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* Unusually, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsiKOJOXMJU "Marley and Marley"]] (yes, there's two of them just so they could put JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf in the movie. The new one is named [[StealthPun Robert]]) from ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' is a ''posthumous'' villain song, but still counts.
* The Albert Finney musical version of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', ''Scrooge'', has "I Hate People" for the title character, which should be self-explanatory, and later, the toe-tappingly nasty "Thank You Very Much", in which everyone who owes Scrooge money [[spoiler: gloats over his death in the BadFuture]]. The latter song gets a ''light'' reprise upon Scrooge's redemption.
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''... since the BigBad is played by David Bowie, pretty much the entire movie was designed as a vehicle for villain songs. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxoE2az9mJM Dance, magic, dance]]!
** With [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaWdwoNXsOQ 'As the World Falls Down']] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLhtHKyylmo 'Within You']] being both creepy, and full of LyricalDissonance.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_6l1kwu7Y Chilly Down]]!
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' has two villain songs. The first is [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=22BwsZ46S-U "Trust In Me"]]; a single line of it is in the film proper, but the full version is sung over the end credits by Kaa's voice actress, Creator/ScarlettJohansson. The other villain song is [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15rUJuKCM90 "I Wan'na Be Like You"]], King Louie's song, a bright, jazzy number, sung by Creator/ChristopherWalken about how he has a desire for man's red fire, so he can take over the jungle.
* Several Beatles classics became Villain Songs in the movie ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''. The actual quality of the musical interpretations are a mixed bag. The treatment given to "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by Creator/SteveMartin is best forgotten, as is a version of "Mean Mr. Mustard" sung by robots. On the other hand, Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s version of "Come Together" has outlived this movie and become one of their signature songs.
* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' uses [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnw1JaL2uA "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"]] as a Villain Song -- quite effectively. For the ''entire Vietnam War.'' There's also Creator/EddieIzzard's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ahx9ckqIw spoken word version]] of "Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!".
* "Main Hoon Don" from the Bollywood movie ''Don''; in a twist, it's sung by someone who has to impersonate the villain. [[spoiler: Or so we thought.]]
* Veruca Salt's destructive "I Want It Now" number in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' is the last musical number not sung by the Oompa-Loompas, possibly because they were too busy at the moment trying to stop her. It also doubles as (yep...) an IWantSong, after a fashion.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Although he doesn't sing it himself, Necros, TheDragon from ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' gets a thoroughly badass VillainSong called, "Where Has Everybody Gone?" It's always playing on his Walkman when he's about to strangle people with the headphone wires. ''And'' his {{Leitmotif}} is the instrumental version of the song. The song fulfills the criteria of the VillainSong, in that while the BigBad is a fairly low-key SmugSnake, Necros is the main physical danger to Bond throughout the movie, manages to get away with a surprising amount of successful assassinations for a [[BondVillainStupidity Bond Villain]], and gets a spectacular, over-the-top final fight/death scene.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPBFvDz_HM theme]] for ''Film/GoldenEye'' is an interesting cross between a VillainSong and an ObsessionSong.
** And another Bond example: the theme to ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' by Music/{{Garbage}} is, after you've seen the film, an obvious Villain Song for [[spoiler: Elektra King.]]
* It only makes it onto the soundtrack, but since it's a particular character's theme, it still counts: "Turkish Delight", a GRatedDrug addict's lament sung from a tweaked-out Edmund's point of view, is by far the best song on ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' soundtrack. (How much of a villain Edmund is is, granted, questionable, but he's still the most villainous of the Pevensie kids.)
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIYfoeBOhTU "Gollum's Song"]] from ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' soundtrack, sung by Emiliana Torrini. (It was originally written for Music/{{Bjork}}.)
** ...which plays as Gollum plots the demise of the hobbits, but the lyrics tell a different story.
* "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" from the Film/NewJackCity soundtrack, by Music/IceT.
* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': The Kurgan has a theme song entitled "Gimme The Prize," but only part of it is heard during the movie.
* ''Film/BattleOfTheBulge'' gives Col. Hessler and his men [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ2YaThEms0 ''Panzerlied'']] as their theme.
* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors''
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRN39oifsE "Feed Me"]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RRh-g-CC8g "It's Suppertime"]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLO7IxKwruc "Mean Green Mother"]] (and the CutSong that made up part of it: "Bad") from the ManEatingPlant.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM "Dentist!"]] from the human villain.
** A song cut from the original musical, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FFsi4SMnd0&feature=related "I Found A Hobby"]], counts. The human villain basically describes how he discovered he was a sadist.
* [[Creator/TimCurry Dr. Frank-N-Furter]] from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' has "Sweet Transvestite" and "You Better Wise Up, Janet Weiss!". Much of "The Floor Show" could also count, as it is basically Frank singing, dancing and having a pool orgy with main heroes brainwashed by him, but it's pretty ambigous.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCMxodXrQo "World War II Boy"]] from ''Film/TheBloodWatersOfDrZ'', sung by an offscreen Jamie [=DeFrates=] as the MadScientist walks back to his lab from the beach at the beginning of the film. Only counts if you interpret the lyrics to be about escaped Nazi scientist Doctor Leopold and him "planning re-veenge on [his] friends!''
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvUbbYX9BMs "Professional Pirate"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSXciBh8KoY "Shiver My Timbers"]] from ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland''. The former is sung by (for good measure) Tim Curry, and the latter ends with Captain Flint opening fire on his own crew with [[GunsAkimbo two flintlock pistols]]. And this is in a ''Muppet'' movie. Produced by ''Disney''.
* In ''Film/PoultrygeistNightOfTheChickenDead'', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt fast food tycoon]] General Lee Roy gets the songs "Generous General", an upbeat folk song where he smoothly denies accusations that his food is unhealthy, and "Murderous General", a dementedly bouncy number where he declares [[ImAHumanitarian what he thinks the new white meat is]] to the protagonists.
* The movie version of ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' has "A Snake in the Grass". And with Bob Fosse playing the Snake, the choreography is definitely show-stopping.
* Following the RuleOfFunny, this turns up at the end of ''Film/TheFiendishPlotOfDrFuManchu'', an otherwise non-musical AffectionateParody that presents him as a likable VillainProtagonist played by Creator/PeterSellers. Not only does he succeed in his quest to create the elixir he needs to regain his youth and strength, he then unleashes his master plan for world domination: [[ThePowerOfRock rock music]]. (The film is set in the 1930s.) The finale has him performing in full Vegas-era Elvis style garb "Rock-A-Fu", a distinctly early-1980s tune that gets both the goodies and baddies dancing, and forces Nayland Smith (also Sellers) to admit that at last, Fu's won.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy62mqmqwCQ "Secret of Survival (in a Very Nasty World)"]], sung by the Weasels to Mole when he's lost in the Wild Wood in Terry Jones' version of ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows''.
* "The Witch Is In The House" by the Wicked Witch of the West in ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz''. Miss Piggy nearly outdoes Curry's performance in ''Treasure Island''. (Jokes about Piggy being a LargeHam are obvious, but if you make them she will hunt you down.)
