In the 1982 film, Conan the Barbarian, Thulsa Doom (portrayed by James Earl Jones) is the enacting lead antagonist. Thulsa Doom, together with the character Kuthulos, served as inspiration for the villain Kathulos of Atlantis in the Howard tale Skull-Face. He was euphemistically referred to as the Skull-Faced One. In that story, he tricked Kull into entering the Forbidden Lake in an attempt to destroy him, but Kull survived and Thulsa Doom escaped. Thulsa Doom unfortunately featured in a single story only ("The Cat and the Skull"), and even then relatively briefly. He was a follower of the Great Serpent and an ally of the Serpent Men. He could not be harmed by ordinary mortal weapons, and his stated magical powers included illusion, invisibility, and dimensional travel, though presumably there were many others. He appeared as a man with a skull for a head and eyesockets that burned with unholy flames. He declared himself to be the greatest of all wizards and the eternal foe of Kull. Howard as a powerful undead wizard and necromancer. Thulsa Doom first appeared in the Kull stories by Robert E.
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