The Mage Of Laughter

**The Mage Of Laughter** is the twentieth Season 2 episode of Leeko: The Beginning trilogy, and the fifty-fourth episode overall. This episode is notable for the first appearance of the Mirror Copy Ability.

## Summary

A mysterious ship comes crashing into Usapia, and Leeko and friends find that the inhibitor is Sir Jubilant, a mage who seems to be missing a few marbles.

## Characters

### Primary

* Leeko
* Marvin
* Sir Jubilant (*debut*)

### Secondary

* Aurora Man
* Bubbles
* Chef Peppermint
* Chief Gordy
* Dr. Medico
* Felix (*no dialogue*)
* King Leonardo
* Madeline (*no dialogue*)
* Manny
* Mayor Bay Brittleton
* Milly
* Miss Yuubin (*no dialogue*)
* Moonlight Man
* Parker (*no dialogue*)
* Professor Antico (*no dialogue*)
* Prince Lavendor (*debut; flashback*)
* Tommy
* Twilight Man
* Various unnamed Puffy villagers

## Episode summary

The episode begins at Leeko's house, where Leeko is carting home some watermelons. At that moment, a flash of light streaks through the sky which is witnessed by him and others. A strange-looking spaceship crashes into Usapia at the exact same spot where Leeko first crashed in Leeko Comes To Puffy Town, and Leeko heads over to the cliffside to investigate. At that moment, the ship starts to slip off the cliff, and Leeko attempts to stop it from falling, but fails after Milly and Manny arrive. It falls into the crevasse on top of a stone slab, and Milly gets the idea to move a boulder to fall on the other side of this slab to launch the ship back out of the ravine. This plan works, and the ship lands back out of the ravine. The group approaches the ship as its cockpit opens, when they are threatened by a hooded mage who emerges from the ship. Milly tries to reason with him, but the mage chaotically lunges at them, believing them to be monsters. He chases them through the fields, but ends up doing more harm to himself than any of them. After inadvertently causing King Leonardo and Tommy to crash their Royal Racecar, the mage collapses out of exhaustion, admitting he cannot fight due to hunger.

Leeko and friends take the mage to Peppermint's Table where they help him recover. To Chef Peppermint's surprise, the mage seems to enjoy his food, eating just about as much as Leeko did. The mage thanks Peppermint by referring to him as "Your Majesty", leading the group to question his sanity. He then introduces himself as Sir Jubilant and explains that he is on a quest to fight monsters across the galaxy. Manny decides to goad him on by claiming that King Leonardo is a monster, and the mage proceeds to run out of the restaurant to attack him and Tommy. He is stopped, however, by Twilight Man and Aurora Man, who draw their weapons and allow Leonardo to get away. During the fight, Twilight and Aurora knock Jubilant silly and then fall back during his confusion. They later report to Moonlight Man and explain that the mage fights rather poorly. After discussing him briefly with Milly and Manny, Moonlight Man and his soldiers decide they should fix Sir Jubilant's ship so he can leave.

Sir Jubilant soon returns with Leeko, and Milly tries to get more information out of him, but he soon gets distracted by the idea of defeating King Leonardo again. He announces his intentions to all the townsfolk in Puffy Town as they murmur in confusion, and then proceeds to head to Castle Leonardo. However, before he goes there, he is stopped by Marvin, who is concerned for his safety. Seeing Marvin, a faint glow emits from Sir Jubilant, believing him to be a prince named Lavendor, whom he claims to have protected long ago. Marvin insists he is not a prince, but Sir Jubilant insists, leading Bubbles to step in and defend Marvin from the encroaching mage. Bubbles soon gets zapped by a spell from Sir Jubilant, leading Marvin and the others to look on in confusion. Later on, amidst the ruins outside of Puffy Town, Sir Jubilant tries to get Marvin to remember his heritage and relays the story of how he rescued him as an infant and for many years evaded enemy capture through the galaxy, but eventually had to send him away for his own safety. After hearing this story, Marvin decides to go along with it, as Leeko, Milly, Manny observe at a distance.

From there, Milly, Manny, and Leeko check in on Twilight and Aurora, who are busy with the ship. Moonlight Man escorts the others to come inside to reveal a huge mess of clutter and garbage, then soon discover a stash of comic books. As they peruse them, it is revealed that King Leonardo and Tommy are looking at a similar collection of books back at the castle, realizing that Sir Jubilant is merely acting like a comic book hero by the same name. They then watch one of the Sir Jubilant video tapes and see the fictional mage battling with a windmill, and get an idea. Meanwhile, Sir Jubilant is leading Marvin over to his ship with the intent of flying him away, but Marvin claims he doesn't want to leave Usapia, stating that he must stay to save the kingdom from oppression. This line works on Sir Jubilant, though before they can continue, King Leonardo and Tommy show up and reveal the monster Windspinner to battle the mage. Marvin tries to stop Sir Jubilant from fighting, but to no avail. Windspinner tosses a bunch of blades at Sir Jubilant, which he finds himself unable to resist. Windspinner then activates its main rotor, creating a mirror which reveals Sir Jubilant's face to himself. Seeing his reflection, the mage is snapped back into reality, and his skin turns gray as he cries out in horror. Twilight and Aurora rush in to recover the broken mage and carry him to safety, where Moonlight Man comments on his grave condition.

The group is then interrupted when Windspinner marches toward them. Leeko steps in and vacuum-mouths its blades, gaining the Mirror Copy Ability. From there, Mirror Leeko uses a Reflect Guard to block more of Windspinner's projectiles, and then dodges another volley by using the Mirror Body move. After confusing Windspinner with mirror images of himself, Mirror Leeko finishes the monster off by using a Mirror Cut to slice it clean in two. With the monster defeated, Leeko and the others try to rally Sir Jubilant's spirits, but he admits that it was all a fantasy, and prepares to let his life slip away from him. Just as all hope seems lost, Marvin steps in and reinforces his role as Prince Lavendor, commanding him to get up and return to hunting monsters throughout the galaxy. Sir Jubilant becomes rejuvenated, and hops into his ship on the orders of his prince and flies away from Usapia. The episode ends as Marvin comments on the situation to his comrades.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of *The Beginning* trilogy to feature the Mirror Copy Ability.
* This episode appears to be slightly more monochrome than other episodes.
* The way Sir Jubilant crash-lands is very similar to how Leeko crash-landed in the first episode of the series - Leeko Comes To Puffy Town.
* The title of the episode may be a reference to the character Pinkie Pie from the show *My Little Puffy: Friendship Is Magic*, where she is the Element of Laughter.
* This is the sixth episode where Leeko cries, though he only sheds a tear.