Complete Monster/Animated Films

"You see this? This here little DNA bead comes from a little girl in Riverside, California... didn't like to wash her hands. Took me three whole weeks. And this one: nice lady in Detroit, Motown. Six days flat. Then there's this old guy in Philly. I killed him in 72 hours. Yeah, I'm getting better as I go along, baby, but the problem is I never set a record! Until my man, Frank, that is. I'm gonna take him down in 48 hours! Get my own chapter in the medical books!"

—Thrax Osmosis Jones

Retak'ka — Certainly not your standard animated kids film baddie.

Animated Films, whether for children or not, can contain wicked creatures.

The following films have their own pages:

Examples of Complete Monster/Animated Films include:

Wugreb from 10000 Years Later (2015), was once a simple tribe leader who sought to understand the secrets of the ancient gods and their magic, technology. However, discovering that all gods were mere humans, Wugreb decided to make himself the most glorious being to have ever lived. Declaring himself the Devil of the new world, Wu transformed his entire tribe into his own army of demonic monsters, and sent them out into the land to pillage, destroy, and slaughter all they came across, turning the current world into a Hell of his own making. After being locked away for a millennium for his crimes, Wu rises once more and continues his nightmarish conquest, massacring entire tribes and, in one case, cursing their souls to never leave their now-dead bodies. Lusting to return to the ancient "Techcity" so as to use it in his domination, Wu assaults and strangles the friends and dog of a young girl, Joma, to force her to give him the means to bring Techcity to him, and, after succeeding in this, forces her to watch as he crucifies and kills one of her friends in front of her. Wu later declares his goal to erase all former gods from the history books and become the one, true power in the world, and brutally murders the few heroes who stand up to him, before attempting the same to Joma. Wu believed any shred of humanity to be a weakness and saw himself as the ultimate being who deserved to be god, and as such, lived up to his self-given name of "Devil Wu", terrorizing and killing all who stood in his way simply to feed his superiority complex.
9 (2009 film): The Chancellor is the manipulative dictator who runs the State. As revealed in flashbacks from the film and supplementary materials, the Chancellor was the catalyst behind the Great World War that left countless dead and every country except his own on the verge of bankruptcy and starvation. Taking advantage of this, the Chancellor manipulates the Scientist into constructing the B.R.A.I.N. under threat, after which the Chancellor reformats the B.R.A.I.N. into a "Fabrication Machine" to produce weapons of war. Subjecting the Machine to great abuse and stress over the course of months, the Chancellor uses the weapons it makes to wage war on every country but his own and get thousands slaughtered. When the Fabrication Machine goes rogue, the Chancellor frames the whole ordeal on the Scientist and tries to save his own life by abandoning the State, showing himself for the despicably selfish monster he is.
Mani from Allahyar and the Legend of Markhor (2018), is an Evil Poacher who hunts endangered, sapient animals out of greed and pleasure, seeking to find Sia Koh and slaughter the tribe of markhor residing there. Admitting to seeing no difference between human and animal lives, Mani is only too willing to kidnap and murder the young Allahyar for getting in his way after nearly killing his father. Even when surrounded by the very animals he intended to kill, he still attempts to murder Allahyar out of spite after feigning surrender.
Adventures in Zambezia: Budzo is a ravenous monitor lizard with a taste for bird eggs and the main antagonist. In the past, he tore off Chief Sekhuru's wing and killed Amaya, Tendai's wife and Kai's mother, while trying to devour an egg, causing Tendai to abandon Zambezia in grief. After losing one claw in the battle, he vows revenge upon Zambezia. Aligning with the Marabos, he convinces them to capture the Weavers before he captures Tendai, using him as a hostage to force the Weavers to build him a bridge. Once it is completed, he turns on the Marabos and leaves them to be devoured by his lizard army while he storms Zambezia, intent on taking over as a tyrant and devouring their eggs. An arrogant and malicious creature, Budzo displays nothing but sadistic glee at his crimes, causally dismissing them without a second thought, and is treated with fear and contempt by every other character.
The Adventures of Tintin (2011): Red Rackham was an infamous pirate who plagued the seas, robbing and besieging all in his path. Attacking The Unicorn for its treasure, Rackham gets most of the crew killed while taking the captain Sir Francis Haddock hostage. Threatening to murder the man's remaining crew while he watches, Rackham extorts the location of The Unicorn's treasure from Haddock, then kills the man's entire crew anyway by tying them up and feeding them to a swarm of sharks. Rackham then plans to torture and kill Haddock, and when Haddock manages to escape and leave Rackham for dead, Rackham swears a curse on Haddock and his descendants, one that plagues the bloodline for decades to come.
Allahyar and the Legend of Markhor (2018): Mani is an Evil Poacher who hunts endangered, sapient animals out of greed and pleasure, seeking to find Sia Koh and slaughter the tribe of markhor residing there. Admitting to seeing no difference between human and animal lives, Mani is only too willing to kidnap and murder the young Allahyar for getting in his way after nearly killing his father. Even when surrounded by the very animals he intended to kill, he still attempts to murder Allahyar out of spite after feigning surrender.
The Amazing Adventures of the Living Corpse: Dr. Brainchild is a Mad Scientist seeking to resurrect the dead. To test out his serum, he drops it in random cemeteries. When the ensuing zombies kill people, Brainchild takes any kids who survive to a secret boarding school until they're ready to be trained in the Creature-Hunter Organization he made to gather info, not caring how many of them get killed in the process. Brainchild eventually realizes that his zombies aren't as intelligent because they aren't fresh enough, so he kills his top assistant to test his theory, eventually having all of his soldiers purged to make an army of the dead.
An American Tail series:
- In the original An American Tail, Warren T. Cat is the greedy leader of the Mott Street Maulers, holds the downtrodden mice of New York in a chokehold, forcing them to pay him off under the guise of "Warren T. Rat" while secretly having his cats pick off a mouse every once and a while to keep them terrified and under control. When Warren stumbles upon the innocent orphan Fievel Mousekewitz in his introductory scene, Warren pretends to be nice and manipulates him into his clutches and then tosses him to the hold of a cruel sweatshop for a quick fifty cents, sneering "you don't need a family anymore—you got a job!" When the mice finally stand up to Warren's manipulations, Warren decides to cut his losses and tries to burn them all alive with a sick laugh.
- The second sequel to the above film, An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island, gives us both the Big Bad Mr. Grasping and his Dirty Cop henchman Chief McBrusque. Grasping, along with his associates Mr. Toplofty and Mr. O'Bloat, controls the largest cheese factory in NYC, where most of the mice of the city work. Grasping is a horrible boss who mistreats his workers every chance that he gets, forcing them to work long hours with little pay and threatening to fire them if they are slightly late. Grasping bribes McBrusque to enforce his will, with his police force acting like Grasping's private security force, with McBrusque being a sadist who loves to inflict beatings on almost everyone he meets. When the workers complain after Grasping orders them to triple production for no extra pay, Grasping has McBrusque beat up one of the workers who complained. When Grasping learns of a native tribe living beneath NYC, he tries to distract the workers from their plight by saying he is protecting them from the natives, with Grasping claiming the natives want to attack them. Grasping orders the workers to bring him Cholena, a young native mouse visiting the surface. When McBrusque and his goons fail to capture Cholena, they instead arrest her friend Dr. Dithering. Grasping puts Dithering on trial and orders him to be killed by being put into a meat grinder. After being foiled and having his workers turn against him, Grasping orders McBrusque to kill the entire native tribe, which McBrusque happily agrees to. During the final battle McBrusque loses it and tries to brutally murder the young Feivel, by burning him alive during their final confrontation.
Anastasia: Grigori Rasputin was once the most mystical man in all Russia, but beneath his veneer as a holy man he hid a craving for power and indulged in more occult arts. When the royals discovered Rasputin's scheming, they banished him from their court out of terror and fear. Rasputin responded by selling his soul to Hell and unleashing dark magic onto the country, with a Hate Plague sparking the devastating "Russian revolution" that wiped out the Romanov family down to the children. His curse lead to many more lives being lost in the vicious rioting of the revolution, and reduced entire cities to impoverished wrecks over the years. After his apparent death while trying to kill the sole survivor of the Romanov family, young Anastasia, Rasputin got stuck in limbo due to the terms of his Satanti contract and creturns from the grave years later to finally complete his curse, gleefully attempting to murder Anastasia and her friends thrice over to solidify his extermination of the royal family.
Ark: Baramanda, the vizier of Empress Cathebel, seeks the titular Ark to gain immortality, intending to use the machine for his own selfish purposes. Introduced torturing arrested Cevean prisoners and having them executed via life-draining parasitic worms, draining them into lifeless husks with a massive dose of Body Horror, Baramanda seeks the descendant of the Cevean High Priestess Amiel, necessary for his immortality. Learning Amarinth's true heritage as Amiel's daughter, Baramanda have Amarinth's adoptive father Jallak sentenced to public execution to force her out of hiding, before ordering Jallak's death anyway when Amarinth surrenders. Baramanda had his loyal chief scientist, Dr. Anders, shot when she called him a monster after learning he intends to allow Alcyeon's destruction while he becomes immortal, forces Anders's assistant Higgins to activate the Ark for him at gunpoint, and subjects Amarinth to having her blood forcefully extracted in order to gain her DNA necessary for the Ark's activation, a process which causes Amarinth much pain and torture. Taking over the Ark and going on a city-wide rampage, killing millions in the process, Baramanda is more than willing to condemn both the Storrian and Cevean races to their extinction if it means he can live forever.
