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Disney Princesses but they're Villains
(aka: Disney Villain Songs Lydia The Bard)

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"Disney Princesses but they're Villains", also known as "The Villain Series", are a series of fanmade web animations/songs by Lydia the Bard on YouTube.

Each video takes a Princess (or female lead, such as characters like Tinkerbell, Alice, Mirabel, Isabella, Dolores, and Mulan) from Disney Animated Canon (and the now-Disney owned Anastasia), and it transforms them into a villain, often via changing one specific event in their canon source story which has far-reaching consequences so that they're driven down a darker path—basically a Grimmification of Disney Princesses. In every video, the now-evil princess's Villain Song (which is usually a Dark Reprise of one of the princess's canon songs) plays throughout; most of the videos have a description in the video summary of the background which led to the featured princess's dark side turn (barring the earliest video, "Jasmine's Villain Song"); and a few videos have accompanying storytelling animatics showing where the corrupted princesses' paths lead them.

Lydia the Bard performs the vocals for every video (mostly main, though in "Tiana's Villain Song", she voices Charlotte), with different artists behind the arrangements and animatics per video.

Videos include:

  1. "Jasmine's Villain Song" — a minor key version of "Arabian Nights."
  2. "Elsa's Villain Song (1)" — a minor key version of "Into the Unknown."
  3. "Ariel's Villain Song (1)" — a minor key version of "Part of Your World."
  4. "Rapunzel's Villain Song" — Animatic by sacredhyacinth, a minor key rewrite of "Mother Knows Best / I See the Light."
    • "Part 2" — Animatic by Shrubbugg, a minor key rewrite of "When Will My Life Begin".
  5. "Aurora's Villain Song" — a minor key rewrite of "Once Upon a Dream."
  6. "Mulan's Villain Song" — a minor key rewrite of "I'll Make a Man Out of You."
  7. "Megara's Villain Song" — Animatic by MaepleTea, a minor key rewrite of "I Won't Say (I'm In Love)."
  8. "Snow White's Villain Song" — an original song entitled "I Won't Back Down," with the Mirror's vocals done by annapantsu.
  9. "Moana's Villain Song" — Animatic by MaepleTea, a minor key rewrite of "How Far I'll Go."
  10. "Mirabel's Villain Song" — Animatic by Shrubbug, a minor key rewrite of "We Don't Talk About Bruno."
    • "Part 2" — Animatic by itsnicsalad, an original song entitled "Nothing Left To Lose".
  11. "Anna's Villain Song" — Animatic by MaepleTea, a minor key rewrite of "For the First Time in Forever," with elements from "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"
  12. "Merida's Villain Song" — Animatic by Neal Illustrator, a minor key rewrite of "Touch the Sky."
  13. "Anastasia's Villain Song" — Animatic by Shrubbug, a minor key rewrite of "Journey to the Past."
  14. "Cinderella's Villain Song" — Animatic by Sarah's Works, a minor key rewrite of "So This Is Love."
  15. "Belle's Villain Song" — Animatic by luck_buggy, a minor key rewrite of "Beauty and the Beast," with elements from "The Mob Song."
  16. "Tiana's Villain Song" — Animatic by Sarah's Works, a minor key rewrite of "Almost There" with elements of "Friends on the Other Side." This is the first song where Lydia did not do the main vocals, as Tiana's vocals are by Sierra Nelson, and Lydia voiced Charlotte la Bouff instead.
  17. "Isabela's Villain Song" — Animatic by Sofia Mochi, a minor key rewrite of "What Else Can I Do?"
  18. "Asha's Villain Song" — Animatic by MaepleTea, a minor key rewrite of "This Wish," with Magnifico's vocals by Alex Runicles.
  19. "Dolores' Villain Song" — Animatic by Shrubbug, an original song entitled "Rule the Quiet."
  20. "Tinkerbell's Villain Song" — Animatic by Lazy Eule, an original song entitled "Fall Little Wendy Bird Fall."
    • "Part 2" — Animatic by lazyeule, an original song called "Take the Shot" that shows what happened after Tinkerbell killed Wendy.
    • "Wendy's Villain Song" — Animatic by lazyeule, an original song called "Die for Me" that shows Wendy coming back alive by the magic of Neverland but corrupted.
  21. "Alice in Wonderland Villain Song" — Animatic by Lazy Eule, an original song entitled "I Only Paint in Red Now."
  22. "Elsa Villain Song (2)" — Animatic by QNJazmine, an alternate cover of "Let It Go" that features a different take on Elsa to the original minor key cover, with Anna's vocals done by Chloe Breez. Lydia stated that, while mostly unconnected to the previous song, could be interpreted as a loose prequel.
  23. "Ariel's Villain Song (2)" — Animatic by luck_buggy, an original song entitled "Siren" that features a different take on Ariel to the original minor key cover. It features a different story and timeline of events from the previous song.
  24. "Luisa's Villain Song" — Animatic by Lucile Dufau, an original song entitled "Tear it Down".

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  • Abhorrent Admirer:
    • Gaston like in the source constantly sexually harassed Belle and wouldn't take no for an answer, and it's implied here that he wasn't the only man like that who Belle had to endure.
    • Played With with Wendy in her Villain Song. Since being resurrected by Neverland’s magic, she’s become a crazed Yandere who wants to keep Peter Pan all to herself by killing him, and constantly harasses and terrorizes him throughout her song. Peter is understandably creeped out by her new obsession, but unlike the above example in this trope, Wendy is played sympathetically because her resurrection twisted her original personality, meaning she’s clearly not in her right mind, and Peter DID reciprocate her feelings before she died, so much so that he’s clearly devastated at having to lose her a second time.
  • Accomplice by Inaction: Mirabel calls out Dolores for hearing everything that was said about her and Bruno, but not saying or doing anything to defend either of them.
  • Adaptational Attractiveness:
    • In Alice's Villain Song, the Wonderlanders are subject to this — the usually trollish Mad Hatter looks more like his Tim Burton incarnation as an androgynous pretty boy; the Queen of Hearts is a regal beauty as opposed to the Gonky Femme she is in both Disney versions (though she's still as evil as ever); the Cheshire Cat, who's goofy-looking in the original cartoon and creepy-looking in the Tim Burton version, is a Ridiculously Cute Critter resembling a Pokémon; and Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are Adorably Precocious Children. This is likely meant to make their corruption more terrifying.
    • Cinderella’s stepsisters are noticeably less gonk-ish looking thanks to the art style.
  • Adaptational Heroism:
    • As Asha descends into villainy, King Magnifico apologizes to her for his harsh reactions and admits to only being human, in contrast to his egotistical film self who becomes increasingly self-righteous and villainous.
    • Peter Pan's more insensitive moments like laughing at a group of mermaids trying to attack Wendy and refusing to return with Wendy to London isn't in Tinker Bell’s Villain Song video. His care for her and the Lost Boys appear to be even more genuine in the sequel, where he fights against Tinker Bell to save and avenge them, although he does eventually bring himself to kill Tinker Bell, whilst leaving it unknown if he has descended down the same dark path as her due to her actions…
  • Adaptational Hairstyle Change: Belle's hair is noticeably longer than in canon, reaching past her waist. The animatic uses it to good effect to make her look barbaric and nightmarish as it gets messier as the song continues.
  • Adaptational Jerkass:
    • "Anastasia's Villain Song": Downplayed. Unlike in the movie, the Dowager Empress Marie refuses to believe Anya is the real Anastasia after being bombarded with so many fake Anastasia's for so many years, and she rejects her out of hand and throws her out.
    • "Cinderella's Villain Song": Although Prince Charming marrying someone else after he extensively tried and failed to find his original partner from the dance was only politically pragmatic, he doesn't look at all sombre or regretful when Cinderella goes on a rampage against him and his new wife, only angry.
    • "Belle's Villain Song": Downplayed. Belle is well aware of her incredible beauty and intellect, openly calling herself "the beauty" and "the smartest girl in all the land," while in canon she did no such thing.
    • "Isabela's Villain Song": Downplayed. Alma actively forbids Isabela from making anything other than flowers throughout her childhood, drags her away from playing with her sisters and cousins, and outright throws her in her room as punishment for playing in the mud. In canon, by contrast, Isabela seemed completely unaware that she could make anything other than flowers, and never shows any interest in playing until the latter half of the movie.
      • The same thing happens again in "Luisa’s Villain Song", as a flashback shows Alma forcing Luisa as a child to use her strength for her chores and didn’t so much as allow her to play the piano (something the poor kid seemed really happy about doing), and later harshly berating Julieta for being unable to control her daughter’s outburst. While the second example is closer to Alma’s (former) canon actions, the first showcases the opposite as canon shows that Luisa did play piano as an adult and Alma had no problems with it whatsoever.
  • Adaptational Modesty: Some of the villainous characters receive updated outfits that are darker and less revealing than those of their canon counterparts. For example, in her song, Tinkerbell wears a black shirt under her iconic green dress, along with goggles and fingerless gloves.
  • Adaptational Villainy:
    • As stated above, every video's featured Disney Princess ends up diverging from their canon portrayal and ending up a villain, often by exploiting their harrowing backstories and showing how one little tweak in the course of events could have led to them completely snapping and taking a turn for the worse.
    • However, they aren't the only ones...
      • "Megara's Villain Song": Hercules isn't moved by Meg's Heroic Sacrifice, instead he's overwhelmed with bitterness at the revelation she was working for Hades. Instead of offering to sacrifice himself resurrecting her from the River Styx, Hercules leaves her behind to rot and he ascends to godhood through a less altruistic path.
      • "Merida's Villain Song": After Merida was too late to mend the bond torn by pride; King Fergus, the lords and their sons all went back on everything that Merida had initially convinced them of when pacifying them, interpreting the whole incident with Bear Elinor as a cautionary tale against breaking from their traditions and doubling down on resuming Merida's betrothal, while Merida and Fergus' relationship understandably took a nosedive from which they would never recover. Additionally, immediately after Elinor's death, King Fergus also killed the permanently-transformed Hamish, Hubert and Harris — an act that is left uncertain as to if he knew they were his sons or not.
