Big Bad / Disney

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Disney Animated Canon

• The Evil Queen/Queen Grimhilde from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The very force of the plot is Snow White trying to escape from the queen's murderous intentions, and her ensuing desire to kill the dwarves as well.
• Honest John from Pinocchio, a con man who tries to lead the title character down a path of bad behavior and snare him in the evil plots of other villains. In the three-episode structure of the movie, John is involved in two of them.
• Lumpjaw in the "Bongo" segment and Willie the Giant in the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment from Fun and Fancy Free. Lumpjaw is Bongo's foil trying to take his love interest Lulubelle for himself, while Willie tries to protect his treasure from the tiny intruders, much like the original fairy tale. Also, Willie can transform into different animals.
• Mr. Winky for the "Wind in the Willows" segment and the Headless Horseman for the "Ichabod" segment from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Mr. Winky is the leader of the weasels and is responsible for framing Mr. Toad for stealing an automobile as well as conning him out of his home, while the Headless Horseman is a supernatural being who pursues Ichabod in hopes of getting his head.
• Lady Tremaine from Cinderella. Her cruelty to Cinderella is not only the focus of Act 1, but her actions force her to go to the ball in secret, kicking off the rest of the plot.
• Captain Hook from Peter Pan, who seeks Revenge on Peter Pan for cutting off his hand and feeding it to the crocodile, and will use any methods necessary (from kidnapping Tiger Lily to tricking Tinker Bell).
• Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty. Known as The Mistress of All Evil, she cursed baby Aurora for not being invited to the birthday party. This curse and the kingdom's attempt to prevent it from coming true is the focus of the plot, and it doesn't end until she's defeated.
• Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians. Her goal to steal the dalmatian puppies for their fur is the driving force of the plot, as the dogs need to rescue their puppies from her clutches.
• Shere Khan from The Jungle Book, who seeks to kill Mowgli out of hatred for the Man-Cub (the animal's term for a human child), forcing Mowgli's friends and family to send Mowgli to the Man village to keep him safe.
• Edgar from The Aristocats still counts even if he is an Anti-Villain, seeking to get the inheritance money that will first pass down to the cats, leading to his attempts to send them away.
• Prince John from Robin Hood (1973). He usurped the throne of England from his brother Richard, and rules England with an iron fist, only opposed by Robin Hood and his allies.
• Madame Medusa from The Rescuers, whose kidnapping of Penny spurs the plot into motion as the Rescuers are sent to save her.
• Amos Slade in The Fox and the Hound. While not as malicious as the other antagonists on this list, Slade nevertheless serves as the greatest threat to Tod, especially in the second half when he seeks vengeance.
• The Horned King from The Black Cauldron, whose conflict with the heroes stems from seeking out the titular cauldron.
• Professor Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective. His plot is to usurp Queen Victoria during her Diamond Jubilee with a mechanical version of her.
• Bill Sykes from Oliver & Company. His aggressive actions to Fagin and threatening young Jenny drive the plot of the film.
• Ursula from The Little Mermaid. Convincing Ariel to give up her voice to be human, and then doing everything in her power to prevent her from never getting her voice back so she can acquire the power of her father Triton, Ursula is the driving force of the story.
• Evil Poacher Percival C. McLeach from The Rescuers Down Under, who abducts young Cody so he can use him to go after the eagles.
• Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. Though un-threatening at first, his desire to win Belle as a wife causes him to threaten her father and lead a mob to murder the Beast.
• Jafar from Aladdin. Not only is he the biggest evil in the story by far, but his efforts to get the genie for himself and thus the power that comes with it directly lead to Aladdin getting the lamp, pushing the story into motion.
• Scar from The Lion King. Killing Mufasa to gain the throne, he throws Simba's happy life into chaos, forcing him to run away, meet Timon and Pumbaa, and then eventually return as an adult to fight for his home.
• Governor Ratcliffe from Pocahontas. His obsessive need for gold and hatred of natives created the conflict between the tribe and the settlers that the plot hinges on.
• Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He's not only the cause of Quasimodo's isolation and desire to see the outside world, which then leads into his meeting Esmerelda, but he's the driving force of Esmerelda's plot as well- his lust and hatred for her forces her into hiding while he burns down Paris looking for her.
• Hades from Hercules. His plan to conquer Olympus relied on getting Hercules out of the way; to do this, he had to be made mortal. The ensuing plot is Hercules trying to regain his godly status and Hades continuing to try and kill him for his goal.
• Shan Yu from Mulan. As the leader of the Huns, who Mulan and the rest of the army are working to try and defeat, Shan Yu is the villain behind the plot— and he's quite a cruel one, to boot.
• Egomaniac Hunter Clayton from Tarzan, whom seeks to hunt the gorillas against the wishes of the other humans.
• The Firebird from Fantasia 2000. After the Spring Sprite accidentally awakens him, he causes chaos and destruction throughout the forest.
• Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove, who accidentally turned Kuzco into a llama, and then proceeded to try everything in her power to kill Kuzco and Pacha so she could keep the throne.
• Commander Lyle T. Rourke from Atlantis: The Lost Empire seeks to take the crystal power source from Atlantis for profit, knowing full well it would cause the end of their civilization.
• Long John Silver from Treasure Planet starts off as this, much like his original literary counterpart in Treasure Island, being a mentor of Jim Hawkins who shows an evil side later on. He eventually undergoes a Heel–Face Turn at the end of the film.
• Alameda Slim from Home on the Range. Maggie, Mrs. Calloway and Grace seek to capture him and use the reward money to save their ranch from closure, and he rendered Maggie homeless early in the story when he stole her owner's cows.
• Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog, the voodoo wizard who turned Naveen into a frog, and plans to take over New Orleans with help from his demonic "Friends on the Other Side", aided by Naveen's former friend Lawrence (who fills in as Naveen via his sample blood).
• Mother Gothel from Tangled kidnaps Rapunzel when she was just a baby and emotionally manipulates her to never leave the tower so she can retain her eternally youthful appearance.
• King Candy/Turbo from Wreck-It Ralph, who is revealed to have messed with Sugar Rush's code so he can steal Vanellope's position as the main character, turning her into a glitch and ensuring that he remains the center of attention. Once Ralph arrives in Sugar Rush and promises to help Vanellope win the race to reclaim his medal, he does everything in his power to prevent her from participating and reaching the finish line, which would undo his changes in the game.
• Yokai aka Professor Robert Callaghan from Big Hero 6. He is indirectly responsible for Tadachi's death, kicking off the plot as Hiro becomes desperate to bring him to justice. Callaghan's true goal is revealed to be seeking Revenge for his daughter's presumed death, and he's become so consumed with vengeance that he will even kill his former students for getting in the way.
• Assistant Mayor/Mayor Dawn Bellwether from Zootopia. She is the mastermind behind predators going savage, turning all prey animals against the predators while also getting Mayor Lionheart arrested so she can claim the position of mayor.
• The Druun in Raya and the Last Dragon. They're not a sapient character or plotter like the others, but the apocalyptic personification of the tribal conflict that causes the plot in the form of The Heartless. They're the ultimate consequence for what happens if Kumandra's tribes can't find harmony.
• King Magnifico in Wish (2023) is the ruler of Rosas, who controls his kingdom through his ability to grant the wishes of the people, with the memories of those whose wishes are ungranted being wiped to make them dependent on him. He does everything in his power to oppose Asha when her plea for help calls down Star, whose own wish granting is a direct challenge to his rule.

