History Main / NoSongForTheWicked

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has quite a few musical numbers and while the majority of the songs are sung by [[{{CloudCuckooLander}} Pinkie Pie]], everyone else has gotten in on the action at least once. If not a solo number then during a CrowdSong. However, thus far ''none'' of the antagonists have had a VillainSong. This is especially odd when several of the antagonists have had [[LargeHam hammy enough personalities]] that it would fit them.
** Finally averted with [[ConArtist the Flim Flam Brothers]] in season 2.
** And then a [[BigBad proper villain]] finally gets a song in the finale. Technically, the villain [[TheVillainSucksSong is sharing it]], but since she sings half[[note]]And her voice actor is actually singing both parts[[/note]], it still counts.

* Yzma from ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove''.

** And then a [[BigBad proper villain]] finally gets a song in the finale. Technically, the villain [[TheVillainSucksSong is sharing it]], but since she sings [[hottip:half:And her voice actor is actually singing both parts]], it still counts.

* Maleficent from ''Disney/SleepingBeauty'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwyJR8hdBCM was actually going to have]] a VillainSong, but it was [[CutSong cut]].

* ''SinginInTheRain'': Lina Lamont has no singing number, since her voice is really awful. It should be remembered, however, that Jean Hagen (the actress portraying her) was a good singer.

* There are many [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer fans of Buffy]] who see the appeal of both the MusicalEpisode "Once More With Feeling," and the villainous activities of [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain the Trio of Warren, Andrew, and Jonathan]]. Such fans would, no doubt, have loved for the episode to have a VillainSong by the Trio. The writers surely could have come up with something good, and of course the actors were all guest stars who were probably completely available for an episode in that season. No doubt, though, it would have been too difficult, and involved sacrificing too much of the screen time used for other stuff, to rewrite the episode in such a way that it included the Trio. But the magical effect that caused everyone to burst into song was operating throughout Sunnydale, so of course there must have been some such song that happened off-screen, which was not recorded by the TV show--but that's exactly the kind of thing FanFiction is for...

* The Horned King from ''Disney/TheBlackCauldron''. That's because it's the first animated Disney film ''not'' to be a musical.

* Squiddy from Team Umizoomi, other than the fake fanfare.

* Inverted in ''{{Labyrinth}}'' -- Director JimHenson liked the idea of a singing villain so much that they deliberately sought [[Music/DavidBowie a performer who could not only perform songs, but write them]]. Jareth gets ''three'' on-screen musical numbers, and the only other characters who sing are a menacing WackyWaysideTribe.

** Inverted in ''{{Labyrinth}}'' -- Director JimHenson liked the idea of a singing villain so much that they deliberately sought [[Music/DavidBowie a performer who could write the songs as well to fill the role]]. Jareth gets ''three'' on-screen musical numbers, and the only other characters who sing are a menacing WackyWaysideTribe.

* Shan Yu from ''{{Mulan}}''.

* Jafar from ''{{Aladdin}}'' is a borderline case: he only did a DarkReprise of "Prince Ali" but had no VillainSong of his own, although some were written for him.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has quite a few musical numbers and while the majority of the songs are sung by [[{{CloudCuckooLander}} Pinkie Pie]], everyone else has gotten in on the action at least once. If not a solo number then during a CrowdSong. However, thus far ''none'' of the antagonists have had a VillainSong. This is especially odd when several of the antagonists have had [[LargeHam hammy enough personalities]] that it would fit them.

But there are also villains that don't have a song. While TheHero and his or her companions have their own musical numbers, the villain doesn't sing a single note. This choice can be made for various reasons: to show that the villain is a SeriousBusiness individual, to highlight his or her scary nature, or maybe because the villain has [[RealLifeWritesThePlot a bad voice]].

** In ''Return of Jafar'', however, he had You're Only Second Rate.

* Hades from ''{{Disney/Hercules}}''. He did sing in the TV spinoff, however.

* In the movie version of ''{{Oliver}}'', Bill Sykes never sings, although other people sing about him. In the stage version, instead, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzBrwdY-GA he does.]]

* Inverted in ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange'' where the evil cattle thief and yodeler Alameda Slim is the only character to sing in the film.

* Inverted in ''HomeontheRange'' where the evil cattle thief and yodeler Alameda Slim is the only character to sing in the film.

* Yzma from ''TheEmperorsNewGroove''.

* ''SinginInTheRain'': Lina Lamont has no singing number, since her voice is really awful.