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| “ | People are either weak or strong. The strong rule and the weak die. My mother was weak, and I'm not gonna be like her! The Gift will make sure of that. | „ |
| ~ M.K.'s cynical personality. |
M.K. is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside The Widow) of the AMC series Into the Badlands.
He is a boy known as a Dark One, meaning he has supernatural abilities known as the Gift. Throughout the series, many people including the Widow, Baron Quinn, and the Master all try to use M.K. for his Gift, and this ultimately leads him to becoming a villainous character that joins Pilgrim, a false messiah who desires to take the entire world by conquest and kill anyone who is not a Dark One.
He was portrayed by Aramis Knight.
What Makes Him a Base Breaking Character?[]
What Do People Like About Him?[]
- He is perhaps the best written character in the entire series, going on a journey from a normal boy who happens to the have the Gift, then being imprisoned and repeatedly mistreated by several characters until he eventually becomes a villainous character with a tragic ending.
- Prior to his villainous turn, he is one of the few truly heroic characters in the series, trying to find Azra not so that he can rule as a Dark One but rather to take his allies there so they can all be safe.
- Even after other Dark Ones become present in the series it is made clear several times that M.K.'s is exceptionally powerful, and after he discovers how to use it at will he becomes nearly unbeatable even by most other Dark Ones, giving him many Evil is Cool actions sequences.
- Due to the Evil vs. Evil nature of the series, many of the people M.K. kills are also villains themselves, and thus is can be quite satisfying to see him carry out vengeance on the people who have wronged him, such as when he instantly overpowers the Widow and kills the Master.
- He has a terrifying presence in the final episodes, especially after his face is burned, becoming an intimidating villain who requires multiple skilled warriors to even stand a chance against.
What Do People Dislike About Him?[]
- His villainous turn is seen as hypocritical. While him hating the Widow and the Master is completely justified, he despises Sunny for having killed his mother years ago. M.K. being upset about this is fine, but he wants to kill Sunny for revenge, even though by this point M.K. has joined Pilgrim's following and is willing to kill in his name, making him a massive hypocrite because by killing Sunny he will be making Sunny's son Henry into an orphan, and many of the members of Pilgrim's following have killed innocent people and created orphans just like Sunny.
- While you aren't supposed to like him after he becomes a villainous character, he is notably written to be a lot more hatable than other major villains in the series such as Quinn or Pilgrim himself, both of whom are far more evil than M.K. yet are often a lot more entertaining in the way the series portrays them whereas M.K. is pretty much only portrayed as bloodthirsty psychopath.
- His final battle in the series essentially has him get demoted to be a secondary villain to Pilgrim, where he fatally wounds Tilda, the one person who still cares about him, and proceeds to drop his swords in shock. The pain of losing Tilda causes the Widow's Gift to activate and she proceeds to kill M.K. for revenge, but this isn't really a satisfying death for M.K. because the Widow is one of the people who hurt him the most, so it doesn't seem fitting for her to be the one who killed him, and the only reason she won is because he didn't even try to fight back, so he doesn't even get a satisfying defeat.
External Links[]
- M.K. on the Villains Wiki
- M.K. on the Heroes Wiki
- M.K. on the Into the Badlands Wiki
- M.K. on the Villainous Benchmark Wiki
- M.K. on the Heroic Benchmark Wiki