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If there's one long-suffering man on Planet Eternia... well, it's Skeletor. But moreover, he's He-Man.

I don't feel as if it's really that hard to sell He-Man's ability to win a 1v1 fair fight; he's He-Man. Man pushes small planets and generates tornadoes, and can throw things faster than the PPG can fly without accidentally time travelling. But if you're bored, here's a blog from 2010 made with zero care and a snarky disposition about He-Man's strength feats, because respect threads look ugly to me, so I find this wordpress-ass blog with broken links to be more appealing: https://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/03/the_10_most_impossible_feats_of_he-man.php

But moreover... He-Man's PRETTY constantly mentally tortured. That's kind of his thing; most foes can't beat him straight up, so they'll try something else. The most obvious would be He-Man's encounters with King Hsss, master of the Snakemen. Hsss is the reincarnation of Serpos, an ever-reincarnating Snake Deity who tore his way through the fabric of the prison dimension to punk Skeletor and become a big bad villain. Hsss does a WONDERFUL job of, when not poisoning He-Man's friends or threatening him personally to strike at his vulnerabilities, brainwashing He-Man's friends and turning them into his loyal snakemen slaves. This weighs incredibly heavy on He-Man, especially as once Hsss has turned someone once, his mere presence can turn them a second time, with no effort or magic involved. Any time Hsss returns, Prince Adam is at risk of having to fight and kill all of his friends in order to protect an Eternia that Hsss continues to ravage. And this isn't a schemer who's significantly weaker than He-Man, either; Hsss has explicitly fought King Greyskull in the past, who He-Man draws his incredible strength from, and actively calls He-Man weaker, going toe to toe with the superhuman.

HIM's general tricks are just lesser, more isolated versions of what He-Man's already gone through. And then you're left with a tanky heat ray man versus the guy who pushes planets and tosses castles.

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