Inspired by He-Man.org’s Roast Gooble Dinner podcast, welcome to PGPoA’s latest MOTUC Bio Discussion!

Evil-Lyn Bio
Real Name: Evelyn Morgan Powersâ„¢

Raised alone by her father in the ruins of Zalesiaâ„¢, Evelyn left her home in a fit of teenage rebellion. Taking the name Evil-Lyn, she traveled Eternia, learning from many of its great masters the ways of magic and the dark arts. While searching for new ways to increase her power, she met and fell in love with an ambitious alchemist named Keldorâ„¢ and agreed to join his cause. After Keldorâ„¢ was transformed into Skeletor, he lost all emotional attachments to Evelyn and she began to scheme against him. In a series of miscalculations, she helped release both King Hssssâ„¢ and Hordakâ„¢ from their interdimensional prisons. Evil-Lyn uses her crystal ball to foresee the evil future!

Portrait Art Source: Original card back

My apologies for the lack of bio discussions last week–I’ve been swamped at my real-world job, and I have to admit it just slipped my mind completely. But I’m back now, so, onward!

Let’s start with the real name. This is one of fans’ most-hated real names. The main reason, I think, is that having her real name be “Evelyn” is just groan-inducingly awful–her name was already a groan-inducing pun on the name Evelyn, do we really need to emphasize that fact?

The “Evelyn Powers” part of the name comes from the pre-Filmation Michael Halperin MOTU bible, which is often a source for these bios. In the bible, Evelyn is an Earth astronaut who, along with the future Beast Man and Tri-Klops, crash-lands on Infinita and joins Skeletor. The addition of “Morgan” to her name seems to be a simple nod to the famous Arthurian witch.

But let’s move on to the actual biography. It appears that the MOTUC canon has absorbed the 200X idea of Evil-lyn being the daughter of the Faceless One of Zalesia. I have to admit, I’ve always had about a hundred questions about this. Who’s her mom? What woman actually mated with a faceless sorcerer–or is he just wearing a mask? What happened to her mom? What was Evil-lyn’s childhood like in that weird ram-shaped castle? Oh, and now that we have this info, is the Faceless One’s surname Powers? I mean, it has to be, right? If/when we get the Faceless One’s real name, I hope and pray his middle name is “Danger.”

Then there’s the “fit of teenage rebellion”–yeah, those rebellious teenagers, leaving home and becoming evil world-destroying sorceresses. I mean sure, as I just mentioned, Evil-lyn must have had a pretty weird childhood, but you have to admit a relative good guy like the Faceless One raising such an evil child is a pretty epic failure.

The rest of the bio–Evil-lyn crossing Eternia, falling in love with Keldor and then turning against him after he became Skeletor and went crazy–that all scans. Then we get our first MOTUC-related glimpse of Evil-lyn as Pandora, as through “a series of calculations” she unleashes the Snake Men and Hordak. That’s from the 200X cartoon, so while it’s funny to see them bunched together like that, the Bio Writer isn’t entirely to blame (they are to blame, however, for repeating the trope with Gygor).

The last line (taken from vintage marketing materials, I’m assuming–probably the vintage card back) seems a little incongruous with the previous sentence, though–apparently her crystal ball’s prescience doesn’t extend to warning her about those upcoming “miscalculations.”