Disney Sequels

• Jafar from Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, who returns in genie form to try to kill Aladdin, getting Abis Mal and Iago to handle the dirty work, before capturing Aladdin, Jasmine and Sultan, kidnapping the Sultan, and trying to frame Aladdin for the Sultan's "death" to set up a public execution for him.
• Sa'luk from Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Formerly the Number Two of the Forty Thieves under Cassim, he steps up to become leader when Cassim reunites with Aladdin, his son. Sa'luk captures Cassim and sets forth with the gang to find treasure.
• Forte from Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas. Unlike the other servants, he enjoys his new form because it makes him feel more useful now, and does everything he can to sabotage Beast and Belle's relationship so the spell will never be broken.
• Zira from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. Raising Kovu as a Tyke Bomb to bring down Simba once and for all, her evil scheming to re-conquer the Pridelands for Scar's Pride is the driving conflict of the plot.
• Governor Ratcliffe from Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World. Having manipulated King James I to avoid any punishment for his failures in the original film, his new plot is to declare war on the New World.
• Played with in Pooh's Grand Adventure as the main villain of the story, the Skullasaurus, terrorizes the heroes without being seen. As it turns out, the Skullasaurus wasn't actually real and was just Pooh's stomach rumbling loudly.
• Morgana from The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. She's Ursula's sister who intends to exact revenge on Triton and Ariel for Ursula's death.
• Buster from Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure. As the leader of the junkyard dogs, Buster's goal is to separate Scamp from his loving family and turn him into another member of the gang. His actions forces the conflict of Scamp having to decide between freedom and family.
• Return To Never Land: Captain Hook is out to exact his revenge on Peter Pan yet again, this time, kidnapping and manipulating Wendy's daughter, Jane, in order to capture him.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame II: Sarouch, the leader of a band of thieves posing as a traveling circus out to steal La Fidele.
• 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure: Cruella and Lil' Lightning are both the antagonists, but have different agendas: the former wants to steal the Dalmatian puppies again, the latter wants to take Thunderbolt's place as star of the show. They actually never interact, even though their actions are indirectly helping the other.
• The Jungle Book 2: Shere Khan, who seeks revenge against Mowgli for his humiliating defeat.
• Mulan II has Mushu, who does everything in his power to make sure Mulan doesn't marry so he can retain his position as her guardian. The leader of the Mongols is the instigator of the outside threat, but he doesn't appear, so the main conflict is caused by Mushu. He does get better, however.
• Cinderella III: A Twist in Time: Lady Termaine, who takes the Fairy Godmother's wand and uses it to turn back time and steal Cinderella's happily ever after for herself and her daughters.
• The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning: Marina Del Ray, the princesses' governess who aims to take Sebastian's position as Triton's right-hand.

Other Disney Animated Films

• DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp: Merlock, a ruthless, immortal, shape-shifting sorcerer after the magic lamp that Scrooge took and gain the power to destroy all who oppose him.
• Doug's 1st Movie: Bill Bluff III, who's been polluting the home of the Lucky Duck Lake Monster and is out to capture him.
• An Extremely Goofy Movie: Bradley Uppercrust III, the leader of the Gammas determined to beat Max in the X-Games after he rejects his offer to join the Gamma House and is more than willing to cheat in order to do it.
• Recess: School's Out: Dr. Benedict is the leader and instigator of the nefarious plot to end recess and summer vacation, all just to raise test scores and restore his disgraced reputation as an educator.
• Teacher's Pet: The Movie: Dr. Ivan Krank, who turns Spot into a man with the intent of turning him into an exhibit to display around the world and intends to turn Leonard into a dog.
• Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers: Pete, the captain of the Musketeers who plots to overthrow Princess Minnie and take over the kingdom.
• Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe: Super Super Big Doctor. She abducts Candace and Vanessa, uses a mind-controlling plant to take over an alien planet, and then attempts to use the same mind-controlling plant to take over the Earth.

