It's WILD that her voice actress confirmed that during auditions, Amaya was the villain while Magnifico was a good king, but by callbacks, the roles reversed.

Stabs her husband in the back after years of marriage and knew that the book was corrupting him. Now that’s evil.

What bothered me the most was Amaya's reaction to Magnifico's defeat. You would think she would be heartbroken about how her husband fell into darkness (because she knows he's been corrupted) and be upset about his fate. All it would take is a melancholy scene of her picking up the mirror and looking upon the monster inside with sadness before wrapping it up in a cloth to be put somewhere safe. It would have shown that while she knows they did what had to be done, she will always love the man he used to be and carry on creating the kingdom they wanted to create. Instead, she's like "Lol you're in a mirror know. I'm the queen now, because girl boss. BTW I never loved you."

Y'know what is villainous? Saying you're loyal but acting genuinely happy that your husband is stuck in a mirror and throwing him away like yesterday's trash

The idea of Amaya and Magnifico being this evil power couple who was deeply infatuated and in love with each was such a great idea that would have been adorable, scary but also hilarious to watch. Why this was not the final idea in the movie is beyond my comprehension.

a 100 years of disney and they threw away a chance to do a married couple villain story.

Imagine a Disney Villain Couple, it would be such a great idea, basically like a mix of Maleficent and Hades in one movie, but instead we got the stereotypical “man bad, women always good”

Amaya as a twist villain worth watching because not only do we get the obvious villain we get a twist villain in the same movie as well blending modern and classic Disney. It's brilliant.

There are multiple fan-made animatics using old voice lines of Queen Amaya, and they're SPECTACULAR. She was such a great villain, and her interactions with Magnifico were so full of chemistry, they acted like Gomez and Morticia Addams. The final film has her completely devoid of personality or chemistry at all.

100 years in development and you get a half-baked cake.

They literally had the greatest modern Disney villains in the plam of their hand, but instead she got sidelined as a good guy while Charo just got deleted altogether....

I think what annoys me the most is it feels like they just wanted a moment for Magnifico to be HUMILIATED rather than actually defeated because the way the queen just smuggly hands over her husband without so much of a hint of connection or concern. They could have had a twist at the end where the Queen comes back to where her husband is being kept and steals him back as she's draped in black, foreshadowing she is planning to set him free and she is a loving wife....but an evil queen.

I seriously don't understand why can't we have villains who care about their loved ones. Sure, they might have twisted morals. They might have problematic personalities - they also might be in the wrong in a specific situation, or because of trauma, because most people are not born evil. But for me, every tale would be so much more heartbreaking, if we would see that even a villain can love someone. Even in the little mermaid, I felt a bit of pity for Ursula, when her pets died, because they showed that there is a spark of care in her. Imagine how much more powerful a story could be, if Magnifico actually loved his kingdom, loved Amaya, and Amaya cared for him too, but their morals are so far apart that it is no longer enough.

I can't say I liked her character at all. She was basically the second in command for a decade or more. She had to know all the secrets Asha learned during her "apprenticeship" after all why would he tell a random girl he just hired secrets his wife doesn't even know? Then the Queen goes on to know he's possessed by the evil book and just dumps all responsibility for anything she's done and blames her husband. Worse she's happy he's imprisoned for all eternity in a mirror, a fairly harsh punishment for some one who didn't even kill a single person far as I remember. His only real crime was not granting wishes to every one who wanted them.

Disney is so worried about scaring two-year-olds, that they forgot how to make a good movie with passion and a good story, script, and villains. To me, Asha was kind of just a brat who lashed out because she didn’t get what she wanted. In the villain was just there for plot. It was only evil because the movie needed him to be, without him, actually doing anything evil

Not only a waste of potential, but a plot that made Magnifico an actual villain. I will be honest, I haven’t seen “Wish”, but it sounds like Magnifico was a good man who was too stubborn to change his ways, and then became so increasingly desperate that he turned to a source of evil that corrupted him. That’s not really a villain in my opinion. They could’ve even cured him and had him make amends, working with Asha and Maya to find a new and better way to grant wishes. Kinda went on a tangent but it’s just so sad to see what the movie could’ve been.

I'm kinda thanks for Wish for making me realised that sometimes being Predictable/Obvious/Straight up in your story is okay instead of trying to poorly creating a twist or convoluted😅

I hated that Amaya wasn't that much shaked about how Magnifico was reacting to magic. She tried to help him once, and didn't even try that hard, she left him because "he's a bad guy" when she lived half of her life with him ??? She was portrayed as being so much in love with him, and in the end mock his ex husband because he lost, she doesn't even feel sad, guilty, or just annoyed ??

Amaya looks like the queen from ninmona movie .

Honestly they all look like Isabella to me.

