Classic Villain / Disney

Disney

• 101 Dalmatians: Cruella de Vil: Luxury (Lust)/Delicacy (Gluttony). It's not that she wants more, she just wants it her way. Wears furs, speaks in an over-the-top manner, clouds of cigarette smoke. Pretends to be friendly with the Dalmatians' owners to get access to the puppies. Defeated by being in a crash during a dramatic car chase. Total opposite of the heroes, in spades. She doesn't die, but she's defeated because of her lack of self control (Karmic Defeat?). In the original book The Hundred and One Dalmatians, she suffers a Humiliation Conga — all her husband's money was in the furs at her home, so when those were destroyed by the puppies, her black and white hair goes half white, half green from shock. They flee the country to escape their creditors.
• Aladdin: Jafar. Vice: Ambition. An Evil Chancellor with a black and red motif, which extends to his kingdom when he takes over, Jafar has both a villain song and a kick ass leitmotif. However, his nice and professional demeanor drops when he gets close to getting what he wants, and he's a full-fledged sufferer of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. Is eventually done in by his own ambition, when his lust for power leave him trapped in a Genie's lamp. Later, in the Return of Jafar, his refusal to do anything about Iago, who has pulled a Heel–Face Turn and who he believes cannot hurt him at all because of his Genie powers, is his permanent undoing when his Genie lamp is kicked into lava, removing him from the series for good.
• Aladdin: The Series: Mozenrath. Vice: Pride/Envy. A ruthless young ruler with a lust for power to contrast Aladdin's insecurities about becoming a good Sultan. While he's both mighty and cunning, he's also very arrogant, seeing himself as the "Most powerful sorcerer of their generation". He is envious of Aladdin gaining power "the easy way" through his engagement to Jasmine and having the Genie to grant him magical assistance, while Mozenrath had to sacrifice his own hand and a big part of the rest of his lifespan for magical power.
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Lyle Tiberius Rourke. Vice: Greed. A brawny looking man of action compared to scrawny bookworm Milo Thatch, Rourke has no qualms about dooming a whole civilization and fatally shooting its king while making himself rich in the process. He even throws his right hand woman to her death. In the end, thanks to Milo and company, Rourke ends up crystallized and shattered to death.
• Beauty and the Beast: Gaston. Vice: Pride and Lust, with a few elements of Wrath and Envy. He is not visually distinctive from most Disney heroes and characters, but this is intentional. He is intended to be the complete opposite of the Beast character; the Beast is ugly and has a nasty temper, but is also noble and inwardly kind (though he struggles to make this apparent at first). Gaston is handsome and popular but despicable and inwardly monstrous. Might have been a Lovable Buffoon if he weren't such a complete asshole, but the effect stays the same. Most audiences tend not to take him seriously, as most of the plot moves without him. Has not one, but two songs (and in the stage musical, even a third which was cut from the film), plus a reprise - the former and reprise are about how great he is. The Beast spares Gaston's life in the climax, but - proving that he is Beyond Redemption - he stabs the Beast in the back. In doing so, he accidentally falls to his death.
• Big Hero 6: Yokai. Vice: Wrath. He spends most of the film as a silent (but deadly) enigma, and it's not clear what his primary goal is until his identity, Professor Robert Callaghan, believed to have perished in the fire alongside Tadashi Hamada, is revealed. Yokai's ultimate goal is revenge on Alistair Krei for his role in his daughter's perceived death. He isn't that different from our protagonist, Hiro, though once Hiro snaps out of his revenge-fueled fury, he proves himself different enough; While Yokai makes it very clear that he intends to kill Krei after destroying everything he's worked for, Hiro ultimately spares Callaghan's life and even rescues his daughter. Lampshaded by comic book geek Fred.
  Fred: He's a classic villain. We've seen too much!
• The Emperor's New Groove: Yzma. Her vice is Ambition, obviously, being the classic Evil Chancellor. As for opposites, she's old, scheming, and malicious while Kuzco is young, impatient, and merely thoughtless; she's pale and wears dark colors while everyone else is tanned and wears bright colors. Doesn't die, but she does get turned into a kitten by one of her own potions. As per nearly everything else in that movie, Yzma is, in a large way, a parody of Disney's own use of this.
  • Kingdom of the Sun, an earlier draft of The Emperor's New Groove: Yzma, again. Her vices here are Pride and Ambition. As in the final film, Yzma is a part of the Royal Court but worries more about eternal youth over power. As we learn in her Villain Song "Snuff Out The Light", Yzma is working with Supai, a being of darkness, to extinguish the light of the Sun and preserve what little of her youthful looks she has left to stay young and beautiful forever. In exchange, Supai is allowed to rule a world of darkness. She'll stop at nothing (including murder, treachery, and lying) just to stay young.
