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A 1987 film based upon ''[[He-Man and The Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and The Masters of The Universe]]''. The movie features Skeletor's acquiring a teleportation device from an eccentric inventor, which gives him an edge in the war. Eventually the heroes find an identical device and use it to escape capture, accidentally traveling to a distant planet -- Earth. Skeletor is not far behind. Also starring in the movie was Frank Langella as Skeletor, Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn and a young [[Friends (TV)|Courteney Cox]] and [[Star Trek Voyager|Robert Duncan McNeill]] as teenage sweethearts caught up in the events.
A 1987 film based upon ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]''. The movie features Skeletor's acquiring a teleportation device from an eccentric inventor, which gives him an edge in the war. Eventually the heroes find an identical device and use it to escape capture, accidentally traveling to a distant planet -- Earth. Skeletor is not far behind. Also starring in the movie was Frank Langella as Skeletor, Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn and a young [[Friends|Courteney Cox]] and [[Star Trek: Voyager|Robert Duncan McNeill]] as teenage sweethearts caught up in the events.


A fictionalized version of the making of the live-action film was later used as the basis for a story arc in Paul Chadwick's ''[[Concrete]]''.
A fictionalized version of the making of the live-action film was later used as the basis for a story arc in Paul Chadwick's ''[[Concrete]]''.
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* [[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. '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S87lvHz1qoM&feature=related I DARE]''' '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjAUdSgSIzA&feature=relmfu YOU MORTAL!]'''
* [[Large Ham]]/ [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Skeletor down to the core. '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S87lvHz1qoM&feature=related I DARE]''' '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjAUdSgSIzA&feature=relmfu YOU MORTAL!]'''
* [[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.
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* [[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 intimadating looking tanks.
* [[Too Important to Walk]]: Skeletor arrives on earth sitting comfortably atop one of his intimadating 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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