The Mawgu

The Mawgu in Volcano Island

> "*Chosen ones, behold your doom! I choose you...for destruction!*"
> ― The Mawgu declares the Nicktoons' destiny upon their arrival to his vortex
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The Mawgu was an ancient god of chaos who once controlled the distant land of Volcano Island, eventually stretching his control to Bikini Bottom, Amity Park, Dimsdale, Retroville, and many other worlds in the Nicktoons Universe. Using his magic and the dimensional rifts of the volcano’s vortex, the Mawgu was, for a while, able to tear apart everyone’s worlds including his own, leaving no resistance against him until the arrival of the Nicktoons. Together with Jimmy Neutron's schematics, they were able to create a device capable of opening an interdimensional tear that sealed the Mawgu away until he miraculously returned 10 years later in the Gumball Saga when Vlad Plasmius set hm free with his power. The Syndicate then provided him with enough of the island’s ooze and the Morphoid’s essence to upgrade himself with even more power, allowing him to decimate all of Dimsdale and almost destroy Amity Park and Retroville before his demise via the planetary defense cannon. Though he's not referred to by name, he survived the attack and had infected the Teen Titans at the end of the Samurai Jack Saga, returning in the form of a Virus in Toon Wars: The Final Days. He was only stopped when the Toon Force, with help from many surviving characters during the crisis and the power of the Final Magisword, were able to get to the Fourth Wall controls and erase his programming for good.

## Appearance

The Mawgu was depicted as a massive built creature with dark purple Earth rock making up his body while his chest and parts of his arms and shoulders are encased in a more solid version of his ooze. His eyes are a menacing light purple, occasionally switching to a beading red. Though he lacks any limbs beyond parts of his torso, he appears to have a shining white light coming from underneath where his waist would be that flows whenever he moves. He has four sharp fingers and appears to have a large lower jaw.

## Personality

Based on his actions, the Mawgu was best described as a maniacal, self-serving creature, relishing in the chaos of each world he infects. With his army, he corrupts and destroys anything he comes into contact with. When he first appears before the Nicktoons, he speaks with pride and acknowledges the heroes as "Chosen Ones," claiming it was he who chose them for their inevitable doom. He also seems to get angry whenever they gain the upper hand to him personally, irritated by Timmy Turner when he calls him "a toy" to distract him. Though eventually he was defeated, his confidence shined as he vowed to have his revenge someday while laughing. 10 years later into the Toon Wars, his nature seems almost exactly the same but with stronger motivation and a generally dismissive mindset toward the Nicktoons. He is, however, willing to listen to the Syndicate and accepts their kindness to him even when he plans to destroy their worlds. He even appears to have a devious sense of humor when trapping the heroes in a bubble and using his powers to manipulate them; also trying to take Nicole's spirit when he sees that she's the strongest fighter. In spite of his villainous persona, he inadvertently has a distinct form of wisdom, stating that no prophecy fully dictates destiny and that he shapes it the way he sees it; his path being that of chaotic evil while the Nicktoons are chaotic good.

In the epilogue of the Samurai Jack Saga and certain scenes in the Final Days, he uses his cunning manipulation against his victims to further their hatred and motivation for his own ends. His most notable case was both Doug Funnie and Nicole Watterson, who he shaped to become the Toon God and the Toon Goddess respectively. Otherwise, as simply a disembodied virus, he cannot express any emotion nor a physical appearance beyond what is provided to him by the coding in reality. As evident by the Toon God, while it was true that the Mawgu often manipulated others for his personal gain, he sincerely did work with him and the Toon Goddess as partners rather than pawns. This ultimately became his undoing when, as a result of his connection to the Toon God, his core programming feeding into the Fourth Wall was exposed, leading to his demise.

