Conan the Adventurer (1992 TV series)

Heroes

• Conan (voiced by Michael Donovan) the main character of the animated series, a brave barbarian from Cimmeria, the king of the Atlanteans, as he later learns. He is tall, long-haired and possesses a large muscular build. He is incredibly strong and tough. Conan's eyes are blue, and his hair is raven black, like Howard's original description. Unlike Robert Howard's descriptions, the barbarian's clothes in the animated series are quite open and emphasize his muscles. He wears a fur cloak, a leather loincloth with a metal belt depicting a lion's head, iron bracelets on his wrists, and leather boots. Sometimes Conan appears in padded clothing that covers his head, torso and legs, and during his distant wanderings, he and other protagonists can be seen in clothes that correspond to local traditions. The barbarian's ears are adorned with gold earrings, and his neck is decorated with the Vathelos amulet, the true properties of which he learns during the development of the plot. Armed with a long sword of stars metal and a magical shield that is the hideout of little phoenix Needle. Conan is excellent with weapons and is trained in fistfighting and blacksmithing. He acts in accordance with the internal code and is the type of the "noble barbarian." In the first episodes, he cannot read, washes once a year, and prefers brute force. Over time, he masters literacy, martial arts and other knowledge, remaining in his soul the same simple and straightforward man. When Conan was a slave-rower on the galleys of Rat-Amon, he met Zula, the king of the black Vassai tribe, and also a hypnotist. After the release, Conan and Zula became blood brothers. Thanks to Zula and Jaballu, he found his totem animal – a lion. Conan sacredly honors the customs of his people and the god Crom, whom he often mentions. He likes beautiful women and is attracted to them. Jasmine's husband. Because of his naivety and gullibility, the Cimmerian more than once becomes a victim of villainous intrigues and hypnotic spells.
  • Thunder is Conan's willful (but loyal) horse, eventually armed with Star Metal horse shoes that were made from Snagg's grapnel. Thunder was stubborn, regularly refusing to ride into cities. On more than one occasion, he threw Conan off his back rather than enter a city.
• Needle (voiced by Michael Beattie) is Conan's feisty fledgling phoenix sidekick and only constant companion. He possessed the ability to enter flat surfaces and magically transform into a phoenix design (although he needed his magical tail feathers to accomplish this feat, and lost this power if he lost one of them). He spent most of his time inside Conan's shield. Needle speaks in the third person giving others nicknames (i.e. he calls Conan "big dumb barbarian") and loves to eat pomegranates. He eventually learns how to harness his full power and aid Conan in battle. When in public, Needle (who has the ability to speak) is often asked to impersonate a parrot in order to not arouse suspicion, an act which he greatly resents. As a phoenix, death for him only means to rise again from his own ashes and as such, with effort, can sometimes recall useful information from his 'ancestors.' In an alternate future, Needle was turned into a statue by Set, but this timeline was averted.
• Zula (voiced by Scott McNeil) is King of the black tribe of the Vassai, cousin of Horus. A black warrior with the same muscular build as Conan. Zula's face has three multi-colored triangles on both sides – the symbol of the Vassai. Zula's eyes are black, black hair tied with a black elastic band in a ponytail. He wears light clothes made of tiger skin, a belt with a tiger's head and leather boots, a gold bracelet on his left wrist, and a leather one on his right. Sometimes Zula appears in insulated clothing that covers his head, torso and legs, and during distant wanderings he and other protagonists can be seen in clothes that correspond to local traditions. The king's ears are decorated with silver earrings, and his neck is decorated with a necklace of three tiger fangs. Hypnotist. Zula met Conan while being a rowing slave in the galleys of Rath Amon. After his release, he considers the Cimmerian his blood brother. Educated, prudent and wise, he worships the animal spirit of Jebalah. Using his sign, the Vassai king can summon wild animals for help. Thanks to Jeballu, Zula also mastered hypnosis and acquired his totem animal, the tiger. In battle, he first uses a bolas of star metal, which entangles enemies. Later, due to the inconvenience, he converts it into a boomerang which will return to him magically after being called thanks to a magical potion Jazmine has given him. In addition, Zula is a masterful archer, martial arts master and professional hunter. At the end of the series, he accepted Jasmine's invitation and performs in the circus as a hypnotist and strongman in the arena. Zula also became Greywulf's student and is learning magic.
