Prince Thun is a fictional character who appeared in various forms of the Flash Gordon comic strip and film productions.
[1] Thun first appeared in the Alex Raymond comic strip of the 1930s and quickly becomes an ally of Flash, after meeting him during a Lion Men attack on Mingo City.
[2] The Lion Men are shown as living in tents and using "Space Gyro" aircraft, which are capable of defeating Ming's rocket ships in aerial combat.
In the Dan Barry Flash Gordon stories, Thun and the Lion Men live in a region called Leonia, in caves resembling mine shafts.
Flash, Dale and Zarkov encounter a "lion-man" in "The Forbidden Experiment", the 25th episode of the 1954 syndicated television series, although he is not identified on-screen as Thun.
In 1980, a character called Prince Thun was played by George Harris in the Dino De Laurentiis film version.
Like the other main characters, she was a teenager and worked with Flash, Dale Arden and Prince Talon of the Hawk-People to overthrow Ming.
A character named Thun does not appear in the 2007 Flash Gordon live action series, in which the Lion Men are renamed Turin.