Thulsa Doom (character)

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Thulsa Doom is a villainous fictional character first appearing in the Kull novel Delcardes' Cat by Robert E. Howard. A powerful necromancer, Thulsa Doom is Kull's primary foe, and later becomes the enemy of the Celtic hero Cormac mac Art, another Howard character further expanded by Andrew J. Offutt.

A character of the same name is the antagonist in the 1982 movie Conan the Barbarian. Played by James Earl Jones, the cinematic Thulsa Doom is considerably different from the literary one, who is described as having a skull-like face. In the film, he appears to be an ordinary human, but can transform into a snake. Through purportedly immortal, in the film's climax, Conan beheads and kills him.