Villain Song / Web Animation

• Played for Laughs in asdfmovie12, with a nameless potted flower joyfully singing as he strolls down a road... about how he's going to eat human skin.
• Homestar Runner:
  • Strong Bad often opens his email-answering series with a brief song, usually about how great he is and/or how not-great the people who email him are.
  • Breakout Character Trogdor the Burninator has a kickass thrash metal theme song sung by Strong Bad which (attempts to) explain its backstory and detail how powerful it is. A longer and better-sounding version can be heard on the "Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits" CD mentioned below, or as an unlockable song in Guitar Hero 2.
  • Strong Bad actually released an entire CD of songs sung by him (and other characters), but out of all the tracks only "You've Got an Ugly & Stupid BUTT", "The ladies in my town all know my name", "Somebody Told Me (Now I Believe Them)", and the aforementioned "Trogdor" really qualify as Villain Songs.
  • On Trogdor's fifth anniversary, Strong Bad made a song for his original attempt at drawing a dragon, The "S is for Sucks" Dragon. Despite being vastly different in tone, the song still mentions that the dragon kills people and is feared by everyone.
• RWBY:
  • "When It Falls", the opening theme of Volume 3, is either from Cinder or Salem's perspective, and describes how the world will fall and innocents will perish in massive quantities. The singer goes on to blame the subject (likely Ozpin) for the death and destruction that will befall their people, and how division and disharmony will be rampant in this new Dystopia.
  • "I'm the One" plays during Emerald and Mercury's tournament battle against Coco and Yatsuhashi. The song is sung from the perspective of Emerald and Mercury, talking about how their pasts have placed their combat and Semblance abilities far above those of their opponents. Some of the smack-talking and boasting in the song coincide with dialogue and actions that occur during the fight. Coco and Yatsuhashi, who are considered some of Beacon Academy's star fighters, are completely curb-stomped by the villainous duo, confirming how dangerous Emerald and Mercury are to student-level fighters.
  • "Divide" first plays during the ending of the Volume 3 finale, which introduces the Big Bad, Salem. During the show's pilot episode and the final episode of Volume 3, Salem gives a long speech about the origin of legends and humanity, and how Ozpin's correct to consider humanity stronger when it unites. She boasts of her plan to divide humanity and destroy everything that Ozpin has worked for, concluding that she can't wait to watch him burn. The song "Divide" takes its lyrics from Salem's two speeches, also ending with the desire to watch him burn. From Volume 4, certain refrains from the song play in the background whenever she is on screen and scheming.
  • "Lionize" is introduced during the Volume 6 Character Short which details how Adam became a villain. The song is a self-aggrandizing boast about how a lifetime of torture and abuse at the hands of humanity creates a hero that will become immortalized as a legend for crushing and subjugating humanity. The Short is about how the Faunus elevate Adam in power and status for being the hero they've been yearning for, to fight humanity for their rights. However, the Short also ends with Adam losing everything because ego, selfishness and obsession leads to everyone who once had faith in him turning on him for becoming a monster.
  • "All Things Must Die" plays during the fight between Raven Branwen and Cinder Fall in the Vault of the Spring Maiden. Reflecting the views of both villains, the lyrics reflect the battle as they explain that all things come to an end, and that the others' life is about to be ended. As the song progresses, they urge the other to give up and surrender to death.
  • "One Thing" plays when Neo returns to the screen in Volume 6, explaining why she's decided to fight Cinder. It hints at her past, suggesting that she was alone and without purpose until Roman Torchwick changed her life and gave her a name. She blames Cinder for what happened to Roman and that she's fallen onto hard times once more since his death. The Neo that fights Cinder is wearing tattered clothing and Roman's hat, and Cinder has to directly address the death of Roman to end the fight.
  • The ironically named "Hero", which reflects the views of General James Ironwood as he swears to do anything in his power to protect his people and kingdom by any means necessary. However, after he decides that those means will require him to betray his allies, the song takes on new meaning.
  • Ok Goodnight's "Awake" is adapted into a theme for Cinder, reflecting her views as she kills her tormentors and betrays her mentor in search of identity.
  • Played for Laughs with "That's a Big Ursa!", a tuned and remixed version of some of Russel Thrush's dialogue regarding a massive Grimm. It was featured exclusively on the Volume 1 DVD.
• Camp Camp: The second season's opener has Daniel's half of "Better Than You," where Daniel finally drops his charismatic Nice Guy act and reveals the true depths of his evil, openly gloating to David about how he intends to poison and sacrifice the children of Camp Campbell whilst simultaneously sticking it to David about how he's so much greater than him, both as a person and a camp counselor.
