Contrasting Sequel Antagonist / Animated Films

From an evil dinosaur to a sadistic pirate captain.

Contrasting Sequel Antagonists in animated movies.

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• Cyrus Strange from The Addams Family 2 is this to Margaux Needler from The Addams Family (2019).
  • Margaux was a simple real estate agent who's only concerned with appearances, and her actions can be interpreted as a Well-Intentioned Extremist. Cyrus is a famous Mad Scientist who's motivated by money and power, and is more-or-less a Card-Carrying Villain.
  • The way they antagonize the Addams is different, as Margaux went for the direct approach and led a full-scale assault on the family, while Cyrus is more emotionally manipulative and seeks to break the family apart in order to experiment on them.
  • Margaux ended up as a Karma Houdini who, despite having her crimes exposed, didn't get any long-term repercussions. Cyrus, on the other hand, ends up suffering through Laser-Guided Karma and falls off his mansion after going through a One-Winged Angel transformation.
  • In regards to how they treat their own families, whereas Margaux tends to be rather dismissive of her son Parker and is divorced, Cyrus uses his wife and daughter as experimental guinea pigs.
• Jafar, the Big Bad of Aladdin and its sequel, is a power-hungry Lean and Mean schemer who was the Grand Vizier of Agrabah, seeking to take control of the kingdom through either acquiring the lamp of the Genie or marrying Princess Jasmine while posing as the trusted confidant of the sultan until his duplicity was revealed. He initially relied on hypnosis and subterfuge to further his goals until acquiring the Genie's lamp, which he used to turn himself into a sorcerer with powerful magic and later on an even more mighty Genie. By contrast, Saluk from Aladdin and the King of Thieves is a Large and in Charge brute and high-ranking member of the Forty Thieves who despises the current leader and Aladdin's father Cassim's "never harm the innocent" rule and hopes to return the Forty Thieves to their more bloodthirsty roots while also satisfying his greed. Though lacking of any magical powers like Jafar, he is a deadly Badass Normal who makes use of Batman Gambits and his own physical strength to find the Hand of Midas.
• Leonard Mudbeard in The Angry Birds Movie was the green-skinned, corpulent king of Piggy Island who wanted to rob the residents of Bird Island of their eggs to feed himself and his subjects, which he aimed to accomplish by passing himself off as a peaceful explorer and earning the birds' trust before stealing all their eggs. In contrast, Zeta in the sequel is the purple-feathered, slender ruler of Eagle Island who sought to evict the residents of Bird Island and Piggy Island so she could rule both islands after growing tired of the frozen one she was already living on.
• Bartok the Magnificent, either a prequel or a spinoff to the movie Anastasia, has it's antagonist Ludmilla contrasting with Rasputin beyond how they play Obviously Evil Chancellor angle, their gender, and how they interact with Bartok.
  • Rasputin is associated with dark colors such as browns, greens, and grays. He was casted out from his position of confidant early on by Czar Nicholas, who realized his treacherous and evil nature early on, causing Rasputin to make a Deal with the Devil to enact a curse to wipe out the Romanov lineage including several attempts on the sole survivor, Anastasia. He's a lich slowly rotting away with demonic powers aiding him and alternates between depressed and maniacally malicious. Bartok was his emotional support until he's become too consumed by Revenge for Bartok to try to redeem him.
  • Ludmilla is associated with gold, pinks, and blacks, is a somewhat favored regent in spite of her visible villainous traits that the Prince is annoyed by, but trusts until her true colors are revealed and decides to take the throne for herself once he proves too unruly to be a mere Puppet King. She's a normal person with high political power until taking Baba Yaga's potion to become a dragon, a physical threat due to her fire breathing and strength, with her refined facade hiding her sadistic, ill-tempered, and ambitious nature. She uses Bartok as an Unwitting Pawn to be sent on mission to rescue Ivan from Baba Yaga to both eliminate the annoyance and to divert attention away from her own misdeeds.
