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The Lion Men live on Mongo; they are ruled by King Jugrid and his son, Prince Thun.

Sci Fi Channel Series[]

For the updated "Flash Gordon (Sci Fi Channel)" series, creator and executive producer Peter Hume says that the Lion Men will appear:

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You had to keep the spirit of the thing, but then update it. But I still want to do, like, Lion Men. I want to do Hawk Men. But how do you do Hawkmen and not make it stupid and silly? We have Hawkmen, but they're guys that follow the way of the hawk and are all about birds, and they do kind of fly, but they're not guys with wings sprouting out of their backs... The Vultan character is a much more grounded leader of his people.
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In the new series, the Lion Men will be known as the Turin.

Other Adaptions[]

Most adaptions closely follow the original Sunday strip version of the Lion Men as humanoid aliens with pointy ears, pointed teeth, brownish or orange skin-tones and some felinoid features such as wild manes and tails, the 1979 animated The New Adventures of Flash Gordon however portray them as far more cat-like, with rather feline than human-like faces while the 1980 Flash Gordon movie adaption depicted them as fully human, appearing closely to native african tribal cultures.

1996s animated series Flash Gordon calls them "Lionids" and also interprets them as almost human with only a few felinoid features.

2013 graphic novel Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist by Eric Trautmann depicts both, the human-like version, the felinoid-like people, the graphic novel version of the Panther Men or Pantheron.

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