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** [[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 [[spoiler: that 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 below 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.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Judge Claude Frollo for the entire Disney Animated Canon, for being essentially ANaziByAnyOtherName. 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.

* ''Franchise/{{Barbie}}'':

** ''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/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Frollo]], of all people, have a few funny moments and [[EvilIsHammy hamminess]] here and there (and you know, that's saying something).

** ''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.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Judge Claude Frollo for the entire Disney Animated Canon, for being essentially ANaziByAnyOtherName. 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/{{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 LifeForce. 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/IceAge4ContinentalDrift The fourth movie]] has Captain Gutt, an evil pirate ape with jagged sharp claws for um...[[MeaningfulName gutting]] his victims. He has a [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor sick and twisted sense of humor]]. And he holds a grudge against Manny, a grudge ''so powerful'' that Gutt [[MoralEventHorizon eventually resorts to trying to]] [[spoiler:kill Manny's family just to get back at him.]]

** ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' is a lighthearted series where the main conflict is usually within the heroes as opposed to external. Villains tend to be either ObliviouslyEvil or relatively harmless. Until ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', that is, where we meet [[spoiler:Lotso, a sadistic teddy bear overlord of a day care center who subjects new toys to being broken by toddlers, tortures, brainwashes, imprisons, and attempts to murder the heroes, and when they save him, he [[UngratefulBastard repays them]] by ''leaving them to die in an incinerator'']].

** ''{{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/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Judge Claude Frollo for the entire Disney Animated Canon, for being essentially ANaziByAnyOtherName. In the first 5 minutes of his movie he kills a woman begging in front of a church for sanctuary. 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/{{Coco}}'' takes place in the vibrant, party-filled, music-laden Land of the Dead, which is populated with fondly remembered skeletons and colorful alebrijes. At first, the conflict seems to be that Miguel’s passion for music conflicts with his family's ban on music and he needs to resolve those two in order to get home. [[spoiler:However, we discover that Miguel's hero and best chance to get home, Ernesto de la Cruz, murdered his homesick songwriter partner simply to get famous off the songs he wrote. He then goes on to try and murder Miguel because HeKnowsTooMuch which also puts Miguel's friend Héctor at risk to the FinalDeath.]]

** ''{{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]] when they arrived at a village that had just been razed to the ground.

** ''{{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, the happy song stops when they see a village being razed to the ground.

** [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobMovieSpongeOutOfWater The sequel]] has Burger Beard, despite being more LaughablyEvil than the other examples, he steals a [[ArtifactOfDoom reality-warping book]] and uses it to steal the Krabby Patty Secret Formula and turn Bikini Bottom into a post-apocalyptic hellhole (with no care for its residents), [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for no other reason than to open his own restaurant, using the Krabby Patty recipe to guarantee success.]]

* Creator/{{Pixar}}: Despite the bright colors, the comedy, and the cheerful nature of Pixar, actually have some very dark and malicious villains when they are straight-up evil. Obviously, this type of villain contrasts absolutely with the cheerful nature of the movies.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': [[spoiler:The werecats, Simone, Lena, and Jacques]] are some of the moost 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; the one he's most proud of is [[WouldHurtAChild "a child who didn't wash her hands like she was told."]] It says something when the inspiration of the villain comes from "Literature/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath".

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Jugde Claude Frollo for the entire Disney Animated Canon, for being essentially ANaziByAnyOtherName. In the first 5 minutes of his movie he kills a woman begging in front of a church for sanctuary. 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/TheIncredibles'': Buddy Pine, better known as Syndrome, is a homicidal maniac, a superhero wannabe, and a true [[FromNobodyToNightmare Nobody to Nightmare]]. Early in the film, Buddy interrupts Mr. Incredible, or Bob Parr while fighting the supervillain Bomb Voyage in an attempt to become his sidekick. His careless actions nearly get himself killed and allow Bomb Voyage to escape, leading to Mr. Incredible rightfully turning him down and crushing Buddy's dreams. However, Buddy instead subverts his potential FreudianExcuse by holding on to his petty grudge into adulthood, and initiates the mass murder of retired superheroes by luring them to his island. Once Bob finds out, Syndrome beats him down with his Omnidroid and has him tortured, spitefully launching a missile at a plane that he knows has his family on it. Showing callous indifference to Mirage once her life is under threat by Bob, Syndrome plans to release the Omnidroid on the populace once he's disposed of Bob, then painting himself as a hero by falsely defeating the Omnidroid. Once foiled, Syndrome kidnaps the infant Incredible Jack-Jack with the intent to corrupt him into becoming like him. Selfish, petty, and all-around murderous, Syndrome stood out as one of Pixar's darkest villains.

** [[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-hearded, but when he appears, it gets ''much'' darker tone. The fact [[spoiler: that 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 below 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.

** [[RuleOfThree And since third time's a charm]], ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon3HiddenWorld'']] brings us Grimmel the Grisly. Despite the events of previous installment, the movie starts quite light-hearded, but when he appears, it gets ''much'' darker tone. The fact [[spoiler: that 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 below backstabing his former contractors, and is very smart, able to outwit Hiccup multiple times. He is also TheSadist liking to give SadisticChoices and using HoneyTraps in his plans.

** ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'': [[TreacherousAdvisor Duchess]] [[TheUsurper Rowena]] is a master manipulator and comes the closest to winning out of nearly every ''Barbie'' villain. As she slowly poisons King Randolph to death, she plays the part of a loving relative to gain his trust and cut him off from his twelve daughters, until [[spoiler:he willingly makes her his successor on his deathbed]]. In turn, she manipulates the 12 princesses, undermining their self-esteem and capabilities to help their father, to the point that they decide to leave the kingdom for their mother's secret pavilion, believing Rowena's lie that they are the cause of their father's failing health. Before they can realize their mistake, she imprisons them in their place of refuge and steals some of its magic. Upon their escape, [[spoiler:she uses the stolen magic to place a FateWorseThanDeath curse on Princess Genevieve, compelling her to dance herself to death, which Genevieve only escapes by [[PaperFanOfDoom weaponizing the paper fan]] Rowena yelled at the girls about earlier. Rowena and her henchman Desmond may well still be trapped in the dance spell to this day.]]

* Creator/{{Pixar}}:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' gives us a sweet mother-daughter bonding story...with a villain, Mor'du, that happens to be a red-eyed, twelve-foot-tall bear with a taste for human flesh. As well as plenty of scenes that could have come right out of a horror movie, such as [[spoiler:Mor'du watching a young Merida in the forest, Merida going into a castle and having Mor'du sneak up behind her after she's learned his gruesome origin story, and the end fight, where absolutely nothing hurts him except a bear of similar size and a multiton rock]].

* 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/{{Coco}}'' takes place in the vibrant, party-filled, music-laden Land of the Dead, which is populated with fondly remembered skeletons and colorful alebrijes. At first, the conflict seems to be that Miguel’s passion for music conflicts with his family's ban on music and he needs to resolve those two in order to get home. [[spoiler:However, we discover that Miguel's hero and best chance to get home, Ernesto de la Cruz, murdered his homesick songwriter partner simply to get famous off the songs he wrote. He then goes on to try and murder Miguel because HeKnowsTooMuch which also puts Miguel's friend Héctor at risk to the FinalDeath.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': The film is filled with a colorful cast of characters—virtually all of the villains are either mindless predators, [[ObliviouslyEvil oblivious to their own wrongdoing]], or turn out to be not so bad after all. However, there is a dead-set example in the first five minutes, in the shape of the barracuda that kills Coral and every one of Marlin's children except Nemo. It appears for only a minute, but that minute is often regarded as the darkest in the movie. The mood instantly darkens when it appears, it's one of the few creatures not anthropomorphized, and the rest of the scene is just heart-breaking. It's in effect for the rest of the movie, too; the barracuda triggers a lifetime of mental trauma for Marlin and leads to his violent overprotection, driving Nemo to abandon Marlin and get captured as a result. In a sense, this thing is responsible for the entire plot and all the dark and sad moments within. Not bad for one scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Buddy Pine, better known as Syndrome, a genocidal superhero wannabe and a true [[FromNobodyToNightmare Nobody to Nightmare]]. Early in the film, Buddy interrupts Mr. Incredible, or Bob Parr while fighting the supervillain Bomb Voyage in an attempt to become his sidekick. His careless actions nearly get himself killed and allow Bomb Voyage to escape, leading to Mr. Incredible rightfully turning him down and crushing Buddy's dreams. However, Buddy instead subverts his potential FreudianExcuse by holding on to his petty grudge into adulthood, and initiates the mass murder of retired superheroes by luring them to his island. Once Bob finds out, Syndrome beats him down with his Omnidroid and has him tortured, spitefully launching a missile at a plane that he knows has his family on it. Showing callous indifference to Mirage once her life is under threat by Bob, Syndrome plans to release the Omnidroid on the populace once he's disposed of Bob, then painting himself as a hero by falsely defeating the Omnidroid. Once foiled, Syndrome kidnaps the infant Incredible Jack-Jack with the intent to corrupt him into becoming like him. Selfish, petty, and all-around murderous, Syndrome stood out as one of Pixar's darkest villains.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinocchioAndTheEmperorOfTheNight'' is a fairly dark film with an extremely creepy puppetmaster called Puppetino, who ensnares Pinocchio, transforms him back to a puppet, and forces Pinocchio to dance against his will as he begs to stop, and would be a fair example of this trope. But once his terrifying master, the titular Emperor of the Night reveals himself in the final act, the atmosphere changes dramatically as he reveals his previous victims trapped forever as puppets in his world of dreams and nightmares, and wants to do the same to Pinocchio and his friends. And the Emperor almost succeeds.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' is a lighthearted series where the main conflict is usually within the heroes as opposed to external. Villains tend to be either ObliviouslyEvil or relatively harmless. Until ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', that is, where we meet [[spoiler:Lotso, a sadistic teddy bear overlord of a day care center who subjects new toys to being broken by toddlers, tortures, brainwashes, imprisons, and attempts to murder the heroes, and when they save him, he [[UngratefulBastard repays them]] by ''leaving them to die in an incinerator'']].

* [[spoiler:Charles Muntz]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', though [[spoiler:Carl's childhood hero]] at one point, is a delusional and sociopathic murderer who kills anyone who he even ''thinks'' [[spoiler:threatens his discovery]].