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* The 2017 ''Westernanimation/BobTheBuilder'' Movie Called "The Mega Machines" had a villain named Conrad who [[spoiler:started a flood so he could ruin Bob's good name]] and [[BadBoss threatens to scrap his machines if they don't do his bidding]].

* The 2017 ''Westernanimation/BobTheBuilder'' Movie Called "The Mega Machines" had a villain named Conrad who [[spoiler:started a flood so he could ruin Bob's good name]] and '''threatens to scrap his machines if they don't do his bidding'''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': [[Characters/BigCityGreensChipWhistler Chip Whistler]], while still comedic, his obsession with driving the Greens out of Big City would lead him to gradually become more of a threat to the family than the typical jerk antagonists usually found in the show; culminating in him straight-up attempting to kill Cricket.

* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'' is a fairly light hearted and optimistic show, and most of the villains are either misunderstood (if dragons) or redeemable (if human). It also a few truly dark villains.

* From the same creator of Sofia The First, we have ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'' and its main villain Shuriki. Put simply, she's the first villain to commit ''onscreen murder'' of the protagonist's parents. She just gets much more vile and cruel from here. Let us repeat that this is a ''Disney Junior'' show.

** [[Characters/AmphibiaKingAndrias King Andrias]], the thought to be good king in Season 2, turns out to be the BigBad, who comes from a long line of galactic conquerors who wants to take over all dimensions, including ''Anne's''. And as if seeing Anne has the only one left with the power to defeat him wasn't enough, he will stop at nothing to ''kill her''.

** [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore The Core]] seems to take this to even higher levels -- being a MindHive of Amphibia's greatest minds who demands a human host. It craves Marcy due to her intelligence, as well as being the only one to defeat Andrias at Flipwart, and thus takes control of her.

** As of the final arc of the series [[spoiler: [[Characters/GravityFallsBillCipher Bill Cipher]] certainly qualifies. While his initial appearance had him more of a twisted games master with BlueAndOrangeMorality, once he gains the power he needs, he turns into a villain straight out of the work of Creator/CliveBarker, turning the entire town into a twisted hellscape, engaging in casual use of BodyHorror and TakenForGranite, and taking great glee in setting horrific monsters upon the innocent townspeople. He's easily evolved into the darkest and most dangerous villain the show has ever seen. ]]

* There's also an InUniverse example in the episode "Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional": Winchester Wolf, was a cartoon villain and nemesis for Dopey Dog, both characters created by cartoonist Walt Fleishman (a homage to Creator/WaltDisney and Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer). Evil, black suit, brooches and belt buckles shaped like skulls here and there, a cape, godlike powers and voiced by ''Creator/FrankWelker''.

** The Lich [[OmnicidalManiac seeks to eradicate all life]], [[WalkingWasteland kills things simply by being near them]], looks like a half-rotten corpse, his [[spoiler:possession of Bubblegum]] is straight out of ''Film/TheExorcist'', he [[spoiler:kills [[BigGood Billy]]]] and uses him as LivingBodysuit, [[spoiler:kills Prismo]], is a master of manipulation and MindRape, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and he's voiced by]] Creator/RonPerlman. He's the only villain in the entire series that is played dead seriously (pun intended), and he is all the more terrifying for it. It's implied he's the embodiment of the first bomb of the Mushroom War, making him the avatar of the apocalypse. [[spoiler:And it turns out he's merely [[TheDragon a disciple]] of someone ''FAR'', '''FAR''' worse.]]

** King Andrias, the thought to be good king in Season 2, turns out to be the BigBad, who comes from a long line of galactic conquerors who wants to take over all dimensions, including ''Anne's''. And as if seeing Anne has the only one left with the power to defeat him wasn't enough, he will stop at nothing to ''kill her''.

** [[EldritchAbomination The Core]] seems to take this to even higher levels -- being a MindHive of Amphibia's greatest minds who demands a human host. It craves Marcy due to her intelligence, as well as being the only one to defeat Andrias at Flipwart, and thus takes control of her.

** [[BigBad Vilgax]] is a GalacticConqueror stated to be [[TheDreaded the most feared being in the Universe]], who wants get the Omnitrix so he can use it to create an army of invincible shapeshifting drones. He is explicitly stated to have blown up at least one inhabited planet according to flashbacks, almost exterminating the species in the process, and WordOfGod implied it wasn't the only one. When first meeting with Ben, he delivers him a very brutal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, kidnaps him by taking his relatives hostage, and tries to ''cut his arm off'' just so he can take the Omnitrix from it.