• Although Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is an Interquel to the original film, Maestro Forte from The Enchanted Christmas is still the exact opposite of Gaston from the original film. Gaston is a normal human who is more associated with Belle, while Forte was a normal human-turned-Ominous Pipe Organ who is more associated with the Beast. Gaston is well-liked by the village but hated by Belle, while Forte is not well-liked by the rest of the castle yet the Beast still regarded him as a friend until the climax. Gaston wanted Belle as his wife, while Forte wanted to keep the Beast from falling in love so that he could continue manipulating him and maintain his transformation.
• The antagonists of BoBoiBoy Movie 2 have their comparisons and differences to the bad guys of BoBoiBoy: The Movie:
  • According to magazine trivia, Retak'ka was born on Ata Ta Tiga, the same planet that Bora Ra of the first movie hails from. But while Bora Ra hunted Power Spheras to conquer other planets for the Kubulus empire, Retak'ka (who isn't a Kubulus) was abandoned on another planet, where he found the Power Sphera that granted him Gamma power. Both are sadistic power-hungry individuals who command others through fear, but while Bora Ra's quest for Power Spheras concerned the hero's friend, Ochobot; Retak'ka seeking to repossess the Elemental Powers makes it a more personal conflict against BoBoiBoy himself.
  • The Crystal Miners are side antagonists who work for the main villain like the Tengkotak gang did for Bora Ra, but on different terms. Bora Ra was the Tengkotak's leader from the get-go, but Retak'ka gives the Crystal Miners an offer they couldn't refuse to make them work for him. All Tengkotak members were Kubulus aliens, while the Crystal Miners are a mixed group of unknown alien species, but some have a few parallels to that of the other group. Gogobi, the leader of the Crystal Miners, is The Brute and loyal to Retak'ka, alike to Gaga Naz towards Bora Ra. Ayu Yu is the Dark Action Girl who Adu Du gets a crush on, like Kiki Ta was. Kechik is the short one like Cici Ko, except he's loyal to the villains unlike the latter who was The Mole.
• Francis E. Francis from The Boss Baby and Dr. Erwin Armstrong from The Boss Baby: Family Business differ in many ways. While both are a Corrupt Corporate Executive, they have different plans. Francis E. Francis wanted to wipe out Baby Corp in retaliation for firing him for something that wasn’t his fault to begin with, thus wanting to eliminate babies; while Armstrong wants babies to be the dominant power and has a dislike for parents. Francis was an adult while Armstrong was a baby pretending to be an adult (though Francis regressed to an infant at the end of the first movie). Also, while Francis's defeat ended with him going to be taught right by his brother Eugene, Armstrong reformed on his own accord and went back to live with his parents.
• Cars does this mainly in regards to its various rival racers:
  • Cars had Chick Hicks, who was loud, boastful, completely full of himself, a cheater, and was generally an unpleasant jerkass.
  • Francesco Bernoulli from Cars 2 is more of a toned down version of Hicks, seeing as how, while he's still an arrogant jerk, Bernoulli doesn't fight dirty and actually appears to be horrified upon seeing his fellow racers all get into wrecks during the Grand Prix Race.
  • Jackson Storm from Cars 3 retains a calm and quiet demeanor throughout most of the film, which makes him very noticeably different from Hicks and Bernoulli, who are both pretty loud-mouthed and somewhat energetic.
• Despicable Me films:
  • Victor "Vector" Perkins is a new, younger villain who seeks to overthrow Gru. He's immature and inexperienced, but makes up for it by being active and rather dangerous when pushed.
  • Despicable Me 2: El Macho is an older villain who faked his death and a father. Wanting to make a comeback, he hides his identity and ends up being a more physically active villain than Vector.
  • Despicable Me 3: Balthazar Bratt was originally a child actor who played a villain, but when he lost his fame he became an actual villain to get revenge. In terms of personality, he has more in common with Vector, but is almost as active in hand-to-hand as El Macho.
