Disney Actually Made A Good Villain??? - Iwájú

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[@homecruz7743]

This should've been a movie instead of a series.

[@pedrorosa9893]

Die say seris are always like a movie stretch more than it should

[@berengerdietiker22]

I find a lot of TV series struggle to justify their excessive runtime.

[@0deadx21]

This is a MINI-SERIES. It's the middle ground between a movie and a show.

[@Tungsten-rubber]

I didn’t even know it was a series until it came out

[@iconica9516]

and then it runs its course too far and everyone hates it? just let media be how it is before it goes sour

[@danielgudinojuarez6729]

Despite the animation having a very low budget, Iwájú managed to do some good things I didn't saw coming though

[@nash6568]

I actually think the animation was pretty super.

[@Only_Ameen04]

​​@@nash6568 Yeah it looks better than most Dreamworks tv series

[@bumblebeeproductions1673]

I wish this show would’ve gotten more marketing tbh

[@kylemorello4787]

I was going to say "it's a TV show. Most of Disney's recent TV show villains are great!" And then I remembered I'm thinking of the ones from Disney TV Animation. This series is actually made by Walt Disney Animation. And it has a good villain? It's about time!

[@saygoodbye-sfm]

Same, I was about to comment gushing about emperor bells before I realised that.

[@elsinaattheworkshop]

No, it was actually made by an african entertainment industry called Kugali, disney just marketed it.

[@kylemorello4787]

@@elsinaattheworkshop oh! Never mind

[@tiberseptim8434]

I had heard NOTHING about this, and regularly watch Disney +….

[@RushWheeler]

Don't you mean Belos?​@@saygoodbye-sfm

[@FungalHarmony]

I’ve noticed that Disney shows in general really have much better villains than their movies do. Like, aside from Iwaju, look at The owl house with Belos or Gravity Falls with Bill. And I think thats because it’s the show runners making the big decisions a lot of the time, not the execs

[@lunartears6761]

Sadly, execs getting involved in Steven universe on Cartoon Network for seasons 5-6 ruined White Diamond. They hyped her up to be THE one Gem and antagonist that Steven either couldn’t use talk-no-jutsu on, or that trope would take a really long time to work. She could have been the Aku of 2010’s Cartoon Network but no, we had rush and use the writer’s power of friendship and harmony bullsh*t.😑

[@ebmario874]

Its likely that they didn't provide a solution to class division because they didn't have one, or they did, but disney shot it down for monopoly reasons.

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

Or - me being a bit of a cynic at this point - it was just there (and that's understanding the cultural stuff) to bash Capitalism, something Disney has done or promoted before.

[@dinosaysrawr]

I was impressed and surprised that they went as hard as they did in their capitalist critique! I was sadly *not* surprised that they wimped out in the end.

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

@@dinosaysrawr Surprised? Why would you be surprised? Every other show or movie released nowadays injects something like that into it all the time.

[@dinosaysrawr]

@@SockieTheSockPuppet , it was surprising in light of it being a show clearly targeted mainly at younger kids, as opposed to teenagers or adults. Also, even when a movie or show condemns poverty or homelessness or has an evil capitalist as its main villain, it's more unusual for media to implicate the protagonists and/or the protagonists' friends and allies in that system.

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

@@dinosaysrawr Worse has been put into kids' shows.

[@BussinHomie]

The lizard is basically to Iwaju what the Star was to Wish

[@geardog24]

But not pointlessly dumbed down in order to them more “marketable”.

[@cartoondude5384]

He's is a better version.

[@calebray1834]

@@geardog24right he was originally supposed to be a boy and was going to be more than merchandise and Asha’s love interest but they ended turning the Starboy into a cursive merch thing.

[@Gamerguy-ud1zo]

Literally didn’t know this existed until you reviewed it. That’s how little they marketed it.

[@satin8683]

This Is the face of someone who watches you sleep or goes to the bathroom.

[@luchadorfromthefuture2077]

Spooky

[@entertainmentpowerfuchs5744]

It's sad that the good modern Disney Stuff get less advertise as the bad Stuff.

[@ginocanterino258]

The owl house got some good ardvertising tho

[@pandaworld8166]

@@ginocanterino258 until they killed the third season lol, disney hates its good media :(

[@ginocanterino258]

@@pandaworld8166 I wouldn't say it's all disney's fault. After all many countries didn't liked the lgbtq+ messages in the show and if disney wanted to keep earning money from those countries they had to end the show sooner.

