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Is that not his uncle...or am I tripping..cause that's what I remember....

The 80s cartoon never really got too deep into Skeletor's origins, and never introduced a brother for Randor. Post-cartoon, late in the toyline, there was a minicomic about Skeletor trying to stop Randor from learning what happened to his brother Keldor, and it comes across like maybe Skeletor IS Keldor, but the story never gets around to just saying that.

As I recall, the 2002 cartoon established Skeletor was originally a man named Keldor, but never got around to revealing Keldor was Randor's brother. That was a reboot, so it's debatable whether you can use that 80s minicomic as evidence.

Years later, I think a toy pacakage bio finally connected all the dots so Skeletor is Keldor AND Keldor is Randor's brother. But that was yet another separate continuity, cherry-picking elements from the earlier stories. And the movie isn't strictly beholden to any of those stories.

So I'd say it's a 50-50 chance whether Travis Knight means to reveal Skeletor is He-Man's uncle someday, or if he thinks that's dumb and doesn't want to do it. And we don't even know if the next movie will actually happen, let alone if it'll be a true sequel or a reboot.

(via bsky)

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

Metro Man was not loved growing up in a way that mattered. His adopted father was clearly very absent, and while we don't know much about his family, their relationship seems superficial. Because of this, his sense of duty to the world is also superficial, hence his boredom.

Hal wasn't raised with power. He gained it and was shown how to use it by a 'space dad' who only taught him power and not love. Hence, he sees it only as a grasping means to an end.

on survival

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This is bat friendly street lighting, which not only looks sick as fuck but allows bats to pass through without disturbance, as they cannot see red.

And immediately there’s a chorus of jackasses sounding off.

“Clown shoes?” 

“Clumsy?”

“Stupid walk?”

“Smelly?”

“Fugly.” 

“Hey,” Sonar protests, “that last one was personal!”