Emperor Belos being Disney’s most irredeemable villain

an aspect of belos I feel goes underappreicated is how he's a dark mirror of Luz. They're both driven by their dreams (luz's love of fantasy and belos' desire to be a witch hunter) and both desire to beheros and to be 'special'. the difference is that luz learned that she should consider others as well as learned that reality cannot match her dreams and she should respect those things and keep them in mind without jsut given up, while Belos clung to his selfish beleifs and ignored the reality and consequences of his own actions.

What's more Luz loves magic and fantasy while belos hates it even as he uses it himself.

belos is what Luz could've become had she still continued to act as she did in the first two episodes. And luz is belos if he came to love magic and fantasy and realised that other people matter and aren't just props in your 'story'.

"If you really want to help- go find a hole, to wither away in." THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THAT, MY JAW DROPPED.

what i think is most horrifying is the fact that his murder of caleb and connection to the Clawthorne family was only shown in glimpses and easter eggs, never shown in full detail or explained by the characters, showing he is literally evil beyond words.

Dana Terrace is very lucky to get Matthew Rhys as her villain emperor Belos

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I’m glad they’re bringing villains like this back. Tragic antagonist are good but they have become overdone as well. I missed good old fashioned villains who are truly vile and selfish to me those villains who you love to hate. People assume they’re one note mustache twirling bad guys but it doesn’t have to be that if the writing isn’t lazy. There’s a reason why classic Disney villains like scar and cruela deville are still remembered.

Matthew Rhys is such a brilliant voice actor for Emperor Belos, aside from him voicing Sir Percy in The Two Princes podcast, this is great!❤❤❤❤

Recently I started researching totalitarian religious cults and sects, and only now do I understand that The Owl House portrays a scarily accurate picture of cult danger. A charismatic preacher-type leader that was a dirtbag conman in the past that became a megalomaniacal psychopathic manipulator the moment he felt just the slightest ounce of power… People being brainwashed into obedience with strict rules and anti-intellectualism… This happens in real life all the time. This makes Belos scary. There are people like him right now in our society that prey on emotionally vulnerable to feed their ego and fanaticism.

One thing I love about Belos that Many haven't pointed out: he gets to be the main villain of the series from the beginning to the end of it. He's established as the big bad since S1, and remains as such until the finale, even after the introduction of the Collector. Many shows don't reveal the final boss before later seasons (or they reveal it but they don't establish it as the final boss until a later season).

Admit it. we all got mad when belos abuses hunter

I like how he said “The titan told me to spare The Owl Lady’s life”. Meanwhile that was just because he was tricked and didn’t want to admit it. As well as the fact that her curse has NOTHING to do with wild magic, and if anything, coven magic is to blame!

When you say " most irredeemable disney villain" your refering to shows right?

Disney filmmakers: We want to bring villains back fir Wish. But what should we do?

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Hate him as a person, respect him for his skill.

Belos progression as a character is interesting in that unlike everyone else, as they grow layers, he shed them. They get more complex, he gets simpler. He goes from Emperor Belos, to Philip Wittbane to just Belos. He hides himself behind so much but in the end, everything is stripped away and all that’s left is a decomposing monster who won’t see reality and hides in his delusions.

You know, there could be a chance that belos could still be alive.There was some goo on king foot so there could be a chance that belos is alive

Okay but did they have to make him radiate tumblr sexyman vibes under the mask?

When people talk about Disney villains, they mostly refer to Disney Canon. However, Disney villains on the small screen can be just as memorable. The heinous acts, the sinister undertones, the traits that people love to hate. What's more, unlike films, villains in shows can be around much longer, which not only gives more time for them to be fleshed out, but can help make their eventual defeat all the more satisfying after causing misery for so long.

Belos and High Evolutionary are one and the same as far as their evil nature and their motives and actions.

He also makes Thanos and Kang the Conqueror look like saints

And the best part is that he's actually not a lame irredeemable one.

King Andrias: I’m the most irredeemable villain in Disney TV History.

Belos appears: I’ll play (shows him Hollow Mind).

Andrias: Whoah. That’s more messed up than anything I ever did. And I stabbed a naive teenage girl through the chest then hooked her up to a hive mind AI.

In a realm filled with monsters the real monster was a human.

ok but imagine being an adult human with the most powerful magic like ever, and losing a mini war to a few teenagers, like 2 adults, and a DOG.

