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Fridge Brilliance
- Why does Prince Adam remain Willfully Weak in Preternia by remaining as he is instead of being He-Man? Because, deep down, he's always been downtrodden about having to hide that part of his life from his parents, especially seeing as it cost him his relationship with his father. The audience, Man-At-Arms, Orko, Cringer, and the Sorceress know that Adam is the real hero of Eternia, but he's bound by secrecy to keep that hidden from everyone else. Here, he can finally live out that desire—not as the Ideal Hero, but as himself, the hero everyone really knows him to be.
- Teela's Broken Pedestal moment in the series also holds a darker connotation besides Adam lying to her for all these years and her own self-doubts she can be the hero he trusts her to be. Remember, in the original series and the 2002 show, there were strong hints that she was in love with him, and it was hinted he reciprocated on some level, but couldn't ever act on it due to his double life. Her learning the truth about Adam being He-Man and everyone hiding it from her wasn't just fury over her best friend refusing to trust her with this; everyone was keeping the two from being together as a couple, including her own adoptive father and her (unknown) mother. A broken heart would definitely make anyone become more cynical, especially if the universe itself was making a relationship impossible.
- Instead of Skeletor's essence taking refuge inside his own Havoc Staff, he hid within Evil-Lyn's staff. He must've figured that when his own underlings fled, they would most likely leave behind whatever remained of his staff, which the Heroic Warriors then would've tried to destroy; though, to her credit, Evil-Lyn took the Ram's Head with her. Skeletor put himself in Evil-Lyn's staff because he was certain of her sense of self-preservation.
- Both the Expository Hairstyle Change for Teela and Evil-Lyn set parallel each other, further selling them as Foils.
- In a flashback to her childhood, Evil-Lyn had long natural white hair as an innocent. When she became a pickpocket, in an attempt to no longer be a victim, her hair is shortened to shoulder-length. In the present, it is long again but kept under a headdress. She realises she is forever a pawn of Skeletor's, and steals the power of Grayskull, seemingly becoming independent but still tied down by both her trauma and her hatred towards Skeletor, which results in her hair becoming short. Her hair returns to its original length once she fully lets go of her pain and truly strikes out on her own to find her own place in the universe.
- Teela's short hair came about after she left the royal guard and, while she was independent, she was also running from her responsibilities. Accepting those responsibilities and becoming the new Sorceress sees her hair growing out long again.
- Why can Skeletor and Adam fight so well together? Because they've been fighting each other so long that they both know how the other moves and fights like the back of their own hands.
- Both Skeletor and Adam are correct regarding their positions on their status as arch enemies. The nature of Eternia is a sort of nexus of all creation, all of history playing out at once as the source of all magic, all technology, everything. He-Man and Skeletor are the eternal hero and the eternal villain, respectively. Their battle maintains the balance between good and evil, light and dark. When both "died" that balance was thrown off and Eternia started slowly dying. While Skeletor is right that they are destined to battle back and forth eternally (especially in a meta sense, what good is a hero without a villain to fight?) Adam is also right in that it's not about them specifically. What matters is the balance, and even if one or both of them were removed from the table others would rise up to maintain that balance. Because that is exactly what happened when they died. It's why he was willing to sacrifice himself to seal the Chamber of Wisdom. Because he knew, sooner or later, Teela would always do what was nessecary for Eternia.
- Orko ends up Back from the Dead with white robes instead of his previous red ones and his magic is a lot more impressive. Basically, he's Gandalf the White.
Fridge Horror
- Evil-Lyn's flashback to her childhood when she fled from her family when they wanted to kill and eat her, shows that she's had white hair her entire life, which could suggest she has albinism
. (Her parents pale hair could be due to aging, poverty, and starvation instead of the same albinism.) Horribly, a few societies and cultures in the real world believe the bodies of human albinos have magical properties, resulting in many being murdered for their body parts to be used in witchcraft and folk medicine, and maybe even eaten.
