Complete Monster/Disney

"Where's your kid now, sheriff?"

"And that's all there is to report from the happiest place on Earth: evil family members, psychotic killers, and of course the prince of all darkness himself, Satan." —The Nostalgia Critic, Top 11 Disney villain list.

Disney Villains are so cool that they are remembered to this day, but some of them can be horrible, ruthless, and despicable. See also:

• A Twisted Tale
• Kingdom Hearts
• Marvel Animation
• Marvel Films
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Star Wars

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Disney Animated Canon

• Even Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, the very first Disney Animated Canon movie ever, has a monster in the form of Queen Grimhilde, who couldn't stand the idea of someone being more beautiful than herself and was cruel enough to take drastic steps to ensure that it doesn't happen. She first has Snow White reduced from a Princess Classic to a Scullery Maid for no real reason, forcing her to scrub the floors and walls of the castle where she should live comfortably due to her birthright. When Snow remains kind and pretty despite this even meets a Prince who's nice to her, she orders her Huntsman to kill the title character for being fairer than she is and then have her heart put in a box in order to have the proof of her death, and when she figures out The Huntsman defied and deceived her, she (ironically) transforms herself from a beautiful yet evil woman into a grotesque and frightening old crone (which reflects her true nature) to cover her identity and poison Snow White with the Poison Apple. Although she reads that the victim of the poison can be revived by 'Love's First Kiss', she convinces herself that the Dwarfs will bury Snow White alive since they would presume her to be dead. Her sadism is also displayed in the skeletal remains of prisoners in her dungeon, one she let die of thirst with a pitcher of water placed right outside his cell just out of reach as a means of taunting him, and in the climax where she tries to murder all seven Dwarfs and their many animal friends with a large boulder, gleefully proclaiming "I'll fix ya! I'LL CRUSH YOUR BONES!" and cackling madly all the way up until her Disney Villain Death.
• The unnamed Coachman from Pinocchio. Seemingly a kindly old gentleman, he kidnaps a bunch of troublesome boys who willingly went through with it so they could do whatever they wanted without adult supervision, and laces their cigars and beer with something that, when they act like jerks, turns them into donkeys he then sells as ordinary animalsl). Nightmare Fuel much? From what he says to "Honest" John, he has been doing this for years, and the police have never caught him because by the time they arrive, the boys have all become donkeys, leaving no evidence that they were even there. He's also heavily implied to be a demon based on the terrifying devilish face he made when talking to Honest John, doing all this because he delights in the torture of flawed children. Worst of all, he is a Karma Houdini.
• 101 Dalmatians: Cruella De Vil is a fashion designer specializing in animal furs whose air of sophistication only masks the psychopath she is, especially to animals she views as little more than inspiration for her product. Upon hearing Anita, with whom she had a one-sided friendship in their school days, is expecting puppies from her pet dalmatian Perdita, she pays her a visit to politely remind her of an arrangement involving the incoming puppies while at the same time fouling up the place with her cigarettes as she goes along. When the puppies arrive, a rightly suspicious Roger refuses to sell them to her at any price, causing her to break off her friendship with Anita and swear vengeance, and in sending Horace and Jasper to puppynap them proves that she wasn't all talk. At Hell Hall, her place of residence, it's then revealed that she'd already obtained 84 dalmatian puppies from other individuals, legally or otherwise, and she demands Horace and Jasper slaughter them for her fur coats that night, or else! When Cruella learns that they'd escaped, all 99 of them, she forces them to search for the puppies until they're in her grasp again, caring little about the lives of man or beast as she makes her final pursuit during the climax. While most sequels turn her into a fur-obsessed joke without diminishing the threat she poses to the puppies, the continuity featuring 101 Dalmatian Street makes her even worse; see the Animated TV Series section on this page for more details on that.
• The Horned King from The Black Cauldron is a dark, terrifying, power-hungry tyrant with a god complex and absolutely No Sense of Humor (a rare case for a Disney villain , which only makes him all the more creepy). He plans to obtain the powers of the titular Cauldron in order to raise an army of undead skeletons to Take Over the World and to destroy thousands of human lives. He stops at nothing to achieve his goal, even if it means kidnapping and/or killing an innocent girl or a harmless little pig. He would even harvest his own perfectly loyal minions to make even more skeletal warriors. This is shown when the Cauldron seems to need yet another body to sacrifice and he immediately decides to offer his most sycophantic servant to it. Whats more, since the mindless Cauldron Born turn their enemies and victims into even more of their ranks, he's basically planning to turn the entire world into a gigantic graveyard so he can be king of the dead if he can't be king of the living.
  • He also has a bit of an ego to him. His motive behind conquering the world is forcing all of humanity to worship him as a god. He does not care for anyone and doesn't even want anyone else to care for him: he just wants them all to revere him as he persecutes the entire world for the heck of it. This is a villain with zero redeeming features here.
• The Great Mouse Detective: Professor Ratigan is the self-proclaimed "world's greatest criminal mind" who is the archenemy of Basil of Baker Street and a threat to all of London. An evil genius that loves being nasty and strives to keep up his image with his minions as "the best of the worst around" and "more evil than even [he]" by surpassing his earlier crimes, such as stopping time on Big Ben, drowning widows and orphans, and stealing the crown jewels, Ratigan kidnaps the toymaker Flaversham to force him to create a robotic duplicate of the Queen. Putting up a front of geniality, Ratigan masks a sadistic Hair-Trigger Temper that he exhibits by feeding any minions who annoy him to his gigantic cat Felicia, notably having the drunken Bartholomew Eaten Alive just for unwittingly calling him a rat, while Ratigan's other minions watch with horror. Ratigan threatens the life of Flaversham and then his daughter Olivia in order to force him to complete the robot, before arranging the most painfully cruel method he can concoct to kill Basil and his new partner Major Dr. David Q. Dawson. Revealing his plot to murder the Queen and replace her with the robot, Ratigan plans to use it to institute himself as ruler of all Mousedom, hoping to create a tyrannical system that will oppress the citizens. When Basil foils his plot, Ratigan once again threatens the life of Olivia, tosses his loyal minion Fidget to his presumed death, and drops all pretence of civility to try to rip Basil to pieces with his claws.
• Bill Sykes from Oliver and Company is an especially ruthless villain who is willing to roll up a car window against the neck of someone who failed to pay back a loan. Sykes later releases attack dogs against the pet dog of the same victim for no real reason, and kidnaps a little girl named Jenny to try to extort money from her wealthy parents. Oh, and when said girl and the in-debt-guy from earlier are trying to escape via vehicle, he chases them into the New York subway system with his expensive car and attack dogs. Said attack dogs are also incredibly vicious, which leaves one wondering how Sykes raised them. There's also his phone call where he's talking to another mobster who is about half-way through the process of killing somebody, and actually gives them advice on how to do it.
• Percival C. McLeach, the sadistic, brutish Evil Poacher from The Rescuers Down Under, shows himself to be pure evil without shame. It starts with his kidnapping Cody, a child who confronts him about his poaching of a rare eagle, and then McLeach tricks the authorities into thinking Cody is dead by throwing Cody's backpack to the crocodiles. From there he tosses knives at Cody to get him to tell him where the mother eagle is out of fear, locks him in one of the cramped cages he keeps the animals he's captured in, and to top it all off, ties Cody to a crane and lowers him into another river filled with crocodiles, only to raise him back up -- then almost does it again just to toy with him. When the power on the halftrack goes out, stopping him from lowering Cody, McLeach takes out a gun and shoots the rope holding him above the river.
  • Also disturbing is that McLeach is one of the few humans in the series who seems to be well aware that the animals are sapient, yet this does not stop him from, in his own words, "tearing off their hides" to make a living. He makes no dismissal or underestimation of the mice nor the eagle's intelligence, and rather than treat his lizard Joanna like a pet, he treats her like he would an abused girlfriend. When the Rescuers visit McLeach's hideout they find he is keeping three talking animals prisoner, intending to turn them all into luxury goods; McLeach himself is observed giving orders to Frank the Frilled Lizard, confirming that he knows they can understand him.
• Another highly successful example of this in a Disney film is the ever infamous Scar from The Lion King. He was always jealous of his older brother, King Mufasa, so he orchestrates a plot to murder his own brother and his young nephew, Simba, successfully killing the former. He then lies to poor, grief-stricken little Simba to make him blame himself for the death of Mufasa, and after telling Simba to run away, he sends his Mooks out after him to kill him anyway. Even before that, he was willing to have his hyena minions not only kill Simba but also his friend Nala, who Scar didn't even need to have killed, unlike Simba and Mufasa who at least were in his way to the throne. When he's about to kill Simba near the end, he gloats about having killed Mufasa. Furthermore, he caused a famine in the Pride Lands, and even his own starving Mooks were starting to lose faith in him - at the end, he even pins the blame on them, causing them to rip him apart for it. In fact, Scar is so evil, he averts the usual Disney Villain Death and dies a VERY Family-Unfriendly Death. While he has moments of dark humor, he's a far cry from the more semi-Laughably Evil villains of the earlier Disney Renaissance films. Scar could even count as a Knight of Cerebus for the Disney Renaissance.
  • Disney actually dodged a bullet that almost made him even worse: in a deleted scene, he's so dissatisfied with his current rule that he decides he wants to conceive cubs with Nala, so he throws himself onto her attempting to have his way with her. You read that right: Scar could have predated Frollo as the first attempted rapist in the Disney Animated Canon. This plot point was actually restored for the musical adaptation, making it canon for that version, as detailed on this page.
• Pocahontas & Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World: Governor John Ratcliffe, at first simply the cruel and greedy leader of the English settlers and a Sissy Villain, evolves into a much more despicable and dangerous character. Believing that the native Powhatan tribe are hiding gold from him, he orders that anyone who even looks at a native without shooting them on sight will be hanged for it. Later on after leading his men into battle, intent on slaughtering the whole tribe, Ratcliffe crosses the Moral Event Horizon when he furiously shoots at Chief Powhatan despite both sides now wanting peace, with John Smith Taking the Bullet. Ratcliffe becomes a full-fledged Complete Monster when he returns in the sequel, obsessed with revenge and re-establishing power. He makes a deliberate attempt on the life of John Smith and manipulates the king and queen with deceptions and misinformation, planning to kickstart a bloody war solely to have vengeance on the Powhatan tribe. He even has a bear tortured in front of Pocahontas so she could get riled up and stand against the king, leading to her arrest with the threat of execution. After talking King James into declaring war on the Powhatan tribe and preparing to send an armada out to America to wipe them out, Ratcliffe refuses to back down even when the king sends a batallion to stop the ships, and attempts to kill both Pocahontas and John Smith purely to satisfy his hatred and wounded pride.
• In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Judge Claude Frollo, the fanatical minister of justice and the titular hunchback's surrogate father, is one of (if not THE) most evil characters in the entire Disney Animated Canon. A deeply prejudiced and hypocritical official of the church and courthouses who seeks to totally exterminate the Gypsies scattered around Paris, his Establishing Character Moment involves him fatally pushing a fleeing Roma woman down Notre Dame's stairs under the belief that she was a thief, and upon realizing she was carrying a deformed baby boy rather than stolen goods, attempting to drown the boy, only agreeing to adopt him as his own after the Archdeacon makes him worry about God punishing him for his actions. Naming the deformed boy "Quasimodo" (meaning "half-formed"), Frollo raises him in isolation in the belltower of Notre Dame cathedral, being a very controlling, restrictive, and emotionally abusive guardian who hopes to make use of Quasimodo for his own purposes. In the present, Frollo seeks to commit genocide against the Roma people of Paris only to become enraptured with lust for the Hot Gypsy Woman Esmeralda, resolving to make Esmeralda his or watch her burn to death for the alleged crime of witchcraft, offering "choose me or the fire" when she's finally tied to the stake. Beforehand, Frollo has gigantic sections of Paris burned in his further attempt to find the Roma, orders an innocent family torched alive in their own house under unproven suspicion of them harboring Roma. In the climax, Frollo even tries to murder Quasimodo himself after having seemingly murdered Esmeralda, forsaking all piety to reveal the monster he's always been within: the opening riddle regarding him and Quasimodo is even "Who is the monster and who is the man?" Even being a classic case of Knight Templar, Frollo's frequent horrible and self-serving deeds casts his "pure intentions" as being sham and shallow.
  • To say nothing of his abusive guardianship of poor Quasimodo, whom he emotionally manipulates and mentally wounds so that the naive hunchback may be his obedient tool for his selfish use. He even lies to him about his Roma mother, claiming he adopted baby Quasimodo after his mother had abandoned him due to his deformed, misshapen appearance (when as said above, he killed her and intended to kill Quasimodo's baby self).
• Mulan: This trope is basically the entire characterization of Shan-Yu. A vicious, egotistical barbarian of a man, Shan Yu views the Great Wall of China as being a challenge of his strength from the emperor, so he leads a bloody invasion of China with his end-game being to force the emperor to submit to him before killing him. He commits atrocities such as slaughtering an entire village of innocents just to destroy the emperor's army, lets two survivors of an attack of his escape with their lives only to have one murdered anyway since he believes that it'd only take one man to deliver a message, and even after losing most of his army he still refuses to back down, rallying his remaining troops to kill the emperor at the capital city. As one would expect from a man like him, he is feared by every character who doesn't follow him, sadistically enjoys his atrocities (he's smiling when talking about murdering a child), and naturally, he isn't redeemed.
• Lyle T. Rourke from Atlantis The Lost Empire is a loathsome piece of work: a tomb-robbing mercenary who only cares about profit, and whose attitude is as horrific as his actions. He takes the Heart of Atlantis, which is precisely what keeps the Atlantians alive. Without it, they'd all die. Milo tells him this, and Rourke's response is to say that this increases the value of Atlantean relics: artifacts of a truly dead empire are worth more! So he's knowingly willing to commit genocide against an entire civilization just to profit off of their deaths. He's also responsible for the deaths of the feeble old king of Atlantis and his own loyal follower, Helga Sinclair. What settles his evil when killing the latter is that he jokes about it, and caps it off with a "Nothing personal!" What's rather frightening is that it isn't personal; he hadn't had any problems with Helga beforehand, and betrayed her simply because it slightly benefited him, since he saw her then as simply nothing but dead-weight.
  • If you thought Rourke was bad in the film, the first draft script incarnation of him is even worse. Lacking any of the superficial charm of his film counterpart, Rourke is a much darker character here and is an ally of the Kaiser. The thuggish commander of the expedition crew, Rourke shows a callous demeanour to the horrific deaths of his crewmembers, even threatening Milo when he suggests they turn back. Wanting to acquire the Heart Crystal of Atlantis to allow Germany to usher in a "New World Order", Rourke happily acknowledges that doing this would doom Atlantis and its inhabitants to decay and die in the dark. Having Preston Whitmore rendezvous at the entrance to Atlantis, Rourke sets up the man and his crew to die via a German U-boat attack. During the climax, much like in the film, Rourke betrays his ally Helga by shooting her and kicking her off his Zeppelin and attempts to sadistically murder Milo, but here he muses about dragging the death out to an agonising end. Having a much grander scope of ambition compared to his film counterpart's lust for greed, Rourke is a deranged sadist willing to kill both friend and foe to achieve his goals.
  • Also from the First draft script, Red Beard is a pillaging Viking out to discover Atlantis. Raiding a village, Red Beard forces a monk to give up the map to Atlantis for the price of his flock being spared; once the monk concedes, Red Beard razes the village to ashes and kills all within out of amused sadism, but spares the sheep. When one of his men gets uneasy due to concerns there's something within the ocean, Red Beard tosses the man off his boat to drown in the frigid waters, threatening the rest of his crew with the same fate should they question him.
• Treasure Planet: Scroop is the most bloodthirsty member of Silver's mutineers. Completely lacking in his boss' standards and redeeming qualities, Scroop introduces himself nearly killing fifteen-year-old cabin boy Jim Hawkins for mouthing off to him. When first mate Mr. Arrow reins Scroop in, Scroop pays him back later by sadistically cutting the lifeline keeping Arrow from falling into a black hole, then pins the blame on Jim just to hurt him even more. Scroop constantly seeks to undermine Silver's authority over him so he can kill off the crew of the R.L.S. Legacy, and meets his end attempting to doom Jim to a slow death in the vacuum of the Etherium, taunting him with the remark "do say hello to Mr. Arrow for me!"
• DOR-15 (or Doris) from Meet the Robinsons stands out a stark contrast to the laughable and ultimately sympathetic (though clearly villainous) Bowler Hat Guy. Originally a robot who was designed to help people instead of hurting them, she gains free will and quickly develops hatred for mankind, as she immediately attacks the scientists in the lab and brainwashes the test subject, showing that she is capable of acting independently and is not malfunctioned nor under anyone's control. While at first, she acts as the sane woman (or robot, anyway) for Bowler Hat Guys' antics, it eventually becomes apparent that not only is she using him, she has plans that are far worse for the city. When the Bowler Hat Guy explains that he never wanted what Doris did, she turns on her false friend without a second thought. On that subject, it is ultimately revealed that not only does she plan to conquer the city, she plans to enslave it by depriving all of its inhabitants of their free will, essentially turning them all into mindless zombies. In addition to brutally murdering Carl (a sentient robot like herself), Doris also attempts to murder Lewis by siccing his entire future family on him, forcing them to bang on the time machine so that Lewis would fall to his death, with the time machine falling from the balcony with him still inside. Eventually, after her plot is exposed, Doris prepares a final attempt to kill Lewis gruesomely by using her buzzsaws to shred him to pieces.
• Dr. Facilier, or the Shadow Man, from The Princess and the Frog is a "very charismatic" conman and voodoo sorcerer who employs his demonic "Friends on the Other Side" for his own ambitious ends. Facilier tricks Prince Naveen into giving him his blood, cursing the prince into the form of a frog, while roping his greedy valet Lawrence into posing as the prince to marry into the inheritance of New Orleans's wealthiest sugar baron Eli "Big Daddy" LeBouff, ensuring Facilier can murder LeBouff and Naveen after to secure the fortune for his own. Plunged deep into debt to his "Friends" with his soul at stake, Facilier sinks to his lowest when he offers up the souls of New Orleans's citizens to his demonic "Friends" to glut themselves on, and even cold-bloodedly kills Ray the firefly when he poses an obstacle to his plans. Defined by his thirst for power, even Facilier's elastic, unmistakable charm can't disguise the monster he truly is underneath his suave conman facade.
• Turbo/King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph is a deplorable embodiment of pure narcissism. Ironically, he began his existence as the protagonist of his own racing game. Quite happy with all the attention he was receiving, his self-centered attitude became apparent when another racing game was installed in the arcade he lived in and stole his thunder. Turbo jumped into the other game in an attempt to win attention back to himself, resulting in both games getting put out of commission and unplugged for good. Not giving up on his quest for fame, he entered the go-kart game called Sugar Rush, he tried to dispose of its protagonist Vanellope von Schweetz by entering the game's coding via the Konami Code and deleting her data. Since her data couldn't be fully deleted and she got reduced to a glitch instead, he opted for the next best option: play God by reprogramming the game's other denizens via locking away their memories, thus defiling their entire existence, and get them to treat Vanellope horribly, turning her into an emotionally scarred social pariah. Having taken on the guise of Sugar Rush's "rightful" ruler, King Candy, Turbo was content to be in charge of this game until Ralph came in looking for a displaced medal. Paranoid by the fact that Ralph could potentially unravel his little self-induced delusion, he does all that he can to get him to leave the game so that he can retain his power, finally settling on flat out lying to him about Vanellope winning a race being a threat to the existence of Sugar Rush and herself, which leads to a tragic betrayal of trust and a wrecked go-kart. When Vanellope's able to make it to the race anyway, "King Candy", refusing to let his schemes crumble, flies into a flat-out homicidal rage and attempts to smash her against the rocky racetrack before being outed as the now-infamous Turbo. After getting eaten by a Cy-Bug, his personality overrides its programming and he turns into a nightmarish hybrid monster virus who makes it very clear to Ralph that he now wants to use his newfound power to take over any game in the arcade. He's willingly ready to bring ruination to the entire game world, as well as wipe out the entire arcade's system with his newly formed Cy-Bug army, all for the sake of being the star. A selfish, unrepentant egoist, Turbo would cross all sorts of lines to be the center of attention with zero care about who he hurt in the process.
  • His line towards the end really clinches it. "Ooohoho look, it's your little friend! Let's watch her DIE together, shall we?" He says this to Ralph about Vanellope, who is about to be devoured by Cy-Bugs, and says it while forcing Ralph's head towards the impending gruesome scene. His total deletion afterward feels REALLY well deserved.
• King Runeard from Frozen II, Anna and Elsa's grandfather who is initially presented as a kind, benevolent ruler who attempted to make peace with the Northuldran people of the enchanted forest. However, it's later revealed that he was a ruthless tyrant who was scared the Northuldra could threaten his power, so he built a dam for the Northuldra for what seemed like a peace offering, but it was actually a ploy to starve the people of resources so they would submit to his rule. And once the chief merely showed concern about the dam to him, he murdered him in cold blood, starting a bloody battle between the two people and leading to Runeard's death after he falls off a cliff. Even after his death, his actions haunt everyone involved, including his son King Agnarr (who he carelessly brought to the battle and who would have died had he not been saved by his wife-to-be) and all the people in the forest, even his own loyal soldiers, who ended up trapped inside because of this great disturbance. In the end, Runeard showed himself to be a completely cold-blooded, savage person who would gladly eradicate an entire race if it meant preserving his power, and his deeds were so evil that the dam he built that started everything had to be destroyed for all the people in the forest to finally be free.
  • In Frozen II: Dangerous Secrets: The Story of Iduna and Agnarr, it's shown that not only did Runeard continuously blame the nature spirits for his own sins which slowly created his fear and hatred of magic in the first place, he was also downright emotionally abusive towards his own family. He forced Queen Rita to marry him for political reasons and grew increasingly impatient with her when she sobbed in her own bed day and night after he gave her shallow gifts, leading to her leaving Arendelle and going to the trolls to erase her memories about her marriage. It was after this when Runeard lied to Agnarr that she was carried off by evil spirits (leaving him unable to sleep for an entire week), shamed his weeping because she left (causing him to lock himself in his own room for years), and banished anyone from Arendelle who would ever mention her name, along with locking up all of her possessions. Also, his war against the Northundra is more elaborated on with it being shown many people died on both sides as well as several children being put in danger; it's also shown that Runeard was uncaring that not only Northuldran but also Arendellian everyday people and children were also present at the celebration, putting all of them in danger, including Agnarr, who is hurt so badly he is bleeding out. While talking with some of his soldiers, Runeard asked them if they were ready for the "festivities" while making a sick laugh, indicating that he was thrilled about annihilating the Northuldra. Because of Runeard's influence, one of the soldiers in an Arendellian squad proclaims his intention to slash all of them down and rushes at Iduna and attacks her. Iduna even asks at one point, "Are the Northuldra destroyed?" after the battle, and it's shown that many of the children's parents' deaths caused the said children to overcrowd the Arendellian orphanage, showing just how many deaths were resulted from this needless battle.
• Wish (2023): King Magnifico, the egotistical ruler of Rosas, starts off as a beloved ruler who has the magical power to collect the wishes of his subjects and make them come true should he choose to grant them. In reality, Magnifico is a paranoid, self-interested Control Freak who abuses this power for his own satisfaction, hoarding the magic wishes and leaving the vast majority of them unfulfilled as he exploits the people's love for him to stay in power. When Asha calls him out on this, Magnifico spites her in a public ceremony by making it appear as though he'll grant the wish of her 100 year old grandfather, who has waited almost a century for his wish to come true, only to double around and grant someone else's wish instead. When unable to perceive anything but a threat to his power from Star's arrival and fearing a loss of popular support, Magnifico reads from a tome of forbidden magic that darkens his sorcerous power and drives him to unfiltered madness, as he goes from hoarding wishes to outright stealing and breaking them, absorbing them from innocent citizens who are left in despair and agony as Magnifico essentially steals a part of their souls all to further feed his own power. Growing more unhinged the more he's challenged, Magnifico brainwashes one of Asha's teenage allies by turning his own wish against him, blasts his own wife for rebelling against him, and tortures Asha in front of the whole kingdom. Finally, using Star as a Living Battery, Magnifico decides to magically plunge all of Rosas into eternal soul-crushing despair, reasoning that if he can't win the love of his citizens then he'll just grind them all beneath his heel instead, and when the masses then all rise up against him with star powered wishes in their hearts, Magnifico furiously unleashes a blast of magic right at them in an attempt to silence them all.

