History Main / WickedWeasel

-->-- '''Flinky the stoat''' ([[IAmNotWeasel not the same as the least weasel (the species traditionally known as simply the "weasel"]], but technically still a weasel in the broad sense as the Eurasian stoat is in the subfamily Mustelinae), ''[[Literature/{{Redwall}} Loamhedge]]''

Has nothing to do with an Australian lingerie and swimwear brand also called [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Weasel "Wicked Weasel"]].

* In ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'', a weasel is one of the three malevolent animals that threaten the Banks children and serve as [[AndYouWereThere animated counterparts to the bankers threatening to foreclose the family's property]]. However, it's played with in that the weasel's real-world counterpart, Frye, is [[TokenGoodTeammate the least villainous of the three]], sympathetic to the family's plight [[spoiler: and eventually helping the Banks family against his corrupt employer's wishes]].

* Also averted in ''Literature/TheBookOfTheDunCow''. John Wesley Weasel, although fierce, stubborn and implied to be a ReformedCriminal, is extremely loyal to the rooster protagonist, is undoubtedly one of the good guys, and literally kills thousands [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge of enemy basilisks]] [[UnstoppableRage single-handedly]] after one [[spoiler: murders his friend]]. Also unlike the usual portrayal of evil weasels, he is disgusted by the cowardly Mad House of Otter and is extremely brave.

* Double subverted with Wendel the stoat jester in ''Literature/DeptfordMice''. He [[BaitTheDog appears to be an okay guy]], [[spoiler: but he's actually the high priest of Hobb, an evil rat god.]]

* Subverted in Cordwainer Smith's short story "Mother Hitton's Little Kittons", a planet is defended by telepathically broadcasting the vicious ravings of insane, psychic minks, causing a villain to [[spoiler: commit suicide before he can attack the planet.]] (A mink is a type of mustelid, like weasels).

* ''[[Literature/{{Spellsinger}} Paths of the Perambulator]]'' has a wolverine as the BigBad. He's not actually evil, it turns out that he's a DirtyCoward which is so at odds with a wolverine's violent and aggressive nature that it's driven him insane. He summoned the titular RealityWarper as a twisted means of attempting to cure himself by [[RealityIsOutToLunch making the world as crazy as he is]]. [[spoiler: Once he's cured of his cowardice, he goes back to being a normal wolverine and loses interest in destroying the world]].

* Weasel from ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' was generally a bitch, but also loyal and courageous for [[spoiler: defying Scarface at her own peril to protect Fox several times]], making her an aversion. Later seasons add her boyfriend/husband [[ViewerGenderConfusion (Wait, Weasel is a girl??)]], who is rather oafish and (apart perhaps from cowardice) not at all stereotypically weasel-like.

* Weazel in ''Franchise/StarWars'' is introduced as a bully who mocks Anakin's podracer skills in ''Film/StarWarsThePhantomMenace''. When he returns as an adult in ''{{Film/Solo}}'', he's working as an enforcer for the SpacePirate Enfys Nest, [[spoiler: although, like her, he's [[GoodAllAlong working for a proto-Rebel cell]] and fighting the Empire, so he's ultimately a subversion.]]

* Invoked by the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel Wild Weasels]]", fighters and attack aircraft meant to DrawAggro enemy anti-air weapons before destroying them with anti-radar weapons.

* In ''Literature/TooManyCurses'', one of the many victims of Margle's BalefulPolymorph spells is a formerly-human female thief, who was transformed into a weasel. She's not ''evil'', but old habits evidently die hard, as she can't resist swiping a gemstone that's needed to nullify one of the magical misfortunes plaguing the castle.

* The weasels in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' are the subjects of the game's supposed [[BigBad main villain]], the Panther King. The Panther King's weasel subjects include the weasel mafia, two FatAndSkinny guards who wield medieval weaponry, and armored bank security guards with modern weapons. The most prominent weasel characters are Ze Professor, an evil scientist who creates the Tediz, and Don Weaso, the head of the weasel mafia. According to the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]], the reason the weasels are ruled by a panther instead of one of their own is because the Panther King seized power in the past by cutting off the legs of their old weasel king (who is implied to be Ze Professor, because he is old and has no legs). Ze Professor and Don Weaso are definitely two of the game's main baddies. Interestingly enough, though, the two medieval guards who directly work for the Panther King are probably the least bad of the many weasels seen in the game.