I really loved Belos as a Pure Evil villain, like if you agree?

I am so glad he got trod on

if so evil, why me wanna kiss him? checkmate liberals

Say what you want about the Owl House, good bad whatever, but you have to admit Belos is a fantastic villain.

Burn in hell Belos/Phillip

If even Belos hates Odalia then she’s really really bad

What I love about Belos is how many villain forms he takes as a character. We see him in the first season as the mysterious masked tyranical ruler, we can only guess what lures behind that mask, all we get is a blue flaming eye and mud like tentacle outbursts.
Then we see him as an older kind looking man with long hair, like some kind of wise mentor, we see him as Phillip, a 16th century chap that reminds me of Charles Darwin with long beard and the curiosity of an adventurer and a explorer. In the episode in which Luz and Hunter are in his mind we get the creepy little Horror kid trope with Belos as a child wearing a mask, then we see his mudlike straight up monster form resembling a fucked up swamp-Wendigo, which was hintet at with his outbursts, in that form he is straight up an animalistic beast, hunting its prey. Then we also see him in his for him normal clothes. He is an old man with ponytail and nice uniform from the colonial times, we see him as just an arrogant and evil but stylish and classy gentleman villain. And then his final form which I dont think we need to talk about. Belos is awesome.

Evil cyborg julian:hey

Belos is a far bigger threat to humanity then the witches: the human realm he grew up in is very different than the modern one. He would probably hate it and become obsessed with changing it back to how it was in his day, probably through extreme violence and a hostile takeover.

If I met Matthew Rhys, I think I would punch him in the face.

Body stealing? what is this guy part Majin buu?

Oh me oh my the best

If I met Matthew Rhys, I think I would punch him in the face.

Bro had a huge castle, his own personal army, wealth, respect from many, huge amounts of land under his control and he threw it all away for religion and outdated beliefs. Damn Belos/Philip were living good.

If Met Matthew Rhys, I would probably punch him in the face.

Luz: but I think you owe him something.

Belos:😨

Bluefang: Philip…. Hi it’s me the guy you let down

Belos: hey, blue, baby. Who loves you baby huh?

Bluefang: you’re going down like a 4 snail pair of socks.

Belos: me and you baby all the way heh

He's like Satan, The Anti-Christ and The Beast all rolled up into one.

i think what makes belos so compelling as a villain is how historically accurate he is in the sense how it’s easy to imagine someone like him existing in the real world. that’s why i think it’s funny when people compare him to those like bill cipher.
the difference between him and bill cipher while both are evil. bill cipher is a cosmic being with ultimate power. belos on the other hand spent literal years or well centuries to get where he’s at. not only that, he spent that whole time clinging onto his ideology when he could’ve had that whole time to change. just like how people in real life choose to hang onto theirs in the form of bigotry and spreading harmful rhetoric. i like to think belos is commentary on colonialism and modern social issues that we’ve seen in our society and continue existing today.
either way tho def one of my fav characters/villains. his writing is impeccable and you know they did a good job when like him but hate him at the same time.

That's great, when Villian is irredeemable. That means that he's truly evil

If I met Matthew Rhys, I think I would punch him in the face.

In my opinion, Belos was a little TOO hateable: there wasn't enough Justice for what he did.

Apparently I share my personality type with him sooooo

Emperor Belos is nothing more then a carbon copy and ripoff of Judge Claude Frollo at least personality wise anyway. Not to mention considering how he was portrayed and how absurdly woke this show was I am pretty sure the creator and at least some writers on the show hate men along with the fact that there are aren’t really any male main characters on the show, with the ones that do exist being minor at best . His character was such wasted potential and I find that genuinely disappointing as he had a lot of potential to be the only interesting thing about this show (I can find things interesting in shows I don’t like such as King Andrias from Amphibia) and instead they just decide to rip off Judge Claude Frollo’s personality and slap it onto him, hoping nobody would notice but it didn’t completely work as I managed to notice it at least. So shame on Dana Terrance, this is why caring more about pushing an agenda then actually making something good is a bad idea.

Oh and also , I LITTERALLY LOVE HIM SO MUCH HIS DESIGN VOICE ITS JUST SO GOOD I FUCKING LOVE VILLIANS OMG !!!