Some incomprehensible choices of fate from the MCC 25 Pink Parrots!
Wilbur streaming from a warehouse loading bay. The acoustics in the loading bay are atrocious. He lives here now.
The skins! Socket eyes for everyone! They look adorable! (aside from Wilbur)
"Your accent is silly." -Wilbur to Scott, preceding a straight up 30 second long argument over how to pronounce "Grian"
"You are a ridiculous gentleman." -Wilbur
Connor joining to sports vet the players and make sure Scott isn't cheating
Wilbur proposing Connor bet money on him placing 40th
"Are you going to be weak to my shenanigans?" -Wilbur after Grian tells him he's "a tired boy", followed by ABSOLUTE GLEE when Grian elaborates that he might cross the threshold to "silly tired"
Scott asking if looking at Punz in a crop top would push him over the threshold, and Grian snapping back "I think that would wake me up."
"He's always right-back-ing, that guy." -Wilbur about Grian
Wilbur deciding not to vote because "you can't force fate", and Scott and Grian threateningly surrounding him with their vacant socket eyes
"The downfall of humanity happened when we decided we should be influenced by the things we create!" -Wilbur, going on an unhinged yet beautiful rant about THE SYSTEM and EGGS
"I'm going to be the healer, because I'm gay." -Scott
"That's not true! I play healer in WOW all the time, and I'm straight!" -Wilbur
"Wilbur, I'm sorry to break it you, but..." -Scott
"Battle Box makes me feel like I'm always being picked last on the dodgebolt team." -Wilbur
Wilbur SCREECHING "Jojosolos!" in the shrillest possible voice before being BODIED by her
Desertduo...fighting...this feels so wrong...
Grian killing Pete and wondering if he'll be proud of him
Wilbur talking about DND and Grian mentioning how he played once, and was never invited back
Wilbur then inviting him to play with him and Scott, completely undeterred with the warning that he's an "absolute menace"
"I can't nap, I don't like naps." -Scott
"You've never had a good nap, then." -Phil
Wilbur having an internal crisis over having to fight his dear, beloved Ranboo
"Maybe I need to play MCC from liminal places more often!" -Wilbur
"There, by the grace of god, goes Grian!" -Wilbur
Wilbur talking about how he used to have. just Grian. as his skin
WEIRD DUNK.
Wilbur walking up to Scott, and very seriously asking if he's ever played Club Penguin
"You just want to be Mr. Beast in Minecraft." -Phil
"I want to be Mr. Rock Hopper!" -Wilbur
Wilbur going between his Nook and Cranny in the MD waiting room
"I may have fell asleep." -Grian after the whole team got wiped 10 seconds in
Grian calling Wilbur's tones "dulcet", Wilbur buffering on the definition for a second, and then remembering he used that word in a song
Scott finishing 40th to Grian's 39th, and Grian considering "maybe he doesn't cheat..."
Phil singing a little song about following Scott as he follows Scott
"I'm sad, the sea's too cold to swim now." -Wilbur
Him and Phil arguing over whether he should wear a wetsuit instead
Them making plans to play Raft in real life, and Scott assisting by saying he'll release The Shark (Sharkie Evans) ((we love her))
"Ay Grian, are you awake?" -Wilbur
"Uh." -Grian
Scar's team being their downfall twice throughout the rounds
"I've had a club sandwich, and it's not sitting right." -Wilbur
Grian asking what a club sandwich is, and Wilbur delightedly explaining it to him
Grian NOT being sold on the idea that a club sandwich could be better than a jam sandwich
"This is Green's game. Scar's going to tell me later how proud he is." -Grian
Scott saying he counts his coins meticulously every night, and Grian adding he gives them a lil kiss and tucks them into bed
Grian and Wilbur lamenting over not getting the ~fabulous~ pride coin, with Grian talking about how he sometimes wake up "in a cold sweat" thinking about it
"The gays stay winning! We might have the same rights as everyone else, but we do have a SICK coin!" -Scott
Grian asking Phil to get high for him in GR, and both Phil and Wilbur being VERY down for that
Wilbur crying out that the chickens aren't beasts, they're friends!
The builders absolutely wrecking shop during the Beach Bridge room
Wilbur and Grian planning out his bedtime routine to kick in during the break
Wilbur and Scott arguing over whether it's cocky for him to say people will be sad when he dies, beginning a minutes-long discussion over the circumstances of his death
Wilbur dubbing Phil Team Captain ten seconds before SG starts
"Phil, you are H&M. You've just equipped me." -Wilbur
Phil having to shop around the map in order to find shoes his size
Wilbur proposing that they have an MCC where everyone's parents play, and Grian calling him out that he just wants to meet Grian's mother
Grian taking a nap during the break and leaving his chat in the fumbling? capable? hands of Wilbur
Wilbur becoming even more incomprehensible during this period, and Grian coming back with the most disappointed "I trusted you."
