He also can communicate with other animals on Third Earth to enlist their help in his tasks, and once even tricked the Ancient Spirits of Evil into giving him a power up to become Snarf-Ra.

[3] In the 2020 cartoon, Snarf is re-imagined as a robotic, cat-like pet of Lion-O, equipped with multiple tools.

The original version of Snarf received a mostly mixed to negative reception by both critics and fans, who perceived the character as being shrill or "annoying".

In a 2002 interview set up by fan site ThunderCatsFans.org on AIM, writer Peter Lawrence revealed that executive producer Jules Bass came up with the character for comedic relief as “everyone loves some kind of whacko animal”.

[7][8][9][10][11] Snarf was also featured in South Park's season 11 series of episodes about "Imaginationland", and appeared as a hand puppet in the Adult Swim short film, Too Many Cooks.