Steele from Balto seems to be your average animated movie Jerkass at first - making fun of Balto, flirting with Jenna even though she's not interested, etc etc. All par for the course. But he crosses the Moral Event Horizon when he refuses to let Balto help them take the crate of medicine to Nome, thus almost condemming the children who desperately need it to certain death from diptheria, just because Balto would prove himself better than him. Balto was forced to beat him in combat and take the medicine to save the children. And, once he was defeated, he deliberately tried to ensure that Balto and the whole team of dogs got lost and died, while he could return home and pretend to be a heroic survivor.
The BFG: The Fleshlumpeater, leader of the giants, is a savage brute who loves to devour children. Stealing into the human world every night to eat them, the Fleshlumpeater has been responsible for countless deaths. Later glimpsed by Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant preparing to devour a little boy, Fleshlumpeater leads his giants to attack schools full of children, leaving bones strewn all about, and violates the taboo of giant not killing giant to attempt to murder the BFG at the end.
BoBoiBoy:
- The Movie: Bora Ra is the ruthless and sadistic leader of the Tengkotak gang, who hunts sapient power spheres to use their powers to conquer entire planets. In the past, Bora Ra invaded Planet Gogobugi to steal Enerbot from its governors, presumably killing them while their kids only barely managed to escape with Enerbot. In the film, Bora Ra continues tracking down Klamkabot, the power sphere of teleportation, to the Floating Island where the power spheres were made, but finds Ochobot instead and decides to keep him for later. Throughout the film, Bora Ra shows he is perfectly willing to murder anyone that gets in his way, and even turn on his allies. After painfully extracting the teleportation power from Ochobot, Bora Ra murders him right in front of BoBoiBoy simply to crush his hope, mocking him for crying over it. Refusing to admit defeat to the heroes, Bora Ra summons a massive black hole that threatens to consume the entire Floating Island with the heroes and several power spheres.
- Movie 2: Retak'ka was the previous wielder of the Elemental Powers. Retak'ka was once a normal alien before getting the elemental powers and desiring more and more power. Retak'ka betrayed his friend Hang Kasa and attempting to steal his part of the elemental powers before being sealed away. He wakes a hundred years later and attacks the TAPOPS to find BoBoiBoy, who now has the elemental powers. Retak'ka tortures Koko Ci to get him to reveal BoBoiBoy's location until BoBoiBoy shows up and quickly retreats after Retak'ka easily beats him. Retak'ka then orders for the TAPOPS to be blown up, killing all but 6 on board. Retak'ka travels from planet to planet to absorb their elemental powers, completely destroying each planet in the process, with him first heading to Planet Gur'lathan, where he massacres an entire army, leaving nobody left alive. Retak'ka captures Yaya, Ying, and Fang, and threatens to kill them if Hang Kasa does not come to him. He gets in a fight with Hang Kasa and ends up seemingly killing him, with Hang Kasa barely surviving, and once he is defeated by BoBoiBoy attempts to kill all the heroes out of spite by destroying a dam.
Archibald Penelope Snatcher of The Boxtrolls is a self-styled Boxtroll exterminator driven by a mixture of xenophobia and powerlust who, while initially appearing to be eccentric and goofy, reveals himself as something far more unhinged as the story runs its course. Envying the lifestyles of the elite "White Hats". Snatcher seeks to win their favor and join higher society by driving forth a campaign to hunt down and eliminate every Boxtroll in Cheesebridge. Snatcher paints them out as baby-eating monsters to the public, but he knows the truth that they are from from it. 10 years prior to the main plot, Snatcher came to Hebert Trubshaw, an inventor who saw the Boxtrolls for who they really were ten years before, demanding he invent something for him. To extort his assistance, Snatcher threatened the life of the then-infant Eggs if his father didn't comply. When the inventor refused, Snatcher seemingly killed him with a wrench while Eggs was taken to safety by the Boxtrolls. It turns out he actually kept Trubshaw alive and locked up for ten years until he was reduced to an insane vegetable. Snatcher later obliterates the Boxtroll's home, kidnaps Eggs and the Boxtrolls, and forces the boy to watch as he apparently kills all the trolls off, gloating about it all the while. He then dresses up Eggs as a Boxtroll and tries to burn him alive in front of the entire town in his attempt to endear himself to the White Hats. Once foiled, he snaps and rampages through the square in his death machine, endangering everyone present and abducting Lord Portley-Rind's daughter Winnie as a final desparate action. As megalomaniacal and greedy as it gets, Snatcher stood out as a particularly vile Knight of Cerebus in such a lighthearted movie.
The Evil King and and his wife, the fox spirit Da Ji from Bruce Lee and Chinese Gods (1976), are a pair of horrific tyrants who starve, torture and kill their population. When anyone opposes them, the two have them tortured and executed, multiple people burnt alive at one point. At another, a kind adviser is forced to carve out his own heart. When the gods intervene to save the people, the pair start a war to slaughter the neighboring nation and even call demons down upon the world to do more damage.
The Beldam, or the "Other Mother" from Coraline, is a sinister temptress who lures children to her otherworldly lair under the promise of a better life. Spoiling them to keep them with her before convincing them to sew buttons on their eyes to stay in her realm forever and then murdering them or locking away their souls to replenish her own energy, the Beldam attempts to do the same to the title character. Forcing Coraline into a horrifying game of finding the dead children's eyes in order to save her parents, the Beldam also abominates her own servants for their failures.
In The Condor, Nigel Harrington is a partner in a company that develops nanotech implants. while Taipan is a costumed mercenary he keeps in his employ. Harrington decides to use the company's implants to make profits illegally and has Taipan kidnap homeless people. Harrington and Taipan use the nanotech to mentally enslave the homeless people (as well as giving them enhanced speed and strength), and plan to test this tech by having them commit crimes. All of the homeless people die while committing these crimes, their hearts unable to take the stress this tech puts on them. Both Harrington and Taipan decide to kidnap younger, stronger, more athletic people instead, so Taipan begins to kidnap skateboard enthusiasts and mentally enslaves them. After the other partners in the company, George and Maria Valdez, discover Harrington's scheme, Harrington orders Taipan to murder them, using some of their mind controlled pawns to kill them and make it look an accident. Taipan then lures their son Tony to the scene and has two of the mind-controlled pawns to viciously beat him, crippling him. Taipan later tries to lure Tony to his death again (after he recovered some of his mobility due to a nanotech implant) and tries to have her mind-controlled pawns finish him off. Later, Taipan, in her civilian identity, Valeria, invites Tony to her beach house, where she plans to kill him after seducing him. Tony escapes, but Valeria comes on to Tony's estranged cousin and convinces him to set Tony's house on fire, attempting to kill Tony's friends at the house. Later, Harrington sets up a meeting with some terrorists, attempting to sell the tech and the mind-controlled pawns to them. Things seem to be going well for him, until Taipan kills him and takes over the operation herself.
Lord Barkis Bittern in Corpse Bride. At first, he is respected by everyone and only comes off as a stuck-up jerk, until the end has revealed his true personality: he only marries women in order to get their money for himself, killing them afterwards. If that wasn't enough, Barkis was the one who murdered the titular character, Emily (in her case, he tricked her into waiting for him with a box of jewelry that was her dowry, then murdered the girl and took said small fortune before running away) and goes on to rub it in her face when she confronts him, and he was also eager to do the same thing to Victoria once her Perfectly Arranged Marriage to Victor was annulled. This causes the living and the dead to "have shock on their faces". While Oogie has death as his ending, Barkis has a Fate Worse Than Death, after becoming one of the dead, the rest of them form an angry mob and descend upon him to give him eternal torment and drag him away screaming. And given his creepy insistence that Victoria was his wife even after learning that her family was penniless, he may have been planning to rape her as well as kill her. On the top of all that, he is responsible for The Woobie-ness that all three lead characters have.
Lucifer from Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic: is a Fallen Angel who rebelled against God and introduced sin to the world, leading to the creation of Hell, where millions of souls of sinners were tortured forever. Desiring to escape his prison in the Ninth Circle of Hell, Lucifer makes a bet with Beatrice about whether or not Dante will remain faithful in his crusade. Lucifer wins and kidnaps Beatrice right under Dante's eyes to lure him to Hell. As Dante ventures through all the circles of Hell to save Beatrice, Lucifer tortures her, burning her and tearing her apart for fun, before deciding to marry her and force her to give birth to his children forever. When Dante frees Beatrice and gets to the deepest circle of Hell, Lucifer manipulates Dante into freeing him and then announces his intention of escaping into Purgatory and Heaven, where he can torture all souls there and then plunging the entire universe into chaos, solely so he can force God to watch how he perverts his creations.
