Adora

### Likes

Winning, training, competitions, Catra, something to punch, eating tasty food, Best Friends Squad

### Dislikes

Shadow Weaver, failure, not being accepted, being alone, Catra being evil, Horde Prime

## Professional Status

### Occupation

She-Ra
Heroine/guardian of Etheria
Horde officer (Formerly)
The Princess Alliance
co-leader of the Alliance

### Affiliation

The Princess Alliance
The Rebellion
The Horde (Formerly)

### Team

**Best Friends Squad*** Catra
* Glimmer
* Bow

## Voice Actors

### English

Aimee Carrero

**Adora** (アドラ, *Adora*) is a major character in the series and the current She-Ra.

## Description

### Appearance

Adora is a tall and slender girl with pale tan-skin and an athletic physique. She has long, dark blonde hair tied into a high ponytail, blue gray eyes, and narrow brown eyebrows, she wears a long-sleeved white turtleneck with pointed sleeves, and red accents (one of which being the Horde symbol on her back, removed after she defects to the Rebellion). Usually worn over her shirt is a red jacket with quarter length sleeves, and a popped beige collar (until she defects, she wears the Force Captain badge). She also wears grey leggings and a brown belt with a Horde buckle, which is later replaced with a golden wing, a symbol of her newfound Rebellion allegiance.

She never changed out of her Horde uniform, because she felt more comfortable with it on.

#### She-Ra

In her She-Ra form, Adora still maintains her slender physique, but she is more muscular, and has long, wavy/straight light blonde hair —which can also glow— and light blue eyes. She also has a thin golden crown with two wings on each side, and a red jewel in the center, and solid, golden arm cuffs. She wears a white dress with a golden, six-pointed flower embroidered on the chest, divided by a golden seam that splits the bodice from collar to belt. At the center of the flower sits an oval azure gemstone. Her sleeves are golden, pointed pauldrons that stand of their own accord. The aforementioned seam blends into the gold trim of her uniform collar and ends when it reaches the apex of her thick golden belt, creating a V-shaped belt at her waist. Her white ruffled skirt, which begins under the belt, is open at the front revealing a pair of white, skin-tight shorts striped with a thick golden line on the outside of each thigh. She-Ra also wears knee-high athletic white and aqua boots, with gold soles and accents. She completes her ensemble with a knee-length red cape. She is taller than many of the other characters, at allegedly 8 feet tall according to Mermista, albeit this could be an exaggeration.

During the events of "Save the Cat," Adora finally obtains the new She-Ra transformation. She is slightly more muscular than in her earlier form, and her hair is a slightly lighter blonde and in a style similar to her civilian one, but her ponytail is longer. She is now wearing long white pants and boots with gold wing decals (representing Glimmer), Her shirt more now looks more like a blouse with a long back and red inside, the shirt also sports a heart outlined in gold (representing Bow), her golden tiara is significantly changed to look more like Catra's former mask (representing Catra).

### Personality

Adora is a brave, competitive, and noble warrior and is true to her own values and rather sympathetic. She's very strong as it's seen in an arm-wrestling match where she beats the well built and strong-arm wrestler, Sea Hawk. She is shown to be a leader in every group she joins. Realizing what the Horde has done to innocent Etherians, she makes a major life decision (to leave the Horde). Reluctantly, she is willing to lose her lifelong friend, Catra, in order to remain true to her values.

Despite making the decision to leave the Horde, Adora has been shown to be most comfortable following rules and sticking to plans. She is not entirely socially competent, having been raised in a military environment, and therefore is typically very blunt and always prefers to be prepared for battle. She is also shown to be unaware of certain familial terms such as "aunt."

Adora's heroic deeds, power, and positivity begin to grow as she and her friends continue to battle the Evil Horde. She suffers from occasional clumsiness especially when trying to control her powers, weaponry, or when trying to bond with Swift Wind. Adora struggles with pressure when discussing the allies' strike plan in the war tent. Despite all this, Adora/She-Ra works to overcome her fear and become a powerful warrior to save Etheria from tyranny.

