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* ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales Dead Men Tell No Tales]]'': [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheSilentMary Capitán Armando Salazar]] is a [[KnightTemplar self-righteous fanatic]] who seeks nothing less than the total annihilation of all piracy regardless of the level of criminality possessed by his victims. Scourging the seas for years in which he ambushed and slaughtered thousands of unsuspecting pirates and killed even the wounded, surrendering survivors with relish, Salazar was condemned to a life of haunting the Devil's Triangle after his death at the hands of Jack Sparrow. Taking his first opportunity to escape, Salazar massacres vessels across the ocean before forcing Barbossa to ally with him after sadistically killing most of the man's crew. Ultimately [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Henry Turner to use as a HumanShield, Salazar tries to torturously kill Jack with the Trident of Poseidon and bring about a new wave of decimation to the seas. Despite claiming to be avenging his dead father in his hunt for pirates, supplementary material reveals that Salazar's own deluded ego drove him to [[{{Patricide}} kill his father]] simply for accepting bribes from pirates.

* ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]'': [[TheDreaded Captain Edward Teach]], the infamous UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, prides himself on being one of the most feared men on the high seas. Blackbeard [[BadBoss abuses and murders members of his own crew]] on the basis of "if I don't kill a man every now and then, they forget who I am". He incinerates [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanQueenAnnesRevenge his ship]]'s cook to demonstrate this and resurrecting some of his own slain crew members as mindlessly obedient zombies. On his quest to the FountainOfYouth to avert his prophesied death at the hands of a one-legged man, Blackbeard puts a mermaid named Syrena through hideous treatment for the purpose of gaining her tear, first showing her the remains of her own fellow mermaids and then ordering Philip Swift, the single man who displays compassion to her, supposedly killed in front of her to further manipulate her. Blackbeard claims to love his daughter, but undersells even this through a risky game of RussianRoulette with his own daughter's life and ultimately trying to sacrifice her life for his own at the Fountain of Youth. Blackbeard admits he feels closest to God in moments of pain and anguish and calmly tortured and murdered anyone who dared to stand against him.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]] is [[TheResenter the envious]] younger brother of King Mufasa who, upon losing his position as next in line to the throne by the birth of his nephew [[Characters/TheLionKingSimba Simba]], sought to take it by force. First [[EvilUncle tricking the young Simba]] and his friend Nala into entering the Elephant Graveyard to be killed by his hyena henchmen, Scar next orchestrates a wildebeest stampede and tosses Mufasa to his death after he attempts to rescue his son. Blaming a grief-stricken Simba for his father's murder, Scar forces him into exile before commanding the hyenas to finish him off. Upon [[TyrantTakesTheHelm taking control]], Scar's [[TheCaligula incompetence as king]] leads to a famine, with Scar uncaring that he is sentencing everyone to death, even striking Mufasa's widow Sarabi unconscious when she criticizes his rule. Upon Simba's return, Scar takes advantage of Simba's lingering guilt over his father's death to attempt to execute him publicly, pausing only to mockingly reveal his role in Mufasa's death. Later, to save his own life, he attempts to foist the blame on his hyena henchmen before attempting to kill Simba, even after the latter spares his life.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]], Mufasa's envious younger [[CainAndAbel brother]], is just as vile as he was in [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the original film]]. Once the leader of the original [[Characters/TheLionGuardLionGuard Lion Guard]], Scar decides to overthrow and kill Mufasa when the latter playfully nicknames his brother "Scar" when Scar tried to seek praise for killing a traitorous lion and cobra who scarred him--not revealing that he had been perfectly willing to work with them to overthrow Mufasa. When Scar's fellow Lion Guard members refused to help him overthrow Mufasa, Scar uses the [[MightyRoar Roar of the Elders]] to [[BadBoss kill them]], but ends up losing the Roar in the process. In season 2, years after his initial death, Scar is [[BackFromTheDead brought back as a fiery spirit]] and tries to [[Characters/TheLionGuardArmyOfScar lead the animals of the Outlands]] on a brutal conquest of the Pride Lands, first by cutting off the river and entire water supply of the whole Pride Lands, and eventually simply trying to have them burn the savannah and all its inhabitants. In the [[Recap/TheLionGuardS3E1BattleForThePrideLands season 3 premier]], Scar attempts to burn the new Lion Guard, [[Characters/TheLionKingSimba Simba]], Nala, Kiara, and the hyena clan to death, the latter for one of them considering on defecting to the Pride Lands, before planning on tricking Kion into erupting the volcano with his roar, which will kill everyone in the Pride Lands. When confronted by the Lion Guard, Scar has Ushari scar Kion, with the snake's venom slowly turning Kion evil as Scar declares that Kion will now be just like him. Even after the death of his physical body, Scar remained a hateful creature driven by spite.
* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': [[Characters/TangledZhanTiri Zhan Tiri]] is a [[EvilFormerFriend former friend]] of Lord Demanitus who betrayed him during their search for the Sundrop and Moonstone to claim the power of both artifacts for herself. Freed by her followers, Zhan Tiri corrupted the Great Tree to use its powers to kill any who opposed her, and when resealed, her followers took her teachings to commit monstrous acts in her name, such as [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Mother Gothel's abuse]] of [[Characters/TangledRapunzel Rapunzel]]; and a curse of Zhan Tiri's on the land of Corona leads to another character's descent into villainy. [[TheCorrupter Playing as Cassandra's confidant]], the "Enchanted Girl", Zhan Tiri manipulates her into betraying Rapunzel, pitting them against one another while she takes the Moonstone for herself and escaping her prison. Free at last, Zhan Tiri eventually betrays [[Characters/TangledCassandra Cassandra]] to steal the two artifacts and with her newfound power attempts to painfully drain the lives of the people of Corona.

* ''Film/{{Aladdin|2019}}'': [[Characters/AladdinJafar Jafar]], the Grand Vizier, is [[AdaptationalVillainy much worse]] here than in [[{{WesternAnimation/Aladdin}} the original animated film]]. Seeking the Genie's lamp, Jafar attempts to send several prisoners into the Cave of Wonders to retrieve it, resulting in one of the prisoners being killed. Jafar then [[BadBoss kills one of his own guards]] for calling him "second". When Aladdin retrieves the lamp for Jafar, the latter coldly leaves the former to die in the cave, and later throws him into the ocean when he returns as Prince Ali. Upon retrieving the lamp, Jafar becomes Sultan of Agrabah and a powerful sorcerer, sending Aladdin to a wasteland to die a slow and painful death. He then painfully tortures the Sultan to force Jasmine to marry him [[EvilIsPetty just to spite her and the Sultan]]. When Jasmine and Aladdin steal the lamp from him he attacks them with a giant Iago and a twister, endangering civilians and destroying the Magic Carpet in the process. Upon retrieving the lamp, Jafar declares his intent to conquer several neighboring kingdoms in order to build himself a mighty empire and starts painfully torturing Aladdin too. Upon transforming into a Genie, Jafar attempts to destroy Shirabad and spitefully drags Iago into the lamp with him when imprisoned.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|2019}}'': [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]] is a wrathful and bitter lion [[AmbitionIsEvil driven by an insatiable desire for power]]. [[DrivenByEnvy Envious]] of his brother Mufasa's position as king, Scar attempts to have Mufasa's son [[Characters/TheLionKingSimba Simba]]--[[EvilUncle Scar's own nephew]]--[[WouldHurtAChild killed]] by tricking him into entering the domain of the vicious hyena clan. When this fails, Scar allies with the hyenas and orchestrates a wildebeest stampede, killing Mufasa and blaming Simba for the tragedy, exiling him before sending the hyenas to finish him off. Taking over as king, [[TheCaligula Scar]] reduces the Pridelands to a barren wasteland by killing everything with no restrictions in addition to starving the lionesses when Sarabi, Mufasa's widow, refuses to become his mate. When Simba returns, Scar attempts to kill him personally, stopping only to tauntingly reveal his role in Mufasa's death. When his crimes are exposed, Scar orders the hyenas to kill everyone in sight, and when Simba has him at his mercy, attempts to blame them for his crimes.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Monsters Inc|1}}'': [[RivalTurnedEvil Randall Boggs]] considers himself the greatest Scarer in Monstropolis, and goes to truly depraved lengths to outdo his rival James P. "Sulley" Sullivan. DrivenByEnvy and petty hatred of Sulley ever since [[WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity he lost a scaring competition in college]], Randall is an arrogant jerk who frequently bullies his coworkers at Monsters, Inc. in his quest to hit "big numbers". Revealed to be scheming to "revolutionize the industry" of Scaring, Randall has used his abused minion Fungus to create a Scream Extractor device that tortures and suffocates those it is used on. Financed by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Henry J. Waternoose III]], Randall intends to kidnap children -- starting with the toddler Mary "Boo" Gibbs -- and [[WouldHurtAChild use the Extractor]] to torment screams out of them and create an endless supply of scream energy, making himself rich and famous in the process of finally proving his superiority to Sulley. When Sulley and Mike Wazowski try to save Boo and stop Randall's scheme, Randall first tries to torture Mike with the Extractor, then attempts to murder them both while mocking Sulley over his planned use of Boo as the Extractor's first victim. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Lacking the well-intentioned goals of Waternoose]] and defined by [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]], Randall is uncaring of the lethality of the Extractor or the pain of the countless children he will subject to it, [[ItsAllAboutMe only concerned with lining his pockets and fluffing his ego]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': [[Characters/TheIncrediblesSyndrome Syndrome]] was once [[LoonyFan Buddy Pine]], an aspiring hero [[ItsAllAboutMe seeking fame and fortune]], who became outraged at all Supers when his "idol", Mr. Incredible, ceased his attempts at being a hero for his own safety. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Over a decade later]], Syndrome enacts his revenge, as he creates the "Omnidroid", a Super-killing machine that he uses to massacre Supers he lures in to duel it under the illusion it is simply a rogue robot. Upon capturing and torturing Mr. Incredible--notably forcing him to listen as his wife and children are seemingly killed by Syndrome's forces--Syndrome unveils his master plan to launch the Omnidroid into a highly-populated city, have it target innocents at random, then swoop in and "[[EngineeredHeroics save the day]]" to become the greatest hero in the world. When the Incredibles foil this plan, Syndrome makes one last attempt to spitefully ruin the family by kidnapping their infant child, Jack-Jack, and raising him to be a supervillain.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': [[Characters/ToyStoryLotso Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear]] is the ruler of [[Characters/ToyStorySunnysideDaycareToys Sunnyside Daycare]], and oppresses the other toys through brute force and violence. Originally the favorite toy of a young girl named Daisy, Lotso was [[VengefulAbandonedToy mistakenly lost and replaced, leading him to believe that all toys were worthless and unloved]]. Taking over Sunnyside, Lotso subjects the toys in the Caterpillar Room to horrid mistreatment from the younger children. When Andy's toys request that they be relocated to the Butterfly Room, Lotso [[BrainwashedAndCrazy resets Buzz Lightyear]] and has him beat down his friends, showing a cold satisfaction while doing so. When Woody frees the toys and they attempt to escape, Lotso has [[ColdBloodedTorture Chatter Telephone beaten]] in order to get him to explain Woody's escape plan before ordering the toys disposed of in the dumpster. When his minions turn on him and he is taken to the dump, along with Andy's toys, he abandons them to burn to death in the incinerator, [[UngratefulBastard ignoring that they had previously saved his life]]. While he has a tragic backstory, Woody himself [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse calls him out on how weak it is]], stating that Lotso had abandoned her, not the other way around. Sociopathic and misanthropic, Lotso may have [[FauxAffablyEvil appeared innocent]], but was depraved at his core.

* [[Characters/AladdinJafar Jafar]], debuting in ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', is an EvilSorcerer who plans to enslave three people and use their combined magic to grant his wish to become the all-powerful ruler of Wonderland. [[KickTheDog Cruelly transforming the woman who loved him into his iconic serpent staff]], Jafar also murders a young woman just to watch the reaction of her lover, before resurrecting her and magically making her fall in love with him to spite her lover yet again. Though [[FreudianExcuse having the excuse of a neglectful father]], Jafar is revealed to want to use magic to make his father love him just to hurt him more when he torments him. Upon becoming Royal Vizier of Agrabah in season 6 of the main series, Jafar tortures and kills people at his whim with his dark powers and deceives Princess Jasmine into giving him a magical ring, then threatens to destroy Agrabah if she does not accept his marriage proposal. Threatening to use the ring to disintegrate Agrabah, Jafar means to create a ghostly version of the land and [[AndIMustScream seal all the souls within in limbo for eternity]]. Cruel and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]], Jafar is a wicked man who cares only for his own {{ambition|IsEvil}} and sadistically tormenting anyone he can.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} What Once Was Mine]]'': [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory Countess Elizabeth Bathory]] (sic), even before the story started, was a heinous SerialKiller who kidnapped a slew of young girls, murdered them, and [[BloodBath bathed in their blood]] to stay young. Bathory did this after the blood of a servant accidentally got on her, and she discovered it made her skin youthful, a servant whom she later killed. Learning about [[Characters/TangledRapunzel Rapunzel]], a baby whose hair killed people in certain circumstances, Bathory immediately wanted this baby to herself, and would try and buy her off Mother Gothel, to whom the royal family had given her. When Rapunzel escapes, Bathory immediately starts chasing her down, burning down the Snuggly Duckling in an attempt to get Rapunzel. Bathory later gets her hands on Rapunzel and explains that she wants to use her deadly hair to TakeOverTheWorld. Bathory manages to get her hands on Flynn Rider and threatens to kill him, Rapunzel, and Magda before draining their blood if Rapunzel does not give a demonstration of her moon powers.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': [[RivalTurnedEvil Randall Boggs]] considers himself the greatest Scarer in Monstropolis, and goes to truly depraved lengths to outdo his rival James P. "Sulley" Sullivan. DrivenByEnvy and petty hatred of Sulley ever since [[WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity he lost a scaring competition in college]], Randall is an arrogant jerk who frequently bullies his coworkers at Monsters, Inc. in his quest to hit "big numbers". Revealed to be scheming to "revolutionize the industry" of Scaring, Randall has used his abused minion Fungus to create a Scream Extractor device that tortures and suffocates those it is used on. Financed by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Henry J. Waternoose III]], Randall intends to kidnap children -- starting with the toddler Mary "Boo" Gibbs -- and [[WouldHurtAChild use the Extractor]] to torment screams out of them and create an endless supply of scream energy, making himself rich and famous in the process of finally proving his superiority to Sulley. When Sulley and Mike Wazowski try to save Boo and stop Randall's scheme, Randall first tries to torture Mike with the Extractor, then attempts to murder them both while mocking Sulley over his planned use of Boo as the Extractor's first victim. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Lacking the well-intentioned goals of Waternoose]] and defined by [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]], Randall is uncaring of the lethality of the Extractor or the pain of the countless children he will subject to it, [[ItsAllAboutMe only concerned with lining his pockets and fluffing his ego]].

** ''[[VideoGame/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnline Online]]'': [[BigBad Jolly Roger]] was [[EvilFormerFriend once a friend]] of [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanCaptainJackSparrow Jack Sparrow]], until he [[DrivenByEnvy became envious]] of Jack's status as the next Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, and tried to kill him. Cursed to become an undead being by a vengeful WitchDoctor, Roger attacks towns, intending to slaughter the inhabitants and resurrect them to serve in his undead army to help him conquer the Caribbean and kill Jack. When Roger finds the protagonist with a man who had betrayed Roger, Roger kills the man after he tries to pay Roger to spare him, only allowing the protagonist to live so they can deliver a message from Roger to Jack.

* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Evil Queen]] is the very first Disney feature-length villain and one of the most wicked of them all. The WickedStepmother of Snow White, the [[VainSorceress Queen]] forces her to work as a scullery maid in vain envy of Snow White's beauty, and when her MagicMirror informs her Snow White is a rival to her title as "fairest in the land", the Queen opts to have Snow White killed. Initially, she sends a huntsman to kill her and carve out her heart under penalty of the huntsman's own death, and when this fails, the Queen turns herself into an [[WickedWitch old hag]] so she can trick Snow White into eating a [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned apple]], all to curse Snow White with the "Sleeping Death" and trick the seven dwarfs into [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. [[TheDreaded Hated and feared across the land she rules over]], the Queen has no problem with attempting to flatten the dwarfs themselves when they get in her way, and has a dungeon stocked with the bones of her previous victims, among them one poor soul who perished clawing for a jug of water placed just out of reach.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[HiveKing King Aldrich Leviathan]], the previous ruler of Newtopia and the father of the current ruler [[Characters/AmphibiaKingAndrias King Andrias]], is a megalomaniacal tyrant desiring to rule Amphibia for eternity. Having implicitly invaded other worlds during his kingship, Aldrich tasks his son with strip-mining a medieval Earth and exterminating mankind, expressing nothing but contempt for the "primitive species". Upon assimilating his consciousness into [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore the Core]], Aldrich grooms his son into becoming the ruthless monarch he was. After being defeated and losing his connection to his host [[Characters/AmphibiaMarcyWu Marcy Wu]], Aldrich activates his final gambit: [[ColonyDrop sending an artificial moon to crash into Amphibia]] just to deny the heroes their victory.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':

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!!Manga

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' manga gives AdaptationalVillainy to the following [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations incarnations of Xehanort]]:
** ''Manga/KingdomHeartsI'' & ''[[Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'': [[TheManBehindTheMan Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]] is the Heartless form of Xehanort. Masterminding the [[Characters/KingdomHeartsHeartless Heartless]]' invasion of several worlds and Maleficent's plan to capture the Seven Princesses of Heart in order to open the Final Keyhole, Ansem [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] Riku so that he can possess his body. He stabs Maleficent with a Keyblade in order to destroy her once she's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer of use to him]], and then deceives Sora into using that same Keyblade to make what would ultimately be a SenselessSacrifice, turning [[Characters/KingdomHeartsSora Sora]] into a Heartless and unsealing the Final Keyhole. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsRiku Riku]]'s heart fights back from within to stop him from attempting to kill [[Characters/KingdomHeartsKairi Kairi]], Ansem uses his power to banish Riku's heart into the Dark Realm. Ultimately planning to open the Door of Darkness to let darkness consume all existence, Ansem shows nothing but glee towards his destructive ambitions. Returning after defeat as a specter within Riku's heart, Ansem attempts to play the boy's own emotions against him in order to take control of the boy's body once more, vicious to the end. Showcasing no redeeming features and [[VileVillainSaccharineShow played dead seriously against the manga's usually lighthearted and silly tone]], Xehanort's Heartless would do whatever it took to gain ultimate knowledge and power, and to [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide sate his undying hunger for darkness]].
** ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' & ''[[Manga/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'': [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Xemnas]], the Nobody form of Xehanort and leader of [[Characters/KingdomHeartsOrganizationXIII Organization XIII]], is portrayed as a cruel sociopath who rules his organization without care for any of its members, viewing his followers as weaklings who are only fit to serve his purposes. Looking to exploit the Keyblade's power to claim hearts, he allows [[Characters/KingdomHeartsRoxas Roxas]] and [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXion Xion]] to grow close, intending to then pit them against each other so he can judge which Keybearer would be more useful to his plans, even tampering with Xion's form, [[MindRape Mind Raping]] her and sending her to her death. When Axel is sent to look for the runaway Roxas, Xemnas threatens to eliminate him if he doesn't bring Roxas back dead or alive. He later attacks the Radiant Garden with hordes of Heartless, almost getting Goofy critically injured in the process, just so [[Characters/KingdomHeartsSora Sora]] and King Mickey can slay them all and give him enough hearts to complete his own Kingdom Hearts. When Ansem the Wise and Mickey try to stop his plans at his castle, Xemnas orders his Nobodies to kill them, and proceeds to overtake the Great Heart from within in an attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac reduce all of existence to nothingness]] and destroy all those in his way. Cold-blooded, pitiless, and lacking his game counterpart's TragicVillain qualities, Xemnas continuously shows himself to be more monstrous than any other Nobody solely because [[ItsAllAboutMe he thinks it in his best interest to be so]].

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* [[Characters/KingdomHeartsVanitas Vanitas]] is a being that was created by extracting the darkness in [[Characters/KingdomHeartsVentus Ventus]]' heart. Driven by an intense hatred of everyone and everything, Vanitas [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep gleefully assists]] Master [[Characters/KingdomHeartsMasterXehanort Xehanort]] in his plan to restart the Keyblade War, a cataclysmic event which would mean the destruction of the universe. Defeating Ventus in their first battle, Vanitas attempts to kill him, disregarding his orders from Xehanort to leave the boy alive. A vicious sadist, Vanitas takes immense pleasure in mentally torturing Ventus and his friends every chance he gets. [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII Returning after his defeat]], Vanitas frees Randall in Monstropolis, manipulating him in order to gain access to WesternAnimation/MonstersInc's scream-collecting technology and increase his strength by harvesting the fear and sadness of children. Vanitas once again assists Xehanort in his plan to bring about the end of existence. Defeated for the final time, Vanitas rejects [[Characters/KingdomHeartsSora Sora]]'s offer to reform and join the side of light, affirming his choice to fight for the forces of darkness.
* The manga series gives AdaptationalVillainy to the following [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations incarnations of Xehanort]]:
** ''Manga/KingdomHeartsI'' & ''[[Manga/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'': [[TheManBehindTheMan Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]] is the Heartless form of Xehanort. Masterminding the [[Characters/KingdomHeartsHeartless Heartless]]' invasion of several worlds and Maleficent's plan to capture the Seven Princesses of Heart in order to open the Final Keyhole, Ansem [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] Riku so that he can possess his body. He stabs Maleficent with a Keyblade in order to destroy her once she's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer of use to him]], and then deceives Sora into using that same Keyblade to make what would ultimately be a SenselessSacrifice, turning [[Characters/KingdomHeartsSora Sora]] into a Heartless and unsealing the Final Keyhole. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsRiku Riku]]'s heart fights back from within to stop him from attempting to kill [[Characters/KingdomHeartsKairi Kairi]], Ansem uses his power to banish Riku's heart into the Dark Realm. Ultimately planning to open the Door of Darkness to let darkness consume all existence, Ansem shows nothing but glee towards his destructive ambitions. Returning after defeat as a specter within Riku's heart, Ansem attempts to play the boy's own emotions against him in order to take control of the boy's body once more, vicious to the end. Showcasing no redeeming features and [[VileVillainSaccharineShow played dead seriously against the manga's usually lighthearted and silly tone]], Xehanort's Heartless would do whatever it took to gain ultimate knowledge and power, and to [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide sate his undying hunger for darkness]].
** ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' & ''[[Manga/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'': [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Xemnas]], the Nobody form of Xehanort and leader of [[Characters/KingdomHeartsOrganizationXIII Organization XIII]], is portrayed as a cruel sociopath who rules his organization without care for any of its members, viewing his followers as weaklings who are only fit to serve his purposes. Looking to exploit the Keyblade's power to claim hearts, he allows [[Characters/KingdomHeartsRoxas Roxas]] and [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXion Xion]] to grow close, intending to then pit them against each other so he can judge which Keybearer would be more useful to his plans, even tampering with Xion's form, [[MindRape Mind Raping]] her and sending her to her death. When Axel is sent to look for the runaway Roxas, Xemnas threatens to eliminate him if he doesn't bring Roxas back dead or alive. He later attacks the Radiant Garden with hordes of Heartless, almost getting Goofy critically injured in the process, just so [[Characters/KingdomHeartsSora Sora]] and King Mickey can slay them all and give him enough hearts to complete his own Kingdom Hearts. When Ansem the Wise and Mickey try to stop his plans at his castle, Xemnas orders his Nobodies to kill them, and proceeds to overtake the Great Heart from within in an attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac reduce all of existence to nothingness]] and destroy all those in his way. Cold-blooded, pitiless, and lacking his game counterpart's TragicVillain qualities, Xemnas continuously shows himself to be more monstrous than any other Nobody solely because [[ItsAllAboutMe he thinks it in his best interest to be so]].

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* [[BlackWidow Constance Hatchaway]] is a malevolent ghost in a house full of playful spirits. Constance is TheBrideWithAPast, as in life she was a GoldDigger that married wealthy men, and then killed them by beheading them with a hatchet. She spent her adult life marrying and killing over a period of many years until she married George Hightower, the owner of the titular mansion. After marrying and killing him, she decided to settle down in her newly inherited mansion and flaunt her wealth. She eventually died and became a ghost. Seeing no more reason for money, she decided to fully embrace her sadistic love of killing and began attacking and [[SerialKiller killing others]], including other ghosts, who she could kill by beheading because she actually died on the property. Many ghosts fell victim to this until they locked her in the attic. In the ride, guests are confronted by her before escaping out the window. She openly admits to her crimes and has yet to be defeated or destroyed.
* [[Script/TheHauntedMansion 1999 script]] ([[https://www.doombuggies.com/media/print/hauntedmansion.pdf link]]): [[AristocratsAreEvil Master Jacob Gracey]], also known as [[{{Pirate}} Bloodworth]], is the wicked owner of the Gracey Mansion who in life raided cargo ships for their valuables while slaughtering their crews. Having taken a ship owned by businessman Clarence Fowler, Gracey uses the man's resulting financial issues to take his daughter Kathleen in marriage. When his crimes are exposed at the wedding, Jacob murders both Kathleen and her beloved Charles Davis, and upon being mortally wounded, bounds the souls of all of the wedding guests to the mansion until Kathleen can wed. Over a century later, [[GhastlyGhost Jacob]] traps the soul of Kathleen's sister Julia into a doll to force the wedding to resume, throwing Leota and teenagers Shawna and Will out of the mansion when they try to rescue her, resulting in Leota's death. After his wedding is foiled, Jacob summons his crew from Hell for one final attack, during which he almost shatters Leota's soul.
* ''Phantom Manor'' (2019 refurbishment): [[BigBad Henry Ravenswood]] is the founder of Thunder Mesa and the one behind the evils of Ravenswood Manor. In life, Henry murdered the suitors of his daughter Melanie to [[AbusiveParents keep her from leaving him]]. After he died in an earthquake, Henry returned as the Phantom, secretly hanging Melanie's fiancé on her wedding day, causing her to wait for him to return for the rest of her life and afterlife. The Phantom laughed at her despair and [[HauntedHouse began inviting other ghosts to inhabit the mansion]], causing the disappearance of an expedition sent to investigate the manor. In the ride itself, the Phantom [[BitchInSheepsClothing poses as a friendly guide]] for the guests, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his murders]] before trapping the guests in the manor. He then attempts to murder the guests by sending them to be tormented by all those who died in Thunder Mesa.
* [[VideoGame/TheHauntedMansion Video game]]: [[BigBad Atticus Thorn]] is an EvilSorcerer who seeks to use the power of the six soul gems to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy both the afterlife and the living world]]. Thorn has lived for hundreds of years by [[SoulEating devouring souls]] to extend his life, keeping them [[AndIMustScream trapped in his body]] to drain them for energy. Just before the final fight, Thorn devours the soul gems along with 999 souls, stating that with his new powers there will no longer be either the land of the living or the afterlife, just "death, death, and more death".

!Miscellaneous
!!Comics

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* ''Seekers of the Weird'':
** [[EvilSorceress Despoina]] is a vile, immortal sorceress who serves as the DarkMistress and [[TheDragon head servant]] of the evil Reaper King. Forming the Society of Shadows to worship the Reaper King, Despoina dedicates herself to freeing him and allowing him to desolate the entire planet so she and the Society can rule over the remainder. Motivating the two children destined to open the Coffin Clock the Reaper King in sealed in by kidnapping their parents and threatening to murder them, Despoina has their uncle Roland supposedly play both them and the Wardens, before opting to have his spine torn out in response to his betrayal. A {{sadist}} by nature, Despoina even allows the Wardens to briefly take the Coffin Clock solely so [[HopeCrusher she can crush their hope later]] and have the Reaper King wipe them all out.
** [[SealedEvilInACan The Reaper King]] himself is an ancient [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horror]] and the strongest reaper in existence, a being dedicated only to enshrouding the Earth in shadow and [[OmnicidalManiac killing all that lives]]. Previously rampaging across the Earth and causing TheBlackDeath in the process, killing a third of Europe's population, the Reaper King has Despoina and her servants dedicate centuries of their time to freeing him-- only to [[BadBoss spitefully strip them all of their immortality and condemn them to die with the rest of the world]] once he's finally released.
* ''Ride/BigThunderMountainRailroad'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive George Willikers]] seems at first to [[{{Jerkass}} just be a slimy bully wanting a quick buck]], but is slowly revealed to be a heartless sociopath caring for nothing but his own {{greed}}. Serving as the second-in-command to Mr. Bullion, Willikers uses his position to abuse the small mining town he lords over, instituting a curfew and threatening [[ATasteOfTheLash lashing with his bullwhip]] for any who cross him. As head of the mining operation in the mountain Big Thunder, Willikers overworks, abuses, and regularly endangers the lives of the miners, completely uncaring of their well-being as long as they supply him with the goods. In the end, Willikers's truly monstrous personality is revealed, as he holds the miners at gunpoint to force them into highly lethal caverns to mine, and ultimately attempts to leave the dozens of miners, several heroic bandits trying to stop Willikers, and Bullion himself to die in the mountain as it collapses, throwing their lives away as long as he can get away with the mined gold and rebuild the mining town in his glory.
* ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'': The Captain is a [[GhostPirate ghostly pirate]] who once plundered and pillaged all he saw fit across the Earth. Once dying inside the titular Haunted Mansion and being cursed to haunt it for all eternity, the Captain, determined to escape, places a curse upon the Mansion that traps any who die inside, or any ghosts who visit it, to be trapped alongside him, [[FateWorseThanDeath never able to rest in peace or escape]]. Having trapped nearly one thousand ghosts inside, the Captain later uses the young Danny Crowe to assist him in escaping, and, once free, promises to slaughter all in his path and become the scourge of the world once more, starting by [[WouldHurtAChild killing Danny]] then cursing the Mansion once more to trap him and all nearby ghosts inside for all eternity.

* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfTheChaosGod'': [[EvilSorcerer Solego]], the [[AntagonistTitle titular "Chaos God"]], [[TheDreaded earned his epithet]] by conquering entire cities with his dark magic in ancient times, growing drunk on his magic and obliterating everyone who opposed him, once eradicating an entire civilization. Solego returns in the modern day attempting to break out of his seal by rampantly possessing and trying to murder everyone he comes across, his nastiest attempt ensuing when he takes over [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin Rebecca Cunningham]] and tries to force her to throw her own daughter off the side of a plane. When he finally breaks out of his seal, Solego immediately attempts to destroy St. Canard's, entertaining WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck's attempt to defeat him before growing bored and vowing to him "you shall die a sheep like ''all'' the sheep called men--and I shall be the only wolf among you!"

