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Ned Dennehy as Mider in Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, S1E30, “Mider: King of Temra”, Part 3

Now human sized, Mider effortlessly seizes the throne of Temra, exiles Queen Maeve and turns Toq into a toadstool. Even five minutes into his reign, this is clearly too much excitement for one little dark fairy.

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Ned Dennehy as Mider in Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (1998-99), S1E30 “Mider: King of Temra”, Part 2

When Queen Maeve isn’t really very thrilled about his offer to make him human sized and reign by his side, Mider can at last trick the druid Cathbad to turn him into the much more powerful human size.

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Ned Dennehy in Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, Ep. 10 “War of the Little People”, Part 4

The big duel between King Mider and King Fin Varra ends with Mider’s defeat, but he promises he’ll be back!

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Ned Dennehy in Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, Ep. 10 “War of the Little People”, Part 3

Mider’s time on the throne of Tir Na Nog is short, because the Mystic Knights can free themselves and King Fin Varra, and the big showdown of old and new king is about to begin!

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Ned Dennehy in Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, Episode 10 “War of the Little People”, Part 1

The first Mider-centric episode, and it’s great! Mider is good at finding King Finn Vara’s weak points, not to mention Queen Maeve’s (”Mider has reconsidered this one-sided relationship”), and seizes the Throne of Tir Na Nog in basically five minutes.

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Per unpopular request, here’s more Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog!

A few of the many magical attacks by Mider, Dark Fairy Master.

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Ned Dennehy as Mider in Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, S1E30, “Mider: King of Temra”, Part 6

Even the combined power of the Mystic Knights and Queen Maeve can’t win against Mider’s power. Only when the druid Cathbad joins them, they can reduce him to his former size and power level again. Mider and Queen Maeve team up again, because they don’t need to trust each other to know that they need each other.

It’s a good episode. It contains the usual levels of deception by the evil side, we get a ton of screentime for Mider and some of his most extreme reactions. For an incredibly powerful adversary, he’s still not very threatening, which is suitable for a children’s show, and we see again what makes the downfall of the evil side: Mider and Maeve are two egocentric people who only care about what they want for themselves, and readily screw over every ally they have. 

The good side is competent, loyal, likeable and goofy. I like the episode mostly because it’s nice to see a big Mider and he has lots of scenes, but Mider is also a bit cringy as a king, and it’s a bit out of character for him to give up on his usual ambition to get the throne of Tir Na Nog.

But I hadn’t expected the episode to give him his own character episode, so that’s also a plus point.