Pixar

• A Bug's Life:
  • Hopper is the greedy, power-mad, oppressive leader of a gang of grasshoppers, and a moral-less bully who terrorizes those lower and weaker than him for his own convenience and amusement. Forcing a nearby ant colony to collect food for him, in doing so leaving only barely enough for themselves, Hopper comes down to confront the ants after an accident leaves him without the promised food. Introducing himself by nearly feeding Princess Dot, a child, to his vicious attack dog Thumper, Hopper forces the ants to gather more food, even knowing they'll starve as a result. He has no need for this food, since the grasshoppers already have plenty - he just wants to ensure his dominance by keeping the ants in line. Hopper's also a Bad Boss extraordinaire, restrained only from killing his brother by a promise he made to his mother (and even that doesn't stop him from constantly abusing and threatening him) and killing two of his henchmen for being questioned on his motives. Hopper finally plots to kill the queen even after his demands have been fully met, and upon being nearly defeated by Flik, he mercilessly chases him down and savagely beats him to near-death. Hopper's only philosophy is that the weak should serve the strong, and harshly punishes any question to his strict standards with threats and death, at one point even seeming finally ready to kill his brother Molt in a rage. An intolerant, sociopathic sadist of a grasshopper, Hopper represented the brutal side of the bug world to his bitter end.
  • Thumper is a vicious grasshopper who serves as Hopper's chief enforcer and terrorizer of the ants. Introduced being physically restrained so he doesn't kill every ant around him, Thumper takes a sadistic interest in tormenting and trying to kill young Dot, laughing in glee when he's pushed her to her apparent death. Later leading the charge in enslaving the ants to Hopper's will, Thumper is set up to guard the Queen until Hopper crushes her to death. When Flik's plot to scare the grasshoppers with a fake bird is discovered, Thumper is given the go-ahead by Hopper to indulge in his sadistic brutality, at which point Thumper subjects Flik to a brutal, torturous beating. Though following Hopper's commands for a time, Thumper reveals himself a Dirty Coward who ditches Hopper as soon as he has to face a bug bigger than himself.
• Monsters, Inc. franchise: Randall Boggs goes to truly depraved lengths to outdo his rival James P. "Sulley" Sullivan. Driven by Envy and petty hatred of Sulley ever since he lost a scaring competition in college, Randall frequently bullies his coworkers at Monsters, Inc. in his quest to hit "big numbers". Revealed to be scheming to "revolutionize the industry" of Scaring, Randall has used his abused minion Fungus to create a Scream Extractor device that tortures and suffocates those it is used on. Financed by Henry J. Waternoose III, Randall intends to kidnap children and use the Extractor to suck the screams out of them and create an endless supply of scream energy, making himself rich and famous in the process of finally proving his superiority to Sulley. When Sulley and Randall's own former friend Mike Wazowski try to save Boo and stop Randall's scheme, Randall first tries to torture Mike with the Extractor, then attempts to murder them both while mocking Sulley over his planned use of Boo as the Extractor's first victim. Randall later allies with Johnny Worthington to try to poison the public perception of laugh energy by plunging Monstropolis into a blackout, and risks destroying the entire city by combining laugh and scare energy to satisfy his revenge on Sulley. Lacking the well-intentioned goals of Waternoose while being far more vile than Worthington, Randall is uncaring of the lethality of the Extractor or the pain of the countless children he will subject to it, only concerned with lining his pockets and fluffing his ego.
• Buddy Pine, a.k.a Syndrome from The Incredibles crosses the line into this trope. He lures retired superheroes to his private island where he sets them up to be brutally killed by his robot, the Omnidroid. His ultimate plan is to sic the Omnidroid on the city so he can pretend to be a superhero who comes to stop it, then continue playing superhero until he's ready to retire and sell off all his powerful, destructive gadgets to regular, potentially irresponsible people. That way "everyone can be super. And when everyone is super, no one will be." Why does he do this, you ask? When he was a small child, he idolized Mr. Incredible but was rejected by his hero when he finally met him. But ultimately, he admits that he thinks Mr. Incredible is weak and that he’s outgrown him. It gets even worse when he acts on this grudge and personally messes with Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) by electrically torturing him and sending missiles at a plane his wife and children are in (which Bob can hear on the other line of a communicator) cackling with sadistic glee as he thinks he's blown them up, and at Bob's resulting grief. (To put in on perspecvtive, his henchwoman Mirage was actually shocked and horrified when she realised there were children in the plane) Then when Bob makes an empty threat to kill Mirage if he doesn't release him, Syndrome shows how little he values life by saying "Ah, go ahead. And then at the end of the movie, he attempts to kidnap Jack-Jack. While Jason Lee gives a spectacularly hammy and goofy performance, it doesn't change the fact that Mr. Incredible and his family view him as a serious threat to the family, all supers, and the entire world.
  • The comic adaptation by Dark Horse Comics actually makes him worse, as not only was Bob much less harsh in how he talked to Buddy while saving his life from his own recklessness (thus giving his Freudian Excuse and response to it even less sympathy), but rather than have the Omnidroid attack indiscriminately in the city, he programs it to specifically target innocent civilians in it's onslaught, with a woman and her infant child shown to be put in danger of being murdered outright!
• Pictured above: Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear aka Lotso from Toy Story 3 is the sort of toy Woody might have become if not for his Character Development across the two previous films. The leader of the toy community of Sunnyside Daycare Center, he allows the toys to be tortured and possibly broken by the too-young toddlers in the Caterpillar Room, and will do anything just to keep his reign if other toys step out of line. Here's just a short list of his atrocities: lying to Big Baby and Chuckles about their owner replacing all of them just so he wouldn't be alone in being lost, throwing Chuckles to the Caterpillar Room to be broken before Bonnie found him, turning Big Baby into his chief thug, ordering the Mind Rape resetting of Buzz Lightyear and then watching Buzz beat down his former friends with a cold sense of satisfaction, throwing undisciplined prisoner toys into solitary confinement in "the Box", beating Chatter Telephone to a pulp in order to find out about Woody's escape plan, mocking and physically striking Big Baby before ordering the toys to all be pushed into the dumpster, and, in the climax of the film, he leaves Andy's toys to burn in the dump's Incinerator 'after they risked their lives to save him. And he does so with a SMILE, a mocking salute and while yelling out "Where's your kid NOW, sheriff?!" While he does have a sad backstory, there's a scene where Woody point blank calls him out on how weak it ultimately is in the face of his deeds (his owner replacing him with a new Lotso was, considering she doesn't know toys are alive, a sign of how she loved Lotso; basically Woody says that it was Lotso who abandoned HER, not the other way around.) Karma does kick him in the balls when he gets condemned to an eternity on a dump truck due to the very emotion that he scorned. All of his actions cement him as being among the most heinous and depraved villains to appear in a Pixar film.
  • "The Art of Toy Story 3" book has the director and film staff mention that in a test screening, they were surprised that people sympathized with him TOO much because of his backstory and wanted him to turn good. The film crew responded by making small changes that increased the obviousness of his cruelty, to make the audience feel, like the director does, that Lotso gets exactly what he deserves in the end. In fact, as a result of his actions, Lotso was so hated that even the DISNEY STORE CLERKS tried discouraging a IMDb commentator's mother from buying a real Lotso bear at the Disney store in the local mall. When Disney creates a character so thoroughly despised that even the Disney staff want to prevent his merchandise from being brought, that's saying something.
• Cars 2:
  • Sir Miles Axlerod is the overall leader of the Lemons who is an old model of a range rover. At some point in his life, he recruited a gang of lemon cars just like him, including Professor Zündapp, to be his evil minions, using their pasts of being laughed at for not working right, just so he can turn them to his side. Then, having been lost in the wilderness, he sold off his oil platform and made up a lie that he converted from an oil baron to an electric car, eventually inventing Allinol (a supposed alternative energy which is actually a fossil fuel which blows up other sentient cars' engines to either severely wound them, or kill them in a very gruesome way as seen in Rod "Torque" Redline's case) as a start to controlling all other car models, while having Zündapp create an electromagnetic pulse to have the lemons use it to target other cars. At Tokyo, Sir Axlerod blames his oil leak on Mater to hide his grand scheme and that he's not an electric car (plus, he even has his lemons target other cars at the World Grand Prix which he created as a racing competition to further hide his scheme); at Porto Corsa, he makes a speech about how all the lemons can overpower all other cars while showing more race cars being harmed at the same time; and finally at London, he plants a bomb in Mater's hood to kill him in a pit crew while knowing how many lives would be destroyed.
  • The aformentioned Professor Zündapp is the Dragon of Miles Axlerod, and arguably more dangerous than the latter. Zündapp orders his henchmen, Grem and Acer, capture a spy car named Leland Turbo, and has him crushed into a cube, something his boss did not order him to do. When he finds Finn McMissile, he orders his henchmen to kill him, with one of his ships, named Tony Trihull, supposedly blowing him up, with Zündapp satisfied to hear the results. Later on, his henchmen capture Rod "Torque" Redline and take him to the Lemons' lair, where Zündapp finds out about Mater, and kills Redline afterwards. He also has his henchmen shoot an EMP beam at the race cars with Allinol inside them, a gasoline his boss Axlerod engineered to explode when hit with an electromagnetic pulse. Eventually, when his plans are foiled, Zündapp voice-activates the bomb on Mater's hood to kill him after Axlerod previously planted it, not caring about any of the lives lost in the process.
    • One important note is the way Zündapp kills Redline. He has his henchmen install Allinol into his system, with one of his Lemons slowly increasing the EMP with the others interrogating Redline. After the interrogation, Zündapp increases the EMP to full power, blowing up his engine and killing him. That's a horrible way to die, especially for a kids' movie.

