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When Zodak featured in the 2002 relaunch of the Masters of the Universe franchise, it was inevitable that complexities would arise in updating him for a modern audience.

Indeed, toy sculptors the Four Horsemen originally planned a radical change for the character by making him a strange alien creature rather than a human, in an apparent effort to enhance the view of him as a universal watcher.

However, when Mattel demanded racial diversity in the toy line, the Four Horsemen looked to change skin colours and, after firstly considering Stratos but deciding that Stratos ' overall design did not go well with the racial change, Zodak was chosen.

Just as in the original line, the Zodak figure appears as a brown or bronze-skinned character and slightly darker than the action figure ; for the new toyline, tribal markings were added to his arms and forehead.