History VileVillainSaccharineShow / AnimatedFilms

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'': While [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants the series]] is lighthearted with an IneffectualSympatheticVillain, TheMovie introduces Dennis, a somewhat [[LaughablyEvil comedic]] but still surprisingly terrifying hitman hired to kill [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick using sharp spiked boots. Meanwhile, [[HarmlessVillain Plankton]] turns out to be a NotSoHarmlessVillain, framing Mr. Krabs for stealing Neptune's crown and getting him frozen, coming back in anticipation of seeing Mr. Krabs get [[KillItWithFire burned to death]], and proceeds to brainwash and enslave all of Bikini Bottom. And there's the [[HumansAreCthulhu cyclops diver]], who captures sea creatures and ''painfully kills them using the heat of a bright lamp'', then sells the dried-out remains as knick-knacks. (Whether or not he knows the fish are sapient and screaming is left as an exercise to the viewer. Though he does laugh evilly when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are running around their fishbowl in a panic, so whether he knows they're sentient or not, [[CruellaToAnimals he's obviously enjoying what he does in a sadistic way]].)

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Barnyard}}'' is, at least on the surface, a wacky TalkingAnimal farm comedy about the silly hijinks Otis the cow and his friends get up to at the titular barnyard. [[BigBad Dag]], meanwhile, is a vicious, disturbingly sadistic coyote who's basically a ''serial killer'', complete with a necklace that has [[CreepySouvenir severed chicken's feet]] from his former victims hanging on it. He openly taunts and threatens to eat [[WouldHurtAChild a baby chick]], and threatens to kill everyone on the farm if Otis breaks their deal. Appropriately enough, the comedic tone of the movie falls like a rock whenever he appears onscreen.

** Hopper in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' is a ruthless tyrant who delights in the fear he instills in the ants, and was fully prepared to publically execute their queen to keep them compliant. He even admits to his minions that they don't even ''need'' the food the ants provide, implying his actions are motivated purely by sadism.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Balto}}'' has the despicable literal GloryHound Steele and [[BearsareBadNews the rather terrifying-looking bear]] who tries to kill the heroes at one point.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': [[spoiler:The werecats, Simone, Lena, and Jacques]] are some of the most terrifying ''Scooby Doo'' villains ever.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresInZambezia'' gives us a ruthless [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Monitor Lizard]] named Budzo who loves the taste of [[ChildEater bird's eggs]] and is perfectly willing to betray anyone who helps him. In the past, he tore off Sekhuru's wing and he also killed the main character's mother, one of the founders of the Hurricanes. There isn't a single funny moment whenever he's on screen.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'' has Miss Hattie and [[spoiler:Mr. Perkins]]. Although BigBadWannabe Vector ended up getting some punishment of some sort, these two [[KarmaHoudini manage to get away.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': [[spoiler:The werecats, Simone, Lena, and Jacques]] are some of the most terrifying ''Scooby Doo'' villains ever.

* ''Film/OsmosisJones'': For the most part, this is a lighthearted parody of SaltAndPepper cop movies with copious amounts of ToiletHumour for the kids all [[FantasticVoyagePlot set inside the human body]]. Enter [[OmnicidalManiac Thrax]]. He's portrayed as a mix between a supervillain and an international terrorist who travels between human hosts (which in the context of the movie are self-sufficient city/nations for countless micro-organisms) and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroys them]], for no other reason than fame (if he can kill a human in less than 48 hours he'll get a chapter in every major medical text). Also, the [[TouchOfDeath slightest touch from his claw]] is enough to kill other microbes in a spectacular and horrible fashion, [[KillItWithFire burning them from the inside out until they finally explode]]. Then, just to ratchet up the NightmareFuel even further, at one point he counts out his previous victims; one of them is [[WouldHurtAChild a child who "didn't like to wash her hands."]] It says something when the inspiration of the villain comes from "Literature/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath".

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Claude Frollo for the entire Disney Animated Canon, for being essentially ANaziByAnyOtherName (and [[PsychopathicManchild a relatively childish one]] at that). In the first 5 minutes of his movie he kills a woman begging in front of a church for sanctuary, and then nearly drops her baby down a well just for being deformed. Later he reveals his plan to wipe out all of Paris's Roma. Then he begins to burn down all of Paris in order to find a Roma woman he has the hots for and lets her choose between sleeping with him or being burned alive.

** ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' has Drago Bludivist. Unlike the Red Death, Drago is a human being that is fully aware of his actions, and manages to rapidly push the film into Darker and Edgier territory, even taking the Big Bad of the previous film into account. His introduction via flashback involves him burning down a hall full of Viking chiefs and killing them, with only Stoick surviving. Two major characters die, one on screen, as a result of his actions. Nothing about him is remotely funny, even his Large Ham tendencies, and the mere mention of his name causes the goofy, heartwarming side of things to stop more or less instantly.
** [[RuleOfThree And since third time's a charm]], ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld'' brings us Grimmel the Grisly. Despite the events of previous installment, the movie starts quite light-headed, but when he appears, it becomes ''much'' darker. The fact that [[spoiler: Night Furies are almost extinct? You know, about the only dragon species having TheDreaded status among the Vikings in the first movie?]] He's the reason. He also drugs the dragons into obedience ''by their own venom'', is not above backstabing his former contractors, and is very smart, able to outwit Hiccup multiple times. He also likes to give SadisticChoice and using HoneyTrap in his plans.

* Lord Business from ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'', while [[LaughablyEvil played for laughs at times]], is a serious villain with powerful scope and endless resources. His plan is essentially to freeze the entire Lego universe in order to achieve "absolute perfection", he erases Good Cop's personality and forces him to demonstrate his superweapon, the Kragle, on his parents, all while sporting a PsychoticSmirk, as well as abandoning him in the think tank along with the heroes when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he no longer needs him]]. He also personally kills [[BigGood Vitruvius]] on-screen by ''decapitating'' him with a thrown penny. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that he was based upon the child who created the whole world's father, who has a HeelRealization when he realizes his son views him as the bad guy, and promptly undergoes a HeelFaceTurn that extends to Lord Business as well]].

* Chef from ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' is bound and determined to have all the trolls eaten and killed, and has no redeeming features or comedic aspects whatsoever.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' has Miss Hattie and [[spoiler:Mr. Perkins]]. Although BigBadWannabe Vector ended up getting some punishment of some sort, these two [[KarmaHoudini manage to get away.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' has the Red Death. While most of the film is a heartwarming spectacle about Hiccup befriending Toothless and learning that dragons are not truly evil, this character shows up and immediately takes the film in a darker direction, since it explains why the dragons are constantly attacking the Viking village, drives a wedge between Hiccup and his father Stoick, and comes very close to killing a lot of Viking warriors.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ice Age}}'':
** The first movie is one of the forerunners of the family-friendly CGI comedies. Its villain is Soto, a sabertooth tiger who wants to ''murder a human baby.''

* Lord Business from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', while [[LaughablyEvil played for laughs at times]], is a serious villain with powerful scope and endless resources. His plan is essentially to freeze the entire Lego universe in order to achieve "absolute perfection", he erases Good Cop's personality and forces him to demonstrate his superweapon, the Kragle, on his parents, all while sporting a PsychoticSmirk, as well as abandoning him in the think tank along with the heroes when [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he no longer needs him]]. He also personally kills [[BigGood Vitruvius]] on-screen by ''decapitating'' him with a thrown penny. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that he was based upon the child who created the whole world's father, who has a HeelRealization when he realizes his son views him as the bad guy, and promptly undergoes a HeelFaceTurn that extends to Lord Business as well]].

* Rattlesnake Jake from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'', whose appearance instantly stops the funnier bits of the movie.

* Oogie Boogie from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. The movie ''is'' dark, but none of the residents of Halloween town are SerialKiller cannibals and the movie gets darker when Oogie Boogie tries to murder both Santa Claus and Sally by dipping them in his snake and spider stew.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Claude Frollo for the entire Disney Animated Canon, for being essentially ANaziByAnyOtherName (and [[PsychopathicManchild a relatively childish one]] at that). In the first 5 minutes of his movie he kills a woman begging in front of a church for sanctuary, and then nearly drops her baby down a well just for being deformed. Later he reveals his plan to wipe out all of Paris's gypsies. Then he begins to burn down all of Paris in order to find a gypsy he has the hots for and lets her choose between sleeping with him or being burned alive.

** ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'': [[BigBad Shan Yu]] and the Huns. Every scene they are in is played very seriously and they are one of the few Disney villains to cause so much destruction in their wake, including invading China's borders and slaying the Chinese armies that stand in their way. One scene that best exemplifies their ruthlessness was during the song "A Girl Worth Fighting For" where the Chinese soldiers were singing a happy song about fighting for the women they love when suddenly, [[MusicalisInterruptus the happy song stops]], [[UpToEleven as does the entire musical portion of the movie]], when they arrived at a village that had just been razed to the ground.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'': Shere Khan. As FauxAffablyEvil as he is, his appearance in the original film stops much of the fun and silly mood and makes things more tense and dark. This is carried UpToEleven where he's concerned in the sequel.

** ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnoldTheMovie'': Alphonse Perrier du von Scheck is the descendant of a commanding redcoat during the Revolutionary War. As a land developer, Scheck has the power and influence to have the neighborhood where a significant battle occurred that the colonists won against his family demolished so that he can put up a mall complex on it and thus reclaim it in the name of his family. He also seeks to have Arnold and Gerald locked up when they get too close to exposing that he's covering it all up, and later on when he's defeated, attempts to run them over with his car. And this was a movie to a show that involved ordinary (and occasionally strange) things only happening in this city.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' has [[spoiler:Hans]], one of the most chilling depictions of a [[TheSociopath sociopath]] in any Disney movie.

** Dark Heart had nothing on the Spirit of the Book from the first movie, which wanted the whole world to stop caring and manipulated [[TheWoobie Nicholas]] into doing her work for her. She always appears as just a face in a book, turns green and always uses creepy OminousLatinChanting, comes within two people in the entire planet from succeeding, and is never PlayedForLaughs. [[AdultFear Not to mention the fact that there are people like her in Real Life who will use manipulation to get young people to do their bidding]].

** ''WesternAnimation/OliverAndCompany'' is a very lighthearted movie, featuring talking cats and dogs. However, the storyline is a loose SettingUpdate of ''Literature/OliverTwist'', and its human villain Sykes -- the counterpart of the novel's Bill Sykes -- is a LoanShark played utterly straight. There's nothing [[EvilIsCool cool]], [[LaughablyEvil funny]], [[AntiVillain sympathetic]], or even [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] about him. He's just a cold-blooded thug who wants his money ''now'' and doesn't care what he has to do to get it. Hell, even [[WesternAnimation/Cinderella Lady Tremaine]] and ''especially'' [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Frollo]], of all people, have a few funny moments and [[EvilIsHammy hamminess]] here and there (and you know, that's saying something).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' is an animated fantasy film about the titular heroine who wishes her busy parents would pay more attention to her and is, for the most part, pretty lighthearted. The main BigBad is the Other Mother, AKA [[EldritchAmobination the Beldam]], a [[EldritchAbomination bloodthirsty]], villainous creature who lures [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to the Other World with false gifts and love to feed on their LifeEnergy. She assumes a more monstrous form as her plan unravels and it's heavily implied that Coraline is the latest in a long line of victims (Three past victims appear) and possibly the first to escape her clutches.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' is an animated fantasy film about the titular heroine who wishes her busy parents would pay more attention to her and is, for the most part, pretty lighthearted. The main villain is the Other Mother, AKA the Beldam, a [[EldritchAbomination bloodthirsty]], villainous creature who lures [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to the Other World with false gifts and love to feed on their LifeEnergy. She assumes a more monstrous form as her plan unravels and it's heavily implied that Coraline is the latest in a long line of victims and possibly the first to escape her clutches.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'' has a more low-key example with the bears that hunt Mike down for most of the movie. The bears are introduced when [[JerkwithaHeartofJerk Mike]] cheats them out of a large sum of money by cheating at poker. They them proceed to hunt Mike down with the intent of either getting their money or outright killing him. [[spoiler: When they find out that Buster has the money in the form of prize money, they barge into the theatre and ''choke'' Mike until Buster opens the chest. Near the end of the movie, The bears are seen on the back of Mike's car... and then Mike is never seen again, implying that they ''killed'' him.]]