- A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017):
- In "The Bad Beginning: Part 1", Count Olaf and his acting troupe sing "It's the Count
", a very comical, over-the-top song that consists of Olaf showing off his massive ego, while also making it clear that he intends to steal the Baudelaires' fortune.
Who else has such robust good lucks in such a large amount?
I'm handsome and I'm talented and love your bank account! - In "The Ersatz Elevator: Part 1", Larry tries to convince Olaf to sing a song, in a desperate attempt to distract him. After refusing a few times, Olaf reluctantly complies and sings a catchy song called "Keep Chasing Your Schemes". As Olaf is in disguise (as a Funny Foreigner, no less), the song seems like a typical motivational song on the surface, but the lyrics contain some not-so-subtle hints of Olaf's true intentions (which, of course, virtually nobody in-universe picks up on.)
No one's going to hand you
A fortune on a plate
You've got to open wide
Put your mouth around the bait
You gotta keep chasing your schemes
Keep chasing your schemes - In "The Carnivorous Carnival: Part 1'', Olaf sings "Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the House of Freaks" as he, disguised as a ringmaster, sings about The Freakshow. Although, unlike the previous two songs, Olaf doesn't sing about his villainous goals in this one, he does mock the freaks in gratuitously cruel ways, and the song and visuals are just as bombastic as you'd expect. Creepy Circus Music is in full effect here.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the house of freaks!
You'll never find such weirdos in the oddest of boutiques!
- In "The Bad Beginning: Part 1", Count Olaf and his acting troupe sing "It's the Count
- The direct-to-video show The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth had the grinch-like Cavity Goon, who got his own song here (NOTE: Despite the video's title, these are not the Muppets).
- The Spanish sitcom "Aída" has an example in it's episode number 100. In this episode the character Mauricio Colmenero, a fascist and greedy innkeeper, sings "Soy un cabrón" in this song he boasts that he has no moral and that he will do anything for money. This song is played after he explains to his employees that he made a pact with the mayor in which he will gain a lot of money if he betrays his neighbors cheating them to sing a contract where they agree to leave their homes and let their district to be demolished to build a highway.
- The Annoying Orange tv show had Musical Nightmare Sung by Teddy Juicer.
- Arrested Development invokes this in its fourth season, when Lucille (quite possibly the most evil member of the family) is forced to write one from the heart to audition for a Fantastic Four play. The results are somewhat terrifying.
- In the category of "not sung by the villain" is Black Adder's title song, which has many variations throughout the life of the series and associated specials. The lyrics both praise and lambaste the titular Villain Protagonist in the first and the second season.
- The required Buffy the Vampire Slayer example: "What You Feel", by the dancing demon Sweet in the Musical Episode "Once More With Feeling".
- Leave us not forget "See You In Hell", a Dark Reprise of the above.
- The Metal Dudes in Todd and the Book of Pure Evil have a doo-wap song in the musical episode 2 Girls, 1 Tongue that vaguely details their evil plan to turn Todd into the Pure Evil One.
- The short-lived Cop Rock had one song in particular called "Baby Merchant" that fit the bill.
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has "I'm the Villain in My Own Story" from the main character, Rebecca, as she's coming to her Heel Realization.
- Doctor Who:
- The Master singing Scissor Sisters' "I Can't Decide" at the Doctor. "Oh, I could throw you in a lake, feed you poisoned birthday cake. I can't deny, I'm gonna miss you when you're gone..."
- And of course, "Voodoo Child" from the episode before. "Here come the drums, here come the drums..."
- Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas has the Riverbottom Nightmare Band singing an eponymous song. Lyrics include "We don't brush our teeth, 'cuz a toothache can help us stay mean" and "We break up your place / We are dangerous when we are near". The song actually fits into the plot because it is an entry in the local Talent Contest.
- In the Musical Episode of Even Stevens, we have "Master of the Gym", sung by Coach Tugnut as he forces the boys to participate in a sadistic obstacle course. In true Villain Song tradition, it's one of the best songs in the episode. Although it's also a subversion, since it ends with the boys standing up against him and forcing him to participate in it instead.
- Fraggle Rock has Manic McMooch sung by Wander McMooch.
- The Muppet adaptation of "The Frog Prince" has Sweetums' self titled song.
- Galavant
- "She'll Be Mine" for King Richard, "No One But You" for Madalena in first season.
- "Do the D'Dew" is a duet between Chester Wormwood and Madalena.
- Game of Thrones has "The Rains of Castamere", also known as the Lannister song, for Lord Tywin Lannister, which chronicles his annihilation of House Reyne of Castamere, a rebellious vassal, and it is awesome. See also the metal cover. Famous in-story, it's effectively used as Badass Boast, Implied Death Threat and leitmotif.
- Horrible Histories has many of these. Just as an example, Caligula, Elagabalus, Commodus, and Nero trying to prove which of them was the baddest Roman Emperor. And the winner is... Nero!. Other highlights include:
- Aztec priests
- Vikings
- Highwayman Dick Turpin
- The Tudors
- Incan warlord Pachacuti, probably the most happy, upbeat song about how horribly someone treated slain enemies you'll ever hear.
