MUTANT WARRIOR OF DENEBRIA
Crita
The Mutants' warrior and schemer, who would rather be a queen than anybody's lieutenant.
Crita is a Mutant warrior and lieutenant to Flogg in The New Adventures of He-Man (1990), voiced by Venus Terzo. She schemes with the Gleanons of Necron and keeps losing to Mara.
The record
The facts
WHERE SHE COMES FROM
A Mutant made for the 1990 series
Crita was made for The New Adventures of He-Man, Jetlag Productions' 1990 sequel series, which moves He-Man to the planet Primus, where the Mutants of Denebria under Flogg are trying to break through the planet's shield, with Skeletor along as Flogg's uneasy partner. Like everything from that run, she sits outside the canon, which here means the Filmation He-Man and nothing later.
She is the Mutants' one woman of rank, a red-haired warrior with a gold headband, a whip and a club, and she is sent on the jobs that need a schemer as well as a fighter. She meets Skeletor in "Attack on Onnor" and is at his elbow for much of the run; in "Cold Freeze," when a new audio ear on the Mothership lets Skeletor listen in on the Primans, she is the one at the microphone.[1]
What drives her is ambition. Crita is Flogg's lieutenant, but every time the series gives her a deal to strike, the price she asks is a crown.
[1] ^ Crita is in "The Heat," the third episode, while "Attack on Onnor," the fourth, is where Crita and Skeletor first meet.
THE SIGNATURE EPISODE
Save Our City
Jack Olesker's "Save Our City" sends her to Necron, where the Mites, from their capital at Sorton, keep an uneasy peace with the Gleanons of Velpine City. The Mites intercept her transmission, and Mara, their new ambassador from Primus, tells President Pell that if Crita is visiting the Gleanons then any hope of peace is already gone. She is right. In the Gleanon capital Crita sells General Nifel a plan to lure the Mite Space Force into Velpine City and take it captive, and Nifel, who warns her that a plan he dislikes will be her last, is persuaded by her terms: deliver the Mites and he will make her queen of the Gleanons. Crita is ready for the role before the plan has even begun: "A warrior queen must look the part."
The trap is a staged volcano. Nifel begs the Mites to save his people from being buried, the Space Force flies in to help, and the ambush takes almost all of it, with Mara and Vice President Etor among the prisoners sent to the Norzon Mines of Brom. Crita leads a squadron against Sorton herself, and the episode lets her be a warrior as much as a planner: whip in one hand, club in the other, sneering that a weakling from Primus is no match for a Mutant warrior. Mara's answer, "More than a match," gives the ambassador her moment.
It ends with the wrong woman crowned. He-Man and the escaped prisoners turn the battle, Crita finishes the fight hanging from a rope against a gold wall, and the people of Sorton make Mara their queen. Venus Terzo voices both of them.[2]
[2] ^ Venus Terzo is credited as Crita and Mara in IMDb's full credits for "The Seeds of Resistance", and as Mara and the Sorceress in its credits for "Zone of Darkness"; Wikipedia's cast list for the series agrees. The two women who fight it out in "Save Our City" share a voice.
Crita in charge on the 1990 series, staff in one hand and whip in the other.
Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Save Our City (The New Adventures of He-Man, 1990), 2:57 to 4:51, 1 minute 54 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.
THE SECOND ANGLE
A Plague on Primus
"A Plague on Primus," written by David Bennet Carren and J. Larry Carroll, gives her Skeletor's best weapon and then takes it off her. His fear gas turns any man into a cowering wreck and does nothing to Mutants or to women, and Crita, put in charge of the attack, works out at once what that means for her: "That means I can single-handedly defeat the men of Primus."
The gas works on everyone except He-Man, who changes before it reaches him. When Crita finds him he cowers, begs her not to hurt him and takes an extra dose, and once she has gone he tells his friends why: "I knew if I could fool Crita, she would tell Skeletor." She does, Skeletor walks into the trap, and Mara and Drissi lead the women of Primus against Flogg's invasion until the antidote arrives. Skeletor's complaint, when he finds out, is that this is the kind of trick he would pull.
