From the Disney Animated Canon, where Vile Villain, Saccharine Show tends to be in effect:
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Evil Queen is a narcissist trying to murder her stepdaughter solely because she was deemed prettier than her.
- Pinocchio: The Coachman has no qualms about kidnapping children and turning them into donkeys to be sold into slavery, and doesn't care if they never see their families again.
- Lady Tremaine from Cinderella. You could argue she cares about her daughters, but look closer and you will see she only cares about her daughters' social standing. In Cinderella 2, she forbids Anastasia from entering a caring relationship with a baker's son, solely because it would affect her social standing - and thus her own. She is an abusive parent to Cinderella, Drizella and Anastasia alike. This is made even worse in the direct-to-video sequel Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, where she bullies Anastasia into marrying Prince Charming, even though Anastasia doesn't want to marry somebody who doesn't truly love her.
- Sleeping Beauty: Maleficent is a spiteful sorceress who casts a spell on an infant girl in which she would die when her finger pricked the needle of a spinning wheel. All because she was snubbed from being invited to a party.
- 101 Dalmatians: Cruella De Vil wants to skin the fur off of the titular Dalmatians so she could use them for her fashion brand. She basically wants to slaughter scores of puppies just so she can get a fur coat which (taking into account her Unlimited Wardrobe) she won't even wear that often. There's even a scene where she nonchalantly lists a number of ways to kill the puppies. She's even worse in the book upon which the film is based, where she's revealed to have been unconcernedly drowning her cat's kittens.
- The Jungle Book: Shere Khan is a bloodthirsty Bengal tiger who is willing to track down and kill a young orphaned boy named Mowgli (who was raised in the jungle by wolves), all just to spite the boy's existence in order to suit his hatred against mankind. Bagheera even pointed out to Baloo that Khan himself will stop at nothing to get his claws and jaws on the boy.
- Although he's Laughably Evil for the most part, Prince John from Robin Hood (1973) is still a selfish, greedy and cunning despot who doesn't think twice about hurting and/or killing innocent people.
- The Black Cauldron: The Horned King is an Omnicidal Maniac who is willing to kill thousands and rule over what remained as a god.
- The Great Mouse Detective: Professor Ratigan is a pretty dark example. He's a sophisticated rodent with a charming demeanor and a heart as black as coal. He has drowned orphans and widows, been responsible for most of London's troubles, and has a pet cat, which he uses to kill anyone he wants. During his Villain Song, he had one of his own henchmen killed because he called him a rat. The scary thing about this is he wasn't concerned at all. Well, you couldn't have expected anything less from a kid friendly version of Professor Moriarty.
- The Little Mermaid: Ursula is a sadistic and power-hungry sea witch who presents herself as a beacon of hope for miserable merpeople, and offers to make their dreams come true in exchange for completing difficult tasks. She ultimately sabotages her own deals and has them transformed into weak and helpless polyps, and collects them in her lair. Barring that, she aims to exact revenge on King Triton and take over the sea. Her only notable redeeming trait is her weird but genuine care for her two pet eels Flotsam and Jetsam, who are quite competent as minions and are just as cruel and manipulative as she is; Ursula even shows extreme remorse for killing the eels by accident before turning her rage towards Ariel for yanking her hair that caused it to happen in the first place.
- Percival C. McLeach from The Rescuers Down Under fits this trope, although he is a lot less intelligent than most examples. He is still ruthless, cunning, guiltless, self-centered and anti-social, on top of being a very Bad Boss to his poor pet goanna, Joanna.
- Beauty and the Beast: Gaston is a low-functioning example. He has a grandiose sense of purpose, is cunning, manipulates the entire town to join him in a crusade to kill the Beast, and ultimately he cannot see things from other people's point of view.
- Jafar from Aladdin was described as "Señor Psychopath" by the Genie, and with good reason too: he has absolutely zero qualms against causing deaths, as shown by his cold indifference to sending Gazeem to his death in the Cave of Wonders ("Gazeem was obviously less than worthy") and his reaction to Jasmine's sorrow when he lies that Aladdin has been executed ("I think she took it rather well") and is quite intelligent and manipulative.
- The Lion King (1994): Scar not only possesses no qualms about murdering his brother and nephew, when Simba returns he has no qualms about tricking Simba into confessing to the responsibility of his father's death, and sentencing him to death for it on the spot. He's charming and a remorseless liar, convincing the hyenas that they need him, when he needs them. In a last-ditch attempt, even though he's actively admitted murder to Simba, he goes back on this and blames the hyenas. And he is completely incapable of seeing his own fallacies as a king, whether it's Shenzi or Sarabi trying to convince him of the dire situation.
- Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame cares for nothing and no-one but himself, and the only times he expresses any regret for his actions stem completely from a self-serving fear that he'll be sent to Hell, rather than any genuine remorse.
- Hercules: Hades is Faux Affably Evil to hide the fact that he's an evil god who's willing to do whatever it takes to take over Mount Olympus, even if it meant harming others (whether by turning a baby Herc mortal or sending his fellow gods to Tartarus). The deals he makes are for his own selfish gain by screwing everybody around, and is prone to bouts of anger when things don't go his way.
- The Princess and the Frog: Dr. Facilier, a voodoo sorcerer who makes his living selling fraudulent magic. He transforms a prince into a frog and his butler into a lookalike of the prince in order to get him to a marry a rich woman and give him the fortune. He then tries to sell all of New Orleans to demons to prevent his own soul from being taken.