Antonia Chillingsworth from Dark Fury is the Bounty Hunter in charge of the mercenary vessel that Riddick, Jack, and Imam run into. She's obsessed with the art of killing and death, while her primary hobby is to collect criminals and notorious fighters to place them in her collection of living statues. There they are frozen so that it takes them a whole day to so much as blink an eye, and they're conscious the whole time, trapped in a nightmare world for hundreds of years to come. She considers this her "artwork", and intends it purely for her own enjoyment. She cares exactly nothing about all the members of her crew she sends against Riddick and die as a result, just that she apparently paid them too much. She wants to make Riddick the latest addition to her collection, and before adding him to the exhibition, she throws him and his friends in a pit with people-eating monsters to see him kill something up close. Riddick himself calls her an irredeemable psychopath. The fact that Riddick is himself a sociopathic Noble Demon says it all, really.
Empress Sedessa of Delgo is the genocidal monarch of the Ando wastelands, and a vengeful exile of the Nohrin royal family. During her time among the Nohrin, Sedessa conceived a brutal war among the Lockni people after the Nohrin were denied land, ordering massacres of entire villages with orders to "leave no survivors." After King Zahn strips Sedessa of her royal rank, Sedessa gets revenge by attempting to poison him and the Queen in their sleep, succeeding in murdering the Queen. Fifteen years later, Sedessa moves to restart the war between the Lockni and the Nohrin, seeking to wipe out the Lockni in totality and seize the Nohrin kingdom herself. Throughout the plot, Sedessa shows gratification in harming whomever she can, taking pleasure in attempting to sever the wings of Zahn's young daughter Kyla and cruelly mocking her about her dead mother. She shows no compunction in disposing of those who have no use to her, like the ruling members of the Ando (whom she kills even in spite of the fact they saved her upon her exile) and attempts to backstab Delgo the moment he turns his back after saving her life. Even her own loyal commander Raius is implied to be disposable to her, and Sedessa ultimately dies a vain, selfish outcast whose brutal campaign cost countless lives.
Lord Desecrator from Dominator (2003) is a treacherous usurper in Hell pursuing his former subordinate Dominator for a key that will allow him access to other worlds to conquer. Inspiring a cult to commit mass sacrifice in his name, Desecrator is also the sire of the half-demon Hellkatt, who he wastes no time in trying to murder for being "useless" to him. When summoned to Earth, Desecrator goes on a killing spree across the world, burning entire cities and attempting to devour Earth itself, hoping to spread the pain of Hell all throughout the cosmos.
Dragonlance: Dragons Of Autumn Twilight:
- Takhisis is the Goddess of Darkness and Queen of Dragons, who battled the Gods of Light from the beginning of time. In the first age, Takhisis waged a war across the entire world of Krynn, slaughtering and burning everything in her path, until she was banished by the Gods of Light. In the present, trying to free herself and prevent the return of the Gods of Light, Takhisis leads her followers to conquer the world, land after land, leaving death and destruction behind, while ordering her minions to hunt down the heroes.
- Takhisis' right hand man Verminaard is no less evil and vile than his mistress. Verminaard is the chief priest who organizes the conquering of Krynn for his queen out of his own free will, and prepares everything for her return. Burning down lands, murdering and torturing hundreds and enslaving masses of people to work in his mines, Verminaard threatens to kill their children if they disobey his commands. Tracking down Blue Crystal Staff, which capable of bringing back Gods of Light, Verminaard annihilates village after village, enslaving more people and planning to wipe out the Elves in their homeland. When the heroes managed to free his slaves, Verminaard orders his dragon and minions to kill them all, children included.
In Dragons Fire and Ice, the immortal wizard Xenoz was once the ambassador between the peaceful Dragons, and the war-mongering human kingdoms of Draigar and Norvagen, however, his lust for power drove him to murder the Dragon Queen and steal her Ice Crystal. When the Dragon King Thoron attempted to murder him for this betrayal, Xenoz was scarred by Thoron's fire, and as such, developed a seething hatred for all of Dragon kind, and sought to annihilate the entire species through any means possible. Using his position, Xenoz ensures the war between Draigar and Norvagen continues for centuries to follow, framing each kingdom for the deaths of the other's Dragons, when in reality, Xenoz himself was hunting down and murdering them one by one, then feeding their remains to his army of monstrous Vorgans. After painfully tearing the power of an amazing Dragon crystal out of Prince Dev and Princess Kyra, Xenoz kicks his own second-in-command to his death, before opening a portal to Dragon World, where he plans to unleash the power of all his magic at once in hopes of wiping out all Dragons from existance. Defined by his disproportionate hatred and lust for power, Xenoz cared for nothing and no one but himself and his own pride, and would kill anyone who jeopardized either of them.
El Cid: The Legend: Ben Yusuf is an Almoravid conqueror who is causing grief for both Christians and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula. The opening tapestry shows him purging dissenting rulers, a sentiment he expresses himself when he first appears on-screen. Conditions under his rule are brutal and tyrannical, with a scene showing him mutilating a laborer simply because the latter was tired and didn't meet his quota. Later he marches his armies to conquer Valencia, the blood of many Christians and Muslims on his hands. He holds Jimena hostage, making her his concubine and sexually harassing her.
The Fearless Four: Dr. Greed is the evil tyrant leader of Bremen and CEO of the corrupt, animal-abusing MixMax corporation. When the Fearless Four roll into town with their tunes—music is outlawed in Bremen—Dr. Greed gets the idea to use them in propaganda, making them sing songs promoting his insidious sausage-making machines. Dr. Greed grinds up hundreds of sentient animals into meat to make his profit, kills his own minions, and in the original German version, he openly plans to purge everyone in Bremen not capitulated to his rule after having already murdered his political rivals.
FernGully: The Last Rainforest: Hexxus stands in contrast to such a lighthearted setting. In the past, Hexxus caused a mountain known as Mount Warning to erupt like a volcano and destroy anything it touched, killing countless people and creatures in FernGully; this would also cause a majority of the humans to flee in terror and never return. Hexxus was finally defeated by the fairy priestess Magi Lune, but is released during the events of the film and manipulates the humans running a logging machine into heading towards FernGully so he can get revenge on the fairies for his imprisonment. Hexxus plans to pollute the entire world and destroy it, killing millions in the process so he can rule over the world as a Polluted Wasteland.
Nekron from the film Fire and Ice is an Evil Sorcerer who rules over the lands of ice. He begins the film by magically expanding the glaciers of his realm to literally crush those who stand in his way while slaughtering their villages with the glaciers and the spears of his sub-human followers. Seeking to force the King of the only resisting kingdom Jarol to submit, Nekron's mother Julianna kidnaps Jarol's daughter Teegra and has her brought to Nekron. Nekron angrily informs Julianna, who had expected Nekron to breed with her, that if his mother brings him any more "little sluts," he'll kill her himself. When Teegra's brother tries to rescue her, Nekron, while sneering "pigs you are, and like pigs you shall die," uses his magic to force the prince to kill his comrades, before making the prince commit suicide. When Larn infiltrates his sanctum, Nekron gets utter delight from beating the warrior down himself and even has him taken away to be healed and rested so Nekron can enjoy crushing him again.
Black Wolf is the Big Bad of the Christmas-themed film The Flight Before Christmas and an alarmingly intense one. Black Wolf was a bloodthirsty alpha wolf who wanted to satisfy his and his pack's hunger and came up with the idea to kill and eat Santa Claus and his flying reindeer, hoping that devouring them would give them their magic and ability to fly. When thinking about the possibility of the food running out, he decided he'd then masquerade as Saint Nick himself so that he and his packs of wolves could get into peoples' homes. The plan was to slaughter and eat every child in the world to curb his hunger. In the trek up north, Black Wolf uses the poodle Essie as his pack's "good luck charm", with her purpose ultimately being to be put at the head of the pack when walking into potentially dangerous territory so that she might die first and he could avoid the dangers. When the wolf Specs volunteers to do this in her place, having become friends with the poodle, Black Wolf's response is a sarcastic "I'm gonna miss you, Specs!" At the climax of the film, Black Wolf attacks Santa's village, declaring himself the new Santa Claus, and attempts to murder the child reindeer Niko while his wolves do away with Santa's flying forces, going as far to pursue him on top of a giant tree and onto a flying sleigh miles in the air. Even when he's later sent falling to his Karmic Disney Villain Death, Black Wolf was overjoyed because at least he could die without an empty stomach, preparing to swallow Niko's best friend and surrogate father, Julius.
The Flight of Dragons:
- Ommadon the Red Wizard is the Big Bad of the film. A power hungry sorcerer who wants to eradicate all life and magic in the world, Ommadon became furious with his three brothers decision to create the Last Realm of Magic. And decided that they must die as his dark magic reigns. Onmadon eloquently describes his plan to destroy humanity, to infest them with greed and spite and make them turn against each other, driving humanity lower into their worst excesses until they all perish in nuclear war. Ommadon sends monsters and spells to destroy Carolinus's chosen heroes through madness, despair, and even the slaughter of the innocent, eventually opting to simply have his equally cruel dragon Bryagh massacre them all with no relent. Omnadon gleefully makes himself the host to the sum total of the world's evil to finally cow and destroy the scientist Peter Dickinson after all else who can stand against him have been slaughtered, believing that he himself is nothing less than the world.