Wilbur trying to encourage free thinking in the chat after an era of Dream and Tommy supremacy
Wilbur desperately attempting to shoo off the swarm of fans that joined during AR because "the bit is over, man!"
Wilbur just. continuing this fight with his chat over AR the entire way through
"I can't let Tim beat me." -Grian
Grian frustratedly saying he's angy tired now, and Wilbur going into an excruciating bit of baby talking through a scenario of giving Grian milk, comfort, and NOT rice cakes (that'll keep him up all night)
Wilbur telling Grian to talk as rapidly as he could in order to enter silly mode, allowing us to learn that Grian's favorite animal is the seal and his least favorite color is Wilbur's shirt
"Me when. Don't ask me about the antithesis of yeah." -Wilbur when he dies in HITW
Scott and Wilbur talking about "intimate stories" they talked about in private
"Grian and I's DMs are not filled with explicit material." -Wilbur (why)
"That you know of." -GRIAN??????
Phil swearing during the last round and Grian saying that he racked up 2 so far (he's been keeping tabs)
Scott and Wilbur talking about "smooth" and "crunchy" colors
Wilbur going on ANOTHER rant about the nature of the universe, and how they are the universe-, and Grian just defeaning
Phil's chat continuously in agony over Wilbur "Wilburing"
"It's when you wave your hands like you're explaining something, but sped up." -Phil
"I think I might come dead last this time. Sleep's important guys." -Grian during TGTTOS
Wilbur and Phil discovering that the chicken is a drone in the decision dome map
Wilbur getting one half of a Swear Point for saying "Fu-!"
Phil ranting desperately in justification over his decision to punch Scar off
"It's punch or be punched in this world!" -Phil
Allll the betrayal during the Shallow Lava map
Wilbur sharing a story about how one time, when he was a kid, a teacher said he was "too creative"
The ABSOLUTE SIN of PKT being chosen over SOT. Someone will pay for this.
Grian and Phil going into a horrendous bit about Wilbur peeing all over the warehouse in order to assert his dominance over his territory
"Did I wash my hands? No I didn't. No I didn't chat." -Wilbur
The ongoing theme of LET FATE DECIDE continuing in their decision to let the game choose the hunter in PKT
Phil screaming in increasingly high decibels as he narrowly escapes death over and over again
Wilbur patenting the Phil Claws™
Grian now owing Wilbur a non-tired game, as he once fell asleep during his Wilburing
Wilbur saying he can take a nap during DB, there's nothing keeping him here, and Grian hitting him with the cute curveball of "you're here! :D"
Wilbur's chat spamming "hot guy" and him confusedly asking about it
"Scar's a hot guy." -Grian
Grian asking Wilbur to commentate this like a golf game, and him obliging in his own Wilbur way
Lizzie and Scott actively cheering against Joel
Things getting UNHINGED. THERE'S A KEYBOARD SALESMAN NOW?? WHAT???
GREEN WINS! THE TRUE ENDING!!
Wilbur and Scott fighting over whether he gets McDonald's
Pink Parrots finished MCC 25 in 10th place!
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SWK being so flawed is like one of LMK's strongest bits. I feel like a different show would just have him be infallible or have him be like a twist villain or irredeemable or something. But he's neither of those, he's just incredibly flawed. It's also interesting that even though Mei and Pigsy are critical of him, they're still shown to care about him.
All in all, hes a more complicated character than people give him credit for :/
I 100% agree!
Honestly, if Sun Wukong wasn't flawed I'd find him a bit boring. You remove his flaws and you remove the meat of his character. Even all the way back in season 1 you get the feeling he's withholding information and concealing his past ("Show me the real Sun Wukong! The old you would have leveled this whole mountain range to stop me!"), and that only becomes more and more prevalent as the show goes on.
Wukong is first introduced as a hero, as the King who defended the world from DBK. Next he's introduced as a mentor, planning to make MK his successor (which I think is pretty debatable at this point, as I've said I personally think he just needed an excuse to train MK).
Slowly we learn SWK is pretty terrible at both of those things. He's not the hero or mentor anyone thought he would be—he's not even the mentor he thought he would be:
Macaque: “Haha, you saw a story about a hero who got handed everything, who didn’t have to work for anything, and you thought you were the other guy? The second the hero got real power, he couldn’t care less about his friends.” [ - ] "You know, I meant what I said—you really are a good kid. A good kid, with a really terrible teacher." (2x07 Shadow Play)
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Pigsy: "Back from what? Your vacation? No- what could have been SO important you'd leave MK alone to face that- that thing! You're supposed to be his mentor!" (2x10 This is the End!)
