Entrapta

Entrapta's name is her job description. She is the member of Hordak's Evil Horde who builds traps. Her long magenta hair is part of the toolkit: when she stands at a control panel it works the levers while one hand rests on her hip. Mattel introduced her in 1986 in the Princess of Power line, a Horde villain sold alongside the princesses as Catra was, and the Filmation series brought her into its second season the same year.

She is never the one in charge in her episodes. Catra or Hordak gives the orders, and Entrapta supplies the hardware, so she is at her best on screen while one of her machines is still running.

Karen Wilson and Chris Weber's "One to Count On" opens with Leech robbing a village curio shop of Queen Angella's crystal crown, and Entrapta's work is on show before she is. A magnetic trap pins Bow's hands, and Leech names its maker.^[1] The crown goes back to a Horde hideout in the jungle, where Catra plans to use it as bait for Adora or She-Ra, and Entrapta sets the welcome: cage mines across the jungle floor, and a sleeping violet, a flower whose perfume, as she puts it, "is guaranteed to give you a good night's sleep." Peekablue, caught in one of the cage traps, ends up bound inside its petals.

The episode belongs to Bow, Glimmer and Adora, who go after the crown on their own, but the traps are what they have to beat. When She-Ra finally steps in she goes straight for the hideout's control panel, wrecks it, and leaves Entrapta looking at sparking levers and complaining, "Oh, you've destroyed my traps." The violet gets the last word anyway. Its perfume catches She-Ra too, and the rebels have to wake her before they can get away with the crown.

Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, One to Count On (She-Ra: Princess of Power, 1986), 17:04 to 19:02, 1 minute 58 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.

Don Heckman's "Romeo and Glimmer" gives her a machine of her own. She shows Hordak her new Trapper Tank, Imp tells her it looks rusty, and she snaps that she asked Hordak, not him. The tank fires disks that soak up the energy of Queen Angella's force dome around Bright Moon, and it works well enough to get the Horde inside. Then She-Ra arrives, fends off a blast of the tank's stolen energy and tosses the machine out like "garbage." Entrapta ends up in a heap of her own hair, and Hordak asks whether she has any more good ideas.

In Heckman's "The Time Transformer" she is in the background, standing at the back of the Horde council while Professor Tempest shows Hordak a machine that can replay old battles.

This encyclopedia counts only the Filmation series as canon for her. The Netflix reboot did the most with Entrapta. DreamWorks' She-Ra and the Princesses of Power brought her back in 2018, voiced by Christine Woods, who was named in the cast announcement that May. That series makes her a princess and an inventor who drifts between the two sides, where the Filmation Entrapta never leaves Hordak's.

Entrapta is not in The Secret of the Sword, the 1985 film that introduced She-Ra, because she arrived with the second season. She does not appear in the 2002 series or in Masters of the Universe: Revelation. The Dolph Lundgren movie has no Etherian characters, and she is not in the 2026 film.

Mattel's Princess of Power line sold the first Entrapta in 1986, a Horde figure with long hair designed to catch the heroes of the Great Rebellion.^[2] Club Etheria, the separate Princess of Power subscription that ran alongside Masters of the Universe Classics, made her in 2014. Both figures are retired, and neither is sold new at BigBadToyStore today.