Explaining Why King Magnifico Was Right 

Trust Disney to make the guy who eliminated homelessness and starvation in his kingdom, the villain

I love how the internet has, for the most part, agreed that Magnífico got unfairly screwed by both Asha, his people, and the plot of the movie.

"If you don't give what I want, you're a villain" -The child who wrote this film.

I felt sorry for Magnifico when he offered job for Asha and she immediately started asking him to grant a specific wish. Like he said, normally people wait at least few days. He looked really hurt. Asha's reason for wanting her grandpa's wish granted were selfish, I bet there were other people who wished their wish to be granted and deserved it just as much and she tried to use her position to get the wish granted.

Asha: everyone's wish should be granted. Jack Horner: I wish to have all the magic in the world, leaving none of it for no-one else. Everyone: pauses and doesn't respond.

I'm reminded of a quote from George Lopez 19 years ago. "For everyone that dreams of the lightbulb, there's the one that dreams up the atom bomb". Same thing applies here.

No, seriously, he created a literal PARADISE with his own two hands and understanding of magic People came to his kingdom willingly, gave their wishes willingly and were welcomed into his kingdom with open arms. How exactly is he the bad guy for avoiding what would blatantly and plainly become a monkey’s paw situation by not granting every single wish?

*Disney Corporate’s “Moral” of the Story:* Anyone who prevents you from getting exactly what you want is a Villain and you’re the victim if you don’t get exactly what you want right now! *Update:* After further research, it seems a _KAREN_ was in charge of this movie and it shows. She was firing anyone and everyone that didn’t fully agree w her, no matter how crazy and also fired anyone w their own thoughts or suggestions.. 😐 It’s all mentioned in an interview from those who were on the crew or involved- alotta ppl were super salty about it and w good reason.

“Asha’s not the hero you think she is” I don’t think any of us really thought she was a hero.

The kids rooted for Asha The adults rooted for Magnifico

There's also the fact that giving the wish, is optional. He will not deny entrance to his land if you refuse to give up your wish. But if you do there is a chance it will be granted. Or it will be held in a safe place . He only starts breaking them near the end AFTER he gets POSSESSED by the book.

All Magnifico wanted was to find a student who wanted to look out for and take care of him and his kingdom for a change. That was the height of his selfishness. He created paradise on Earth and he wanted a helping hand. Instead he got a kingdom of spoiled ingrates and his wife's betrayal.

What hurts and is so stupid is that Disney has other movies that do this right! Aladdin and Princess and the Frog! Both about wishes and getting what you want in an a instant. But learning to be true to yourself, learning that it’s important to work for what you want. Remember when Jafar had the lamp? When Dr Facilier tried tempting Tiana with her restaurant? Like damn Disney pay some f-cking attention to your actual amazing films

Its so funny that they did this movie so poorly that the literal villain can be explained as the person in the right. Truly Disney is a subvertive masterpiece.

Disney’s Wish is the most unique movie ever made. All the advertising and merchandise is focused around the villain while the Hero is pretty much hidden. And they have the villain win.

The residents didn’t even need to give up their wishes to live there. They did so willingly for a chance to have them granted. They people don’t even need to give anything up to live there. Magnifico is literally one of the best rulers ever, what was Disney thinking?!

What was the message of this movie supposed to be? “If you’re parents tell you no, they’re the villain.” “Don’t work for what you want; instant gratification is better!” “Fuck precautions!” “A naive teenager who has lived in paradise her whole life knows more than a grown man who, after experiencing the cruel nature of humanity, built the damn paradise after *years* of magical training.” That seems to be all I’m getting from this movie. Thanks, Disney! 🚩🚩🚩😑

The moral of the story should've been be careful of what you wish for. King Magnifico was right to be wary about what wishes he should grant.

Guy 1: I love Susie. I wish she loved me back. Guy 2: I love Susie. I wish she loved me back. Susie: I wish to be free of all attachments and to roam the world freely. What then Disney?