[@connorplisga3718]

At least Magnifico wasn't another twist villain revealed at the very last minute

[@hellfoxwolf14]

Same

[@Simbala-bq5vy]

Yeah that's why I think that King Magnifico isn't the worst Disney villain. It's definitely Hans for me.

[@GokuBlackRose978]

I’m just gonna say this, he had POTENTIAL. Ruined, yes, but he had a chance to be good

[@silashurd3597]

Finally, someone else says it! Yes, Magnifico is basically a twist villain except he’s revealed to be bad earlier than most others

[@SallyBMcgill]

My family is from Nigeria if you have any questions. Tbh, this is the first time I heard about this show, so thanks for the info. Will check it out.

[@WePsychoz]

How extreme is the class division in Nigeria?

[@bigbird4343]

As a Nigerian my siblings and mother loved it. Especially my mom who grew up

[@Alex-mh5mu]

Magnifico victim cameo is so good and so real lol 😭 poor guy

[@OligarchMartial]

i have literally never heard of this show before in my life. I believe you on it not being marketed.

[@gladd8869]

First time I ever heard of it. Disney forgot that they gotta market things if they want people to care.

[@madrat8060]

I don't think it needed to be a movie, if anything, it needed to have more episodes than just SIX.

[@a.t.m873]

As a Disney villain fan, I gotta say, hopefully GREAT.

[@minnion2871]

Lets be honest, their best original villains of the past decade or so seem to come from their TV shows..... Bill Cypher, Toffee, The Core, King Andrias, Emperor Belos....

[@mawinstallation6626]

Emperor Belos is overrated imo. An exrremely one-dimensional character. Same goes for The Core.

[@trolledfordrip]

@@mawinstallation6626 thats the fun part a truely evil villain not a sad backstory (by normal standards) not a guy who can be turned back to good no he is a monster to be put down and most people were jumping for joy when it did happen

[@t1rkb841]

Chip Whistler

[@kingofthedepths3513]

Bode is like the African version of Sykes from oliver and company I haven't seen a good Nigeria villain since wraith from dead by daylight

[@ghostthelizard]

Its sad how much this show got under the radar because of the lack of marketing (i got an ad for it at least two weeks after release if not more). It was pretty enjoyable and also told and original story in a culture that isnt showcased in tv shows which is very cool

[@reinweissritter]

It also came a day before megamind 2, so all the attention went to crap on that... Thing.

[@juliabrand1547]

Sounds like Nigerian Silco from Arcane only minus the fatherly bonds.

[@fernandoc5536]

Honestly, the idea of a Silco -like character being taken and adapted by different cultures sounds super interesting. That comparison might just make this show immediately more marketable to outsiders with that alone.

[@juliabrand1547]

Who doesn’t like Silco? So that would be neat. ^^

[@vincenthawthorne9360]

When he says Bode in the thumbnail did he like, like Bode’s character in Jedi Survivor?

[@mx9226]

Dang this show looks amazing. Sucks I didn’t see much advertising

[@firecrakerj3312]

Between this and My Dad the Bounty Hunter, there’s seems to be good shows that displayed African culture respectfully.

[@FlameBinder55]

5:52 I think Disney already has enough dead moms.

[@ginocanterino258]

Anime teaches that there is never going to be enough unalived mothers

[@trolledfordrip]

@@ginocanterino258 and fathers dont forget them

[@AquaBounce1010]

IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!

[@jordanhunter3375]

This series' premise of a futuristic Nigeria reminds me of a novel I read called THE EAR, THE EYE, AND THE ARM

[@meta527II]

4:08 that was kind of like me with King Magnifico (before I was forced to face the facts)

[@BrandonCroker]

I bless the shows set in Africa?

[@korance2808]

I see what you did there 😉

[@C0ldIron]

Reminds me of a book I read as a child called The eye, the ear, and the arm. Except it took place in cyberpunk Zimbabwe and the father hires a team of mutant detectives to find his kids.

[@mitab1]

I genuinely thought it was a movie when i saw the trailer, People who tell these stories should understand when to make ot a movie or a show,

[@edgedrive_art]

FINALLY someone that calls out Disney's Homphobic bs oH MY GOD- I swear it feels like people keep forgetting they pushed hard for those bills

[@stevensteviepryde5888]

I'm glad to see other people talk about Bode. I thought he was a pretty solid Disney villain all things considered, even if they watered him down a bit.

