Double Trouble

Every member of the Great Rebellion has a trick, and Double Trouble's is lying for a living. Mattel sold her in the first Princess of Power wave of 1985 as a heroine working undercover among the Horde, with a head that turns to show one face to her friends and another to her enemies.^[1] Her card calls her a "Glamorous double agent!" and that line, a box of accessories and a pack-in comic were most of what a child in 1985 had to go on.

Filmation never gave her more. She-Ra: Princess of Power put the rest of the line on screen, and Double Trouble is the only Princess of Power figure who never appears in it.^[2] Without an episode to retell, her story is the toys: what the 1985 figure could do, what the 2014 figure's card finally said about her, and what Netflix built on the name decades later.

The original figure wears a green hood, a green bodice and arm cuffs, a mesh skirt and cape in matching green, silver boots and long rooted blonde hair, with a pink comb in the package.^[3] The real feature is under the hood. A thumbwheel on her back works a gear inside the head, and the face turns from a friendly expression to a scowl, which made her one of the more mechanical dolls in a line built mostly around hair and fashion.

She came with no weapon of her own. A mini-comic came in the package, and coloring books and comics carried her a little further.

Masters of the Universe Classics brought her back in 2014 as Double Mischief, still billed on the box as a "Glamorous Double Agent," and she opened the Club Etheria subscription that year.^[4] The card back gave her a history. She is Rebekkah Kettle, a princess of the kingdom of GreenGlade and Glimmer's cousin; when the Horde overran her home she joined the Great Rebellion and became "a double agent in the armies of Hordak." She is not much of a fighter, the bio admits, but she can squeeze into tiny spaces, climb sheer walls and change her looks and her voice, "an aged King one moment or a Horde Villainess the next."

The face-switch survived, moved to a knob on top of the helmet, and neither reviewer warmed to it. Figure Fan Zero thought the Classics Man-E-Faces did the same trick better, and noted that the two faces differ mostly by a pair of evil eyebrows. The Fwoosh's reviewer wished Mattel had dropped the turning drum altogether, since it flattens the face, and thought the 1985 doll had managed the look better. Her one accessory, a crossbow, has the same trick: its front twists from a green good side to a Horde emblem.

The later series and films are additional material, outside the Filmation canon this encyclopedia follows. Double Trouble's first screen role came in the fourth season of DreamWorks' She-Ra and the Princesses of Power on Netflix, in November 2019: a non-binary, shape-shifting mercenary from the Crimson Waste who can turn into anyone they see, voiced by Jacob Tobia.^[5] That version shares the name and the talent for disguise and little else. The original Double Trouble is not in the 2002 series, Revelation or Revolution, or the Dolph Lundgren movie, and she is not in the 2026 film.

For the original Double Trouble, the packaging still holds most of the story: a tagline on a 1985 card, and, almost thirty years later, a scroll of biography on the back of a Classics box.