April 28 was apparently Masters of the Universe Day as declared by Tom Bradley, the then mayor of Los Angeles in 1987 on occasion of a stage show called the He-Man and She-Ra Power Tour playing in the city. For more about that, see He-Man.org, who even have a full cast list as well as a link to a recording of the show.
Also on Masters of the Universe day, sad news have reached us that Roger Sweet, the Mattel employee who co-created He-Man together with Mark Taylor and designed many of the characters and action features from the vintage toyline, has died aged 91. Mark Taylor died on Christmas Eve 2021, so none of the two men who were so instrumental in creating the character and toyline that brought joy to so many kids will be around to see the new live action movie.
What is more, Michael Halperin who wrote the series bible for the Filmation cartoon, died this February. We lost Alfredo Alcala, artist of many of the early mini-comics, in 2000, Tony Guerrero, the artist who sculpted the prototypes of the early figures, in 2012 and H.G. Francis, who wrote the German audio dramas, in 2011. Of the people who shaped Masters of the Universe in the early days, only Donald F. Glut, who wrote the first few mini-comics and named Castle Grayskull and Teela among others, and Paul Kupperberg, who worked on the second run of mini-comics and the Superman crossover and came up with Prince Adam as He-Man’s civilian identity, are still with us.
Though thankfully, Roger Sweet gets more acknowledgement in the mainstream press than Mark Taylor did upon his death in 2021, which went almost completely unnoticed beyond the fandom bubble. Here is a detailed obituary for Roger Sweet from the New York Times as well as one from Forbes and one from Variety. I strongly suspect that the increased presence of Masters of the Universe due to the upcoming movie has a lot to do with this as well as the understandable outrage that Roger Sweet’s wife Marlene had to take to crowdfunding to pay for her husband’s care, even though he co-created a billion dollar franchise.
Meanwhile, Mattel and Amazon MGM are using Masters of the Universe Day to further ramp up the promotion of the upcoming Masters of the Universe movie even further and released a new poster as well as two featurettes focussing on the heroes and villains of Eternia.
The poster can be seen here and the two featurettes are embedded below:
There’s quite a bit of new footage here, including our first good look at several characters, so let’s take a closer look at what we’re seeing here, starting with the “Heroes” featurette
The “Heroes” starts off with Nicholas Galitzine, who plays Adam/He-Man sitting in the set of the collectibles shop where Adam finds the Power Sword with the Vikor statue in the background.
“Eternia is this beautiful alien planet,” Galitzine says over footage of Eternia and Castle Grayskull that we have already seen in previous trailer, “that comes under threat from Skeletor. And he is just bad.”
Cue Skeletor saying “The universe shall quake in my shadow.” However, so far it’s not the universe that’s quaking, but a bunch of random Eternian civilians, who have been captured and are on their knees, guarded by several of Skeletor’s goons – the toy version is called Skel-Knight – as well as the Evil Warriors Goat-Man and Karg, who are certainly some of the more obscure Evil Warriors. Goat-Man appeared in the single Golden Book back in the 1980s as a minion of Beast-Man. He did receive an action figure in the Classics line and made his screen debut in Masters of the Universe Revelation, where he was voiced by Kevin Smith and was quickly dispatched by Teela, Andra and Man-at-Arms after Duncan taunted him that this is really “the bottom of the barrel of Evil Warriors”. We’ve known that Goat-Man would be in the movie for a while now and have seen a glimpse of him in previous trailers, but this is our best look at him yet.
Karg is one of the characters created for the 1987 live action movie, where he was played by Robert Towers, replacing the more familiar Evil Warriors from the Filmation cartoon and toyline. Unlike his fellow 1987 villains Blade and Saurod, Karg never had a figure in the vintage toyline and was not released as an action figure until the tail end of the Classics line. Karg hasn’t been mentioned in any promotional material for the movie so far and we don’t know who will be playing him. The fact that Karg would appear in the movie was spoiled by a not-LEGO set of all things, where Karg was included as a mini-figure. This brief shot is our first look at him, though we will get a better look in the “Villains” featurette.
As for the Eternian civilians Skeletor and his goons are terrorising, they’re mostly human women and children, but there are a few non-human Eternians as well. We see three terrified Lizard people, apparently a family, huddling together and there is also a bearded blue-skinned person who might be a Gar. It’s nice to see that the film acknowledges that Eternia is a diverse world with many intelligent non-human races, even if the protagonists on both sides are mostly human or at least humanoid.
