She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is an American animated television series developed for Netflix by ND Stevenson and produced by DreamWorks Animation Television. Like the 1985 Filmation series She-Ra: Princess of Power, of which it is a reboot, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power tells the tale of Adora, an adolescent who can transform into the heroine She-Ra and leads a group of other magical princesses in a rebellion against the evil Lord Hordak and his Horde.

The series ran on Netflix from November 13, 2018, to May 15, 2020, having released 52 episodes over 5 seasons. On linear TV, the show previously aired on CBBC in the United Kingdom, before it moved to Pop on January 30, 2023. It also aired on Disney Channel and DreamWorks Channel across the globe.

Catra: Hey, Adora. How's it hanging?

Adora: Catra. Did you really show up late and let us do all the hard parts? That is low, even for you.

Catra: Aw. You know nothing's too low for me. Come on, you look stupid hanging down there.

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Angella: That's enough! You're grounded.

Glimmer: [Scoffs] Mom!

Angella: You heard me!

Glimmer: You never let me do anything!

(Adora transforms into She-Ra for the first time)

Bow: Glimmer?

Glimmer: Yeah, I see her, Bow.

Bow: Okay. I wanted to make sure it wasn't just me.

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[A Horde robot appears. Adora takes the sword as the robot races forward.]

Adora: For the honor of Grayskull!

[she transforms into She-Ra, and slices the robot in half. She-Ra glances back at Glimmer. Meanwhile, Bow and Catra fight. Bow flings Catra off and runs to the horse. Horde robots and tanks surround him.]

Bow: It's been an honor serving beside you, Horsey.

[Catra smiles as they close in, but She-Ra intervenes, and defeats the robots and tanks. Catra observes wearing a grim expression]

Glimmer: Bow! Are you okay?

Bow: Is that Adora?

Glimmer: It's She-Ra.

Horde soldier: Retreat!

[all screaming; The Horde retreats. The light flickers as She-Ra morphs back into Adora. She collapses on her knees, the sword in her right hand. As the smoke clears, Catra faces Adora.]

Adora: Catra...

[Catra backs away and disappears. Bow leaps on Adora.]

Bow: You did it!

Adora: I did?

Glimmer: You saved us. You saved everyone!

Adora: [chuckles] I did it. I turned against the Horde. I turned against the Horde! Why did I do that? I can't go back now. Where am I supposed to go?

Glimmer: Hey, hey. It's okay. You're with us now. C’mon, let's go home. [Adora smiles and takes Glimmer's hand. They walk off with their arms around each other. Bow grins.] Best-friends squad!

[The horse follows them.]

Bow: Wait, whose horse was this?

Glimmer: Eh... Bow, maybe you should take Adora in the back way?

Bow: Oh, yeah. Good call.

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Adora: [kneels and offers Angella the sword] I know you have no reason to trust me, Your Majesty. But I’ve seen for myself the atrocities the Horde has committed against the people of Etheria, and I’m ready to fight to stop them. If you give me the chance, I know I can help the Rebellion turn the tide of the war.

Angella: [takes the sword] I know the legend of the warrior the First Ones called She-Ra. They said she would return to us in the hour of our greatest need to bring balance to Etheria. I never thought she was anything more than a myth. And yet, you’re here now. And in the uniform of a Horde soldier, no less. You would pledge to stand with us against those you once served?

Adora: [sighs] Yes.

Angella: Glimmer, you would vouch for her and take responsibility for her?

Glimmer: Yes.

Angella: Then rise. The Rebellion accepts your allegiance, She-Ra, Princess of Power.

[Angella returns the sword to Adora.]

Crowd: [all chanting] She-Ra! She-Ra! She-Ra!

Glimmer: [shouts and hugs Adora] Welcome to Bright Moon!

Bow: [hugs] But for real this time.

Bow: [Perfuma has conjured up a bead of flowers around Bow's forehead] Ooooh, I get a hat!

Angella: Council, we're looking for plans to strengthen our defenses against the Horde. Who would like to go first?

[Glimmer's hand shoots up.]

Glimmer: Me, me, me. Me. Me, me.

[Angella sighs.]

Angella: Who besides Glimmer would like to go first?

Entrapta: You're lucky I found you. I designed the castle as a labyrinth. I'm the only one who can navigate it.

