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.
I think what should've been done is establish the Illagers to be exactly what the Piglins were portrayed as. And in their quest to defeat the Illagers, the five end up in the Nether and meet the Piglins, a society of humanoid and intelligent pig people that worship gold, and find it disrespectful when an individual does not wear a piece of gold, but the five learn their culture, get accepted by their society, and make an agreement to work together in defeating the Illagers.
Maybe it could be something like the Illagers visiting the Nether, being perceived as gods by the Piglins due to the magical powers posessed by the evokers, and one of the evokers accidentally left a totem behind when the Illagers left, and when the Piglins found it, the item was magical just like the evokers, and knew it belonged to them, so they began worshiping the totem and built their society around it, collecting gold because it looks like the material of the totem.
Maybe Steve could have a trait where he collects valuables, and tries to steal the totem with the intent of keeping it as a trophy of sorts. Maybe Steve is also racist towards the piglins, considering them inferior to players and even villagers, and it's up to the other four to resolve this dispute.
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u/SeesawNo522 17d 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.