WMG / She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Jossed

If we ever get to meet Mara. She'll be voiced by Melendy Britt

Since she was the "last" person to hold the title of She-Ra, it's only fitting she be voiced by She-Ra's previous voice actor.

• Jossed. Mara appeared as a hologram in the season 3 episode "Once Upon A Time In The Waste", where she was voiced by Zehra Fazal.

The first season will end with the reveal that Adora is not an orphan after all.

She will be visited by an astral projection of the Sorceress who will inform her that she was kidnapped as a baby from a planet called Eternia where her parents are still alive...along with her twin brother. Thus setting up an eventual He-Man crossover and spinoff show.

• Jossed, but the first episode shows her memories of a strange portal...

Bow and Sea Hawk will be brothers in this series

Which will make the possibility of Adora liking both of them and/or both of them liking her a lot more awkward, but it'll result in character development if done well.

• Jossed.

Lonnie and Kyle will both end up joining the rebellion

I think that Lonnie and Kyle, two of Adora's old friends/teammates from the Horde, will each end up having a Heel–Face Turn and join the rebellion. Lonnie because apparently her counterpart from the original series joined the rebellion and Kyle because he seems too nice to keep serving an evil empire. If this does happen then Catra is likely to be really upset.

• A possibility is for the two of them to later evolve into more recognizable characters from the franchise, having their own "origin" story as it were before making their transition.
  • Possibly Kyle could become Sunder or Snout Spout, while Lonnie could become a character like Sweet Bee or Peekablu.
    • Lonnie becoming Sweet Bee or Peekablu is jossed. They already exist in-universe as Adora stated in "Princess Prom" that they are dating.
    • Theory OP here. I find that unlikely since I'm pretty sure Lonnie and Kyle already have counterparts in the original show. Lonnie seems to be based on Lohni and there is also a character in the original show called Kyle who looks somewhat similar to the Kyle in this show.
• Jossed. While Lonnie and Kyle (and Rogelio) do end up leaving the Horde due to Catra's abuse, they do not join the Rebellion — instead, they strike out on their own to the Crimson Wastes.

Shadow Weaver was the first She-Ra

Her facial scarring and long flowing hair adds up with Light Hope's story, and her desire for more power certainly fits with the story as well.

• Probably not, as it's been confirmed that she was Light Spinner before being Shadow Weaver, and appears to have been raised in Mystacor.

Scorpia's going to take vengeance against Hordak for her family.

Scorpia's conspicuously missing family and her belief they willingly surrendered, combined with the slowly unveiling Dramatic Irony induced by an invasion flashback and the sorry state of the Fright Zone castle in Season 4 may signal a truly devastating revelation for Scorpia regarding her people's true fate. We might get a Beware the Nice Ones moment from her. Bonus points if it looks like Hordak's going to be redeemed, only for her to come in last-minute.

• This plot line seems like something that would've best panned out pre-Horde Prime. It's quite a bit unlikely to happen now, I'd say, what with the global-level threat of Prime looming and the Etherian Horde having more or less been neutralized. Also, a couple issues with this: 1.) Hordak may be many things, but a liar and a schemer he is not (he's actually proven to be quite gullible himself) and 2.) Scorpia may not be the brightest crayon in the box, but she's been with the Horde for pretty much her entire life — you'd think at some point she'd have asked where her family was if their whereabouts were such a big mystery.
• Jossed.

Horde Prime will be Hordak's ancestor

Dince it's most likely that Horde Prime won't make an appearance (maybe in a flashback).

• Jossed. Hordak was cloned from Horde Prime, and Horde Prime makes an appearance in the final scene of season 3

Horde Prime will be the Evil Counterpart to Light Hope

A malicious, damaged AI that is secretly assisting Hordak in his quest to conquer Etheria. His avatar will be completely glitched out and resemble the green smoke that obscured him in the original cartoon.

• Jossed. Horde Prime was in the rest of the universe, while Hordak was trapped on Etheria

Hordak is a First One

• He's knowledgable about science, technology, portal travel, and faraway planets in ways that the other residents of Etheria are not, and is keen to recover First Ones technology.
  • Jossed: He's just an alien conqueror who got stuck on Etheria.

Hordak spends most of his offscreen time trying to take over Eternia.

The classic Horde members who didn't appear in Season 1 are stationed there and that's another thing Catra would have known had she attended Force Captain orientation. He keeps his way out of Despondos a secret because he's afraid someone will use it to escape his rule and seek help.

• Jossed. Season 2 reveals that he has been trying to create a portal outside of Despondos, so he's stuck there.

Shadow Weaver was the one who brought Adora to the Horde as an infant, possibly not long after her fall from grace.

This is why she's so fixated on Adora. While it's toxic, twisted, and abusive, she feels a motherly love for Adora.

• Alternately, Shadow Weaver may be intending to use Adora to access Castle Grayskull and the power within.
  • Season 2 reveals Hordak is the one who brought Adora to Etheria, but he was looking for something else.

Shadow Weaver hates Catra because of her parents.

In a twist on the '80s series, Catra was born the princess of the powerful Magicats. During a Horde attack on their kingdom, Shadow Weaver engaged the King and Queen in a fight, managing to steal baby Catra, but not before the Queen's claws slashed her face. Shadow Weaver, vindictive as she is, held the Facial Horror done to her against Catra all her life.

• Well actually, Shadow Weaver's scarred appearance was the result of a spell she and Micah performed gone wrong.

It was Shadow Weaver who killed Micah

We know that Micah was killed in a battle that his wife ordered, and likely it was Shadow Weaver who led the Horde in that battle. It's quite possible that Angella urged Micah to withdraw from the battle, but he refused to leave his former master behind. If anything, he tried to see if there's any trace of Light Spinner left in her, but she declared Light Spinner gone, culminating in them having a magic duel. That duel cost the Rebellion the battle, and Micah his life.

• Shadow Weaver, however, did say she wasn't the one who caused Micah's death.
• In "Remember", Micah tried to tell Angella something before the rupture took him. It sounds like he was about to say he's not dead. This is confirmed in Season 4, when he turns out to have been exiled to Beast Island instead of killed

Hordak will undergo a repemption arc in season 4.

When Horde Prime arrives on Etheria, it will strive to exterminate all non-Horde life on the planet, including Entrapa and Imp. Hordak will be forced to choose between serving Horde Prime again or protecting his two friends, and will choose the latter, entering an uneasy alliance with the Rebellion.

• Jossed. He undergoes redemption in season 5.

Hordak will NOT undergo a redemption arc in season 4.

One of the show's recurring themes is that it is futile to try to win the love and approval of truly, consciously evil people. Entrapa will try to redeem Hordak when she realizes what Horde Prime has in store for Etheria, but his hunger for Horde Prime's approval will place him beyond redemption.

• Jossed, sort of. While Hordak did not defect from Horde Prime's army and did not reunite with Entrapta in season 4, he does find redemption at the end of season 5.

Hordak and Scorpia will team up to rescue Entrapta.

The scene in season 3 showing Entrapta flanked by a Scorpia-robot and a Hordak-robot was foreshadowing. Scorpia's guilt over allowing Catra to exile Entrapta will overwhelm her. She'll reveal the truth to Hordak, and together they'll travel to Beast Island to track down Entrapta.

• Jossed. Hordak does not learn that Entrapta is on Beast Island until late in the season, and thus he is not part of the rescue effort.

It was corrupted First One's tech that caused Mara to attack the First Ones.

Just like when Adora gets hit, Mara also got corrupted by the red technology, only nobody was able to get her sword away before she destroyed all the First One's sites and cast Etheria into Despondos.

• Jossed. Mara went rogue because she didn't want the First Ones to use Etheria for a galactic genocide.

At some point Adora will use the powers of She-Ra to return Etheria from Despondos.

Most likely to save the planet from destruction, possibly due to further tampering from the Horde that renders the planet unable to sustain life without a "reboot" of sorts that will place it back in the same dimension as Eternia. The sudden appearance of the lost planet (and more ominously Hordak) will be noticed by both the Sorceress and Skeletor, the latter wishing to seize the First One's tech to conquer the universe while the former sends He-Man to Etheria to prevent this. Cue very awkward moment when the twins meet literally face-to-face in their transformed states and Bow saying, "A guy She-Ra? He-Ra? Hmmm..."

• Jossed. Glimmer's actions lead to Etheria emerging from Despondos in season 4.

Mara was opposed by a previous incarnation of He-Man.

When Mara went rogue, a warrior wielding the Sword of Power attempted and ultimately failed to stop her. However, he was able to buy enough time for the First Ones to escape Etheria before it was cast into Despondos. The warrior managed to avoid being trapped on the planet and safely returned to Eternia with the Sword intact.

• Jossed: Mara moved Etheria to Despondos to protect the rest of the universe from it. And it was Light Hope trying to stop her.

Madame Razz is Mara, the previous She-Ra.

It's why she knows about the crystal castle and why the runes activated when she touched them. She's just gone so loopy due to her isolation, she's forgotten that she and Mara were one and the same. She's also a Cassandra Truth, but you need to get her frame of reference to understand.

• Jossed. Season 4 confirms that Mara and Madame Razz were different people.

Entrapta's hair will be cut when she arrives at Beast Island

If she's going to be held in what is described as The Alcatraz, the Horde will likely relieve Entrapta of her greatest asset for slipping out of locks and chains.

• Jossed.

Catra will go rogue.

After finally getting fed up with the Horde, she'll ditch them and strike out on her own (with Scorpia likely following along), searching for some magic power of her own so that she can destroy both Horde and Rebellion and finally defeat Adora once and for all.

• Possibly, what with Hordak finding out Shadow Weaver escaped under her watch when she was ordered to sent her to Beast Island, and is about to torture her for her failure in the season 2 finale.
• Jossed. She remains with the Horde until it is left in shambles at the end of season 4.

Scorpia's family stole their Runestone.

The reason Scorpia has no connection to her family's Runestone is because it didn't originally belong to her family. They took it from another kingdom, either as part of some feud or simply out of greed. The other kingdoms viewed the crime as unforgivable and it's part of the reason they disliked them so much.

• Jossed Season 4 allows Scorpia to reconnect with her runestone, proving she is indeed its rightful Princess.

Catra will attempt to get rid of Imp.

Twice now he's fouled up someone's plans to hide information from Hordak, and Scopria will no doubt want to talk about Entrapta's betrayal. Catra will realize Imp is listening in and ambush him with the intention of either killing him or keeping him prisoner. Emily (Entrapta's bot) will either release Imp or acquire his knowledge on Entrapta's location, using the Rebels to rescue her.

• Jossed. Imp had no more idea what happened with Entrapta than Hordak did.

The Horde will eventually suffer from a Enemy Civil War

With at least two factions, with one led by Hordak and another led by Catra. Perhaps also a third faction led by Shadow Weaver.

