| “ | "Oh, let's play a game!", they said. "Let's play hide and seek! You go down there and see if the Titans wanna play!" So I played, and it was great! The baby Titans were the cutest, just like King! And they were all so welcoming! But the Archivists were scared of their power. So one by one, they disappeared, until there was one Titan left. | „ |
| ~ The Collector explaining what the Archivists did to him and the Titans. |
The Archivists are the overarching antagonists of the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House. They are a quartet of the ancient Collectors. They sent their younger brother down to the Demon Realm to meet the Titans only to kill them all out of fear of being overthrown by them.
Their Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Them Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- They likely participated in the rest of their species' actions of "preserving" creatures across the universe by turning them into curses, as while it isn't confirmed that they did so by the show proper, the fact that they're titled "Archivists" and the Collector said “the Archivists aren’t here, they couldn't have taken her” after Luz dies temporarily both support this idea.
- They sent their younger brother, the Collector, down to the Demon Realm and made him think they were playing Hide-and-Seek, telling him to see if the Titan inhabitants of the planet wanted to "play".
- It's implied that their initial request to the Collector was done as a way of abandoning him or even getting him killed by the Titans.
- When the Collector befriended the baby Titans, the Archivists slaughtered them and likely their parents because they feared the Titans' ability to negate the Collectors' own powers.
- Their genocide of the Titans resulted in the Boiling Isles Titan wrongly believing that the Collector was responsible for killing the rest of his kind, and trapping him inside a prison of perpetual solitude for thousands of years, kickstarting the rest of the series' events as a result.
- Unlike Belos, who had genuinely redeeming qualities that he shed over time, the Archivists are not presented as having any to begin with.
What Prevents Them from Being Pure Evil?[]
- Due to not making any physical appearance in the series, they have insufficient characterization. However, considering their likely fake cordiality towards the Collector and their described fear of the Titans, they have enough characterization to avoid being Generic Doomsday Villains.
Trivia[]
- Because Dara Terrace is open to continue the series in the future, if Disney lets her continue, it's likely they may make their first physical appearance as antagonists (since Belos is now dead) and it could affect their status eventually.
External Links[]
- The Archivists on the Villains Wiki
- The Archivists on the The Ultimate Evil Wiki
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