10. John Clayton (Tarzan)
Still a bit of a "meh" villain cause his motive is very weak. It's money and power, and not to mention he resembles too closely to Ratcliffe. What makes him different though, is how ruthless and violent he is and the great extremes he goes to just to get what he wants. If you really hate animal abusers, you'll hate this guy.
I gotta say I was almost tempted to not have him on this list but what really makes him unique that still makes me cringe to this day: his death. Clayton's the only character I've seen to actually be hanged and it's pretty scary. Took me years to see the shadow of his body after it happens..
Well anyway. Next guy!
9. Shan Yu (Mulan)
Out of all the villains I've listed, Shan Yu is definitely one of the more merciless ones. He's just having fun being such a bad guy with an immense amount of power. And when you put him with that intense music, it makes him and the Hun army very intimidating.
Motive? "By building his wall he challenged my strength. Well, I'm here to play his game." Yeah.. that just about says it. Shan Yu hates being overpowered and wants to prove that he's the strongest out there and is ready to challenge anyone who steps above him. Even a woman disguised as a dude who has a body count in the hundreds via avalanche.
Ruthless and crazed with strength, Shan Yu's the guy who will never underestimate his enemies and fight to come on top... Until he gets blown up with fireworks.
8. Mother Gothel (Tangled)
Much like the Evil Queen and the Wicked Stepmother, there isn't much to Gothel other than a really vain woman. Unlike those two women however, she doesn't seek to bring a miserable life or even death upon the female lead. Gothel kidnaps and locks Rapunzel away to use her hair to stay young forever.
I put Gothel pretty high because of how manipulative she is, and she does it for 18 years. She gets away for so long telling Rapunzel that the outside world is a dangerous place when the real danger is right in front of Rapunzel. Gothel is a great actress in showing how much she "cares" for Rapunzel and treating her like a loving mother. Yet once Rapunzel starts growing her independence, her true colors show for how big of a liar and how cruel of a woman she really is.
Gothel also gets points for being the first Disney villain to die of old age. Once Rapunzel's hair is cut, she turns into her real age and just eventually turns into ash. By far one of the most unique of villain deaths out there.
7. Scar (The Lion King)
I'm coming at the point where I don't feel like I gotta say much about these villains. They're so well known I don't even have to specify their qualities that make them so evil. But I'll do it anyway.
Scar follows the classic Disney path of a vain and power-hungry dictator. Willing to kill anyone to get the title of king, including his own brother, creating one of the most iconic Disney deaths. He's scheming and ruthless, but once he gets into power, he becomes a Prima Donna. You think he'd take advantage of his power, but just likes sitting around doing nothing and then complaining or snapping when no one does their job or criticizes him.
But of course he entirely doesn't lose interest when Simba returns to the Pride Lands, and they're forced to face one another. When you look at him then, he can be cowardly when he's against intimidation, yet still maintains his brutality until the end when his ignorance betrays him, and he betrays his minions who eat him alive.
6. Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmations)
Another animal abuser on the list, Cruella is the most iconic and memorable of the Disney villains. She's fashion-obsessed and egotistical but also impulsive, sadistic, greedy, and extremely bipolar. She can be calm and collected one moment, but the next she's a psychopath chasing you off a cliff with her car. Nothing like a crazy woman behind the wheel trying to kill you.. Don't know if that's a sexist joke or not..
Like I mentioned before with Yzma, Cruella is just hideously glamorous. She's a very skeletal woman covered in a massive fur coat. Like I gotta say her motivation; gathering enough Dalmatian puppies to create fur coats like a fashion monster. And the longer it took for her to get her way, the more reckless and psychotic she got.
Cruella: Giving an entirely new name to fashionably insane.
5. Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
Trivia: Ursula's design was actually based off of a drag queen named Divine. Unfortunately, Divine died of an enlarged heart before the movie was finished. I'm sure if she saw it, she thought Disney made a twin.
While the original sea witch from Hans Christen Anderson's story was neutral, Ursual turned out to be a dark and sinister octopus woman with a massive craving for power. She has the power to manipulate and easily fill the merpeople's heads with deceptions of granting them. She's also very easy to piss off as shown by how the movie got to its climax: Her "poopsies" Flotsam and Jetsam were killed. So she does have a heart for whatever she considers her "children" and goes on a rage when it's taken away from her. And she was pretty scary and had a bit of a graphic death for a Disney film.