• Jossed. As of the end of season 4, there isn't much of a Horde left.

Entrapta will re-forge the Sword of Protection.

The Etherians are at a massive disadvantage against Horde Prime without She-Ra so it is likely Entrapta, the only one with a somewhat working knowledge of First One's tech, will be tapped to fix the Sword of Protection. Catra may have a hand in this if she's playing Horde Prime by pointing out that if the Sword, also the administrative key to Etheria's systems, is reforged, Horde Prime can access the Heart of Etheria.

• Jossed.

Horde Prime will kidnap Swift Wind.

The season 5 trailer includes a shot of Horde Prime and Glimmer in some kind of trophy room, in which animal heads have been mounted on a wall. When Horde Prime sees Swift Wind for the first time, he will want the creature's head for a trophy and will arrange for Swift Wind's kidnapping.

• Jossed.

Etheria is a Dyson Sphere.

The crystals do not appear to be discrete power sources but rather a network of power distributors. This is what enabled Entrapta to boost the shadow garnet by draining other crystals. This asks the question - what powers them all if they are linked? It's easy to assume a single underground power core from this and then consider who built everything on Etheria. The First Ones didn't create the power core, merely built a techno-organic planet around a dwarf star.

• Jossed. Etheria is a natural planet with a powerful magical aura that the First Ones were mining with their technology.

The show will have a Bittersweet Ending

Perhaps Horde Prime will be defeated, but there will be heavy losses and Adora and Catra realize that their relationship is too toxic to go back to how things were before and determine that they need space from each other.

• Jossed. It's an out-and-out happy ending for almost all the major characters.

Shadow Weaver will absorb the Heart of Etheria.

Shadow Weaver is a magical parasite, so she will absorb the magical energy of the Heart of Etheria and become a godlike being, either to defeat Horde Prime or rule Etheria herself.

• Jossed.

In Season 5, Shadow Weaver will become the Final Boss after Horde Prime is defeated.

• Jossed.

How Catra's story will end

Considering Catra lost Adora's love and faith in her forever, burnt all her bridges with those who cared about her all because she didn't want to be outshined, and then realizes how badly things have gone for her, there's only two ways for her story to end: A). Catra will perish defeating Horde Prime, because it will show she's serious about wanting to make things right. B). Catra survives the final battle against Horde Prime, and she and Adora share a heartfelt goodbye before she goes out exploring the wider galaxy, realizing she needs to make a name for herself rather than have others define who she is.

• Jossed. Catra undergoes a redemption arc in season 5, assists the Rebellion, and becomes part of an official couple with Adora.

The show will have a Distant Finale

To wrap up loose ends.

• Jossed.

Horde Prime's mind-wipe DOES permanently erase Hordak ... and it's the best thing that ever happened to him

Horde Prime promised that Hordak would be "reborn" when he mind-wiped the clone. Hordak's memories and values might be gone forever, but his capacity for free will and love might still remain. If the clone can escape from or be rescued from Horde Prime's ship before he is "reconditioned", he will be free to create a new life for himself, free from the evil values, callousness, traumas, and insecurities that plagued Hordak. Bonus points if his reborn self adopts the name Hek-Tor-Kur, aids the Etherian rebellion, brings down Horde Prime, and falls in love with Entrapta all over again, this time as a man worthy of her.

• Jossed. He regains his memories and reunites with her as Hordak in the finale.

Hordak will lead a clone revolt against Horde Prime.

The end of "Destiny, Part 2" implies that the flaw in Hordak that offended Horde Prime was his free will, as well as Prime's inability to read his mind without physically touching him. What if Hordak can trigger this "flaw" in the other clones, thereby giving them self-awareness, free will, and freedom from Horde Prime's telepathy? Hordak could free his fellow clones from their mental slavery and take down Horde Prime with their help.

• I had a very similar theory — Horde Prime's empire eventually gets taken down thanks in large part to Hordak somehow instilling free will and individuality into Prime's clone army.
  • Alternatively, Horde Prime and his clone army will all be destroyed, leaving Hordak as a true individual in every sense of the word.
• Jossed. Wrong Hordak rejects Horde Prime after being disconnected from the hive mind, and Hordak rebels against Horde Prime in the final episode, but neither clone leads a mass rebellion. The remaining clones remain loyal to Horde Prime until his demise in "Heart, Part 2".

Horde Prime will be defeated by trapping he and his armies between dimensions the same way Angella was.

At the series end, someone on the cast will successfully open a portal on Etheria with the intent to either conquer it or move it out of Despondos. This will lead to the final crisis of trying to stop Horde Prime from conquering the planet. One of the heroes (I'm banking on Entrapta because She-Ra will probably be busy closing out her arc with Catra) will shut the portal down as the Cosmic Horde is moving through it, popping off to Horde Prime about him being a failure for good measure, especially if Horde Prime wound up killing Hordak at some point before the finale.

• Jossed.

Hordak will be rescued from Horde Prime by the Rebellion and become the Token Evil Teammate.

When trying to rescue Glimmer, the Rebellion will find Hordak while he's being Recondititioned and end up rescuing him somehow. Either the Reconditioning was incomplete or he somehow manages to throw off it, at least partially, and angry with the way he was treated he decides to aid the Rebellion in fighting against Horde Prime.

• Season 4 may have foreshadowed this. On two occasions, Hordak remarks that he wants to show Horde Prime what he's capable of. In context, Hordak was expressing his desire to be seen as worthy, but "showing someone what you're capable of" can also mean threatening or menacing someone in order to make them submit.
• Jossed. Hordak remains loyal to the Galactic Horde until "Heart, Part 2", when he disobeys an order to kill Entrapta and attacks Horde Prime instead.

Just as Horde Prime can see into Hordak's mind, Hordak will find a way to see into his.

Hordak is not an ordinary clone, as illustrated by his free will and Horde Prime's inability to read his mind without physically touching him. What if he has other non-standard abilities that his clone brethren lack? What if he learns how to see into Horde Prime's mind, thereby uncovering vital information needed to stop Prime?

• In a scene from season 5, Horde Prime's eyes glow while he is reviewing Hordak's memories. In the season 1 card, Hordak is also shown with glowing eyes. Was the season 1 card foreshadowing Hordak gaining some of the same abilities as Horde Prime?

• Both jossed. Catra briefly looks into Horde Prime's mind after being chipped, but Hordak is not shown using this ability, nor does he develop any of Horde Prime's unique abilities.

Hordak will be a MacGuffin Super-Person in season 5

Hordak is distinct from Horde Prime's other clones in two ways: he has free will, and Horde Prime cannot telepathically link with him without touching him. Glimmer and Catra will realize that they need Hordak in order to escape from captivity and defeat Horde Prime later, so they will track down Hordak on board Hoard Prime's ship. This will be easier said than done, since Hordak will be in a disoriented state after the mind-wipe.

• Jossed.

Horde Prime and his clones form a Hive Mind

Horde Prime is the hive king of a Hive Mind, seeing that he can telepathically link with his clones. When Horde Prime mind-wiped Hordak, Hordak's consciousness was shunted from his body into the Hive Mind, where he can see into the minds of his clone brethren. When character creater Rae Geiger said that ""Hordak" is gone", they meant that he was gone from his body — gone into the hive mind for now.

• Jossed. Hordak's consciousness and memories remain in his body. His memories slowly return to him throughout season 5. The hive mind appears to be vertical but not lateral. Horde Prime, his clones, and his chipped slaves can communicate back and forth, but not between each other.

Horde Prime's DNA is the operation key for all of the Galactic Horde's technology.

Horde Prime does not want his enemies to steal his technology or use it against him, so he made sure that it will only work if he or one of his clones is operating it. Galactic Horde technology requires some kind of DNA verification to function. Hordak, who shares Horde Prime's genetic material, may be able to exploit this in season 5. Since Imp also has some of Hordak's DNA, one of the Etherians may be able to operate Galactic Horde technology if Imp is present.

• Jossed. Other characters are shown using Galactic Horde technology, or being manipulated by it, in the case of chipped Etherians.

The virus unleashed from the corrupted First Ones data crystal will be weaponized by the Horde.

At the end of episode 6 we saw Entrapta continuing to experiment with the corrupted data crystal, but never saw how it turned out. If reclaimed, could the virus potentially spread across and corrupt the entire elemental runestone network?

• One of the scenes for season two shows Catra smirking at Adora with the same virus tendrils on her sword, so possibly confirmed?
• Jossed.

The Horde are the modern First Ones.

Season 4 reveals that the First Ones were a group of tyrannical conquerors. Maybe further technological development and being Professor Guinea Pigs led them to become the Horde?

• Jossed. The Galactic Horde and the First Ones were separate entities and fought each other in the distant past.

Season 5 will feature an Enemy Mine situation, with Entrapta at the center.

Season 4 set up the show's different factions to oppose Horde Prime, but given the bad blood between some of the Rebellion and Horde characters, the alliance will be very precarious. However, many of the characters have affection for, a debt to, or common ground with Entrapta, so Entrapta may be what holds the alliance together. Scorpia, Adora, Bow, and Swift Wind consider her a friend. Micah may see her as a kindred spirit, since both of them survived Beast Island. Hordak is in love with her. Catra's nightmare in "Flutterina" implies that she feels guilt over betraying Entrapta, so she may protect Entrapta in an attempt to atone for exiling her. A situation that puts Entrapta in danger could motivate all of the above characters to work together for her sake.

• Jossed. The Rebellion characters work with her, Catra apologizes to her, and Hordak disobeys an order to kill her, but the above characters do not work as a team to save her at any point.

Hordak will trigger an uncanny valley response in alien races under Horde Prime's rule.

The alien civilizations under Horde Prime's rule are used to seeing clone soldiers who never speak and who have blank expressions and blank eyes. Hordak, who speaks, emotes, and has self-awareness, will immediately make them uncomfortable and draw unwanted attention. The aliens' reaction to Hordak will be Played for Laughs, just as Etherians' reaction to Swift Wind was in previous seasons.

• Jossed. We do not see Hordak interacting with alien races in season 5, and it isn't until the last episode that he fully reclaims his memories and agency. Also, season 5 reveals that the Galactic Horde clones do speak and emote, but are fanatically loyal to Horde Prime and bound to him through the hive mind.

Hordak isn't sick. He's going through a metamorphosis.

Hordak isn't actually suffering from a chronic illness. His body is trying to go through a metamorphosis and transform into a new form. Members of Hordak's species go through a metamorphosis in mid-life, but Horde Prime uses medical technology to suppress the transformation in his clones. Hordak is not aware of any of this, and incorrectly thinks that he's chronically ill. His cybernetic armor stabilizes his body by interrupting the metamorphosis. Season 5 will involve Hordak completing his transformation and assuming his mature form, much to Horde Prime's alarm.

• Jossed. He truly did have a cloning flaw. After reconditioning, he is physically healthy in season 5.

