In the comics, after Lion-O left to complete his training in the Book of Omens. It was attached to a cuff on her left arm when not in use. Her weapon was the baton or bo staff, which could extend to any length and shoot out energy beams. In " The Telepathy Beam", her powers no longer harm her and presumably has better control. Cheetara had a fondness for the "useless" metal gold. She could also sense danger to others which she attributed to "woman's intuition". She also has an ability called her "Sixth Sense", which gave her the ability to see into past and future events, although this was also very taxing, such that she sometimes considered it a curse these visions could come at random and when she forced them to appear, it could take days or weeks for her to recover. At her peak, Cheetara can sustain her top speed for about 2 miles before succumbing to exhaustion. During the episode " Pumm-Ra", Tygra clocked her jogging speed as "thirty seconds for the mile" (120 mph) implying her top speed to be significantly higher than that. Her most notable physical ability is her incredible speed, which she uses in combat to evade and dodge attacks with ease. The distance they ran actually exhausted Cheetara's super speed, and she told him that his determination not to lose had allowed him to win the race.Ĭheetara is a female warrior, based on the cheetah, who is the only adult female ThunderCat (until the later appearance of Pumyra). Lion-O at first believed Cheetara had let him win, something which offended her, as the code of Thundera forbade such action. Lion-O knew he could not win the race in this way, but his sheer determination allowed him to. Cheetara was ahead by a mile and two thirds, eventually coming face to face with Lion-O, they raced alongside one another to the finish of their race. Luckily Panthro arrived in the Thundertank to assist the outnumbered Cheetara. Already miles ahead of Lion-O, Cheetara ran into the Mutants, who pursued her on land and underwater. Lion-O knew he could not beat Cheetara in a race, and so took a dangerous western route as an alternative. When the time of Lion-O's Anointment Trials came, it was Cheetara's task, as the fastest of the ThunderCats, to try Lion-O in speed. Once when Tygra ventured into a mysterious cave, he found himself beginning to age rapidly, Cheetara was the only one who could get in and out of the cave fast enough to save Tygra from death. She was then revived with the others when they reached their new home on Third Earth, and after defeating the Mutants, prepared with the others to build a new home.Ĭheetara's amazing speed has often saved the other ThunderCats from deadly situations. Cheetara helped defend the ship from the attacking Mutants, going into suspension to make the journey to the new planet chosen as the ThunderCats' new home. ![]() She was given a new outfit and her Staff to help defend herself on their new home by Jaga, along with her fellow ThunderCats. When the Mutants boarded their ship, Cheetara joined the other ThunderCats and bravely fought them off. Leaving behind the planet, Cheetara was instructed by Jaga to wake Lion-O from sleep, which she did, despite the objections of Snarf. In the reboot, they helped create the Sword of Plun-Darr in response to the Sword of Omens, and even tried to take Tygra as a sacrifice in order to cure his people, who were sickly outcasts. These entities constantly added the element of horror and dread to the franchise, even when they were just looming in the background.Cheetara had left the doomed planet of Thundera with her fellow ThunderCats. Lovecraft's Great Old Ones, as Mumm-Ra invoked Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu. Trapped within their Black Pyramid, they used Mumm-Ra as their avatar of destruction, with the '80s "Doomgaze" episode hinting they were part of H. They were represented by Egyptian-esque statues which embodied various animals such as the vulture and crocodile. The Ancient Spirits of Evil were terrifying, and whether they were transforming Mumm-Ra or lashing out over Lion-O's rule, let's be real, we all got scared! These four spirits were the source of Mumm-Ra's powers and stood as his eternal masters.
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