- The aforementioned Bryagh is the dark sorcerer Ommadon's Blood Knight and literal Dragon who comes off just as brutal as the film's main antagonist. Seven years prior to the plot, Sir Orrin Neville-Smythe came across Bryagh devouring an entire nest of Dragon eggs, and was only stopped from eating the last one by Orrin confronting him. Orrin gravely injures Bryagh, leaving the dragon to wallow in his own hate for seven years before returning to aid his master in his ultimate goal of destroying humanity. Throughout the plot, Bryagh is shown to be an exceptionally sadistic dragon, described as having blood on his mind and relishing the prospect of having his legions "attack, demolish, devour, burn, and grind his enemies" - he happily serves Ommadon as long as it gives him a good chance to kill people. He's initially tasked with capturing Peter and bringing him to Ommadon. However, upon being pursued by Gorbash he tries to drop Peter to his death for no reason other than to spite the heroes. In the films climax Bryagh ambushes the Five Man Band of heroes and proceeds to kill Giles and Aragh, he then kills the archer Danielle by crushing her to death with his claws all while sadistically laughing at Sir Orrin over the loss of his Love Interest. Bryagh fatally burns Orrin as both off themselves in a mutual kill.
Gen 13: Ivana Baiul is [the headmaster of an academy that invites what it considers the best and brightest into its ranks. However Baiul knocks out the students and performs dangerous experiennts on them every night, hoping to give them super powers and create an army of super soldiers, that she will use to overthrow the US government. When one of them, Caitlin Fairchild, develops super powers, Baiul wants her taken, either dead or alive so she can run more experiments to create more super powered beings. Baiul captures Fairchild's friends and has them tortured. When military aircraft arrive to investigate her base, Baiul orders them to shot down. After the military forces get through her defenses, Baiul orders one of her troops to blow up the base, when he refuses, noting it would kill several of their own men in the process, Baiul kills him and activates the bombs after she escapes. Baiul's main henchman, Matthew Callaghan, believes the government killed his parents, but at the end of the film it is revealed Baiul herself experimented on and killed his parents.
Gorkan of Gisakuis the demonic mastermind of all the evil in the story. A devil who rules over his dimension of demons with an iron fist, Gorkan arrives on Earth and immediately massacres several samurai who try to stop him, before attempting to unleash his armies of demons onto the planet to plunge the world into a living Hell. Though thwarted in this, Gorkan escaped and spent centuries building himself a criminal empire that he used to hide his evil activities, notably mutating a lynx into a half-human hybrid after making a deal with him to save his race, leaving him an outcast by both humans and his fellow lynxes. In the present, Gorkan is an absolutely dreadful excuse for an employer, brutally melting, crushing, and snapping in two his own minions for the smallest slights, from failure to simply stating the fact of a temporary setback. In the end, Gorkan tries once more to unleash his demonic forces onto Earth, and takes the time to viciously twist one of his soldiers into a ball when the man slightly annoys him.
Heavenly Sword:
- In the film based on the video game, the Raven Lord, or the Raven King, is revealed to be the true Big Bad, and is the Ancient Evil responsible for literally all the misery in the setting. He was a sadistic warlord rumored to be a demon from Hell who led a vicious conquest in an attempt to dominate the world, slaughtering countless innocents to the point humanity's numbers vanished "like smoke" before seemingly being put down by the Heavenly Sword. Living on in the form of a demonic raven, the Raven Lord facilitates Bohan's fall into evil and the subsequent massacre of countless clans and endless murder, angrily pecking out Bohan's eyes when his pawn fails in defeating Nariko herself. Leagues worse than Bohan himself, the extension of the Raven Lord's brutal sadism and bloodlust is shown fully onscreen despite his limited screentime, and thousands of lives are destroyed in testament to the Raven Lord's endless lust for cruelty and conquest.
- Flying Fox, is just as vile as he is in the game, is responsible for the massacre of Kai's entire clan, described as having made them "bleed" before killing Kai's mother. An unhinged sadist distinguished from even the rest of Bohan's armies, Kai giddily forefronts the genocide and subjugation of entire clans, including Nariko's own, and decapitates Nariko's long-lost brother Loki, intending to betray Bohan himself, and gutting Kai in front of Nariko simply to torture her.
Erzsebet Ondrushko from Hellboy Animated Blood and Iron is an evil countess based on the infamous Elizabeth Bathory. Consumed by her desire to stay young and beautiful forever, Ondrushko sold her soul to Hecate, the Greek Goddess of Witches. In exchange for her soul, Hecate transforms Ondrushko into a vampire and gave her the power to rejuvenate her body if she bathes in the blood of young women. Ondrushko is said to have murdered over a thousand people in her quest to remain young. Through a series of flashbacks, we see Ondrushko take over a dress shop (by murdering the shop owner and her infant child) to lure in and kidnap a young girl named Anna. Anna's fiance gathers a rescue party, including a young Professor Broom, to rescue her. They go to Ondrushko's castle, which is filled with torture devices and the bodies of young women and find Anna drained of blood, and so they kill her to prevent her from becoming a vampire as well. Ondrushko kills most of the rescue party, but Bloom manages to kill her. Though her body died, her evil spirit remained. Sixty years later, the BPRD is sent to investigate a supposed haunted mansion, which is in fact haunted by the souls of Ondrushko's many victims. Ondrushko's minions resurrect her and she bathes in the blood in the mansion's owner to rejuvenate herself once more.
Heavy Metal: The Loc-Nar is an extradimensional nightmare that spreads corruption wherever it goes, being responsible for countless wars and atrocities throughout the multiverse, including much of Earth's history. After incinerating an astronaut, the Loc-Nar torments his young daughter with stories of its influence, several of which include corrupting people into crimes they normally wouldn't commit. In one world, the Loc-Nar offers great power to those who sacrifice young women in its name; in another, it turns plane crews into zombies and has them slaughter the living. Finally, after landing on yet another world, the Loc-Nar turns a group of warriors into barbaric monsters so they will Rape, Pillage, and Burn the rest of the planet.
Help! I'm a Fish!: Joe is the main villain of this film. Once a simple fish, he became sapient after drinking a potion and then he rules as a tyrant who enslaves countless fish andexecutes anyone against him, once even killing some minions to prove a point. He later sets out to Take Over the World and has Crab, one of his Co-Dragons, trying to kill Fly and leaving Fly and his friends behind to get eaten by piranhas. After being foiled, he decides to become human, but is tricked into drinking a potion underwater dying from drowning after this. A dark villain in an otherwise light-hearted film, Joe makes this family-friendly film a source of Nightmare Fuel.
Ice Princess Lily: Arktos is a sorcerous snowman using his magics to conquer Iceland and oversee a total genocide of all dragons. Arktos has wiped out nearly the entire dragon race, and is first seen as he murders the last two survivors, hoping to kill their child in the process but failing. Creating an artificial daughter named Lily to serve as bait, Arktos lures in the last dragon child, Tabaluga, and showcases the frozen corpses of dozens of dragons to the boy before once more attempting to kill him. After endangering all of Greenland with a war, Arktos tries one final time to finish off Tabaluga and Lily both, bragging about his plans to then dominate the world and even threatening the entirety of Iceland with death when they stand up to him.
The King and the Mockingbird: The Portrait of King Charles is a tyrant who views himself as entitled to have the love of the Shepherdess. He murders his creator and takes his place in order to send the police force after her and the Chimney Sweep, killing any of them who displease him without a second thought. In order to get his bride, Charles endangers his subjects without a second thought and threatens to force the Shepherdess to watch him feed her love to lions to force her to marry him, and attempts to do so to a blind musician for annoying him. Even after she agrees, he condemns the Chimney Sweep and the Mockingbird to hard labor, and later attempts to have them fed to the lions anyway. When his plans are foiled, he attempts to kill the Chimney Sweep and Shepherdess in a fit of spite. Despite being only a portrait of the original, the Painting of King Charles proves himself viler than his creator ever was.
The Knight and the Princess (2019): King Daher is the tyrannical ruler of Sindh. Under his command, pirates raid Arabian trade ships and abduct women and children as slaves, slaughtering any armies that attempt to rescue them. When Mohammed Bin Alkassim frees the captives, Daher vents his fury by massacring the Arab merchants within his kingdom.
