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Art the Clown is the main antagonist of the Terrifier series primarily portrayed by David Howard Thornton. Art is a sadistic, demonic clown whose only sole purpose is gruesomely massacring and maiming any in his way for no other reason than thinking it fun.

As far as the sociopath angle, I think Art meets most of the requirements. For one, superficial charm. One thing about Art is that he cannot talk whether it is because he chooses not to or is incapable is not known. But there are moments where Art can be oddly charming such as offering one of the girls in the first Terrifier film a plastic ring he got from a vending machine, or when he hands out candy to kids using a severed woman's head as the bowl. There are moments where he can be genuinely funny whenever he is not being murderous.

Then there is the grandiose sense of self-worth. One thing that comes to mind is the many times he commits a brutal murder, he writes his name like a painter illustrating their work. It is something he takes immense joy in and makes it a point to ensure people know he did this.

Art has a constant need for stimulation and can act impulsively whenever he is going in for the kill. Rather than just stabbing the person and being done with it, Art would instead find creative ways to prolong the suffering of his victims as long as he wanted and ensuring the experience the most excruciating pain.

And, naturally, Art lacks empathy or remorse for any of the many victims he has tortured and murdered. Or eaten chunks from. His relationship with the Little Pale Ghost Girl only amounts to them both loving blood shed.

So, Wish, is probably underwhelming and a bit of a mess for Disney. For the last few months, the company has taken the L with flop after flop and overinflating the budgets of their movies leading them to lose more money than they are getting.

There are many arguments as to why that is, but with me, specifically what had made them decline is their habit of playing things safe rather than branching out. That, and rushing their projects instead of taking their time to fine tune their films. Heck, Walt Disney himself was known to delay films he personally worked on when they did not match his vision.

For something meant to be a celebration of Disney's hundredth year, Wish is formulaic and generic and plays by the book with its Easter eggs there not being enough to save the script. But that aside, one plus we have is that we finally have an actual Disney Villain this time. So.

King Magnifico is the founder and the oh so loved king of the Kingdom of Rosas who has the ability to grant wishes. So, in a ceremonial event where a subject has their 18th birthday, they get a chance to have Magnifico take their wish so they would one day hope that their wish is granted. But, not all wishes can come true, right? After all, some may be unattainable and dear Magnifico is looking out for his royal subjects, right?

Except not really.

In truth, Magnifico is a paranoid tyrant who declines wishes that could prove to be a threat to his authority or, more specifically, could drive attention away from him. This is who the "beloved" king really is: a narcissistic sociopath who cannot stand to have anything take the spotlight from him because his ego is so fragile.

He lavishes himself in praise and believes that he is entitled to have his subjects' undivided attention. After all, he has genes from outer space, and he is the one who puts the "I" in omnipotence. Surely, he deserves all the love and praise because, come on, he granted 14 wishes last year! That is a lot of work... picking and choosing which wish to grant out of the hundreds of thousands if they benefitted him in any meaningful way.

But despite all the praise and his wife Amaya loving him, that is still not enough for him to glut himself on. Magnifico is a man willing to keep his people ignorant of their true desires and is not hesitant to harm them to get his way. For you see, their "wish" comes with a part of their soul which he can bring them despair by crushing them or uses them to act as a battery. Despite all the claims of doing all this for his people, Magnifico only values them for what they can do for him rather than acting like the benevolent king he paints himself to be.

Not even Amaya is safe from his toxic narcissism. She only exists to love and go along with whatever he desired. If not, she was as useless to him as anyone else who stood in the way of fluffing his ego.