• DEATH BATTLE!:
  • "Ultron vs Sigma" has "Infection Perfection", with the singer proclaiming the superiority of machines while declaring victory over the other.
  • "Darkseid vs Thanos" features a Boastful Rap called "Kings of Infinity", with the singer proclaiming how everything in their world is theirs to control as they see fit.
  • "Harley Quinn vs Jinx" has "Mad Laugh Riot", performed by Futakuchi Mana, about the character(s) proclaiming their insanity and inability to be reasoned with.
  • "Omni-Man vs Homelander" has "Diabolical Invisible Me", where the singer boasts about their might and how their opponent will perish.
• Hazbin Hotel has Alastor's Dark Reprise of Charlie's earlier Inside Every Demon is a Rainbow, where he uses her tune to sing about how sinners can't actually be redeemed and Charlie's endeavor is pointless.
• Ollie & Scoops: In "Old Crumplecranks," the titular character sings a jazz number introducing himself to Poopsie and Rudy, with lyrics about how dangerous he is, and how he plans to kill the two cats.
• Parodied in Beauty and the Beast (Phelous).
  • Wabuu plays the role of Gaston from Disney's Beauty and the Beast, so at one point some characters in the tavern attempt to sing the song "Gaston" but with Wabuu's name. Due to their grating voices and lack of musical accompaniment, it sounds terrible, and the "song" is over after just a few seconds. Wabuu is not pleased.
  Wabuu: That was it? That song was soooo lame!
  • A few minutes later, Wuschel is singing the song again, but Wabuu tells him it's too late now and shoots him.
  Wabuu: It's too late to suck up through song now, Wuschel!
• V-Tubers:
  • Though not technically a villain, there's a few songs that fit in this category from Mori Calliope of hololive, who assumes the role of Death herself. Excuse My Rudeness, But Could You Please RIP is a Boastful Rap about how Calliope is the best in the business when it comes to human erasure. In a similar fashion, DEAD BEATS is about how she'll effectively eliminate the enemies of her fans as perks for being buddy-buddy with her. Fortunately, the audience doesn't have to worry about a thing, as Calli is actually a friendly Reaper, and is on hiatus for the most part.
    • On the "Your Mori" EP, she gives us "Bully", which portrays the feelings of an abuser who doesn't understand why the person they care about still stays even after they continue to hurt them.
    • Calli returns to to the antagonistic portrayal of Death she started with in "Dead on Arrival", where she sings a bouncy Electro Swing song about how useless trying to fight the inevitability of death is because she's puppeteering and scripting everything from the shadows anyways. She takes the role of a gambling "death dealer" who fixes every game and toys with those she's playing against, selling the souls she wins to the highest bidder. They don't call her the Queen of Sayonara for nothing.
    • "NEZUMI Scheme" is this for Calli's Alternate Universe Super-Deformed self, "Nezumori". This version of Calli is depicted as vain, selfish, and uncaring of her Dead Beats, using them in the video to cause a rampage all across the Underworld, and the song reflects this in its lyrics, demanding that they praise her like a god.
  • Amanda Lee's villainous V-Tuber persona, Multiverse Monarch, released an album in 2022, Rise of the Monarch, which has the titular villainess telling her story over the course of the eight songs: the songs and accompanying music videos reveal that the Multiverse Monarch was once a genuine hero until she was betrayed by someone she trusted and now relishes in her villainy.
    • The aptly named song "Villain Vibes" features the aforementioned Mori Calliope.
  • Holo X's Takane Lui gets a chance to shine in her song "Overd", where she sings about her role as a leader in Secret Society HoloX and their goal to Take Over the World.
• While he's really just a lackey to the Big Bad, Geodude in Starter Squad gets "Rock Smasher", a heavy metal number he belts out while beating the crap out of Villain Protagonist Charmander.
• The Sun's Tear: Kaa gets one in the form of "You'll Be Mine", a devious lullaby performed by Kaa as she finalizes her control over Sanaya's mind and gloats about it.
• Epithet Erased has a few:
  • “Great at Crime,” the first ending theme, is styled as one for Giovanni and his crew of Card Carrying Villains. But given Giovanni’s (poorly) Hidden Heart of Gold and his minions’ collective F in Evil, it comes off as an anti-villain song about their poorly executed Poke the Poodle antics.
  • For the second ending, Zora turns the same melody into “Great at Cowboy,” a chilling song about her status as a terrifying bounty hunter. “Countdown” follows up by describing the ways she’s toyed with her previous marks.
  • Discussed when Giovanni is explaining what he thinks makes a good villain in Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic, where he makes sure to mention that as the bad guy, "you get the coolest song".

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