## Biography

### Early Life and Volcano Island

   In the distant past, The Mawgu started life as the remnant of a powerful virus that threatened to spread throughout the old universe before its split into the Multiverse. He began as an indecipherable mass that made up the ooze in Volcano Island. This allowed him to eventually take physical form and gain sentience once he corrupted a sufficient number of people and the world itself. Though he was trapped at his volcano, it wasn't long before his corruption had spread further into other parts of the island. Years after his conception, he began to form a legion of followers and created his interdimensional vortex with the idea to gain ultimate power by stealing energy from every world in the universe. This also had the unintended effect of scattering a handful of Nicktoons across the island, giving them the chance to team up and work with its natives to construct a device that can open a rip in space using Jimmy Neutron's provided schematics. Together, the Nicktoons went on to confront the Mawgu in his vortex at the volcano and used the device to seal him away. But before being imprisoned, he mad happily vowed to return one day to exact his revenge. His lair used to experiment with the ooze on the island would later be used for good in Globs of Doom to study the Morphoids and act as a hub for the heroes.

### Toon Wars

After 10 years between the ending of Globs of Doom and Toon Wars, the Mawgu was set to return once again in the Gumball Saga when the Syndicate revealed to Jimmy Neutron that the purpose of capturing the citizens of Elmore was so they can be sacrificed to the Mawgu when they reopen the Rip Zipper. Unbeknownst to the heroes, this was secretly a ruse to bring the Toon Force to Volcano Island, so when the Mawgu is released, there'd be no one left to defend their worlds from his invasion. When Vlad Plasmius successfully reopens the prison with his portal generation, he along with Calamitous and Crocker offered the Mawgu the volcano's remaining ooze and the substance used to make the Morphoids which they had kept within the vaults and a man-made pit. Athough he stated he wouldn't hesitate to destroy their worlds even with them being present, it didn't matter to the Syndicate and they teleported to different location. After regaining his power with extra energy from the Morphoids, the Mawgu began to open a vortex which allowed him to target and destroy any of the Nicktoons' worlds, starting with the complete annihilation of Dimsdale.

To defeat him before he can do anymore damage, Shelly (the Wise Old Hermit Crab) takes the heroes down to the core of the island where they can activate the planetary defense cannon built for dire situations like this one; in spite of the fact that doing so would cause the world to destroy itself. Knowing ahead of time what they were doing, the Mawgu, using an avatar to be in multiple places at once, corners the Nicktoons in the core and traps them in a bubble. Within it, he takes away their abilities and attempts to drain Nicole Watterson's spirit for himself after sensing her amazing power. He tells the Nicktoons that no matter what prophecy Shelly or the other islanders told them, they never dictate destiny, especially considering no legend had predicted he would eventually return. He also antagonizes Gumball by telling him that he is but a bug in a grander universe waiting to forget him much like the Chosen Ones. But as Nicole's power overwhelms him, Gumball says that even if he is forgotten over time, there are others who will carry on their legacy. The Nicktoons also mention that they too believed that the legends weren't to their taste and that they knew he'd come back to try and destroy them once and for all; taking into account what he told them and agreeing that they shape their own destinies.

Nicole's essence would prove to be too much for him to physically sustain, resulting an explosion and giving everyone back their souls and abilities. When Gumball finishes the cannon activation, it shoots into the main Mawgu body and destroys him along with the rest of the planet. Though what looked to be his apparent demise, this was not the case as he was shown barely alive at the end credits of the saga somewhere in the ruins of Dimsdale and seen observing in the form of a sentient glob in Jump City during the Samurai Jack Saga. When Robin (now without Starfire) proposes that no other world would hate the Titans (Teen Titans GO) if they were made like they were, the Mawgu somewhat agreed and began to corrupt them as the saga came to an end.

### Toon Wars: The Final Days

*See Virus Entity for more details*

Although the Mawgu was no longer in physical form, he continued to operate as a Virus. It was created after he had infected the world of *Teen Titans GO* and expanded into other worlds throughout the multiverse, taking on an ethereal form. This allowed him to siphon enough energy to manipulate both Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon Universes into a collision, unleashing the Void from the tear in reality. Instantly, he was given complete access to the Fourth Wall itself, quickly poisoning reality with real-world controls. After several failed attempts to kill the Toon Force in spite of his reach, the Toon Goddess revealed herself to them as the corrupted form of Nicole Watterson when the virus successfully manipulated her during the first virus attack. She explained that it was indeed made up of the Mawgu's data preserved after his destruction at the end of the Gumball Saga. Worse, the area of the Forgotten Society that was built on Timmy Turner's world is the same place the Mawgu planned to strike once every cartoon was present, manipulating the environment enough to accelerate it's nature and make it habitable again as part of the long-term goal.

