Netflix’s Nimona just dropped, and the movie — based on the graphic novel by ND Stevenson — has more than a little shared DNA with She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, the cult-favorite animated series that ran on the platform from 2018 until 2020. Stevenson, who developed the 2018 version of She-Ra, is also bringing his own graphic novel to life, and so of course, fans are wondering about the relative compatibility of the swords, sorcery, and girl power-centric worlds of the two shows. Stevenson says it would be “chaos” to try and cross the two over — although it doesn’t seem like chaos is something that is automatically a bad thing in context.
The new film debuted last week, and centers on a shape-shifting teen in a medieval world that also has elements of technology and mysticism in it. So, there’s already a lot going on even before you throw in the big lore and even bigger personalities of the She-Ra characters.
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“Oh my God. I don’t think the world would survive,” Stevenson joked. “I think that there would be a catastrophic…Yeah, that would be a lot of chaos in one place, but I think they’d get along. I think they would definitely burn something down, but they’d get along very well.”
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power rebooted the classic 1985 cartoon. First born from the Masters of the Universe franchise, She-Ra stood in as the female counterpart to He-Man in the 1980s. Created by Larry DeTillio and J. Michael Straczynski, She-Ra has become a favorite pop culture icon, and DreamWorks revitalized her by reimagining her origins through Stevenson’s show.
The show followed Adora, a teenage orphan from the Planet Etheria, who discovers she is a Princess of Power. After learning about her She-Ra alter-ego, she begins gathering all the separated Princesses of Power in order to liberate her planet from Hordak and his sinister Horde.
You can see the official synopsis for Nimona below.
A Knight is framed for a crime he didn’t commit and the only person who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona, a shape-shifting teen who might also be a monster he’s sworn to kill. Set in a techno-medieval world unlike anything animation has tackled before, this is a story about the labels we assign to people and the shapeshifter who refuses to be defined by anyone.
Nimona is now available to stream on Netflix.