      • "Tinkerbell's Villain Song": The mermaids weren't exactly nice to begin with, but here they surprise Wendy and pull her underwater, then surround her with clear intent to eat her. Then there's Vidia, Rosetta, and Iridessa, who, in canon, often try to talk sense into Tinkerbell after the latter goes too far. Here, however, they've become just as desperate and ruthless as Tink, being more than willing to trap Peter and the Lost Boys on Neverland and kill Wendy to ensure they don't leave with her.
      • "Rapunzel’s Villain Song: Part 2": Gothel was already a pretty heinous villain herself, but while she was, at worst, willing to murder Flynn and emotionally manipulate/imprison Rapunzel in her tower, she never actively tried to talk Rapunzel into committing a kingdom wide genocide by plaguing the land with the deadly powers of the Moonstone Opal.
      • "Alice's Villain Song": Wonderland itself counts, having gone from a whimsical if chaotic land to a down right Eldritch Location that infects Alice with its madness and is implied to have done the same with other citizens. Assuming it’s real and not a representation of Alice’s deteriorating mental state.
      • Prince Eric in Ariel’s (second) Villain Song had apparently become a Yandere towards Ariel, imprisoning her in his castle in an act of possessiveness, until he found out this was the result of her unintentionally affecting him with her Siren Song, causing him to tighten his control over her (to the point where he had her bound and gagged in the palace dungeons) before ordering a mass genocide of the merfolk, to prevent the rise of any more sirens. It was this act that pushed Ariel’s vendetta and eventual descent into a villainous and bloodthirsty siren. However, this is slightly downplayed and possibly justified, as Eric was under the effects of mind control (despite it being unintentional), and he looks horrified when he realizes what’s become of Ariel, even if he is willing to hunt her down and end her threat.
  • Adapted Out:
    • Maui is nowhere to be seen in "Moana's Villain Song."
    • Only three of the Lost Boys appear in "Tinkerbell's Villain Song": Slightly, Cubby, and Nibs. The twins and Tootles are absent, underscoring that Tinkerbell was only able to ensure the survival of three of her friends. John and Michael Darling, as well as Hook and the pirates, are also absent.
    • We don't see Lady Tremaine in "Cinderella's Villain Song", but we do see her two daughters, who Cinderella turns into pumpkins as punishment for their treatment of her.
    • A large motivation for Alice to get back home is her parents, who are shown to love her deeply. However we never hear about her older sister or her cat, Dinah.
    • Despite her return to the sea and wielding her father’s trident, none of Ariel’s family and friends can be seen in "Siren." note  Given that the backstory involves the mer folk being hunted down and killed and Ariel is the one in possession of the Trident, it’s likely they’re dead.
  • A God Am I: Asha compares herself to the stars in her song, even saying she’s “the star in the sky that you are pleading [to]”. Considering that Star is shown to be capable of great magic, it’s more than likely to be this trope.
    Asha: “Now you try to compete with a galaxy!”
  • Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Magnifico sees Asha holding his wish, he pleads with her to stop, saying he's only human and begging her forgiveness. It doesn't work, and she crushes his wish in front of him.
  • All There in the Manual: A lot of context is provided in the video descriptions.
  • Alternate Universe Fic: Mostly What If?'s, but there are a couple continuations where the princess' start of darkness occurs after their source work's canon ending has passed, or sometime before, changing the events of their stories.
  • Anti-Villain: Asha's descent originates from her mutual desires to both get payback for her mother and grandfather and her wish to stop the king's selfish practice of hoarding people's wishes.
  • Ambiguous Situation: In "Alice in Wonderland's Villain Song", it's not very clear if the characters corrupted by Wonderland and Mad Alice are being killed or essentially trapped in a new twisted and scary form. While it's pretty much confirmed that the White Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts had been killed, it's rather ambiguous for the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and Alice's parents, as it seems more like they are corrupted and put under Mad Alice's control.
  • Ambition Is Evil: Several of the princesses after their falls to darkness turn to pursuing power and domination in ways that hurt others. Ariel seeks world domination so she can make humanity suffer for Eric's betrayal, Mulan and Tiana are both consumed by their cravings for power to the point where Mulan experiences The Dark Side Will Make You Forget and Tiana's ambitions turn insatiable, and Megara is a vengeful Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist who plans to dominate Earth and Olympus, and she won't take "we don't want you as our new god" for an answer.
  • And I Must Scream:
    • Ariel spent three years stuck as a polyp as a result of her deal with Ursula before her father freed her. Is it really any wonder that she became so unhinged when she got her original form back?
    • Alice is left trapped in her own body, forced to watch as a Wonderland infected version of her takes over her parents and even all of London. She ends her song begging the viewer to “just let her out” before Wonderland’s madness takes over completely.
      • It is implied the same can be said for her parents or the other Wonderland inhabitants she mutated, with the chess pieces that were once her parents looking seemingly morose after being transformed.
  • Animal Motifs: Mirabel is represented by butterflies, the magic briefly giving her a large pair of butterfly wings as she goes about her revenge. In "Nothing Left to Lose", a butterfly is shown repeatedly burning itself on the candle.
  • Animation Bump: Merida's animatic is much less motion-comic and far more like actual animation. Though not as smooth as true animation, there's far more detail showing the characters in active motion rather than still models moving across the screen to convey motion. Her hair and clothes are shown moving, as are her arrows.
  • Animesque: The art style of Alice's Villain Song is very anime-like, with Alice herself having a very wide-eyed, expressive face, the Cheshire Cat looking like a Magical Girl mascot or a Pokémon and the Tweedles being chibi. That said, the characters have Four-Fingered Hands, like western cartoons. The same applies to Tinkerbell’s Villain Song (which was animated by the same artist), where Peter and Wendy retain some anime like details in their features (with Peter appearing more masculine and less cartoonish) and the Lost Boys appear to be more chibi-like. The fairies prove to have some chibi features too (to an extent) due to their smaller size.
  • Anti-Love Song:
    • Cinderella's Dark Reprise of "So This Is Love" is significantly more sardonic than the original, as she accuses the Prince of manipulating everyone around him and declares "If this is love then I'll decline~"
    • Megara has one as well in her Dark Reprise of "I Won't Say I'm in Love", although it's a bit more subtle as she officially turns her back on the concept after being betrayed by Hercules.
  • The Assimilator: Wonderland is an example of a location being one of these. Alice is slowly infected and consumed by it, the song having a recurring phrase of "You're one of us now".
    Alice: I'm part of Wonderland now...
  • Being Evil Sucks:
    • At the end of Merida's Villain Song, she's killed the last member of her lost family in order to win, and the ugly grimace she's sporting at the animatic's end makes it clear that she may be victorious, but she still isn't happy and might never be happy again.
    • At the end of Tiana's villain song, she's pushed everyone up to and including Charlotte away for her corporate ambitions. She lets her smug exterior slip in the final shot just after she watches Charlotte walk out.
  • Birdcaged: It's very brief, but Tiana's Villain Song shows Prince Naveen — now permanently trapped in frog form — imprisoned in a birdcage.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Belle is portrayed as this, having behaved like her canon self up til this point while secretly imagining vengeance against the villagers who mocked her and her father, and while plotting to have the Beast's spell become permanent (effectively sentencing the servants to death and himself to mental deterioration into an animal). The animatic is meant to be when she finally drops her act.
  • Blatant Lies: When the magic mirror tells her that she’ll be more successful than her stepmother, Snow White claims that she’s “nothing like her”. Yet she’s become just as paranoid and vain, having placed all her worth on being “the fairest” and attempting to take down someone who has take that title, something her own stepmother did to her.
  • Blood Knight: Merida smiles when some of her opponents try to stand against her.
  • Bloodless Carnage: Despite the body count Merida gets, there's no blood whatsoever in the animatic.
  • Bookends: An in-universe example for Tink. In her first song, we see a flashback shot to when she was first “born” with her hair down, taking inspiration from her actual birth scene in her canon film. Come “Take the Shot”, near the end, she regresses back to that hairstyle when she nears the end of her life. Also, her story noticeably ends the same way her last one did, with someone dying right before we actually see it happen.
  • Botanical Abomination: The Queen of Hearts becomes one in Alice's Villain Song, becoming a humanoid monstrosity with a giant rose replacing her now removed head.
  • Breaking the Bonds: Tiana ties up Charlotte with magically summoned snakes. Shortly afterward, Charlotte strains and bursts free, the snakes poofing into thin air.
  • Break the Cutie: Many of the characters in these songs were once their canon, happy selves. However, many of them went through horrors so traumatic that they were left broken and either sought revenge or took a path that their canon selves never would have. A key example is Tinkerbell; it's all but stated that this is the same Tinkerbell from the Disney Fairies movies, meaning that she was once a kind, curious, helpful person. But after people started to lose their belief in fairies, Pixie Hollow saw a mass extinction event that left all but a few fairies (Tink and a handful of her friends) alive. Tink tried everything she could to find a cure, only to fail each time (even having to watch Fawn die in her arms). Tinkerbell resorted to kidnapping Peter and the boys (who would become the Lost Boys) and even murdering Wendy simply because she believed she had no other choice.
    • Of course, the various Villain Protagonists are far from the only examples.
      • Antonio is absolutely blindsided by Mirabel turning against the Madrigals and ends "We Don't Talk About Bruno" bawling his eyes out as Casita crumbles around him. "Nothing Left to Lose" doesn't make things any better, as he spends the entire song confused and scared about the seemingly sudden change in his beloved older cousin and is last seen helplessly looking on as she destroys the candle and disowns their family for good.
      • Tinkerbell’s arc isn't kind to any of the children in it. Wendy narrowly survives multiple attempts on her life before finally plummeting to her death as Tink flies around her, seemingly giving the poor girl a Hope Spot since the other fairies do the same while saving the Lost Boys, only to smile and "reassure" her that it won't hurt too much. At the beginning of "Take the Shot", the Lost Boys are all visibly horrified after witnessing Wendy's death, with Cubby and Nibs clinging to each other as the latter cries Tears of Fear before they and Slightly are kidnapped by Tink and the rest of the fairies to use as leverage. While Peter spends the entire song trying to save them and avenge Wendy, he's still noticeably conflicted over actually killing Tink, as she's his adoptive mother rather than just a Fairy Companion, and even fails to fly towards the end. Since pixie dust is only one of the four things needed for flight - the others being faith, trust, and happy thoughts - the implication is quite harrowing.
