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"I won't stand by and watch people get hurt. And I won't run away."

— Adora, "Huntara"

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As a show filled with legendary heroes and villains alike, fantastical visuals, and plenty of The Power of Love, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power provides plenty of epic moments.

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Season 1

• When She-Ra first battles against the Horde, she does it single handingly and is very skilled at it despite being in a sort of zen mode. Bow also gets credit where it's due as he shows he's a Badass Normal in the scenario.
• Hordak's Establishing Character Moment is super impressive, wasting no time on Shadow Weaver's vendetta against Adora and appointing Catra to Force Leader in her absence. It establishes him as a No-Nonsense Nemesis, and you realize when he faces off against She-Ra, he won't be messing around.
  • We also quickly find out little escapes his gaze. Shadow Weaver admonishes Catra and Entrapta for using her medallion behind her back, saying Hordak will be furious when he finds out. Turns out Hordak found out right away and approved of the experiment personally, seeing potential that Shadow Weaver did not.
• The Princesses each get an awesome moment in their own individual episodes, all building up to their Big Damn Heroes moment in the finale.
  • Mermista knocking Lonnie, Kyle and Scorpia off the boat they're on and into the water. Bonus points in that this happens right after Catra asks Adora where her friends are.
  • Perfuma and her Perfect Pacifist People realizing that they have to fight back to save Adora, and gleefully leaping into battle.
  • Frosta reversing her castle's destruction with the power of her Runestone.
  • Entrapta revealing that she's found a way to reverse engineer First Ones technology. Even if it goes haywire when the corrupted data from the disc infects it, it's very impressive. Eventually, she finds a way to hack the entire planet through the Runestones.
• In "System Failure", Bow enlists the aid of Entrapta's Kitchen Staff in a battle against her rampaging machines. They may not have powers, but they are warriors in the making.
• Adora telling off Shadow Weaver and foiling her plans to bring down the invisibility shield over Mystacor.
• On the villainous side, Catra managing to capture Bow, Glimmer, and the Sword of Protection in one fell swoop at the Princess Prom, because Adora was too distracted by her to notice her compatriots doing the actual work. Provided ND isn't joking about her nine lives, she even spent a resurrection for style alone.
• Glimmer teleporting out of her restraints through sheer willpower and punching out Shadow Weaver to rescue Adora.
• Catra defeating Shadow Weaver and breaking her mask in revenge for all the abuse she's had to endure.
• Right at the lowest they could possibly be, the last stragglers of the Rebellion are saved by the Princess Alliance. First Mermista and Sea Hawk lead a giant wave to battle, then Perfuma uses her plant magic to entangle the Horde in vines and Frosta uses her ice magic to keep the Runestone from falling. And that's not going into Spinnerella and Nettossa's skillset being fully shown.

Season 2

• The Frozen Forest episode conveys the improved fighting of Catra and Adora, with faster motion and impressive coordination, showing how much more impressive the fighting choreography has become and the awesomeness to expect from this season.
• Episode 2 sees Glimmer and Bow take on Catra and Scorpia, and not only is the fight pretty much in team Glimmer's favor throughout, they actually end up defeating Catra and taking her hostage.
  • Catra follows it up with one of her own, showing absolutely no fear whatsoever, cottoning on to Glimmer's weaknesses, working to exhaust her as much as possible, while signaling her allies to ambush the pair when they're weak from dragging her around.
  • At one point, after having had enough of Catra being an uncooperative and mischievous prisoner, unlike Adora, who didn't even try to escape or double-cross them, Glimmer firmly suggests that the reason Adora left the Horde was because of Catra. This causes Catra's smug face to crack.
  • After spending much of the episode being messed with by Catra, Catra making them think Entrapta was being tortured, and then revealing that that was a trick and rubbing it in their faces, Glimmer finally snaps and manages to take her off guard, charging in and punching her square in the face.
• Entraptra being able to impress Hordak enough to not only make him not want to punish her for trespassing but also enough to make her his new lab assistant.
• Scorpia gets quite a few this season, but her best one came in "Roll With It." Having spent the episode worried about what devious mind game Catra will play on her to defend the fortress, Adora as She-Ra seems visibly relieved when Scorpia informs her that Catra isn't even present. Scorpia then proceeds to face She-Ra one on one, and moreover begins to beat her, before being overwhelmed by the other Princess Alliance members. This is even more impressive when you recall the Catra telling the cadets in the first episode that She-Ra is far too strong to take in a frontal assault. Scorpia is that tough.
• Catra catching Bow's arrow with her bare hands/claws and throwing it back in White Out. The animation continues to convey how formidable an opponent like Catra is and how much she's improved throughout the show.
• Bow's two fathers, George and Lance, are treated as a completely normal romantic couple that are loving towards each other, caring for their son, and have personalities and interests that help them exist as real people rather than feeling like a Token Minority that was thrown in to earn the show some brownie points. It is, suffice to say, extremely refreshing and awesome to see this type of representation.
• While Hordak suffocating Catra with the oxygen machine for her failure is certainly not cool at all, credit where it's due: He pulls a clever scheme that most likely offered her a way out if she'd simply tell the truth rather than trying to cover herself.