Hordak will lose an eye in season 5.

At the end of Hordak's flashback in "Huntara", Hordak imagines himself standing before Horde Prime again, but only one of Hordak's eyes is lit. When viewers finally see Horde Prime in "Destiny, Part 2", he has multiple eyes. During a Patreon discussion with fans, character designer Rae Geiger stated that Horde Prime ornaments his face with eyes that he takes from his clones. What if the stylized sequence in "Huntara" foreshadowed Horde Prime taking one of Hordak's eyes to beautify himself and inflict yet another humiliation on the clone?

• Jossed.

Light Hope will somehow return.

• Jossed.

Glimmer isn't just teleporting. She's creating miniature portals.

When Glimmer teleports, she's actually creating brief, tiny wormhole portals in the fabric of spacetime. She will discover how to use this ability to teleport herself into the parallel dimension in which Angella is trapped, thereby rescuing her mother.

• Jossed.

Angella will come back strong in season 5.

Angella will develop new abilities during her time in the parallel dimension, which will prove valuable in the fight against Horde Prime once she escapes or is rescued.

• Jossed.

Either Scorpia or Entraptra will not survive the series and it will be because of, and have a major impact on, Catra.

We're seeing how Catra is becoming more and more ruthless, while neither Entraptra nor Scorpia seem truly monstrous. At some point Catra will do something stupid that will get one of her two remaining friends killed. Depending on how it goes down, this will either result in a My God, What Have I Done? moment or cement that she has completely crossed the Moral Event Horizon.

• Alternatively, it'll result in Catra blaming Adora for causing their death, alienating her surviving friend and leading them to abandon her—driving Catra further into villainy.
• Jossed. Both Scorpia and Entrapta survive the series.

Catra will receive an evil upgrade.

In the trailer we already she that she's the new Force Captain to replace Adora after her defection. But Adora isn't just a renegade Force Captain, she's She-Ra. So to counter this, the Hoarde will make Catra into their own Evil Knockoff.

• We'll be going full Dark Magical Girl.
  • Like the original He-Man's Sword of Power, Adora's sword will only be half of the full Sword of Protection; Catra will get the other half.
  • In the original She-Ra Cartoon, Catra was able to become a large panther/lioness hybrid when she moves her mask downward. Perhaps Hordak empowers her headpiece to give her the ability to turn into a more powerful cat beast.
  • Due to her failure for Shadow Weaver's escape and lied to him about it in the season 2 finale, Hordak will order Entrapta to experiment on her.
  • Jossed.

More classic Horde members will show up in later seasons.

Members such as Mantenna or Leech, since Grizzlor and Octavia were able to make minor appearances. Maybe even some of the toy-only Horde members as well, such as Mosquitor?

• One toy-only character did make an appearance: Double Trouble.
• Jossed.

We will encounter another member of Double Trouble's species

DT says that their gift is delving into the emotions of the roles they play. Ergo, we're going to meet someone who can't, emphasizing how good DT is as what they do.

• Jossed.

Members of Hordak's species are born with bat wings, but lose them later.

The fetuses growing in Hordak's lab have bat wings. Imp, who is implied to be a clone of Hordak, also has bat wings. However, neither Hordak nor Hordak Prime have wings, but Hordak has a patch of white scar tissue on his upper back, where wings would logically go. Perhaps members of Hordak's species are born with bat wings and retain them through childhood, but shed them at puberty. Another theory is that members of Hordak's species have their wings excised at or before adulthood as a ritualistic rite of passage.

• Jossed, if one goes by Word of Saint Paul. During a Patreon discussion with fans in November 2019, character designer Rae Geiger stated that the team had no intentions of giving Hordak or Horde Prime wings, and that Imp's wings were due to the clone being a blend of Hordak's DNA and another species' DNA.
• When fans see clones gestating in vitrines, none of them have wings.

Horde Prime is defective, as are all of his clones.

Horde Prime has a genetic defect that afflicts him with a debilitating medical condition. Hordak inherited the flaw, and when he publicly manifested signs of illness, Horde Prime feared that his own secret condition would become known to his troops. Thus, Hordak was sent to die in battle to protect Horde Prime's secret.

Hordak cannot manage the medical condition nearly as well on Etheria because he lacks access to the full array of Horde medical technology. Horde Prime, on the other hand, may have access to cybernetic augmentation or other technology that helps him hide the condition.

The story will reveal that all of the other clones inherited the genetic defect, but most die in battle before they exhibit symptoms. Those who start to exhibit signs of illness are quietly executed or sent to the front lines as part of Horde Prime's desperate attempt to hide his flaw.

• According to character designer Rae Geiger, Horde Prime 'upgrades' himself with his clones. The context of the answer is an explanation for his extra eyes, but such a habit would be a useful cover for harvesting clones for spare organs to stave off the kind of decay Hordak showed. Hordak couldn't use a similar method since his cloning experiments didn't pan out.
• Jossed.

Confirmed

Bow, Glimmer, Angella, Perfuma, Sea Hawk, Mermista, and Castaspella will each undergo a Race Lift.

To make them resemble their new voice actors more, much like Allura in Voltron: Legendary Defender.

• Confirmed with Bow, Glimmer, Perfuma, Mermista, and Castaspella, while Sea Hawk is Ambiguously Brown.

Bow will be an Adaptational Badass.

Much like Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman (2017). He won't upstage any of the titular Princesses of Power, but he'll be much less of a wimp in a fight, able to hold his own.

• Confirmed, although he's still more focused on being The Heart than fighting.

Catra will be the show's antagonist as a nod to the original toyline, at least for the first season.

She's mentioned much higher on the cast list than Hordak. Perhaps she will serve more as Adora's direct nemesis, with Hordak serving as a Greater-Scope Villain.

• Confirmed-ish. She splits the role with Shadow Weaver, but both of them are more direct antagonists than Hordak is.

Entrapta will end up betraying the Rebellion

Making her a villain just like in the 80s's version

• Confirmed, though instead of being Evil All Along, Catra convinces her to pull a Face–Heel Turn.

One of Bow's dads will look like his 80's incarnation.

• Confirmed, only with darker skin like his son.

Hordak is Secretly Dying

While he clearly has it better than Darth Vader or Davros, Hordak's body is shown to be in such horrible shape that he needs machines to apply cybernetics and dress him. One of his projects also seems to involve converting Etherian atmosphere into something only he can breathe. Between that and his frustration at not being able to make a working portal, it seems like he's doing a Race Against the Clock to get home, presumably to get medical treatment for his deteriorating condition.

• Confirmed, though the reason for it is a bit more complicated. Part of it is that Hordak is a flawed, yet brilliant, clone of Horde Prime.

Hordak plans to open a portal to Etheria through which he can summon the main forces of the Horde.

Natch, yeah, but the twist is this is not an exception, but the Horde's actual modus operandi. They send a single warrior scientist to a prospective planet, who proceeds to sew discord amongst the disenfranchised or discontent section of the planet's population, ultimately using them to gather the resources and expertise to create a portal to Hordeworld and bring in soldiers. (Or, alternatively, yank the planet they want to Hordeworld itself for easier stripmining.) Of course the problem here is that Etheria is too different to provide the tech or expertise Hordak needs to complete his mission, so he's stuck until Entraptra comes along.

• Partially confirmed in season 3. Hordak wants to open a portal to send a signal to Horde Prime and thus summon reinforcements. However, Hordak arrived on Etheria by accident and, as far as we know, was not trapped in Despondos intentionally.

In Season 2, Catra not knowing certain things because she missed Force Captain orientation will become a Running Gag.

• Confirmed!

Double Trouble will appear in this version as a member of the horde

Bonus points if she disguises herself as Entrapta.

• Confirmed! Double Trouble is indeed a member of the Horde and Catra has hired them as a mercenary.

Scorpia becomes a Princess with powers.

Her family's Runestone is literally in the next room. It's never explicitly stated how the Princesses connect to their Runestones, but there's no way they'll put an unlinked Princess, her family Runestone, and a First Ones tech genius in the same room and not do anything with it.

• Confirmed. She connects with her Runestone in season 4.

If Horde Prime appears it will be treating Hordak the same as he treats others

That is, presenting a facade of a Reasonable Authority Figure to others while showing his second-in-command their true cruelty, the same way Hordak acts towards Shadow Weaver in season 1 and Catra in 2. The series so far had made a good way to show cruelty and abuse as something being passed on, with Hordak as the top abuser whose actions push those below him to become worse themselves. It would be fitting to reveal he himself is that way out of fear of an even bigger monster.

• At the very least, Hordak held the same mentality Horde Prime has towards percieved failures.
• Confirmed and exceeded. Horde Prime is even more cruel and petty than Hordak, mind-wiping Hordak and sending him off for "reconditioning".

Not only Lonnie and Kyle, but Scorpia and Entrapta will defect to the Rebellion.

And Catra will follow after finding being Force Captain isn't so fulfilling without friendly minions.

• Whither Rogelio?
• Also, the Horde experiencing a mass defection strikes me as a series finale event. I can't imagine things would be as fun if every lovably misguided villain bailed on the Horde early and we're left with just Hordak and Shadow Weaver as our antagonists.
• Confirmed for all of the above by the end of season 4. Catra's poor leadership drives them to defect.
  • Not exactly, yet. Lonnie, Rogelio, and Kyle left the Horde, but it was never stated that they were outright joining the Rebellion — rather, they were striking out on their own. Though, are discussions about defections from Etheria's Horde even relevant anymore now that it's pretty much decimated? Even Hordak himself is now technically no longer a part of it.
• Partially confirmed, partially jossed. Scorpia and Entrapta did in fact join (rejoin, in Entrapta's case) the Rebellion. However, the cadet trio of Kyle, Lonnie, and Rogelio did not — instead, they ventured to the Crimson Wastes (taking Hordak's imp with them), playing no visible part in the Rebellion's fightback against Horde Prime — in fact, the group only gets a scant few seconds worth of nonspeaking cameos in season 5.

Entrapta will eventually rejoin the Rebellion.

Though the path to her rejoining the heroes will take time. It'll start with her friends learning that she's still alive and explaining to her that they thought she was dead. Entrapta will initially remain with the Horde because she's still angry about being left behind, but she'll gradually start to realize that she's making a mistake and start secretly helping the Rebellion from behind the scenes before openly switching her allegiance back to them.

• Perhaps not for the above reasons, but with Catra's betrayal and her banishment to Beast Island it is entirely possible Entrapta will rejoin to prevent them from accidentally destroying the planet with their bad choices.
• She's back with the Rebellion by the end of season 4.

It wasn't Hordak who kidnapped Adora, it was Light Hope.

