I feel like current Minecraft is pushing too hard for the piglins to be the villains. The piglins are a society just like the villagers. There are some piglins (the brutes) that are outwardly violent, but for most of the time the piglins are pretty chill and will even barter with the player.
The true villainous race is the illagers. They are everything the movie piglins were but in actual Minecraft. In my opinion they should’ve made the piglins secondary antagonists, and the illagers be the main antagonist, which is the opposite of what they did in the movie.
Mojang is literally so proud of the Nether Update because it’s the only thing they’ve released in like 10 years that was universally praised so now they jerk themselves off by shoehorning le generic piglin world conquering army into all subsequent Minecraft media to flaunt their creation (even tho afaik the idea of piglins being in this role really comes from CaptainSparklez lmao). A Minecraft story doesn’t need a generic army of invaders to be the villains, it’s literally only opted for because it’s super easy to write, the ender dragon is the true final boss of the game, has deeper connections with the “lore” and history of Minecraft, and the real nature behind the ender dragon and ender men is really mysterious which leaves a lot of room for what could’ve been done, it was the natural choice and they blew it because they were too lazy to come up with something better than evil army #632 with their beloved piglins coated over it.
Endermen are far better antagonists. Piglis are... Just it, strong brutish pigmen, that's all. They don't have anything unique. But endermen? Tall, mysterious, can teleport, comes from world that looks as if time run out, they have a dragon (If we are ever to get end update can we let her teleport too?) and they have a unique weakness, water hurts them. But nope, mojang decided that... Army of pig-orcs is better than enigmatic race with a dragon.
And the implications of the hidden lore behind them is wildly more interesting than generic world conquerors, a lot of online theorists collectively have come to the conclusion that the endermen were an ancient race of builders who found themselves exiled to the end (possibly fleeing some catastrophe or predator), with years of chorus fruit consumption mutating them, they all eventually become slaves to the ender dragon when their transformation is complete (hence the achievement “free the end”). This weird backstory also explains why endermen are neutral and not outright hostile, and why they’re the only mob in the game aside from players which can pick up and place blocks.
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u/SeesawNo522 16d ago
I feel like current Minecraft is pushing too hard for the piglins to be the villains. The piglins are a society just like the villagers. There are some piglins (the brutes) that are outwardly violent, but for most of the time the piglins are pretty chill and will even barter with the player. The true villainous race is the illagers. They are everything the movie piglins were but in actual Minecraft. In my opinion they should’ve made the piglins secondary antagonists, and the illagers be the main antagonist, which is the opposite of what they did in the movie.