King Magnifico

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## Base Breaking Character

### Powers/Skills

High intelligence
High charisma
Psychological manipulation
Wealth
Leadership
Intimidation
Influence
Magic
Cunning
Authority and control over his kingdom

### Goals

Keep any wish from his subject and decide which to grant or not.
Get the wishing star so it won't ruin his reputation.
Kill Asha for bringing the wishing star and ruining his reputation. (all failed)

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

Many find his characterization confusing from being a great ruler to irredeemable menace.
They felt his songs and motives does not come off as evil especially since he was established to grant wishes to anyone and that he comes off as a man who genuinely cares about his subjects.

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

People love him for being evil and irredeemable, who cares little about people and only values his ego and pride.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Contradictoring Sorcerer King

**King Magnifico** is the main antagonist of Disney's *Wish*. He is the ruler of Rosas and a powerful sorcerer, who can grant wishes to any person, no matter the background. But he displays a prideful and egotistical sense of himself while believing he is the only one who decides who gets their wish granted or not.

He is voiced by Chris Pine.

## What Makes Him a Base-Breaking Character?

### Why Do People Love Him?

* He represent Disney's return to their classic villains, where they are evil from the start and have no redeeming traits. Magnifico is presented this way through his ego and power-hungry nature.
* People love the songs he's in especially his villain song. Those who are willingly to defend "This is the Thanks I Get?" for being too upbeat point to songs like "Shiny" from *Moana* and "Friends on the Other Side" from *The Princess and the Frog* as examples of equally as upbeat Disney villain songs.
* Many like his characterization as a power-hungry narcissist, who pretends to care about others.
* Many people, including those who did not like the film, love Chris Pines performance as King Magnifico and see him as the only redeeming thing about the movie.

### Why Do People Hate Him?

* Many detractors have criticized Magnifico's characterization and feels the movie keeps contradicting his personality. For example: in the beginning of the movie, Magnifico is describe as a good king, who genuinely cares about his subjects, but then later on he starts becoming more and more egotistical when people start to question his system out of nowhere with not much build up despite his sound motives, simply to present Magnifico as ultimately wrong and Asha as ultimately right the whole time.
* Detractors felt the movie failed its premise on his character because in most of his songs and motives on the wishes does not come off as evil and ironically agree with his stance on them to some degree. Magnifico believes that wishes should be limited and that he is the only one who decides who gets their wish granted or not. His songs make it very much seem that he genuinely cares about his subjects and the fact he was willing to grant their wishes no matter what their background is.
	+ Many agree with him on his decision on not wanting to grant Sabino’s wish to inspire the people with his music as the wish itself is incredibly vague and might have some ramifications, which all fall flat due to vagueness as the only actual reason given in the film for Sabino’s wish to be rejected was because Magnifico himself was a selfish king and thus the wish would be an actual threat to his power.
	+ Magnifico literally admits that his people willingly give up their wishes in order to have it granted.
	+ The argument that people will become depressed because their wish is not granted yet falls flat as the movie does not present any ramifications of Magnifico selectiveness when it comes to the wishes besides getting power from it. But he only realizes this when he was corrupted by the dark magic book.
* Many detractors really hated the idea of him using the dark magic book as they felt it was unnecessary and rendered Magnifico's evil to something one-dimensional.
* His villain song has been criticized for being way too upbeat, which made him less of a character with evil intentions and the lyrics make it feel like a generic pop song rather than a musical theater-styled one. Like the other songs in the film, the rhyming makes no sense and barely has prosody. For example: "I let you live here for free and I don't even charge you rent / I clean up all your messes and I'm always there when you need to vent" or "I can't help it if mirrors love my face / It's genetics, yeah, I got these genes from outer space."
	+ The lyrics are so bad and confusing it lead people to feel that the movie is AI generated including the music, even though one of the writers, Julia Michaels had made many songs that received varying degrees of reception yet at least scored positions in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 50. It was highly rumored that Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice were only given a few keywords and only a month of planning which led to the songs’ rushed state.
* A lot of people like the original concept of King Magnifico and his wife being the main villains of the movie. They were disappointed that this idea never came to fruition and felt it would make him stand out from Disney's classic villains, where none of them have an evil spouse. They even felt this original idea would've made him a better villain.
* For those who found sympathy in Magnifico as a character or found some of his reasons justified felt his defeat was too harsh as not only it was a bit too similar to Kang the Conqueror’s defeat where he is shrunk into oblivion by his overloading device, where he is trapped in a glass shaft on his staff by the end of the movie with his wife leaving it in the dungeon forever. It doesn't help when detractors genuinely don't like Queen Amaya as a character.

## External Links

* King Magnifico on the Villains Wiki
* King Magnifico on the Pure Evil Wiki
* King Magnifico on the Disney Wiki

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See Also
Warner Bros. Base Breaking Characters