- Blackbeard
- The Borgia Family
- Marcus Licinius Crassus
- It also has some subversions:
- Ironically, Richard III- infamously immortalized by Shakespeare as the arch-villain Richard III- gets a sweet, longing ballad in which he proves himself to have been quite a nice guy.
- "Bloody" Mary Tudor also gets a musical chance to explain that she really was trying to be good (yes, back then that could easily include burning "heretics" at the stake) and wasn't so much unsuccessful as pathetically naive and unfortunate.
- "VikEngland" is about the many developments the Vikings brought to Britain.
- Aztec priests
- The Lallakki song Kill the Humans in BBC series Hyperdrive.
- Averted in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with the Nightman's cut song It's Nature, Shit Happens from "The Nightman Cometh. While the song is the Nightman's major piece, he spends it justifying his deeds by claiming to be evil by nature ("Some people are born evil with the eyes of a cat").
- Kamen Rider Gaoh is so much of a badass that he gets his own solo for his fight theme song of which all of the others are duets. Despite being included on The Movie's soundtrack, it is too good for the theatrical release and only gets played in the Director's Cut.
- All of Kamen Rider Kiva's members of the Checkmate Four have their own theme song. All of them, including the two Queens and two Kings (if you count Roots of the King as such).
- The Showa Kamen Riders have many. "Oh Shocker!" and "Akuma no Shocker" for the original, "Destron Sanka" for Kamen Rider V3, "GOD(Government of Darkness)'s March", (Kamen Rider X) and "Wahhaha! Terrorizing The Country!" for Kamen Rider Stronger. The last two are done by Names to Know in Anime Koorogi '73.
- Kamen Rider Cronus gets his own theme "JUSTICE" sung by Hiroyuki Takumi of access who also plays as the rider Masamune Dan.
- In LazyTown Robbie Rotten gets quite a few of these. Most notable examples include Master of Disguise, Good To Be Bad, Woof Woof Woof, and Fun To Be The Mayor.
- Does the infamous YOU ARE A PIRATE count?
- Then there's Versti Fantur (Worst Villain) from one of the original LazyTown plays, which is arguably creepier and more sinister than it's remade counterpart "Master of Disguise".
- From the same play, there's Glaumbæjargengið (translated by the uploader as the "Party Town Gang" or the "Sound of Merriment Town Gang"), sung by Robbie's minions.
- From the same play, there's Glaumbæjargengið
- "We Are Number One" features Robbie teaching a trio of look-a-likes he hired as minions how to be villains. The song has recently gained explosive popularity on Youtube due to its catchy tune and being ripped, remixed and meme-ified by numerous people.
- With the recent news that Stefan Karl, the actor who played Robbie Rotten, is currently undergoing chemo for pancreatic cancer, a GoFundMe page has been setup for him and some Youtubers have used their videos as a donation platform.
- With the recent news that Stefan Karl, the actor who played Robbie Rotten, is currently undergoing chemo for pancreatic cancer, a GoFundMe page
- Does the infamous YOU ARE A PIRATE
- MacGyver even has one of these in the Season 5 premiere, 'Tough Boys', appropriately called the Tough Boys Rap. Of course, it only works if you believe the Tough Boys are the episode's Designated Villains, because they're just vigilantes trying to end their neighborhood's crack problem. Nevertheless, the song sounds pretty cool.
- The Mighty Boosh has "The Hitcher" and "Eels".
- Also arguably Old Gregg's "Love games". He's not exactly a villain but then again there is what he did to Curly Jefferson.. And what he plans to do to poor Howard too.
- The Mr. Potato Head Show: Queenie Sweet Potato plays an Evil Overlord in the superhero episode, and her first moment on-screen in the in-universe episode is a song about world domination.
- When Once Upon a Time did a Musical Episode in Season 6's "The Song In Your Heart", most of the numbers are sung by the villains:
- "Love Doesn't Stand A Chance", the Evil Queen's number about how nothing's going to stop her from crushing the Charmings.
- "Revenge Will Be Mine", Hook's song about his intent to hunt down and kill Rumplestilskin.
- "Wicked Always Wins", Zelena's melody about how she's going to watch Regina fail and then come out on top of her.
- Subverted by Rumple, who Trolls Regina into thinking he's about to sing (with a melodic version of his leitmotif even appearing for a moment), then reveals that the spell didn't work on him because "The Dark One doesn't sing". Ironic and something of a shame, since Robert Carlyle actually can sing quite well.
- One Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" sketch had a fake preview for "Titey", a animated RMS Titanic film produced by Disney. The villainous iceberg (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg) apparently gets her own villain song.
- Scrubs While he's not technically a villain, the Janitor's verse in the middle of Dr. Cox's Rant Song certainly counts.
- Super Sentai has a few examples:
- Himitsu Sentai Goranger has Akuma no Kurojuujigun
- J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai has "Iron Claw's theme"
- Kousoku Sentai Turboranger has Oola no Urami
- Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger has Bandora's theme, "Dolla! Theme of Witch Bandora"
- And compare the opening theme to Gekisou Sentai Carranger (seen here) with the theme song to The Psycho Rangers of that series, Bousou Sentai Zokuranger (here).
