Would you trust a vernal champion ? Of course not . We all know wizards are suppose to be of a sealed long time , which can be clearly prove by their beard — maybe farseeing , peradventure short , in all likelihood gray or white , but always there . But of all the elderly , facial - hair - bearing sorcerer out there , who predominate supreme ?
9 ) Shazam , DC Comics
allot to DC ’s current continuity , Shazam was a 3,000 - year - previous necromancer who lived in the metro and kept summoning masses , including children , to him in rescript to regain someone desirable of the world power he possessed . That ’s weird , but it ’s even weirder that Shazam could n’t find anyone he found virtuously erect enough to confer his powers on until 10 - year - former Billy Batson face the argument that no one is arrant and the wizard gave him the king . First of all , even if there are no 100 % good people in the cosmos — which is not needs genuine at all ( and a jolly bleak worldview for a 10 - year - sometime no matter what ) — that does n’t intend there is n’t someone better equip to save the world over some random kid . secondly , if you may give up your moral doctrine after a five - second conversation with a child , perhaps you should n’t be in charge of handing out the Strength of Sampson ( etc . ) anyway . Besides , his straggly beard makes him look more like an elderly anchorite than a powerful sorcerer .
- Dumbledore , Harry Potter
As schoolmaster for the Hogwarts School of Wizardry , Albus Dumbledore is beloved by his students as well as multitudinous Harry Potter sports fan around the humankind . However , a near examination of his schoolhouse policies expose that Dumbledore was actually quite horrible . He ’s responsible for hiring some insanely awful instructor ( mostly for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class ) ; he did nothing to speak the constant , terrific dangers in Hogwarts itself ( including a loose basilisk on the primer coat ) ; and rather than excuse fairly much anything to Harry Potter or his compatriot , he basically hampered Harry ’s power to defeat Voldemort at every single opportunity — never more so than when he pulled an Obi - Wan Kenobi and allowed Snape to stamp out him , apparently to reserve Snape to stick undercover but definitely abnegate Harry some badly want information for a significant amount of metre , and prolonging Voldemort ’s reign of terror . Hell , even if Dumbeldore just drop a note for Harry to be on the face out for Horcruxs back in The Sorcerer ’s Stone , he could have made all the difference in the world . Plus , Dumbledore ’s massive , frizzy beard is more Santa Claus - y than majestic .
7 ) Ice King , Adventure Time
I ’m sure some of you are grate at the prospect of Dumbledore being ranked behind Adventure Time ’s Ice King . I ’ll amply admit that the Ice King is even less competent than Dumbledore in many regard , and if he were in any position of responsibility , the results would be infinitely worse than in Dumbeldore ’s Hogwarts . However , the Ice King is n’t in any position of responsibility , intend it ’s much more difficult for him to needlessly scupper the lives of children . Thanks to his magic crown , he has some pretty marvellous ice power , and we know he ’s been around for 1,000 yr or so . Sure , he has a spoiled habit of kidnapping princesses in fiat to marry them against their will , but if you ’ve watch Adventure Time , his motivations for this are apprehensible and heartbreakingly tragic . Basically , as goofy and crappy as Ice King seems , he ’d undoubtedly be a good aged whiskered wizard pal than Dumbledore .
6 ) Fizban , Dragonlance
This wizard from Dragonlance is cast almost all out of the Gandalf mode , from his pointy hat to his secretly being a inspired being . But while Gandalf is a smaller Supreme Being in the Lord of the Rings cosmos , sent to Middle - Earth to keep Sauron from screw everything up , Fizban is one of the most important gods in the fantasy world — Paladine , the chief god of trade good in the Dragonlance pantheon . Although in his human embodiment he act clumsy and absent - minded , he ’s one Inferno of a wizard , with a snappy whiz byssus . But given that he ’s on the QT a semi - all-knowing deity , it sense like he ’s cheat on a bit .
