Inspired by He-Man.org’s Roast Gooble Dinner podcast, welcome to PGPoA’s latest MOTUC Bio Discussion!
Real Name: Teela
After being wounded by King Hssss’ venom, the Sorceress of Grayskull knew her time was short. She quickly arranged a mission with Teela to the Elder’s training citadel in the Polar Ice Cap. Here, the Sorceress revealed Teela’s true heritage, that she was secretly her magically cloned daughter and destined to become the next guardian of Castle Grayskull and its secrets! Although in a state of disbelief, Teela knew in her heart that her mother spoke the truth, and trained with the Sorceress until the venom at last overtook her. Returning to Grayskull as the new guardian, Teela uses her new magic to protect the Power of Grayskull and guard the safety of all Eternia.
Wow–been a while since we had one of these. Trying to get back into the habit.
So let’s see–lot of story here. We find out the Sorceress is fatally wounded by King Hssss and so, she quickly reveals Teela’s true heritage. Teela trains with the Sorceress and eventually takes her place.
I think this is more or less the version of Teela’s ultimate fate that many expected to happen, i.e., that she would take over as the Sorceress. I’d probably have preferred a less painful end for the original Sorceress; dying of King Hssss’s venom just seems a little, well, for lack of a better term, gruesome for MOTU.
What bothers me about this bio, though, is it doesn’t explain the actual, y’know, figure at all. We’re left to infer that once she became the Sorceress, Teela suddenly turned blonde and got a furry bikini…but why? There are lines that could easily have been edited down to make room for a one-sentence explanation–never mind the fact that this variant is called Battleground Teela, but there’s no mention of the Ultimate Battleground at all.