THE REST OF HER RUN
Bait, bargains and a ground army
Her cruelest moment is in Misty Taggart's "Escape from Gaolotia." Caz and Drissi hear what sounds like their mother calling them, borrow a ship to follow the voice and fly straight into Skeletor's hands; the voice is Crita's. Skeletor then plans to leave Flogg and the Mutants to die on the prison ship along with her, and one still from the prison ship catches her with both fists clenched.
Kevin O'Donnell's "Cold Freeze" shows where she stands in the Mutant chain of command. With a shell around the central sun of Primus and the planet freezing, Skeletor tells Crita to take a squadron and give He-Man a welcome; Flogg objects that he is the leader and he gives the orders, then gives the same order himself, and is told what a stupid idea it is. Crita's fighters do the job anyway, hounding the Primus starship into an asteroid field and the web of rings around the sun, where it sits trapped as the temperature climbs.
The Necron story carries on without her ever getting what she wants. In "Queen's Gambit" she rides at the head of a Gleanon ground army toward Sorton while fighters and drones draw the Mite Space Force into the sky, and when Mara flies down to call her bluff, Crita is waiting behind a cloaking screen with a cheerful greeting and a trap. It takes the Sorceress, opening a tunnel to drop Skeletor's own meteor on Mara's enemies, to turn it around. In "A Time to Leave" she reminds General Nifel of their bargain, which by now is that she will be made queen if she destroys President Pell. She never gets the crown.[3]
[3] ^ She has smaller parts or cameos in "Sword and Staff," "The Seeds of Resistance," "The Test of Time," "Four Ways to Sundown," "The Guns of Nordor" and "Rock to the Future."
IN PLASTIC
A figure at last
Crita was never part of the New Adventures toy line that ran alongside the show. She reached plastic in 2016, as a Masters of the Universe Classics figure sold through Mattel's collector subscription, and that figure is long retired.
IN BRIEF
From Onnor to Sorton
Attack on Onnor
Crita meets Skeletor aboard the Mutant ship.
Escape from Gaolotia
She lures Caz and Drissi with their mother's voice.
A Plague on Primus
She leads the fear-gas attack and is fooled by He-Man.
Save Our City
Her trap for the Mite Space Force, and her duel with Mara.
Queen's Gambit
She leads the Gleanon ground army against Sorton.
Masters of the Universe Classics
Crita gets her first action figure.
Questions
Crita questions, answered
Who is Crita in He-Man?
A Mutant warrior and one of Flogg's lieutenants in The New Adventures of He-Man, recognizable by her red hair, gold headband and whip.
Is Crita in the original 1983 He-Man cartoon?
No. Like the rest of Flogg's Mutants, she was created for The New Adventures of He-Man.
Who voices Crita?
Venus Terzo, who also voices Mara and the Sorceress in the same series.
What episode does Crita first appear in?
Her voice is first credited in "The Heat," and she meets Skeletor in the next episode, "Attack on Onnor."
Does Crita ever become a queen?
No. General Nifel promises to make her queen of the Gleanons in "Save Our City," and the bargain comes up again in "A Time to Leave," but the plan never comes off. Mara is the one crowned, by the Mites of Sorton.
Why is Crita immune to the fear gas?
Skeletor's gas in "A Plague on Primus" works only on men. Mutants and women are untouched, which is why Crita leads the attack.
Who is Crita's rival?
Mara, the ambassador from Primus. They face each other on Necron in "Save Our City" and "Queen's Gambit," and Crita comes off worse both times.
How does Crita trick Caz and Drissi?
In "Escape from Gaolotia" she imitates their mother's voice, and the children follow it straight into Skeletor's trap.
Was there a Crita action figure?
Not in the original New Adventures line. Mattel made her as a Masters of the Universe Classics figure in 2016, now retired.
Is Crita in the He-Man movies?
No. The 1987 film has no Mutants for her to join, and she is not in the 2026 film's cast.
Compiled by the heman.org desk from The New Adventures of He-Man episodes and their English subtitles, and the episode guides to Save Our City, A Plague on Primus, Escape from Gaolotia and Queen's Gambit. The voice credit follows IMDb's episode credits and Wikipedia; air dates follow epguides and Wikipedia.
Alongside
Characters in the same story
Flogg Mutants of Denebria 
Skeletor Evil Warriors 
Mara Primus 
Hydron Galactic Guardians 
Staghorn Mutants of Denebria 
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