Dree Elle

Dree Elle's appearances run from late 1983 to the end of 1985, and more often than not she arrives on Eternia by accident. "Dawn of Dragoon" introduces her when Orko's malfunctioning Magic Pyramid pulls her through as a makeshift portal instead of fixing itself, and that sets the pattern: their relationship runs on Orko's magic going wrong as often as it goes right.

That relationship carries more weight than a typical cartoon romance. In "Dawn of Dragoon" Orko takes off his hat and scarf to show her his face, though the show keeps it hidden from the audience, and a sketch made for that scene is the only known official drawing of Orko unmasked.

Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Dawn of Dragoon (1983), 3:25 to 5:24, 1 minute 59 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.

"Trouble in Trolla" gives her the most to do. Orko's uncle Montork has lost his post at Trolla's academy of magic in a duel he should have won, and Dree Elle summons Orko home to find out why. The culprit is Skeletor's ally Whiplash, who has been teaching Montork's rival Snoob and secretly draining Montork's power. Whiplash's Kroom soldiers capture Orko and Dree Elle before they can expose the scheme, and it takes He-Man, Battle Cat and Montork himself to give Orko the opening he needs to break free.

The fix at the end belongs to Orko and Montork together: combining their separate spells is what finally shrinks Whiplash's giant Scarg down to nothing. Dree Elle is the reason Orko goes home at all, and the episode treats Trolla as her world as much as his.

"The Greatest Magic" is Dree Elle's one crossover into She-Ra: Princess of Power, and Orko comes along for it. Montork's spell accidentally pulls both Orko and She-Ra to Trolla, where the inventor Dr. Zoog has taken over with machines built to throw magic back at anyone who uses it. Zoog snatches Dree Elle and threatens to fire the Unfortress into deep space, and she spends the back half of the episode as his hostage.

She is also the actual solution. Montork explains that a Trollan magician in love can work through the person he loves, and once Orko reaches her through that bond, she is the one who brings the countermagic shield down from the inside. The jealous "Especially with her" she aims at She-Ra earlier in the episode is a small character beat on its own, but it sets up a hostage who gets to be the hero of her own rescue.