Amph Masters of the Universe: Castle Grayskull

so how did he get the name He-Man ? I assume he wasn't given it at birth.

 

Dude named Robert Sweet invented it. According to him he came up with 40 or 50 names like Mighty Man and Big Man but then hit upon He-Man and that was it. A generic name but with a tough meaning.

 

What VLM meant to say was that his birth name was Herman Mansfield. One day, he had a slightly crumpled letter addressed to him that folded over parts of his name so that all that was visible were "He" and "Man". Being a lazy sort, he thought that much more efficient and adopted it as his nom de guerre.

 

What I take from the synopsis Netflix put up and the show title is that the Revelations tearing the heroes apart will probably be finding out who He-Man is.
Remember that only Man At Arms, Orco & Sorceress know his true identity, whereas Teela does not. It's not unreasonable to assume that, if He-Man has his identity revealed (after the Sword of Power is lost) it would upset those who he had hidden the secret from all these years.
Even King Randor & Queen Marlena don't know the secret, I doubt they'd be pleased either.

The whole group coming back together will probably be the central focus of the show. They can't defeat Skeletor and his minions if they are divided, especially without He-Man.
Presumably Teela will be the one to try and unite them all again.

 

I honestly can't tell if you guys are serious.

 

I don’t remember much from the Master of the Universe cartoon. But I thought Queen Marlena knew her soon was He-Man. Like she figured it out. Mother’s intuition. At some point she might have straight up told him. But it was at least heavily implied if she didn’t directly say it.

And didn’t King Randor wish his son was more like He-Man? The ok’d
Cartoon show for me as an adult doesn’t hold up very well and was hard to ever rewatch. Going to be interesting if Kevin Smith’s show really is a direct continuation of the original.

 

Who said she told Adam she knew? The intro is from his POV.

 

If you wanna watch a grown man cry over He-Man...

 

@The2ndQuest Unpopular opinion: I think the cosmic key was an absolute stroke of genius that allowed for Skeletor to get the upper hand without it going against the lore of the universe. Just the studio would not let the filmmakers make it properly due to budget restrains.

Far as the rumors go,

Spoiler: He-Man Rumorville

I think if it's where He-Man loses his power early on therefore Teela has to become the protector of Eternia for the time being while Prince Adam has to learn how to succeed on his own before they finally are able bring He-Man back/put together a force that overtake Skeletor and his forces could be amazing. If it's where they just swamp out Prince Adam for Teela and make her the new He-Man (She-Man) that would most likely be really lame and quite frankly be character development for both Adam and Teela. I don't have a lot of faith in Smith but I try to have enough faith it will be more like the former and not the later. But I still am trying to prepare myself for the later.

BTW any news about the He-Man movie? Last I heard Centineo was dropped from the project and they were looking again for another He-Man:

https://screencrush.com/noah-centineo-not-playing-he-man/

 

It's Golan-Globus. I feel like this explains everything. (I'd forgotten until I saw it on cable again the other day)

 

interesting looking new show , particularly

Spoiler

with the toys that are already hitting shelves spoiling it

perhaps rare opinion: i prefer 1982 barbarian He-Man

 

If you have Netflix and haven't seen it yet, I'd highly recommend watching Power of Grayskull.

 

I always thought it it was weird that the only thing Prince Adam’s sword did was rip off his clothes and make his voice deeper.

On that note is He-Man a stripper?

 

By the power of Grayskull! I HAVE THE DOLLAR!!!

 

I never liked He-Man having a alter ego, let alone a fancy lad alter ego.

 

Seriously, what was the point of that?

Also what did the sword actually do? Prince Adam was just as ripped as He-Man so it's not like he was a wimp that needed the sword to give him super strength. Did the sword just gave him confidence?

Another thing, nobody piecing together that He-Man and Prince Adam were one in the was so stupid that even my eight year brain couldn't get on board with it.

 

I assumed he was meant to be influenced by Superman, who also has a terrible disguise when he's trying to be normal.

 

@The2ndQuest I think they were trying to piggyback off the success of Star Trek IV which had come out a year earlier with much of it taking place in modern day Earth. I believe there was supposed to been more to the Earth connection then was in the film including He-Man's mom being from Earth but I agree they just could been in a another part of Eternia and had the same effect. I always loved btw In the first alternation in CG, it was He-Man, Teela, Man of Arms against everyone else so they fleed. When they return it was He-Man, Teela, Man of Arms, Kevin and Detective Lubric against everyone else including a much more powerful Skeletor yet it's "He-Man! Victory!!". At least the Rebels had the Ewoks showed up to help them in the Battle of Endor. All He-Man gained was a kid and one cop yet we are suspended ourselves they took Skeletor and his entire forces lol.

 

Oh no doubt. They took the ridiculousness of Superman’s disguise and took it to the extreme.

But why did Prince Adam need two identities? Why not just stay super powered all the time?

 

there's a guy who worked for Hasbro and his youtube channel is Spector Creative. He has some informative videos on the history of the toyline