• FernGully: The Last Rainforest's Big Bad is Hexxus, a primordial spirit of destruction who manipulates a logging company staffed by a Fat and Skinny duo of Punch-Clock Villains; as soon as they realize that the Leveler has been taken over by Hexxus and they've actually been receiving orders from him, they freak out and refuse to participate in Hexxus' plan to destroy Ferngully. FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue switches this dynamic up a bit with a duo of Evil Poachers, one a sinister Percival McLeach type as the Dragon-in-Chief, and the other a bumbling and greedy Fat Bastard, who are later assisted by a crooked smuggler captain in the climax. Since the antagonists are now completely human, Crysta has to be kept out of the action for most of the film—she's too busy restoring FernGully after the two poachers caused a forest fire. When she does show up in the climax to help save the captured animals, the villains are swiftly dispatched thanks to her fairy magic.
• Tybalt from Gnomeo & Juliet and Moriarty from the sequel Sherlock Gnomes could not be any more different from each other. Tybalt is a gnome while Moriarty is a plastic mascot. Tybalt's villainy stems from arrogance and is merely a bully while Moriarty's villainy stems from sadism and is a diabolical mastermind. Tybalt tends to go for the direct approach when causing harm while Moriarty has a Complexity Addiction when doing crimes. The biggest difference is that Tybalt disappears before the climax of the first movie and doesn't get to fight while Moriarty takes on Sherlock in the ending of the sequel.
• How to Train Your Dragon:
  • The Red Death from the first movie is a dragon (a type of animal the Vikings regularly fight against) that is so massive that neither dragons (that it can control against their will so that they could feed it) nor vikings can fight alone, with Hiccup and Toothless (a human and a dragon working together) being the only ones that could fight it.
  • Drago Bludvist from the second movie is a human with a bulky build, dark skin, and black hair who's formed a human and dragon pair with his abused and subservient bewilderbeast, a dragon even larger than the Red Death. He seeks to enslave both mankind and dragons with the intention of conquering the world by using power, fear, an army, and his bewilderbeast.
  • Grimmel the Grisly from the third movie has a lean build with pale skin and white hair and seeks to exterminate all dragons to achieve peace among humans, acting independantly using his intelligence and a pack of six average sized deathgrippers. Grimmel uses their own venom to drug them so they can obey him.
    • Grimmel is also this to Viggo Grimborn from the TV series. Both are big-game dragon hunters who rely on strategy and psychology rather than brute force. But while Viggo hunted dragons for profit and saw Hiccup as a worthy adversary, eventually pulling a Heel–Face Turn and Heroic Sacrifice, Grimmel hunts dragons out of Fantastic Racism and thought Hiccup to be nothing without Toothless, even dismissing him as "just a boy"; he remains an enemy into the end, dying in a humiliating manner.
• Sarouch from The Hunchback of Notre Dame II is this to Claude Frollo from the first movie. While Frollo was a high-ranking public official with an army of soldiers at his disposal, Sarouch is the leader of a band of thieves posing as a traveling circus. Their motivations are also very different: Sarouch is motivated by greed and vanity while Frollo was a Knight Templar who sought to eradicate sin from the population of Paris, which led him to persecute people who lived like Sarouch did.
• Among the villains in the Ice Age movies, the ones that contrast each other greatly are Soto from the first movie, Gutt from the fourth movie and Gavin from the fifth movie as all three of them were acting on personal motives. However, while Soto cared for his pack and wanted to kill the baby because the humans wiped out most of his pack and Gavin cared for his children though was willing to commit genocide to everybody else, Gutt doesn't care for anyone but himself and can be considered to be more evil. What also sets them apart is that Soto and Gutt remained evil and died for it while Gavin reforms and lives.
  • Cretaceous and Maelstrom from the second movie sort of contrast against Rudy from the third movie. They are all predators who operate on instinct and are non-anthropomorphic unlike the preceding and later villains but whereas Cretaceous and Maelstrom were mindless killing machines, Rudy had a lot more self-awareness.
• The Screenslaver from Incredibles 2 contrasts against the first film's antagonist Syndrome in a number of ways.
  • Syndrome was a well-established villain from the start. Screenslaver's identity isn't revealed until an eventual plot twist (she's Evelyn Deavor, who employed a hypnotised decoy for Screenslaver's apperances during most of the film).
  • While Syndrome wished to make everyone super so actual Supers are no longer exceptional, Screenslaver aims to keep Supers illegal, believing that they hold humanity back.