Season 3

• The swordfight between Adora and Huntara is incredibly cool, capped off by Adora getting in an awesome Badass Boast:
  Huntara: You know about She-Ra?
  Adora: [chuckles] I am She-Ra.
• Catra absolutely rules the Crimson Waste. As tragic as it is to see her grow less and less mentally stable through her invasion, the way she takes over the bar through a dramatic speech and defeats Tung Lashor via Combat Pragmatist tactics is very impressive. Her speech in the hideout encapsulates it all perfectly:
  Catra: Hahaha... So, here's the thing, I've done this. The whole threatening people bit, the intimidation. I've been there, and I just don't care anymore. Some people have a bad day. I've had a bad life. If I want something, it's taken from me. If I win a fight, I lose the war. Threats only work on someone who has something to lose. But me? I’ve already lost it all. And you can't be any good at this, because you just let yourself get distracted... So, what'll it be?
• The fact that Huntara takes a paralyzing dart in each shoulder, and not only does she not collapse at all, but she manages to pick up an also paralyzed Bow and Glimmer and get them out of there with ease.
• Even if Hordak is an evil conqueror, there's something to be said for his resourcefulness and tenacity in the face of adversity. Hordak found himself stranded on Etheria with no resources and no immediate way to contact the Horde Prime fleet. After only a few years, Hordak had recruited hundreds of minions, built a technologically advanced city, trained and deployed an army, and conquered large swaths of Etheria while struggling with a worsening illness. The man has one heck of a work ethic!
• Bow once again displays his archery prowess when, on the mission to rescue Adora, he uses his skills to block Catra's whip by hitting the moving end with an arrow before it can connect and make a crack.
• In "Moment Of Truth," When Adora has been captured, she and Hordak have an awesome exchange. She finally gets to call out the conqueror who's lied to her through her entire life and crafted the empire that's hurt so many people... and he just shrugs it off. It's also a moment of long-term foreshadowing, as both of them are wrong. Hordak did not kidnap Adora, having instead saved her after her arrival on Etheria... and he ultimately remembers it.
  Adora: You. You took me away from my family when I was a baby. You lied to me my whole life, about the Princesses, about Etheria, about who I am.
  Hordak: I could not have lied to you about who you are... because I have never known nor cared about someone as inconsequential as you.
• Adora finally accepts that she's not responsible for Catra's actions, and gives her a Shut Up, Hannibal! about how she only has herself to blame for everything that's gone wrong with her. Once reality is back to normal, she simply gives Catra a devastating Death Glare that wipes the smirk off her face as she retreats.
  Adora: I didn't break the world! But I am going to fix it! And you? You made your choice.
  [Catra snarls, then leaps to attack]
  Adora: NOW LIVE WITH IT!
  [Adora punches Catra in the face, knocking her out cold]
• Entrapta figuring out on her own that a portal is destroying the reality without any of her lost memories.

