Aesop Animation: Pagano (Patreon)

And now for the main antagonist of Aesop Animation's Puss in Boots- Pagano, the shapeshifting wizard of greed and despair!

One of Aesop Animations most iconic villains of their Renaissance and the modern age, Pagano served as the primary antagonist to Constantino, Violette and Puss in Aesop's adaption of Puss in Boots. A powerful wizard and nobleman with the power to shapeshift into various forms - including a hawk, an attack dog, and an ogre - Pagano had long used these powers to maintain his wealth and nobility, and desired to marry the King's daughter Violette to achieve noble status and power over the entire kingdom. Ironically, it was Pagano's own narcissism that proved to be his own undoing when Constantino and Puss tricked him into shapeshifting into a mouse, which Puss ultimately ate. His humiliating defeat has haunted him for years and made him a prime candidate for Simon Says' acolytes. However, when the iconic Aesop villain Archfiend betrayed Simon Says and reclaimed control of his forces, Pagano proved to have been working with Archfiend all along, sharing in the Aesop Villains' distain and regards for Simon as a nobody who got lucky. For a while, he aided Archfiend's forces in tormenting Toonman and the humans, but when Simon proved himself the superior villain and killed Archfiend, Pagano was one of his loyalists who also met his doom at the hands of Simon, his own fate ironically being the same as his in the movie.

So yeah, Pagano is the Jafar of Puss in Boots, and was a servant of Archfiend all along. Many of you might remember Archfiend as the stand-in for Maleficent in the NRGVerse, who I had planned to be one of Simon's acolytes only so he could betray Simon and take control of his forces. And Pagano was one of his loyalist. I figured someone who was meant to be a stand-in for Jafar would also share in a Maleficent stand-ins disregard for Simon as a nobody toon who got lucky and want to reclaim their title of the superior villain. But ultimately, since Simon proved himself to be a true villain, Archfiend meets their end, and so does Pagano.

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