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** Averted in the 2002 reboot by depicting Adam as looking more like He-Man's younger brother. He was half He-Man's size and probably gained at least a foot and a half in height and at least a hundred and fifty pounds of additional muscle after he transforms into He-Man.
*** Filmation actually wanted to do this from the start, but a limited budget and heavy use of stock footage forced them to give Adam and He-Man the same character design, so it would be easier to re-trace and re-use the animation. Then again, virtually ''every'' male character in the original cartoon has the same build (just like [[Merchandise-Driven|the toys]]), so Adam and He-Man's similar physiques wouldn't have proved much.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: In the 2002 series, characters routinely stand near lava or dangle over it without suffering any ill effect.
* [[Cool Sword]]
* [[Covered in Mud]]: He-Man frequently threw his opponents into conveniently-placed mudholes or bodies of water. A soft landing, to be sure, but not very dignified. Sister superhero [[She Ra]] did it too.
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* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Both versions of Ram Man, the original Tri-Klops, 2002 Clawful, Baddrha, and to a lesser degree Grizzlor, Beast Man, Trap-Jaw, Whiplash, and Spikor. Clawful is probably the single most emblematic example -- the show's writers mention in DVD commentary that they once drew up a hierarchy of intelligence among the evil Masters, and Clawful was dead last. It's eventually revealed that he's more or less illiterate in his own native language; Evil-Lyn had to translate a message sent by his cousin for him. However, when it comes to physical might, he knows few true equals, and he can outmuscle even He-Man.
** ''The New Adventures of He-Man'' also gives us Butthead and Staghorn.
* [[Early
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: One-shot guest-villain Sh'Gora is a surprisingly hard-core example.
* [[Emergency Transformation]]: {{spoiler|Keldor to Skeletor, courtesy of Hordak}}.
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* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Evil-Lyn is willing to help Skeletor in his attempt for world domination, but she will not betray her father and returns his magical Ramstone back to him when Skeletor loses it.
* [[Everybody Do the Endless Loop]]: Constantly in the Filmation series, making the animation seem extremely robotic most of the time. Worst of all in the first season, where the budget was limited even by Filmation's standards.
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: Just about every episode ended with Orko screwing up a magic spell and making someone (usually Man-At-Arms) angry, while everybody else laughs.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Sorceress.
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: In an episode where He-Man and Skeletor are forced into an [[Enemy Mine]] situation in order to save Eternia, Skeletor tries in vain to comprehend doing something good for a change. He asks He-Man, "Don't you ever feel like doing something evil?" He-Man answers, "Don't you ever feel like doing something good?"
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{{quote| '''Trap Jaw''': We would've won if He-Man hadn't shown up.<br />
'''Skeletor''': He-Man ''always'' shows up! }}
* [[Glowing Eyelights of Un
* [[Giant Eye of Doom]]: Optikk, one of the evil mutants from ''The New Adventures of He-Man'', is essentially a giant eye sitting on a suit of armor. Optikk is an alias; his real name is pronounced through a series of blinks.
* [[Giant Spider]]: Webstor is a human-sized being with spider features. In the 2002 series episode "Web of Evil," ambrosia makes him even bigger and more spider-like.
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: Upon seeing that his handsome face has been reduced to nothing but a skull floating above his shoulders, Keldor/Skeletor cackles madly.
* [[Grand Romantic Gesture]]: Orko does this in the episode "The Bitter Rose" using the [[Flower From the Mountaintop]] method.
* [["Growing Muscles" Sequence]]: Averted in the first cartoon because in order to cut animation costs, Adam is already as buff as He-Man, [[Clark Kenting|his lighter skin and clothes being the only differences between the two]]. Played straight in some episodes of the 2002 series, until He-Man gets his armour.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Adam's mother, Queen Marlena, is actually an astronaut from Earth.
** In the 2002 series, Keldor is Randor's half-brother, and as such is implicitly half Eternian human and half... some kind of blue... something.
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* [[Hidden Depths]]: Regardless of continuity, Cringer can be a lot braver than even he thinks he's capable of.
{{quote| "You got more Battle-Cat in you then you think."}}
* [[High
* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: Trap-Jaw.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Teela, and Evil-Lyn (especially the 2002 version).
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* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: He-Man and Duncan.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: The 2002 [[Continuity Reboot]] starts with Adam doing the [[Opening Narration]], but as soon as he gets to the line, "Fabulous Secrets", he's cut off in mid-sentence as the area he's standing in front of is under attack.
* [[
* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of Mine]]: In the 2002 series, Teela was voiced by Lisa Ann Beley and Evil-Lyn was voiced by Kathleen Barr. By an amazing coincidence, Lisa was also the voice of the heroic [[Catgirl]] Felicia and Kathleen was also the voice of the evil [[Hot Witch]] Morrigan from the ''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'' television series.
* [[I Was Beaten By a Girl]]: Skeletor in ''Secret of the Sword''.
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* [[Not Blood Related]]: Teela and her adopted father Man-At-Arms.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Skeletor and his army in spades. So much so in fact that he even provides the trope picture.