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': Chip Whistler, while still comedic, his obsession with driving the Greens out of Big City would lead him to gradually become more of a threat to the family than the typical jerk antagonists usually found in the show; culminating in him straight-up attempting to kill Cricket.

** As of the final arc of the series [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination Bill Cipher]] certainly qualifies. While his initial appearance had him more of a twisted games master with BlueAndOrangeMorality, once he gains the power he needs, he turns into a villain straight out of the work of Creator/CliveBarker, turning the entire town into a twisted hellscape, engaging in casual use of BodyHorror and TakenForGranite, and taking great glee in setting horrific monsters upon the innocent townspeople. He's easily evolved into the darkest and most dangerous villain the show has ever seen. ]]

** Discord [[BewareTheSillyOnes seems harmless enough]], right? Sure, [[OoCIsSeriousBusiness Celestia is on edge]], but [[FauxAffablyEvil he's a pleasant fellow]] and [[TheTrickster loves playing games]]. He's also a RealityWarper with a passion for [[DespairEventHorizon psychological torture]], [[CorruptTheCutie corrupting]] Twilight's friends into a twisted mirror of their true selves and driving Twilight herself to the brink of the DespairEventHorizon. He celebrates his victory by turning Equestria into a WorldOfChaos where the ponies are reduced to playthings for his amusement. He's such a nasty piece of work that [[spoiler:his HeelFaceTurn]] a season and a half later came as a genuine shock, and even then it took a temporary [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn, being betrayed just like he betrayed everyone, and Twilight being willing to help him despite what he'd done for it to fully stick.]]

** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Chrysalis]] in "A Canterlot Wedding", whose ''modus operandi'' is to replace and impersonate individuals, [[EmotionEater draining their loved ones]] to increase her own power and put them under MindControl, before leading her minions in a full scale invasion so they can feed as well and drain everyone. It's implied that Equestria isn't the first land she's done this to. She became [[BreakoutVillain one of the most recurring villains on the show]] and she gets even worse in her later appearances: first it's revealed that love-draining isn't how Changelings are supposed to feed and doing so keeps them hungry forever. Chrysalis knows this, but never told them, all so she could stay in power. She refuses the Changelings' HeelRaceTurn and undergoes major SanitySlippage alone, before coming back in the final episodes and at one point threatening to ''rip Spike's wings off.'' Oh, and her actions in the finale have a hand in bringing back the Windigoes mentioned above, and her response to this? ''Let them turn Equestria into a frozen wasteland'', so that she can [[EngineeredHeroics eventually destroy them and force its citizens to follow her.]]
** "The Crystal Empire" has [[SorcerousOverlord King Sombra]], an evil umbrum who used [[BlackMagic dark magic]] to [[SlaveRace enslave the ponies of the Crystal Empire]] and make it vanish for a thousand years when Celestia and Luna defeated him and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed him away]]. He is never played for comedy at any point, is [[TheDreaded so feared]] that the crystal ponies imply that part of their LaserGuidedAmnesia is them intentionally repressing the events of Sombra's rule, and comes within inches of killing a main character -- [[WouldHurtAChild a child no less]] -- [[spoiler:before being KilledOffForReal himself, in a first for the show]].

** Season 4's two part finale brings in a G4 revamp of Tirac as Lord Tirek, the TropeCodifier and the very first of these to appear in the franchise. He escaped from Tartarus, the InUniverse Hell-equivalent and prison for Equestria's absolute worst monsters -- to put things in perspective, [[MadGod Discord]] was merely petrified and kept in Celestia's garden. He has powerful [[PlayingWithFire fire magic]] and he is capable of [[ManaDrain leeching the magic out of ponies]], which includes erasing their cutie mark. He's so terrible that Princess Celestia and Princess Luna feel the only hope they have of bringing him in and re-imprisoning him is to [[GodzillaThreshold send Discord to capture him]]. [[spoiler:That decision backfires spectacularly when [[WeCanRuleTogether Discord is tricked into siding with Tirek]] instead. And then he [[NoHonorAmongThieves turns on Discord]] and steals ''his'' magic too when he has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no more need of him]].]]