Glimmer: Which means you can help us find our friend?

Entrapta: Absolutely.

She-Ra: Is she sure about that?

Glimmer: Hi, um, I think we passed this picture already.

Entrapta: Oh, isn't it cute? You might be right. I usually have my electronic map to get around. But, well, like my bots it's sort of evil right now.

Glimmer: Yeah, about that-

She-Ra: Why did you invent killer robots?

Entrapta: You're abnormally tall. Hello! I like your sword. It's First Ones tech, right? Can I touch it?

She-Ra: Uh, thank you, yes, and no, not right now.

Glimmer: About the killer robots?

Entrapta: They didn't start out that way. Usually they're super useful. They do almost everything for me. Cleaning, filing, basic hygiene. Oh, and they're sound activated. Here, I'll show you!

Castaspella: Adora. How nice, Glimmer has finally started making some new friends. We were all so pleased when she started bringing Bow around, I was sure she had made him up at first. [laughs]

Adora: Uh, hey, guys, I got an invite to the All Princess Ball, Winter Wonderland. Do you know what this is?

Bow and Glimmer: Princess Prom! Princess Prom! Princess Prom! We are going to Princess Prom!

Kyle: Eh... I'd better be leaving no.

Bow: No! Wait!

Kyle: I like your shirt.

Bow: Kyle!

Adora: [sadly] How could I let this happen?

Bow: Adora, it’s not your fault.

Adora: It IS my fault. Entrapta’s gone because of my plan.

Mermista: This only happened because we were all together.

Perfuma: [with tears in her eyes] Mermista’s right, being together makes us vulnerable.

Young Catra: [sniffles and grunts] Does it look broken to you?! [sniffs a few times]

Young Adora: [incredulous, almost laughingly] It's not broken, you're fine!

Young Catra: [looks at her hand where she touched her nose and shrieks] I'm bleeding!

Young Adora: You're not bleeding! And why would you try and pick a fight with Octavia anyway?

Young Catra: I didn't do anything, all I did was exist near her. ...And scratch her on the eyeball. And call her a dumbface.

Young Adora: [scoffs] Catra--

Young Catra: What?! She has a dumb face!

Young Adora: [lowers voice in a disarming, complying way; offers her hand] Where is she?

[Young Catra takes Young Adora's hand and leads them to a different room, pointing down at Octavia]

Young Adora: Hey, Octavia! [Octavia looks up and grunts an acknowledgement] You're a dumbface!

[Octavia roars angrily, stomping up the ramp to chase the kids]

Young Catra: [laughing] She's coming!

Young Adora: Run!

[The kids run away holding hands and laughing]

Glimmer: But shouldn't she be [glitches and grunts] back by now? She said she was gonna [glitches and grunts] get training to [glitches and grunts] fix me! How long is that going to take--[runs into chair, chair squeaks across floor] OW! [sharp intake of breath] And what kind of monster puts a chair here?!

Bow: Okay, I'm worried, too, Glimmer, but taking it out on the furniture isn't going to help.

Glimmer: We can't sit here and hope that she comes back eventually. We have to do something.

Bow: Like what?

[knocking on door]

Guard: Princess? There's, uh, something here to see you.

Glimmer: Don't you mean someone?

Guard: No. I mean something.

[Swift Wind clops and whinnies down the hallway]

Bow: Our horse!

Swift Wind: I am my own horse. Call me [in a deeper, more regal voice] Swift Wind!

[Glimmer and Bow scream]

Bow: Our horse can talk! [gasps]

Swift Wind: Yeah, yeah, I can speak my mind now, pretty crazy--SO, I was thinking--

Bow: He's a talking hoOoOoOrse!

Swift Wind: As we've established. Now--

Glimmer: He has wings!

Swift Wind: Okay, I'll give you a moment to freak out, and then we need to talk.

[Glimmer and Bow both gasping]

Swift Wind: [blusters] --Great! I think Adora needs our help. Since Adora transformed me, I've been able to feel where she is at all times. It's like instinct. But now I feel a pull, as if I'm being summoned to her side. [Bow touches Swift Wind's wing and gasps ecstatically] As part of Adora's herd, I need your help. Will you come?