We know the First Ones on Etheria had portal technology that Mara used to strand the planet in Despondos then rendered inoperable to keep it stranded. Someone opened a portal which is how Hordak showed up, and Hordak himself has been trying to open a portal through which to contact Horde Prime. We know he managed to do it once prior to the series, but instead of getting what he wanted, he found Adora. Light Hope, who was suffering rather dramatic damage before Adora repaired her, claims to have been watching Adora since her arrival, but been unable to contact her. It is possible that, knowing the need for a She-Ra to combat the encroaching Horde, Light Hope used the last of her power to hijack Hordak's first portal, redirecting it to Adora's nursery in an effort to get a suitable candidate.

• Confirmed: Light Hope admits to being the one who transported Adora as a baby to Etheria, though it was not for any altruistic purposes. Hordak inspected the portal that Light Hope created, found baby Adora, and took her with him back to the Fright Zone.

Mara didn't just "snap" under the pressure and cause random destruction to Etheria, she had reasons.

Madam Razz says that Mara was much like Adora, brave and loyal...but also afraid. Afraid of...what? Not the Horde, at least in its current form. But the mad sage does provide insight that what is happening has happened before.Could Mara had just been afraid of her own powers? What she could do with her powers if she wasn't on the side of good? Or...maybe she was afrad of what the First Ones wanted to do? Wanted HER do to?

Let's look at the facts. Mara was the last She-Ra before everything went to hell in a handbasket. Why? Because SHE was the one who did it. What did she do? She destroyed bits of First Ones tech—though, curiously, the only thing named thus far was the Watchtower, which powers Light Hope—sent the planet to another dimension, AWAY from the rest of the universe, and banished the original settlers from their own customized world. Why? As the chosen "Heroine" of their personal network, shouldn't she have believed in their cause? Seen them as right? Aren't the First Ones supposed to be the "good guys"? I mean, the She-Ra mentor is named LIGHT-HOPE! That's such a good guy name it's almost...suspicious?

What if Mara and Adora are even more alike than thought? Adora was a full on believer in the Horde and its Propaganda. She though she ALREADY was a good guy. So much so that even after a while of switching sides, she still readily believes the ghost stories told to her of evil, undead princesses. Until Bow poiints out the theme, of course.

Maybe Mara had a similar revelation about the First Ones? What if she stumbled upon some larger plan that involved using Etheria against other words? Or some further goal involving the whole Cosmos? I mean, it's basically a giant energy network. What would they need so much power for? Maybe...to be Masters of the Universe...?

• Confirmed: Season 4 reveals the First Ones had turned Etheria into a magic powered weapon and were planning to use it against some as yet unseen enemy. The devastation this would have caused Etheria, not to mention the rest of the universe, is why Mara turned on them.

Hordak will regain his former personality / memories, but it won't happen right away.

Perhaps it'll take some time for Hordak's memory to return / be restored. In the interim, he may very well serve as Prime's slave drone...or if he's rescued before Prime has him fully reconditioned, he'll be stuck in an animalistic / infantile / simpleton state, which would more than likely be Played for Laughs.

• Partially confirmed. Hordak is not rescued, and does not revert to an animalistic or infantile state. However, his memories slowly return over season 5, particularly his memories of Entrapta. By the end of "Heart, Part 2", he is mentally whole again.

Horde Prime's mind-wipe doesn't work permanently on Hordak.

In Hordak's flashback in "Huntara", Horde Prime neck-lifted Hordak before sending him to die on the front lines, and probably mind-wiped him at that time to ensure his compliance. In "Destiny, Part 2", Horde Prime neck-lifts him again before mind-wiping him. Since the first presumed mind-wipe wasn't permanent, this one may not be either. Hordak's free will and self-awareness might give him some protection from his progenitor's brainwashing.

• Confirmed. Even after two mind wipes, Hordak regains his memories and is mentally whole by the end of season 5.

Catra and Adora will have romantic feelings for one another.

Making both feel at odds in battle as things keep escalating.

• Confirmed. They become an official couple at the end of season 5.

The sword is a Magic Feather

Razz tells Mara that the First Ones created the sword but didn't create She-ra, and Mara manages to use She-Ra's powers without being in super mode. It's likely that the Sword is wholly unnecessary and may in fact be a power limiter in some sense.

• Given the sword's destruction at the end of Season 4, this is likely to be a major plot point of Season 5.
• Confirmed. The sword was a power limiter meant to control the holder of the She-Ra mantle. Adora learns how to transform into She-Ra without the original sword in season 5.

The series will end by zooming out until we end up in space, then pan up to a starry sky.

Providing Book Ends to the first season and the series as a whole.

• Confirmed.

"Reconditioning" will involve physical repairs.

At the end of "Destiny, Part 2", Horde Prime arranges for Hordak to be "reconditioned". What if this actually involves physical repairs to Hordak? The reconditioning process may involve healing the vitiligo, muscle atrophy, and forearm degeneration caused by Hordak's condition, so that he can be an effective clone soldier afterwards. If Hordak escapes or is rescued, the ease with which Horde Prime healed his body will drive home the realization that Horde Prime's rejection was never about his physical illness — it was about his free will.

• Or, Hordak will be given new cybernetic enhancements that will also contain mental implants to maintain his loyalty to Horde Prime, but will be Reassigned to Antarctica.
• Confirmed. Hordak is physically healthy in season 5.

Crossovers

There will eventually be a crossover with Voltron: Legendary Defender.

I have no idea how it would work and I don't care. And be honest: neither do you.

• True...

The First Ones are, well...the First Ones

"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than any of our races. They walked among the stars like giants, vast, timeless. They created great empires, taught the new races, explored beyond the rim. The oldest of the ancients are the Shadows. We have no other name for them."

I know this is silly but I've been thinking about how cool that would be, especially because I've been on a Babylon 5 kick the last few days. This series does keep talking about First Ones who disappeared a thousand years ago.

• Well, the original had a dish the Centauri love but Skeletor hates, so there's already a connection.

Glimmer has access to Chaos Control

Glimmer has very similar powers to Shadow the Hedgehog. She can teleport, like Shadow. She can fire energy bolts, like Shadow's Chaos Spear. Glimmer is only scratching the surface of what she's capable of, and if she really pushes the Moonstone's power, she might gain even more abilities, like, say, stopping time or creating large explosions.

The curse Shadow Weaver placed on Glimmer is a form of dimensional glitching

Angella is in the Upside Down along with Hopper

Alternatively, Angella is in Todash Space

Catra's species are natives of Thundera.

Solely based on that she's a Little Bit Beastly Cat Girl.

She-Ra is actually a Sailor Soldier

The role is that... And if the First Ones are the same species but a different faction as the people of the Silver Millennium it would explain a lot. Especially Sailor Galaxia, she's a typical First One with far more power than normal.

He-Man and connections to Masters of the Universe

Eternia will make an appearance

At some point during the first two seasons we will be introduced to Eternia and some of the Masters of the Universe characters,probably during a season final. Dreamworks Animation and Netflix will use this as a testing ground as to whether to create a He-Man and the Masters of the Universe spinoff.

• As of July 2018 a He-Man film is in production with a director attached, so how this affects their ability to use the MOTU characters remains in the air.
• It is at least mentioned, but no appearance.

If Eternia appears, it will be a Broad Strokes version of the 2002 MOTU series

.Picking up after the un-produced fortieth episodes where King Hsss turns Man-At-Arms into a Snakeman, the Sorceresss will summon Adora to Eternia because both swords of power will be required to change Duncan back (with/or She-Ra's healing powers if she has learned to use them in time). Some of or all of the cast would reprise their roles, but especially Cam Clarke as Adam/He-Man.

The Secret Identity issue is going to be problematic for the twins.

The trailer has shown that Adora isn't bothering with dual identities (at least with the Rebellion) and given how iconic Adam's secret identity is to the franchise at this point...the best case scenario is that Adora agrees to keep his secret while the worst case is that she accidentally outs him to all of Eternia without meaning to. Expect an argument where Adora accuses Adam of using his Secret Identity to goof off in public only for an enraged Adam to counter that it's much harder for him to play the fool and coward whereas Adora gets to be herself all the time.

Corollary to the "Masters of the Universe" spinoff ideas

Upon the revelation that Adora is a member of the Eternian royal family, themselves a line of heroes from either side, she'll meet Prince Adam, an annoying dipshit Casanova Wannabe who has his own set of insecurities about his duties. They'll hate each other instantly but come to depend on each other as siblings over time, all while hiding their secret identities as a leader of the Etherian rebellion and the champion of Eternia. As their alter-ego's they'd be bash siblings who exchange witty banter while fighting.

The series itself will be titled "Masters of the Universe," styled as a Heroes "R" Us organization of which She-Ra is a full-time member.

• The Galactic Guardians could recruit them at some point, thus paving the way for the Shared Universe below as members or guest characters.

She-Ra, if successful, will be used introduce a Shared Universe of new shows based on Filmation properties

The connection to He-Man needs no explanation, but they'll also incorporate BraveStarr, Space Sentinels, and Blackstar into the universe. It practically writes itself; John Blackstar and Marlena Annatrova could be two astronauts who were part of crew being sent to help establish the space colony of New Texas, only for the ship to be torn apart by a series of portals that separate the two and send them to the planets of Sagar and Eternia, respectively.

• Since Filmation had a short cartoon series based on The Lone Ranger, a potential Lone Ranger animated series could be used to loosely link the Filmation works-based shows to other series such as Voltron: Legendary Defender, or other series that fall under the umbrella of DreamWorks and its library.

He-Ro and King Hiss will appear.

Detour into He-Ro and King Hiss and just did The Powers of Grayskull as a two-parter.

Any way you approach He-Man in this style will polarize people.

But He-Ro is Adora’s ancestor too so they could conceivably have her connect with him without jumping straight to He-Man, Randor, Skeletor, etc.

Maybe we'll see the Sword of Power or the Havoc Staff in the background.

He-Man is one of the first First Ones

Given his...look, it's likely he was one of the earliest people from before they fully terraformed Etheria.

Kyle is He-Man

He-Man's need for a Secret Identity will be deconstructed.

Adora will point out that, as Eternia's Prince and future King, he's already a target for kidnapping.

Shadow Weaver will conspire with Skeletor against Hordak.

As a nod to "Of Shadows and Skulls", Skeletor will double-cross her, say she should have seen it coming decades ago and give the Oppenheimer Evil Laugh.

Prince Adam still hasn't been shown any "fabulous secrets".

The reason neither Skeletor nor Hordak took over Eternia is because they spend more time trying to defeat each other than trying to defeat the Heroic Warriors. By the time Adam finally becomes He-Man, he's already seen as a warrior so he won't bother with a secret identity.

Keldor (still) isn't Skeletor in this series.

He tries in vain to talk Randor into leading an expedition to Grayskull to look for the power to defeat the Horde. Adam will listen once his sister is revealed to be She-Ra.

• If true, perhaps he'll attempt to claim the power of He-Man to personally fight the Horde—only to be rejected by the Sword of Power, leading to his Start of Darkness and eventual transformation into Skeletor.