* In ''Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal'', Marie [[IAmNotWeasel is quick to remind you her beastman form is a mink]], but given her behavior, it's an understandable confusion. While she's not irredeemably evil or violent, she is a ''very'' untrustworthy con artist, smuggler, and fence who regularly swindles people out of exhorbitant amounts of money for shoddy items.

* Played straight with The Creeper from ''WesternAnimation/{{Animalia}}'': He is apparently the most dangerous villain on the show, being both portrayed as a KnightOfCerebus and more evil than the semi-villain Tyrannicus, who was a ''tiger''. He is a weasel who was a king of Animalia before he got DrunkWithPower and started using portals to steal from the other animals. When he is freed in the show's timeline, he's even worse, kidnapping a child and freely manipulating other characters into war.

-->-- '''Flinky the stoat''' ([[IAmNotWeasel not the same as the least weasel (the species known in the UK as simply the "weasel"]], but technically still a weasel in the broad sense as the Eurasian stoat is in the subfamily Mustelinae), ''[[Literature/{{Redwall}} Loamhedge]]''

In addition to the least weasel (commonly known as just the "weasel" and the North American long-tailed weasel, the related stoats and polecats get a fair amount of this. Domestic ferrets (a domestic version of the European polecat) are portrayed similarly as [[FriskyFerret clever, hyperactive, slightly crazy tricksters]], but are often [[WeaselMascot cute and harmless rather than malicious]], probably because people are increasingly likely to be familiar with them as pets. Martens and fishers are somewhat less likely to be lumped in with weasels, and otters are [[PlayfulOtter something completely different]], as are [[BadOlBadger badgers]] and wolverines. Skunks, formerly classified as mustelids but now given their own group Mephitidae, have [[SmellySkunk their own trope]]; a skunk is definitely something to avoid, but is just as always as wicked as a weasel. Even in nowadays, skunks have displaced weasels in general for the villainous roles.

-->-- '''Flinky the stoat''' ([[IAmNotWeasel not the same thing as a weasel]]), ''[[Literature/{{Redwall}} Loamhedge]]''

In addition to weasels, stoats and polecats get a fair amount of this. Ferrets are portrayed similarly as [[FriskyFerret clever, hyperactive, slightly crazy tricksters]], but are often [[WeaselMascot cute and harmless rather than malicious]], probably because people are increasingly likely to be familiar with them as pets. Martens and fishers are somewhat less likely to be lumped in with weasels, and otters are [[PlayfulOtter something completely different]], as are [[BadOlBadger badgers]] and wolverines. Skunks, formerly classified as mustelids but now given their own group Mephitidae, have [[SmellySkunk their own trope]]; a skunk is definitely something to avoid, but is just as always as wicked as a weasel. Even in nowadays, skunks have displaced weasels in general for the villainous roles.

* This is heavily invoked in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Although normal people (for a given definition of "normal"), individuals belonging to [[TangledFamilyTree House]] [[{{Jerkass}} Frey]] regularly do get compared with weasels. And, this is not only because of their chinless, [[LeanAndMean regularly gaunt looks]], but thanks to their [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder many]] [[IncestIsRelative unsavoury]] [[ObstructiveBureaucrat habits]], as well. Even the chunkier ones don't escape either the narrative or other characters describing them as weasels. The weaseliest weasel who ever [[WeaselWords weaseled]], however, remains [[{{Troll}} Lord Walder]]. Although his kin [[JerkJock Black Walder]], [[BastardBastard Bastard Walder]] and [[BitchInSheepsClothing Lame Lothar]] aren't all that far behind him -- he just has [[EvilOldFolks more decades of being despicable]] under his belt. Some (lucky) few in the family do escape the whole weasel motif, but you can count them on one hand. Which isn't a [[TangledFamilyTree large proportion of the family]].

* Sneasel and Weavile of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' are [[CombatPragmatist Dark]][=/=][[AnIcePerson Ice]] sickle weasel Pokémon who are noted in their Pokédex entries to be intelligent and vicious egg thieves. Sneasel's Hisuian form and its new evolution, Sneasler, are not stated to be spiteful but are stated to use their poisonous claws on prey, and no other Pokémon would be willing to defeat Sneasler in battle.