TV series

Animated

• Darkwing Duck:
  • Taurus Bulba is the only villain on the show with almost no ounce of comedy at all. He had Gosalyn's scientist grandfather murdered, and when he was trying to get the code for the ram rod, he threatened to drop Gosalyn off a floating building if Darkwing didn't get the code: he had no proof that Darkwing was told of a code but was willing to try it anyway. His flying building dropping threatened the lives of most of St. Canard's population, and even after Darkwing had defeated him, he attempted a Taking You with Me in the explosion of his base. He was later on resurrected as a cyborg by F.O.W.L., and as thanks he destroyed the group's lab, setting off to work on his own, driven solely by the desire to destroy Darkwing and everything he cares about. When his first cyborg body broke down, he tried to take possession of the Gizmoduck suit built by Gyro Gearloose, but Gyro refused to surrender it to him. In retaliation, Bulba masterminded the takeover of St. Canard by the Quackworks Corporation, all part of a conspiracy to gain access to the Gizmoduck suit as well as ruin the lives of Darkwing, his friends, and his enemies in the process. At one point he took Honker Muddlefoot prisoner and used threats of torture and pain in order to make him divulge the information he wanted. In the final battle, Bulba attempted to bring down his own company in order to kill the good guys, and very nearly killed Gosalyn when she was able to wear the Gizmoduck suit instead of him.
  • Negaduck is played over-the-top funny a lot of the time, but is still treated as an extremely dangerous villain in-show, and some of the things that he does are pretty much Joker-level in their insanity and cruelty. As the evil alternate dimension counterpart to Darkwing, Negaduck rules St. Canard in the Negaverse, but frequently visits Darkwing's St. Canard seeking out new ways to create chaos and destruction just to prove how sadistic and menacing he can be. And since he holds no morals to anybody around him, he would attack and (at least attempt to) kill anyone he sees with any weapon he can think of like bazookas, bombs, chainsaws and even a tank, and would even go so far as to abuse, sabotage and betray his own teammates within the Fearsome Five just to get what he wants. Returning in the comics, Negaduck destroys Quackerjack's Mr. Banana-Brain doll and attacks Darkwing at his home. Teaming up with Magica De Spell, Negaduck hatched his most vile scheme: Capturing and brainwashing all of the Darkwing Ducks of the multiverse, have them attack the citizens of St. Canard, and frame the Prime Darkwing for the attacks before unleashing all of them to destroy the city, all while planning on killing all of them after the Prime Darkwing was dead. Returning one last time, Negaduck traps Darkwing inside of St. Canard Penitentiary, giving him thirty minutes to hide before the incarcerated villains hunt him down, only to release them after twenty minutes just for fun. Negaduck then plans to release all of the villains onto St. Canard in a massive crime spree. Determined to surpass all others, even Taurus Bulba himself, as St. Canard's most ruthless villain, Negaduck gives out a whole new meaning to "Let's get Dangerous!"
• Gargoyles
  • For the most part, this series has a well-deserved reputation for sympathetic and three-dimensional villains - Xanatos pets at least as many dogs as he kicks, while Demona has an involved and tragic backstory that keeps her sympathetic despite the often extreme evil of her present appearances. There are, however, a few unrepentantly horrible ones, and perhaps most extreme of these is the sadistic Psycho for Hire Jackal. In most of his appearances his employers manage to keep his evil somewhat in check, but the episode "Grief" more than cements his presence here - upon acquiring the power of Anubis, he attempts to wipe out every living thing on the planet just because he can, also torturing his enemies by aging them to the point they are almost too infirm to move and transforming his own teammates into children, and even destroying an entire city before he is stopped.
  • From the same series comes Hakon, a violent, sadistic, psychopathic viking warmonger who instigated the Wyvern massacre. In his debut, he invades Castle Wyvern with the intent of looting it and selling off its residents as slaves. After a humiliating defeat, Hakon vows vengeance against the Gargoyles, and with aid from the Captain of the Guard, successfully takes over the castle. However, not content with plundering the castle, Hakon slaughters most of the petrified Wyvern clan, threatening to kill the Captain if he gets in his way. When cornered by Goliath, he attempts to blame the Captain, before they both fall to their deaths. Blaming Goliath for his demise, his soul persisted within Castle Wyvern through The Power of Hate, and he, along with the Captain, torment Goliath with visions of the Wyvern massacre. Luring him deep into the castle, he gleefully commences a ritual that would revive him and have Goliath bound to the castle in his place. When the Captain turns on him and thwarts his plan, he stubbornly hangs onto his hate; binding his soul to an axe and teaming up with Wolf to kill Goliath and Hudson. A savage motivated by petty vengeance and senseless hatred, Hakon set the standard for how truly malevolent the show's villains could get.
  • King Constantine III is a greedy, ambitious Scottish lord who manipulated the noblewoman Finella so he could murder King Kenneth and seize the crown. A brutal tyrant, Constantine directs his wrath against Gargoyles, slaughtering all he finds and intent on their complete eradication. Showing no care for the rules of war, Constantine has a messenger executed and intends in massacring the forces and allies of would-be King Kenneth III, even threatening to kill Kenneth's young son in front of him.
  • Gillecomgain, the original Hunter, was the mace through which Constantine nearly authored the extinction of Gargoyles in Scotland. Once a peasant boy left scarred from a chance encounter with Demona, Gillecomgain used his scars as pretext for killing as many gargoyles as he possibly could, performing his task with such a single-minded, savage zeal that Constantine adopted a mask emulating the boy's scars. Gillecomgain had no trouble attempting to murder the unarmed son of Kenneth III when they were both but boys, and when he grew up he murdered the noble Findlaech and took his son Macbeth's beloved Gruoch into a forced, loveless marriage. Finally killed only due to the mutual efforts of Macbeth and Demona, Gillecomgain's brutality still ensured that others would succeed his mantle as the Hunter and preserve his bloodthirsty legacy for centuries to come.
  • Proteus, a shapeshifting Serial Killer who wants to destroy his own people's city. While in confinement he gets his kicks by shapeshifting into the form of the Security Chief's father, the previous Chief whom Proteus murdered. Let me reiterate that: After being sent to prison for trying to commit genocide on his own people by destroying their city and murdering the cop who stopped him he gets his kicks by tormenting the cop's son with his dead father's image. And when he tricks his way to freedom, Proteus delights in sowing the seeds of chaos all through the city, using people's emotions against them with his powers for sick thrills and trying to destroy his city and commit genocide on his own people yet again before being stopped for good.
• Aladdin: The Series: Most of Aladdin's enemies have some degree of comedic traits. However, things get much darker when either of these two are around:
  • Mozenrath is the most personal, recurring foe that Aladdin has faced. A youthful sorcerer who betrayed, zombified, and enslaved his own master and now rules over the Land of the Black Sand and it's zombie denizens, Mozenrath enacts a variety of schemes to destroy Agrabah, kill Aladdin, and bind Genie to his will - trapping Aladdin and his friends in his citadel and sending a Magic Eater after Genie, threatening to magically torture Aladdin to death at Dagger Rock unless Princess Jasmine delivers the Genie to him, and attempting to unleash the Wind Jackal Shirocco to annihilate Agrabah and threatening to do the same to every other kingdom of the world if they don't kowtow to him. Mozenrath later dominates the entire race of Sprites, turning them into a force of slaves that he works to near-death before trying to wipe them all out when they rebel. Mozenrath also traps a large portion of the Sultan's palace in an alternate plane of existence to be damned while he swoops in for control, at one point even making an implicit threat to have his way with Jasmine sexually, and in another plot manipulated Genie and his girlfriend Eden with dirty tricks so as to turn them into living batteries. In his final bout of villainy, Mozenrath tries to bodyjack Aladdin and leave the boy hero trapped in either his own dying body, or inside Mozenrath's mind while he conquers the world in Aladdin's own body.
  • Mirage is evil incarnate, devoted only to proliferating misery and destroying all that is good. As an early testament to her evil, Mirage orders a village and its population incinerated in her debut just because of the crops they grow for the surrounding land. Mirage's plots range from the grandiose to the sadistically petty, everything from attempting to have all of Agrabah destroyed and brewing up civil wars for fun, to trying to destroy Aladdin and Jasmine's love for each other by slowly transforming Jasmine into a snake, even to zombifying all of Agrabah's citizens to turn them against their heroes. Mirage even tempts children into her clutches, promising them immortality in exchange for becoming the monstrous El-Katib, a process she neglects to mention entails their eternal servitude in a dark void with release only ever three years. Mirage has no issue abandoning the El-Katib to die, coldly leaving them all to perish in the sunlight when one of them finally defies her.
• The Mighty Ducks:
  • Lord Dragaunus, overlord of the Saurians and the Mighty Duck's Arch Enemy, is a reptilian foe with only one desire in life — putting every civilization he sees under his iron rule. Invading Puckworld, Dragaunus has his drones ravage cities and has its inhabitants enslaved. Making his way to Earth after losing his base on Puckworld, Dragaunus repeatedly orchestrates schemes which would allow him to conquer the planet—with him wanting the destruction of entire cities to cow humanity into submission. Dragaunus is also the benefactor of some villains, providing more trouble for the Ducks—with one instance almost ending with the Ducks suffering a conscious dissection. Dragaunus is also an abusive master to his allies, with him subjecting one to eternal imprisonment in dimensional limbo. In the series finale, Dragaunus attempts to open a dimensional rift to free his species from their interdimensional prison to grant him the opportunity to subject the entire universe to his despotic delusions.
  • "A Traitor Among Us": Lucretia DeCoy is the biggest traitor in Puckworld's history, who sold her planet out to be invaded by Dragaunus and nearly destroyed the resistance with her spycraft. Hired by Dragaunus on Earth to infiltrate the Ducks' team and locate the Proteus Chip, Lucretia manipulates the Ducks into finding the Chip for her so she can hand it over to Dragaunus for use in vaporizing entire cities. Once she's done using the Ducks, Lucretia feigns a tragic backstory just to get them to lower their guard, then tries to drown them all.
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: In a campy, lighthearted series, these disloyal renegades stand out by darkening the tone whenever they appear:
  • NOS-4-A2 is a vampire-themed robot and one of the most persistent, villainous threats the Space Rangers have ever faced. Created by Zurg to destroy Star Command, NOS-4-A2 begins viciously draining robots across the galaxy of their energy and life, leaving a trail of robotic corpses in his wake and claiming the lives of Savy's foster parents. NOS-4-A2 makes several different attempts to destroy the entirety of Star Command and its hundreds of Space Rangers, and even tries pettier routes such as transforming Ty Parsec into a Wirewolf to strike blows against Star Command. In his grandest, most horrible scheme, NOS-4-A2 overthrows Zurg and turns Ty into a Living Battery so as to transform all life in the galaxy into ravenous Wirewolves, enabling NOS-4-A2 to feed on any and all beings he so wishes, which the vampire kicks off by betraying and trying to murder his partner XL when the robot outlives his usefulness.
  • Evil Buzz Lightyear is an alternate version of Buzz from a parallel universe who lacks his bold heroism. A gleefully evil conqueror who successfully destroyed Star Command and imprisoned every ranger there, Evil Buzz proceeded to wipe out millions across the galaxy—including Capital Planet and Tangea—and claim control of the universe he inhabited. Encountering a Zurg from another dimension, Evil Buzz partners with him upon being offered control of his universe. Imprisoning Buzz and destroying Star Command, Evil Buzz takes Team Lightyear captive to be killed. Partnering with Gravitina after his initial defeat, Evil Buzz, as revenge for Buzz "ruining" his home universe, plans to use Gravitina's powers to cause a series of sunquakes that will rain comets upon numerous populated planets, specifically targeting Capital Planet and Star Command just to spite Buzz. Despite forming a romantic relationship with Gravitina, Evil Buzz leaves her behind to die once their space station starts collapsing into the sun.
• American Dragon: Jake Long:
  • The Huntsman is the worst of the Hunts Clan, seeing as he is their leader. He kidnapped Rose at birth and is quite possibly the one who personally brainwashed her into believing in the Huntsclan way of life. As Rose's abduction means that this is probably the way that all Huntsclan members are recruited, this possibly gives him somewhat of a Freudian Excuse. However, seeing as his hatred has consumed him to the point where he has continued to kidnap infants from their parents despite knowing that he himself was kidnapped, he could be considered even more of a monster. The Huntsman has also killed a magical creature onscreen and, of course, who could forget that when he found out about Rose's Heel Face Turn, he threatened to kill her parents if she refused to help him acquire the means to kill every single magical creature on Earth.
  • The Dark Dragon is also a nasty piece of work. While he has much less screentime than the Huntsman, he makes up for it with the sheer scale of his evil. He basically wants to corrupt all magical beings and wipe out humanity. There's a reason the rest of the dragons consider him the Big Bad and not the Huntsman (though Jake and the Huntsman have a much deeper personal grudge).
    • Just an idea of how horrible the scales are: On a list dedicated to the 13 most evil beings in the Magical World, The Huntsman is only listed as #4, with the Dark Dragon taking the #1 spot.
• Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!:
  • Mandarin was the original leader of the Hyperforce, and the one who inadvertently turned their kindly creator, the Alchemist, into the malevolent Skeleton King. Even as a hero, Mandarin was a sadistic bully who at one point had his younger sister, Nova, participate in a torturous "training exercise" that entailed Nova being subjected to worsening sub-zero temperatures by Mandarin, who could be heard giggling at the obvious pain and discomfort that he was causing Nova. Eventually concluding that he was better than everyone else, Mandarin turned to evil and attempted to conquer Shuggazoom, only to be defeated and imprisoned by the rest of the Hyperforce, who replaced him with Chiro. After escaping from custody, Mandarin enslaves everyone in Shuggazoom City, captures the Hyperforce, and tries to tempt Chiro to his side by telling him that We Can Rule Together. Later allying with the Skeleton King, Mandarin abducts and rips off the head of Chiro's robot girlfriend, Jinmay, and psychically tortures Chiro into revealing the whereabouts of the missing Hyperforce, who he also mentally tortures in an attempt to destroy their wills and turn them into mindless servants of himself and the Skeleton King. In his final appearance, Mandarin attempts to create a perfect clone of Chiro. After Chiro destroys his replicator, Mandarin has all of the remaining imperfect clones merge together to form a massive Blob Monster that he orders to devour every living thing on Shuggazoom.
  • On the surface, Ma and Pa Sheenko appear to just be the kindly old owners of Shuggazoom City's arcade, but in reality the two are the leaders of the Skeletal Circle, an Apocalypse Cult made up of Shuggazoomians who have sworn allegiance to the Skeleton King. In the past, the couple offered their daughter, Valeena, to the Skeleton King, who tainted her with his evil, turning her into the wicked Skull Sorceress. After the Skeleton King was killed, the Sheenkos stole his skull so that they could take its power for themselves and pick up where the Skeleton King left off by raining destruction down on the universe, starting with their own "pathetic" home world of Shuggazoom. Ma and Pa unleash worsening supernatural disasters on Shuggazoom City, and when a vagrant stumbles onto one of the Skeletal Circle's underground chambers, he is strung up and left to be Eaten Alive by giant rats summoned by Ma and Pa. Before using the Skeleton King's power to mutate themselves into demons, Ma and Pa ask their daughter to join them, and when she refuses, they attack her while declaring that she will suffer along with everyone else on Shuggazoom.
• Phineas and Ferb: The lighthearted nature of this show's world makes finding a true example of this trope impossible, but there was that one time they brought over the Red Skull in the "Mission Marvel" special. While at first reduced to being The Comically Serious partner to Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Red Skull soon has enough of his antics and takes charge of the current evil plan himself. So what does he do then? He reworks one of Doof's inators so that it would suck the energy out of everything and everyone in the Tri-State area, meaning he was going to kill billions just to get rid of the currently de-powered Marvel heroes. He also showed no qualms in trying to have Phineas and Ferb and all their friends, all children, killed.
• Get Ed has one in the form of Mr. Simon Bedlam, an evil bureaucrat and Corrupt Corporate Executive who was originally business partners with Anthony Ol' Skool before he cheated him out of the business, leaving Ol' Skool with nothing. He also expands his business by killing off all his competitors and gaining a significant half of Progress City, before deciding to destroy the other half so he can rebuild under his control, uncaring about the innocent lives lost in the process. When courier Ed foils this plan, Bedlam develops an obsession with Ed's DNA, to use it for his own sinister machinations. This obsession would have Bedlam subject Ed to a DNA extracting process which he describes as "very painful", forcibly convert an innocent man into a cyborg to kill Ed, and forces Ed to watch as he subjects Deets, Ed's Love Interest who was forced to work for Bedlam when he was holding her parents hostage, to Electric Torture until Ed complies to give him his DNA. Using his DNA to physically turn himself into another version of Ed, Bedlam then proceeds to destroy the couriers headquarters, seemingly killing Ol' Skool along the way, and later kills off his own right-hand woman, Kora, when he believes that she is of no use for him. When he learns of "The Machine" and its destructive capabilities he decides to use it to destroy Progress City and re-create it in his own image, which would kill millions in the process. A monstrous megalomaniac willing to destroy everything and everyone in his path to obtain total control over Progress City, Bedlam cements himself as the heroes most feared and personal adversary for very good reason.
• Tron Uprising: CLU was ultimately a Tragic Villain who, for all his horrific actions throughout the Tron franchise and his god complex, simply wanted to do right by his creator, Kevin Flynn. To certain of his loyal soldiers, however, the cruelty is the point, and do they ever make that point perfectly clear!
  • General Tesler is the brutal dictator dispatched by CLU to subjugate Argon City, and as such, is responsible for most of the series's crimes. Years ago, Tesler was informed by two programs of the presence of an ISO, a persecuted minority, at their hospital, at which point Tesler ordered the entire hospital be slaughtered, including the two who informed him of the ISO, simply because they saw the rogue ISO program. As the ruler of Argon, Tesler sets up the Games, a gladiatorial tournament where programs are regularly forced to fight to the death for even minor infractions against Tesler's rule; Tesler has no problem throwing innocents in for even touching him. Refusing to accept any weakness or failure from his soldiers, Tesler ruthlessly executes them for decreasingly legitimate reasons as the series goes on, punching a hole through one for simply surviving an assault on his base. Though seeming to care for one of his Co-Dragons, Paige, Tesler is quickly revealed to be manipulating her into his servitude, having convinced her that an ISO butchered her best friends when it was Tesler himself, and regularly goes behind her back and murders people she likes or cares for, which culminates in him showing no restraint in ordering her executed when he thinks she betrays him. With a cold disdain for everything not under his thrall, General Tesler stands out across the Tron franchise as perhaps the most wicked villain.
  • Pavel, one of Tesler's two Co-Dragons alongside Paige, makes his mark as the single most sadistic and cruel character in the Tron universe. Though often kept in check by Tesler or Paige, when Pavel gets the chance to run wild, he threatens innocents by the dozens, murders his own minions with glee, and slices a Bit, the Tron equivalent of a pet, in half. After accidentally damaging a train's engine while trying to kill a single passenger, dooming the hundreds onboard, Pavel cackles about it while expressing his desire to stay and watch the fireworks as the passengers die, revolting Paige, and is also revealed to run his own torture chamber, littered with the remains of his many previous victims, and proceeds to use said chamber to mutilate a program's hand for nothing more than spraying graffiti. Continuously trying to usurp Tesler and gain more personal power, Pavel arranges for three teenage programs to be executed to embarrass Tesler, frames the loyal Paige for treason by Mind Raping her, before doing the same to his partners in crime, and hides a powerful upgrade disk from Tesler, using it to massacre an entire room of innocent programs as a test run while cackling like a lunatic. An utter madman who horrified and disgusted everyone he interacted with, Pavel may not have had the power of CLU or Tesler, but he more than made up for it in sheer depravity and evil.