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' has ''Gold'' for Rotti Largo. ''Mark It Up'' showcases the villainous Luigi and Pavi, but isn't as much of a showstopper as the others, so it only sort of fits this trope--especially because they're only trying to one-up each other and probably don't even consider themselves that bad.
** Rotti also gets ''Things You See in a Graveyard'', complete with plenty of gloating and cackling.
** Amber Sweet has ''Come Up And Try My New Parts'', in which she proves her willingness to use her body as a tool, as a borderline VillainSong (especially for those fans who want [[DieForOurShip Grave-Robber and Shilo to end up together.]]) It was actually [[CutSong cut from the theatrical release]] because it was too good.
** The Repo Man has "Thankless Job". It's Anthony Stewart Head with a voice like Christian Bale gargling broken glass, dancing and twirling away as he sings about organ theft, then gutting a person and using him as a human glove puppet... TO JOIN IN WITH THE SONG. It's preceded by a much more sympathetic "Legal Assasin", in which The Repo Man blames himself for everything he's done and for everything he does now, but eventually gives in to his sadsistic nature.
** "Who Ordered Pizza?" and the following "Night Surgeon" feature the most of movie villains encouraging The Repo Man to kill Blind Meg. And while he eventually refuses, it's not before he slits a random person's throat while singing creepily.
** Arguably also "We Started This Op'ra Sh*t" for [[MegaCorp GeneCo]] as a company; it's certainly the most [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chewing]] number in the film, and features Rotti, Luigi, Pavi, and various [=GeneCo=] employees and customers generally hamming it up.
* In the film ''Troll'' a song called "Cantos Profane" is performed by Torok the troll's minions.
* In the live action adaptation of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', Jim Carrey as The Grinch sings [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRhCbCISs44 "You're A Mean One Mr Grinch"]], which is traditionally an example of TheVillainSucksSong.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland'' has Creator/MandyPatinkin singing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT5mWEWTb6A "Make It Mine"]]. It's [[EarWorm very catchy]].
* Despite being a very low-level and banal form of evil, Sharpay and Ryan get one in each of the three {{High School Musical}}s, but it's only in the third one where "I Want It All",' is one of the big show-stopping numbers.
** And some people prefer these upbeat songs to the ballad-y ones by the protagonists.
* While more Grouch than villain, Oscar sings the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IHMctrKCg "Grouch Anthem"]] at the beginning of ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird '': "Don't let the sunshine spoil your rain! Just stand up and complain!"
* ''Film/ForbiddenZone'' had both "Witch's Egg", an IAmSong by Susan Tyrrell, and "Squeezit The Moocher", an IWantSong sung by Danny Elfman as Satan. Both scenes are ''very awesome''.
* In ''Film/SuicideClub'', the psychopath Genesis sings a downbeat rock song with his minions in an abandoned bowling alley while his other minion rapes and stabs a woman trapped in a bedsheet sack. Good stuff.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Dxrdyjz_M&feature=relate "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)"]] from ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives''. Jason couldn't sing, so he had Music/AliceCooper do it for him.
* Hans Conreid brings on his [[LargeHam large ham]] with the songs [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcYTilauRLo "Get-Together Weather"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8TQOzyCu8Q "Do-Mi-Do Duds"]], [-AKA-] "Dress Me", an unconventional {{Camp}} VillainSong, while his many minions and staff of the Terwilliker Institute sing [[AlmaMaterSong "Terwilliker Academy"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVRxzvkJao "The Elevator Dungeon Song"]]; in ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT'', the only live-action movie by Creator/DrSeuss.
* In both the film of Pink Floyd's ''Music/TheWall'' and the album that inspired it, the three songs in the third act sung by the fictional Pink's fascist persona: "In the Flesh", "Run Like Hell" and "Waiting for the Worms". In addition to being a comment on the stupidity of fascism and bigotry, using holocaust imagery to show just how far our protagonist has fallen, they are also over-the-top villain songs sung with a sense of insane glee with some of the catchier melody-lyric parings (to the point that you start singing a split-second before realizing that some of the lyrics aren't for polite society).
* ''Film/TheReturnOfCaptainInvincible'' features at least two. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meXAVS2vb2o "Evil Midnight"]] is sung about Creator/ChristopherLee's character ... Mr. Evil Midnight by him and his nemesis Captain Invincible, and is a combination Villain Song (Mr. Midnight's part) and TheVillainSucksSong (Captain Invincible's part). [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8W2fkhfFPc&feature=related "Name Your Poison]] is sung BY Mr. Midnight, and is one of the highlights of the film.
* Carolyn' car radio sing-a-long of Bobby Darin's ''Don't Rain On My Parade'' in ''Film/AmericanBeauty''
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oppHeMlaLVM&feature=related The song about]] UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, "The Inquisition", from Creator/Mel Brooks' ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI''. After some opening narration and a brief air of seriousness, it comprises the entire segment.
* "O Death" sung by the Klansman in Red in ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou?''
* This list isn't complete without [[Film/AustinPowers Dr. Evil]]'s memorable rendition of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jZiKFLL6MI "Hard Knock Life"]]. ''DOMINO, MOTHERF** KER!''
** He also had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzE08aInn4 Just the Two of Us]] in ''The Spy Who Shagged Me''.
** TheyMightBeGiants made the Goldfinger-style [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqzDAQaDQzY Dr. Evil]].
* The self-titled "Floop's Song" from Alan Cumming's DepravedKidsShowHost in ''SpyKids'', which doubles as a DisneyAcidSequence.
* In the sci-fi parody ''The Creature Wasn't Nice'' (AKA ''Spaceship''), the titular monster stops his rampage long enough to sing a little ditty entitled "I Want To Eat Your Face".
* In the early Creator/AdamSandler movie ''Film/GoingOverboard'', General Noriega briefly sings "It's A Sad Sad World When Your Head Looks Like A Pizza". Yes.
* In ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Matthew Patel gets the Bollywood-esque "Slick". It's also the only musical number in the entire film and has the cast gaping in confusion as he performs it.
* The antagonists of both ''Film/CampRock'' movies tend to have better (or maybe just catchier) songs than the protagonists.
* The Gremlins in ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' organize their own rendition of "New York, New York" with the Brain as lead vocals.
* The [[Creator/TheCannonGroup Golan/Globus]] production of ''Red Riding Hood'' had two. The Big Bad Wolf gets "Good at Being Bad". The wicked duke (ItMakesSenseInContext) gets "Man Without a Heart".
* In ''Film/TheApple'', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt music executive]] Mr. Boogalow gets a couple of musical numbers. "How To Be A Master" is the one that most fits the definition of a villain song thematically, since it has him extensively bragging about how successful being evil has made him ("Reaching the top is such a long, hard climb/Millions of people stand and wait in line/Do you think I got there being patient and kind?").
* [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] had (oddly enough, the rap numbers) "Are You Ready For Freddy?" and "Nightmare on My Street" made to coincide with the release of one of his films.