Pixar

• Toy Story:
  • Toy Story 2 has a Big Bad Ensemble between Al McWhiggin, the greedy owner of Al's Toy Barn who wants to sell Woody to a Japanese museum for his own profit, and Stinky Pete the Prospecter, who tries to force his beliefs (in anger of being in mint condition) that round-up toys like Woody are meant to be displayed in a museum.
  • Lots O' Huggin-Bear from Toy Story 3, who runs Sunnyside Daycare like a dictator, harshly abuses the other toys, and tries to stop Woody from saving his friends and the others—all with the twisted belief that toys are meant to be abandoned by their owners and thrown in the trash.
  • Gabby Gabby from Toy Story 4, who leads the Bensons in the Second Chance Antique Shop and is obsessed with stealing Woody's voice box. However, this is out of desperation and not of malice, as all she wanted was to have her voice box restored, so that she could be loved and played with by the store owner's granddaughter, Harmony. She eventually redeems herself and earns her happy ending when Woody not only willingly gives her his voice box, but she also becomes the toy of a lost girl at the fair.
  • Lightyear has Emperor Zurg, who leads the invasion force on T'Kani Prime, and is actually an older Buzz from the future, who seeks to erase his past mistakes on that planet by trying to stop the exploration vessel from coming to it in the first place.
• Hopper from A Bug's Life. The leader of a group of grasshoppers who believes that ants should be "kept in line" and steals food from them. He takes his darwinistic mindset a step further by attempting to assassinate their queen, before being stopped by Flik.
• Monsters, Inc. has a Big Bad Duumvirate between Randall Boggs, James P. Sullivan's main rival who would go through extreme measures in torturing children just so that he could come out on top, and Henry J. Waternoose III, the CEO of Monsters Inc., who works with Randall also out of extreme measures to save his company from a power crisis—which includes child slaughter.
• The Incredibles:
  • Buddy Pine, AKA Syndrome from The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible's fanboy-turned-supervillain who has not only killed many other heroes before the main story begins, but had also attempted to kill Mr. Incredible and his innocent family, put thousands of innocent lives at risk with his robot, and tried to kidnap baby Jack-Jack, before The Incredibles could stop him. All with an elaborate plan to gain the recognition he felt he lost when Mr. Incredible rejected him.
  • The Screenslaver from Incredibles 2, who causes trouble throughout the story by hypnotizing civilians. However this is later revealed to be a proxy/alter-ego for Evelyn Deavor. Having created the persona, Evelyn then goes on to hypnotize heroes, including, intending to get heroes banned permanently in revenge for how her father got killed by burglars trying to call for the heroes banned by the law. She acts as the threat of Helen's subplot, and of the climax.
• Cars:
  • Chick Hicks from Cars, a Sore Loser who will stop at nothing by using all dirty tricks he can to win the Piston Cup. He's also an Evil Counterpart of Lightning McQueen, showing how he could end up if he didn't give up arrogance.
  • Miles Axelrod from Cars 2, the leader of the lemon cars who seeks to use the Allinol to orchestrate accidents, then extort money as a result, trying to kill Lightning as the last sacrifice to ensure his plan. Because Axelrod prefers doing his work behind the scenes, most of the action taking place is executed by his dragon, Professor Zündapp, which includes torturing and killing cars that stand in his way.
  • On the track, it's Jackson Storm from Cars 3, a Jerkass rookie champion who manages to steal the show from Lightning, who seeks to improve himself in order to catch up to him. Off the track, Sterling (who's less of a threat) tries to get McQueen to retire just so that the former can benefit from having the latter be just a spokesperson of Rust-eze. Both are also rivals of Cruz Ramirez, both of whom believe she is unfit to be a racer and is more of a trainer despite her passions.
• Skinner from Ratatouille, the Evil Chef who became the owner of Gusteau's Restaurant following Gusteau's death, and became an active enemy to Linguini and Remy when he learned Linguini was a long lost son of Gusteau who would be able to take the restaurant from him, seeking to undermine him at every turn and later traps Remy in a cage at one point so he could force him to make food for him.
• Mor'du from Brave. Originally a barbaric prince with a desire to rule the kingdom, his lust for "the power of 10 men" transforms him into a 15 ft. black bear, eventually reducing him into a monstrous beast and becoming a feared legend among DunBroch. As the same spell that transformed him is also the one that transformed Queen Elinor into a bear, he represents what she could become if Merida doesn't get the spell broken. Him putting Merida in danger more than once in the film is what intensifies the conflict in the movie, at least prior to his death, which reveals his regret over his lust for power.
• Ernesto de la Cruz from Coco. Introduced as a legendary musician among the Mexican community and Miguel's supposed great-great grandfather, he is later revealed to be merely the business partner of Miguel's real great-great grandfather Héctor, having poisoned him and stolen his songs to propel himself to fame and being willing to make sure Héctor is forgotten by his family and Miguel is dead to preserve his reputation.
• Even though Soul mainly centers around Joe Gardner trying to get back to the living after his soul is separated from his body and transported to The Great Before, Terry (the soul accountant) is the de-facto main antagonist—being Joe's biggest obstacle in the latter's escape journey. However, Terry isn't all that malicious—just a complete perfectionist wanting to keep things in balance.
• Ercole Visconti from Luca, an arrogant racing champion competing against Luca, Alberto, and Guilia in the triathlon and seeking to sabotage his competition, also displaying a racist side towards the sea monsters.
• In Turning Red, Tyler, Ming and Grandma Wu are all presented as the primary antagonist but this is ultimately subverted with Tyler just being a redeemed bully, and Ming and Wu, overprotective mothers.

