Slasher Smile / Animated Films

• Budzo, the Big Bad of Adventures in Zambezia sports a pretty chilling slasher smile throughout the movie, only losing it during his Disney Villain Death.
• When he killed Yamagata, Tetsuo let out a rather creepy smile. AKIRA has another good example of when he did this.
• Aladdin: This is one of Jafar's favored expressions, and he gives a particularly terrifying one during the reprise of "Prince Ali".
• In All Dogs Go to Heaven after Killer, currently trying to do everything he can to get Carface to spare his life, tells him he has a gun they can use to try and kill Charlie (for good) with, Carface breaks into a wide satanic version. Not just figuratively, either –- his face (presumably, we're seeing him from Killer's POV) actually proceeds to transform into an actual devil's.
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire: When he goes into Villainous Breakdown mode, Rourke has a pretty awesome and crazy slasher smile when he tries to kill Milo with a fire axe. You can clearly tell the guy has gone batshit insane, especially after his attempt to steal the artifact had been ruined by Milo.
• Gaston sports one at the start of his fight with the Beast in Beauty and the Beast. And yet another after stabbing the Beast in the side.
• The Monster Clown that appears in Toaster's dream sequence in The Brave Little Toaster has a big one glued to its face.
• Cinderella: Downplayed in motive and expression for Lady Tremaine. When the Duke visits with the glass slipper, she locks Cinderella in her room. Just before she leaves, she has a smirk on her face.
• Mrs. Tweedy is prone to those in Chicken Run, like before measuring Babs and later in the climax, when she thinks Ginger has been decapitated.
• The Other Mother in Coraline does this, particularly towards the end of the movie.
• In Frozen (2013), Hans has a villainous smile as he raises his sword to kill Elsa.
• Ratigan of The Great Mouse Detective sports a huge one after he's convinced he's mauled Basil to death.
• Scheck from Hey Arnold! The Movie sports one when he gloats about his true intentions of destroying Arnold and Gerald's neighborhood and then burns the document in front of them, which ultimately proved to be a big mistake due to his own surveillance cameras having recorded his crime.
• Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney) flashes such a grin twice in the story. First when he tries to burn Esmeralda at the stake. Later, when he raises his sword to kill her and Quasimodo, because he believes that he's won. It's particularly notable because, up until those two times, the worst Frollo did was a Psychotic Smirk.
• The Incredibles: The look on Syndrome's face when he abducts Jack-Jack.
• In Inside Out, Jangles does this◊ when he's woken up by Joy.
• Nightwing briefly flashes a rather creepy one in Justice League Dark: Apokolips War after being revived by Damian, where Raven discovers to her horror about this when he turns around, discovering that the resurrection drove him mad.
• Cera in The Land Before Time gives a pretty big slasher smile when she decides upon seeing what is apparently Sharptooth's corpse to use it as ramming practice. However, a few rams in, she soon discovers that Sharptooth was not quite as dead as she originally thought, and just barely managed to survive to tell the tale.
• The Lion King (1994):
  • Ed the hyena (and to a much lesser extent, Shenzi, Banzai, and all of the other hyenas) actually gains this type of smile when the hyenas all kill Scar at the end.
  • Scar gives one himself to Zazu when he points out how unhappy Mufasa will be that he didn't show up for Simba's birth ceremony. After he tells him this (as well as forcing Scar to let a mouse, his lunch, escape), Scar sarcastically states "ooh, I quiver with FEAR!", flashing this smile when he says the last word, and then tries to eat Zazu, and he would, had Mufasa not showed up right at that moment.
  • Scar gets another one before he kills Mufasa. His expression provides the image for the Disney subsection of the Moral Event Horizon page.
• Ursula of The Little Mermaid (1989) does this a few times during the final battle. Her alter-ego Vanessa even pulls one off when she throws a pin at a mirror with enough force to knock it back while gloating about her inevitable victory.
• In The Lorax (2012), at the end of the Villain Song, "How Bad Can I Be", the Once-ler has one after shouting the last lyrics, "HOW BAD CAN THIS POSSIBLY BE?!"
• Ay from Mr. Peabody & Sherman sports this when he drives his dagger on Penny's hand during the Ceremony.
• The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie Boogie and Barrell have one constantly and Jack has one as his default.
• NIMONA (2023): The punk, chaos-loving title character frequently sports a wide grin when she’s reveling in her destruction.
• In Osmosis Jones, Thrax does this several times throughout the movie. Drix, of all people, gives a pretty good one as well when he plays the bad cop to Osmosis's good cop when they shake down an informant.
• The Pebble and the Penguin: The Big Bad Drake constantly sports a Trollface-like smile.
• Pinocchio: The Coachman during his "They never come back as BOYS!" line.
• In Quest for Camelot, Ruber sports these at times:
  • His very first scene makes him stand out from the rest of the knights.
  • When he is invading Juliana's home and when he blackmails her into helping him by threatening to kill her daughter, Kayley.
  • He has a crazy one throughout his song when he transforming his human henchmen into iron men with his potion.
  • When he is melding Excalibur onto his hand with the said potion.
  • He eventually has a creepy one, when he is cornering injured Arthur without mercy.
• In Ratatouille
  • When Colette begins her mentorship of Linguini she flashes several during her monologue every time she asks him a question about the status of women in a haute cuisine restaurant.
  • Also, during Linguini's nightmare, there's Anton Ego's bone-chilling grin as he places an order for Linguini's heart roasted on a spit.
• The sirens in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas give Marina one of these.
• In Sing 2, Jimmy Crystal sports one of these when he tries to murder Buster Moon the second time.
• In the climactic battle of Superman vs. the Elite, Superman himself flashes a pants-shittingly terrifying one when confronting one of the members, and it's acompannied with literally blood-red eyes and a disturbing desire to kill. Worse is when you realize that it's George Newbern of all people nailing the completely pants-wettingly out-of-left-field unfettered brutality with chilling accuracy, almost as if Superman is deliberately becoming the brutal, white-haired, cold-blooded main villain of Final Fantasy VII, Sephiroth, who's Newbern's second most famous role next to the Man of Steel himself!
• Rothbart from The Swan Princess gains one of these near the end after he transforms into The Great Animal for the second time.
• Tom and Jerry: The Movie: The scene where Doctor Applecheeks steals the ice cream truck. The ice cream truck music manages to makes this much, much creepier.
• Chef, the Big Bad of Trolls does have a lot especially it's Terrifying.
• The Twelve Tasks of Asterix: When Caesar tells the Senate that the protagonists will have to face the priestesses of the "Isle of Pleasure", he bursts into a fit of demonic laughter — accompanied by an equally demonic smile that sends his councillors (including Brutus) into a huddle, shivering.
• In Wreck-It Ralph, King Candy/Turbo sports a particularly notable one, in all of his forms.
• The Blue Meanies in Yellow Submarine have this expression pretty frequently.

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