!!Literature [[note]]Examples from ''Film/TheBlackHole'' {{novelization}} can be found [[Monster/LiteratureAToC here]].[[/note]]

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Once Upon a Dream]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Maleficent]] is the cruel, dark [[CardCarryingVillain mistress of all evil]] in the story, dedicated to tormenting Aurora and prolonging her own life. After her original plan to curse Aurora when she was a baby to die on the day of her 16th birthday fails, Maleficent, struck dead by Prince Phillip, uses the last of her energy to trap the minds of Aurora and the entire kingdom in [[LotusEaterMachine a dream world]] until Maleficent can gain power to possess Aurora's body. Rejuvenating herself by brutally murdering people in the dream world--[[YourMindMakesItReal which kills them in the real world]]--and [[BloodMagic using their blood in rituals]], Maleficent eventually drops the façade of the dream world, indulging in full-on slaughter of dozens of people for both their life forces as well as just for fun. Though seeming to have gained the slightest hint of care for Aurora during their time in the dream world, Maleficent ultimately rejects these feelings, murdering Aurora's parents and killing innocent people just to torment her while mocking the woman over her coming fate as Maleficent's bodyjacked puppet.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast As Old as Time]]'': Monsieur [[MeaningfulName D'Arque]], full name Frédéric D'Arque, is the owner of the local BedlamHouse whose history goes back with Belle's own father Maurice. D'Arque, a member of the supernatural charmante people, [[BoomerangBigot hates his own people]] and experiments to take out the magical parts of himself to embrace his delusional idea of pure-blooded humanity. In his asylum, D'Arque subjects the charmantes to hideous experimentation for years on end to "torture the magic out of them", implementing [[ColdBloodedTorture 11th-century torture tactics]] in his research and cheerfully apathetic to the number of charmantes who die either from torture or suicide. D'Arque is willing to use his scientific technique to endorse the king and queen's intended FinalSolution across France, and although he claims he would never harm a human, D'Arque is so lost in his own hatred he murders his best friend Alaric and unhesitatingly tries to do the same to his other old friend Maurice.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Part of Your World]]'': [[WickedWitch Ursula the Sea-Witch]], after bewitching Prince Eric into marrying her human guise of Vanessa and keeping King Triton as a defeated trophy, intends on expanding her kingdom via bloody warfare with no care of countless civilians dead. Realizing she lacks her powers on land and with Queen Ariel undermining her, Ursula uses the dark powers she gained from a book of [[Literature/TheKingInYellow Carcosa]] and the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Elder Gods]], intending to sacrifice countless innocents. Deciding to commit [[FinalSolution genocide]] on the Merpeople and summon the Elder Ones with Triton and thousands of innocents as her [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]], Ursula unleashes death upon the nation, gloating over the pain and suffering of Eric and Ariel's people.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} What Once Was Mine]]'': [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory Countess Elizabeth Bathory]] (sic), even before the story started, was a heinous SerialKiller who kidnapped a slew of young girls, murdered them, and [[BloodBath bathed in their blood]] to stay young. Bathory did this after the blood of a servant accidentally got on her, and she discovered it made her skin youthful, a servant whom she later killed. Learning about [[Characters/TangledRapunzel Rapunzel]], a baby whose hair killed people in certain circumstances, Bathory immediately wanted this baby to herself, and would try and buy her off Mother Gothel, to whom the royal family had given her. When Rapunzel escapes, Bathory immediately starts chasing her down, burning down the Snuggly Duckling in an attempt to get Rapunzel. Bathory later gets her hands on Rapunzel and explains that she wants to use her deadly hair to TakeOverTheWorld. Bathory manages to get her hands on Flynn Rider and threatens to kill him, Rapunzel, and Magda before draining their blood if Rapunzel does not give a demonstration of her moon powers.

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* ''[[Literature/DisneyChills Chills]]'':
** ''[[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Be Careful What You Wish Fur]]'': [[CruellaToAnimals Cruella de Vil]], long after her demise, has lingered on into the present day in two ways: her prestigious, real-fur fashion industry; and her literal [[GhastlyGhost undead spirit]]. When teenager [[KidHero Delia]] finds Cruella's famous Dalmatian coat in the trash and takes it, Cruella begins insidiously haunting her, culminating her torment by spiriting away Delia's puppies and [[HostageForMacGuffin promising to butcher them if her coat isn't returned]]. The final fate Cruella inflicts on Delia is one Cruella has inflicted on countless victims before: transformed into a lifeless but [[AndIMustScream eternally conscious]] mannequin, doomed to display Cruella's furs forever.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} Liar, Liar, Head on Fire]]'': [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]], [[GodOfTheDead god of the Underworld]], [[DealWithTheDevil bargains]] with teen athlete Hector for athletic ability to win the Zeus Cup in the upcoming Mt. Olympus Spartan Race. In truth, Hades is a devious sociopath who was imprisoned for good reason and wastes no time trying to ruin Hector's life, [[YourSoulIsMine enslaving the souls]] of those he bargains with and consigning others to the nightmarish River Styx. Despite Hector's best efforts, Hades had already bargained with his supposed love interest Mae and has Hector [[RapidAging aged up]] and killed, consigned to Styx while he releases the Titans to destroy the world.
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!!Live-Action Films [[note]]Examples from other live-action films made with Disney's involvement, such as Creator/WaltDisneyPictures, can be found [[Monster/LiveActionFilms here]]; the ''Film/DickTracy'' film can be found [[Monster/DickTracy here]].[[/note]]

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!!Others

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}}'' duology: [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Governor John Ratcliffe]] is the [[EvilColonialist cruel]], greedy [[AntagonisticGovernor leader]] of the English settlers. Believing that the native Powhatan are [[{{Greed}} hiding gold from him]], [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Ratcliffe]] orders that anyone who even looks at a native without shooting them will be hanged. He later tries to lead his men into battle, planning to slaughter the whole community, even trying to shoot the Powhatan Chief despite both sides now wanting peace. After he is thwarted, Ratcliffe returns in [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld the sequel]], obsessed with revenge. He attempts to kill John Smith and manipulates the King and Queen, planning to kickstart a bloody war solely to have vengeance on the Powhatan. Ratcliffe even has a bear tortured in front of Pocahontas so she could get riled up, and stand against the king, leading to her arrest with threat of execution.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': [[Characters/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisneyJudgeClaudeFrollo Judge Claude Frollo]], the [[KnightTemplar fanatical]] Minister of Justice, is a deeply prejudiced and hypocritical official who seeks to [[FinalSolution totally exterminate the gypsies]] scattered around Paris. Frollo [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduces himself]] by murdering a fleeing mother and nearly drowning her infant child for the crime of being deformed. With the archdeacon's intervention instilling the fear of divine retribution in him, Frollo dubbed the child Quasimodo and raised him in isolation under emotional abuse. [[VillainousCrush Deeply enraptured]] with the gypsy Esmeralda, Frollo resolves to make Esmeralda his or watch her burn, offering "choose me or the fire" when she's tied to the stake. Frollo has gigantic sections of Paris burned in his further attempt to find the gypsies; orders a family torched alive in their own house; and even tries to murder Quasimodo himself in the end after having seemingly murdered Esmeralda, forsaking all piety to reveal the monster he's always been within.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'': [[TheDreaded Shan Yu]] views the Emperor of China having built TheGreatWall as both an insult and a challenge. As a violent BloodKnight, Shan Yu leads his [[TheHorde horde of Huns]] to invade, relishing when China knows he's there. After capturing two Imperial spies, Shan Yu releases them with a message for the Emperor--but has one of his archers kill one anyways as you only need one man to deliver a message. Shan Yu later ambushes the armies of General Li at a village, resulting in a mass slaughter, not only of the soldiers, but every civilian as well, with no children spared either. Even after his army's downfall, Shan Yu attacks the Imperial Palace with his remaining men and takes the Emperor hostage, furiously trying to kill him when he refuses to [[KneelBeforeZod kneel to Shan Yu]].
* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke]] is a tomb-robbing mercenary — or, as he insists, "[[InsistentTerminology adventure capitalist]]" — solely in the Atlantis operation for profit. The leader of the expedition sent to find Atlantis, Rourke maintains a gruff, militaristic indifference to the lives of those lost to the Leviathan and upon seeing the Heart of Atlantis, plans to confiscate it and sell it for double the money he'd receive. Knowing full well this will kill every Atlantean, when he's confronted on this Rourke threatens to shoot Princess Kida and shortly thereafter murders her father, never dropping his [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly façade]]. Rourke was concerned for [[ItsAllAboutMe little else but himself]] and the potential profit he could reap from Atlantis, to the point where he tosses [[TheDragon Helga]] off a blimp to her death for a minor benefit to his escape, and was greedy enough in the end to make his entire party turn against him.

* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'': [[SorcerousOverlord King Magnifico]], the [[{{Narcissist}} egotistical]] ruler of Rosas, [[BitchInSheepsClothing starts off]] as a universally beloved ruler who has the power to make the wishes of his subjects come true. In reality, Magnifico abuses this power for his own satisfaction, leaving the vast majority of these wishes unfulfilled as he exploits the people's love for him to stay in power. When Asha calls him out on this, Magnifico [[KickTheDog spites her]] in a public ceremony by making it appear as though he'll grant the wish of her grandfather -- who has waited almost a century for his wish to come true -- only to double around and grant someone else's wish instead. Magnifico goes from hoarding wishes to outright stealing them, absorbing them from innocent citizens who are left in despair and agony as Magnifico essentially steals a part of their souls. Growing increasingly unhinged the more he's challenged, Magnifico brainwashes one of Asha's teenage allies by [[JackassGenie turning his own wish against him]], blasts his own wife for rebelling against him, and tortures Asha in front of the whole kingdom. Finally, using Star as a LivingBattery, Magnifico decides to magically plunge all of Rosas into eternal, [[HopeCrusher soul-crushing despair]], reasoning that if he can't win the love of his citizens, then he'll just grind them all beneath his heel instead.

** On the surface, [[EvilOldFolks Ma and Pa Sheenko]] appear to just be the kindly old owners of Shuggazoom City's arcade, but in reality the two are the leaders of the Skeletal Circle, an ApocalypseCult made up of Shuggazoomians who have sworn allegiance to the Skeleton King. In the past, the couple [[AbusiveParents offered their daughter]], Valeena, to the Skeleton King, who tainted her with his evil, turning her into the wicked Skull Sorceress. After the Skeleton King was killed, the Sheenkos stole his skull so that they could take its power for themselves and pick up where the Skeleton King left off by raining destruction down on the universe, [[GenocideFromTheInside starting with their own "pathetic" home world of Shuggazoom]]. Ma and Pa unleash worsening supernatural disasters on Shuggazoom City, and when a vagrant stumbles onto one of the Skeletal Circle's underground chambers, he is strung up and left to be EatenAlive by giant rats summoned by Ma and Pa. Before using the Skeleton King's power to [[OneWingedAngel mutate themselves into demons]], Ma and Pa ask their daughter to join them, and when she refuses, they attack her while declaring that she will suffer along with everyone else on Shuggazoom.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]] is [[TheResenter the envious]] younger brother of King Mufasa who, upon losing his position as next in line to the throne by the birth of his nephew Simba, sought to take it by force. First [[EvilUncle tricking the young Simba]] and his friend Nala into entering the Elephant Graveyard to be killed by his hyena henchmen, Scar next orchestrates a wildebeest stampede and tosses Mufasa to his death after he attempts to rescue his son. Blaming a grief-stricken Simba for his father's murder, Scar forces him into exile before commanding the hyenas to finish him off. Upon [[TyrantTakesTheHelm taking control]], Scar's [[TheCaligula incompetence as king]] leads to a famine, with Scar uncaring that he is sentencing everyone to death, even striking Mufasa's widow Sarabi unconscious when she criticizes his rule. Upon Simba's return, Scar takes advantage of Simba's lingering guilt over his father's death to attempt to execute him publicly, pausing only to mockingly reveal his role in Mufasa's death. Later, to save his own life, he attempts to foist the blame on his hyena henchmen before attempting to kill Simba, even after the latter spares his life.

* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'': [[SorcerousOverlord King Magnifico]], the [[{{Narcissist}} egotistical]] ruler of Rosas, [[BitchInSheepsClothing starts off]] as a universally beloved ruler who has the power to make the wishes of his subjects come true. In reality, Magnifico abuses this power for his own satisfaction, leaving the vast majority of these wishes unfulfilled as he exploits the people’s love for him to stay in power. When Asha calls him out on this, Magnifico [[KickTheDog spites her]] in a public ceremony by making it appear as though he’ll grant the wish of her grandfather--who has waited almost a century for his wish to come true--only to double around and grant someone else’s wish instead. Magnifico goes from hoarding wishes to outright stealing them, absorbing them from innocent citizens who are left in despair and agony as Magnifico essentially steals a part of their souls. Growing increasingly unhinged the more he's challenged, Magnifico brainwashes one of Asha’s teenage allies by [[JackassGenie turning his own wish against him]], blasts his own wife for rebelling against him, and tortures Asha in front of the whole kingdom. Finally, using Star as a LivingBattery, Magnifico decides to magically plunge all of Rosas into eternal, [[HopeCrusher soul-crushing despair]], reasoning that if he can't win the love of his citizens, then he’ll just grind them all beneath his heel instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]], Mufasa's envious younger [[CainAndAbel brother]], is just as vile as he was in [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the original film]]. Once the leader of the original [[Characters/TheLionGuardLionGuard Lion Guard]], Scar decides to overthrow and kill Mufasa when the latter playfully nicknames his brother "Scar" when Scar tried to seek praise for killing a traitorous lion and cobra who scarred him--not revealing that he had been perfectly willing to work with them to overthrow Mufasa. When Scar's fellow Lion Guard members refused to help him overthrow Mufasa, Scar uses the [[MightyRoar Roar of the Elders]] to [[BadBoss kill them]], but ends up losing the Roar in the process. In season 2, years after his initial death, Scar is [[BackFromTheDead brought back as a fiery spirit]] and tries to [[Characters/TheLionGuardArmyOfScar lead the animals of the Outlands]] on a brutal conquest of the Pride Lands, first by cutting off the river and entire water supply of the whole Pride Lands, and eventually simply trying to have them burn the savannah and all its inhabitants. In the [[Recap/TheLionGuardS3E1BattleForThePrideLands season 3 premier]], Scar attempts to burn the new Lion Guard, Simba, Nala, Kiara, and the hyena clan to death, the latter for one of them considering on defecting to the Pride Lands, before planning on tricking Kion into erupting the volcano with his roar, which will kill everyone in the Pride Lands. When confronted by the Lion Guard, Scar has Ushari scar Kion, with the snake's venom slowly turning Kion evil as Scar declares that Kion will now be just like him. Even after the death of his physical body, Scar remained a hateful creature driven by spite.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|2019}}'': [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]] is a wrathful and bitter lion [[AmbitionIsEvil driven by an insatiable desire for power]]. [[DrivenByEnvy Envious]] of his brother Mufasa's position as king, Scar attempts to have Mufasa's son Simba--[[EvilUncle Scar's own nephew]]--[[WouldHurtAChild killed]] by tricking him into entering the domain of the vicious hyena clan. When this fails, Scar allies with the hyenas and orchestrates a wildebeest stampede, killing Mufasa and blaming Simba for the tragedy, exiling him before sending the hyenas to finish him off. Taking over as king, [[TheCaligula Scar]] reduces the Pridelands to a barren wasteland by killing everything with no restrictions in addition to starving the lionesses when Sarabi, Mufasa's widow, refuses to become his mate. When Simba returns, Scar attempts to kill him personally, stopping only to tauntingly reveal his role in Mufasa's death. When his crimes are exposed, Scar orders the hyenas to kill everyone in sight, and when Simba has him at his mercy, attempts to blame them for his crimes.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': [[RivalTurnedEvil Randall Boggs]] considers himself the greatest Scarer in Monstropolis, and goes to truly depraved lengths to outdo his rival James P. "Sulley" Sullivan. DrivenByEnvy and petty hatred of Sulley ever since [[WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity he lost a scaring competition in college]], Randall is an arrogant jerk who frequently bullies his coworkers at Monsters, Inc. in his quest to hit "big numbers". Revealed to be scheming to "revolutionize the industry" of Scaring, Randall has used his abused minion Fungus to create a Scream Extractor device that tortures and suffocates those it is used on. Financed by [[WellIntentionedExtremist Henry J. Waternoose III]], Randall intends to kidnap children--starting with the toddler Mary "Boo" Gibbs--and [[WouldHurtAChild use the Extractor]] to torment screams out of them and create an endless supply of scream energy, making himself rich and famous in the process of finally proving his superiority to Sulley. When Sulley and Mike Wazowski try to save Boo and stop Randall's scheme, Randall first tries to torture Mike with the Extractor, then attempts to murder them both while mocking Sulley over his planned use of Boo as the Extractor's first victim. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Lacking the well-intentioned goals of Waternoose]] and defined by [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]], Randall is uncaring of the lethality of the Extractor or the pain of the countless children he will subject to it, [[ItsAllAboutMe only concerned with lining his pockets and fluffing his ego]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Evil Queen]] is the very first Disney feature-length villain and one of the most wicked of them all. The WickedStepmother of Snow White, the Queen forces her to work as a scullery maid [[DrivenByEnvy in vain envy of Snow White's beauty]], and when her MagicMirror informs her Snow White is a rival to her title as "fairest in the land", the Queen opts to have her killed. Initially she sends a huntsman to kill her and carve out her heart under penalty of the huntsman's own death, and when this fails, the Queen turns herself into an [[WickedWitch old hag]] so she can trick Snow White into eating a [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoned apple]], all to curse Snow White with the "Sleeping Death" and trick the seven dwarfs into [[BuriedAlive burying her alive]]. [[TheDreaded Hated and feared across the land she rules over]], the Queen has no problem with attempting to flatten the dwarfs themselves when they get in her way, and has a dungeon stocked with the bones of her previous victims, among them one poor soul who perished clawing for a jug of water placed just out of reach. [[VainSorceress Vain]], {{sadist}}ic, and absurdly [[EvilIsPetty petty]], the Evil Queen would set the stage for every Disney villain to come.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': [[PsychopathicManchild Syndrome]] was once [[LoonyFan Buddy Pine]], an aspiring hero [[ItsAllAboutMe seeking fame and fortune]], who became outraged at all Supers when his "idol", Mr. Incredible, ceased his attempts at being a hero for his own safety. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Over a decade later]], Syndrome enacts his revenge, as he creates the "Omnidroid", a Super-killing machine that he uses to massacre Supers he lures in to duel it under the illusion it is simply a rogue robot. Upon capturing and torturing Mr. Incredible--notably forcing him to listen as his wife and children are seemingly killed by Syndrome's forces--Syndrome unveils his master plan to launch the Omnidroid into a highly-populated city, have it target innocents at random, then swoop in and "[[EngineeredHeroics save the day]]" to become the greatest hero in the world. When the Incredibles foil this plan, Syndrome makes one last attempt to spitefully ruin the family by kidnapping their infant child, Jack-Jack, and raising him to be a supervillain.