Always a crazily, enjoyable villainess, and then she gets stabbed with a ship.
4. Jafar (Aladdin)
Now we're getting closer and closer to the most popular villains of all of Disney, with Jafar regarded as the #2 Greatest Disney Villain, though not on this list.
Motivation: Power. A familiar motivation for many Disney villains. He's sadistic, narcissistic, dark but also cunning and having a dark sense of humor and class like Ratigan. I always seem to quote any of his funny moments because he's so enjoyable. His design is also amazing because he's just drawn to look so dark and sinister. It's funny because just on his appearance alone, he's the very obvious bad guy, yet he's so deceptive and manipulative, especially over the puppy-eyed Sultan. But he can also be very short-tempered and impulsive, which led to his unfortunate ending of being trapped in "itty bitty living space".
3. Gaston LeGume (Beauty and the Beast)
LeGume = "Peabrained"
Gaston is the most unique villain because if you didn't know who he was and what movie he's from, your first impression would be that he's the hero. In fact, that's how the town sees him; a hero and eye candy for every female.
He knows he's strong and handsome which leads to a great deal of pride and ego, though the people of the town are too oblivious to see that. His goal is to make Belle fall in love with him and marry him, no matter who or what gets in his way. Problem though is that he's the biggest sexist pig that Disney has to offer and Belle's -1000% impressed by the way he degrades women. He easily gets frustrated when he doesn't get his way and won't take no for an answer and goes to the extremes of putting Belle's father in an insane asylum just to get her hand in marriage.
And because everyone in the town loves and trusts him (and not to mention are very gullible), Gaston manipulates them into paranoia about Beast and gathers a freaking mob to go to the castle. Yet his arrogance and extreme desire for Belle makes him the monster while Beast becomes more human (literally and metaphorically).
2. Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
Can't have a Disney villains list without the Mistress of all Evil now can we?
Maleficent is by far the most memorable and most popular of all the Disney villains. Next to Chernabog from Fantasia, she's a big representation of all that is evil, though her motivation is pretty weak. Remember that she originally wanted to kill Aurora just because she wasn't invited to a baby shower. Yet she goes to such vengeful extremes, it makes her scary and sadistic.
Her sorcery allows her to be strong and powerful and makes the heroes wonder what her next move will be. Who can forget when she turned into a giant freaking dragon? How can anyone top that?
Despite how evil she is, she just has this elegance and class that makes her enjoyable and easy to take seriously. Hell, she's so popular she's the main Disney villain in the Kingdom Hearts series. Though if you wanna look at her based on the video games, she's a nuisance.
Yeah, in Kingdom Hearts 1, she was a big threat until you killed her and learned about Ansem. Her comeback in Kingdom Hearts 2 was completely pointless seeing as how half way through the game, she stops contributing anything in achieving whatever pointless master plan she has seeing as how the other Disney villains have lost interest and I'm just waiting for Master Xehanort to turn his back and stab her in the chest. It's not exactly appealing either when she has Pete with her. God, he's even more annoying and such an eye sore. Bottom line, Maleficent just needs to find other plans (or at least a new sidekick..) and was a thousand times more of a bad ass in the movie.
Now I bet you're wondering how can I top Maleficent, the most well known and popular out of all the Disney villains? I've seemed to have named all the popular ones and the ones I've grown up with as a child.
Well the scariest and most evil of all Disney villains is...
1. Judge Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
By God, like I even need to say it. From a movie that took a lot of risks as just an overall family film, it created the darkest Disney villain period. Frollo does all the twisted, bastardly, villainous acts, and takes them to the nth degree.
Driven by a strong prejudice against gypsies, he kills a mother, almost kills her baby, locks said baby in Notre Dame for 20 years and lies to him about the outside world, lusts over a woman, goes on a near genocidal rampage, all while claiming to be doing it by the word of God Almighty. What a great Catholic man.
That's what really makes Frollo a great villain. He does all these nefarious acts but he's complex by claiming to do them for pious reasons and backing it up with the word of God but he fears damnation as much as the next guy. Hell, he even freaking lusts over Esmeralda and hates it as he's slowly slipping into temptation and pure madness. Much like how the original Victor Hugo novel challenged the corruption of church, it challenged the corruption of faith and power and how having so much power makes you into such a big monster.
And just everything he does and every way he looks just makes him more intimidating. The voice, the black robes, the near permanent frown on his face, how he sings, the extremes he goes to, even up to that freaking choir. He's just a walking nightmare.