[Glimmer glitches, then hums resolutely]

Glimmer: Of course. Lead the way.

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Light Hope: [Distorted, pitch shifting randomly] The Horde is hurting us. Balance Etheria.

Adora: [desperately, panicking] Light Hope? Light Hope, come back! I don't--I don't know what to do.

Swift Wind: [disembodied, hauntingly] Adoraa...[normally] Adora!

Adora: Our horse?

Swift Wind: Once again, I'm no one's horse. I'm Swift Wind.

Adora: [shocked] You can talk?

Swift Wind: Yes, I can talk.

Adora: [still shocked] You can talk?

Swift Wind: I can see now why you're friends with Bow and Glimmer. They need your help, which is why I'm here. So.... which way's the exit?

Adora: I don't know. Light Hope disappeared and I-I don't know if I should go back.

Swift Wind: What do you mean?

Adora: Light Hope said if I leave here, I'll make things worse. She's right. Everyone will be better off if I just stay far away from them. It's-It's for the greater good.

Swift Wind: [deadpans] Well, that's just stupid.

Adora: [incredulous] What? No, it's not.

Swift Wind: Adora, I've had the ability to form complex thought for like...a week, and even I know you can't help anyone by hiding. Where would all the horses I freed from their barns be if I just sat in a pasture and moped?

Adora: [scoffing] I am not moping... [Swift Wind blusters] I'm not! I hurt people, I ruined my friends' lives!

Swift Wind: If that's true, then why are Bow and Glimmer here trying to rescue you? [Hologram of Bow and Glimmer fighting off the spiders and holding Adora in reality] Bow and Glimmer are risking their lives. Not because you're She-Ra, but because you're their friend. What good is all your power if you don't use it to help the people that you love?

Adora: ...I'm not Mara. I'm not the She-Ras of the past. I didn't do this to fulfill some destiny. I became She-Ra to help others. My attachments, my friends, are a part of who I am.

Swift Wind: So. Are you staying? Or going?

Adora: Let's go.

Angella: Go on. Go get them.

[Glimmer then teleports away, whilst Queen Angella cultivates the Stone.]

Glimmer: YES!

Bow: Ha Ha, Glimmer! You're sparkling again!

Glimmer: Yeah! What I miss?

Adora: The Princesses are united! This is how it's supposed to be.

Mermista: What do you say? Ready to finish this?

Perfuma: [laughs] Thought you'd never ask.

Netossa: We're in.

Frosta: Let's do this already!

(after Adora / She-Ra undergoes a VR training where she fights a virtual Catra)

Adora: Did you have to make her so mean?

Light Hope: The simulation is designed for total accuracy. Is the one you call Catra not mean?

Adora: No. She is.

Light Hope: There. There. (Attempts to pat Adora on the head but her hand just goes through)

Adora: Hey guys. You'll never guess what Swift Wind and I did today. We restored a First Ones' Watchtower so Light Hope can balance the planet, and we brought a whole field back to life and... What happened to you?

Glimmer: Oh Adora, we've got a lot to catch you up on.

Glimmer: We'll handle this the way we always do.

Adora: Brute strength?

Swift Wind: Almost dying?

Glimmer: No. And no. By sticking together and never giving up.

Bow: Yeah! Best Friend Quad to the rescue!

Scorpia: Move those big weapony things! Flap those banners! Uh, keep doing whatever you're doing, guy I'm pointing at! Now do a different thing! And look sharp!

Adora: Wow, you sure are a big bug.

[Episode opens on Light Spinner and multiple teenagers practicing magic.]

Micah: Woah...

Light Spinner: Impressive casting, Micah. But you allow yourself to become distracted.

Kids: Oooooooh

Micah: You can't expect me to out-cast Light Spinner; the greatest sorceress to ever walk the halls of Mystacor.

Light Spinner: I have no time for your flattery. If you're going to interrupt my lessons, you might at least apply yourself. I want focus as you cast your illusions.

Bow: On one of our missions, we received a message from an unknown source. If we knew what Serenia meant, I think we could figure out the rest.

Lance: “Serenia, portal, Mara” Okay. But what are these other words?

Adora: I don't know. It's too degraded to read.

George: Wait a second. Lance, what does this pattern look like?

