The cheers with a full crowd are going to make my heart feel good 🌹 I can't wait to hear the audience
ユートピアの王様は冷遇されたことに怒り、人々は歓声を上げる!マグニフィコ王、あなたはもっと良い扱いを受けるべきです💙
Scar, a classic villain and the best example of a violent, bloodthirsty dictator who enjoys killing others to obtain power will now be "relatable", while decent characters are being demonized and branded as evil over literally nothing. I'm confused.
There's this scene in the Wish illustrated story they cut from the movie so you wouldn't empathize with the king even more.
Asha and Star are some of the most cruel characters I've seen in a Disney movie, mostly because their bad behavior is constantly excused by the narrative.
- He got his genes from outer space
- He commands great magic
- He can collect wishes
- He guided the people of Rosas to have hopes and dreams
- He gets trapped in a staff made to contain only the stars
- He glows and is very playful
What if King Magnifico is actually a star? 🤔
"I'm always there when you need to vent, and I'll give you everything even though you never thank me!"
Sounds terrifying, we better stop this criminal.
Not giving this heroic vain King a sequel would be an actual crime. He has so much fun dude potential.. And he's voiced by Chris Pine, hello?!
Give King Magnifico his protagonist role immediately, Disney. What are you waiting for?
Young people: "I'm gonna live my life without a care in the world"
Young Magnifico: "I watched my family die so I studied and worked hard to protect others from that pain. I will build an entire kingdom with my hands to keep everybody happy, rich, safe and well fed"
Oh okay.
A true villain singing about his pride, murdering his own brother and forcing a reign under his cruel dictatorship
VS
An overworked orphan who gave his subjects everything they could ever dream of and just wants to be respected
Pinocchio - 1940: "kids, don't indulge in bad behaviors because they always have consequences"
Wish - 2023: "kids, you're always right, and if someone opposes you with their painful experience, beg the universe to help you obliterate them so you finally take their place"
"It's not fair, is it"
"When I was young, I too suffered great loss. My entire family... Our lands were destroyed by selfish, greedy thieves. If only I had known magic then... I founded this kingdom so there would be a place where everyone's safe"
Every real villain: "I enjoy being heartless, I hate you all, I want ultimate power even if it kills everyone"
King Magnifico, a hero: "I didn't want to do this, I'm stressed, I work too hard, I give too much, nobody ever thanks me, my past is haunting me, I'm exhausted"
The Princess and The Frog - 2009: "wish and dream with all your heart, but remember Tiana, that old star can only take you part of the way"
Wish - 2023: "you don't need to work hard or appreciate the utopia you live in, just keep wishing until Star arrives to do as you please"
Being in charge of a community comes with having to compromise in order to keep collective safety, people need rules and limits to live in harmony without hating each other.
This King not only brought peace but also order without crime. He did no wrong. He actually did too well.
Casually browsing through the Japanese King Magnifico hashtag to gift cookies to every person who thinks he did nothing wrong because he's not a villain🍪
#マグニフィコ王
#KingMagnifico
Queen Amaya’s voice actor
@AngeliqueCabral
reveals King Magnifico was originally written to be a hero, while Amaya was the evil queen.
A story that would likely have ended with love as he's a sorcerer, and would have broken her curse. Read here:
Happy birthday Chris Pine. I'd love to thank him for creating King Magnifico. He's not a Disney villain, but he's the nicest prince with a special place in my heart. I can't wait to hear him sing again (and say that he sh*t himself for being too nervous, his words not mine)
According to Japan, Magnifico is a heroic king who's willing to do the right thing enough to hurt himself for justice. According to the west, he was right to begin with, and this story didn't need to exist. We're like brothers, thank you Japan ❤️👑
Disney: "get ready to the see the worst villain we ever made"
Magnifico: "I can't wait to welcome you to my kingdom with a party, give you everything you need for free, protect and love one of your wishes that you want to share with me so I can consider granting it!"
Me: 🤨?
I felt like the Disney villains who got the villain song would react this way to what he says in This Is The Thanks I Get
自分の利益のために市民を拷問し、皆の生活を苦しめる代わりに、楽園を築くことを歌い、ボランティア活動をする王様...? #マグニフィコ王
Queen Amaya claims to have seen "too many bad things" but she did nothing about it since she stayed in power and loved the King, making her an accomplice.
But she's still considered a good person who can corner and cage her own loyal husband forever to become sole ruler. Absurd
Since this movie decided to treat this character like heck for no reason, I decided to draw this.
King Magnifico is a star ✨
#KingMagnifico
#マグニフィコ王
#WISH
Me when Disney started gaslighting me into hating King Magnifico, even though the only bad thing he ever did throughout the entire movie was letting Asha see the wishes and ruin his life
Mutual and long-lasting love is something a villain cannot experience because the only person he cares about is himself.
This alone is the reason why King Magnifico cannot be "evil": they're in love with each other.
(And also why Amaya's behavior at the end is disturbing)
Anna's boss move: saving Elsa's magic from becoming an unstoppable curse by thawing it with love.
Queen Amaya’s boss move: saving her loyal orphan husband from the curse of his past by loving him enough to break him free.
It was that simple. Love = magic.
Queen Amaya’s entire arc was set to give her eternally loyal husband a true love's kiss, for Disney's 100th year anniversary. But no, they thought she was better off as a superficial lunatic who whines with kids I guess