Kong: The Animated Series films:
- Queen Reptilla from King of Atlantis: is the tyrannical and power-hungry ruler of Atlantis. Formerly an Alchemist, Reptilla found a way to brainwash a large part of Atlantis's population into becoming her obedient slaves. After seizing the throne, she prepared an invasion of the whole planet, only to be stopped when the first Kong sunk Atlantis. During the following centuries, Reptilla ruled over her kingdom as a cruel and oppressive queen, and had most of her subjects forced into slavery. In the present day, Reptilla tries to take advantage of the Eclipse to make Atlantis rise from the ocean, which would ravage the entire world and make it easier for her army to conquer what's left. To prevent the new Kong from stopping her plan, she manipulates him into joining her as Atlantis's king, while secretly planning to brainwash him as well and make him her personal slave. When Kong eventually realizes the truth and turns against her, Reptilla sends her most powerful warriors to massacre him along with all those who rebel against her.
- Hunter Stag III from Return to the Jungle is a famous billionaire adventurer whose specialty is hunting animals of all kinds. Ever since he heard the story of his grandfather capturing the first Kong, Stag has become obsessed with the idea of surpassing him by capturing every creature of Kong's Island. Allying himself with the notorious criminal Professor Ramon(e) De La Porta, Hunter Stag finds the island and sends his army of Cyber-Hunters to brutally captures all the animals before bringing them to New York City. Once there, Stag deliberately lets the prehistoric creatures escape and attack the city, endangering countless civilians in the process, as he wants to capture them again before witnesses and be seen as the city's savior. Stag also cruelly betrays his partner De La Porta, putting the blame on him for the animals' rampage. When Kong, Jason, Tann and Lua attempt to oppose him, Stag uses a soundwave device to drive the Tyrannosaurus rex crazy, and sends it after Kong while he tries to kill the others himself. Devoid of any compassion for animals and humans alike, Hunter Stag proves to be so ruthless that even De La Porta himself is horrified by his actions.
Krishna Aur Kans:
- King Kans is a brutal tyrant and warlord who starkly believes it is his right to take whatever he pleases, at the expense of the kingdom. While prince, Kans devastated villages, brutally killing its inhabitants and forcing others into slavery. When Kans hears of a prophecy that the eighth son of his beloved cousin Devaki will put an end to his reign, he makes it his foremost mission to kill him to end the threat to his rule. He is offered the chance to repent of his evil, but refuses. He revokes his former love for Devaki and imprisons both her and her husband Vasudev on the day of their wedding, and murders their newborn children so that they won't grow up to oppose him, also executing anyone who sympathizes with the two. When Devaki gives birth to Krishna and he is hidden away in a village, Kans summons demons to kill him, even allowing the witch Putna to slaughter infant children by the hundreds just to ensure Krishna's death. After a decade passes, Kans finally summons Krishna to a gladiatorial battle to finish him once and for all. Believing himself superior to all beings, Kans was a monstrous ruler who caused the deaths and suffering of thousands of people.
- Putna is the first demon summoned by Kans, and one of the most vile. Dealing in the black arts, Putna takes pride in her evil and cruelty. She torments the other demons in the underworld, burning and melting them on a whim, all the while gloating of how she has killed many humans. When summoned by Kans to kill Krishna, Putna is piqued, desiring the deaths of thousands of children. She only agrees to the deal when Kans appeals to her by demanding that every infant boy born in the last ten days be killed. Putna then terrorizes the kingdom, gleefully murdering every infant she sees. When she finds Krishna, she transforms into a beautiful woman and tries to feed him poisoned breast milk. Among a colony of demons, Putna surpasses the others in sheer cruelty, and the other demons are both mesmerized by and terrified of her.
Krabat — The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978): The miller is a wizard devoted to evil for evil's sake, who tempts the young beggar boy Krabat into his clutches as he has done with many other children. When he's not exploiting the boys for manual labor and teaching them dark magic, the miller sacrifices them in yearly rituals he dresses up as magic duels—when one boy comes close to besting him, the miller feigns defeat, then transforms into a snake and finishes the boy off. He vows to murder a little girl that Krabat falls in love with, and stoops so low as trying to trick Krabat and another boy into killing each other, just to punish them for having become friends.
In the animated movie based on the comic Lady Death, Lucifer comes to Earth in human form under the name Mathias. Mathias establishes himself as a feudal lord in 15th century Sweden. Mathias in the present is forcing villagers regardless of age to join his army (including a young boy), saying he needs souls to fight for God. Mathias sees his daughter Hope meeting her boyfriend Niccolo and impresses Niccolo into his army and confines his daughter to his castle. Hope soon discovers her father has murdered those he impressed into his service. Mathias opening a portal to Hell and pours several innocent souls (including Niccolo) into Hell to be tormented. As Mathias reveals his true form to his daughter, an angry mob bursts in, angry over Mathias treatment of the people. Lucifer kills everyone present except for his daughter and a priest who was leading the mob. The priest condemns Hope to death and plans to burn her at the stake. Lucifer sends a minion to taunt Hope, saying she can be with Niccolo, if she offers a prayer to Lucifer. Hope refuses at first, but relents and says the prayer as she is being burnt to death. Her soul descends to Hell and demons begin to torture her. The demons eventually take Hope to her father, where Lucifer wants Hope to become his minion and plans to torture the souls of Niccolo and her mother if she refuses. Hope refuses and Lucifer kicks her out a window. Hope meets Cremator in Hell, Lucifer's former blacksmith who was killed by Lucifer in life and was dragged to Hell by Lucifer. Through her training Hope becomes Lady Death and leads several lost souls in a rebellion against Lucifer.
The Land Before Time: In the film novelization, The Illustrated Story, based on the original draft for the animated film, the Sharptooth is depicted as a Serial Killer in a Tyrannosaurus Rex's skin. Preying on the herds that try to migrate to the Great Valley, Sharptooth is known for killing more for pleasure than for food and brutally kills the young Longneck Littlefoot's mother when she tries to save her son and his young Threehorn friend Cera from him. After Littlefoot accidentally damages Sharptooth's eye and Cera headbutts him repeatedly when he is unconscious, Sharptooth's ego is so bruised that he ends up relentlessly stalking them and their friends despite their lack of value as food to him just to murder the children out of spite, sadistically toying with his prey when he finds them. When he realizes he has found the entry to the Great Valley, Sharptooth plans on going on a killing spree of all the herds gathered there to satisfy his bloodlust as soon as he has finished with the children, the book describing him "sniffing the air with an evil joy" as he nears the Great Valley entry. When the children send him falling off a cliff to his demise, Sharptooth tries one last time to bite at the small flyer Pietre to take his down with him.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole:
- Metal Beak (real name Surtr as revealed in the video game adaption) is the despotic leader of the Pure Ones who wishes to conquer and rule all of the owl kingdoms, as he sees them as weak and broken compared to the Tyto class. After losing his beak to Lize of Kiel (Ezylryb) during a realistically-depicted battle known as the Battle of the Ice Claws, he forged himself a metal mask as "a symbol of the Pure Ones's strength and resolve", willing to set all of the owl kingdoms on fire and rule them all. To start, he had his Pure Ones kidnap hundreds of owlets from their homes and force them into slavery. The conditions they are put into are horrible, as they are moonblinked by the Pure Ones, a process where the young owlets get exhausted under the moon and fall asleep, and when they wake up, they weren't the same as if they forgot who they were. However, this is ultimately part of a much bigger plan: the young owlets are forced to pick up magical blue flecks that severely wound their gizzards by making them fragile and weak, so the bats can put the flecks in a trap for the Guardians, so when the latter try to stop the Pure Ones, they'd get their gizzards weakened enough so the bats can kill them by sucking their blood, just so Metal Beak can have an easier advantage in conquering all owl kingdoms. Then after kidnapping Grimble's family, Metal Beak promised the latter that his family would be safe if he did whatever he wanted, causing him to work for the Pure Ones. Soon after his trap is destroyed, he severely wounds Ezylryb before trying to force Soren to watch as Nyra kills his teacher. An evil owl who is motivated by a lust for power and a darwinistic point of view, Metal Beak will stop at nothing to achieve his notorious goals. Also, going back to the flashback where Metal Beak promised Grimble that he will release his family if the latter does his dirty work, let's not forget that he also promised Allomere that if he betrays the Guardians and leads them into the trap caused by the flecks, then Metal Beak would grant him the right to become the new King of Ga'Hoole. However, since Metal Beak betrayed Allomere by revealing that he was never going to keep his promise and had him dragged away by bats, it implies that he may have even broken his promise about releasing Grimble's family and harmed them anyway.
- Kludd is Soren's violent brother who delves his way into this trope in the very end. Having hated Soren and his dreams since they were young, Kludd attacks Soren just for trying to help him fly by imagining being with the Guardians, causing the two to fall out of their nest and get attacked by a Tasmanian devil. When Soren calls for help and is nearly killed by the animal, Kludd just stands back and watches, not willing to risk his own life and save his brother. After they are kidnapped by the Pure Ones, when Nyra politely asks Kludd if he would like to stay with his brother, he just looks away in hatred for Soren, eventually training to become a Pure One soldier with him and his colleagues chasing after a blue bird. After Kludd catches the bird and wins the contest, he violently throws the bird into the air even though it is able to fly away, and eventually forms an obsession with Nyra because of the racism and fanaticism she represents to the point he refuses to help save Grimble's life. Soon after that, after Nrya asks him what he can offer her, Kludd reveals he has a younger sister named Eglantine, and the two kidnap her from her hollow and moonblink her. After that, Kludd gives Eglantine and another moonblinked owlet to the traitorous Allomere as part of a plan for the latter to lead the Guardians right into Metal Beak's trap. Upon meeting Soren again, he tries to murder him even though the latter tries to redeem him, and in his final appearance in the movie, Kludd gazes at Metal Beak's mask with red Pure One eyes. Despite the offer of turning away from the Pure Ones and joining the Guardians, Kludd has proven again and again that he chooses not to be redeemed.