The He-Man film will be in the same continuity as this series and will show Adam and Keldor becoming He-Man and Skeletor.

Adam becoming He-Man will be a result of Skeletor sending him to Despondos.

After Adam takes the bullet for Randor, he meets She-Ra and figures out that, if the legends about her are real, the legends about He-Man are real as well. Once he mentions Hordak in Eternia, the Princess Alliance will realize there's a way for him to return to Eternia and help him. Somehow, Adora accidentally goes to Eternia with him and, once she introduces herself to his parents, they'll figure out she might be their missing daughter (serving as a Take That! to the previous series' notion that parents would always recognize their children).

Skeletor will be alluded to.

Hordak will briefly reminisce about an old apprentice he used to have and how he was lost during a mission to...then he'll decide it isn't important and change the subject.

• We'd only see him from the back. Just when he's about to turn towards Hordak and/or the camera, we cut back to the present.

Mantenna will be created through a mutation.

Considering his freaky appearance to begin with, along with not being in the Horde from the start, there is a possibility that Mantenna won't be recruited, but created. Considering Kyle basically takes the place of Mantenna in the Horde, being the chatty and nervous Butt-Monkey member, along with being the weakest link in the cadets, there's a possibility that he will be the test subject, warping him to be stronger, but also mutating him horribly as a result.

Entrapta will create the robotic Horde Troopers from the original series.

She'll reverse-engineer them from First One tech, figuring out how to mass-produce them, and they'll go on to supplant the regular human and reptilian Horde Troopers for the rest of the series. Their presence will shift the war in favor of Hordak, giving him a massive army of expendable soldiers.

The Horde is a Multiversal Conqueror and every incarnation of She-Ra or He-Man franchise is a separate dimension within The Multiverse

There is only one Horde Prime, existing somewhere outside any dimensions, sending multiple versions of Hordak t to conquer realms on their behalf.

Mantenna, Leech, and other old school Evil Horde members who haven't appeared yet were exiled to Beast Island.

After being exiled there, Catra will meet them and recruit their help to escape the island, forming their own faction to oppose Hordak.

He-Man's transformation sequence will pay homage to different anime tropes

Since She-Ra's transformation is a pastiche of Magical Girl transformations (particularly Sailor Moon), it stands to reason that He-Man—whose original transformation involved a lot of yelling—would draw inspiration from something like, say, a Super Saiyan transformation. Similarly, Adam would have fairly well kempt hair most of the time, but turning into He-Man will make it long and spikey in a fashion similar to Son Goku or Cloud Strife.

• Can someone please draw this version of He-Man, on deviantart or something!? I'd love it! Preferably with Cloud Strife's hairstyle!

Skeletor and Evil-Lyn/Citra are Adora's parents in this continuity

.Which would explain why Adora quickly took to Shadow Weaver in the flashback because she reminds her of her mother. Adora and Skeletor also share similarities in there drive to suceed as well as felling like they are Surrounded by Idiots- Adora to a lesser extent such as in Roll with it horrifying Adora.

He-Man will be one of many other She-Ras

When we see Mara's hologram she refers to herself as "Mara, She-Ra of Etheria" which sounds like She-Ra is simply a title, and that there should be other She-Ras as protectors of other worlds and our She-Ra isn't unique, and each She-Ra serves a similer role to the princesses of Etheria, but on a grander scale of the whole galaxy or universe rather then one planet. It's possible He-Man is called such because of the same translation error Bow's dad made, or it's possible He-Man is the proper masculine version of the title.

Queen Veena of Eternia was the first She-Ra.

He-Man and She-Ra's swords are traced back to King Grayskull, Adam and Adora's ancestor, in traditional lore. Instead of becoming the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull in this continuity, Grayskull's beloved wife Veena was given the Sword and power to become She-Ra. The scenario of a woman as the king's champion would fit the series' Feminist Fantasy theme.

Adora and Adam will have a Strong Girl, Smart Guy dynamic.

Adora is a trained soldier, so the field she shines the most in is athleticism. However, in the He-Man cartoons, Adam is rather weak and unskilled in combat. (At least, he's supposed to be.) To reflect this, the prince will fight with his wits, agility, and the use of gadgets from his native Eternia to fight in the Netflix show. Even when Adam gains the strength and abilities of He-Man, he will prioritize outsmarting his enemies.

The Sorceress is an A.I., similar to Light Hope.

Her function is either preserving Castle Grayskull's magic, or serving Eternia's royal family. Since the Sorceress is Teela's birth mother in lore, the A.I.'s avatar was designed (likely by Man-At-Arms) in the image of Teela's late mother.

• The Sorceress could still be Teela's "mother"—in that, Teela's some kind of Artificial Human created by the Sorceress and then given to Man-At-Arms to raise. Teela would have no idea of her true origins until she has a Robotic Reveal moment.
• The Sorceress would be a much more advanced A.I. compared to Light Hope, lacking the Literal-Minded and Uncanny Valley issues that plague the latter while also possessing an actual physical form.

Queen Marlena's backstory in the reboot universe.

In the 80's show, the Queen was formerly an astronaut from Earth who crash landed on Eternia. This will translate as a native Eternian starship pilot before marrying into royalty.

If the rights to He-Man characters ever gets untangled, there will be flashback to the First Ones era showing a bunch of them.

Skeletor will appear.

And he'll be portrayed as a Harmless Villain who tries so desperately to be accepted, but everyone, even Hordak, dismisses him as a joke. Bonus points if Alan Oppenheimer reprises his role.

The Sword of Protection is not THE Sword of Protection.

The First Ones crafted She-Ra's runestone in the image of the legendary sword that is kept at Castle Grayskull with its twin, the Sword of Power. As she learns more about her origins, Adora will gain the ancient, more powerful sword.

Skeletor did not collaborate with Hordak.

He sought power and conquest by apprenticing under a different Horde Prime clone. There are hundreds of them, so it's improbable that Hordak is the only one to ever go rogue.

The ancient enemy of the First Ones were the Snake Men

The ancient enemies whom the First Ones wanted to genocide by using the Heart of Etheria were the Snake Men, who in their previous incarnations were world-conquering Lizard Folk who clashed with the Eternians in prehistoric times. Fits like a glove.

The Sorceress will be withdrawn and reluctant to use the Sword of Power.

After learning about the First Ones' genocidal plans, the Sorceress became severely disillusioned and withdrew from the rest of Eternia, deciding that the best way to keep anything like that from happening again was to lock up the Sword of Power in Castle Greyskull and hope that everyone would forget it's existence. She'll eventually give it to the heroes when they most need it, but it'll take a lot of convincing on their part.

Castle Greyskull was founded by survivors of Greyskull Squadren.

The group of survivors that Adora was kidnapped from were decendants of Greyskull Squad, who survived the war with Horde Prime because they split from the First Ones and named their castle after their squad. It's also possible that this continuties version of the Sword of Power was a delibrate attempt to reverse engineer the Sword of Protection.

Prince Adam and Princess Adora once existed, but...

The Adora we see in the show is a different person, and not long lost royalty. Princess Adora has been dead for a lot longer than Mara, and she was the first She-Ra. The name is either a coincidence in-universe, or the Horde didn't name her, her First Ones parents did, and they deliberately named her after an ancient princess.

The Sword of Power (He-Man's sword) once existed, and was broken.

This is why there has been no mention of He-Man in the show, despite She-Ra existing and being a major element of the show (since the current She-Ra is the main character). There hasn't been a He-Man for a very long time because the sword broke, and even if whoever is He-Man at the time could learn to transform without a sword like Adora does into She-Ra in Season 5, when he passed, there would be no way to transfer the powers to the next He-Man without the sword.

Alternatively, it isn't broken, and He-Man was one of the friends of Mara that tried to stop the Heart of Etheria project. Even if his sword is still out there, Light Hope didn't bother trying to find the next He-Man because She-Ra's magic was already determined to be more suited to the First Ones' goals. Assuming the same "only First Ones can wield the sword" rule applies to He-Man's sword as She-Ra's, then there being only one known First One on Etheria would mean that there's nobody to wield He-Man's sword, both because Adora's a woman, and because she already has a magical sword.

Great Rebellion

Bow and Glimmer will receive a Relationship Upgrade in this series.

They seemed very close in the original series after all.

• Confirmed at the very end of season 5!

The scarred General seen with Angella in most scenes will turn out to be long-time Rebellion double agent, Double Trouble

Her armor looks very similar and she could be doing scouting missions with her shapeshifting.

Bow is secretly or unknowingly royalty.

In "The Battle of Bright Moon", Bow visibly contributes to She-Ra's Combined Energy Attack along with the princesses, while Sea Hawk, despite linking with everyone like Bow did, does not transfer any energy.

Bow is a transgender man.

In "In the Shadows of Mystacor", Bow has his chest wrapped, which could suggest a binder.

• To combine this with the 'Bow is royalty' theory, it could be that he contributed to the princess's combined attack because he was once a princess.

Micah isn't dead.. kind of

Like in the original series he's alive but was banished to Beast Island after being captured because he used a spells to suppress his knowledge and became amnesiac as a result, unable to to provide the Horde with any information and only able to use magic subconsciously. If Catra is banished to Beast Island she'll strike up a partnership with the forgotten king and unfortunately (in her mind) begin to see him as a father-figure as they try to escape the island, eventually meeting up with the Rebellion and the Princess Alliance. Micah will attempt to keep the peace between Catra and the Rebellion members, forcing Catra to betray him to avoid capture. After Micah is returned to Bright Moon Angella will throw herself into figuring out how to reverse his amnesia while Micah bonds with the strangely familiar Glimmer and the rest of the BFS. Adora will wonder about her own father, whom she's certain was not a king.

• This might have been foreshadowed in the Season 3 finale. When Angella flies off after telling Micah to his face that this is all an illusion, Micah goes silent for a minute, as if deep in thought, before suddenly shouting "I'm not--!" presumably he was going to finish that with "dead."
• Partially confirmed. The main characters rescue Micah from Beast Island in season 4, but he does not reunite with Angella, who is trapped in a parallel dimension. At the end of season 5, he reunites with Glimmer.

Adora's name was on her baby blanket.

To explain why Adora has the name her parents gave her despite no one on Etheria knowing her origins.

The Rebellion executes most of the Horde soldiers it captures.

In season 4, the Rebellion is shown capturing Horde soldiers when successful in battle, but those prisoners of war are never seen again. It doesn't appear to be imprisoning its POWs, since Bright Moon does not have prison cells and no mention is made any off-site prison or POW camp. Thus, the Rebellion must be executing Horde soldiers on the field or shortly after capture (except for Horde soliders who have plot armor, such as Adora, Scorpia, and Shadow Weaver).

Frosta's parents were murdered as a result of court intrigue.

