"He-Man" was a Nazi - Part II

I remember bits and pieces of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe from childhood. One of the first comic books that I remember owning was one with He-Man. The show was being re-run at that point and this re-airing must have not lasted for very long, as I did not remember too much of the show. However, I distinctly remember watching G.I. Joe, which had numerous toys, games, re-vamps, and made-for-TV movies, as well as an overblown Hollywood movie in the summer of 2009 as part of its franchise.

However, due to YouTube and the official He-Man channel there, I was able to rediscover this show and I must say that it is a real hidden gem amongst the piles of garbage that can be found in TV land. Not surprisingly, the show ran for only 130 or so episodes, while other programs that had no intention of providing good social messages and/or teaching about ethical positives, tend to go on for season after season. He-Man also had its share of short-lived re-incarnations, but none caught on as well as shows like The Simpsons or South Park, which were of much better quality when they first aired, but have steadily slipped down into a fester-pot of tired unoriginality and blatant scatological humor. The latter goes double for South Park that is best described as an "equal opportunity ridicule machine" - the creators of the show, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, just pick up on mainstream media hot-topics and ridicule them into the ground. Many of the people they tear to pieces probably deserve it, but that doesn't mean that the show serves any useful purpose. By now the show is pretty much the equivalent of a dog passing gas - it only matters for a second and only a few other dogs will ever bother to notice. Pretty much all of mainstream TV is deserving of this anti-accolade.

For now, enough ripping on the media, let's take a look at some of the first episodes of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

The Cosmic Comet - Skeletor attempts to use a magic comet against the good beings on Eternia. The job of stopping such a powerful force is too much for He-Man alone, so he seeks helps from an old wizard. The "evil comet" doesn't end up destroyed but paired with another magic comet and this stops it from wreaking havoc. This plot element is very interesting as it shows that He-Man and the good-guys on Eternia do not seek to destroy evil, but rather to ameliorate it. The magic comets, are perhaps more aptly described as some sort of celestial beings or life-forces, that have taken comet form. Skeletor attempts to use this power for evil, while He-Man for good. This doesn't mean reining in the comet-being, but rather letting it make its own choice, and once it sees that Skeletor is using it for his own ends, it stops serving him.

This episode is a good display of one of the show's major themes and over-arching conflicts: Honor - symbolized by He-Man - versus Dishonor - symbolized by Skeletor. He-Man uses his magic, namely his sword, to be able to directly deal with the enemy and he never initiates violence with it. On the other hand, Skeletor constantly schemes with magic to be able to get an upper hand and to avoid dealing directly with his enemies.

The Shaping Staff - Evil-Lyn, one of Skeletor's closest allies, uses a magic staff that can change someone's appearance in order to sneak her way into the Eternian Royal Palace. This is a very direct continuation of the scheming with magic theme. This plan also allows for the planting of a parasitic advisor as Evil-Lyn, posing as a traveling magician, makes King Randor disappear and reappear, but this was just a quick ruse to replace Randor with Beastman (another one of Skeletor's key allies) who is in the semblance of the King due to the staff's magic. This move is really a combination of the parasitic advisor and Manchurian candidate tactics.

In this episode, Skeletor also creates a being in the semblance of He-Man so as to fool the Eternians, which is just another parasite-placement tactic; they are literally the mainstay of Skeletor's battle with He-Man and Co. The creation of mindless servants to do his bidding also mirrors the golem from Jewish lore - it is an example of avoiding direct conflict by orchestrating puppets.

The Disappearing Act - The subversive tactics of Skeletor continue in this episode as he kidnaps Prince Adam and sets him as bait with the hope that He-Man will rescue him. Of course, Skeletor has no idea that Prince Adam is actually He-Man. Other than Adam, only Man-at-Arms, Orko and Cringer the Tiger know of this warrior alter-ego.

This episode demonstrates that without trustworthy allies, even the strong He-Man would not be able to effectively fight - camaraderie is essential for a Kampf to go forward and succeed. This notion also effectively makes He-Man antonymic to the Lone Wolf archetype that seems to be so popular in most superheroes - he is not arrogant, not a loner, nor does he project his eccentricities (when he is Prince Adam) - He-Man is pretty much the essence of honor, helping anyone and everyone without expecting anything in return. He possesses many traits that can be seen in the stories of Christ, Mohammed and Buddha.