* Sneasel and Weavile of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' are [[CombatPragmatist dark]][=/=][[AnIcePerson ice]] sickle weasel Pokemon who are noted in their Pokedex entries to be intelligent and vicious egg thieves. Averted with Buizel and Floatzel, who are portrayed as good-natured Water-types who will save drowning humans, and Mienfoo and Mienshao, who are of the honorable Fighting type.

* In ''Anime/BNABrandNewAnimal'', Marie's beastman form is a [[IAmNotWeasel mink]]. While she's not irredeemably evil or violent, she is a ''very'' untrustworthy con artist, smuggler, and fence who regularly swindles people out of exhorbitant amounts of money for shoddy items.

* Subverted in ''Film/TheBeastmaster''; Kodo and Podo are not evil in the slightest, just well trained thieves.

** The evil weasels (and stoats) who take over Toad Hall. Averted with Mr. Badger, who is definitely one of the good guys, although [[GoodIsNotNice he can be grouchy at times]].

* The {{pulp magazine}} ''Man's Life'' ran an infamous story in September of 1956 called "Weasels Ripped My Flesh!" (yes, this is where Music/FrankZappa got the name), about a duck farmer who is attacked by [[ZergRush vast numbers]] of weasels while trying to protect his livestock. In the epilogue, we see that the weasels left him severely disfigured (needing a prosthetic hand and months of plastic surgery to rebuild his face), and with severe PTSD.

* Lampshaded in ''Howliday Inn'', in which a weasel character ([[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep simply known as the Weasel]]) [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch complains about the "weasels are evil and sneaky" stereotype]] and actively goes out of his way to be a good guy.

** The evil weasels (and stoats) who take over Toad Hall.

* [Music/FrankZappa's ''Weasels Ripped My Flesh''. (Okay, not so much "evil" as really, really, ''really'' weird and creepy.)

* Tommy Brock from [[Creator/BeatrixPotter Beatrix Potter's]] ''Peter Rabbit'' stories is a rare malevolent badger.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'': Buckminster is completely crazy, but he's not an evil weasel. In fact, he's one of the few examples of a heroic weasel.

In addition to weasels, stoats and polecats get a fair amount of this. Ferrets are portrayed similarly as clever, hyperactive, slightly crazy tricksters, but are often [[WeaselMascot cute and harmless rather than malicious]], probably because people are increasingly likely to be familiar with them as pets. Martens and fishers are somewhat less likely to be lumped in with weasels, and otters are [[PlayfulOtter something completely different]], as are [[BadOlBadger badgers]] and wolverines. Skunks, formerly classified as mustelids but now given their own group Mephitidae, have [[SmellySkunk their own trope]]; a skunk is definitely something to avoid, but is just as always as wicked as a weasel. Even in nowadays, skunks have displaced weasels in general for the villainous roles.

Mustelids are recently becoming popular as heroic WeaselMascot characters, but it wasn't always so. Older European works in particular portray weasels as [[LovableRogue sneaky at best]] and [[AlwaysChaoticEvil downright villainous at worst]], [[PredatorsAreMean often as the nemesis of a prey animal protagonist]]. As a general rule, fictional weasels are [[DirtyCoward cowardly about direct confrontation, but cunning, treacherous and cruel]], and sometimes downright AxCrazy. Such villainous portrayals might stem from weasels preying on poultry and rabbits from farms -- often targeting eggs (hence a reputation as thief). They also do have a tendency to indulge in overkill; a weasel that makes it into a henhouse may get overexcited and kill more chickens than it can eat.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} cartoon, ''How to Be a Detective'', a weasel thug tries to thwart detective Goofy (known here as Johnny Eyeball) from solving the case of the mysterious "Al", with various acts of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence (the likes of which have kept the cartoon from regular circulation on TV). At the end, this same weasel serves as the parson for WesternAnimation/{{Pete}}'s (revealed to himself be the missing Al) and the dame's wedding.