• Jezmine (voiced by Janyse Jaud) is an agile and beautiful circus performer who possesses a set of Star Metal throwing stars, she started off as a thief but became an honest woman for the rest of the series (but is in love with Conan nonetheless) especially where the first point is that Conan and Jezmine were seen climbing a tower where Jezmine attempts to steal some priceless treasures. Her parents are later revealed to be a nobleman and woman in the city of Tarantia. To her horror, she learns that her mother serves Wrath-Amon and her father is the Serpent Man Astivus in human form, making her a half-breed. From that moment, she is terrified her Serpent Man heritage will assert itself. When her father Astivus, who embraced life as a human and loved Jezmine's mother, sides with Jezmine and her mother against Wrath-Amon, Wrath-Amon banishes her father and mother to the Abyss. A magical potion applied to her Star Metal shuriken allow Jezmine to magically summon the throwing stars to return to her. She shared this potion with Zula. Jezmine hated Astivus, despite his love for her. She and Conan were able to free her mother during a trip to the Abyss, and later Astivus escaped when Set and the Serpent-Men banished over the years were freed from the Abyss by Wrath-Amon. Once again, Astivus chose Jezmine and her mother over serving Set, embracing life as a human; and it is implied in the final episode that Jezmine might be willing to reconcile with him. At the end of the series, she invited Zula to her circus troupe as a hypnotist and strongman in the arena. Unlike Princess Yasmina from the original 1982 film who was merely mesmerized by Thulsa Doom to join his snake cult, Jezmine was only connected to the snake cult through her father who served under Wrath-Amon only to break from it of his own free will.
• Greywolf (voiced by Scott McNeil) is a wizard from the magical city of Xanthus. Originally armed with a bare staff, he was given the mystical "Claw of Heaven" made of Star Metal that was mounted atop his staff and effectively doubled his magical power (as stated on a couple occasions). His brother and sister were transformed into wolves in a plot by the Stygian queen and sorceress Mesmira. As a result, he consistently seeks a cure for their condition alongside of Conan; whom he now serves as an advisor to in matters of supernatural nature, similar to Akiro from the original 1982 film. In the finale, he isn't able to turn his siblings back to normal, though he did manage to give them a small sampling of the cure that causes them to revert to human form once per month (on a full moon). At the end of the series, he became Zula's teacher and teaches him magic.
  • Sasha (voiced by Kathleen Barr) and Misha (voiced by Scott McNeil) are Greywolf's older brother and sister who are also skilled in magic. They were transformed into wolves by Mesmira using poison from the thorns of the Lycanthrus Plant as part of her plot to become powerful. Mesmira planned to use the transformed Sasha and Misha in her plot only for a combination of their fellow wizards to cleanse the poison's madness from them. During the episode "Thorns of Midnight," a single flower from the Lycanthrus Plant was found that could transform one of the siblings back into a human. Not wanting to have to choose, the flower was split down the middle with Sasha and Misha each eating half giving them the ability to resume human form when the full moon is in the night sky.
• Snagg (voiced by Garry Chalk) is a Viking-like barbarian as strong as Conan from Vanirmen tribe, which lives at the seashore. Snagg likes to travel by water. He often quarrels with Conan because they grew up in neighboring countries with different culture. Once even a war happened between them. Despite it, Snagg and Conan are true friends. Snagg also has Star Metal weapons in the form of an axe and grapnel. Later, he gave his grapnel to make Star Metal horseshoes for Thunder when Thunder saved his life. Conan and Snagg start as rivals, but become increasingly friendly. They continue to compete with and insult each other, but it becomes jovial and good-natured. Snagg and Conan are very similar, though Snagg is generally less serious and controlled.
• Falkenar (voiced by Alec Willows) is champion of the kingdom of Kusan, he uses the "Mantle of Wind" to fly and is armed with a Star Metal whip. Falkenar and Windfang are bitter enemies through repeated attempts by the villain to invade Kusan. He has a female pet falcon named Stormclaw.

