After being sent to earth as a child following an attack on his home planet, Eternia, the grown-up Adam now has a mind-numbingly dull desk job which involves lots of teamwork, situation de-escalation and healthy communication with HR and clients. Ironically, these are the skills that the earnest Adam will try to use later on, when he finally returns to Eternia and comes face to face with the evil forces of Skeletor. Like David Corenswet’s Superman, who, in the words of Lois Lane, ‘thinks everyone [he’s] ever met is beautiful’, Galitzine’s He-Man sincerely asks his close ally and former trainer, Duncan (played by Idris Elba), ‘Whatever happened to understanding, listening, talking to each other?’ Indeed, this relationship between He-Man/Adam and Duncan is a significant one – the much older Duncan feels uncomfortable talking about his feelings and believes that it’s a man’s duty to fight and use force to protect his family, whereas Adam tries to empathise and reason with his foes.
