History Franchise / MastersOfTheUniverse

** In a comic story, he covers three guard shifts on a tower by changing face when tired. How the robot face got tired is a mystery, and when he switches to the beast face, Beast Man dominates him over a long distance.
** His toy bio said that the human and beast faces would often fight with each other and this would occasionally cause the neutral robotic face to takeover. This was pretty much ignored everywhere else in the franchise.

** In the episode "The Remedy", the Tacktryl is basically a pink [[WesternAnimation/{{Blackstar}} Warlock]] Come to think of it, that's actually more of a PaletteSwap...

* PaletteSwap: The origins of the toyline came from looking to create a largely uniform figure design and easily change out and recolor parts to represent different characters. They chose the heavily muscular design because it looked very distinctive compared to other toys of the era, and experimented with sci-fi, westerns and military genres before landing on HeroicFantasy. Excepting female characters, which shared their own interchanging parts, every toy in the first few years shared some parts with the basic He-Man figure. While Mattel ''was'' interested in developing a toyline for Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 and backed out due to it's R rating, it was this development process (plus enough differences in designs and story) that helped divorce itself from Conan.

** Skeletor's BifurcatedWeapon. The original He-Man and Skeletor toys each had a sword designed to join together to form a single powerful one.

* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: Skeletor at times

The franchise still has loyal followers, who have created the comprehensive fan site [[http://he-man.org/ He-Man.org]].

** ''ComicBook/FromEterniaWithDeath'': ''DC Comics Presents #47 (April, 1982). ''Superman'' crossover which introduced the franchise. As investigating a weird, sudden weather phenomenon, Superman gets dragged and thrown into a strange parallel dimension.

* DropTheHammer: Tytus, a giant twice He-Man's size, wields a similarly gigantic hammer. Hammers were also the preferred weapons of three giants who appeared in the 2002 show.

* ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevolution'': An SequelSeries to ''Masters of the Universe: Revelation''. Announced by Netflix in 2022 and released January 25th 2024.

* ''WesternAnimation/MastersOfTheUniverseRevolution'': An upcoming SequelSeries to ''Masters of the Universe: Revelation''. Announced by Netflix in 2022.

* ''Masters of the Universe: Revolution'': An upcoming SequelSeries to ''Masters of the Universe: Revelation''. Announced by Netflix in 2022.

** ''ComicBook/FromEterniaWithDeath'': ''DC Comics Presents #47 (April, 1982). ''Superman'' crossover which introduced the franchise. As investigating a weird, sudden weather phenomenon, Superman gets dragged and thrown into a strange parallel dimension.[[/index]]
** ''ComicBook/FateIsTheKiller'': Backup story published in several DC titles (November, 1982). A follow up to the first story, He-Man is attacked by Zodac as Skeletor looks for the Power Sword's missing half. Meanwhile, Superman is again summoned to Eternia to help in a crisis.

** ''Fate is the Killer''