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* [[Expy]]: Gwildor to Orko.
* [[Expy]]: Gwildor to Orko.
* [[A God Am I]]: Skeletor has one of these speeches at the climax, right down to the line "I am a god!"
* [[A God Am I]]: Skeletor has one of these speeches at the climax, right down to the line "I am a god!"
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Evil-Lyn tricks Julie into handing her the Cosmic Key by disguising herself as Julie's dead mother. Not once does Julie question how her mother is alive, where her father could be, or why her mother would want the Cosmic Key.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Evil-Lyn tricks Julie into handing her the Cosmic Key by disguising herself as Julie's dead mother. Not once does Julie question how her mother is alive, where her father could be, or why her mother would want the Cosmic Key.
* [[It Sucks to Be the Chosen One]]: Kevin and Julie, two normal earth teens don't like the idea of being chased around and nearly killed just because they happend to find the [[MacGuffin]] that everybody wants. Heck Kevin even tried to [[Refusal of the Call|refuse the call]]!
* [[It Sucks to Be the Chosen One]]: Kevin and Julie, two normal earth teens don't like the idea of being chased around and nearly killed just because they happend to find the [[MacGuffin]] that everybody wants. Heck Kevin even tried to [[Refusal of the Call|refuse the call]]!
* [[Jerkass]]: Detective Lubic
* [[Jerkass]]: Detective Lubic
** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
** [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Large Ham]]/ [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Skeletor down to the core. '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsHoqhbUIU The universe is power! Real, unstoppable POWER! And I am that force! I am that power! KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER!]'''
* [[Large Ham]]/ [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Skeletor down to the core. '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsHoqhbUIU The universe is power! Real, unstoppable POWER! And I am that force! I am that power! KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER!]'''
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Skeletor when he absorbs the power of the Great Eye.
* [[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 wished to go.
* [[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 wished to go.
* [[Master of Illusion]]: Evil-Lyn can turn into just about anyone she wants with this power, she used it twice in the film. Once on Gwildor (off screen) and again on Julie.
* [[Master of Illusion]]: Evil-Lyn can turn into just about anyone she wants with this power, she used it twice in the film. Once on Gwildor (off screen) and again on Julie.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Evil-Lyn uses her magic to confuse poor emotionally vulnerable Julie.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Evil-Lyn uses her magic to confuse poor emotionally vulnerable Julie.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Gwildor for creating the Cosmic Key. He stated out loud that he wished he never did.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[A Taste of the Lash]]: After Skeletor manages to capture He-Man, he gets whipped.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Skeletor steals the device the Eternians need to get home and forces them to stay on Earth.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Skeletor steals the device the Eternians need to get home and forces them to stay on Earth.
** 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.
** 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.
* [[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 intimidating looking tanks.
* [[Too Important to Walk]]: Skeletor arrives on earth sitting comfortably atop one of his intimidating looking tanks.
* [[Wizards from Outer Space]]: Or... "Aliens from Eternia".
* [[Wizards from Outer Space]]: Or... "Aliens from Eternia".
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: Poor Saurod.
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Poor Saurod.


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