  • BSoD Song: Isabela's song has elements of this towards the end, as the tone of her asking "What else can I do?" shifts over time.
  • Cain and Abel: Anna's corruption in her Villain Song drives her to pure contempt and resentment for Elsa while erasing the love that she once had for her, and she seeks out a fight with Elsa using her new ice powers, freezing Elsa in ice and looking upon her work without a hint of warmth.
  • Calling the Old Man Out:
    • Moana's father burned the boats and locked her away; she only managed to escape because he was distracted by the grief of her mother being among those who died as a result. She confronts him with the results of his cowardice and reveals her willingness to let everyone die to prove her point.
    • Both Mirabel and Isabela confront their families with how they treated the former as The Un-Favorite and The Scapegoat and forced the latter to act as their perfect little model granddaughter, respectively.
    • Asha's entire Face–Heel Turn started with King Magnifico destroying her mother's wish as punishment for Asha rebelling against him. The entire song is a response to this act, and as she overpowers him with his own magic, Asha gives him a massive Shut Up, Hannibal! speech, calling him out for his oppression, selfishness, and hypocrisy before crushing his wish in front of him.
  • Came Back Wrong: Following the death of Tinkerbell, Wendy was revived, but is clearly tainted as she has black sclerae and has become a Yandere for Peter, urging him to die with her as there’s nothing more romantic than young lovers dying together.
  • Censored Child Death:
    • In Anastasia’s Villain Song, it’s implied this has happened to the little girl (alongside her mother) seen in the fleeing crowd, as she and her mother are left cornered by the demons while Anastasia glares down on them coldly, leaving their exact fate uncertain.
    • Wendy is seen plummeting to the ground, but the animatic smashes to black just before her head connects with the sharp point of a rock. Her fate is clear, even if we don't see it.
  • Cheshire Cat Grin:
    • Belle's smiles, even from the very beginning of the animatic, are extremely unnerving to look at. It only gets worse as the song progresses, until it's a full-fledged Nightmare Face without a specific description.
    • Coming from the trope namer’s source material, it only makes sense that Alice counts as well, sporting wide empty ones near the end, when she goes really off the deep end. The thumbnail being a good example.
  • Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Played for Drama in "Tinkerbell's Villain Song"; the fairies have been declining and dying out due to lack of belief, driving Tinkerbell to extreme ends in an effort to ensure the survival of her and her few remaining friends.
  • Cliffhanger:
    • Cinderella's villain song ends with the prince managing to grab a sword from a nearby guard and swing it at Cinderella's neck, just as Cinderella sees him coming and reaches for her wand. The animatic ends without revealing who struck first.
    • Dolores' Villain Song ends with Dolores' family managing to restrain her while she gives a Slasher Smile, but what happens next/whether they get their voices back isn't revealed.
    • Asha's Villain Song ends with Asha crushing Magnifico's wish in the same way he did to her mother. As he sits in his own despair, she walks out to look at the kingdom with her newfound forbidden power glowing. It's left totally unclear what will happen afterwards to Asha, Magnífico, or the Kingdom.
  • Continuation:
    • Snow White's turn to villainy in her song happens after the canon ending of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
    • Dolores' snapping and turn to villainy occurs during the happy ending of Encanto.
  • *Cough* Snark *Cough*: "Mulan's Villain Song" features this when she mockingly sings the opening lyrics to "I'll Make A Man Out Of You."
    Mulan: Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons? *cough*Misogynist!*cough*
  • "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Anna disparages Elsa for never trying to talk with her. Anna, in a moment of pain, mentions on how she reached out when Elsa was hurting, but Elsa only continued to shut her out, only ensuring things went wrong as they did.
  • Crossing the Burnt Bridge: In "Nothing Left to Lose", the other Madrigals try reaching out to Mirabel, but she's convinced the only thing they care about is getting the candle back. She ultimately smashes it before their eyes.
  • Cruel to Be Kind: What Meg claims to be doing in her villain song, though it’s quite obvious that it’s a line she’s telling herself to justify taking her pain out on others.
  • Cosmic Plaything: Many of the ladies go through not only the already dark canon stories but also an alternate timeline where it gets worse, leading to their breaking point. A notable non-princess character is Peter Pan who was not only kidnapped but also saw his new friend killed in front of him by his own friend and mother figure, who then proceeds to show her true colors and dare him to kill her. Which he does with tears in his eyes. Then Wendy becomes a zombie absolutely (and psychotically) infatuated with him and tries to kill him so they can be Together in Death. Then she willingly dies again, and he can’t even look, turning away at the last moment. The whole thing left him a male Broken Bird who looks to be actually growing up. It’s no wonder many people want his villain song despite not being a Disney Princess.
  • Cynicism Catalyst: Many of the points of divergence boil down to this, such as Ariel, Rapunzel, Megara and Cinderella feeling betrayed by their respective Love Interests, or Snow White grappling with the knowledge that her own stepmother wanted her dead.
  • Dark Action Girl: Some of the villainized princesses take on new powerful characterizations, if they weren't already an Action Girl to begin with. Mulan, Merida, Anna, Asha, and Isabela (both to a lesser extent as Villainy-Free Villains) are much more dangerous than they were in canon.
  • Darker and Edgier: While none of the other villain songs are sugary and sweet, "Tinkerbell's Villain Song" is, by far, the darkest one Lydia had made for the channel. With the death of Silvermist and Fawn, Tink and her friends kidnapping kids (and creating the Lost Boys) so they won't die from non belief, and the fact that we see an (offscreen) murder of a child, how could it not be?
    • "Alice In Wonderland" also applies, as it involves Alice slowly losing her mind until she snaps and corrupts everyone in Wonderland, and eventually, when she gets home, her parents. And notably, this is on of the few songs that doesn't have a victory for the corrupted heroes; she's now trapped inside her own mind, watching as her body wrecks havoc. And she's a child.
  • Dark Reprise: Every video's song is a reprise of one of the attached Disney Princess's canon songs, except now the Princess has been turned into a jaded villain.
  • The Dark Side Will Make You Forget:
    • Mulan initially starts her revolution with the aim of creating a better, more progressive China, free of the institutional gender rules that left her powerless to stop her father's and many others' avoidable deaths in war, but by the time she's ready to make her move on the Emperor, she's lost sight of her original altruistic motivations and all she really cares about now is her victory.
    • Moana initially wants to save her island and her community by returning the heart of Te Fiti, but six months of imprisonment by her father, being helpless to make him see reason while her mother and friends are dying around them, do a number on her emotional state. Though she still eventually manages to set out and retrieve the heart, she ultimately decides that she'd rather watch her father and everyone who's still alive reap what they sowed and denies the heart's restoration.
  • Deal with the Devil:
    • Megara makes one with Charon after Hercules abandons her to rot in the River Styx: Charon gave Meg knowledge of how to steal the gods' power and immortality for herself, starting with Hades, in exchange for Charon getting a seat in her new pantheon after she overthrows Olympus.
    • Anastasia makes one with the demons inside Rasputin's reliquary, promising them power over an entire empire through her if they help her to ascend to Empress of Russia.
    • The splitting point in Tiana's Villain Song is that she accepts Dr. Facilier's deal from the movie's climax, offering her her human form back and the grand restaurant that she and her father always dreamed of making. Tiana regains her human form and gets everything she wanted with seemingly no strings attached... but her ambitions become insatiable, corrupting her and hurting every one and thing around her over time, plus it's implied that she's now herself indebted to Dr. Facilier's Friends on the Other Side in exchange for making use of their magic for herself.
  • Death by Adaptation:
    • "Aurora's Villain Song": Shortly after Maleficent's kiss revives Aurora, the former is shot dead by King Stefan's men.
    • "Anna's Villain Song": Literally everyone in Arendelle is killed by Anna's new-found ice powers.
    • "Belle's Villain Song": The servants all lose their sapience one by one after the rose is destroyed, effectively "dying" by reverting into lifeless objects forever. The Beast survives, but he suffers Death of Personality instead, devolving into a fully animalistic creature.
    • "Megara's Villain Song": Hades is stripped of his immortality and reduced to a withered wraith, joining the lost souls of the dead in the River Styx.
    • "Moana's Villain Song": Te Kā's darkness spreading unchecked for months leads to Sina's death, pushing Moana over the edge. The song implies that most of the people on Motunui have died to Te Kā's darkness, and Moana has every intention of ensuring Chief Tui and the others die too.
    • "Merida's Villain Song": Merida is too late to save Elinor and her three brothers from permanently transforming, body and mind, into bears — Bear Elinor is put down by Fergus and the lords' men moments later, while the bear triplets are killed and skinned offscreen. Merida's subsequent Roaring Rampage of Revenge claims the lives of MacGuffin, Dingwall, MacIntosh, their sons, all their men, and King Fergus.
    • "Tinkerbell's Villain Song'': First, it's shown that Silvermist and Fawn have been killed by nonbelief before Tinkerbell could set up the Lost Boys. Then, at the end of the animatic, Wendy falls from the pirate ship as it's flying back to London, and dies.
    • "Alice’s Villain Song": The white rabbit’s corpse is found by Alice, which our first clue that things are a little darker in this wonderland. The Queen of Hearts is beheaded by Mad Alice later in the video, her corpse then puppetted by her.
  • Death by Irony: In Alice's Villain Song, the Queen of Hearts, famed for her obsession with beheadings, is beheaded herself.
  • Death of Personality:
    • Anna becomes a victim of this trope in her Villain Song, where, instead of the curse of a frozen heart literally freezing her inside and out, she is corrupted by its magic and "literally" and "figuratively" becomes a cold-hearted monster. She even lampshades this trope by claiming the "Anna" we knew is essentially dead.
    • Belle's Villain Song subjects the Beast to this. With the rose's destruction, he slowly and painfully devolves into just a mindless, animalistic beast, physically alive, but with no remnant left of his old identity.
    • "Alice’s Villain Song": Alice is being taken over by Wonderland version of herself, attempting to fight back through the song. It’s implied at the end that she loses. The same is implied for all the people she’s transformed, including her parents.
  • Deconstruction Fic:
    • Ariel's Villain Song to a degree. It draws attention to the lasting psychological trauma that Ursula's victims will be grappling with after they're freed, particularly the ones who were stuck as helpless polyps in her collection for years.