• Frozen: Prince Hans. Vice: Ambition, with a bit of Envy. Knowing that he could never inherit a kingdom for his own, he intends to take over Arendelle by marrying into the Royal family and killing both sisters. Although not the direct cause of the movie's main conflict, it was his deceptions i.e. faking his romance with Anna and causing her to argue with Elsa over their isolation that triggers the plot into such direction. He also shares many similarities to both Anna and Elsa: like Anna, he's estranged with his family, and like Elsa, he masks his true emotions. But while Anna wants to reconcile with Elsa, Hans doesn't as he aspires to rub his newfound achievements in his brothers' faces. While one of Elsa's reasons for trying to control her emotion-based ice powers is to stop herself from harming her loved ones, Hans hides his in order to manipulate others.
• Gravity Falls: Bill Cipher is Pride with hints of Wrath. Bill constantly flaunts his powers and sells himself as the most powerful thing in existence (for good reason). Though he loses his shit quick when things don't go his way.
• Hercules: Hades. Vices: Ambition, Envy and a hefty dose of Wrath. Compared to the other gods of Olympus, who are all aglow with bright colors, Hades is all blacks and greys. Hades is sick of being the ruler of the Underworld and seeks to unleash the Titans in order to take over Mount Olympus from his brother Zeus. To further this end, he has his minions snatch Zeus and Hera's infant son Hercules in order to make him mortal. Unfortunately for Hades, Hercules retained his god-like strength. To make a long story short, by risking his own life to recover Megara's soul from the river Styx, Hercules regains his Godhood and sends Hades down the drain, so to speak. He also tends to break down like a Sore Loser whenever he's upstaged and uses his minions as punching bags to blow off steam.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Claude Frollo was also a Pride/Lust villain. He was a Knight Templar who was fully convinced that he was in the right despite Kicking The Dog rather viciously with the Gypsies and Quasimodo, and his lust for Esmerelda drove much of the plot of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He's one of Disney's creepiest villains, committing more horrible atrocities than many of Disney's worst, and is comparatively worse than the Victor Hugo novel and play that inspired him. And again, he's sure he's a good man.
  Frollo: It's not my fault! I'm not to blame! It is the Gypsy girl, the witch who sent this flame! It's not my fault, if in God's plan, He made the Devil so much stronger than a man!
• The Lion King (1994): Scar. Vice: Envy/Wrath/Pride, with a dash of Sloth due to him ruining the Pridelands through a mix of laziness and cowardice, and was willing to have all the pride lands denizens starve to death if it meant keeping his throne on Pride Rock. Often stated as the king of all the Disney villains, this guy traumatized many a child with his assassination of Mufasa, and his musical number that's reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Wildly different looking than the other lions, he is copper colored with a black mane (though apparently he resembled Mufasa's much more honorable father, in a bit of a subversion), and was extremely skinny. Is eventually done in by his own cowardice when he blames his horrible actions on his henchmen.
  • Zira from the sequel, too. Vice: Wrath/Pride. VERY angry at Simba for exiling her and feeling her pride hurt by this and her Tyke-Bomb son betraying her.
• The Little Mermaid (1989): Ursula. Vice: Greed/Wrath. An extremely evil-looking Octopus Mermaid, Ursula uses her crooked contracts and devilish wiles to trick Ariel in allowing her to usurp the kingdom. Has a couple of pet eels and a memorable song number. Gets stabbed by the bow of a ship piloted by Ariel's Prince Charming.
• Peter Pan: Captain Hook has the vices of Pride and Wrath. Granted, his hatred is directed at a boy who cut off his hand and fed it to a crocodile, but that's really just icing on the cake. While this isn't elaborated on in the Disney film, the novel states that Hook hates Pan because he's so cocky, and because he seems to have good form without realizing it. He clearly hates his crew, ready to claw any of them when they begin to doubt him or slip up in the slightest way, and berates Smee for his incompetence when he's not cowering behind him when the crocodile's about. On top of that, he's fairly foppish, dressing in ridiculously ornate coats when the rest of his crew settles for far more practical clothing^note Though this is, to some extent, Truth In Television with respect to nautical traditions. He also serves as a perfect foil to Peter in a way few realize. While many suggest that Hook represents adulthood because his actor usually also plays Mr. Darling, Hook's profession of piracy denounces any sort of actual responsibility that comes with growing up. In essence, Hook is not so different from Pan, he's just in an adult body. Of course, he also gets the iconic death in the novel of being kicked by Peter into the crocodile's jaws.
