History VillainousBreakdown / AnimatedFilms

[[caption-width-right:320:[[DiabolicalMastermind Professor Ratigan]], devolved from [[FauxAffablyEvil a charismatic criminal mastermind]] with an [[LargeHam over-the-top personality]] into [[AxCrazy a dangerously unhinged psychopath]] with a [[UnstoppableRage feral bloodlust]] after Basil loses him everything.]]

-->'''Bowser''': [[spoiler:'''''[[SayMyName MARIOOOOO!]]''''' [...] YOU RUINED MY WEDDING! I WAS ''FINALLY'' GONNA BE HAPPY! NOW YOU WILL '''SUFFER,''' '''''LIKE MEEEEE!''''']]

** Denahi from ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'' gradually becomes more and more unhinged being consumed by intense hatred driven by both a desire for revenge and grief after seemingly losing his remaining brother trying to kill a transformed Kenai and Koda, thinking that the former [[MistakenForOwnMurderer was the bear who "killed" the real Kenai]] as the movie progresses, until during the final battle at the mountain top, Sitka transforms Kenai back into a human, thus prompting Denahi to perform a HeelFaceTurn.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': After the Joker reveals himself, Bruce urges Terry to not respond to [[AttentionWhore the clown's]] gloating, as it's just what he wants. Terry instead [[IShallTauntYou mocks]] the clown with a BoringInsult. Joker doesn't take this lightly and only the monster remains from that point on. After all, a comedian's worst enemy is TheHeckler. Who knew the clown had NoSenseOfHumor when ''he'' is the punchline? [[spoiler:Terry does this so that the clown will lower his own guard and be killed off for good with his own joy buzzer.]]

* Happens to [[spoiler: Miles Axlerod]] at the end of ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' as a result of Mater exposing him as the villain behind the evil plot of the exploding race cars. He then goes crazy for a while, ranting at Mater as he does so before finally being forced to deactivate the TimeBomb he placed on the tow truck (it's voice-activated, meaning that only he can turn it off properly) as a final attempt to kill him.

'''Hades:''' ''(flaming up)'' [[BigNo NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!]]'' Hercules, you can't do this to me! You can't-- ''[[TalkToTheFist (Hercules punches him in the fist)]]'' Okay, I might have deserved that.

** Denahi from ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'' gradually becomes more and more unhinged trying to kill a transformed Kenai and Koda, thinking that the former [[MistakenForOwnMurderer was the bear who "killed" the real Kenai]] as the movie progresses, until during the final battle at the mountain top, Sitka transforms Kenai back into a human, thus prompting Denahi to perform a HeelFaceTurn.

* Happens to [[spoiler: Miles Axlerod]] at the end of ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' as a result of Mater exposing him as the villain behind the evil plot of the exploding race cars. He then goes crazy for a while before finally being forced to deactivate the TimeBomb he placed on the tow truck (it's voice-activated, meaning that only he can turn it off properly) as a final attempt to kill him.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': In a very tragic example, Rameses ''snaps'' after [[spoiler:the death of his son]], riding after Moses and the Hebrews and, when they try to escape him through the Red Sea, he shouts to his men "Kill them! KILL THEM ALL!" The last of him seen in the film is [[spoiler:him screaming in rage and agony, cursing Moses]].

-->'''Hades:''' [[ThisCannotBe No! This is... This is impossible!]] You can't be alive! You'd have to be a...\\

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', Clayton flips out after Tarzan pulls a BigDamnHeroes to save his ape family from him and his hunters. He's so far gone in this madness, when he gets tangled up in vines and he starts cutting them away, he doesn't notice one's wrapped around his neck, leading to him [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath hanging himself]] when all the vines are cut.

* Cat R. Waul of ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'' starts out with all the grace and sophistication a VillainWithGoodPublicity needs. Even when the heroes come to take him down, he calmly sics his men on them. But once his trap has been exposed for all, this quickly gives way.

-->'''Edgar:''' You're going to Timbuktu ''if it's the last thing I do!''

[[caption-width-right:320:[[DiabolicalMastermind Professor Ratigan]], devolved from [[FauxAffablyEvil a charismatic criminal mastermind]] with an [[LargeHam over-the-top personality]] into [[AxCrazy a dangerously unhinged psychopath]] with a [[UnstoppableRage feral bloodlust]] after Basil makes a fool of him.]]

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', when Judge Claude Frollo sees that Esmeralda's alive, he stops pretending to be Quasimodo's loving parent and reveals to him how [[spoiler:his mother died trying to save him]]. After that, he mercilessly persues and tries to kill both him and Esmeralda, with a satanic SlasherSmile. At the end, he cuts through a statue, [[DisneyVillainDeath which takes him to his doom]].
--->'''Frollo:''' AND HE SHALL SMITE THE WICKED AND PLUNGE THEM INTO THE FIERY PIT!

