Maligula

Near Pure Evil
Full Name	Lucrecia Mux
Alias	Maligula Nona Aquato Lulu Lucy The Deluge of Grulovia Malugly (by Raz) Wet Wanda
Origin	Psychonauts 2
Allies	No information
Powers / Skills	Hydrokinesis Atmokinesis Shapeshifting Psychic powers Intimidation mastery
Goals	Protect Grulovia. Kill all the Psychonauts (both failed).
Moral Event Horizon	Flooding Grulovia and drowning her own family in the process. Causing massive amounts of trauma towards the Psychic Seven.
Kill Count	Hundreds
Crimes	Mass murder Terrorism Mass destruction Attempted genocide
Type of Villain	Alter-Ego Murderer

Maligula Galocchio is the main antagonist of the Psychonauts videogame series.

She’a the alter-ego of Lucrecia Mux, one of the Psychic Seven, born after a breakdown opened a primal part of her mind.

Her Evil Ranking

What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Evil?

• Taking control of Lucrecia's mind after merging with an aggressive part of the latter's brain that activated in the midst of a "flight or fight" response during a mental breakdown over Marona's death. Afterwards, she drove the Psychonaut to kill as many people as possible and destroy everything in her path.
• Callously dismissing the death of Marona, who her host cared greatly for and was absolutely devastated when she died.
• Killing Theodore's executioner by drowning him in the Gzar's pool after he was sent to dispose of her.
• Flooding the entirety of Grulovia, destroying the kingdom and killing many people.
• While fighting the Psychic Seven, she blasted Cassie in the face with water, was implied to have drowned Compton's army of bears and wolves by washing them away, reason with her, and almost killed Helmut when the latter tried to save Bob.
• Her actions had led to many of the Psychic Seven being affected even long after facing her. Including:
  • Ford shattering his own mind with the Astralathe because of his guilt for not being able to kill her, as well as developing a split personality.
  • Bob's descent into alcoholism after the supposed death of his husband (which eventually led to Truman firing him because of his skills during missions deteriorating significantly as well and Bob isolating himself further)
  • The Aquatos being "cursed" to always die in water as Ford had told them it was the only way to protect them if Maligula ever returned (which led to Raz always seeing the Hand of Galochio trying to drown him whenever he himself was near water deeper than a few inches).
  • Cassie being isolated in Green Needle Gulch and playing the role of the Green Needle Witch after her librarian archetype took over her mind, Compton placing himself in the Psychoisolation Chamber in the quarry to prevent him from being overwhelmed by his own telepathic powers.
  • Helmut losing access to his senses and being trapped in a memory of the event with nothing but vague figments of what happened.
• Upon being reawakened, she tried to drown the rest of the Psychic Seven (including Helmut while he was in Nick's/Gristol's body), Gristol in Truman's body, Hollis, Sasha, Milla, Oleander, and Norma (all of whom were in the Heptadome with Lucrecia at the time) in a hydrokinetic tornado.
• Trying to kill Raz when the latter entered her host's mind, attacked his interns with her water snakes when they arrived to assist him and even pushing Lucrecia's mental apparition (whom she specifically calls a "weakling") within her own whenever she tried to separate from her during the battle.
• In spite of expressing brief sorrow over Marona's death and cradling the latter's mental apparition tenderly in her arms, it was only because Lucrecia's apparition was merged with her rather than out of any genuine care for her. And Maligula callously brushed off Marona's death as just one person she killed once Maligula herself was seperated from Lucrecia.
• Trying to kill Raz one more time. And when he punched her into the Astralathe's pit with the help of his great-aunt enlarging him to do so and giving him fire-breathing powers, she talked down to him by stating that the young psychic "can't get rid of [her because] she is a part of [Lucrecia]" for as long as the latter lives.

What Prevents Her from Being Pure Evil?

• Because she's simply a fragment of Lucrecia's personality (who is, by contrast, a kind-hearted and heroic girl before Maligula took control), and the fact that she came into being because of Lucrecia's "flight or fight" complex having gone out of control, she has moral agency issues.
• Like her host, Lucrecia, she is genuinely tragic, giving that her entire existence can be traced back to a mental breakdown (and said mental breakdown happened after Grulovia was sent to protect her sister from a war, only to accidentally kill Marona thanks to Gzar's demands for her to become more ruthless agaisnt her opponents, and her struggles to cope with her loss. After Lucrecia was robbed of her mental defenses thanks to the Psychic Seven's experiments with the Astralathe, it allowed Maligula to usurp her host's mental power, manifesting from her grief, guilt, and fury after she failed to protect her sister.

Trivia

• She is one of the two Psychonauts villains to be Near Pure Evil, alongside Gzar Theodore Malik

External Links

• Maligula on the Villains Wiki
• Maligula on the Psychonauts Wiki
• Maligula on the Ultimate Evil Wiki