• The Princess and the Frog: Dr. Facilier: Greed, with a hint of Sloth. He's noticeably lanky and wears a black and purple outfit with a skull-and-crossbones top hat. His low, almost lazy-sounding voice perfect for sweet-talking unsuspecting rubes. Oh, and his shadow is sentient. His name is meant to be a play on the French word facile, meaning "easy", and he's all about cutting corners, which contrasts with Tiana's remarkable (to a fault) work ethic. Much like Ursula, Facilier uses Naveen's desires (for "the green") to tempt him into agreeing to his intentionally vaguely-worded business proposition. Facilier himself isn't above taking the easy way out to further his own goals and has an outstanding debt with his "Friends on the Other Side", a sinister mob of Voodoo demons who run deals with him remarkably similar to the ones he runs with others. Facilier meets his demise when Tiana breaks the amulet given to him by these "Friends", prompting them to decide that he was very unlikely to pay back what he owed them and drag him kicking and screaming to the depths of Voodoo Hell to the tune of his own Villain Song. The last you see of him is his terrified face, forever immortalized on his own gravestone.
• Sleeping Beauty: Maleficent: Wrath and Pride. She's very visually distinct, looking not just sinister but outright inhuman and demonic, with her greenish skin, yellow eyes, and dark horns. She refers to herself as "the mistress of all evil", reacts to any real or perceived slight with horrific vengeance, horrifically punishes her minions if they fail her, and is willing to inflict a Fate Worse than Death on anybody she considers an enemy. Pretends she's willing to overlook not being invited to Princess Aurora's christening and give her a gift, only to curse her to die on her sixteenth birthday after pricking her finger on a spindle. When the curse is lessened so that she'll merely sleep until the spell is broken by True Love's Kiss, she still doesn't give up, hypnotizing Aurora and making her touch a spindle to ensure her curse comes true. With that done, she shows just how wrathful she can be when she plans to keep Aurora's true love Prince Philip captive until he's very old, just so they'll both suffer even after he kisses her awake. Ends up suffering a gruesome death from being stabbed in the heart when she tries to stop Philip from waking Aurora up.
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Evil Queen. The first Animated Canon villain — adapted from the Brothers Grimm story — personifies Pride in her status as Fairest of Them All, and Envious of her stepdaughter Snow White, becomes horrifically Wrathful, determined to see the girl dead. Her beauty and voice is cold and haughty compared to the warmth and sweetness of Snow White; when she transforms herself into a peddler, she becomes a wretched old hag who plays on the girl's kindness. She succeeds in poisoning Snow White with an apple, and a thunderstorm starts immediately afterwards. Snow White's friends - both the forest animals and the Seven Dwarfs - chase her to the top of a cliff. The Queen attempts to crush them with a boulder, but a bolt of lightning strikes the cliff, sending her over the edge...and the boulder falls after her.
• Tangled: Mother Gothel: Pride in her youthful looks, which also qualifies for vanity. More than simply befriending the heroine however, she kidnaps her at birth for her youth restorative powers and brings her up as her own child so she can emotionally manipulate her into never leaving her side. She seems sweet and loving, but it's all a ploy. Her out-of-date clothing and curly black hair sets her apart visually from the other characters. She's eventually killed as a result of trying to keep Rapunzel away from the outside world. After mortally wounding Flynn and giving Rapunzel the Sadistic Choice of healing him or going free, Flynn cuts Rapunzel's hair. This destroys her source of youth, causing her to age until there's nothing left of her but dust. Well, that along with the fact that she tripped over Rapunzel's hair (which Pascal was holding up so that it'd be done on purpose) and fell to her death.
• Tarzan: Clayton. Greed. Jane and her father's bodyguard. Unique in that his deception/revelation of being the final villain of the story is impossible to detect until right before he does it, before that is merely seems as though he's trying to keep everyone safe. Accidentally hangs himself when, in a rage, he tries to kill Tarzan.
• TRON and TRON: Legacy: Master Control is Pride personified, casually says he can run things "900 to 1200 times better than any human," and demands the Programs worship him instead of those puny human "Users." Dillinger Sr. is Greed, Envy, and Sloth. Desiring money and power, he steals Flynn's work and worked to ruin the man instead of working to improve his own programming skills. Clu 2.0 is a lethal cocktail of all seven, with Pride and Envy being his favorites.
• Wreck-It Ralph: Turbo/King Candy. Wrath, Pride, Envy and a little bit of Ambition as well. In a world of multicolored and interesting arcade characters, Turbo was nominally short, in a white jumpsuit and had an eery yellow smile. His biggest connection is just how similar he is to the hero Ralph: both wanted more out of their lives as game characters, and both went to other games in order to accomplish it. However, Ralph went on to find a friend in Vanellope Von Schweetz and genuinely doesn't want to cause too much trouble, while Turbo's actions are only about getting attention for himself. Angry that the more advanced "Roadblasters" game was taking away attention, he left his game and invaded it, making it crash. Mt. Litwick unplugged both it and his own game in the carnage, and "Going Turbo" came to be synonymous with causing trouble. Later, he enters "Sugar Rush", messes with Princess Vanellope Von Schweetz's code and locks the memories away so he can take the throne as King Candy. He then cons Ralph into destroying Vanellope's new kart in order to save her from an unplugging, when it's all a lie anyways. In the final race, he's revealed as the wicked program he was, and though eaten by a Cybug, he takes control, and plans to invade every game so he can always be the center of attention. The program dies in a beacon of red hot cola as his new Cybug programming drags him to a fiery Light Is Not Good death.
