Villain Song / Disney

"You got what you wanted / But you lost what you had!"

"Are you just trying to get me to talk about myself? Because if you are... I will gladly do so! In song form!"

— Tamatoa, Moana

Disney is no stranger to musicals, but often, the songs sung by the villains of these movies are seen as some of the most memorable. Here are some examples:

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Films

Traditional Animation

• The Lion King (1994):
  • "Be Prepared". Just to drive the point home, the chorus of hyenas backing Scar through this song up march in formation at one point, in a manner based on footage of a real-world Nazi rally. Furthermore, most Villain Songs involve the villain's evil laughter at the end. This one trumps them all, with not just Scar and his Terrible Trio laughing, but about 200 OTHER hyenas joining in with them. Just take a look at the original English version.
  • "Be Prepared" originally had a reprise that was cut from the final film, that was to be sung as Scar took the throne. See it here.
    • Also worth noting, is this one was primarily for the Hyenas, as it was their introduction to the pride and they have far more lines than Scar.
    • That clip is actually taken from a much longer cut scene where Scar decides to take Nala as his queen and informs her through a slightly salsa-like variation of "Be Prepared". After she slaps him mid-song, he decides to banish her from the kingdom. (cue the above reprise).
  • In the sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, "My Lullaby" takes up this role.
  • The Broadway production of The Lion King adds "The Madness of King Scar", from his catastrophic reign over Pride Rock. He's lost it.
• Aladdin:
  • "Prince Ali (Reprise)" in the first movie. In fact, there were 5 separate songs made for Jafar, and all but one were cut. Humiliate the Boy, where Jafar does what the title suggests (cut when it was decided that the Genie could only grant three wishes). My Time Has Come, where Jafar recounts how hideous his life has been and how he is going to make everyone else miserable (cut for being too slow and introspective). Why Me was basically the same as My Time Has Come (cut because the directors felt it didn't advance the story enough, they also wanted something with a big chorus; kept in the musical adaptation). And My Finest Hour, where Jafar pulls the earth into a ball and bats it around with the Genie (cut because the directors decided it was too late in the movie for an extended showstopper for the villain). Instead, the "Prince Ali (Reprise)" is a trim ditty that makes dramatic sense with Jafar turning Aladdin's entrance song into a sweet revenge where the sorcerer revels in having the upper hand.
    • The stage version added "Diamond in the Rough," sung by both Jafar, Iago, and Aladdin as the former two manipulate the latter into entering the Cave of Wonders.
  • "You're Only Second-Rate" from the sequel Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. Jafar sings to Genie bragging about how much more powerful he is now with his own genie powers, and how much shabbier Genie's are by comparison.
    • Iago gets "I'm Lookin' Out For Me" from the same sequel. Subverted in that he's not particularly villainous here, but he ain't exactly a good guy yet either.
  • And the second sequel, Aladdin and the King of Thieves has two. "Welcome to the Forty Thieves", which has the Forty Thieves initiating Aladdin into their group (and threatening him with death if he doesn't follow their rules), and "Are You In Or Out?", in part a Dark Reprise of the former, in which the villain Saluk convinces the few remaining thieves to betray their former leader.
• Alice in Wonderland has "Who's Been Painting My Roses Red?", a Dark Reprise of the previous song in the film, "Painting the Roses Red". The Queen of Hearts is introduced with the song as sees through the card soldiers' ruse. After they blame each other, she orders for them to be executed. The responsible soldiers are dragged away while the other surrounding card soldiers sing about their punishment.
• The Little Mermaid (1989):
  • Ursula's "Poor Unfortunate Souls". Ursula sings to Ariel lying about how despite her reputation as a nasty witch, she's actually a perfectly well-meaning person, and manipulates Ariel into accepting a contract with her.
  • She also gets a less bombastic song as she's gloating about her imminent victory.
  • Ursula gets another song, Mess With Me, in the animated series of The Little Mermaid.
    • Ursula wasn't the only villain to get a song in the animated series. When you cast Tim Curry as a recurring villain, you've gotta let him sing!
  • In the stage version, Ursula also gets "I Want the Good Times Back". There's also "Sweet Child" for her pet eels. "Poor Unfortunate Souls" gets a new reprise as well.
    • The workshop tapes for the stage version have TWO more songs for Ursula: "Wasting Away" (bemoaning her current dreary, thin and emaciated [she thinks] state), which was replaced by "I Want the Good Times Back", and "All Good Things Must End" (where she gloats over the frailty of happy endings).
  • "Les Poissons" is also from The Little Mermaid. Although Louis isn't a flat-out villain, he does try to kill Sebastian, and the song is certainly sadistic enough to qualify.
