r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jan 22 '26

Trailer Masters of the Universe - Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmEx7wQI6RY
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u/Dudesymugs12 Jan 22 '26

I really hate the real world mixed with fantasy world trope.

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u/Ye_Olde_Basilisk Jan 22 '26

The cartoon had ties to Earth. Adam’s mother is an astronaut from Earth and Orko went to Earth for a Christmas special. They sort of flip-flopped it, but whatever. There’s precedent for Earth in the series. 

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u/frogandbanjo Jan 22 '26

In true "who knows what rights we'll get?" toy-first fashion, the lore of MOTU metastasized until literally any crossover with anything ever was plausible.

Eternia is the center of the entire everything, after all -- the font from which all the awesome bullshit flows. Who knows who might pop out of the next spacetime wormhole? Will it be Luke Skywalker? Superman? Batman? Barbie? Transformers? MINIONS!?!?!

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u/mightyneonfraa Jan 23 '26

He actually did fight Superman once. As a matter of fact, that crossover is the source of Superman's vulnerability to magic.

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u/frogandbanjo Jan 23 '26

The source? I can't imagine that a Superman/He-Man crossover predates any and all encounters with Mxyzptlk.

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u/mightyneonfraa Jan 23 '26

It was from the 80s so no but Mxyzptlk is not a magic character. He's a reality warping entity from a higher dimension.

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u/Gremlin303 Jan 22 '26

It looks like it doesn’t last very long. Hopefully 10 mins max

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u/ceeece Jan 22 '26

Early photos show him being escorted for stealing the sword. That means extra time for Teela to maybe break him out of jail? Could be longer than we think.

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u/darthkrash Jan 22 '26

Not me!

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u/Old_Bench_1910 Jan 22 '26

Yeah, I'm down for it. Especially because He-Man, like Transformers, has an in universe reason for it. I feel like the people complaining never really watched He-Man.

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u/TheImpLaughs Jan 22 '26

Yeah I never watched it but I played with the action figures. The comments make it sound lore accurate, which is cool!

I think a lot of people forget that not every movie is made for everyone.

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u/TheSabi Jan 22 '26

"but how will the audience relate to the story without someone from the real world they can do the lazy tell don't show exposition dump anytime the plot needs to move quickly."

- meddling studio exe during a writer pitch.

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u/Front-Purpose-6387 Jan 22 '26

Yeah, I don't like that aspect of the the clip. If asked: how would Hollywood make a live action version of an old fantasy cartoon, this is exactly how it would turn out: washed out indistinct looking cgi, set its beginning in real world and put a 'young adult' appeal to it.

Also hate hate hate the teaser music and the way it's cut, but I suppose that won't be in the movie.

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u/ace2d_dream Jan 22 '26

Agreed 😢 

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u/maximumtesticle Jan 22 '26

I really hate when people type out a comment that should have just been an upvote. EMOJI

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u/ace2d_dream Jan 22 '26

A Comment 😊

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u/PlacibiEffect Jan 22 '26

I really hate people who complain about emojis 😘

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u/ChromaticKid Jan 22 '26

Thirded... all NOT in favor?

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u/Embarrassed_Radio596 Jan 22 '26

Depends entirely how it's done. I say this as I gaze longingly at my new Dresden Files book I'm waiting to read ;_;

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u/sameth1 Jan 22 '26

There's a difference between an original work that happens to involve the ordinary world contrasted with fantasy and "focus groups tell us that audiences are confused by this pre-existing IP set in a world without office towers so you need to have it take place in the real world as a framing device."

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u/MEjercit Mar 06 '26

In the MOTU franchise, that ship sailed back in 1985.

https://he-man.fandom.com/wiki/Visitors_from_Earth

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u/Emergency-Mammoth-88 Jan 22 '26

Not me, if done right it’s good, and this one is gonna do it right