The Magic Roundabout (2005) (original French version and UK dub): Zeebad ruled over the world as a frozen wasteland in the distant past, until he was defeated by Zebedee and imprisoned for 10,000 years. Zeebad is accidentally released and begins his plan to collect three magic diamonds to freeze the sun and cover the world in an Endless Winter. Zeebad also brings life to a wooden toy soldier named Sam and makes him his minion. Zeebad kidnaps Dougal and orders Sam to torture him for information, but when Dougal is rescued he faces Zeebad and wins, pushing him off a cliff to kill him. Zeebad steals the first gem and forces them to give up the map by threatening to eat Brian. When Zeebad's train crashes and Sam is injured, Zeebad abandons Sam without a second thought. Sam later confronts Zeebad, and Zeebad realizes that the gem is in him, so he kills Sam and takes the diamond out of him, beginning his plan to freeze the world and nearly succeeding.
Hun Dun (or Hundun) the demon king from Monkey King: Hero Is Back, is the leader of the mountain trolls—is an alchemist practitioner searching for eternal life. Tasking his minions with invading villages to capture children, Hun Dun aims to sacrifice them on the Day of the Total Solar Eclipse by burning them to death in a large alchemy furnace and converting their life essences into an elixir, thereby prolonging his own life. His search for immortality throws him into conflict with the group when Jiang Liuer saves a young girl from getting taken. After succeeding at capturing the young girl through an elaborate trap, Hun Dun, angered by Liuer's intrusion with his plans, seizes the young boy and strangles him to the point of unconsciousness, which advances to him trying to violently dispose of the boy by firing several blasts at him. Upon acquiring energy from the solar eclipse, Hun Dun transforms into a nightmarish monster and begins to destroy everything in his path. Hun Dun also throws a boulder at Liuer when the titular Monkey King, Sun Wukong, was desperately trying to save him.
Next Gen: Ares, created by Justin Pin and named after the Greek god of war, is ultimately revealed to be the true Big Bad of the movie, and despite being a Killer Robot, is shown to have a clear understanding of right and wrong. Having killed his creator, Justin Pin, and replaced him with a robotic copy of him, Ares invented the Gen-6 Q-Bots and manipulates the public into believing they were programmed to help their owners in their homes when in reality, they were programmed to be suicide bombers to be sold to every home in the world so that they would explode and wipe out mankind as a whole to complete Ares's version of a "perfect" world. During the course of the movie, Ares interrogates Justin Pin's partner, Dr. Tanner Rice, threatening to blow him up with a Q-Bot if he doesn't tell him how to find Project 7723. Upon visiting Mai Su's home, Ares abducts her mother, Molly, while at the same time viciously attacking 7723, to lure both Mai and 7723 into a trap. He quickly vaporizes Dr. Rice to his death when he warns them both of Ares's plot, and when Mai reveals at a baseball stadium that the Q-Bots are bombs, Ares has them detonate right away so that everyone dies in the stadium. He rejects his offers of redemption twice, first when Dr. Rice tried to convince him that killing the world won't make the world any better than it is now, second when 7723 tries to convince him that no one is perfected; in the latter instance, he claims that he is perfect, which proves that his claim of creating a perfect world without pain, conflict, and injustice, is futile because he is no better than those he intends to destroy, even if they are robotic like he is, and that he really wants to destroy mankind to make the whole world like himself, even casually destroying some of his own Q-Bots along the way even though that wasn't necessary for his goals.
The Next Kill (2018): The Time Keeper and the Cutter are a pair of killers who cause wanton mayhem throughout Lincoln City. Eager to complete a hit list in a short span of time, the Time Keeper broke the Cutter out of prison, threatening to kill him with a bomb if he didn't finish the list. Once free, the Cutter goes around the city slaughtering dozens of people, while the Time Keeper forces the mayor to prevent police interference or else he'll set off multiple bombs around the city. Hoping to tie off loose ends, the Time Keeper tries to kill the Cutter anyway once he completes his tasks. After the Cutter discovers the Time Keeper's treachery, the Cutter kills the Time Keeper with his own bomb and tries to flee the city.
The evil Dr. Mindskull from Nova Seed (2016) , having been responsible for a series of monster attacks and disasters upon humanity, pledges to annihilate all that is left of the post-apocalyptic world using the powers of an alien child capable of creating plant life. Going to every length to kill his genetic "NAC" brother who seeks to stop him, Mindskull reveals the "new world" he raves about is himself, using the alien child to turn himself into a Botanical Abomination to crush waves of soldiers and march toward the nearest city to destroy everything in sight.
Thrax from Osmosis Jones is a disturbing personification of a human virus, considering the fact he really wants to kill Frank so that he'll be known to the medical books. He sets about gruesomely murdering whoever crosses his path, while making Frank sicker and sicker. This has the benefit of killing not only Frank, but every sentient being living within him. Thrax introduces himself by burning a cell unfortunate to cross him, while humming, and cuts clean through a local crime boss to cow his flunkies into servitude. When his remaining henchmen suggest that they incubate, Thrax brutally kills them and sets off to kill Frank on his own. Thrax even threatens the titular protagonist, Osmosis Jones, that after Frank is dead, Thrax will gladly go and break his new record on Frank's young daughter. Perpetually Suave while killing others. and caring only about himself, Thrax darkened the mood of a rather lighthearted film
The conquistador chief from Panchamama (2018), is possibly based off a depiction of a real life Francisco Pizarro. The Conquistador Chief barges into the movie with his men assaulting the city of Cuzco, savagely stripping the Inca of their gold clothes and literally shooting everything in sight. A few scenes later, the once-vibrant city is completely silent and drenched in a reddish light, heavily implying that the conquistadors killed everyone. He spends the remainder of the movie shooting at the child protagonists, clearly attempting to kill them. He does manage to shoot the condor—later revealed to be the village shaman in animal form—carrying them, resulting in them nearly plummeting to their deaths. Upon reaching the village, he follows Tepulpai into the ancestral cave, slaughtering the snake guardians for their gems. He assaults the kid, breaking the Huaca and dismissing the treasure as worthless, for which he attempts to kill Tepulpai.
In Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, the titular Emperor of the Night is the cruel ruler of a nightmarish dimension, who gains power by trapping souls in his domain, while weakening the Blue Fairy enough so that he can destroy her. Working through his vile human henchman, Puppetino, they lure and tempt numerous victims into signing away their freedoms, and turn them into lifeless puppets for all eternity. One of the countless puppets trapped in the empire of the night includes a woman holding her baby. The Emperor soon targets Pinocchio as his next victim, and has Puppetino lure Pinocchio with a little girl named Twinkle that they captured and turned into a puppet. Using magic from his master, Puppetino then transforms Pinocchio into a lifeless puppet, but not before torturing Pinocchio for his amusement. When Pinocchio is freed by the Blue Fairy, the Emperor manipulates Pinocchio and his friends into entering his domain. He uses Gepetto as his hostage, in order to coerce Pinocchio into signing away his freedom willingly, so that the Blue Fairy cannot save him. Pinocchio submits as long as his friends and father go free, until the Emperor orders Puppetino to take them all into the dungeon anyway. Once Pinocchio fights back, the Emperor turns Puppetino into a puppet for his cowardice, and threatens to harm Gepetto if Pinocchio does not obey. Manipulative, Callous, Sadistic, and Treacherous, The Emperor of The Night Set a whole new level of Darkness and monstrosity, in an otherwise Lighthearted Setting.
Krivzha from Prince Vladimir is a High Priest of Perun who uses his pagan religion to obtain absolute power. In the beginning, he murders his teacher to gain authority. Many years later, he collaborates with the Pechenegs and has them slaughter and burn villages. He also suggests that the village's sole survivor, a young boy, be sacrificed to his god. The boy later escapes and when Krivzha finds him with the Greeks, the boy escapes again while Krivzha has all the others killed and their ship burned. To obtain control over Russia, Krivzha frames Vladimir's older brother, Yaropolk, for the murder of the middle brother, Oleg, and give Vladimir a forged letter, causing Vladimir to invade his brother's land which ultimately results in the latter's death. After being exposed with his lies, Krivzha returns with the Pechenegs and attempts to kill a sympathetic pagan priest.
