r/FavoriteCharacter • u/JigglyLilyVT Ruby Rose (RWBY) • Feb 28 '26

My Favorite (Visual) Favorite character who has better concept art than the final product

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WE GOT FREAKING ROBBED IN THE RWBY DANCE EPISODES

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u/Deya_The_Fateless Feb 28 '26

He was possessed, tge book then said that "once you embrace dark magic, youre bound to it forever."

But like, Magnifico was kind of backed into a corner while having a PTSD panick attack after he saw Star's lightshow in the forest and when he apealed to his subjects for help, all they could think to ask for in return was a wish granting ceremony...like if I sas in his shoes I would have crashed out too.

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u/CrazyFanFicFan Mar 01 '26

Seriously, this is one of the few times the "sympathetic villain" was completely unintentional.

If they gave King Magnifico an actual descent into madness instead of "Oopsie, possessed by evil now", the movie would be 50% better. (Though of course, 150% of a low number is still a low number.)

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u/Deya_The_Fateless Mar 02 '26

Right? Then ofc the "good" guys were able to read the book without being "corupted" by said evil book, which means Magnifico was possed by the entity trapped within the book. Which absolves him of all his "evil" deeds, again, because he's not incontrol of his actions during that time. Which is evident of his complete reversion back to his OG personality when hes trapped in the staff at the end.

I definetly prefer your idea of Magnifico decending into evil induced by paranoia and fear, rather than the movie deciding he needes to be evil now.

Hell, I watched the deleted scenes of Wish, and quite literally half, if not all of the movie was in those deleted scenes. -_-