Nicholas Galitzine continues to explain that Adam’s parents sent him away to another planet and he landed on Earth, where he was stuck for about fifteen years. There is the shot of little Adam and Marlena running towards Castle Grayskull that we’ve seen in previous trailers as well as a shot of little Adam holding the Power Sword, which is about the same size as he is. We also how Adam was separated from his sword, because we literally see it ripped from his hand – remember that he is about ten here – in the vortex that will send him to Earth. Coincidentally, this is very similar to how our heroes became separated from the Cosmic Key in the 1987 Masters of the Universe movie.
There is a cut and we see some shots of Adam walking through his office on Earth and sitting behind his desk (and yes, the pronouns are still on his name plate), though he’d obviously rather be somewhere, anywhere else. In the voiceover, Adam says, “I lost my sword, but I’m going to find it”, while there is a cut to Adam in the comic shop. Behind him, you can see a statue of Lion-O from Thundercats as well as some X-Men merchandise and what looks like a Conan statue. So Thundercats and X-Men still exist in this universe, though instead of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, they got “Torak – Hero of Prehistory”. So I guess Mark Taylor still existed in that universe, but Roger Sweet, who came up with the He-Man name, did not or at least he didn’t work at Mattel.
The featurette cuts back to Nicholas Galitzine saying, “…until his friend finds a way to bring him home.” And just in case, there’s any doubt who that friend is, there is a scene of Adam, looking absolutely stunned and exclaiming, “Teela?”, which quickly cuts to a shot of Teela on the controls of the Talon Fighter saying, “Not now, Adam.” before pulling the Talon Fighter up in a risky flying manoeuvre. The featurette is cut as if this is a direct conversation, but if you look closely, you can see that these are two different scenes cut together. Adam is leaning against the tire of a truck, suggesting that this scene happens on Earth, very likely after Teela saves Adam from Beast-Man as we saw in the TV spot released a few days ago. Meanwhile, Teela is on the controls of the Talon Fighter flying across Eternia, when she says, “Not now, Adam”, so this scene is obviously later in the movie.
There is a cut to Camila Mendes, the actress who plays Teela, sitting in the Castle Grayskull set. She explains that Adam and Teela were childhood best friends. Cut to the scene of Teela and Adam flying in the Talon Fighter over the ruins of Eternos, while Teela says that everything changed after Adam left. “Teela is a woman of action, leading the charge,” Camila Mendes says while there is a cut to Teela drawing her sword during a confrontation with Evil-Lyn.
The “woman of action” comment is interesting, because Teela has always been a warrior and a woman of action. In most versions of the story, she is also the captain of the Royal Guard and Prince Adam’s personal bodyguard. She won’t fill either role in the movie, because Adam is on Earth and there is no Royal Guard, since Skeletor conquered Eternia. I suspect Teela will be a leader of the Eternian resistance and of course she will still be Adam’s friend and protector.
Underneath all the science fantasy trappings – many of which are borrowed wholesale from 1930s to 1970s SFF – the characters and their relationships are what lies at the heart of Masters of the Universe and sets it apart from other fantasy franchises. And the relationship between Adam and Teela, childhood best friends who bicker and banter and eventually get together in most versions of the story, is one of the most important that the movie needs to get right.
It’s also one of the most misunderstood relationships, because I’ve heard a lot of (mostly male) fan saying that they didn’t like Teela as kids, because she was a “bitch” and treated Adam like a “governess”. This is wrong because Teela is probably the only person in the universe aside from Cringer (if he counts as a person) who has absolute unwavering faith in Adam. Teela believes in Adam and knows exactly what he’s capable of, which is why she’s frequently frustrated whenever Adam refuses to live up to the potential she knows is there once again. Meanwhile, He-Man is exactly the person Teela knows Adam could be, which makes her even more frustrated, since she doesn’t know they’re the same person in most versions of the story. Though thankfully, it seems as if the movie is doing away with the whole secret identity thing. That said, I do hope for some nice flirty banter between Adam and Teela and hopefully, we’ll get a kiss, too.
