Netossa

Netossa's weapon is the plainest in the Rebellion: a long white rope net, carried coiled and thrown over whatever needs stopping. The Filmation series introduced her in 1986 as Spinnerella's friend and traveling companion, the pair on holiday in Thamor Village when the Horde came through, and brought her back for three more episodes before the series ended.

What the show does with her most often is take her out of the fight. Across her episodes the Horde catches her in a force field, a dungeon cell, a freeze ray and a magic painting, and the net gets its best work in between.

Frank Becker's "When Whispering Woods Last Bloomed" is told as a memory by Netossa and Spinnerella, a year into their time with the Rebellion, and Netossa's half of it is the trap. A Horde force field catches her in the woods and she ends up behind a barred window in a Fright Zone dungeon, shouting at robots, while Hordak tells Spinnerella that the rebels took her. The Spinnerella entry covers the whirlwind side of the story.^[1]

Light Hope tells She-Ra who Netossa is, and She-Ra breaks her out. The guards give them a few seconds of trouble, one of them ends up wrapped in Netossa's net, and the introductions are brisk: "Thanks for freeing me, but who are you?" "My name is She-Ra. I'm a friend." She-Ra flies her to the edge of the Whispering Woods on Swift Wind, where Spinnerella says she thought the rebels were holding her, and Netossa answers with the episode's best line: "No way, sister."

Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, When Whispering Woods Last Bloomed (She-Ra: Princess of Power, 1986), 17:02 to 18:58, 1 minute 56 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.

J. Larry Carroll wrote her next two outings, a week apart in 1987. In "The Inspector" she is one of the rebels frozen and held in the Fright Zone after a Horde ambush. Horde Prime has sent Inspector Darkney to audit Hordak, and once Darkney is out of the way Prince Adam, in a fake beard, talks his way in as the inspector sent in Darkney's place, with Adora along, and the captives are freed. In "Portrait of Doom" Catra lends Spritina, a twigget in the rebel camp, a set of enchanted paints, and every rebel Spritina paints weakens and vanishes into the picture. Netossa sways and sits down on the grass, and her portrait turns up on the wall of the Fright Zone next to Kowl's, part of Horde Prime's collection, until Madame Razz's rhyming spell lets everyone out.

"Assault on the Hive" finally gives the net a target worth having. Catra arrives as the Horde's tax collector, and She-Ra and Netossa net her together before the episode heads into space after Sweet Bee and the Hive.

Netossa's later life belongs to a reboot that this encyclopedia does not count as canon. DreamWorks' She-Ra and the Princesses of Power brought Netossa back on Netflix in 2018, voiced by Krystal Joy Brown, who was named in the cast announcement that May, and from its first season she and Spinnerella are a couple, as Den of Geek noted in its piece on the show.

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.

Mattel's Princess of Power line sold her first, in 1986. Masters of the Universe Classics opened its 2013 subscription year with her, a figure with sculpted blue hair and a big rubbery cape, though without the net she is known for.^[2] The vintage figure and the Classics figure are both retired, and neither is sold new at BigBadToyStore today.