Supporting

• The Kari Dragon (voiced by Doug Parker) – The only dragon character in the series, the Kari Dragon was once imprisoned in an artifact and could be summoned to do the bidding of mortal men. Conan summoned him and granted him freedom for which the dragon was grateful. However, when Conan later came to him for aid, the dragon gave him a series of tests which Conan passed. When the final battle against Set came, the dragon battled Set to provide Conan with enough time to escape Set and his minions, sacrificing himself in the process.
• Pyro (voiced by Doug Parker) – An ancient phoenix who was to guard the mystical Book of Skelos. At some point in time, he was corrupted by Wrath-Amon; changing his feathers into dark colors and tasking him with killing anyone who came near the book instead of simply testing them. Pyro takes advantage of his status as a high phoenix to trick Needle to trust him before kidnapping the smaller firebird and forcing him to do his bidding. Unfortunately, Needle's loyalty to Conan and his friends proves too strong and he ends up aiding in the larger phoenix's defeat when he gets exposed to the raw power of the Book of Skelos thrown at him; seemingly dying as he falls to his death in the mountain and explosion. The book is destroyed yet Pyro is freed from Wrath-Amon's spell, returning to his true golden colors in a glorious rebirth; thanking Conan and his friends for freeing him, he informs them of a second Book of Skelos. He declares Needle his "little brother" and foresees him becoming strong like Pyron himself due to his powerful heart.
• Epimetrius the Sage (voiced by Jim Byrnes) – The leader of the wizards that banished Set to the Abyss thousands of years ago. His ghost is Conan's guide in his quest against Wrath-Amon and to free his parents. Epimetrius presents Conan his shield and companion Needle and on a few occasions aids Conan in his adventures.
• Zogar Sag (voiced by Doug Parker) – The Pict shaman-chief Zogar Sag aids Conan and his friends in battle against Wrath-Amon, their common enemy. Unlike in the novels and comics, he does not worship Jhebbal-Sag (although he does support Zula's suggestion to ask the deity's aid) and he is a good guy in this show.
• Wendini (voiced by Kathleen Barr) – An enchantress known as the Wolfmother who lives in the north and views wolves as her children. She saves Greywolf after he is injured by a trap set for wolves by hunters and briefly transforms him into a wolf to better understand his brother and sister when they are lost in the wilderness when dominated by their repressed wolf instincts. In the process, she and Greywolf grow genuine feelings for one another. She becomes an ally of Conan's through her love with Greywolf and upon seeing Conan fight to defend her wolves from hunters.
• Conn (voiced by Richard Newman) - Conan's sagely yet powerful grandfather. Like Conan's father and mother, he was turned to stone by Wrath-Aman and stayed that way for a time. Wrath-Aman later attacked the village again, destroying it, and abducting the statures of Conan's parents; but the villagers managed save Conn's statue by hiding it in the well. Using a spell he had found, Conan managed to restore him to flesh again. He then aids his grandson however he can when not trying to help rebuild their home, and he has just as much of a thirst for battle and adventure as Conan does.
• Dong Hee (voiced by Richard Newman) – An elder among the Silent Dragons of Phenion, Dong Hee was Conan's instructor in the art of ninjutsu and become an infrequent ally and father figure.
• Torrinon (voiced by Garry Chalk) – Master inventor and a descendant from wizards, Torrinon is a little person that showed little talent in actual magic, but would apply himself after meeting Conan.

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