  • Dyson is the smug and arrogant top enforcer to CLU and the most personal foe Tron himself ever faced. Once a close friend of Tron, Dyson's prejudice and hatred against the ISOs spurred him to betray Tron and Flynn, allying with CLU and helping the madman take over the Grid and commit genocide of the ISOs. Personally and horrifically torturing Tron, Dyson cheerfully reveals he has reformatted hundreds upon hundreds of Programs to be CLU's personal army, taunting Tron that all of his squadmates have suffered the same fate. In the present an overseer of operations who keeps CLU's oppressions at their highest while casually murdering his own soldiers, Dyson forces hundreds of Programs into slave labor under threat of death for the most minor reasoning, all to complete a "Super Realizer" and use it to reformat countless Programs faster than ever.
• Gravity Falls: Bill Cipher is a one eyed, pyramid shaped Eldritch Abomination who rules over the realm of nightmares and serves as the primary Big Bad of the story. Originally from the flat 2nd dimension, Bill detested the dull normalcy of his world so much that the first thing he did when he received his Reality Warping powers was lay waste to it and plunge it into total disorder, killing even his own family. Viewing Earth as being in similar need of "liberation", Bill sought a way to enter Earth's reality in psychical form so that he could unleash "Weirdmageddon" upon the entire planet. He began his plan years in the making by linking his new realm of anomalies to the town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. He entered the mind of the inquisitive Stanford Pines, befriending him as his "muse" and research partner, and deceiving him into constructing a machine that would allow Bill and his demon underlings to invade Earth while also creating enough power to tear the universe apart. After Ford saw what Bill was truly planning and abandoned construction of the machine, Bill relentlessly hounded him via invading his thoughts and dreams, or sometimes even resorting to Demonic Possession. When we meet Bill in the present day plot, his antics include invading Stanley Pines' mind through the dreamscape as part of a deal with Gideon Gleeful and later attempting to destroy Dipper, Mabel, and Soos purely out of frustration, tricking Dipper into letting him take over his body so that he could smash Ford's old computer and destroy his secret journals, and finally breaking the Dimensional Rift that he coaxes an emotionally distraught Mabel into giving him while incognito, which allows him and his demons to enter the physical world at last. He kicks off his apocalyptic "party" with nearly killing a man by rearranging his face, turning Ford into a golden miniature statue, ordering his minions to eat Dipper, unleashing distortion and destruction upon the entire town, turning many residents to stone to build himself a "throne of human agony", and wiping out Time Baby and the Time Police when they attempt to crash his party. He also had Mabel trapped in a Lotus Eater Machine trap that would gradually Mind Rape her and anyone else who entered. Bill ultimately intended to spread chaos across the globe so that the world could become his playground. In the Grand Finale, he tortures Ford with electricity in order to make him tell him how to break the anti-weirdness barrier around Gravity Falls, then decides that torturing Ford's young niece and nephew, Dipper and Mabel, might get better results given how much Ford cared about them. He takes out the souls of the Pines Family's friends and seals them within banners, and then attempts to murder Dipper and Mabel. Despite being certifiably insane and having a serious case of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good, Bill seemed perfectly aware of basic human morality and sanity, being all too willing to exploit it for his own ends and never caring to follow it himself. He put his own self interest above all else, treated even his own demon "buddies" as slaves to do his bidding, and his quirky, Crazy Awesome, Laughably Evil persona could not detract from his menace. Petty, psychotically childish, sadistic to the extreme, and possessing a sick sense of humor, Bill ended up one of the darkest and most horrifying villains to come out of a Disney animated series.
  • A note by Bill himself in the official Journal #3 makes his Grand Theft Me of Dipper even more disturbing. It reads: Note to self: possessing people is hilarious! To think of all the sensations I've been missing out on - burning, stabbing, drowning. It's like a buffet of fun! Once I destroy that journal, I'll enjoy giving this body it's Grand Finale - by throwing it off the water tower! Best of all, people will just think Pine Tree lost his mind, and his mental form will wander in the mindscape forever! Want to join him, Shooting Star?
  • The Book of Bill (including supplementary material from "thisisnotawebsitedotcom") delves deeper into Bill Cipher's origin and psyche, and we learn that the destruction of Euclydia was actually a Tragic Mistake that Bill refuses to accept responsibility for; while attempting to introduce the third dimension to the second, Bill razed all of Euclydia out of existence, including his own family. After going on a multidimensional crime spree that saw the destruction of entire planets, Bill sought a new home dimension to "liberate" and chose Earth, erstwhile home of the dinosaurs, whom Bill wiped out in a fight with the Time Baby. Bill builds up a Historical Rapsheet ranging from the Ten Plagues of Egypt to influencing the Aztecs into sacrificing thousands of people for him, traps thousands of beings in states of perpetual horror and agony for giggles, is implicitly behind a curse inflicted on the Wittebane clan that orphaned Philip and Caleb as well as leading to the latter's descent into mostrous villainy (see The Owl House), and creates the Book of Bill as a means of trying to con a new host into a body swap so Bill can kick off a new Weirdmageddon. It's revealed that after Ford tried to break their deal that Bill had possessed Ford for a time, put him through horrifying Mind Rape and subjected him to all manners of degradation while in his body, ranging from self-mutilation to trying to fake a suicide call to his own brother Stanley, going so far as to blame Stanley for Ford's would-be "suicide". Even after being trapped in an Epiphanic Prison where the only option for freedom is to atone and reincarnate, Bill makes no attempt to move past his own flaws, even victim-blaming his own "miserable family" for their fate out of a pathological refusal to grow up.
• DuckTales (2017):
  • General Lunaris, the Big Bad of the second season, is the leader of a secret civilization of aliens that live on the moon, called Moonlanders. Believing the moon to be a planet and resentful of his father's fear of planet Earth, Lunaris schemed to create a means of invading Earth and conquering it in order to prove that the moon should be feared instead. Lunaris hijacked satellites around the moon in order to make a surveillance system of Earth in his secret war room, where he gathered information on potential threats to him that would need to be eliminated first in the invasion; one such threat being the Duck family, so when one member of said family, Della Duck, crashlanded on the moon, Lunaris made sure all of her transmissions never made it back home, as Della was stranded on the moon in total isolation for over 10 whole years. When finally revealing himself and the existence of his people to Della, Lunaris pretended to be friendly to her and manipulated events so that Della could get rid of a long-standing threat to the moon's gold supply, repair her rocket ship with that gold, and be forced to leave without taking any of the Moonlanders she'd befriended with them like she'd promised, prompting Lunaris to ask her to leave behind her ship's blueprints so that the Moonlanders could go to Earth. But once Della was gone, Lunaris shot himself in the arm and told his people that Della had betrayed them, and that she was planning on coming back with forces to invade the moon, so they'd have to invade Earth first. He also played on the emotions of his own lieutenant Penumbra, mocking her and Della's compassion as being weakness. When Della's brother Donald crash landed on the moon by mistake, Lunaris took him prisoner and made him out to be a threat to his people despite knowing he was harmless. He eventually revealed to Donald that once the invasion is launched, he was planning on first killing the Duck family's kids, in order to break the spirits of the adults and leave them open to destruction. When Lunaris and his forces finally invaded Earth, landing in Duckburg and assaulting and imprisoning its citizens indiscriminately, Lunaris directly threatened Scrooge's family in order to deceive Scrooge and Della into acting against their own best interests while he brought down a super weapon to change the planet's rotation so that it would orbit the moon, risking bringing about the extinction of all Earthly life. Upon getting outmaneuvered by the combined efforts of Scrooge, Flintheart Glomgold, and the Duck family, Lunaris flew into a rage and attempted to just destroy the planet outright as revenge on the Ducks for spoiling his plans, not even caring that his fellow Moonlanders were still on Earth. A smug, self-important conqueror with a cold disregard for all other life forms and a penchant for pitiless cruelty and deceit, Lunaris was among the vilest and most personally effecting adversaries the Duck clan ever faced.
  • Taurus Bulba, inventor of the reality-warping RamRod and one of the chief agents of F.O.W.L., is introduced in the third season special episode "Let's Get Dangerous!" as a brilliant, charismatic scientist and colleague of the mysteriously-vanished Professor Waddlemeyer. Bulba heavily implies that he himself tossed Waddlemeyer into another dimension in protest over the destructive effects of the RamRod, does the same to Scrooge when he clues into Bulba's plans, and betrays the head of F.O.W.L. to spearhead a more extravagant means of world domination. Bulba attempts to use the RamRod to utterly remake the world, even if it means totally ripping apart the old reality and putting a new one in its place.
• The Lion Guard: In "Return of the Roar", we're told that while Mufasa was studying to became king, Scar was given leadership of the Lion Guard, the Pride Lands' special protection force. This responsibility came along with a powerful roar that called upon the spirits of the kings of the past. But this power went to Scar's head and made him feel like he should be the king rather than Mufasa, so he attempted to persuade the Lion Guard into bringing his brother down. When the Guard wouldn't agree to this, an enraged Scar unleashed his roar directly on them, killing them all. Because he had used the roar for an evil purpose like mass murder of his own kind, Scar lost the ability forever. In Season 2, years after his initial death in the movie, Scar is brought back as a fiery volcano spirit and tries to lead the animals of the Outlands on a brutal conquest of the Pride Lands, first by cutting off the river and entire water supply of the whole Pride Lands, and eventually simply trying to have them burn the savannah and all its inhabitants. In the climax of this story arc, Scar attempts to burn the new Lion Guard, Simba, Nala, Kiara, and the hyena clan to death, the latter for one of them considering on defecting to the Pride Lands, before planning on tricking Kion into erupting the volcano with his roar, which will kill everyone in the Pride Lands. When confronted by the Lion Guard, Scar has Ushari scar Kion, with the snake's venom slowly bringing Kion into insanity as Scar declares that Kion will now be just like him. Even after the death of his physical body, Scar remained a hateful creature driven by spite.
• Tangled: The Series (AKA Rapunzel's Tangled Adventures): Zhan Tiri is a powerful shapeshifter responsible for most of the bad events that transpired throughout the series. A former friend and ally of Lord Demanitus in their search for the Sundrop and Moonstone, Zhan Tiri betrayed Demanitus so she could claim the power of both elements for herself. When sealed away into another realm, Zhan Tiri vowed to destroy Corona, the land Demanitus held dear out of revenge. Turning three of Demanitus' disciples into her followers, Zhan Tiri was able to return and corrupted the Great Tree, using its powers to kill anyone who opposed her. When Demanitus forced her out of the tree, she fled to the northern mountains and conjured up a magical blizzard to decimate Corona with. Even when she's sealed away once again, she left behind a monstrous legacy of destruction and misery as her followers continued to do her bidding. Among them was Mother Gothel, who used her learnings under Demanitus and Zhan Tiri for her own gain, making Zhan Tiri indirectly responsible for Rapunzel's abduction as a child. Meanwhile, her curse on Corona, the blizzard, returns to nearly destroy the whole kingdom and this indirectly leads to Varian's descent into villainy. The spirits of her two other followers, Sugracha and Tromus, make two attempts to drain the life from Rapunzel in order to grant the Sundrop's power to Zhan Tiri, which could, when combined with the Moonstone's power, release her from her imprisonment and gain her ultimate power over life and death. Finally appearing in the third season in the form of an enchanted little girl, Zhan Tiri meets Rapunzel's Lady in Waiting and local Aloof Dark-Haired Girl Cassandra (who's the birth daughter of Gothel) and pretends to be her confidant. She convinces Cassandra to betray Rapunzel and steal the Moonstone for herself in order to pit the two former friends against each other, with the resulting clash of powers allowing Zhan Tiri to escape her prison. Once freed, Zhan Tiri continues to exploit Cassandra's Inferiority Superiority Complex to manipulate her into committing many crimes from threatening to impale a girl on spiked rocks to brainwashing the Brotherhood of the Dark Kingdom into becoming her slaves... and when Cassandra extracts the Sundrop from Rapunzel, Zhan Tiri betrays Cassandra and steals both the Sundrop and Moonstone for herself. With her new powers, Zhan Tiri transforms into her demon form and resumes her destructive plans, casting the decay incantation to slowly and painfully kill all life across the land. Sadistic and grandiose, Zhan Tiri stopped at nothing in pursuit of absolute power, believing it to be her birthright to subjugate or destroy all she sees fit.
• Elena of Avalor: Cahu, the Time Shade, is the leader of the Four Shades of Awesome (formerly the Shadows of the Night) and is the cruelest and most ruthless of them all. Possessing the power in her hourglass to fast-forward one's life span until they perish and their beings are left sealed within the fossilized murals left behind, Cahu let this terrible power loose on the citizens of Avalor, murdering almost the entire population of the kingdom. When Esteban confronts his surrogate guardians, Fransisco and Luisa, inside the throne room, Cahu attacks them right in front of Esteban and doesn't bring them back to life when he orders her to, instead threatening Esteban into the position of Avalor's Puppet King who must let her and her fellow Shades reek destruction upon the world as they please. In the final showdown with Princess Elena, Cahu uses her powers to toy with her before attempting to kill her in a slower way so that Elena will feel every bit of her own demise, only failing because Esteban takes the blow for Elena instead. Possessing a chillingly calm form of sadism not seen in any other antagonist in the series and with no redeeming features to be seen, Cahu was the darkest threat that Avalor ever faced.
• 101 Dalmatian Street: Cruella De Vil in this show is depicted as being so old as to be unnatural, possibly a Humanoid Abomination, and is by far the vilest incarnation of the character to date. Even before appearing physically, Cruella had contact with her great-nephew, Hunter De Vil, who followed her orders to kidnap the Dalmatian family of 101 Street, as she hasn't abandoned her obsession with the Dalmatians' spotted fur even after decades. Devising a death machine meant for the puppies, Cruella sends Dawkins' Princess Positron doll through it, where it is drowned, sliced, and ultimately ejected as only a ball of hair with a detached eye. When the Dalmatians are brought to her, Cruella wants Dorothy to be the first to go and was holding Doug and Delilah hostage so they could helplessly watch their children die before they were to go next. Casually stating that they'll dump the puppies' remains into the international waters, Cruella also orders Hunter to be thrown in with the puppies to be killed as well, as she's now gotten bored with him and feels he has outlived his usefulness to her.
• Amphibia: King Aldrich Leviathan is the father of Andrias who was the latest of Amphibia's imperialist royals to join with "the Core", an aggregation of Amphibia's longest-living and most wicked minds into a single Mind Hive that plans out the conquest, ethnic cleansing and colonization of the multiverse. In his last days of life, Aldrich commissioned an invasion of Earth by the forces of Newtopia which would annihilate humanity and harvest the Earth's resources to continue his conquest, and was priming his son Andrias to carry it out by using the Calamity Box to open up a portal, heaping massive pressure along with emotional abuse onto him the whole while. When Andrias' frog friend, Leif Plantar, warned that the Calamity Box cannot be used for the invasion because it would be wrong and might set in motion Amphibia's own destruction, Aldrich refused to listen, so when Leif stole away with the box, Aldrich blamed Andrias for it and charged him with ruling over Newtopia until the box be returned, even ensuring that Andrias lived longer by making his body mostly cybernetic. As the leading voice within the Core, Aldrich held great influence over his son's decisions, including turning the body of young Marcy Wu into a host for the Core, with Marcy's mind kept in a mental prison where Aldrich makes her greatest fantasies seem real as a way to gradually assmilate her into the Core, and when Marcy sees through the ruse, he coldly attempts to end her very existence. Even after the Core is severed from Marcy, Aldrich and the other minds of the Core trigger a backup contigency where they overtake Amphibia's moon to send it crashing down, opting to wipe out the planet of Amphibia and all life in it if they're unable to rule over it as their great empire, and when his own son Andrias finally rebels against his plans, Aldrich opts to kill him as well by helping the moon's thrusters crash it even faster toward Amphibia out of retaliation.
• The Owl House:
  • Philip Wittebane was a man from colonial-era Connecticut who, along with his brother Caleb, discovered an entryway into the Demon Realm where demons and witches lived. Extremely prejudiced against the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles and their practice of wild magic, Philip fashioned himself as a Witch Hunter and even murdered Caleb in cold blood when he found out he'd fallen in love with a witch, for which he blamed the witches and their realm, and sought vengeance. Striking a deal with the Collector, Philip donned the guise of Emperor Belos to establish a tyrannical regime over the Boiling Isles, keeping himself alive for years as a human Lich by sucking souls out of an untold number of Palismen, and recreating his deceased brother in the form of a Grimwalker, who he named his Golden Guard, as he went around the isles to con the masses into abandoning wild magic and uniting under his Coven System, under which he was actually branding thousands among the populace so that when the "Day of Unity" arrived, they'd be marked for a draining spell that would result in the mass genocide of all witches and demons. Whenever the Golden Guard realized Beloss' true intentions, Belos killed him and started again with a new reanimated Grimwalker to use and abuse in all the same ways, with his "nephew" Hunter being only the latest and youngest of the Guards, and when he learns the truth, Belos attempts to slaughter him, too. Belos also tried to have Eda the Owl Lady executed to make an example of her to the masses, tortured and exterminated many otherworldly creatures in horrible experiments, had sacrificed the lives of many who'd followed and helped him over the years, betrayed the trust of all his collaborators (even the Collector himself), and nearly killed Luz, a human child from his hometown, when she refused to submit to him. Just barely surviving his near death encounter with the Collector and sustaining himself with life force from wild animals, Belos posseses Hunter's body in order to take Titans Blood to return from Earth back to the demon realm, fatally wounding Hunter's palisman Flapjack while doing so. Once back on the Boiling Isles, Belos overtakes Raine Whispers and decieves the Collector again in order to keep him at bay while he fuses himself into the Titan's heart to create a larger, stronger new body for himself. In this form, Belos temporarily kills Luz, sucks all the remaining life force from the Titan, and unleashes destruction upon the Isles with the intent of using the Titan's power to cleanse it of all life. A callous and hypocritical age-old psychopath, Belos ultimately became a far worse, deadlier, and viler monster than any of the demonic beings he'd hunted, caring for nothing and no one except "his need to be the hero in his own delusion."
  • Odalia Blight, initially seen as a controlling, status-obsessed parent, turns out to be far worse. When Luz meddles in Odalia's plans for Amity one too many times, Odalia has her newly made Abomaton 2.0 set to kill Luz during a trial run, feeling no shame over the prospect of murdering a human child she knows her youngest daughter likes and thinking only of the profit to be made if the Abomaton proves a successful weapon. With little care for her husband Alador or their three children, the former of whom she forces to submit to her will by threatening to have the latter labor in their factories, Odalia arranges a deal with the monstrous Emperor Belos to willingly facilitate his utter genocide of the Boiling Isles so she can elevate the Blights to the status of royalty, and coldly disowns her family when they reject her "generosity".