* Angela's briefly raps in ''Film/SleepawayCampIIITeenageWasteland''.
* ''Film/PromNight1980'' has a surprisingly subtle and dark version of this trope. Pay close attention to the lyrics in the slow song during the credits. It's sung from the killer ([[spoiler: Alex]])'s point of view, despite having a female singer. "There never was a turning back. Now it's time to fade to black."
* In ''Film/{{Popeye}}'', Bluto sings "I'm Mean" as he tears apart the Oyl household after Olive stands him up.
* Although he's not a ''central'' villain, Nick Duran from ''Film/StreetTrash'' has a hilarious closing credits song available [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-h0zMLl4g here]]. There's not really any spoilers to speak of, since this "plot" has little, if anything, to do with the rest of the movie.
* ''Film/ChuckECheeseInTheGalaxy5000'' has a mad scientist and his two brawny henchmen sing about [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdxGVBUqHiE Zoom Gas]].
* ''Film/BugsyMalone'' had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FgpBxXho4 "Bad Guys"]] in which Fat Sam's thugs sing about how they're "just the best at being bad."
* In ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}€'', the main character's girlfriend is cheating on him with a member of a rock band, and said member writes a song about how he's screwing her while the protagonist is totally oblivious to it. Then he performs the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vyj1C8ogtE song]] right in front of him!
* ''{{Tommy}}'' has several, given that the entire thing is sung-through. The main villain, Tommy's [[WickedStepmother wicked stepfather]] Frank, gets "Bernie's Holiday Camp," which introduces him and his sleazy attempts to mack on Tommy's mother, and a part of the song "Welcome," is about his plan to make Tommy's holiday camp overpriced. She eventually turns out okay, though. As far as supporting villains go, there's "The Acid Queen" for, well, [[DisneyAcidSequence the]] [[TheOldestProfession Acid Queen]]. For [[TeensAreMonsters Cousin]] [[ColdBloodedTorture Kevin]], there's "Cousin Kevin." [[CardCarryingVillain Wicked]] [[EvilUncle Uncle Ernie]] gets "Fiddle About," where he [[HollywoodToneDeaf "sings"]] about molesting the protagonist while he can't see or hear him. Towards the end of the film, Ernie also gets "Tommy's Holiday Camp," where he overprices the fees to get into Tommy's holiday camp and the related Tommy merchandise to rip off Tommy's followers. "Pinball Wizard" is a subversion; it certainly ''seems'' like it should be one of these, given that it's arguably the most memorable number in the film and it's sung by the [[ArrogantKungFuGuy arrogant pinball guy]] opposing the protagonist, but the song is actually about the opponent being ''impressed'' by the protagonist.
* ''Film/TheMuppets'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzmosYjyFcw "Let's Talk About Me,"]] which really has to be seen to be believed.
* The VillainSong in ''MuppetsMostWanted'', "I'm Number One (You're Number Two)", is pretty awesome and basically [[BigBad Constantine]] just singing about how superior he is compared to [[TheDragon Dominic]].
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeVIdNrGsG4 I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo in Malibu)]]" is also performed by Constantine, with him attempting to sweet talking Piggy so she doesn't get suspicious about him.
* In ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', BigBad Strasser and his men briefly sing a patriotic tune in Rick's club... which, in the film's defining CrowningMomentOfAwesome, is then drowned out by "Marseillaise," sung by the club's other patrons led by [[MessianicArchetype Victor]].
* In ''Film/{{Chicago}}'', "All that Jazz", "The Cell Block Tango", "When you're good to Mama" and "All I care about" for Velma Kelly, the murderesses of Cook County Jail, Matron Mama Morton and Billy Flynn respectively.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Actually,]] every song in the production is a villain song with the lonely exception of "Mr. Cellophane".
* The film adaptation of the Russian play ''The Shadow'' (loosely based on [[Literature/TheShadow Andersen's fairy tale of the same name]]) contains the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkwp8gZz_oQ "Speak To Each In His Own Language"]] sung by the LivingShadow. In the song, The Shadow explains how wonderful it is to fool and intimidate everyone.
-->'''Shadow:''' Just lend me your ear,\\
And if it's not deaf, I already know what to put in it!
** Another song from the same song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCUFMHViuQ "Shadow Triumphs"]], sung The Shadow in the DarkestHour consist of the LivingShadow gloating before his former master in the hammiest, most over-the-top way possible (an approximate translation):
-->I crawled through mud and over naked wire without shock or shame,\\
I'm not picky at all, I'm so flexible and subtle.\\
And I know all about the shadowy side of the world!\\
That's why your friends are now my friends!\\
That's why your loved one is now mine!\\
That's why your head is now in my hands!\\
So, who is now prostrated at whose feet?
* The Russian film ''Masha and Vitja agains the Wild Guitars'', contains the villains' introductory song "We are the Wild Guitars". Notably for being about the only time [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "hard rock" songs were allowed on Soviet TV]] (at least in mainstream production).
* Another Russian film, "Secret of the Snow Queen", contains the song ''I don't Care'', which is about how a person shouldn't care about anything but herself. Subverted later when we find that, while those manipulated by the Queen indeed don't care, ''The Queen herself'' actually does care - she is just deeply in denial about it.
* The Russian adaptation of ''Literature/PeterPan'' contains, of course, Hook's song. Among other, he comments that he hates ''all children''.
* There's actually one of these in ''Film/InheritTheWind'', sung by the [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] [[WhatTheHellTownspeople townspeople]] who have organized into a lynch mob, and it's set to, of all things, ''The Battle Hymn of the Republic''. "We'll hang Henry Drummond from the sour apple tree!" indeed. Fortunately, nobody ''actually'' gets lynched.
* "We're the Spaceballs" in ''{{Film/Spaceballs}}'', although being a comedy, [[SoundtrackDissonance the placement is deliberately off]]. It's sung during the evacuation of Spaceball 1.
-->Cause what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds\\
We're the Spaceballs, Watch Out! cause we're the Spaceballs
* The Creeper from ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' has the song "Jeepers Creepers", [[TitledAfterTheSong which the movie was named after.]] He doesn't actually sing it, but he whistles it!
* ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' has several, depending on your perspective of who the real villain(s) is (or are). If one assumes that the murderous titular character is the villain, then there's his first song, "Faust", about selling one's soul for love, and "Phantom's Theme". If one considers the antagonist Swan to be the real villain, there's "The Hell of It", which plays over the credits. There's also "Life at Last", sung by drama queen Beef.
* The ''Rocky Horror'' "companion" film ''Film/ShockTreatment'' has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4FnsDxtL8&feature=player_detailpage "Farley's Song"]]. And it is awesome. Also, Farley's part in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDvXS1nVQg "Duel Duet"]].
** The henchmen get the title song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3M3jcZvkg0 Shock Treatment]]," wherein they [[EvilGloating gloat]] to a captive Brad Majors about the upcoming launch of their evil reality show, and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkLGZL11rA Oh Look What I Did To My Id]]", in which they are revealed to be [[spoiler:actors instead of real doctors]].
