One day every seven thousand years
Wizz-Ra
The wizard who was framed by a mummy and sentenced by a sphinx
He fought Mumm-Ra to a draw over the Egyptian desert and then lost everything to an accident: one episode, one day of freedom every seven thousand years, and the deepest cut Super7 has ever pulled out of this series.
The Record
Wizz-Ra at a glance
The Figure
After 40 years, Wizz-Ra finally joins the ThunderCats toy line.
LJN never made him, so there is no vintage deco to copy. Super7 has made him in his cartoon accurate design.
The figure to own
ULTIMATES! Wizz-Ra
Cartoon accurate colors, and two heads in the box, one wearing the powerful winged golden helmet and one without it. Swap them on the neck peg and you can display him accurately from scenes in his episode.
Super7 MSRP $65
- 2 interchangeable heads, with and without the golden helmet
- 9 interchangeable hands, including energy effect hands
- Soft goods cape
- Chain of Loyalty
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The Injustice
Banished, but never defeated.
Although Wizz-Ra's battle with Mumm-Ra ended with Wizz-Ra in exile, he was not defeated by Mumm-Ra himself. Rather, he was banished by the Great Sphinx, who misjudged him in a case of mistaken identity. Mumm-Ra himself states that he and Wizz-Ra are equals in power. No other character is given that distinction.
What takes him down is not Mumm-Ra. It is an accident. Mumm-Ra tells the story himself, gloating over his cauldron to Slythe, the anger of the ancient Sphynx "fell on the first one she saw". Mumm-Ra's blasts of magic had destroyed the nose of the sphynx, causing her to awaken. When she sees Wizz-Ra at her feet, she assumes he was the cause of her injury and sends him to the Seventh Dimension.
Our own encyclopedia record has always gone further, and says that Mumm-Ra scarred the Sphynx deliberately and let her believe Wizz-Ra had done it. But the episode never says that. The viewer is left to interpret the scene. A frame-up makes Mumm-Ra the author of his exile, while the episode's battle scene makes it appear to have been an accident.[1]
Either way it is a rather complex story to put in front of children at half past three in the afternoon. Wizz-Ra's backstory makes him an interesting character for us to empathize with. He is serving a sentence he did not earn, and the show never has him gaining his freedom from exile.
The episode's writer, Bob Haney, gives Wizz-Ra a second blow. Having told us in the flashback that this man fought Mumm-Ra as an equal, the episode still does not allow Wizz-Ra the chance to counter his false imprisonment. He comes through the mirror and is robbed inside ten seconds. He spends the remainder of the episode only trying to regain the source of his power, aided only by Cheetara and Snarf. Will his one day of freedom prove more successful in the next seven thousand years?
Mumm-Ra's own summary of Wizz-Ra, delivered to Slythe over the cauldron, is the best line anybody gets in the episode: "a powerful wizard from the ancient days who, foolishly, fought for the good". Coming from the devil priest of Third Earth, that is practically an endorsement!
Power equivalent to Mumm-Ra. That phrase has sat in our encyclopedia record for years, and no other character in the original series gets it. The show never uses it again, and never gives him a second episode to be anybody's equal in.
[1] ^ The legacy prose predates our copy of the transcript, and the Sphynx is female in the episode and neuter in most of the fan record, which is roughly the level of care the character has been given until now.
On Screen
Dimension Doom
Season one, episode 33. Written by Bob Haney, first aired 23 October 1985.
Cheetara wakes to a man standing in her mirror and says nothing about it to anybody. She is afraid the others will laugh at her, and the in this decision we find the moral of the episode. Cheetara must learn to trust her team, even when the truth feels uncomfortable.
With Wizz-Ra's helmet on, Mumm-Ra controls the ThunderCats. All hope seems lost when Lion-O throws the Sword of Omens into the Desert of Sinking Sands at Mumm-Ra's instruction. What he does not do is bother about Cheetara, whom he believes he has already defeated. Thus, he unintentionally relaxes the sleeping spell cast by the hunting cheetah. This act of arrogance gives Cheetara and Snarf a chance to take the helmet back, free the others, and get Wizz-Ra to the mirror before the end of the day.[4] His very life depends on reaching the portal mirror before daybreak. Luckily, he has befriended the fastest ThunderCat of all!
