And thats the main crux of this: both of them were crushed under the weight of their ideals in striving for the best version of humanity, and were doomed to fail not only because they took the choice out of humanitys hands, but because they relied entirely on a sacrifice of their own humanity. Taking what is deemed ‘the perfect humanity’ by her own criteria and then preserving them for eternity.
The ideals she held were still those of wanting to help and save people, but because she had well and truly lost her human perspective they had been warped into those of how a god would tackle her ideals, ie.
Artoria was meant to die with her ideals, but because Bedivere couldn’t handle the idea of that cruelty, Artoria never died, yet in having lost Excalibur she instead took up Rhongomyniad, a lance that slowly transformed her into a god and warped her wish. The Lion Kings motivations and views are those of a god that wants to protect and preserve humans but they are fundamentally rooted in Artorias desire to be an ideal king. When you really stop and think about it, Wodimes plan to make a perfect version of humanity that will never change from that perfection is exactly the same as the Lion Kings goals of preserving a perfect version of humanity chosen by the lance. The issue with his goals however is that he’s taking the choice entirely out of humanity’s hands (plus his plan relies on sacrificing PHH for it but not the point), and in trying to make humans eternal by force it essentially takes away their ability to grow and change, which was the central focus of Olympus and why Macarios and Adele rebelled against the gods. He understands that what makes humans struggle with their progress are all mortal limitations, things like hunger, disease, and age, and in removing them, he can make an eternal version of humanity that now have essentially infinite time to tackle their differing ideals and reach a consensus that will lead to true peace. Wodime KNOWS the value of humanity in being saved by someone who he once had never even considered despite the fact that he passed over them every day, and in turn enacts his plan to make New, Better Humanity because he wants to jump ahead of all the steps of human progress and establish an eternal utopia immediately. Wodime is different: Wodime does value humanity, and all of his goals center around a feeling of guilt at the idea of his own naivete at the fact that he thought for most of his life that simply being destined for greatness made him great, when it was in fact the small, self sacrificial act of a nameless nobody that ensured he was alive even today. Goetia only saw the error of his ways when he was suddenly incarnated and felt his own mortality, asking Guda to witness him in his final moments as he fights out of sheer human pettiness because in having final moments, he finally understood why it is that humans strive so hard despite being mortal beings within their final moments. Goetia couldn’t understand the point of human effort when humans lead such limited lives and saw the inaction of Solomon as cruelty, so his plan to remake humanity started and ended with putting humans out of their misery and was fundamentally flawed from the start.
It is pretty easy to see the intentional parallels with Wodime and Goetia, both striving for their ideal versions of humanity, but the fundamental difference here is that Goetia literally did not know what he was doing. The parallels with Goetia are there sure but really Wodime has far more in common with the Lion King than most people realize, in fact I would argue Wodime is meant to parallel far more with the Lion King but it’s just that the presentation of a paralleled final boss is more in line with Goetia.
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