** Janet, while being a diva superstar, becomes somewhat antagonistic, and her number [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83_ceLoMDsE "Looking For Trade"]] definitely has the characteristics of your average villain song.
** Janet's father, being a satire on conservative homophobic jingoists, gets [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7BP2Gclzj0 "Thank God I'm A Man"]].
* ''Film/TheHobbit'' (2012 version) featured the Great Goblin singing the Goblin's song from the book. Oh so very badly.
** The Extended Edition features the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o452z76tKQ full song]].
* The villain Barnaby in the Francoeur version of ''Film/BabesInToyland'' gets "We Won't Be Happy 'Til We Get It" along with his henchmen in which all three are cheerfully villainous and happily list off the lengths to which they will go if they can get even a dime out of it.
** Barnaby later has the solo "Castle in Spain" which isn't exactly a traditional villain song, but considering part of it is about the reprehensible things he'll do ''for'' the heroine if she marries him it probably counts. The worst bit is that he ''thinks'' he's being charming and clearly doesn't understand how repulsed she is by not only the prospect of marrying him but the fact that he plans to, basically, become an even more evil slumlord than he already is in order to support her and himself in a life of luxury.
* ''Film/LeprechaunInTheHood'' ends with the titular creature [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlufxatPxnA rapping]] about how bad he is. "Lep in the Hood, Up to no ''gooooood''"
* ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'':
** "Easy Street", as in the musical, [[spoiler:but it is now a duet between Guy and Hannigan]].
** Miss Hannigan's "Little Girls" may also qualify, [[spoiler:although she does eventually get a HeelFaceTurn, and the song itself had been rewritten to make Hannigan seem more sympathetic]].
* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' has Kim Jong Il sing "I'm so [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish Ronery]]", which also counts as a VillainousLament.
* In ''Film/MississippiBurning'', Agent Anderson [[GallowsHumor playfully]] recites a Klan song while he and Ward drive into [[DeepSouth Mississippi]].
--> Now, I'm listening you communists, niggas and jews\\
Tell all your buddies to spread the news\\
Cause the day of judgement will soon been nigh\\
As the lord in this wisdom looks down from high\\
Will his battle be lost by mixing the races\\
We want beautiful babies, not ones with brown faces\\
Never, never, never, never, I say\
Cause the Ku Klux Klan is here to stay:\
Never, never, never, never, I say\\
Cause the Ku Klux Klan is here to stay:\\
'''Anderson''': I hope these Ku Kluxers are better at lynchings than they are at lyrics.
* Disney's ''Film/{{Descendants}}'' has "Evil Like Me", sung by [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]]. In the number, she convinces her daughter Mal to follow in her footsteps and join her in conquering the kingdom of Auradon.
* ''Inbred'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVhfvCRbadk Ee By Gum]]", sung by the titular clan of twisted inbreds.
* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' has "Partyman" and "Trust," though these are treated as source music rather than as actually being sung by the Joker, though he does a little lip synching; in the case of "Partyman," his goons LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn while vandalizing Flugelheim Museum.
* After three installments of the ''Film/BeachParty'' series with harmless gang leader Eric von Zipper as its most popular, critically acclaimed character, he finally got a song in ''Muscle Beach Show'' with the thoroughly harmless, comical "I Am My Ideal".
* [[VillainProtagonist Alex]] from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' infamously sings "Film/SinginInTheRain" while torturing an old writer and raping his wife.
* If you view the ''Film/StTrinians'' students as {{Villain Protagonist}}s (not all that unreasonable), the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Yt9FOkxuk St. Trinian's Chant]] would be this. It fits pretty well in any case, with the girls revelling in the mayhem they cause.
* In a similar vein as "Gollum's Song", ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXTS10h2WI Who Will Know]]", a OneWomanWail/chorus track that explores Godzilla's emotions that plays in a sequence that culminates with Godzilla using his atomic breath and [[spoiler: beams from his spines and tail to destroy the military, the Prime Minister and his cabinet and blackout Tokyo]].
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* Unusually, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsiKOJOXMJU "Marley and Marley"]] (yes, there's two of them just so they could put JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf in the movie. The new one is named [[StealthPun Robert]]) from ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' is a ''posthumous'' villain song, but still counts.
* The Albert Finney musical version of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', ''Scrooge'', has "I Hate People" for the title character, which should be self-explanatory, and later, the toe-tappingly nasty "Thank You Very Much", in which everyone who owes Scrooge money [[spoiler: gloats over his death in the BadFuture]]. The latter song gets a ''light'' reprise upon Scrooge's redemption.
* ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''... since the BigBad is played by David Bowie, pretty much the entire movie was designed as a vehicle for villain songs. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxoE2az9mJM Dance, magic, dance]]!
** With [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaWdwoNXsOQ 'As the World Falls Down']] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLhtHKyylmo 'Within You']] being both creepy, and full of LyricalDissonance.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_6l1kwu7Y Chilly Down]]!
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' has two villain songs. The first is [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=22BwsZ46S-U "Trust In Me"]]; a single line of it is in the film proper, but the full version is sung over the end credits by Kaa's voice actress, Creator/ScarlettJohansson. The other villain song is [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15rUJuKCM90 "I Wan'na Be Like You"]], King Louie's song, a bright, jazzy number, sung by Creator/ChristopherWalken about how he has a desire for man's red fire, so he can take over the jungle.
* Several Beatles classics became Villain Songs in the movie ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''. The actual quality of the musical interpretations are a mixed bag. The treatment given to "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by Creator/SteveMartin is best forgotten, as is a version of "Mean Mr. Mustard" sung by robots. On the other hand, Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s version of "Come Together" has outlived this movie and become one of their signature songs.
* ''Film/AcrossTheUniverse'' uses [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSnw1JaL2uA "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"]] as a Villain Song -- quite effectively. For the ''entire Vietnam War.'' There's also Creator/EddieIzzard's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ahx9ckqIw spoken word version]] of "Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!".
* "Main Hoon Don" from the Bollywood movie ''Don''; in a twist, it's sung by someone who has to impersonate the villain. [[spoiler: Or so we thought.]]
* Veruca Salt's destructive "I Want It Now" number in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' is the last musical number not sung by the Oompa-Loompas, possibly because they were too busy at the moment trying to stop her. It also doubles as (yep...) an IWantSong, after a fashion.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Although he doesn't sing it himself, Necros, TheDragon from ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' gets a thoroughly badass VillainSong called, "Where Has Everybody Gone?" It's always playing on his Walkman when he's about to strangle people with the headphone wires. ''And'' his {{Leitmotif}} is the instrumental version of the song. The song fulfills the criteria of the VillainSong, in that while the BigBad is a fairly low-key SmugSnake, Necros is the main physical danger to Bond throughout the movie, manages to get away with a surprising amount of successful assassinations for a [[BondVillainStupidity Bond Villain]], and gets a spectacular, over-the-top final fight/death scene.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPBFvDz_HM theme]] for ''Film/GoldenEye'' is an interesting cross between a VillainSong and an ObsessionSong.
