Masters Of The Universe Revelation Part 2 Ending Explained

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Part 2.

The ending of Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Part 2 provided a suitable capstone to the series’ action-packed first season. Evil was vanquished and, in some cases, characters redeemed, as the heroes of Eternia reforged the bonds of trust that had been broken between them. The finale also ended on a chilling cliffhanger, which promised a new threat to come in Masters of the Universe: Revelation season 2.

The second part of Masters of the Universe: Revelation found the Heroic Warriors on the run, with a resurrected Skeletor taking a new form after claiming the Power of Grayskull for himself and slaying the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull. This allowed Evil-Lyn to claim the power of the Sorceress for herself. However, Evil-Lyn quickly grew annoyed with Skeletor, who was still obsessed with killing He-Man despite having finally claimed the power they had long sought.

Evil-Lyn turned upon Skeletor, claiming the power of the Champion of Grayskull for herself, as well as the mantle of the Sorceress. She then set out to destroy all of reality, having become completely nihilistic after gazing upon the vastness of the universe and finding it empty and without reason or hope. This led to an unlikely alliance, as the depowered Skeletor joined forces with Prince Adam and his allies, as they lay siege to Castle Grayskull in a desperate attempt to save Eternia and the rest of the universe.

Orko’s Return Turns The Tide Of The Battle

The death of Orko in Masters of the Universe part 1 was one of the most shocking moments of Netflix revival, with the Trollan wizard sacrificing himself to buy his allies the time they needed in order to escape the hellish realm of Subternia and the wrath of Scareglow, in a scene that invited comparison to Gandalf’s battle with the Balrog in Lord of the Rings. Orko made a triumphant return to the land of the living in the finale of Masters of the Universe: Revelation season 1, “Comes with Everything You See Here.” Ironically, Orko’s resurrection was indirectly arranged by Evil-Lyn, who opened the gates of Subternia to summon an army of the damned to aid her.

Like Gandalf the White, the resurrrected Orko seemed more powerful than before and was clad in a white robe. Beyond the fact that his magic now worked without fail, Orko was able to be in three places at once. Orko simultaneously appeared on the battlefield to once again face Scareglow and helped Man-At-Arms and Andra to escape the dungeons of Castle Grayskull while facing Evil-Lyn, begging her to remember the friendship that had grown between them during the quest to reforge the Sword of Power and to abandon her mad plan to destroy the universe.

Teela Accepts And Defies Her Destiny As The New Sorceress Of Grayskull

As Orko dueled Evil-Lyn, Teela made her way into the deepest halls of Castle Grayskull, having accepted her long-teased destiny to become the Sorceress of Grayskull. Teela entered the mystic pool known as the Tide of Transformation and had a vision of her mother, the previous Sorceress of Grayskull, Teela-Na, who told Teela that she must sacrifice her mortal life to be reborn as the Sorceress. Teela-Na explained that she had only abandoned Teela and her father, Duncan, because communing with the Power of Grayskull required one to leave their old life behind.

Teela rejected this reasoning, saying that she would find her own path to being the Sorceress and do the job in her own way. “The Sorceress doesn’t need to let go of her attachments to be strong,” Teela proclaimed, insisting that her connections to her family and friends had only made her stronger, not weaker, a sentiment in keeping with the optimism of the original He-Man cartoons. Teela also said that she would not only protect the Power of Grayskull, but she would “use the power, to protect all of Eternia.”

Evil-Lyn is Redeemed and Cuts Ties With Skeletor

With her destiny fulfilled, Teela confronted Evil-Lyn, revealing that not only had she claimed the power of the Sorceress but that she was defying the old rules that prevented the Sorceress from leaving Castle Grayskull in human form. The two women clashed in the skies above Castle Grayskull, but the battle was ultimately won not by magical might, but by an appeal to Lyn’s better nature, as Teela pointed out that she had made choices independent of Skeletor and his plan and those choices were good. Teela also argued against Evil-Lyn’s new nihilism and belief that “the universe has no master,” by showing her that for all the chaos, hurt and death in the universe, there was also “beauty, love and life.” In the end, Evil-Lyn came to believe that she had the power to do good and abandoned the wand that had been given to her by Skeletor in a remote location.

How The Final Scene Sets Up Masters Of The Universe: Revelation Season 2

The final scene of Masters of the Universe: Revelation season 1 picked up on a plot thread that had gone ignored throughout most of Part 2, revealing the fate of the technology worshipping cult established by Tri-Klops. Skeletor confronted the cult at their base of operations on Snake Mountain, blaming his former followers for his failure to defeat He-Man in a whinny rant typical of the comedy involving Skeletor in the classic animated series. Skeletor then tried to destroy Motherboard, the strange idol worshipped by the cult. Motherboard resisted Skeletor’s magic and transformed from a great falcon into a winged woman as the cultists restrained Skeletor and held him prone while wires snaked out of Motherboard, injecting themselves into Skeletor’s flesh. As Skeletor struggled and began to transform into a cyborg like the other cultists connected to Motherboard, a panel slid aside in Motherboard’s helmet, projecting a hologram of the bat-winged emblem of the Evil Horde and the face of Hordak.

This suggests that Hordak will be the chief villain of Masters of the Universe: Revelationseason 2. It also establishes a neat connection between the cyborg cultists and Hordak, who exhibited similar techno-shapeshifting powers. This also opens up the possibility of He-Man’s sister Adora, who battled Hordak for control of the planet Etheria in her own She-Ra reboot series on Netflix, appearing in Masters of the Universe: Revelation season 2.

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