The concept art for the movie is way better than what we got

Amaya was boring asf, imagine auditioning for the classic disney villain role for the 100th anniversary of this company and getting landed with a soggy piece of toast

Should've been the twist villain who manipulated Magnifico and then after exposure eats the wishes and transforms into a dragon causing Asha, the star, the seven posers, and Magnifico to work together and defeat her.

I love so many of those "in the early stages" sketches/scenes, unlike the ones we actually got in the final movie.

i honestly would have liked to see 2 villains who want different things, are married, dont nessesarily work together , do not betray each other and do love each other would give each one agency and make it more interesting how each one is influencing the story

Just imagine what we could've had: An evil power-couple and a beautiful romance between Asha and Star-Boy! He could've been this generations Jack Frost!

We could have gotten an evil version of Gomez and Morticia Addams!!

The original concept would've been so much better. Esppacially that movie will be in full 2d.

and we don't get villain couples who love each other very much and are both equally evil that often either... 😞😞😞😢😢😢

I enjoy collecting dolls, so I'm alway in the doll aisles. Queen Amaya has dolls just like Ashas, but the only way to get a Magnifico doll is in a 2-pack with Amaya.

An idea i had that could have been cool for a villain in this movie was that Magnifico had an evil twin (lets call it Harry) While Magnifico tried to use magic for good, Harry used it for evil and consumed by the power, he study his own brother for take over his kingdom. He manage to imprison him into the book, which is why he keep it locked and start to grant wishes who can benefit him mostly. Nobody realize it until Asha goes inside the tower and accidentaly open the book where Magnifico is trapped

The scene where Amaya and Magnifico dance (I assume that scene was going to be in a song) could've been the most epic dance scene in entire Disney history! like seriously no one wants to see a dance scene where the pair are actually the antagonist and not heroes?

I mean to be fair,he did point his wand at her, thats like a spouse putting a knife or gun to someone, it kinda changes everything you thought you knew about the person. She’s kinda like if he could do it to me,someone he’s been with for so long, how real was this relationship? So yea there could’ve been more nuance, more regret/sadness, but 🤷🏾‍♀️

One youtuber said that she could've been a twist villain. But magnífico is a full on villain from beginning to end. The story can be the same with Amaya where she is helping the characters until it is revealed that she betrayed them all and is a villain who loves her husband to the end.

It's like the black cauldron all over again

All of the scrapped ideas are better than what we got.

Somewhere in the middle of the movie, I’d thought Amaya was a twist villain, the way she acts and behaved. But I was wrong. She would a good twist villain but according to Disney; that’ll never happened.

It’s because Frozen 2 had no major rewrites. One draft was submitted, and they had to commit to it. Wish must have been rewritten constantly out of fear due to constant failures. After all, what Disney does is what modern toxic parents do, they get rid of what they think is a problem rather than actually “parent” the kid. Disney allowed no delays for Frozen 2 and The Incredibles 2 since The Good Dinosaur left a year empty and winded up a bomb after so many delays. Disney has no middle ground, they just remove what’s a problem. The no villain movies exist because the Oscar blockbuster trilogy remaining criticism is the twist villains, so obviously they were rushing to get a new villain out of the way in Wish. Yet they removed the cat that would have harkened back to Si and Am, Scar, and Shere Khan and the Queen was just there, because when people said they wanted a “real villain”, Disney just assumed overly evil could simply be plugged in.

Lowkey thought that was the vice queen from Nimona.

The only Disney Villain Couple I know so far is Hildy Gloom and Grim Gloom from the TV show The 7D. Not having Magnifico and Amaya be a villain couple is wasted potential.

I sincerely hope Disney learns from their mistakes and actually remakes this movie, as in the original concept. Like, it was way too good for this to be forgotten, and we will ALL FORGET THIS MOVIE EVER EXISTED if this does happen.

When you try to please everyone, you will just end up pleasing no one.

I heard theories that she would turn into the evil queen from Snow White lol

Wish could be way more better and even a beloved classic if Queen Amaya was evil along with King magnifico not to mention star being a boy fall in love with Asha and now we have the results after rejecting those ideas

Heaven forbade Disney make a WOMAN the villain

They could have done her as a twist like Hans. Or even left her more "innocent" where she actually tipped off Magnifico and that's why he was in the tower at the end to catch the Star. Or even have it where Magnifico was more possessive of her because his greatest wish was to have someone share his dream and kept it much more romantic than the ending they got

I hope that, at least, Disney realizes the huge mistake it made and decides to use this plot for another movie in the future, because we want that villain couple, we want that romance between princess and magic boy (don't they always say the want a princess that saves a prince for once? You could've done that in a really awesome way) and we want to feel what we felt with old Disney😢

Having the trope of villian power couples, that have better . relationship goals we all wish to achieve is something that would have been refreshing, and having Asha with the star who were suppose to be couples also, would have been a nice parallel between them, but we got a plushy emoji star, and a talking goat, guess we can't have nice things

Hi, Aldone. It's a tragedy that Wish only had Magnifico for a villain, instead of having a shallow villain's couple💜 (wich would be the first time ever in a Disney animated movie, not to mention it would be amazing). This anniversary movie has less personality then Maleficent, Mistress of Evil. I can't even right now😡🌫🌫🎂🌫🌫

It’s ironic cause she was supposed to be a villain. Together with the king. At least, that is what’s shown in a deleted scene.