  • "Gonna Get My Wish", a deleted song from the sequel, with Morgana singing about her plans to use Melody to steal the trident of King Triton and become better than Ursula in the process.
• Headless Man from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is sung by Brom Bones about the Headless Horseman, but because some suspect him of being the Horseman...
• Professor Ratigan got two: "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind" and "Goodbye So Soon" in The Great Mouse Detective.
  • Bonus point that we got Vincent Price voicing the "very large mouse" himself and that he personally said that he really enjoyed the role because he was flattered that Ratigan's songs were specifically written for him.
  • In the French version, in which he is dubbed by another, though not worldwidely known celebrity — namely French singer Gérard Rinaldi — he got a third song — well, an alternate version of the second. "Bye Bye Déjà" does have the same tune as "Goodbye So Soon", but the lyrics are not a translation of the lyrics of "Goodbye So Soon" and the instrumental's totally new.
  • Bonus points for Ratigan shooting one of his associates during the first song without a second thought.
    • Let's not forget what he did to the one drunk mouse who messed up and called him a rat instead of a mouse.....
  • Even more bonus points come his way when you consider the movie is not a musical and these are the only two moments in the film where characters break out into song^note There's also the showgirl, but it's a prerehearsed song number. Normally that would make them seem incredibly out of place, but they just fit Ratigan's personality so well the whole thing works spectacularly. Especially because it's quite clear he forces them to sing "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind".
• The Jungle Book (1967):
  • Kaa's "Trust In Me".
  • Shere Khan also had a cut song.
    • In the movie, he had one sung line, at the end of the vultures' song "That's What Friends Are For". And it has to count as a Villain Song, so awesome is that line and delivery. The fact that it ends on a note two full octaves below middle C doesn't hurt.
    • He sings "Your Unexpected Friend" in the Screen-to-Stage Adaptation.
• "Hellfire" from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, where Knight Templar Frollo declares in relatively unsubtle terms that he lusts for Esmeralda, and that if she will not have sex with him, he will burn her alive. Because this is a family movie.
  • It was subtle enough that most kids didn't get it until they were older, though the image of Esmeralda in the fireplace and the monks in red cowls were amply terrifying nonetheless.
  • "Hellfire/Dark fire/Now, gypsy, it's your turn/Choose me or/Your pyre/Be mine or you will burn". It's a Dark Reprise of the opening song, "Bells of Notre Dame", and it comes right after Quasimodo sings his own song about how he's fallen in love with Esmeralda (Heaven's Light).
    • It's particularly chilling because, unlike most Disney villains, Frollo doesn't even begin to think he's bad. He's not only evil — he's deluded and scared and angry, as opposite to the usual gloating most villain songs exhibit.
    • Consider that Heaven's Light and Hellfire are actually one continuous piece, and that both are about how the singer has fallen for Esmerelda. Also consider that the two songs are bridged by priests singing the first few lines of the Confiteor, a Catholic prayer for confession of sins, and that excerpts of the Confiteor are used as Ominous Latin Chanting during Hellfire, whose main lyrics are Frollo's way of saying that he's above everyone else and that his lust isn't his own fault. There are a lot of things that make Hellfire work.
      Frollo: It's not my fault! (Mea culpa)/I'm not to blame./It is this gypsy girl, this witch who set this flame! (Mea maxima culpa!) It's not my fault! (Mea culpa)/If in God's plan (Mea culpa)/He made the Devil so much stronger than a man! (Mea maxima culpa!)
    • Incidentally, The Nostalgia Critic rated Hellfire as the greatest villain song of all time in his list of The Top 11 Villain Songs.
• "Gaston", "Gaston (Reprise)", and "The Mob Song" in Beauty and the Beast.
  • In the stage version, "Me" and "Maison des Lunes" (the latter comes when he plots to institutionalize Maurice) also qualify as these. "Me" is an example of the unconscious villain, as it's Gaston stating the facts of his little universe — which are that he's the best and he deserves his dreams to come true, because he's every woman's dream. "Maison des Lunes" is more straightforward, in that it involves wrongfully imprisoning a weak old man so Gaston can marry his willful daughter — and relishing every minute of it.
  • The musical version of "Gaston (Reprise)" includes a few new lines at the end, which involve Lefou and Gaston singing about how devious and evil he is, flat-out stating that he knows how terrible his actions are, but that he doesn't care so long as he gets his way.
    Gaston: Yes I'm endlessly, wildly resourceful...
    Lefou: As down to the depths you descend!
    Gaston: I won't even be mildly remorseful...
    Both: Just as long as I (you) get what I (you) want in the end!
  • It's also a bonus in the Australian version because he's played by Hugh Jackman.
