Credit: Iron Studios Manuel Perkaedo was a lieutenant in the Eternian Royal Guard, serving as one of Captain Teela's most dedicated soldiers. Fighting alone in order to help his friends escape a lost battle, he was captured by Skeletor's evil warriors and brought to Kronis to be the next subject for the mad scientist's cruel experiments. Kronis was well known for turning his captives into bionic freaks. However, for Manny he had a new idea. He injected the poor warrior with a gene cocktail made of DNA from several different species of vicious beasts living in the dark hemisphere, transforming Manny into a monster hybrid. It was Kronis' intent to create a whole army of monster warriors who could be controlled by Beast-Man's power over animals, but it turned out that Manny had a rare blood condition that made the transfusion possible; he was the only person who survived the procedure. Kronis was not deterred. In fact, he was greatly intrigued and motivated to experime...