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| “ | It isn't easy to be a freak. To have a mind and an understanding and be a freak. Laughter and cruelty! To be different! To be an outsider! You've never been through it! But I eventually did learn, and I decided that the Galaxy and I could take turns. Come, they had had their innings, and I had been patient about it... for twenty-two years. My turn! It would be up to the rest of you to take it! And the odds would be fair enough for the Galaxy. One of me! Quadrillions of them! | „ |
| ~ The Mule explaining his motive to Bayta and Toran. |
| “ | My ships were launched against Tazenda twelve hours ago and they are quite, quite through with their mission. Tazenda is laid in ruins; its centers of population are wiped out. There was no resistance. The Second Foundation no longer exists, Channis... and I, the queer, ugly weakling, am the ruler of the Galaxy. | „ |
| ~ The Mule revealing to Channis that he destroyed Tazenda. |
The Mule is the main antagonist of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy.
He is a unique mutant with the incredible power to brainwash people through manipulation of their emotions, making them into his willing servants. This ability allows him to single-handedly and effortlessly conquer civilizations without any bloodshed, and makes him a serious and genuine threat to the "Seldon Plan".
History[]
The Mule is initially said to be an incredibly large and powerful warlord by his men, and his actual powers and identity are not known until much later on, while the Mule himself seemingly does not appear until near the very end of Foundation and Empire, where it is shockingly revealed that the Mule is in fact Magnifico, a comic relief character previously known to be the Mule's runaway jester, and had been tagging along with the protagonists in this innocent guise in order to learn the location of the elusive "Second Foundation", which the main characters themselves did not know and were trying to discover and reach it before the Mule (who already had subdued the First Foundation) could. However, Bayta figures all this out just in time to shoot the psychologist Ebling Mis dead right before he can reveal where the Second Foundation is.
In the third book, the Mule has conquered most of galactic civilization and established an empire, while still searching for the Second Foundation, but is ultimately thwarted when its members manage to corner him upon a remote planet and reprogram his mind.