"The shadow of a ruler, now ruler of shadows, and this humble domain."
The Power of Grayskull
- Skeletor burns Moss Man to death painfully, leaving nothing but a charred corpse. Skeletor just states that it "smells like pine".
- Imagine being King Randor. You spent your entire life berating your cowardly son in an attempt to shape him up. In the same day you find out that your son was the hero of Eternia, he died gruesomely and everyone close to you, including your own wife, knew Adam's secret. Your son was someone you should have been proud of after all, the last thing you said to him were words of scorn, and now everyone has kept you from helping him when he needed you the most. Kinda hard to blame him for lashing out at Duncan.
The Poisoned Chalice
- Tri-Klops has created a machine-worshipping cult where the members are forced to drink a substance that forces them to become cyborgs under his control. The transformation is painful and involves a good amount of Body Horror, with one man's eye turning into a tentacle-like stalk.
- The man's daughter appears to not have any cybernetic implants... until her extremely creepy Robotic Reveal, with her head twisting 180 degrees and mechanical tendrils sprouting from her arms.
- Trap Jaw's head is sliced through by a buzzsaw offscreen but we still hear a nasty splurt. He still manages to survive this and has a rather ugly scar in the next episode.
The Land of The Dead
- Scare Glow lives up to his name. He is the Lord of Subternia and he subsides on the fear of mortals, subjecting them to illusions of their deepest insecurities and inner torments. Combine that with his appearance, a skull faced man with pitch black skin and bones that regularly pulse an eerie glow, with a chilling voice provided by Tony Todd, and you can understand why few dare to enter his domain.
The Forge at the Forest of Forever
- The ending of the episode, and by proxy that of Part One. Everything has been successful, Tri-Klops has called a retreat, magic is about to be restored, and Adam is just about to turn into He-Man once more... only for him to suddenly be impaled from behind. Who should appear but a gloating, ecstatic Skeletor, who played the long game to get the Power of Grayskull. As He-Man is incapacitated, Skeletor binds his enemies, welcomes his reluctant allies back to his faction... and takes the Sword of Power in his hand, before gaining godlike power from it. As if to cement this, the music in the background (Labeled "From Man to God" on the official soundtrack) can audibly be heard shouting "Stop! Please!" as though begging Skeletor not to transform. This is not reversed or stopped. Skeletor becomes a God and prevails, winning Part One unmitigatedly.
Cleaved in Twain
- Skeletor shows off his newfound power by unleashing a corrosive gas onto Eternos, turning countless, including Fisto and Clamp-Champ, into his mindless undead slaves. And when Adam and co are forced to kill the latter two, Skeletor then condemns their souls to Subternia purely to taunt Adam.
Reason and Blood
- Following his fight with He-Man, an enraged Skeletor (in his Skelegod form) grabs and hoists Evil-Lyn by the neck, demanding to know how Adam called down the power without his sword, nearly snapping her neck while she desperately pleads for mercy (showing zero remorse for his action afterward), and following his incredulous rant, Skeletor irrationally accuses Lyn of secretly helping Adam. Even Skeletor’s henchmen are shocked by this, with Beast Man barely refraining from attacking his master. It also highlights how messed-up the relationship between Skeletor and Lyn is.
The Gutter Rat
- The opening of Evil-Lyn's backstory. She was so poor that her cruel, hungry parents tried to eat her as a child, complete with a disturbing shot of her parents with knives, ready to chop up their own kid.
Comes With Everything You See Here
- The ending is horrifying. Skeletor returns to Snake Mountain, ready to take it over and start his reign anew. To regain the loyalty of Tri-Klops and his cultists, he tries to incinerate their Motherboard statue. Then, however? A force field blocks his fire... and Motherboard starts coming to life. The cultists hold a panicking Skeletor down as Motherboard morphs into a human-esque shape, its tendrils assimilating Skeletor. Then, as though that weren't enough, its head opens, revealing a hologram of the Evil Horde as Skeletor screams out a horrified and agonized "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Ladies and gentlemen... the ultimate threat to the universe, HORDAK HAS RETURNED.
- Supplementing the horror is Bear McCreary's score. The music cue
has the choir chanting "Motherboard" louder and louder as Skeletor's assimilated — until it reaches a final, terrifying crescendo as the 'idol' reveals the symbol of the Horde.
- Supplementing the horror is Bear McCreary's score. The music cue
