The WORST episodes of She-Ra: Princess of Power
Every episode of She-Ra: Princess of Power ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of She-Ra: Princess of Power!
Created in 1985 as a spin-off to the very popular cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, this show aimed at young girls quickly became one of Filmation's biggest hits. "I am Adora, He-Man's twin sister, and defender of the Crystal Castle. Fabulous secrets were revealed to me the day I held aloft my sword and said, 'For the Honor of Grayskull...'
#1 - Hordak's Power Play
Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 11/14/1987
Hordak shoots down a spaceship so he can take the energy cell it contains. She-Ra and the spaceship's pilot work together to take it back before it destroys the world.
#2 - A Loss for Words
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/30/1985
Adora and Bow go to a village to try and convince potential rebels to join them in the fight for freedom. However, Hordak gets word of this and sends Shadow Weaver to steal their voices and capture Adora. Though she fails to capture the Rebel-traitor, Shadow Weaver does take Adora's voice - disallowing Adora to transform into She-Ra - Bow and the voiceless Adora journey to the Fright Zone to get her and the other's voices back.
#3 - The Crystal Castle
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/7/1985
Shadow Weaver is attacking Castle Brightmoon. Queen Angella will loose the castle's powers in a few days, when an eclipse occurs. Shadow Weaver knows this so, she is attacking Castle Brightmoon to try and weaken Queen Angella. Queen Angella tells Adora that the only way Brightmoon can be saved is if they find the Crystal Castle. Only, one person has seen the castle. The person who has seen the castle is the King of the trolls, and trolls hate humans.
#4 - The Crown of Knowledge
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/8/1985
Young Marcus dreams of having power as mighty as Etheria's founder, King Jared. So on hearing Bow's story about the Crown of Knowledge, he kidnaps Kowl and goes in search of it and all it's wisdom. What he doesn't know is that he is being controlled by Hordak and Shadow Weaver, who want the crown's power for themselves.
#5 - Book Burning
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 10/11/1985
Adora and Bow visit a school in Northland, to tell the children how Etheria was a peaceful place before the Horde invaded it and took over. One boy, Corey, accuses them of lying, believing that the Horde are a peaceful government and the planet's rightful rulers. Just then, Northland is invaded by the Horde themselves, who steal all the school's books for a book burning ceremony, with the intention of replacing them with books depicting the Horde as the rightful rulers of Etheria. Hordak also appoints Tung Lashor as a new teacher for the school. As books are burned in the town square, and the Horde do all they can to ensure the schools teach pro-Horde views, She-Ra must do all she can to stop them, before the Horde's propaganda can corrupt the minds of the children.
#6 - Bow's Farewell
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 10/15/1985
Horde troopers entrer the Twigget village while Bow is giving a music lesson to the Twiggets. Catra orders that the Twiggets be round up and captured as punishment for being friends with a member of the rebellion. She-Ra saves them, but Bow feels guilty for putting the Twiggets in danger. He decides to leave and finds that the Twiggets have been captured and forced to work for the Horde.
#7 - Welcome Back, Kowl
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 11/5/1985
Kowl is framed for a crime against the Rebellion and is believed to be the cause of kidnapping of Madame Razz. Wnating to prove to the others that he's innocent, he journeys to the Fright Zone to rescue Madame Razz by himself. When She-Ra arrives to help too, they both discover that Imp was behind the charade and Kowl is let off the hook when Madame Razz is returned safe and sound.
#8 - Jungle Fever
Season 1 - Episode 57 - Aired 11/25/1985
Adora loses her memory when escaping form the Horde prison on Beast Island. She works her way into a deep jungle and meets the jungle inhabitants, who need to be taught the concept of co-operation with the beasts of the jungle - Adora gains respect from most of the Jungle Tribe - but she still cannot remember who she is. Will we ever see She-Ra again?
#9 - Black Snow
Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 11/26/1985
Frosta calls She-Ra to her Ice Kingdom to help investigate a dispute between her people and their neighbouring kingdom, Galacia. Black snow has been falling in Galacia and ruining the crops, and its people, the Sulkies, blame Frosta's people. She-Ra and Frosta set out to find the real source of the black snow, which turns out to be none other than Modulok, who is trying to start a war between the two kingdoms.
