The Literary Version of Thulsa Doom: Perhaps Underrated By Media?

I was surprised to find out that the literary version of Thulsa Doom served as a nuisance to both Kull and later Conan who is Kull's descendant. This guy had some interesting backstory rather than a smooth-talking villain, he was a cruel despot who relied on brute force and was obsessed with revenge to the point that after Kull defeated him, he later returned to haunt Kull's descendant Conan. Others may mistaken his action figures to be Skeletor which again may bring the Conan-He-Man controversy. In his confrontation with Conan, he frequently mentioned his immortality because he was an undead sorcerer. Later on, he kept returning to life to haunt Conan as well.

So why do I consider him underrated? The Conan movie didn't use the name Thoth-Amon for the Snake Cult's leader. The name Thulsa Doom was used although the character was widely different. Perhaps they thought the name Thulsa Doom was more fitting for a villain who carries a doomsday cult. The first draft of James Earl Jones' helmet was a skull but sadly, it wasn't even used. There was a vague skull shape but that was it. Sigh. Why did they never use the Thulsa Doom look from the comics?

So there was also Skeletor who was an undead wizard-like Thulsa Doom in the comics. Unlike Thulsa Doom, he was however a numbskull as it was a younger child's cartoon and NOT a bloody one. Skeletor was He-Man's archenemy and he dwelt in Snake Mountain, which may remind some of the Mountain of Power in Conan, which was later revealed to be the home of King Hiss in the later comics who had an uneasy alliance with Skeletor just as how Thulsa Doom and Thoth-Amon tried to join forces to destroy Conan. The He-Man non-canon movie has its version of Skeletor was closer to the literary Thulsa Doom in personality but that just wasn't Conan.

Mattel created the He-Man toyline which I believe was really inspired by the Conan comics but of course, they didn't like to use Conan due to its bloody nature so He-Man was used instead. It was also rumored that Filmation wanted to create a Conan cartoon but seeing the bloody nature of the movie and all, Filmation made He-Man from a toy line to a cartoon instead but put some Conan elements at the start. The He-Man and later She-Ra cartoons featured the Snakemen in them. The Snakemen were featured as dimwitted idiots rather than cunning adversaries.

Somehow not even his character was even made for Conan the Adventurer, maybe in fear of confusion between He-Man and Conan.