  • By that same measure, Syndrome has a barely-contained excitement when geeking out over Mr. Incredible's abilities and his casual savviness with regards to common villain tropes ("You sly dog! You got me monologuing!"), which is contrasted by Screenslaver's soured opinion of Supers.
  • Syndrome was bombastic, desperate to be the center of attention, and headed a Bond-villain-like organization. Screenslaver is quieter and has a lower profile than Syndrome.
  • Syndrome saw no problem in gambling with Mirage's life when calling Mr. Incredible's bluff. Screenslaver, on the other hand, is shown to be capable of empathy, in that she attempted to save her brother Winston from becoming a casualty in her schemes.
• Kung Fu Panda has this with its Big Bads, who form a combined Fighter, Mage, Thief and Physical, Mystical, Technological contrast in addition to following a progressive Sorting Algorithm of Evil.
  • Tai Lung, villain of the first movie, is the Fighter and Physical, being a martial arts master adopted and trained by Shifu, and fought with kung fu and nerve strikes, using no weapons (although he does make good use of his surroundings). He's never shown with any known followers (not counting the video games, which are non-canon). His most personal adversary is Shifu, being his aforementioned adoptive father who trained him in kung fu, but ultimately goes along with Oogway's denial of Tai Lung being the Dragon Warrior, setting the stage for their animosity.
  • Lord Shen, villain of the second movie, is the Thief and Technological, being a disgraced prince who fights using throwing knives, and is more likely to battle from a distance using cannons (which he invented), or send his minions to fight for him. Speaking of minions, he has a pack of wolves (one King Mook being his Dragon) and a few occasional gorillas that willingly serve him. His most personal adversary is Po, being the one responsible for massacring his home and murdering his mother out of fear that he would eventually be The Chosen One to defeat him (which he did).
  • Kai the Collector, the villain of the third movie, is the Mage and Mystical, being a former warrior and brothers-in-arms with Oogway who fought with chi, supernatural powers, and 'jombies' (constructs made from jade in the form of dead kung fu masters). The 'jombies' are mindless beings with no will of their own whatsoever. His most personal adversary is Oogway, being his Big Bad Friend who turned to villainy after disagreeing with Oogway's attempts to share their chi.
• The Land Before Time:
  • Sharptooth, the antagonist of the first movie, is an Ax-Crazy, highly feared, nigh invulnerable Prehistoric Monster who never speaks and undoubtedly scarred many childhoods by violently killing Littlefoot's mother. The direct-to-video sequel The Great Valley Adventure follows this up with Ozzy and Strut, a comically inept Evil Duo of egg-stealing struthiomimuses with an Ear Worm of a Villain Song. Unlike Sharptooth, they have no dramatic weight, are not intimidating or frightening, and (not being obligate carnivores) pose no real threat to the protagonists until the very end of the movie. In fact, their constant failure to steal and eat a single egg is so laughable that it borders on Ineffectual Sympathetic Villainy.
  • The Sharpteeth in The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving aren't one or two huge T rexes but rather a group of "Fast-Biters", which are less of a threat individually but quite dangerous in a group.
  • Ichy and Dil in The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists are a Big Bad Duumvirate consisting of a prehistoric bird and crocodile who pursue the protagonists as they search for a special flower to heal Littlefoot's ailing grandfather. They are predators of completely different species working in Teeth-Clenched Teamwork due to dependency on one another (Ichy requiring Dil because he's too small to do much on his own and Dil's failing eyesight forcing her to depend on Ichy to help her see where she's going), are the first predators in the series capable of speech (Ozzy and Strut don't count because they pursue eggs), and alternate between being Laughably Evil and genuine threats who come dangerously close to eating the heroes.
  • The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire: Pterano is the first villain in the series to not be some kind of Sharptooth or other predator, and the first with an actual plan instead of just trying to eat something. He has lines he won't cross, as well as a Dark and Troubled Past that explains his behavior.
• The Big Bad of The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Zira, is a foil to Scar from the first movie.
  • While Scar was a suave, smooth individual who was skilled at hiding his true colors and was motivated by ambition and a Lack of Empathy, Zira is more overtly insane and malevolent, motivated by revenge, and shows that she is capable of empathy. In other words, Scar comes off like a psychopath, while Zira is more similar to a sociopath.
