Sy-Klone (200x)

Kevin D. Campbell's "The Mystery of Anwat Gar," first shown on December 20, 2002, sends He-Man and Man-At-Arms across a stormy sea to the island of Anwat Gar, where the Sorceress has traced a vision of Skeletor plunging Eternia into darkness to the Legacy Stones. The island's defenses come at them first, and at the citadel they meet the last of its defenses: "I am SyClone, protector of the Legacy Stones."

He has never heard of Skeletor and does not care to: "I know of no Skeletor. I know only my duty." He calls the two heroes interlopers and fights them, and while he and He-Man trade blows Skeletor walks in and takes the stones, enough to put on the Legacy Armor. He-Man wins them back by the end, and then refuses to hand them over to Sy-Klone, because they are too dangerous to keep. "It is my duty to protect them," Sy-Klone insists, and He-Man answers that it is his duty "to protect all of Eternia" and destroys them.

That leaves Sy-Klone without a purpose. "If my duty no longer exists, then my purpose has been fulfilled," he decides, and it is time for "the last defender of Anwat Gar to finally rest." He-Man's reply closes the episode: "I disagree."

Clipped from our own copy of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Here, There, Skeletors Everywhere (1984), 12:07 to 14:02, 1 minute 55 seconds. Nothing is added and nothing is sped up. Copyright Mattel.

By Michael Reaves's "Roboto's Gambit," in March 2003, he is one of the Masters, watching Teela lose a sparring match to Adam and offering her a proverb: "Remember, the reed bends before the wind, while the brittle branch snaps in two." He fights beside Roboto when Tri-Klops's skeleton army reaches the palace, and Teela comes around to his advice by the end. John Payne voices him.^[2]

Larry DiTillio's "Separation," a month later, gives him the second half of his story. Watching Adam and Teela play a game with their parents brings back "memories of my own family. Now long gone," and Roboto works out that some descendants ought to exist, so the two of them go looking while He-Man chases Two-Bad and the Triad of Discidium. They find no one, and Roboto's attempt at sympathy gets a sharp "You never had a family, Roboto." The answer he settles on at the end of the episode is "The Masters of the Universe are my family." He is at Teela's side again at the start of "Out of the Past" in the second season.

Mattel's toy line for the 2002 series made a Sy-Klone in 2004, and in 2026 the design came back as part of the sixth wave of Mattel's Origins 200X Cartoon Collection.