** ''Manga/KingdomHeartsI'': [[TheManBehindTheMan Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]] is the Heartless form of Xehanort. Masterminding the [[Characters/KingdomHeartsHeartless Heartless]]' invasion of several worlds and Maleficent's plan to capture the Seven Princesses of Heart in order to open the Final Keyhole, Ansem [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] Riku so that he can possess his body. He stabs Maleficent with a Keyblade in order to destroy her once she's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer of use to him]], and then deceives Sora into using that same Keyblade to make what would ultimately be a SenselessSacrifice, turning [[Characters/KingdomHeartsSora Sora]] into a Heartless and unsealing the Final Keyhole. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsRiku Riku]]'s heart fights back from within to stop him from attempting to kill [[Characters/KingdomHeartsKairi Kairi]], Ansem uses his power to banish Riku's heart into the Dark Realm. Ultimately planning to open the Door of Darkness to let darkness consume all existence, Ansem shows nothing but glee towards his destructive ambitions. Returning after defeat as a specter within Riku's heart, Ansem attempts to play the boy's own emotions against him in order to take control of the boy's body once more, vicious to the end. Showcasing no redeeming features and [[VileVillainSaccharineShow played dead seriously against the manga's usually lighthearted and silly tone]], Xehanort's Heartless would do whatever it took to gain ultimate knowledge and power, and to [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide sate his undying hunger for darkness]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke]] is a tomb-robbing mercenary — or, as he insists, "[[InsistentTerminology adventure capitalist]]" — solely in the Atlantis operation for profit. The leader of the expedition sent to find Atlantis, Rourke maintains a gruff, militaristic indifference to the lives of those lost to the Leviathan and upon seeing the Heart of Atlantis, plans to confiscate it and sell it for double the money he'd receive. Knowing full well this will kill every Atlantean, when he's confronted on this Rourke threatens to shoot Princess Kida and shortly thereafter murders her father, never dropping his [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly façade]]. Rourke was concerned for [[ItsAllAboutMe little else but himself]] and the potential profit he could reap from Atlantis, to the point where he tosses [[TheDragon Helga]] off a blimp to her death for a minor benefit to his escape, and was greedy enough in the end to make his entire party turn against him.

* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sir Miles Axlerod]] and [[TheHeavy Professor "Z" Zündapp]] are a pair of "[[TheAllegedCar lemon]]" cars who want power and to hurt all other cars simply because they were laughed at for being older models. After they buy up one of the world's largest oil reserves, Professor Z develops a weaponized camera that causes the alternative fuel Allinol to explode and decompose, and Axlerod orchestrates him to use it on the racers of the Grand World Prix, severely damaging the cars, to paint alternative fuels as dangerous and drive the world back to oil, [[{{Greed}} which will enrich the villainous duo]]. Z personally murders two spies, crushing one and torturing then exploding the other, on Axlerod's orders before the two try to murder the last user of Allinol, Lightning [=McQueen=], planning to [[ForcedToWatch make his best friend Tow Mater watch]] before killing him as well. When their weaponized camera fails, the two plant a bomb on Mater and try to detonate it in a pit stop, uncaring that it is filled with dozens of other cars, and even when their plan fails, Z spitefully activates a timer on the bomb to destroy whoever he can.

** Season 2: [[GeneralRipper General Lunaris]] is the seemingly-benevolent leader of the city on the [[{{Lunarians}} moon]], Tranquility, but is in fact a vicious warmonger out to prove the superiority of the "[[InsistentTerminology planet Moon]]" by any means necessary. Acting friendly to Della Duck when she arrives in Tranquility, Lunaris eventually falsely accuses her of having used the Moonlanders for her own enemies as rhetoric to attack Earth. When his true colors are revealed, Lunaris cruelly reveals his intention to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the children of the heroes]] first to break their will, following this up with an all-out invasion and an attempt to freeze the Earth over by taking it out of its orbit to make it revolve around the moon instead. In the end, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist throwing away any façade of caring for his own people]], Lunaris attempts to ram the Earth with his spaceship and wipe out everyone on it--including his own people on the planet--solely to deny them their victory.

* ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales Dead Men Tell No Tales]]'': [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheSilentMary Capitán Armando Salazar]] is a [[KnightTemplar self-righteous fanatic]] who seeks nothing less than the total annihilation of all piracy regardless of the level of criminality possessed by his victims. Scourging the seas for years in which he ambushed and slaughtered thousands of unsuspecting pirates and killed even the wounded, surrendering survivors with relish, Salazar was condemned to a life of haunting the Devil's Triangle after his death at the hands of Jack Sparrow. Taking his first opportunity to escape, Salazar massacres vessels across the ocean before forcing Barbossa to ally with him after sadistically killing most of the man's crew. Ultimately [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Henry Turner to use as a HumanShield, Salazar tries to torturously kill Jack with the Trident of Poseidon and bring about a new wave of decimation to the seas. Despite claiming to be avenging his dead father in his hunt for pirates, supplementary material reveals that Salazar's own deluded ego drove him to [[{{Patricide}} kill his father]] simply for accepting bribes from pirates.

* ''Phantom Manor'' (2019 refurbishment): [[BigBad Henry Ravenswood]] is the founder of Thunder Mesa and the one behind the evils of Ravenswood Manor. In life, Henry murdered the suitors of his daughter Melanie to [[AbusiveParents keep her from leaving him]]. After he died in an earthquake, Henry returned as the Phantom, secretly hanging Melanie's fiancé on her wedding day, causing her to wait for him to return for the rest of her life and afterlife. The Phantom laughed at her despair and [[HauntedHouse began inviting other ghosts to inhabit the mansion]], causing the disappearance of an expedition sent to investigate the manor. In the ride itself, the Phantom [[BitchInSheepsClothing poses as a friendly guide]] for the guests, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his murders]] before trapping the guests in the manor. He then attempts to murder the guests by sending them to be tormented by all those who died in Thunder Mesa.

!!Literature

* ''[[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Once Upon a Dream]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Maleficent]] is the cruel, dark [[CardCarryingVillain mistress of all evil]] in the story, dedicated to tormenting Aurora and prolonging her own life. After her original plan to curse Aurora when she was a baby to die on the day of her 16th birthday fails, Maleficent, struck dead by Prince Phillip, uses the last of her energy to trap the minds of Aurora and the entire kingdom in [[LotusEaterMachine a dream world]] until Maleficent can gain power to possess Aurora's body. Rejuvenating herself by brutally murdering people in the dream world--[[YourMindMakesItReal which kills them in the real world]]--and [[BloodMagic using their blood in rituals]], Maleficent eventually drops the façade of the dream world, indulging in full-on slaughter of dozens of people for both their life forces as well as just for fun. Though seeming to have gained the slightest hint of care for Aurora during their time in the dream world, Maleficent ultimately rejects these feelings, murdering Aurora's parents and killing innocent people just to torment her while mocking the woman over her coming fate as Maleficent's bodyjacked puppet.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast As Old as Time]]'': Monsieur [[MeaningfulName D'Arque]], full name Frédéric D'Arque, is the owner of the local BedlamHouse whose history goes back with Belle's own father Maurice. D'Arque, a member of the supernatural charmante people, [[BoomerangBigot hates his own people]] and experiments to take out the magical parts of himself to embrace his delusional idea of pure-blooded humanity. In his asylum, D'Arque subjects the charmantes to hideous experimentation for years on end to "torture the magic out of them", implementing [[ColdBloodedTorture 11th-century torture tactics]] in his research and cheerfully apathetic to the number of charmantes who die either from torture or suicide. D'Arque is willing to use his scientific technique to endorse the king and queen's intended FinalSolution across France, and although he claims he would never harm a human, D'Arque is so lost in his own hatred he murders his best friend Alaric and unhesitatingly tries to do the same to his other old friend Maurice.

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* Examples from other live-action films made with Disney's involvement can be found [[Monster/LiveActionFilms here]].
* The ''Film/DickTracy'' film can be found [[Monster/DickTracy here]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke]] is a tomb-robbing mercenary (or, as he insists, "[[InsistentTerminology adventure capitalist]]") solely in the Atlantis operation for profit. The leader of the expedition sent to find Atlantis, Rourke maintains a gruff, militaristic indifference to the lives of those lost to the Leviathan and upon seeing the Heart of Atlantis, plans to confiscate it and sell it for double the money he'd receive. Knowing full well this will kill every Atlantean, when he's confronted on this Rourke threatens to shoot Princess Kida and shortly thereafter murders her father, never dropping his [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly façade]]. Rourke was concerned for [[ItsAllAboutMe little else but himself]] and the potential profit he could reap from Atlantis, to the point where he tosses [[TheDragon Helga]] off a blimp to her death for a minor benefit to his escape, and was greedy enough in the end to make his entire party turn against him.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', for the most part, has a well-deserved reputation for sympathetic and three-dimensional [[Characters/GargoylesAntagonists villains]]. There are, however, a few unrepentantly horrible ones:
** [[TokenMotivationalNemesis Hakon]] is the ruthless leader of a group of Viking raiders and the instigator of the Wyvern massacre. In [[Recap/GargoylesS1Awakening his debut]], he invades Castle Wyvern with the intent of looting it and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil selling off its residents as slaves]]. After a humiliating defeat, Hakon vows vengeance against the Gargoyles, and with aid from the Captain of the Guard, successfully takes over the castle. However, not content with plundering the castle, Hakon slaughters most of the petrified Wyvern clan, threatening to kill the Captain if he gets in his way. When cornered by Goliath, he attempts to blame the Captain, before they both fall to their deaths. Blaming Goliath for his demise, his soul persisted within Castle Wyvern through ThePowerOfHate, and he, along with the Captain, [[MindRape torment Goliath with visions of the Wyvern massacre]]. Luring him deep into the castle, he gleefully commences a ritual that would revive him and have Goliath bound to the castle in his place. When the Captain turns on him and thwarts his plan, he stubbornly hangs onto his hate; binding his soul to an axe and teaming up with Wolf to kill Goliath and Hudson. A savage motivated by petty vengeance and senseless hatred, Hakon [[StarterVillain set the standard]] for how truly malevolent [[Characters/GargoylesAntagonists the show's villains]] could get.
** [[PsychoForHire Jackal]] is a [[AxCrazy sadistic and violent]] member of the Pack who gleefully participates in hunting the gargoyles for sport and abandons his humanity to become a cyborg killing machine, seeming only to take pleasure in violence and cruelty. While Jackal is often kept in check by his colleagues, "[[Recap/GargoylesS2Grief Grief]]" reveals what he is truly capable of. When the Egyptian god Anubis is captured by an Emir seeking to bring his dead son back to life, Jackal seizes power from the Jackal god and makes himself the god of death, torturing his enemies by aging them to the point they are almost too infirm to move and transforming his own teammates into children. Jackal proceeds to attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac wipe out every living thing on the planet]] simply [[ForTheEvulz because he can]], destroying an entire city before he is stopped.
** [[EvilOverlord King Constantine III]] is a greedy, ambitious Scottish lord who [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] the noblewoman Finella so he can murder King Kenneth and seize the crown. A brutal tyrant, Constantine also directs his wrath against the Gargoyles, slaughtering all he finds and intending on [[FinalSolution their complete eradication]]. Showing no care for the rules of war, Constantine has a messenger executed and intends in massacring the forces and allies of would-be King Kenneth III, even threatening to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Kenneth's young son]] in front of him.
** [[FromNobodyToNightmare Gillecomgain]] was the first [[HunterOfMonsters Hunter]] and the mace through which King Constantine III nearly authored the [[FinalSolution extinction of Gargoyles]] in Scotland. Once a peasant boy left scarred from a chance encounter with Demona, Gillecomgain used his scars as pretext for [[VanHelsingHateCrimes killing as many gargoyles as he possibly could]], performing his task with such a single-minded, savage zeal that Constantine adopted a face mask emulating the boy's scars. Gillecomgain had no trouble attempting to murder the unarmed son of Kenneth III when they were both but boys, and when he grew up Gillecomgain murdered the noble Findlaech and took his son Macbeth's beloved Gruoch into a [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe forced, loveless marriage]]. Finally killed only due to the mutual efforts of Macbeth and Demona, Gillecomgain's brutality still ensured that others would succeed his mantle as the Hunter and preserve his bloodthirsty legacy for centuries to come.
** "[[Recap/GargoylesS2TheNewOlympians The New Olympians]]": [[ManipulativeBastard Proteus of the New Olympians]] is a shape-shifting SerialKiller who was imprisoned after murdering the previous captain of the guard. He consistently assumes the form of his victim to mock the man's son Taurus. When he tricks his way to freedom, Proteus [[CardCarryingVillain delights]] in sowing the seeds of chaos all through the city, using people's emotions against them with his powers for a sick thrill and trying to destroy his city and commit genocide on his own people.