The Adam/Teela relationship also rings true, because it’s mirrors a phenomenon that anybody who’s ever worked with children has observed. Occasionally, a girl will take a boy under her wing. Sometimes, the boy is younger, sometimes he is the same age, but phyisically smaller and weaker. Usually, the boy is a target of bullying by peers and even teachers, because he’s neurodivergent, has a difficult homelife or questionable hygiene habits or is just plain weird. This girl will become the boy’s friend and protector and she will be absolutely fierce about protecting and defending him, while also being his harshest critic, because she is the one who sees the potential that few others do. These friendships rarely turn romantic, mostly it’s more of a big sister, little brother relationship, though they can last a lifetime.
From grade 1 until grade 10, I was in the same class as a boy who happened to be born on the exact same day as me. I interpreted the fact that we shared a birthday as a sign from the universe that I was responsible for this boy and had to look out for him. And he needed a lot of looking out for, because he was neglected, messy, weird, possibly neurodivergent and yes, he had questionable hygiene habits. Other kids bullied him and teachers didn’t like him, because he was difficult and disruptive, but I adopted him, defended him, let him copy my homework, invited him to my birthday, listened to his metal music, as we grew older. I have no idea why I did this – beyond believing that the universe wanted me to take care of him, which is nonsense of course – and I never had any romantic interest in him. He turned out all right, by the way, and became a teacher, which is hilarious to me, since he used to be a teacher’s nightmare.
After the Teela segment, there is a cut to Man-at-Arms saying “Somebody wants a brawl” and then the scene of Duncan launching himself at the Collector with his mace. Both are scenes we’ve seen before in previous trailers. Then there is a new shot of a very determined Duncan strutting down a hallway and apparently escorting King Randor and Queen Marlena to safety. There is a cut to Idris Elba sitting in the Castle Grayskull set, saying, “Man-at-Arms is Teela’s father. He’s like an old school tough guy. He trained all the soldiers, including Adam, when he was a kid”, while there is another cut to the scene of adult Adam facing off against Trap-Jaw, while he experiences a memory flashback to Duncan training him as a kid and saying, “When you fall, that’s your chance to stand tall.” Once again, we have seen a version of this scene before in the trailer, but it’s cut a little differently here, since we see Duncan reaching out to pull little Adam back to his feet.
I’ve said above that the relationships between the characters are what makes Masters of the Universe what it is and the relationship between Adam and Duncan is another crucial relationship.
Now Randor – though he loves his son – isn’t the best of fathers in most versions of the story. Randor represents the distant fathers who cannot express their emotions that many kids in the 1980s, i.e. the original target audience, grew up with. Orko says as much in the moral segment of the Filmation episode “Prince Adam No More”. Randor is the father who can’t see or accept Adam for who he is. In most versions of the story, he eventually learns better, but it’s a painful process.
Duncan, on the other hand, is the supportive parent figure who accepts Adam the way he is. And when little Adam – who is really small at this point, much smaller than the other kids we see in the background – falls down, Duncan is the one who doesn’t criticise him for his failure, but pulls him to his feet again and offers encouragement to try again. In many ways, Duncan is the antithesis to Randor, because he isn’t afraid to show his kids/surrogate kids that he loves them and is unfailingly understanding and encouraging. Duncan is the father figure that a lot of kids – both in the 1980s and today – needed and so I’m glad to see that aspect of the character preserved in the film.
Part of the reason why I like Duncan so much is that he reminds me of my own Dad. Now emotionally, my Dad was more like Randor due to the way he was brought up with that whole “boys don’t cry, boy don’t show emotions” crap that affected so many boys born in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, i.e. the father of the kids who grew up with He-Man. However, just like Duncan my Dad was also an engineer and he was always tinkering with something. And like Adam, Teela and Orko, I would hang out with him while he was working and sometimes help, whereby helping was things like stripping the insulation of cables or printing labels with a labelmaker, while crouching in a narrow crawlspace. Dad was the one who explained to me what the different colours of wires meant, how to cut a thread with a threadcutter, how to check whether a wire or outlet is live or not. Coincidentally, I was still helping him with a lot of stuff until very shortly before he died.
We then get a repeat of Adam saying “I have the Power” and transforming, a scene we’ve seen before in all trailers and the TV spot, but it never gets old. Then we get a repeat of the scene of He-Man, Teela, Duncan and Roboto traversing the wastelands of the dark hemisphere and approaching Snake Mountain, while Nicholas Galitzine explains in the voice-over that “Along this amazing journey, we meet these eccentric characters…”, which leads into a introduction to several of the Heroic Warriors.
