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Why the Arch-Illager is better as a villain than Magnifico: Possession Edition

Disclaimer: This is for fun and not to be taken fully seriously.

This will contain spoilers to TROTAI [The Rise of the Arch-Illager] book and Minecraft dungeons, while having some spoilers to Wish. I am not watching wish in theaters as the day we are going changed and I will be watching Migration instead.

Intro

So, why am I comparing this one block tall villain to this most recent disney villain? simple, the possession part of both stories. Sure Magnifico has more of a curse, but you could also argue that he isn't fully himself in the movie: in a way he is possessed by the curse.

While for the Arch-illager, the Orb of dominance is one that is easy to tell is using Archie and his mindset to it's advantage during the time he is possessed.

I would like to present to you why The Arch-Illager does better as a villain when it comes to this aspect over magnifico because both have clear personalities, it is just both are different from each other in how the possession is used.

Arch-Illager

Let's start off with the better Villain, at least for this post for this plot line, discuss his backstory and how that actually benefits how he becomes the villain, I will keep it vague so that away you can actually read the book and learn all the details.

The Arch-illager actually starts off as Archie: an Illager permanently kicked out of his home due to the hero Karl killing off the raiding party, and Thord blaming him. This leaves the shunned illager to be in the dangerous forest near his old home. He finds Squidcoast village and the villager Yumi takes him into her home and they become fast friends and somewhat family. Due to Karl coming into the villager another event happens and Archie leaves the village for not only the villagers safety: but for Yumi's also.

With this he is back to the forest and ends up finding the orb of dominance and things spiral from there.

The two main reasons his story starts and his motivations come into play is Thord and Karl. They both ultimately become disconnected from the plot of Minecraft dungeons and are just important to Archie's story. Thord is killed off, first recommended by the orb for Archie to kill him in front of everyone to put them in their place. But the event that actually leads him to being killed is him robbing the fiery forge and Archie of his Redstone monster. But of course that ultimately failed because Archie actually controls them and he dies due to being pushed into the lava.

While Karl on the other hand was scared off. Karl is in the village trying to save the villagers from the raid, which he is far to confident in himself and only likes the attention in my humble opinion. He meets Archie again and is willing to fight him, but his laugh startles Karl a little bit, and then the Redstone Monstrosity appears and that scares him off. It shows that when it is dangerous enough, he is cowardly and will not risk his own life. This also leads to the raid Archie leaded to be successful which is ironic because the first raid party [in the story] that he is apart of fails.

Also Ironic because his own parents died due to a failed raiding party

Now, onto how the story benefits his side.

The reason why I believe that the story benefits the possession is because the Orb has a vulnerable man who has seemingly been betrayed or hurt by everyone around him is here in front of it. This makes it easier for this thing to control and take every last bit of his personality and tear most of it into shreds. The orb even takes care of Archie after they met to get his trust, and to get close to him.

Archie unlike Magnifico is completely unaware that this object was dangerous and would do this to him. Sure he is suspicious at first but he is promised power and his whole life he has felt inferior and now could finally prove that he could be good too. Archie Unlike Magnifico had no power to rely on until now, and the orb manipulates Archie into this space of letting the orb make the moves, but of course Archie is smarter than that, so in this state of power he tries to do the better opinion. But in some spots it seems that he comes to agree with the orb.

Archie becomes the villain because now he has to do something, he needs to rule this land while he has this power and he even says to himself that basically HE would become the villain of the story. That HE will be playing the role to the HILT while also acknowledging that yes the orb could be lying to him. acknowledging that he wishes he had never done this.

Allow me to give you the end of page 259 all the way to the end of page 261 of The Rise of the Arch-Illager book.

"There might have been a part of Archie that still wished he could get away and live quietly and alone, far from the troubles that came with becoming the overlord of a land. But apparently that was not his fate

Wise Illager. Once you're on a ride that can't be stopped, it's best to figure out a way to enjoy it.

Archie seethed at the Orb's words. He knew that he wasn't in full control of the Orb anymore-if he had ever been. Worse yet, he was no longer sure he was in full control of himself either. The artifact had wormed its way into his mind and taken root there like a vicious cancer he could not remove.

Would this be the way he lived until he died? Unsure of who was making his decisions? Himself or the Orb of Dominance?

Yes.

Of course. And how long would that be? Would he age and grow old? Or would the Orb keep him alive long beyond his natural years? Would he ever be free of it?

Not of your own accord.

Archie realized that he should have known this from the start. He was not the sort of Illager who just stumbled into success- especially not the kind of success that gave him unbridled and the ability to conquer the entire land.

He'd secretly craved power his whole life-if only to keep others from hurting him-but he'd never dreamed of attaining it like this. Or of the bargain he would have to make for it.

He'd been so stupid.

He should have seen the warning signs. One of them had been right there in the name: the Orb of Dominance.

From the moment he picked up the Orb, Archie had thought it would give him the power to dominate everything around him. Instead, it had dominated him.