Live-Action Movies

• The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men: Prince John, who has been overtaxing the kingdom's people and drives Robin to become the outlaw Robin Hood after he has his father murdered.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo, the man responsible for the ship attacks that get our heroes involved in the first place, imprisons them, and nearly kills them all when he lets the Nautilus sink at the end.
• Babes in Toyland: Barnaby spends the film trying to get rid of Tom Piper and deprive Mary Contrary of any means of providing for herself so she'll be [[forced to marry him.
• The Legend of Lobo: The Cattlemen, who are looking to take the titular Lobo's territory for themselves.
• The Love Bug:
  • Original film: Peter Thorndyke, the salesman who sold Herbie to Jim in the first place and wants to tear the car apart to figure out his secrets once he starts winning races.
  • Herbie Rides Again: Alonzo Hawk, an evil land developer who wants to drive Mrs. Steinmetz out of her firehouse so he can tear it down and build an office building.
  • Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo: Double X actually Inspector Bouchet, the true mastermind behind the theft of the L'Étoile de Joie diamond that ends up in Herbie's possession.
  • Herbie: Fully Loaded: Trip Murphy, a champion racer obsessed with finding the secret to Herbie and Maggie's success after he initially lost to them.
• The Dexter Riley Trilogy
  • The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes: A.J. Arno, a businessman who has secretly been using the college's computer to conduct illegal gambling rings, which Riley accidentally exposes, leading Arno to attempt to kill him.
  • Now You See Him, Now You Don't: Arno, who has returned to steal Dexter's invisibility spray in order to use it to rob a bank unseen and plans on turning Medfield College into a gambling town.
  • The Strongest Man in the World: Kirwood Kringle, the president of Krinkle Krunch who attempts to steal Dexter's strength serum so his company can win the weightlifting competition Crumply Crunch challenges them to.
• Escape to Witch Mountain:
  • First film: Aristotle Bolt, a wealthy businessman who wants to capture Tony and Tia and exploit their psychic abilities for his own gain.
  • Return from Witch Mountain: Dr. Victor Gannon, a Mad Scientist who captured Tony and brainwashed him into using his psychic powers to do his bidding, leaving Tia to have to rescue him.
• Pete's Dragon: Ma Grogan, the head of Pete's abusive foster family who's after him, and Dr. Teminus, who wants to capture Elliot and use him as a means to produce medicine for him to sell.
• The Cat from Outer Space: Charles Olympus, a billionaire criminal mastermind who discovers the power of Jake's collar and kidnaps Frank's girlfriend Liz, intending to use her as ransom for it.
• The Black Hole: Doctor Hans Reinhardt, who intends to take the Cygnus into the black hole to see what awaits him on the other side, regardless of the well-being of the crew.
• TRON:
  • Original film: The Master Control Program, an AI who rules his network with an iron fist and plans on expanding to others.
  • TRON: Legacy: Clu 2.0, the new ruling program of The Grid who will stop at nothing to make it into the perfect program.
• Return to Oz: The Nome King, the new ruler of Oz, who usurped the throne in Dorothy's absence after finding the Ruby Slippers.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Judge Doom, the cruel high judge of Toontown leading the manhunt for Roger Rabbit and was the one who framed him for murder to begin with, as well as murdered Eddie's brother, which lead to his anti-toon prejudice. His ultimate goal is to use his Dip to destroy all of Toontown.
• The Rocketeer: Neville Sinclair is the man who wants to get the rocket. He hired Eddie Valentine and his gang to steal it and gives orders to Lothar to find it. He is a Nazi, and working to get the rocket to his superiors to use for world domination.
• Hocus Pocus: Winifred Sanderson, the leader of the Sanderson sisters, a trio of child-eating Wicked Witches who return after being hanged 300 years ago to exact their revenge on Salem.
• The Santa Clause:
  • The Santa Clause 2: Toy Santa, who was created to be a substitute for the real Santa until he could straighten things out with Charlie and hopefully find a wife. However, he goes mad with power and decides to give every kid on the planet coal for Christmas.
  • The Escape Clause: Jack Frost, tired of being overshadowed by the rest of the Legendary Figures, manipulates Scott into wishing that he never became Santa and goes back in time to takeover the mantle of Santa Claus.
• The Jungle Book (1994): Captain William Boone, who intends to coerce Mowgli into leading him to the treasure palace hidden in the jungle by threatening his loved ones.
• Heavyweights: Tony Perkis, a fitness guru who torments the campers to get them to lose weight in an (unreasonably) short amount of time for the sake of his infomercial.
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court: Lord Belasco, King Arthur's Evil Chancellor who schemes to takeover the throne.
• Flubber: Chester Hoenicker, Medfield College's sponsor who wants to help his son Bennett get revenge on Professor Brainard for failing him and eventually steal Flubber.
• Max Keeble's Big Move: Principal Elliot T. Jindraike, the tyrannical principal of Curtis Junior High School. His goal is to reallocate the near entirely of school's budget to build a football stadium over an animal shelter, all in hopes of impressing the superintendent enough to take his job.
• The Country Bears: Reed Thimble, a greedy banker who threatens to destroy Country Bear Hall as revenge for the group apparently stealing his chance at fame.
• The Lizzie McGuire Movie: Paolo Valisari, a young and charming pop star who uses Lizzie's resemblance to his ex girlfriend/singing partner to ruin her reputation.
• Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • Lord Cutler Beckett. Even though he didn't appear until Dead Man's Chest, you can make a pretty good case for Beckett being the big bad of the first trilogy, as he was indirectly responsible for the events of the first movie (branding Jack, initiating the chain of events that made Jack the captain of the Pearl, etc.) despite never appearing or being mentioned, and was pulling everyone's strings in the second, before stepping in as the primary threat of At Worlds End. Each movie also has its own individual villain as well:
  • Captain Hector Barbossa in The Curse of the Black Pearl. Unlike the other Big Bads in the franchise his crew are just as independent, motivated and passionate as he is with their goal of removing the curse. He is more like the coordinator of the miscreant group.
  • Davy Jones in Dead Man's Chest, does everything to get his due from Jack, killing and endangering people left and right, with his crew acting as little more rather as extensions of his brutal will. Until Beckett manages to take control of him at the end that is.
  • Edward Teach "Blackbeard" in On Stranger Tides, is the most ruthless pirate to ever sail the seven seas who's after the Fountain of Youth and will cut down anyone in his way in order to get it.
  • Captain Armando Salazar in Dead Men Tell No Tales, who's out to destroy all who practice piracy, regardless of how severe their crime is.
• The Haunted Mansion (2003): Ramsley, the one behind Elizabeth's murder, which resulted in the curse on the titular mansion.
• The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement: Viscount Mabrey, who schemes to steal the throne by having his nephew seduce Mia and become king so he may rule through him.
• National Treasure:
  • First film: Ian Howe, who intends on stealing the Declaration of Independence, leading Ben to take action to stop him.
  • Book of Secrets: Mitch Wilkinson. His accusation of Thomas Gates being in league with the Confederacy kicks off the plot and he attempts to capitalize on Ben's efforts to find Cibola.
• Sky High: Has Royal Pain/Gwen Grayson, although the case could also be made for a posthumous Big Bad in the form of Sue Tenny, the original Royal Pain and Gwen's pre-incarnation, who set up the Evil Plan in the backstory before an unfortunate accident involving a weaponized Fountain of Youth set her back a little bit.
• Underdog: Simon Barsinister, a Mad Scientist responsible for giving Underdog his powers and intends on capturing him in order to gain his powers for himself.
• Enchanted: Queen Narissa, Prince Edward's Wicked Stepmother who transports Giselle to New York City and later tries to kill her in order to keep her power as queen.
• G-Force: Speckles, G-Force's tech specialist who secretly infects Leonard Saber's products with a virus that will turn them into killer robots, intending to use them to destroy humanity as revenge for humans killing his family.
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: Nizam, who sets out to retrieve the Daggar of Time and Sands of Time so he may rewind time and kill his brother as a child, making it so that he grows up to become king.
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Maxim Horvath. While he answers to Morgana le Fey, Horvath leads the villains for most of the backstory and the story itself, whose actions drive the conflict, and whose centuries-long feud with Balthazar writes the plot, providing an emotional challenge in addition to the magical threat.
• John Carter: Matai Shang, Holy Hekkador of the Therns and the Man Behind the Man to Sab Than, provoking the conflict between the city-states of Helium and Zodanga, and the reason why John Carter's on Mars to begin with.
• Oz the Great and Powerful: Evanora/The Wicked Witch of the East, who has taken control of the Emerald City and installed herself as ruler and is behind Theodora's transformation into the Wicked Witch of the West.
• The Lone Ranger: Latham Cole, a railroad tycoon responsible for the massacre of Tonto's people who also wants to destroy the Comache people so he may take the silver within their rivers and build his empire.
• The Nutcracker and the Four Realms: Mother Ginger, whose desire to rule over the Magical Land resulted in the destruction of the Fourth Realm. Except she was actually framed by Sugar Plum Fairy, who desires to conquer all of the realms.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022): Sweet Pete, formerly known as Peter Pan and currently the leader of the Valley Gang, known for his infamous crimes of extorting and forcing numerous Toons to make bootleg versions of their works, even attempting to do the same to the chipmunks when they tried to reason with him into settling off Monty's debt.

Disney Live-Action Remakes

• Alice in Wonderland (2010) has the Red Queen, who overthrew her beloved sister Mirana and uses the threat of the Jabberwocky to rule the land with an iron fist.
• Maleficent has King Stefan. He initiated events by stealing Maleficent's wings, causing her to grow angry and cast the curse on Aurora, and is responsible for sending Aurora away with the fairies while also waging war with Maleficent.
• Cinderella (2015) has Lady Tremaine, who seeks to advance her family's position by any means possible and crush Cinderella's spirit for not letting adversity change her.
• The Jungle Book (2016) has Shere Khan, the tyrant of the jungle who seeks to kill Mowgli.What's more, it turns out he killed Mowgli's father in the first place.
• Pete's Dragon (2016) has Gavin, who wants to capture Elliot and turn him into a tourist attraction for the town.
• Beauty and the Beast (2017) has Gaston, who, like in the original, wants to kill the Beast and take Belle for himself.
• Aladdin (2019) has Jafar, who seeks to use the Genie's Lamp to seize control over the throne of Agrabah.
• The Lion King (2019) has Scar, who kills Mufasa in order to become king of the Pridelands.
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil has Queen Ingrith, who seeks to murder all fairies and creatures from the Moors.
• Mulan (2020) has Böri Kahn, who seeks to annihilate China to avenge his father's death.
• Cruella has Baroness von Hellman, Cruella's ruthless business rival who murdered her mother.

