With Voltron: Legendary Defender season 3 not arriving on Netflix until September 2017 fans have a whole summer before their favorite giant robot lion show returns. To tide you over, Den of Geek spoke with the show’s creators and actors about what to expect from Voltron season 3. We already know Prince Lotor will be a part of it and from what was glimpsed at the Wondercon panel it looks like he means business.

Voltron: Legendary Defender story editor Tim Hedrick teases that not only will Lotor will be very different his original series counterpart, he’ll also stand in sharp contrast to Zarkon. “He’s got a master plan he’s looking to execute,” Hedrick says. “There’s gonna be a lot of upcoming trials and tribulations for our team in dealing with that.”

To those fans who have just gotten into Voltron thanks to Legendary Defender, Lotor could potentially be a huge game changer for the series. In the original 1984 Voltron series, Lotor was the son of King Zarkon. Unlike his father, who generally stayed on Planet Doom and sent Robeasts to attack the Voltron Force, Prince Lotor always took the fight directly to the team. He’d get in dramatic sword battles with Keith and pilot robeasts himself.

Lotor was a much more proactive villain than his father. From what we saw of the Wondercon teaser, Lotor is ready to blow up whole civilizations to get what he wants. He’s not playing by Zarkon’s rulebook. This is just like the original series, where Lotor was always scheming against Zarkon to usurp his rule.