After being separated for 15 years, the Sword of Power leads Prince Adam back to Eternia, where he discovers his home shattered under the fiendish rule of Skeletor. To save his family and his world, Adam must join forces with his closest allies, Teela and Duncan/Man-At-Arms, and embrace his true destiny as He-Man — the most powerful man in the universe.
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/454639-masters-of-the-universe
On the one hand: pronoun jokes, ugh.
On the other hand: it’s freakin’ HE-MAN; you can’t not make pronoun jokes about that.
So I’m genuinely torn here.
I think it might be the design choice to make the pronoun typeface so big that’s rubbing me wrong. It’s overselling the joke for the people who a) don’t get subtlety, and b) are extra likely to laugh loudly at this joke specifically. These are not people I often call friends.
It’s ultimately a good joke, though. I think it would land a lot better if the pronoun text were smaller (sort of like you’d see in real life), or better yet, some kind of cute beefcake-styled sticker on an otherwise normal name placard (punctuated an isolated triangle ding! in the soundtrack). But… would that be prominent enough to notice the joke for people watching on tiny phone screens?
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What am I doing with my life?
So will hiding Jared Leto under Skeletor makeup keep this from tanking?