    • The original version of the Gaston song has the additional part at the end where Lefou tries to spell Gaston's name but gives up.
  • Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas has one for the Royal Court Composer, Maestro Forte, who was changed into an Ominous Pipe Organ from the enchantment and wanted to stay that way, sings "Don't Fall in Love" in order to dissuade Beast from having any feelings for Belle. Oh, and this is another one like Hellfire in some of its lyrics; just be glad that kids can't listen or understand it as well as they can when they're older.
    You'll go to pot,
    You'll turn to drink,
    You'll never rest,
    You'll end up mad
    And looking like some poor demented dove!
    Don't Fall in Love!
• "Friends On The Other Side" by voodoo villain Dr. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog, which is a delicious slice of evil hammy charlatan showmanship courtesy of Keith David. The first part of the song is a straight-up Villain Song, where Facilier sings about who he is and what he does. The second part is more expositionary, dealing with the lives of the ones he's singing to. The last third is atmospheric, backing the transformation.
  • Then there's the reprise at the end, when Facilier's talisman is broken and he is dragged into an open grave by his "friends on the other side".
  • Freunde im Schattenreich, the German version of this song.
    • Also, the title (Friends in the Shadow Realm).
  • The Image Song album based on the movie, Bayou Boogie, gives him three more: "The Shadow Man," "Do What I Wanna Do," and "Love is a Magical Mystery."
• Pocahontas:
  • "Mine, Mine, Mine", at least the parts that aren't sung by John Smith. "Savages" is a half-example, as part of the song is sung by the villain for his own selfish motives, although everyone else is singing the same tune out of simple hatred. It's got a very obvious Xenophobia Is Bad lesson.
  • "Things Are Not What They Appear" was given to Ratcliffe in Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World as he manages to show that Pocahontas would be a fraud.
• "Mad Madame Mim" from The Sword in the Stone.
• The Siamese Cats' "We are Siamese" from Lady and the Tramp is a bit of a special case, as the song itself is the characters' only appearance in the film. It still ends up being one of the most memorable scenes.
• The Rescuers Down Under has Evil Poacher McLeach singing his own version of Home on the Range while driving home. His lyrics are a little... different than the original's:
  "Home, Home on the Range, where the critters are tied up in chains, I cut through their sides, and I tear off their hides, and the next day I do it again!"
  • This Villain Song is unique in that there is no sound save McLeach's echoing voice and that the only image on screen is of him driving his gigantic truck into the desert. The scene ends within seconds.
  • He gets another brief song near the climax, when he is about to feed Cody to the crocodiles, singing about fishing for crocs.
• Home on the Range gives us "Yodel Adle Eedle Idle Oo!", perhaps not as dark or sinister as some others on this list, but it's hard to dislike a song that features a yodeled version of "Ode to Joy".
  • "Yodel Adle Eedle Idle Oo!" might have been meant as a parody of the archetypical Villain Song, because it starts out in a typically "dark and sinister" manner, then evolves into a cheerful yodeling tune.
• "Petey's King of France" from the direct to DVD Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers.
  • Lampshaded just moments before by the Troubador Turtle.
    "When ze bad guy iz zhat happy, it always, always means..." *pulls out tuba* "BAD GUY SONG!!!"
• The Proud Family Movie has "Hail to the Peanut King" by Evil Dr. Carver.
• One of the first ones! Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee! An Actor's Life For Me!
• "Fee Fi Fo Fum", Willie the Giant's "I Am Great!" Song from Fun and Fancy Free.
• Instead of a musical number, Maleficent of Sleeping Beauty gets a Villain Poem, where she mockingly tells the "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tale to the imprisoned Prince Philip, gloating over her victory via Sarcasm Mode and Evil Laughter. It serves the same purpose as a villain song while being creepily low-key.
  • She did have a song, but it was cut.
• Near the beginning of The Aristocats, Edgar the butler can actually be heard singing "Rock A Bye, Baby" while pouring his mistress' sleeping pills into the cats' milk so that they will all fall asleep, therefore allowing him to kidnap them all and leave them all for dead in the French countryside. But then a pair of dogs attack him...
• Peter Pan:
  • "The Elegant Captain Hook".
  • There was originally intended to be another song in a different style, that got cut, called "The Pirate Song".
• The Emperor's New Groove has the cut song "Snuff Out The Light" from when the movie was still Kingdom of the Sun. It gives a bit of history of Yzma learning magic from her father and how she believes the sun stole her youth. Then it transitions to her plan of snuffing out the light of the sun to regain her youth and plunge the world into darkness with an army of monsters.
  • The sequel Kronk’s New Groove has Yzma sing "Feel Like A Million".