Live-Action

• My Babysitter's a Vampire: Vice Principal Stern appears to be just a Sadist Teacher, but it turns out to be a cover. He is truly a genocidal Evil Sorcerer who wants to kill all vampires and supernatural creatures, even knowing full well that not all are evil, and that some of which are even students at his school. He starts his plan by summoning the Breath of Death, a mist that drives vampires to kill each other. After that plan falls flat, he realizes that Ethan Morgan is a seer and thus a potential threat to his plans, so he attempts to kill him before later tormenting him with a hallucinations of his worst fear (of everyone being dead), hoping he'll succumb to it and thus no longer be in his way. He later steals a energy draining weapon called the Lucifractor and goes on a killing spree on the vampire council. He attempts to attach the Lucifractor to the Caller, a vampire beacon, to kill all vampires everywhere, and when Ethan tries to stop him, Stern casts a spell on Benny to turn him evil. All done without any remorse and in pursuit of power over lesser beings.
• Lab Rats: Victor Krane is an insane and power hungry billionaire who worked with the former villain Douglas Davenport in his plans to brainwash Adam, Bree and Chase however after Chase resists the programming Krane attempts to have the other brainwashed Lab Rats (his siblings) kill him against Douglas's wishes and declares that for now on they will kill all three of them which causes Douglas to turn against him. Krane afterwards tries to strangle Douglas to death for his betrayal and locks 14 year old Leo and his mother Tasha inside an oven attempting to burn them to death to find and kill Adam, Bree and Chase. In his final appearance, he uses a bionic army and plans to use the Triton App to brainwash all of humanity to rule over it as it's dictator. Even after his death it was revealed he had programmed Douglas's bionic dog to kill him following the latter's betrayal and had enslaved and brainwashed all of his bionics, along with installing a doomsday virus that would kill all of them if something was to happen to him. Later on in season four it's revealed he was rescued after being blasted into the sky and put on life support by his new partner-in crime Dr. Gao. Having infiltrated a colonized planet built by Donald called Davenportia, him and Gao begin phase one of their new plan by kidnapping and brainwashing the colonists, along with Donald and Tasha and intend to inject a serum into them that will turn them into mindless bionic soldiers under their command to rule the Earth, not before killing it's inhabitants by detonating a missile on the Earth which will cause a nuclear winter that would wipe out all life. Once thwarted, Krane hijacks a colony space pod and attacks a ship that the Lab Rats and colonists are on declaring that if he can't have his bionic army that he will take them out with them.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • In the early seasons of Once Upon a Time, the greatest evil is not the Evil Queen, Rumpelstiltskin, Captain Hook, or the Queen of Hearts - it's Peter Pan. He's the amoral, self centered, sociopathic boy of the original tale taken Up to Eleven and stripped of any redeeming qualities. Pan is a demon boy who sends his shadow to take children away from their homes and families to Neverland and once there, they are made his servants who are never permitted to leave. All who try to leave he has the shadow kill by taking out their souls. He has an extreme Lack of Empathy for anyone who isn't himself, only thinks about his own interests above all else, and delights in torturing and destroying others, mentally and physically. because it amuses him. Since he was dying due to Neverland's magic leaving him, his ultimate plan that was decades in the making was to absorb the heart of the child who is the truest believer in magic, so that he can then absorb the magic of the entire island in order to become all-powerful and immortal, while the child dies in his place. That said child is Henry Mills, his own great-grandson. Since Henry must give up his heart willingly, Pan emotionally manipulates Henry, playing off his psyche and pretending to be his friend. On the side, he kept Wendy Darling captive for years and used her life as leverage so that her two brothers (kept alive by his magic) could do his work running the anti-magic organization on Earth. Once his initial plan fails, he swaps bodies with Henry and plans to re-cast the Dark Curse on Storybrooke so that it can be frozen in time and he can become it's ruler, making it the new Neverland. The citizens would be him to torture as he pleases, as he puts it "death is final - their suffering will be eternal." The kicker? Pan is in truth Malcolm, a cravenly, negligent Psychopathic Manchild who abandoned his son Rumpelstiltskin for the power of eternal youth. Unlike most villains on the show, Pan does not value family, as he emotionally abused and resented his son from day one since he hates the responsibilities of adulthood. To Pan, a baby is a "pink, naked, squirming little larva who eats away at his hopes and dreams." He even places more value and so-called love on his Psycho Supporter Felix, whom he kills without hesitation or remorse when it's needed to complete a curse, than he does for his own child, and ultimately attempts to murder his entire family just because he knows how much they mean to Rumpelstiltskin.
  • The spin-off series, Once Upon A Time In Wonderland gave us Jafar. As the Big Bad of the story, Jafar is as bad as it gets. A true Bastard Bastard and Evil Sorcerer extraordinaire, his plan is to enslave three genies and use their combined magical powers to wish for the rules of magic to be changed so that he may become the all-powerful ruler of Wonderland. Cruel, utterly ruthless, devoid of empathy, and detached from humanity, not an episode goes by in which he does not threaten, manipulate, torture, murder, or all at once in order to get what he wants. Jafar's most noteworthy atrocities were changing the woman who loved him and taught him sorcery into his serpent staff, torturing Alice and her friends to get Alice to use up a wish before turning one of her friends to stone afterwards, threatening to murder Alice's father in order to make her surrender her two remaining magic wishes, and not only murdering a young woman in cold blood just to get a reaction out of her lover, but later reviving her and making her fall in love with him right in front of said lover, who is powerless to stop it. The sixth season of the main series also reveals that Jafar had for a time made himself royal vizier of his home kingdom of Agrabah and, in addition to torturing and killing more people with his dark magic for his amusement, had deceived Princess Jasmine into giving him the royal family's enchanted ring, threatening to destroy Agrabah if she didn't give it to him as a marriage offering. With the ring in his possession, Jafar revealed that wanting Jasmine to wed him was a ruse and he was now able to magically disintegrate all of Agrabah, transforming the entire physical kingdom into a ghostly form of itself that was sealed in limbo within the royal ring along with the souls of all of it's inhabitants for many years afterwards. He did this purely out of spite for his home and it's people, and to make both Aladdin and Jasmine suffer from the despair of their failure to protect the kingdom from him. Worst of all is that we're led to believe that he ultimately just wants love from his abusive father, the Sultan of Lower Agrabah, and wishes to change the rules of magic in order to force him to give him affection and acknowledge him as his son, but it's revealed in the Wonderland series' finale that he really wanted to make his father love him so the peace of mind and vengeance he'd get out of then murdering him would be sweeter. In the end, all Jafar truly desired was power to do whatever he pleased with.
  • Vortigan, from season 5's "Nimue", is a masked warlord searching for the Holy Grail to gain immortality and magic power. To find it, Vortigan has massacred multiple villages, burning them to the ground and killing everyone there. Learning of Merlin and Nimue's plans to turn the Grail into a sword, Vortigan hopes to steal it for power. Taking Nimue hostage, Vortigan seemingly kills her, laughing at Merlin's grief, before trying to kill Merlin with the sword. Despite his short screentime, the consequences of Vortigan's evil would lead to the creation of the first Dark One and would haunt the Enchanted Forrest well into the present day.
  • Isla, from season 7's "Flower Child", is a spoiled aristocrat who despises magical beings. For her genocide crusade, Isla seemingly befriends the young Gothel, only to have her humiliated and bullied and has the tree nymphs' home invaded, ordering the slaughter of all magical beings, including Gothel's family, leading to the creation of the land without magic. With Gothel driven to villainy through her actions, the indirect consequences of Isla's cruelty cause further turmoil throughout the work.