    • After the events of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Evil Queen's actions against Snow White, her own stepdaughter, left the once-idealistic and naive princess with trust issues that she didn't have before. Furthermore, with the Queen's death, Snow inherited all her worldly possessions by default, including the Magic Mirror, who was quite willing to pour a few poison words into Snow White's ear just as he previously did with the Evil Queen.
    • Belle's Villain Song completely deconstructs the Beast's and his staff's gambit to break the curse by all but forcing Belle to exchange places with her father as the Beast's prisoner. The woman has already spent her entire life being ostracized by the village for the crime of having a sharp mind above her breasts and uterus, she doesn't take kindly to the Beast's ill treatment of her old and ill father, and the fact the Beast and the household technically only started an interest in her because of what she can offer them rubs Belle the wrong way because it reminds her of Gaston valuing her solely for her looks. The result is that Belle never truly sees past the initial poor first impression that the Beast's belligerence and cruelty left on her, even when he genuinely starts to fall for her, and she plots her own victory over him all the while.
    • Dolores' Villain Song deconstructs Dolores having to deal with hearing what everyone in her village is saying since she was a child because she doesn't know how to turn her Super-Hearing off. This takes a heavy toll on her mental state which reaches its breaking point when Mirabel restores the Madrigal family's powers.
    • Alice's Villain Song asks, what would happen if a little girl actually got separated from her parents in a bizarre world for days, desperate to return home but any pleas for help are met with riddles, ludicrous behavior, outright threats and constant near-death experiences? The answer: she goes horribly, horribly insane.
    • Tink’s song deconstructs Clap Your Hands If You Believe, Bond Creatures and Painting the Frost on Windows, although exaggerated and Played for Horror. Humans and Fairies are shown to be connected together. A human’s first laughter births a fairy and when they stop believing, their respective fairy dies. Due to an unspecified Point of Divergence, the humans’ belief in fairies started to fade far quicker and faster than expected (implied to have been due to the world’s advancements into a more modern era), leading to an almost complete genocide of the fairy population. Part of what made Tink Madden Into Misanthropy was how unfair the connection between humans and fairies are. Not only do the humans unknowingly having complete control over whether or not a fairy lives, but despite the fairies being way more powerful, they have to hide from the magicless humans, which not only led to the near mass death of the fairy population but also makes Tink feel like they aren’t being appreciated enough. She even feels like their control over the seasons should make the fae gods in the humans eyes. And she may be correct.
  • Delicate and Sickly: In a Flashback, the effects of people losing their belief in fairies is shown when Fawn collapses while trying to help Tinkerbell find a solution. She's so weakened that she's unable to drink on her own, and Tinkerbell cradles her body while tilting a bowl into her mouth.
  • Did You Actually Believe...?:
    • Belle mocks the servants and Beast for thinking they could lock the smartest woman in the village in a castle and she wouldn't formulate a plan of escape and revenge.
    • Mirabel and Isabela in their respective villain songs ask their family if they really expected they'd suffer years of abuse and never retaliate.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Belle lambasts the Beast and the transformed staff for not thinking through what would happen, trapping her there for their own purposes.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: When Tinkerbell sees Wendy unknowingly tempting Peter and the lost boys to go back to London with her, instead of telling Peter her fears or offering to go back with them, ensuring that Peter never stops believing, she decides to just kill Wendy instead. Justified when you remember in the original book, fairies only feel one emotion at a time, making Tink very prone to rage and acting on impulse (though she claims otherwise).
  • Dramatic Irony: Ariel never finds out that Eric abandoned her for a woman he'd only just met because it was Ursula bewitching him, just as Rapunzel doesn't know that Flynn "abandoned" her because he was imprisoned for months and had no way of contacting her.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: The animatics didn't come until Rapunzel's song, but the very first video, Jasmine's Villain Song, doesn't even have a blurb in the text to explain why Jasmine has turned to villainy.
  • Eldritch Location: Wonderland is reimagined as this, infecting Alice with its madness and is implied to have with other characters, with the description even implying that it’s alive. Of course, this assuming it was real and not Alice’s dream.
  • Eldritch Transformation: It can be difficult to notice, but look at the Beast's muzzle between the beginning and end of Belle's villain song. At the end of the animatic, he has a much longer muzzle with sharp teeth instead of the more lion-like mouth that he has before. The pain that he suffers when Belle destroys the rose seems to be partly because he's turning mentally and physically into something even more monstrous.
    • The animatic for Alice’s song shows Mad Alice inflicting this onto characters like the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and even her own parents. It’s implied that this is happening to herself as well.
  • Even Evil Can Be Loved: Even after turning to the dark side, these ladies still have someone who cares about them:
    • Peter, even after everything can’t truly hate Tinkerbell, struggling with going through with killing her and even kepts the flower that made her body after doing so.
    • The same goes with Wendy after she Came Back Wrong. Despite trying to kill him, he doesn’t bother to fight back and at one point, looks at her with pity. He’s more concerned for Wendy than anything. At the end, when she willingly dies again, Peter can’t even look and turns away at the last moment.
  • Every Scar Has a Story: The right side of Merida's face is scarred, as a result of Bear Elinor attacking her when the transformation fully subsumed her human mind at the Celestial Deadline, right before the bear was slain by Merida's father and his men in front of her.
  • Evil Costume Switch:
    • When Megara, after destroying Hades, is announcing her takeover of the Underworld during her animatic, she shifts out of her movie appearance, taking on a more royal-looking dress and hairstyle (not to mention some killer heels). And that's before her hair becomes blue fire.
    • Snow White in her Villain Song's image is wearing a lower-cut, plainer and more royal dress with muted reddish colors which exposes more cleavage.
    • Aurora dons Maleficent’s own attire out of grief.
    • Cinderella trades her iconic dress for a sultry, side-slit dress more reminiscent of Jessica Rabbit’s outfit, albeit with some remaining elements of her original (her headband, gloves, choker, and, of course, her glass slippers [although the hearts on them are now broken to symbolize her rejection of “true love”]).
    • Merida's attire in her animatic looks notably tougher than her canon default attire, with leathers chords around her forearms, a loincloth-piece in place of any skirt, boots, and most strikingly, a pelt made out of Elinor's bear form. To a slighter degree, King Fergus' pelt now has three baby bear heads on it made from his own sons, signifying that he is not a Hero Antagonist in his daughter's feud with him and the other lords.
    • Isabela during her villain song switches her original dress for a much simpler, looser-fitting and low-cut yet very elegant gown which appears to be part vine, symbolizing how she's freeing herself after a lifetime of upholding image and expectations but she's also showing her thorns.
    • Tinkerbell wears Excessive Evil Eyeshadow, goggles, and dark long sleeves under her iconic dress.
    • Alice's bow becomes bigger and sharper, resembling something of a mix between rabbit ears and devil horns.
  • Eviler than Thou:
    • After being freed from the River Styx, an embittered and hateful Megara steals Hades' power and life essence for herself, leaving the Hercules Big Bad's desiccated spirit to join the lost souls in the River Styx while Meg sets about using her new powers to overthrow the Olympians herself.
    • By the time that Hans reveals his deception and ambitions to Anna, the loss of her original naivete that comes with her personality's corruption by ice magic has already opened Anna's eyes to the warning signs that he's a Manipulative Bastard, so instead of being helpless and left for dead by Hans, Anna freezes him into a solid block of ice and becomes a far bigger threat than either he or Elsa's blizzard could have ever been.
    • Anastasia gets the best of Rasputin, taking his vial of demonic spirits for herself and using them to claim her birthright as empress (as well as revenge on those who let her down) by force.
    • Implied in Belle's song. When Gaston leads the mob to attack the Beast's castle and murder him, he instead finds a vindictive Belle waiting for him. And she has a fully-feral Beast at her beck and call, which she promptly sets on him.
    • Asha defeats Magnifico using the same forbidden power that he tapped into, breaking free of his attempts to restrain her, and easily yanking out his wish and crushing it to empower herself.
    • When the Queen of Hearts tries to kill the good Alice, the Mad Alice removes her head and transforms her before taking the crown for herself as the new Queen of Wonderland.
  • Evil Is Angular: In the animatic for Belle's Villain Song, her facial features are sharper-looking than they looked in the original movie, reflecting that this version of the character is much more dangerous and cruel.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: Aside from Power Dyes Your Hair where Anna's hair slowly turns white as the ice magic in her heart corrupts her, her hair falls from its braids entirely once she's fully transformed, making it clear that Anna is truly gone.
  • Extremely Protective Child:
    • One of Belle's motivations for mercilessly betraying the Beast and leaving him and the castle staff to be completely consumed by the Enchantress's curse is because he locked up her father before she offered to trade places with him.
    • Asha's breaking point into villainy is seeing her mother's wish be destroyed right in front of her. In retaliation, she uses the book of dark magic to subdue Magnifico and destroy his wish.
  • False Reassurance: Megara tries to reassure her followers that her war is a righteous action, instead of an ambitious power grab. She even insists "I'm not a villain" in the lyrics.
  • Femme Fatale: Belle successfully pretends to slowly fall in love with the Beast, all the while plotting to avenge herself and her father on him when his guard is lowered.
  • Freudian Excuse: King Magnífico is sincerely motivated by his desire to prevent what happened to his prior home from happening again, as shown in the wish Asha takes from him.
  • Formula-Breaking Episode: While most of the songs take place in the animated canon, with some taking elements from their live action versions, some break from that formula.
    • “Aurora’s villain song” takes place almost entirely in the live action remake, instead of the original animated version.
    • “Anastasia’s villain song” is from a Fox Animation Studios flim (being Disney adjacent since Disney owns Fox).
    • Tinkerbell was the first one to not be a Disney princess.
    • "Alice's Villain Song" doesn't take place in Disney's version. While Alice and the White Hare resemble their 1951 versions and the Mad Hatter and March Hare their 2010 versions, everyone else has different designs.
    • While Dolores often is regarded as the first princess whose song was entirely original, that honor actually belongs to Snow White, who sings an original song called “I Won’t Back Down”.
  • God Save Us from the Queen!:
    • Anastasia ascends to the throne and reclaims Russia, then immediately sets the reliquary's demons onto the people. She even declares that her rule will be "taking Russia hostage."