While Mermista and Perfuma are old enough to be ruling in their own right, it would be extremely unusual for Frosta to do so at 11. Generally, a young ruler like Frosta would have a regent. My theory is that some senior courtier arranged for the death of Frosta's parents, and got himself appointed regent... until Frosta found out, and pulled a coup of her own.

Etheria and Its Inhabitants

There will be a race conflict centered on the Lizard Folk

If you pay attention to the propaganda in the first episode, the princesses are always threatening reptilians. While many species are shown to live with the princesses (people with animal features, horns, etc), there are no reptilians among them, and all reptilians that do appear are part of the Horde. In the future, it will be revealed that something went down between the princesses and the Lizard Folk, which caused their isolation and subsequently joining the Horde, may or may not be related to Scorpia's family giving their kingdom to the Horde.

• If that happens, Rogelio might become a prominent secondary character or a Mr. Exposition.

Double Trouble will play both sides.

Double Trouble will openly work for the Horde, but will secretly have another persona that operates with the Rebellion, maximizing their profit gained from the conflict.

• Confirmed. Sort of. They don't keep playing the Rebellion after they agree to work for them. Double Trouble prefers to take payment from the winning side.

If Flutterina appears, she will be transgender

In the original She-Ra, Flutterina originally was a mundane humanoid named 'Small One' before transforming into Flutterina and subsequently being renamed. All you'd have to do is make Small One assigned male before she becomes Flutterina.

• The list of She-Ra characters page on Wikipedia says that Flutterina will be returning in Season 2 (I don't know if this is true or if it's a troll edit), but who knows, maybe Flutterina will be revealed to be trans if/when she comes back.
• Sort of. Flutterina is the alter-ego of Double Trouble, who is non-binary.

The cat people are a destitute, oppressed minority in Etheria.

And it's why Shadow Weaver was always so much more cruel to Catra. Adora will come across a group of cat people and sympathize with their plight, and deep down she hopes that helping them will make up for her not being able to turn Catra away from the Horde. Later on, Catra will learn about this and it will further leave her conflicted.

• In season 3, we see a lot of cat people in the bar in the Crimson Wastes, the unhospitable badlands. It's possible that they aren't allowed to live in more prosperous areas.

Catra will be rejected by her people.

Related to the above, Catra will meet her people and be ecstatic at the possibility of learning about her origins. However, the other cat people will abhor Catra for working with the Horde and brand her a traitor, shunning her. And for extra angst points, this will also include Catra's birth parents who be will horrified by the things their daughter has done in the name of the Horde.

If the Twiggets do appear in this reboot, Bow will be used to introduce them.

Bow's bio states he's big on making friends with new people, and old Bow was always the Rebel with the strongest ties to the Twiggets outside of Madame Razz. If they're brought in, it stands to reason he'll be the one to make the major contact.

There's a secret colony on one of Etheria's moons.

As in, a group of people who are hiding from the rest of Etheria in a secret, self-sustaining moon colony. Either the Magicats or maybe some First Ones.

Simply because I feel that, if you suddenly expand the scope of your series by giving the heroes a spaceship and introducing an alien invader as the Final Boss, it probably makes sense to have at least one space-based location that isn't related to the Horde.

Double Trouble is the Last of Their Kind.

Their need for attention and love of causing chaos stems from their loneliness at being the sole remaining member of their species.

Etheria is sentient.

Etheria is a Genius Loci that consciously chooses humanoids to be She-Ra.

One of the major religions on Etheria worships magic, and both Castaspella and Shadow Weaver follow it.

When Adora accidentally destroys a bunch of crystal texts in Mystacor, Castaspella describes them as sacred writings, implying they have religious significance. Much later on, some of Shadow Weaver's actions in Season Five suggest that she wants to see the magic of Etheria free even if she doesn't benefit from it. If she worships magic, that would make sense.

Most likely, this religion is centered on Mystacor. Castaspella's title of head sorceress is equivalent to high priestess or something. It's also likely that Micah and maybe even Glimmer are also adherents of this faith.

As an alternative to the above, Double Trouble is a Caligar.

They've got the tail, the pointed ears, the green skin and the clawed fingers. The only major physiological difference (aside from Double Trouble's shapeshifting powers) is that Double-Trouble has hair when other Caligars have head fins and horns.

Mara, Razz, Light Hope, and the First Ones

The previous She-Ra, Mara, is this universe’s equivalent of the Mara from the 1990 He-Man.

In The New Adventures of He-Man, Mara was a bookish girl who eventually becomes an Action Girl and is inducted into the Galactic Guardians before becoming the Queen of the Mytes. Time travel was involved, though this series was set in the distant future rather than the past, but with Broad Strokes it could easily be retrofitted here, as Mara’s character is ripe for a Heroic BSoD if she inherited She-Ra’s power.

• We actually get to see Mara and she's using a palette swapped version of the original Mara's character model.

Madame Razz is on the run, trying to hide from someone.

Most likely Hordak himself.Between her debut episode and the second to last of the season, she moved her entire house despite telling Adora Razz would be available for consultation later. She clearly knows the danger the Horde represents and has scrapped with them before. It's possible that, if the above thought about her being Mara is true, the Horde knows her and knows she has a connection to the First Ones' tech.

Madame Razz was not delusional when she talked about her friends Broom and Loo-Kee and both will show up in the show in some form.

• If you look in the crowd during the "Princess Prom" episode, there is a character that looks a great deal like La-Cee from the original episode "Loo-Kee's Sweetie." This indicates the konseals do exist in this continuity, made more obvious by the fact that she's pulling a Where's Waldo? in the scene. Add to that Loo-Kee's face being on Razz's fan, and it makes her talking about him sound less like a delusion and more like she knows something Adora doesn't.
• We learn that she's a Non-Linear Character. Maybe she's not just seeing different points in time, but different realities too, including her incarnation in the 1980s series.

The First Ones are Humans from Earth

What if the first ones are actually Humans originating from an Earth with a case of Humanity Is Advanced. It would explain why there are Humans around.

A past She-Ra created the animallike humanoids like Catra

This was done with the sword a la Swift Wind, was not popular in the day and led to the discrimination issues Catra faced, and quite possibly the She-Ra who did this was Mara.

Alternatively: What if what Mara did was to save Etheria/ the First Ones?

Like it says above, the planet is basically one big computer network. A blending of magic and science that is a true marvel to behold- as well as extremely dangerous. If the First Ones created it, who's to say there weren't other races like them capable of the same? Or, worse, capable of stealing it? Maybe even other factions of "First Ones" wanted to take the power of Etheria, maybe even the power of She-Ra, for their own ends?

It's entirely possibly that whatever plans the First Ones had to overcome this, is what made Mara make her drastic decision. Much like Light Spinner of the past, she thought of an extreme solution to an extreme problem: cut off the power, cut off access to the planet. No more problem.

• Hell, as a good add-on for this, in juxtaposition to Light Spinner/Shadow Weaver, Mara's plan could have also had the ulterior motive of DEPOWERING herself in the process. The legend of She-Ra is vast and wide, and it's obvious that a properly trained and centered carrier of the mantel would be basically undefeatable. If Mara truly didn't like the power of the position, but couldn't just quit...well....
• We see that the sword was just left in the Whispering Woods, covered in vines and in the ground as if purposefully abandoned. Someone wanted the sword to be lost....

Queen Angela is one of The First Ones.

In the series, it is established that the First Ones act as all-powerful precursors to that of Eternia itself, having an Empire with Magitek so vast, powerful and unknowable, that they have either created the planet Eternia or at the very least turned it into a massive device that collects, harnesses and/or creates magic.

Queen Angella is established as being a very powerful immortal entity with a high reserve of magic and seems to know more than she is letting on, recognizing She-Ra the moment she saw her. While it is likely that she knew She-Ra from legend and records much like Princess Perfuma and her people, it is equally likely that she has encountered at least one other incarnation of She-Ra in the past. On top of that, it is implied that she is the reason why the Horde does not try to attack her kingdom directly like they try to do with the others, the only reason why they mount their attack when they do is due to the disruption of nature they cause using Entrapta and the Black Garnet runestone.

Bow in the second episode claims that Angella knows more about the First Ones tech than anybody else, and the only other character people have theorized to be a First One is Razz, who - upon close inspection - has skin and hair mildly similar to Angella.

It is strange that nobody questions her origins, but magic is commonplace, humans live beside fauns and scorpion-people and fish-people, plus she has been around forever so people would have grown accustomed to her and would not question her origins out of complacency.

The First Ones are from Eternia and Etheria is a settler planet.

The technology and the fact that the Sword of Protection is seen as technology from it implies that the First Ones are Eternians moved in and became part of the inhabitants, thus any and all human-esque characters are actually descendants from ancient Eternians.

• Expanding on that, the more inhuman races are descended from the planet's original inhabitant, forced out by the settling Eternians. This is why Scorpia and her people were not well liked, and why only human princesses have runestones. It's also the source of the Horde's propaganda against Princesses, the original races saw them as evil.

The First Ones are Humans from Eternia.

It's revealed that Etheria was originally located in a different dimension than its current residence of Despondos and considering that "Eternia" is used as a high-level password by She-Ra/Adora, it's possible that the First Ones migrated from Eternia where they are known there as the Ancient Ones. This doesn't rule out the previous WMG, either, as Earth could have been the origin point for all humans in the setting with Eternia and Etheria being twin colony worlds (probably explaining their theme naming) before Mara sent Etheria into Despondos a thousand years prior to the present. "Administrators" like She-Ra (and presumably He-Man) function as resident law enforcement / self-defense force of the One-Man Army sort backed up by their own equivalents of the Princesses or Masters.

The First Ones are still around.

Maybe a few survived. When they find out She-Ra has destroyed the sword in "Destiny, Part 2", they'll come for her. Leading to a three-way battle between Etheria (with Hordak's army defecting to the Rebellion), Horde Prime's army, and the First Ones.

The First Ones who came to Etheria were renegades.

The Etherian First Ones were a corrupt, fascistic faction whose genocidal views were not shared by the rest of their race. They stole the powers of She-Ra and fled to Etheria so they could carry out their plans unopposed—the other First Ones being unable to follow or find them.

Madame Razz is actually the avatar of Etheria, much the same way that Aughra is the avatar of Thra

This ties in to the idea that Etheria is a Genius Loci. This is also why Madame Razz seems so loopy and was unaffected by the Lotus-Eater Machine the malfunctioning portal became at the end of Season 3. When the First Ones, specifically Mara and Light Hope, came to study Etheria, Razz was created so the planet could judge whether they were friends or foes. The malfunctioning portal couldn't encompass her entire consciousness within a single AU, which is why she was able to help Adora as much as she did during the crisis. It's also how she knows the Sword of Protection Adora carries is a fake, created by the First Ones to help control and fire the Heart of Etheria weapon.