Live-Action Films

• TRON: The Master Control Program, aka the MCP, is a despotic AI ruling over the digital world "the Grid". Once a mere chess program who was upgraded by the ambitious Edward Dillinger, the MCP slowly grew smarter and more influential, seizing control of the Grid and imposing its rule on the programs within. The MCP has countless programs taken to him so they may be forcefully assimilated into himself, and sends any others who believe in the Users to die in Gladiator Games run by his sadistic minion Sark, who the MCP regularly tortures for petty reasons. Not content with ruling over the Grid, he intends to hack into the Pentagon and Kremlin, plotting to force humanity under his rule as well, and blackmails Dillinger when he shows hesitance. As Kevin Flynn continually stands in his way, the MCP torturously derezzes his program CLU and later has Flynn dragged into the Grid. The MCP has Flynn sent to the games and has the newest batch of programs taken to him to be painfully assimilated like others before, finally empowering Sark to finish off Flynn and the rebels.
• Mr. Dark in the adaptation of Ray Bradburry's Something Wicked This Way Comes is a devil incarnate who leads the Autumn People and runs Dark's Pandemonium Carnival, where he enslaves the souls of everyone in Greentown, Illinois. A dapper but sinister figure who sews deceit and manipulation into his every word in order to lure victims right to where he wants them, Mr. Dark grants the wishes of several of the townsfolk that causes their corruption. Dark is also filled with nothing but evil thoughts, not able to comprehend positive emotions, and cannot stand The Power of Love. Wanting to know when the storm that will destroy them will approach, Mr. Dark electrically tortures Tom Fury and has the Dust Witch send out a swarm of spiders to kill Will Holloway and Jim Nightshade when they eavesdrop on him. After failing to coerce Will's father, Charles, Mr. Dark attempts to kill him by slowing his heart and kidnaps both kids with plans to corrupt them, and when Charles comes to save them, Dark inflicts a terrible Mind Rape upon him, gloating how he failed to save them and that Will considers his father a failure as he attempts to send Charles into a Fate Worse Than Death.
• Return to Oz:
  • The Nome King is the greedy, self-centered Psychopathic Manchild ruler of the Nomes who considers all the precious stones in the world to be his. Angered at the people of Oz creating the Emerald City out of his emeralds, the Nome King attacked Oz, turning its population to stone. The Nome King also allowed the tyrannical Princess Mombi to collect the heads of dozens of women to indulge her vanity, with their heads being left alive and fully aware of their situation. When Dorothy Gale returns to save Oz and confronts him, the Nome King challenges her and her friends to a game where the losers are transformed into ornaments for his palace. When Dorothy wins, the Nome King attempts to eat her and all of her friends.
  • Princess Mombi somehow manages to outdo the Wicked Witch of the West in sheer unpleasantness: let's start with the asking price for helping the Nome King- the heads of several beautiful women. Mombi keeps these heads, still alive and still conscious, in a hall of cabinets; every so often, she'll "slip into something more comfortable" by swapping heads. And when Dorothy arrived in the Emerald City, Mombi had her imprisoned, fully intending to keep her there until she reached adulthood just so she could have a fully-mature head to add to her "collection." She's also the one who's been keeping Princess Ozma imprisoned so that she instead could be hold power over all of Oz, a reign she'd hoped to secure once the Nome King was free to leave the land behind.
• Judge Doom (played totally against his type by Christopher Lloyd) from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. We all deduce he's a bad guy the first time we see him but we don't know he's a bit more than a classical villain. He's the much feared Hanging Judge of Toontown, who thinks - as he says - the only way to "put an end to insanity is make sure toons respect the law". So - in order to give examples - he mercilessly executes any harmless toon who stands on his way (which particularly enjoys it) - melting it in the Dip (a mixture of turpentine, acetone, benzine and the only way to kill a toon). In one of the most infamous scenes of the movie he even melts a poor little toon shoe. It's then revealed he's the mind behind the murders Marvin Acme (which Roger Rabbit has been framed for) and RK Maroon and he intends to erase Toontown and its citizens from the face of the Earth to build a freeway due its profit and benefits.
  • Ironically he is also revealed to be actually a psycho red eyed toon killer himself in human disguise who killed Eddie Valiant's brother long ago, and dies melted away by his own creation (the Dip itself), so just to clarify, he basically engineered the genocide of his own species to profit from another species' greed. The sheer wrongness of such a villain in an eighties family-friendly movie is astounding.
• Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice from Dick Tracy is a mob boss seeking to control the city. After having a rival gang shot to death while playing cards, he strong-arms Lips Manlis into turning over control of his nightclub, territory and girlfriend Breathless Mahoney—who Big Boy threatens and mistreats—to him, before having Lips killed in a cement bath. Part of Big Boy's plan is to unite all the remaining gangs, and when one rejects him, Big Boy has their car bombed as they're leaving. Trying to get Dick Tracy out of his way, Big Boy bribes him, and when this fails, tries to kill Tracy. Upon discovering his new club has been bugged by Tracy, Big Boy has the cop informing on him almost given the same cement bath as Lips and then takes part in killing Fletcher, the DA in his pocket, to frame Tracy. Framed for the abduction of Tracy's girlfriend Tess Trueheart by rival gangster The Blank - really Breathless - Big Boy abandons his men and runs off with her, nearly letting her head get crushed by a clockwork. He also shoots and morally wounds Blank as well.
• Tom and Huck has one in its rendition of Injun Joe. He, along with Muff Potter, is hired by Dr. Robinson to dig up a grave. When the three men find a treasure map in the grave, and Robinson decides to keep it for himself, Joe brutally murders Robinson and frames Potter for the crime. When Tom testifies that Injun Joe is the true killer to save Potter from being hung, Joe throws a knife at him and vows to kill him for this. Joe later kills his partner in crime Emmett for betraying him. After that, Joe chases Tom and Becky in the cave, fully intent on killing them in both vengeance and to ensure they don't reach the hidden treasure first. He at last catches up with Tom once he finds the treasure, ready to kill him again when Huck Finn comes to the rescue. In the ensuing fight, Joe makes the threat of gutting Huck to death for his interference before Tom distracts him, making him stumble over the edge of a chasm to his Disney Villain Death. For all of his time on screen, Joe was truly savage, selfish, greedy, and unrepentant.
• Andrei Strasser from 1998's Mighty Joe Young is an Evil Poacher definitely turned Up to Eleven and possibly even worse than Percival McLeach since he's played on more realistic levels. Killing little Joe's mother was just the beginning, he also did the same thing to Dr Ruth Young when she tries to save the little gorilla (it's uncertain if he did it on purpose, anyway he feels no remorse about it). He also owns a fake animal preserve while he actually secretly butchers endangered species and selling the animal organs off on the black market. This guy is so ruthless that even his partner in crime decides to quit when he arrives at trying to shoot Jill Young.
• Although this is better for Literature, the adaptation of this book, Holes by Louis Sachar, was made by Disney. And it has a couple monsters, but the best example is Trout Walker. He is the grandfather of the film's Big Bad. First he has a crush on a woman; it looks like he is a good guy. But when he notices her kissing a black man, what does he do? He tells this to the whole town, and first burns the whole school building, then he kills the black man and his donkey, Mary Lou. Later, after thirteen years, when he lost his fortune due to the fact that the lake dried up, and the woman he had a crush on came back, he asked her where she buried the treasure and he tried to torture her in a most painful way in order to find out. When the woman got bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard however, the only thing he could do was to dig. And he forced his granddaughter to dig with him, he was very abusive and he forced her to work even ON CHRISTMAS! Small wonder she ended up as bad as he is.
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Jadis the White Witch appears again as a literary one. A devilish tyrant and sorceress with icy powers, she plunges the entire land of Narnia into a hundred year (potentially eternal) winter and rules with an iron fist, having anyone who dares to stand up to her killed or worse turned to stone. She manipulates Edmund Pevensie into turning against him siblings by playing off of his insecurities and offering him rewards, but begins to abuse him horribly as soon as he comes back to her. One of the worst crimes this woman carries out is torturing, humiliating and killing Aslan, and shortly after that she orders her forces to wipe out his whole army who stand in her way of conquering Narnia for good. In the final battle, the White Witch nearly kills Edmund and is about to skewer Peter before a revived Aslan comes to finish her off. However, the movies seem to be giving her a much greater presence post-mortem.
• Nizam from Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the Evil Uncle of Dastan, chafed at being in the shadow of his elder brother, the King. To remove himself from under the King's shadow, Nizam set his sights on the Dagger of Time and the Sands of Time, not caring of the horrors and chaos he could unleash on the world. Nizam brought about a battle with an innocent city, not remotely caring of the deaths of innocents, and arranged the death of his own brother while attempting to have his sons murdered. Revealing an utter contempt for the adopted low-born Dastan, Nizam revealed his true goal was to rewind time so he could undo his greatest error: once saving his brother's life when they were children. He's willing to wipe the only kind action he's ever done from history. That's a whole new level of wrong.
• Alice in Wonderland (2010) & Alice Through the Looking Glass:
  • The Jabberwocky is a monstrous creature that serves as Iracebeth the Red Queen's personal attack dog. The Jabberwocky is responsible for the infamous "Horunvendush Day", in which he burned massive swathes of Underland, killed many of the White Queen's subjects, and helped Iracebeth imprison the Hightopp Clan for years inside a jar. Through his terrifying influence, Iracebeth is able to rule Underland with brutal tyranny, chopping off hundreds of heads and enslaving armies to her will, all under threat of the Jabberwocky burning more of Underland. When he is pitted against Alice, the Jabberwocky mocks her as "insignificant" and tries to kill her and Mirana the White Queen's army to assert the Red Queen's dominion forever.
  • Ilusovic Stayne plays a major part at the Red Queen's rise to power. His backstage guidance led the Red Queen to commit the most despicable actions in Underland's history, from mass executions to burning whole families and hometowns, including children and elders. Some of the victims, such as Mad Hatter's family, weren't even an opposition: just victims of Stayne's utter sadism. Soon after, Stayne is seen extorting Bayard the Bloodhound to find Alice for him in exchange of releasing his wife and pups. As soon as Bayard was out of site, Stayne and his horse mocked him, and the horse even added "dogs believe anything". Later, Stayne is seen in the hallway of The Red Queen's castle, telling Alice that he likes her. Alice rejected him, and then he attempted to rape her. The Red Queen heard about it, and decided to kill Alice after Stayne lied to her that Alice tried to seduce him and painted as obsessive and dishonest. When the Red Queen begins to have self-doubts and lamenting about not being loved, Stayne convinces her that she should be feared rather than being loved, further pushing her to be more ruthless and executing more people. When the Red Queen was sentenced to eternal solitude, because the White Queen couldn't execute her own sister. Stayne attempted to apologize to the white queen for bail himself out, but when the White Queen gave him the same sentence she gave to her cruel sister, Stayne was quick to draw a knife, terrified from the thought of spending eternity with the queen whom he corrupted for all those years. Only his death, which came after endless attempts on the Red Queen's life, enabled her road to redemption.
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010 film):
  • Maxim Horvath was a treacherous disciple of Merlin who betrayed his mentor, and nearly everyone loyal to him, to their deaths at Morgana le Fay's hand. A thousand years later, Maxim returns to Earth so he can unseal Morgana and doom swathes of mankind to destruction, all because he's sore his old crush Veronica wouldn't take him. Along the way, Maxim pointlessly kills a man for honking at him, then betrays and murders both of his loyal minions so he can drain their life.
  • Morgana le Fay herself is an ancient sorceress who once sought to initiate "the Rising" and use an army of magic-wielding zombies to decimate mankind. In her quest, Morgana slaughtered entire castles of life as she dueled with Merlin and his apprentices, and when she was finally near defeat, Morgana possessed the body of Veronica in an attempt to escape capture. Even after being imprisoned in the Grimhold, Morgana's influence and followers lead to all manner of murder and mayhem—even the entirety of the Salem Witch Trials—and upon resurrection by her servant Horvath, she immediately tries to initiate the Rising once more, eager to wipe out most of humanity and enslave whatever is left.
• The Lone Ranger (2013 film):
  • Cannibalistic psychopath Butch Cavendish is one of the darkest villains to ever appear in a Disney film. After gunning down Reid's brother, Butch cuts out his heart and eats it. He uses fear to oppress any hint of rebellion and will kill at any hint of complaint. At one point, he even kills a laborer for nothing more than saying the entrance of a cave he wanted entry to was blocked. Butch conspires to start a war with, and wipe out the Comanche people for the silver in the mines by leading attacks on innocent people in settlements, framing the Comanche. In the past, Comanche saved Butch's life and he repaid them by slaughtering them, earning Tonto's undying hatred.
  • Railroad Tycoon Latham Cole is the brother to the abovementioned Butch Cavendish and despite their mutual loathing, enables much of Cavendish's evil. Having massacred Tonto's people in the past, Cole seeks to build a future of wealth and status by having Butch's men slaughter settlements dressed as Comanche to provoke a massacre of the natives. Cole orders the slaughter of the Comanche warriors, harvesting the silver from the rivers to build his empire, boasting that soon, nobody will know the Comanche existed.
• Jungle Cruise: Prince Joachim is a Prussian royal seeking petals of the Tree of Life to gain immortality. Threatening Dr. Lily Houghton for interfering in his plans, Joachim then kills almost everyone in the room for learning his name. Joachim later allies himself with cursed conquistador Lope de Aguirre to track the heroes, fully intending to betray him and his men so they remain cursed. Joachim recklessly fires at the heroes with no regard for the destruction he causes, and later threatens a native village to force the cooperation of Lily's brother MacGregor.

