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"The ultimate villain of the story, who's causing the problem the heroes must solve."

Note that Big Bad is not a catch-all trope for the biggest and ugliest villain of any given story.This may include Big Bads from movies based off of Western Animation shows.

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  • 9: The Fabrication Machine, or B.R.A.I.N, a soul-sucking machine responsible for eradicating mankind and the one leading the machines to destroy Stitchpunks and take over what remains of the world.
  • Aardman Animations films:
    • Chicken Run: Mrs. Tweedy. While Mr. Tweedy seems to have inherited the farm from his parents before he married her, Mrs. Tweedy is definitely the one in charge, continually bosses him around and sets up the plan to kill all the chickens.
    • The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: Egomaniac Hunter Lord Victor Quartermaine, who wants to marry Lady Tottington for her fortune, and when sees that she's interested in Wallace and discovers the latter is the Were-Rabbit, he becomes all too willing to make an attempt on his life.
    • Flushed Away: Toad, who seeks to drown Ratropolis in sewage both to satisfy his grudge against rodents after his owner Prince Charles replaced him with a rat and flushed him down the toilet, and to create a home for his tadpole offspring.
    • The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists: Queen Victoria, who hates pirates and wants to get Polly from the Pirate Captain so she can eat her.
    • Shaun the Sheep Movie: Anthony Trumper, who briefly catches Shaun and Bitzer and pursues them and the flock when they escape.
    • Early Man: Lord Nooth, a greedy, proud Lord of a bronze city who looks down on cavemen and is obsessed with money.
  • The Adventures of the American Rabbit: Walt, actually a robot controlled by Vultor, is the leader of the Jackal gang terrorizing San Francisco and attempts to kill Robert throughout his cross country tour to raise funds to rebuild the nightclub his gang destroyed, before his plans abruptly shift to taking over New York, then attempting to destroy it.
  • The Adventures of Tintin: Ivan Ivanovich Sakharine seeks to claim the treasure of the Unicorn, and carries out a blood oath against the Haddocks from his ancestor, which leads him to conflict with Tintin and Haddock as he pursues several boat replicas.
  • Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time gives Scheherazade a Historical Villain Upgrade, making her an evil sorceress who wants to take over the world. Continuously hiding Aladdin's genie lamp in different time periods forces Aladdin and Paige to travel through time to find it.
  • The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse: Dr. Brainchild is secretly responsible for the zombie attacks in an attempt to discover true resurrection.
  • An Angel for Christmas: The evil D.D. Kovet, owner of the town's massive flange factory, is the reason Ironville doesn't celebrate Christmas. He goes out of his way to try and make sure all signs of the holiday are stomped out.
  • Ark: Baramanda seeks to covet the Ark's powers for himself and condemn the inhabitants of planet Alcyeon to their deaths while he becomes immortal.
  • Astro Boy: President Stone. It's is desire to gain the power to destroy the surface-dwellers is what leads to Tenma's death and seeks out Astro Boy's power core to power his Peacemaker robot in order to carry out his plans.
  • Balto: Steele. Originally just a Jerk Jock who enjoys his fame a little too much, feels entitled to have Jenna's affections, and likes picking on Balto, Steele proves just how evil he is when he tries to sabotage Balto's trail back to Nome to prevent the sleigh team from returning with the medicine, making it clear he would rather let the children die from their illness than let Balto get the glory Steele thinks should be his.
  • Barnyard: Dag. He sets himself up as a threat by killing Ben, and this killing of Ben spurs Otis and his friends to try and defeat him, setting the plot in motion.
  • Grendel's Mother from Beowulf (2007)is the mother of Grendel, the first monster Beowulf slayed, but also confronts Beowulf herself and later conceives the Dragon with him.
  • Fleshlumpeater is the leader of the man-eating giants from The BFG, who also belittle BFG and refer to him as a runt. The main conflict in the film thus relies on Sophie and BFG needing to stop him and the other man-eating giants.
  • Blue Sky Studios films:
    • Ice Age:
      • Soto in the first film of the series. He's the primary threat to the Herd, spending the movie hunting them down so he can kill 'Pinkie' in vengeance for the murders of several of his pack-mates at the hands of the child's tribe.
      • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs has Rudy the Baryonyx, an Animal Nemesis to Buck who caused his eye injury, and in return Buck knocked a tooth from his mouth in return to use as a knife. He is considered The Dreaded by everyone in the dinosaur world, even the Tyrannosaurus Mother, and while built up by foreshadowing by his powerful roars and Buck's story, only has one encounter with the Herd in the climax (though he also attacked Sid a little while earlier than that). When defeated by the Tyrannosaurus Mother, Rudy later performs a Heel–Face Turn now working with Buck.
      • Ice Age: Continental Drift has Captain Gutt, who spends the movie hunting down Manny with the intent of destroying everything he ever loved after he rejects his offer to join his crew, takes one of his crewmates, sinks his ship, and steals his second ship.
      • Ice Age: Collision Course has Gavin, who serves as the Herd's main obstacle in stopping the meteor heading for the planet. He starts off with this plan because he is clouded by Revenge Before Reason towards Buck thwarting him and his family's egg thievery, believing he and his children can fly over it and become the dominant species. He pulls a Heel–Face Turn when the Token Good Teammate of his family, his son Roger, convinces him to not put revenge on Buck over his family's safety.
      • The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild has Orson, a hyper-intelligent dinosaur who wants to rule the lost world and exterminate the mammals who have begun living down there.
    • Robots has the vile Madame Gasket, owner of the Chop Shop and mother of the sissy Phineas T. Ratchet. Bigweld Industries' actions go back to her, as does the ultimate Kill the Poor plan.
    • Horton Hears a Who! has Sour Kangaroo in a case of Adaptational Villainy , until she pulled a Heel–Face Turn. She was the one who worked to separate Horton and the thistle, and tried to convince everyone else to help her do so, causing the conflict of both worlds.
    • Rio: While psychopathic cockatoo Nigel is the one that directly engages the heroes in the first film, he answers directly to Marcel, who has him track down and capture Blu and Jewel as apart of his illegal bird smuggling ring.
    • Epic (2013) has Mandrake, King of the Boggans, who aims to steal the pod Tara chooses in order to upset the balance and takeover the forest.
    • Spies in Disguise has Killian, a cybernetic criminal who seeks to use the Assassin drone to kill all the H.T.U.V. agents for killing his previous crew, while using holographic technology to frame Lance for his attacks as revenge for Lance's disfigurement of him, making him behind the fooled H.T.U.V.'s hunt of Lance as well.
  • The Book of Life:
    • Xibalba, who represents the negative side of the afterlife. He has a wager with La Muerte which helps drive the plot, and when he starts losing it, he has Manolo killed. He continues to cause him trouble in the Land of the Remembered, all for the sake of winning said bet. Thankfully, he gets a Heel–Face Turn.
    • Chakal takes over following Xibalba's reformation. The original owner of the Medal of Everlasting Life which Joaquin used to become a hero when given it by Xibalba, he poses as a more dangerous threat to the mortal world and is far more cruel than Xibalba as he seeks to steal the medal back.
  • Cats Don't Dance has Darla Dimple, a self-centered child star and shining jewel of Mammoth Studios. She actively works to destroy Danny and the animals' chances at stardom so she can keep the spotlight all for herself.
  • The Christmas Light: Burton, an Insufferable Genius of an elf who, after getting transformed into a magical snowman, attempts to destroy Christmas as revenge for Santa and the elves mistreating him.
  • The Christmas Tree: Mrs. Mavilda, who owns the orphanage, is responsible for all the children's problems. She doesn't use any of the mayor's money to buy the orphans new clothes, gambles the money in her poker games, tries to send away the stray the orphans take in, tries to have Judy arrested just because the kids like her, and attempts to cut down Mrs. Hopewell out of spite towards the kids.
  • Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door: Vincent Volaju, a terrorist who plans to unleash a virus and wipe out all life on Mars under the belief that it'll free him from the nightmare he believes he's trapped in.
  • Delgo: Empress Sedessa, the cruel ruler of the Ardic wastelands who wants to eradicate the Lockni people.
  • Don Bluth's animated films:
    • An American Tail
      • Original film: Warren T. Cat, the leader of the Mott Street Maulers oppressing the mice of New York through a protection and selling children to sweatshops.
      • Fievel Goes West: Cat R. Waul, a British cat luring the mice of New York to the west with the promise of a better life so he and his feline cohorts can eat them.