Due to Shadow Weaver's abuse, Adora believes that she alone is responsible for the well-being of others. In fact, since becoming She-Ra, she has gained a notable martyr complex. She constantly puts her relationships aside even if they are healthy when it comes to battling the Horde. Notably, after destroying the Sword of Protection, Adora constantly threw herself into battle without regard for her own well-being. Even more notably, she is perfectly willing to sacrifice her own life when it seems necessary. Notable instances were in "The Portal" and "Heart Part 2." In the former, after being saved by Queen Angella, attempts to remove the sword from the portal, but Angella, feeling more remorse over her cowardly actions, sacrifices herself instead. In the latter, when she is prevented from transforming into She-Ra, which would allow her to survive using the Failsafe, Adora opts to use it anyway, even rebuking Catra's support at first, but she has been infected long enough that she cannot use the Failsafe at all.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Transformation:** Using the Sword of Protection, Adora can transform into the legendary warrior known as She-Ra, becoming taller and more muscular in the process. Her hair also becomes longer and a much lighter shade of blonde. Her eyes become lighter-blue and, when affected by the Runestone, turns white. Finally, Adora's clothes are transformed into She-Ra's costume. With the sword broken, she discovered the power within and can now transform without it, materializing a new sword in the process as well. Additionally, Adora can transform the sword into any form, including a shield, a flute, a mop, a whip, and a cup.
* **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 using 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.
* **Animal transformation:** Energy from the sword's Runestone is shown to mutate animals. This is shown twice on the show. The second being a reptile in Plumeria that scurries away, the first resulted in the transformation of Horsey into Swift Wind. Swift Wind's transformation was physical and mental, giving the creature a horn, wings, new coloration, vocal chords that allowed him to speak, and intelligence. It also created a bond between Adora and Swift Wind that strengthens with teamwork.
* **Energy Blast:** Using the sword as a focus, Adora as She-Ra can unleash powerful rainbow-colored energy attacks capable of destroying spaceships of the Horde Armada.
* **Aura Generation:** When united with the other Princesses, Adora can generate an aura that greatly increases her power. Her aura manifests in white with some little pale yellow glowing.
* **Animal Magic:** She-Ra has the power to calm aggression in animals. This is first seen in "The Sword: Part 1" after she transforms when being attacked by a giant bug-like creature.
* **Sword summoning:** With her new She-Ra form comes the ability to summon a new sword that seems to be just as powerful as her old one.

### Abilities

* **Superhuman strength:** Adora is incredibly strong as She-Ra, being able to easily lift and punch dents into Horde tanks with little issue. Even without She-Ra powers Adora is very strong which can be seen when she wins an arm-wrestling match against well built, strong Sea Hawk (who himself is an excellent wrestler), and casually broke off the top of a rock.
* **Superhuman durability:** As She-Ra, Adora is capable of surviving all sorts of powerful attacks. She was able to endure an explosion from the self-destruction of an EKS and take attacks from powerful foes such as Catra and Scorpia. Her durability does have a limit, however, as she was knocked out by a point-blank energy shot from a Horde tank, with Madame Razz being forced to save her.
* **Superhuman agility:** Adora is shown to be able to make incredible leaps while transformed.
* **Space Survival:** In her She-Ra form she can travel trough the void of space without the assistance of a space suit.
* **Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant:** Even before finding the Sword, Adora was an incredibly skilled combatant as a result of her cadet training with the Horde. She was able to complete her training in record time. She hasn't shown much skill after her initial appearance but seems to have reclaimed this skill alter on.
* **Navigation and Survival:** Using materials in the Crimson Waste, Adora was able to find the right way to go.
* **Leadership:** Adora has been shown to be a competent leader, capable of coordinating her allies and develop strategies.
* **Indomitable Will:** Adora is very determined to prove herself worthy of protecting those she cares about.