    • Implied to be the case in “Alice’s Villain Song.” One of the repeated lyrics is how Alice will “embrace this wonderland crown” with the animatic even showing her Wonderland self putting on the Queen of Hearts crown after beheading her.
  • Good Girl Gone Bad: Each of the Disney girls featured was originally a sweet girl per her canon self, but turned into villainy for one reason or another.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: This imagery is Invoked throughout Mirabel's song, thanks to her green Color Motif. At several points throughout, her eyes are shown glowing green, as are the lenses of her Scary Shiny Glasses.
  • Grimmification:
    • Ursula collects her dues and Ariel spends years stuck as a polyp before she's freed, becoming a hateful serial killer as a result of her trauma.
    • Maleficent revives Aurora with true love's kiss and is murdered by Aurora's own father in front of her moments afterwards.
    • Merida's mother and brothers are permanently turned into bears and are killed and skinned by her father as a result of her decisions, and Merida kills the only family she has left in revenge.
  • Happy Ending Override:
    • Snow White ends up following in Grimhilde's footsteps and becoming an Evil Queen herself, thanks to the influence of the Magic Mirror.
    • Mirabel puts the doorknob in the rebuilt Casita, everyone regains their powers... and then Dolores snaps and begins magically stealing everyone's voices.
    • It’s shown in "Alice's Villain Song" that Alice managed to escape Wonderland and reunite with her parents, with her mother inviting her for tea... only to be shown that it was too late and Wonderland had driven her completely mad, with her new self unleashing Wonderland’s chaos on all of London (assuming it was all real, of course).
  • Hoist by Their Own Petard:
    • Although Hades' mistreatment of Meg isn't the only factor in her becoming the threat that she does, nevertheless, when she escapes the River Styx with Charon's aid, the first thing that Hades' former servant who was completely at his mercy does when she gets free is to drain him of all his power so that he's no more substantial than the lost mortal souls in Styx.
    • Mirabel inflicts this on her entire family. Pushed over the edge by their neglect and mistreatment, she snuffs the Miracle Candle, robbing all of them of theirs and their household's treasured magic.
    • By revealing his deception and true manipulative personality to Anna, Hans unwittingly gives her the final push she needed for her proverbial heart and spirit to completely freeze over, and she promptly freezes him into a block of ice with her new powers.
    • Magnífico never would have had to face the empowered Asha had he not left the book of forbidden magic just sitting out in the cellar of the castle.
    • A particularly dark version inflicted on the Beast and his servants after Belle, having tricked them into believing she was returning the Beast's feelings, steals the Enchanted Rose and casually destroys it so her "captors" will lose their sentience.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: As Anna's transformation into an icy-hearted cryokinetic monster completes, her increasingly white hair has a recurring motif of covering her right eye. Multiple shots and stills of her in the animatic feature her left eye only.
  • Hourglass Plot: Asha starts off as a Wide-Eyed Idealist whose heart was so pure she managed to pull a star by her wish and Magnífico the cruel and selfish ruler who sells his soul to dark magic. At the end of the song, Asha has given into the same dark magic and has become just as cruel and vicious as Magifico, all in the name of taking down his rule. Magifico starts to realize why he made his wish in the first place, and starts to undergo a Heel–Face Turn.
  • Humanoid Abomination:
    • Whatever Anna turns into at the end of her song, it's clear that she's not just no longer Anna, but she's transcended into something else that only was once human. Her power supersedes Elsa's own, and most of the feats of immense power Anna uses are with a very casual casting.
    • In Alice's Villain Song, Mad Alice converts the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Queen of Hearts into twisted versions of themselves, the Hatter being a hulking titan with a Slasher Smile, the March Hare being a feral nightmare beast and the Queen being a humanoid monster with a rose for a head. She later converts her own parents into a giant King and Queen chess piece.
  • An Ice Person: A side-effect of the ice magic in Anna's heart is that she "unlocks" ice powers very similar to Elsa's, and she quickly becomes an even worse threat to Arendelle than Elsa ever was.
  • Icy Blue Eyes:
    • Anna's eyes turn pale blue after her heart is fully frozen.
    • Merida's eyes switch from green to blue during the final confrontation in her father's throne room; the same blue as the Will-o'-the-Wisp trail that she'd been following throughout the story. They remain blue from that point forward.
  • In Spite of a Nail:
    • "Mulan's Villain Song": Shang still wins the war against Shan Yu's Hun army without Mulan's presence, albeit with many more casualties.
    • "Megara's Villain Song": Hercules still ascends to true godhood in Olympus even without attempting a Heroic Sacrifice to save Meg from Styx.
    • "Moana's Villain Song": Moana still sets out on her quest, even if it starts six months late and without the ancestral boats (which have been destroyed), and she still retrieves the heart of Te Fiti and reaches Te Kā before she turns back.
    • "Anna's Villain Song": Despite being told by the trolls that there is no cure for the ice magic freezing her heart, Anna still ends up returning to the Arendelle palace, and Hans reveals the truth of his manipulations to her in the same room as in the movie.
    • "Belle's Villain Song": Gaston and the village still attack the Beast's castle even without Belle's return to the village to incite them. In fact, the attack apparently occurs earlier than in the movie.
    • "Let It Go": Elsa still strikes ice magic into Anna's heart after the latter seeks her out trying to mend bridges at her ice castle, and Elsa does it in the same place as in the movie — the only differences are that in this version, Elsa does it deliberately and Anna freezes a lot faster, possibly due to Anna's greater angst.
  • Innocently Insensitive: In Dolores' Villain Song, Mirabel had no idea how much Dolores was actually suffering from her gift; while she was trying to be kind and do the right thing for her family, she never considered that Dolores might not want her power back.
  • Instant Expert: Asha and Anna respectively embrace the forbidden power and become a literally cold-hearted cryokinetic like their counterparts in their stories, Elsa and Magnifico. Neither of them need any training at all to wield the magic they newly acquired and use it to even greater effect and power than the original magic wielders.
  • Insufferable Genius: Belle boasts how she's the smartest girl in all the land, and how no one can rival her and her capability. She isn't entirely wrong.
  • Invincible Villain: The villainized women are usually unstoppable after their Face–Heel Turn, especially the ones who have animatics. Merida, Anna, Asha, Belle for instance.
  • Karmic Death: The famously beheading-happy Queen of Hearts is herself beheaded in Alice's Villain Song.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • "Belle's Villain Song": Belle decides to twist the knife as the Beast is succumbing to his curse and losing his sapience by telling him she never cared for him and considers him "less than nothing."
    • "Tinkerbell's Villain Song": As Wendy is plummeting to the ground, she watches Iridessa and Rosetta save the falling Lost Boys, possibly giving her a Hope Spot. Tinkerbell flies in front of her face... only to smile and tell her it won't hurt that bad. She later spends her next song tearing into Peter as she urges him to either strike against her or get over Wendy’s death and accept the horrible things Tinkerbell’s done.
    • "Anna's Villain Song": Anna pays evil unto evil with Hans, freezing him solid. Fair enough given the kind of man he is, but then she does the same to Kristoff, Elsa, and all of Arendelle for no real reason other than to satiate her own anger.
    • "Alice's Villain Song": After corrupting the Mad Hatter and March Hare, Mad Alice starts kicking over their tableware for no reason and slaps Alice. It's also shown at the end that she murdered the Cheshire Cat, Caterpillar, and White Rabbit.
  • Kill the Cutie:
    • Wendy Darling is murdered by Tinkerbell at the end of "Fall Little Wendy Bird Fall." A flashback earlier in the animatic shows Fawn slowly dying due to people's growing disbelief in fairies and it's all but stated that the same happened to Silvermist.
    • Chip becomes an ordinary piece of furniture alongside the rest of the Beast's servants when Belle destroys the Enchanted Rose in "Tale as Old As Time".
    • This happens twice to Merida's little brothers in the backstory of "Touch the Sky." The first is when they suffer a Death of Personality after the Celestial Deadline passes and they become bears in both body and soul while the second is when Fergus kills and skins them alongside Elinor.
  • The Kindnapper: Tinkerbell and her friends basically kidnapped Peter and the Lost Boys. This is because Tink realized that if the children whose laughter gave them life never stopped believing, then the fairies they were connected to could keep living. The only way to ensure they never stopped believing (in other words, never grew up) was to take them to Neverland. To her credit, the kidnapped boys are clearly happy there, as they can be children forever, although whether or not she actually cares for them beyond their use to her is up for debate. But Tink does acknowledge that she stole children from their families, and she clearly feels guilt over it, but believes that there's no other option.
    Tink: You don't seem to quite understand what is at stake, this messed up little family that I had to make. If I could let them all go home, please know that I would, but it'd do more harm than good!
  • Lady of Black Magic: Anna, Isabela, Merida, and Asha all become this.
    • Anna plays it dead straight, having been unwillingly corrupted by the ice magic in her heart turning her into a selfish literally cold-hearted cryokinetic who goes on a wrathful rampage killing everyone in Arendelle with her powers.
    • Isabela rebels against her overbearing grandmother and the entire town for that matter. She uses her powers over vegetation to imprison her in a vine cage, and does the same to Mariano and returns the engagement ring as a show that she will not play along to be the perfect granddaughter any longer.
    • Asha embraces her rage towards King Magnifico and decides to use the book of forbidden magic to embrace the same exact power that Magnifico himself has accepted. She in turn becomes more dangerous than him, easily overpowering him and declaring that she will use this power to ensure he will never steal and horde any more wishes.
    • Downplayed with Merida. As she wears the skin of her dead bearified mother Elinor, it's revealed to grant her some supernatural power. However, she only uses to throw back a crowd encroaching on her, and then to split her last arrow into three that maim her father, allowing her to make the killing strike. Otherwise, she Fights Like a Normal so much that it's a surprise to see the power the pelt grants her.
  • Last of His Kind: It's heavily implied that every other fairy in Pixie Hollow (including Silvermist and Fawn) died due to unbelief, leaving Tinkerbell, Iridessa, Rosetta, and Vidia as the last of Neverland's fairies.
  • Leave No Survivors: Merida doesn't leave a single person alive during her rampage. Literally, no one who gets in her way survives. The only ones who do are the ones smart enough to stay out of her way when she finally confronts Fergus.