“Mekaneck, heroic human periscope,” Adam’s voice says, while we see a scene of Mekaneck extending his neck and whipping it around to knock down several of Skeletor’s soldiers. “Fisto…” – cue a shot of Fisto punching the screen – an homage to the famous stock sequence of He-Man punching the scene in the Filmation cartoon – and knocking out a Skel-Knight. “Cringer…” – cue a shot of Cringer roaring. “…and Ram-Man…” – cue a close-up of Ram-Man and then a shot of him dive-bombing the enemy.
The scene shifts back to Adam in the dungeon, talking to the other prisoners, including Ram-Man. “You ram…” Adam says, “…and you’re a man.” “Oh yeah, I do,” Ram-Man replies. It’s now that we realise that the voiceover is Adam telling the Heroic Warriors and yes, he remembers them – and note that he said, “You don’t remember me, but I remembers every single one of you” in the second trailer – except that he doesn’t remember their actual names, because he was after all ten years old when he had to leave Eternia, so he came up with descriptive names for them. It’s both cute and also a great way to explain the silly and punny names of the Masters of the Universe characters to a more jaded audience.
Now the real world reason that the Masters of the Universe characters have such silly punny names is because it was a toyline for kids and kids don’t think it’s weird that characters are named Ram-Man or Fisto. The Filmation cartoon and the 200X cartoon mostly just ran with the punny names without any explanation, because again they were aimed at kids. But in a movie aimed at a wider audience not deeply steeped in Masters of the Universe lore, characters with names like Ram-Man or Fisto are harder to swallow.
That said, all of the Masters of the Universe characters with silly, punny names do have real names and those real names mostly originate from the Classics bios which always included the real name of every character. In fact, those real names may be the most lasting contribution of former brand manager Scott Neitlich, who wrote all of the Classics bios and came up with the real names of the characters, because subsequent writers working on Masters of the Universe quickly found those bios, whenever they looked up things like “What is Ram-Man’s real name?” Ram-Man’s real name is Krass, by the way. Mekaneck’s is Orius and Fisto’s is Malcolm, though that name goes back to the 200X cartoon.
In universe, it does make sense that Adam was the one who came up with the silly names, because he doesn’t know or remember the real names of Heroic Warriors and Ram-Man or Fisto is something a ten-year-old boy would come up with. It also makes sense for Ram-Man to be the one who enthusiastically embraces the silly name he was given, because Ram-Man, much as we all love him, has never been the sharpest knife in King Randor’s cutlery drawer.
We get a quick shot of another Heroic Warrior, namely Roboto, standing in front of Man-at-Arms and admiring a new weapon attachment. “Charming,” Roboto says in Kristen Wiig’s voice and while there is some electronic distortion, the voice is definitely female. Of course, Roboto’s gender is irrelevant, since the character is a robot, after all, but I will use female pronouns, when referring to the movie Roboto, unless confirmed otherwise. Roboto’s movie look mostly seems to draw on the bigger and bulkier 200X design. It’s also notable that she looks dinged and battered and has bullet holes in her chest, cause she, too, has been through wars.
Next, we get a shot of director Travis Knight sitting in the Grayskull set and saying “Once we were visualising this world, we wanted to do right by the fans…” Nicholas Galitzine adds, “These characters, they’re so iconic. To see them come to life on the big screen makes you a little giddy.”
These statements are interspersed with footage we’ve mostly seen before, such as He-Man grabbing a Roton with his bare hands and flinging it away, an aerial dogfight between Rotons, Fright Fighters and the Talon Fighter, Cringer pouncing on a Skel-Knight and He-Man fighting Skeletor. We also get Adam saying, “This is my home. I’m gonna fight for it. But I can’t do it alone.”
There is however one brief moment of new footage in this montage, namely a scene where a woman is twirling around, while shooting and knocking down a whole bunch of Skel-Knights. The woman doesn’t look like Teela. However, she does look like a character we’ve seen a few times in previous trailers and still photos, a character who has since been identified as Dian, a very obscure character from the vintage newspaper comic strips, where she was an officer in the Royal Guard serving under Teela. Since there no longer is a Royal Guard in the movie, Dian will probably be a member of the Eternian resistance instead. She is one hell of a fighter, though, and I do hope we see more of her.