See what would've been better for the king as a villain is that he was always destroying the wishes to maintain his power and has the nice and giving persona so people willingly move to his kingdom and give him wishes aka more power. And obviously because he is the only one that can use magic legally it shouldve been written that some people can naturally use magic and others can't like the king, and because of this they are exiled or the power is stolen from them by the king of course everything else is fine but the fact that people have their freedoms limited for a society that the king sees as peaceful and good is something that could've been explored. If the story was written this way then his fall to evil makes way more sense. His backstory shouldve been used to explain his desire to control and need for power. He likes power and control and desires to keep it that way simple and he's a villain that was always evil. And his wife likes her comfortable postion and loves her husband therefore thats why she helps him.

If they ever do a sequel, they could make her actually evil from the get-go, but she needed her husband taken out first, so she let the others do that. The few short scenes you showed, with no sound, of her looking at her husband through the crystal and such, made her seem more wicked. She could even find a way to get her husband out of the crystal then and make him her zombie slave type of thing.

This movie flop so bad. They we're giving the popcorn tins away for free.

I will fix the villains in one paragraph and in doing so the message, ready? The king and Queen grants everyone’s wishes making them dependent on them. The King and Queen both love each other immensely and are a healthy power couple despite being the villains Because they created a neverland in which nothing bad happens but because everyone gets their wishes, nobody grows, changes, or learns anything, and everyone has to be happy and nothing bad or dark or sad is allowed to happen, and the more they give to the king and queen , the less they have of themselves until one day they fade away and nobody remember them. Nobody knows who they truly are because they’ve been given everything. And so Asha wishes to know who she is and what’s really out there. The King and Queen are threatened by this because people would learn they’ve been living a lie and they been killing them off to live forever. And so Asha learns a lesson about not getting everything you wish for and that sometimes bad things need to happen so you can appreciate the good things. Now tell me that wouldn’t be a better idea.

And this is what we would call the 1st major domino to fall and make the story and Magnifico righteous. So originally Amaya and Magnifico are villians, a power couple who made the kingdom to take wishes from people's hearts as they contain powerful magic to do what they want. They make the excuse of taking it and granting it later and living in this "utopia" they granted. They drain most wishes for power (maybe youth, maybe just something else) Magnifico being the sorcerer and muscle while Amaya being the thinker and manipulator. But oops.. now you want to make Amaya a twist villian, so she has to be nicer but then reveals near the end she is in league with evil magnifico! Leading-- Nah, let's change it again... because (We dont know what the direction was, but either she became good since Magnifico got a tragic backstory or they changed it to EVIL MAGIC. or more likely.. they made her good so they had to change Magnifico to be believable good since the queen would catch on) Then time constraints happen and ...you start rushing retakes and don't have time to write everything correctly.. creating the hodgepodge we have now.

Binging your videos I love them

A villain couple is such a good idea for a Disney animated movie. I don't think I can't think of any.

When I told my dad that Amaya was originally meant to be an antagonist before it was changed, he was not surprised.

The reason I think they changed it to the thing that we got is cause had they done the good ideas it would’ve required them to actually put time in the script (character development, general plot, messaging, DIALOGUE, SONGS, etc) but Disney refuses to do so lately 💀

Disney: "We don't want the audience to know the king is the villain right away!" Disney: Reveals the king is the villain in the trailer 😂🤪 I'm glad everyone else caught the villain vibes from the queen - she was way too unbothered about switching sides when her husband went evil. Totally didn't buy it. 100% agree this entire movie felt rushed and underdeveloped and could have been actually interesting if different choices were made.

The reverse twist villain

Wait wait wait i got it. She could be the twist villian and she was the leader of the thieves that destroyed Magnifico's old home. She gave him the book to corrupt him and manipulates the gullible Asha to help her steal the throne.

Bring back classic Disney villian deaths, too! Seeing Manfico be sucked into a mirror and he's still alive is more troubling because he can comeback instead of being gone forever!

It would've been cool if she was revealed to actually be the plot twist villain of the movie when we only thought Magnifico would be the only villain.

Bro, Magnifico is genuinely my favorite character in the movie.

They owe us a Wish 2 with the original plot it sounds so much better

I have an idea for your next video if you still want to make more Wish videos. "Why every deleted scene in Wish is better than the actual movie."