I always thought his death was scary because he freaking sees a gargoyle come to life and give him a devilish grin as he slips into absolute insanity. Then Frollo takes his plunge into (a symbolic) hell. God it was pretty terrifying.
So that concludes my Disney Villains list. Hope you enjoyed seeing your favorites on here.
Motive? "By building his wall he challenged my strength. Well, I'm here to play his game." Yeah.. that just about says it. Shan Yu hates being overpowered and wants to prove that he's the strongest out there and is ready to challenge anyone who steps above him. Even a woman disguised as a dude who has a body count in the hundreds via avalanche.
Ruthless and crazed with strength, Shan Yu's the guy who will never underestimate his enemies and fight to come on top... Until he gets blown up with fireworks.
8. Mother Gothel (Tangled)
Much like the Evil Queen and the Wicked Stepmother, there isn't much to Gothel other than a really vain woman. Unlike those two women however, she doesn't seek to bring a miserable life or even death upon the female lead. Gothel kidnaps and locks Rapunzel away to use her hair to stay young forever.
I put Gothel pretty high because of how manipulative she is, and she does it for 18 years. She gets away for so long telling Rapunzel that the outside world is a dangerous place when the real danger is right in front of Rapunzel. Gothel is a great actress in showing how much she "cares" for Rapunzel and treating her like a loving mother. Yet once Rapunzel starts growing her independence, her true colors show for how big of a liar and how cruel of a woman she really is.
Gothel also gets points for being the first Disney villain to die of old age. Once Rapunzel's hair is cut, she turns into her real age and just eventually turns into ash. By far one of the most unique of villain deaths out there.
7. Scar (The Lion King)
I'm coming at the point where I don't feel like I gotta say much about these villains. They're so well known I don't even have to specify their qualities that make them so evil. But I'll do it anyway.
Scar follows the classic Disney path of a vain and power-hungry dictator. Willing to kill anyone to get the title of king, including his own brother, creating one of the most iconic Disney deaths. He's scheming and ruthless, but once he gets into power, he becomes a Prima Donna. You think he'd take advantage of his power, but just likes sitting around doing nothing and then complaining or snapping when no one does their job or criticizes him.
But of course he entirely doesn't lose interest when Simba returns to the Pride Lands, and they're forced to face one another. When you look at him then, he can be cowardly when he's against intimidation, yet still maintains his brutality until the end when his ignorance betrays him, and he betrays his minions who eat him alive.
6. Cruella De Vil (101 Dalmations)
Another animal abuser on the list, Cruella is the most iconic and memorable of the Disney villains. She's fashion-obsessed and egotistical but also impulsive, sadistic, greedy, and extremely bipolar. She can be calm and collected one moment, but the next she's a psychopath chasing you off a cliff with her car. Nothing like a crazy woman behind the wheel trying to kill you.. Don't know if that's a sexist joke or not..
Like I mentioned before with Yzma, Cruella is just hideously glamorous. She's a very skeletal woman covered in a massive fur coat. Like I gotta say her motivation; gathering enough Dalmatian puppies to create fur coats like a fashion monster. And the longer it took for her to get her way, the more reckless and psychotic she got.
Cruella: Giving an entirely new name to fashionably insane.
5. Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
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Trivia: Ursula's design was actually based off of a drag queen named Divine. Unfortunately, Divine died of an enlarged heart before the movie was finished. I'm sure if she saw it, she thought Disney made a twin.
While the original sea witch from Hans Christen Anderson's story was neutral, Ursual turned out to be a dark and sinister octopus woman with a massive craving for power. She has the power to manipulate and easily fill the merpeople's heads with deceptions of granting them. She's also very easy to piss off as shown by how the movie got to its climax: Her "poopsies" Flotsam and Jetsam were killed. So she does have a heart for whatever she considers her "children" and goes on a rage when it's taken away from her. And she was pretty scary and had a bit of a graphic death for a Disney film.
Always a crazily, enjoyable villainess, and then she gets stabbed with a ship.
4. Jafar (Aladdin)
Now we're getting closer and closer to the most popular villains of all of Disney, with Jafar regarded as the #2 Greatest Disney Villain, though not on this list.