  • Scar commands the loyalty of his minions with promises of a better life, and is very reminiscent of a demagogue. Zira, on the other hand, instills a fervent devotion to "the cause" in her followers, coming off more like a cult leader.
  • Whereas Scar avoided fighting as much as possible, Zira personally leads her minions into battle and isn't afraid to get her paws dirty.
  • Scar sought to claim the throne of Pride Rock for himself. Zira is Vicariously Ambitious, planning to make Kovu king after she overthrows Simba.
• The Little Mermaid:
  • The Big Bad of The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, Morgana, is a strong contrast to her sister Ursula from the first movie.
    • In regards to body types, Ursula was obese while Morgana is quite skinny and almost skeletal.
    • Morgana was The Un-Favourite to their mother, who doted on Ursula.
    • Ursula got along very well with her eel underlings Flotsam and Jetsam (even getting enraged when they get accidentally killed), while Morgana is always butting heads with her shark minion Undertow.
    • Ursula was full of herself, unlike Morgana, who has a serious inferiority complex.
    • Ursula had great skill with magic. Morgana is an Inept Mage.
    • Morgana is a good deal more erratic and emotional than the generally calm and collected Ursula.
    • Ursula came off as business-like and ultimately pressured Ariel into signing a contract, while Morgana was more informal and convinced Melody that she was sympathetic to her plight.
    • Ursula indirectly used Ariel to get King Triton's trident, but Morgana tricks Melody into stealing it for her.
  • Marina Del Ray in The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning is the most significant example of this trope in the franchise. She's a mermaid rather than a cecaelia like Ursula and Morgana were, she doesn't use magic, and while power-hungry, she doesn't aim to go after the trident, instead wishing to replace Sebastian as Triton's attache after growing dissatisfied with her job as governess for Triton's daughters. Furthermore, unlike her predecessors, who were introduced as enemies of Atlantica, Marina starts out as a trusted servant to Triton until her desperation to secure her dream job makes her cross the Moral Event Horizon by attempting to kill Ariel, and later Sebastian.

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• My Little Pony: Equestria Girls and My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks have Sunset Shimmer and the Sirens, both Equestrian expatriates using their magical powers to achieve dominance in the human world. My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games has Principal Cinch, a human woman abusing rogue Equestrian magic to accomplish a far pettier goal (win the titular Friendship Games to preserve her winning streak); she would set the mold for all other villains in the subfranchise.
• The Secret Life of Pets: In the first film, Snowball's villainy before he reformed was more over-the-top and silly and he treated his fellow flushed-pets with respect while in the sequel, Sergei’s villainy is played much more serious and the only one he treats kindly is his pet monkey, Little Sergei. What also sets them apart is that Snowball is a Tragic Villain and has a more fleshed-out personality while Sergei is a more Flat Character and has little personality other than being a circus owner.
• Trumper, the main villain of Shaun the Sheep Movie, is a crude, boisterous sociopath of a dog catcher with virtually no redeeming qualities. He eventually suffers a humiliating defeat. Agent Red, the main villain of Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon, is a cold and ominous government agent who is eventually revealed to have a very sympathetic backstory. She makes a Heel–Face Turn at the end.
• Shrek:
  • The franchise had this first happen with its first two films.
    • The antagonist of the first film is Lord Farquaad, who is motivated by his dislike of fairy tale characters and creatures. The antagonist of Shrek 2 is the Fairy Godmother, who... well, is a fairy tale character, and one of the most overtly magical at that.
    • Farquaad is fairly dimwitted and tends to act on impulse and emotion, while the Fairy Godmother is sly, manipulative, and a long-term planner.
    • Whereas Farquaad is mostly hated by those around him, since he's very bad at hiding the fact that he's a repulsive Smug Snake, the Fairy Godmother is a Villain with Good Publicity due to her charismatic nature and outward sweetness.
    • Farquaad acted like he was a big deal, but had very little backing him up aside from his aristocratic status and is generally treated as a joke. The Fairy Godmother, on the other hand, has intellect, influence and magical prowess, and poses a very real threat to the heroes and their world.
