![]() ![]() ![]() This rural paradise is thrown into disarray with the arrival of high-tech magician Teela (Kimberly Brooks), re-cast as a white-haired Black teenager, on the run from a pair of villainous thieves she recently betrayed: the brutish Kronis (Roger Craig Smith) and scheming sorceress Evelyn (Grey Griffin), along with their lanky, tech-savvy sidekick Duncan (Anthony Del Rio), who doesn’t seem too enthused about being a bad guy.Ĭhaos ensues when the villains catch up to Teela, leading to Adam’s discovery of the show’s enormous, anime-inspired version of the Power Sword. (They seem to reject magic and fear technology, but this doesn’t play into the story much.) Adam’s closest allies are the tiger Cringer (David Kaye), once his pet in the original, now re-imagined as a wiser, older mentor, and his adoptive human sister Krass (Judy Alice Lee), a sprightly, blue-haired, purple-skinned girl who enjoys knocking things down with her helmet. He lives in the forested outskirts of the kingdom along with the Tiger Tribe, a small but peaceful group of humans and tigers living in harmony. Prince Adam (Yuri Lowenthal) has been separated from his father, King Randor (Fred Tatasciore), for a decade and has no memory of who he is. And while this may irk those who took issue with the ways Revelation shifted the narrative focus away from the stars of the 1980s show, it’s worth remembering that these series are largely meant for children - especially this new one, an adequate, breezy, zippy adventure with teenage protagonists.Įternia is now Eternos, a realm where magic and futuristic technology blend together. Nearly everything else is a stark departure. While this new version shares its title with the ’80s show, they have little else in common, apart from a few bullet points of the basic He-Man premise: good-guy toy wields a power sword that turns him into an übermensch, cackling skull-man bad-guy toy wants the sword and/or the power. Less than two months after Masters of the Universe: Revelation (Netflix’s fantastic all-ages sequel to the 1980s series), the streaming service has come out with yet another reboot, the CG-animated He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Kevin Smith's Masters of the Universe: Revelation may well have finally explained the previously inexplicable.Mattel’s He-Man is back in vogue. The more people who knew Adam was He-Man, the more his life would change beyond recognition, his relationships transformed in ways he didn't especially want - especially his relationship with Teela. Unlike the other Champions, Adam seems to have considered this princely form to be his true self, and the Champion to merely be an alter-ego he slipped into when He-Man was needed. When Teela ( Sarah Michelle Gellar) visits the Champions in their afterlife in Preternia, she learns Adam is the only one to have chosen his weaker form. Masters of the Universe: Revelation hints at one other possible explanation, though. That may explain the ferocity of Ragnor's reaction when he was told of He-Man's death - and that Adam was actually He-Man. It's interesting to note there may be another element to it that Adam is aware his father would disapprove, and consequently resolved to ensure Ragnor never learned the truth. This, it seems, is the official reason Adam is supposed to keep his He-Man identity secret.
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