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I didn't actually realize this! I never played with Helper Magolor active dgshsf

But that's interesting.

I had been inclined to say that space-related magic was just its own thing that also happened to sometimes be associated with purple and dark colours, but. Hm.

Back down into the rabbit hole I go lmao

I mentioned it briefly in the tags of my previous update, but the colours of space/portal-related magic is pretty inconsistent throughout the series. I'm sure there's a ton of other examples I'm missing, but to give a few...

Some are dark and purple like Magolor's, such as Marx's black hole attack and the portal Galacta Knight comes through in Star Allies:

Though these ones are more of a blue-ish purple compared to Magolor's pink-ish purple.

Galacta Knight himself is unique with his pink dimensional rift attacks:

Here are examples of the portals in the Magolor Epilogue:

As I've said previously, Elfilin's portals are similar to the ones in the Epilogue, being white with a blue outline:

Although Elfilis is actually different and has a light purple outline:

The Lor creates portals with white and blue outlines, which I've also already said before:

However, so does Magolor when he uses his powers from the Master Crown to open a portal:

I'm. Not really sure why these differences exist! Elfilis in particular really throws things off dgdhshf.

Originally, I was thinking that the colours of the portal were dependent on the type of portal it was. Gateways to other dimensions that are used to travel large distances are white and light blue. Portals that deal with things that are more like pocket dimensions and not necessarily actual places are black and purple—this most commonly applies to black-hole type attacks, but for Magolor's Dimensional Vanish ability, maybe he temporarily dips into a pocket dimension or something like that? And then he travels through that in order to 'teleport', which is faster than travelling through the 'real world'. (Sidenote, but I imagine Meta Knight's teleportation with the Dimensional Cape is the same deal). And I guess Galacta Knight's prison could be a similar situation, where maybe he was thrown into a pocket dimension of sorts.

And Galacta Knight's pink attack is just kinda its own thing. It's not really a portal, but rather a tear in the fabric of time and space.

But Elfilis contradicts that, since the portal they open to Popstar has lavender edges, rather than white and blue.

...Actually wait it could still work! Maybe?

It's just that Elfilis' portal is both. It is a portal to another actual location, but it also has properties of black-hole-type portals, with the way it drags in everything around it, even from far distances. Whereas white and blue portals are more passive, and usually allow you to get fairly close to them without getting dragged through. And maybe that's also why Elfilis' portal is light purple, too: it's a mix of the white from the travel portals and the purple from black hole/pocket dimension portals.

Anyway, back to Magolor!

Another interesting thing to note is that when he teleports away as Helper Magolor, that magic sigil thing that (I assume) he uses to create the portal stays for the whole animation. Meanwhile, during and after the Epilogue, he doesn't use that sigil at all when performing his Dimensional Vanish.

I'd be willing to guess that's a result of him getting stronger during the Epilogue; possibly due to the Master Crown, or because of the Gem Apple slices or just all the magic energy he gathered.

And yeah, like you said, the change in colour could be yet another change caused by the Master Crown's corruption! Though considering that other black portals exist, I could also believe that the change is just a result of the spell getting stronger instead (which could also be why it becomes more opaque too). But it could also be that Marx's black hole attack and the portal to summon Galacta Knight (which was done by Hyness in Star Allies) both use a bit of dark magic as well. It could go either way!

Thank you for pointing out that little detail!

Thinking about how Magolor's electric ball attacks look nothing like any other instances of electricity in the games that I can recall (particularly in Star Allies), but do resemble Gooey's Dark Laser attacks quite a bit