Season 4

• Perfuma, with a bit of encouragement from Huntara, gets over her inability to control cacti and creates a massive growth to free the trapped spaceship they were all after.
• The character of Double Trouble; a non-binary character who everyone treats with respect (or at least, none of the disrespect they receive is due to their gender) and consistently use the proper pronouns to refer to them. It's an absolute landmark in children's animation.
  • In their introduction, Double Trouble fights She-Ra rather nicely while disguised as Catra, and Adora never suspects for a second that she's not fighting Catra.
  • Double Trouble successfully infiltrates the Rebellion and repeatedly thwarts their missions for weeks before anyone suspects they might have a spy in their midst. They even manage to spin it in their favor by keeping the princesses distracted looking for the spy, while the Horde attacks and captures Salineas.
  • Double Trouble owns "Mer-Mysteries". They run circles around the princesses the whole time until the very end, when they reveal that You Are Too Late and that Mermista's kingdom fell earlier that evening and their whole performance was just a distraction to keep the only ones who could stop the horde from catching on. They also successfully stopped Adora and Glimmer from fixing the issues between them and actually made them worse, correctly identify as a huge weakness for the team, something that causes the alliance to fall apart even after they are captured.
  • They fearlessly go to Hordak and taunt him by shapeshifting their hair to resemble Entrapta's. Double Trouble proceeds to casually expose Catra's treachery and by the time they're done, Hordak is reduced to tears.
  • Their "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Catra in the finale, changing fluidly from Catra to Shadow Weaver to Hordak to Adora to Scorpia, all cementing how Catra has no one to blame but herself for why people seem to constantly abandon her because of how pointlessly cruel she is. Then Double Trouble brags about how they've screwed over the Horde because it's obvious to them that the Princesses will win the war. It's just about on-par with "Maybe it was just you, all the time" for villain call-outs. By the end of it, Catra is so broken that she's willing to just let Glimmer kill her, simply because she has nothing left.
    "Catra": People have hurt you, haven't they?
    [Morphs into Shadow Weaver]
    "Shadow Weaver": They didn't believe in you.
    [Morphs into Hordak]
    "Hordak": They didn't trust you.
    [Morphs into Adora]
    "Adora": Didn't need you. [grabs Catra's hand to make it seem like she's caressing "Adora's" face] Left you.
    [Morphs back to normal]
    Double Trouble: But did you ever stop to think, maybe they're not the problem?
    [Morphs into Scorpia]
    "Scorpia": It's you. You drive them away, wildcat.
• Glimmer finally goes against Catra one-on-one and completely wrecks her, even getting to gloat over Catra's failed attempt to force her to choose between capturing her or saving the forest. She follows up by rescuing Adora's group and blowing up most of the bots through a bigger Teleport Spam than ever before, to which Adora just gives an amazed "Whoa."
• While also a Tear Jerker as it comes with a hard loss of innocence, Scorpia at long last growing enough of a backbone to stand up to Catra and make a Heel–Face Turn, responding to her latest berating by just disappointingly saying "You're a bad friend," then turning around and leaving while Catra is completely speechless.
• Hordak finally takes to the battlefield with a laser cannon, personally beginning the destruction of Salineas. Evil? Certainly, but nonetheless awesome.
• We finally learn the whole truth about Mara's story. It's terribly tragic, with her discovering how she's being used to turn the planet into a weapon and ending up sacrificing her life to keep the planet safe, even if no one will remember it. Unlike Adora, she was actually raised by the First Ones, considered them their people, and believed in what they were doing at first. Nonetheless she stood against them when she found out the truth, did everything in her power to protect the planet, died in the process even if no one would have known it (or possibly, worse, thinking she would have been considered responsible for what happened), and managed to influence Light Hope with her heroism, so much so that she remembered Mara and what she stood for even after literally erasing those memories. She knew she had to lose it all to do the right thing, and she did it anyway.
• Exile to Beast Island is supposed to be a death sentence, but King Micah has survived the island's horrors for years through bravery, tenacity, and magical skill. Entrapta has not only survived but thrived in the presence of so much First Ones technology, and even built herself a mecha!
  • Adora breaking the island's mind numbing signal out of sheer force of will and The Power of Friendship. She's possibly the only person that's ever been able to do it, and wastes no time transforming into She-Ra to save everyone.
• Lonnie calling out Catra to her face and then straight-up leaving and taking Kyle and Rogelio with her. Not leaving the room, mind; leaving the Horde.
  • Worth noting it took a lot of guts and bravery for young teenagers like them to desert the Horde; doing so means they risk not having the Horde's protection and having to live without any food or money. But, they'd rather risk death and maybe prosecution by Bright Moon’s government than to put up with Catra.
• Scorpia channeling the Black Garnet for the first time, accompanied by the soundtrack rocking out.
• All of the princesses pull off awesome feats while empowered by the Heart of Etheria, but special mention goes to Mermista sinking a Horde battleship into a whirlpool while levitating on a cyclone of water in a move straight out of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Perfuma growing a massive tree from nothing that grabs and crushes a whole squad of drones.
• As the weapon goes off, all of the princesses are paralyzed: Mermista, Perfuma and Frosta collapse, and Scorpia can only manage to drag herself a few feet to give Perfuma and Frosta a hug. Glimmer, however, claws herself to her feet, drags herself to the Black Garnet's room, and starts hurling energy blasts in an attempt to fix her mistake.
• Adora shattering the Sword of Protection to shut down the First One weapon. She believes that it's the source of her powers, and she doesn't hesitate.
  Adora: I won't be controlled. I am not a piece of their machine. I am not a weapon. And I am going to end. This. NOW!
• During his fight with Catra in "Destiny, Part 2", Hordak is on the receiving end of attacks that should have stopped him dead in his tracks, such as a punch to the face, having the First Ones' crystal ripped out of his cybernetic exoskeleton, and having part of a building fall on him, but he just keeps coming. The exploding arrow Bow fires at his face only momentarily stuns him. (Provided ND isn't joking about Catra's nine lives when he talked about it on Twitter, Hordak actually killed her during the fight.)
  • At the same time, Catra being the very definition of a Combat Pragmatist. She spends most of the fight on the defensive, visibly unmatched against Hordak's fire power, but makes her attack count. She waits for an opening, slides down a cable and decks Hordak with a punch to the face before destroying his arm cannon with a single kick.
• Glimmer's air of confidence in the finale was impressive. She went to Fright Zone mainly to make sure the plan was working out, but she was more than prepared to finish off Catra, Hordak and whoever else stood between the Queen of Etheria and peace.

