King Randor (Revelation)

Kevin Smith's "The Power of Grayskull" opens on a palace party for Teela's elevation, with Randor and Marlena watching fireworks from the balcony. By the end of the night He-Man has died stopping Skeletor at Castle Grayskull, and Man-At-Arms comes to the throne room to say so. Marlena understands first: "Randor... we've lost our son!"^[2]

Randor does not take it from Duncan calmly. When his oldest friend explains that the Prince ordered them to keep the secret, the king throws him out: "I strip you of your title and banish you from the palace forever!" He adds that he will have Duncan executed if he ever sees him again, and orders Teela to take the disgraced Man-At-Arms away. She refuses, tells the room she is done with all of them, and walks out. Randor is not seen again in Part 1.

Part 2 finds him at Point Dread, a hidden camp shielded from Skeletor's magic, preparing for war. At the end of "Reason and Blood" his son is returned to him there, chained and raging as Savage He-Man, and it is Randor's apology that brings Adam back. Diya Mishra's "The Gutter Rat" opens straight after, and it is the episode built around him.

He tells Adam he does not care whether this is a trick of Skeletor's. He thanks Teela for bringing his boy back and, when she starts to apologise for leaving, tells her she had every right to turn her back on Eternos after so many truths were kept from her. Then he turns to Adam: "I should have told you every day how proud I am of the man you've become." Adam owns his half, and the king answers: "Everybody should learn from their mistakes, Adam. Even kings. Especially kings."

The rest of the scene is a king enjoying himself. He thanks "most noble Battlecat" for saving his son, offers Andra any reward she names for her part in it, and when she asks only to stay with them, tells her a civilian cannot remain in a military camp, then makes her a lieutenant in his royal guard so that she can. Queen Marlena arrives soon after, and tells Adam how close she came to leaving Randor while he was gone.

Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Defection (1983), 4:30 to 6:17, 1 minute 47 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.

In "Hope, For a Destination," written by Tim Sheridan, Randor is the one who tells Teela that the "magic stuff" in the mountains around them is older than time itself, when she wants a transmitter instead. Later, with Evil-Lyn turned god and the end of everything in sight, he stands with Marlena and their guards on a red-lit plain and apologises to her as well. "If my death is coming," he says, "then I vow I will waste no more of my life." Marlena answers that they will live for each other as they always have.

Eric Carrasco's finale, "Comes With Everything You See Here," opens with Scare Glow standing over the fallen king with a spear until Orko, back from the dead, faces the demon down. Randor spends the battle at Duncan's side, and is with Orko on the cracked ground near the end.

Randor's story ends in Masters of the Universe: Revolution, the 2024 sequel. Its first episode, Kevin Smith's "Even for Kings," brings him to Subternia among Adam's rescuers, asking "Is this bully bothering you, son?" Back at the palace Mendor reveals an organ failure the king had ordered kept from everyone but the queen and Duncan, because Adam would have done anything as He-Man to save him. Randor dies after asking his son to choose between the scepter and the sword, and Adam's eulogy is a story about the billow-bike his father rebuilt for him by hand. In the last episode, "The Scepter and the Sword," Preternia returns and Randor stands beside He-Man again.

The 1987 live-action film leaves Randor out, as the main entry notes. In the 2026 Masters of the Universe film he is played by James Purefoy, and the film cast page has the rest of the cast.