- Tangled gives us Mother Gothel. So vain and self-centered it drives her to commit the most heinous acts without ever feeling guilty for it, she plays the role of an emotionally abusive parent to Rapunzel shockingly well. Always painting herself as the victim, always guilt-tripping Rapunzel into obedience… but still resorting to violence to get what she wants. And she has superficial charm all over.
- Wreck-It Ralph's King Candy, who manipulates and constructs reasonable arguments for people to listen to him. Also, doesn't care about whom he hurts if it means getting what he wants. As Turbo, he got two games unplugged out of extreme jealousy and tried to delete Vanellope out of her own game. When this didn't work, he redesigns her into a glitch and has her shamed and outcast by the other characters in Sugar Rush after erasing everyone's memories. Vanellope's glitching during the final race causes his King Candy disguise to malfunction, so he tried to kill Vanellope (and later Wreck-It Ralph, when Turbo goes One-Winged Angel in the final battle), thus showing that he doesn't care who gets killed in his obsession to stay as number one.
- Frozen:
- Frozen (2013): For most of the movie, Hans seems to be a Nice Guy, but when The Reveal is made, it's just as shocking to the audience as it is to Anna. He was actually working to seize control of Arendelle from day one and is willing to kill anyone who gets in his way while looking like a gentle and noble person to the characters and the audience. Hans reveals that he only ever cared about getting the throne, and Anna was the easier of the two sisters to seduce. He then explains that now that she's dying, all he needs to do is kill Elsa and become a king, smugly thinking he'll get away with it, while psychologically tormenting her to speed up the freezing heart curse. In his concentration on affirming his control, he spends most of the film manipulating others while displaying a remarkable ability to read and exploit them and so effectively hiding his true personality with Faux Affably Evil charm and faked friendliness that years later, audiences are still debating whether the movie hid the twist too well, is motivated by a drive for more control by becoming a king rather than a prince, becomes engaged to Anna but shows no emotional reciprocity and is revealed to have been faking his feelings, and displays an inflated ego during his Motive Rant.
- In Frozen II, King Runeard is tossed into conflict with the Northuldra out of distrust for them and their magic. When he had a dam built, he murders the leader of the Northuldra when his back was turned. The tie-in book Dangerous Secrets, reveals Runeard to have been a grossly violent domestic abuser who drove his wife away, and was horribly abusive towards his son. At the end of the day, Runeard only cared for controlling everything in his path.
- Zootopia: Assistant Mayor Dawn Bellwether is driven entirely by self-interest, shows no deeper kindness than favors and sociability to anyone, manipulates other characters by acting nice and likable when it's convenient, doesn't care how many mammals — predator or prey — get hurt in her pursuit of power, and seems to genuinely enjoy seeing Judy (apparently) get slaughtered.
- Moana: Tamatoa is a psychotic crab who freely admits to have eaten his grandmother among other things.
- Wish: King Magnifico shows the signs: he is a manipulative ruler who has superficial charm and a bloated sense of self-worth and is willing to sink to his lowest when he feels that his power is being threatened.
- A Bug's Life: Hopper. Despite having a soft side with his mother and a possible sense of honor, he is superficially cordial, extremely aggressive when things don't go his way, has no qualms about committing murder, is controlling, possessive, cold, manipulative, and feels zero remorse for his cruel actions.
- Monsters, Inc.: Randall Boggs is a ruthless, vindictive and envious glory-hound who will do whatever it takes to topple over his rival, James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, and is not above harming children with a scream extracting machine in order to do so.
- The Incredibles: Syndrome (real name: Buddy Pine) is an interesting case of someone who was already predisposed to be a sociopath, but an event in his life was the trigger for those traits. As a child, he tells Mr. Incredible "I've finally figured out who I am. I am your ward, Incrediboy!" while never accepting Mr. Incredible's consistent rejections. As an adult, he's a Glory Hound who is willing to cause destruction and death of innocent people, even children, with no remorse at all to achieve that fame. He calls Mr. Incredible "weak" for sparing Mirage after he threatened to crush her. When Mirage gets mad at him for risking her life, his facial expression is one of complete confusion on why she is upset.
- Toy Story 3: Lots-o-Huggin' Bear, aka Lotso. He first appears in the guise of a chummy and mild-mannered de-facto leader, but is later revealed to be a full on remorseless, border-nihilistic psychopath who wants power over the lives of the other toys in the nursery.
- Cars 2: Both Sir Miles Axlerod and Professor "Z" Zündap. The former is a bastard in sheep's clothing who acts as a decent guy despite the fact that his actions prove otherwise, while the latter is a sadistic torturer who willingly performs the physical work of his boss.
- Coco's antagonist Ernesto de la Cruz is definitely a sociopath (and also a huge narcissist to boot). Ernesto was one of the most famous and beloved celebrities in Mexican history, and was remembered as a great, charming, friendly man. However, his public persona couldn't be further from the truth; he was actually a ruthless fraudster and murderer who cold-bloodedly killed his own best friend Hector, just to plagiarize the song lyrics he wrote in order to become famous. Ernesto loved the adoration he got from devoted fans (including a kid named Miguel), but is willing to leave Miguel to die after the boy learned the truth of what an evil scumbag Ernesto really was, not wanting his undeserved fame to be tarnished. And finally, Ernesto never seems to feel any real remorse over murdering his old friend (or attempting to murder one of his fanboys).
- Luca: Ercole Visconti cares for no one but himself and, as seen in the climax, he is willing to even kill Alberto and Luca for something as petty as winning a race, their sea monster status being nothing to him but an excuse (that and the fact he wants the prize and recognition that comes with it).
Others
- The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie Boogie is a sadistic torturer who delights in causing pain, suffering and misery to people so much so, that Halloween Town itself wants nothing to do with him.