Season 5

• A swarm of bots is coming their way. Mermista, who up until this point in the episode hasn't had a chance to take out any bots, simply smirks and says "My turn." before unleashing a huge wave on the bots.
• Horde Prime intimidating Glimmer into revealing secrets about the Heart of Etheria through a simple dinner (Entirely composed of dishes from planets he destroyed.) and a few threats to Adora's life. At once, you understand why Horde Prime is both so feared and reviled.
  Horde Prime: Ah, enjoyable, yes? It's a delicacy from a distant world, light years away from here. It was very much like Etheria. This dish is incredibly rare, as that world no longer exists. Seconds?
  Glimmer: No. Thank you.
• Adora refusing to rest and fighting with all that she has even without She-Ra's powers. She's still the Rebellion's de-facto leader and proves to be an excellent strategist and a good improviser by coming up with a plan to defeat an army of robots while she's in the middle of combat, coordinating her teemates flawlessly based on their abilities. The Princesses rely so heavily on her guidance for a reason.
• Horde Prime later does the same to Catra, making it clear that he is nothing like Hordak. She cannot manipulate him, trick him, or force him into submission. He controls the Galactic Horde, and he only acknowledges her for her usefulness. Catra is visibly afraid of him. Unfortunately for him, and fortunately for the heroes, this only helps to drive Catra to her Heel–Face Turn.
• Catra singlehandedly coming up with a way to get Glimmer away from Prime's ship, and executing her plan mere minutes after deciding she's done being a bad guy for good. Even as she's being swarmed by the clones, she fights them with all she has, and manages to apologize to Adora for everything she's done.
  • Once she's brought before Horde Prime, she laughs in his face when he asks her what she was thinking by betraying his trust.
    Catra: What did you expect? After all, us Etherians are so emotional! It doesn't matter what you do to me. Glimmer is gone and you will never get your hands on Adora!
• Adora showing how strong she is even without She-Ra in "Stranded". When the crystal cave they're fleeing from starts crumbling down and one of the Star Siblings can't support the entrance anymore, Adora is left alone holding up a rock wall collapsing on her. She holds on out of pure force of will, and the need of protecting her friends is what ultimately awakens She-Ra, even if it's for just a couple of seconds.
  • Heck even before that, Adora fought all three Star Siblings by herself and was winning, even sounding absolutely bored and frustrated when she realizes that they don't work for Horde Prime and tries to convince them that they don't need to fight.
• Adora going to Catra's rescue in "Save the Cat". She absolutely refuses to take any of Prime's shit from the second they meet, threatening to activate the Heart of Etheria if he doesn't let her and Catra go, and only starts breaking character when it becomes clear that he saw through her stoic facade and pulls out his trump card: Catra herself.
  • Adora and Chipped!Catra's fight is raw and emotional and for once they are evenly matched with Adora unable to transform into She-Ra and tip the odds to her side. They trade blow for blow, even as Adora does her best to avoid Catra's attacks, and Catra straight up dislocates her arm when Adora has her blocked into a grip.
  • Catra managing to fight off Horde Prime's influence just enough that she continuously backs away from Adora, choosing to inch towards the edge of the cliff they're standing on instead.
  • Adora awakening She-Ra through her desire to protect Catra. She proceeds to cut through Horde Prime's clones like a knife through butter.
    • Even better, her new She-Ra outfit looks like a perfect fusion of the outfit from the classic series (hair up, billowing skirt) and the current one (pants and boots instead of a skirt).
  • "You miscalculated."
  • After Adora saves Catra and goes onto make her escape, we see Horde Prime clenching a fist in anger, clearly ticked. She-Ra just defied him and in the moment there was nothing the petty dictator could do about it.
• The new She-Ra transformation sequence, which is even more epic than the original. She-Ra appears almost angelic, and the previous rock theme music is replaced with soaring operatics.
• Upon being cornered, Bow says that if Entrapta can get them out of there, she can tinker with Darla (their ship) all she wants:
  Entrapta: Great! Hey, Darla! (Whistles)
  Darla: Promptly gets them out of there