  • Letting Her Hair Down: Belle pulls her hair down from its iconic updo during the dance scene, and lets it fly freely getting messier as the song progresses.
  • Literal Split Personality: Alice's growing insanity in Wonderland causes her to develop an entirely separate personality that physically manifests as Mad Alice, who's the one going around on a horrific rampage in Wonderland.
  • Lonely at the Top:
    • Implied in Merida's Villain Song. She gets to sit on her family's throne with control of her own fate, but her entire family is dead, the last of them to die by her own hand, and her new subjects including the staff who looked after her and her brothers look anxious or regretful at the regime change. The unhappy scowl on Merida's face as she sits on the throne with her victory speaks volumes.
    • Anastasia has control of Russia via her Deal with the Devil, yet she keeps her grandmother and Dmitri alive (albeit tied up and clearly terrified for their lives). She claims that they're "the special few blessed to join [her] table", that they're her new family. After years alone in an orphanage, it makes sense that she'd want anything resembling a family, even a hostage/fake one.
    • Tiana in her Villain Song. She gets the greatest restaurant in all of New Orleans like she always wanted, but along she way she sells out Prince Naveen to Dr. Facilier, hurts and de-homes the animal friends that they made along with hundreds of humans, and she eventually drives away her childhood best friend Charlotte once the latter has seen what Tiana is becoming and realizes she can't stop her.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Aside from the canon manipulations of villains like Mother Gothel and Hans tying into the princesses' falls into darkness, Belle really takes the cake.
  • Minimalist Cast: Most of the animatics reduce the cast to the protagonist, the antagonist, and maybe a handful of other characters important to the original story with only token appearances by extras if they're present. For instance, "Asha's Villain Song" briefly features Star, Valentino, Sakina, and Sabino with most of the screentime taken by Asha and Magnifico in the castle.
  • Murder by Inaction: This is what Moana's villainy consists of. Rather than directly hurting anyone, she simply refuses to restore Te Fiti's heart when she has the chance, intentionally leaving her father and the rest of Motunui's population to die from Te Kā's blight.
  • My God, What Have I Done?:
    • At the end of Isabela's villain song, Alma is shown with tears in her eyes, implying that she realizes she's the one who turned her granddaughter into a monster.
    • One of the lyrics in “I Only Paint in Red Now” is Alice shouting “What have I become?”, implying this trope.
    • Towards the end of "Take the Shot", Tinkerbell realizes that her actions have sacrificed her identity, innocence, and friendship with Peter (who is now determined to kill her and avenge Wendy). It's after this that her line of "Take the shot" becomes less of a taunt and more of a plea for death.
    • At the end of "Die For Me", Wendy remembers her happier times with Peter, and realizes what she’s doing and what she’s become. After shedding a Single Tear and smiling sadly, Wendy voluntarily lets herself fall to her death all over again to protect him from herself.

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  • Nemean Skinning: In "Merida's Villain Song", Merida is wearing a pelt made of her late mother's bear form, which apparently gives her supernatural powers when she confronts Fergus. Fergus himself has skinned Hamish, Hubert and Harris' bear forms and added them to his pelt offscreen; however, he genuinely was unaware that those three bears were his own sons.
  • No Ending: Asha's Villain Song ends with her destroying Magnifico's wish, but outside of that personal conflict, nothing related to the other wishes or the kingdom, not even the Queen, is clarified.
  • No-Sell: King Magnífico attempts to restrain Asha with his magic by wrapping it around her like in canon. But as Asha has already embraced said power herself, she just casually breaks free from it and returns the favor.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: We never actually see what the fully feral Beast actually looks like. He seems to undergo a transformation that's more than just mental, but he's only ever seen as a silhouette. The drawing in the book Belle shows him is only a silhouette as well with few defining features, and it's not made clear exactly what that's supposed to be.
  • Nothing Personal:
    • Anna casually declares this after freezing Kristoff in his tracks.
    • Tinkerbell swears this in regards to her targeting Wendy; even using the phrase as a lyric in her song.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist:
    • Mulan founds her revolution on anger and disgruntlement with the rigid system and government and a desire to bring sweeping change for the better, but by the time she's ready to make her move, blind ambition has consumed her and all she truly cares about is winning.
    • Meg advertises her campaign against the Olympians to mortals as a human revolution against Jerkass Gods to make the world better for mankind, but it becomes increasingly clear to everyone In-Universe and out towards her song's end that she's just motivated by her own desires for revenge and power, and that she'll be just as bad as the Olympians if not even worse should she become the new Top God.
    • For all of Tink’s claims that she thought of other ways of dealing with Wendy that don’t involve killing her, we never actually see her trying any of said ways out. Even though Tink seems to feel some regret over kidnapping the Lost Boys and is genuinely trying to help her friends survive, she’s still a very emotional and temperamental fairy who’s known for making rash and impulsive decisions on a whim. Adding to that, the books describe "all" fairies to be like this, as being creatures so small, their bodies can only handle having one emotion at a time. With that nature being heightened here due to the circumstances, Tink comes less off as someone who is rational enough to make the hard but necessary decisions, and more like an insane extremist who opts for the first thought that pops into her head, much like how the original book describes her.
    • Downplayed with Asha. She is genuinely upset with Magnífico and wants him to get what he deserves. The thing is she starts to sing how she’s like the stars, possibly stating that she is one. She’s also more sadistic than before, laughing cruelty when she sees Magifico’s wish and once more when she crushes it.
  • Not the Fall That Kills You…: Wendy falls from the pirate ship, and the scene cuts to black just before she's shown hitting the sharp rocks.
  • Offing the Offspring: After Merida failed to save Hamish, Hubert and Harris from permanently becoming bears and losing their humanity, some time later, their father King Fergus is wearing a pelt made out of three bear cubs.
  • Off with Her Head!: Unsurprisingly, this is the fate of the Queen of Hearts in Alice's Villain Song.
  • One-Woman Army: Merida goes full Dark Action Girl, slaughtering literally everyone who gets in her way and culminating in her killing Fergus.
  • Orbital Shot: The animatic for Belle's villain song features one right after she smashes the rose under her foot.
  • Our Mermaids Are Different: The mermaids in Neverland now have longer and sharper ears, more angular features, and dark eyes. When they try to drown Wendy they sport Black Eyes of Evil and reveal a mouth full of fangs. It is also suggested that they eat human flesh.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Lords MacIntosh and MacGuffin outlive their respective sons by a very short time during Merida's Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • Patchwork Fic:
    • Downplayed in Aurora's song. While the art in the video shows her from the original animated film, the description shows it’s actually supposed to take place in the live-action remake.
    • Belle's villain song combines elements from the animated film and its live-action remake. The characters are designed after their animated variants, but the curse is taken from the live-action film, where the rose's destruction turns them into inanimate antiques.
    • Brief, but while Alice is still a little girl like the cartoon, the design for the pre-corruption Mad Hatter is clearly based on the Tim Burton movies where she's in her late teens.
  • Patricide:
    • Merida's story climaxes with her running Fergus through.
    • More indirectly than the above, Moana effectively signs Tui's death certificate by refusing to restore Te Fiti's heart, leaving him to die with everyone else as Te Kā's ash cloud chokes Motunui to death.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil:
    • Anna freezes Hans solid once he helps to fully complete her transformation into an ice monster.
    • Asha avenges Magnifico crushing her mother's wish by crushing Magnifico's own wish.
  • Pet the Dog: In Tiana's Villain Song, Tiana offers for Charlotte to join her as opposed to trying to harm her, and lets her leave without a fuss when she refuses, albeit mainly because she has a "with me or against me" mentality.
  • Power Dyes Your Hair:
    • Anna's hair turns completely white due to her frozen heart turning her into An Ice Person.
    • Meg's hair turns into the same blue shade that Hades' Flaming Hair used to be as she completes her transformation into the new Queen of the Underworld.
  • The Power of Hate: It seems that the forbidden power that Asha and Magnífico use is powered by negative emotions. The much more experienced mage that is Magnífico is easily beaten by the far less experienced but way more furious Asha.
  • Precision F-Strike: Belle briefly curses in her villain song, saying "To hell with your flower!"
  • Protagonist Journey to Villain: Whilst some of the Princesses turn wicked early on or are that way from the start, others like Moana and Snow White turn to the dark side much more gradually.
  • Rage Breaking Point:
    • Anna seems to have one when she segues her song into "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?". The end of the segue and return to "For the First Time in Forever" is when her transformation is completed, and she explodes in anger at how Elsa shut her out for so long while Anna just wanted a friend.
    • Dolores utterly snaps when everyone's powers return and she starts hearing the village's gossip and whispers again after finally having some peace.
    • This is the crux of Asha's altered story. Instead of continuing to focus on freeing the wishes, Asha's rage compels her to take personal payback on King Magnífico.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Rapunzel's eyes appear red when she sets out for revenge on Flynn.
  • Red Filter of Doom:
    • The image turns red when Rapunzel sneaks back into the kingdom looking to kill Flynn in revenge.
    • The scenes in which Dolores steals the voices of her family and the city are red, briefly turning gold when both Mirabel and Mariano try to get through to her.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mirabel's villain song consists of giving this to her family for treating her like a curse and The Scapegoat all her life. She specifically has verses directed at Pepa, Dolores and Isabela as well.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
    • Downplayed with Aurora, who responds to Maleficent's murder by using the same eternal sleeping curse to put her father's subjects to sleep en masse as she walks through the city, with the implication that she's coming for him next.
    • Mulan's reaction to her father's death in the war against the Huns all because Shang wasn't willing to let a woman serve in his place is to launch a coup against Shang and the imperial family.
    • After Bear Elinor permanently turns into a bear and is killed by Fergus to save Merida (before Fergus also kills the permanently-transformed Hamish, Hubert and Harris), Merida goes on a rampage, slaughtering the Dingwalls, MacIntoshs and MacGuffins to the last man for going back on their initial promises to bring meaningful progressive change, before going after her own father for the deaths of her mother and brothers.
    • Downplayed with Asha. After Magnífico destroys Sakina's wish, Asha marches into the castle and finds the book of forbidden magic, and personally torments and taunts the king before destroying his wish in front of him.