Live-Action Shows

• The The Suite Life on Deck movie has Dr. Ronald Olsen, the head of the Gemini Project who seeks world domination through a Hive Mind of numerous twins.
• Wizards of Waverly Place
  • Season 3 had Stevie Nichols, who plots to put an end to the wizard competition. That said, the show never elaborates as to why what she's planning is wrong.
  • Season 4 had Gorog, the series' equivalent of Satan that seeks to plunge the world into darkness and takeover the wizard world. By extension, Gorog is the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire Franchise/DCLAU.
  • Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie has Gissele, a wizard turned into a parrot who manipulates her boyfriend into getting the wishing stone for herself.
  • The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex has Domminic, an evil Wiztech member and the nephew of Gorog who plans to trap all mortal beings in beads and take over the world.
• Pair of Kings had Lanny, the twins' cousin and the next in line for the throne who constantly schemes to get rid of them. He eventually has a Heel–Face Turn and the role is usurped by Kaita, the vile leader of the tarantula people and the murderer o the kings' parents.
• Kickin' It has Sensei Ty, the instructor of the Black Dragons Dojo, the Wasabi Warriors' main rivals.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • Season 1: Regina Mills, the Evil Queen and Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold, who are the only people to be a Big Bad for the entire season until Season 6. Regina is the Evil Queen from the Enchanted Forest and curses everyone and brings them to our world where they don't remember who they are. Rumple gave her the power to do so and has designs of his own.
  • Season 2a: Cora Mills, the Queen of Hearts and Regina's mother, she intends on coming to Storybrooke and rekindling her relationship with her daughter, but Regina and Gold will do whatever it takes to stop this. She succeeds and remains the Big Bad until shortly into 2b when she is killed by Mary Margaret.
  • Season 2b: A Big Bad Duumvirate of Tamara and Greg Mendell, a pair of non-fairy tale characters who plan to rid of all the magic in the world and destroy Storybrooke and all of its inhabitants. In the end they fail and kidnap Henry. It is also revealed that they are simply employees of a Greater-Scope Villain, who is Peter Pan.
  • Season 3a: Peter Pan, who intends to use Henry's heart (that of the Truest Believer) to become truly immortal. It also turns out that he is the Greater-Scope Villain to Tamara and Greg all along as well as Gold's father.
  • Season 3b: Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, who plans to create a time spell to travel back to before the Curse was cast, hoping to do it herself. It's also revealed that she is Regina's half-sister.
  • Season 4a: Ingrid, the Snow Queen and Elsa and Anna's aunt. She comes to Storybrooke in hopes of casting a curse on everyone and making Emma and Elsa her replacement sisters. She ultimately has a Heel–Face Turn upon getting what she always wanted. At the same time Gold plans to free himself from the Dark One's dagger making him the Final Boss.
  • Season 4b: A Big Bad Duumvirate between Mr. Gold and Maleficent of the Queens of Darkness (consisting of herself, Ursula, and Cruella De Vil), working in tandem to get villains a happy ending by finding the Author. Eventually, the partnership ends when Ursula leaves, Cruella dies and Maleficent senses that Gold will betray her and ditches him, eventually creating an Enemy Mine with the heroes in the penultimate episode. After this, we get another Big Bad Duumvirate between Rumple and Isaac Heller, the Author, who rewrite the storybook so that villains are the heroes and heroes are the villains. Additionally there's Zelena, who is actually alive, pregnant and posing as Robin Hood's wife Marian, though, she's not much of a schemer after they catch her.
  • Season 5a: Emma Swan, who is now the new Dark One, with King Arthur of Camelot having plans of his own, until they both turn out to be Disc One Final Bosses to a Big Bad Duumvirate of Hook, who became a second new Dark One, and the original Dark One, Nimue, who was the Greater-Scope Villain behind Rumplestiltskin and all other Dark Ones. In the end, Nimue is the true Big Bad of Season 5a and Hook, thanks to Regina, pulls a Heel–Face Turn to destroy her.
  • Season 5b: Hades, Lord of the Underworld, who manipulates all the souls trapped there (good and evil) in order to escape the Underworld. He's vaporized by the only weapon that can destroy him just before the finale, however, creating a Post-Final Boss toss up for the position between Gold, Mr. Hyde, and the Evil Queen (now a separate entity from Regina).
  • Season 6: The Hooded Figure destined to kill Emma in her final battle. The majority of the season has the heroes running a gauntlet of one Disc-One Final Boss after another, with Mr. Hyde and the Evil Queen returning in a Big Bad Ensemble until both Hyde and Jekyll are killed off four episodes in, leaving the Queen as sole Big Bad and the prime suspect for being the Hooded Figure - until episode ten where the actual Hooded Figure turns her into a snake in a cage and reveals himself to be Gideon, son of Mr. Gold and Belle, who was stolen by the mysterious Black Fairy and raised in the Dark Realm where time works differently and he lived 28 years under her power, after which he returns to Storybrooke to kill Emma and gain her power as the Savior to free everyone from Black. After Emma foils his plans twice, it is revealed that Gideon was being Forced into Evil the whole time by the Black Fairy using his heart in an attempt to kill Emma and free herself from the Dark Realm (which she did eventually without Emma dying) and his claims were all lies she forced him to say, revealing herself as the true villain Emma will fight in the final battle. Black is arguably the main antagonist of the entire series as she claims to have invented all Dark Magic and created the Dark Curse from experimenting with Black Fairy Dust, as well as the fact that the storybook ends with Emma fighting her.
  • Season 7: Lady Tremaine/Victoria Belfry who desires to find a heart filled with belief so she can revive her daughter Anastasia. In Hyperion Heights, she also seeks to crush the belief of Henry's daughter, Lucy, by separating everyone in her realm from each other. However, she did not cast the Dark Curse that made Hyperion Heights; that was her daughter Drizella/Ivy, who wants to destroy her mother as revenge for years of neglect and almost using her heart as a means to revive Anastasia. Then it turns out Drizella is just a pawn of the true Big Bad, Mother Gothel, who manipulated everyone for her own ends. Things get more complicated in the back half of the season due to the arrival of Baron Samdi/Dr. Facilier, who wants to claim the Dark One Dagger for himself, but stays on the sidelines and being vaguely threatening while the main plot is unfolding. With Gothel defeated near the end of the season, he seems set to become the Final Boss, only to suddenly be killed by the Wish Realm version of Rumplestiltskin, who serves as the True Final Boss.
• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland has a Big Bad Duumvirate of Jafar and the Red Queen, Anastasia Tremaine. Though it's a tenuous alliance, especially what with Jafar seeing himself as superior. It's ultimately broken when the Red Queen pulls a Heel–Face Turn while Jafar destroys all her assets, leaving him as the sole Big Bad.
• A.N.T. Farm has Principal Susan Skidmore, having founded A.N.T Farm for the sole purpose of exploited the students' talents. Season 3 had Hashimoto, a Corrupt Corporate Executive bent on bringing down A.N.T. Farm.
• Lab Rats:
  • Marcus Davenport during the end of Season 1 through the middle of Season 2. Marcus pretends to befriend Adam, Bree, and Chase, much to Leo’s suspicion, so he can set up a spy camera in the Davenport laboratory.
  • The real threat in Season 2 turned out to be Douglas Davenport, Donald’s younger brother who ordered his android son Marcus to gather intelligence on the Lab Rats, then captured Donald in an attempt to lure the Rats to his lair so he could reclaim them.
  • In Season 3, Douglas turns good and the role shifts to Victor Krane, Douglas Davenport's benefactor who used Davenport technology to create a bionic army.
  • In Season 4, this role is first taken by Sebastian, a protege of Chase’s who convinces the other bionic students to rebel against the Davenports. Later this role goes to Giselle, a scientist who wants to replace bionic humans with androids, and Dr. Gao, who tries to inject liquid bionics into humans.
• Mighty Med
  • Season 1 has Catastrophe, the world's greatest villain who plots to destroy Mighty Med by combining his two separated halves, Walter and Clyde.
  • The first half of Season 2 has The Annihilator, a ruthless mutant villain that brainwashes Skylar and plots to use her to bring all of Mighty Med's heroes under his control.
  • The second half of Season 2 has Mr. Terror/Oliver's mom Bridget, a criminal super genius who is searching for the Arcturion, which will give them unlimited power in a twisted attempt at making the world a safer place for her son.
• Best Friends Whenever has Janet Smythe, a Mad Scientist responsible for the future lab and spends the series tracking the girls down so she can obtain their time travel abilities and use them to rewrite history as she sees fit.