• Adora forcing Catra to face how her habit of pushing people away and not wanting to face the ones she's hurt not only doesn't work, but is also putting the entire group in danger due to the chip that is still connected to Catra's nervous system and is working as a tracker for Prime. She tells Catra to grow up and let them help her remove it, then she'll be left alone if she so desperately wants it. Catra listens.
  • Catra using her connection to Prime to find out what is happening on Etheria. It's reckless and risky, as Prime could very easily enter her head again, but she does it anyway.
  • Adora transforms in New She-Ra and tears through Horde Prime's forces with ease, jumping around in space and basically one-shotting the bots either with a sword swipe or the energy of the sword. Bonus points for the new Transformation Sequence and The Slow Walk.
    Catra: Where are you going?
    Adora: To send Horde Prime a message.
• Scorpia manages to resist Horde Prime's control twice, the first time when she misses Adora and Perfuma on purpose when Horde Prime wants them executed, and the second when she manages to resist attacking Bow long enough for him to activate Entrapta's device.
  • On a side note, despite it being really bad for the heroes we get to see just how ridiculously powerful Scorpia is.
  • Scorpia is the only person in the whole show that manages to see through Double Trouble's disguise by herself. And they even managed to use her own status as The Ditz to outsmart them.
• Netossa states that one of Perfuma's weaknesses is not unleashing her full power because she is afraid to hurt her friends, while Perfuma is adamant that being kind is not a weakness. Instead of having her forced to use her whole power, the episode shows Perfuma being true to her ideals all the way, and eventually proves her point when her kindness is what allows Scorpia to defy, if only briefly, Horde Prime's chip.
• Catra comes up with an idea to go past Prime's blockade after seeing Melog's cloaking powers in action after mere minutes of meeting them.
• Adora telling Shadow Weaver off on her toxic behaviour after her constant meddling causes her freshly repaired and improved relationship with Catra to crumble once again. She plainly tells Shadow Weaver that she ruins people, preventing them from ever being happy, and vows that she'll never let the sorceress obtain the power of the Heart Of Etheria, no matter what happens. It's extremely cathartic.
  • It doesn't take too much longer for Catra to give Shadow Weaver of piece of her mind too. After discovering Horde Prime's plan to use a virus on the heart, she returns to camp to warn Adora only to find Shadow Weaver, seemingly drunk, who tries to start telling Catra not to be selfish and interfere with Adora's destiny. Catra has NONE of of it, furiously tells Shadow Weaver that her own desires for power aren't important anymore along with what she found out, and when Prime gives a message about how Entrapta has been caught, demands that Shadow Weaver use what magic she has left to get them to Adora and refuses to accept that she can't do it, insisting that she FINALLY do something good for her surrogate daughter for a change. Shadow Weaver LISTENS.
• Entrapta manages to create a device that disables all the chips on Etheria, freeing everyone at once after Bow activates it and greatly turning the tide of the battle.
• Bow hijacking Horde Prime's hologram projectors to broadcast a Rousing Speech to the people of Etheria, causing the to rise up against Prime's forces.
  • Before that he had to fight Scorpia to reach the console. Alone, and with Scorpia fully in control of her Runestone powers. And even if he manages to win only because, as mentioned above, Scorpia fights her chip long enough to give him a window, it cannot be understated that Bow, one of the only two in the alliance with no magic or Runestone by his side, was able to put up a good fight against Scorpia.
• Despite two mind wipes, Hordak regains his free will due to his overpowering love for Entrapta. Horde Prime orders Hordak to kill Entrapta. Not only does Hordak disobey, but he blast Prime through his screen with an arm cannon, neck-lifts Prime exactly how Prime neck-lifted him, and gives Prime an incredible "screw you" speech before dropping him into the depths of his own ship.
  Hordak: I am not your "brother". You made me in your image, but I am more than that. I gave myself a name, I made a life of my own. I made... a friend. I AM HORDAK, AND I DEFY YOUR WILL!
  • After Horde Prime's physical body is destroyed, he possesses Hordak's body. This only leads to Prime's permanent death after Adora exorcises his consciousness from Hordak's body. Even better is how matter-of-factly she does it; there's no hatred, no malice, no satisfaction. Prime considered himself the most powerful being in the universe and the greatest foe She-Ra has ever faced, but to Adora, he's not worth the thought.