Although the Toon Goddess succeeded in killing most of the cartoons left in reality, she was separated from Nicole Watterson and slain by Bimm and Momotaro, activating the mass reset. This bought the Mawgu and the Toon God enough time to prepare for final erasure. He is later revealed to be the influence behind the Toon God, formerly Doug Funnie following the events of the Samurai Jack Saga where his world was unable to be saved due to the attacks on Jump City, Retroville, and the creation of the Syndicate Timeline happening all at once. This led to Doug developing a vengeful persona, whom the Mawgu encountered while recovering from his destruction in the Gumball Saga. Both seeking revenge, the two of them partnered with each other to spread their virus on reality and the real world, effectively killing Doug Funnie as a character and leading to the destruction of the multiverse. Being connected to the Toon God, however, the Mawgu's core programming (in the form of a spore feeding into reality) was exposed each time the man was damaged by the Final Magisword, leading to the Toon Force destroying it with a powerful combined attack while the Toon God himself was slain by Bimm, finally putting an end to the Mawgu's wrath.

## Abilities

* Interdimensional Teleportation
* Mass Corruption
* Ability Manipulation
* Energy Blasts
* Enemy Spawning
* Energy Detection
* Anti Gravity
* Planetary Decimation
* Backup Power
* Supreme Intelligence

## Stats

Though the Mawgu hasn't been shown to use physical strength in either the games nor Toon Wars, it's mentioned by Calamitous that it's about on par with Aku's. He typically excels in the realm of raw power, using the energy from his ooze and vortex to manipulate entire worlds and corrupt hundreds of creatures no matter the type. In nearly every appearance he's made, it takes the power of a superweapon to keep him down or otherwise kill him. However, he has also been able to sustain heavy damage even from the power of the planetary cannon, which he survived by transferring his essence to the ruins of Dimsdale. In this state the Mawgu cannot physically harm anyone but is able to manipulate them by corrupting them with his ooze. When enough were infected, he slowly regained the ability to traverse through to other planets and gain the power to manipulate them like with his vortex, best exemplified when he rammed Amity Park into Elmore despite being in two different universes.

After merging with the Void, The Mawgu became the Virus Entity, taking complete control of reality and being able to manipulate digital matter, easily corrupting other characters without the need of the ooze.

## Appearances

1. Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island
2. Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots (Cameo)
3. Toon Wars: Gumball Saga
4. Toon Wars: Samurai Jack Saga
5. Toon Wars: The Final Days (Final Appearance)

## Trivia

* Although the Mawgu does not make an official return until the Gumball Saga, he does make a brief visual cameo along with Plankton at the beginning of Attack of the Toybots as one of the people who laughs over Calamitous refusing to shave his mustache.
* In Jimmy Neutron's notes, he learned that the Mawgu Lair seen in Globs of Doom and the Gumball Saga wasn't made by The Mawgu himself. It was used as a laboratory for the islanders to study the ooze that infected the planet, but was sealed off for a time once the Mawgu made himself known.
* It's possible the Mawgu purposefully aimed at Dimsdale first after being insulted by Timmy in Battle for Volcano Island.
* Aside from his one line through the Toon God and his direct conversation with Nicole Watterson, the Mawgu is one of the few characters who doesn't have much, if not any dialogue in the Final Days.
* When Frozarburst incorporated Pibby from Learning with Pibby in the early lore of Toon Wars, it was revealed that The Mawgu and Aku are related as they both hailed from the same virus that threatened the old universe before Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network were separated.
* To some degree, the concept of the Mawgu becoming a reality-bending virus is similar to Sigma from the Mega Man X series.
	+ Both are able to manipulate so much data that it can manifest in the real world.
	+ Both have similar features, including well defined chins and a bald dome.
	+ Both have multiple bodies, physically and intangibly