      • The Treasure of Manhattan Island: Mr. Grasping, the corrupt owner of a cheese factory who stirs up conflict between his workers and the natives living under New York.
      • The Mystery of the Night Monster: Madame Mousey, a miniature poodle who plots to get rid of all of Manhattan's mice using her mechanical creation, the Night Monster.
    • Sharptooth from The Land Before Time, who fatally wounds Littlefoot's mother in the beginning and chases the main cast later in the film.
    • All Dogs Go to Heaven:
      • Carface from the first film, who murders Charlie Barkin at the beginning of the film to keep all the profits of their casino to himself, and is even exploiting Anne Marie's ability to talk to animals to win bets for the sake of cash.
      • The sequel, All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, has Red, a hellcat who recruits Carface to help him claim Gabriel's horn and use it to drag all the dogs in Heaven into Hell.
      • An All Dogs Christmas Carol has Belladonna, Annabelle's evil cousin who seeks to brainwash all the dogs in the city into stealing their owner's presents, ensuring they will get kicked out and abandoned, ruining Christmas.
    • The Grand Duke Of Owls from Rock-A-Doodle, who spends his time trying to chase down and kill Edmund, to foil his plan of getting Rock A Doodle to bring the sun back.
  • In Thumbelina the role of the Big Bad is a toss-up between Grundel Toad who is her most persistent stalker, his mother who actually kidnapped her and caused her whole journey and Mr. Mole who appears later in the story but is the last obstacle in Thumbelina's way. There is also Berkeley Beetle but he is easily the least committed to catching her.
    • The "Queen of Mean" Gnorga from A Troll in Central Park. Wanting to ruin all that's nice and good, she sets her sights on destroying Stanley, simply because Stanley brings happiness and life. Exiling Stanley only allowed him to make friends with two children, and her ensuing attempts to kill all three of them pushes the plot forward.
    • Drake from The Pebble and the Penguin is always trying to dispose of Hubie so that he can get Marina to be his lover instead of Hubie's.
    • Rasputin from Anastasia, who, due to the law of Disneyfication, is a singing undead sorcerer with a talking albino bat as his Dragon. Regardless of the historical inaccuracies, Rasputin in this film desires only to kill the entire Romanov family. This includes the escaped Anastasia; his magical efforts to murder her is the plot's biggest conflict, and his killing of the rest of her family caused the plot to begin with.
    • Titan A.E.: The Drej Queen, the leader of the Drej who's responsible for Earth's destruction and seeks to destroy all of humanity.
  • DreamWorks Animation franchises:
    • Shrek:
      • Lord Farquaad from Shrek, as the direct instigator of all story conflicts through sending fairy-tale creatures to the swamp, sending Shrek out to bring back Fiona with the deal of getting the creatures out of his swamp, and then trying to forcibly marry Fiona after she falls for Shrek.
      • The Fairy Godmother from Shrek 2, who persuades King Harold to try and get Shrek killed, all so that Fiona will marry her godson, Prince Charming, and forced to take action herself at the end when the king refuses.
      • Prince Charming from Shrek the Third. Seeking revenge on Shrek after the Fairy Godmother was killed and he was reduced to a miserable theater actor, he teams up with fairy-tale villains from the Poison Apple Inn to conquer Far Far Away and drives the conflict of the climax to save the kingdom.
      • Rumpelstiltskin from Shrek Forever After, tricking Shrek into signing away his own existence to accomplish his scheme of becoming the king of Far Far Away, and persecuting ogres and other fairy-tale creatures in this Alternate Timeline, forcing the ogres to hide away and create a resistance force against him.
      • Puss in Boots: Humpty Dumpty is the mastermind of the plot, having hired Jack and Jill so they can help him retrieve the magic beans to get the Golden Geese and become rich, while planning his revenge against Puss and at San Ricardo's population for not treating him well. However, Jack and Jill were planning to betray him all along and serve as the Final Bosses alongside the Great Terror
      • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: Goldilocks, the three bears, and Jack Horner are all racing Puss to the Wishing Star, hoping to make wishes of their own ( Goldilocks to gain a family of her own, and Jack to gain control of all magic in the world respectively). However, the Greater-Scope Villain is the Wolf hunting Puss down, and is in fact Death itself, coming for Puss' final life.
