She-Ra: Princess of Power: Difference between revisions

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She-Ra was made specifically to appeal to girls, which explains the large number of mentally ''and'' physically strong female characters, like Adora, Glimmer, and Madame Razz -- and quite a number of female villains like [[Wicked Witch|Shadow Weaver]], [[Scary Scorpions|Scorpia]] and [[Dark Action Girl|Catra]]. The male characters, like [[The Archer]] Bow, were usually the ones portrayed as getting captured or needing help. Furthermore, whenever He-Man paid a visit to his sister (both in crossovers and the [[Five Episode Pilot]] Movie), he generally required her help in some way. And in the pilot movie, she first captured him, then saved him.

* [[Action Girl]]: Adora/She-Ra, obviously, but since the show was specifically aimed at girls, most of the heroes are strong female characters, which was pretty new at the time.

* [[Action Mom]]: Queen Angella

* [[The Archer]]: Bow

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Honestly, it wouldn't be a He-Man spin-off without all the [[Ho Yay]] and [[Les Yay]]. And perhaps it's ''even more'' Camp than He-Man was, thanks to the show being full of Action Girls and male characters like Bow needing to be rescued all the time. Nostalgia Chick commented on how close Prince Adam and Bow got in the intro-movie...

* [[An Asskicking Christmas]]: The Christmas special

* [[Badass Normal]]: Netossa, Sea Hawk

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: In the second episode, ''Beast Island'', Madam Razz accidentally turns some Horde Troopers into sheep.

* [[Bash Brothers|Bash Siblings:]] She-Ra and He-Man.

* [[Big Bad]]: Hordak, though [[Bigger Bad|he takes orders from Horde Prime]].

* [[Bigger Bad]]: Hordak actually takes orders from a galactic overlord named Horde Prime.

* [[Book-Burning]]: The theme and the title of one episode.

* [[Cool Crown]]: She-Ra's headdress is a crown with wings on the side.

* [[Cool Horse]]: Adora's horse Spirit. And he becomes an even ''cooler'' horse (Swift Wind, actually a winged unicorn) when she transforms into She-Ra.

* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: Catra. Dear God, Catra!

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Since the show was aimed at girls, not only are most of the heroines Action Girls (as mentioned above), but quite a number of the villains are Action Girls, whether through general butt-kicking or in Shadow Weaver's case, actually being a very competant Second to Hordak.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: She-Ra to He-Man.

** Madame Razz to Orko.

* [[The Ditz]]: Perfuma, to some degree.

** Glimmer has light powers, Frosta has ice powers, Perfuma controls earth, and She-Ra is implied to have power over air (she can use her breath as a weapon, and she owns a Pegasus).

* [[Episode Title Card]]

* [[Evolving Credits]]: In the first few episodes, a male announcer reads the [[Opening Narration]]. After Adora becomes She-Ra, she reads a new version of the narration.

** The male announcer in question is "Erik Gunden" (a.k.a. Lou Scheimer, the show's executive producer).

* [[Gold Makes Everything Shiny]]: She-Ra's outfit is white with gold decoration, and her boots, bracelets, and headdress are gold.

* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have!]]: Despite her screechy, creepy voice, green clawed hands and a totally cloaked face, the [[Wicked Witch]] Shadow Weaver has, on numerous occasions, been noted to have quite the body.

* [[Green Thumb]]: Perfuma

* [[Guttural Growler]]: Shadow Weaver.

** Sea Hawk goes from pirate aiding [[The Empire]] to pirate aiding [[La Résistance]].

* [[The High Queen]]: Angella.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Queen Angella, again.

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Well she ''is'' He-Man's sister.

* [[An Ice Person]]: Frosta

* [[The Imp]]: Imp, of course.

* [[Knockout Gas]]: Villain Hordak sprays one of the heroes with some sleep gas from his [[Swiss Army Appendage|Swiss Army Hand]]. The hero gets off an exclamation and keels over. Hordak then comments that he's going to have to have a word with his scientists; the victim shouldn't have had time to say anything before succumbing.

* [[Lady of War]]: She-Ra.

* [[La Résistance]]: She-Ra leads "The Great Rebellion" against Hordak's forces.

