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| “ | There are things beyond your understanding that you are destined for. The ceremony WILL take place. Be ready when I get back. Remember, I'm all you have. | „ |
| ~ Queen Dagmar revealing her true nature to her daughter. |
Queen Dagmar is the main antagonist of the Disenchantment fantasy sitcom.
She is the mother of the main protagonist Bean and the first wife of King Zog. Despite initially appearing to be a benevolent figure, she quickly reveals her true nature as an abusive mass murderer out to fulfill an evil prophecy that would grant her absolute power and control of the world.
She is voiced by Sharon Horgan.
What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]
In General[]
- While Disenchantment is a comedy series with a significant amount of black comedy, Queen Dagmar is portrayed seriously in-universe as the darkest & vilest threat in the setting with her crimes are played for horror, not laughs and her laughably evil moments being rather rare.
- In the end her atrocities & the threat she poses are so vile/dangerous that Bean contemplates erasing her from existence, Luci compares the threat she poses to the endtimes & a fate worse than death, and even Satan (who is literally the personification of evil itself) is horrified by her and states how all evil in existence pales to the blackness of her soul.
- She has no redeeming qualities of any kind. She describes herself as a sociopath, admits to having never loved anyone, and mocks the concept of love itself as a waste of time. Not only does she not care for any of her family members, but she is a horrific domestic abuser towards all them, especially her daughter Bean.
Past[]
- She murdered her own parents when she was 19 and took over Maru, draining all the magic from the land & people and turning it into a barren wasteland.
- She made a deal with Hell to gain devil magic to continue terrorizing in Maru in exchange for promising the Queen of Dreamland's hand to a forced marriage with Satan for eternity.
- In one attempt to pay off the deal with Hell, she screwed the Crown of Pain onto her youngest brother Jerry's head, damaging his brain so badly that he was condemned to have the permanent mental age of a 10 year old. Afterwards, she and her siblings constantly abused him and turned him to their slave.
- She seduced and married King Zog to have a daughter Bean only to fulfill an evil Maru prophecy foretelling that a child born from the two royal families would harness the hidden magic of Dreamland Dagmar discovered, be sacrificed to pay back a debt to Hell, and restore the fame/fortune of the Maru royal family if the child could bear the Crown of Pain being screwed to their head.
- She tried to assassinate King Zog by secretly poisoning his wine glass with a petrification potion, only failing because a four year old Bean innocently switched the glasses around to reach for some grapes, causing Dagmar herself to be petrified.
Part 1[]
- Once revived by Bean, she quickly uses her beloved status and fake benevolent persona to isolate Zog's second wife Queen Oona and frame her for assassinating most of the cabinet and royal staff via petrification, forcing Oona to flee.
- She wipes out the people of Dreamland with a massive petrification tidal wave and manipulates Bean into fleeing with her while imprisoning Luci for figuring out her true nature.
- Petrification in the series is treated as death with the only possible reversal being the Elixir of Life. While the people of Dreamland are eventually revived after a couple of episodes in part 2, it is only with the immense plot impact of the elves (whose blood is needed for the elixir) getting to live in Dreamland and Dagmar's actions are still given the proper weight regardless.
Part 2[]
- She consistently gaslights Bean as she starts to become suspicious of her siblings Becky and Cloyd and works with them to prevent Bean from learning their true evil nature.
- Once Bean figures out her true evil colors, she drops any motherly act and locks her in her room to force her to get dressed for the evil prophecy ceremony.
- After Jerry is discovered to have been impersonating Bean and tries to stop them from finding her using the Oracle Fire even if it was the last thing he did, Dagmar brutally smashes his head in with a hammer to kill him, and cruelly taunts him that it was the last thing he did.
- This horrifies even her evil brother Cloyd who points out that Jerry was their youngest brother, only for Dagmar to silence him and threaten him by pointing out that now he was.
- Now that Bean knows of her true evil colors, Dagmar taunts her for her choice to use the Elixir to revive her over her best friend Elfo and not only tries to gaslight her as a selfish murderer responsible for killing Elfo, but also goads Bean to try and kill her in order to corrupt her into a monster like her.