    • Madagascar:
      • The Fossas from the first film are the predators to the lemurs. When the main characters arrive on Madagascar, the fossas prove to be afraid of Alex, so the lemurs task him with defeating the fossas, who also prove to be a threat to Alex's friends as well by the climax.
      • Makunga from Escape 2 Africa is jealous of Alex's father Zuba's reign, and seeks to take over from him, something he does by manipulating a situation in which Zuba would be reluctant to banish his own son, forcing him to abdicate. Though it could also be handed to Nana, an old woman who beats up Alex in the first film when the cast is still in New York, and who, taking charge of the group of the humans whose vehicles are stolen by the Penguins for parts to repair the crashed plane, leads the charge in building the dam that dries up the Watering Hole.
      • Chantel Dubois from Europe's Most Wanted is the most persistant threat the main characters face when she seeks to capture Alex and decapitate him for a lion head on her wall proudly among the other animal heads she has. She eventually is considered renegade by the police, and is even willing to chase the heroes back to New York.
      • Dr. Octavius Brine, a.k.a. Dave the octopus from Penguins of Madagascar. He has a grudge against all penguins for replacing him whenever he went to a new zoo, and seeks to make them ugly so no one will like them, putting him in direct opposition with the main Penguins and the North Wind.
    • Kung Fu Panda:
      • Tai Lung from the first film, who seeks to claim the Dragon Scroll after it was denied to him and become the Dragon Warrior, which brings him into conflict with his former master Shifu and the actual chosen Dragon Warrior Po.
      • Lord Shen from Kung Fu Panda 2 commits genocide on the pandas when overhearing a prophecy that one will rise up to defeat him, causing him to become The Exile and swear to conquer China. In the present, he takes over a city, and kills Kung Fu Master Thundering Rhino and imprisons fellow Masters Croc and Storming Ox, causing Po and the Furious Five to be sent to stop him.
      • Kai from Kung Fu Panda 3, Evil Former Friend to Master Oogway, escapes from the spirit world and seeks to absorb and control the Chi of all Kung Fu Masters, leading Po to have to learn Chi himself in order to confront him, with things being personal as Kai also targets the pandas.
    • How to Train Your Dragon:
    • Trolls:
      • Chef from the first movie, who wants to capture the trolls to feed the bergens and control the latter through manipulating King Gristle.
      • Queen Barb from Trolls World Tour, who seeks to unite the troll tribes by transforming them into rock trolls and destroying all other forms of music.
  • DreamWorks Animation solo films:
    • The Prince of Egypt: At first it's Pharaoh Seti I, who enslaved the Hebrews and ordered the initial purge of their children. After he dies about halfway through, his son Ramses II, adoptive brother of Moses, takes power and tries to prevent Moses from leading their exodus.
    • General Mandible from Antz, who seeks to overthrow the queen and replace her more peaceful society with his warriors.
    • The Road to El Dorado starts off as a Big Bad Ensemble between Tzekel-Kan (a High Priest who's a little too sacrifice-happy) and Hernàn Cortez (attempted conqueror of El Dorado), but Cortez eventually convinces Tzekel-Kan to bring him to El Dorado.
    • The Colonel from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron may be beholden to the Greater Scope Villains in the American government, but he's the one who personally causes Spirit and Little Creek the most grief over the course of the film, from personally mounting Spirit to break him after ordering food and water withheld from him for three days to leading an attack on Little Creek's village and nearly killing Rain.
    • The God of Evil Eris from Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, whose goals to claim the Book of Peace drive the conflict of the film.
    • Don Lino from Shark Tale, The Don posing as the biggest threat to Oscar when Oscar takes credit for something he didn't actually do, the death of the mobster's son Frankie.
    • Gallaxhar from Monsters vs. Aliens, who plans to conquer the Earth with a giant robot, then clones of himself, in order to steal the quantonium that gives Ginormica her powers, acting as the obstacle the Monsters must defeat to be set free.
    • Hal Stewart, AKA "Tighten," from Megamind, who was accidentally given Metro Man's superpowers by Megamind and decides to use them for himself instead of becoming a hero, even rampaging in Metro City when Roxanne rejects his advances.
