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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: First Look at Battle Cat?

What first looked like a piece of fan art tweeted out by a film executive with ties to the […]
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe 

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The image, seen above, features He-Man’s armored tiger steed Battle Cat, in a monochromatic, sepia-colored photo that plays up realism but doesn’t provide a ton of details, or any insight as to whether the creature will actually be green and yellow, as he was in the original animated series.

Like He-Man himself, Battle Cat started as a mild-mannered soul and was transformed by magical lightning into a combat-ready warrior.

Based on a popular toy line, Masters of the Universe ran as an animated series from 1983-1985, spawning a spinoff, a notoriously-bad live-action feature film and a few scattered attempts to reboot the franchise for toys and animation. Rumors of a big-budget live-action film that would attempt to take the property more seriously have floated around for years.