Asha: "Everyone's wish should be granted." Random person with a dark mind: "I wish the world would end." King Magnifico: "See Asha that's why i don't grant everyone's wish."👑

Whats more heroic than letting people live there for free and not even changing rent

Imagine being this king, all the wishes of people wanting to sleep with the king, his wife and or daughter. “Let’s see today’s wishes, sleep with royal family? Not granting that one and there 17 of this exact same wishes today”

In my opinion Magnifico is a person who went through a traumatic experience (his former home being destroyed) and is now over correcting by being strict with wishes, kind of like how Marlin in Finding Nemo was stifling is son by being too protective. Which could be an interesting angle for a villain if they decided to do anything with it, but no.

I just love the age we live in. We as a whole have no trouble believing a magical king can grant wishes but we cannot imagine people not wishing for terrible things.

I remember a while back, i knew nothing about this movie, and a friend of mine explained the plot to me. And i remember responding with "this guy sounds like one of the most interesting protagonists that disney ever created". He then told me that he was the antagonist, and i immediately dismissed the writers of this story

Jafard's wish was to become sultan and we all saw what it resulted in for everyone when it was granted.

You bring up a good point. Not just about people with horrible wishes, but it makes me think about people who might have gone there to have the horrible wish taken out of them. Pedos, for example. Sex addicts. Gambling addicts. I've heard people wish that those other desires could be taken away. Here's Magnifico. He could take away the evil desires. It sounds like a perfect solution with a price they're eager to pay.

What's even more funny is that the granddad's wish was already granted by himself, he already inspired his granddaughter and her friends, he already inspired the next generation. To bad the writers never made magnifico point this out.

A good example of the consequences of granting everyone's wishes is in the movie Bruce Almighty. The main character mass replies "yes" to everyone's prayers and it results in absolute chaos.

The FIRST thing Asha does as wish granter is "giant chicken", and that giant chicken will 100% end up eating childrwn and pets, sooo good job Asha!

Disney never defined Magnifico properly as a villain. On top of that, adding a book that automatically made him evil, stole the king's agency. Wish was a mess.

Can we all agree that Asha is a Mary Sue?

I feel they could have done so much with this premise. King Magnifico rarely granted wishes still. Asha still becomes his apprentice, but secretly tries to grant her fathers wish. She does but ends up going overboard and granting all the wishes. This breaks the Disney canon. Cinderalla, Snow White, Rapunzel, and others dont get the Happy Ending. So Asha and Magnifico have to try and fix it. Asha learns that some wishes simply cant be granted. Magnifico sacrifices his powers to restore everything, but gets to live normally. Asha eventually becomes Queen.

I would have loved if Disney actually went the route of Asha being _wrong._ It would be such a twist on expectations and flip a lot of disney's old concepts on its head. The main character, who we excuse actions for, because, yeah they're the main character, they'll end up triumphing over this movie's villain and we're supposed to like them. We don't expect the main character in a disnex movie like that to be bad. Which is why Asha turning out to be the villain would've been amazing.

I'm reminded of the Fairly Oddparents episode that introduced Norm the genie. Point is, no matter how specific you make your wish, there's a chance that it can be misinterpreted or granted in a way you do not want. While yes Norm and most genies in fiction and folklore are jerks and will willingly twist the wish, Magnifico is right to be extremely careful with the wishes he grants, especially if the wish is too vague. Another thing: Wonder Woman 1984. Movie wasn't very good in my opinion, but it did do a good job hammering home the point that granting everyone's wishes, especially conflicting ones, is a dangerous thing. And also, wasn't 'be careful what you wish for' one of the lessons hammered into our childhoods? Whatever happened to that?

What if two people have wishes that conflict with each other? What if someone wishes for something harmful?

The funny thing is, at the end of the movie Asha didn't grant people's wishes either. She gave the wishes back and basically said "go do it yourselves" So at the end she didn't even do the very thing she was supposedly fighting to do

Worst part is all they had to do was change the second half of the film. Give Asha an arc of realizing Magnifico is being manipulated and make that the plot of freeing him. She get's a lesson of seeing how bad things could be with Magnifico not holding back his magic and Magnifico continues his rule. You could even keep her granting wishes on Magnifico's behalf since she helped free him and now understands the responsibility of it. You get a good moral, the quirky hero, can go full out with a classic villain and can still go out with a happily ever after. It's honestly astounding how easily it all could be fixed if they didn't push Asha to being right.

The Wonder Woman 84 movie handled the “grant everyone’s wish” shit better than this.