That’s it for the “Heroes” featurette, so let’s take a look at the villains:
The “Villains” featurette starts out with a shot of the Collector landing and Skeletor walking down the ramp that we’ve seen before in previous trailers. “Skeletor, the Horde, they’ve become so iconic,” Nicholas Galitzine says in the voiceover, which is interesting, because as far as we know, the Evil Horde will not appear in this movie except maybe as a post-credits scene. Unless the movie wants to avoid the “Horde curse”, i.e. the fact that three different animated Masters of the Universe series have been cancelled/discontinued as soon as they teased the Evil Horde, and does the Snake Men first. Though the Horde is a lot more recognisable than the Snake Men and has some of the coolest character designs, plus introducing the Horde opens the gateway to introducing She-Ra, so if there’s a sequel or spin-off, it makes sense to go with the Horde first. And yes, fans absolutely picked up on the Horde comment and started to speculate.
Next we get a shot of Skeletor’s Bone Throne, which is set on top of a dais and flanked by snakes, with four of Skeletor’s henchman assembling in front of the throne as if to protect their master and daring everybody who wants to get to Skeletor to go through them first. These henchman are Tri-Klops, Spikor, Goat-Man and Karg. Tri-Klops has an action figure, so we knew what he will look like in the movie, but this is our first good look at him. Spikor and Goat-Man both appeared briefly in previous trailers and they do have action figures, but again this is our first good look at them. We haven’t seen Karg in any of the trailers at all so far, though a mini-figure of him appeared in a not-Lego set. They are all very recognisable, though Tri-Klops has a more military look than usual and he is wearing more clothes and carrying a sniper rifle rather than his traditional sword.
Spikor, on the other hand, is wearing only a loincloth and boots. His skin is still purple, though somewhat more muted, and his spikes appear to be organic, whereas originally the spikes were a magical armour fused to his body. Spikor is still missing his right hand, though instead of his traditional trident, he now has a morning star on a chain.
Goat-Man looks a lot like he does in his very limited appearances with red skin, horns and a black leather kilt, harness, bracers and boots. Movie Goat-Man also has white face paint or maybe he’s just a messy eater. Later on in the trailer, we also see that he has only three fingers. Instead of his traditional hammer, Goat-Man is now wielding a giant double-bladed axe.
Karg, finally, looks as if they dusted off his costume from the 1987 movie (and who knows, maybe they did, since many costumes from the 1987 movie are still around and I have seen them on display), though his hair is less pouffy these days. But then everybody had big hair in the 1980s, even Evil Warriors.
“The great villains from my childhood in the 1980s,” Travis Knight says in the voiceover, “They were funny, they were scary, they looked cool. Skeletor was all three of those things.”
This is accompanied by a montage of the various villains. We get a repeat of the scene of Evil-Lyn strutting across the bridge to Castle Grayskull, while Eternos burns behind her, another look at Skeletor flanked by his Skel-Knights, a new close-up shot of Goat-Man baring his fangs (and yes, he has fangs) at He-Man, another new shot of Beast-Man on Earth, jumping from car to car on an overpass, while chasing Adam, Spikor showing off his spikes and fangs, while facing off against He-Man, Tri-Klops lurking in the shadows, eye glowing and his sniper rifle at the ready, and finally Skeletor with the Havoc Staff.
Next, there is a repeat of the scene of Skeletor harassing captured Eternian civilians that we also saw in the “Heroes” featurette. This time, he says, “I shall kill you one by one,” while leaning towards Fisto. Fisto isn’t among the captured Eternians seen before, so this is possibly a different scene. That said, in shots of He-Man, Teela, Duncan and Roboto approaching Snake Mountain, there are heads on spikes visible, so Skeletor likely did make true of his threat and actually killed some of his opponents. Which is a far cry from the Filmation or even the 200X cartoon, where he never killed anybody.
There is a quick shot of Idris Elba saying “He’s just an all around bag guy”, and then we get some footage of Teela and Evil-Lyn fighting. We’ve seen a bit of this scene in the first trailer, but now we get a longer look with a focus on Evil-Lyn who really seems to be enjoying herself. There’s also a quick cut to Alison Brie, the actress who plays Evil-Lyn, sitting in front of what looks like storage crates and saying “Evil-Lyn is just pure evil.” Alison Brie really seems to be relishing the role and I’m looking forward to seeing what she does with it, especially since she’s not the first or even fifth actress who comes to mind to play an iconic villainess.