** And another Bond example: the theme to ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' by Music/{{Garbage}} is, after you've seen the film, an obvious Villain Song for [[spoiler: Elektra King.]]
* It only makes it onto the soundtrack, but since it's a particular character's theme, it still counts: "Turkish Delight", a GRatedDrug addict's lament sung from a tweaked-out Edmund's point of view, is by far the best song on ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' soundtrack. (How much of a villain Edmund is is, granted, questionable, but he's still the most villainous of the Pevensie kids.)
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIYfoeBOhTU "Gollum's Song"]] from ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]'' soundtrack, sung by Emiliana Torrini. (It was originally written for Music/{{Bjork}}.)
** ...which plays as Gollum plots the demise of the hobbits, but the lyrics tell a different story.
* "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" from the Film/NewJackCity soundtrack, by Music/IceT.
* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': The Kurgan has a theme song entitled "Gimme The Prize," but only part of it is heard during the movie.
* ''Film/BattleOfTheBulge'' gives Col. Hessler and his men [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ2YaThEms0 ''Panzerlied'']] as their theme.
* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors''
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGRN39oifsE "Feed Me"]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RRh-g-CC8g "It's Suppertime"]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLO7IxKwruc "Mean Green Mother"]] (and the CutSong that made up part of it: "Bad") from the ManEatingPlant.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM "Dentist!"]] from the human villain.
** A song cut from the original musical, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FFsi4SMnd0&feature=related "I Found A Hobby"]], counts. The human villain basically describes how he discovered he was a sadist.
* [[Creator/TimCurry Dr. Frank-N-Furter]] from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' has "Sweet Transvestite" and "You Better Wise Up, Janet Weiss!". Much of "The Floor Show" could also count, as it is basically Frank singing, dancing and having a pool orgy with main heroes brainwashed by him, but it's pretty ambigous.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCMxodXrQo "World War II Boy"]] from ''Film/TheBloodWatersOfDrZ'', sung by an offscreen Jamie [=DeFrates=] as the MadScientist walks back to his lab from the beach at the beginning of the film. Only counts if you interpret the lyrics to be about escaped Nazi scientist Doctor Leopold and him "planning re-veenge on [his] friends!''
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvUbbYX9BMs "Professional Pirate"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSXciBh8KoY "Shiver My Timbers"]] from ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland''. The former is sung by (for good measure) Tim Curry, and the latter ends with Captain Flint opening fire on his own crew with [[GunsAkimbo two flintlock pistols]]. And this is in a ''Muppet'' movie. Produced by ''Disney''.
* In ''Film/PoultrygeistNightOfTheChickenDead'', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt fast food tycoon]] General Lee Roy gets the songs "Generous General", an upbeat folk song where he smoothly denies accusations that his food is unhealthy, and "Murderous General", a dementedly bouncy number where he declares [[ImAHumanitarian what he thinks the new white meat is]] to the protagonists.
* The movie version of ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' has "A Snake in the Grass". And with Bob Fosse playing the Snake, the choreography is definitely show-stopping.
* Following the RuleOfFunny, this turns up at the end of ''Film/TheFiendishPlotOfDrFuManchu'', an otherwise non-musical AffectionateParody that presents him as a likable VillainProtagonist played by Creator/PeterSellers. Not only does he succeed in his quest to create the elixir he needs to regain his youth and strength, he then unleashes his master plan for world domination: [[ThePowerOfRock rock music]]. (The film is set in the 1930s.) The finale has him performing in full Vegas-era Elvis style garb "Rock-A-Fu", a distinctly early-1980s tune that gets both the goodies and baddies dancing, and forces Nayland Smith (also Sellers) to admit that at last, Fu's won.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy62mqmqwCQ "Secret of Survival (in a Very Nasty World)"]], sung by the Weasels to Mole when he's lost in the Wild Wood in Terry Jones' version of ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows''.
* "The Witch Is In The House" by the Wicked Witch of the West in ''Film/TheMuppetsWizardOfOz''. Miss Piggy nearly outdoes Curry's performance in ''Treasure Island''. (Jokes about Piggy being a LargeHam are obvious, but if you make them she will hunt you down.)
* ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' has ''Gold'' for Rotti Largo. ''Mark It Up'' showcases the villainous Luigi and Pavi, but isn't as much of a showstopper as the others, so it only sort of fits this trope--especially because they're only trying to one-up each other and probably don't even consider themselves that bad.
** Rotti also gets ''Things You See in a Graveyard'', complete with plenty of gloating and cackling.
** Amber Sweet has ''Come Up And Try My New Parts'', in which she proves her willingness to use her body as a tool, as a borderline VillainSong (especially for those fans who want [[DieForOurShip Grave-Robber and Shilo to end up together.]]) It was actually [[CutSong cut from the theatrical release]] because it was too good.
** The Repo Man has "Thankless Job". It's Anthony Stewart Head with a voice like Christian Bale gargling broken glass, dancing and twirling away as he sings about organ theft, then gutting a person and using him as a human glove puppet... TO JOIN IN WITH THE SONG. It's preceded by a much more sympathetic "Legal Assasin", in which The Repo Man blames himself for everything he's done and for everything he does now, but eventually gives in to his sadsistic nature.
** "Who Ordered Pizza?" and the following "Night Surgeon" feature the most of movie villains encouraging The Repo Man to kill Blind Meg. And while he eventually refuses, it's not before he slits a random person's throat while singing creepily.
** Arguably also "We Started This Op'ra Sh*t" for [[MegaCorp GeneCo]] as a company; it's certainly the most [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chewing]] number in the film, and features Rotti, Luigi, Pavi, and various [=GeneCo=] employees and customers generally hamming it up.
* In the film ''Troll'' a song called "Cantos Profane" is performed by Torok the troll's minions.
* In the live action adaptation of ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', Jim Carrey as The Grinch sings [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRhCbCISs44 "You're A Mean One Mr Grinch"]], which is traditionally an example of TheVillainSucksSong.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfElmoInGrouchland'' has Creator/MandyPatinkin singing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT5mWEWTb6A "Make It Mine"]]. It's [[EarWorm very catchy]].
* Despite being a very low-level and banal form of evil, Sharpay and Ryan get one in each of the three {{High School Musical}}s, but it's only in the third one where "I Want It All",' is one of the big show-stopping numbers.
** And some people prefer these upbeat songs to the ballad-y ones by the protagonists.
* While more Grouch than villain, Oscar sings the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IHMctrKCg "Grouch Anthem"]] at the beginning of ''Film/SesameStreetPresentsFollowThatBird '': "Don't let the sunshine spoil your rain! Just stand up and complain!"
* ''Film/ForbiddenZone'' had both "Witch's Egg", an IAmSong by Susan Tyrrell, and "Squeezit The Moocher", an IWantSong sung by Danny Elfman as Satan. Both scenes are ''very awesome''.