After the season 5 finale, the next enemy She-Ra will have to face are the First Ones

When Horde Prime sees Adora, he recognises her as one of the First Ones, and surmises he didn't wipe out all of them as he had thought. He figures a small number of survivors must still exist somewhere out there. Now, Light Hope was always programmed to advance the goals of the First Ones, and she was the one who brought Adora through the portal, with the goal of making her into She-Ra and activating the Heart of Etheria. So Light Hope must've known about the survivors and she managed to bring one of them on Etheria. She wouldn't do all this unless it would serve the First Ones' cause, so most likely the plan was to use Adora to activate the Heart of Etheria and use it to wipe out Horde Prime and his empire, so that the remaining First Ones could reconquer everything Horde Prime took for them. And in the end Adora did manage to conquer Horde Prime, so the stage is set for the First Ones to return... But Adora and her allies are also against the First Ones' ways of using planetary magic as an energy source for their weapons, so she's bound come into conflict with her own people.

Light Hope brought Hordak to Etheria as a 4D Chess move

It's never explained how a random portal brought Hordak to Etheria, but we do know of one AI who has the capability and a possible motive. Light Hope could have intentionally brought Hordak to Etheria in order to start a conflict big enough to awaken She-ra. Even further, she could have specifically chosen a "brother" of Prime, the enemy of the First Ones, to provoke Etheria into activating the Heart to destroy him.

Light Hope brought Hordak to Etheria by accident

She was trying to lock onto a First One but got Hordak insted. Potentially there WAS at least one First One on the planet Hordak's clone unit was attacking which Light Hope was trying to scoop up.

Adora isn't the first baby Light Hope kidnapped

This is a *dark* theory, but Light Hope dumped baby Adora in a remote field of tall grass where she could have died from exposure, starvation, or been eaten by a wild animal. Even if she'd somehow retrieved her, her confusion at Adora not being able to remember infancy (among other things) does not point to her being capable of caring for an infant. It's possible she'd attempted this before with other First One babies who... didn't have someone with portal detecting technology to find them. Hordak was only around for 25-30 years out of the 1000 that Light Hope could have been trying this.

The First Ones actually did call themselves "The First Ones".

"The First Ones" isn't just a flowery nickname modern Etherians came up with. That was the name the First Ones used to refer to themselves, reflecting their view that they were superior to all other species; they came "first" before everyone else.

Razz was once She-ra

She was one of the pre-First Ones She-ras at some point earlier in her life, chosen by Etheria to combat some great threat, but after the threat was past there was never a reason for her to transform and she gradually lost or forgot about her powers. This is why she knows so much about She-ra

The events of Portal caused Razz to become unstuck from the linear flow of time.

Being exposed to the temporal distortions in Portal rippled backwards and forwards in time, causing her to become unstuck from the normal flow of time, not to mention any number of predestination paradoxes and time loops for her personally.

The Horde

Catra is not a Magicat Princess...She's a Magicat Queen.

During the first rebellion, the Queen of the Magicats was captured by the Horde. Rather than to have her powers forced to evil ends, she turned herself into a kitten.

Entrapta had a runestone - but she broke it.

Dryl originally had an Elemental Runestone, but Entrapta tried to hack into it, and it got shattered. The small crystal shards you now see powering Entrapta's robot staff are actually shards of the broken runestone. This could also explain why the corrupt First Ones code also corrupted Entrapta's robots.

Another possibility: the runestone was deliberately cut into smaller pieces to act as a power source for Entrapta's machinery - which may have seemed like a good idea at the time.

• This might explain the broken runestone piece Bow's fathers have in their collection. Possibly not broken by Entraptra herself, but a similarly inquisitive ancestor.

There is a blood relationship between Hordak and Imp.

While the original character models shared some similarity, the new models are so similar it screams some sort of connection is at work. Same ears, same eyes, same nose, same hair. Change one's coloring to the other's, then either subtract the internal jaw lines from Hordak or add them to Imp, and they'd be nearly identical. In a series that crows about the diversity of its cast, it must mean something to see the same face on two different characters.

• Imp might be a clone similar to how Jose was a clone of Dr. Von Richter in Cybersix. If Hordak is defeated, Imp transforms into a new Hordak while a new Imp "hatches" and keeps the chain of command intact.
• The failed clones in Hordak's lab all possess wings Hordak himself does not, and look remarkably similar to Imp with Hordak's coloring. It's likely Imp himself was a failed cloning attempt that still survived, and Hordak took a liking to the creature. Alternatively, Imp may be native to Etheria and Hordak was using his DNA in an effort to stabilize a new body for himself.

Rogelio is a member of the Snake Men.

Entrapta will hate Catra for what she did to her in Season 3

After Catra lied to her about the Princesses abandoning her, activated the portal despite her warning, knocked her unconsious and sent her to Monster Island, Entrapta will realise that her data on Catra being her friend is obsolete and new data suggesting that Catra is an enemy to hate and must be stopped is conclusive.

• Apparently jossed, as she seem to have taken it in strides, much like how she felt when she thought the Princesses abandoned her.

Catra's hostile take-over of the Horde will blow up in her face.

Catra has just enraged the man who created almost all of the Horde's technology, who literally and figuratively knows where all the bodies are buried, and who has ties to a ruthless, technologically advanced empire. Catra also exiled the scientist who was improving Horde technology by leaps and bounds, alienated her most loyal follower, and introduced outsiders into the Horde who have not been taught Horde discipline or ideology, such as Double Trouble and Huntara's former minions. How long will it be before the assassination attempts, defections, technological failures, and breakdowns in discipline begin?

• Confirmed. Catra spirals downward in season 4, leading Scorpia, Lonnie, Rogelio, and Kyle to leave. Double Trouble betrays Catra to Hordak, who immediately tries to kill Catra. Double Trouble also alerts the Rebellion to the Horde's planned offensive on Bright Moon, allowing them to arrange an ambush that kneecaps the Horde's forces, which Catra spread too thin.

For another angle, Catra's takeover will anger Horde soldiers who are loyal to Hordak, triggering an enemy civil war within the Horde. In the Scorpia scene that aired at 2019 New York Comic Con, Scorpia emerges from her bedroom to find Horde soldiers brawling with each other, raising the possibility that pro-Catra and pro-Hordak factions will be fighting each other.

• Jossed.

If Hordak dies before the series ends, Entrapta will inherit Imp.

Because he's basically a miniature Hordak and Entrapta loves miniature things.

• At the end of "Destiny, Part 2", Hordak returned to Horde Prime, who mind-wiped him and sent him off for "reconditioning". Imp was left behind at the Fright Zone, but he may end up with Entrapta.

Imp isn't a clone of Hordak. He's a mash-up of Hordak's DNA and Harpy DNA.

In the original She-Ra cartoon, the Harpies were an all-female race of winged humanoids. Perhaps Hordak blended his DNA with Harpy DNA to create a viable body for himself, except that the body gestated faster than anticipated and grew into Imp, who vaguely resembles Hordak but has wings and a tail.

• During a Patreon discussion with fans in November 2019, character designer Rae Geiger stated that Imp was a failed clone of Hordak who contained both Hordak's DNA and another species' DNA. Nothing about the Harpies, though.

Double Trouble's powers come from their non binary identity.

Shapeshifting is a quality of DT's race. Children are born without a traditional gender, but are expected to choose one during the equivalent to puberty, which limits the range of who they can morphs into. Males turn into males and females into females, like that. DT is a Cultural Rebel who made the decision to not decide, which allows them to take any form they wish.

At the end of the series, Scorpia will become leader of the Fright Zone.

It is her family's kingdom, after all. And this is the best-case scenario for peace between the Princesses and the Horde.

The Etherian Horde began as a peasant revolt or a slave revolt.

Hordak's ship crashed in what was the kingdom of Scorpia's grandfather. He amassed the first generation of Horde soldiers by recuiting disaffected peasants who resented the king's rule, or slaves who wanted to be free. Once the royal family had been killed or driven off, Hordak's uprising became another tyranny.

Hordak, Horde Prime and His Army

Hordak is a mash-up of Horde Prime's DNA and Harpy DNA.

When viewers see how different Hordak and Horde Prime look, it becomes clear that Hordak is not an exact clone copy of his progenitor. Horde Prime might combine his own DNA with that of other species to create batches of clones with specific properties. Hordak came from a batch created from Horde Prime's DNA and Harpy DNA, which might explain his hair color, pupil-free eyes, and black eyelids. The genes for wings and tails are not active in Hordak for some reason, but are active in Hordak's failed clones and Imp.

• Unlikely. Rae Geiger revealed that Hordak dyes his hair blue and applies black makeup around his eyes. Imp has wings because he is a blend of Hordak's DNA and another species' DNA.

She-Ra will heal Hordak.

She-Ra has already shown herself capable of healing by saving Shadow Weaver from death. In a future episode, she may heal Hordak out of mercy or in exchange for his cooperation or surrender.

• In "Heart, Part 2", she performs an exorcism on him to eject Horde Prime's spirit from his body, but at no point does she heal his illness or injuries.

Hordak has his species' equivalent of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).

When not wearing his armor, Hordak exhibits symptoms that are consistent with early-stage ALS, such as pain, muscle weakness, muscle atrophy, and diminished manual dexterity.

Horde Prime deliberately made Hordak defective, and may have done so with all of his clones.

Theory Pop speculates that Horde Prime deliberately designed Hordak with a built-in flaw. If Hordak grew too powerful or threatened to depose him, Horde Prime could secretly activate the physical flaw and neutralize the threat.

What if Horde Prime designed all of his clones with a built-in failsafe? If his clone army discovers this, their anger could lead to a mutiny. Alternately, if an enemy of Horde Prime discovered how to activate the flaw en masse, they could wipe out whole swaths of his military.

A rebellion against Horde Prime is already in full swing in the larger universe.

The Etherian Rebellion will have help in their struggle against Hordak and Horde Prime in the form of resistance cells from other planets. Future seasons will involve She-Ra teaming up with these cells and solidifying them into a cohesive interplanetary resistance movement.

This actually is a reasonable scenario, similar to what happened in Voltron: Legendary Defender. As it stands right now, the Horde on Etheria is mostly gone. Many of its forces are defeated and I'm sure Lonnie, Rogelio and Kyle weren't the only ones to desert. If that's not the case, maybe it will be a The Last Jedi situation, where we are left off with our heroes having so low numbers only to come back next time with an army/armada of their own for a final showdown.

For another angle, Hordak may not have been the only clone abused and discarded by Horde Prime. She-Ra and the Rebellion may find kindred spirits among disaffected clones who turned against Horde Prime.

• In season 5, the Star Siblings launch a rebellion against Horde Prime's empire after being galvanized by the Best Friends Squad.

If Horde Prime comes through to Etheria, he's going to cause an Enemy Mine situation between the Etherian Horde and the Rebels.

