King Magnifico

**King Magnifico** is the main antagonist in Disney's 2023 animated feature film *Wish*. He is the husband of Queen Amaya, the ruler and founder of the kingdom Rosas and the sole keeper of numerous wishes entrusted to him by every people that ask for what they wish for from all over the world. He also a sorcerer king .

## Appearance

Magnifico is a tall figure, brown-skinned with blue eyes and grey and white hair along with a goatee and mustache. His clothes are between white and gold.

## Personality

From his public image to his subjects, Magnifico appears charismatic and inspiring to many others, presenting himself as an innovative mind worthy of the Kingdom of Rosas.

Beneath his facade, Magnifico is shown to be selfish, arrogant and narcissistic, seeing himself as superior to everyone around him, proud of himself, uneducated, greedy and short-tempered. He only fulfills the wishes of people who are necessary, and those who seem absurd he keeps and does not fulfill, regardless of what he thinks of others, showing that Magnifico is a hypocrite.

Initially, it seems Magnifico is driven to protect his kingdom and the well-beings of his subjects, due to having lost his own home and family as a child, the trauma motivating him to never experience such devastating losses again. This led him to studying sorcery in order to gain the power to protect all he held dear, something he actually shared with Asha in her interview to become his apprentice, which gave a glimpse of humanity in Magnifico.

However, Magnifico's good intentions have long since become twisted into a vain and self-absorbed ego along with a self-righteous arrogance in which he believes he knows what's best and will tolerate no potential threats to his power and his kingdom. This especially includes the Wishes that Magnifico cajoles the teeming masses to entrust to him, combing through these many wishes to see which would benefit his kingdom, and himself, and those that he would consider a potential threat to his power. When asked by Asha about her grandfather's wish, Magnifico called it a beautiful wish but too vague and uncertain as to what could result of the "inspiration" Asha's grandfather wished to give by playing music, and when Asha continued to question him Magnifco's true colors began to show. He expressed a low opinion of people and their wishes in general, saying that since most people consider it too hard or unfair of how their wishes don't come true he convinces them to give them to him and surrender their memories of what their wishes were, so they won't remember what they're missing, and since he won't grant the majority of the wishes in his keeping he refuses to return them on the grounds that they could result in their true owners becoming threats as well.

When Asha pressed the issue and argued that the people deserved to decide that for themselves, Magnifico finally lost his temper, declaring that "[He] decides who deserves", and then spitefully denying Asha apprenticeship and stating the wishes of her grandfather and mother would never be granted.

As previously mentioned, Magnifico fears any potential threat to his power, which is why he forbade anyone in Rosas from practicing magic but himself. When a mysterious light shines in the night sky over Rosas, he immediately feared it would be a threat and used his sway over the people to "encourage" them to give him any information regarding this phenomenon.

When his people begin to question him and demand answers and even their wishes granted, Magnifico finally goes over the edge and voices (sings) his discontent, displaying his true egomaniacal and malevolent character, and how he really views everyone around him to be branch him, and he resorts to using forbidden magic in his mad quest to secure his power by capturing Star.

His usage of Forbidden Magic brought all of Magnifco's darkest traits to the surface, including his arrogance, narcissism, paranoia, and his hunger for power, and especially his cruelty, when he destroyed Sakina's wish right in front of her family, inflicting pain and despair into the innocent woman out of pure spite against Asha. His paranoia became so severe that not even his wife, Queen Amaya, was exempt from Magnifico's suspicion until she barely managed to assure him that she would never ally with a traitor to Rosas (externally sounding like she meant Asha when she truly did mean her husband, whom Amaya could see had gone mad). His hunger for power continued, as he kept destroying wishes to absorb their power while subjecting the wishes' owes to pain and despair, yet he still craved Star to make himself unstoppable. He also displayed a cruelty in granting Simon's wish to become a knight, but also twisted the wish by bewitching Simon with mind control to make him his slave.

In the end, Magnifico shed all his white lies and falsehoods, revealing to everyone the monster he had become, declaring there would be no more wishes, hopes or dreams, and that no one would ever be able to question or threaten his power again when he used his magic to cast clouds over Rosas to ensure no one could make another wish upon the Stars again and magically enchained everyone in the kingdom, including his wife. He also used his magic to hurt Asha and demonstrate his power, absolutely certain that no one could stop him then and tried to break her spirit to make her give up.

Magnifico demonstrated an underestimation of the power of hope and determination, as Asha refused to break and even inspired all of Rosas to hold onto hope and not give up and make a wish under their own power, which freed Star from Magnifco's staff and turned its magic against him, imprisoning Magnifico into his own staff, leaving him trapped yet he still didn't learn his lesson. Thus Amaya gave her former husband the thanks he deserved by having him hung on the wall in the dungeons.

## Powers and Abilities

He has the powers of darkness and control the Heartless. He has magical powers.

* **Magic:** Magnifico is an accomplished sorcerer, he possesses vast magical powers which he compiled after years of study, being the only sorcerer in Rosas, and his magic gives him the ability to grant wishes to others.
* Wish Granting

## Role in Sora’s Adventures

King Magnifico appears in Sora’s Adventures in Rosas.