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* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** [[ItsAllAboutMe Malcolm]], aka Franchise/PeterPan and Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin, is a demon who has [[WouldHurtAChild children kidnapped]] and forced to become his eternal servants in Neverland, having his shadow kill any who try to escape by removing their souls, and is the [[AbusiveParents abusive father]] of [[Characters/OnceUponATimeRumplestiltskin Rumplestiltskin]]. In the past Pan healed Hook's brother, just to let him die; and kidnapped Wendy Darling and keeps her prisoner. Dying along with Neverland's magic, Pan plans to absorb the heart of a child, his own great-grandson, who is the truest believer in magic, making himself all-powerful and immortal, while the innocent child dies in his place. To this end, Pan is the brains behind Greg and Tamara's hatred of magic, all so they will bring Henry to him, killing them once they do so. When the heroes come to save Henry, he has a bit of fun tormenting them, all the while corrupting Henry. Pan later kills his own supporter to complete a magical curse and tries to murder Rumplestiltskin's family just to torment his son. Returning in the Underworld, Pan claims to want a fresh start with Rumplestiltskin, before revealing he really just wants to go back to the land of the living, and to this end plans to steal Zelena's heart and later tries to have Rumple steal Robin Hood's.
** [[Characters/AladdinJafar Jafar]], debuting in ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'', is an EvilSorcerer who plans to enslave three people and use their combined magic to grant his wish to become the all-powerful ruler of Wonderland. [[KickTheDog Cruelly transforming the woman who loved him into his iconic serpent staff]], Jafar also murders a young woman just to watch the reaction of her lover, before resurrecting her and magically making her fall in love with him to spite her lover yet again. Though [[FreudianExcuse having the excuse of a neglectful father]], Jafar is revealed to want to use magic to make his father love him just to hurt him more when he torments him. Upon becoming Royal Vizier of Agrabah in season 6 of the main series, Jafar tortures and kills people at his whim with his dark powers and deceives Princess Jasmine into giving him a magical ring, then threatens to destroy Agrabah if she does not accept his marriage proposal. Threatening to use the ring to disintegrate Agrabah, Jafar means to create a ghostly version of the land and [[AndIMustScream seal all the souls within in limbo for eternity]]. Cruel and [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]], Jafar is a wicked man who cares only for his own {{ambition|IsEvil}} and sadistically tormenting anyone he can.
** "[[Recap/OnceUponATimeS5E7Nimue Nimue]]": [[MalevolentMaskedMan Vortigan]] is a masked [[TheWarlord warlord]] searching for the Holy Grail to gain [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality]] and magic power. To find it, Vortigan has massacred multiple villages, burning them to the ground and killing everyone there. Learning of MerlinAndNimue's plans to turn the Grail into a sword, Vortigan hopes to steal it for power. Taking Nimue hostage, Vortigan seemingly kills her, laughing at Merlin's grief, before trying to kill Merlin with the sword. [[SmallRoleBigImpact Despite his short screentime]], the consequences of Vortigan's evil would lead to the creation of the first Dark One and would haunt the Enchanted Forrest well into the present day.
** "[[Recap/OnceUponATimeS7E19FlowerChild Flower Child]]": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Isla]] is a [[AristocratsAreEvil spoiled aristocrat]] who [[FantasticRacism despises magical beings]]. For her genocide crusade, Isla [[FalseFriend seemingly befriends]] the young Gothel, only to have her humiliated and bullied and has the tree nymphs' home invaded, ordering the slaughter of all magical beings, including Gothel's family, and leading to the creation of the land without magic. With Gothel driven to villainy through her actions, the indirect consequences of Isla's cruelty [[SmallRoleBigImpact cause further turmoil throughout the work]].
* ''Series/LabRats'': [[DiabolicalMastermind Victor Krane]] is a ruthless, power-hungry [[CorruptCorporateExecutive billionaire]] who gains bionic powers through Douglas Davenport's technology. Brainwashing Douglas's nephews and niece, Krane attempts to have Adam and Bree kill Chase for resisting. Building himself an army of superpowered teenagers and children, Krane has them [[SlaveMooks brainwashed and stripped of any identity]] to become more effective soldiers, later attempting to expand his own brainwashing abilities to try to [[TakeOverTheWorld mind control all of Earth into subservience to himself]]. Viewing his underlings as nothing more than extensions of himself, Krane also installed a virus into them such that [[DeadMansSwitch they would die when he did]]. After his seeming death, Krane returns to infiltrate Donald Davenport's space colony, kidnapping and brainwashing the colonists to build himself a new army and launches a missile that will wipe out all life on Earth, so that he can rule over the remnants.
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* ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'':
** [[BlackWidow Constance Hatchaway]] is a malevolent ghost in a house full of playful spirits. Constance is TheBrideWithAPast, as in life she was a GoldDigger that married wealthy men, and then killed them by beheading them with a hatchet. She spent her adult life marrying and killing over a period of many years until she married George Hightower, the owner of the titular mansion. After marrying and killing him, she decided to settle down in her newly inherited mansion and flaunt her wealth. She eventually died and became a ghost. Seeing no more reason for money, she decided to fully embrace her sadistic love of killing and began attacking and [[SerialKiller killing others]], including other ghosts, who she could kill by beheading because she actually died on the property. Many ghosts fell victim to this until they locked her in the attic. In the ride, guests are confronted by her before escaping out the window. She openly admits to her crimes and has yet to be defeated or destroyed.
** ''Phantom Manor'' (2019 refurbishment): [[BigBad Henry Ravenswood]] is the founder of Thunder Mesa and the one behind the evils of Ravenswood Manor. In life, Henry murdered the suitors of his daughter Melanie to [[AbusiveParents keep her from leaving him]]. After he died in an earthquake, Henry returned as the Phantom, secretly hanging Melanie's fiancé on her wedding day, causing her to wait for him to return for the rest of her life and afterlife. The Phantom laughed at her despair and [[HauntedHouse began inviting other ghosts to inhabit the mansion]], causing the disappearance of an expedition sent to investigate the manor. In the ride itself, the Phantom [[BitchInSheepsClothing poses as a friendly guide]] for the guests, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his murders]] before trapping the guests in the manor. He then attempts to murder the guests by sending them to be tormented by all those who died in Thunder Mesa.
** [[VideoGame/TheHauntedMansion Video game]]: [[BigBad Atticus Thorn]] is an EvilSorcerer who seeks to use the power of the six soul gems to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy both the afterlife and the living world]]. Thorn has lived for hundreds of years by [[SoulEating devouring souls]] to extend his life, keeping them [[AndIMustScream trapped in his body]] to drain them for energy. Just before the final fight, Thorn devours the soul gems along with 999 souls, stating that with his new powers there will no longer be either the land of the living or the afterlife, just "death, death, and more death".
* ''Franchise/{{TRON}}'':
** [[Film/{{TRON}} Original film]]: The [[BigBad Master Control Program]], aka the MCP, is a [[AIIsACrapshoot despotic AI]] ruling over the digital world "the Grid". [[FromNobodyToNightmare Once a mere chess program]] who was upgraded by the ambitious Edward Dillinger, the MCP slowly grew smarter and more influential, seizing control of the Grid and [[EvilOverlord imposing its rule on the programs within]]. The MCP has countless programs taken to him so they may be forcefully assimilated into himself, and sends any others who believe in the Users to die in GladiatorGames run by his sadistic minion Sark, who the MCP regularly tortures for petty reasons. Not content with ruling over the Grid, he intends to hack into the Pentagon and Kremlin, plotting to force humanity under his rule as well, and blackmails Dillinger when he shows hesitance. As Kevin Flynn continually stands in his way, the MCP torturously derezzes his program CLU and later has Flynn dragged into the Grid. The MCP has Flynn sent to the games and has the newest batch of programs taken to him to be painfully assimilated like others before, finally empowering Sark to finish off Flynn and the rebels.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/TronUprising Uprising]]'':
*** [[InsaneAdmiral General Tesler]] is the brutal dictator dispatched by CLU to subjugate Argon City, and serves as [[TheHeavy the main antagonist of the series]]. A fanatical believer in Anti-ISO rhetoric, Tesler took part in the wholesale genocide of the [=ISOs=] years ago, notably massacring an entire hospital of Programs--and the informants who gave him the heads up--simply because it treated two rogue [=ISOs=]. In the present, Tesler maintains a vicious hold on Argon by executing any potential dissidents and forcing dozens of Programs to [[GladiatorGames fight to the death in the Games]]. An [[BadBoss abusive monster]] to even his right-hand Paige, who he drafted after murdering her best friends and framing [=ISOs=] for it, Tesler is happy to order her public execution when she seemingly betrays him, and extends the same murderous attitude towards any of his minions who [[YouHaveFailedMe fail him]] in even minor regards. Though using a benevolent rhetoric, Tesler is truthfully nothing but a violent supremacist who will react to being touched by a "lesser Program" by ordering their vicious murder via dismemberment, and beneath his cheerful veneer hides a sociopathic disdain for all life not under his boot.
*** [[FauxAffablyEvil Dyson]] is the {{smug|Snake}}, arrogant top enforcer to CLU and the most personal foe Tron himself ever faced. [[EvilFormerFriend Once a close friend of Tron]], Dyson's [[FantasticRacism prejudice and hatred]] against the [=ISOs=] spurred him to betray Tron and Flynn, allying with CLU and helping the madman take over the Grid and commit genocide of the [=ISOs=]. Personally and [[ColdBloodedTorture horrifically torturing]] Tron, Dyson cheerfully reveals he has reformatted hundreds upon hundreds of Programs to be CLU's personal army, taunting Tron that all of his squadmates have suffered the same fate. In the present an overseer of operations who keeps CLU's oppressions at their highest while casually murdering his own soldiers, Dyson forces hundreds of Programs into slave labor under threat of death for the most minor reasoning, all to complete a "Super Realizer" and use it to reformat countless Programs faster than ever.
*** [[PsychopathicManchild Pavel]] is one of Tesler's CoDragons, contrasting his cohort Paige by being a smug, reprehensible psychopath who takes a [[AxCrazy sadistic glee in torturing and killing anyone he can]]. Regularly going out of his way to endanger as many lives as he can during his psychotic schemes, Pavel has a heavy hand in the barbaric Games and runs his own torture chamber splattered with the remains of his many victims, demonstrating his "art" by mutilating the hand of a graffiti tagger before trying to torture him to death. Pavel also massacres an entire room of imprisoned Programs just to test a new weapon, [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals kills a pet Bit]] for fun, and even laughs in joy after unintentionally dooming a train of Programs, hoping he gets to stick around and "watch the fireworks". In his constant attempts to betray Tesler and rise in the ranks, Pavel frames teenage Programs to be executed to embarrass Tesler and even frames Paige for treason by [[MindRape mind raping]] her, before doing the same to his own cohorts to cover his tracks.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** '' [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest Dead Man's Chest]] '' & ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'': [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord Cutler Beckett]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman of the East India Trading Company]]. Upon his arrival at Port Royale, Beckett assumes illegal control and has the governor's messenger to the King murdered. Beckett later enslaves Davy Jones, forcing him to kill his pet Kraken and making Jones his personal attack dog of the seas. Governor Swann himself is later murdered when Beckett [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness decides he's of no further use]]. It is made abundantly clear that Beckett's prime motivation is power and control, and as piracy is a threat to that, Beckett [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist initiates a purge of anyone even vaguely associated with piracy]], with all legal proceedings suspended. The result is a massive line of people, many of whom aren't even pirates, taken to the gallows to be hanged. [[WouldHurtAChild Not even children are safe]], as a little boy is shown being hanged as Beckett looks on without remorse or emotion.
** ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides On Stranger Tides]]'': [[TheDreaded Captain Edward Teach]], the infamous UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, prides himself on being one of the most feared men on the high seas. Blackbeard [[BadBoss abuses and murders members of his own crew]] on the basis of "if I don't kill a man every now and then, they forget who I am". He incinerates [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanQueenAnnesRevenge his ship]]'s cook to demonstrate this and resurrecting some of his own slain crew members as mindlessly obedient zombies. On his quest to the FountainOfYouth to avert his prophesied death at the hands of a one-legged man, Blackbeard puts a mermaid named Syrena through hideous treatment for the purpose of gaining her tear, first showing her the remains of her own fellow mermaids and then ordering Philip Swift, the single man who displays compassion to her, supposedly killed in front of her to further manipulate her. Blackbeard claims to love his daughter, but undersells even this through a risky game of RussianRoulette with his own daughter's life and ultimately trying to sacrifice her life for his own at the Fountain of Youth. Blackbeard admits he feels closest to God in moments of pain and anguish and calmly tortured and murdered anyone who dared to stand against him.
** ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales Dead Men Tell No Tales]]'': [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheSilentMary Capitán Armando Salazar]] is a [[KnightTemplar self-righteous fanatic]] who seeks nothing less than the total annihilation of all piracy regardless of the level of criminality possessed by his victims. Scourging the seas for years in which he ambushed and slaughtered thousands of unsuspecting pirates and killed even the wounded, surrendering survivors with relish, Salazar was condemned to a life of haunting the Devil's Triangle after his death at the hands of Jack Sparrow. Taking his first opportunity to escape, Salazar massacres vessels across the ocean before forcing Barbossa to ally with him after sadistically killing most of the man's crew. Ultimately [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Henry Turner to use as a HumanShield, Salazar tries to torturously kill Jack with the Trident of Poseidon and bring about a new wave of decimation to the seas. Despite claiming to be avenging his dead father in his hunt for pirates, supplementary material reveals that Salazar's own deluded ego drove him to [[{{Patricide}} kill his father]] simply for accepting bribes from pirates.
** Non-canon works:
*** ''[[Literature/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanThePriceOfFreedom The Price of Freedom]]'' prequel novel, by A. C. Crispin: [[TortureTechnician Ian Mercer]] is the [[SoftSpokenSadist stoically sadistic]] right-hand man of [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanNavy Cutler Beckett]], aiding his employer in a scheme of mass murder and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slavery]]. A lover of torture who brags of his dozens of successful "interrogations" after a prisoner kills himself rather than face more of Mercer's brutality, Mercer tries to track down a variety of slaves for the express purpose of torturing them for information on their home island of Kerma. Mercer and Beckett intend to find Kerma, raid the island for its massive gold supply, and wipe out most of the populace before selling any survivors into their slave trade. When Jack Sparrow thwarts the invasion of Kerma, Mercer giddily takes part in Jack's branding as a pirate before destroying his cherished ship ''The Wicked Wench'' [[KickTheDog just to torment him]].
*** ''[[VideoGame/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnline Online]]'': [[BigBad Jolly Roger]] was [[EvilFormerFriend once a friend]] of [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanCaptainJackSparrow Jack Sparrow]], until he [[DrivenByEnvy became envious]] of Jack's status as the next Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, and tried to kill him. Cursed to become an undead being by a vengeful WitchDoctor, Roger attacks towns, intending to slaughter the inhabitants and resurrect them to serve in his undead army to help him conquer the Caribbean and kill Jack. When Roger finds the protagonist with a man who had betrayed Roger, Roger kills the man after he tries to pay Roger to spare him, only allowing the protagonist to live so they can deliver a message from Roger to Jack.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** [[Characters/KingdomHeartsVanitas Vanitas]] is a being that was created by extracting the darkness in [[Characters/KingdomHeartsVentus Ventus]]' heart. Driven by an intense hatred of everyone and everything, Vanitas [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep gleefully assists]] Master [[Characters/KingdomHeartsMasterXehanort Xehanort]] in his plan to restart the Keyblade War, a cataclysmic event which would mean the destruction of the universe. Defeating Ventus in their first battle, Vanitas attempts to kill him, disregarding his orders from Xehanort to leave the boy alive. A vicious sadist, Vanitas takes immense pleasure in mentally torturing Ventus and his friends every chance he gets. [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII Returning after his defeat]], Vanitas frees Randall in Monstropolis, manipulating him in order to gain access to WesternAnimation/MonstersInc's scream-collecting technology and increase his strength by harvesting the fear and sadness of children. Vanitas once again assists Xehanort in his plan to bring about the end of existence. Defeated for the final time, Vanitas rejects [[Characters/KingdomHeartsSora Sora]]'s offer to reform and join the side of light, affirming his choice to fight for the forces of darkness.
** The manga series gives AdaptationalVillainy to the following [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations incarnations of Xehanort]]:
*** ''Manga/KingdomHeartsI'': [[TheManBehindTheMan Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]] is the Heartless form of Xehanort. Masterminding the [[Characters/KingdomHeartsHeartless Heartless]]' invasion of several worlds and Maleficent's plan to capture the Seven Princesses of Heart in order to open the Final Keyhole, Ansem [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] Riku so that he can possess his body. He stabs Maleficent with a Keyblade in order to destroy her once she's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer of use to him]], and then deceives Sora into using that same Keyblade to make what would ultimately be a SenselessSacrifice, turning [[Characters/KingdomHeartsSora Sora]] into a Heartless and unsealing the Final Keyhole. When [[Characters/KingdomHeartsRiku Riku]]'s heart fights back from within to stop him from attempting to kill [[Characters/KingdomHeartsKairi Kairi]], Ansem uses his power to banish Riku's heart into the Dark Realm. Ultimately planning to open the Door of Darkness to let darkness consume all existence, Ansem shows nothing but glee towards his destructive ambitions. Returning after defeat as a specter within Riku's heart, Ansem attempts to play the boy's own emotions against him in order to take control of the boy's body once more, vicious to the end. Showcasing no redeeming features and [[VileVillainSaccharineShow played dead seriously against the manga's usually lighthearted and silly tone]], Xehanort's Heartless would do whatever it took to gain ultimate knowledge and power, and to [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide sate his undying hunger for darkness]].
*** ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' & ''[[Manga/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'': [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Xemnas]], the Nobody form of Xehanort and leader of [[Characters/KingdomHeartsOrganizationXIII Organization XIII]], is portrayed as a cruel sociopath who rules his organization without care for any of its members, viewing his followers as weaklings who are only fit to serve his purposes. Looking to exploit the Keyblade's power to claim hearts, he allows [[Characters/KingdomHeartsRoxas Roxas]] and [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXion Xion]] to grow close, intending to then pit them against each other so he can judge which Keybearer would be more useful to his plans, even tampering with Xion's form, [[MindRape Mind Raping]] her and sending her to her death. When Axel is sent to look for the runaway Roxas, Xemnas threatens to eliminate him if he doesn't bring Roxas back dead or alive. He later attacks the Radiant Garden with hordes of Heartless, almost getting Goofy critically injured in the process, just so [[Characters/KingdomHeartsSora Sora]] and King Mickey can slay them all and give him enough hearts to complete his own Kingdom Hearts. When Ansem the Wise and Mickey try to stop his plans at his castle, Xemnas orders his Nobodies to kill them, and proceeds to overtake the Great Heart from within in an attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac reduce all of existence to nothingness]] and destroy all those in his way. Cold-blooded, pitiless, and lacking his game counterpart's TragicVillain qualities, Xemnas continuously shows himself to be more monstrous than any other Nobody solely because [[ItsAllAboutMe he thinks it in his best interest to be so]].

