Bard and Rumpel together because I had to have these two meet. Whether they’d get along or not, idk, but I think they’d try to prove who’s better almost immediately. (It’s a fifty/fifty for the villains to make friends or enemies with one another change my mind).
But since their islands are now kind of tied to one another, I’m more surprised that I don’t see them together much. Or I’m just looking in the wrong place, who knows! Either way, this exists now and I love it!
I'm just realizing this now, but the perfect way that Poptropica could've introduced the Adventurer's League could've been after Baron was taken by Rumpel.
Like, Amelia could've gone to them for help and we could've seen more members or something.
(AKA making sense of basically a walking plot device)
This is probably definitely reaching, but I’ve come to a personal conclusion that Poptropica’s Rumpelstiltskin is not a villain… in the game’s classic sense, to be specific.
Fairy Tale Island is populated by, uh, fairy tale characters and Rumpel (as far as we know) is a resident. All the characters on the island are living lives that are at least alluding to the stories (ex: Red is a 20something delivery woman instead of a little girl visiting her grandma). So in retrospect, Rumpelstiltskin is no different.
Shared traits in Rumplestiltskin portrayals carry over his finnicky nature from the original fairy tale. He’s an expert trickster who screws with the people’s lives, yet his defeat usually involves reciting his full name.
In a way, Rumpel is living like the other denizens of Fairy Tale Island by playing as the “villain”. By concept alone, he’s the designated “plot causer” which I’ll still chew him out for but besides the point. He’s doing what all Rumpelstiltskins do—mess with everyone.
Infamously, he’s the only villain to never be properly defeated. After the story of Fairy Tale Island, Rumpel is (currently) less of a threat and pretty much a recurring nuisance. Like an annoying cockroach you can’t seem to catch, once again he’s messing with the player’s need for catharsis.
So Rumpel isn’t a traditional Poptropica villain. What I mean by that is outside of pulling the strings to ruin everyone’s life, he’s technically not malicious. Because Rumpel is just like everyone else in his island, living up to his fairy tale counterpart. He’s an almighty trickster who manages to get away, because he’s Rumpelstiltskin.
Rumplestiltskin: "Look, sorry if I'm not your cup of tea, I'm not even my own cup of tea. I'm barely a cup and I don't like tea. I'm more like a rusty bucket of haunted bog water. Sorry if I'm not your rusty bucket of bog water !"
Bard: "....what is wrong with you, all I asked is why you want pinapple on your pizza..."
Hm... call me crazy, but I don't recall any past Poptropica villains coming back to cause trouble in another story before, except for Zeus and Dr. Hare. And Dr. Hare isn't magic!
She might be talking about someone we don't know...
Is she talking about Zeus or what XD
Out of all Poptropica villains, Zeus has been the most reoccurring. He just doesn't quit!
And that weird cave that was in the Baron's Crusade, with Captain Crawfish's stuff. It had that lighting bolt symbol...
Idk... I think Zeus is somehow wrapped up into all of this. I just wanna see the payoff XD
How did Rumpel get Poseidon's trident? It could be a fake...
Zeus' face turned into Rumpelstiltskin’s face. Was he referring to himself as the pretender, or Zeus?