Somehow He-man makes even less sense now.
Is it better if you learn that Skeletor is his uncle, and his mother is from Earth?
But He-Man has a tan, and Prince Adam doesn’t. They can’t be the same person.
So, you’re, uh, letting Adam keep that huge sword on him, then? All the way back to Snake Mountain?
You’ve never seen Skeletor in action, have you? That’s exactly the kind of misjudgement he always makes.
(Not that the Sword is generally visible when Adam’s carrying it… He must have the same tailor as the Immortals from Highlander.)
The craziest thing about He-Man is that they obviously live in a temperate climate, hence the propensity for everyone to go around shirtless all the time (except Man At Arms, because he has weird nipples that he’s shy about) but He-Man still wears fur underwear which would have to be excruciatingly uncomfortable after an hour or so and likely to make him smell like 350lbs of ball cheese.
If I can divert to She-Ra for a moment, how is it that Adora is the leader of the rebellion, yet every time the Horde attacks she vanishes to “go look for She-Ra” and nobody ever calls her out on it? I mean, she’s a former leader of the Horde, you’d think that someone might eventually be suspicious enough to follow her the 4-5 steps away she takes before transforming.
Wrooooong, He-Man has a swarthy looking tan, Adam is quite pale.
I want to know how the feud between He-Man’s side and Skelator’s side could go on and on and on for so damn long without hardly any injuries much less deaths.
What a bunch of god damn pussies.
OK, this is good…
This thread is my favorite thread.
They adhered to the G.I. Joe Convention of 1983 that promised no injuries to either side in any battles, ever. Unless they’re robots.
You know, when the uprising comes, all the blown-up robotic soldiers, cyborgs, and androids are not going to count in humanity’s favour…
I can’t believe I read an entire thread about a character/show which appears to have 0 redeeming qualities. I need help.
How about “Prince Adam’s” pet tiger, “Cringer”, who is also transformed by the Power Of Grayskull into a vicious, armor-plated “Battle Cat”. Yet both tigers are a most un-tigerlike shade of green.
Even more hilariously, I recall hearing of a Wonder Bread promotional toy that looked like a slightly more brutish version of He-Man, called “Wun-dar”. I always thought that was a joke. But inspired by this thread, I did some Google research and found that that memory seems to be a conflation of a Wonder Bread He-Man mail-in promo, and an actual variant of He-Man in the Masters of the Universe collection called Wun-Dar. OMG.
That said, I think my 7-year-old son would LOVE He-Man. After all it has ridiculously varying super-powered heroes with secret identities who wield magic and magci swords against a skull-headed villain and always win. It’s a formula guaranteed to succeed, as long as there are only 7 channels you can tune on your television anyway, and the other channels are showing either soap operas, Sesame Street or maybe The McNeil/Lehrer News Report.
As long as we’re reduced to discussing absurdities, I’ve never been entirely sure of He-man’s line immediately post-transformation. Is it, “I have the power!!!”, or “I am the power!!!” I think “have” makes more sense, but that’s probably the best argument for it being “am”.
His family changed it from the original Hemaarschalkerweerd when they migrated to Eternia (they were originally Dutch).
It’s have, dude.
“For I am the Kingom, The Powerrrrrrrr and the Glory of Greyskull Forever and ever Amennnnnn!!!” - Je-Man.
Really? I have the power? I know that’s what everyone says that he says, but I always heard, “I am the the power-lord.” That last syllable is so drawn out, and he seem to mouth another word there. It’s the same animation every time, you can’t get miss it.