Eh, tubes piercing flesh are something everyday folks have to deal with too, you know... I would be more concerned by the giant blue helmet that appears to have deformed, after erupting from, his neck.
I never really thought about it until this conversation, but now I am under the impression that Man-E-Faces is a cyborg with an old-style television set for a head. Like, his face is actually a CRT screen and the displayed face is a different channel that you select by spinning the dial.
In my head canon he's a got a Hulk like "mutation" and the suit helps him control it. The robot is a side effect from the mixing of his biology and the suit.
I did some digging. Apparently, Man-e-Faces was one of the final concepts from Mark Taylor. Probably initially conceived of as a robot who wore masks, he became more humanoid. A constant through all of Taylor's designs was that his faces were all a different color from his body, with the default being white or caucasian flesh toned. Mattel switched to orange. My bet would be to save money.
since i first saw man-e-faces, i immediately associated him with stuff like Ro-Man: a robot monster. man-e-faces is literally described as "man, robot, monster" or something similar, so it fits.
It's a hold over from the techno-virus that ounce plagued Preternia. The suit is mechanical, but also grew from his body as his mutation developed. At least in my head canon.
Works as good as any. I think I will stick it being a full body suit. Maybe even one that can enhance and adapt to his shape-shifting not only allowing him to replicate appearances but also the abilities of whomever he is pretending to be. I want to go with suit mainly because otherwise it looks like some sort of Giger-esque BDSM outfit.
In forty years, it's never crossed my mind that it could be anything other than his skin. I guess everything really is open to interpretation.
MEF's tubes funnel waste around the body. Each face generates waste that another face can consume as food.
Ok, so… Man-E-Faces was my first MOTU toy as a kid (and he came with a bunch of extra brown weapons)… and I never really thought of the tubes going into his flesh. Then again, I was just a kid… Thanks for making it creepy and gross.
I really want to see Man-e-Faces and Mekaneck in a MOTU movie, along with Trapjaw and Triclops. To my way of thinking, it's important to a MOTU movie really nail the balance of barbarian fantasy, Flash Gordon jetpack heroics (Beast Man and Stratos are almost direct Flash Gordon lifts), and cyborgs and steampunk. I've always thought Man-e-Faces, Trapjaw, and Mekaneck would have a very Tim Burton vibe in a live action movie. It depends on how you approach Triclops but in my head I never saw that as a mask but the top half of his head sawed off and replaced with a machine. In live action, I think you'd sell that by giving him scars along the edge of the mask and making the mask shorter than a human head with CG.
OMG me too. Kind of, to me, he's like an evil Cyclops with a bit more going on. In addition to "lasers" Tri-Klops has x-ray, telescoping and microscopic vision. The eyes help him to filter it all out, but the whole ordeal is painful. That's why he's always making this face.