CGI Animation

• Mother Gothel in Tangled has Mother Knows Best, which takes on the tone of a demented version of Mary Poppins. This song doesn't gloat about an evil plan, it serves as musical exposition about how Gothel secures her acquired benefits (by gaslighting Rapunzel into obedience in a horrifically realistic fashion). Then there's the reprise.
• A song for King Candy, explaining how things worked in Sugar Rush, was deleted from Wreck-It Ralph as it didn't feel right for the story. Given that Wreck-It Ralph is simply not a musical it was certainly the correct decision.
• Frozen:
  • Elsa was actually originally intended to be the villain, and "Let It Go" would have been her villain song (which explains why the lyrics sound strangely ominous), but when the Lopezes were thinking about how to do it, they came up with a sympathetic angle, turning it more into a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds song, with Elsa happy about being free of the restrictions on her life. This literally got the whole movie rewritten (with some colorful language from the filmmakers) to turn Elsa into a Classical Anti-Hero Deuteragonist. In short, "Let It Go" is an Anti-Villain song. Idina Menzel's showstopping performance didn't hurt, either.
  • On repeat viewings, it can be fairly easy to view "Love Is an Open Door" as a one-sided villain song. Anna is singing about how love conquers all. Hans is singing about how her naive belief in True Love will hand him the kingdom. Word of God eventually confirmed that it was written as a villain song.
  • Cut, probably replaced by "Love Is an Open Door" is "You're You", also sung by Hans. In the same way as Open Door, it sounds sweet until his true intentions are revealed and like "Open Door" is also filled with foreshadowing of Hans' true nature (the song is filled with backhanded insults and at one point Hans interrupts Anna)
  • "Cool with Me" is a scrapped villain song from when Elsa was the antagonist. In it, Elsa has kidnapped Anna from her wedding and taken her to her ice castle. Elsa sings about how she wants to mend her relationship with Anna and make her "literally cool with her" while Anna is distraught over Elsa's cocky and villainous nature. Elsa abandons her name and instead wants to be addressed as "the Snow Queen", and wants the rest of her kingdom to fear her. It's also shown that Anna has taken her crown in Elsa's absence. The song ends with Elsa intentionally freezing Anna's heart so that she will understand how Elsa feels.
    Poor, pathetic, perfect little queen.
    Didn't think your sis could be this mean.
    Now you're on your own, and you're gonna feel as alone as can be.
    Cool with me, cool with me.
• Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy has "The Frigate That Flies", where the pirates imagine what they'll do once their ship has been given flight by pixie dust.
• Moana has "Shiny", sung by the vain, treasure-loving giant coconut crab Tamatoa. For extra style points, the second half of the song is sung while he's giving Maui a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, with part of it being a musical "The Reason You Suck" Speech. However, it's worth pointing out that Tamatoa isn't the main villain, that role belongs to Te Ka, who doesn't have a song (in fact, doesn't even speak at all).
  Shiny! Watch me dazzle like a diamond in the rough
  Strut my stuff, my stuff is so
  Shiny! Send your armies, but they'll never be enough
  My shell's too tough!
• Coco: Ernesto's version of "Remember Me" could be seen as one after it's revealed that his version is a bastardized take on an incredibly personal father-to-daughter song.
• Wish (2023): "This Is the Thanks I Get?!", sung by King Magnifico after Asha has inadvertently wished on a star and used magic beyond Magnifico's own. The kingdom begins questioning the king's motives regarding their wishes, and he... well...

