EVIL-LYN'S STAGE NAME
Majestra
The name Evil-Lyn gives when she wants to be let in, used on King Randor in 1983 and on Teela in 2021.
Majestra is Evil-Lyn in disguise. She first appears as Magestra, a traveling magician, in the Filmation episode "The Shaping Staff" (1983), and the name returns on a hooded old woman in Revelation's "Poisoned Chalice" (2021).
The record
The facts
THE 1983 EPISODE
The Shaping Staff
Evil-Lyn gets into the palace by knocking. In Paul Dini's "The Shaping Staff," first aired September 29, 1983, a white-haired enchantress in a green costume and a tall black collar appears in the royal dining hall, introduces herself as "Magestra, a traveling magician," and offers the family an evening of "wondrous illusions."[1] Orko, the palace's own magician, sulks, and it is Prince Adam who talks his father into it, telling him Orko would not mind sharing the stage "with one as talented and as fair as Magestra."[2]
Her act is the Cabinet of Wonders. King Randor steps inside, Magestra chants "Spirits of magic from far and near, make His Majesty disappear!", and the king she brings back out is Beast Man wearing his face, while the real Randor wakes up in the dungeon. Down in his cell both disguises drop together, and Evil-Lyn explains the rest: she and Beast Man found the Shaping Staff in a hidden cave near the Crystal Sea, she means to hand it to Skeletor, and the false king will send the Royal Guard against Castle Grayskull. The gold ring-topped staff Magestra carried through dinner is the one in Evil-Lyn's hand when she turns the king into a goat.
Randor wanted a show and let a stranger into his house to get one, and the rest of the episode is He-Man undoing it, from a warning delivered by Orko as a cricket to a duel with Faker at Grayskull, until the staff's last spell lands on Evil-Lyn and Faker themselves and Skeletor is left promising to restore them. Orko's closing message makes the lesson plain: "In today's story, you saw what happened when a stranger came to the palace. She turned out to be evil and dangerous."
[1] ^ The English subtitles on the Filmation episode spell the name "Magestra," as does the episode's cast list; Revelation's subtitles spell it "Majestra."
[2] ^ The episode's cast list credits Linda Gary as Teela, Evil-Lyn, the Sorceress and Magestra, so the stranger at the dinner table shares a voice with Teela across from her and with the Sorceress she attacks later on.
REVELATION, 2021
Poisoned Chalice
Masters of the Universe: Revelation is a 2021 Netflix continuation that sits outside the Filmation canon this encyclopedia is built on. Its second episode brings the name back: in Diya Mishra's "Poisoned Chalice," released July 23, 2021, a hooded old woman with long white hair finds Teela and Andra just after they have returned a stolen glove to a temple, gives her name as "Majestra," and offers to pay: "Help me? No, help comes free. I'm here to pay you." The job is an old goblet kept at Snake Mountain, "not magical, just sentimental," which she says belonged to "a dead friend-- my best friend."[3]
Teela has given up magic for paid work, and the fee settles it. When she and Andra come back with the cup from a Snake Mountain turned into a temple to Motherboard, Majestra pays them again to carry it to Castle Grayskull. Andra trusts her no more than Teela does, but she wants to go along and keep an eye on her, so Teela goes too. Inside Grayskull the old face gives way to Evil-Lyn's own, and she raises the Havoc Staff: she has come to give the aging Sorceress what magic is left in it, because the Sorceress asked her to.
[3] ^ The episode never says whose cup it was.
Majestra unveils her Cabinet of Wonders in The Shaping Staff.
Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Shaping Staff (1983), 6:07 to 8:07, 2 minutes. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.
EVERYWHERE ELSE
Nowhere else
Majestra is not in She-Ra: Princess of Power, The New Adventures of He-Man, the 2002 series or Revolution.[4] Neither film uses the name: Meg Foster plays Evil-Lyn in the 1987 film and Alison Brie plays her in the 2026 film.
[4] ^ Checked against the English subtitles of the Revolution episodes and the episode records for She-Ra, The New Adventures of He-Man and the 2002 series.
THE FIGURE TO OWN
Evil-Lyn, Filmation style
Mattel has never made a Majestra figure. The Origins Cartoon Collection Evil-Lyn is drawn from the same Filmation series, and she comes with a gold ring-topped staff like the one Magestra brings to dinner.
Origins Cartoon Collection Evil-Lyn
- Evil-Lyn figure
- Staff
- Wand staff
- Mini comic
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IN BRIEF
From the palace to Grayskull
The Shaping Staff
Evil-Lyn plays Magestra at the palace on September 29 and swaps the king for Beast Man.
The Revelation cast
Netflix names Lena Headey as Evil-Lyn.
Poisoned Chalice
The name returns on a hooded old woman who hires Teela and Andra.
Questions
Majestra, answered
Who is Majestra?
Evil-Lyn in disguise, once in the Filmation series and once in Revelation.
Which He-Man episode is Magestra in?
"The Shaping Staff," written by Paul Dini and first aired September 29, 1983.
Is it Magestra or Majestra?
The Filmation subtitles and cast list spell it Magestra; Revelation's subtitles spell it Majestra.
Who voices her?
Linda Gary in 1983. In Revelation she is Evil-Lyn, voiced by Lena Headey.
What does Magestra do at the palace?
She makes King Randor vanish in her Cabinet of Wonders and brings back Beast Man in his place, so the false king can send the Royal Guard against Castle Grayskull.
What does Majestra want in Revelation?
First a goblet from Snake Mountain, then an escort to Castle Grayskull, where she gives the Sorceress the last of the Havoc Staff's magic.
Who wrote her episodes?
Paul Dini wrote "The Shaping Staff" and Diya Mishra wrote "Poisoned Chalice."
What lesson does Orko give at the end of The Shaping Staff?
"Never accept any food or toys or money from a stranger." He adds that you should never go away with one, and that "the smart thing is to just walk away."
Is there a Majestra figure?
No. The Origins Cartoon Collection Evil-Lyn, in her Filmation look, is the one BigBadToyStore has in stock.
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Compiled by the heman.org desk from the episodes "The Shaping Staff" (1983) and "Poisoned Chalice" (2021) and their English subtitles, the Shaping Staff episode guide and its cast list, the Poisoned Chalice episode guide, the film cast page, TVmaze, Netflix's Revelation cast announcement and BigBadToyStore's current listings.
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Characters in the same story
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Teela (Revelation) Heroic Warriors 
Andra Heroic Warriors 
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