Slime Pit Man was created when Skeletor tried to take control of one of Hordaks Slime Pits. Skeletor's plan was to perform a forgotten magic ritual in secret but a stray hordesmen woke up from where he had been knocked unconscious and stumbled into the pit. This caused the spell to go horribly wrong and the entire structure of the Pit exploded. In the after math as Skeletor and his henchmen picked their way out of the debris something crawled out of what was left of the slime pool, that thing was the Slime Pit Man. The creature has the ability to gain control of it's enemies by vomiting slime on them or by giving them a slime bear hug. A side effect of Skeletor's ritual forces Slime Pit Man to be loyal to him.