Live-Action

• Being a film series that stars the children of some of Disney's most iconic villains, Descendants naturally has a few.
  • The first film has "Rotten to the Core", the opening number that introduces our main characters as they cause mischief throughout the Isle of the Lost. There's also "Evil Like Me", wherein Maleficent convinces her doubtful daughter that evil is the path to take.
  • The second film has "What's My Name?", Uma's Badass Boast in song form. China Anne McClain, Uma's actress, also does a cover of "Poor Unfortunate Souls" for the soundtrack.
  • The third film has "Queen of Mean", a show-stopping number in which Audrey announces her intention to take over Auradon, and Hades' half of "Do What You Gotta Do", where he tries to convince Mal (and possibly himself) that abandoning her as a child was the best move he could make. Whereas Mal's half is a "The Villain Sucks" Song.
• Disenchanted (2022) has "Badder", a duet sung by a magically-turned-evil Giselle and Monrolasia's queen Malvina Monroe over who is the better villain.
• In the Disney Channel original movie Girl vs. Monster, when the villainess, Deimata, possesses a supporting character and takes the stage from Skyler, she turns "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me" into a surprisingly rockin' villain song, ending with her seemingly forgetting that she's not in a musical and reaching into the camera. Unfortunately, we only get to hear a few parts of it.
• Hocus Pocus has two! First is Bette Midler's Big Bad Winifred singing the show stopping "I Put A Spell On You", with bonus for actually hypnotizing everyone within earshot. Second is Sarah Jessica Parker singing the haunting "Come Little Children", bewitching all the children of Salem to their deaths Pied Piper style.
  • In the film, the song is cut about a quarter of the way through. Sensational singer kaththegreat19 / Erutan took the poem it was based on (written by Brock Walsh, the creator of music for the film) and spun it into a hauntingly beautiful piece that released on Halloween 2009. It will leave you shivering.
• The Jungle Book (2016) has "I Wanna Be Like You", which, thanks to Louie's Adaptational Villainy, is now this due to its sinister undertones.
• As Disney's Mary Poppins didn't have a clear villain, it would seem to be exempt from this rule, but "Fidelity Fiduciary Bank" gives it a try anyhow. Mr. Banks and his bosses at the bank are the closest thing Mary Poppins has to a villain until his Heel–Face Turn.
  • "Temper Temper", in the stage adaptation, features the children's toys coming to life, growing larger than the children themselves, and holding the children trial for having lost their tempers — for, "children who lose their tempers lose everything else in the end!"
    • Unfortunately, this was changed to "Playing The Game" on account of "Temper Temper" being too scary for the kids who watched it.
  • "Brimstone and Treacle", again from the Mary Poppins musical, where George Banks' childhood nanny (and replacement for Mary Poppins), Miss Andrew, explains her philosophy that brimstone and treacle with a good dose of tyranny is the best way to govern children. (Note that there is also a Dark Reprise in which Mary comes back, sets Miss Andrew's pet lark free from its cage, and there is a showdown between two singing nannies which results in Miss Andrew having a taste of her very own brimstone and treacle as well as being forced into a giant birdcage and sent down below.)
• The Muppets
  • Unusually, "Marley and Marley" (yes, there's two of them just so they could cast Statler and Waldorf. The new one is named Robert) from The Muppet Christmas Carol is a posthumous villain song, but still counts.
  • "A Professional Pirate" and "Shiver My Timbers" from Muppet Treasure Island. The former is sung by (for good measure) Tim Curry, and the latter ends with Captain Flint opening fire on his own crew with two flintlock pistols. And this is in a Muppet film.
  • The Muppets (2011) has "Let's Talk About Me," which really has to be seen to be believed.
  • "I'm Number One (You're Number Two)" in Muppets Most Wanted is a Villain Song Duet between Constantine (criminal mastermind and number one crook) and his associate, Dominic Badguy. It's not only celebrating their intention to pull off a series of heists and frame the Muppets, but Constantine reminding his flunky who's in charge.
    • "I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo in Malibu)" is also performed by Constantine, with him attempting to sweet talk Piggy so she doesn't get suspicious about him.
• Two villains equals four villain songs in Pete's Dragon (1977). The Goguns had two "We Got A Bill Of Sale" and "The Happiest Home In These Hills" and Dr. Terminus gleefully planned to dissect the title character in "Every Little Piece/Money, Money, Money by the pound!", while he earlier had Passamaquaddy.