Could you imagine if someone gave their wish to Magnifico because they knew it was wrong and wanted someone else to morally weigh it (and *they* could choose to keep it locked away or fulfil it)? Could you imagine being free from that burden, starting to live a happy life as this thing that had been weighing on your mind was finally gone? And then some child breaks that system??

"You get to give your wish in a ceremony" you don't even *have* to give your wish

That's it, nowaday Disney has lost my trust. I wish Walt Disney comes back to adjust everything.

"I wish only for the music of my victim's dying screams!" I have spent my whole life failing to achieve my goals and wishes. It'd be nice of someone would pay my bills and feed me. Even if you removed my wish to create a story people enjoy, I would still have fun drawing or writing... it might even help because without the constant weight of goals on me, maybe I could stumble into it, or get the actual drafts done. I imagine a lot of those people who wish to have a family still stumble into that all the time. Magnifico probably got called on all the time to be tinder for a bunch of 18 year olds who's biggest goal with going to pound town with the hottest person they knew.

I’d wish that Asha be locked up for a while and the old King be freed (but! Made to take Anger Management or something?) //

Finally someone who talks about this. Wishes are a pure form of desire and often can be a spur of the moment thing you might come up with in impulsive situations. Idiot Asta really wasn't thinking "Hey, what if someone wished to nuke the city?" or someone just goes "I wish no one else's wishes will be granted forever" Something absurd like that. Or what about the exasperated mom that said "I wish you were never born" to her problem child? Idiot Asta clearly only wants one thing: power. She wants to be in control of this power to wish for anything she wants. She has never cared or considered the primal and dual nature of wishing. That's why she's upset Magnifico is gatekeeping the wishes. Because she won't have the power to herself. That's also why the nicest way to get that power is to give the entire city free access to it

It feels like every single analysis of Magnifico or Asha concludes that Magnifico was right and Asha's a spoiled brat

If they wanted to make Magnifico evil, they could have made it so that in order to keep his Kingdoms neutrality and wealth, he was actually using peoples Wish's on other Kingdoms with the contract that they leave his Kingdom alone. It would make him understandable while still morally reprehensible.

Asha: I am going to grand everyones wish! Me: I want your position as King

No one with a single brain cell ever rooted for her, or believed the king was wrong. That's how you know Disney made it.

Asha:"Now every wish will be realized!!" The psychopath who wished for world hunger:"Finally.."

Paper Mario and D&D has good explanations why wishes should be filtered and how a wish can go horribly wrong.

There was literally NOTHING stopping Asha's grandfather from making his wish come true. He could've gone out there and spoken to the younger generation, interacted with them, and passed on his wisdom and life experiences. He didn't NEED some nigh omnipotent king to grant that. He was just lazy and didn't want to work for what he wanted. This movie ticks me off so much, not only because the message is stupid, but because the concept itself actually has a lot of potential, especially if Disney weren't afraid to get a little darker with it like they were with some of their earlier films (The Black Cauldron comes to mind).

Its a cautionary tale, that spoiling people wont make them loyal, it'll make them greedy and entitled.

I feel like a simple fix to this would’ve been to make it so Magnifico offered his kingdom to the people with supposedly no strings attached. But secretly when someone enters the kingdom, he steals their greatest wish without them knowing. So when the wishing ceremony comes, it’s like he gives one person something they could have never imagined. Making him look like a great king. And when he tells this to our main lead, she’s like “hey man that’s pretty messed up”. And rebels against him. But it would actually make sense

You’re not wrong. Disney should have done better than that, seriously.

Reminds me of what happened in Bruce Almighty. In that movie, a mortal man became God and started answering everyone's prayers with exactly what they wanted. Problem is, when you give everyone exactly what they want, often times, their desires clash, and then no one ends up happy. The result was utter anarcy and chaos in the streets. Specific example they used in the film was so many people praying to win the lottery, and because everyone got their prayer answered, they all only won, like, seventeen dollars.

For me the film felt like the pieces were there to make a story work but they just didn't make it work.

Don’t Grant everyone’s wish, some people will abuse it for evil, this video makes so much sense.

