Magnifico: The Failed Villain

the fact that he felt more redeemable and more root-deserving than the main character bothers me

My main problem with Magnifico is that he just goes from a normal person to a cartoon villain, immediately ruining everything about his presence, seriously if this movie wanted Magnifico to be a classic villain, then stick to it and actually have him do horrible stuff and have him be campy, and you know make him intimidating, because it does not work out when a villain suddenly goes from a villain with sympathetic qualities to one big power rangers villain

Truth is that Magnífico was feeling more like a mentor figure who was truly good, experienced and wise until he was literally possessed

The difference is Anxiety is coherent with her own character. She has a specific motive (as the personification of anxiety itself, planning things ahead to prepare for future events) and a goal (create a new Sense of Self that would help Riley to survive for what is coming to her after reaching puberty and going to high school) and she is hellbent on succeed at all costs. King Magnifico had a motive (his homeland being destroyed by thieves) and a goal (keeping wishes safe, so no one would have their dreams shattered), but then for some reason, out of nowhere he became a 2 dimensional parody of a Disney villain. Even after Anxiety is “defeated”, everyone understands that she’s well-intentioned but with misguided methods, and they still let her use her purpose in a more productive way (like studying hard for an upcoming exam without going over fixating or overthinking). While everyone demonizes Magnifico for just saying “no” FOR ONCE to a random nepotistic hypocrite.

Should have given her what she wanted and see how fast that spirals out of control and when she realizes he's right they return to the room and he asks her "so how did it feel to grant wishes without thinking about it?" And show why he is the way he is as it was all an illusion to show her "wish" coming true Good lesson to the people watching instead of "get whatever you want just because"

One thing I don’t understand is that why he’s a villain for deciding which wish should be granted and yet the movie ends with Ashe doing the exact same thing.

Wish is an utterly disastrous movie. Magnifico is not as an interesting Disney villain because it made him more cartoony and lacks the messages any Disney villains would deliver. And you are right that Disney has a bad reputation of shafting villains from the modern stories or doing live action remakes for marketing purposes. What the studio needs is to go back to its original roots starting with the revival of 2D animations.

I can’t stop thinking about this movie. Those early concept ideas are like my new hyperfixation. We were so robbed. 😭😭😭

Even with Chris Pine’s brilliant vocal performance, it still unfortunately doesn’t make Magnifico any better. ☹️

There's certainly flaws in Magnifico's ideas, but on the whole his system works too well for it to really feel like a problem that needs to be solved. And even with the issues that are there, Asha never really gives a valid or pragmatic alternative to them, but the movie treats her as unequivocally in the right and completely sides with her, to the point where they have to use a literal magic book to turn Magnifico fully evil so they can avoid having any further discussion over it.

His was originally written as a good guy, and it SHOWS. He could've been such a complex antagonist, a Yen Sid-inspired figure to Asha's apprentice role. And they deprived him of any depth in the final product.

How can you have a goal that had so much potential, and then it got wasted. Like, when King Magnifico once talked about his back story, I was like, "Ooh, I feel like I will be bringing into some great villainy," but then after a while... (in which you know) IT WAS NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN! Also, Aldone, it's good that you brought up Anxiety because, unlike King Magnifico, Anxiety also has a purpose, and it is, of course, shown multiple times in the film, she also follows her purpose in a dangerous way, in which it leads her to be redeemed. King Magnifico also talked about his purpose, but... then, he does nothing with it. In addition, the movie made no sense.

All the other Disney villains are laughing at you dude!

Magnifico was an overall overworked decent guy with reasonable goals throughout most of the movie untill he opened a book that basically possesses him making him seem drunk on power and no one thought to break him free from the curse not even his own wife siding with the bratty teen revolution instead, in a deleted scene he was going to be sealed into the same mirror and then get irrevocably destroyed by his wife breaking the mirror from under her heel like that's just cruel and disney somehow thought sealing him into the dungeon was better then giving this man some emotonal support or a break.

A lion with a scar on his face did a MUCH better job as a villain.

The Fact that King Magnfico is written messy and isn’t consistent is sad he could have been a great villain either Tragic or Pure evil great video by the way

Magnifico wasnt a "straight up evil" villain. He was a villain who slowly gave into evil.

This is the Thanks I Get is agood villain song by modern standards

Disney was so focused on making a villain that they failed to make one.

Asha is no different than The Corrupted Magnifico, she is incredibly selfish and does not consider any concequence in mind, she literally does the same as Magnifico in the end of the movie, there is blatantly no difference between the start of the movie and the end of the movie