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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...)

Just finished this little guy

He is almost 7 years old (when that disaster happened)

His eyes very big and shiny 👁️👄👁️ like a kitten's

The king's fate at the end of Wish

The ending of "Wish" would be perfect for a story that shows the victim breaking free from the control of a pathological narcissist.

Typically, a narcissist's biggest victim is their spouse. In this case, Amaya.

So, in the end, he loses his power, ending up in the mirror where he will be trapped forever, alone in a dungeon.

Narcissists have no redemption. The right way to deal with a narcissist is to use the gray stone technique and cut all ties with them. Their end is loneliness.

That's a great message for a movie to convey.

But that's not the case with Magnifico.

I can't see him as the pathological narcissist that the ending required, simply because he had no malice. Instead, we have someone who cares and shows empathy and respect for others.

Real narcissists are incapable of empathy. They are evil and enjoy causing pain. That's their pleasure. And no, he wasn't faking it. He was genuine. The movie itself tells us that he was good, but then he “turned bad.” That’s not how narcissists work. They were never good to begin with.

It’s a complicated subject. Many people can be mistaken for narcissists because of certain bad, idiotic, and immature behaviors. But they are not really narcissists because they can overcome this and become better people. Narcissists don’t change and don’t want to change, they don’t think they’re wrong. That’s why they have no redemption.

Let’s look at Amaya, who his victim should be if he were truly a narcissist. Narcissists deceive and manipulate their victims into bonding, often through marriage. Then they show their true colors once the victim is trapped with them. They make their victim’s life miserable, disregard them, step on them, oppress them, and make them feel guilty about it. The only opinion that matters is their own. They know what they’re doing and they enjoy it.

Amaya and Magnifico have been married for years and… none of that happens. He genuinely loves her, shows her love, and respects her, her opinion matters, and he listens to her, changes his actions when she asks him to, gives her credit, and praises her. And he does all this when they’re alone, with no one to watch the “show.” He’s genuine.

He genuinely cares about people and wants to protect them; that’s his motivation. He showed empathy for Asha’s pain over the loss of her father and shared his own pain with her.

The movie needed the book with the curse for him to do bad things because without it he wouldn’t. And he was already known as the most powerful sorcerer. Why not use that power?

Because they needed a curse. 😑

I don’t understand why they did it that way. They just had to make the guy a true pathological narcissist. Since they didn’t do that, the movie pissed off a lot of people because the ending was unfair. Usually, unfairness makes people angry.

Did he have a problem? He did. But it wasn’t pathological narcissism. I already talked about his problem in my previous post.

A perfect example of a pathological narcissist in a position of power is Fire Lord Ozai from "Avatar: The Last Airbender". No one was sad when he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

An example of a narcissist in the mother position is Mother Gothel. She gaslighted, treated Rapunzel badly, and left her feeling guilty and afraid.

Gaston is also one. He doesn't care about Belle's opinion. He doesn't care about stepping on people. Many people compare Gaston to Magnifico because of the cringe compliments in the mirror. But really put them next to each other and compare how they see and treat people.

When a narcissist loses, usually, he explodes in fury and revenge and curses everyone.

What we got was someone betrayed by everyone, devastated with sad kicked puppy eyes. (WHY????!!) 😑

The movie shows that if it weren't for the cursed book he wouldn't have done any of that. If the wish system was bad, they could have resolved it peacefully.

Because he was completely redeemable, the ending was very ugly and unpleasant. It painted all the other characters as really bad, traitors, ungrateful, and selfish. Who only care about their own interests and gain.

In short: a tragedy.

Am I the only one who thinks so or did you also notice the tremor in his voice?

Maybe I am paying too much attention...

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.

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All i know is pain - Darkiplier Edit