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Sun Wukong: "I know I can never make it up to you. Honestly I- I never thought I'd live as long as I have let alone be someone's mentor—turns out I'm not very good at it. I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm sorry MK, for all of it." (3x14 Destiny Fulfilled)
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(he's staring sadly at a bowl of soup, never a good sign.)
s1 of Monkie Kid, as well as the Revenge of the Spider Queen special, establish a baseline. We meet Wukong as we're meant to know him—the legendary yet cheeky hero. Now that he's retired, Monkey King is training the next generation to protect the world and be the heroes in his place.
Right?
Well, just like our perception of Wukong, our perception of the role of the hero slowly degrades as well:
Lady Bone Demon: “Heroes? Please, you’re mere agents of chaos, the very thing I aspire to eradicate in this new world. No more destruction, no more disorder, I WILL HAVE PERFECTION.” (3x12 The Corrupted King)
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Curse MK: "We’re just like Wukong. A fraud! A trickster! Destructive! Why would our legacy be any different? Actually, no no- the chaos and destruction we’ll bring upon the world will make Wukong’s past look like nothing." (4x07 Pitiful Creatures)
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MK: "That can't be true! Monkey King's a hero he wouldn't just—"
Azure Lion: "You saw it with your own eyes! His betrayal, his brutality—he took the only friends I had from me." (4x08 The Brotherhood)
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Heroes aren't people fighting for the side of good, or even for what they think is right—they're agents of chaos. Destructive. "All doomed to play a role in tearing this world apart." Heroes are introduced as one thing, and then slowly revealed to be another.
Heroes, just like Wukong and anyone else, are flawed. They still make wrong choices. They still hurt people. Of course Wukong isn't a twist villain or irredeemable, because ultimately he IS a hero with plenty of the positive traits that come with that. But heroes are also flawed, and this is something I think is at the core of Lego Monkie Kid.
You can love someone, and that someone can do plenty of good, but that doesn't mean they're not broken, or that they aren't capable of causing suffering. This isn't something that only applies to Wukong either—pick any character and I'm sure you could apply this to them.
Now, all this to say that Wukong's two fatal flaws are his lack of communication and his self-sacrificial tendencies. Like Azure Lion says—he has a habit of keeping people at arms length, and more often than not doing that to protect them. These tendencies lead to his downfall.
So! Let's make some lists of where we see these flaws in the show.
Wukong's lack of Communication:
"Look, I'm going to come clean—um, I've been kind of watching you."
Leaving MK and lying to him during s2 (this includes lying about both going on vacation AND that LBD had returned)
Keeping his plan to stop LBD a secret during s3
"Where I got my staff!" "Got or took, right? You took it?"
Not telling the gang about the 4th ring
Other lies I'm sure have yet to be revealed (such as the truth about MK's origins, if that's the direction the plot's going)
Him and Macaque's past
Wukong's Self-sacrificial tendencies:
Leaving during s2 to find a way to stop LBD on his own
"What!? You're not going I'm going!" "Yeah so, here's the problem, you guys have this thing called mortality, so-"
Gravely injuring himself to get the samadhi fire Map
Blocking the brunt of the samadhi fire to protect MK in 3x10
Originally planning to put the Samadhi Fire in himself
Going off to fight the Lady Bone Demon alone
Protecting MK from the curse in 4x01
(and this post here that travels into theory territory)
Now, most, if not all, of these decisions lead to something bad happening. It's very in line with MK's words in 4x08:
MK: It doesn’t matter if I want to help people or not! Everything I do just- it just makes things worse!”
Wukong, even if he has a very questionable way of going about it, is truly motivated by protecting the people he cares about. However, these choices also hurt those same people. Not to reference samadhi fire Mei another time, but this is EXACTLY what she points out:
Mei: "We trusted you! All of us! How could you lead us into the fight without a real plan? Time and time again I've watched you put MK in danger leaving him to figure out EVERYTHING on his own. Don't you realize you're hurting the people who care about you the most?" (3x10 The Samadhi Fire)
But that's the point, isn't it? Even with all these flaws and after all these mistakes, Wukong still tries (he's very much like Mei in that regard):
Sun Wukong: “Point is, mistakes happen, but so long as you leave the world in better shape than you found it, then it’s all good. Right?” (4x01 Familiar Tales)
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Sun Wukong: “We can’t change who we were yesterday or in a past life, or a hundred life times ago! We live with the choices we’ve made, for what matter is the choices we make RIGHT NOW! Only we decide who we are and what we do with the power we have.” (4x07 Pitiful Creatures)
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This is who Wukong is. He's not a hero or a mentor, but he's someone who cares (and maybe that's what a hero is). That's the tragedy of his character, really. That's the tragedy of both him and MK. They're people doing the best with what they have, but still failing anyways.
"Nice hero speech bud, but I know better—deep in your hearts, you don't believe a word of that."
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But people still love you anyways.
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