    Adora: No. You're wrong. It's time for you to go.
  • A quick note, although it's more on the heartwarming side: the first mind wipe left Hordak with vague memories, and it took Catra's teasing to bring them out. But when he sees Entrapta's crystal after the second mind wipe? He immediately remembers. That's the strength of their bond.
• A particularly dark one, but one nonetheless: Horde Prime's Evil Laugh and speech after possessing Hordak. It encapsulates how nightmarish Horde Prime is. In one moment, with all the false eloquence he can muster, he turns the tide and reveals that if he's going down, Etheria goes with him. Even after his complete defeat, he does not break down or cower, instead telling Adora that he will rise again. Fortunately, she disagrees with that notion.
  Prime: Ah, little brother. So it's true. You have been thoroughly corrupted. So be it! You have forced my hand... I will unleash the Heart, and so we shall die in cleansing flame together!
• The fact that without a job since betraying Catra, Double Trouble decided to infiltrate the Horde's ranks by pretending to be a clone. They found out about Adora and her friends' whereabouts, that Catra had been rescued, Horde Prime created blockade against the Best Friend Squad, and the Etherians were getting chipped. Having learned all that, were they ever discovered? Nope. Double Trouble only left because they got bored and wanted a more interesting job.
  • They even become one of the few people to never get mind controlled, and knowingly perform at a club crawling with chipped patrons on a regular basis.
• Funny, heartwarming and awesome: Sea Hawk managing to make the true Mermista come out not by appealing to the power of love, but by annoying her with his usual antics, dodging her attempts to kill him all the while. Even better? It was actually part of a plan to distract her and lower her guard. And it works.
• The final battle between Micah and Glimmer. This season shows us that Shadow Weaver was not exaggerating when she talked about how strong Micah's sorcery was, as he manages to overpower every other sorcerer in the series, and eventually even paralyze all the princesses except his own daughter during the final battle by tapping into dark magic as well. And then Glimmer defeats him, without dark magic. Glimmer has gone from the sheltered princess insecure because her power was the weakest, to the strongest princess, queen, and sorcerer in Etheria.
  Glimmer: [walking through Micah's dark magic] My mother raised me to be brave. My friends taught me to be kind. And I'm stubborn. I get that from you. I will never stop fighting! And I Won't! Lose! Another! Parent!
• Catra bringing Adora back from the verge of dying with an Anguished Declaration of Love for the history books.
• Adora releasing the magic in the Heart of Etheria, channeling it into a World-Healing Wave that heals Etheria and restores its plant-life, turns the Velvet Glove into a giant floating tree, and then she proceeds to cleanse Horde Prime's spirit from Hordak's body, destroying Horde Prime permanently and saving Hordak.
  • Just, the way she calmly walks up to Prime while he drones on and on about how he'll come back. Adora doesn't have any of it.
    Horde Prime: (through Hordak) Though all is reduced to rubble, Prime shall rise again. So it has been, as so it always shall be.
    Adora: No. You're wrong. It's time for you to go.
• Shadow Weaver's Heroic Sacrifice in the finale. She has been one of the most revolting and selfish villains in the show, but she goes out performing her first and only unambiguously selfless act by saving her surrogate daughters via conducting a large magical explosion that reduces her and the monster to dust.
  • For an added layer, it also shows that when it comes to death, Shadow Weaver embraces it honorably and bravely. It doesn't get more honorable than removing her mask before facing the enemy and then dying.
• Huntara, Entrapta's kitchen staff, Double Trouble and the Elberon villagers all fighting the Horde's forces in the final battle after being unchipped/staying out the fight. Especially for the Elberon villagers, who had spent their screen time being used again and again as the Horde's pawns. Bonus points goes to Double Trouble's little smirk after pushing a Horde Prime clone off the cliff.
  • Horde Prime watches the uprisings all around the galaxy, and Entrapta despite being his captive, defiantly tells him he doesn't understand what makes the Rebellion strong, and that's why he'll never win.

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