I guess the Krull cyclops is a fantasy standard now?

[Willie the Duck]

So, I guess Rell the Cyclops from Krull is a bit of a fantasy standard now? Have you seen this cyclops anywhere else in the wild? Any other random places Krull has popped up? The only other random Krull reference I can think of off the top of my head is a monkey in the Balloons Tower Defence phone/flash games that wields a Glaive (not a glaive).

I don't think that follows. One makeup person referencing an older work does not a "standard" make.

So here's where I think I stand on this (kind of thing) --
Krull is not a masterpiece. It is, however, not a B-movie. Nothing Roger Corman, no 'Attack of the Killer ______' or 'The ______ from Outer Space.' In the pre-Peter Jackson LotR world, it was the equivalent of fantasy being taken seriously. Therefore it has a lot of love in certain places. Particularly amongst people who grew up to make movies today. It is no surprise that those people pay homage to it. Same as how every third animated series has a Rankin/Bass Christmas special homage in their holiday episode. That does not make these things 'big deals' or 'standards' in any particular way beyond that. Most cyclops I see today are probably in RPGs, computer games, and fantasy themed board games or the like, and I certainly haven't seen a whole lot of Krull-style homages.

I guess all of these people had to start somewhere, I think I just have a set decade where I know them from and so get surprised when I see them (or hear about them being in) something from before that time.

Oh for sure. Many of them seem to have shown up in Excalibur, Dune, or I, Claudius. Though always fun to see something like a pre-TNG Patrick Stewart in Lifeforce or the like (that's why people watch that movie, right?).