What Did Skeletor And Jack Skellington Actually Look Like?

 

Forensic reconstruction is a technique that's been used by police for a long time now.  It's a process in which a trained police sketch artist will try to reconstruct what someone looked like in life based on the shape and contours of their skull.  The process has been rather successful when trying to identify bodies of victims that are found which are far to decomposed to identify otherwise.  Many of the sketches turn out to be strikingly similiar to the actual victim once their identity is discovered and photos of the victim are compared with the sketch.

 

Logic would then dictate that such a process could be used to discover the appearance of fictional skeletons as well, wouldn't it?  People like Skeletor and Jack Skellington couldn't have been born looking like that, right?  They must have had skin on their heads at some point in the past.  If so, then forensic reconstruction should be able to at least give us a fairly accurate depiction of what they looked like.

 

Running with this idea, the folks who run the blog Ironic Sans decided to try this theory out.  Above you can see the results for what He-Man's greatest nemesis probably looked like before he started going with the bleached bones look.  And before you can say anything, yes, I know that Mattell actually released toys of what Skeletor looked like before he lost his skin, but I didn't really like those toys and disbelieve the image of the smarmy prince that they tried to give us.  I totally believe this version to be more realistic given the shape of Skeletor's head.

 

And here's what Jack Skellington looked like.

 



 

And just for good measure, here's Manuel Calavera from the game Grim Fandango.  I think he's my favorite of the three.  You just know he must have had that mustache and goatee during his life.  It's too perfect.