** In ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', as [[spoiler:Rourke]] attempts to escape with the MacGuffin in the midst of an attack by Atlantean fliers, he slowly loses the calm demeanor he had sported throughout the rest of the movie, sporting one hell of a SlasherSmile and attacking Milo with a fire axe. And he gets worse when Milo cuts his arms with a crystal shard, turning him into a shrieking crystal beast.

** ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'': The Fairy Godmother loses what remaining sanity she has Infuriated by the romance between Shrek and Fiona, she throws a curse at them only for King Harold to intercept and reflect it back at her with his armor, disintegrating her into thousands of bubbles.

** At the end of Disney's animated ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan goes from being [[WickedCultured a smarmy, smug intellectual]] to a feral, crazed rat, savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recover and be calm and collected. But then, Basil both humiliates Ratigan in front of dozens of aristocrats ,and saves and reunites Olivia and her father (whom Ratigan had been keeping separate for most of the movie), denying Ratigan even the smallest of victories. At that, Ratigan reaches his breaking point.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': After the Joker reveals himself, Bruce urges Terry to not respond at [[AttentionWhore Joker's]] gloating, as it's just what he wants. Realizing that this is Joker's FatalFlaw, Terry instead [[IShallTauntYou mocks]] the clown with a BoringInsult. Joker doesn't take this lightly and only the monster remains from that point on. After all, a comedian's worst enemy is TheHeckler. Who knew the clown had NoSenseOfHumor when ''he'' is the punchline? [[spoiler:Terry does this so that the clown will lower his own guard and be killed off for good with his own joy buzzer.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': After the Joker reveals himself, Bruce urges Terry to not respond at Joker's gloating, as it's just what he wants. Realizing that Joker is an AttentionWhore who loves to hear himself laugh even if others don't care, Terry then verbally [[IShallTauntYou deconstructs]] the clown with a BoringInsult. Joker doesn't take Terry's insult lightly and only the monster remains from that point on. After all, the only thing worse for a comedian than a ToughRoom is TheHeckler. [[spoiler:Terry does this so that the clown will lower his own guard and be killed off for good with his own joy buzzer.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Tai Lung's composure really starts to fall apart once he sees the Dragon Scroll he so coveted. Instead of fighting intelligently and using environment to his advantage, like he did in every fight before, he single-mindedly pursues the scroll, losing more and more of his cool, as Po starts to give him problems. After he obtains the Dragon Scroll and finds it to be blank, he suffers from this full out, and it just gets more intense after he discovers his pressure point technique to be ineffectual against Po, causing him to throw all semblance of strategy and martial arts mastery out the window, and after getting beaten and barely able to get up and stumble around, he just keeps rambling and trying to fight back.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': After Clayton's plans fall apart, he proceeds to relentlessly chase Tarzan across the treetops, trying to kill him with his machete before the two get into a cluster of vines. When Tarzan traps Clayton into a bundle of vines, the latter is reduced to [[UnstoppableRage furiously]] cutting through each and every one of them except for one [[NooseCatch tangled around his neck]], causing Clayton to plummet from the treetops before [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath getting hung to death by the vine he forgot to cut]].

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Ursula towards the end after Ariel destroys her eel pets, effectively triggering her OneWingedAngel transformation, which involves her [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever growing to GIGANTIC size]] and [[EvilSoundsDeep speaking in a]] ''[[EvilSoundsDeep deep]]'' [[EvilSoundsDeep voice]]. Also, when she transforms into Vanessa, it is implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming a borderline AxCrazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and most certainly tries to kill a person had that been a human being, and her cackling. Vanessa gets another one later when her attempt to wed the hypnotized Prince Eric is sabotaged by an attack from Scuttle and his animal friends. She screams, curses, messes up her hair...and then realizes she has begun to speak in Ursula's voice just as the sun is setting.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': After he seemingly turns to leave when ordered by Simba, Scar abruptly [[AHandfulForAnEye kicks]] burning embers onto his estranged nephew and attacks him. When that failed and he's thrown off of Pride Rock, he finds his hyena minions, who overheard his plot to betray them. He [[VillainsWantMercy desperately tries begging for his life again]] to no luck.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'', when Judge Claude Frollo sees that Esmeralda's alive, he stops pretending to be Quasimodo's loving parent and reveals to him how [[spoiler:his mother died trying to save him]]. After that, he mercilessly persues and tries to kill both him and Esmeralda, with a scary SlasherSmile. At the end, he cuts through a statue, [[DisneyVillainDeath which takes him to his doom]].

