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It's moments like these that remind us of how awesome this franchise is.
Season One
- Teela breaks into the castle and steals the sword from storage.
- The Introduction of the Master Strikes! He-Man powers up, and manages to use his "Lightning Strike" ability to destroy an army of poacher robots enhanced by Evelyn's magic.
- The young Adam picking up the Sword of Power to defend Eldress from Keldor. That boy was born to be a hero.
- Duncan manages to make fully functioning and articulated claws for Cringer as part of a plan to save their friends trapped under a pile of rubble. It’s implied he did this with random scrap in a few very short minutes due to the situation’s urgency. Cringer notes that he’d love to see what Duncan could accomplish given proper time and resources.
- The climax of Episode 4
, where the Masters of the Universe other than He-Man transform for the first time when they get the idea to share to The Power of Grayskull to fight Keldor and his allies. The process is epic and the fights are great.- Battle Cat and Ram Ma'am, after a bit of a learning curve to figure out how to control the latter's abilities, take out a shadow copy Evelyn had made of the former.
- Duncan stands up to his old boss Kronis and names himself Castle Grayskull's Man-at-Arms before breaking the far more experienced fighter's jaw.
- Teela as Sorceress SCHOOLS Evelyn in magic, due to no longer needing to use either her hands or words to cast spells.
- Teela uses her Master Strike, "Wings of Zoar", to de-animate the army of Battle Bones in episode 5.
- Man-at-Arms not only freeing Ork-0 from the override Kronis subjected him to but also using his Master Strike, "Speed Build", to slow down time and control electromagnetism to magnetize the armors that the robot was controlling into the form of a tree to parallel the end of the tale the robot was reenacting. Doubles as Heartwarming since there was no reason for him to do it in that way other than to help Ork-0 feel better.
- R'Qazz has the Sword of Power and a trio of brainwashed tigers cornering Adam and Krass, trying to goad Cringer into killing his fellow tigers for his Blood Sport. Rather than play his game, Cringer digs deep and discovers for the first time that he and the others can transform without Adam invoking the power for them.R'Qazz: You have the power to stop this, Cringer.
Cringer: (As his claws start to glow with power) ...I do have power. The Power of Grayskull!
R'Qazz: R'Qazz has a bad feeling about this...
Battle Cat: I have the power! - In the same episode, Battle Cat shows he's a better man than R'Qazz by using his Master Strike, "Blade Wheels", to keep his fellow tigers from killing R'Qazz.
- In Episode 8: He-Man manages to use his Lightning Strike to dispel the Havoc storm that was destroying Eternos.
- Skeletor's team gets their own back in Episode 9, using the power of Havoc to transform into the Dark Masters. After separating the Masters of the Universe to have mostly the same matchups as in Episode 4, with the newly christened Evil-Lyn, Trap Jaw, and Beast Man holding the upper hand over their opponents even before Skeletor breaks the Sword of Power and robs the heroes of their powers.
- To repeat, Skeletor BREAKS THE FREAKING SWORD OF POWER!
- Episode 10 is chock full of them from start to finish.
- The Masters manage to resist the liquid Havoc pit long enough for Krass and Ork-0 showing up as Big Damn Heroes to save them from drowning.
- Skeletor’s Awesomeness doesn’t stop with breaking the Sword of Power. He knows from the start his Dark Masters will turn on him the first chance they get, so he made sure the only way they could use their new powers is if he says so, hence why he had Kronis steal the Kirbinite. This comes in handy when they try to kill him as soon as they take care of the Masters.
- And he doesn't stop there! When he gets to Eternos, most of the Red Legion's weapons don't put a dent into the new force field around the city. One shot from the Havoc Staff? Boom. Gone. Just like that.
- Duncan successfully manages to reforge the Sword of Power to restore the team’s powers with some leftover Kirbinite.
- The entire sequence of the Masters teleporting in and disabling a large chunk of the mind-controlled Red Battalion on their way down. Includes an epic slow-mo wide shot of all the Masters (plus a serious Ork-0).
- At the Battle of Eternos, the Masters of the Universe as a whole manages to be on even terms with the Dark Masters as a whole, especially since they know how they fight.
