Classic Villain / Western Animation

• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender:
    • Fire Lord Ozai. Pride and Ambition. Gleefully contributed to the project of his father and grandfather to Take Over the World, switching in the Grand Finale to Omnicidal Maniac and A God Am I to further eliminate all hope in the heart of those who resist him. Through he doesn't face The Hero Aang directly until the Grand Finale, he's the main reason why the Deuteragonist, Zuko, stays so messed up for most of the series. As a Social Darwinist Evil Overlord who chose Kick the Dog as a hobby, he's the direct opposite of Aang, which shows in their final confrontation, where even in defeat, he doesn't understand why Aang spared his life.
    • Ozai's daughter Azula is motivated by Pride and Ambition, as well as a generous helping of psychotic madness.
    • Zhao displays copious amounts of Pride and Ambition, which ultimately cause his downfall. His short temper and scorn towards Zuko add Wrath and Envy, and as a middle-aged man with striking sideburns, he's definitely visually distinctive from his opponents, all in their teens.
  • The Legend of Korra:
    • Unalaq: Ambition, Pride and Envy.
    • Varrick: Ambition and Greed
    • Kuvira: Ambition, Pride and Wrath
• Batman Beyond: Derek Powers, crooked CEO turned radioactive monster, stands as a foil to juvenile delinquent turned Super Hero Terry Mcginnis. He is driven by Wrath, Greed, Pride, and ruthless ambition, stopping at utterly nothing to destroy or use anyone in his drive his company as the biggest force in Gotham. His transformation into Blight is especially ironic, with his glowing skeleton showing the monster he hides behind his friendly veneer. When Terry finally confronts him for killing his dad, Blight is unrepentant to the very end, casually quipping, "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?", and afterwards presumably perishes.
• A few examples from Castlevania (2017).
  • The Bishop represents Ambition and Pride. He's a self-righteous older man who hides behind the church he supposedly serves to burn away whatever he sees as sinful while advancing his position.
  • Carmilla represents Ambition, Greed and Wrath. A former sex slave turned Femme Fatale who wants to conquer the world after internalizing all the horrible things that have happened to her.
  • Death represents Pride and Gluttony. An ancient elemental sprit that feeds on the souls of the dead. Death manipulates and uses everyone around him to achieve his ends, all the while carrying an air of arrogance.
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • Father, the depraved patriarch to the Delightful Children from Down the Lane, is the most recurring Big Bad of the series, representing Wrath and Pride with helpful doses of Sloth. A Child Hater to the extreme and explosive, psychotic, condescending, sociopathic, and shamelessly sadistic, he starkly contrasts with the Kids Next Door by being Obviously Evil from head to toe, having a deep, booming voice, being tall and thin, wearing a shadow suit, wielding pyrokinesis, and possessing sinister yellow eyes. Every Evil Plan of his is created for his children and teen armies to follow, with destroying the KND as the end goal. Despite his cunning and fearsome appearance, he is constantly thwarted by the KND because he fails to consider how dangerous they are and on multiple occasions, ironically proves to be no more mature than them.
  • Grandfather, the Big Bad of Operation: Z.E.R.O., represents Ambition and Pride and is the reason how Father came to be. He has Father's default appearance and traits, but with a Devilish Hair Horns that resembles Horns of Villainy and a skinnier physique, making him resemble Satan himself. Upon regaining his demonic powers, he plunges the world into his own dystopian hellhole by turning both the adults and the KND into senior citizombies and desires to destroy the Book of KND to make sure his reign goes unopposed. His own pride is what gets him thwarted by his own son who opposed him, Monty Uno/Numbuh Zero, twice: the first time in the prologue, and the second time by being Lured into a Trap set up by him to decommission him again as his Heroic Sacrifice.
• Danny Phantom has Vlad Plasmius, guilty of Lust and Envy. He's Jack Fenton's Evil Former Friend who was victim to the same Freak Lab Accident that gave Danny Fenton his ghost powers, and as such has a good 20 years of experience with those same abilities. The two share a few "Not So Different" Remark moments, but ultimately, Danny fights for the greater good while Vlad acts only for himself; even he Villainous Crush on Maddie Fenton is shown to be more about having her as a Lust Object than anything meaningful. What's Beneath the Mask becomes clear in the Grand Finale, and as a result everyone, even his old friends, turn their backs on him.
• Hazbin Hotel has Adam, who embodies Pride and Lust, with a dash of Wrath in there as well. He arrogantly views himself as better than everyone due to being the first man, needlessly sexualizes women and gleefully slaughters human sinners every year. His design while in-costume looks more demonic even than the actual demons, but his true appearance under that is an ordinary human man, fitting for his status as the original template for all who would come after him and differentiating him from the more visually distinct protagonists. He contrasts with main protagonist Charlie in many ways, as Charlie is a kind soul who believes even the worst of humanity can change, while Adam is a cruel bastard who thinks sinners are lost causes and deserve to be slaughtered en masse. In the season finale, he has a dramatic final battle with not only Alastor, but also Charlie and Lucifer, and eventually finds himself killed by Niffty, a woman who acts as the Hotel's housekeeper.