### Weaknesses

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* **First One's Artifact/Corrupted Virus (briefly):** If the sword is directly infected with the Data Disk when she is She-Ra, she enters a violent berserker rage and becomes incapable of differentiating friend (Bow, Glimmer and Sea Hawk) or foe (Catra). Taking the Sword of Protection from Adora and destroying the Data Disc is the only way to stop its corruption. Once the Sword of Protection is taken from Adora, she falls into an inebriated state and loses her memory of what happened.
* **Unclear Mind:** If her mind is unfocused or full of doubt, she cannot transform into She-Ra.
* **Extreme hair envy with She-Ra:** As Netossa explained in Season Five, Adora has a couple insecurities, one of them being her hair.

## Trivia

* Adora is confirmed to be a lesbian.
* In the 1985 TV original series, Adora was the twin sister of Prince Adam (He-Man) of the house of Grayskull on Eternia. While both Eternia and Grayskull are referenced in this series, there's no hint to confirm that Adam even exists. The "female-equivalent" to Adam in this continuity is Mara.
* Promotional images released in the lead up to the Season One premiere caused a massive stir on the Internet. The images in question were of Adora transformed as She-Ra. The accusation was that the crew were attempting to de-feminize Adora by giving her a more modest costume with shorts and overall reducing the design from the 80's sex appeal.
* Adora doesn't even try to hide the fact that she and She-Ra are the same person and everyone, including her enemies, knows this. When transformed, She-Ra's personality is the same as Adora's.
* Adora's astrological sign is Capricorn, also known as the horned goat.
* Adora's first act as Force Captain was to steal/"borrow" a skiff.
* Adora was seen to sleep with a knife under her pillow. Furthermore, she dislikes having her weapons taken away from her as seen in "Princess Prom".
* Adora is the only character to appear every episode of the series.
* Adora is only one of two people on Etheria who are not from Etheria, the other is Hordak.
* Adora is the second She-Ra to use the Sword of Protection, since Mara was the first.
* ND Stevenson believes that after the war Adora and the other child soldiers will get hobbies for the first time, and that (based on an idea by Adora's VA Aimee Carrero] Adora will get a hobby as a cartographer to create maps of Etheria, and then ND added that she will move on to celestial cartography to map out the stars.
* ND Stevenson created two playlists called "Adora" and also "She-Ra" on Spotify, along with a few other of the main characters. These playlists seem to have songs that Stevenson identifies with the characters, or about their feelings throughout the show. The "She-Ra" playlist may include themes for a lot of the characters, or for the show's themes itself instead of just a playlist centred around the character She-Ra (seeing as Adora already has a playlist).
* Stevenson also tweeted that in terms of Hogwarts houses, Adora is a "Slytherin trying to be a Gryffindor."
* "Adora's original (and first) She-ra form was like this uncomfortable suit she has to wear. She never really feels at home in the original She-Ra form,"Stevenson tells EW. "It combined the militaristic aspect of Adora's upbringing in the Horde with the role She-Ra has with the First Ones. There's the top that's buttoned up, the large pointy shoulder blades, and then these elements of femininity that Adora is very uncomfortable with: The skirt, the tiara, the long flowing hair. She's really trying to fit this version of She-Ra, but it's not her. She's never comfortable in that form" (https://ew.com/tv/she-ra-interview-adora-new-look/).
* Adora is not one to sleep in. Catra mentions this in the episode, "Remember."
* In Dreamworks' and Mattel's "Surprise Birthday For She-Ra"short, Adora reveals before her 16th birthday to Glimmer and Bow that she spent her 13th, 14th and 15th birthdays doing completely mundane things with Catra.
* According to character designer Ray Geiger, Adora and Catra are supposed to be a couple in the "beautiful wish" Adora sees in Heart Part 2, as it is apparently in their headcanon an Etherian custom for couples to have matching items. This is further implied by She-Ra's tiara bearing a resemblance to Catra's old mask and her wing pin being worn by Catra.
* During his BLM live stream, ND Stevenson created Finn, Adora and Catra's unofficial nonbinary child. Despite being unofficial, Finn has been featured in many fan works and is depicted as having Double Trouble as a godparent.
* When asked if Adora showers, Stevenson said that "She’s always up to hygiene code but she definitely doesn’t use conditioner".