Disney Channel Original Movies

• Not Quite Human:
  • First film: Gordon Vogel, Dr. Carson's corrupt former employer who's tracking down Chip with the intent of reprograming him into a military robot.
  • Not Quite Human II: Dr. Phil Masters, Roberta's creator who intends on recapturing her and the one who infected Chip with the virus that's slowly destroying him.
  • Still Not Quite Human: Dr. Frederick Berrigon, a ruthless business tycoon who kidnaps Dr. Carson in order to gain the secrets to his android technology, leaving Chip to rescue him.
• Under Wraps (1997): Mr. Kubat, who stole Harold with the intentions of selling him and is out to retrieve him after he escapes.
• Halloweentown:
  • First film: Kalbar, Halloweentown's corrupt mayor who's out to conquer the mortal world.
  • Kalabar's Revenge: Kal, Kalbar's son who casts a grey spell on Halloweentown that transforms it into a dreary, black-and-white caricature of the mortal world and intends on turning the mortal world into a monster movie; all as revenge for his father's defeat.
  • Halloweentown High: Edgar Halloway, the leader of the Witch's Council, and Phil Flannigan, the last of the Knights of the Iron Dagger, both of who work to ensure that Halloweentown and the mortal world stay separate out of mistrust of each other's races.
  • Return to Halloweentown: The Dominion, an evil organization who have plans to force Marnie to use an amulet only known as The Gift to grant them control over all of Halloweentown.
• Zenon
  • First film: Parker Wyndham is the mogul who owns the space station, and sets out with his assistant Lutz to implant a computer virus that will destroy it, killing everyone inside, so he can collect the insurance money.
  • The Zequel: General Hammond is the main antagonist, taking over the now-damaged station and planning to dismantle it, which would put everyone on the station out of a job, and is trying to capture Zenon. However, he's only doing it to protect the people of Earth from a possible ColonyDrop.
  • Z3: Pat Numbar, the host of the Galactic Teen Supreme contest who is using it as a front to colonize and exploit the moon for its resources, greatly angering the moon goddess Selene who (forcibly) recruits Zenon to stop his plans.
• Don't Look Under the Bed: The Boogeyman, a monster tormenting Frances and ruining her life.
• Up, Up and Away!: Malcolm, Nina's partner-in-crime in Earth Protectors who uses her hypnotic CD-ROMS to brainwash people into committing crimes for him under the guise of furthering her goal of saving the environment.
• Step Sister From Planet Weird: Emperor S'Vad, the oppressive ruler of Zircalon and the reason why Ariel and Cosmo had to flee to Earth.
• Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire: Dimitri, the titular vampire who seduces Lynette with the intent of turning her and her children into his undead slaves.
• Phantom of the Megaplex: The Phantom/Shawn MacGibbon, who is causing problems throughout the megaplex on the night a major blockbuster is set to premiere.
• The Luck of the Irish: Seamus McTieran, who has stolen Kyle's lucky coins, as well as the lucky coins of numerous leprechaun clans, with ambitions of using their power to become "King of Leprechauns".
• Get a Clue: Detective Charles Meaney aka Falco Grandville. He framed Mr. Walker for the theft of $10 million, forcing him to change his identity, and it's up to Lexy Gold to clear his name.
• The Even Stevens Movie: Miles McDermott, the Jerkass host of Family Fakeout. He attempts to drive the family apart through orchestrated conflict, all in the name of good television.
• The Proud Family Movie: Dr. Carver's clone, a Mad Scientist who traps the Proud family on a tropical island in order to get Oscar's new Proud Snacks recipe; which he intends on using to perfect his Super-Genome army and Take Over the World.
• Twitches: Thantos, Alex and Cam's Evil Uncle who's the source of the Darkness that killed their father and is ravaging the land of Coventry.
• Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior: Yan-Lo, an ancient evil spirit out to destroy the world who Wendy is destined to fight.
• Dadnapped: Marv, a hotel owner who kidnaps Neal Morris in order to get him to write a final book and profit off of it.
• Princess Protection Program: General Kane, military dictator of the Republic of Costa Estrella, aims to conquer the Kingdom of Costa Luna for himself, and is the reason Rosalinda is forced to flee her country.
• Avalon High: Mordred, secretly Mr. Moore, who is determined to kill the reincarnation of King Arthur and drag the world into another dark age.
• ''The Suite Life Movie has Dr. Ronald Olsen, the head of the Gemini Project who seeks world domination through a Hive Mind of numerous twins.
• Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension: Doofenshmirtz-2. In contrast to the Doofenshmirtz of the first dimension, this Doofenshmirtz had long-since accomplished his goal as dictator, works to crush the rebellion led by the alternate Candace, and attempts to take over the first dimension's Tri-State Area as well.
• Girl vs. Monster: Deimata, a monster Skylar accidentally unleashes who desires to feed off the fear of her and her family.
• Descendants:
  • First film: Maleficent. She's the one who leads the other villains and plots their revenge against Auradon. She also has Mal steal the Fairy Godmother's wand in hopes that she'll grow up to become a villain just like her.
  • 2: Uma. She's taken over Mal's old turf on the Isle and plots to break the magical barrier to set all the Villain Kids free.
  • 3: Princess Audrey, who plans to take over Auradon and get revenge on Mal for stealing her life.