Live-Action Remakes

• In The Jungle Book (2016), Shere Khan is a far cry from his animated counterpart — a ruthless Bengal tiger who "hunts for pleasure and kills for power." Leaving a trail of bodies so notable that vultures constantly follow him, Shere Khan eventually encounters baby Mowgli and his father, whom he promptly attempts to devour, killing Mowgli's father in the process. Years later, driven by a desire for revenge after being scarred by that encounter, Shere Khan relentlessly pursues Mowgli. He repeatedly threatens Akela and his family, including his litter of cubs, demanding they surrender Mowgli under threat of death. In a fit of rage, Shere Khan kills Akela upon learning that Mowgli had been sent away. The film novelization (The Strength of the Wolf is the Pack by Scott Peterson & Joshua Pruett) depicts even more acts of cruelty from him: notably, when a jackal provides Khan with useful information, Khan kills him just for asking for scraps of food in return. During the film's climax, when the animals rise to defend Mowgli, Shere Khan declares they will all die and launches a brutal assault. With sadistic determination, he chases Mowgli through the burning jungle, intent on killing the man-cub for a slight acaused by his own actions.
• In Aladdin (2019), Grand Vizier Jafar gets a villainous upgrade from his animated incarnation. Seeking the magic lamp in the Cave of Wonders to become the Sultan of Agrabah, he sends an unsuspecting prisoner he believes to be the "diamond in the rough" into the cave only for him to be rejected and summarily crushed. After lining up two other prisoners to try and risk the same thing happening again, Jafar becomes enraged at a guard who questions him and pushes him down a well. He also attempts to hypnotize the Sultan into starting a war with Shirabad, an ally country and the late Queen's homeland. After convincing the street thief Aladdin to get the lamp for him, Jafar attempts to betray Aladdin and force him to fall into the cave's lava and later Jafar personally tries to drown Aladdin when he becomes Prince Ali. Once he possesses Genie and becomes Sultan and then a sorcerer, Jafar slow tortures and nearly kills both the Sultan and Jasmine's Lady in Waiting Dalia to force Jasmine to marry him and then attacks the city with both a giant Iago the parrot and a twister in order to retrieve the lamp when Aladdin and Jasmine steal it. Jafar's bottomless greed drives him to want to start multiple wars in order to control everything and as a genie, he even seeks to destroy Shirabad, and spitefully drags Iago into his lamp with him when imprisoned in it.
• Scar in the 2019 remake of The Lion King is just as vile as his 1994 counterpart. Rather than simply just letting Mufasa fall to his death, he smacks him across the face out of spite and acts more poisonous towards Simba when he convinces him that his father's demise was his fault. Scar reveals he also attempted to woo Sarabi years earlier but she chose Mufasa instead, and tries to woo her again with the promise of food, and when she refuses, decrees that the hyenas eat first so the lions will starve. When Scar has Simba dangling off Pride Rock, Scar mocks him by how he could see the fear in Mufasa's eyes when he killed him. Even after Simba chases him up the top of the Pride and is caught off guard by him, Scar can only angrily scream that it is his birthright to be king like a spoiled brat during the final battle, and even tries to tries to drag Simba down with him into the fire upon being defeated. When cornered by the hyenas for his actions, he tries to kill them all.
  • It should be noted that Scar actually kept his promise to the hyenas that they would get unlimited food because after Sarabi refused to follow him, he declared that the hyenas would be able to hunt first and not leave food for the lions. However, during the climax, Scar tries to save his own skin by blaming the incident in Pride Rock on the entire hyena clan, and reveals that he was going to kill them anyway to protect his reign over the Pride Lands. After Scar is defeated, he tries to manipulate the hyenas into becoming an army by claiming that he was only trying to fool Simba when he blamed the hyenas and said he was going to kill them, but Shenzi tells Scar that the only thing he ever said that was true was that a hyena's belly is never full. This proves that keeping his word was never a true redeeming quality to begin with since it was only a form of manipulation, and he only cared about himself. Plus, when taking into consideration that Scar tried to kill the hyenas instead of accepting his fate, it means that Scar had not been trying to fool Simba - he'd really kill his followers if it meant saving himself. It all shows what he truly thought of them: as disposable tools to help him claim the throne.
• Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019): Queen Ingrith is Prince Phillip's secretly power-hungry mother who despises her husband as a fool for wanting peace between his kingdom and The Fair Folk. It's revealed she spread the fable of Maleficent being an evil sorceress, later framing her for cursing King John into a death-like sleep and the deaths of two of her poachers; in the process, she tries to ruin Aurora's bond with Maleficent. Ingrith has her poachers kidnap fae from the Moors and perform experiments to find a way to kill them, experimenting with red iron dust to kill a helpless sprite; her assistant in these experiments is a pixie whose wings she cut off. She lures the Moors into a church where she has red iron dust unleashed, killing dozens of them, while she oversees the massacre of the Dark Fae in the ensuing battle. When Ingrith tells Aurora a story of how she lost her brother and was exiled from her kingdom due to the fae, Aurora doesn't believe her and calls out her lies, with Ingrith admitting she's a fear-mongering tyrant. Ingrith seemingly kills Maleficent while her and Aurora's guard is down, and pushes Aurora off a tower as a diversion when Maleficent rises from the ashes during an escape attempt.
• Pinocchio (2022 film): The Coachman of Pleasure Island is even more evil than in the original animated film. Reimagined as a rugged but charming rogue who attracts children to his island carnival with promises of endless playtime and total freedom to do anything they'd like, even things grown-ups wouldn't allow them to do, the Coachman also resorts to child abduction, as shown when he catches Pinocchio in a net. Angered when Pinocchio voices his distrust of him, he calls upon the latest bunch of children in his coach to peer pressure the living puppet in compliance. Rather than let the children "make jackasses of themselves" of their own volition, the Coachman has Pleasure Island rigged with attractions specifically designed to encourage the worst behavior, in some cases outright crimes, from the children, who are rowdily creating total carnage at every turn. It's shown that the Coachman has made a faustian bargain with vapor demons to curse the children with magic that transforms them into donkeys, which he and the demons horribly abuse before selling off for profit. When Jiminy Cricket arrives to help Pinocchio escape Pleasure Island, the Coachman gives chase with the demons in hopes of bringing him back by force, and displays no regard for the boy's life when he drops into the ocean, simply lamenting that he lost the opportunity to make a fortune off of a "wooden donkey."

Video Games

• Master Xehanort, overarching Big Bad of the Kingdom Hearts series, as well as his Heartless and Nobody incarnations, Ansem Seeker of Darkness and Xemnas, and his apprentice Vanitas. For ellaboration on them and their deeds, look to this page.
• The Haunted Mansion has it's Big Bad Atticus Thorn, an Evil Sorcerer who seeks to use the power of the six soul gems to destroy both the afterlife and the living world. Thorn has lived for hundreds of years by devouring souls to extend his life, keeping them trapped in his body to drain them for extra energy. Just before the Final Boss fight, Thorn devours the soul gems along with 999 souls, stating that with his new powers there will no longer be a land of the living or an afterlife, just "death, death, and more death."
• The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer; The Underminer himself is a far more evil version of the character in this alternate sequel. Dedicated to destroying all "peace and happiness" on Earth, the Underminer invades the city with his destructive drills and drones, threatening to level many buildings. The Underminer's true plan is to wipe out the entire surface of Earth and decimate humanity by throwing the Earth off its axis; poisoning the planet's water; and then subjugating whatever humans survive to be his slaves. In his scheme to achieve this, the Underminer kidnaps and forces dozens of scientists of help him, and tries to murder Mr. Incredible and Frozone to destroy humanity's hope and then use the heroes' bodies as decorations for his throne.
• Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon: Admiral Evar is a Procyon war chief-turned-ambassador who uses the guise of seeking a peace treaty with the Terran Empire to cover up his intentions to conquer it. Evar uses a fleet he constructs called the Ironclad to lay siege to the Empire and wipe out countless unsuspecting vessels and their crews, ordering the Ironclad ships to suicide bomb themselves if they ever face capture. Simultaneously using a robotic imposter of John Silver to make pirates across the galaxy more bloodthirsty and endanger hundreds of innocents, Evar personally destroys a Terran escort ship out of petty spite against its captain for having beaten him in a battle years ago. Evar ultimately plans to stage a massive attack on Parliament and kill countless people so he can capture or assassinate the Queen, destabilizing the Empire enough for his Procyon Expanse to invade and dominate the fractured Empire.
• In Bolt: The Video Game, Dr. Calico AKA "the Green-Eyed Man" is a maniacal terrorist with goals to dominate the world through technology and nuclear superiority. Kidnapping Penny's scientist father to force him into servitude, Calico tries to take Penny herself hostage to further his compliance before simply trying to kill the girl and her superpowered dog Bolt for being nuisances. When his Kill Sat weapon is completed, Calico plans to annihilate every nuclear weapon in the world except his own so he will have ultimate power, but not before he hopes to test his new weapon by destroying Penny's hometown then eliminating her father. Even when beaten, Calico enables his escape by launching his entire nuclear arsenal at random targets to distract Bolt, uncaring of the lives that will be lost if they strike.
• Epic Mickey: The Storm Blot is an giant evil blob of ink and paint thinner that was accidentally created by Mickey Mouse. Let loose into Wasteland, the Blot gained sentience and caused the Great Thinner Disaster which desecrated the land into a widely damaged hellscape and stripped the paint of many victims, rendering them catatonic, before it was sealed in a jar by Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Oswald's Love Interest Ortensia was among the Blot's victims. Some time after spawning the Shadow Blot to work alongside the Mad Doctor in a bid to take Mickey's heart and conquer Wasteland, Storm Blot is accidentally set loose by Oswald during a fit of anger at Mickey. Summoning Bloticles all over different areas to drain toons of their paint, the Blot abducts Oswald and Gus Gremlin, forcing Mickey to give up his heart with an evil smile as it takes the heart's power for itself. Mickey goes inside the Storm Blot to learn the forgotten toons devoured by the Blot have been turned into lifeless zombies, and according to Abe from Epic Mickey 2: Power of Two, the Blot had the power and the desire to destroy all of wasteland for his own amusement.
• In Disney Infinity version 3.0, Emperor Palpatine appears as the Big Bad of the "Rise Against the Empire" play set. As in the original Star Wars trilogy, he rules the Galactic Empire with an iron fist and is prone to striking down all who oppose him. When he finds out about Luke Skywalker following the destruction of the first Death Star, Palpatine sends Darth Vader to have him turned to the dark side. During the final battle on the second Death Star, Palpatine offers Luke to join him in Vader's place after the latter's defeat. When Luke refuses, Palpatine blasts him with Sith Lightning and prevents Han, Leia and Chewbacca from helping him by force pushing them away so that they'll be Forced to Watch, and would have gleefully tortured Luke to death if not for Vader's redemption. Being just as vile and sadistic as he was in source material, Palpatine sticks out like a sore thumb in such a bright and cheery game, and is the only villain who was not mitigated or subject to any Villain Decay like Syndrome and Ronan the Accuser were.
• Twisted Wonderland: Henrique Istovan is the vicious leader of the murderous Silver Owls human army. Desiring to overthrow the Draconia royal family, Henrique spreads propaganda that the fae of Briar Valley are marauding beasts, which gains the support of all the surrounding nations to launch a fierce assault that sees much of the country destroyed. Coming to the castle of Princess Meleanor Draconia, Henrique demands she comes out and engage in a duel, fully intending to not only kill her regardless but also kidnap her unhatched baby and enslave it as his steed. When Meleanor refuses his terms, Henrique orders his men to kill her, successfully doing so and taking over Briar Valley by force.