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* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfTheChaosGod'': [[EvilSorcerer Solego]], the [[AntagonistTitle titular "Chaos God"]], [[TheDreaded earned his epithet]] by conquering entire cities with his dark magic in ancient times, growing drunk on his magic and obliterating everyone who opposed him, once eradicating an entire civilization. Solego returns in the modern day attempting to break out of his seal by rampantly possessing and trying to murder everyone he comes across, his nastiest attempt ensuing when he takes over [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin Rebecca Cunningham]] and tries to force her to throw her own daughter off the side of a plane. When he finally breaks out of his seal, Solego immediately attempts to destroy St. Canard's, entertaining WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck's attempt to defeat him before growing bored and vowing to him "you shall die a sheep like ''all'' the sheep called men--and I shall be the only wolf among you!"
* ''[[ComicBook/DisneyKingdoms Kingdoms]]'':
** ''Seekers of the Weird'':
*** [[EvilSorceress Despoina]] is a vile, immortal sorceress who serves as the DarkMistress and [[TheDragon head servant]] of the evil Reaper King. Forming the Society of Shadows to worship the Reaper King, Despoina dedicates herself to freeing him and allowing him to desolate the entire planet so she and the Society can rule over the remainder. Motivating the two children destined to open the Coffin Clock the Reaper King in sealed in by kidnapping their parents and threatening to murder them, Despoina has their uncle Roland supposedly play both them and the Wardens, before opting to have his spine torn out in response to his betrayal. A {{sadist}} by nature, Despoina even allows the Wardens to briefly take the Coffin Clock solely so [[HopeCrusher she can crush their hope later]] and have the Reaper King wipe them all out.
*** [[SealedEvilInACan The Reaper King]] himself is an ancient [[EldritchAbomination eldritch horror]] and the strongest reaper in existence, a being dedicated only to enshrouding the Earth in shadow and [[OmnicidalManiac killing all that lives]]. Previously rampaging across the Earth and causing TheBlackDeath in the process, killing a third of Europe's population, the Reaper King has Despoina and her servants dedicate centuries of their time to freeing him-- only to [[BadBoss spitefully strip them all of their immortality and condemn them to die with the rest of the world]] once he's finally released.
** ''Ride/BigThunderMountainRailroad'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive George Willikers]] seems at first to [[{{Jerkass}} just be a slimy bully wanting a quick buck]], but is slowly revealed to be a heartless sociopath caring for nothing but his own {{greed}}. Serving as the second-in-command to Mr. Bullion, Willikers uses his position to abuse the small mining town he lords over, instituting a curfew and threatening [[ATasteOfTheLash lashing with his bullwhip]] for any who cross him. As head of the mining operation in the mountain Big Thunder, Willikers overworks, abuses, and regularly endangers the lives of the miners, completely uncaring of their well-being as long as they supply him with the goods. In the end, Willikers's truly monstrous personality is revealed, as he holds the miners at gunpoint to force them into highly lethal caverns to mine, and ultimately attempts to leave the dozens of miners, several heroic bandits trying to stop Willikers, and Bullion himself to die in the mountain as it collapses, throwing their lives away as long as he can get away with the mined gold and rebuild the mining town in his glory.
** ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'': The Captain is a [[GhostPirate ghostly pirate]] who once plundered and pillaged all he saw fit across the Earth. Once dying inside the titular Haunted Mansion and being cursed to haunt it for all eternity, the Captain, determined to escape, places a curse upon the Mansion that traps any who die inside, or any ghosts who visit it, to be trapped alongside him, [[FateWorseThanDeath never able to rest in peace or escape]]. Having trapped nearly one thousand ghosts inside, the Captain later uses the young Danny Crowe to assist him in escaping, and, once free, promises to slaughter all in his path and become the scourge of the world once more, starting by [[WouldHurtAChild killing Danny]] then cursing the Mansion once more to trap him and all nearby ghosts inside for all eternity.

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/ATwistedTale'': In these DarkerAndEdgier Disney WhatIf stories, many characters are made [[AdaptationalVillainy much worse]] than their canon counterpart. These few, however, stand out in sheer vileness:
** ''[[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Once Upon a Dream]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Maleficent]] is the cruel, dark [[CardCarryingVillain mistress of all evil]] in the story, dedicated to tormenting Aurora and prolonging her own life. After her original plan to curse Aurora when she was a baby to die on the day of her 16th birthday fails, Maleficent, struck dead by Prince Phillip, uses the last of her energy to trap the minds of Aurora and the entire kingdom in [[LotusEaterMachine a dream world]] until Maleficent can gain power to possess Aurora's body. Rejuvenating herself by brutally murdering people in the dream world--[[YourMindMakesItReal which kills them in the real world]]--and [[BloodMagic using their blood in rituals]], Maleficent eventually drops the façade of the dream world, indulging in full-on slaughter of dozens of people for both their life forces as well as just for fun. Though seeming to have gained the slightest hint of care for Aurora during their time in the dream world, Maleficent ultimately rejects these feelings, murdering Aurora's parents and killing innocent people just to torment her while mocking the woman over her coming fate as Maleficent's bodyjacked puppet.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast As Old as Time]]'': Monsieur [[MeaningfulName D'Arque]], full name Frédéric D'Arque, is the owner of the local BedlamHouse whose history goes back with Belle's own father Maurice. D'Arque, a member of the supernatural charmante people, [[BoomerangBigot hates his own people]] and experiments to take out the magical parts of himself to embrace his delusional idea of pure-blooded humanity. In his asylum, D'Arque subjects the charmantes to hideous experimentation for years on end to "torture the magic out of them", implementing [[ColdBloodedTorture 11th-century torture tactics]] in his research and cheerfully apathetic to the number of charmantes who die either from torture or suicide. D'Arque is willing to use his scientific technique to endorse the king and queen's intended FinalSolution across France, and although he claims he would never harm a human, D'Arque is so lost in his own hatred he murders his best friend Alaric and unhesitatingly tries to do the same to his other old friend Maurice.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Part of Your World]]'': [[WickedWitch Ursula the Sea-Witch]], after bewitching Prince Eric into marrying her human guise of Vanessa and keeping King Triton as a defeated trophy, intends on expanding her kingdom via bloody warfare with no care of countless civilians dead. Realizing she lacks her powers on land and with Queen Ariel undermining her, Ursula uses the dark powers she gained from a book of [[Literature/TheKingInYellow Carcosa]] and the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Elder Gods]], intending to sacrifice countless innocents. Deciding to commit [[FinalSolution genocide]] on the Merpeople and summon the Elder Ones with Triton and thousands of innocents as her [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]], Ursula unleashes death upon the nation, gloating over the pain and suffering of Eric and Ariel's people.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} What Once Was Mine]]'': [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory Countess Elizabeth Bathory]] (sic), even before the story started, was a heinous SerialKiller who kidnapped a slew of young girls, murdered them, and [[BloodBath bathed in their blood]] to stay young. Bathory did this after the blood of a servant accidentally got on her, and she discovered it made her skin youthful, a servant whom she later killed. Learning about [[Characters/TangledRapunzel Rapunzel]], a baby whose hair killed people in certain circumstances, Bathory immediately wanted this baby to herself, and would try and buy her off Mother Gothel, to whom the royal family had given her. When Rapunzel escapes, Bathory immediately starts chasing her down, burning down the Snuggly Duckling in an attempt to get Rapunzel. Bathory later gets her hands on Rapunzel and explains that she wants to use her deadly hair to TakeOverTheWorld. Bathory manages to get her hands on Flynn Rider and threatens to kill him, Rapunzel, and Magda before draining their blood if Rapunzel does not give a demonstration of her moon powers.
* ''[[Literature/DisneyChills Chills]]'':
** ''[[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Be Careful What You Wish Fur]]'': [[CruellaToAnimals Cruella de Vil]], long after her demise, has lingered on into the present day in two ways: her prestigious, real-fur fashion industry; and her literal [[GhastlyGhost undead spirit]]. When teenager [[KidHero Delia]] finds Cruella's famous Dalmatian coat in the trash and takes it, Cruella begins insidiously haunting her, culminating her torment by spiriting away Delia's puppies and [[HostageForMacGuffin promising to butcher them if her coat isn't returned]]. The final fate Cruella inflicts on Delia is one Cruella has inflicted on countless victims before: transformed into a lifeless but [[AndIMustScream eternally conscious]] mannequin, doomed to display Cruella's furs forever.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}} Liar, Liar, Head on Fire]]'': [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]], [[GodOfTheDead god of the Underworld]], [[DealWithTheDevil bargains]] with teen athlete Hector for athletic ability to win the Zeus Cup in the upcoming Mt. Olympus Spartan Race. In truth, Hades is a devious sociopath who was imprisoned for good reason and wastes no time trying to ruin Hector's life, [[YourSoulIsMine enslaving the souls]] of those he bargains with and consigning others to the nightmarish River Styx. Despite Hector's best efforts, Hades had already bargained with his supposed love interest Mae and has Hector [[RapidAging aged up]] and killed, consigned to Styx while he releases the Titans to destroy the world.

[[folder:Live-Action Films]]
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': [[Characters/WhoFramedRogerRabbitJudgeDoom Judge Doom]] is the sadistic and merciless [[HangingJudge high judge of Toontown]], and a staunch anti-toon bigot. Since toons can't be killed in any way, Doom invented a solution called the Dip and [[EstablishingCharacterMoment is introduced]] demonstrating its effects by melting an innocent toon shoe. When Roger Rabbit is accused of murder, Doom starts a ruthless hunt, reveling in the thought of melting him in the Dip--regardless if he's guilty or not--and fully willing to harm or kill anyone who stands in his way, either by himself or by letting his brutal weasel henchmen do it. Doom himself was the mind behind the murder, along with RK Maroon's [[HeKnowsTooMuch who tried to report him]]. His ultimate goal is to commit a [[FinalSolution massive toon genocide]] by spraying Dip over Toontown in order to build a freeway and [[{{Greed}} owning all the profits]]. The worst part, however, is that [[BoomerangBigot Doom is a toon himself]] and the one responsible for the hate of private investigator Eddie Valiant towards the toons since he's the one who killed his brother long ago by smashing him with a piano. During the final battle, Doom attempts to kill Eddie, along with Roger and his wife Jessica, by cutting him in half with a buzzsaw, grinning evilly all the time. [[VileVillainSaccharineShow Despite the lighthearted nature of the movie, Doom is a shockingly dark and frightening villain]].
* ''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice'':
** [[TheHeavy Maxim Horvath]] was [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil a treacherous disciple of Merlin who betrayed his mentor]], and nearly everyone loyal to him, to their deaths at Morgana le Fay's hand. A thousand years later, Maxim returns to Earth so he can unseal Morgana and doom swathes of mankind to destruction, all because [[DisproportionateRetribution he's sore his old crush Veronica wouldn't take him]]. Along the way, Maxim pointlessly kills a man for honking at him, then [[BadBoss betrays and murders both of his loyal minions]] so he can drain their life.
** [[LadyOfBlackMagic Morgana le Fay]] herself is an [[SorcerousOverlord ancient sorceress]] who once sought to initiate "the Rising" and use an army of magic-wielding zombies to decimate mankind. In her quest, Morgana slaughtered entire castles of life as she dueled with Merlin and his apprentices, and when she was finally near defeat, Morgana [[GrandTheftMe possessed the body of Veronica]] in an attempt to escape capture. Even after being [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned in the Grimhold]], Morgana's influence and followers lead to all manner of murder and mayhem--even the entirety of the Salem Witch Trials--and upon resurrection by her servant Horvath, she immediately tries to initiate the Rising once more, eager to wipe out most of humanity and enslave whatever is left.
* ''Film/JungleCruise'': [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Prince Joachim]] is a Prussian [[AristocratsAreEvil royal]] seeking petals of the Tree of Life to gain [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality]]. Threatening Dr. Lily Houghton for interfering in his plans, Joachim then kills almost everyone in the room [[HeKnowsTooMuch for learning his name]]. Joachim later allies himself with cursed conquistador [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Lope de Aguirre]] to track the heroes, fully intending to betray him and his men so they remain cursed. Joachim recklessly fires at the heroes with no regard for the destruction he causes, and later threatens a native village to force the cooperation of Lily's brother [=MacGregor=].