    • Pitch Black from Rise of the Guardians, the one causing nightmares, he seeks to depose Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman (the last one of whom he attempts to kill) and bring fear to all the children, while attempting to appeal to new recruit Jack Frost.
    • In The Croods: A New Age, Phil and Hope Betterman start off as this, secretly repulsed by the Croods and seeking to manipulate Guy away from them. However, the Punch Monkeys turn out to be the real threat when Grug eats their offering of bananas, with the ensuing conflict causing Phil and Hope to have a Heel–Face Turn and accept the Croods. And then the Punch Monkeys turn out to have been offering the bananas to something in exchange for peace, a giant ape known as the Spiny Mandrilla, which becomes the Final Boss of the film.
    • Guy Gagne from Turbo. Already a racing champion Turbo has to beat to win the Indianapolis 500, Gagne isn't too willing to lose to Turbo even though he encouraged the race to allow Turbo in in the first place.
    • Ms. Grunion from Mr. Peabody & Sherman seeks to take Sherman from Mr. Peabody, thinking a dog isn't fit to be a parent of a human child.
    • Captain Smek from Home (2015). He led the Boov to take over Earth and relocate humanity as well as trying to stop Tip and Oh from finding Lucy, pursuing after Oh mainly for his mistake in accidentally sending an invite which would bring the Gorg to Earth.
    • Francis E. Francis from The Boss Baby, formerly the idol of the titular character, seeks to get puppies to replace babies as revenge for being fired from Baby Corp for lactose intolerance causing him to grow too old.
    • Professor Poopypants from Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, feeling humiliated by those who laugh at his name, seeks to eliminate all laughter, teaming up with evil genius Melvin Sneedly in order to do this, which drives the conflict when George, Harold, and Mr. Krupp / Captain Underpants try to stop him.
  • Eddy's Brother from Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show. He initially appears to be the Big Good, but once the Eds finally get to him, it turns out he's a psychological abuser and the reason Eddy turned out the way he did. Although he only appears at the end, he is vile even by the standards of the show.
  • Enrique Gato's animated films:
  • The Fearless Four: Dr. Greed, the tyrannical leader of Brenan using the Fearless Four's music as propaganda for his sausages made of countless animals he's kidnapped and imprisoned.
  • Claudandus AKA Pascal from Felidae, who commits all the murders investigated by Francis, all with the intent of wiping out any cat he considers too "impure" to be part of his pure, master cat race.
  • Fantastic Planet: Master Taj, one of the members of the Draag ruling council. While the Draags as a whole are the antagonistic force, Taj is the most vocal about exterminating all the wild Oms and continues to push his evil agenda even after the Oms are shown to be sapient. Unfortunately, the conflict ends before he can get what's coming to him.
  • Hexxus from FernGully: The Last Rainforest, the literal cloud of pollution that attempts to destroy Fern Gully, forcing the faeries to act.
  • The Flight Before Christmas: Black Wolf, the leader of the wolves who desires to kill and eat Santa and his reindeer.
  • The Flight of Dragons: Ommadon the Red Wizard, who wants to destroy the Realm of Science and turn the Realm of Magic into a hell-hole.
  • Foodfight!: Lady X is the leader of Brand X, who tries to take over the grocery store and the world by committing genocide against brand-name mascots. It's also revealed she was controlling Mr. Clipboard, who turned out to be a robot.
  • Free Birds: The greatest threat to the turkeys of the past is Miles Standish, who seeks to hunt the turkeys for the first Thanksgiving, and is the biggest obstacle that Reggie and Jake must defeat if they are to get turkeys off of Thanksgiving.
  • Gisaku: Gorkan, a devil who intends on invading Earth with his demon army and turn it into a living Hell.
  • Help! I'm a Fish: Joe. He gets a hold of the antidote that the heroes need after they've all been turned into sea creatures, and uses it for his own desires.
  • Hey Arnold!
    • Hey Arnold! The Movie: Alphonse Perrier du von Scheck, who Arnold and Gerald must stop from tearing down the neighborhood to build his mega mall.
    • Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie: Lasombra, who has Arnold and his friends kidnaped in order to get the sacred Corazón for himself.
  • Hera from Hercules (Pure Magic), who manipulates King Eurystheus into giving Hercules Hades' nectar, which drives him to destroy Thebes and put Deianira in a coma, and then to embark on a quest to slay the Hydra. Without her, none of the movie's conflict would have happened.