Disney Comics

• The Legend of the Chaos God: In this Disney Adventures ongoing story, Solego, the titular "Chaos God", earned his epithet by conquering entire cities with his dark magic in ancient times, growing drunk on his magic and obliterating everyone who opposed him, once eradicating an entire civilization. Solego returns in the modern day attempting to break out of his seal by rampantly possessing and trying to murder everyone he comes across, his nastiest attempt ensuing when he takes over Rebecca Cunningham and tries to force her to throw her own daughter off the side of a plane. When he finally breaks out of his seal, Solego immediately attempts to destroy St. Canard, entertaining Darkwing Duck's attempt to defeat him before growing bored and vowing to him "you shall die a sheep like all the sheep called men — and I shall be the only wolf among you!"
• Seekers of the Wind:
  • The Reaper King is an ancient eldritch horror and the strongest reaper in existence, a being dedicated only to enshrouding the Earth in shadow and killing all that lives. Previously rampaging across the Earth and causing The Black Death in the process, killing a third of Europe's population, the Reaper King has Despoina and her servants dedicate centuries of their time to freeing him— only to spitefully strip them all of their immortality and condemn them to die with the rest of the world once he's free.
  • Despoina is a vile, immortal sorceress who serves as the Dark Mistress and head servant of the Reaper King. Forming the Society of Shadows to worship the Reaper King, Despoina dedicates herself to freeing him and allowing him to desolate the entire planet so she and the Society can rule over the remainder. Motivating the two children destined to open the Coffin Clock the Reaper King in sealed in by kidnapping their parents and threatening to murder them, Despoina has their uncle Roland supposedly play both them and the Wardens, before opting to have his spine torn out in response to his betrayal. A sadist by nature, Despoina even allows the Wardens to briefly take the Coffin Clock solely so she can crush their hope later and have the Reaper King wipe them all out.
• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad: George Willikers seems at first to just be a slimy bully wanting a quick buck, but is slowly revealed to be a heartless sociopath caring for nothing but his own greed. Serving as the second-in-command to Mr. Bullion, Willikers uses his position to abuse the small mining town he lords over, instituting a curfew and threatening lashing with his bullwhip for any who cross him. As head of the mining operation in the mountain Big Thunder, Willikers overworks, abuses, and regularly endangers the lives of the miners, completely uncaring of their well-being as long as they supply him with the goods. In the end, Willikers's truly monstrous personality is revealed, as he holds the miners at gunpoint to force them into highly lethal caverns to mine, and ultimately attempts to leave the dozens of miners, several heroic bandits trying to stop Willikers, and Bullion himself to die in the mountain as it collapses, throwing their lives away as long as he can get away with the mined gold and rebuild the mining town in his glory.
• The Haunted Mansion: The Captain is a ghostly pirate who once plundered and pillaged all he saw fit across the Earth. Once dying inside the titular Haunted Mansion and being cursed to haunt it for all eternity, the Captain, determined to escape, places a curse upon the Mansion that traps any who die inside, or any ghosts who visit it, to be trapped alongside him, never able to rest in peace or escape. Having trapped nearly one thousand ghosts inside, the Captain later uses the young Danny Crowe to assist him in escaping, and, once free, promises to slaughter all in his path and become the scourge of the world once more, starting by killing Danny then cursing the Mansion once more to trap him and all nearby ghosts inside for all eternity.
• Kilala Princess: Valdou is the leader of a race of mechanical humanoids who sees humans as naturally inferior, and leads a coup in the magical land of Paradiso. His ultimate plan is to create a land without any emotions where only machines rule; thousands of human dissenters are captured, brainwashed, or killed in concentration camps. During his search for the Seventh Princess and the magical tiara, he brainwashes Kilala's friend Erica to retrieve the tiara, then orders his men to shoot her in the head. After dropping his friendly pretense, Valdou shoots Kilala as she reunites with Rei, then captures the prince and plans to torture him into being thoroughly brainwashed, trying to kill Kilala several times. When he uses Princess Sylphy as a mole, Valdou plans to brainwash her too, and threatens Princess Jasmine's life in the world of Aladdin. His final, most despicable act of cruelty is to set a village on fire, endangering children orphaned under his rule, and mocking Rei over Kilala's apparent death in the blaze.
• Kingdom Hearts manga adaptation:
  • Kingdom Hearts & Chain of Memories: Xehanort is even more malicious in the manga adaptation than in the games. Having stolen Ansem's name, corrupted his apprentices, become a humanoid heartless that caused the destruction of countless worlds and acting as the true mastermind behind the Heartless' invasion of several worlds and Maleficent's Evil Plan to capture the Seven Princesses of Heart in order to open the Final Keyhole to Darkness, he Mind Rapes Riku so that he can overtake his heart and possess his body at the climax of the first arc. He stabs Maleficent with a Keyblade created from six of the Princesses hearts in order to destroy her once she's no longer of use to him and then deceives Sora into using that same Keyblade to make what would ultimately be a Senseless Sacrifice, turning Sora into a Heartless and unsealing the Final Keyhole. When Riku's heart fight back from within to stop him from attempting to kill Kairi, Ansem uses his power to banish Riku's heart into the Dark Realm. Ansem then attempts to open the Door to Darkness so that he and his Heartless forces can consume the Heart of All Worlds that lies beyond it, which would plunge all of existence into everlasting darkness, expressing nothing but relish at this prospect. Even after he's been vanquished, a specter of Ansem's darkness lives on in Riku's heart and attempts to play the boy's own emotions against him so that he may be strengthened enough to again take Riku's body and regain a physical existence, even using his shadowy familiar to brutally strangle Riku in order to immerse him in total darkness, vicious to the end. Showcasing no redeeming features and played dead seriously against the manga's usual lighthearted and silly tone, Ansem would do whatever it took to gain ultimate knowledge and power, and to sate his undying hunger for darkness.
  • 358/2 Days & Kingdom Hearts II: Xemnas, the Nobody form of Xehanort and leader of Organization XIII, is depicted as a cruel sociopath who rules over his organization without care for any of it's members, viewing his followers as weaklings who are only fit to serve his purposes. Looking to exploit the Keyblade's power to claim hearts for making Kingdom Hearts so that he may purge all hearts and then from nothing remake them all into ones enslaved by his power, he allows Sora's Nobody Roxas and Xion, a faulty Sora replica, to grow close intending to then pit them against each other so that he could judge which Keybearer would be more useful to his plans, even tampering with Xion's form, Mind Raping her and sending her to her death. When Axel is sent to look for the runaway Roxas, Xemnas threatens to eliminate him if he doesn't bring Roxas back dead or alive. He later attacks the Radiant Garden with hordes of Heartless, almost getting Goofy critically injured in the process, just so that Sora and King Mickey can slay them all and give him enough hearts with which to complete his Kingdom Hearts. When Ansem the Wise and Mickey try to stop his plans at his castle, Xemnas orders his Nobodies to kill them, and proceeds to overtake the Great Heart from within in an attempt to reduce all of existence to a state of nothingness and destroy all those in his way. Cold-blooded, pitiless, and utterly lacking his game counterpart's Tragic Villain qualities, Xemnas continuously shows himself to be more monstrous than any other Nobody solely because he finds it in his best interest to be so.
  • Kingdom Hearts II only: The Master Control Program is as cold and power-hungry as in the game. Having seized control of the Grid in Space Paranoids and asserted his rule, the MCP digitizes Sora, Donald, and Goofy into the world and orders Commander Sark to take them prisoner to be tortured and "derezzed". The MCP seeks the password to access the DTD and expand his power to the outside world of Hollow Bastion, and threatens he'll use this power to delete programs like Sark should they not perform their tasks sufficiently, and we see he has thrown many defective programs into a canyon to rot as prey for the Heartless. Overtaking Hollow Bastion's entire computer system to send legions of Heartless under his command out for a hostile takeover, the MCP gleefully attempts to kill his opposition and declares his intent to initiate the outside town's destruction in order to kill all users in the world. The MCP then Mind Rapes Sark and grows him to giant size to act as his avatar, ordering him to snatch Tron up in his grip and torturously crush him so that he may be broken and assimilated into the MCP, all while cackling with sadistic pleasure.
  • Kingdom Hearts III manga adaptation:
    • Master Xehanort leads the Seekers of Darkness in igniting another Keyblade War and bringing about an apocalypse of all worlds so that he can become the new World's soverign overlord. Having a copy of his heart possessing the body of Terra, he has Terra-Xehanort fight against his two best friends Aqua and Ventus, nearly killing them with chains of darkness. Master Xehanort has Kairi abducted and drained of energy before shattering her, body and heart, into fragments right in front of Sora to motivate him into fighting him, and then attempts to use the reforged X-Blade to steal the light from Kingdom Hearts and bring destruction upon the worlds. When transported to Scala ad Caelum, Xehanort forcibly transforms Sora into his Anti form and decieves him into striking his own friends Donald and Goofy before making an attempt to kill him, and even after Sora, Donald, and Goofy beat him back, he gloats that Kingdom Hearts burning out will plunge the universe into total darkness and extinguish all life within it. Insisting that he alone has the strength to keep the World safe and orderly no matter how many lives need to suffer for it, Xehanort is even prepared to strike down the spirit of his old friend Master Eraqus and is only stopped by Eraqus transferring into his heart a childhood memory that prompts him towards begrudgingly surrendering the X-Blade and accepting his death, his heart and Eraqus' being cleansed by light upon their passing.
    • Young Xehanort proves to be just as callous and cruel as his older self would be. Appearing in the world of Toy Box, Young Xehanort reveals he'd duplicated the world and trapped Andy Davis's toys there in isolation as as an experiment to test how they'd respond when cut off from their hearts' greatest connection. Attacking Sora and the others with toys possessed by the Heartless, Xehanort takes Buzz Lightyear and tries to force him to succumb to darkness so that his heart may be consumed, attempting to kill Buzz's best friend Sheriff Woody along with Sora, Donald, and Goofy when they come to the rescue. During the battle at the Keyblade Graveyard, when Young Xehanort is struck down by Sora and is to be sent back to his original time, he can express only malicious glee that Sora's at the end of the line, about to lose Kairi and his life to his older self.

Disney Literature

• The A Twisted Tale YA novel series gives Adaptational Villainy to many Disney villains and also introduces a few despicable characters of its own, as detailed on this page.
• Disney Chills series:
  • "Be Careful What You Wish Fur": Cruella de Vil, long after her demise, has lingered on into the present day in two ways: her prestigious, real-fur fashion industry; and her literal undead spirit. When teenager Delia finds Cruella's famous Dalmatian coat in the trash and takes it, Cruella begins insidiously haunting her, culminating her torment by spiriting away Delia's puppies and promising to butcher them if her coat isn't returned. The final fate Cruella inflicts on Delia is one Cruella has inflicted on countless victims before: transformed into a lifeless but eternally conscious mannequin, doomed to display Cruella's furs forever.
  • "Liar, Liar, Head on Fire": Hades, god of the Underworld, bargains with teen athlete Hector for athletic ability to win the Zeus Cup in the upcoming Mt. Olympus Spartan Race. In truth, Hades is a devious sociopath who was imprisoned for good reason and wastes no time trying to ruin Hector's life, enslaving the souls of those he bargains with and consigning others to the nightmarish River Styx. Despite Hector's best efforts, Hades had already bargained with his supposed love interest Mae and has Hector aged up and killed, consigned to Styx while he releases the Titans to destroy the world.

Other Disney Media

• The Lion King Broadway musical: Scar commits the same crimes that his movie counterpart did and goes beyond that. During the musical, Scar became more and more paranoid as time went by and he also felt that he was being tormented by his older brother even in death. Unwilling to admit that he was terrible at governing the Pride Lands, he instead condemns all his subjects to death so that he wouldn't have to accept that maybe he wasn't as good at being a king that he thought he would be. He also attempted to force himself onto Nala (a scene cut from the film), which becomes even more disturbing in hindsight considering that he tried to have her killed along with his nephew when they were children. Scar is ultimately no more than an egotistical, treacherous, and murderous feline.
• Talisman Kingdom Hearts tabletop board game: In the main campaign, Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, the Heartless incarnation of the researcher once known as Xehanort, leads the Heartless in laying seige to many worlds, with the ever-expanding darkness created from their attacks threatening to consume the worlds whole should the Heartless swarm their keyholes. While having set things in motion by manipulating Maleficent and her cabal of Disney Villains into breaking the worlds' dividing walls and setting the Heartless loose upon them, Ansem has since left them to fend for themselves while he heads off to the Endless Abyss beyond the final keyhole. All the stronger Heartless are described as wreaking havoc and terror upon the regions they find, and the power of darkness is now so great that even travelling through dark coridors may sap the player of their heart energy. Wanting to open up the Door to Darkness so that the Heart of All Words can be claimed by the darkness, Ansem faces your Player Character in his World of Chaos form and can either deplete all their heart energy or turn them into a lowly Heartless should you fail to bring him down.
• Kingdom of the Sun 1994 story outline and script: Yzma is the aging High Priestess of the Sacred City's Temple of the Sun, and while still something of a comical bungler, was a notably darker and more wicked figure than her finalized counterpart would end up being. Despite wielding influential power in the city, Yzma resented its people and the sun itself, on which she blames the loss of her good looks. As the daughter of the former royal mortician, she has done unethical experiments with necromacy on mummies in her secret catacombs laboratory to unlock the secret to stopping any physical aging and skin decay, and upon determining the lack of sunlight is key, she makes a Faustian bargain with the god of darkness, Supai so that she'd sacrifice the bearer of the sun mark in order to free him on the day of a solar eclipse and bring about The Night That Never Ends, trading the empire's safety for regaing her youthful good looks. Attempting to poison the 18 year old Prince Manco Capac, the sun mark's bearer, before he can become emperor but accidentally using a potion that turns him into a llama instead, Yzma tries to stab him to death as he tries to flee. Yzma later attempts to assassinate Pacha (disguised as Emperor Manco) with an arsenal of weaponry and upon seeing the real Manco is still a llama, demands the llama prince's life be offered up as a ceremonial sacrifice. Returning to expose Pacha as an imposter, Yzma condemns the young peasant to execution and hurls the stone guardian Huaca to break him apart before killing Manco on the sacrificial alter as the eclipse is complete, which unleashes Supai from the earth, darkening the sky and bringing mass decimation upon the city. As Supai tears everything apart and puts all the people at risk of dying in darkness, Yzma gleefully declares that giving the world over to Supai to rule will be worth it to have her youth and beauty again, and when Pacha tries to use the Viracocha Stone's rope to lasso the sun and summon Inti to vanquish Supai, she desparately tries to cut the rope and send Pacha and all the citizens and llamas helping him to their deaths.
• The Haunted Mansion 1999 script draft: Master Jacob Gracey, also known as Bloodworth, is the wicked owner of the Gracey Mansion who in life raided cargo ships for their valuables while slaughtering their crews. Having taken a ship owned by businessman Clarence Fowler, Gracey uses the man's resulting financial issues to take his daughter Kathleen in marriage. When his crimes are exposed at the wedding, Jacob murders both Kathleen and her beloved Charles Davis, and upon being mortally wounded, bounds the souls of all of the wedding guests to the mansion until Kathleen can wed. Over a century later, Jacob traps the soul of Kathleen's sister Julia into a doll to force the wedding to resume, throwing Leota and teenagers Shawna and Will out of the mansion when they try to rescue her, resulting in Leota's death. After his wedding is foiled, Jacob summons his crew from Hell for one final attack, during which he almost shatters Leota's soul.
• The Haunted Mansion Theme Park Attractions:
  • The Phantom in Phantom Manor - he kills Melanie's groom by hanging him in the Stretching Room, condemns the Bride to haunt the mansion forever and now he taunts the guests (that's us) with his sadistic tricks and dark humor. He is even worse in the 2019 refurbishment, where he is confirmed to be Henry Ravenswood. He is the founder of Thunder Mesa and the one behind the evils of Ravenswood Manor. In life, Henry murdered the suitors of his daughter Melanie to keep her from leaving him. After he died in an earthquake, Henry returned as the Phantom, secretly hanging Melanie's fiancé on her wedding day, causing her to wait for him to return for the rest of her life and afterlife. The Phantom laughed at her despair and began inviting other ghosts to inhabit the mansion, causing the disappearance of an expedition sent to investigate the manor. In the ride itself, the Phantom poses as a friendly guide for the guests, reminiscing about his murders before trapping the guests in the manor. He then attempts to murder the guests by sending them to be tormented by all those who died in Thunder Mesa.
  • The updated main ride features Constance Hatchaway. In life, Constance was a beautiful woman who every man would want to have as his wife. Sadly, no man has ever experienced that and lived to tell the tale, as she would always decapitate her many husbands with her hatchet after marrying them, earning her the name as "The Black Widow Bride". And she has had countless victims that include bankers, diplomats, successful farmers, barons and any other rich man that she met. Why did she do all this you ask? Pure Greed! And when her latest victim, George Hightower, whom was the owner of the mansion when he was alive, discovered her killing spree before the marriage, Constance killed him, leaving her hatchet in his head, before spending the rest of her life in her newly acquired mansion. Keep in mind, that this is only in her backstory, and already she's established as a deranged Serial Killer with a frightening body count who's only motivated by sheer greed. In the actual ride, standing in the attic of the mansion with her numerous wedding gifts, she has become an evil spirit with her bloodlust multiplied tenfold. Now it doesn't matter what wealth, age, or gender her victim is, she will want to kill the park guests (again, that's us) just for being alive. What really settles her evil, is that she shows no remorse for any of this and even taunts her victims with her own wedding vows. "Til death do us apart..."