• Zootopia: Dawn Bellwether. Vices: Ambition, Pride, and a good heaping of Envy. Her villainy is a total secret both from the two heroes and the audience until the climax; she spends the majority of the story posing as Judy's ally, helping her out in her investigation into the missing mammals and giving Judy some much-needed sympathy when she's feeling unwanted at the ZPD just for being a small bunny, thus putting Dawn in the perfect position to stage-manage the investigation from behind the scenes. She succeeds in getting her Bad Boss Lionheart arrested and enjoys the position of great power she wanted, fuelled by the fear of predators 'randomly' going savage. She visually contrasts with Judy, albeit more subtly than other Disney villains - she prefers formal and slightly dorky attire, compared to Judy's very practical police uniform and her rough-and-tumble casual clothes, and at one point late in the movie she even wears charcoal and red. Like Judy, she's a small, adorable creature that apparently has well-meaning intentions, gets no respect from larger mammals and harbours a latent prejudice against predators, but while Judy develops a close friendship with Nick, a fox, that lets her see her old prejudice for what it was and strive to move past it, Bellwether stubbornly clings onto her prejudice, and her idea of 'improving society' is to unite all prey species against a common enemy; she nicely represents what Judy could have become had she not met Nick. Finally, she gets done in by her own pride when she gloats about her Evil Plan to Judy, confident that a savage Nick is about to kill her - it turns out that Judy was never in any danger at all, she and Nick were just putting on a show, and they recorded everything she said, landing in her jail once the ZPD arrive. Had it not been for that, she would have won, plain and simple.

Pixar

• Brave: Prince Mordu: Pride and Ambition. Merida's Evil Counterpart. During the days of the Ancient Kingdom, he let his pride control his deeds and clashed with his brothers and father, and ultimately, he let hate and desire favor him instead of mending the bond with his brothers torn by his pride. His ambition to stage a coup d'état on the throne led to a violent war against brothers, his transformation into a killer demon bear, and his murdering them in cold blood remorselessly.
• Cars: Chick Hicks wears his Ambition and Pride on his hood, but Envy and Wrath are also present, especially when he's losing. In the beginning of Cars, he's simply a slightly darker copy of Lightning McQueen's own flaws; a car who has languished in the shadows for years behind racing legend Strip "The King" Weathers, and has become a ruthless competitor with an arrogant streak, though not without his Villainous Valor as well. It's no surprise that he's green with envy, and his mocking of Mcqueen eventually leads to the main plot being set in motion. However, whereas McQueen undergoes Character Development, Hicks doesn't change at all. By the end of the movie, he and McQueen are complete opposites in all ways, which helps highlight just how far McQueen has matured. Done in by his Wrath and Pride, Chick ends up disgraced by fans and booed off the stage despite having won the greatest race in Piston Cup history due to his underhanded wrecking of The King leading to McQueen stealing the spotlight from him.
• The Incredibles: Syndrome: Envy/Wrath. Tons of Wrath. While not exactly completely distinctive, Syndrome is still about a foot or two shorter than most of the characters, and has a notable costume (with a cape), since the heroes called the red and black motif. Deceives our hero into thinking that his inventions had gone rogue, but was actually using them to kill heroes. Biggest explicit body count of any Disney animated villain. Uses technology while the heroes use their own powers, and has a second in command who may or may not be a super and may or may not be romantically involved with him. Is a deconstruction of the stereotypical comic book origin/villain. Defeated when his cape, a symbol of his over the top overcompensation, due to his lack of self-esteem (that's right, we just went psychiatrist on him), is caught in a plane turbine, which then explodes. By Word of God may not be dead, maybe.
• Toy Story 3: Lotso the Hugging Bear represents extreme Wrath, Pride and Envy all rolled into one Killer Teddy Bear. An Evil Counterpart and Shadow Archetype of Woody and Buzz, he used to be Daisy's favorite toy, but when he was accidentally left behind and replaced by another Lotso, it caused him to believe toys are just "trash meant to be thrown away." As a result, he vents his own anger out at the other toys as the tyrannical ruler of Sunnyside Daycare and despises children for their constant destruction and abandonment of toys. However, Woody deconstructs this by stating that his Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse for his crimes.

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