49 Fun Facts About She-Ra

Adora's original 1985 cartoon, 'She-Ra: Princess of Power', came from which studio?

Filmation built She-Ra from scratch together with a toy maker, the reverse of its earlier hit, where the studio had been handed a toy line that already existed.

In both the 1985 cartoon and the 2018 reboot, which Horde rank does Adora hold before she defects?

Force Captain is the badge Shadow Weaver hands Adora in the reboot's first episode, hours before she finds a sword in the woods and walks away; Catra goes on to claim the rank herself.

Which toy company bankrolled Adora's 1985 cartoon and made the Princess of Power dolls?

Mattel split the cast across two toy aisles: the heroines became Princess of Power dolls, while Hordak and his henchmen were sold as Masters of the Universe action figures.

Who hid somewhere in almost every episode of Adora's 1985 cartoon for viewers to spot?

Loo-Kee popped out at the end of almost every episode to show viewers where he had been hiding, then delivered the moral of the story.

In the 1985 cartoon, Adora is the twin sister of which prince?

Adam grew up with no idea he had a sister: after Hordak stole the baby Adora, the Sorceress wiped all memory of her from everyone but their parents and Man-At-Arms.

What is the name of the weapon that lets Adora transform?

The Sword of Protection carries a jewel in its hilt that holds the magic: when the stone is damaged in one episode, Adora can no longer transform at all.

What is Adora's transformation catchphrase?

"For the honor of Grayskull!" survived into the 2018 reboot word for word, even though the brother whose battle cry it echoes never appears in that series.

Adora's adventures as She-Ra are set on which planet?

Etheria is already under Hordak's rule when the story opens, so where her brother defends a free kingdom, She-Ra has to lead a rebellion against an occupier.

Which princess, a tech genius who uses her long hair like extra hands, ends up working in Hordak's lab?

Entrapta is left behind by accident on a rescue mission, so she stays with the enemy for the machines and ends up the scientist behind Hordak's portal.

Hordak is revealed in the 1985 cartoon to have been the teacher of which He-Man villain?

Skeletor showed his old teacher no loyalty: when Hordak turned up at his base in the 1985 film, the pupil used him in a kidnapping plot and then drove him off to keep the prize.

Adora's horse Spirit transforms into which winged steed?

Swift Wind gains wings, a horn and a voice; in the reboot he starts out as an ordinary horse that She-Ra's magic transforms by accident, and he promptly takes up the cause of freeing other horses.

Which 1985 film was stitched together from what became the first five episodes of Adora's cartoon?

The Secret of the Sword reached cinemas in March 1985, about six months before the cartoon itself began airing, so audiences first met Adora on the big screen.

Who co-wrote the uncredited series bible for Adora's 1985 cartoon with Larry DiTillio?

J. Michael Straczynski, later the creator of Babylon 5, said in 2018 that the studio 'never wanted any credits' on its series bibles, which is why his name is missing from a show he helped invent.

What is the name of the Horde's stronghold?

The Fright Zone once got a makeover: in the 1985 cartoon the captive Perfuma covered it in flowers until Hordak begged She-Ra to take her back.

In the 1985 cartoon, the spirit Light Hope guards which secret place?

The Crystal Castle is where She-Ra goes for advice in a crisis: Light Hope, its guardian, usually appears there as a pillar of light rather than a person.

Who developed Adora and Catra's 2018 reboot?

ND Stevenson did more than run the show: he also gave himself a small part in the cast, voicing the wind-wielding rebel princess Spinnerella.

Adora and Catra's reboot showrunner first became known for which Eisner-winning comic?

Nimona began as a webcomic its author posted while still at art college, was signed for print almost at once, and later became an animated film nominated for an Academy Award.

Adora and Catra's reboot premiered on which streaming service in November 2018?

Netflix put out three of the five seasons within 2019 alone, in April, August and November, so fans never waited long for the next chapter.

Which studio produced Adora and Catra's 2018 reboot?

DreamWorks Animation kept the rights, which is why the series vanished from its original streaming home in February 2026, when the studio's licence with that service ran out.

Which suitor of Mermista keeps setting his own ships on fire?

Sea Hawk burns his ships on purpose, steering them ablaze into the enemy, and keeps flirting with Mermista no matter how much it annoys her.

Which power is Glimmer's signature in Adora's 2018 reboot?

Teleportation runs down like a battery: Glimmer can only store so much magic, and once it is spent she has to go home to her kingdom's runestone to recharge.

Who voices Adora in the 2018 reboot of She-Ra?

Aimee Carrero was already the voice of Disney's Princess Elena of Avalor when she was cast, so until 2020 she was playing two animated princesses at once.

Who voices Catra in Adora's 2018 reboot?

AJ Michalka, half of the pop duo Aly & AJ, also sang for the show: her cover of its theme song appears on the soundtrack album released just before the final season.

Who voices Glimmer in Adora's reboot?

Karen Fukuhara made her film debut as Katana in Suicide Squad, then voiced the sparkly princess Glimmer while starring in The Boys, a far more violent superhero series.

Which black-ish actor voices Bow in Adora's 2018 reboot?

Marcus Scribner's Bow is a rebuild: the 1985 original had a crush on She-Ra herself, while the reboot's young archer ends the series in love with his best friend Glimmer.

