Blast-Attak
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Blast-Attak is a character from the popular toy line Masters of the Universe by Mattel.
A member of the evil warriors, Blast-Attak is an android built as a walking time bomb. After a certain pre-set period of time, he will explode and cause immense damage to his surroundings, before reforming automatically.
[edit] Character history
Blast-Attak was introduced into the Masters of the Universe toy line in 1987. His action figure (made of two separate halves which could be 'blasted apart' via a cord snapped into his back) came packaged with the mini-comic "Revenge of the Snake Men" in which he was presented as a creation of King Hiss, and a minion of the Snake Men. This allegiance seemed unusual, for Blast-Attak was packaged as one of Skeletor's minions and was not in any way snake-like. As his role in this comic was so minor as to be insignificant, it seemed as though he had been incorporated into this particular comic purely for the sake of convenience and to avoid having to produce a separate comic to showcase him. He appeared in the US Marvel Comics as a minion of Skeletor, with a different background, having been summoned from another dimension. In this incarnation, his most prominent characteristic is his reluctance to take orders and submit to authority - as Skeletor summons him and Ninjor, he addresses them as his slaves, upon which Blast-Attak furiously snaps back "Your what!? Blast-Attak is no one's slave!"
Given Blast-Attak's later introduction into the toy line, he never made any animated appearances and his exposure across all mediums was minimal; thus he is one of the least well-known MOTU characters.
Blast-Attak didn't appear in the updated 200x toy-line or cartoon series. Although this is probably because none of the characters from so late in the original line were featured in the updated version, many have speculated that Blast-Attak would have been unlikely to appear anyway - at least without heavy modification - as a children's toy who blows himself up to injure and destroy his enemies would be unsuitable in our modern society, where suicide bombers are a sad reality.
