Defenders of the Earth

Defenders of the Earth-

Phantom, Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, and fight Ming the Merciless (the original Flash Gordon villain) Ming is an odd pre-reptilian archetype seen in Iron Man in the form of Mandarin.

The Mind Warriors Part 1 and 2

A two part series very close to the GIJOE episode “Operation Mind Menace” where people are trained to use their occult powers for evil, relating heavily to people who say they were actually put through this kind of training. An alien nuclear warhead left over from an ancient war drifts in space toward Earth.

Meanwhile Kashin, who resembles Tommy the psychic from Mind Menace, dreams up VR scenarios for the Defenders team to train(this is identical to the Danger Room in X-Men). The warhead lands in South America and the Defenders are shot down by Ming’s forces in the same area. Kashin dreams up a haunted house for the Defenders to fight in, while Ming takes hold of the simulation. Characters that appear to be the Skeleton Warriors make a cameo in one graveyard scene where Kashin himself is the victim.

The Starboy written by David Wise

A UFO crashes close to Kashin, containing a strange boy with a star on his head. Another ship containing strange creatures with guns lands to search for the “Starboy”.

Ten Million years ago a galactic civil war ended in the burial of an evil robot known as the annihilator. A tall gray alien gave Ming the secret to awaken the Annihilator in exchange for the safety of his planet.