![]() And thus a lot of the original viewers of the show are now middle-aged cranks who collect toy dolls and get angry on Twitter when children's cartoons are remade in ways they don't like. I think it was largely just a way to sell plastic junk to those famously credulous idiots, children. But I don't think they thought that much about it, to be honest. It's possible the original Masters of the Universe was a post-feminist reassertion of masculine power, an attempt to turn the boys of the Eighties into hunky men of action. Frankly, they couldn’t have been clearer about the gender anxieties of the 1980s if they had given him completely anatomically accurate genitals, and, looking at some of the original action figures, I imagine they tried.Ĭritiquing a children's cartoon by revealing you're having problems masturbating to it is mostĭefinitely a win for traditional masculinity He-Man is arguably the walking thesis statement of the whole series, a character so male they’ve put two masculine identifiers in his first name, and who gets his power by hoisting a large magic sword in the sky until a shower of lightning flies out of it. Luckily on Eternia lots of people are born with freakishly distinctive heads, keeping confusion to a minimum. If I lived on Eternia, I would be named BeardFace and most people on planet Earth would be called, by default, Toothless-Screaming-Babyhead. In Eternia if you have the face of a skunk you will be called Stinkor and if you have the face of a skeleton you will be called Skeletor and if you have the head of a bee you will be called Buzz-Off. Giving him that name follows a naming convention beloved by the people of that very literal land. The most important person in the world of Eternia is He-Man. Skeletor (voiced by Mark Hamill) and He-Man (voiced by Chris Wood) in Masters of the Universe: Revelation There are places on the Clontarf seafront with a very similar culture. ![]() In Eternia, it doesn't really matter if you have the head of a robot or an elephant or a snake or a skunk or a skeleton because you are united in having a really hunky body and wearing just pants. The Masters of the Universe was a children's cartoon about a delightful fantasy realm called Eternia in which everyone works out. It was a question also asked by Ernest Hemingway and Friedrich Nietzsche. It is one that was asked by the creators of the Masters of the Universe series back in the 1980s, after what I presume was a pretty major gas leak at the Mattel toy company. Great fiction asks the big questions: What is free will? How can we step out from the shadows of our upbringing? Can we ever truly know another person? How can man find meaning in tragedy? Can we know God? What if everyone was really buff, like totally ripped with abs and pecs and stuff? In a way this is the most penetrating question of all.
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