#10 - Anchors Aloft (1)
Season 1 - Episode 59 - Aired 11/27/1985
The Sea Hawk's ship is attacked by Captain Scurvy. The ship crashes on a remote island and Adora and Hawk's men believe the Sea Hawk to be dead.
#11 - Anchors Aloft (2)
Season 1 - Episode 60 - Aired 11/28/1985
The Sea Hawk hides in a cave with Davey, a tiny mouse he meets on the island. There, he finds the wreckage of an old ship and meets a mysterious man.
#12 - Return of the General
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1986
General Sunder returns in this episode. Now, Sunder is a farmer and he has a wife Mally and a daughter. The Horde captures Sunder's wife and daughter. Now it is up to Sunder to save them.
#13 - The Caregiver
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1986
Shakra, Adora's care giver and surrogate mother during the years she lived in the Fright Zone, has decided to leave the Horde. Hordak suprises Shakra by giving her a parting gift: a beautiful pendant. In reality, Hordak uses the pendant to spy on her as she ventures into the Whispering Woods to join the Great Rebellion. When a Rebel raid goes foul and Bow and Glimmer are captured, Madame Razz is convinced that Shakra is a traitor. But Adora/She-Ra doesn't believe that and lets her beloved friend accompany them on the rescue mission.
#14 - Romeo and Glimmer
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1986
Glimmer falls for a Horde Corporal called Romeo after he is wounded and captured by the Rebellion. But can he be trusted?
#15 - Loo-Kee's Sweety
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/12/1987
Loo-Kee's people (including his father) are captured by Hordak. It is up to Loo-Kee, his female friend, and She-Ra to save them.
#16 - The Time Transformer
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/19/1987
The Horde Professor Tempest Invents a Machine that can rewrite History and Hordak uses it to his advantage to rewrite History to where he always Defeated She-Ra. Can She-Ra Destroy this machine?
#17 - Brigis
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/19/1987
She-Ra must fight to stop Hordak from stealing the essential element of a magical village that appears only once every 500 years.
#18 - The Locket
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/10/1987
Adora travels to the Fright Zone with Sorrowful the dragon to retrieve a locket that was stolen by Imp.
#19 - Return of the Sea Hawk
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/27/1985
In an attempt to capture 2 Horde traitors, Adora and Sea Hawk, Catra hatches a plan that will bring them both into her clutches. However, when She-Ra turns up instead of Adora, Catra sees that there are bigger fish in the sea worth going after...
#20 - Play it Again, Bow
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/17/1985
Madame Razz's old boyfriend named Fritz reappears on the scene looking for help as his monument representing the free people of Etheria is under threat from the Horde. The Rebels journey to save it, giving both Madame Razz and Fritz to patch up their differences in the process.
#21 - Glimmer's Story
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/1/1985
Prince Highcliff is captured by Hordak during his visit to Brightmoon from his home at Blue Stone. Hordak's shape-shifting assistant False Face assumes the form of Highcliff and enters Brightmoon in order to flood it. He then captures Glimmer and the Moonstone, preventing the Castle from protecting itself - the Horde attack once more and She-Ra and Bow save it.
#22 - Swifty's Baby
Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 12/5/1987
Swift Wind's mate has been kidnapped by Hordak. If she is NOT back on Unicorn Island before their baby is born, their baby will be just a normal horse and NOT a Unicorn.
#23 - The Bibbet Story
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 11/28/1987
Two young Bibbets steal Adora's sword and Bow's weapon. The two Bibbets think that Adora and Bow work for the Horde.
#24 - The Perils of Peekablue
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1986
Peekablue, who is too timid to be an active part of the Rebellion, gets captured by the Horde and placed under one of Shadow Weaver's mind control spells. Hordak then forces her to use her clairvoiant powers to locate rebels in the Whispering Woods and capture them with hover claws. Adora allows herself to be captured so she can enter the Fright Zone and discover how the Horde has learned to penetrate the Woods' magic. Once there, she is able to free the prisoners and break Shadow Weaver's spell with a little help from her alter-ego.
#25 - For Want of a Horse
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 11/13/1985
Swift Wind is captured for Horde Prime's birthday and is planned to be the main attraction at the zoo on Horde World. Discovering that her terrible ally is in grave danger, She-Ra travels to Fright Zone with Bow only to discover that the Horde are being extra-specially safety-conscious. But to save her friend, She-Ra will risk absolutely anything...