Infected She-Ra

"You can't come in and take this from me now!"

Infected She-Ra is from the 2018 Netflix reboot of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

## Backstory

She-Ra can become infected when her sword is infected by a First One's virus in the form of a disk. When her Sword of Protection is infected by this virus, She-Ra will go berserk and attack everyone, friend or foe. She-Ra's once sapphire like shining eyes turns red, and her veins turn red. Her humanity is replaced with bloodlust. The AU's are often centered around where the disk containing the virus was never destroyed by Scorpia. Another AU is Infected She-Ra and Corrupted Catra team-up and destroys the world.

## Info

If the sword is infected directly with the Data Disk when she is She-Ra, she enters a berserk state, acting violent and being incapable of differentiating friend or foe (to the point of throwing Bow, Glimmer, and Sea Hawk to the void and coming extremely close to killing Catra). This state can only be stopped by keeping She-Ra's sword away from Adora and destroying the Data Disk as Scorpia did - Adora doesn't remember what happened during her time of being corrupted once the sword is taken away, and she remains in a compromised state often compared to being inebriated for a period of time. She acts goofy and drunk once the infected sword is taken away from her. She remains in this delirious state until either the sword is given back and she goes crazy, or until the virus disk is destroyed.

This happened once but very briefly in Entrapta's lab. The data disk was broken, but Entrapta, caring more about science and tech than people's safety, put it together.

Catra got a hold of the disk when Entrapta joined the Horde and brought her stuff. In the episode White Out, Catra uses this knowledge to purposefully infect the Sword of Protection which caused She-Ra to go berserk and attack everyone. Only when the heroes convinced Scorpia to break the disk did Adora return to normal. Breaking of the tech also released the Snow Monsters from the same infection, which had caused them to attack everyone they came across.

## Personality

Infected She-Ra loses most of her personality. Adora is usually an awkward lesbian dork, who is kind and determined to help out. She-Ra is the same, but being stronger gives her a boost of confidence. But Infected She-Ra is a monster, ravenous and berserk. She doesn't care who you are, but she wants to kill you. She is impulsive and won't stop and think about anything. Bloodlust has taken over her mind.

## Powers

Infected She-Ra is not intelligent enough nor does she want to use any other powers besides her brute strength, but here they are anyway.

Powers via the Sword of Protection:

* **Transformation:** Using the Sword of Protection, Adora can transform into the legendary warrior She-Ra. Described by Mermista as being eight-feet tall, Adora becomes much taller and more muscular when transformed into She-Ra. Her hair also becomes longer and a much lighter shade of blonde. Finally, Adora's clothes are transformed into She-Ra's costume.
* Adora can also transform the sword into any form (Season Two and onward). Some include a shield, a flute, and a cup.
* **Superhuman Strength**: Adora is incredibly strong as She-Ra, being able to easily lift alder and punch dents into Horde tanks with very little effort. Even without She-Ra powers, Adora is very strong which can be seen when she wins in an arm-wrestling match against well build, strong Sea Hawk who himself is an excellent wrestler.
* **Superhuman Agility:** Adora is shown to be able to make incredible leaps while transformed.
* **Healing Powers:** According to Perfuma, She-Ra is said to possess powerful healing abilities. The first time Adora successfully performed this ability as She-Ra was when she restored Plumeria with the very same machine the Horde used to poison the land as the conduit, reversing the damage. Later, Shadow Weaver guides Adora into being able to heal her using the runestone housed in She-Ra's sword.

## Relationships

### Catra (see: Corrupted Catra)

Catra was raised alongside Adora in The Horde. They used to be best friends and were inseparable, causing mischief together, laughing together, and even Catra sleeping at Adora's feet. The fact that they were raised by the same woman, Shadow Weaver, makes some people speculate that they are like sisters. Yet many fans ship them since both of them are canon lesbians. This all depends on each fan's interpretation. When Adora discovered she could become She-Ra left the evil Horde to join the rebellion, their friendship was broken. Shadow Weaver tortured Catra when she failed to bring Adora back. Catra was almost killed by Infected She-Ra. Catra planned to use Infected She-Ra as a weapon for the Horde but Scorpia knew this was too dangerous and wanted Catra to not get killed by Infected She-Ra so she broke the infected data disk. Infected She-Ra is commonly shipped with Corrupted Catra.

### Scorpia

Scorpia is in the Horde for the majority of the series. She is told to 'babysit' drunk Adora. Despite being enemies, Scorpia keeps her safe and does not abuse Adora because she is a kind person despite being a villain. For a short period of time, Scorpia and drunk Adora hang out and offer moral support to each other. She hugs Scorpia, and calls her 'her best friend'. It is just a drunken comment but it makes Scorpia feel nice because Scorpia's greatest motivation is friendship. They are both lesbians, and this was the first scene that made Adorpia shippers consider this as a ship.

### Glimmer and Bow

They are Adora's new best friends after joining the rebellion. They are called the "Best Friends Squad". Infected She-Ra even attacks Glimmer and Bow, not being able to identify them as friends. Glimmer and Adora is a popular ship.

### Shadow Weaver

Shadow Weaver is the mother figure of Adora. She set high standards and pressure on Adora as a young cadet. But Shadow Weaver was physically abusive to Catra, doing things such as shocking her or choking her with magic.

## Trivia

* The art used on the infobox is made by Sugwinni on *Twitter*.
* Whilst her last name is unconfirmed, in a livestream with the creators (and a tweet by Noelle Stevenson herself), they pointed out that Catra's full name was Catra Applesauce Meowmeow, and while at the time it was most likely a joke, the fandom itself took into consideration on what that could mean, and so the running theory was that Catra and Adora gave eachother nicknames in their last names when they were 5, and so the fandom split the name into two; Catra's last name being Meow-Meow, and Adora's last name being Appleauce.

* The "Infected She-Ra" concept is not purely an AU, like Yellow Steven or Demon Marco is. Infected She-Ra was actually in the show, and was seen twice overall.