  • Hoodwinked!
    • Original film: Boingo is the real thief of Granny's recipes, seeking to make his own rival brands based on them.
    • ''Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil'Hansel and Gretel from the second film, secretly evil children who have teamed up with Granny's old friend Barushka to abduct her and force her to make a super truffle whose secret ingredient is unknown and from which they can gain great powers.
  • Horus: Prince of the Sun: Grunwald, an Ice Devil that Horus must prevent from destroying his village.
  • Illumination Entertainment films:
    • The Despicable Me franchise:
      • Vector/Victor Perkins, Despicable Me; though his actions are with the intent of pleasing his villainous father, he's the true threat of the story, stealing landmarks around the world and acting as an obstacle to Gru's success in stealing the moon. He goes so far as to steal Gru's adopted children, forcing him to decide between the kids and his mission.
      • El Macho from Despicable Me 2, a retired supervillain whose plans for a comeback put him at odds with Gru, both because Gru has been hired by the AVL to find the PX formula that El Macho stole, and because El Macho is planning on using it on the Minions to turn them into his army.
      • Scarlet Overkill from Minions. The greatest supervillain of the movie's time period, she hires the Minions to help with her newest heist, only to turn on them when they unintentionally show her up, still holding a grudge even after they try to make amends with her.
      • Balthazar Bratt from Despicable Me 3. A former child star turned supervillain, Gru crosses paths with him as he prepares to enact a revenge plan on the Hollywood industry for cancelling his show by destroying the whole city.
      • Belle Bottom from Minions: The Rise of Gru. The new leader of the supervillain team the Vicious Six, Belle Bottom usurps control of the group from the original leader Wild Knuckles, leading a young Gru to apply for the open spot. Gru steals from the Vicious Six after they reject him, so Belle Bottom leads the hunt to capture and kill him.
    • Aloysius O'Hare from The Lorax, the Corrupt Corporate Executive and Mayor of Thneedville who is determined to control the city's supply of fresh air and thus becomes Ted's enemy when he starts looking to bring back trees.
    • The closest we get to one in Migration is an unnamed human chef, who locked a Jamaican parrot in a cage and is willing to kill a group of migrating ducks; even the ducklings are not safe from him.
    • In The Secret Life of Pets 2, the main conflict of the film is derived from abusive circus owner Sergei. A reformed Snowball goes into action against him in order to rescue a young tiger named Hu from his clutches. But once Snowball brings the tiger back to the building, Sergei then becomes a threat to Max and the other animals in the apartment as well, them all jumping into action to protect Hu from him.
    • Sing has Judith, the banker llama who keeps a close watch on Buster Moon's activities, aiming to repossess the theater if he doesn't pay, and attempting to stop the show when it goes on anyway.
    • The Super Mario Bros. Movie has Bowser, who is trying to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom and force Peach to marry him, and captures Mario's brother Luigi.
  • Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow: The Red Locust, the bug world's public enemy No. 1 and Sun's Arch-Enemy who wants nothing more than to cause devastation with his swarm.
  • Kent Mansley from The Iron Giant, a paranoid government agent who will stop at nothing to get the Giant in the military's hands.
  • Krishna Aur Kans: King Kans, Krishna's uncle who wants to kill the baby to keep power.
  • Laika films:
    • The Other Mother from Coraline, who seeks to trap Coraline in her world.
    • The Witch actually Agatha Prenderghast from ParaNorman, who cursed the town long ago and who Norman must put back to sleep in actuality a girl wrongly executed for "witchcraft", really talking to the dead as Norman could.
    • Archibald Snatcher, leader of the Boxtroll Exterminators, from The Boxtrolls. He wants favor with Lord Portly-Rind, and is using his extermination of the Boxtrolls to get into the rich social network of white hat wearing people.
    • The Moon King, a mystical being who wants to disconnect his grandson from the material world, from Kubo and the Two Strings.
    • Lord Piggot-Dunceby from Missing Link, who Lionel Frost wants to impress with his findings. Piggot-Dunceby is jealous of Lionel because of his ambitions and recent studies which contradicted a lot of common knowledge, and he hires hitman William Stenk to keep him from proving the existence of Mr. Link and others like him.