* In ''Film/SuicideClub'', the psychopath Genesis sings a downbeat rock song with his minions in an abandoned bowling alley while his other minion rapes and stabs a woman trapped in a bedsheet sack. Good stuff.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Dxrdyjz_M&feature=relate "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)"]] from ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives''. Jason couldn't sing, so he had Music/AliceCooper do it for him.
* Hans Conreid brings on his [[LargeHam large ham]] with the songs [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcYTilauRLo "Get-Together Weather"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8TQOzyCu8Q "Do-Mi-Do Duds"]], [-AKA-] "Dress Me", an unconventional {{Camp}} VillainSong, while his many minions and staff of the Terwilliker Institute sing [[AlmaMaterSong "Terwilliker Academy"]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVRxzvkJao "The Elevator Dungeon Song"]]; in ''Film/The5000FingersOfDrT'', the only live-action movie by Creator/DrSeuss.
* In both the film of Pink Floyd's ''Music/TheWall'' and the album that inspired it, the three songs in the third act sung by the fictional Pink's fascist persona: "In the Flesh", "Run Like Hell" and "Waiting for the Worms". In addition to being a comment on the stupidity of fascism and bigotry, using holocaust imagery to show just how far our protagonist has fallen, they are also over-the-top villain songs sung with a sense of insane glee with some of the catchier melody-lyric parings (to the point that you start singing a split-second before realizing that some of the lyrics aren't for polite society).
* ''Film/TheReturnOfCaptainInvincible'' features at least two. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meXAVS2vb2o "Evil Midnight"]] is sung about Creator/ChristopherLee's character ... Mr. Evil Midnight by him and his nemesis Captain Invincible, and is a combination Villain Song (Mr. Midnight's part) and TheVillainSucksSong (Captain Invincible's part). [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8W2fkhfFPc&feature=related "Name Your Poison]] is sung BY Mr. Midnight, and is one of the highlights of the film.
* Carolyn' car radio sing-a-long of Bobby Darin's ''Don't Rain On My Parade'' in ''Film/AmericanBeauty''
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oppHeMlaLVM&feature=related The song about]] UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition, "The Inquisition", from Creator/Mel Brooks' ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI''. After some opening narration and a brief air of seriousness, it comprises the entire segment.
* "O Death" sung by the Klansman in Red in ''Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou?''
* This list isn't complete without [[Film/AustinPowers Dr. Evil]]'s memorable rendition of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jZiKFLL6MI "Hard Knock Life"]]. ''DOMINO, MOTHERF** KER!''
** He also had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzE08aInn4 Just the Two of Us]] in ''The Spy Who Shagged Me''.
** TheyMightBeGiants made the Goldfinger-style [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqzDAQaDQzY Dr. Evil]].
* The self-titled "Floop's Song" from Alan Cumming's DepravedKidsShowHost in ''SpyKids'', which doubles as a DisneyAcidSequence.
* In the sci-fi parody ''The Creature Wasn't Nice'' (AKA ''Spaceship''), the titular monster stops his rampage long enough to sing a little ditty entitled "I Want To Eat Your Face".
* In the early Creator/AdamSandler movie ''Film/GoingOverboard'', General Noriega briefly sings "It's A Sad Sad World When Your Head Looks Like A Pizza". Yes.
* In ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Matthew Patel gets the Bollywood-esque "Slick". It's also the only musical number in the entire film and has the cast gaping in confusion as he performs it.
* The antagonists of both ''Film/CampRock'' movies tend to have better (or maybe just catchier) songs than the protagonists.
* The Gremlins in ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' organize their own rendition of "New York, New York" with the Brain as lead vocals.
* The [[Creator/TheCannonGroup Golan/Globus]] production of ''Red Riding Hood'' had two. The Big Bad Wolf gets "Good at Being Bad". The wicked duke (ItMakesSenseInContext) gets "Man Without a Heart".
* In ''Film/TheApple'', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt music executive]] Mr. Boogalow gets a couple of musical numbers. "How To Be A Master" is the one that most fits the definition of a villain song thematically, since it has him extensively bragging about how successful being evil has made him ("Reaching the top is such a long, hard climb/Millions of people stand and wait in line/Do you think I got there being patient and kind?").
* [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] had (oddly enough, the rap numbers) "Are You Ready For Freddy?" and "Nightmare on My Street" made to coincide with the release of one of his films.
* Angela's briefly raps in ''Film/SleepawayCampIIITeenageWasteland''.
* ''Film/PromNight1980'' has a surprisingly subtle and dark version of this trope. Pay close attention to the lyrics in the slow song during the credits. It's sung from the killer ([[spoiler: Alex]])'s point of view, despite having a female singer. "There never was a turning back. Now it's time to fade to black."
* In ''Film/{{Popeye}}'', Bluto sings "I'm Mean" as he tears apart the Oyl household after Olive stands him up.
* Although he's not a ''central'' villain, Nick Duran from ''Film/StreetTrash'' has a hilarious closing credits song available [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-h0zMLl4g here]]. There's not really any spoilers to speak of, since this "plot" has little, if anything, to do with the rest of the movie.
* ''Film/ChuckECheeseInTheGalaxy5000'' has a mad scientist and his two brawny henchmen sing about [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdxGVBUqHiE Zoom Gas]].
* ''Film/BugsyMalone'' had [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FgpBxXho4 "Bad Guys"]] in which Fat Sam's thugs sing about how they're "just the best at being bad."
* In ''Film/{{Eurotrip}}€'', the main character's girlfriend is cheating on him with a member of a rock band, and said member writes a song about how he's screwing her while the protagonist is totally oblivious to it. Then he performs the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vyj1C8ogtE song]] right in front of him!
* ''{{Tommy}}'' has several, given that the entire thing is sung-through. The main villain, Tommy's [[WickedStepmother wicked stepfather]] Frank, gets "Bernie's Holiday Camp," which introduces him and his sleazy attempts to mack on Tommy's mother, and a part of the song "Welcome," is about his plan to make Tommy's holiday camp overpriced. She eventually turns out okay, though. As far as supporting villains go, there's "The Acid Queen" for, well, [[DisneyAcidSequence the]] [[TheOldestProfession Acid Queen]]. For [[TeensAreMonsters Cousin]] [[ColdBloodedTorture Kevin]], there's "Cousin Kevin." [[CardCarryingVillain Wicked]] [[EvilUncle Uncle Ernie]] gets "Fiddle About," where he [[HollywoodToneDeaf "sings"]] about molesting the protagonist while he can't see or hear him. Towards the end of the film, Ernie also gets "Tommy's Holiday Camp," where he overprices the fees to get into Tommy's holiday camp and the related Tommy merchandise to rip off Tommy's followers. "Pinball Wizard" is a subversion; it certainly ''seems'' like it should be one of these, given that it's arguably the most memorable number in the film and it's sung by the [[ArrogantKungFuGuy arrogant pinball guy]] opposing the protagonist, but the song is actually about the opponent being ''impressed'' by the protagonist.
