So comparing She-Ra and He-man , the main difference of their situations is that while She-Ra faces a united foe in the Horde, He-Man faces various villainous factions that are competing for dominance.
That’s opens story potential for a lot of moving parts in a reboot.
It also allows Skeletor to be his charming self without trying to make him completely serious because there are other villains to pick up the slack on raw menace.
Though what should make Skeletor occasionally the most threatening is that he understands and weaponizes the power of friendship just as well as He-man, even if he uses it for malice.
(Seriously, they had a magical friendship circle in the original show, where they powered their evil spell by thinking happy thoughts)
Well, to add on to your initial point, She-Ra is also fighting an uphill battle on Etheria, not just because the Horde is a single, massive, united foe, but because from the very beginning, the Horde is in control of Etheria.
On Eternia, He-Man’s dad is the king. Not a king in exile, or the king of some small hidden kingdom, but, like, Burger King of the whole damn planet, or at least enough of it that Eternos is considered the planet’s capital, and the language of said capital is considered to be “the tongue of Eternia.”
By contrast, Skeletor is at the best of times, ruler of the Dark side of Eternia, pretty much the most undesirable and inhospitable piece of real estate on the planet. At the worst of times, he appears to be rule exactly one mountain which doesn’t so much host an army as a small gang of miscreants.
What I’m trying to get at is that Eternia has always been a world where evil is on the run and consigned to the fringes whereas it’s the exact opposite on Etheria: Evil rules and the forces of good hide in the woods and bide their time to retake their world. In that regard, She-Ra has a lot more in common with Skeletor than she does with He-Man. I wonder if he’d try and play that card if they ever met.
The fact Skeletor is usually on the run is why I’d like to shake things up in a reboot, not by increasing Skeletors power but having a drastic event happen to Eternia to give Skeletor more opportunities to work with. A cosmic alignment causing natural disasters and the awkening of kaiju/demons/etc would allow Eternia’s forces to be divided and overwhelmed while keeping Skeletor in a trikster archetype.
“When the guard’s away, Skeletor shall play!”
…I really liked what I saw of the episode where He-Man helped a demon get home to its hellish dimension.
That post was more a dig at people who are expecting something similar to Zero Suit Samus for Dark Samus than it was a dig at monsterfuckers.
I was kinkshaming the people that are expecting Dark Samus to be traditionally sexy under that armor because, in reality, what’s under the armor is as I described: tentacles, glowy veins, and see-through bones.
A bride and groom of a Christian Palestinian family slap dough over the door of their house, which is a wedding ritual still practiced by a lot of families in Palestine to this day
It’s true! And not just in Egypt, it’s recorded as a standard burglar technique in 12th century Persia. So much so that catching a fellow in the middle of the night carrying a crowbar and a drill wouldn’t necessarily prove anything, but if he also had a live tortoise with him, well it could only be a professional burglar.
“The tortoise is employed thus. The burglar has with him a
flint-stone and a candle about as big as a little finger. He lights the
candle and sticks it on the tortoise’s back. The tortoise is then
introduced through the breach into the house, and it crawls slowly
around, thereby illuminating the house and its contents.”
I wonder how many people had their houses burnt down by candle-bearing tortoises.
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