- She tries to prevent Bean from going to Hell to rescue Elfo, which would've ensured Elfo would be condemned there for eternity, and would've succeeded if not for Jerry using the last of his strength to knock her out before succumbing to the fatal wounds Dagmar inflicted on him.
- She manipulated the Trog species into serving her by lying to them that she was their prophesized savior and ate the brains of individual Trogs as a midnight snack to gain more magic.
- She used a mysterious music box to haunt Bean in her dreams.
Part 3[]
- She only saves Bean (and technically Elfo and Luci) from being burnt at the stake by Odval's theocratic conspiracy in order to fake a redemption to win Bean's trust, but once Bean figures it out, she has her and her friends imprisoned and admits that even pretending to love Bean was exhausting and from then never even pretends to care about Bean's feelings and just treat her with sheer hatred and all manners of abuse.
- She disguises herself as a shopkeeper and sells a secretly alive/evil ventriloquist doll named Freckles to Zog and Bean in order to speed up Zog's mental collapse in order to get Bean on the throne for her own ends.
- Once Bean becomes queen, Dagmar kidnaps her in the finale so she can finally pay back her debt to Hell by sacrificing Bean to Hell in a forced marriage to Satan for eternity.
Part 4[]
- After Bean tricks her into marrying Satan and becoming Queen of Hell, she quickly pulls an eviler than thou on Satan and sidelines him with constant abuse, effectively becoming the ruler of Hell.
- She is heavily implied to have created Bad Bean to kill Bean and use her to fulfill the evil prophecy to gain the magic of Dreamland and conquer the world.
- After she figures out Bean killed Bad Bean and was impersonating her, Dagmar defeats her in combat and throws her off a balcony to drown, before finally conquering Dreamland.
- The way she coldly (seemingly) murdered her own daughter horrifies even Satan.
Part 5[]
- She revives Bad Bean and lets her kill Becky and Cloyd by burning them alive in a fireplace as they have outlived their usefulness.
- In the epic battle between Dagmar's forces and the combined resistance led by Bean, Dagmar and Bad Bean trick Bean into killing her own girlfriend Mora, causing Bean's powers to explode and not only kill Bad Bean, but almost all the remaining fighters on both sides.
- Despite this, not only does Dagmar not care about Bad Bean's death and uses it as an opportunity to escape, but she sadistically celebrates the wholesale massacre and shows no remorse, making her responsible for Bean's unintentional massacre even if it probably wasn't her initial intent.
- Mora's death also causes Bean to lose all hope and the will to fight, even when her friends warn of the horrible danger Dagmar poses if she gets the magic of Dreamland.
- She kills Luci for good by shoving down a pool of Lava, ensuring that he cannot be resurrected again.
- This is made even worse because Luci was Satan's son, which means Dagmar had killed her stepson.
- While Luci was ascended to Heaven and became a angel upon his death, this still doesn't really take the weight off of Dagmar's action, especially considering the fact that Luci will no longer be able to be with his friends, Bean and Elfo until their own death's, and father, Satan, all because of Dagmar's selfishness and cruelty.
- After gaining immortality and screwing the Crown of Pain to her head to harness the magic of Dreamland, she admits that she won't need anyone anymore and tries to kill Bean and Oona.
- Once Bean defeats her by destroying the magic of Dreamland and Dagmar is pinned down by a giant crystal, she holds onto to Elfo to kill the last of Bean's close friends and enslave him forever in Hell.
- While her final fate is comedic as Satan traps her in a cage with Freckles to be annoyed for eternity, it is mostly played for karma for all the abuse Dagmar heaped on Satan, especially since Satan manipulated her exact words of getting her out of the caves to do it, and the comedy is focused on Freckles.
Trivia[]
- She is the only Pure Evil villain in Disenchantment and by extensions, the only Matt Groening character to be Pure Evil, as none are taken quite seriously enough (with the exception of the Ei8ht version of Lisa who is tragic and cares for her brother.)
External Links[]
- Queen Dagmar on the Villains Wiki
- Queen Dagmar on the Hate Sink Wiki
- Queen Dagmar on the Disenchantment Wiki