Lance: (gasps) Oh, I think you're right.

Bow: What is it?

George: Look at it, Bow. Really look at it. What do you see?

Bow: These aren't words at all, are they?

Lance: Oh, now you've got it. George, get the projector.

George: The world of the First Ones was different from ours. Climate, language, even the sky was different, filled with cosmic formations they called...

Adora: Stars!

Castaspella: Now for the last time, tell us what you know. (truth spell hums)

Shadow Weaver: I know that when you cast a truth spell, you should make sure you've drawn it correctly. Sloppy work. Are you sure you're Micah's sister?

Castaspella: (growls)

Angella: She's trying to get under our skin.

Shadow Weaver: You could spare yourself the trouble if you would just let me talk to Adora.

Angella: No, you've put that girl through enough. Now tell us the truth. Why did the Horde send you here? What are you planning?

Shadow Weaver: (laughs) You think Hordak sent me? I escaped from Hordak and paid the price for it.

Entrapta: Imperfection is beautiful! At least, to me.

Catra: Shadow Weaver left me for you, all of this happened because of you.

Adora: You! You took me away from my family when I was a baby! You lied to me my whole life, about the Princesses, about Etheria, about who I am!

Hordak: I could not have lied to you about who you are. Because I have never known nor cared about someone as inconsequential as you.

Adora: (shouts) You should care, because I'm the one who's gonna make sure you fail!

Hordak: I will not fail. You have no power to stop me. I am opening that portal. And I am going to use your own sword to wipe out the rest of you pathetic Rebellion once and for –

[Hordak's suit glitches, as he grunts]

Entrapta: Oh.

Hordak: Get it to work.

Adora: It’s all my fault. I’ve been so afraid of becoming another Mara. Destroying the world the way she did…and now…it’s happening.

[Adora grunts as Razz hits her with Broom]

Razz: Destroy the world? [Chuckles] No. Mara saved the world, and so will you. But you can’t waste any more time. You need to go back to the beginning. You need to find the sword. That is the only way this will stop!

Adora: I did that, didn’t I? I went back to the Fright Zone. The portal wasn’t there!

Razz: No, that wasn’t the beginning. You need to go back to the very beginning.

Adora: I-I-I don’t understand.

Razz: That’s all right, dearie. You don’t need to understand. You just need to remember.

[Trees crash as the portal glitching comes closer]

Adora: I have to remember…

[Flashbacks of the Best Friend Squad]

Adora: [Gasps] Bow and Glimmer. I need to find them!

Razz: Go on, dearie! Quickly!

[The portal tears up the forest and Razz walks into it. Meanwhile, Catra groans as she climbs out of the abyss and walks on.]

Queen Angella: (last words) Take care of each other.

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Horde Prime: (receiving Hordak's signal) So that's where you've been, little brother.

(after Swift Wind trains Plumerian warriors)

Adora: Who's in trouble?

Swift Wind: No one! I saved the day.

Purple bar patron: (speaks in native language)

Mermista: She says the boat goes to the winner, so...

(scene shifts to the group sailing in the boat)

Swift Wind: Another day is saved by Swift Wind. Good job crew. Let's fly!

Mermista: Woo! Go captain Swift Wind. (to Sea Hawk) You heard him, fly that boat.

Sea Hawk: Oh, so now you cheer.

Swift Wind: For the honor of Grayskull!

Frosta: (upon seeing Swift Wind, she squeals happily) You're letting me ride Swift Wind for my birthday? Awesome! Can we go right now?

Adora: (chuckles nervously; high-pitched voice) Sure.

(next, She-Ra and Frosta are riding Swift Wind)

Frosta: EeeeeEEEEEEEEEE! HA! HA! HA! OH! Woooo! (laughing) Yea! This is the best birthday, EVER!

Adora: Glimmer was supposed to join our recon mission to Plumeria. She was intercepted in the throne room. It's time for operation "Free Glimmer".

Bow: Where did they take her? The Fright Zone?

Swift Wind: It's worse than that. We're going to... Glimmer's bedroom.

Bow: Wait a minute, what?

Adora: Queen Angella grounded Glimmer.

Adora: You said, no regrets!

Swift Wind: I didn't have any then! I do now.

Adora: Well, we can't go back in time, so what's next?

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