** [[spoiler:Hans]] in ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': After witnessing [[spoiler:Elsa's escape from the castle dungeon before he can murder her,]] he gets so pissed off that he pursues her into the blizzard in order to do so at any cost.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'': When General Mandible's right-hand man, Colonel Cutter, decides to turn against him:

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022'', [[BigBad Professor Marmalade]] has an epic one at the end of the film following one heck of a HumiliationConga. After his [[EvilPlan plans]] are foiled by Mr. Wolf and his team, Marmalade attempts to take credit for recovering the meteorite, [[WhamShot but it turns out to be a fake one]] planted by Snake, who reveals that during his secret undercover operation, he switched the meteorite for the lamp before leaving the real one at Marmalade's mansion and overcharging it, causing it to explode and destroying Marmalade's mansion alongside all his personal wealth. As the whole team [[IShallTauntYou mock him mercilessly]] before going to jail to [[TheAtoner atone for their past crimes]], the Golden Dolphin lands on the fake meteorite, causing it to fall on Marmalade and making the Zumpango Diamond that he previously stole from Diane Foxington fall from his pocket, making the authorities frame him as the Crimson Paw, destroying his reputation and leading to his arrest. The last we see of Marmalade is him hopelessly watching Diane, the ''real'' Crimson Paw (who has basically [[KarmaHoudini gotten away with all her past crimes]] despite [[HeelFaceTurn already atoning for them]]), smugly wave goodbye at him while holding the Golden Dolphin, causing Marmalade to break down screaming in absolute despair.

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'': Lord Farquaad was already enraged at Shrek interrupting his wedding with Fiona, but upon Fiona revealing her ogress form, Farquaad snaps and orders his guards to imprison her and Shrek and sought to be a king by force. However, Shrek manages to get a hand free and whistles loudly, and Dragon bursts through the window and swallows Farquaad in one gulp, while the congregation ''cheers.''

** ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'': Determined not to let Shrek reclaim Fiona's love for him and nullify Rumpelstiltskin's contract, Rumpel becomes more and more enraged in his determination to keep the alternate timeline the dystopia it is. [[spoiler:When Shrek succeeds in reclaiming Fiona's true love's kiss, nullifying the contract, Rumpel starts begging for more time like a hysterical baby as his whole alternate reality disappears before his very eyes.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BarbiePrincessCharmSchool'': Dame Devin gets one when Delancey gives Blair the crown instead of putting it on herself. This results in Dame [[AccidentalPublicConfession revealing who caused the car crash]] that killed Queen Isabella.]]]]
-->'''Dame:''' You ''useless'' child! Do you have any idea what you've done? I eliminated Queen Isabella so ''you'' could be the princess one day!

'''Dr. Facilier:''' [[spoiler:No! I'm not ready at all!]]

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'': Ursula towards the end after Ariel destroys her eel pets, effectively triggering her OneWingedAngel transformation, which involves her [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever growing to GIGANTIC size]] and [[EvilSoundsDeep speaking in a]] ''[[EvilSoundsDeep deep]]'' [[EvilSoundsDeep voice]]. Also, when she transforms into Vanessa, it is implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming a borderline AxCrazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and most certainly tries to kill a person had that been a human being, and her cackling. Vanessa gets another one later when her attempt to wed the hypnotized Prince Eric is sabotaged by an attack from Scuttle and his animal friends. She screams, curses, messes up her hair...and then realizes she has begun to speak in Ursula's voice just as the sun is setting.

'''Belle:''' (''enraged'') [[NoYou He's not the monster, Gaston]] -- '''[[YouMonster YOU ARE!]]'''\\
'''Gaston''': (''taken aback, then snaps'') She's as ''crazy as the'' '''''old MAN!!''''' The beast will make off with your children! He'll come after them in the night!! We're not safe until his head is mounted on my wall! I say '''''WE KILL THE BEAST!!!'''''

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': After he seemingly turns to leave when ordered by Simba, Scar abruptly [[AHandfulForAnEye kicks]] burning embers onto his estranged nephew and attacks him. When that failed and he's thrown off of Pride Rock, he finds his hyena minions, who overheard his plot to betray them. He [[VillainsWantMercy desperately tries begging for his life again]] to no luck.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', when Judge Claude Frollo sees that Esmeralda's alive, he stops pretending to be Quasimodo's loving parent and reveals to him how [[spoiler:his mother died trying to save him]]. After that, he mercilessly persues and tries to kill both him and Esmeralda, with a scary SlasherSmile. At the end, he cuts through a statue, [[DisneyVillainDeath which takes him to his doom]].