[@christianndlovu-lh7vu]

Personally I don't think it should come as much of a surprise to everyone the Disney can can create great villains especially when you look at some of the greatest like Maleficent, Cruella, jafar, the evil queen, the queen of hearts, scar, and so many others the only problem is over the year as lgbtq, feminine rights, and so forth are becoming more common in Media Disney's focusing solely more on those aspects in their movies I'm not giving enough depth to their villain to the point where some of them are unrecognizable to the animated counterparts Disney knows how to create great villains but over the years they have softened because it's all about the money for them, when they do not realize people would be paying so much more to have classic villainy back but hey that's just my opinion

[@Yellowguy0619]

I love dark and realistic villains like Sykes.

[@thadmaster7]

Will this upcoming video be about Disney villains or villains in general?

[@itmesammylawrence]

Waiting for the moon girl review

[@dinosaysrawr]

I loved Iwájú! It really deserved more love and attention, not to mention more episodes. (It felt like it ended just as it had begun.) It was definitely more for kids, but I really enjoyed and respected all of the care and passion that went into the worldbuilding, and I had great fun Googling Nigerian culture and slang. This is what Raya and the Last Dragon could've and should've been.

[@julianestebanarroyave9509]

Everyone lnows that wish didn't do well and thats Because of the corporate meddling that ruined it

[@Gioylui]

4:24 i called the weed

[@171QA]

Makes sense since Disney technically didn't make this project. XD

[@WolfmanArt]

Yes, bring in the love of villians!!

[@meta527II]

What’s the music you used at the beginning? It sounds familiar somehow.

[@gimmeyourrights8292]

Treasure Planet 🤝 Iwájú Death by low marketing

[@BlueAlone-vw3te]

This is out of topic but it their a chance to review a movie called Unicorn wars. It adult movie about teddy bear fighting Unicorns and I think it good movie that convey it themes. I especially like the main characters.

[@theggamer2824]

9:32 I mean they coulda saved it after Wish to be their 63rd Feature Length film in their 101th year if they wanted it to be a movie after it. I don’t think that’s the reason it was made into a tv show.

[@wplays4271]

I honestly enjoyed the documentary more than the show itself. Aside from Bode, it was pretty average. But the documentary was really interesting. It truly seemed like a passion project. And the amount of love they put into it was fascinating to see

[@Raymanpfpgoeshard]

That is the most cured thumbnail ever bruh. Uncanny as hell

[@RaisorBlade]

Every second you're not running, he's getting closer.

[@ERBanmech]

Honestly it seems really cool! It’s sad that it seems rare that a show is well-written and has such a great depiction of a culture while being written by people from that culture. Most of the time it’s rewriting existing characters to fulfill an agenda. It’s an absolute treat to see original characters, I hope it goes well and that the setting and characters inspire future people.

[@pink-a-palouza7888]

I think the whole conversation about if a show or a movie should’ve been vice versa has been surprisingly popping up a lot with Disney, or Hulu, or Netflix projects

[@danito20]

I don’t understand what the comment at the end was referring to

[@nicholassims9837]

Have you by any chance seen ColinLookBack villain retrospective ?

[@ultronemperor3525]

Most animated Disney villains from their series are actually amazing. Bill Cipher, Tofee, Belos ecc...

[@RaisorBlade]

Those are from a different studio. This is from the main studio.

[@firenze6478]

With Disney, the less money and notice it gets from the big wigs, the better. Indie really is the future. Huge companies just tend to stifle creativity in everything they touch, even in anime.

[@enkhtemuulenodgerel6175]

You damn right

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

yeah it was really weird to me too that i havent heard anyone talking about this show just flew under everyones radar

[@gusbrowner4089]

until i saw this video i had no idea this show existed

[@saralily0977]

3:34 good?

[@jakubtrapp3509]

uuuhhhh this animation looks weird its good dont get me wrong but weird i was kinda afraid that we wont ever get a good villain from anything besides games and maybe power rangers ESPECIALLY FROM DISNEY

[@haonneogip4740]

Wait, this wasn't a movie? I saw a trailer for this once and thought it looked cool, but I forgot about it.

[@Retrorezzie]

i love how your video feels straight from 2011

[@renegadedjinn5325]

Disney STILL calling it the "Don't Say Gay" Bill?

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

Well of course, they have to in order to peddle their agenda swill.

[@renegadedjinn5325]

@@SockieTheSockPuppet yee

[@jackofallclaws6672]

This series shouldn’t be locked behind Disney+. The fact that Disney hasn’t been properly promoting this kinda gives me the feeling that they don’t really want it to succeed…which is very typical of executives who only care about money.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

03:53 Absolute W reference. That Vine is hilarious!

[@electrobob992]

I know I don't mainly because I never really liked Streaming. Just channels made exclusive. Wish all of them would just be bundled together, like how tv stations are.