• In Lemonade Mouth, rival band Mudslide Crush has two songs...which are basically the same "And The Crowd Goes" and "Don't Ya Wish U Were Us?" about how awesome they are.

TV series

• The Beagle Boys from DuckTales (1987) performed two different songs in the episodes "Time Teasers" and "Beaglemania"; their song from the latter episode (which ironically became a Missing Episode on Toon Disney) was included on the Disney Afternoon soundtrack.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers:
  • Fat Cat's "The Best Of Everything" from the Five-Episode Pilot "To The Rescue". Not to be outdone by "The Fat Cat Stomp", initially performed by Chip and Dale in drag in "Adventures In Squirrelsitting", but later reprised by Fat Cat himself in the next scene.
  • Irweena Allen ("Risky Beesness") has her own song, too ("You're The Best Bee For Me"), and Sewernose de Bergerac ("A Case of Stage Blight") joins the Pirates of Peejama performance. In fact, not even the Coo-Koo Cola jingle ("The Case of the Cola Cult") remains untouched by villains.
• In the four-part TaleSpin pilot, Don Karnage reminds his Air Pirate underlings of what they do with "Sky Pirates".
  • Karnage and his crew get another villain song during their appearance in DuckTales (2017), praising The Fearful Pirate Don Karnage. In this case it actually serves an in-universe purpose: leave their victims so confused that they can rob them blind without any interference.
• The TV series for Disney's Hercules has Hades taking you for a tour of his taken-over city-state in "My Town".
  • "One Good Man" from "Song of Circe" also qualifies, as it's sung by Circe herself and shows her manipulative, deceitful personality very nicely. Also, it's sung by the wickedly talented Adele Dazeem...I mean, Idina Menzel.
  • Echidna gets one called "What's A Mother To Do?". Unique in that rather than boasting of how evil she is, she's lamenting that her children aren't evil enough.
• Harmless Villain Dr. Drakken tells you his life story and advertises his new product at the same time, in his very own rap! Lather, rinse and OBEY! (Caution: Dr. D's Brainwashing Shampoo and Cranium Rinse May Contain Evil...)
• To compensate for her Cut Song in The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma gets Yzmopolis in The Emperor's New School. Later, she gets a dueling song in the Musical Episode.
• Since Phineas and Ferb has songs Once an Episode, Dr. Doofenshmirtz sometimes gets one of these, like My Goody Two-Shoes Brother from "Tree to Get Ready".
  • "MY NAME IS DOOF AND YOU'LL DO WHAT I SAY WHOOP WHOOP!".
  • In the rare case of an apathetic Villain Song, we have "I Really Don't Hate Christmas," lamenting his inability to be The Grinch.
  • Special mention goes to "It's A Charmed Life", set in a Bad Future where he's finally taken over the Tri-State Area.
  • And from Rollercoaster: The Musical, Back In Gimmelshtump.
  • And in The Movie has "A Brand New Best Friend (And It's Me) by both Doof and Doof-2.
  • And from Part 1 of the two part special "Where's Perry?", we have Evil for Extra Credit, sung by, surprisingly, not Doofenshmirtz (okay, he provides backing vocals) but Carl, turned evil by one of Doof's inators.
  • Of all people, Norm got a cheery song about gruesomely destroying things called Weaponry.
  • Really, with how expansive the soundtrack is, you won't even find half of this show's villain songs here, and they can fit all sorts of tones, but mostly Broadway. If you're in the mood for a more James Bond-style villain song, there's Doof's Hideout Vacation Swap
  • Or if you're in the mood for West Side Story, here's O.W.C.A.'s Goin' Down sung by all of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.
  • Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars gives us "In the Empire" (sung by Stormtrooper versions of Candace, Buford and Baljeet) and "Sith-inator" (by "Darthenshmirtz").
  • The last villain song of the show also doubles as an Anti-Hero Song with Tomorrow Is This Morning Again, with Doofenshmirtz and Candace singing their only duet in the show's soundtrack of hundreds when they realize the awesome power of the Do-Over Inator.
• Gideon from Gravity Falls gets "Widdle Ol' Me", a catchy gospel-inspired song, on his first appearance in "The Hand that Rocks the Mabel". It comes with just enough unsettling undertones to demonstrate he's a Villain with Good Publicity.
  • The Big Bad, Bill Cipher, was also going to get one, "It's Gonna Get Weird" written by Neil Cicierega, in the first part of the Grand Finale, but it ended up getting cut for time. He does sing a segment of "We'll Meet Again" in the final episode, though.
    Today’s just so wonderful, I feel like chuckling
    I feel all fuzzy inside like a duckling...
    Full of tarantulas! And now that I’m here
    Tonight, it’s gonna get weird!
    Ah-ha-ha-ha!
    
