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The Princess Who Killed He-Man?: The Story of She-Ra: Princess of Power

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She-Ra: Princess of Power is an American animated series produced in 1985 by Filmation. A spin-off of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series, She-Ra: Princess of Power was aimed primarily at a young female audience to complement He-Man's popularity with young males.

At the time He-Man was still reaching a mostly male audience and Filmation and Mattel decided to target a whole new audience by creating She-Ra: Princess of Power.

Did it work? Depends on who you ask.

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20 Comments

@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145 1 year ago

On TV
70s kids had Wonder Woman
80S kids had She-Ra
90s kids had Xena

@Godravage 4 years ago

To be fair, She-Ra never uttered the words "I have the power!". She said "I am She-ra!"

@RedDragonGeoffClark 4 years ago

The greatest 4th wall break was courtesy of Hordak explaining to Skeletor what was basically She-Ra's plot. Skeletor's response: "WHAT?!"

@Ellthom 4 years ago (edited)

When I was a kid She-Ra and He-Man used to share a back to back half hour together and me and my sister would end up watching both :)

@Otto81 4 years ago

The Horde villains were badass. That was my whole Christmas list that year

@brianhykes2862 4 years ago

I was a huge He-Man fan as a little little kid and She-Ra always seemed the more exciting from a story perspective mostly because Hordak was already the ruler of Etheria while Skeletor had tried and failed a bunch of times to take over Eternia.

@sleepinglionarchives 4 years ago

As an 80s kid I was baffled why She-Ra's enemies were made in a size that could interact with my He-Man figures but she was not. It was just a bizarre move all around

@moo80 4 years ago (edited)

As a young boy in the 80's, I was already a huge fan of Transformers and He-Man, but remember enthusiastically hunting down the She-Ra movie at the video store (we didn't get She-Ra on tv where I grew up), and not once did I consider it a product just for girls. It contained sorcery, fantastical characters, and cool action scenes, and that was all that mattered to the ten year old me.

@LMoftheCoast 4 years ago

I’m sorry, but She-Ra wasn’t shunned by the 2002 reboot at all. The show makers had begun to commission designs and set up She-Ra within the show ready for her introduction in the proposed season 3 when the 2002 reboot was cancelled.

It was a massive shame as the designs for Adora and She-Ra were amazing.

@Dreadjaws 4 years ago

When I was a kid, I watched She-Ra and He-Man back to back and the thought that one might have been meant for boys and the other one for girls never crossed my mind. Loved them both.

@Summertimeblues28 4 years ago

My sister got the She-Ra figures and I got the Evil Horde Guys so that was really cool that we could play a toy line together as bro & sis cuz that was rare in the 1980’s. Another great video Dan & Greg.

@Imajica69 3 years ago

Can't be overstated the part that Thundercats had on the dwindling popularity of He-Man. Me and all my friends started watching Thundercats and He-Man was over.

@davidfrederick1971 4 years ago

At a Fan convention Melendy Britt tells a story of a being contacted by a mother who's young daughter was apparently molested. The daughter said she would only tell her hero She-RA who hurt her, They had Melendy Britt talk to the little girl on a telephone in the voice of She-RA, and the little girl did tell her who did it. The person was arrested. (Mass applause by the audience). The story is on youtube.

@mrf19741 4 years ago

I always enjoyed the He-Man cartoons as a kid. When She-Ra debuted I watched it just as faithfully. However, when it came to buying toys, I was always a GI Joe, Transformers, and Lego kid.

@eastcoastshine2009 4 years ago

The 2 shows were intended to feed off each other rather than compete with each other. Some of the HeMan characters appeared on SHe Ra. Obvious sign that both worlds were under the same umbrella

@hobokoala2623 4 years ago

For my friend group, She-Ra didn’t kill He-Man, Transformers did. Once we saw robots that could become jets, cars, and guns, a half naked barbarian seemed quaint.

That being said, we didn’t quit the IP cold turkey, as we’d always catch the show. We just didn’t buy anymore toys.

@tonyjackson4078 4 years ago

It was pretty brilliant to shift The Evil Horde to She-Ra's main villains in the toon instead of Cattra. Cattra is fine but she doesn't give off main villain vibes. Hordak is just cool.

@MissMayTurner 4 years ago

I loved She-Ra as a girl. For some reason, I had a couple secondary characters plus the "bad guy" Catra before I had a She-Ra figure. So my battles, the good guys would be like, "you just wait until She-Ra gets here!" Xmas was coming so I knew I wouldn't have long to wait. And sure enough, I got not only her but the Crystal Castle. Epic Christmas.