Man-at-Arms (whose name is actually Duncan, but he goes by his title for the most part) is head of the Royal Palace guards. The plural of that title, Men-at-Arms, could be seen as a translation of "Schutzstaffel," which means "Protective Echelon" and the SS was set-up as a guard unit for an authoritative and militarist leader, Adolf Hitler. Note, Man-at-Arms's helmet design.

Freies Eternien!

He has two S shaped Bolts on either side of his helmet and the same type of helmet is worn by all Eternian Royal Palace Guards. The S-bolts often seem like one band that stretches around the back of the helmet, but in several close-ups Man-at-Arms can be seen looking down or turning around and this always reveals that it is actually two identical bolt shapes.

Diamond Ray of Disappearance - The ever scheming Skeletor has cooked up another plan to subversively take over the rule of Eternia. He has found the long lost gem of the episode's title that causes all who look into to it to be transported into some other dimension. Once again, this is all to avoid direct engagement with his the Noble Eternians. In one scene of this episode, Skeletor even brings rocks to life and they take a humanoid form and this is yet another golem summoned by the main antagonist.

Oddly, Skeletor is shown as being quite muscular, yet he almost never uses his physical strength, which suggests that these muscles are just another illusion. He looks intimidating and strong, but the fact is that his power is actually quite easily sapped, since it has no real foundation - just smoke and mirrors.

Each He-Man episode presents a relavant lesson at the end. This is always seen in the form of a brief scene that brings the episode's events into real World context. These coda scenes were one of the show's main ethical positives and they are something that practically all contemporary TV programs lack. The one presented here is about how quick routes to riches and power are almost always wrong. Thus, He-Man stands for honest work so as to provide honest results.

The She-Demon of Phantos - This episode contains some very interesting images. Skeletor has decided to subvert Eternia's weapons production by infiltrating the refinery in Phantos where Man-at-Arms acquires the metal needed for his workshop and forge. Skeletor hides behind a curtain and it is revealed that the supplies that the Eternians just bought are a fraud - worthless and frail ore - and that Skeletor blackmailed the Queen of Phantos, Elmora, to get his way.

Back on Eternia, Man-at-Arms has made some weapons, which includes a shield with an Iron Cross design, much like He-Man's breastplate. The fake metal soon becomes apparent when the newly forged weapons fall apart. Our clever heroes soon figure out Skeletor's newest parasite tactic and the coward antagonist immediately folds in fear as he is found out.

The interesting thing is that the spell that Skeletor puts on Elmora makes her see her friend, He-Man, as her actual enemy, Skeletor. This is really interesting, as Elmora knows that Skeletor is her enemy, but he just uses misdirection here and doesn't at all try to hide his guilt, just deflect attention away from it. The criminal Jew does this the same way by making Adolf Hitler seem like a mass-murderer when it is actually the Jew and his puppet Gentiles that are to blame.

Teela's Quest - This is an interesting episode in that it provides a side-track to the main storyline. We learn a bit about the background of Teela, whom Man-at-Arms raised as his own daughter, but she is actually adopted. Skeletor hardly plays a role in this episode, he just sends out Mer-Man to capture Teela as she travels to an oracle.

There is also a great scene that shows He-Man for the honorable warrior that he really is. He-Man actually saves Mer-Man, a sworn enemy, from certain death after the villain loses control over an ancient beast that he had magically reined, but soon it broke out into a rampage.

"In this war – as almost always – the unjust are known by their arrogance, their pride and their bullying nature. In this war – as almost always – the just are known by their honour, and by their noble behaviour." ~David Myatt

He-Man, most certainly, possesses the honor of which Myatt speaks. Letting Mer-Man die would have been an unrighteous act, but one that could easily be written off as a convenience. This is such a favorite tactic of the Jew, that he has gone so far as to orchestrate these kinds of "conveniences" as well as having a whole brigade of public relations officials that help pave over the resulting criminality.

Aryanism in He-Man
It is an unmistakable set of parallels that He-Man and the Masters of the Universe shares with National Socialist Germany. However, He-Man also fits as a part of a much grander mosaic - that of Aryanism. He-Man's appearance has been described as "Germanic" and this is quite appropriate, since historically, out of all the European peoples, it was the Germans who were the best example of Aryanism, particularly after Germany had become united in the later 19th century. Other nations only had the odd Aryanist individual here or there. However, German thinkers like Martin Luther, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and eventually Adolf Hitler all spoke out, in their own way, against everything that Jewry stands for.