  • The villain of the fourth film, Rumpelstiltskin, also serves as this to Farquaad. Despite the fact that they are both short people with delusions of grandeur, Lord Farquaad is an ordinary person without any magical powers, not penchant for cunning plans, always keeping his word and not posing a sufficient degree of danger despite all his ambitions. Rumpel on the other hand is smart, manipulative, and a long-term planner who makes magical deals with others, deceiving them in the process and achieving his goals more than Farquaad could ever have hoped.
  • Humpty Dumpty in the first Puss in Boots film is contrasted with "Big" Jack Horner in The Last Wish, both being characters from nursery rhymes rather than fairy tales who are criminals on the run.
    • Humpty is a Tragic Villain who grew up a penniless orphan, used to be best friends with Puss in Boots (a fairy tale character) until they had a falling out, and is driven by a desire to feel belonged. Jack was a spoiled rich kid in his childhood (an upbringing that he isn't grateful for), has hated fairy tale characters all his life due to always being upstaged by them, and seeks to take all the world's magic just to be the center of attention, on top of being proud of his villainy.
    • Humpty is a lot greyer than his flunkies, Jack and Jill, as most of his bad deeds are a result of his anger at Puss. Jack Horner, on the other hand, is the most evil of The Last Wish's Big Bad Ensemble (contrasted by the more noble Goldilocks, the Three Bears and the Wolf) and sees Puss as a mere obstacle in getting what he wants.
    • Humpty is publicly known as a criminal, and his falling out with Puss was because of a failed heist. Meanwhile, Jack despises fairy tales for beating out his family's plum pie business in the past, but nowadays runs a legitimate, successful company as a front for his criminal activity.
    • Humpty is a fragile egg person who relied on his wits and inventions, and needed Jack and Jill to do the heavy lifting for him. Horner is a hulking man and has no problem getting his hands dirty, employing stolen magical artifacts and relatively weak henchmen whom he constantly throws to the slaughter.
    • While Humpty has a change of heart and redeems himself with a sacrifice, Jack remains irredeemable as he meets his death.
  • Similarly, Jack and Jill from the first Puss in Boots movie are contrasted by The Last Wish's Goldilocks and the Three Bears Crime Family, as groups of criminal relatives with Leitmotifs involving a banjo.
    • Jack and Jill are a human couple who are raising one of their farm's baby pigs as an adopted son, out of the former's desire to start a family. Papa and Mama Bear are anthropomorphic animals who adopted the human Goldi as their daughter, in addition to their biological son Baby Bear.
    • Jack and Jill have Southern American accents, while Goldi and the Bears (befitting their aesthetic inspiration from British crime films) speak in cockney-accented English.
    • Jack and Jill are always content with one another and don't have any internal conflicts together. Goldi has a considerably weaker relationship with the Bears for most of The Last Wish, as, in addition to her vitriolic relationship with Baby, unintentionally causes a familial strain with the Bears when they learn about what she wanted to use the Wishing Star's wish for.
    • For the majority of their film, Jack and Jill worked for Humpty Dumpty until they double-cross by demanding him the Golden Goose after their promised payment. Goldi and the Bears tried to hire Kitty Softpaws to help them get to their goal only for her to backstab them; they end up making a Heel–Face Turn and ally with the heroes for real once they agree to help them fight against Horner in his final threat.
• Although Space Jam: A New Legacy isn't necessarily a direct sequel to the original Space Jam, the respective antagonists of both films, Al-G Rhythm and Mr. Swackhammer, contrast each other quite nicely:
  • Swackhammer was an alien Corrupt Corporate Executive who sought to enslave the Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan to draw in customers for his struggling intergalactic amusement park, Moron Mountain. Al-G, on the other hand, is an artificial intelligence turned evil who wanted to outright delete the Tunes from existence for no apparent reason other than spite.
  • Swackhammer appeared as a fat, traditionally-animated, goblin-like alien, while Al-G took the live-action form of his actor, Don Cheadle.
