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* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: Eternia is besieged and falls to Skeletor and his armies.
* [[Big Entrance]]: He-Man, when he first arrives on earth. Skeletor and his army made a pretty big entrance
* [[Big Fancy Castle]] / [[Bright Castle]]: Castle Grayskull.
* [[Big No]]: Kevin, when Julie is {{spoiler|shot}}.
* [[Canon Foreigner]]: [[The Movie]] used only the most immediate characters of the show, He-Man, Duncan (Man-At-Arms), Teela and the Sorceress are the only heroes with a sidekick being a hairy gremlin called Gwildor (who vaguely fills out Orko's role in being comic relief, although he is also a [[Mad Scientist]] who is responsible for the plot). Skeletor, Evil-Lyn and Beast Man are the only villains with a group of
** The commentary track on the DVD sheds a lot of light on why [[The Movie]] lacked certain key characters from the franchise and why other characters were so drastically altered (notably Teela and Duncan). Suffice it to say, they had only a little money (most of it spent building the insanely elaborate Grayskull set they only barely got to use) and an extremely limited amount of time to film things. (The track also explains the presence of the mysterious pig-faced boy in the Grayskull throne room.)
** An urban legend, popularized by 4th World fan (and comics pro) [[John Byrne]], was that the movie was a [[Spiritual Licensee]] to [[Jack Kirby]]'s Fourth World, with Skeletor taking the role of Darkseid and other characters (including the ones created for the movie) having a surprising correlation to each other. [http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/11/02/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-75/ Read here for the full story.] The director has admitted to being a fan of the comics, but he still tried to make a legitimate MOTU movie.
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* [[Jerkass]]: Detective Lubic
** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Large Ham]]/ [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Skeletor down to the core. '''[
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Skeletor when he absorbs the power of the Great Eye.
* [[Magic Music]]: How the Cosmic Key works, basically uses a type of [[Functional Magic]] that works via music: playing a certain notes on the instrument like you'd dail a telephone causes a spell-like effect to happen. Thus sending the ''dialer'' wherever they
* [[Master of Illusion]]: Evil-Lyn can
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Evil-Lyn uses her magic to
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Gwildor for creating the Cosmic Key. He stated out loud that he wished he never did.
* [[Save Both Worlds]]: Eternia ''and'' Earth.
* [[So My Kids Can Watch]]: Frank Langella accepted the role of Skeletor because his four-year-old son loved the ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' cartoon.
* [[Sword Fight]]: The film climaxes with to sword fights between He-Man and Skeletor.
* [[A Taste of the Lash]]: After Skeletor manages to capture He-Man, he gets whipped.
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** Breaks it, actually, but because it's his turn to hold the [[Idiot Ball]], he proceeds to leave the damaged device and its' inventor in the middle of a moderately technologically advanced civilization along with the rest of the heroes. Between them, they have all the parts they need to fix it, AND somebody who can figure out how to set it to teleport directly into his throne room.
* [[Treacherous Spirit Chase]]: In the movie, Julie immediately accepts her dead mother turning in the middle of a siege by magic aliens from another dimension to lure her out the back door of the shop in which she and her friends are holed up defending a powerful alien artifact. Moments later, she accepts that her dead mother needs her to hand over said artifact. Needless to say, it's not really her dead mother.
* [[Too Important to Walk]]: Skeletor arrives on earth sitting comfortably atop one of his
* [[Wizards from Outer Space]]: Or... "Aliens from Eternia".
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: Poor Saurod.
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