* Don't forget the weasel from a few ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' Foghorn Leghorn cartoons, who occasionally visits Foghorn's farm to steal chickens. Ironically, Foghorn generally sides with the weasel to spite the farm's dog, although the weasel doesn't appreciate his [[UnwantedAssistance "help"]]. The weasel and the dog [[EnemyMine team up]] against him a few times.

->''"For all of the vermin ye'd care to recall,''\\
''The weasel's the wickedest wretch of all,''\\
''An' virtuous vermin will all agree,''\\
''Any weasel is worse than me!"''
-->-- '''Flinky the stoat ([[IAmNotWeasel not the same thing as a weasel]]), ''[[Literature/{{Redwall}} Loamhedge]]'''''

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* ''Manga/InuYasha'': One MonsterOfTheWeek was a gigantic bakeitachi („monster weasel“) who was constantly mistaken for a tanuki and got easily pissed for that.
-->''"I am a '''weasel'''!"''
* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'': Temari's summon is a Kamaitachi (sickle weasel)
* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', there's a lot of hints that Kyubey is a lot more sinister than he seems. [[spoiler:By the end of episode 8, they're [[http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/AthenAltena/kyuubeyaaah.png not even bothering trying to hide it.]]]]
** Kyubey sorta zigzags the trope. [[spoiler:In a few words, assuming he's not lying, his intentions are noble (saving the universe from destruction), but the means he employs to this end are [[LackOfEmpathy absolutely]] [[FateWorseThanDeath heinous]]. You could probably call him NecessarilyEvil.]]
* Averted in ''Anime/SpiritedAway,'' where none of the weasel spirits are evil--Lin, in particular, becomes a surrogate older sister to Chihiro.

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* The Micmac Indians of eastern Canada and northern New England, while not exactly seeing weasels as evil, did tend to portray them negatively. One of these tales, "Mikmaq Women Who Married Star Husbands," features two ''skusiskwaq'' - literally, "weasel women" - who are said to be sisters. The younger sister, while not evil ''per se'', is pretty untrustworthy, a BadLiar, and [[TheDitz comically stupid]]. She and her sister wind up suffering a FateWorseThanDeath because of her moral failings.
* In medieval folklore, weasels were portrayed as cunning enough to use rue to heal injuries, and they were said to give birth through their ears. On the other hand, they were also said to be one of the only animals that could fight and kill a basilisk.
* Averted in a Cree story in which a brave weasel assisted a human hero in killing a {{wendigo}} by [[OrificeInvasion burrowing into its body]] and killing it from within.
* The Japanese {{yokai}} [[RazorWind Kamaitachi]] (lit. Sickle Weasel) is a weasel with [[SinisterScythe large, scythe-shaped claws,]] which it uses to cut passers-by to ribbons. One variety has three small weasels working together: the first one knocks down the traveller, the second one cuts him up and the third one closes the wounds.
* Also in Japanese lore is Raijū(Thunder Beast), a companion of Raijin who is often depicted as a weasel. Normally he is calm and harmless, but gets agitated during thunderstorms and leaps about trees and buildings, scratching them with lightning.
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* Shady characters are sometimes portrayed as weasels in ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}''. In one case this lead to an EvenEvilHasStandards moment when the weasel quit rather than help the company downplay its new product's horrible flaws with buzzwords.
* ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'' has Bucky's arch-nemesis Fungo the ferret. Then again, arching [[{{Jerkass}} Bucky]] isn't particularly wicked.
* ''ComicStrip/LifeInHell'' has a quote: ''Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.''

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* The true form of Oberus, the demon of deceit in ''{{Webcomic/Codquest}}'', is a monstrous weasel.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{COPS}}'', Big Boss' RightHandCat is a cybernetic weasel name Scratch who has metal paws and cybernetic armor. He is always seen in the company of Big Boss.

* In ''Literature/TooManyCurses'', one of the many victims of Margle's BalefulPolymorph spells is a formerly-human female thief, who was transformed into a weasel. Old habits die hard, as she keep swiping a gemstone that's needed to nullify one of the magical misfortunes plaguing the castle.

* Subverted in the ''Frightful'' [[Literature/MySideOfTheMountain series]]. While Baron Weasel is a predator and attempts to kill Oksi's falcon hatchlings, he's not evil and is doing it [[NonMaliciousMonster to provide food]] [[NotSoDifferent for his own babies]].