Video Games

• Mickey Mousecapade: Maleficent (Queen of Hearts in the Japanese version) kidnaps Mickey and Minnie's friend Alice, with the two setting out to rescue her.
• Castle of Illusion:
  • Original game: Mizrabel the witch, who has kidnapped Minnie in order to steal her youth and beauty.
  • Land of Illusion: The Phantom, an Evil Sorcerer terrorizing the fairy tale land by transforming people into dangerous beasts and has imprisoned their princess.
  • World of Illusion: Pete, an evil wizard who traps Mickey and Donald in the titular World of Illusion.
  • Legend of Illusion: The Sorcerer of Darkness is responsible for damming the River of Life, preventing water from flowing to the Tree of Life and killing the land's crops. After he's defeated, King Pete takes over as the villain, attempting to have Mickey arrested so he doesn't have to give up his kingdom.
• Quackshot: Pete, who pursues Donald and his nephews throughout their treasure hunt in order to steal the riches for himself.
• The Lucky Dime Caper: Magica De Spell. She steals Scrooge's #1 dime, captures Huey, Dewey, Louie, and steals their dimes, hiding them in different parts of the world to stall Donald.
• Disney's Magical Quest: Pete is the main villain of the series and the Final Boss of every game. He is always cast with imposing titles like Emperor or Baron, holes up in a dark, ominous castle that looms over the rest of the colorful world, and practices black magic. His only really "evil" acts, like kidnapping Pluto or wrecking the circus, are more like jerkass moves with his only motive being because he can.
• Donald in Maui Mallard: The Mojo Witch Doctor, the one who stole the idol in the first place.
• Disney's Hades Challenge: Hades, who spends the game attempting to halt the player character's journey to become the hero.
• Donald Duck: Goin' Qu@ckers: Merlock, who kidnapped and imprisoned Daisy within his temple, leading Donald to travel around the world in order to rescue her.
• Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge: Nasira, Jafar's sister who takes over Agrabah and manipulates Aladdin into retrieving the relics she needs to revive her brother.
• Kingdom Hearts has the dark Keyblade wielder Master Xehanort serving as the overall main antagonist of the Dark Seeker Saga, the series' first saga, running from the first game to Kingdom Hearts III. Almost every game during the saga has some incarnation of him serve as villain the game, though there are some exceptions.
  • Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, aka Xehanort's Heartless, in Kingdom Hearts, manipulating Maleficent along with her legion of Disney Villains to gather up the seven Princess of Hearts in order to unlock Kingdom Hearts. On a personal level, he also manipulates her role in corrupting Riku and pitting him against Sora, eventually possessing Riku's body.
  • Marluxia in Chain of Memories, being the one who orders Naminé to wipe Sora's memories in order to use him as a pawn to overthrow the Organization. The Reverse/Rebirth campaign, meanwhile, has Ansem again (though more specifically, the piece of Ansem inside of Riku leftover from when he possessed him), who tries to retake his possession of Riku after Sora initially destroyed him in the first game.
  • Xehanort's Nobody, Xemnas, leader of Organization XIII, serves as this in Kingdom Hearts II, intending to exploit Sora's Keyblade in order to gather enough hearts for his artificial Kingdom Hearts.
  • 358/2 Days has Saïx. While most of his actions are under order of Xemnas, Xemnas is overall separated from the actual events of the story, leaving Saïx to fill the role in his place via being the mission provider for Roxas, his attitude for Xion, and being the penultimate boss fight of the game (along with brainwashing Xion into being the Final Boss who attempts to defeat and merge with Roxas).
  • In coded, the Big Bad turns out to be the data version of Sora's Heartless. It serves as the source of the Bug Blox plaguing the datascape and was feeding on the dark data of Data-Heartless slain by Data-Sora to strengthen itself so it can escape into the real world. At the same time, Maleficent and Pete, whose alliance was introduced in II, also hack into the datascape and drive most of the conflict.
  • Master Xehanort himself takes the center stage in the prequel Birth by Sleep. Here, he arranges a showdown between Ventus and Vanitas in order to forge the χ-blade and start another Keyblade War, while at the same time stealing Terra's body in order to gain a youthful body so he can see the results of the war, and he also serves as the reason for Aqua being cast out into darkness.
  • Young Xehanort serves as this in Dream Drop Distance, being the one who sabotages both Sora and Riku's Mark of Mastery Exams in order to turn the former into a vessel for Master Xehanort for the 13th and final member of the Real Organization XIII.
  • χ has Darkness serving as the closest thing the game has to one of these, seemingly being the embodiments of darkness itself, with their goal to escape the Data-Daybreak Town being what shapes the final act of the game's story.
  • Master Xehanort is once again the main villain for the final game of the "Dark Seeker Saga", Kingdom Hearts III, acting upon his plan to forge the χ-blade through a second Keyblade War, and finally forges it and summons Kingdom Hearts. After Sora finally defeats Xehanort, the epilogue reveals that Xehanort's Dragon with an Agenda, Braig/Xigbar, is The Man in Front of the Man, being the Master of Masters's sixth apprentice, Luxu, in a new body. He had gotten close to Master Xehanort and used him all for the sake of starting the second Keyblade War to fulfill his master's prophecy, and when Xehanort had served his purpose, Luxu reclaims his Keyblade. The Re Mind DLC further reveals that 75 years prior, the Master of Masters encouraged Xehanort's desire to use the darkness, meaning that Xehanort's fall to darkness and role in starting the Second Keyblade War were all planned by him from the start.
• Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse: The Ghost, a green specter with Floating Limbs who traps Mickey in his mirror world so he wouldn't be lonely anymore.
• Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon: Evar turns out to be the one behind both the pirate and Ironclad attacks, which serve as a means to lure the bulk of the Royal Navy to the frontier, allowing the Procyons to easily reach the Royal Parliament and assassinate the Terran Queen.
• The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer: The Underminer terrorizes Metropolis with his army of drills and robots, intent on decimating the Earth's surface.
• Disney's Kim Possible: What's the Switch?: Professor Dementor, who steals the Magical Monkey Idol that switches Ron and Drakken's bodies, leading Kim and Shego to team-up to get it back.
• Chicken Little: Ace in Action: Foxy Loxy, the leader of the Foxloxian Empire threatening to conquer the galaxy.
• Disney Princess:
  • Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey: Zara, who commands the Bogs that have taken over the princess worlds.
  • Disney Princess: Magical Jewels: The Evil Queen (no relation to the one from Snow White) is the one who stole the Magical Jewels, leading the Kingdom of Kindness to crumble.
• Epic Mickey:
  • First game: The Shadow Blot, an Eldritch Abomination made of paint and thinner accidentally created by Mickey that threatens the Cartoon Wasteland.
  • Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two has Prescott, who wants to take Mickey's Brush and use to force everyone to worship him, before the Mad Doctor replaces him.
  • Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion has Mizrabel, who kidnaps a number of Disney characters and traps them in her castle.
• Disney Illusion Island: Grayzar appears to be the main villain, when it is actually Toku, the leader of the Hokuns, after it was revealed that Grayzar is actually Brainwashed and Crazy through a magic crown.

