Shadow Weaver, formerly known as Light Spinner, is a major character in the 2018 original Netflix series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. She is an evil sorceress and former second-in-command of the Horde before she joined the Rebellion against them. In the series finale, she sacrificed herself to allow Adora and Catra to get to the Heart of Etheria in order to defeat Horde Prime.
She was voiced by Lorraine Toussaint.
Her Evil Ranking[]
Her Villainous Deeds[]
- As Light Spinner, she is already shown to be power-hungry and selfish before the events of the series.
- Growing interest of Micah's incredibly skilled and powerful sorcery, she agreed to teach him and hired him as a protege, treating him like nothing but a tool for her sake of power.
- Frustrated that Norwyn wouldn't let her cast the Spell of Obtainment, she still casted the Spell of Obtainment with Micah against the council members' wishes, which attacked both and disfigured her face.
- Attacked the council members and devoured it's leader Norwyn to the darkness.
- After defecting herself from the Mystacor, she eventually joins the Horde as a second-in-command and gains her possession of Black Garnet just to obtain the power. However, she secretly planning to betray the rest of the Horde just for the sake of power.
- Before she even entered Fright Zone, she murdered one guard, just because they asked what business she has to do there.
- Though she raised Adora throughout her childhood, she only saw her as a tool for the power just like what she did to Micah in the past.
- Abused Catra throughout her childhood, both physically and mentally. However, her treatment is what led her into what she could've become, such as wanting to prove herself to be the best and turned herself into a power-hungry control freak who would do anything to rise to the top rank and mistreating her soldiers just to get her way. This would also led to her downfall when she, Scorpia and Entrapta severe her connection to the Black Garnet against her wishes. Despite this, she doesn't even care and still continuing on taunting and mocking Catra. Unfortunately, this makes her partially responsible for the events that happens in the series.
- Threatening Catra to make her suffer if she doesn't find Adora and return her to the Horde.
- When Hordak appoints Catra as a Force Captain and told her to forget about capturing Adora, she shows her disppointment over this and doesn't agreed with him.
- She is shown to be disrespectful towards Hordak.
- Tries to find a way to bring Adora back to the Horde.
- Sending her Shadow Spies to find Adora and stalked her throughout in Mystacor to convince her to return to the Horde. She then psychologically torment her and make her look like a scapegoat in front of others, especially her friends.
- After Catra kidnapped Glimmer and Bow, she never showed her gratitude towards her and dismissing her by congratulating on "her" work by Hordak.
- While helding Glimmer captive, she kept on taunting her and took pleasure of making her suffer.
- Attempt to mind-wiping Adora to get her to return to the Horde, only for her to be attacked by Glimmer and they both ran away.
- Angrily rejected Catra's offer to be comforted by her.
- Though she's aware that she had been too hard on Catra, but she won't apologize to her for it as she only wanted to prepare her for the world.
- Tried to prevent Catra, Scorpia and Entrapta from taking the Black Garnet from her, she absorbed enough power from the Garnet to take them down before she could do the same to the rest of the Horde.
- During her imprisonment, she still took her pleasure of mocking and taunting Catra, even voicing her resentment towards her, proving that she refused to show remorse for what she did.
- After asking Catra to bring her old Sorceror's Guild badge and having a conversation with her, she betrayed her trust by using it to escape from her imprisonment, leaving Catra to be harshly punished by Hordak for this.
- Broke inside the Bright Moon castle just to see Adora, only for her to be captured after she was discovered.
- When being interrogated by Queen Angella and Castaspella, she refused to answer their questions and began to taunt them.
- While combined with Glimmer's power, she began physically tormenting Catra and hurting her in process to prevent her from opening the portal so Adora will lose, worsening her mentality.
- Even after Catra redeemed herself and joined the Rebellion, she still showed her distrust towards her, calling her a distraction and planning to prevent her from getting close to Adora.
- Attempt to drive a wedge between Adora and Catra by falsely claiming that love prevents her from transforming into She-Ra. However due to her machinations, Catra becomes heartbroken over this and left the Rebellion, while Adora scolded her for her past actions.
- While she did understood her wrong doings, she was still selfish enough not to apologize to people she hurt and work on herself but choose to die to atone for her sins.
Why She Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- Fails the heinous standard to Catra, who tried to have the whole world destroyed with the same resources as Shadow Weaver as a Second of Command to Hordak.
- She genuinely cares about well being of others even if they do not are useful for her during some time: such as
- Her student Micah, even if she manipulated him and used him, she didn't have a heart to kill him as she softs her eyes before she teleporting away, she is even surprised to see him after many years and also saved him from bot, she even left out a heartbroken gasp when brainwashed Micah said he had learned from the best.
- While being possessive and cruel, she cares about her adoptive children, Adora and Catra. Even after the former's defection from the Horde, she is shown to be lenient and supportive to her and even went on a mission herself to rescue her, and despite her abusive relationship with Catra, she offered her to join her or move aside and when she defeated Catra, and again offered her a chance to join them and before she died, she showed proud side of her to person she hurted for so many times.
- After defecting from the Horde, she joined the Rebellion to help them fight against the Horde and has heroic moments as well. This was shown when she was helping Glimmer practicing with her magic, helped them captured the traitor, and helped them facing against Horde Prime.
- Shown to have standards as she opposed Glimmer's plan to use the Heart of Etheria to take down the Horde, telling her how reckless and dangerous it is and it could endangered the rest of Etheria.
- In the series finale, she fully-redeemed herself by quitting her selfish goals, sacrificing herself to protect both Adora and Catra from the First Ones security monster, and helped them get to the Heart of Etheria. Much more, her death plays sympathetically.
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