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5 ) Yen Sid , Fantasia
The titular sorcerer in The Sorcerer ’s Apprentice chapter of Disney ’s Fantasia , the wondrously named Yen Sid ( say it backwards ) , manages to be incredibly telling during his short amount of covert clip . Basically , all he does is differentiate his sentient black eye handmaiden to do some swabbing , leave , and derive back . But when he comes back to observe his home flooded and a sentient army of broomsticks in control , he kicks both the brooms ’ and the water ’s collective asses with nothing but a few arm movements and his frown . Of all the necromancer in this listing , Yen Sid is the one you ’d least wish to meet carry a wand while walking down a dark alley — partcularly if you ’re a Scots heather . ( Also , that ’s one snake pit of a beard . )
4 ) Elminster , Forgotten Realms
If Dragonlance ’s Fizban is in the Gandalf mold , then Forgotten Realms ’ Elminster is the uncanny forgery . He has the same lid , the same beard , the same canonical job of protect the kingdom , loves fume his pipe , has the same mental attitude as Gandalf … I intend , you ’d almost expect Elminster to have appeared to die crusade a Galrob on the bridge circuit of Zakad - Doom and issue forth back a few hebdomad later as Elminster the Whiter . I ’m indisputable dungeon & Dragons would have done this is they ’d felt they could get off with it . Still , Elminster has a few things live for him that Fizban and the others do n’t : he can shapeshift , he used to be a brigand and a thief , and he regularly had sex with the goddess Mystra — who , it should be observe , change state him into a woman for a few age just so he ’d know what it would be like . Also he cash in one’s chips to Hell for a while . Elminister ’s been around , guys .
3 ) Gandalf , Lord of the Rings
allow ’s put it plainly . None of these cat ( except # 2 below ) would be here if it were n’t for Gandalf . The original pipe - smoking , pointy - hat wear , disreputable - looking but on the Q.T. badass wiz make for the force of trade good , Gandalf is like the Beatles of Elderly Wizards with Beards — whoever came along after him , Gandalf did it first and did it well . As the wisest of the Maior of Valinor , he was sent to Middle - Earth to help keep Sauron from conquering everyone and everybody , and he did a bloody fine job of it , too , whether it was nibble an unlikely hobbit to conduct a Ring of Mass Destruction to Mount Doom or fighting the giant , demonic Balrog . Of course , he was beat for a tenacious time by the quondam , more impressively bewhiskered mavin Saruman , so he ’s docked a few item for that .
2 ) Merlin
The guy behind the guy cable ! Yes , Gandalf became the iconic older barbate wizard for the entirety of fantasy fiction , but he would n’t have exist without Merlin , the wizard who assist aim and serve King Arthur . In virtually all his incarnations , he ’s depicted as honest-to-goodness and whiskered in most medium , although his eld and beard duration varies wildly . Perhaps his most iconic interlingual rendition is in T.H. White ’s The Once and Future King , and its loose Disney adaptation The Sword in the Stone . There ’s he ’s kindly and clever , helping ferment the young Arthur into a human race desirable to be King of England . In other history he ’s a druid , in some he ’s softheaded , and in at least one he ’s supposedly an attempt as create an Antichrist ( thanks , Geoffrey on Monmouth ! ) . No matter how he ’s depicted or what his deal is , he ’s generally regard the greatest wizard of all clock time .
1 ) Belgarath , The Belgariad
So who could perhaps beat Merlin as the greatest , oldest , beard - iest maven of all time ? How about a Merlin you ’d really want to hang out with ? In David Edding ’s Belgariad record book serial , Belgarath is basically Merlin — the oldest and most powerful wizard on that finical phantasy world — but he has n’t let 7,000 years of push against the disconsolate god Torak and personnel of wickedness give him a uncollectible mental attitude . He became a wizard when he got angry at a tree ; he hung out with a deity for several century ; he fell in love with a she - wolf and it learned to transform itself to be a human womanhood to be with her ; he was the father to Polgara , the outstanding sorceress in the world . He once defeated an entire army of demons by make an illusion of the sun develop . Despite all these accomplishment , he managed never to miss his sense of humor , his bad habits , or his penchant for drinking , flirt , and stealing . To be immortal , the most potent wizard in the cosmos and a regular dude all at the same prison term ? That ’s straight magic .
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