** "The Cutie Map" had Starlight Glimmer, a dictator who steals ponies' Cutie Marks and talents and then brainwashes them into believing that only by stamping out individuality and making sure all are "equal" can ponies be friends. Notably, her methods have been compared to those of real-life cults. Much like Discord above, she was such an evil and realistic villain that her HeelFaceTurn in her second appearance came as a ''genuine'' shock, particularly after she spent the majority of that second appearance [[spoiler:using time travel to prevent Twilight and her friends from ever meeting, and drags Twilight herself along [[ForcedToWatch so she can see it happen.]] They wind up doing this several times, each creating a worse timeline than the last; while Starlight didn't intend this part or even know about it at first, being shown that what she's done will result in [[SugarApocalypse Equestria being reduced to a barren wasteland]] does disturbingly little to dissuade her from this course of action.]]

** Season 8 has [[spoiler: [[EnfanteTerrible Cozy Glow]]. A [[BitchInSheepsClothing seeming sweet]] [[EnfanteTerrible school-age pegasus]] who is in fact an evil psychopathic mastermind, who conspires with Lord Tirek to drain all the magic in Equestria and trick Twilight and her friends into trapping themselves in Tartarus, and take over their School of Friendship, so ponies will have to turn to her for guidance, and she would rule Equestria as the Empress of Friendship. And unlike every other villainous pony in the show, she notably never gets a FreudianExcuse for her actions, which can be [[NothingIsScarier scary]] for some people or could be taken as proof that some ponies are just born bad -- or irredeemably evil, as in her case.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is a mostly light-hearted HorrorComedy, with even the villains getting in on the humor or having significant redeeming qualities. [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] [[{{Understatement}} doesn't]]. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's a WitchHunter and a Puritanical {{Fundamentalist}} Christian zealot named Philip Wittebane who is on the Boiling Isles for one reason and one reason only. '''[[FinalSolution The total genocide of any and all Witches and Demons]]'''. Over the centuries, he has gaslit the entire population into believing his propaganda, to get them to accept Coven Sigils which will actually be used to drain them of all magic, thus killing them. He also once had a brother named Caleb who fell in love with a Witch. [[AbsoluteXenophobe Philip killed him in cold blood]], and has been making and killing clones of Caleb for ''centuries'' to the point that he has killed his own brother ''hundreds of times over''. He gets briefly defeated by the Collector, by manner of getting [[LudicrousGibs smashed to paste against a wall]]. This doesn't kill him. He piggybacks on Hunter, the latest Grimwalker and later assimilates him before he manages to escape to the Demon Realm to finish his Crusade. The way in which he ultimately tries to finish the job? [[HijackingCthulhu Taking control of the entire Boiling Isles Titan]] to consume it and everyone on it. To top it all off, while possessing the Titan, Belos successfully '''[[TheHeroDies murders Luz herself]]''' even if it doesn't stick, and the show thoroughly establishes that this man is absolute, pure evil.]]

** Shadow Weaver is an AbusiveParent in two different ways, using emotional manipulation on Adora while outright torturing Catra, and even when she switches sides, 1) she's not shown to be any better of a person, just one with a grudge against Hordak, and 2) she escaped by cruelly playing on Catra's desperate need for emotional validation.
** As for Catra, while she has a [[FreudianExcuse sympathetic backstory]], her spiral out of control leads her to lash out in ''such'' cruel and short-sighted ways that it's almost uncomfortable to watch, for all that [[BeingEvilSucks it invariably rebounds on her]].
** Hordak has a sympathetic backstory and a love interest, but he's still a tyrant with no moral qualms about conquest, torture, or war crimes.
** [[spoiler:Horde Prime is worse that Catra, Shadow Weaver, and Hordak ''combined''. He has conquered entire ''galaxies'', cultivated a clone army that he treats like worthless tools, and ruthlessly stamped out the free will of his clones. With only a few minutes of screen time in "Destiny, Part 2", he establishes himself as the most cruel, callous, ungrateful, and depraved character in the series.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' has Toffee, a [[LizardFolk Lizard Man]] totally at odds with the series around him. He's a planner, a manipulator, someone who has been fighting Star's family for several generations. However, thanks to his intelligence, he's able to do all sorts of things to get things his way. In his last appearance in season 1, he gets Star's wand destroyed after threatening Marco's life. And while he seems to die...[[spoiler:he survives in a piece of Star's Wand.]] And when [[spoiler:he returns in season 2, it pulls a GrandTheftMe on Ludo's body]] and then causes the defeat of the Magic High Commission, 4 of the most powerful magic users in all dimensions. Crafty, ruthless, and ultimately as strong in body as in mind, Toffee is the most vile thing in ''Star Vs.'', and easily her greatest threat.

