Mattel was sued by Conan Properties, Inc., the creators of the film Conan the Barbarian (1982), which claimed that He-Man was simply Conan in a blond wig. The case was dismissed, as the court ruled that all masculine action heroes are essentially very similar, and there can therefore be no copyright on the concept of muscular superheroes.
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