** [[spoiler:Hans]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': After witnessing [[spoiler:Elsa's escape from the castle dungeon before he can murder her,]] he gets so pissed off that he pursues her into the blizzard in order to do so at any cost.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'', [[BigBad Professor Marmalade]] has an epic one at the end of the film following one heck of a HumiliationConga: After his [[EvilPlan plans]] are foiled by Mr. Wolf and his team, Marmalade attempts to take credit for recovering the meteorite, [[WhamShot but it turns out to be a fake one]] planted by Snake, who reveals that during his secret undercover operation, he switched the meteorite for the lamp before leaving the real one at Marmalade's mansion and overcharging it, causing it to explode and destroying Marmalade's mansion alongside all his personal wealth. As the whole team [[IShallTauntYou mock him mercilessly]] before going to jail to [[TheAtoner atone for their past crimes]], the Golden Dolphin lands on the fake meteorite, causing it to fall on Marmalade and making the Zumpango Diamond that he previously stole from Diane Foxington fall from his pocket, making the authorities frame him as the Crimson Paw, destroying his reputation and leading to his arrest. The last we see of Marmalade is him hopelessly watching Diane, the ''real'' Crimson Paw (who has basically [[KarmaHoudini gotten away with all her past crimes]] despite [[HeelFaceTurn already atoning for them]]), smugly wave goodbye at him while holding the Golden Dolphin, causing Marmalade to break down screaming in absolute despair.
---> '''Professor Marmalade:''' No! No! [[CassandraTruth I'm not the Crimson Paw!]] ''Sh-She's'' the Crimson Paw! ''She's the Paw!'' I'M A FLOWER OF GOODNESS! '''''[[BigNo NO!!]]'''''

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'': After ComicBook/TheJoker reveals himself, Bruce urges Terry to not respond at Joker's gloating, as it's just what he wants. Realizing Joker is an AttentionWhore who loves to hear himself laugh even if others don't care, Terry then verbally [[IShallTauntYou deconstructs]] the clown with a BoringInsult. Joker doesn't take Terry's insult lightly and only the monster remains from that point on. After all, the only thing worse for a comedian than a ToughRoom is TheHeckler. [[spoiler:Terry did it so the clown will lower his own guard and be killed off for good with his own joy buzzer]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': While Bowser in this film is a hot-tempered psychopath, the climax does a hell of a number on him and devolves him into an utterly raging maniac. Once he gets [[spoiler:frozen in ice by Peach and witnesses Mario saving the day, he becomes so enraged that he busts out and demands his troops to deploy the Bomber Bill upon the Mushroom Kingdom (read: '''NukeEm''').]] By the time he gets to [[spoiler:Brooklyn, he's rocketed off the handle completely and is just trying as hard as he can to kill Mario.]] Once [[spoiler:both Mario Bros. get the Super Star, a shocked but still frenzied Bowser screams at his troops to "rip them to pieces", even though by now they simply don't stand a chance against the Bros.' new invincibility.]]

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'': Ursula towards the end after Ariel destroys her eel pets, effectively triggering her OneWingedAngel transformation, which involves her [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever growing to GIGANTIC size]] and [[EvilSoundsDeep speaking in a]] ''[[EvilSoundsDeep deep]]'' [[EvilSoundsDeep voice]]. Also, when she transforms into Vanessa, it is implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming a borderline AxCrazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and most certainly tries to kill a person had that been a human being, and her cackling. Vanessa gets another one later when her attempt to wed the hypnotized Prince Eric is sabotaged by an attack from Scuttle and his animal friends. She screams, curses, messes up her hair...and then realizes she has begun to speak in Ursula's voice just as the sun is setting.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': After he seemingly turns to leave when ordered by Simba, Scar abruptly [[AHandfulForAnEye kicks]] burning embers onto his estranged nephew and attacks him. When that failed and he's thrown off of Pride Rock, he finds his hyena minions, who overheard his plot to betray them. He [[VillainsWantMercy desperately tries begging for his life again]] to no luck.

** ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'': Prince Charming, enraged that Artie encouraged his fellow villains to preform [[HeelFaceTurn Heel-Face Turns]], tries to kill Artie, only for Shrek to intervene and toss Charming aside, and Dragon knocks over the stage tower, which falls on top of Charming, crushing him to death.

** At the end of Disney's animated ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan goes from being [[WickedCultured a smarmy, smug intellectual]] to a feral, crazed rat, savagely attacking Basil. Although he does have quick seconds of losing his cool throughout the film, he is just as quickly able to recover and be calm and collected. But when Basil both humiliates Ratigan in front of dozens of aristocrats and saves and reunites Olivia and her father (whom Ratigan had been keeping separate for most of the movie), Ratigan reaches his breaking point.