** Jasper is a ruthless, [[SocialDarwinist Darwinian]] BloodKnight who marks as the show's first major KnightOfCerebus and introduction to Homeworld beyond Peridot. Notable as the first Gem Steven immediately knew he couldn't reason with, Jasper introduces herself by casually ordering Peridot to use their ship's cannon to vaporize the heroes, brutally destabilizing Garnet and headbutting Steven into unconsciousness. In all her appearances, Jasper is consistently treated as an intimidating and domineering threat to everyone and everything around her who only respects those of equal or greater strength.

** The Diamond Authority stands out as the biggest example of this. Beyond being responsible for overseeing Homeworld's atrocities (from a war that led to hundreds of casualties, to forced fusion experiments of shattered gems, to the production of a tortured superweapon made out of ''millions'' of these gem shards), on their own record, they are ''incredibly'' petty and willing to murder anyone they perceive as insulting them. [[spoiler:Yellow Diamond in particular is engineering the Cluster - the aforementioned superweapon - not out of any pragmatic purpose, but instead to obliterate Earth out of vengeful spite, and Blue Diamond is a confirmed Gem shatterer.]] And finally we have [[GreaterScopeVillain White Diamond]], who [[spoiler:is an utterly deluded, narcissistic sociopath who has the power to strip a Gem of their individuality and turn them into essentially sockpuppets for her, complete with a monochrome coloring and her voice coming out of their mouths. And she's also a master at psychological torment even ''without'' using this power!]]
*** [[spoiler:Averted with Pink Diamond, who if anything is the BigGood. Sort of. Details revealed over the course of the series show that, while Pink/Rose may have ended up as the very picture of all that is good- and may have even lived up to it- she started as the Diamonds bratty teenage daughter with a HairTriggerTemper and powers that made her even more of a PersonOfMassDestruction than the other Diamonds. She was already starting to succumb to the cycle of abuse, and was only saved because she came to Earth and HumansAreSpecial. Even so, she didn't truly grow out of it until almost the present, as she poofed fellow Crystal Gem Bismuth when a disagreement caused them to come to blows, then hid Bismuth's gem away for thousands of years without telling the others what happened. It's shown even more clearly in the movie, where we see that Pink abandoned her (up to that point) best friend by ordering her, using the Diamonds' MoreThanMindControl powers, to stand perfectly still in their space garden while Pink went gallivanting off to have her own colony. Poor Spinel suffered a psychotic break when she learned Pink never even ''intended'' to come back, and became the villain of the movie.]]

** [[BigBad The Shredder]] himself is definitely this. In contrast to his 1987 version, the 2012 Shredder is much more evil, stronger, and dangerous than even his 2003 version. Shredder as had many people painfully mutated in order to serve his cause, forced his own daughter Karai [[spoiler:who is not his real daughter, she's Hamato Yoshi's child]] to have a worm planted in her head [[BrainwashedAndCrazy forcing her to fight by his side]], and don't even get us started on the lengths he will take in order to get back at [[ArchEnemy Splinter]]. One of his plans even involved having Splinter's four sons turned into snakes and brutally kill him. [[spoiler:At one point Shredder actually ''killed'' Splinter, chosing revenge over stopping Earth from being sucked into the black hole, even saying it was WorthIt as he finally killed his rival]]. And then there is when he is mutated into the [[SuperMode Super Shredder]] where Shredder completely loses the last bit of sanity he had and was hell bent on killing anyone and everyone, [[spoiler:actually managing to kill Splinter for good this time in a rather [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath brutal fashion.]]]] It's very easy to say that Shredder is definitely the most evil villain of the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' sometimes has this trope. The show itself is usually lighthearted, and most of the one-shot villains are comical (with a couple of notable exceptions)- but lets take a look at some of the {{Big Bad}}s. [[MagnificentBastard Slade]] is a creepily emotionless diabolical mastermind who runs on blackmail, MindRape, {{Hannibal Lecture}}s, and delivers {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}s to several characters in surprisingly vivid fashion. Then there's Trigon, who's {{Satan}} and wants to use the show's main [[TheWoobie Woobie]], who's also his daughter, to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt- and he actually succeeds in causing HellOnEarth for two episodes. Fun times. Both villains (as well as Brother Blood) were toned down a lot for the cartoon. For much of the '80s, the ''Teen Titans'' was one of DC's darkest books. The fact that they were able to make it a kids' show is a feat for the ages.