Dark Princess from Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer is easily the most petty and vile enemy that Rainbow Brite have ever encountered. Motivated solely by greed, the Dark Princess to tow the diamond planet Spectra out of its foundation to her castle. Despite having been informed that this may cause entire universe to be starved of light and freeze, ensuring trillions of deaths, Dark Princess decides to continue with her plans, in a clear disregard for lives throughout the galaxy. When she was foiled, she attempts to ram her ship into Spectra and shatter it out of spite. A truly, evil, self absorbed and unfeeling monarch with an insatiable lust for greed and power. The Dark Princess was a Shockingly Dark Villain, for an very lighthearted setting.
Ratchet & Clank (2016): Dr. Nefarious is a darker character than in the original series. Starting off as Chairman Drek's engineer, Nefarious built the Deplanetizer that allowed Drek to destroy planets and use their land masses to build his new world]. After the pair destroy Novalis and five other planets, Nefarious betrays Drek and takes over his operation, intending to destroy Umbris, a volatile planet which could set off a chain reaction and destroy the entire solar system. When he hears that Ratchet and Clank are thwarting the attempt to destroy Umbris, Nefarious goes to stop them himself and ensure Umbris's destruction, despite knowing he'd die too.
In Rock and Rule, the aging, utterly self-absorbed rock singer Mok Swagger intends to use the powers of an otherworldly demon to destroy his loyal fans for the crime of not loving him enough (as his last concert was not entirely sold out). Mok forces the female lead Angel to sing the song through which he intends to summon the demon by torturing her bandmates, threatening to kill them before her and smirking when he sees the torture of them leaves them as airheaded idiots. His first attempt to summon the demon in Nuke York failed but with disastrous consequences for the city and it's inhabitants, Mok finally uses Angel's voice to summon the horrible demon onto a packed crowd in at his concert in Ohmtown gleefully watching it devour his fans and completely apathetic even when the demon kills one of his loyal minions.
Volcazar from Ronal the Barbarian is an Evil Overlord obsessed with raising the dark god Zaal from his exile. Leading an assault on the Barbarian village, he personally murders Gundar and shows an awful treatment of his own troops, even throttling his Dragon for a minor failure. As he uses the blood of the Barbarians to resurrect Zaal, he forces Zandra to fight for him, abusing her the entire time, before taking on the powers of Zaal and killing many defenseless Barbarians. [He plans to wipe out the entire Barbarian clan, then move onto spread darkness and terror throughout the lands, promising that all life will submit to him or die by his hand.
The Secret of NIMH brings us Jenner, a power-hungry rat who would rather stay in the rosebush than move on to better life in Thorn Valley with the other rats of NIMH. Not only does he kill Nicodemus by cutting the ropes and seeing to it that he is crushed under the weight of a pulley and make it look like an accident just to steal the leadership of the rats away from him, he even threatens to kill Mrs. Brisby to take the amulet originally owned by Nicodemus himself from her for himself, not even caring about the children trapped in the Brisby families cinder block. Some cruel rat, huh? What makes it even worse is Jenner, like all the rats, owes his very life to Mrs. Brisby's deceased husband and the father of her kids and displays zero remorse or gratitude to Jonathan's memory. After his henchman Sullivan finally has enough with Jenner's lunacy, Jenner slashes Sullivan's throat and tries to kill his rival Justin, declaring his only philosophy in life: take what you can when you can.
Raegar from Sheep & Wolves is a vicious and feared member of Grey's pack who detests the ancient laws that prevent him from killing as much as he wants for fun regularly flaunting these rules to hunt prey for the thrill of it. Angered by his leader Magda's refusal to step down as leader, Ragear murders him and takes over by force , directing the pack to slaughter the nearby settlement of sheep to the last while knowing his rival Grey is among them. Even after his life is saved by Grey and the sheep's efforts, Ragear doubles around and tries to have his pack kill all the sheep anyways, threatening to kill the youngest of them if they stop him from doing so.
Commander Locke from Sky Blue is the ruthless head of security of Ecoban, introduced working the Marrians to death in terrible conditions. When a disaster occurs, Locke disengages a part of the rig, killing a large amount of innocent workers. When a foreman tries to stop Locke, Locke executes him on the spot and tells his subordinates that it's fine because the man drew a knife on him first. Locke begins ramping up the oppression , taking his men to kill protesting Marrians and finally initiates Operation Marr to exterminate most of them except those he'll spare to be enslaved to work for Ecoban. When he returns to find the heroine Jay trying to sabotage the city's unfair system, Locke gleefully attempts to shoot through his own second-in-command Cade to kill her, grinning all the while.
One-Eye from the Korean animated film Speckles the Tarbosaurus is a Serial Killer and engine of hate and rage in a Tyrannosaurus Rex's skin. One Eye demonstrates he's a calculating, rational monster by initiating a disaster to kill the young Speckles' family and murders his siblings for fun rather than food. He proceeds to haunt Speckles throughout his entire life, trying to kill him or those the Tarbosaurus cares for. At the film's end, he even murders one of Speckles' children and tries to murder the other by hurling the hatchling into the ocean.
Sky Blue: Commander Locke is the ruthless head of security of Ecoban, introduced working the Marrians to death in terrible conditions. When a disaster occurs, Locke disengages a part of the rig, killing a large amount of innocent workers. When a foreman tries to stop Locke, Locke executes him on the spot and tells his subordinates that it's fine because the man drew a knife on him first. Locke begins ramping up the oppression, taking his men to kill protesting Marrians and finally initiates Operation Marr to exterminate most of them except those he'll spare to be enslaved to work for Ecoban. When he returns to find the heroine Jay trying to sabotage the city's unfair system, Locke gleefully attempts to shoot through his own second-in-command Cade to kill her, grinning all the while.
The Spine of Night gives us this trio:
- Ghal-Sur, at first an unassuming scholar, is actually an Evil Sorcerer who seeks to obtain the power of the gods. Manipulating the swamp queen Tzod into helping him escape his prison, Ghal-Sur afterwards kills her and takes her powerful Bloom flowers. Becoming the prophet of a large town, Ghal-Sur tricks the town's leader Uruq into helping him obtain more power and his freedom by tasking Uruq to massacre his own citizens. With the gods' power now his after killing Uruq and absorbing his empowered soul, Ghal-Sur launches a worldwide conquest march, laying waste to countless villages throughout the centuries, while keeping captives around as slave labor. After Tzod is resurrected and steals his Bloom flowers, Ghal-Sur hunts her down with the intent of killing her again and continuing his trail of conquest.
- Lord Pyrantin, the son of a would-be emperor, is a would-be tyrant who has the tribe of Tzod slaughtered in her great swamp. Seeking to expand his own domain, Pyrantin wishes to eliminate all the "uncivilized" peoples there, threatening to torture and possibly rape Tzod when she resists. In return for Tzod scarring his face, Pyrantin has her swamp set alight, intending to kill the people there.
- Grand Inquisitor Uruq is the iron-fisted ruler of a large town. Separating his town into halves, Uruq denies one half of food and knowledge, keeping their books for himself while allowing his guards to kill any peasant who tries to retrieve them. Allying himself with Ghal-Sur by making him the town's prophet, Uruq regularly hands him women to be killed for their blood. Seeking to obtain complete knowledge and power, Uruq works with Ghal-Sur to start a war between his town's peasants and guards, using all the blood spilt to increase Ghal-Sur's magic. With ultimate power now at his disposal, Uruq tries to kill his remaining guards and all those loyal to him.
The Star: King Herod is the King of Judea who is paranoid of the prophesied King of the Jews because the latter is of divine authority, lying to the Wise Men that he wants to find out where the Baby Jesus is located so that he, too, "may honor him with a gift", but in reality, he wants to kill the baby Jesus to keep his own power secure. He sends the Hunter, along with the latter's two dogs, Thaddeus and Rufus, both of whom are chained by the Hunter, to kill him, alongside the pregnant Mary, as he is in his mother's womb. However, the full extent of Herod's wanton disregard for life itself is revealed when he tells his second-in-command that if baby Jesus cannot be found, then he'll have to kill all of the babies. It shows just how much of a loathsome creep that King Herod really is for even intending mass infanticide in the first place, and he is taken completely seriously when the full extent of his cruelty is revealed, with Thaddeus and Rufus ripping apart a picture of him during the credits.
Zygon of Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a smug, domineering Galactic Conqueror with a God complex who seeks to Take Over the World and and wipe out humanity. Formerly a rogue android known as Nexus, his first attempt to take over humanity was stopped by guardians known as the Ka-Khan. Forced into hiding, Zygon bides his time and establishes a slave mine on the planet Zinia, forcing human slaves, regardless of age or physical condition, into working in such harsh conditions they often die. The blade the Ka-Khan used to defeat him is found by an old slave, who's killed to keep it a secret. Once Orin finds out about the blade and decides to escape, Zygon fatally strangles his girlfriend Elan. After Orin escapes, Zygon places a massive bounty on his head and has his Mecha Mooks attack him at every turn. He captures Dagg and has him painfully tortured by shooting a laser into his forehead, overseeing it with a sadistic grin. After he has the heroes within his grasp, Zygon leads his ships to obliterate the human's opposing fleet and take over the planet by force. Once he's been revealed as Nexus, Zygon takes Aviana (the new love interest) hostage, threatening her life. Once Orin surrenders, Zygon attempts to strike him down with his own blade. Cocky, arrogant, and lacking in empathy to the very end, Zygon was as remorselessly cruel as an Evil Overlord could be.