* [[Old Hero, New Pals]]: The New Adventures of He-Man. He-Man and Skeletor travel to planet Primus, where they join the Galactic Guardians and the Evil Mutants respectively. The Sorceress appears from time to time and there's one episode with Teela.
* [[One-Man Army]]: King Miro regards He-Man as this the first time he ever sees him in action.
* [[Only Six Faces|Only Six Body Types]]: This sums up every character's build in the show quite nicely.
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* [[The Rashomon]]: The Battle of the Quagmi Swamp in ''The New Adventures of He-Man''. Flipshot, Hydron, Slushhead and Flogg each tell their own version of the story - their versions, of course, exaggerating their own role and aggrandizing themselves. Interestingly, we never get the real story and are forced to simply piece it together from the common elements in each tale.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: ''The New Adventures of He-Man''. To be perfectly fair, little more than He-Man and Skeletor themselves remained from the original series, and in both cases their appearances were altered quite a bit.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Skeletor, at least in the 2002 series, and Count Marzo.
** Tri-Klops has one red eye, one blue eye, and one yellow eye.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: He-Man and Skeletor, who wore red and blue and were on the sides of good and evil respectively.
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* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Played completely straight with the cannibalistic, scheming, and downright evil snake-men. Also Whiplash, a crude bully considered an embarrassment and a traitor by the rest of his people.
* [[Rich Idiot With No Day Job]]: Adam uses this "fake identity" along with [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] to keep his secret. Done a bit more believably in the newer series, where Adam and He-Man's appearances are drastically different instead of He-Man just being more tanned and having a different attitude.
* [[Right
* [[Robo Speak]]: Roboto. [[Captain Obvious|He's a robot.]] Also Man-E-Faces' robot face.
* [[Rogues Gallery|Rogues' Gallery]]: Skeletor and his army. Sometimes, there are episodes that featured villains that weren't part of the toyline, such as Evil Seed.
* [[Samaritan Syndrome]]
* [[Save the Villain]]: A lot of times.
* [[Schizo
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: In the 2002 series, King Hiss and the Snake-Men. And Hordak.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Teela, Evil-Lyn, and the Sorceress.
* [[Shipped in Shackles]]: In the 2002 series, Kobra Khan is shackled and muzzled when transported. The muzzle is left on in his prison cell due to his venom-spitting abilities.
* [[Shout
** In the episode "The Remedy", the Tacktryl is basically a pink [[Blackstar|Warlock]] Come to think of it, that's actually more of a [[Palette Swap]]...
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Man-At-Arms and Fisto to a certain degree.
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* [[Theme Tune Roll Call]]
* [[Title Theme Tune]]: Opening theme just has "He-Man!"
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: There was once a He-Man villain known as Stinkor, a skunk-man who had the power of smelling so horribly he had to use a respirator to keep ''himself'' from being knocked out. You would think this is a [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|useless or stupid ability]], but the 2002 reboot shows just how deadly this can be.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Adam to He-Man.
* [[Transformation Trinket]]: The Sword of Power. Curiously, Skeletor wields a nearly identical sword in the toyline, which could merge with He-Man's sword and the two were known collectively as the Power Sword when merged, but it lacks this little ability. Skeletor's sword appears only in the children's books and occasionally the mini-comics, and is outright ignored in the cartoon. He did seem to have a duplicate version of the blade in [[Masters of the Universe]], however, but it's so dark it's almost impossible to see if it really is supposed to be the 'dark half' of the Power Sword (referred to as The Sword of Grayskull in the film) or not.
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* [[Use Your Head]]: Ram-Man: "''Duuuuuh'', good door! Soooo-lid!" Ram Man, as you might expect, loves to rush at things headfirst. Mekaneck also likes to land a good headbutt when he gets the opportunity. ''The New Adventures of He-Man'''s unfortunately named Butthead was essentially an evil Ram Man.
* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: He-Man and most of the male characters on the show.
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Meckanek's extendable neck, with [[Lampshade Hanging]] on it in the 2002 series. Mekanek's power is even more pathetic if you know the original toyline, because included therein was Extendar, who could extend his entire body outward, making Mekanek redundant. Rattlor has powers similar to Meckanek's, but they're much better suited to a Snake Man. Additionally, the toyline only character Blast-Atak is a robot who can explode -- why go through the trouble of building a sophisticated robot if it's just to have it blow itself up? Snout Spout, meanwhile, could... fire water out of his snout. Stinkor also gets ribbed for the power of "smelling like, really, like, really really bad" -- but it's a lot more effective than you might think.
* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: He-man is sometimes pretty clever in how he defeats his enemies in the 2002 series but most of his solutions usually involve crushing something since he's not quite as versatile as most of the bad guys. Supposedly, that version would always have enough strength necessary to complete any given task he just needed to apply it correctly.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Whiplash, as his name implies, is very fond of using his long tail as a whip, but he also has an actual handheld whip that mimics its appearance somewhat (though he uses it less often). Beast Man uses a whip -- but rarely as a weapon. Rather, he uses it to tame animals. Two-Badd also uses a whip in one episode.
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