Disenchantment season 5's ending wrapped up the stories of Bean, Dagmar, Luci, and Elfo, but what happened to the Netflix show's heroes and villains?
Warning: Spoilers ahead for Disenchantment season 5.
Summary
- Disenchantment surprised viewers with its serialized storyline, departing from the episodic sitcom format of The Simpsons and Futurama.
- The show's finale provided closure to Bean's battle with her mother, Dagmar, as Bean defeated her and saved the day.
- Bean's decision to give up being queen and pursue a peaceful life with her love interest, Mora, was a fitting ending for her character who always shirked responsibility.
Disenchantment season 5 might mark the end of Netflix's cartoon comedy, but the fantasy show’s ending wrapped up most of its lingering plot threads and answered many major questions that were left open-ended in earlier seasons. When Disenchantment first arrived in 2018, viewers expected that the series would be a fantasy spin on the formula seen in The Simpsons and Futurama. Since Disenchantment shared an animation style and a creative team with those earlier hits, it seemed likely the Netflix series would be another episodic sitcom that parodied genre tropes in a series of standalone outings.
However, Disenchantment surprised viewers when the show turned out to be serialized. From season 1, Disenchantment developed an intricate plot that grew more complicated with each outing. Each season ended on a cliffhanger, with Disenchantment season 4’s ending leaving its heroes in a hopeless situation. This was a departure from the style of Futurama and The Simpsons, which mostly return to their status quo at the end of each episode. However, this also allowed Disenchantment to tell more ambitious stories, including Queen Bean’s long and complex battle with her mother, Dagmar.
How Bean Defeated Dagmar In Disenchantment’s Ending
Dagmar wanted to take over Dreamland, and this forced Bean and her friends to repeatedly fight her mother. Dagmar used her daughter’s alter-ego, Bad Bean, to temporarily defeat her in Disenchantment season 4. Although Bean survived that encounter, she was once again bested by Bad Bean during Disenchantment season 5’s ending. Bad Bean tricked Bean into accidentally killing her love interest, Mora, which sent Bean spiraling. Luckily, Luci got God to revive Mora, and Bean's hope returned with her. Her strength now redoubled, Bean followed Dagmar into the tunnels beneath her castle. There, she found her mother attempting a ritual that would grant her immortality.
Unlike Disenchantment’s disappointing season 4, the show’s finale gave Bean’s long-running battle with Dagmar some closure. Bean chased Dagmar into caves deep beneath the castle, but her mother anticipated many of her moves. Dagmar successfully removed her brain from her body, thus almost becoming immortal. However, at a pivotal moment, Bean stabbed Dagmar with a stalagmite as the cave collapsed around them. Although Dagmar’s former love interest, Satan, seemingly saved her, she was powerless and likely doomed to an eternity in Hell. Bean won the fight, but Bean’s victory was only possible because of the help she got from an old friend.
What The Prophecy In Disenchantment Part 5 Meant
For numerous seasons, Disenchantment has teased an all-important prophecy that revolved around Bean’s predestined fate. This prophecy was finally revealed in Disenchantment season 5, when Bean traveled to Maru with her father. The prophecy was as dramatic as viewers hoped, as it warned Bean that she would hurt a loved one in her quest for justice. While the nature of the prophecy finally explained one of Disenchantment’s biggest unanswered questions, Bean didn’t understand its true meaning until it was too late.
Bean assumed that the prophecy referred to her mother, who she cared about but knew she was fated to kill. Later in Disenchantment season 5, this idea tortured Bean psychologically, and she briefly ended up in an asylum populated by inmates who committed matricide. Since Bean had good reason to kill her mother, she knew she would still need to take down Dagmar. However, the prophecy wasn't referring to Dagmar after all. In reality, the loved one that the prophecy alluded to was Bean’s mermaid love interest, Mora. Bean unintentionally caused Mora's death while fighting Dagmar, although this demise was short-lived thanks to Luci's fortunate ingenuity.
How Luci Revived Bean’s Dead Love Interest Mora
While Disenchantment was closer to new Simpsons episodes than classic Futurama outings, the show did know how to wrap up a character arc. Bean’s demonic friend Luci was killed by Dagmar late in Disenchantment season 5, when he tried to ruin her alliance with the devil. To his surprise, he arrived in heaven upon his death. There, he accidentally killed God, but he revived him just as quickly. Luci earned himself a wish as a result, and he wished for Mora’s revival. This strengthened Bean’s resolve to defeat her mother. As such, Luci achieved his aim of helping Bean take down Dagmar, albeit in a roundabout way.
Why Luci Became An Angel In Disenchantment’s Ending
Luci revived God and used his one wish selflessly, thus proving that he was not much of a demon after all. While Luci wasn’t happy to see himself become an angel, this was still a fitting fate for him. Luci gradually became a more conscientious and less amoral character as the series progressed, so it was fitting that he finally turned into a full-blown good guy by the Disenchantment's ending. Much like the ending of Netflix's The Chosen One, Disenchantment season 5 flipped audience expectations of what an angel would be. With Luci’s climactic transformation, the show proved even a demon could turn around their wicked ways eventually.
Why Bean Gives Up Being Queen In Disenchantment’s Ending
In Disenchantment season 5’s ending, Bean defeated Dagmar and gained the opportunity to take her rightful place on the throne. However, she opted not to take over Dreamland and instead left it to her friends Elfo and Mop Girl. The reason for this choice was set up way back in Disenchantment season 1, when it was established that Bean never wanted to be queen. She always shirked responsibility unless her friends were in peril, and she was far happier to pursue her relationship with Mora in peace. This led to a happy ending that was tailor-made for the show’s heroine.
What Disenchantment’s Ending Really Means
In Disenchantment season 5’s ending, Bean opted not to become Queen of Dreamland, even though this appeared to be her destiny. Outside all the show’s nods to Futurama and The Simpsons, Disenchantment was always the story of a slacker who didn’t want responsibility and wasn’t interested in acting like the chosen one. Unlike most fantasy protagonists, Bean simply wanted to hang around with her friends instead of going on grand adventures and running a kingdom. Thus, Disenchantment season 5’s ending was a fitting fate for her, as Bean and Mora could lead the life they wanted rather than the one that was planned for them.
