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At last, after all these centuries, the lamp will be MINE AGAIN!
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~ Merlock rejoicing how close he is at reclaiming the lamp.
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You won't get away from me, you little web-footed runt. When I'm through with you, Daisy will only be able to speak about my awesome power! Hahahaha, HAHAHAHA!!!
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~ Merlock to Donald before the final boss fight.
Merlock the Magician (simply known as Merlock) is the main antagonist of the animated movie DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp. He is an evil sorcerer who supposedly tries to gain unlimited wishes from the magic lamp combined with his talisman. He also appears as the main antagonist of the videogame Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers.
As a highly barbarous and ruthless sorcerer, much of Merlock's origin and characterization is left to the imagination. One thing is certain, however. Unlike the greedy Beagle Boys and the hegemonic Magica De Spell, who both had aims and objectives, Merlock possesses neither of these things. His only motivation and conviction are to inflict as much pain and suffering onto others as is possible. Hence, he seeks dominance over everyone which carries out by the harsh and abusive way that he treats his minion Dijon, using threats and verbal abuse to keep his loyalty in check.
His obsessive nature and ruthless pursuit for the Genie and his unlimited wishes show signs of a severe mental health disorder. While in control of the lamp, Merlock becomes a power-crazed and overwrought madman who commits terrible and flagitious crimes even for his petty needs, such as sinking the island city of Atlantis into the sea for refusing his hotel reservations and causing the destructive eruption of Mount Vesuvius for the creation of anchovy pizza which he hated. In his final moments, Merlock was also shown to be highly reckless, impulsive, and spontaneous, as when Scrooge McDuck fell out of his flying fortress and he transformed into a griffin to reclaim it once again, but him losing his talisman mixed with his all-consuming sadism attributed to his defeat.
Biography[]
Merlock's Talisman
Merlock is an anthropomorphic wolf sorcerer who possesses a magic green talisman that gives him the ability to transform into non-anthropomorphic animals, including a hawk (a form he most commonly uses to get around over long distances), a vulture, a rat, a cockroach, a griffin, a bear, and a cougar (along with a snake and an insentient wolf, which aren't seen but the Genie says he could turn into them). When placed on the Genie's magic Lamp, the talisman grants Merlock an unlimited number of wishes to be granted, instead of the usual three for everybody else. When he first possessed the lamp, some of the sorcerer's wishes that were unwillingly granted by Gene the Genie including his own eternal life, the sinking of Atlantis into the sea (which, in this case, was not just a city, but a luxury resort that was so popular that Merlock failed to obtain a hotel reservation), the destructive eruption of Mount Vesuvius due to Merlock's hatred of Pompeii and its creation of anchovy pizza. It's also assumed that Merlock wished that his talisman couldn't be given to others if they ever got their hands on the lamp.
In the film, Merlock is obsessed with retrieving the Genie's lamp, which he apparently lost to the thief Collie Baba (a parody of Ali Baba) several millennia before. Collie Baba buried the lamp, along with a large amount of treasure, in a pyramid in the middle of a desert. When Scrooge McDuck and his family Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck and Webby Vanderquack, accompanied by their trusted friend and pilot Launchpad McQuack, came searching for that very treasure, Merlock with the the aid of his sidekick, an Arabic explorer named Dijon, attempts to use Scrooge's ambition to obtain the lamp for himself.
Merlock in the film.
Merlock's Palace
In the end of the film, Merlock finally combined his talisman with the Gene's Lamp once more and wishes to transmute Dijon into swine for his betrayal and transform Scrooge's Money Bin into his gloomy flying castle. Scrooge and his four siblings confront the evil sorcerer who merely wishes Scrooge to be blown overboard. The children manage to get the lamp and toss it towards Scrooge, so that he can wish to save his life and return all of his family with castle back to Earth.
Merlock turns himself into a griffin and recovers the lamp from Scrooge, but latter quickly grabs him just as Merlock’s about to fly away and smacks him repeatedly with his cane, making him lose the talisman (thus turning back to normal) and apparently fall to his doom. At the end of the film, when Genie was freed, Dijon (whom Merlock wished Genie to turn into a pig) turned back into his original form. This indicates that all of the other wishes previously granted by Genie, including Merlock's wish for immortality, were also undone.
Other Media[]
Video Games[]
Merlock, the Sorcerer of Darkness, as seen in Disney's Legend of Illusion.
Merlock makes another appearance in the videogame Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse. How the game is related to the DuckTales movie, and if so, how did he survive the fall is currently unknown. In this game, he is known as the Sorcerer of Darkness and is responsible for stopping the River of Time and threatening the Tree of Life in the process. Mickey Mouse must defeat Merlock in order to restore everything to what it once was. He mainly uses fire and lightning to attack. Eventually, he will change into a dragon, changing his strategy entirely. He will breathe fire at Mickey, fly to the other side of the screen, and toss a spiked ball in front of him.
Merlock as seen in the videogame Donald Dock: Goin' Quackers.
Merlock also appears as the main antagonist in the videogame Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers. Once again, the game's relation to the movie is unknown. He captures reporter Daisy Duck after she infiltrates his temple, and Donald Duck sets out to rescue her. In the final level movie, Donald Duck reaches Merlock's lair, and the final battle between him and Merlock begins. Merlock has three attacks. The first one is to make the floor tiles disappear. Second, to unleash arrows, and the third is the fire attack. In the end, Donald rescues Daisy and Merlock was reduced to a child by his own magic.
Trivia[]
"Merlock" is a portmanteau of "Merlin" (the name of the fabled wizard of King Arthur's legend) and "warlock" which is an evil wizard; since Merlock is an ancient and evil sorcerer, this is fitting.
Merlock's fate in Goin' Quackers depends on the game platform used, as there are different scenes throughout each version.
Anchovies on pizza are very common in Italy (since the very inception of pizza, centuries ago). The "creation of the anchovy pizza" part has been completely removed from the Italian dub of DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp to simplify it. In the Italian translation of the comic book version, it has been replaced by "broccoli pizza" (quite uncommon in Italy).
Despite the fact that his talisman gives him unlimited wishes, he only made seven known ones.
In the original trailers of DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Merlock's voice sounds different from the film as he talks in a deep monstrous bass tone.
The producers for the 2017 reboot attempted to develop a story featuring Merlock, but dropped the idea due to feeling the role they developed for him could be filled by Magica De Spell.
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