There’s a quick shot of Trap-Jaw walking down some stairs in a city, while Skel-Knights run around behind him. Then there is a closer look at Karg – and yes, his costume looks almost exactly like that from the 1987 movie – who is licking his hook in anticipation of something. This scene led to an exchange on Twitter whether the writers had found the bio of the Classics Karg action figure, which reveals that Karg isn’t just one of Skeletor’s Evil Warriors, but that he’s also his chief interrogator/torturer and that Karg has a disturbing obsession with Lieutenant Andra. Now Andra isn’t in the movie as far as we know, so she should be safe, but there are other women for Karg to harass such as Teela or Dian. And since Karg is shown licking his hook, there is a pretty good chance that the writers did find the respective Classics bio and chose to depict him as a demented torturer and molester of young women. Of course, the 1987 movie had more than its share of completely inappropriately erotic torture like that whipping scene. But Blade is the one doing the whipping, not Karg. And while Skeletor, Evil-Lyn and Blade are all pretty much orgasming on screen, while watching He-Man being whipped, there is no real focus on Karg in that scene at all. So it’s interesting that the Classics bios turned him into the sadistic torturer and harasser of young women rather than Blade who actually does the torturing in the movie.
Talking of Teela, there is a quick cut to Camila Mendes saying “All these iconic villains bring the world to life.” Then, Camila Mendes calls out the villains, while footage of them appears on screen, starting with Goat-Man, which is funny, because the extremely obscure Goat-Man is about as far from an iconic Masters of the Universe villain as you can get. We also got some nice footage of Goat-Man attacking He-Man with his axe, while He-Man jumps over him – and Goat-Man is big. Spikor is next and we see him swinging his morningstar at He-Man, who dodges, leather skirt flying.
And believe me, the young women who are enthusiastic fans of Nicholas Galitzine absolutely noticed this and were very excited about a scantily clad Nicholas Galitzine fighting, while his leather skirt flies about. It’s so weird to me that you have male fans complaining about Nicholas Galitzine that he doesn’t look like they envision He-Man and that they would prefer some wrestler type, while young women, not normally the target audience for a Masters of the Universe movie, are now excited about the film and perfectly happy about Nicholas Galitzine’s casting. And that’s great, because Masters of the Universe fandom needs new blood and us OG fans would have watched the movie regardless of who plays He-Man. Though I for one am happy that it’s someone who looks the part and who can pull off both Adam and He-Man. Those young women also buy toys BTW, which will make Mattel very happy.
Trap-Jaw is next and we see him attacking, while turning his arm into a sword. Trap-Jaw is not an easy character to translate to live action, but he looks amazing in the film, both very recognisably like Trap-Jaw, but the movie design also fully leans into the body horror aspects of the character. Because let’s face it, Trap-Jaw is fucking terrifying.
There is another cut to the scene of Skeletor fighting He-Man, which we’ve seen a few times before, then Nicholas Galitzine says, “Sometimes bad people are the absolute most fun.” And as if to prove that, we get another new shot of Goat-Man stepping forward from the ranks of Skeletor’s goons, axe raised and a grin on his face.
Finally, we get Skeletor strutting around and announcing, “I am the villain” – just in case there was any doubt – and continuing with “And does it feel good” while He-Man looks on and rolls his eyes at Skeletor’s speechifying.
Now a lot of people, including me, were not happy when Jared Leto was cast as Skeletor due to his terrible reputation and were also worried about how he would handle the character. It’s also notable that Amazon MGM and Mattel are completely keeping Leto out of the marketing for the film. Normally, the actor playing the main villain would appear in a featurette like this one, but he doesn’t. However, based on what we’ve seen in the trailer and clips, Jared Leto actually seems to do a pretty good job as Skeletor, capturing both Skeletor’s tendency toward grandiosity (“The Universe shall quake in my shadow”) and his inherent ridiculousness (“I am the villain and does it feel good”) as well as the fact that even though Skeletor is ridiculous times, he’s also utterly unhinged and fucking dangerous. Note how Skeletor threatens a bunch of Eternian civilians and tells Fisto “I’ll kill you one by one.” It is a tricky balance to get right, but it seems as if Jared Leto is doing a decent job. Even if I would have preferred another actor in the role.
So that’s it for a lengthy dissection of the latest Masters of the Universe footage. I have also received the first movie figures and will review them, most likely at File 770, since that’s where most of my straightforward toy reviews appeared.
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