Detective Conan aka Case Closed, writtendrawn by Gosho Aoyama Magic Kaito and Yaiba and published in Shogakukans Shonen Sunday, is a very longrunning. Hundreds of thousands of copies sold Millions and millions of monsters slain Munchkin captures the essence of the dungeon experience. The Conan the Barbarian saga has appeared in a variety of forms in the gaming community from simple boardgames to high tech multiplayer online games. Conan the Barbarian 1. Conan Wiki. Movie poster for Conan the Barbarian. Conan the Barbarian is a 1. John Milius and is recognized as the breakthrough of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is loosely based on Robert E. Howards Conan stories. The Best Of Crush 40 Super Sonic Songs Download. It was followed in 1. Conan the Destroyer. The film begins with a young Cimmerian boy, Conan, witnessing the destruction of his village and the death of his parents at the hand of warlord Thulsa Doom. The narration tells, Who knows what they came for, weapons of steel or murder It was never known, for the leader went to the south. The battle standard carried by the invaders, a snake with two heads, is burned into the memory of young Conan. Conan is sold into slavery with the rest of the children from his village and forced to perform intense manual labor. While the other children die, Conan grows strong, and is eventually sold and forced to fight as a gladiator. One night, however, his new owner spontaneously sets him free. From this point, Conan dedicates his life to exacting revenge on Thulsa Doom. He travels the world looking for the warlords symbol, the two headed snake. Along the way he meets two companions, Subotai and Valeria, both thieves. They soon learn that a doomsday cult has arisen that makes extensive use of snake symbolism. While breaking into one of the cults towers and stealing several artifacts, Conan confirms the cults connection to Thulsa Doom after encountering the same two headed snake symbol. After the heist, the three thieves are then offered a tremendous fortune by King Osric to retrieve his daughter who has joined the snake cult. Conan, however, not content with the pursuit of wealth, abandons his companions to pursue Thulsa Doom. Conan eventually locates the center of the cult, a place of pilgrimage called the Mountain of Power, with the help of a hermitic wizard. Disguised as a priest, Conan sneaks into a ceremony at the mountain, but is quickly discovered as an impostor, captured, beaten, and taken before Thulsa Doom. Though many years have passed, Doom has not aged since the attack on Conans village. His philosophy, however, has changed dramatically since his years as a warlord. He explains to Conan that the destruction of his village was part of his pursuit of steel, which he once thought to be the key to power only later did he realized that flesh is the stronger substance. Since the revelation, he has gained much greater power by controlling people through his cult. After explaining himself, Doom orders that Conan be crucified. Hung from a tree in the desert, Conan is rescued by Valeria and Subotai just before his death, and brought back to health with the help of the wizard. He warns Valeria that his magic will exact a terrible price. The three then return to mountain of power to rescue King Osrics daughter. There they witness that the members are actually cannibals, ready to feast on a soup of eschewed human parts, presumably from any unlucky murder victim they have. Also Thulsa Doom reveals the secret to his power and longevity. He is not human at all, but rather one of the demigod spawn of the dark god Set. This is revealed when he transforms into a giant snake. Conan and his friends scatter the harem, capture King Osrics daughter, and kill many of Dooms guards. While they are escaping, however, Thulsa Doom kills Valeria with an arrow made from a venomous snake her death fulfills the wizards prophecy. Valeria is cremated by Conan. Thulsa Doom personally leads an expedition to recover the Kings daughter, re donning the same steel armor he had long since abandoned. Conan, Subotai, and the Wizard successfully repel Dooms attack. Thulsa Doom, convinced that the battle is lost, decides to kill the kings daughter, but Subotai catches the arrow on his shield. Dooms spell on the princess is broken at last when she sees her idol trying to kill her. Thorgrim is killed by a clever trap and Rexor is killed by Conan who is shortly aided by Valerias ghost. In the final scene, Conan sneaks into the Mountain of Power and decapitates Doom in front of thousands of his devotees, revealing their godhead as an imposter. An epilogue states that Conan later went on to become a great king by his own hand, adding, but that is another story. Relationship to Robert E. Howards stories. Edit. In spite of the title, the movie is a radical departure from Robert E. Howards Conan series and owes much more to the original script and direction of John Milius. It draws only a few major elements from its literary namesake, including. The spoken prologue, Between the time the Ocean drank Atlantis and the rise of the Sons of Aryas., from The Phoenix on the Sword. The reference to Conans people as Cimmerians, and his fathers blacksmith profession. Conans devotion to the god Crom The crucifixion episode, which is reasonably true to the events in A Witch Shall Be Born. The scene where Conan climbs the tower, inspired by The Tower of the Elephant. Other aspects of the film are drawn sporadically from different pieces of Howards works. For example, while a character named Valeria appears in Red Nails, the film characters attachment to Conan and her return from the dead to save his life are more akin to Blit Belit of Queen of the Black Coast. Certain elements seem to have been borrowed from non Conan sources, including the face changing Snake Folk and the Thulsa Doom character which originated in Howards Kull stories. Similarly, Conans encounter with the witch in the film bears some similarity to Worms of the Earth from yet another of Howards series, Bran Mak Morn. Thulsa Dooms monologue about fearing the dark are also drawn from the work. Other elements of the film have no relation whatsoever to Howards stories, including the Riddle of Steel, the Black Sun Cult of Seth, Conans adolescence in slavery, and his service as a gladiator in the East. Howards Conan was still with his tribe in Cimmeria around the time he was 1. Aquilonian outpost of Venarium. Moreover, the Conan character portrayed by Schwarzenegger displays little panther like agility, nor does he have the characteristic black mane and volcanic blue eyes of Howards original although Schwarzeneggers eyes are in fact blue. Adaptations. Edit. Characters and cast. Edit. For a large budget film, the cast of Conan the Barbarian includes an unusual number of then inexperienced actors. Dancer Sandahl Bergman and surfer Gerry Lopez were cast in major supporting roles as Conans closest companions. In addition to Schwarzenegger, the cast also included several famous bodybuilders including William Smith, Sven Ole Thorsen, and Franco Columbu, as well as former Oakland Raiders star Ben Davidson. Locations. Edit Cabo de Gata, Almera, Spain The Mounds, where the Wizard lives and where Conan is resurrected. Desierto de Tabernas, Almera, Spain The Mountain of Power and the end scenes of the movie. Segovia, Spain. Sierra Nevada, Granada, Spain. British Columbia, Canada. Ciudad Encantada, Cuenca, Spain the passages in which Conan find the witch and Subotai. We dont have a complete list of locations for Conan the Barbarian 1. You can help Conan Wiki by adding to this list. Originally, producer Dino de Laurentiis had planned a soundtrack of pop music for the movie a l Flash Gordon 1. Milius to use a full orchestral score.