YMMV / Thundarr the Barbarian

• Awesome Music: Dean Elliott's opening theme, which perfectly underscores the destruction of civilization shown after the comet passes, as well as Thundarr's introduction afterward.
• Complete Monster:
  • "Secret of the Black Pearl" & "Last Train to Doomsday": Gemini is the only recurring villain that Thundarr ever faced. A tyrannical wizard who subjugated a small civilization of humans, Gemini has enslaved the Groundlings under threat of death to terrorize the humans in his stead. In his quest to find the Black Pearl, Gemini takes Princess Ariel hostage and nearly destroys the humans with destructive flame. Though seemingly beaten, Gemini returns and lures Thundarr into a trap by trying to bury a train of people alive. Once he has captured Thundarr, Gemini reveals his plan to turn Thundarr into a statue and leave him trapped for all eternity.
  • "Treasure of the Moks": Captain Kordon is "Queen of the River Pirates", who has made a dreaded name for herself by raiding villages and killing innocents. Seeking to claim the lost fortune of the Moks for her own, Kordon scavenges the ocean to find missiles that she dubs "fire lances" so that she can unleash them on the Mok civilization and slaughter them all, including the children. Kordon attempts to feed Thundarr and his allies to a giant crab beast, and nearly kills the chief of the Moks for trying to warn his people of her incoming attack.
  • "Island of the Body Snatchers": Circe is an Evil Sorceress who resides in the ruins of what used to be London. Prevented from escaping the island due to a curse that will turn her to stone if she leaves, Circe works around this issue by searching for a young sorceress whose body she can steal for herself. For 500 years, Circe wrecks ships and maroons their crews on the island, inevitably petrifying them when she finds nobody worth possessing. By the time she finds a suitable host in Princess Ariel, the entire island is covered in hundreds of statues. Circe devises one of the worst fates ever planned for a hero in the series: Swapping minds with Ariel and leaving the latter trapped and paralyzed in her own body, Circe tries to force Ariel to watch her friends die in a Death Trap, then intends to leave her forever on the island, still paralyzed and helpless.
• Fridge Horror: In "Portal into Time", Thundarr, Ookla and Ariel go back in time to around the early 1980s (when the show was made) and befriend a little girl named Samantha who helps them in their time traveling antics before they return to the future... then you realize that sweet little girl probably died quite horribly in the show's big 1994 disaster, or even if not then she most likely died in the aftermath of it by God knows what means...
• Nightmare Fuel: The opening sequence. Not only is the moon split in half, but Earth's atmosphere is damaged, and cities are graphically wiped out by a tsunami and volcanoes.

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