Chris (He-Fan), reviewing it for us, calls it one of the strongest episodes of season one and puts the Egyptian material down as the reason: the Sphynx, the desert, the quasi-Egyptian design of Wizz-Ra and of the helmet itself. All of it pushes the idea that Third Earth is this planet a very long way down the line, and no other episode commits to that quite so hard.
Watch what Mumm-Ra does not do. He never transforms into Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living in this episode, outside the flashback.[2] That is rare across the run, and here it feels deliberate, because with the helmet on his head he does not need to.
[2] ^ The Ancient Spirits of Evil dwell in the Black Pyramid as four anamorphic statues. Until this episode, not one of them is named. Here the vulture is called the Vulture King, the only time in 130 shows the series puts a name to any of them.
[3] ^ The Unholy Alliance and Pumm-Ra put Mumm-Ra at a thousand years old or more, with at least a thousand years between First Earth and Third Earth. Wizz-Ra's seven thousand years in exile add doubt to the three thousand year timeline that fans assume for the series. Notably, this episode never says whether this was Wizz-Ra's first trip back from exile.
[4] ^ When the spell breaks and everyone wakes up confused, one of the voices in the scramble is Snarf: "I must've been asleep!" But Snarf was never enslaved. He spent the episode doing the rescuing.
Stills captured from ThunderCats, Dimension Doom (1985). Copyright WBEI.
Wizz-Ra spends most of the episode without his helmet, and without his powers. This is what happens when he gets them back.
Clipped from our own copy of ThunderCats, Dimension Doom (1985), production 33, 18:40 to 20:42, 2 minutes 2 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright WBEI.
The Other Half Of It
Cheetara and Snarf carry this one
The rescue falls to the two characters Mumm-Ra discounted as defeated or inconsequential. Lion-O, Tygra, and Panthro spend most of the episode entranced under the helmet's mind control powers. That gives Cheetara and Snarf a chance to show their strength. Mumm-Ra cannot conceive of either of them as a threat. He says as much, out loud, on screen, and the show spends its last five minutes making him pay for it.
Cheetara's arc in the story is significant. She begins by hiding what she has seen because she expects to be laughed at, and she ends by saving the life of the man she was hiding. Dr. Robert Kuisis, who wrote the moral attached to this episode in our guide, puts it plainly "withholding what we have seen from the people who care about us is how we end up alone with it".
Then there is the goodbye, which gives us a clue to the special bond that has developed between Cheetara and Wizz-Ra. She asks him "will I see you again, wizard?" and he tells her, "Only in your dreams, beautiful Cheetara. Only in your dreams." If a romance exists between them, we hear it only in those two lines. Then he is gone for another seven thousand years.
The last exchange of the episode is moving as well. Cheetara tells Lion-O and the other ThunderCats that if she had trusted them more and mentioned her visions of Wizz-Ra, the entire situation could have been avoided. Lion-O leaves her mistake in the past, and instead reminds the team that they must hold nothing back from one another if they are going to remain a team. It's a beautiful exchange of forgiveness and support.
Origin
What we know of Wizz-Ra
Wizz-Ra is Egyptian, and the episode means that literally rather than decoratively.[3] The Sphynx is the real Sphynx of our real life Egypt. The battle happens over the Egyptian desert, and Mumm-Ra's pyramid and the Desert of Sinking Sands sit roughly where ancient Egypt used to be.
We are given no other details about Wizz-Ra's background except conformation of his formidable power. Mumm-Ra is thrilled at the chance to steal Wizz-Ra's mind controlling helmet, but he must also fear engagement with a foe he only accidentally defeated.
Wizz-Ra's story is memorable, and he deserves a spot in the toy lineup. It seams Wizz-Ra is fated for a life of waiting, but fans no longer have to wait for a chance to add him to their toy collection. Forty years after Bob Haney gave him a remarkable existence in the cartoon, Super7 has given him a royal spot on our toy shelves.
The Long Wait
Wizz-Ra, decade by decade
Dimension Doom
His only appearance. Episode 33, written by Bob Haney, first aired 23 October.
The Panini foil
He turns up on the centrefold poster of the sticker album as a foil sticker, and a lot of collectors never found him.
LJN stops
The vintage line winds down without ever including him. No vintage prototypes have ever surfaced.
A one of one
Hunter Knight Customs builds a Wizz-Ra for the ThunderCats Museum on a MOTUC Nepthu body, donated by Chris Diaz.