  • Scary Shiny Glasses: Mirabel has this at several points throughout her song.
  • She Who Fights Monsters: Asha embraces the forbidden power so that she can fight Magnifico to stop his practice of hoarding wishes, and to avenge what he did to her mother. It's left unclear if she will be any better than Magnifico.
  • Shoo Out the Clowns: Due to these covers being Darker and Edgier, the Princess' plucky animal sidekicks make very few appearances in these videos, if they show up at all:
    • "Anna's Villain Song": Olaf is nowhere to be seen.
    • "Anastasia's Villain Song": Puka and Vlad aren't anywhere to be seen. invokedThis is likely because they were kind to her throughout the film, so she saw no need to include them in her revenge.
    • "Cinderella's Villain Song": Cinderella's animal friends never appear. Given that the nail is that the mice weren't able to retrieve the key, it's possible that Lucifer caught at least one of them.
    • "Belle's Villain Song": The Beast's servants are all killed off one-by-one, via losing their sentience when the rose is destroyed.
    • "Tiana's Villain Song": A second wishing star is visible outside of Tiana's window, implying that Ray is already dead in this timeline. An alligator that is presumably meant to be Louis can briefly be seen fleeing from one of Tiana's bulldozers as she sets out to destroy the bayou.
    • "Asha's Villain Song": Star and Valentino can be seen for a moment at the start of the animatic, looking concerned. Once Asha decides to get revenge, though, they practically disappear.
    • "Alice's Villain Song": Mad Alice corrupts the Mad Hatter and the March Hare into nightmarish creatures that she can control and the ending reveals she did the same thing to the Cheshire Cat. We never see the Tweedles again after the first half, but it's unlikely their fates were any prettier.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: Magnifico apologizes to Asha and admits he's only human as he explains his actions, but Asha has absolutely none of it and crushes his wish to make him pay for all the wishes he's stolen, as well as for crushing her mother's wish in front of her out of pettiness.
  • Sickly Green Glow:
    • The cover art of Snow White's Villain Song also shows her being surrounded by green flames, to establish her turning to her stepmother's methods.
    • The forbidden power from Wish (2023) returns in the animatic for Asha's Villain Song complete with its ominous green glow.
  • Single Tear: Merida sheds a tear after running Fergus through with his own sword. Fergus tries to reach up to thumb it away and show Merida affection one final time, but dies before he can touch her face.
  • Slipknot Ponytail: Dolores' hair comes undone and falls around her face in the final scene of her villain song.
  • Smart People Play Chess: Belle's animatic briefly shows Belle over a chess board, the Beast and the castle staff serving as the pieces, as she sings "I've made all my moves."
  • Smug Super: A lot of the princesses more or less become this as they embrace whatever power they’ve gotten so they can float against their victims.
    • Asha starts smiling as she embraces the forbidden power and becomes powerful enough to combat Magnífico. She spends most of their Wizard Duel smugly grinning as she easily wins over him and sees that he's helpless to fight back against her.
    • Anastasia is shown to absolutely relish the powers of her reliquary as she uses it to exact vengeance on the people of Russia.
    • Tinkerbell, in her next song, seems to be having a little too much fun in using her pixie-dust in haves powers against Peter and the Lost Boys, lording her new power over them, and even relishes at the thought of using that power on the Mainland as a means to force the humans into worshipping the fairies.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist:
    • Rapunzel's villain song is slower and quieter than most of the other princesses', she doesn't raise her voice even as she declares her intention to murder Flynn.
    • Belle is cruel, vindictive, and coldly sadistic, and her song is a slow waltz.
    • Merida's song is a soft and almost-soothing ballad, her voice only raising near the very end.
    • Tinkerbell’s song is calm and slow, hiding how much anger and paranoia she holds. She only raises her voice when she really gets mad, especially near the end.
  • Splash of Color: Merida's animatic is largely drawn colorlessly, but the wisps, Merida's hair and eyes are shown in color.
  • Split-Personality Takeover: Alice's alter, Mad Alice, does nothing but terrorize Alice herself. And when it seems like Alice has escaped, it turns out that she didn't. The madness of Wonderland takes her over. Assuming that this is not just Alice going insane on her own.
  • Takes One to Kill One: Asha embraces the dark forbidden power that Magnifico has already embraced in order to overpower him. She doesn't kill him though. She even says that if it takes this to finally free the kingdom from Magnifico, she will gladly be the first to walk that line.
  • Talking the Monster to Death: "Rule the Quiet" features a variant when Mirabel stops Dolores in the middle of town, silently attempting to calm her down. The effort fails when Luisa attempts to take advantage of her distraction.
  • Terms of Endangerment: Belle mockingly calls the Beast "sweetheart" to twist the knife.
  • That Man Is Dead: Aurora, Mulan, and Anna say as much.
    Aurora: That girl's dead. She died long ago, laid in the ground.
    Mulan: I'm made anew, rising from the fire. Forged from the hate of the girl you knew! She's burned to ash, left up on the pyre!
    Anna: The Anna you knew is dead and gone!
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: Mirabel heard herself be considered a curse that would destroy the family for so long that she finally decided to be exactly that. She outright tells her family that she's "the villain in their fairytale now".
  • There Is No Cure: Unlike in Frozen (2013), the ice magic in Anna's heart threatens to alter her personality instead of turn her to solid ice, and Grandpappy tells Anna and Kristoff that it can't be cured.
  • Tick Tock Terror: The final sound in Belle's Villain Song is an ominous ticking from a now inanimate Cogsworth as Belle sics the Beast on Gaston and the angry mob.
  • Tragic Monster:
    • Anna, big time. Unlike the other princesses here, she has absolutely no agency over her corruption: the ice magic that Elsa accidentally struck into her heart is gradually and invariably altering her personality to turn her into a completely cold, self-centered monster, and there is no cure.
    • Alice has no control over her fate; she's just a little girl who was lost in an Eldritch Location that slowly drives her insane as she desperately tries to escape. By the end of her song, she's been completely taken over by her mad counterpart and it's implied her real self is trapped inside her own body and begging to be let out.
  • Tragic Villain: More often than not, the princesses turn evil because they've hit their breaking point and lost all hope of getting what they want through anything other than wicked ways.
  • Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Dolores develops the ability to remove sound and make shockwaves in response to getting her gift back, and all the pitfalls that come with it.
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Most princesses are still children, often under 17 and are shown to become ruthless and cruel villains. The most egregious example is Alice who is a grade schooler and gets corrupted by Wonderland. It’s also downplayed as some princess (like Belle, Rapunzel, Anna and Tiana) are 18-19, although no less evil. Outright averted with Elsa, Meg, Isabela and Dolores who are all in their 20’s.
  • The Lost Lenore: In both Tinker Bell and Wendy’s Villain Song, Wendy serves as a younger version of this for Peter, as he was legitimately enamored with her and genuinely devastated by her untimely death. He even completes this trope by creating a final resting place for her body that he visits.
  • Uncertain Doom: Mirabel snuffs out the candle, causing Casita to fall apart around her family as she leaves through the gates and closes them behind her. There's a possibility they'll make it out alive, but Lydia leaves it up to the imagination. The sequel reveals that everybody survived, including Bruno.
  • Unkempt Beauty: Some of the Princesses noticeably have their appearances grow unraveled a bit (such as Anna and Elsa, for example), though they look no less attractive, but special mention goes to Belle, who undoes her hair and smears her make-up until her hair is a tousled mane, her lips are smeared red, and her mascara is smeared all around her eyes. It makes her look more monstrous, but she's still very much a beauty. Her sequel song takes it even further by using her newfound magic to create markings over her skin resembling black thorns.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
    • Shang once again spared Mulan from death after she was revealed (early on) as Ping, but because of the royal proclamation's demand for male soldiers, he has to enlist Fa Zhou to represent the Fa family, and unfortunately, without Mulan's help, the Chinese army, though victorious, lost many casualties to the Huns, Fa Zhou included. In response to this, a vengeful Mulan becomes hell-bent on destroying Shang and China's patriarchal rules, and she builds up her own army from the friends and families of the lost soldiers, becoming just as ruthless of a leader (if not more so than) as Shan Yu. 
    • Hercules' (having undergone an Adaptational Jerkass development) decision to leave Meg to her fate doesn't stop him from saving the day and defeating Hades, but by doing so, the vengeful Meg's spirit, left to float in the River Styx, is able to impress the ferryman Charon into giving her the secret to amass to godhood by killing Hades, and once she successfully takes over the Underworld, she gains the means needed to aim her goals a little higher… as in, all the way to Mount Olympus.
    • By informing Cinderella that the prince has chosen to marry another, her fairy godmother isn't just delivering bad news — she unintentionally gives her the chance to steal her magic wand.
    • By bringing Wendy to Neverland, Peter Pan accidentally stokes Tinkerbell's paranoia that Wendy will persuade him and the boys to follow her back to the mainland and grow up, which sets off the fairies' plot to have Wendy assassinated to ensure this doesn't happen. And they succeed. This worsens in the next song when Tinkerbell now decides to drop the act with Peter and the Lost Boys and expand on her plans to force them to stay on Neverland AND plan a takeover of the Mainland.
    • The white rabbit leads Alice into Wonderland as per the source material. This time it leads Alice going mad herself and even being Wonderland’s madness to London, leaving the city the playground of a twisted little girl.
  • Villainous Face Hold: Tiana sits Charlotte down, constraining her with snakes, and takes her by the chin to direct her attention.
  • Villain Protagonist: The princesses are the main characters of their respective videos, singing a Villain Song after events described in the video's description pushed them over the edge.
  • Villain Song: The clue's in the title. Every video is essentially a video-long Dark Reprise of a Disney Princess's canon musical number, with an accompanying story describing how one change in events or the fallout of their canon story led them to turn to evil.
  • Villainy-Free Villain:
    • Isabela in her Villain Song in a nutshell. She doesn't seriously harm anyone or steal anything, she just locks Alma and Mariano in a pair of vine cages, calls off her and Mariano's loveless engagement by throwing her engagement ring in his face, basically says "fuck you for being a bad grandmother" to Alma at length, and then leaves.
    • Asha also doesn't hurt anyone physically or do anything reprehensible to innocents. Her sole target is King Magnifico, who has already victimized her twice, once personally and another by crushing her mother's wish. This leads her to embracing the same dark forbidden power so that she could get payback on him and to free the kingdom from his less-than-stellar ruling practice.