* ''Film/TheMuppets'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzmosYjyFcw "Let's Talk About Me,"]] which really has to be seen to be believed.
* The VillainSong in ''MuppetsMostWanted'', "I'm Number One (You're Number Two)", is pretty awesome and basically [[BigBad Constantine]] just singing about how superior he is compared to [[TheDragon Dominic]].
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeVIdNrGsG4 I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo in Malibu)]]" is also performed by Constantine, with him attempting to sweet talking Piggy so she doesn't get suspicious about him.
* In ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', BigBad Strasser and his men briefly sing a patriotic tune in Rick's club... which, in the film's defining CrowningMomentOfAwesome, is then drowned out by "Marseillaise," sung by the club's other patrons led by [[MessianicArchetype Victor]].
* In ''Film/{{Chicago}}'', "All that Jazz", "The Cell Block Tango", "When you're good to Mama" and "All I care about" for Velma Kelly, the murderesses of Cook County Jail, Matron Mama Morton and Billy Flynn respectively.
** [[FridgeBrilliance Actually,]] every song in the production is a villain song with the lonely exception of "Mr. Cellophane".
* The film adaptation of the Russian play ''The Shadow'' (loosely based on [[Literature/TheShadow Andersen's fairy tale of the same name]]) contains the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkwp8gZz_oQ "Speak To Each In His Own Language"]] sung by the LivingShadow. In the song, The Shadow explains how wonderful it is to fool and intimidate everyone.
-->'''Shadow:''' Just lend me your ear,\\
And if it's not deaf, I already know what to put in it!
** Another song from the same song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABCUFMHViuQ "Shadow Triumphs"]], sung The Shadow in the DarkestHour consist of the LivingShadow gloating before his former master in the hammiest, most over-the-top way possible (an approximate translation):
-->I crawled through mud and over naked wire without shock or shame,\\
I'm not picky at all, I'm so flexible and subtle.\\
And I know all about the shadowy side of the world!\\
That's why your friends are now my friends!\\
That's why your loved one is now mine!\\
That's why your head is now in my hands!\\
So, who is now prostrated at whose feet?
* The Russian film ''Masha and Vitja agains the Wild Guitars'', contains the villains' introductory song "We are the Wild Guitars". Notably for being about the only time [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "hard rock" songs were allowed on Soviet TV]] (at least in mainstream production).
* Another Russian film, "Secret of the Snow Queen", contains the song ''I don't Care'', which is about how a person shouldn't care about anything but herself. Subverted later when we find that, while those manipulated by the Queen indeed don't care, ''The Queen herself'' actually does care - she is just deeply in denial about it.
* The Russian adaptation of ''Literature/PeterPan'' contains, of course, Hook's song. Among other, he comments that he hates ''all children''.
* There's actually one of these in ''Film/InheritTheWind'', sung by the [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] [[WhatTheHellTownspeople townspeople]] who have organized into a lynch mob, and it's set to, of all things, ''The Battle Hymn of the Republic''. "We'll hang Henry Drummond from the sour apple tree!" indeed. Fortunately, nobody ''actually'' gets lynched.
* "We're the Spaceballs" in ''{{Film/Spaceballs}}'', although being a comedy, [[SoundtrackDissonance the placement is deliberately off]]. It's sung during the evacuation of Spaceball 1.
-->Cause what you got is what we need and all we do is dirty deeds\\
We're the Spaceballs, Watch Out! cause we're the Spaceballs
* The Creeper from ''Film/JeepersCreepers'' has the song "Jeepers Creepers", [[TitledAfterTheSong which the movie was named after.]] He doesn't actually sing it, but he whistles it!
* ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'' has several, depending on your perspective of who the real villain(s) is (or are). If one assumes that the murderous titular character is the villain, then there's his first song, "Faust", about selling one's soul for love, and "Phantom's Theme". If one considers the antagonist Swan to be the real villain, there's "The Hell of It", which plays over the credits. There's also "Life at Last", sung by drama queen Beef.
* The ''Rocky Horror'' "companion" film ''Film/ShockTreatment'' has [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4FnsDxtL8&feature=player_detailpage "Farley's Song"]]. And it is awesome. Also, Farley's part in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDvXS1nVQg "Duel Duet"]].
** The henchmen get the title song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3M3jcZvkg0 Shock Treatment]]," wherein they [[EvilGloating gloat]] to a captive Brad Majors about the upcoming launch of their evil reality show, and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkLGZL11rA Oh Look What I Did To My Id]]", in which they are revealed to be [[spoiler:actors instead of real doctors]].
** Janet, while being a diva superstar, becomes somewhat antagonistic, and her number [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83_ceLoMDsE "Looking For Trade"]] definitely has the characteristics of your average villain song.
** Janet's father, being a satire on conservative homophobic jingoists, gets [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7BP2Gclzj0 "Thank God I'm A Man"]].
* ''Film/TheHobbit'' (2012 version) featured the Great Goblin singing the Goblin's song from the book. Oh so very badly.
** The Extended Edition features the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o452z76tKQ full song]].
* The villain Barnaby in the Francoeur version of ''Film/BabesInToyland'' gets "We Won't Be Happy 'Til We Get It" along with his henchmen in which all three are cheerfully villainous and happily list off the lengths to which they will go if they can get even a dime out of it.
** Barnaby later has the solo "Castle in Spain" which isn't exactly a traditional villain song, but considering part of it is about the reprehensible things he'll do ''for'' the heroine if she marries him it probably counts. The worst bit is that he ''thinks'' he's being charming and clearly doesn't understand how repulsed she is by not only the prospect of marrying him but the fact that he plans to, basically, become an even more evil slumlord than he already is in order to support her and himself in a life of luxury.
* ''Film/LeprechaunInTheHood'' ends with the titular creature [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlufxatPxnA rapping]] about how bad he is. "Lep in the Hood, Up to no ''gooooood''"
* ''Film/{{Annie|2014}}'':
** "Easy Street", as in the musical, [[spoiler:but it is now a duet between Guy and Hannigan]].
** Miss Hannigan's "Little Girls" may also qualify, [[spoiler:although she does eventually get a HeelFaceTurn, and the song itself had been rewritten to make Hannigan seem more sympathetic]].
* ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' has Kim Jong Il sing "I'm so [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish Ronery]]", which also counts as a VillainousLament.
* In ''Film/MississippiBurning'', Agent Anderson [[GallowsHumor playfully]] recites a Klan song while he and Ward drive into [[DeepSouth Mississippi]].
--> Now, I'm listening you communists, niggas and jews\\
Tell all your buddies to spread the news\\
Cause the day of judgement will soon been nigh\\
As the lord in this wisdom looks down from high\\
Will his battle be lost by mixing the races\\
We want beautiful babies, not ones with brown faces\\
Never, never, never, never, I say\
Cause the Ku Klux Klan is here to stay:\
Never, never, never, never, I say\\
Cause the Ku Klux Klan is here to stay:\\
'''Anderson''': I hope these Ku Kluxers are better at lynchings than they are at lyrics.
