Complete Monster/Disney



""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, aside from being wonderful, can also be horrible, ruthless, and despicable.

Classic Disney Shorts

 * The Mad Doctor: The Mad Doctor is a one-shot character for Disney. He was an insane, amoral and power-hungry Mad Scientist. In the short, he kidnaps Pluto and plans on chopping off his head and grafting it to a chicken, for no other reason than For Science! (and to discover what sound the resulting animal would make afterwards). Not to mention that he decidedly cut apart Pluto's cartoon Living Shadow for his own amusement. He also traps Mickey Mouse, after he went searching for Pluto, and prepares to saw his body in half, laughing while doing it. Thankfully,
 * When The Mad Doctor strapped the dog to a chair while wearing a mask, a captive chicken looked a bit alarmed, but not profoundly upset. As soon as The Mad Doctor took off his mask, the chicken broke down in tears, implying in turn that, at least in the chicken's presence, The Mad Doctor has done things far worse than drag a dog around and strap said dog to a chair. Sweet dreams!

Disney Animated Canon

 * In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Judge Claude Frollo is likely one of the most evil characters the company has ever invented. The opening riddle regarding him and Quasimodo is even "Who is the monster and who is the man?" Most Disney villains want to do things like... take over a kingdom. Old-school villainy. Frollo wants to...er, commit genocide. His creepy, creepy lust for Esmeralda only heightens the revulsion audiences have for him, and there aren't any other Disney villains who've tried to burn entire innocent families alive in their homes, either. A notable exception to other Disney Laughably Evil villains. Even being a classic case of Knight Templar, the things he does casts his "good intentions" as being sham and hollow.
 * Characters like the Priest show that even his supposedly good, religiously motivated intentions are just a bunch of bullshit. The fact that Notre Dame herself comes alive to make him fall to his death implies that God Himself condemns him. It's with good reason that some people consider him to be one of the most evil villains in all of Western animation.
 * The degree of his creepy lust for Esmerelda is made clear whenever he gave her the choice to either die or have sex with him, ie rape, in a Disney movie. He even victim blames her and thinks she's an evil seductress intentionally leading him on.
 * 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 gypsy mother, claiming he adopted baby Quasimodo after his mother had abandoned him due to his deformed, misshapen appearance. In truth, Frollo himself had murdered her in cold blood while she was trying to protect baby Quasimodo from him.
 * Not only all that, what really makes him terrible is that he's one of the most realistic villains Disney's ever done. Possessing no superpowers, in a movie without any outright supernatural elements, he's a corrupt authority figure who is a genocidal racist against a persecuted minority. Things like this could happen and have happened in real life.
 * The 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 animals (one crate is even marked "SALT MINES". Considering the Real Life work conditions there, that's a Fate Worse Than Death right there). 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. The transformed boys who can still talk are locked up in a pen (it is unclear what becomes of them, though we're probably better off not knowing). Worst of all, he is a Karma Houdini.
 * The Horned King from The Black Cauldron. A dark, terrifying, power-hungry tyrant with a god complex and absolutely No Sense of Humor (a rare case for a Disney villain which makes him more creepy). He plans to obtain the powers of the titular Cauldron in order to raise an army of undead skeletons to rule the world and so 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 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.
 * Percival McLeach from The Rescuers Down Under. It starts with his kidnapping Cody, a child who confronts him about his poaching, 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, 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, which suggests that he was originally intent on murdering Cody anyway, and that he wanted to torture him first regardless. Oh, and it is heavily implied that the reason he is a poacher is specifically because he enjoys hurting and killing animals.
 * Suggest? It's clear from the start that McLeach was going to kill him. Cody knew where McLeach's hideout was, knew what he was planning, and was all in all too much of an inconvenience to let live. What makes it worse is that McLeach is ENJOYING torturing Cody while he is dunking him in the crocodile-filled water. He is deeply annoyed and disappointed only at the thought that he has to do it quickly when Bernard ruins it for him.
 * What Complete Monster list involving would be complete without a mention of Sykes from Oliver and Company? This is a 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) or to kidnap a little girl 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; he seems to be talking to another mobster who is about half-way through the process of killing somebody, and actually gives him advice on how to do it.
 * What makes Sykes a true monster is probably the fact he, like Frollo, is one of the most realistic Disney villains- he's a crime boss and during the phone call he talks about "cement shoes" which were used by the American Mafia for a method of execution that involved weighting down a victim and throwing him or her into the water to drown.
 * Even Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, the very first Disney Animated Canon movie ever, arguably has a Complete Monster in the form of Queen Grimhilde. This sinister queen/sorceress can't stand the idea of someone being more beautiful than herself and she is cruel enough to take drastic steps to ensure this will never happen. It is shown when she orders to kill her own stepdaughter and then having her heart put in a box, in order to have the proof of her death. When she figures out The Huntsman failed her she, ironically, transforms herself from a beautiful, yet evil woman into an old, grotesque and frightening one to cover her indentity, and plans to 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 (with fiendish glee) that the Dwarfs will bury Snow White alive. Once she gains the Hag form, she becomes more excited and sadistic, starting to feel the enjoyment in what she is doing and becoming more sinister. It is no longer a necessity to kill Snow White, it is a pleasure.
 * The queen's excitement at the idea of Snow White being buried alive was her most disturbing and horrifying moment. Can you imagine what it'd be like to be buried alive? How sick would you have to be to enjoy the thought of someone suffering that? Even worse if the person suffering that was your own stepdaughter! Just because she's "fairer" than you!
 * Mulan: This trope is basically the entire characterization of Shan-Yu. He commits atrocities (slaughtering an entire village of innocents just to destroy the emperor's army, for instance), is feared by every character who doesn't follow him, has no excuse other than wishing to prove his power, sadistically enjoys his atrocities (he's smiling when talking about murdering a child), and naturally, he isn't redeemed.
 * It's made even worse with his comment about returning the doll to the girl. Not only his obviously going to murder her, but it has creepy, creepy, pedophiliac undertones.
 * 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 people just to profit off of their deaths. He's also responsible for the deaths of the king of Atlantis and his own loyal follower, Helga Sinclair. What settles his evil here 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.
 * from Wreck-It Ralph. Good job, you nightmare-inducing sicko. And it ought to be mentioned: We have no way of knowing that this was the first game he actually did this in. There could be others he's pulled this same stunt on.
 * His line towards the end really clinches it. "Ooohoho look, it's your little friend! Let's watch her DIE together, shall we?"
 * And quite possibly the most successful example of this in a Disney film, in addition to being a Magnificent Bastard and later Smug Snake, we have the ever infamous Scar from The Lion King Lack of any adequate Freudian Excuse for his actions? Check - he was jealous of his brother, Mufasa, and unjustifiably so. Is heinous enough to cross the Moral Event Horizon? Check - he orchestrates a plot to murder his own brother and his young nephew, Simba, actually kills his brother on-screen in a Disney film, 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. Has no remorse for his actions? Check - in fact, when he's about to kill Simba near the end, he gloats about killing Mufasa. Furthermore, he carelessly turned the Pridelands into such a hell-hole, even his own mooks were starting to lose faith in him - at the end, he even pins the blame on them, causing them to rip him apart at the end. In fact, Scar is so evil, he averts the usual Disney Villain Death and dies a VERY Family-Unfriendly Death. Played seriously? Check - 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.