The Jew is well aware of this and it is no mistake that one of the leading Zionist apologists had this to say:

"Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German." ~Elie "I might have survived exactly four or five death camps" Wiesel

If you think about it, that makes sense from the Jewish point of view. The German has repeatedly advocated against every major Judaic poison - Luther against the corruption of Christianity, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche against materialism, and Hitler was essentially a grand culmination of all this. He took it to the next exponential level - a nation-wide re-Germanization of all major aspects of society, and this was to then permeate down into each household and family member. He addressed both general concepts and took direct action. Essentially, Hitler held out a nice big silver mirror to the Jew, who then saw his own ugly character right in front of him. And it is for this that the Jew will never forgive Hitler. Not with the Talmudized ego that he possesses.

Today, Hitler’s concepts are being studied by members of practically every ethnic group and those people are seeing how Der Fuhrer’s ideas apply to their own nation. Perhaps this is why the Jew is becoming increasingly volatile in his actions, but often just plain old careless. War crimes, such as those in Gaza (a small piece of land that is essentially being used as an "internment territory") are being harder and harder to defend - shamelessness is no longer enough!

Story Dyanamics
This publicity image for He-Man shows some of the main story dynamics.

On the edges we have the animal-like characters: One bad - a crude beast. One good - a graceful bird with divine knowledge.

Then, the women-warriors, note that their breastplates and collars are very similar. The bad uses magical schemes to fight. The good uses her own wits and weapons in battle.

This is taken to the next level with the male warriors. The bad, Skeletor, creates many of the schemes and magical devices used by his allies, and he also summons golems to fight. The good, Man-at-Arms, forges weapons and commands actual troops in battle to help his allies. Orko's placement right above Man-at-Arms is accurate as he is the good side's magician, thus both these characters form the opposite to Skeletor. Orko also provides much of the show's humor and makes his friends laugh, while Skeletor's laughter usually comes when he feels like one of his schemes will work, it is a self-serving laughter.

Then, the apex of power is only attainable to the good, though the bad try and clamor up there every chance they get. He-Man is the ultimate combination of magical power and physical fighting ability. This is a dangerous combination, so only a few are privy to it, the noblest stock of Eternia. Ironically, this doesn’t include the King, but King Randor is highly respected and gives orders to Man-at-Arms who works closely with He-Man. Thus, the titular hero is like a secret guardian angel - all effort, no reward, and it's all fine by him - a true Ubermensch and even an Arhat.

Part I was a reply to that one particular video, but with this much closer examination of the show's content, I must correct my previous statement that the show "contains allusions to National Socialist ideas, though just on simple level" -- the allusions are not so simple! They actually permeate the show and reflect NS ideals close enough to make the show a good element on The Storytelling Front.

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SEE ALSO: ThunderCats review

"He-Man" was a Nazi - Part I

I was given a link to a particular video not too long ago. This four minute video was basically a simple video-essay on how the cartoon character, He-Man, was a drawn from Nazi images and themes. The ominous music accompanying the piece seems to suggest a steadily creeping evil. The ironic part is that the video, on a simplistic level, is quite true - the show He-Man and the Masters of the Universe did align for the most part with much of the image of National Socialist Germany as propagated by the Allied and Soviet propaganda machines. However, the people behind that propaganda painted the Nazis as Devil Incarnates, but in the show, "the Aryan barbarian," He-Man, is the good guy of the series. We'll get into why in a little bit.

First, the video: Nazi He-Man!

The video is a rather lame propaganda vehicle, at best. Let's identify its weak points.

Target One: The Opening Quote
The opening quote is by Robert E. Howard, who was the American author who conceived the character, Conan the Barbarian. So it is not unreasonable to associate his writing with He-Man who is quite similar in appearance and general mythos. He-Man creator, Louis Scheimer, even based his character on Conan, though he opted for a less violent protagonist by writing He-Man as character that delivers a positive social message. The end of each episode features a short lesson or moral derived from the episode's themes. Robert E. Howard wrote in the 1920s an 1930s when racism, especially white supremacy, was rampant in the United States, thus the quote from one of his works is really a product of its time. When the video's author links the quote to the Nazis, however, he mysteriously does not provide any source nor does he provide proof that any leading Nazi Official admired Howard's fiction or anything of the like. If the Nazis were so obsessed with blonde-haired and blue eyed people, they wouldn't have approved of Hitler as their leader since he had dark hair. Thus, this video's attempt at connecting Nazism to racism is just a bridge to nowhere.