- Ork-0 gets his own moment by infiltrating the overridden security bots and rescuing King Randor with not a single slip-up or comedic bumble in sight.
- Duncan’s upgrades to the Sword of Power prove to be a critical point in the fight, because the team can now combine their powers to do some EPIC COMBINATION MOVES! The first one, "Rolling Thunder", and the second, “Gears of Zoar”, so powerful that they knock out all of the Dark Masters! (Sans Skeletor, whose resistance is awesome in its own right.)
- Ork-0 manages another when he shows how much he’s learned about applying his abilities as a bot instead of trying to cast actual spells by evacuating the Masters while they are totally surrounded to a nearby alley under the ONE SECOND of cover he gains by producing a bright flash of light.
- Eldress teleporting Castle Grayskull away from Skeletor's mind-controlled army.
- Even though Grayskull still stands, Skeletor got what he wanted. He's the king of Eternos, he's got a mind-controlled army at his disposal, the Dark Masters at his fingertips, and the King and Masters in hiding. And so far, it doesn't look like anyone can stop him. This has to be one of Skeletor’s biggest victories in his animated history.
Season Two
- The race between He-Man and King Stratos. Just the fact that He-Man is able to keep up in a flying contest.
- Stratos and his band of “heroic warriors” may be a bumbling impediment in a battle between the Masters and the Dark Masters, but against the mind-controlled legion? They kick serious butt.
- The Masters and Dark Masters teaming up to utterly destroy Skeletor.
- Rampage’s Curb-Stomp Battle on He-Man in "The Fifth Nemesis." Adam can’t even get a hit in as Krass’s augmented super speed makes her too fast to even touch, and her attacks come down on him hard, barely giving him time to think. And then there’s her Dark Master Strike, Wrecking Ball. Krass summons a row of Havoc chains from the ground to hold Adam in place as she rushes towards him in Bullet Time, then splits herself into nine copies to effectively crush him. Thankfully, Adam manages to survive, but he falls off the island, leaving Krass and Skeletor the privacy to recombine the Sigil of Hiss, which corrupts Grayskull with Proto-Havoc, and unleashes the Snake Men onto Eternia.
Season Three
- He-Man absolutely shreds the revived Snake Men in the first episode, only being forced to retreat because the Sigil keeps re-animating them.
- Man-at-Arms versus the Monstroids. At first he's getting Curb Stomped, but then he uses Speed Build to take one apart and rebuild it into new armor dubbed Monstroid-at-Arms, and defeats the rest of them in seconds.
- Mer-Man manages to fight most of the Masters and Dark Masters by himself and kicks their butts.
- Ork-0 doing real magic for the first time, to cure Adam of his Havoc affliction.
- Man-At-Arms channeling the combined power of himself, Sorceress, Evil-Lyn, and Trap-Jaw to create a barrier that stops Skeletor’s mass Havoc wave cold.
- While Skeletor eventually overpowers her, Rampage actually puts up a decent fight against him.
- He-Man teaming up with Rampage to kick Skeletor's butt and doing a Havoc-Grayskull combo move for the first time.
- Everything seems hopeless in the last episode. Skeletor has the sword and staff, he's become a Physical God, and he's taken back all the power from each of the heroes into himself. Cue Krass having a moment of self-enlightenment, letting go of her helmet and her selfishness, offering the team a piece of advice on how having people around you can help you accomplish great things, and awakening the Light from within herself followed by the others doing the same thing. Cue upgraded armor for everyone.
- The final battle against the Physical God Skeletor is packed with so much awesome that the writers had to skip using the Master Strikes to fit it all in.
- He-Man depowers Skeletor at the end of the battle, restoring him to the powerless Prince Keldor.
- Skele-drone Beast Man finding the Havoc Staff, showing that we haven't seen the last of the Power of Havoc.Beast Man: I. WILL HUNT. AGAIN!
- Adam spreading the power of Grayskull across Eternia. The power’s in everyone’s hands now.
- The final moment of the finale introduces Hordak, Evil-Lyn’s father. To emphasize how massive he is? The sky turns red at his arrival.