    Look at these creatures, not enough features!
    Cats should be breathe fire, bears should sing choir!
    (Very nice!)
    Look at this tower under my power!
    Look at these people, puny and feeble!
• The Darkwing Duck episode "Paraducks" features an Elvis impersonator who does a number bragging about what a great thief he is. At the end of the episode Darkwing does his own heroic reprise about how no criminal is safe from him.
• Sofia the First:
  • "Cedric the Great" from the episode "Cedric's Apprentice".
  • The titular song from "Make Way For Miss Nettle".
  • Slickwell has half of one with Helping Hand, Ivy gets A Kingdom of my Own, Wendell has Wendell''s Way, Grotta has This Fliegal has Landed, Prisma gets My Power Will be Crystal Clear, and Vor has Get Wicked.
• Tangled: The Series:
  • Ready as I'll Ever Be sung by Varian, where he acknowledges that what he did was wrong but he does so under the impression that he is will deliver justice to Corona for turning their backs on him when he asked for their help for causing his own father to get crystallized in the first place.
  • Crossing the Line sung by Cassandra, in which the singer lays out the resentment she's felt her entire life and her resolve to seize what she thinks is the destiny she deserves even if it means burning bridges with the people in her life.
• Elena of Avalor has The Gift of Night by Orizaba, You Can't Catch Me by Marimonda, Don't Look Now by Victor and Carla Delgado, The Art of the Steal by Saloso, The One and Only by Ash Delgado, More, More More by Tito, and Four Shades of Awesome by well... the Four Shades of Awesome.
• Wander over Yonder:
  • "Let the Pun Fit the Crime" from the episode "The Boy Wander", performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic as Dr. Screwball Jones as he gives Wander a beating unlike anything that Lord Hater could ever deliver.
  • Lord Hater himself has one in the form of his theme song, which while short, he once held an entire planet captive so he can have a four day concert of just that song over and over and over again.
  • And in the Musical Episode "My Fair Hatey", we have one from Lord Dominator as she breaks Hater's heart, Wander's banjo, and some planets. Why? "I'm the Bad Guy."
• Two episodes of Quack Pack have one.
  • In "Island of the Not-so-Nice", the Mad Scientist has a short ditty about how he plans to de-evolve the world so that he can rule and enslave everyone easily.
  • Nestor Nocturno from "None Like it Hot" briefly sings about how everyone on Earth will burn to death once his rocket sends a giant lens to the sun.
• The Lion Guard
  • In the Pilot Movie Return of the Roar, the Outlanders get "Tonight, We Strike", their song about invading the Pride Lands at night.
  • In the episode "Eye of the Beholder" they get "Out of the Way", about them invading the Pride Lands while the Lion Guard is preoccupied.
  • “Panic and Run” is a third hyena song.
  • Zira from the sequel gets one in "Lions of the Outlands", and the title says it all. "Lions Over All"
  • Janja, his hyena clan, and Ushari sing "Bring Back A Legend" as they plot to raise Scar from the dead.
  • Scar has "I Have A Plan" as he recruits Kiburi and his followers to his growing army of Outlanders. He has “When I Led The Guard” in the season 3 opener.
  • Makucha has "The Tree of Life" where he desires to track down the Lion Guard to said tree and feast on the rare, lame, sick and exotic animals that reside there.
• The Glooms have had a couple of villain songs in The 7D, most of them sung by Hildy, voiced by Kelly Osbourne. A good example of this aired between the two episodes of the Grand Finale "I'm not very nice."
• WandaVision: The Reveal in “Breaking the Fourth Wall” that “Agnes” is actually Agatha Harkness and has been manipulating things to create conflict for Wanda all along leads into a Once More, with Clarity montage of Agatha manipulating things over the previous seven episodes set to a The Munsters-esque theme song for her fittingly entitled “It Was Agatha All Along”.
• Amphibia: Sasha Waybright gets one in the Musical Episode "Battle of the Bands", titled "Heartstomper". In a unique case for this trope, she is aided by the series' main character, Anne Boonchuy, and the more morally ambigous Marcy Wu.
• The Simpsons:
  • Mr. Burns singing "See My Vest" in a parody of Beauty and the Beast's "Be Our Guest". Bart ends up humming the tune.
  • Also present in the musical episode "The President Wore Pearls", a parody of Evita, with Skinner's "Evil Plan" song (sung in tandem with a hilariously drunken Groundskeeper Willie).
  • A case could also be made for The Stonecutters' "We Do". It certainly fulfills the "best song" part of the equation.
  • In addition to "See My Vest", Burns also got a song on The Simpsons Sing the Blues album, called "Look at All Those Idiots" (the idiots, of course being Burns' employees at the power plant).
  • Beware of SCORPIO!/He'll sting you with his dreams of power and wealth/Beware of SCORPIO!/His twisted twin obsessions are his plot to rule the world and his employees' health!"
  • In the episode "Marge Gets a Job," we get Smithers' tribute song to Mr. Burns, a parody of a similar song from Citizen Kane.
  • In the Season 24 episode "Gorgeous Grandpa," Mr. Burns sings "High to Be Loathed," a song about how villains are always the most popular characters in a franchise.
  • What'd I say!? MONORAIL!
  • Sideshow Bob sings a lot, but he had a good Villain Song in "The Great Louse Detective" called "The Very Reason that I Live," where he explained to Bart that he spared him because killing Bart would put him in an unbearable Victory Is Boring situation.
• Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2023)
  • The Beyonder, in his introductory episode, gets a funky mix of this and an "I Am" Song to explain how he’s arrived on Earth to study humans. Lunella cuts him off before he can mention how he will be deciding their fate.
  • The Rat King gets one in “Teacher’s Pet” as he tempts the hamster Angel to side with him against Devil.