Whats worse is i related to Magnifico. I've tried to be a leader when i ended up in that position even if i didnt want it. People love you when you give them pleasure but are quick to hate you the moment you tell them "no". Whats worse sometimes i act like that too but I've been working on being more compassionate to those in leadership positions because being a leader is sacrifice and work. To those of you reading this, Wish is at the least a good warning against what happens when you lack thankfulness and compassion towards those who would seek your good just because they made a choice you didn't like.

To me that film feels like two different stories mixed together... One with the tragic, arrogant but redeemable antagonist and one with the irredeemable manipulative villain...As if the writers couldn't decide which direction to take and chose not to choose. Maybe that's the next evolution of the multiverse: all the dimensions cohabiting in one!

Not to mention, Wanda aka Scarlet Witch got possessed by the Book of Vishanti which lived in space between each universe and one pure source of evil, the Darkhold as well and even wanted to do something as messed up as kill a child but she wasn’t evil, just possessed. That wasn’t even her true personality and she did so much worse like tamper with the multiverse for selfish (but understandable) reasons. It is clear that the king was traumatized after losing his home and if you consider how he once thought there was nothing more valuable than a wish, could it be that something went wrong with the wishes that destroyed his previous home? Cause it’s never clear as to what that may be he just lost his home and we can only assume it may be because of the wishes. The king also clearly has issues and does get angry quite easily possibly due to anxiety. If there were to be any psychological analysis, I’d say due to the trauma, he probably has a fear of losing control because if he loses control, he might end up losing his home again as well as his people. So he pulls a Scarlet Witch to ensure it never happens again. I think both he and Wanda are very complex characters who do selfish and reckless things for understandable reasons and just end up losing themselves in the process. Not to mention, everybody including the entitled FL character treat Magnifico as some sort of wishing vending machine. He came from humble beginnings, lost everything, had to build it all from the ground up once again, gives everybody everything they need (and I bet the health care is top notch since Asha’s grandfather is 100 and still kicking), doesn’t tax his people, has the economy running smoothly, there are no crimes, Magnifico even listens to people’s rants and concerns and yet it’s never good enough and they still want more more more. Last time I’ve checked, greed is bad, being thankful for what you have is important considering not all countries have a king like Magnifico where the economy is bad, crime rates are high, poor people are exploited and trafficked in slave trade, poor people die of starvation, children are orphaned and families are separated, etc. None of these people seem grateful for what they had or what the king had to go through for the sake of giving these people the AMAZING life they have but they need their stupid wishes granted because they’re never happy or satisfied with the things they take for granted. There have been so many valuable lessons on never being grateful for what you have and taking things for granted because in stories like that, people loose everything. Idc that Magnifico acts like a jerk or is narcissistic because that doesn’t make someone bad or a villain. If you take away the crimes that Gaston has committed like trying to force Belle to marry him, threatening her father, and killing the beast; he would simply just be a jerk. And Tony Stark was a narcissist, but he didn’t have a narcissistic personality disorder and he cared deeply for people and even ended up making the ultimate sacrifice for the universe. Not just his world, but trillions of others. They say Magnifico was suppose to be the most intimidating villain but that is just overly exaggerated since Frollo, Scar, Belos and other villains exist. And you know what? Encanto has proven that you don’t need a villain for stakes to be high and to make a compelling story. We didn’t need a villain for this story and just how compelling would it have been if Asha’s selfishness caused chaos upon the kingdom, Magnifico scolded her, lost his trust in her and she had to earn it all over again. Or maybe twist things up a bit and make Asha the villain (which she kind of is). Or like previously planned, make both Magnifico and his wife a villainous duo. That would’ve been so fun!!! Oh and I’m also furious about being cheated out of a romance between Asha and a shapeshifting star boy who would’ve given off Jack Frost vibes. 😓 sorry for the long essay. 😵‍💫

The thing is that the wishes didn’t even seem to matter. They’re really only a secondary or lower reason why the city was great. The Island was under the rule of a wizard king who seemingly made a perfect city, and he mistakenly thought everybody having wishes was dangerous. The conflict could’ve been avoided if the girl made Magnifico realize that it was his magic and rule that made the Island great, not the gatekeeping of wishes.

