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...'

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Jungle Fever
star
5.29
7 votes

#1 - 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?

Writer: Don Heckman
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Romeo and Glimmer
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5.33
6 votes

#2 - 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?

Writer: Don Heckman
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The Locket
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5.43
7 votes

#3 - 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.

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Brigis
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5.43
7 votes

#4 - 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.

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Black Snow
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5.50
6 votes

#5 - 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.

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Loo-Kee's Sweety
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5.62
8 votes

#6 - 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.

Writer: Bob Forward
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Hordak's Power Play
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5.71
7 votes

#7 - 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.

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The Caregiver
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5.71
7 votes

#8 - 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.

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Welcome Back, Kowl
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5.71
7 votes

#9 - 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.

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Glimmer's Story
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5.71
7 votes

#10 - 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.

Writer: Don Heckman
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The Time Transformer
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5.75
8 votes

#11 - 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?

Writer: Don Heckman
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For Want of a Horse
star
6.00
7 votes

#12 - 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...

Writer: Bob Forward
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The Perils of Peekablue
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6.14
7 votes

#13 - 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.

Writer: Bob Forward
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Anchors Aloft (1)
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6.17
6 votes

#14 - 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.

Writer: Bob Forward
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Troll's Dream
star
6.33
36 votes

#15 - Troll's Dream

Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/23/1985

King Ahgo's preminition of the release of the Crystal Spider becomes a distinct reality as She-Ra and the Rebels must stop it from wreaking havoc on Etheria. However, along the way, they must also deal with the threat of the Horde Duke named Duke Dreer and overcome the prejudices that Bow and Spragg hold against the trolls.

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One to Count On
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6.33
9 votes

#16 - One to Count On

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1986

Adora, Bo, Glimmer, Kowl, and Spragg take Queen Angela's crown into town to have the jewels reset. They are ambushed by Leech and some Horde troopers, who manage to take the crown even though She-Ra arrives to lend a hand. Bo, Glimmer, Spragg, and Peakablue decide to go into the Fright Zone to reclaim the crown, counting on She-Ra to come rescue them if they get into trouble. Madame Razz is worried that the Rebels are depending on She-Ra too much and advises Adora to follow them but not transform. When Catra and Claudine corner the Rebels, Adora does transform into She-Ra but tells Bo and Glimmer that they shouldn't put themselves in danger for a crown and then expect to be rescued. She goes on to assure them that they are fully capable of defending themselves in this battle. She then disappears, and the others manage to do quite well, but Peakablue gets captured and they have to continue into the Fright Zone. Catra, Leech, and new bad guy Entrapta keep Peekablue in a garden wher

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Just the Way You Are
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6.43
7 votes

#17 - Just the Way You Are

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/3/1987

A young man runs away from his circus family because he thinks his father does not love him. He and Glimmer are kidnapped by King Darkspur, but He-Man and She-Ra come to the rescue.

Writer: Carol Baxter
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Anchors Aloft (2)
star
6.50
8 votes

#18 - 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.

Writer: Bob Forward
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Bow's Farewell
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6.50
10 votes

#19 - 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.

Writer: Don Heckman
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Above It All
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6.56
9 votes

#20 - Above It All

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1986

The Rebels take cover in a small village when Shadow Weaver releases the relentless power of the Cave of Winds. She-Ra is their only hope - she must fly to Bright Moon to find Queen Angella whose magic is just powerful enough to fight tht of the Cave's. However, our heroine is sidetracked when Swift Wind is needed to help a race of Tree-People reach their new home in the sky - and as they learn never to judge people on appearances, She-Ra finds a new way to defeat the Horde.

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Zoo Story
star
6.56
9 votes

#21 - Zoo Story

Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 10/29/1985

Kowl and Kowla, Kowl's lady-friend, are captured by a vulture-like Horde member named Vultak and are imprisoned in Hordak's zoo. It is only when Kowl's freedom is challenged that he realizes truly how important one's freedom is and and soon all the animals are released from Hordak's zoo by She-Ra and Bow.

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Book Burning
star
6.60
10 votes

#22 - 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.

Writer: Francis Moss
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Return of the General
star
6.62
13 votes

#23 - 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.

Writer: Bob Forward
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Birds of a Feather
star
6.63
8 votes

#24 - Birds of a Feather

Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 11/12/1985

Red Eye, Kowl's evil cousin, offers his service to Hordak who accepts when he discovers that Red Eye's feathers can be used to see into the Whispering Woods via Kowl as the 2 are close relatives. When Kowl discovers this, he leaves the Rebellion believing he's a threat to friends, but the bigger threat is the Valley of the Lost, which awaits him around the corner...

Writer: Francis Moss
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Glimmer Come Home
star
6.71
7 votes

#25 - Glimmer Come Home

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/31/1987

The Horde is stealing the rebels' food. Glimmer and Adora disagree on what course of action to take against them. Glimmer gets tired of everyone following Adora's plans instead of hers. She visits Mirror Lake, where a magical reflection of herself says she should make her own plans to fight the Horde. Little does she know, Shadow Weaver has used her magic to trick Glimmer into making her own rebellion, consisting of Horde troopers.

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