ULTIMATES Wave 15
Super7 finally puts him in a window box, four decades after the episode aired.
The Sticker
The chase foil sticker
Long before he appeared in toy form, Wizz-Ra was the hole in the sticker album. The 1986 Panini ThunderCats sticker album shipped with a centrefold poster completed from the foil tier of stickers. Wizz-Ra graced this poster in a portrait style foil sticker. In many playgrounds he was the last sticker standing between a collector and a finished book. The going rate ran to something like fifty commons for one Wizz-Ra, which will tell you how a single episode guest star turned into a legend!
Mark has written the full version of that story, album scans and all, in the Wizz-Ra ULTIMATES featurette, told as a collector rather than as a record keeper.
Questions
Wizz-Ra questions, answered
Who is Wizz-Ra?
Wizz-Ra is an Egyptian wizard who fought Mumm-Ra to a standstill in the deep past of Third Earth, and lost his freedom to Mumm-Ra's trickery. He is banished by the Great Sphinx to the Seventh Dimension and only allowed freedom for one day every seven thousand years.
What episode includes Wizz-Ra?
One, and only one. Dimension Doom, season one episode 33, written by Bob Haney and first aired on 23 October 1985. He never appears again in the original run.
Why was Wizz-Ra banished to the Seventh Dimension?
For something he did not do. During one of their battles above the Egyptian desert, Mumm-Ra damaged the face of the Great Sphinx with a blast of magic aimed for Wizz-Ra and let the Sphinx believe Wizz-Ra had done it. The Sphinx woke up angry, and her wrath fell on the first person she saw, Wizz-Ra.
What is the Enchanted Golden Helmet?
His power source and the object of desire throughout the episode. Mumm-Ra calls it the greatest power in the universe, the power to control minds. Without it, Wizz-Ra's magic fades. Unless the original script surfaces, the correct spelling of the helmet's name will remain unknown. Our encyclopedia entry and the featurette call it the Helmet of Fahnur, the episode notes render it Far-Nur, Super7 packaging spells it Phar-Noor, and the episode transcript writes down what the actor says as Fahd Niore. Four spellings, one object, and we have printed all of them rather than pick a winner.
How often can Wizz-Ra return to Third Earth?
Once every seven thousand years, for a single day. The episode never tells us whether this was his first return or not, so the total time he has been in exile is anybody's guess.
Who voiced Wizz-Ra?
Larry Kenney, who also voiced Lion-O. He carried both the hero of the series and its one visiting wizard, along with Jackalman, Safari Joe and Zaxx. Full list on our voice cast page.
Is there a Wizz-Ra action figure?
Yes, and only one. The Super7 ULTIMATES Wizz-Ra from Wave 15 is a 7 inch figure. It is the first mass produced Wizz-Ra anyone has ever made.
Wave 15, $64.99 Paid link See the figure
Did LJN ever make a vintage Wizz-Ra?
No. The LJN line ran through the mid eighties and never produced him. For forty years the only Wizz-Ra figure in existence was the one we commissioned from Hunter Knight Customs.
Does Wizz-Ra appear in the 2011 series or in the comics?
Not in anything our archive holds. He is a one episode character in the 1985 run, with no comic appearances and no 2011 reinterpretation, which makes the Super7 figure a remarkably deep cut for a line to reach.
Are Wizz-Ra and Cheetara meant to be a couple?
The episode implies it but never confirms it. He arrives in her mirror, she is the one who saves his life, and the goodbye is written with real warmth. The canon leaves it there, so we will too.
What is Wizz-Ra's ship?
An ornate sailboat with a carved figurehead that flies on his magic rather than wind. Do not confuse it with Mumm-Ra's ship, which is the one with the serpent prow and the infinity serpent on the sail. It has its own encyclopedia entry.
Episode credits, synopsis, review and notes of interest drawn from the thundercats.org Dimension Doom episode guide. The review is by Chris (He-Fan) and the moral is credited to Dr. Robert Kuisis. Frame by frame descriptions of the episode verified by our contributor Zack. Dialogue quoted from our own transcript of the episode. Character record from our own encyclopedia. Stills captured from the 1985 series, copyright WBEI. Product photography courtesy of Super7 and BigBadToyStore. Air date and writer checked against a second source. Compiled by the thundercats.org desk.
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The Shelf
The rest of Wave 15
Wizz-Ra has had one figure. These shipped alongside it.
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