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𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖘, 𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔶𝔪𝔟𝔬𝔩 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔢 𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢..

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝.

(It's a bit of a spoiler...)

Trauma and Protectiveness in Wish and Encanto

So, I watched Wish...

I don't think Wish needed a villain. In fact, I would have liked the film to follow the approach of Encanto (which I loved very much) because they both have points in common.

Yes, I will compare Abuela and Magnífico, two characters who, despite their differences, share similar problems.

Abuela went through a deep trauma in which she lost her home and her husband and had to raise her triplets alone while guiding her community as the bearer of the candle with the miracle that saved them, which originated from the sacrifice of her husband.

This trauma left her afraid of losing everything again, her family and her home. For her, the miracle was what protected them from doom. Therefore, she saw the miracle as the most important thing of all. She also saw it as her responsibility to serve the community with the magic of the miracle.

This made her become very strict and demanding, putting a lot of pressure on her family to be perfect and to serve the community with their abilities at all times.

What they could do became more important than who they were.

This is what caused the destruction of their home and their family relationships.

Magnifico also suffered a trauma, losing absolutely everything — his home and his family. However, he decided to dedicate his life to helping others and preventing them from suffering the same as he did. So he works hard to learn magic and build a kingdom from scratch with his own hands where everyone is welcome and he was very successful at it.

(yes, this is a very good character we have here)

His trauma, like Abuela's, made him afraid that tragedy would happen again.

His way of dealing with it was to take all this responsibility and pressure of caring and protecting and put it on himself and no one else. Carrying it all on his shoulders.

He will only do what he thinks is safe. And since we have trauma involved, he has his own safety measures. He becomes overprotective. (I can talk more about this in another post haha)

He would do everything he could for them because he didn't want them to feel pain and sadness. That was his motivation.

And that's not healthy either.

He sounds a lot like a family man who lost everything when he was young, someone who grew up in need and had to work hard to create a successful life. A story of overcoming.

So he starts a family. He wants them to have a good life and not suffer the pain he suffered. He protects them. He gives them everything he can. He does everything for them. Everything he didn't have when he was younger he will give them. Because he knows the pain of lack.

But then he ends up spoiling his children and being overprotective.

There are many parents like that.

The tendency is for the children to become spoiled, ungrateful and dependent.

They will not appreciate what they receive because they do not have to work for it. Everything was handed to them on a silver platter without effort. They also start to think they deserve to have everything handed to them just because yes. So they expect to get more and more. Give me! give me!

That's exactly how the people of Rosas were.

They expected their king to give them everything and more because, well, he did.

For them, the most important thing was what the king could do for them.

I really wish they had gone the route of Encanto.

At the end of the movie, when the house falls down, Abuela acknowledges her mistakes and Mirabel shows empathy by acknowledging her pain and all her work. She says something like “Nothing is so broken that we can’t fix it, together” and they reconcile. It was beautiful. After that, everyone comes together to rebuild, with the help of the community as a gesture of gratitude for everything the family has done for them.

If the ending of Wish had been one of understanding, reconciliation and respect, it would have been so good.

And it would have achieved the production’s idea that you should work for your goals.

The people of Rosas would have learned gratitude, respect, and to work and strive for their goals alone.

Magnífico would have learned to take a step back and let his people try to achieve their goals alone. Let them succeed on their own, let them feel the sadness and pain of failure because that is part of the process and part of life. And don't carry everything on his shoulders.

Of course, he can still help, but in a different way depending on each case.

He is a wise king after all.

Cursed Villain Magnifico Muahaha

Now let's talk about The Curse!

In the beginning, Amaya says the book's curse would control him. Later, Amaya searches the book for a way to free him from this curse. She is not looking to reduce his power, but to free him from the control, because he wouldn't cause any harm if he weren't under the curse's influence.

However, when she reads the evil book, she discovers that there is no way to break the curse.

"I am the great one and my power is greater than anything. Don’t even try." – source: Evil Book about itself.

So, Amaya simply gives up because the source is considered very reliable and she sees no other options.

"Aw, so sad, anyway"

What is this??? I can think of 2 or 3 ways to break this curse. However, no one tried anything, and after that, they acted as if he had always been like this.

Amaya could have saved the day, but instead, she acted bizarrely and without emotion. She didn't even lament. It was scary and strange.

Changing the subject, you know what’s funny? He is being controlled by an Evil Curse, but even so, he doesn’t show himself to be a real danger.

(The script weakened him so that Asha wouldn’t be defeated the moment he saw her.)

So we end up with a silly guy walking around with messy hair, playing pranks, and making jokes that only he finds funny.

The worst he did was consume wishes, which is bad, but it only made people sad. And it was easily undone later. He didn’t send anyone to the dungeons or exile either.

In the final battle, what did he do? He put his face on everything that reflected, trapped the star, created a cloud to prevent another star from being brought, painted the place with rose thorns (without actual thorns) with magic slime, and stuck people to the ground.

His attacks only pushed people without causing any damage. When he was losing, he released green smoke on people. No one even coughed.

(Oh Look! They could have broken the curse here but they chose to wish for ''something more'' for themselves.)

He squeezed Asha with magic and threw her to the ground. He didn’t threaten to push Asha off the tower like any normal villain would.

He also doesn’t attack Asha for revenge when he realizes he lost. And she was right there next to him.

Then, when he was trapped in the mirror he didn't seem so cursed anymore, what happened? idk

No one cared about him anyway.

Sooo... what was he planning to do with all the accumulated power? He didn’t have a clear objective. He didn't even say he wanted to conquer other lands or do anything.

What if no one had done anything in the end? What would he do?

I think he would vent his frustrations with a speech, maybe a reprise of "This is the thanks I get?" and then send everyone home grounded to "think about their bad behavior and ingratitude."

Most of the people agree that he was a very bad villain. He should have been more dangerous. Which is weird, because isn’t it a powerful curse that’s in control?

I concluded that this is the maximum evil the curse can make him achieve.

I find this very funny because I imagine The Curse being very frustrated.

This reminds me of this: (she's a robot)

That's it. This is how I see Magnífico’s case now.

👇👇👇⒞⒰⒭⒮⒠⒟ Ċüṛṡëd 👇👇👇

Asha and the rest of the people rise up and defeat the dark monster with their bright hearts and imprison it in the mirror, knowing that monster lies within Magnifico's heart.

Forced to hang him on a wall in the dungeon, no matter how much he struggles that he is now himself and no forbidden magic has possessed him, they no longer trust him.

King Magnifico's efforts to break free are futile, he is sent to the dungeon, Again...

A little prelude to my story.

𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠.

Warning!

Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-con.

I warned anyway..

I tried to make a poster for my story and... this is the result:

Not that bad, It conveys its meaning..