* Disney's ''Film/{{Descendants}}'' has "Evil Like Me", sung by [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]]. In the number, she convinces her daughter Mal to follow in her footsteps and join her in conquering the kingdom of Auradon.
* ''Inbred'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVhfvCRbadk Ee By Gum]]", sung by the titular clan of twisted inbreds.
* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' has "Partyman" and "Trust," though these are treated as source music rather than as actually being sung by the Joker, though he does a little lip synching; in the case of "Partyman," his goons LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn while vandalizing Flugelheim Museum.
* After three installments of the ''Film/BeachParty'' series with harmless gang leader Eric von Zipper as its most popular, critically acclaimed character, he finally got a song in ''Muscle Beach Show'' with the thoroughly harmless, comical "I Am My Ideal".
* [[VillainProtagonist Alex]] from ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' infamously sings "Film/SinginInTheRain" while torturing an old writer and raping his wife.
* If you view the ''Film/StTrinians'' students as {{Villain Protagonist}}s (not all that unreasonable), the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Yt9FOkxuk St. Trinian's Chant]] would be this. It fits pretty well in any case, with the girls revelling in the mayhem they cause.
* In a similar vein as "Gollum's Song", ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXTS10h2WI Who Will Know]]", a OneWomanWail/chorus track that explores Godzilla's emotions that plays in a sequence that culminates with Godzilla using his atomic breath and [[spoiler: beams from his spines and tail to destroy the military, the Prime Minister and his cabinet and blackout Tokyo]].
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* It only makes it onto the soundtrack, but since it's a particular character's theme, it still counts: "Turkish Delight", a GRatedDrug addict's lament sung from a tweaked-out Edmund's point of view, is by far the best song on ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' soundtrack. (How much of a villain Edmund is is, granted, questionable, but he's still the most villainous of the Pevensie kids.)

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* It only makes it onto the soundtrack, but since it's a particular character's theme, it still counts: "Turkish Delight", a GRatedDrug addict's lament sung from a tweaked-out Edmund's point of view, is by far the best song on ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' soundtrack. (How much of a villain Edmund is is, granted, questionable, but he's still the most villainous of the Pevensie kids.)
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* This list isn't complete without [[AustinPowers Dr. Evil]]'s memorable rendition of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jZiKFLL6MI "Hard Knock Life"]]. ''DOMINO, MOTHERF** KER!''

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* This list isn't complete without [[AustinPowers [[Film/AustinPowers Dr. Evil]]'s memorable rendition of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jZiKFLL6MI "Hard Knock Life"]]. ''DOMINO, MOTHERF** KER!''
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* The antagonists of both ''CampRock'' movies tend to have better (or maybe just catchier) songs than the protagonists.

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* The antagonists of both ''CampRock'' ''Film/CampRock'' movies tend to have better (or maybe just catchier) songs than the protagonists.
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* ''[[RepoTheGeneticOpera Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' has ''Gold'' for Rotti Largo. ''Mark It Up'' showcases the villainous Luigi and Pavi, but isn't as much of a showstopper as the others, so it only sort of fits this trope--especially because they're only trying to one-up each other and probably don't even consider themselves that bad.

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* ''[[RepoTheGeneticOpera Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'' ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' has ''Gold'' for Rotti Largo. ''Mark It Up'' showcases the villainous Luigi and Pavi, but isn't as much of a showstopper as the others, so it only sort of fits this trope--especially because they're only trying to one-up each other and probably don't even consider themselves that bad.
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* There's actually one of these in ''InheritTheWind'', sung by the [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] [[WhatTheHellTownspeople townspeople]] who have organized into a lynch mob, and it's set to, of all things, ''The Battle Hymn of the Republic''. "We'll hang Henry Drummond from the sour apple tree!" indeed. Fortunately, nobody ''actually'' gets lynched.

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* There's actually one of these in ''InheritTheWind'', ''Film/InheritTheWind'', sung by the [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] [[WhatTheHellTownspeople townspeople]] who have organized into a lynch mob, and it's set to, of all things, ''The Battle Hymn of the Republic''. "We'll hang Henry Drummond from the sour apple tree!" indeed. Fortunately, nobody ''actually'' gets lynched.
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* ''Film/LeprechaunInTheHood'' ends with the titular creature [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlufxatPxnA singing a rap song]] about how bad he is. "Lep in the Hood, Up to no ''gooooood''"

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* ''Film/LeprechaunInTheHood'' ends with the titular creature [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlufxatPxnA singing a rap song]] rapping]] about how bad he is. "Lep in the Hood, Up to no ''gooooood''"

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--> Shadow: Just lend me your ear,
--> And if it's not deaf, I already know what to put in it!

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--> Shadow: -->'''Shadow:''' Just lend me your ear,
-->
ear,\\
And if it's not deaf, I already know what to put in it!



-->I crawled through mud and over naked wire without shock or shame,
-->I'm not picky at all, I'm so flexible and subtle.
-->And I know all about the shadowy side of the world!
-->That's why your friends are now my friends!
-->That's why your loved one is now mine!
-->That's why your head is now in my hands!
-->So, who is now prostrated at whose feet?

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-->I crawled through mud and over naked wire without shock or shame,
-->I'm
shame,\\
I'm
not picky at all, I'm so flexible and subtle.
-->And
subtle.\\
And
I know all about the shadowy side of the world!
-->That's
world!\\
That's
why your friends are now my friends!
-->That's
friends!\\
That's
why your loved one is now mine!
-->That's
mine!\\
That's
why your head is now in my hands!
-->So,
hands!\\
So,
who is now prostrated at whose feet?



* the Russian adaptation of ''PeterPan'' contains, of course, Hook's song. Among other, he comments that he hates ''all children''.

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* the The Russian adaptation of ''PeterPan'' ''Literature/PeterPan'' contains, of course, Hook's song. Among other, he comments that he hates ''all children''.
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* The VillainSong in ''MuppetsMostWanted'', "I'm Number One (You're Number Two)", is pretty awesome and basically [[BigBad Constantine]] just singing about how superior he is compared to [[TheDragon Dominic]]
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeVIdNrGsG4 I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo in Malibu)]]" is also performed by Constaintine, with him attempting to sweet talking Piggy so she doesn't get suspicious about him.

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* The VillainSong in ''MuppetsMostWanted'', "I'm Number One (You're Number Two)", is pretty awesome and basically [[BigBad Constantine]] just singing about how superior he is compared to [[TheDragon Dominic]]
Dominic]].
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeVIdNrGsG4 I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo in Malibu)]]" is also performed by Constaintine, Constantine, with him attempting to sweet talking Piggy so she doesn't get suspicious about him.
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* In a similar vein as "Gollum's Song", ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXTS10h2WI Who Will Know]]", a OneWomanWail/chorus track that explores Godzilla's emotions that plays in a sequence that culminates with Godzilla using his atomic breath and [[spoiler: beams from his spines and tail to destroy the military, the Prime Minister and his cabinet and blackout Tokyo]].

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