Skulldart

Skulldart in his human guise

Great Emperor Skulldart (聖総統スカルダート, Seisōtō Sukarudāto): Leader of the Dark Star Cluster Empire. He was the unseen overarching antagonist in the film "The New Voyage" (1979) and the main antagonist in "Be Forever Yamato" (1980).

Appearance

In his true form, Emperor Skulldart has dark blue-ish skin and bright red eyes that give him a truly terrifying hideous, and demonic look, as oppose to the rest of his species [who normally have light blue eyes].

Personality

As the supreme ruler of the Dark Star Cluster Empire, Emperor Scaldart is describe as being both a fearsome, strategic, cunning, manipulative, ruthless, somewhat arrogant, merciless, pitiless, heartless, cruel, sadistic, and irredeemable monster as he had no problems in threatening to detonate the Double Nucleus Bomb and have all life on Earth be wiped out. He was also shown to be a skilled manipulator as shown when he deceives the entire crew of the Space Battleship Yamato into thinking that humanity was successfully enslaved by showing the false evidence of that they are actually back in the Milky Way, in the year 2402, claiming that the vortex was a hole in time and that the Earth has been under Black Nebulan rule for 200 years, and he is the (puppet) governor. Emperor Scaldart also further shows Kodai and the landing party all sorts of collections of Earth's famous artwork, and up on the Yamato, as well as the video screen scans the surface of the planet to find all of Earth's famous landmarks. Scaldart very nearly convinced them into surrendering when he shows them even more false evidence of the Future by showing the Yamato being destroyed in Earth's orbit by the enemy's flagship, the Grodaze, in 2402, although the crew of the Yamato eventually found out the deception.(Be Forever Yamato) Emperor Scaldart was also a skilled pistol marksman as shown in his final moments before his demise, he did manage to succeed in fatally shooting the half-Human-half Iscandarian girl Sasha Kodai who managed to fatally shoot him back in return, when she sacrifice's herself to help the crew of the Yamato to destroy the enemy's homeworld. Even in Skulldart's final moments before his demise, he screamed in both anguishing pain and fury as he was violently swallowed and vaporized by the deadly blast from the Yamato's Wave Motion Gun. (Be Forever Yamato)

History

Emperor Skulldart is the ruthless, tyrannical, iron-fisted, supreme ruler over the entire Dark Nebula Empire. It is unknown as to when exactly he became leader, although it is assumed the he took power years prior to the Comet Empire’s reign and defeat sometime prior and during 2201.

A New Voyage

Emperor Skulldart [his voice is only heard but not shown] is informed by General Moledars of the Dark Nebula Empire expedition fleet’s defeat at the hands of both Gamilas and a new unidentified enemy, which hindered their illegal mining operations of Planet Iscandar. Interested, The Great Emperor himself asks General Moledars if he has already identified this new enemy, to which Moeldars tells him that they have already identified them as Humans from the Planet Earth. Moeldars tells The Great Emperor that he will deal with those upstarts before resuming mining of Iscandar, to which The Great Emperor tells him that he’ll await his victory. After Moeldars failed in the final battle of Iscandar at the hands of Queen Starsha sacrificing herself, Great Emperor Skulldart and his people cast their evil, cold dark eyes towards planet Earth itself, intent on getting revenge for both Deader and General Moeldar’s deaths.

Trivia

• Skulldart is voiced by Japanese voice artist: Toru Ohira, Banjo Ginga (PS2
• Great Emperor Skulldart is best remembered as being both the most TERRIFYING, nightmarish, haunting, and darkest big bad villain yet in the entire franchise, as well as being the one who murdered Sasha in “Be Forever Yamato”, which made him a memorable, diabolical, and truly despicable, and completely unlikable villain indeed mainly due to his nightmare inducing traits and completely CRUEL and downright PURE EVIL personality.
• The Great Emperor Skulldart's death and demise is also widely viewed by fans as one of the most unexpectedly violently and extremely brutal villain deaths in anime film history.