Why I HATE the whole: He-Ro: Son of He-Man

I am a "dirty cherry picker" so, I was spared from Sam Elliott: The He-Man King...

I mean King He-Man. His card comes with a sticker for a brand new Faction: He-Ro: Son of He-Man.

There we find out about He-Man beating Skeletor on Trolla... Now He-man (no longer Adam) becomes King of Eternia, has a son named Dare, who runs around with the Power Sword, but He-Man now carries a busted version of the 200X Sword...

Apparently now this Dare Twerp has THE POWER and fights his evil Second Cousin:

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This EXTREEEEEEEEM! Villain

That Liefeldian Skeletor is known as Skeleteen...

More suited to Monster High than Masters of the Universe... but with those clothes he could also fit on the OTHER MOTU (50 Shades of Grey)...

Before I go on, my dislike for the whole "Son of He-Man" era has nothing to do with Scott Neitlich, his "terraforming" of the MOTUverse in order to have his character(s) and idea(s) become part of MOTU... I'm not going to judge whether he is telling the truth about a "convenient series bible from the 80s that is NOT the leaked He-Ro: son of He-Man bible"
While I have no links to the HRSoHM bible, All I remember is that Dare is Adam's nephew who was liek a MOTU Tarzan (raised in the wild by animals). Duncan is alive, Teela is Adam's wife. There's a talking bird, and Skeletor looks like he stole some of The Shredder's Wardrobe... There was nothing about Ovaltine... I mean Skeleteen... So... I'll back away from that because that's not why I'm here today.

I Hate this "son of He-Man" idea for one simple reason: It means He-Man failed. Not to mention how it diminishes He-Man's role... then again the "multiple He-Men" already do that.

I can live with BOTH He-Ro (The Preternian one) and King Grayskull. I may not like how Scott Neitlich made them contemporary characters, but that's about it. I can accept the Keepers of the sword halves through the ages. Calling them "He-Man" is what doesn't rub me the right way...

OK: He-Man and She-Ra are being portrayed as these heroes of Prophecy that will save Eternia from the ultimate evil. So the end?


This is THE Problem as stated before. If He-Man NEEDS a successor IN HIS LIFETIME, then he failed.
There are characters who can be Legacy characters, but there are characters that are not. Batman CAN  be a "legacy" character, but it can't work because it's not the Money or gadgets what makes Batman. It's Bruce Wayne's Metahuman Preparation and Willpower. Spider-Man cannot be a legacy powers since his powers were part of a freak accident. Green Lanterns, well those can be "legacy" characters since you can pretty much get a lantern ring from a bag of crackerjacks... Remember when Cracker Jacks came in boxes? Pepperidge Farm Remembers...

He-Man could work as a legacy character BUT, since this universe is supposed to be a fantastic universe full of epic battles where the balance of the universe rests in controlling Grayskull. There NEEDS to be a period of rest between the forces of good and evil in order for some of these tide-turning places and items once again become things of legend. That's how the Legend of Zelda can get away with the whole Link, Ganon, Zelda... (the Zeldas and Links are replaceable but there is only ONE Ganon who has lived through all the games) Sure they explained this with the splitting Timeline and all that. With MOTU every past continuity, discarded concept, etc. is being funneled into one "timeline". Not to mention using a mary sue to do some "patchwork" to the timeline when a hiccup occurs.

Translation. There needs to be a golden Era during Adam's rule and extend for at least a few centuries. That way the tales of Grayskull, He-Man, Skeletor, etc. can become terms that are whispered through the winds of legend. That way, when a new evil arises (perhaps the future flung son of Keldor) we can have a Hero... (either a descendant of Adam or Adora) who stands up against this evil. The KEY part is that IF we're going to tackle stories Post-Adam,; they have to be WAY Post-Adam...

Personally I hope the story ENDS with Adam finally defeating Skeletor and he lived Happily Ever after... That way, he fulfills the prophesy and the story is open for a new generation... Either a reboot or a continuation... but with He-Man, I'll take a reboot.

It's funny, with He-Man I want the story to end, but with Boy Meets World, I want to see the new spin-off where Cory is a supporting character... Probably because Boy Meets World is not an epic tale where the balance of the universe was in jeopardy...