King Magnifico was smart enough to realize a simple truth. No wish that he granted with his magic would exist purely in a vacuum without consequences for other people. For a fairly simple wish like say being a great farmer these ripples would be pretty much entirely benign and even helpful to the kingdom, but for something like being a great hero? There would have to be an antagonist, an epic journey with battles and danger, and most likely a lot of innocent people would get hurt or worse. Overall an unacceptable risk for the kingdom and all the people under his care.

Also, Magnifico is a god so like, how did Asha ever overpower him? Also also, Disney was so desperate for Magnifico to be the enemy that there's literally one song where he rapidly goes from "I can't grant every wish because it could be dangerous" to "I'm going to use the wishes to make myself more powerful and rule with an iron fist". It's stupid, lazy and I hope someone rewrites this story.

All it takes is “ I wish death wasn’t a thing”

What I think Disney was trying to do, was make Magnifico come across as a Cult Leader......which they totally failed at. (The wishes representing a religion of sorts). People inside a cult put too much faith in their leader and the leaders usually abuse their power and manipulate their followers to maintain that poer. We did not see Magnifico actually abuse his power before going "evil". To do a Cult storyline justice they would have had to go bit darker and the evil should not have come from the book, but from Magnifico himself. Magnifico should have been shown to actually be far more manipulative. However Disney just did not have the balls to go full Cult brainwashing and manipulation. Instead Magnifico comes across way to genuine and honest in his intentions.

As they say, All magic comes with a price.

I would also like to point out that getting you wish granted with your own two hands and through your own effort can make the wish more meaningful than if a higher power just gives it to you with no character building or effort!

Honestly if any one is rather evil in this story it's the queen. She went along with everything Magnifico did during "the good times". Then happily betrayed him after she knew he was possessed by the book and doomed him to eternal imprisonment within the mirror. Not exactly actions of a loving and caring wife.

I genuinely think Magnifico is one of the most tragic Disney characters ever for all the wrong reasons. His parents were murdered when he was a child, he had to build up the kingdom from the ground up, he was taken advantage of for years by his own entitled people, when he finally snapped, his own wife backstabbed him and in the end he lost everything and was punished for life... And yet Disney wants you to hate him...like WHAT?!

I want a rewrite where asha is a twist villain and magnifico is the hero

so wishes are just taxes The villain's evil plan is just paying taxes or move

Another that bothered me is the movie poster. It says "be careful what you wish for" in the slogan but that was not the message at all! The movie told us that wishes should be granted so what were the characters being careful for? Did disney even pay attention to that?

I dont think Magnifico telling Asha on stage that he wouldn't hire her was vile, I think he was so so so sick of people asking him favors and disrespecting him so he lashed out and he's right, again.

Pretty much every single movie based upon granting wishes has enough wisdom to understand that there are unintended consequences of wishing for things to be magically granted to you, and why such magic shouldn't be entertained as a means to an end. In _Puss In Boots: The Last Wish,_ Puss, Kitty, and Goldie are all pursuing the wishing star for selfish reasons, but by the end, they respectively got want they needed instead of want they wanted, got want they wanted without magic, or realized they had what they wanted all along, so unite to stop Jack Horner from getting his wish for all the magic in the world, because it would cause unfathomable disaster. In _Bruce Almighty,_ God gives Bruce his powers to teach Bruce that he both can't do better than God, and that he has already been given everything he needs to succeed. Before Bruce learns this, he uses his powers for selfish reasons and answers everyone's prayers in New York with "yes." which ultimately causes chaos and pandemonium by creating fearful, weak, and entitled people. Even for as horrible as _Wonder Woman 1984_ is, it at least had _some_ understanding of wishes having negative consequences, either by taking something dear to cause the wish to occur, a wish having massive repercussions with those reacting to the outcome of a wish, or in perusing vainglorious powers losing sight of what really matters. This is a trope older than movies. The trope namer story, _The Monkey's Paw,_ was written all the way back in 1902. But the "be careful what you wish for" moral goes back for THOUSANDS of years. It's been a staple of stories that use magic as a mechanic for as long as stories with magic have been around. But _Wish?_ The "moral" is: "all wishes are good, and people who have the power to give you everything you wish for should give it to you because you want it; if they don't, they're evil, and you should cast them down, and then you'll get everything you want, and you deserve it, because you're just _that_ "special."" _Wish_ was made by people who have never been told "no" in their lives, then throw temper tantrums until they get what they want, or if such wants are not granted, slander and libel those of whom would not grant their selfish desires as abusive. _Wish_ was made by people with the mentality of INFANTS, screaming in distress until an outside party comes along to give them something to placate them; things they can't fathom how they came to be: to them, it must seem as though it appeared out of thin air... _like _*_magic..._*