We were robbed of first villain couple and cute shapeshifting starboy? Disney, tumblr would *love* this movie in it's original concept.

Wish has got to be Disney’s greatest example of wasted potential.

What are you talking about 'wasted villain'? Amaya was still a villain by not trying harder to stop her husband from being corrupted by an evil tome, and wasted no time siding with the people looking to overthrow him/taking over as sole ruler - having him imprisoned in the castle's dungeons - despite knowing he only acted as he had because of Asha bringing in a new magical source that threatened him. Amaya is very much a villain - a subtle one, but still a villain.

The only interesting thing about the character is her outfit. I love the art nouveau influence.

They could have cut Asha out completely and just focused on Amaya. Or have them be yin and yang to each other. She was just kinda like "wow I've seen too much" without explaining or showing what he did, cause he honestly didn't really do much in front of her, or abused her in any way. Rather, they could have had her and Asha react to the same bad things he did, and shown their character developments around that. Like hero/villain pathways. But really a bad ass villain couple would have been more fun. I think we just needed a villain villain throughout the whole movie with no background as to how they got there, they can just do that in a separate movie.

A film with so much potential. :(

Can you please do a review of the rest of Sony animations films?

Not really related, but what a sick outro, so in sync with the video.

King magnifico was the hero all along. If his wife was the villain, it would’ve made a little more sense.

I recall that That Darn Cat 1997 did a villain couple.

I had to agree with you

We were soooooo robbed.

So because they didn't want "the women to be the bad guy" they basically made the Queen a bland character. She could've been the nice villain couple with the King, but no Disney attempts at being progressive shut that down.

you know they could have given them a child to do Amaya's role and Amaya and magnifico would be the villains'

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true

Xehanort is 100 times the villain that anything modern day DISney could ever dream up, yo!

I actually thought she was going to be the main/twist villain and Magnifico was just used for promoting the movie.

My name is Amaya 😈😈😈

5:41 I know the video isn't about this, but just seeing Kimg Frederick feom Tangled after Tangled the series makes my blood boil xD But yeah, I always agree with your videos, so it's nice to know I agree with what you're saying here too

Ok HEAR ME OUT. What if they did it like wings of fire? Where Queen Amaya ruled over thw kingdom and Magnifico was a sorcerer servant/husband who was by her side. She could’ve forced him to do tons of things just for her out of greed/want for power, and Magnifico was either also evil or was being manipulated? I think that couldn’t have been bad.

What if Amaya does end up being the Evil Queen in S.W.?

this is so funny to me, because I’m Amaya

😅😅😅and osha was supposed to be their daughter, well in fanfics...

Wish was just wasted potential, idk how Disney could have fumble the ball this hard.

okay I am so confused

Who at Disney is approving this? Their stories are getting worse, the dress designs have taken an nose dive. The heroes seem to be lacking fans where are the villians??

Amaya and Asha are the true villains. Its Amaya's fault for not hiding the book far from her husbands reaches. This movie was so horribly made aka written

Even in that we got she was a waste. THis movie would have been slightly better if Amya had been able to get through to Magnifico and he redeems himself, maybe could have even done smething where he see the error of his ways through h love for Amya and his love for the kingdom and it's people, he rejects the borbidden magic only for it to manifest into physical form maybe in the form of an evil Magnifico, ans so the film could then have an epic magic battle where Asha needs to help Magnifico defeat his "evil half". THe film had so much wasted potential.

In the end I can still only see protag as the actual villain. Magnifico was never proven wrong, and nothing communicates to me that people at the end were happier than in the beginning of the movie. And so I would guess all she did was reintroduce greed, violence for personal gain, and the anarchy of a rebellious mob without a clear unifying goal after the insurrection of the King...which will either result in civil unrest forming either as gangleadership under a weak crown, or just simply a strict monarchy under new leadership where following her guidelines will get reinforced by use of magic since a traditional semi-democratic system could not bid elected institutions against people with the power to make wishes their reality...well maybe if the queen introduced a strong policeforce with far-reaching rights in a system of total surveillance...well that sounds kind of like a tale as old as time itself finally...

I just amazed how they made such a bad movie when their up there with other people who would be the same to critique others stories and saying you could fix this or that and do more here or less of and they go and make wish

Disney really needs to tajss more risks in stories. Last yesr was a complete disaster and i doubt Disney plus is compenstating enough

I wanted this movie to focus more on Amaya and Magnifico and less on Asha and the village. I wanted to see their love story which reminded me of Gwen and Arthur in Once Upon a Time. I liked how Amaya tried balancing his ego and darkside out and keep him grounded. I wanted to see the backstory that led to Magnifico feeling he is protecting the kingdom. Her believing in her husband, the love of her life to her making the difficult decision to betray and destroy him as he is destroying the kingdom. That must be hard for someone to do. Asha can be a minor antagonist, but following her wasn’t as compelling.