David Proval as Necron 99/Peace, Blackwolf's former minion.Richard Romanus as Weehawk, an elf warrior.Jesse Welles as Elinore, a fiery fairy and Avatar's love interest.Bob Holt as Avatar, an old but powerful wizard.With Montagar's safety secured, Weehawk returns home as its new ruler, while Avatar and Elinore decide to start their own kingdom elsewhere. Weehawk destroys the projector, leaving the mutants leaderless and helpless as the General's army defeats them. Avatar admits that he has not practiced magic for some time, but offers to show Blackwolf a trick that their mother taught him Avatar then pulls a pistol from his sleeve and shoots Blackwolf dead. Blackwolf declares his magic superior to Avatar's and demands his surrender. Weehawk nearly kills Elinore, but she explains that Blackwolf had taken control of her mind after she touched Peace. The pair split up, Weehawk tracking Elinore while Avatar goes after Blackwolf. The next day, Avatar and Weehawk enter Scortch by ship and make for Blackwolf's castle, while the General leads his elf warriors in a bloody battle to distract Blackwolf's forces. When one of Blackwolf's battle tanks arrives to destroy the camp, Elinore unexpectedly kills Peace and climbs into the tank as it drives off.

Soon, Avatar and the others encounter the encamped army of an elf General who is preparing to attack Scortch the following day, but Blackwolf launches a sneak attack that night.Įlinore and Peace are attacked by one of Blackwolf's demons which Avatar quickly dispatches. Together, they find their way out of the mountains. Peace and Weehawk (whom Peace saved from a vicious monster in the chasm) find Avatar and Elinore. Avatar and Elinore resume their journey, but they soon realize that they are wandering in circles. Instead of executing them, he merely teleports Avatar and Elinore to a snowy mountaintop. Wounded in the shoulder, Avatar refuses to fight back, which impresses the fairy king. Avatar attempts to explain that they did not kill Sean, but the fairies do not believe him and shoot him with an arrow. Avatar locates her, captured by fairies and small human-like creatures, just as she is about to be killed. Avatar and Weehawk begin to search for Elinore in the forbidden Fairy Sanctuary, but Weehawk falls into a chasm and insists that Avatar leave him and find the girl. Weehawk realizes that Peace is missing, when an unseen assassin kills Sean and kidnaps Elinore. In a forest inhabited by fairies, the group is accosted by their leader, Sean. Avatar, Elinore, Peace, and the elf warrior Weehawk set out to destroy the projector and save the world from another Holocaust. Avatar learns from the robot that the 'dream machine' – the projector – is Blackwolf's secret weapon.

Avatar subdues the robot and reconditions it for nonviolence, changing its name to Peace 'in the hopes that he will bring it'. Suddenly, the president is assassinated by Necron 99, a robot sent by Blackwolf to kill all believers in magic. Meanwhile, in Montagar, Avatar trains the president's daughter, Elinore, to become a full-fledged fairy.

Blackwolf then discovers an old projector and reels of Nazi propaganda footage from World War II, using his magic to enhance it for psychological warfare: inspiring his own soldiers while horrifying enemy troops into submission. He tries to attack Montagar twice, but is foiled when his mutant warriors become bored or sidetracked in the midst of battle. Three thousand years later, Blackwolf leads the dark land of Scortch, where he and his army of mutants and other evil creatures ( orcs, goblins, trolls, satyrs, dragons, etc.), salvage and restore ancient technology. Blackwolf leaves Montagar, vowing to return and 'make this a planet where mutants rule'. After Delia's death years later, Blackwolf attempts to usurp her leadership, but Avatar defeats him in a magical duel. While her people celebrate 3,000 years of peace, Delia, queen of the fairies, falls into a trance and gives birth to twin wizards: the kindhearted Avatar and his evil, mutated brother Blackwolf. The humans who survived the apocalypse have been transformed into mutants, while humanity's true ancestors- fairies, elves and dwarves-resurface and live in the idyllic land of Montagar. It takes 2 million years for the radioactive clouds to allow sunlight in. The film grossed US$9 million theatrically with a $2 million budget.Įarth has been devastated by a nuclear war.

The film is notable for being the first fantasy film by Bakshi, a filmmaker who was previously known only for 'urban films' such as Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic and Coonskin. The film follows a battle between two wizards of opposing powers, one representing the forces of magic and the other representing the forces of technology. Wizards is a 1977 American animated post-apocalyptic science fantasy film written, directed and produced by Ralph Bakshi and distributed by 20th Century-Fox.

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