Sky Marshall Amy Snapp from Starship Troopers: Traitor Of Mars is a vindictive, ambitious politician who seeks to rise to further heights, allowing the bugs to attack and slaughter wantonly on Mars while she captures a rival general to frame him for the attack. Snapp proceeds to paint Mars as lost, intending to destroy the entire planet and everyone there to show herself as a decisive leader and rise even higher in the eyes of the Federation.
In The film version of The Tale Of Despereaux, Boticelli Remorso is the cruel leader of the lower rat world and the films Big Bad. Believing the only true meaning of life is other people's suffering, he forces innocent mice, such as the protagonist, Despereaux, into incredibly one-sided gladiator-like games in a Colosseum, pitting them against a gigantic (to them) cat where the only outcome is being eaten and dying in front of a crowd of bloodthirsty rats. He despises Princess Pea for no apparent reason, and as such orders his hundreds of rats to eat her, trample her and cause her great pain. A detail throughout the movie that adds to Boticelli's status as a monster is the skulls and bones littered throughout Ratworld; it is made clear this is his and his subordinate's doing. Throughout all of these events, Boticelli is happy with it, because, as mentioned, he loves other people's suffering as long as he is not the victim in the end.
Mighty King One Eye, from the original workprint and Recobbled Cut of The Thief and the Cobbler, is a brutal warlord who introduces himself in the aftermath of a complete massacre of an army he and his army have defeated, forming a mountain of hundreds of corpses upon which One Eye announces his intent to bring the Golden City and all citizens within to destruction. Regularly making a habit of abusing his personal harem and using them as living furniture, One Eye spitefully orders the treacherous wizard Zigzag thrown to his pet alligators even after Zigzag provides him with the means to invade the Golden City. One Eye is implied to make a regular habit out of mass slaughter and seeks to annihilate the Golden City purely as a show of his bloodthirsty might.
King Tor of Raphicca from Thru the Moebius Strip (2005) was once a general of the Raphiccan army, but he became jealous of the current ruler of Raphicca, his own brother, and murdered him to take his position as king. Ruling his planet with an iron fist , Tor's selfishness drove numerous Raphiccans to rebel against him, leading to an ongoing war between the rebels and Tor. When the high priestess of the Raphiccans tries to hide a powerful crystal from Tor, he casually murders her, proclaiming her a traitor, then tortures one of her disciples to force another to harness the power of the crystal for him. After trying to kill the young Prince Ragis to secure his position as king, Tor leads a full-on assault on Ragis and the rebel army, wantonly firing his powerful cannons at enemies and his own soldiers alike, killing dozens of people. Flying into a rage after his soldiers turn against him due to his cruelty, Tor plans to open a dimensional rift and unleash nightmarish entities onto Raphicca to crush all in their path just to spite his enemies, and is beaten while trying to kill a defenseless human boy who was trying to close the rift.
Titan A.E.:
- Queen Susquehana rules over the Drej with an iron fist, and makes it her goal to wipe out all non-Drej species in the entire Milky Way Galaxy in her crusade to conquer it all. Susquehana makes her introduction causing the End of the World as We Know It by sending out her forces to Kill All Humans, and later on attempting to destroy the Titan and all its survivors once she finds out that the ship survived the destruction of the Earth. What's even more scary is that she's even willing to kill some of her own suboordinates should they be a threat to her own plans—or even out of her own temper tantrums.
- Preed, a slimy Akrennian barely tolerated even by the others on-board the Valkyrie, makes a name for himself as a backstabbing snake as his true colors unfold throughout the story. Contacted by Susquehana with the promise of monetary reward for finding the Titan, Preed and his compatriot Joseph Korso betray the other members of the Valkyrie to the Drej. Preed quickly establishes himself as the viler of the two between him and Korso, nearly shooting his way through an entire crowd of innocent colonists to get to Cale and Akima and displaying open, sadistic relish at the prospect of doing so. Once at the Titan itself, Preed turns his gun against Korso and reveals his intention to simply murder all of his former allies and sell out the Titan to the Drej, dooming any chance humanity has to repopulate — and then kicking back and watching as the Drej massacre everything in their path, comfortable with the death of almost all sapient life in the galaxy so long as he gets to stay alive.
Injurin' Joe is the 2000 animated musical adaptation of Tom Sawyer's version of Injun Joe, portrayed here as a Grizzly Bear, and he manages to be even more vicious than his novel counterpart. Joe is a dangerous criminal who regularly robs the local church and its patrons, with the Town Sheriff too scared of Joe to stop him. Joe forces the innocent and dimwitted Mutt Potter to dig for treasure, then brutally murders Deputy Bean for trying to confiscate the treasure that Potter unearths by throwing him against a rock and breaking his body. Joe then frames Potter for this crime, for no discernible reason, and takes sadistic glee in watching him prepare to be executed. Throughout the film, Joe tries to murder Tom Sawyer and whichever of his friends happens to be with him at the time, for nothing more than revenge for saving Mutt Potter, and petty sadism. Due to his savage brutality and the extent of his cruelty and greed, Injurin' Joe stood out as a shockingly dark villain for such a lighthearted film.
General Von Talon from Valiant is a hammy , but brutal, German falcon tasked with preventing Allied pigeons from delivering messages during World War II. Character Moment Introduced by viciously murdering two Allied pigeons and kidnapping the third, Von Talon subjects the latter to truth serum before locking him away and planning to eat him later. Von Talon has made a habit of eating some of the pigeons he catches and leaving their bones scattered around his lair, while others are killed and have their corpses stuffed and displayed by Von Talon as macabre trophies. After capturing Bugsy and the message he has for the Allies, Von Talon plans to kill and eat him as well before trying the same on the heroic Valiant, sending his minions to attack Valiant's friends at the same time.
Fagin, the Big Bad of the 1990 Danish animated film War of the Birds, is a murderous vulture responsible for terrorizing the residents of a forest he frequents. Fagin opens the film attacking and killing, for kicks, the parents of Oliver as they defend their nest, swiftly obliterating their nest in the process and destroying all but one of their seven eggs. Fagin's periodic assaults on the forest have claimed numerous lives, among them the parents of Oliver's eventual companion Olivia and the mother of the mice Frederick and Inglof. Fagin spends the rest of the movie attempting to brutally kill Oliver and his companions first for fun and later out of spite, coldly dismissing Oliver's anger at him over the murder of his parents and wrathfully killing Oliver's adoptive mother Betty after she rips out his eye. In addition to his thrill-killing, Fagin keeps a nameless dove as his personal slave, physically abusing her and traumatizing her into a stuttering wreck of a bird. A savage, sadistic, and brutal avian, with no qualms who he kills. Fagin stood out big time in a rather lighthearted setting
HIM from We Are the Strange. In his very first scene, he physically assaults his girlfriend and throws her against a wall. In the same scene, he shoos her away, ordering her not to come back until she looks as beautiful as the models on his "girly posters" and tells her how ugly she looks wherever she smiles or talks. Then, later in the film, when he reappears and faces off against one of the heroes he brags about how he had just killed said hero's little boy moments ago. The fact that he might have a Freudian Excuse does nothing to diminish his CM status and the fact that some of his behavior is based off of a real person that the director had the misfortune of knowing makes his CM status that much more disturbing.
White Snake(2019): The Snake Master is the ruler of the snake demons who seeks to kill the Dark General, ostensibly to protect her clan from his oppression. First sending an ill-prepared Blanca to assassinate him, resulting in her near-death and amnesia, the Snake Master then rallies her clan to slaughter the snake catcher village the General is heading towards. Successfully killing the General, the Snake Master reveals the true reason she sought his demise was so she could have her clan's power to herself, promptly turning on her underlings and draining their essence before trying to kill Blanca.
Blackwolf of Wizards is an Evil Sorcerer who fancies himself to be the next Adolf Hitler. Millions of years after the world is devastated by a nuclear war, Blackwolf and his brother Avatar are born in the kingdom of Montagar. After their mother dies, Blackwolf is overjoyed, seeing this as his chance to seize power. Avatar defeats Blackwolf in battle and banishes him. Blackwolf moves to the kingdom of Scortch, a radioactive waste land filled with mutants and takes over. Blackwolf sends out assassins to search the land and kill anyone who practices magic. Blackwolf also assassinates all the leaders of the free states so he can be a better position to strike. Blackwolf's mutant army is at first undisciplined and unmotivated and does not win battles. However Blackwolf eventually finds the tool he needs to create a better army, propaganda. Blackwolf finds a projector and some old Nazi propaganda films. Blackwolf uses this projector to inspire his troops and bring fear and confusion to his enemies. Under the influence of propaganda, Blackwolf's troops often slaughter the opposing side. Blackwolf's troops seize a village and end up killing all the prisoners they captured, as well as blowing up a church. Blackwolf claims mutants are a Master Race and wants to fight for their interests, but when he discovers his son will be a mutant, he plans to kill him.

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