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| “ | Be blind. | „ |
| ~ Salacia to Ravenwood as brutally kills him for his insubordination. |
| “ | Don't you know? Only a god can kill a god. | „ |
| ~ Salacia's ironic last words to Dethklok before being eaten by the Whale Prophet. |
Mr. Salacia is the overarching antagonist of Metalocalypse and Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem as well the main antagonist in Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar. He is the leader of The Tribunal who plans bring about the Metalocalypse, a cataclysmic event that would allow him to achieve his ultimate form.
He was voiced by Mark Hamil who is best known for voicing The Joker in various Batman media, Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and many others.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- After losing most of his powers during his time on Earth, he began scheming to create a ritual called the Great Reuniting to draw his four missing souls from his world to regain his true form. To this end, he began to manipulate many influential and powerful people throughout history to gather the resources he needs to carry out his plan, eventually creating the Tribunal.
- Through the Tribunal, he would try to suppress the creativity and imagination of the world's population as a way to control them.
- He and the Tribunal would spend much of the show spying on Dethklok and attempting to subtly suppress their growing influence over the people, not out of worry over their destructive antics and the carnage their concerts cause, but because he doesn't want them to inspire anyone.
- Although he refused to kill them at General Crozier and Cardinal Ravenwood's urging, this is because he needed them alive for the Great Reuniting, since the band is prophesied to inherit power from the Doomstar that he needs to reopen the portal to his world.
- When Ravenwood and Crozier disobeyed his orders and tried to kill Dethklok, he used his abilities to decapitate their soldiers and murder Ravenwood in a painful way, gouging his eyes out, ripping out his intestines and strangling him to death with them. While he merely knocked Crozier out, this is because he needs the general's position in the US military for his plan.
- It's implied that he caused the death of Liz Bane by manipulating Dethklok's tablet like satellite to block the path of an incoming comet, causing a piece of it to break off and crash into her car, killing her. This is supported by his face briefly appearing on the screen of the tablet before it collides with the comet. While Liz Bane is a mass murdering cult leader, Salacia only killed her to save Dethklok to salvage his plans, not out of disgust for her actions.
- After Crozier attempted to save Charles Offdensen from the Revengencers, he appears before the general and completely brainwashes him by showing him visions of the Metalocalypse. Afterwards, he would have Crozier use the military's resources to build a superconductor dubbed "FalconBreak", which he would use to pull the Doomstar to Earth in preparation, despite knowing full well that the stars extreme radiation and heat would wipe out all life on the planet.
- When Dethklok was preparing to breakup after performing one last concert, he appeared to them in person and used his powers to kill many members of the audience. When Roy Cornickleson stepped in to stop him from hurting the band, he levitated him into the air and slowly crushed him to death with his telekinesis, despite Roy not posing a threat to him.
- Posing as a Revengencer during the events of "Doomstar Requiem", he poisons William Murderface with his power to make him vulnerable to his corruption.
- When Crozier briefly regains control of himself and attempts to have one of his soldiers deliver a message to his family warning the world about Salacia's plans, he has Vater Orlaag kill the soldier before capturing Crozier to repossess him. He then warns the general not to take advantage of his "kindness".
- He orders Orlaag to find the prophesied Army of the Doomstar and destroy it, while also promising to let him kill Charles as a reward.
- He mentally tortures Murderface and eventually possesses him completely. He then makes him sabotage Nathan Explosions attempts to write the Song of Salvation, diminishing his confidence by tricking him into reading the harsh criticisms the press has said about him following Abigails rejecting his marriage proposal. He also makes him find the underground hideout of the Klokateers, which he mistakes for the Army of the Doomstar, before painfully ripping the hideout's location out of Murderfaces mind.
- Because of his manipulations, Nathan ends up writing the nihilistic song "Aortic Desecration", which causes the band to unwittingly trigger the Metalocalypse and cause the Doomstar's radiation to rain down on the world and devastate all of civilization, causing millions of deaths. This also has the effect of slowly terraforming the Earth. Salacia watches this carnage from the screens in his hideout with no remorse.
- He sends Crozier and Orlaag to attack Dick Knubblers monastery, killing Knubbler and all of the Klokateers stationed there.
- He possesses Murderface again and forces him to run away from his friends, all the while sadistically taunting him for helping enable the apocalypse and getting Knubbler killed. When the band exorcise Salacia from Murderface, it came at the risk of almost killing him.
- He has Orlaag shoot down the bands flying stage to stop them from singing the Song of Salvation. He then has him capture them in preparation for the Great Reuniting.
- He offers to let Nathan join him, but only because he believes Nathan will be useful to him. When Nathan refuses, Salacia labels him "mentally inept" out of spite before declaring his intention to make Nathan immortal and crucify him in a state of eternal suffering for no reason other than sadism.
- Although the band are permitted a last meal before their execution, it's never confirmed if it was Salacia who permitted this and was likely fulfilled by a guard.
- He begins draining the band of the Dethlites (the powers granted to them by the Doomstar) to open a portal in the Doomstar to his home world, which is shown to be painful to them. Additionally, the summoning of his four missing souls causes Senator Stampingston to explode and his worshippers to be incinerated, which Salacia doesn't acknowledge or show remorse for despite the senator's loyalty.
- After restoring himself to his true form, he kills the rebelling US military forces before trying to kill Dethklok and their allies one final time.
- He was preparing to bring the rest of his kind to Earth through the Doomstar portal to conquer the world and remake it in his image, while also killing off the remnants of humanity. With Crozier referring to his species as Salacia's reinforcements, it's doubtful he truly cares for them and only sees them as an army to aid him in his conquest.
- He never cared for the Tribunal, only using them to regain his full power and would likely have let them all die with the rest of the human race once he was done using them.
- He's never once implied to suffer from a lack of moral agency despite his eldritch nature and is shown completely understand right and wrong.
- Even though he was part of a few comedic moments with the Tribunal, mainly with their obsessive fixation on every single activity by Dethklok regardless of how ridiculous the topic in question was, on an individual level he's taken completely seriously by both the narrative and his plot to destroy the world with the Doomstar is played for drama and horror.
- Despite the shows high heinous standard, he easily stands out due to performing a number of extremely brutal murders and with his plan to usher in the titular Metalocalypse and destroy humanity to regain his full power and remake the world in his image.
External Links[]
- Mr. Salacia on the Villains Wiki
- Mr. Salacia on the Metalocalypse Wiki
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