  • Metalbeak from Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole is the leader of the Pure Ones, who wish to establish Barn Owls as a Master Race.
  • The LEGO Movie:
    • Lord/President Business, the mayor of Bricksburg who hatches a plan to use crazy glue (known as Kragle thanks to a dirty label) to freeze all of the LEGO citizens so everything is perfect forever.
    • The Joker from The LEGO Batman Movie, who wants to steal a projector that gains access to the Phantom Zone, where Big Bads from across the DC Universe are sent to prison. Rejected by Batman as his greatest enemy, he plans to set them all free and cause chaos across Gotham City to prove to Batman why he is his greatest enemy.
    • Lord Garmadon from The LEGO Ninjago Movie, who wants to conquer Ninjago City with his army yet a group of ninjas, lead by his son, always stops him. His actions lead to the giant cat Meowthra attacking the city, which in turn forces the ninjas to team up with Garmadon to stop the cat.
    • Queen Watevra Wa-Nabi from The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part sends out an invasion force that captures Emmet's friends, including Lucy / Wyldstyle, and wants Batman to marry her. Though it's subverted as she was Good All Along and had trouble understanding things. Rex Dangervest, who Emmet befriends and later betrays, ends up being the real Big Bad causing Armamageddon.
  • Leo the Lion: Maximus, who murders Savannah's husband and seeks to make her his bride in order to become King of the Jungle.
  • The Magic Roundabout (2005): Zeebad, an evil ice wizard and Zebedee's archenemy who plots to gather three crystals that will allow him to freeze the sun and trap the world in an Endless Winter.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls:
  • The Storm King from My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), who has conquered dozens of lands south of Equestria and seeks the magic of its four alicorn princesses to conquer the whole world.
  • Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas, despite little screentime, is the master of Lock, Shock, and Barrel, and tries to kill Santa Claus in the climax.
  • NIMONA (2023): The Director is the leader of institute who kicks off the story’s plot by killing the queen and framing Ballister for the crime, then sending her knights to capture or kill Ballister and Nimona.
  • Norm of the North: Mr. Greene, who Norm must stop from tearing down the Arctic for real-estate.
  • The truly nasty and vile Thrax from Osmosis Jones, who seeks to become the most infamous virus in the medical textbooks by killing his victims in record time.
  • Phantom Boy: The Face, a criminal with a face that looks like a Picasso Painting for reasons that are never given. His plan was to destroy New York City's infrasructure with a computer virus unless he received one billion dollars.
  • Plan Bee: Queen Akif, who usurps Beatrice as ruler of the hive and forces her subjects to satisfy her insatiable hunger for honey.
  • Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw: McNasty, who schemes to steal the Bone of Scone and use it to become king of the world.
  • Mojo Jojo in the prequel The Powerpuff Girls Movie attempts to create a rogue army of monkeys to take over Townsville before swallowing the Chemical X himself to turn into a giant hulking monster. He then subsequently becomes the Arch-Enemy of the The Powerpuff Girls and the most prominent and recurring Rogues Gallery that the girls face.
  • Ruber from Quest for Camelot. He kills Kayley's father in his attempt to kill King Arthur, and gets exiled. He returns a decade later, attacking Kayley's home and getting her on the quest to save Camelot, while he does everything he can to kill Kayley and her companions.
  • Mayor John from Rango causes the drought in order to get the last amount of land needed to convert the town of Dirt away from its Old West-style roots, and views Rango as the biggest threat to his plan. To this end, he enlists the aid of a legendary outlaw named Rattlesnake Jake, who has been skipping town due to the presence of a large hawk- which Rango ends up killing in the first act of the movie.
  • Russ Cargill from The Simpsons Movie, who convinced the president to isolate, and then blow up, Springfield, driving the conflict of the film and necessitating Homer and Bart saving the city.
  • Sony Pictures Animation films:
    • Shaw from Open Season is a hunter with an insane belief that animals will one day overthrow humans. He runs over Elliot the deer by the time the movie begins, and when Boog the bear sets him free, he makes enemies with the hunter as well. Both animals, and every other animal in the film, are trying to avoid being hunted in hunting season, with Shaw as the meanest and nastiest hunter in town.
    • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs:
      • Mayor Shelbourne from the first film, as his hunger for more food caused the FLDSMDFR, the food-creating machine Flint invented, to get out of control. While not evil, his selfish actions directly caused the issue Flint needed to go and fix, and put Swallow Falls in jeopardy.
      • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 has Chester V, Flint's childhood idol who inspired him to be an inventor. He seeks the FLDSMDFR so he can reprogram it to make more Foodimals to turn into food bars, even if that means manipulating and using Flint to find it.
    • Gargamel in The Smurfs, The Smurfs 2 and Smurfs: The Lost Village who, much like in other works in the franchise, wants to eat all the Smurfs in Smurf village.
    • Smiler from The Emoji Movie. Her desire to delete Gene caused him go fleeing through the phone's applications to find a way to fix himself, causing the phone to become glitchy and for the phone's owner, Alex, to attempt a factory reset.
    • Wilson Fisk / Kingpin from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. He has Alchemax create a Super-Collider that can connect with other dimensions so he can find a universe where his wife and son are still alive. His actions run the risk of destroying of New York, end up stranding the other Spider-People into Miles' home-dimension, and is directly responsible for the deaths of his universe's Peter Parker and Aaron Davis.
    • Jonathan Ohnn / The Spot becomes this in its sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse after deciding to be Miles's Arch-Enemy, honing his powers and eventually becoming a multiversal threat. But then, Miguel O'Hara and the Spider-Society step up as the Hero Antagonists after Miles is informed that Spot plans to kill his father when he becomes a captain and decides to go against the society in order to save his father.
    • Bela from Hotel Transylvania 2, initially a minion of Dracula's father Vlad, but tries to strike out on his own at least for the climax to kill Johnny, ultimately being the motivation for his fangs to appear.
  • Space Chimps: Zartog, who hijacks misplaced NASA technology and uses it to enslave the people of his planet.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants movies:
    • No longer a Harmless Villain, Plankton from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. He steals King Neptune's crown and frames Mr. Krabs. While SpongeBob and Patrick are off trying to retrieve the crown and save Mr. Krabs, Plankton begins to turn everyone in Bikini Bottom into hypnotized slaves and sends a bounty hunter to kill SpongeBob and Patrick.
    • Burger-Beard from The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water. He wants to steal a magic book that makes any text written on it to become real, which causes the Krabby Patty secret formula to disappear. It is later revealed that he used this book to steal the formula to make his own burgers on a food truck.
    • King Poseidon from The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, who sends his goons to kidnap Gary so he can use Gary's slime to moisturize his face. This sets in motion the plot to search for and rescue Gary.
  • Stuart Little:
    • Smokey is the leader of a gang of cats that Snowball goes to for help trying to get rid of Stuart, but ends up being the driving force for Stuart and Snowball getting along in the end.
    • The sequel has Falcon, who manipulates and controls Margalo and threatens Stuart.
  • Rothbart from The Swan Princess, who turned Odette into a swan to further his plans of conquering the kingdom, and kicking off the plot.
  • Tim Burton's animated features:
    • Lord Barkis Bittern from Corpse Bride, the one who got close to Emily only to murder her and steal her riches, and plans to do the same to Victoria.
    • Frankenweenie doesn't exactly have one until various kids learn of Victor's experiment to bring his dog Sparky to life, and seek to do their own experiments. Each of the revived pets reanimate in monster forms, with the Weird Girl's cat Mr. Whiskers, a living cat who merges with a deceased bat to become a vampire bat-cat creature, being the last of the bunch to fall.
  • Planet Eater Unicron from The Transformers: The Movie. He is responsible for transforming Megatron into Galvatron and charging him with destroying the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, while secretly planning to destroy the Transformers' planet Cybertron, which only the Matrix could prevent.
  • Valiant: General Von Talon is a German falcon who is charged with intercepting pigeons carrying messages between the Allied Forces on either side of the English Channel in World War II.
  • White Snake: The General, a Taoist sorcerer, who's hunting snakes and absorbing their qi in the pursuit of immortality. There's also the master of the snake demons who, seduced by the possibility of godhood and consumed with hatred for humans, betrays her followers and absorbs their qi to become a monstrous snake.
  • Judge Doom / The Toon who killed Eddie's brother from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He committed the murder Roger Rabbit is framed for and wants to kill all toons using his evil "dip".

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