[[folder:Others]]
* ''Theatre/TheLionKing'' musical: [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]] commits the same crimes that his movie counterpart did and goes beyond that, notably [[AttemptedRape attempting to force himself onto Nala]]. During the musical, Scar becomes [[SanitySlippage more and more paranoid]] as time goes by, also feeling that he was being tormented by his older brother even in death. Unwilling to admit that he's [[TheCaligula terrible at governing the Pride Lands]], he instead condemns all his subjects to death so that he wouldn't have to accept that maybe he wasn't as good at being a king that he thought he would be.
* ''Manga/KilalaPrincess'': [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Valdou]] is the leader of a race of mechanical humanoids who [[FantasticRacism sees humans as naturally inferior]], and leads a coup in the magical land of Paradiso. His ultimate plan is to create a land without any emotions where only machines rule; thousands of human dissenters are captured, brainwashed, or killed in [[PoWCamp concentration camps]]. During his search for the Seventh [[Franchise/DisneyPrincess Princess]] and the magical tiara, he brainwashes Kilala's friend Erica to retrieve the tiara, then orders his men to shoot her in the head. After dropping his friendly pretense, Valdou shoots Kilala as she reunites with Rei, then captures the prince and plans to torture him into being thoroughly brainwashed, trying to kill Kilala several times. When he uses Princess Sylphy as a mole, Valdou plans to brainwash her too, and threatens Princess Jasmine's life in the world of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. His final, most despicable act of cruelty is to set a village on fire, endangering children orphaned under his rule, and mocking Rei over Kilala's apparent death in the blaze.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}: The Video Game'': [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Calico]] is a maniacal terrorist with goals to [[TakeOverTheWorld dominate the world]] through technology and nuclear superiority. Kidnapping Penny's scientist father to force him into servitude, Calico tries to take Penny herself hostage to further his compliance before simply trying to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the girl]] and her superpowered dog Bolt for being nuisances. When his KillSat weapon is completed, Calico plans to annihilate every nuclear weapon in the world except his own so he will have ultimate power, but not before he hopes to test his new weapon by destroying Penny's hometown then eliminating her father. Even when beaten, Calico enables his escape by [[NukeEm launching his entire nuclear arsenal]] at random targets to distract Bolt, uncaring of the lives that will be lost if they strike.

* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': [[Characters/TangledZhanTiri Zhan Tiri]] is a [[EvilFormerFriend former friend]] of Lord Demanitus who betrayed him during their search for the Sundrop and Moonstone to claim the power of both artifacts for herself. Freed by her followers, Zhan Tiri corrupted the Great Tree to use its powers to kill any who opposed her, and when resealed, her followers took her teachings to commit monstrous acts in her name, such as [[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Mother Gothel's abuse of Rapunzel]]; and a curse of Zhan Tiri's on the land of Corona leads to another character's descent into villainy. [[TheCorrupter Playing as Cassandra's confidant]], the "Enchanted Girl", Zhan Tiri manipulates her into betraying Rapunzel, pitting them against one another while she takes the Moonstone for herself and escaping her prison. Free at last, Zhan Tiri eventually betrays [[Characters/TangledCassandra Cassandra]] to steal the two artifacts and with her newfound power attempts to painfully drain the lives of the people of Corona.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]], Mufasa's envious younger [[CainAndAbel brother]], is just as vile as he was in [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the original film]]. Once the leader of the original [[Characters/TheLionGuardLionGuard Lion Guard]], Scar decides to overthrow and kill Mufasa when the latter playfully nicknames his brother "Scar" when Scar tried to seek praise for killing a traitorous lion and cobra who scarred him--not revealing that he had been perfectly willing to work with them to overthrow Mufasa. When Scar's fellow Lion Guard members refused to help him overthrow Mufasa, Scar uses the [[MakeMeWannaShout Roar of the Elders]] to [[BadBoss kill them]], but ends up losing the Roar in the process. In season 2, years after his initial death, Scar is [[BackFromTheDead brought back as a fiery spirit]] and tries to [[Characters/TheLionGuardArmyOfScar lead the animals of the Outlands]] on a brutal conquest of the Pride Lands, first by cutting off the river and entire water supply of the whole Pride Lands, and eventually simply trying to have them burn the savannah and all its inhabitants. In the [[Recap/TheLionGuardS3E1BattleForThePrideLands season 3 premier]], Scar attempts to burn the new Lion Guard, Simba, Nala, Kiara, and the hyena clan to death, the latter for one of them considering on defecting to the Pride Lands, before planning on tricking Kion into erupting the volcano with his roar, which will kill everyone in the Pride Lands. When confronted by the Lion Guard, Scar has Ushari scar Kion, with the snake's venom slowly turning Kion evil as Scar declares that Kion will now be just like him. Even after the death of his physical body, Scar remained a hateful creature driven by spite.

* ''Film/{{The Jungle Book|2016}}'' {{novelization}} ''The Strength of the Wolf is the Pack'', by Scott Peterson & Joshua Pruett: [[AVillainNamedKhan Shere Khan]] is [[AdaptationalVillainy even worse]] than in the film. Having killed Mowgli's father when Mowgli was a baby, Khan wants to kill Mowgli as well [[SinsOfOurFathers as an act of revenge for having been burned by his father]]. When the wolves try to send Mowgli to the man village, Khan murders their leader and Mowgli's adoptive father, Akela. He threatens to kill the wolf pups if Raksha displeases him. When a jackal provides Khan with useful information, Khan [[UngratefulBastard kills him]] just [[DisproportionateRetribution for asking for scraps of food in return]]. When Mowgli returns, Khan nearly kills Baloo and Bagheera to get to him, and taunts him about having killed both of his fathers.

* ''VideoGame/TreasurePlanetBattleAtProcyon'': [[TheManBehindTheMan Admiral Evar]] is a Procyon war chief-turned-[[AssInAmbassador ambassador]] who uses the guise of seeking a peace treaty with the Terran Empire to cover up his intentions to conquer it. Evar uses a fleet he constructs called the Ironclad to lay siege to the Empire and wipe out countless unsuspecting vessels and their crews, ordering the Ironclad ships to suicide bomb themselves if they ever face capture. Simultaneously using a [[RobotMe robotic imposter]] of John Silver to make [[SpacePirates pirates]] across the galaxy more bloodthirsty and endanger hundreds of innocents, Evar personally destroys a Terran escort ship out of petty spite against its captain for having beaten him in a battle years ago. Evar ultimately plans to stage a massive attack on Parliament and kill countless people so he can capture or assassinate the Queen, destabilizing the Empire enough for his Procyon Expanse to invade and dominate the fractured Empire.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke]] is a tomb-robbing mercenary (or, as he insists, "[[InsistentTerminology adventure capitalist]]") solely in the Atlantis operation for profit. The leader of the expedition sent to find Atlantis, Rourke maintains a gruff, militaristic indifference to the lives of those lost to the Leviathan and upon seeing the Heart of Atlantis, plans to confiscate it and sell it for double the money he'd receive. Knowing full well this will kill every Atlantean, when he's confronted on this Rourke threatens to shoot Princess Kida and shortly thereafter murders her father, never dropping his [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly façade]]. Rourke was concerned for [[ItsAllAboutMe little else but himself]] and the potential profit he could reap from Atlantis, to the point where he tosses [[TheDragon Helga]] off a blimp to her death for a minor benefit to his escape, and was greedy enough in the end to make his entire party turn against him.

* ''VideoGame/TreasurePlanetBattleAtProcyon'': [[InsaneAdmiral Admiral Evar]] is a Procyon war chief-turned-[[AssInAmbassador ambassador]] who uses the guise of seeking a peace treaty with the Terran Empire to cover up his intentions to conquer it. Evar uses a fleet he constructs called the Ironclad to lay siege to the Empire and wipe out countless unsuspecting vessels and their crews, ordering the Ironclad ships to [[SuicideAttack suicide bomb]] themselves if they ever face capture. Simultaneously using a [[RobotMe robotic imposter]] of John Silver to make [[SpacePirates pirates]] across the galaxy more bloodthirsty and endanger hundreds of innocents, Evar personally destroys a Terran escort ship out of petty spite against its captain for having beaten him in a battle years ago. Evar ultimately plans to stage a massive attack on Parliament and kill countless people so he can capture or assassinate the Queen, destabilizing the Empire enough for his Procyon Expanse to invade and dominate the fractured Empire.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': [[PsychopathicManchild Syndrome]] was once [[LoonyFan Buddy Pine]], an aspiring hero [[ItsAllAboutMe seeking fame and fortune]], who became outraged at all Supers when his "idol", Mr. Incredible, ceased his attempts at being a hero for his own safety. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Over a decade later]], Syndrome enacts his revenge, as he creates the "Omnidroid", a Super-killing machine that he uses to massacre Supers he lures in to duel it under the illusion it is simply a rogue robot. Upon capturing and torturing Mr. Incredible--notably forcing him to listen as his wife and children are seemingly killed by Syndrome's forces--Syndrome unveils his master plan to launch the Omnidroid into a highly-populated city, have it target innocents at random, then swoop in and "[[EngineeredHeroics save the day]]" to become the greatest hero in the world. When the Incredibles foil this plan, Syndrome makes one last attempt to spitefully ruin the family by kidnapping their infant child, Jack-Jack, and raising him to be a supervillain.

* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sir Miles Axlerod]] and [[TheHeavy Professor "Z" Zündapp]] are a pair of "[[TheAllegedCar lemon]]" cars who want power and to hurt all other cars simply because they were laughed at for being older models. After they buy up one of the world's largest oil reserves, Professor Z develops a weaponized camera that causes the alternative fuel Allinol to explode and decompose, and Axlerod orchestrates him to use it on the racers of the Grand World Prix, severely damaging the cars, to paint alternative fuels as dangerous and drive the world back to oil, [[{{Greed}} which will enrich the villainous duo]]. Z personally murders two spies, crushing one and torturing then exploding the other, on Axlerod's orders before the two try to murder the last user of Allinol, Lightning [=McQueen=], planning to [[ForcedToWatch make his best friend Tow Mater watch]] before killing him as well. When their weaponized camera fails, the two plant a bomb on Mater and try to detonate it in a pit stop, uncaring that it is filled with dozens of other cars, and even when their plan fails, Z spitefully activates a timer on the bomb to destroy whoever he can.

** Season 2: [[GeneralRipper General Lunaris]] is the seemingly-benevolent leader of the city on the [[{{Lunarians}} moon]], Tranquility, but is in fact a vicious warmonger out to prove the superiority of the "[[InsistentTerminology planet Moon]]" by any means necessary. Acting friendly to Della Duck when she arrives in Tranquility, Lunaris eventually falsely accuses her of having used the Moonlanders for her own enemies as rhetoric to attack Earth. When his true colors are revealed, Lunaris cruelly reveals his intention to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the children of the heroes]] first to break their will, following this up with an all-out invasion and an attempt to freeze the Earth over by taking it out of its orbit to make it revolve around the moon instead. In the end, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist throwing away any façade of caring for his own people]], Lunaris attempts to ram the Earth with his spaceship and wipe out everyone on it--including his own people on the planet--solely to deny them their victory.

** ''Phantom Manor'' (2019 refurbishment): [[BigBad Henry Ravenswood]] is the founder of Thunder Mesa and the one behind the evils of Ravenswood Manor. In life, Henry murdered the suitors of his daughter Melanie to [[AbusiveParents keep her from leaving him]]. After he died in an earthquake, Henry returned as the Phantom, secretly hanging Melanie's fiancé on her wedding day, causing her to wait for him to return for the rest of her life and afterlife. The Phantom laughed at her despair and [[HauntedHouse began inviting other ghosts to inhabit the mansion]], causing the disappearance of an expedition sent to investigate the manor. In the ride itself, the Phantom [[BitchInSheepsClothing poses as a friendly guide]] for the guests, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his murders]] before trapping the guests in the manor. He then attempts to murder the guests by sending them to be tormented by all those who died in Thunder Mesa.

** ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales Dead Men Tell No Tales]]'': [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheSilentMary Capitán Armando Salazar]] is a [[KnightTemplar self-righteous fanatic]] who seeks nothing less than the total annihilation of all piracy regardless of the level of criminality possessed by his victims. Scourging the seas for years in which he ambushed and slaughtered thousands of unsuspecting pirates and killed even the wounded, surrendering survivors with relish, Salazar was condemned to a life of haunting the Devil's Triangle after his death at the hands of Jack Sparrow. Taking his first opportunity to escape, Salazar massacres vessels across the ocean before forcing Barbossa to ally with him after sadistically killing most of the man's crew. Ultimately [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Henry Turner to use as a HumanShield, Salazar tries to torturously kill Jack with the Trident of Poseidon and bring about a new wave of decimation to the seas. Despite claiming to be avenging his dead father in his hunt for pirates, supplementary material reveals that Salazar's own deluded ego drove him to [[{{Patricide}} kill his father]] simply for accepting bribes from pirates.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Once Upon a Dream]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Maleficent]] is the cruel, dark [[CardCarryingVillain mistress of all evil]] in the story, dedicated to tormenting Aurora and prolonging her own life. After her original plan to curse Aurora when she was a baby to die on the day of her 16th birthday fails, Maleficent, struck dead by Prince Phillip, uses the last of her energy to trap the minds of Aurora and the entire kingdom in [[LotusEaterMachine a dream world]] until Maleficent can gain power to possess Aurora's body. Rejuvenating herself by brutally murdering people in the dream world--[[YourMindMakesItReal which kills them in the real world]]--and [[BloodMagic using their blood in rituals]], Maleficent eventually drops the façade of the dream world, indulging in full-on slaughter of dozens of people for both their life forces as well as just for fun. Though seeming to have gained the slightest hint of care for Aurora during their time in the dream world, Maleficent ultimately rejects these feelings, murdering Aurora's parents and killing innocent people just to torment her while mocking the woman over her coming fate as Maleficent's bodyjacked puppet.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast As Old as Time]]'': Monsieur [[MeaningfulName D'Arque]], full name Frédéric D'Arque, is the owner of the local BedlamHouse whose history goes back with Belle's own father Maurice. D'Arque, a member of the supernatural charmante people, [[BoomerangBigot hates his own people]] and experiments to take out the magical parts of himself to embrace his delusional idea of pure-blooded humanity. In his asylum, D'Arque subjects the charmantes to hideous experimentation for years on end to "torture the magic out of them", implementing [[ColdBloodedTorture 11th-century torture tactics]] in his research and cheerfully apathetic to the number of charmantes who die either from torture or suicide. D'Arque is willing to use his scientific technique to endorse the king and queen's intended FinalSolution across France, and although he claims he would never harm a human, D'Arque is so lost in his own hatred he murders his best friend Alaric and unhesitatingly tries to do the same to his other old friend Maurice.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke]] is a tomb-robbing mercenary (or, as he insists, "[[InsistentTerminology adventure capitalist]]") solely in the Atlantis operation for profit. The leader of the expedition sent to find Atlantis, Rourke maintains a gruff, militaristic indifference to the lives of those lost to the Leviathan and upon seeing the Heart of Atlantis, plans to confiscate it and sell it for double the money he'd receive. Knowing full well this will kill every Atlantean, when he's confronted on this Rourke threatens to shoot Princess Kida and shortly thereafter murders her father, never dropping his [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly façade]]. Rourke was concerned for [[ItsAllAboutMe little else but himself]] and the potential profit he could reap from Atlantis, to the point where he tosses [[TheDragon Helga]] off a blimp to her death for a minor benefit to his escape, and was greedy enough in the end to make his entire party turn against him.

* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sir Miles Axlerod]] and [[TheHeavy Professor "Z" Zündapp]] are a pair of "[[TheAllegedCar lemon]]" cars who want power and to hurt all other cars simply because they were laughed at for being older models. After they buy up one of the world's largest oil reserves, Professor Z develops a weaponized camera that causes the alternative fuel Allinol to explode and decompose, and Axlerod orchestrates him to use it on the racers of the Grand World Prix, severely damaging the cars, to paint alternative fuels as dangerous and drive the world back to oil, [[{{Greed}} which will enrich the villainous duo]]. Z personally murders two spies, crushing one and torturing then exploding the other, on Axlerod's orders before the two try to murder the last user of Allinol, Lightning [=McQueen=], planning to [[ForcedToWatch make his best friend Tow Mater watch]] before killing him as well. When their weaponized camera fails, the two plant a bomb on Mater and try to detonate it in a pit stop, uncaring that it is filled with dozens of other cars, and even when their plan fails, Z spitefully activates a timer on the bomb to destroy whoever he can.

** Season 2: [[GeneralRipper General Lunaris]] is the seemingly-benevolent leader of the city on the [[{{Lunarians}} moon]], Tranquility, but is in fact a vicious warmonger out to prove the superiority of the "[[InsistentTerminology planet Moon]]" by any means necessary. Acting friendly to Della Duck when she arrives in Tranquility, Lunaris eventually falsely accuses her of having used the Moonlanders for her own enemies as rhetoric to attack Earth. When his true colors are revealed, Lunaris cruelly reveals his intention to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the children of the heroes]] first to break their will, following this up with an all-out invasion and an attempt to freeze the Earth over by taking it out of its orbit to make it revolve around the moon instead. In the end, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist throwing away any façade of caring for his own people]], Lunaris attempts to ram the Earth with his spaceship and wipe out everyone on it--including his own people on the planet--solely to deny them their victory.