[@AndrewDavis-sj6mb]

I watched Iwaju and that's have some boundaries with rich and not so you know?

[@michaelmcjunkin1372]

Yeah I feel the same way about the show. Seems ironic that Disney Television Animation is having better villains than Disney Animation studios lately.

[@user-AADZ]

Disney writing genuinely good villains for modern Disney standards for TV shows you never heard about:

[@asurathewriter4435]

My personal theory is that Iwaju was original ment to be disney 2024 release but after the failure of wish, moana 2 and iwaju swapped places where the former would be a tv show turned movie and the later would be a movie turned tv show. also i feel like i didn't explain this well enough why magnifico is a villain but i will fix it yeah like i said there's no evidence for the bad wishes, so you can't use that arguement because there is no evidence for it, that be like saying films with the be youself message is bad because they could be a sexual deviant, a racist or a violent pyscho and it's gaslighting because they don't show those. then if he cared about the people for anything other than praise, he would take Asha's advice and return the wish, especially since wishes are pretty much what all their souls are and Asha's grandpa is 100 so he doesn't much time left, especially since Asha's dad pasted away so she doesn't want her grandpa to suffer the same fate.

[@sushirice6751]

Disney held back the writers, it had to be it, you can just tell there was a vision that was beaten over with a hammer by executives

[@Dogofwar41]

Hey raisor I'm finally back watching your content after a while can you review the clone wars if you haven't

[@OmarAlikaj]

Yeah, Bode's my new favorite villain. I see that it's inspired by the kidnappings in Lagos and elsewhere, and the whole ransom thing. Also, you ought to learn Yoruba; you really butchered "Ajegunle."

[@karamixon5815]

TV disney villains are great 👿👿👿

[@elugaporp_2]

the lizard and the pig from moana got way too hyped up in the trailers

[@Simipourfangirl]

I never heard of this before.

[@homeboy5970]

Just to be honest I live here in Nigeria.

[@OmarAlikaj]

Which side?

[@homeboy5970]

@@OmarAlikaj The nation capital Abuja

[@NickAndriadze]

Once again, I'm really sad that decent shows like this one are shoved under the rug by Disney and get absolutley zero marketing and thus zero recognition. I'm really glad that this video exists, because I've never heard of this show (Surprise surprise). I seriously can't help but wonder, does Disney actually PROFIT off of their releases getting a bad retention? Why else would they intentionally sabotage their own creations then?!

[@A_very_good_cheese]

Disney:"does not market a series" Series:"isnt popular" Disney:hOW dID ThIs hApPeNd!!!!!!1111!!

[@swirlystrawstudios5465]

I see u repeat the bus scene as an "unimportant scenes" which I don't get, it's there to share Koles struggle in the mainland. Scenes like this show more description of the world around our main characters. It's there because that's the theme of this series.

[@RaisorBlade]

It's already been established that Kole struggles. Both with the Dad treating him like crap and his mom being sick. At that point, the bus scene is just hammering the point in.

[@swirlystrawstudios5465]

@RaisorBlade well the scene is there and we can take it however we see it even if it's not the most important thing to the story, it's not like they're gonna take it out because it's "not important". That's like saying we don't need Wreck it Ralph taking cherries and giving them to Qbert

[@RaisorBlade]

@@swirlystrawstudios5465 Well that had payoff with Qbert telling Felix about Ralph and later joining the game. The bus scene is not important. You can remove it and it won't change a thing.

[@swirlystrawstudios5465]

@RaisorBlade well actually qbert and ralph interacted while ralph was on his way into Heros duty. My point is, scenes can be neccesary, Kobe isn't living a great life where he lives, Qbert and ralph are friends regardless. I'm not saying I don't like the scene with him giving them the cherry it's a sweet scene, just like how we feel how unfair it is fo see Kobe struggle. I'd learn just to appreciate the effort

[@RaisorBlade]

Fair enough. Also, it's Kole, not Kobe.

[@user-dk7ip4kc2z]

A movie from Africa for Africa is heart of the hunter if you are interested

[@kennethsatria6607]

Oh the gecko one

[@Trash-ef2jn]

Ok the fact that someone called you trash for not liking the director from nimona is sickening because not only is it stupid but I think he or she had never read the graphic novel in which I have and the graphic novel told a more dark and gritty story well the movie does take its creative liberties and changed the story to make it more family friendly it was for the good but I have to admit that the director was the biggest downgrade in the graphic novel she was a more sadistic and cunning villain who didn't care about anybody that died guards were killed in many brutal ways in the original story and also didn't care about anybodys safety and was even a human like goblin and I don't know why they changed that it would have been cool and was smart enough to trap nimona in a container that even she couldn't get out of and finally she will torture prisoners and please show this comment in your villains review because it might prove a point and we still got a good movie but the director was the biggest downgrade from the graphic novel

[@the_screaming_cherry3678]

Ngl, who ever remembered or cared about this series upon release?