  • Whereas Swackhammer was a Non-Action Big Bad who kept on the sidelines and acted as the coach of his MonStars team, Al-G not only served a similar role to his Goon Squad, but decided to enter the game himself when it wasn't going in his favor.
• Thomas & Friends: Thomas and the Magic Railroad's original cut and Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure both have human villains (unlike most of the specials), P. T. Boomer and Sailor John respectively. Boomer was an indirect threat to Sodor, as while his plans would've destroyed Lady and thus the steam engines, he didn't believe that they even existed since he wasn't a native to Sodor, while Sailor John is a villain who is quite closer to Sodor's roots physically speaking, and his antagonism with Thomas is quite personal. Both are jerks, but Boomer is established as a threat from the get-go and made no effort to hide that he was a villain, while Sailor John presents himself as a False Friend. Finally, Boomer, for all of his bluster, was not a physical villain, being more content to heckle and bribe people, whereas Sailor John doesn't hesitate to use dynamite, shovels, and Skiff to cause physical harm to others.
• Toy Story has this with both the human and toy villains featured in each film:
  • On the human side:
    • Toy Story: Sid Phillips is a hyperactive child who likes to perform sadistic experiments on his toys, disassembling and reassembling them into hideous mutations, and occasionally blowing them up with rockets for fun. Though the toys understandably fear Sid, he's ultimately just a very curious child with a destructive streak, since he's unaware that his toys are sentient creatures, with his most overtly antagonistic trait is him being a Big Brother Bully to his sister.
    • Toy Story 2: Al McWhiggin is a slovenly, socially inept adult who likes to collect toys, and insists on keeping them in mint condition instead of playing with them. Sid became the antagonist because he wanted to destroy Buzz, while Al becomes the antagonist because he wants to keep Woody in a display case for his entire life, depriving him of human contact. Whereas Sid was curious and hyperactive, Al is materialistic and emotionally repressed. Plus while Sid only stole from his sister, Al isn’t above outright theft from strangers.
  • On the toy side:
    • Toy Story 2: Stinky Pete is a prospector doll from the same franchise as Woody who seeks to get himself to a toy museum in Japan alongside his fellow roundup gang toys by any means necessary. Initially appearing as a pleasant mentor figure who has the best interests of his fellow toys at heart, Pete is later revealed to have a deep-seated resentment towards children on account of having never been loved by a child himself, and saw being put on exhibition at the museum will get him the love he never got before. For all his negative qualities, he seems to truly believe that forcing his fellow toys to join him at the museum will spare them the fate of eventually being thrown away once their kids outgrow them.
    • Toy Story 3 has Lotso Huggin Bear, a Killer Teddy Bear and Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who is the ruthless head of Sunnyside Daycare. At first glance, he seems a Suspiciously Similar Substitute to Stinky Pete; being an older toy who puts on a facade of being a grandfatherly mentor-figure to the heroes to hide his grudge against kids and belief that all toys are doomed to be thrown away by their children. But unlike Pete, who was resentful over having never been loved by a child, Lotso fell off the deep end when he was abandoned by his former owner Daisy and replaced with an identical toy, causing his subsequent maliciousness to manifest and driving him to take out his resentment on other toys around him.
    • Toy Story 4 has Gabby Gabby as another toy villain, but unlike Lotso she's more of a genuine Anti-Villain who doesn't do much evil. Both are motivated by wanting to be played with, but whereas Lotso gave up on his former owner, Gabby never gives up trying to get Harmony to play with her. And whereas Lotso threw away his chance at redemption, Gabby takes it and becomes more of an ally.
• Trolls has this going on with the Big Bads of each film:
  • Trolls: Chef is the aged, resentful former royal chef to the ruling family of Bergen Town who sought to exploit her re-discovery of the Pop Trolls in order to overthrow King Gristle Jr., out of revenge for his father scapegoating and exiling her twenty years prior for the Pop Trolls escaping their kingdom. She was a Manipulative Bitch who opted to hide her goals behind the facade of wanting to atone for her past failures and make her people happy once more while scheming to rule over the Bergens for the sake of power and respect, which left her with little to no redeeming factors, immediately established herself as a threat to Poppy by kidnapping her friends and usually did her own dirty work, and remained evil up until receiving a Karmic Death for her evildoing.