This movie is a spoiled, selfish child demanding her way, and destroying a good king and likely a kingdom when she doesn't get what she wants. Its so stupid, and it would have been so easy to make him a proper villain... just have him stealing the power of wishes and/or twisting the wishes into something dark from the beginning, or have the people be weakened or darkened when they give up their wishes. Get rid of the book and have it just be him putting up the front of being a good king, and poof, standard evil Disney villain. As it is, Magnifico earned everything he had. He learned magic through his own hard work, built an incredible kingdom, and opened it to everyone. Meanwhile Asha demanded everything while earning nothing. Its quite like how our society is becoming. We have the older generations who succeeded or failed based on their own hard work and merit, and the younger generations who think they deserve success because other people have it, not interested in how that success comes to them or in putting in the work.

Magnifico also didn't have to grant any wishes. It's not like he got anything from the wishes in the beginning. He didn't even force anyone to give him their wishes, it was completely optional. He chose to start granting wishes and Asha (and other people) felt like they were entitled to it. He could have just told them that he was done granting wishes, if that was how they were going to act.

I am not sure what he did to Asha in the stage was "evil". It could have been a test that Asha failed.

Here's a pitch for a better story - The wishes are a source of magical power, people give their wish for the chance of their one wish be fulfilled, that requires some of the magical power but the majority of it is then used to bless the lands (better weather, fertile grounds, clean water, etc.) first of all the wishes NEED to be sorted like you said, bad and too vague needs to be removed, but some wishes can be fufilled without the need for magic, so Magnifico helps the people making those wishes become real without spending magic on it. Asha has her dumb "all wishes must come true" idea and convince the people ro revolt, by promising them that she will fulfill their wishes, dethroning the king, but once she has acces she quickly finds out that she CAN'T fulfill all the wishes and the people gets angry as they feel she lied to them, she then gets scared and uses the magic to partly defend herself but also to "take control of the situation", but then gets a feel for it (power corrupts), she then takes the throne and makes herself the ruler, a little while later it looks as if "everything is back to sunshine and rainbows", but it turns out to be only in and around the capital, she dosen't have the skill to maintain the old system so the whole land prospher, so she only focus on what she can see, but she still need magic energy so people still have to give their wish, but she uses more force and if she sees that the wish is something against her, she punishes the people. The king survived and had to flee, he then lives in the country side and discovers a child that has a great afinity for magic, he then spends the next 14-16 years trainging him/her, the plan is to guide them to overthrow the evil queen and return the old way it was done, where the WHOLE country was good. If you need to spend 100 wishes to fulfill ONE, then you can't fulfill them all, they made Magnifico evil because they NEEDED him to be evil, not because he was it.

While it was a total pos move to seat Asha on the stage, also consider that he’s been interviewing for an apprentice for what they elude to as some time. And they also elude to that multiple apprentices or people in the past have pretended to be interested in his craft or attempted to get close to him just to ask for a favor or for their wish to be granted. Magnifico was genuinely invested in Asha and she immediately let him down with her own self centered motives. I have to assume Asha was the straw that broke the camels back and that’s why magnifico was so mean about not granting her or her family’s wishes. He was just done with the selfishness of others and so used micro aggressive measures to dissuade people from attempting to do so again. Since it can be assumed Asha would afterwards go cry to her family and friends and word would spread that if you went begging to the king for wishes you would be condemning not only yourself but your family to not have them granted. And honestly? Yeah. What makes you so special. Sit down and play the lottery like everyone else lol. You think anyone buys a lottery ticket and feels entitled to winning just because they play every year?