Which actress voices the sorceress Shadow Weaver in Adora and Catra's reboot?

Lorraine Toussaint voices the woman who raised both heroines: Shadow Weaver favours Adora and belittles Catra from childhood, the wound that drives their whole rivalry.

Which Horde soldier leaves Catra in season four and asks the princesses for help?

Scorpia, long the loyal sidekick, decides Catra is a bad friend and leaves the Horde for good; with the Rebellion she connects to the runestone her family surrendered and gains electrical powers.

Who stays behind in a collapsing reality so that Hordak's portal can be closed?

Angella sacrifices herself to undo what Catra set off, a portal that threatened to tear the planet apart; her daughter is crowned in her place the following season.

Which galactic tyrant with an army of clones is the last villain Adora and Catra face?

Horde Prime rules his empire through a hive mind of identical clones, and Hordak, the villain of the first four seasons, turns out to be one he discarded as flawed.

What does Adora destroy in season four to stop an ancient superweapon?

Her sword turns out to be the key that fires the superweapon, so Adora shatters it and gives up being She-Ra, until the power comes back from within her in the final season.

What is the name of the magical cat-like creature that becomes Catra's companion in season five?

Melog, a shapeshifter whose colours follow Catra's moods, was known to the crew as her 'therapy animal'; its voice is a real cat belonging to the show's sound-effects artist.

Catra's 1985 pet, the pink lion Clawdeen, was dropped from the reboot for looking too much like a lion in which cartoon?

Steven Universe already had a magical pink lion, so the crew shelved Clawdeen and built Catra's new companion out of a one-off shapeshifting monster from the 1985 cartoon instead.

In Adora and Catra's reboot, which two princesses are a married couple?

Spinnerella and Netossa are split up in the final season, when Spinnerella is put under enemy mind control and Netossa has to win back her own wife.

In Adora and Catra's reboot, who raised the archer Bow?

Two fathers, Lance and George, are historians who keep a vast library and want no part of the war, which is why Bow hides his life as a rebel fighter from them for so long.

Which pronouns does the shapeshifter Double Trouble use in Adora's reboot?

They/them are also the pronouns of Jacob Tobia, the non-binary performer behind the mercenary, who infiltrates the Rebellion in disguise before being exposed as a saboteur.

Adora and Catra's reboot tied with the Australian drama First Day for which 2021 award?

GLAAD Media Awards honour LGBTQ representation, and the 2021 kids-and-family prize was split between the show and First Day, an Australian series about a transgender girl starting high school.

In the 1985 cartoon, sliding a magic mask over her eyes turns Catra into which animal?

A panther is what the mask makes of her, but the mask was stolen goods: Hordak took it from the captive queen of a cat people and handed it to Catra.

The Verge likened Catra's arc to that of which Avatar: The Last Airbender character?

Zuko was the bar the review set: it called Catra's plot 'the best animated antihero story since Zuko's', the point where she stops merely chasing the heroes and gets an arc of her own.

The showrunner of Adora and Catra's reboot called it basically a campaign of which game?

Dungeons & Dragons shaped the cast: the showrunner said Adora, Glimmer and Bow each fit a character class, and he took up the game around the time he began developing the show.

In the 1985 cartoon, the Great Rebellion hides from Hordak in which enchanted forest?

The Whispering Woods are the one place the rebels can drop their guard: Bow, for one, has to put on a disguise whenever he steps outside them.

How do Adora and Catra resolve their relationship in the reboot's finale?

A mutual love confession and a kiss end it: Catra's words pull Adora out of a fading vision and give her the strength to shut down the planet's superweapon.

In the reboot, what is Adora's mentor Light Hope?

An artificial intelligence built by the vanished First Ones, Light Hope appears as a hologram and trains Adora for a purpose she keeps hidden: firing a weapon that runs on the planet itself.

Light Hope, the mentor in Adora's reboot, secretly loved which earlier She-Ra?

Mara was the She-Ra before Adora, and she gave her life to strand the whole planet in an empty dimension, out of reach, so that its superweapon could never be fired.

In 2021 Variety reported a live-action She-Ra series in development at which company?

Amazon had the project at such an early stage that no writer was attached, and the report said it would be a new, standalone story with no link to the animated reboot.

In its first year on air, how often did Adora's 1985 cartoon run?

Five days a week was the pace He-Man had set, and it took 65 episodes to fill a single autumn; the second season moved to Saturday mornings and made only 28.

In the 1985 cartoon, Hordak kidnapped the infant Adora from which planet?

Eternia is where she was born a princess; Hordak carried the baby off to another world and raised her in his army, so she grew up fighting for the man who stole her.

In the 1985 cartoon, who are Adora's birth parents?

King Randor and Queen Marlena are not both natives of their planet: Marlena is an astronaut from Earth who crash-landed there and stayed, which makes Adora half Earthling.

Which princess in Adora and Catra's reboot is already a ruler at just eleven years old?

Frosta snaps 'I'm eleven and three quarters' when a guest doubts she can be in charge, and she spends the first season acting sterner than any adult so as to be taken seriously.

Which rebel stronghold do Adora and the princesses defend from Catra's army at the end of season one?

Bright Moon holds because the princesses finally fight side by side, yet it is Catra, the loser of the battle, who walks away promoted to Hordak's second-in-command.