This point is further weakened by the fact that the video then shows a dark-eyed He-Man. He doesn't have blue eyes!

Target Two: The Iron Cross
The video then links He-Man to Nazism by pointing out the cross on his breastplate. It does, in fact, look like an Iron Cross, but the Iron Cross is not a Nazi creation. The Iron Cross became a military decoration and recognition of a soldier's valor in Prussia in 1813. The design was by Prussian architect Karl Schinkel, who based his design off of the cross of the Teutonic Knights. The Iron Cross also bears a strong resemblance to the Maltese Cross, which has its origin back in the Crusades when the Knights of St. John engaged the Saracens on the island of the Malta. The Saracens had weaponized fire, which proved to be a very effective weapon. The many knights in that battle who had saved their comrades from fiery death were award badges of honor, and these featured the cross that eventually became knows as "the Maltese Cross" - a recognition of bravery in the fires of war.

Hint: they're not all Nazis.

The design from the 1770s in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth appears to be the oldest of the Iron Cross variants, but it was actually a hoisted banner used by the Hussar Cavalry and was known as "Husarski Krzyż" (Eng. - "Hussar Cross"). The first time it was used as an award was with the 1813 Prussian variant. Also, the 1920s Polish version of the Iron Cross was a unit insignia, of the "Death Hussars," during the Polish-Soviet War and not an award.

The basic design for this military icon is far from being exclusively Germanic. The pictures above are only a fraction of badges/military decorations that employ the Iron Cross/Maltese Cross motif. Note that even US Fire Departments make use of a similar design for their badges, this refers back to the story from Malta. Also, the German Armed Forces today, the Bundeswehr, not only use the Iron Cross insignia on vehicles, but also award a new variant of the Cross for valor.

Target Three: The Tiger
Prince Adam has a humble cat companion named Cringer. When Prince Adam assumes his warrior form of He-Man, the normally calm Cringer becomes Battle Cat, whom He-Man rides into battle. The main German battle tanks during the Second World War, were named after large cats - the "Tiger" and the "Panther." However, the connection to Nazism is, once again, totally superficial. The Bundeswehr's main battle tank today is called the Leopard... yep another big cat. Also, the video makes the point that the Tiger symbolized the Nazi Military as a whole, but this image was the product of Allied and Soviet propaganda. Thus, the video just effectively contradicted itself.

Target Four: The Lightning
When Prince Adam transforms into He-Man, he does so but drawing a sword and taking on his powerful alter-ego with a flash of lightning, which also transforms Cringer into Battle Cat. The video then states that the "Nazi military" was so effective due to the use of "Blitzkrieg" (Eng. - Lightning War) tactics. In a way, this is true as the Blitzkrieg was a revolutionary general attack strategy that coordinated ground and air forces, as well as gave officers in the field much more flexible orders for how to command their own soldiers and how to approach objectives. All this amounted to rapid military advances, but also allowed for quick, coordinated fall back moves as well.

The Blitzkrieg was conceived by the military strategist Heinz Guderian who served in the regular army and not the Schutzstaffel as the ominously placed SS Bolts seem to suggest. By war's end, Heinz Guderian was not convicted of war crimes and his conduct was deemed that of a professional soldier. His military theories went on to redefine war strategy and, like the cat names for German tanks, as well as the Iron Cross, those theories are still in effect today and are used by every modernized military.

The maker of this video must see Nazis in his sleep, since a warrior figure with thunder and lighting reminds me more of the Norse god Thor than anything else. The Scandinavian countries, to this day, have big cats as centerpieces for their national emblems.

Target Five: The Eagle
One of He-Man's key helpers is the Sorceress, who is said to be "an Aryan woman who dresses as, you guessed it, a Bundesadler Eagle." Actually, the Sorceress's bird form is a falcon, but I suppose that we could let that one slide. What we cannot let slide, however, is that the hopelessly naive out there (among whom the video maker can be found if anyone cares to look for him/her) will never comprehend the fact that "Aryan" does not mean "ethnic German" or "Germanic" or anything ethnic specific. Two of the largest ancient Aryan sites are not located anywhere near Germany - one is in Russia and the other one is in Bulgaria. Russia and Bulgaria are Slavic nations. According to Allied and Soviet propaganda that has become so firmly entrenched in peoples' perception of the Third Reich, the Nazis were said to have detested the Slavs right down to their core. Thus, news stories about archeological sites like this don't ever make mainstream news, since they effectively put a huge hole in the established lies and perpetuated illusions.