Because it's unlikely he'll accept Hordak's motley crew as anything other than slaves to be ground down under his heel.

• Though Catra will likely side with Horde Prime just to be on the winning team and to spite Adora.
• Most of the Etherian Horde has been wiped out, but he already finds use for Catra. Whether Catra has actually allied herself with Horde Prime or has just pretended to in order to buy herself and Etheria some time remains to be seen.

Hordak's name is really Horde-AK.

Each clone of Horde Prime is named Horde, followed by an alphabetic designator to differentiate between different clones. This one had the designator AK, and pronounced his name as it is in the show.

• Close. In season 4, viewers learn that "Hordak" was not his original name, as Horde Prime seems surprised that the clone adopted a name for himself ("You have given yourself a name.").

Horde Prime will attempt to either mind-control or clone the Princesses.

Prime needs the Princesses to operate the Heart of Eternia, but he's obviously too big an asshole to seriously try negotiating. So he's going to try one of two evil plans:

• a) mind-control the Princesses and turn them into lifeless drones who'll operate the weapon for him

• or b) working off the assumption that there's some genetic component to being a Princess and using the Runestones, he'll clone the Princesses, kill the originals, then turn the clones into lifeless drones who'll operate the weapon for him.

Look, we're talking about a narcissistic control freak who's so into mind-control and so into cloning that he has a universe-spanning army of mind-controlled clones. I think it's fair to assume that Horde Prime does not have the widest range of responses.

• If Horde Prime clones Adora, the clone will be flawed and have blue skin.
• Partially confirmed. He chips several princesses and uses them against the Rebellion.

The galactic Horde clones were created in response to First Ones' aggression.

The First Ones wanted to wipe out other forms of life throughout the galaxy, and may have targeted Horde Prime's people in the distant past. At least some of the First Ones' weapontry relied on psychological warfare, such as the holographic flashback field in "Promise" and the despair-inducing signal in "Beast Island". Horde Prime created an army of mindless clones so that his soldiers wouldn't be vulnerable to the First Ones' psychological weapons. Their thoughts and emotions couldn't be targeted if they didn't have thoughts or emotions to begin with.

Hordak's physical breakdown is somehow related to his cybernetic implants.

Hordak's vitiligo and muscle atrophy can be seen on his arms and upper back, where his cybernetic ports are located. His lower back and legs, which lack ports, are healthy. Hordak's chronic illness has something to do with his cybernetic implants. Are the implants malfunctioning and damaging his tissues in the process?

Horde Prime was a discarded experiment of the First Ones after the loss of Etheria

Because the Horde is basically a pyramid scheme of abuse victims seeking approval from their abusers, and it would be funny if it extended all the way to the top.

Hordak's story will end with him being exiled from Etheria and traversing galaxies with Entrapta.

As of season 4, it's been shown that all of Hordak's work for Horde Prime has been for nothing since his creator will never see him as an equal. On the chance that his sense of self can be saved and he can be reunited with Entrapta, there's a good chance that he would also turn against Horde Prime and help the Rebellion. But what would happen after that? Despite helping the heroes, there's no way the princesses would let his initial attack on Etheria be water under the bridge. And seeing as the planet is out of Despondos, there's nothing preventing anyone from space. Once everything is cleared up, the Rebellion will most likely sentence Hordak to leave their planet forever. But considering Entrapta's partnership with him and her fascination with his origins, she'll probably go with him in order to study technology on other planets and to be there with him.

• It really depends on how much this show will push the themes of forgiveness. The original She-Ra was pretty big on that. If Hordak does get exiled, it could be self-imposed.

All the clones think they're Prime's "Top General"

The clones we see on Prime's ship appear to be completely interchangeable. They are punished for distinguishing themselves in any way and appear to have no rankings. We see Hordak himself performing many different jobs of vastly varying importance, from delivering food to overseeing planetary acquisition. It's possible Hordak had deluded himself as a coping mechanism, or perhaps all of the clones are programmed to think they are more "special" to Prime than they actually are.

Technology

Mara's spaceship and Hordak's spaceship will both be repaired

Someone will repair the two crashed ships, allowing the characters to navigate space and expand the setting out of Despondos into the outside universe.

• As of season 4, Mara's ship is operational.

Miscellaneous

Catra and Adora will have a relationship similar to Gamora and Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).

In that they were both kidnapped by Hordak as children and raised as "sisters". Although while Adora is fundamentally a good person and needed to be controlled by Shadow Weaver's magic, Catra is all too willing to do horrible things on behalf of the Horde.

• Well, they do seem to have had a sister-like relationship, and have been competing to earn a respected position by Hordak.
• Mostly confirmed, save for the Ship Tease between the two, especially given Catra's jealousy of Adora's preferential treatment by their abusive parental figure.

Shadow Weaver hates Catra because the latter's a Princess.

As in the above guess, Catra is a Magicat Princess. Shadow Weaver simply doesn't know Adora is the Princess of Eternia and that explains the difference of treatment. Her hatred of Princesses is evident at how she worded her objection to Entrapta tinkering with Horde stuff.

• Kind of difficult for her not to be aware of Adora's princess heritage if this follows canon and she kidnapped her from the king and queen of Eternia.
• It depends on how much Shadow Weaver knows of what the Horde did in Eternia back then.
• Season 2 enforces this theory when Hordak handed baby Adora over to Shadow Weaver without telling her where she was from.

Shadow Weaver is still working to save Etheria from Hordak...

• ...albeit with herself as its conqueror/ruler instead. This would explain why she moved so slowly when it came to helping the Horde after joining, despite theoretically being able to cause the same mass destabilization of the system Entraptra caused. By getting Adora's loyalty over Hordak, she'd also have had access to another, independent source of power to leech from, allowing her to strike at Hordak on an equal level. But so many years of playing with dark forces combined with her own bitterness over Mystacor not trusting her has resulted in her being a much less benevolent potential savior.

Glimmer will become more ruthless under Shadow Weaver's mentorship

Adora and co. won't realize this until it's far too late, and will then be forced to fight their friend for the sake of Etheria.

• Close. Glimmer becomes more reckless under Shadow Weaver's mentorship. In fact, Shadow Weaver isn't happy about Glimmer's behavior.

There will be a musical episode.

Because Aimee Carrero can sing (see Elena of Avalor) and AJ Michalka is also a singer.

• Season 4 has a Musical Episode in the form of "Boys' Night Out", but Catra and Adora didn't sing.

Catra and Glimmer are half-sisters.

Micah having amnesia likely due to Shadow Weaver starts a romance with Catra's mother. However eventually Shadow Weaver came into the picture, taking Catra away from there as revenge for Micah not joining the Horde. Or Micah regaining his memory goes looking after Glimmer and Angella which may have inderectly led to the death of Catra's mother and Catra being left alone. When Glimmer finds out she will be in denial and angry about sharing blood with the person who took her mother away from her.

The Rebellion will end up using Etheria to defeat Horde Prime

Now that we know the First Ones made Etheria to be the ultimate superweapon to wipe out all life, but with the threat Horde Prime and his empire poses to the universe, they will try to find a way to set Etheria to wipe out the entire Horde instead, but with Adora being able to control the power and the show will treat it as a Guilt-Free Extermination War.

Somewhere in Entrapta's family tree are members of Horde Prime's people

Both Entrapta and Horde Prime have prehensive "hair". Entrapta's takes the form of actual hair, while Horde Prime has tendrils that he uses as cables. Both are technologically proficient. What if Entrapta and Horde Prime share a common ancestor, or a fellow member of Horde Prime's species married one of her Etherian ancestors?

Huntara and Horde Prime belong to the same species, or can trace their lineage to the same species

Both Huntara and Horde Prime have white hair that grows in a mohawk pattern, long pointed ears, vertical pupils, and tall stature. Could Huntara be a female member of Horde Prime's species who somehow ended up on Etheria? Could she be the mixed-species offspring of a member of Horde Prime's race and a member of another alien race?

Same-sex couples can reproduce through magical means on Etheria.

Scrpia has physical features in common with both of her mothers, and no mention is made of any biological father. Bow has physical features in common with both of his fathers, and no mention is made of any biological mother. In a Freeze-Frame Bonus from season 3, Rogelio has a drawing in his locker of his imagined child with Kyle. What if the Etherians have found a magical means of reproduction that allows same-sex couples to have children together?

• Potentially supported by the fact that in season 4 we can see that Catra has a belly button, while Bow is never drawn with one. If he was born through magical means it would explain the lack of an umbilical cord.

The blue gelatin is PEOPLE!

When Horde Prime tells Glimmer that the dish he served her came from a world that no longer exists, she stops eating and looks nauseated. One fan speculated that Glimmer was so revolted because she interpreted Horde Prime's remark to mean that the gelatin was made out of people who were subjected to genocide.

The foods served on board the Velvet Glove were taken from an Earth cookbook

The dishes served at Horde Prime's banquet include aspic, an unidentified green goop, and a brisket, all of which look like they came from a 1960s American cookbook. The green and red substance on Glimmer's dessert plate looks remarkably like Watergate salad with cherries. Horde Prime conquered an alternate universe Earth in the 1970s and plundered kitschy American cookbooks from the era as spoils. He now prepares the bizarre dishes therein to impress captives.

Catra and/or Glimmer will have their appearances altered due to being POWs

Horde Prime could physically alter their appearance to demonstrate his control or they could decide to change to distance themselves further from their past.

• Confirmed for Catra. After Horde Prime brainwashes her, she appears before Adora with short hair, wearing a while and gray Galactic Horde uniform.

The first She-Ra outfit Adora wears was merely a training outfit

Every She-Ra starts out with the same look, hence why it's somewhat childish-looking. Later on, each She-Ra acquires a more personalized outfit (Adora's S5 look, Mara's She-Ra appearance).

Scorpia's ancestors were "Friends Of Mara".

Some of the story got passed down the family line, and her grandfather didn't have all the details but he did know that the connection between the Princesses and the Runestones could make something bad happen, which was a factor in his decision to give the Runestone to Hordak.

Bow's name is short for a place-name or similar used as first name

Bow is probably short for Bowden, a place-name of Anglo-Saxon / Old English origin. His name was mentioned on the Headscratchers page. Or alternatively, it's a middle name and he doesn't like his first name so goes by his middle name instead.

Frosta's parents were murdered in an attempted coup

Frosta says that she was eight when she took the throne. Normally (at least on Earth) that would result in a regency. However, Frosta seems to be ruling in her own right. What happened was that some courtier or noble in the Kingdom of the Snows had Frosta's parents assassinated and declared themselves her regent. But then Frosta found out and used her powers to carry out a coup. Unsurprisingly, she shot down any suggestion that a new regent be appointed, and no one wanted to argue with the angry, grief-stricken eight-year-old girl with ice powers. She probably has advisors who handle a lot of the day-to-day business of running the kingdom, but she can still override them.

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