What's stopping the people from creating more wishes themselves? Most gave their wishes at 18, but what you wish for at 18 may not what you wish for at 30 or even 20.

the best part about this movie is that this is how modern disney sees the world modern disney is asha thinking without thinking and the bad guy is alot more often in the right then the hero nowadays, and im not talking about the villain who is then revealed to be a good guy

Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

“There were so many, I just gave them all what they wanted.” - Bruce “Yeah, but since when does anybody have a clue about what they want?” - God

Some wishes would also require someone to lose their free will even if its for some decisions, it would be horrible and selfish. You cant convince me that nobody there wished for the love of someone who didn't love them

Just a reminder, giving your dreams to magnifico WAS NOT a requirement, he told them they could, not that they had to

I have decades of experience in nonprofit organizations, working overtime with no extra pay, basically at minimum wage, and having so much emotional and physical effort in helping others, but was taken advantage of over and over and over. Had to spend so many hours begging rich people to help others who were sometimes in dire situations due to no fault of their own. It was exhausting. Was I appreciated, absolutely not. I was a doormat. So many times I would get to breaking point and felt like this song specifically spoke to every nonprofit charity worker, heck every teacher, every nurse.

There’s plenty of characters and stories in fiction, that show us, how/why, our desires. Our intentions, can go so wrong with a wish: the Monkey’s Paw the magical lamp from Aladdin, the tale of Midas’s golden touch, the Wish Dragons of Destiny 2. Wishes can be interpreted many ways, twisted. That’s what happens when desire meets reality, the consequences can be dire if you are not precise on your intentions.

we see at the very start of the movie that its a paradise. that they dont worry about crime or having new people join them. They are all willing. Asha is just mad because she idk feels like he is "unfair" because her and her family werent picked

She did say that people with bad wishes doesn’t deserve to be granted but nonetheless every wish that comes true can end up being good or bad. It can be 50/50 nonetheless. So nonetheless I feel bad for the king I wish that he could be cured of the madness from the book.

What makes Magnifico a villain is that he promised a thing that he knew full well that he was not going to keep it, which was granting all the wishes from the people from his kingdom. It's pretty obvious that not all the wishes could be granted, but the lie that Magnifico created was that he would granted every wish, so everyone in Rosas were expecting that Magnifico fulfil his end of the bargain and that anxiety of having their wishes granted is what made Magnifico having control of his subjects.

Magnifico's most evil was the equivalent of "I won't do what you want!!"

I don’t even think what he did making her sit saying he wasn’t to grant the wish’s of her family was evil I simply see it as fitting punishment for the way she had been acting till that point not listening interrupting over talking and all the selfish ways she had done while interacting with the king till then if anything it was pretty light

The fact she wanted EVERYONE’S wish granted shows she hasn’t been around long enough to know how many awful people there are in the world. Jack Horner is a fine example why so few people should have a wish granted and for good reason.

The main problem with this movie is the premise that all wishes are 'good' or 'innocent'. Except that Magnifico has already proven they're not, as his previous home was attacked by people who wished his people harm.

This movie made me think of a comic where everything everyone ever imagined became real, part of the story even had Superman show up, but there were also horrible creatures from peoples nightmares that also became real

It is very... sure, one COULD speculate that there was something fishy going on. As like... I guess he fed off the wishes in some way? As he seemed implied to be immortal. But it's not shown to be some of the classic situations where like... everyone in the kingdom had their life force sapped, and never lived past 50 or whatever. Just a weird... "give me your biggest wish and live rent free in utopia"... seems like a pretty sweet gig.

If only Asha went through a hero's journey to change her mentality and become a better person, while Magnifico sinks more and more into a hopelessness guy who finally snaps, deciding to destroy the kingdom (and their wishes whatsoever) to fill it again with better people, kinda like a god-complex thing. So it would be Asha, who finally can see the mistakes they made and wants to make people see the good on what they have, and Magnifico, who can't see the good on them anymore and wants to kill them all. Still Magnifico isn't bad, since he's just a hurt guy, but it'll be a thing about "the abused became the abuser". Asha (who is his daughter because IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY), in the end, breaks the cicle, releasing the wishes for everyone to follow themself, finally destroying the sistem.

I like how a lot of people watched Wish because Magnifico was advertised as the first truly evil Disney villain in a while and then he turns out to be the only good character in the movie

Disney: "Wish is about not asking for a miracle and doing what you have to to achieve your dreams" The movie: * Gives Asha a magic companion able to do AS THE PLOT REQUIRES * * Gives Asha a magic wand to grant wishes *