THE TRAITOR OF AVION
Hawke
Hawke wrecks Avion's force field for Skeletor and points the crowd at Stratos, and "Betrayal of Stratos" ends with the leader she framed deciding what she deserves.
Hawke is a bird woman of Avion in Filmation's "Betrayal of Stratos" (1984), voiced by Linda Gary. She sabotages the city's force field for Skeletor, gets Stratos banished for it, and is forgiven after she helps recover the Egg of Avion.
The record
The facts
WHO SHE IS
A bird woman of Avion
Avion is the city of the bird people, Stratos's people, and their wings depend on the Egg of Avion: a bird person sent too far from the egg for too long loses the power of flight. Hawke is one of its citizens, dressed like the rest of them in a red feathered helmet and a blue mask, with feathered gauntlets on her forearms, a gray top and red boots. She is the only bird person in the episode other than Stratos with a name. Linda Gary, who voices the Sorceress in the same episode, plays her.[1]
[1] ^ The cast list for "Betrayal of Stratos" gives Linda Gary the Sorceress, Hawke and an unnamed bird woman.
THE EPISODE
Betrayal of Stratos
David Wise's "Betrayal of Stratos" first aired in September 1984, and it opens with Stratos finding Hawke beside one of Avion's force field generators. She tells him she was on her way to check it too, and adds, "after all, you are the leader."[2] Minutes later Skeletor attacks, the shields are down, and Stratos finds the generator deliberately smashed.
Skeletor is driven off with a smoke screen, and Hawke goes straight to work on the crowd. "So, Stratos, you wrecked our defenses," she says, and then asks the bird people, "Who else but our glorious leader would've had such easy access to the heart of Avion's defenses?" Stratos pleads that banishment will cost him his wings, the crowd chants for it anyway, and Hawke is the one who tells him to go. With Stratos gone, Skeletor attacks again, every defense fails, and the egg is taken. Only then does someone ask, "Have you seen Hawke?" She is gone too.
He-Man and Stratos follow the egg into the Demon Zone, the realm of Skeletor's ally Whiplash, and find Hawke there in one of Whiplash's cages. She claims at first that Skeletor captured her, until Stratos puts it to her: "It was you who sabotaged Avion's defenses. You made a deal with him, didn't you?" Her answer is the confession, "Skeletor had me bring the egg to this place but instead of the riches he promised, he made me one of his precious pets." Stratos would leave her there, and He-Man argues the other way, "Everyone deserves a second chance, Stratos," so they let her out, and she earns her place by taking them to the chamber where the egg is guarded.
Hawke stands in front of the bird people and says it herself, "I accused Stratos of sabotage, but it was I who betrayed you," and the crowd that chanted for his banishment now shouts "Banish her." Stratos answers that banishment is "too cruel for any bird person" and that she will be "stripped of all rank and placed on punishment detail" until she has earned the city's trust again. The closing lesson credits Stratos with learning the value of forgiveness.
[2] ^ The heman.org episode guide dates the first broadcast to September 26, 1984; TVmaze gives September 27.
Hawke found in Whiplash's prison, the reason the episode exists.
Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Betrayal of Stratos (1984), 16:25 to 18:22, 1 minute 57 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.
IN PLASTIC
The Classics figure
Hawke never made it into Mattel's vintage line, but a one-episode bird woman had a second life with collectors. Super7 announced her in 2017 and shipped her in 2018 as part of its continuation of the Masters of the Universe Classics line, a seven-inch figure in her Filmation look, from the red feathered helmet and blue mask to the gauntlets and boots, with a sword and a spare head among its accessories. It is sold out at BigBadToyStore, and the Super7 Classics Hawke page has the photographs.
IN BRIEF
Avion in brief
"Betrayal of Stratos" airs
Hawke sabotages Avion's defenses, has Stratos banished, and confesses after He-Man frees her from Whiplash's cage.
Super7's Classics Hawke
Announced in 2017 and shipped in March 2018, a seven-inch figure in her Filmation helmet, mask and feathered gauntlets, long sold out.
Questions
Hawke questions, answered
Who is Hawke in He-Man?
A bird woman of Avion, Stratos's city, in the Filmation episode "Betrayal of Stratos." She works for Skeletor in secret and blames Stratos for her sabotage.
Who voices Hawke?
Linda Gary, per the episode's cast list.
Who wrote Betrayal of Stratos?
David Wise. The episode first aired in September 1984.
Why does Hawke betray Avion?
For a reward. She says Skeletor promised her riches for bringing him the Egg of Avion, and instead locked her in one of Whiplash's cages.
What is the Egg of Avion?
The source of the bird people's power of flight. Away from it, a bird person slowly loses the ability to fly, which is why banishment is so harsh a sentence.
Does Stratos forgive Hawke?
Yes. Avion's crowd wants her banished, but she is stripped of her rank and put on punishment detail instead, and the episode's closing lesson credits Stratos with learning forgiveness.
Is Hawke related to Stratos?
Nothing in the episode says so. She is a citizen of his city, and she calls him "the leader."
Is there a Hawke action figure?
Yes. Super7 announced a seven-inch Masters of the Universe Classics Hawke in 2017 and shipped it in 2018. It is sold out.
Is Hawke in any other He-Man series or the movies?
No. The later series each retell He-Man's world for themselves, and none of them uses her; she is not in the 1987 film or the 2026 film's announced cast.
Compiled by the heman.org desk from the Filmation episode "Betrayal of Stratos" (dialogue, frames and cast list), the Betrayal of Stratos episode guide, TVmaze for the air date, Toy Hype's and Figure Fan Zero's coverage of the Super7 figure's 2017 announcement and March 2018 release, and its product photography.
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