| “ | Balthazar: We once fought together Maxim. Horvath: A lot's happened since those days. Balthazar: This isn't about that. Horvath: Oh yes it is Balthazar. It's always been about that. Veronica chose you over me, the great Balthazar Blake.... my best friend. Well, I'm going to let you watch me release Morgana. Let you watch your world crumble into nothing! |
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| ~ Horvath admitting to Balthazar that he betrayed him, Veronica and Merlin to join Morgana and help her use a spell that will ultimately kill off much of humanity and allow her to enslave what's left all because Veronica chose Balthazar over him. |
| “ | Abigail Williams: Now that I have kidnapped the girl for you, is it time to release Morgana? Horvath: I'll give her your regards. Abigail Williams: Mr. Horvath, have I done something wrong? Horvath: [After using the Parasite Spell] Not at all. I need your power to free Morgana. I just don't need you. |
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| ~ Horvath betrays and kills Abigail. |
Maxim Horvath is the secondary antagonist of the 2010 Disney action fantasy film The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
He was portrayed by Alfred Molina, who also voiced Ke-Pa in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the On Her Majesty's Secret Service radio drama adaptation, Destiny in Justice League Dark, Lasombra in Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie and Mictlan in Maya and the Three.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- While he initially fought on the side of good, he betrayed his allies once Veronica fell in love with Balthazar. Out of jealously that Veronica chose Balthazar over him, Horvath allied himself with Merlin's deadliest enemy, Morgana le Fay.
- He directly betrays Merlin during his fight with Morgana by freeing the latter from her restraints and allowing her to fatally stab Merlin in the chest—making Horvath responsible for Merlin's death.
- He assisted Morgana in acquiring a spell called The Rising, a Necromancy spell that would raise an army of her dead followers and allow Morgana to enslave humanity.
- Upon accidentally being freed from the Grimhold by Dave, he asks Dave "when am I?". When Dave (a 9 year old at the time) misinterprets the question as "where am I?" and tells him his current location instead of what year it is, Horvath gets angry and threateningly aims his glowing staff at Dave simply for "wasting his time", and it is near-guaranteed that he would have harmed Dave had Balthazar not intervened.
- He attempts to kill Balthazar before him and the latter are imprisoned in the Grimlock for 10 years.
- Upon being freed from the Grimlock, he attempts to kill Balthazar by pushing the Grimlock (which Balthazar was still inside of) out a window and having it smash into pieces on the street, although Balthazar managed to free himself right before it hit the ground.
- He tracks down Dave and threatens him with torture unless he reveals the location of the Grimhold. When Dave answers honestly that he doesn't know where it is, Horvath attempts to kill Dave by manifesting a pack of wolves from a photograph and ordering them to maul him to death.
- He kills a random belligerent driver just for honking at and being rude to him by sending a couple of knives through his windshield and impaling him, then continuing on his way like nothing happened.
- It's strongly implied he killed the Chinese lady who owned a shop in Chinatown that found the Grimhold, since he impersonates her when Balthazar arrives to trick him into letting his guard down, and the real lady is never seen.
- He ambushes Dave in a bathroom and tells him that he is going to kill him, but not before Dave reveals the Grimhold's location, and he fully intended to go through with this had Balthazar not intervened.
- When stealing back the Grimhold, he tries to kill Balthazar by impaling him with several knives, only to be stopped by Dave.
- He traps Balthazar and Dave in the Hungarian Mirror Trap as payback for Balthazar doing the same to him earlier and smashes all their exits in an attempt to prevent them from escaping—though the two manage to escape by driving through a falling portion of one of the smashed exits.
- He attempts to crush Balthazar and Dave with a garbage truck.
- After they stole back the Grimhold from Balthazar, Horvath revealed to Drake Stone that he needs more power to be able to free Morgana. Without warning, he then uses the Parasite Spell to kill Drake and steal his energy to free Abigail Williams. All the while, he berates Drake's "misusage" of sorcery to achieve fame.
- He tasks Abigail to kidnap Dave's girlfriend, Becky, and use her as a hostage.
- Once Abigail returns with Becky, Horvath betrays Abigail as well by using the Parasite Spell to steal her energy. He then coldly remarks to her body "I need your power to free Morgana. I just don't need you."
- He traps Balthazar in a Persian Quickrug.
- He threatens to kill Becky by grounding her into chunks and feeding her to a cat unless Dave relinquishes Merlin's dragon ring to him. Once Dave concedes the ring, Horvath taunts Dave after scaring them by shooting an energy blast near them.
- While he did not kill them, it's heavily implied Horvath didn't see Dave as a threat anymore without Merlin's ring and only spared him out of arrogance. There's also the fact that they would most likely die anyway once Morgana was released.
- He releases Morgana from the Grimhold and allows her to commence The Rising.
- While it is implied he had some form of connection towards Balthazar and Veronica, he easily subverts any affection he may have had:
- Horvath subverts his "friendship" with Balthazar when he betrays Merlin and attempts to kill Balthazar for centuries, solely because Veronica fell in love with him.
- While he does confess he loved Veronica, it's heavily implied to be superficial. Despite knowing Veronica's intentions to fight Morgana, Horvath does nothing to oppose Morgana's plans to use The Rising. Furthermore, he allows Morgana to possess Veronica's body in order to complete the spell.
- His partnership with the Morganians is solely professional. Horvath shows no fondness for any of them nor any grief when they die, only viewing them as tools to free Morgana. Even his loyalty to Morgana is disingenuous as it is rooted from spite towards Balthazar having Veronica fall in love with him rather than genuine belief in Morgana's cause.
- Although he has a few comedic lines and one comedic moment, they do not diminish the threat he is. The story still treats him very seriously and none of the characters laugh at him.
External Links[]
- Maxim Horvath on the Villains Wiki
- Maxim Horvath on the Disney Wiki
