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Xev:
Oh no, it feels like more of a build up thing to me. I mean, everyone including his alter-ego have been properly introduced and we couldn't really build up the bad guys or the situation any more... Now here He-Man comes to save the day/multiverse/heavens/whatever's current.
They've been holding him back rather than making it all about topping what he just did. Now we know he'd give everything for his friends and that HamillTor is playing for keeps all while letting everyone else (show that they can) take the action. Then in steps He-Man for the big finish.
My expectations have been set. Good luck!
Or maybe Skeletor really does win, becomes Master of the Universe, and He-Man is forever banished to the hell that's reserved for people who had the nerve to leave heaven. And in the sequel Evil-Lyn kills Skeletor, becomes Master of the Universe, burns heaven and hell down making He-man her zombie love slave, while she's revealed to be even nastier than Skeletor ever was.
Thunder Glove:
With the He-Man and She-Ra licenses split up, I fully expect Teela to find a magic sword and become Tee-La (because she's not changing her name).
And this, let me note, would not be a bad thing.
Xev:
--- Quote from: Thunder Glove on July 31, 2021, 10:44:15 AM ---With the He-Man and She-Ra licenses split up, I fully expect Teela to find a magic sword and become Tee-La (because she's not changing her name).
And this, let me note, would not be a bad thing.
--- End quote ---
See now I was trying to remember how She-Ra fit into the whole He-Man universe. What I remember from the cartoons (that were the only thing worth watching with beers after work) is He-Man *and* She-Ra.. But all we get in this is Teela and I honestly don't even remember her except kinda vaguely. I remember the other main characters. Bad helmet man. Scaredy tiger. Magic imp. Evil Babe. Skeleton dude.
I was more of a Justice League or Hulk or ... you know ... grown-up sophisticated comics fan. So He-Man was a little beneath me at the time but a kiddy cartoon was better than no cartoon. Kinda thing. Having said that I think this is a grown up sophisticated representation of what I remember, while, not leaving behind its kiddy cartoon roots/feel.
Anyway, yeah! I did wonder what happened to She-Ra.
eabrace:
--- Quote from: Xev on July 31, 2021, 09:59:52 PM ---See now I was trying to remember how She-Ra fit into the whole He-Man universe.
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Minor lore dump:
Eternia and Etheria are two separate worlds in two different dimensions. Eternia, home of He-Man and Skeletor, is the world we're most familiar with.
King Randor and Queen Marlena had twins they named Adam and Adora during an attempted invasion by the intergalactic Horde. The Horde's forces were led by Hordak. Hordak kidnapped infant Adora. Man-at-Arms captured Hordak's student (and Randor's half-brother) Skeletor. Skeletor ratted out Hordak and told Man-at-Arms where to find him. Before Man-at-Arms could rescue Adora, Hordak escaped through a dimensional portal to Etheria.
Years later, Hordak had managed to take over Etheria and Adora had become a Force Captain in his army. The Sorceress begins having dreams about the events during the Horde invasion and wakes to find the Sword of Protection floating above her. She follows the sword through Grayskull to a new portal. The Sorceress summons He-Man to take the Sword of Protection through the portal and seek out its owner. He-Man travels to Etheria, gets captured, meets Adora (they have no idea they're related), and decides to give her the sword.
The sword allows Adora to break free of Shadow Weaver's mind control, and she learns about her past from a spiritual projection of the Sorceress. She becomes She-Ra for the first time. She frees He-Man, He-Man starts breaking Hordak's toys, She-Ra jumps on Spriit, turning him into Swift Wind, and flies off to warn the Rebellion that Hordak is coming. When She-Ra returns to help He-Man finish breaking Hordak's toys, she tells him they're twins. Mic drop.
They summon the Sorceress's spirit through the Sword of Protection and get the whole story about what happened when they were infants. Emotional reunion. He-Man and She-Ra free the Queen, and their work here on Etheria apparently being finished, they return to Eternia for a big family reunion. Hordak (sneaky bastard) sees them go through the portal and follows.
The royal family throws a party. Hordak and Skeletor crash the party and kidnap Adora (again). She tricks Beast Man into giving her sword back and defeats Skeletor. Hordak turns tail and flees back to Etheria. Adora tells her parents the she has to return to free Etheria from Horde oppression. Crying ensues. Adora returns home.
Thunder Glove:
And Teela fits into all that by being the Sorceress's daughter, though she's not aware of it. She thinks she's Duncan's (aka Man-At-Arms) daughter.
Evil-Lyn, to round out the main cast, is in most accounts an Earth woman, a scientist named Evelyn Morgan Powers, whose scientific skills translated to sorcerous powers on Eternia, and her jealousy of Marlena led her to join Skeletor.
(Queen Marlena was originally an astronaut from Earth, with Evelyn as a member of her crew. When their ship crashed, they couldn't get back to Earth, and neither really tried all that hard: one found romance, one found power)
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