt and black loin cloth. But over that he has an additional brown belt with a huge belt buckle. The center of the buckle is silver and has that teal/purple double headed eagle crest on it. It also has some silver studs on the side and also some gold spiked studs on the other side. Again, symbolizing the two sides of Two-Bad. It also has a pistol holster that hangs on the right side of the belt.

You might be wondering where the two bird creature belt design comes from and it comes from an early concept of Two-Bad and, according to the toy line’s creator Roger Sweet, the concept of Two-Bad originated from the idea for a character who is two beings in one: one good, and the other bad. However, due to the marketing strategy of packaging each character as being part of one particular side, it was not possible to package a character as both good and evil so he was made a fully-fledged evil warrior instead. The idea of his heads not getting along prevailed, however, and this idea seems to influence the design of his action figure, which had two spring-action arms aimed horizontally at one another. The figure’s arms could be sprung back and forth to create the impression of the heads fighting among themselves. The design was “officially” to let Two-Bad “bear hug” enemies; it has never really been clear whether the character was designed to hit the opposing head or if this was just a coincidence of design. The original figure had a very thick upper body, making him top-heavy and hard to fit into vehicles. Later versions had a flat back, making the character lighter and easier to sit in vehicles.

Here we get a close up view of the eagle crest belt buckle.

Legs

Two-Bad’s legs have a totaly different design on each side of Tuvar and Baddrah as well. Tuvar’s side has that teal colored skin tone, wearing a silver boot. While on Baddrah’s side his skin tone is purple and has that scaled texture. He is only wearing shin armor on his foot, rather than a full boot. His foot is exposed and looks like a creature.

Here we can see a side view of each side of Two-Bad’s legs as well and the classic teal and purple designs with such different looks. They did not choose to meld the colors and textures from one leg to the other, like the vintage figure has.

Weapons and Accessories

Here we have the bevy of accessories that Two-Bad comes packed with. We will take a closer look at each below.

• Double Headed Eagle shaped Axe
• Burgandy spiked Mace
• Green spiked mace
• silver pistol
• Orange Shield
• Two alternate fist hands

Axe:

The axe has a very cool design. It has a double headed eagle at the top of the axe and the eagle’s wings make up the blades of the axe. The two sides of the eagle represent the two sides of Two-Bad as they each have a slightly different design. It also has a slightly worn finish as well.

The base of the axe has a wrapped handle that looks like leather wrapped handle.

Maces:

Two-Bad comes with two spiked maces. One in a burgundy color and one in a green color. The burgundy one has a round head on it. While the green one has a square head and also another smaller square head above that.

They both have a handles that look like they have wrapped grips to them.

Pistol:

Two-Bad’s pistol is made of a silver plastic and looks like it has a double barrel on it. It is a simple design but has that double barrel that symbolizes the two halves of Two-Bad.

Shield

Two-Bad’s shield is made of a shinny orange plastic. It has some nice details to it, where it is studded with one side round studs and the other side with square spiked studs. The left side also has some added texture as well. The center of the shield has the same double headed eagle crest symbol on it.

The back of the shield has brown straps that help to strap it onto Two-Bad’s arm. The first strap would sit onto Two-Bad’s wrist and he can grip the second strap with his gripping hand.