* [[Loves My Alter Ego]]: Bow has a crush on She-Ra but ignores Adora. Sea Hawk has a crush on Adora but merely respects She-Ra as a fellow warrior.

* [[Magical Girl]]: Most of the women in said Great Rebellion had this in some form or other.

* [[Master of Illusion]]: Bow

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Almost everyone's names come from their powers and abilities.

* [[Merchandise-Driven]]

* [[Mini-Dress of Power]]

* [[Most Common Superpower]].

* [[Never Be a Hero]]

* [[Opening Narration]]: It's is almost identical to the one from He-Man, ''except'' that every place He-Man says "power," She-Ra says something different. E.g., "Fabulous secret powers were revealed to me" -> "Fabulous secrets were revealed to me"; ... "By the power of Grayskull!" -> "For the honor of Grayskull!"; ... "I have the poweeeeer!" -> "I am She-Raaaaa!"; ... "I became He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe" -> omitted entirely. Insert feminist rant here.

** In the Latino American version, she keeps the "By the Power of Greyskull" chant.

* [[The One Guy]]: Bow.

** Biologically, yes. Bow fits in as one of the girls most of the time though, and Sea Hawk takes up the role of [[The One Guy]] more often.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: She-Ra never hides her face, uses Adora's sword, and is never seen together with Adora. Bow and the others don't even seem to wonder how she knows when they need her help.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: After Adora realizes the Horde are the bad guys, she calls out Hordak and Shadow Weaver. Shadow Weaver tries to calm her by pointing out she's been "like a mother" to her. By the same token, Hordak was essentially a substitute for Randor.

* [[Pink Product Ploy]]: To the point where the first release of Swiftwind was colored pink, despite being white in the show. Collectors convinced the toymakers to allow the next release to be colored properly.

* [[Poke the Poodle]]: Hordak is bad enough normally, but this line of villainy might fit more with ''[[Monty Python]]'':

'''Hordak:''' Yes... an uncomfortable one! }}

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Some of the toys had fur-trimmed outfits.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Crossed with [[Merchandise-Driven]]; originally, as with the comics, Catra was meant to be the [[Big Bad]] in the cartoon. Hordak and the Evil Horde were toys made for the boys-oriented Masters of the Universe toyline. But because Filmation was wrapping up their production of He-Man cartoons at the time they started She-Ra, the Horde was too late for that cartoon (only being hinted at in the episode "The Origin of the Sorceress"), but right on time for She-Ra. So instead of the cartoon taking the route of the mini-comics, which were often stereotypical romance-driven action plots with Catra and She-Ra vying over Bow, viewers were treated to a more traditional action show where the lead character was an action hero who just happened to be female, rebelling against a villain who had already conquered the world.

* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]: The Great Rebellion, '''so very much.'''

* [[Seers]]: Peek-A-Blue

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Castaspella and Shadow Weaver were friends before the latter was brought to the Dark Side.

* [[Showgirl Skirt]]: The "Ready In Red" outfit could be word like a cape or this.

* [[Swiss Army Tears]]: Hordak was disappearing to death by the doomberry pie Skeletor gave him, but he was saved by She-Ra's tears in the episode "My Friend, The Enemy."

* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: Hordak's arm

* [[Tempting Fate]]: In "Into Etheria," after getting a meal at a tavern, Cringer comments that he's starting to like this strange new world he and Adam are in. That's when some Hordesmen show up.

* [[Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth]]: Perfuma turns out to be this when captured by the Horde. Listen to her voice for 30 seconds, and you'll begin to understand why spending a day with her would be a bit much.

* [[Transformation Name Announcement]]: "I am She-Ra!"

* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Adora

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Adora had this with Sea Hawk, who snogged her ''twice'' in one episode. She even deliberately locked herself behind bars (after performing several rescues as She-Ra) so that he could bust in and carry her out over his shoulder. But the relationship never went anywhere.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Or green. Or pink. Or lavender. Or in Huntara's case, purple ''skin''.

* [[X Meets Y]]: [[Disney Princess|Disney Princesses]] meet [[Space Opera]].

 

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