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A 1987 film based upon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. The movie features Skeletor's acquiring a teleportation device from an eccentric inventor, which gives him an edge in the war. Eventually the heroes find an identical device and use it to escape capture, accidentally traveling to a distant planet — Earth. Skeletor is not far behind. Also starring in the movie was Frank Langella as Skeletor, Meg Foster as Evil-Lyn and a young Courteney Cox and Robert Duncan McNeill as teenage sweethearts caught up in the events.
A fictionalized version of the making of the live-action film was later used as the basis for a story arc in Paul Chadwick's Concrete.
Masters of the Universe
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Eternia is besieged and falls to Skeletor and his armies.
- Big Entrance: He-Man, when he first arrives on earth. Skeletor and his army made a pretty big entrance themsleves when they first arrived on the scene. In fact, Skeletor love this trope, as he makes many entrances in this film often with low camera-angles and up-beat, dramatic music.
- Big Fancy Castle / Bright Castle: Castle Grayskull.
- Big No: Kevin, when Julie is shot.
- Canon Foreigner: The Movie used only the most immediate characters of the show, He-Man, Duncan (Man-At-Arms), Teela and the Sorceress are the only heroes with a sidekick being a hairy gremlin called Gwildor (who vaguely fills out Orko's role in being comic relief, although he is also a Mad Scientist who is responsible for the plot). Skeletor, Evil-Lyn and Beast Man are the only villains with a group of improvised minions to fill out his ranks, in particular an eyepatch-wearing bald swordsman named Blade who sort of fills the role of The Dragon.
- Carnival of Killers: The mercenaries sent by Skeletor.
- Evil Is Hammy: Skeletor down to the core. I DARE YOU MORTAL!
- A God Am I: Skeletor has one of these speeches at the climax, right down to the line "I am a god!"
- I Choose to Stay: Lubic decides to remain on Eternia at the end.
- Idiot Ball: Evil-Lyn tricks Julie into handing her the Cosmic Key by disguising herself as Julie's dead mother. Not once does Julie question how her mother is alive, where her father could be, or why her mother would want the Cosmic Key.
- It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: Kevin and Julie, two normal earth teens don't like the idea of being chased around and nearly killed just because they happended to find the MacGuffin that everybody wants. Heck Kevin even tried to refuse the call!
- Jerkass: Detective Lubic starts out as such before he becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Light Is Not Good: Skeletor when he absorbs the power of the Great Eye.
- Magic Music: How the Cosmic Key works, basically uses a type of Functional Magic that works via music: playing a certain notes on the instrument like you'd dial a telephone causes a spell-like effect to happen. Thus sending the dialer wherever they wished to go.
- Master of Illusion: Evil-Lyn can turn into just about anyone she wants with this power, she used it twice in the film. Once on Gwildor (off screen) and again on Julie.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Skeletor's minions abandon him in the climax when they see he has no intention of sharing the power of the universe with them.
- More Than Mind Control: Evil-Lyn uses her magic to confuse poor emotionally vulnerable Julie.
- No Man Should Have This Power: Gwildor comes to regret creating the Cosmic Key based on this reasoning. He eventually says that he wishes he'd never built it.
- Save Both Worlds: Eternia and Earth.
- Spanner in the Works: Skeletor's "Trapped in Another World" would have worked perfectly if not for Kevin's musical aptitude allowing him to recall the tone that can open a portal back to Eternia.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Gwildor to Orko. Though Gwildor is a Mad Scientist instead of a wizard.
- Sword Fight: The film climaxes with to sword fights between He-Man and Skeletor.
- A Taste of the Lash: After Skeletor manages to capture He-Man, he gets whipped.
- Trapped in Another World: A misfire of the Cosmic Key sends He-Man, Man-At-Arms, Teela and Gwildor to Earth. After Skeletor follows and takes He-Man prisoner, he leaves the others on Earth with a damaged Cosmic Key. They manage to repair it and follow.
- Treacherous Spirit Chase: In the movie, Julie immediately accepts her dead mother turning in the middle of a siege by magic aliens from another dimension to lure her out the back door of the shop in which she and her friends are holed up defending a powerful alien artifact. Moments later, she accepts that her dead mother needs her to hand over said artifact. Needless to say, it's not really her dead mother.
- Too Important to Walk: Skeletor arrives on earth sitting comfortably atop one of his intimadating looking tanks.
- Wizards from Outer Space: Or... "Aliens from Eternia".
- You Have Failed Me: Poor Saurod.