It is revealed by Buzz-Off that his people and Webstor's share a similar genetic make-up, making it possible for Webstor to use the ambrosia without its toxic effects.
The spiders could hold back the Masters pretty well but the Snakemen completly defeated the spiders easily, even with the spiders knowing that they were coming. Should translate to a thrashing for the Masters in the future.
Not that Webstor's spawn are particularly cute or well-mannered, but aren't they just babies? Since when do He-Man or the Masters kill babies, even dangerous ones? Orko's dragons, for instance, were potentially just as deadly as these spiders, but nobody even suggested slaughtering them.
Response to both concerns: The dragons were intelligent - the spiders were a mindless swarm that Webstor was mentally controlling (at least I assume - he could not spawn them without ambrosia, so I don't think they were truly younger members of his species), so the Masters could destroy them with less restraint. The Masters were only six warriors - I think that the entire army of Snakemen, King Hsss included, attacked Webstor's brood - thus, they were swamped.
Fisto: Keep cracking jokes Duncan! They're gonna be calling you Man-of-Broken-Arms when I'm done with ya!
About Mattel and 'Fisto': Just because a company used a name first doesn't mean it can again. Copyrights only last so long and if companies - especially toy manufactuers - allow their copyright to expire, others can pick up on that copyright. This can lead trouble when a the company that originally had that name reissues a toy line that originally featured the name - such as Transformers or MoTU.
Skeletor and the rest of the Evil Warriors don't appear in this episode.
In the "Rise of the Snake Men" toyline, Fisto was called Battle Fist. Speaking of the toyline, we get to see Man-At-Arms and Mekanek in their Snake Armor.
Introduces Fisto.
The reason the action figure was called "Battle Fist" is because Hasbro (rather than Mattel) owns the copyright for the name "Fisto" for toy purposes; they put out an action figure for their Star Wars line named "Kit Fisto." The name can be used in the cartoon, however.
The toy is called Battle Fist because Mattel lost the trademark for the name Fisto. It is also why Rattlor is called the General.
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