  • Trolls World Tour: Queen Barb is the young, spirited ruler of the Hard Rock Trolls who seeks to forcefully unify all the troll tribes under her music by destroying their respective genres so that only rock music remains. Unlike Chef, who immediately established herself as a threat to Poppy by kidnapping her friends and usually did her own dirty work, Barb never properly interacted with Poppy before the final act of the sequel, up until which point she had relied on bounty hunters to locate Poppy and bring her to Barb with the Pop trolls' string, and contrasted Chef's duplicitous nature by being all too honest with what she wants to do with the strings of the other troll tribes. Furthermore compared to the power-hungry and rotten to the core usurper Chef was until her death, Barb, was only trying to wipe out all non-Rock music in a misguided attempt to bring peace and unity to all trolls; she eventually learns her lesson and changes for the better.
  • Trolls Band Together: The first Big Bad Duumvirate in the series, Velvet and Veneer are a Brother–Sister Team of aspiring pop musicians from Mount Rageous aiming to achieve fame and fortune by abducting and stealing the talent of Branch's brothers and fellow BroZone performers to fake their way to the top. In contrast to Chef and Barb, who were in some way connected to royalty (Chef being a servant to Bergen Town's rulers and Barb being the Queen of the Rock Trolls), Velvet and Veneer are a duo of spoiled rich kids from a cushy background whose pampered upbringing made them feel entitled to whatever they wanted despite doing nothing to earn it. They juxtapose Chef's goal to kill and feed the Pop trolls to the Bergens to achieve power by depending on a single troll (though they later manage to imprison all but one member of BroZone) to siphon his talent in order to compensate for their utter lack of natural singing ability, which also contrasts Barb's genuine talent as a rock musician. Additionally, upon getting their comeuppance, Velvet remains irredeamable much like Chef did, while Veneer has a Heel–Face Turn similar to Barb's (though not without accepting a more proper punishment).
• Wallace & Gromit:
  • The Wrong Trousers has Feathers McGraw, a silent, stoic penguin and thief who poses as a lodger renting out a room in the titular duo's home while planning to use Wallace's recently-made "techno-trousers" to help him in steal a valuable blue diamond from the local museum. Despite not being much of a physical threat, Feathers proved to be a No-Nonsense Nemesis by having enough technical expertise to reprogram the techno-trousers to suit his needs and being savvy enough to carry a handgun with him when Wallace and Gromit get in his way.
  • A Close Shave had Preston, a constantly scowling Bully Bulldog and the "pet" of Wallace's Girl of the Week Wendoline. While Feathers had the rather straightforward plan of committing a jewel heist, Preston had a larger goal to develop his own dog food franchise by stealing the blueprints for Wallace's knitting machine and repurposing it to make dog food from sheep he had rustled to get wool for Wendoline's store. He was also Not So Stoic compared to Feathers, showing visible sadism, anger, and even bafflement during the final portion of the film. Whereas Feathers wasn't too much of a threat without his handgun, Preston was both intelligent and strong on account of being a Robot Dog created by Wendoline's late father whose programming had become corrupted.
  • The Curse of the Were-Rabbit had Lord Victor Quartermaine, an Egomaniac Hunter who differs from the last two antagonists by being a human instead of an animal. While also concerned with money, he is not a criminal seeking to exploit one of Wallace's inventions, but rather a Gold Digger aristocrat who aims to court Lady Tottington by means of hunting down the titular were-rabbit, setting him up as a romantic rival to Wallace. Furthermore, while Feathers and Preston were only willing to kill Wallace and Gromit once they proved to be nuisances in their respective schemes, Victor becomes dead set on trying to kill Wallace upon discovering he is the very were-rabbit he seeks to hunt.
  • A Matter of Loaf and Death had Paiella Bakewell, who contrasts the other antagonists of the franchise by being a woman. She also doesn't care about money like the previous villains in the franchise, as she is a Serial Killer who wants to murder bakers she blames for causing her to lose her job as the Bake-o-Lite bakery spokeswoman by making her too heavy to ride the balloon in their commercials.

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