[@Citrobyte]

Poor marketing

[@user-twick]

How come I never heard o’ him

[@PizzaGuy2001]

I personally realy like Last Dragon I like that movie beer than recent Disney properties plus Sisu is my favorite character.

[@raulandfriends130]

Yeah he reminds me dr Calico from bolt but African

[@taminostam9912]

mans forgot about Bill Cipher for a hot minute. dudes chaotic for the chaos and that is the best villain

[@RaisorBlade]

That's from TV, not Walt Disney Animation Studios.

[@taminostam9912]

@@RaisorBlade that's fair. i was counting more Disney property than you were describing, which... my bad honestly. sorry

[@skeletonlover3214]

Good Vid

[@OpticalSorcerer]

After Iawju and Kizazi Moto, I hope they make a high-fantasy African animated musical--WITH HUMANS. It's a shame "The Gift" was for TLK's remake instead of an original film.

[@ELDETECTIVE-CREEPY]

3:50 Emperor Belos: Allow me to introduce myself... Seriously, you're talking about there being no good villains in Disney, but that just tells me that you haven't seen The Owl House. Belos is a villain who is a strange mix between the Horned King vives apearence and Frollo personallity , mother gothel manipulative gaslighting, and a more historically acurrate Gobernador Ratcliffe whit his genocidal and colonial tendecies. but much more unhinged. becoming much more threatening and despicable than King Andrias and the core of Amphibia, even though the core has conquered more worlds and committed more genocides, Belos feels more personal because his cruelty is not taken as a joke and he is never taken as a joke unlike the core because it comes from a realistic hatred and foreshadowing and we have literally seen the mountains of children's corpses that he left in his wake and the people he killed mercilessly because he did not consider them human.

[@RaisorBlade]

Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Television are two different things.

[@Yuki_Ika7]

My hate for Disney is not for the creators, they can make pretty good stuff like the Owl House and Amphibia, my hate lies with the corpos. It is really cool to see a show made by Nigerians and stuff, but as is typical with Disney corpos, they don't advertise properly.

[@pessoaaleatoria2586]

[SPOILERS FOR SEASON 2 OF AMPHIBIA] It's funny how in Amphibia we see Marcy getting PIERCED THROUGH THE CHEST WITH A FLAMING SWORD but Disney can't show a lackey getting beated up?!

[@untitledproject1642]

This is literally Black panther; futuristic African country setting but mixed in with real African societal problems

[@brown7180]

Except Black panther was about Black panther and set in the Marvel universe, and Wakanda was its own country, showing a mix of African cultures, while this is based specifically in Uganda. Its like calling Back to the future and Terminator "basically the same" because it has Americans and Time travel.

[@howdoyoudo5949]

@@brown7180 You mean Nigeria?

[@Synthwra1th]

It’s a genre called Afro-Futurism

[@ZoraCatone]

Why are you so surprised? 🙄

[@invisi-bullexploration2374]

Don't feel too bad. There is another, extremely popular Disney show 95% of Americans have never heard of. It was never aired here, it is impossible to legally get episodes of the show in America and I only know of about two or three clips that made it onto KZbin. It's outright bizarre how well it's been hidden from everyone except the intended demographic. Like they do NOT want you to know the thing exists.

[@noahhill841]

Which is?

[@invisi-bullexploration2374]

@@noahhill841 The Three Caballeros.

[@noahhill841]

@@invisi-bullexploration2374 checked, looks like they launched the show in the Philippines, but it has been availabe since august 2021 in the usa.

[@mr.slappii513]

It wasn't made by americans. There's your reason for why it didn't get marketing. If it isn't already obvious, Disney is straight up just racist, everything must be americanized otherwise it will not be shown. If it ain't american, then it ain't no good and people won't want to watch it.

[@omalleycaboose5937]

Lord Belos is a pretty good villain

[@RaisorBlade]

Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Television are two different things.

[@mrquake7789]

He's good but lacked charisma

[@TheSFMWonderer]

What, impossible. The villain needs poorly written lines, terrible song, motivation that makes no sense, and is unfunny. He can’t be like other good Disney villains from movies and shows, or else he’d be… good?!? 🤯 Anyways, glad we got a good villain from a show, Disney seems to be good at writing show villains rather then movie ones, unless it’s MCU ones, lol.