Motivation: Power. A familiar motivation for many Disney villains. He's sadistic, narcissistic, dark but also cunning and having a dark sense of humor and class like Ratigan. I always seem to quote any of his funny moments because he's so enjoyable. His design is also amazing because he's just drawn to look so dark and sinister. It's funny because just on his appearance alone, he's the very obvious bad guy, yet he's so deceptive and manipulative, especially over the puppy-eyed Sultan. But he can also be very short-tempered and impulsive, which led to his unfortunate ending of being trapped in "itty bitty living space".
3. Gaston LeGume (Beauty and the Beast)
LeGume = "Peabrained"
Gaston is the most unique villain because if you didn't know who he was and what movie he's from, your first impression would be that he's the hero. In fact, that's how the town sees him; a hero and eye candy for every female.
He knows he's strong and handsome which leads to a great deal of pride and ego, though the people of the town are too oblivious to see that. His goal is to make Belle fall in love with him and marry him, no matter who or what gets in his way. Problem though is that he's the biggest sexist pig that Disney has to offer and Belle's -1000% impressed by the way he degrades women. He easily gets frustrated when he doesn't get his way and won't take no for an answer and goes to the extremes of putting Belle's father in an insane asylum just to get her hand in marriage.
And because everyone in the town loves and trusts him (and not to mention are very gullible), Gaston manipulates them into paranoia about Beast and gathers a freaking mob to go to the castle. Yet his arrogance and extreme desire for Belle makes him the monster while Beast becomes more human (literally and metaphorically).
2. Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
Can't have a Disney villains list without the Mistress of all Evil now can we?
Maleficent is by far the most memorable and most popular of all the Disney villains. Next to Chernabog from Fantasia, she's a big representation of all that is evil, though her motivation is pretty weak. Remember that she originally wanted to kill Aurora just because she wasn't invited to a baby shower. Yet she goes to such vengeful extremes, it makes her scary and sadistic.
Her sorcery allows her to be strong and powerful and makes the heroes wonder what her next move will be. Who can forget when she turned into a giant freaking dragon? How can anyone top that?
Despite how evil she is, she just has this elegance and class that makes her enjoyable and easy to take seriously. Hell, she's so popular she's the main Disney villain in the Kingdom Hearts series. Though if you wanna look at her based on the video games, she's a nuisance.
Yeah, in Kingdom Hearts 1, she was a big threat until you killed her and learned about Ansem. Her comeback in Kingdom Hearts 2 was completely pointless seeing as how half way through the game, she stops contributing anything in achieving whatever pointless master plan she has seeing as how the other Disney villains have lost interest and I'm just waiting for Master Xehanort to turn his back and stab her in the chest. It's not exactly appealing either when she has Pete with her. God, he's even more annoying and such an eye sore. Bottom line, Maleficent just needs to find other plans (or at least a new sidekick..) and was a thousand times more of a bad ass in the movie.
Now I bet you're wondering how can I top Maleficent, the most well known and popular out of all the Disney villains? I've seemed to have named all the popular ones and the ones I've grown up with as a child.
Well the scariest and most evil of all Disney villains is...
1. Judge Claude Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
By God, like I even need to say it. From a movie that took a lot of risks as just an overall family film, it created the darkest Disney villain period. Frollo does all the twisted, bastardly, villainous acts, and takes them to the nth degree.
Driven by a strong prejudice against gypsies, he kills a mother, almost kills her baby, locks said baby in Notre Dame for 20 years and lies to him about the outside world, lusts over a woman, goes on a near genocidal rampage, all while claiming to be doing it by the word of God Almighty. What a great Catholic man.That's what really makes Frollo a great villain. He does all these nefarious acts but he's complex by claiming to do them for pious reasons and backing it up with the word of God but he fears damnation as much as the next guy. Hell, he even freaking lusts over Esmeralda and hates it as he's slowly slipping into temptation and pure madness. Much like how the original Victor Hugo novel challenged the corruption of church, it challenged the corruption of faith and power and how having so much power makes you into such a big monster.
And just everything he does and every way he looks just makes him more intimidating. The voice, the black robes, the near permanent frown on his face, how he sings, the extremes he goes to, even up to that freaking choir. He's just a walking nightmare.
I always thought his death was scary because he freaking sees a gargoyle come to life and give him a devilish grin as he slips into absolute insanity. Then Frollo takes his plunge into (a symbolic) hell. God it was pretty terrifying.
So that concludes my Disney Villains list. Hope you enjoyed seeing your favorites on here.
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