YMMV / Masters of the Universe: Revolution

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Given how Skeletor groans when Motherboard says he's honored Hordak, it's entirely possible that the technovirus didn't actually re-convert him to the Horde's ideals.
  • Before Motherboard accidentally restores his Keldor memories, was (assuming the above) Skeletor just acting like his usual hammy-self in order to make her and Hordak underestimate him?
  • Was Motherboard simply that angered over Skeletor's intrusion of her meeting with Hordak? Or was she more worried about what Hordak might do to her if she doesn't keep her followers in check?
    • When Skeletor barged into said meeting, was Hordak glaring at him for his arrogance or was he glaring at Motherboard? As in, a warning to keep her followers in line lest she reap the consequences.
• Anti-Climax Boss: Motherboard is built up as a very serious threat, but she is quickly beheaded and killed by Skeletor once she tries stealing Castle Grayskull's data, never even getting the chance to fight He-Man or the other Masters. To add insult to injury, Skeletor even bestows her decapitated head to Hordak in a gift box.
• Ass Pull:
  • All Motherboard apparently has to do is physically abuse his head a little bit for Skeletor to realize that all his memories are false and he's actually Keldor, which Keldor himself brushes off as a complete accident. How exactly this managed to awaken his true memories—and when Hordak bothered to implant false memories in the first place—all go unexplained. That said, most people aren't complaining about this since it lets Skeletor swiftly regain his memories and lets his character go more interesting places.
  • At the end of the show, Adam—whose arc was seemingly about becoming a wiser king—decides that the monarchy has to end and that Eternia must become a democracy. While it's not that bad an alternative solution, how exactly Adam came to this drastic conclusion is given little explanation other than him citing something Keldor said during his time as king... a statement Adam was not there to hear.
• Awesome Music: Composer Bear McCreary returns on musical duties, carrying over all his major themes from Revelation while introducing new leitmotifs (Hordak, Keldor, etc.).
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Watching Skeletor turn on Hordak for his role in his creation and the repeated abuse he's endured at his hand, play him at every turn, humiliate him, and impale him while triumphantly declaring he is Skeletor is extremely satisfying after Hordak's used his intellect to run roughshod over the heroes— even if Skeletor is no more sympathetic himself, it's delightful to watch him re-assume his role as Big Bad.
  • Seeing Skeletor not only take an utter defeat and a verbal lashing by He-Man and seeing it finally seem to stick is nothing short of satisfying after Skeletor's constant torment and unrepentant, entitled villainy. Him being left unable to do anything but stare at the now-worthless crown of Eternos and wistfully remember his time as the hero's Arch-Enemy is icing on the cake.
• Character Rerailment: While Mark Hamill was beloved in the part and his initial scheme was lauded, Revelation's take on Skeletor received some criticism for going too far in being Practically Joker with a vaguely-defined, underused past, and being defined by his adversarial relationship with He-Man, to the detriment of traits people loved about him like his brilliant planning, unquenchable ambition, and firmer origins. Revolution immediately sets to work undoing this by seeing Skeletor grow discontent working under Hordak immediately, discover that his most popular origin as Bastard Bastard Keldor is still true and his previous backstory was a lie sold to him by Hordak, and be verbally ripped a new one for his lack of ambition and single-mindedness by the vestige of Keldor in his brain. All of this leads to Skeletor betraying Hordak and taking control of his forces with the desire to remold the whole universe in his image, concerning himself more with his conquest than with his and He-Man's rivalry and once again cementing himself as the Big Bad of the franchise.
• Complete Monster: Besides Skeletor, Hordak is the general of the Horde who leads their vile forces across the universe. Under Hordak's command, genocide and enslavement are committed across numerous worlds. While leading an assault on Eternia many years ago before being driven away, Hordak also corrupted Prince Keldor into a twisted madman. Having sent Motherboard to Eternia, Hordak uses her to painfully cyber-convert its inhabitants to become his slaves, allowing him an easy invasion to add Eternia as another planet to his list of conquered worlds.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Skeletor beheading Motherboard and presenting her head to Hordak as a show of power would be horrific... If it wasn't for him pulling a darkly comedic spin on it by giving it to his former master in a good-old fashioned cardboard gift box.
• Epileptic Trees: Some fans believe that since Stage One (Stage Two and Three were the infiltration of Eternos and Keldor being crowned King) of the Keldor deception plot was never explained, Randor's death was actually the result of poisoning from a Horde spy to make Hordak's plan easier.
• Evil Is Cool:
  • The show makes Hordak a intelligent Galactic Conqueror who is introduced commenting about how countless heroes from countless worlds have failed to stop him, plus he's voiced by Keith David. He even succeeded in conquering Eternia.
  • Skeletor returns as a cyborg and he takes a level in badass by combining magic with his technological powers. After regaining his memories, he defeats Hordak and reclaims his position as the main villain.
• I Knew It!:
  • Many fans weren't convinced of the legitimacy of Skeletor's backstory in the Revelation prequel comics and thought he would ultimately turn out to still be Keldor. They turned out to be right.
  • Many fans were hoping that Adora/She-Ra would appear in the series. She does, but ultimately not as She-Ra...
• Nightmare Fuel: Skeletor's origin involves Keldor's face burning away to reveal the skull underneath.
• Rooting for the Empire: Suffice it to say, after three and a half episodes of Hordak being a galaxy-conquering monster and the audience being shown the role he played in the creation of Skeletor, it's nothing if not satisfying when Skeletor finally turns against him, merges magic and technology, and guts him before resuming his role as Big Bad. For once, pretty much everyone in the audience was pulling for Skeletor.
• Salvaged Story:
  • With all the secrets out, Teela is considerably nicer and less bitter than in the prior series, to the relief of those who found her unlikable in Revelation.
  • One of the series' subplot involves Teela as the Sorceress trying to restore Preternia and that its former inhabitants are now simple wandering souls, which alleviated concerns that the destruction of it in the prior series meant the characters there would cease to exist.
  • For fans dissatisfied with how Fisto and Clamp-Champ were forgotten about after Skeletor killed them and condemned their souls to Subternia, the first episode has Adam and the others rescuing them from Scare Glow.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • The non-core cast Heroic Warriors again, as outside of fight scenes, they get zero characterization.
  • Motherboard, as pointed out in Anti-Climax Boss above. The only time she ever fights He-Man is when she leads the attack on Eternos disguised as Skeletor. It would've been interesting to see how a real fight between her and He-Man or Teela would play out.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • We never find out what happened to Tri-Klops, Trap Jaw, Whiplash, Two-Bad, and the rest of the Motherboard cultists after Eternia is cured of the virus.
    • Moreover, we never find out how the first three mentioned came to be with the Horde to begin with, whether or not they were brainwashed or joined willingly.
  • When Keldor was revealed to be a real person, and the true identity of Skeletor, it's easy to assume, from what we're first shown of the Gar, that when Keldor resurfaces he would join with He-Man and fight against Hordak together. Nope, instead Keldor is somehow worse than Skeletor, and willingly joined Hordak.
  • We never see how Randor reacts to the fact his long-lost brother Keldor became Skeletor. The only scene where the two of them are together, doesn't go into it at all.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Not that many people expected Gwildor to show up.
  • Because of the infamous legal issues between the She-Ra and He-Man brands no one expected the show to actually reference and tease the arrivals of Horde Prime and Adora/She-Ra at the end of the fifth episode. Even less expected was that she appeared as her evil alter-ego from the 2012 comics, Despara.
  • Zodac appears in one of the final episode's post-credit scenes was something no fan saw coming due to there not being much indication of the Cosmic Enforcers being involved in the plot.