Flutterina

Flutterina's first scene has her holding a mop. In "Out of the Cocoon" she is Small One, a cleaner in Baron Condor's castle who tells She-Ra, "I'm very unimportant," and the episode spends its middle proving her wrong.

Mattel's 1986 figure, from the second series of Princess of Power, skipped Small One altogether and went straight to the butterfly, with wings that flapped when her action feature was worked. Action Figure Barbecue, reviewing the later Classics figure, noted that the vintage toy is fairly close to her Filmation look.

Don Heckman wrote "Out of the Cocoon" around waiting. It opens in Glimmer's garden, where orange worms are eating the roses and Adora tells Glimmer, "Trust me. And wait." The main plot goes to Sand Valley, where Baron Condor has taken the farmers' food, dressed his soldiers in rags to fool She-Ra, and caught her in a glowing beam in his dungeon.^[1]

Small One looks in through the bars, mop in hand. She-Ra answers her "I'm very unimportant" with "No one is unimportant, Small One. But everyone has a different path in life," and Small One's mop is what cuts the beam so She-Ra can break her chains. Then she drops to the floor asleep, and She-Ra carries her across a field of blue crystals to Light Hope, who lays her on a stone slab where a cocoon forms. "You are Small One no longer," Light Hope says. "Arise, Flutterina!"

She flies beside She-Ra and Swift Wind for the rest of the episode, though the big fixes belong to the other two: Swift Wind flaps clouds across the sun to stop Condor's Sun Beamer, and She-Ra digs a channel from the Green River to water Sand Valley. Back in the garden, the worms have turned into butterflies.

Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Out of the Cocoon (She-Ra: Princess of Power, 1986), 9:09 to 11:07, 1 minute 58 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.

Phil Harnage's "A Lesson in Love" aired a week later and makes Flutterina the bait. Shadow Weaver puts Prince Kevin, a runaway who fell through one of Mantenna's dimension doors, under a spell and sends him to rescue her from an attack the Horde has staged. "But she's not in trouble," he says, and Shadow Weaver answers, "She will be." A giant spider webs her in the forest, Kevin helps her up, and the rebels welcome him into their camp at the Twiggit Carnival as a hero.^[2]

Hordak seizes Flutterina in the raid that follows, and She-Ra finds her in Horror Hall under a glass dome in Shadow Weaver's library, the newest piece in a butterfly collection. When Shadow Weaver freezes Kevin with the spell, it is Flutterina who helps break it: "Look at me, Kevin. You can do it. Try." Shadow Weaver ends the episode in her own collection. Flutterina turns up once more in the second season, in the rebel camp in "Something Old, Something New."

Flutterina has not been on screen since the Filmation series. She is not among the cast Netflix announced in 2018 for its She-Ra reboot, and she came too late for The Secret of the Sword, the 1985 film that introduced She-Ra. The Dolph Lundgren movie leaves her out, and she is not in the 2026 film.

Masters of the Universe Classics returned to her as the subscription figure for August 2014, with two removable wings on swivel hinges, a shield and a sword repainted from Battleground Teela's, per Action Figure Barbecue's review. The vintage figure and the Classics figure are both retired, and neither is sold new at BigBadToyStore today.