Also, it is down right to ridiculous to say that the Eagle logo is exclusively Nazi, since there are a great many countries that use an eagle for their Coat of Arms. The Great Seal of the United States also features a large eagle with wings spread out.

Target Six: The Protocols
The text, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (there are some variations as to the exact title) is said to be the "Anti-Semitic, Conspiracy Theory manifesto." The video then states that said manifesto "paints its 'Jewish conspiracy' as a Snake eating the world, as orchestrated by a Secret Society called Skull and Bones." The Skull and Bones is a secret society from Yale University and it has many pro-Zionist politicians on its exclusive list of members, including former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush, father of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and grandfather of yet another man to hold that office, George W. Bush. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who ran against George W. Bush in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, is also a member. However, this one society, based in one university is hardly worthy enough to be blamed for all of the Jewish subversion in the World. Thinking along the lines that this video proposes will result only in foolishness. One must actually apply what they learn to the real World. And one famous American did just that.

"The only state I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW." ~Henry Ford, as quoted in an interview in 'New York World' on 17/2/1921

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Henry Ford didn't start to circulate and print copies of this text out of unprovoked hatred for the Jews. Though, the expert victim Jew likes to see it that way; he likes to paint his opposition as irrational so that anyone who speaks out against Jewry can be easily just branded an "anti-Semite." This goes for people that possess numbskull hate (as seen in neo-Nazis and racists) as well as people utilizing rational observation and application of knowledge like Adolf Hitler and authentic National Socialists, the latter to this day. Additionally, the term "anti-Semite" is intrinsically absurd as Arabs are also Semites and the main source of anti-Arab hate in this World are none other than Zionist Jews - thus they brand themselves with their own malicious label! Just don't expect them to admit that. It would be too much of a hassle for them to see past the illogic of their own arid hate and think of something rational to call their enemies.

Of course it is not just the Jews that fall into this self-perpetuated pit of folly. Long before he became Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler had noticed this in a great number of people. His thoughts are aptly summarized in the following passages from Mein Kampf:

"I know people who read interminably, book after book, from page to page, and yet I should not call them 'well-read people'. Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of assorting and classifying the material which they have gathered from books. They have not the faculty of distinguishing between what is useful and useless in a book."

~Adolf Hitler    

"The material which one has acquired through reading must not be stored up in the memory on a plan that corresponds to the successive chapters of the book; but each little piece of knowledge thus gained must be treated as if it were a little stone to be inserted into a mosaic, so that it finds its proper place among all the other pieces and particles that help to form a general world-picture in the brain of the reader. Otherwise only a confused jumble of chaotic notions will result from all this reading." ~Adolf Hitler

This idea of applying knowledge was also something Tolkien wrote about in relation to his great work, The Lord of the Rings. He didn't want people to see it as an allegory for Europe and European nations - he preferred "applicability."

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its prescence." ~J.R.R. Tolkien, forward to 'Fellowship of the Ring'

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is routinely called a "forgery" and "a fraudulent text" by the mainstream press. About six months after Henry Ford, a famous and influential person, went on record as supporting the distribution of the text, an Irish journalist named Philip Graves, who worked for The Times, a London-based newspaper, "uncovered" that it's actually a hoax. The nature of this connection is about as solid as the "proof" for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz. The story took a while to invent, note that they didn't just automatically refute Ford, but needed time to cook up the right story. Eventually, a newspaper from one of the main hubs of the International Bankster Jews, produced the "refutation" that was immediately taken as "sacred truth."

FEUER FREI!
Well, there you have it. The weak points of this enemy vehicle. You know what to do with that Panzerschreck.

Conclusion
Basically, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe contains allusions to National Socialist ideas, though just on a simple level. The maker of the video above undoubtedly noticed this, but they can't get their head around all the anti-Nazi propaganda that they've been fed since grade school. In fact, given the intelligence level of most anti-Nazi information, I was expecting that at some point, someone was going to label Skeletor as "the evil Nazi," since his face is like the SS Totenkopf, his castle represents the snake that corrupted Adam and Eve, and his cohorts are brutes - that image is actually how Nazis are most often represented - "the incarnation of absolute evil." It is, in a way, ironic that the video's creator saw Skeletor as the Jew; it was a keen observation, but they took the final step, applying the story's symbols to the real World, the wrong way and saw He-Man as subversive evil.

SEE ALSO: Part II, review of the actual show.