Western Animation

• Adventures of the Gummi Bears has Duke Igthorn, a Black Knight who regularly plots to obtain the Gummi Bears' Super-Strength-endowing Gummiberry juice, among other ancient Gummi Bear technology, in order to depose the King of Dunwyn.
• There are two main villains whose overarching schemes drive the plot of Gargoyles: Xanatos and Demona. The former is a conniving genius whose plots always go his way as Goliath's clan of gargoyles try to stop him. The latter is a former member of the clan who is out to destroy humanity for their perceived attacks on other gargoyles. As the show progresses, however, Xanatos gets character development leading to a Heel–Face Turn (kind of), leaving Demona the unchallenged Big Bad by the time of the Grand Finale. In Season 3 Castaway and his Quarrymen took on the role, while the (canon) comic continuation has Thailog stepping in to fill the empty shoes of main bad guy.
• Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! has the Skeleton King, an undead Galactic Conqueror who longs to destroy all life and conquer the entire universe with his army of the dead, "The Formless". He is the sworn enemy to Chiro and his squad, and all the other villains answer to him.
• American Dragon: Jake Long has The Huntsman, the #4 threat to the magical world who seeks the extermination of Magical Creatures, and has also kidnapped Rose when she was only a baby and raised her to be a loyal member of the huntsclan. Once he meets his end, the Dark Dragon ends up being the Final Boss of the series.
• Gravity Falls:
  • Gideon Gleeful is the main villain of Season 1, being Stan's business rival and Dipper and Mabel's most prominent antagonist, who regularly hatched schemes to get control of the Mystery Shack where one of the missing journals is hidden, and aimed to obtain their power to use for his own ends.
  • Come Season 2, Bill Cipher takes up the mantle and becomes the most active threat to the Pines after being revealed to be Season 1's Greater-Scope Villain. He's been monitoring and manipulating the Pines family into granting him a way to merge his home dimension, a nightmare realm full of other demons and abominations, with Earth, so that he can rule both realms and cause Weirdmageddon. He's the one responsible for getting Stanford to build the portal to begin with and the journals were hidden specifically to prevent him from using them. All of this finally comes to head in the "Weirdmageddon" multi-part finale, where he obtains his physical form and unleashes chaos all across Gravity Falls, serving as the show's Final Boss.
• Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: The Sorcerer. Despite being imprisoned, everyone who knows that he exists is genuinely terrified of him, as he turns people in despair into monsters to do his will. When out, he can do this endlessly by just hitting people or objects with his Stank. As an arguable trade-off, just hitting these monsters hard enough will return them to normal.
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero: Rippen. His goal is to defeat Penn at least once to become a full-time villain, which would in the process disrupt the balance of the multiverse, and also destroy Penn to wipe out the Zero family line.
• Wander over Yonder: Lord Hater was the show's main villain during Season 1 (albeit a rather ineffectual one); with him regularly trying to conquer the universe, only for Wander to constantly (and often inadvertently) get in his way. Season 2 sees him dethroned by the considerably more competent Lord Dominator, and from there the main plot of the show revolves around both Wander and Hater trying to prevent her from destroying the galaxy.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Initially it's Ludo, until Toffee takes his castle and his minions in the penultimate episode of Season 1. In Season 2, Ludo retakes the position after taking a level in badass, then it turns out Toffee is still around and is still the real threat after all. After Toffee is Killed Off for Real at the beginning of Season 3, it appears Queen Eclipsa is set to take the position...except it's a Bait-and-Switch: the true new Big Bad is Miss Heinous, who is revealed to be her half-monster daughter Meteora and, upon discovering that fact, seeks to regain her stolen throne. Season 4 has Mina Loveberry, Star's former idol who threatens the new Monster-Mewman status quo by seeking to overthrow Eclipsa, even enlisting the Magical High Commission's aid in her coup. However, it is revealed that Star's mother, Moon, is the mastermind behind the conspiracy against Eclipsa and Globgor, having recruited both Mina and the Commission to remove them from power, an act that backfires horrifically when Mina betrays her so she can kill every monster in Mewni and all who side with them, cementing her position as the final villain.
• Janja is the starting antagonist from The Lion Guard, being the main threat in the pilot movie and being one of the Lion Guard's most persistent adversaries. By the end of "The Rise of Scar", however, Scar reclaims his position as the main villain, but since he's just a spirit, Janja and Ushari still have to do the heavy lifting.
• Tangled: The Series has Zhan Tiri, an ancient demon obsessed with the destruction of Corona that was sealed away in another dimension. Acting as the Greater-Scope Villain of the first two seasons, she has several antagonists working under her all throughout who attempt to bring her back and causes the blizzard in "Queen For a Day" that leads to Varian Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. By Season 3, she takes center stage and manipulates Cassandra into turning against Rapunzel and becoming her main enforcer. She then spends the entire season creating conflict between Cassandra and Rapunzel that would serve a ritual that'd free her and allow her to regain her true power. Come the Grand Finale, she successfully takes the power of both the Sundrop and Moonstone to regain her true form and becomes the Final Boss of the series.
• DuckTales (2017)
  • Season 1 has Magica De Spell, a villainous sorceress with a grudge against clan McDuck and Scrooge's most personal foe. Having been trapped in Scrooge's Number One Dime during a confrontation years before the start of the series, Magica spends the season forcing Lena to gain the family's trust so she can get close enough to take the Dime; allowing her to escape from it. This culminates in her freeing herself and launching a full scale attack on Duckburg, with the intent of destroying everything Scrooge ever loved.
  • Season 2 has General Lunaris, the fanatical leader of the Moonlanders. Disgusted by his father's fear of Earth, Lunaris spent decades planning an invasion so he may prove that the Moon is superior. After finding Della, Lunaris aids her in repairing the Spear of Selene, allowing her to befriend the Moonlanders and promise to show them Earth, only to stage her betrayal. By the season finale, having spent months observing Scrooge and his family, getting the ship's blueprints from Della and rallying the Moonlanders, he leads an invasion, ultimately planning to force Earth to orbit the moon.
  • Season 3 has F.O.W.L., the most powerful and feared criminal organization on Earth, with chairman of Scrooge's Board of Directors, Bradford Buzzard, leading it right under his nose. Their ultimate goal being to put an end to the McDuck's adventures once and for all.
• Big City Greens: Chip Whistler, the CEO of Wholesome Foods and the Greens' main enemy for the Farmer's Market who's always plotting to run them out of Big City.
• 101 Dalmatian Street: Cruella de Vil is the main villain; having spent the first season tasking her great-nephew, Hunter, with tracking down and capturing the dalmatian puppies for her to kill and make into coats as revenge for their ancestors foiling her plans long ago.
• The ultimate antagonist of Amphibia is the Core (aka "Darcy"), the Hive Mind consciousness of every previous ruler of Newtopia—the kingdom that holds overall rule over Amphibia—has been assimilated into. Captain Grime and King Andrias serve as the Arc Villain of the first and second seasons respectively, but the Core is ultimately responsible for the millennia-spanning conflict of the show.
• The Owl House has Emperor Belos, the ruler of the Boiling Isles. He's a tyrannical dictator and Soft-Spoken Sadist, who seeks to induct everyone into his Coven system before the Day of Unity, and the Arc Villains of both seasons (Lilith in Season 1 and The Golden Guard/Hunter in Season 2) are carrying out his direct orders. It later turns out that Belos is really Philip Wittebane, a 17th century human Witch Hunter who plans to use the sigils as a means to kill every witch on the Boiling Isles, using the eclipse on the Day of Unity. After his defeat in the second season, The Collector takes over, seeking to turn the Boiling Isles into his personal playground, before Belos retakes this role by manipulating the former.