• Looney Tunes
  • The Bully Bulldog from the one-shot Chow Hound embodies Gluttony through and through; he has a cat and a mouse forcibly involved in a complex scheme to get as much steak as possible. When he finally gets to eat his fill, he winds up immobilized and pained from the resulting obesity... just in time for the cat and mouse to "make up" for always forgetting the gravy.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Nightmare Moon, the Mr. Hyde like alter-ego of night goddess, Princess Luna. Consumed with Envy and Wrath over people enjoying the day but sleeping during her beautiful night, she went Omnicidal Maniac mode on Equestria, attempting to plunge it into The Night That Never Ends.
  • Queen Chrysalis favors Pride with generous helpings of Ambition and Lust. A shapeshifting alien queen/succubus, she is determined to rule Equestria and make its inhabitants cattle to her race, the Changelings.
  • Tirek: Greed and Wrath. Tirek sees all magic as his to take, claiming that it should have been his long ago. Also, he still holds a serious grudge against his brother for betraying him to the princesses and trying to stop his conquest of Equestria.
• Reboot: Played Straight with Megabyte and Hexidecimal. Megabyte embodies Greed, Pride, Envy and Ambition, appears borg-like, often initiates plots and comes dangerously close to succeeding fairly often. Hexidecimal likewise embodies Sloth, Wrath and Lust (with a few shades of Pride) and appears like a very creepy harlequin. ( And later she subverts this entirely when she pulls a Heel–Face Turn.) Completely averted with Daemon, who could easily pass for a Sprite, has no particular vices, is rarely outright hostile, and dies fulfilling her plans rather than falling in battle.
• Angelica Pickles of Rugrats may be A Lighter Shade of Black than most examples of the trope, but she still qualifies. Her vices are many, but the most glaring are Pride, Gluttony, Greed, and Wrath. When she's not messing with the babies' heads For the Evulz, she out to hoard as many toys and sweets all for herself. Being old enough to talk to the grown-ups as well is her greatest advantage. Thankfully, she's a frequent target of Laser-Guided Karma; if she's not found out and punished by the grown-ups, she'll often end up believing her own lies or subject to an ironic humiliation.
• Aku, the Arch-Enemy of Samurai Jack, is an all-powerful demon Made of Evil who embodies Pride, Wrath, and Sloth. He's the polar opposite of Jack in every way, such as appearance (being a giant demon with pitch-black flesh whereas Jack is a human being clad in white robes), personality (arrogant where Jack is humble, cruel where Jack is compassionate, hammy where Jack is stoic, and when the chips are down, cowardly where Jack is courageous), and abilities (Aku practically Won The Superpower Lottery while Jack is a lone samurai with an enchanted sword). Having flung the samurai into The Future as a last-ditch effort in their initial clash, Aku spreads despair and corruption unopposed, due to Jack wielding the only weapon that can harm him. Throughout the series, Aku seeks to destroy Jack once and for all, but since he cannot confront him directly, he relies on trickery and deals to accomplish this. Thing is, being pure evil means he's practically compelled to be double-crossing and cruel even when it would benefit him to act with honor. In the end, when he has Jack at his Darkest Hour, his arrogance and cruelty are what enable Jack's allies (including the Anti-Anti-Christ daughter he unknowingly bore) to mount a resistance and give Jack the chance he needed to return to the past and destroy him.
• Steven Universe has the diamond authority. Yellow Diamond: Ambition, Pride and Wrath. She contrasts the main cast by being more humanoid in design. Unlike the other gems, she has zero regard for life and sees the earth as only a focus of her anger.
• Megatron from Transformers: Prime. Ambition, Envy, Wrath and Pride. Megatron contrasts with his Arch-Enemy Optimus Prime in two key ways. First, his grey design is curved and angular with large shoulder spikes compared with the more colorful and smooth Optimus and other Cybertronians. Second and more importantly, in his backstory, Megatron and Optimus used to be partners in action, as Megatron sought at first to change how the Elders of Cybertron treated other Transformers. Their key split was that while Megatron sought to be named the next Prime and overthrow the guard with force, Optimus asked that the guard reform and was thus recognized as true prime material despite not asking for it. Overcome with Wrath, Megatron destroyed Cyberton searching for the Matrix of Leadership before bringing his war to Earth afterwards. While he was first thought to be destroyed by his inability to allow his legion of the undead to be destroyed in the Five-Episode Pilot, he came back and his ultimate demise was at the hand of Bumblebee. Reported to be the weakest of the Autobots going into the series, he's struck down with the star saber, which he copied and sought to use to become a god. Killed by beings he thought weaker than himself and beaten because he failed to see the other Autobots outside Optimus as a threat.
• Villainous: Given the heavy implication that Black Hat's one of the first, if not the first, villains in all of CN history, it shouldn't be a surprise that the man(?) is classic in more than one way. So far, he embodies Ambition, Pride, Wrath, Greed, and Sloth:
  • Ambition: Was once a Galactic Conqueror who enslaved countless worlds and now sells his talents and resources to see other villains succeed over heroes.
  • Pride: To the degree he considers himself the greatest being of evil and that other villains are beneath him.
  • Greed: Runs the biggest supervillain service organization, and is very itchy for money, and other forms of currency.
  • Wrath: Has a frighteningly short fuse.
  • Sloth: Nowadays spends his time sitting at home, letting his minions do all work. Though, this can be justifiable, since he's retired.
• Dick Dastardly of Wacky Races is quite likely Hanna-Barbera's most famous villain, as ineffectual as he is at succeeding through nefarious schemes. He even had his own show (along with canine cohort Muttley) as well as appearing on other shows as the antagonist.

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