Still, there were worse problems to have. Even if Archie was secretly the Orb's servant-rather than the other job gave him not just power but prestige. way around-his job gave him not just power but prestige

No one had ever united so many Illagers like this. Or forged an alliance with the Undead mobs.

No one had built a fortress like Highblock

No one had ever conquered the entire land

Archie wondered if someone else had laid claim to the Orb of Dominance before. Had they become its servant as well? If so, how had they managed to free themselves from it? Could he hope to do the same?

No.

Of course it would say that. The real question, he supposed, was this: Once they'd gotten free, why hadn't they destroyed it?

It is impossible.

One thing Archie had learned about the Orb: Sometimes it lied-and maybe it was lying now.

He could hope. The Orb couldn't stop that.

Meanwhile, Archie decided-at least he hoped he decided-to embrace his new life. He still had a land to conquer. Mobs to make his own. Heroes to defeat.

If he had to rule the land, then he might as well play that role to the hilt.

He would be the Arch-Illager, and no one would ever stop him.

Right?"

In my honest opinion and maybe unpopular opinion: This is the strongest part of the text and I swear to god it shows how much his character has changed from the beginning and how even he still has regrets and that is amazing. He has this moment to reflect on the moments he has had, to question it and yet he still decides to stay on this road. He isn't in full control and he knows that deep inside, which I feel like this is also why there is a change in how he expresses himself in his game models. The real Archie has these big eyes and has more calmer and softer expressions, while the one with the orb of dominance has smaller eyes and more stiff and aggressive looking expressions.

which is why it is perfect that he is spared at the end, the heroes know who he really is, and must be RELIEVED that Archie was still himself after they destroyed the orb. which leads me onto Magnifico

Magnifico

To be honest his character is different from Archie, he actually starts in power and it is shown his actual personality in act one, which is the act that I think is best for showing his main traits. The movie is so far seeming split on how complex they want Magnifico to be.

However, this section will not be as detailed as the last one because I want to talk about the reasons why his whole villain plot goes caput

it is as easy to say that is the underdeveloped magic system and the lost potential they had in making the book the real villain of the story.

This post actually gave me some inspiration for this post: thank you @artsekey this literally summarizes my thoughts perfectly on the whole movie, Magnifico and sooo many other things so please go read this!!!

[And also the points I wanted to make in this post as well]

But in my opinion, the book is perfect for this role: it does the job of a possessed object and should have been used in the plot more than it was. I mean if the orb of dominance can be technically considered the real villain of the story, THEN WHY NOT A BOOK?!

There is SOOO much lost potential when you don't use the book, so let's get to the next section to keep this short.

Why the Orb of dominance is a better possessed plot.

Matt Forbeck portrays the possessed artifact/object perfectly and in my opinion the tea. As well as giving props to Mojang for introducing this little shit into the main plot of Minecraft Dungeons.

It is easy to understand why Archie would not even be able to defend himself against the orb of dominance: he is shown to be weak without help or support or ANYTHING! Sure it would have been amazing if Archie broke control and broke the orb himself...but the orb is controlling him and there is no reason with Archie to get him out. So the Heroes have to save him by defeating the orb. Hell, even the two-phase boss fight says everything about its power, Archie could do nothing against that.

I think the idea of Magnifico being possessed by the book and the book being the real villain would be a good but not unexpected plot twist. The idea that Magnifico is not able to break free due to his possible motives for going to it is a great idea as well. Take it from the post linked above: the idea is a better idea and a great opportunity...

But the movie does not go for that route because they did not think to do that.

Magnifico unlike Archie has the power to DO something about it. So the idea of redemption is not out of possibly, I also think that more screen time would also benefit it too.

But seriously, without the post, and just with the movie: the orb is so much better because it is a threat to the world and the person it controls. It is intentionally set up this way too, I mean LOOK AT THE PHASE TWO BATTLE AND THE FORM IT TAKES IN THE END AND TELL ME OTHERWISE.

I mean even the story sets the orb as the villain by the end of the literal game.

But, I also think that the idea of the curse book going crazy and fighting everyone, especially Magnifico and Asha is like... 👀 piquing my interest here.

Bonus: Arc thoughts go brr

So, first apologizes for the PAGES of stuff I put in the Arch-illagers section.

Second, to be honest I did not want to summarize Magnifico because I found that post and it summarized my thoughts so perfectly: so why not show that post here? Plus it explains it in-depth so much better than I can so please give it a look. I can talk about the Arch-illager and his whole thing because I read the book so many times, but Magnifico is new.

Despite all of that, Arc has to have a silly idea to go along with this post: Magnifico and Archillager having tea. I feel obligated to draw this, and I might. But for now, thank you to whoever read this far. I am not fully sure if I will share this one on YouTube: keep this as the secret part two or post it because of the rant I made on the video lol. Btw, I would like to add this: This also has some inspo from this post I made: Feel free to take a look at the section with the possession plot rewrite lol

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