  • Walking Wasteland: Anna's ice powers make Elsa's look almost tame by comparison. On top of sharing Elsa's ability to spread ice sheets wherever she walks, Anna spontaneously freezes entire people into blocks of ice faster than they can react, and she can even do it from a distance.
  • We Can Rule Together: Tiana offers Lottie a place at her side, just so long as she doesn't oppose her. Lottie can't do it, and leaves.
  • "Well Done, Daughter!" Gal: Mirabel used to be one; however, she declares during her song that she's realized the pointlessness of chasing after the approval of Alma and the others and "frees" herself from that desire.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Tinkerbell noticed fairies dying at an alarming rate, and eventually came to the conclusion that when the child whose laugh created a fairy stopped believing in fairies or died, so too did that fairy. To prevent more fairies from dying, Tinkerbell led her friends to kidnap the children who would eventually become Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, so they would never grow up and thus the fairies born from them would never die. She even states that if she could let them go home, she would, but can't risk her people dying.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are briefly seen at the beginning of Alice's Villain Song, but do not show up again afterward, not even in the montage of Alice's killing spree. Of course, given the fates of everyone else in Wonderland, it's at least pretty easy to guess what happened to them...
  • What If?: Most of the videos' stories kick off the Disney Princess's transformation into a villain by changing one meaningful event from their source material that has far-reaching consequences. For examples, "what if Ursula won", "what if Hercules didn't forgive Megara", "what if Anna's frozen heart corrupted her personality instead of her body", "what if Cinderella was too late to meet with the Grand Duke", etc.
  • Woman Scorned: The motivations of several princesses for turning to the dark side.
    • Eric didn't really abandon Ariel for a bride he'd only just met, but that's what Ariel believes happened. Couple that with her spending three years trapped as one of Ursula's polyps, and she's now a serial-killing siren who's plotting to dethrone Eric and dominate all of humanity.
    • Rapunzel doesn't react well to Flynn seemingly abandoning her and proving all of Mother Gothel's preachings about the outside world's cruelty true, even though like the above example that isn't what really happened at all on Flynn's end. But Rapunzel isn't content to just go straight back to her tower, oh no: first, she sets back out into the kingdom with the intention of killing Flynn.
    • Meg is not happy that after she fell for Hercules and saved his life, he left her to stay dead and rot in the River Styx for years out of spite at finding out about her initial allegiance to Hades (and unlike the above examples, that is exactly what Hercules did of his own choice). It leads to Meg's soul burning with enough fury in the river to catch Charon's interest, and he pulls her out. After stealing Hades' godly powers for herself, Meg is dead-set on getting revenge on Hercules while overthrowing him and the other Olympians.
    • Ironically enough, Anna's reaction to Hans' true colors is more of a downplayed example due to her personality corruption. Though it is the final push which completes Anna's corruption for good, she isn't surprised when it happens, because the corruption has already eroded her idealism and faith in others to the point where she can see all the warning signs about Hans that she was blind to before. Anna still, very casually, freezes Hans into a block of ice when he attempts to stab her though.
    • Cinderella snaps after learning that the prince has given up his search for her and married another.
    • Anastasia receives two examples of this, one romantic wise and the other familial. Dowager Empress Marie rejects Anya's claims of being her granddaughter even though the latter has retained her memories AND the music box, and when she goes to seek out Dimitri, the con-man is nowhere to be seen, causing Anya to believe he has abandoned her as well. Whether it was their fault or not for this, she makes both of them regret this decision big time after she becomes the Empress of Russia, and captures them to force them to act as a substitute to the family she lost. 
    • Tinkerbell displays a shade of this trope, in platonic version, in her next song. She accuses Peter of trying to leave her, his faithful friend for years and practically his adoptive mother, for a girl he met no less than “two suns ago”, implying she’s genuinely hurt and betrayed by him acting out against her. Of course, she’s saying this in response to Peter standing up to her after he caught her in the act of murdering Wendy.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Many of the princesses turn evil because on top of their angst from their respective original works, one tweak to the story led to them being pushed to their breaking points. For some examples:
    • Megara's life story of being cruelly abandoned by a man she loved after she'd sacrificed her life and soul to save him repeats itself with Hercules, driving her to rage against Olympus after he ascends there.
    • Moana chooses to let her father and her entire home choke to death after being locked up by them and denied the chance to save the ones she loved while her mother and friends slowly died to the catastrophe.
    • Merida endures the trauma of her mother and brothers permanently losing their physical and mental humanity directly because of her mistake, then them being killed in front of her by her own father and skinned for pelts, and all the male authority figures go back to trying to forcibly marry her off while she's in turmoil, all of which drive her into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against her own father and all four of her setting's clans.
    • Tinkerbell is Forced to Watch her entire species slowly die off due to children losing belief in them, and she ends up losing two of her beloved friends to this. She desperately tries to find a cure, but when more and more of her people die (including Fawn, who dies in her arms), the only solution she can come up with is finding the children whose laughs birthed their respective fairies and spirit them away to Neverland, away from their homes and families, all so they can never grow up and lose faith, and she can keep herself and her friends alive. Unfortunately, when Peter brings Wendy Darling to Neverland, Tink fears the latter will tempt the children away to the mainland, and gradually goes on a Sanity Slippage out of paranoia and desperation before she resorts to outright murdering the girl.
    • Rapunzel was kidnapped as a baby and has lived her whole life trapped in a tower. She was abused and gaslighted by Mother Gothel in to fear the outside world, only hearing stories about how cruel and dangerous it is. When Flynn/Eugene breaks into her home, she only asks for him to take her to the floating lights. Finally outside her tower, she experiences new wonders and joys unlike before, even falling in love with Eugene. But Mother Gothel, unwilling to see her flower go so easily, tricks her into thinking Eugene betrayed her and went for the crown. At this, she breaks down and fully embraces Gothel’s words. She then spends six months back in her tower, embracing the lessons about how awful and evil the world is. She starts to snap and planning revenge against Eugene. But Gothel doesn’t let her hate stop there. She manipulates Rapunzel into thinking the whole kingdom is out to get them unless they strike first, and gives her the moonstone. Gothel has effectively made Rapunzel into a living weapon, sending her out to ''kill'' all of Corona using the hurt and moon incantation. Rapunzel does so, knowing this is wrong but believing this to be Necessarily Evil. Near the end however, she starts to break down, doubting herself and remembering how happier she used to be. She does manage to get a "Ray of Hope" Ending, with Eugene giving her a Cooldown Hug and stopping her.
  • Will-o'-the-Wisp: Several of these appear throughout Merida's Roaring Rampage of Revenge, with the final one appearing outside the castle after she's claimed the throne and fading away.
  • Wizard Duel:
    • Anna (who is granted ice powers courtesy of her frozen heart) vs. Elsa. It doesn't last long before Anna kills Elsa by freezing her.
    • Magnífico vs. Asha. The latter embraces the same forbidden power the former did. She wins easily, overpowering him and crushing his wish.
  • Would Hurt a Child:
    • Mirabel does not exclude Antonio from her revenge, as he's shown among the family when Casita crumbles around them.
    • "Anastasia's Villain Song" shows a little girl and her mother being cornered by the demons of the reliquary. Crowd shots of the Russians being attacked also show young children among the victims.
    • In "Belle's Villain Song", Chip ends up remaining a lifeless teacup. Belle's lyrics suggest that she planned to include him in her revenge from the very beginning, not even considering sparing him.
    • Downplayed as losing their voices didn't hurt them, but Dolores gladly steals the voices of the three children Mirabel befriended.
    • Tinkerbell is the darkest example here, with her entire villain song centering around her trying to kill Wendy Darling. Fearing Wendy will tempt Peter and the Lost Boys to leave Neverland and grow up, Tinkerbell first goes with her canon plan of telling the Lost Boys she's a bird and Peter wants her shot down, then when that fails she tries to have the mermaids drown and eat her. When both these attempts fail, Tink leads the fairies to attack the flying pirate ship. This time it works, and Wendy falls to her death.
    • Elsa doesn’t seem to be too concerned when she watches one of her ice golems descend upon two children, notably with the intent to maul them, and even less emotion when witnessing a mother and her newborn child turn into frozen statues. In fact, she even seems to show some excitement over the prospect.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Anya feigns despair when cornered by Rasputin, and when he moves in for the kill, she snatches his demonic reliquary off his belt and bolts with it.
  • Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness:
    • As part of her full transformation into a goddess, Meg's eyes turn from a pale blue color into a bright yellow. It heightens her resemblance to Hades and shows just how deeply ambitious and vengeful she's become.
    • Belle's light-brown eyes look outright demonic in the animatic for her Villain Song, reflecting her duplicitous and vicious true nature.
  • You Killed My Father:
    • Mulan is hellbent on killing Shang because he sent her home and conscripted her father into the army in her place, leading to his death in the war against the Huns.
    • Moana ultimately choose to let her own father and what's left of her home die, out of rage partly that they obstinately prevented her from setting out to stop Te Kā's rampage sooner, leading to the death of her mother.
    • Aurora takes her revenge by inflicting the entire kingdom with the sleeping spell and personally spiting her father in response to him killing Maleficent moments after the latter awoke Aurora from the curse using the familial version of True Love's Kiss.
    • After King Fergus kills the bear-ified Elinor to save Merida's life, this and a pile of other traumas drive Merida to kill him in vengeance.
    • Anastasia uses the demonic powers that Rasputin had wielded in order to seek revenge against him and everyone who celebrated the deaths of her family.
  • You Remind Me of X: Belle never sees past the Beast's monstrous exterior, because so much about his initial unkind and possessive behavior towards her and even his similar eyes remind her of Gaston's advances.
  • You Will Be Spared: Anastasia spares Dmitri and her grandmother of her demonic wrath, declaring they're her family. However, given they're both tied to their chairs, it's clear that they're both on thin ice. The implication being that a her fear of being left alone again is so strong she'd kill them if they left.
    Anastasia: But you're the special few blessed to join my table. You're my brand new family now!
  • Your Makeup Is Running: Throughout her song, Belle's mascara runs, which makes her look like a beast, but still a beauty.

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