Video Games

• Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, a musical game, has every musical number focused around the Mad Doctor, who primarily communicates in song and enters the story claiming that he's made a Heel–Face Turn. Songs range from Most Definitely Not a Villain material (the opening number Help Me, Help You and The Mad Doctor's Not Mad), to an "I Want" Song (I'm Falling Apart), and gradually start moving more into proper villain song territory as the Mad Doctor's true intentions start to emerge (The Fall of Prescott, The Mad Doctor's Diary, and World of Evil)
• The Jungle Book Groove Party^note Rhythm 'N' Groove in some versions has two songs for the Big Bad Ensemble that is Kaa and Shere Khan. The former gets "A Mood for Food" and the latter gets "Run". It's worth noting that both songs are reminiscent of their villains' musical numbers and background tracks in the movie; "A Mood for Food" is a Suspiciously Similar Song to "Trust In Me", while the ending of "Run" brings "Tiger Fight" to mind.
• Kingdom Hearts II gives Ursula a new song titled "Ursula's Revenge" while she's trying to kill Ariel and Eric.

Others

• "It's Our House Now!" from Mickey's House of Villains is a mass Villain Song, performed by almost every villain from the Disney Animated Canon up to 2002.
  • They turned "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" into an epic jazz tune for the Big Bad Wolf.
• The Nightmare Before Christmas:
  • "Oogie Boogie's Song", in which Oogie Boogie gloats about having captured Santa and threatens him with death, tries (and fails) to intimidate him, and generally throws his weight around. It's sung by Ken Page, the same fellow who voiced King Gator in All Dogs Go to Heaven and played Old Deuteronomy in the video version of Cats. As such, it's amazing.
  • A second one, for the Quirky Miniboss Squad, is "Kidnap the Sandy Claws."
  • Although Jack is a Horrifying Hero, most of his songs aren't exactly villainous in nature, although the ending of "Jack's Obsession" comes close. In it, Jack decides that the best way to understand Christmas is to try making his own Christmas, which he announces in a very Card-Carrying Villain-esque way. Keep in mind, though, that considering the Blue-and-Orange Morality of Halloween Town, Jack clearly considers this a good thing.
  • And then we get an awesome remix/duet between Jack and Oogie Boogie from the game The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge, seen here
    • In fact, there's three remixes/duets of Oogie Boogie's Song in Oogie's Revenge, with the above being the final one. The other two are Oogie's Song and Casino Clash, plus a remix of Kidnap the Sandy Claws called Hail to Mr. Oogie.
    • Also in Oogie's Revenge, Dr. Finklestein gets his own song while trying to kill Jack due to being Brainwashed and Crazy.
• The Hallowishes show during Halloween at Disney Theme Parks is made up of several Villain Songs, a few The Villain Sucks Songs, and a few songs that aren't either, but are close enough.
  • There's also "A Pirates Life For Me" on the "Pirates of the Carribean" ride, basically just the pirates singing about what they do.
  • "Into the Fire", from the Tokyo Disneyland stage show One Man's Dream II. It's dark, intense, and has ominous lyrics about how the usual "Wish Upon a Shooting Star" and faith in all that is good is not going to save the listener - they're going to burn. To compound it, the stage show featured the song being performed by the Evil Queen, the Disney Villain who started it all; Maleficent, the Mistress of all Evil herself; and Judge Claude Frollo, who brings with him a sample of his tour de force "Hellfire" (the relative obscurity of "Hellfire" in Disney parks makes this particularly striking). The trio also have hordes of fire demons, spiders, henchmen, and Frollo is also accompanied by the tall, red, hooded figures from his song.
• "Pump Me Up" from Doug Live!
• "The Mad Doctor's Song" from The Mad Doctor.
• "You're Nothing But a Nothing" from The Flying Mouse.
• "Get Pluto!" from Pluto's Judgement Day.
• "I, Ivan Krank" from the Finale Movie of Teacher's Pet has Dr. Ivan Krank sing about his unpleasant upbringing and how he desires to use his chance to turn Spot into a human to discredit everyone who dismissed him as a lunatic. Dr. Krank also sings parts of "I'm Moving On", where he tries to find the transformed Spot with the help of his creations Dennis and Adele.
• Jim Henson's Dinosaurs (owned by Disney) has the song "Cold-Blooded Guy" featured on the Image Song album "Big Songs", and sung by the main antagonist B.P. Richfield.
• Der Fuehrer's Face has the eponymous song, sung by Those Wacky Nazis plus Emperor Hirohito and Benito Mussolini, and later reprised as a Hail to the Thief-style "The Villain Sucks" Song. The song eventually became a Breakaway Pop Hit as performed by Spike Jones.

Foreign dubs

Be Prepared

• And the German version.
• The Russian version.
• The Brazillian Portuguese Version and the European Portuguese Version based on it.
• The Swedish version.
• The Italian version.
• The Greek version.
• The Bulgarian version.
• The Hungarian version.
• The Polish version.
• The French version by Jean Piat has a chilling hyena chorus particularly at the climax of the song.
• The Dutch version.
• The European Spanish version.
• The Norwegian version.
• The Latin Spanish version.
• The Japanese version is quite something too.
• The Zulu version has a place in history seeing how The Lion King (1994) was the first Disney film dubbed in an African language.
• And the Arabic version has great lyrics.
• The Korean version. features probably the scariest-sounding Scar of them all.
• The Hebrew version (translation here). The scene with the hyena chorus is about as uncomfortable and scary as you'd expect when it's in the main language of Israel.
• The Ukranian version.
• The Finnish version.

My Lullaby

• Versions of My Lullaby in other languages arguably outdo the original as well, especially in the cruelty department. Just listen to the beautiful voice of pure hatred:
  • Brazilian Portuguese version. Reported to cause repeated nightmares on Brazilian children, and for good reason...
  • European Portuguese Version.
  • German version
  • Russian version
  • Finnish version.
  • Greek version.
  • Japanese version.
  • Hungarian version.
  • Hebrew version.
  • Dutch version. Has the added scare-bonus of Zira sharing a voice actress with Ursula.
  • French version.
  • Polish version.
  • Norwegian version.
  • Italian version. Includes Zira explicitely gloating she's going to turn Kovu in an assassin... And the use of the words "hosanna" and "manna" to amp up the evil, although they are mostly used to rhyme with "ninna nanna" ("lullaby").

Hellfire

• Behold, lo mortals! The German version!
• The Swedish version delivered by the late Stefan Ljungqvist in his booming might.
• The French version with English subtitled lyrics, with all the subtext on sexual attraction replaced...by explicit text on sexual attraction.
• Italian version.
• Latin Spanish dub.
• Latin version

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