Talk:He-Man

I expanded this article by adapting text which is available online at Kuro5hin (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/8/19/124825/558). Before anyone begins worrying about copyrights, please note that I wrote the article I quoted this from. --- IHCOYC 14:21, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)

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Small personal gripe: I've always thought that He-man was a spectacularly stupid name for a character. Sorry, fans. Lee M 04:11, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

This is perhaps one reason why it's amusing: the name is so obvious and over the top.

Mebbe so, but it's one reason I never got into the show, apart from the fact that it was obviously set up to sell merchandise. Lee M 19:41, 22 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Incidentally, viewing the 2002 series on the UK Toonami channel, I notice that all of the characters travel between the various locations with remarkable speed. Given that (according to the official publicity maps) the main locations are scattered around the planet, I can only conclude that Eternia is quite a small planet. In fact I estimate that it has a diameter of about 10 miles, which would also account for its very small civilian population which I estimate at about 300. No wonder everyone there is always fighting - they're claustrophobic!

FWIW, the fact that Teela is the Sorceress's daughter is canon from the 1980s series; it was revealed in an episode called Teela's Quest, which moreover suggested that it is Teela's destiny to inherit the somewhat unenviable position of being the sorceress of Grayskull. Teela journeys to a distant oracle and learns the truth, but a spell is cast upon her by the Sorceress to make her forget it. Smerdis of Tlön 00:28, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I hadn't seen the original series, so I'd only seen the relationship mantioned in the 2002 episode "The Ties that Bind", where the Sorceress gives Teela a blood transfusion with unexpected results. Lee M 20:01, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Sword

I am by no means a fan.... :)

But I seem to recall that He Man and Skeletor had 2 halves of the same sword. At least, if you had the He Man action figure, and the Skeletor action figure, you could click their swords together to form a thicker sword. I didn't know what the significance of that was. Anyone know?

I never noticed this myself. But in the early mini-comics and the DC comics a key plot element is "the Power Sword" which is formed of two halves. Several plots (IMHO so many they are repetitive) revolve around Skeletor seeking to unite the two halves and then use the sword to enter Castle Greyskull and aquire its powers. It should also be noted that in these early stories He-Man's main fighting weapon is the axe rather than the sword.

I'm not sure if this was deliberate or a case of someone noticing the toys could do this and writing something around it. The 2002 version of Skeletor comes with a sword that can be split into two blades with different coloured handles but I'm not sure if the corresponding cartoon made use of this. Timrollpickering 20:15, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I think you have your shows confused. The show where the good guy had one half of a sword and the bad guy had another was Blackstar. Blackstar, a former astronaut from Earth, had the Starsword and his nemesis, some scary guy named Overlord, had the Powersword. Together, they would become the mighty Powerstar. 193.167.132.66 12:31, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

It's possible there's show confusion, but the Power Sword in two halves is most definitely present in the early mini-comics and the DC comics. Timrollpickering 13:25, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I am aware of that, but the OP's message sounded like he meant Blackstar. There's nothing stopping two shows featuring similar swords. 85.76.152.179 16:14, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Neutrality

Why may this article need to be reworded to conform to a neutral point of view? How can an article about a mere TV series not be neutral?

Thought the same thing myself, so I removed it.--Wasabe3543 00:06, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Contains POV material such as "...and an overabundance of spinning weapons and hyper-exaggerated leaps" and "... the 2002 Evil-Lyn is a witty, powerful agential player in her own right with her own plans and her own allegiances. It seems a shame that the writers could not do for Teela what they did for Evil-Lyn." Am editing. Lora

Skeletor based on Darth Vader?

Skeletor is assumed to have been modeled upon Darth Vader.

Is there any reason to support this, other than that Vader was setting strides in the field of villainy in 1980? Skeletor has never struck me as Vader inspired, beyond the origin (which is a later addition). Timrollpickering 09:12, 24 May 2005 (UTC)