** ''Phantom Manor'' (2019 refurbishment): [[BigBad Henry Ravenswood]] is the founder of Thunder Mesa and the one behind the evils of Ravenswood Manor. In life, Henry murdered the suitors of his daughter Melanie to [[AbusiveParents keep her from leaving him]]. After he died in an earthquake, Henry returned as the Phantom, secretly hanging Melanie's fiancé on her wedding day, causing her to wait for him to return for the rest of her life and afterlife. The Phantom laughed at her despair and [[HauntedHouse began inviting other ghosts to inhabit the mansion]], causing the disappearance of an expedition sent to investigate the manor. In the ride itself, the Phantom [[BitchInSheepsClothing poses as a friendly guide]] for the guests, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his murders]] before trapping the guests in the manor. He then attempts to murder the guests by sending them to be tormented by all those who died in Thunder Mesa.

** ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales Dead Men Tell No Tales]]'': [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheSilentMary Capitán Armando Salazar]] is a [[KnightTemplar self-righteous fanatic]] who seeks nothing less than the total annihilation of all piracy regardless of the level of criminality possessed by his victims. Scourging the seas for years in which he ambushed and slaughtered thousands of unsuspecting pirates and killed even the wounded, surrendering survivors with relish, Salazar was condemned to a life of haunting the Devil's Triangle after his death at the hands of Jack Sparrow. Taking his first opportunity to escape, Salazar massacres vessels across the ocean before forcing Barbossa to ally with him after sadistically killing most of the man's crew. Ultimately [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Henry Turner to use as a HumanShield, Salazar tries to torturously kill Jack with the Trident of Poseidon and bring about a new wave of decimation to the seas. Despite claiming to be avenging his dead father in his hunt for pirates, supplementary material reveals that Salazar's own deluded ego drove him to [[{{Patricide}} kill his father]] simply for accepting bribes from pirates.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Once Upon a Dream]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Maleficent]] is the cruel, dark [[CardCarryingVillain mistress of all evil]] in the story, dedicated to tormenting Aurora and prolonging her own life. After her original plan to curse Aurora when she was a baby to die on the day of her 16th birthday fails, Maleficent, struck dead by Prince Phillip, uses the last of her energy to trap the minds of Aurora and the entire kingdom in [[LotusEaterMachine a dream world]] until Maleficent can gain power to possess Aurora's body. Rejuvenating herself by brutally murdering people in the dream world--[[YourMindMakesItReal which kills them in the real world]]--and [[BloodMagic using their blood in rituals]], Maleficent eventually drops the façade of the dream world, indulging in full-on slaughter of dozens of people for both their life forces as well as just for fun. Though seeming to have gained the slightest hint of care for Aurora during their time in the dream world, Maleficent ultimately rejects these feelings, murdering Aurora's parents and killing innocent people just to torment her while mocking the woman over her coming fate as Maleficent's bodyjacked puppet.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast As Old as Time]]'': Monsieur [[MeaningfulName D'Arque]], full name Frédéric D'Arque, is the owner of the local BedlamHouse whose history goes back with Belle's own father Maurice. D'Arque, a member of the supernatural charmante people, [[BoomerangBigot hates his own people]] and experiments to take out the magical parts of himself to embrace his delusional idea of pure-blooded humanity. In his asylum, D'Arque subjects the charmantes to hideous experimentation for years on end to "torture the magic out of them", implementing [[ColdBloodedTorture 11th-century torture tactics]] in his research and cheerfully apathetic to the number of charmantes who die either from torture or suicide. D'Arque is willing to use his scientific technique to endorse the king and queen's intended FinalSolution across France, and although he claims he would never harm a human, D'Arque is so lost in his own hatred he murders his best friend Alaric and unhesitatingly tries to do the same to his other old friend Maurice.

* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Commander Lyle Tiberius Rourke]] is a tomb-robbing mercenary (or, as he insists, "[[InsistentTerminology adventure capitalist]]") solely in the Atlantis operation for profit. The leader of the expedition sent to find Atlantis, Rourke maintains a gruff, militaristic indifference to the lives of those lost to the Leviathan and upon seeing the Heart of Atlantis, plans to confiscate it and sell it for double the money he'd receive. Knowing full well this will kill every Atlantean, when he's confronted on this Rourke threatens to shoot Princess Kida and shortly thereafter murders her father, never dropping his [[FauxAffablyEvil friendly façade]]. Rourke was concerned for [[ItsAllAboutMe little else but himself]] and the potential profit he could reap from Atlantis, to the point where he tosses [[TheDragon Helga]] off a blimp to her death for a minor benefit to his escape, and was greedy enough in the end to make his entire party turn against him.

* ''Film/MaleficentMistressOfEvil'': [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Ingrith]] is Prince Phillip's secretly power-hungry [[AbusiveParents mother]] who despises her husband as a fool for wanting peace between his kingdom and TheFairFolk. It's revealed she spread the fable of Maleficent being an evil sorceress, later framing her for cursing King John into a death-like sleep and the deaths of two of her poachers; in the process, she tries to ruin Aurora's bond with Maleficent. Ingrith has her poachers kidnap fae from the Moors and perform experiments to [[FantasticRacism find a way to kill them]], experimenting with red iron dust to kill a helpless sprite; her assistant in these experiments is a pixie whose wings she cut off. She lures the Moors into a church where she has red iron dust unleashed, killing dozens of them, while she oversees the massacre of the Dark Fae in the ensuing battle. When Ingrith tells Aurora a story of how she lost her brother and was exiled from her kingdom due to the fae, Aurora [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse doesn't believe her and calls out her lies]], with Ingrith admitting she's a fear-mongering tyrant. Ingrith seemingly kills Maleficent while her and Aurora's guard is down, and pushes Aurora off a tower as a diversion when Maleficent rises from the ashes during an escape attempt.

* ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Sir Miles Axlerod]] and [[TheHeavy Professor "Z" Zündapp]] are a pair of "[[TheAllegedCar lemon]]" cars who want power and to hurt all other cars simply because they were laughed at for being older models. After they buy up one of the world's largest oil reserves, Professor Z develops a weaponized camera that causes the alternative fuel Allinol to explode and decompose, and Axlerod orchestrates him to use it on the racers of the Grand World Prix, severely damaging the cars, to paint alternative fuels as dangerous and drive the world back to oil, [[{{Greed}} which will enrich the villainous duo]]. Z personally murders two spies, crushing one and torturing then exploding the other, on Axlerod's orders before the two try to murder the last user of Allinol, Lightning [=McQueen=], planning to [[ForcedToWatch make his best friend Tow Mater watch]] before killing him as well. When their weaponized camera fails, the two plant a bomb on Mater and try to detonate it in a pit stop, uncaring that it is filled with dozens of other cars, and even when their plan fails, Z spitefully activates a timer on the bomb to destroy whoever he can.

** Season 2: [[GeneralRipper General Lunaris]] is the seemingly-benevolent leader of the city on the [[{{Lunarians}} moon]], Tranquility, but is in fact a vicious warmonger out to prove the superiority of the "[[InsistentTerminology planet Moon]]" by any means necessary. Acting friendly to Della Duck when she arrives in Tranquility, Lunaris eventually falsely accuses her of having used the Moonlanders for her own enemies as rhetoric to attack Earth. When his true colors are revealed, Lunaris cruelly reveals his intention to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the children of the heroes]] first to break their will, following this up with an all-out invasion and an attempt to freeze the Earth over by taking it out of its orbit to make it revolve around the moon instead. In the end, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist throwing away any façade of caring for his own people]], Lunaris attempts to ram the Earth with his spaceship and wipe out everyone on it--including his own people on the planet--solely to deny them their victory.

** ''Phantom Manor'' (2019 refurbishment): [[BigBad Henry Ravenswood]] is the founder of Thunder Mesa and the one behind the evils of Ravenswood Manor. In life, Henry murdered the suitors of his daughter Melanie to [[AbusiveParents keep her from leaving him]]. After he died in an earthquake, Henry returned as the Phantom, secretly hanging Melanie's fiancé on her wedding day, causing her to wait for him to return for the rest of her life and afterlife. The Phantom laughed at her despair and [[HauntedHouse began inviting other ghosts to inhabit the mansion]], causing the disappearance of an expedition sent to investigate the manor. In the ride itself, the Phantom [[BitchInSheepsClothing poses as a friendly guide]] for the guests, [[ReminiscingAboutYourVictims reminiscing about his murders]] before trapping the guests in the manor. He then attempts to murder the guests by sending them to be tormented by all those who died in Thunder Mesa.

** ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales Dead Men Tell No Tales]]'': [[Characters/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheSilentMary Capitán Armando Salazar]] is a [[KnightTemplar self-righteous fanatic]] who seeks nothing less than the total annihilation of all piracy regardless of the level of criminality possessed by his victims. Scourging the seas for years in which he ambushed and slaughtered thousands of unsuspecting pirates and killed even the wounded, surrendering survivors with relish, Salazar was condemned to a life of haunting the Devil's Triangle after his death at the hands of Jack Sparrow. Taking his first opportunity to escape, Salazar massacres vessels across the ocean before forcing Barbossa to ally with him after sadistically killing most of the man's crew. Ultimately [[DemonicPossession possessing]] Henry Turner to use as a HumanShield, Salazar tries to torturously kill Jack with the Trident of Poseidon and bring about a new wave of decimation to the seas. Despite claiming to be avenging his dead father in his hunt for pirates, supplementary material reveals that Salazar's own deluded ego drove him to [[{{Patricide}} kill his father]] simply for accepting bribes from pirates.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Once Upon a Dream]]'': [[EvilSorcerer Maleficent]] is the cruel, dark [[CardCarryingVillain mistress of all evil]] in the story, dedicated to tormenting Aurora and prolonging her own life. After her original plan to curse Aurora when she was a baby to die on the day of her 16th birthday fails, Maleficent, struck dead by Prince Phillip, uses the last of her energy to trap the minds of Aurora and the entire kingdom in [[LotusEaterMachine a dream world]] until Maleficent can gain power to possess Aurora's body. Rejuvenating herself by brutally murdering people in the dream world--[[YourMindMakesItReal which kills them in the real world]]--and [[BloodMagic using their blood in rituals]], Maleficent eventually drops the façade of the dream world, indulging in full-on slaughter of dozens of people for both their life forces as well as just for fun. Though seeming to have gained the slightest hint of care for Aurora during their time in the dream world, Maleficent ultimately rejects these feelings, murdering Aurora's parents and killing innocent people just to torment her while mocking the woman over her coming fate as Maleficent's bodyjacked puppet.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast As Old as Time]]'': Monsieur [[MeaningfulName D'Arque]], full name Frédéric D'Arque, is the owner of the local BedlamHouse whose history goes back with Belle's own father Maurice. D'Arque, a member of the supernatural charmante people, [[BoomerangBigot hates his own people]] and experiments to take out the magical parts of himself to embrace his delusional idea of pure-blooded humanity. In his asylum, D'Arque subjects the charmantes to hideous experimentation for years on end to "torture the magic out of them", implementing [[ColdBloodedTorture 11th-century torture tactics]] in his research and cheerfully apathetic to the number of charmantes who die either from torture or suicide. D'Arque is willing to use his scientific technique to endorse the king and queen's intended FinalSolution across France, and although he claims he would never harm a human, D'Arque is so lost in his own hatred he murders his best friend Alaric and unhesitatingly tries to do the same to his other old friend Maurice.

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* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': The manga series gives AdaptationalVillainy to the following [[Characters/KingdomHeartsXehanortsIncarnations incarnations of Xehanort]]:
** ''Manga/KingdomHeartsI'': [[TheManBehindTheMan Ansem, Seeker of Darkness]] is the Heartless form of Xehanort. Masterminding the [[Characters/KingdomHeartsHeartless Heartless]]' invasion of several worlds and Maleficent's plan to capture the Seven Princesses of Heart in order to open the Final Keyhole, Ansem [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] Riku so that he can possess his body. He stabs Maleficent with a Keyblade in order to destroy her once she's [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer of use to him]], and then deceives Sora into using that same Keyblade to make what would ultimately be a SenselessSacrifice, turning Sora into a Heartless and unsealing the Final Keyhole. When Riku's heart fights back from within to stop him from attempting to [[WouldHurtAChild kill Kairi]], Ansem uses his power to banish Riku's heart into the Dark Realm. Ultimately planning to open the Door of Darkness to let darkness consume all existence, Ansem shows nothing but glee towards his destructive ambitions. Returning after defeat as a specter within Riku's heart, Ansem attempts to play the boy's own emotions against him in order to take control of the boy's body once more, vicious to the end. Showcasing no redeeming features and [[VileVillainSaccharineShow played dead seriously against the manga's usually lighthearted and silly tone]], Xehanort's Heartless would do whatever it took to gain ultimate knowledge and power, and to [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide sate his undying hunger for darkness]].
** ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'' & ''[[Manga/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'': [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Xemnas]], the Nobody form of Xehanort and leader of [[Characters/KingdomHeartsOrganizationXIII Organization XIII]], is portrayed as a cruel sociopath who rules his organization without care for any of its members, viewing his followers as weaklings who are only fit to serve his purposes. Looking to exploit the Keyblade's power to claim hearts, he allows Roxas and Xion to grow close, [[ManipulativeBastard intending to then pit them against each other]] so he can judge which Keybearer would be more useful to his plans, even [[BodyHorror tampering with Xion's form]], [[MindRape Mind Raping]] her and sending her to her death. When Axel is sent to look for the runaway Roxas, Xemnas threatens to eliminate him if he doesn't bring Roxas back dead or alive. He later attacks the Radiant Garden with hordes of Heartless, almost getting Goofy critically injured in the process, just so Sora and King Mickey can slay them all and give him enough hearts to complete his own Kingdom Hearts. When Ansem the Wise and Mickey try to stop his plans at his castle, Xemnas orders his Nobodies to kill them, and proceeds to overtake the Great Heart from within in an attempt to [[OmnicidalManiac reduce all of existence to nothingness]] and destroy all those in his way. Cold-blooded, pitiless, and lacking his game counterpart's TragicVillain qualities, Xemnas continuously shows himself to be more monstrous than any other Nobody solely because [[ItsAllAboutMe he thinks it in his best interest to be so]].

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* ''Theatre/TheLionKing'' musical: [[Characters/TheLionKingScar Scar]] commits the same crimes that his movie counterpart did and goes beyond that, notably [[AttemptedRape attempting to force himself onto Nala]]. During the musical, Scar becomes [[SanitySlippage more and more paranoid]] as time goes by, also feeling that he was being tormented by his older brother even in death. Unwilling to admit that he's [[TheCaligula terrible at governing the Pride Lands]], he instead condemns all his subjects to death so that he wouldn't have to accept that maybe he wasn't as good at being a king that he thought he would be.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}: The Video Game'': [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Calico]] is a maniacal terrorist with goals to [[TakeOverTheWorld dominate the world]] through technology and nuclear superiority. Kidnapping Penny's scientist father to force him into servitude, Calico tries to take Penny herself hostage to further his compliance before simply trying to [[WouldHurtAChild kill the girl]] and her superpowered dog Bolt for being nuisances. When his KillSat weapon is completed, Calico plans to annihilate every nuclear weapon in the world except his own so he will have ultimate power, but not before he hopes to test his new weapon by destroying Penny's hometown then eliminating her father. Even when beaten, Calico enables his escape by [[NukeEm launching his entire nuclear arsenal]] at random targets to distract Bolt, uncaring of the lives that will be lost if they strike.
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