Pixar

 * Hopper from A Bug's Life merits a mention. He terrorizes a peaceful colony (including the children), steals so much food that said colony faces starvation, and plans to murder their queen. It is later revealed that he and his gang don't even need what they're stealing and he kills three members of his own gang when they point this out!
 * Unlike most Pixar villains like the ones mentioned below, Hopper has no known Freudian Excuse, which even other Complete Monster Pixar villains tend to have.
 * Pixar villains nothing, Hopper tends to have less of an excuse for his evil than most Disney villains as a whole. Even Frollo, often regarded as one of Disney's darkest and cruelest villains ever, might at least think he's the good guy here (or at the very least think he is carrying out God's will by doing these acts), whereas Hopper's expressed motives are all about "keeping those ants in line." Needless to say, watching him is very satisfying.
 * Early in the movie he tells his dimwitted brother he would've killed him if not for his dying mother's wishes to watch over him, and then does try to punch him but he cannot due to the oath, so punches out a smaller weaker bug instead. That he holds to his promise is Hopper's one honorable trait, but not necessarily redeeming since he does wish he didn't have to be bound by this honor and were he not bound to it, would gladly kill his brother just to get him to stop irritating and embarrassing him.
 * Lotso Huggin' Bear from Toy Story 3 . 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: 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  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.
 * "The Art of Toy Story 3" book has the director and film staff mention Lotso's status as this. 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.
 * Buddy Pine, a.k.a Syndrome from The Incredibles arguably 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. It's an incredibly flimsy Freudian Excuse though, and he ultimately comes off as an incredibly petty and childish sociopath. 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. Then when Bob makes an empty threat to kill his henchwoman Mirage if he doesn't release him, Syndrome shows how little he values life by saying "Ah, go ahead." Bob cannot bring himself to do it, which prompts Syndrome into calling him weak for not being able to take a life. And then at the end of the movie, he attempts to kidnap Jack-Jack, the family baby as part of a plan to raise him to where he'll hate his family and help Syndrome fight against them. It's immensely satisfying to see him get sliced to ribbons by an airplane's jet turbine. 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 world.

TV series

 * 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.
 * From the same series, the Archmage is also a candidate, as is Thailog depending on how squickily you want to interpret his relationships with various other characters, particularly the clones.
 * Thailog DEFINITELY qualifies from what he did in the first comic arc to Goliath.  And before he made Demona
 * Don't forget, Xanatos even says, "I think I created a monster."
 * 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.
 * Anton Sevarius probably also counts, using his knowledge of genetics to create not only the numerous clones but also a disease that Demona nearly used to wipe out all humanity (though being human, he presumably he didn't realize she had the magic to achieve that). Since he's Thailog's "third" father this might explain something.
 * He did get a Pet the Dog episode with "Little Anton" in the third season, but since the creator wasn't involved in this episode this is not considered canon.
 * Darkwing Duck:
 * Taurus Bulba is the only villain on the show with almost no ounce of comedy at all. He had Gosalyn's grandfather murdered, and when he was trying to get the code for the ram rod, he threatened to drop Gosalyn off a building if Darkwing didn't get the code, he had no proof that Darkwing was told of a code, and was willing to try it, and when he was resurrected by F.O.W.L., he destroyed the dang place. All played completely seriously.
 * Negaduck also counts. Though played over-the-top funny alot of the times, he's 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.
 * 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 the face of the 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.

Live-action films

 * Andrei Strasser from 1998's Mighty Joe Young is an Evil Poacher definetly 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 purpouse, 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.
 * 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 particulary 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 . Ironically.
 * Just to clarify, he basically engineered . The sheer wrongness of such a villain in an eighties family-friendly movie is astounding.
 * Pirates of the Caribbean:
 * The second and third movie have a Complete Monster in Cutler Beckett, who goes so far as to order the deaths of anyone remotely associated with piracy, including the hanging of a 10-year-old boy. In a DISNEY film. Smug Snake, smug smile, smug everything...ugh.
 * There's also the fact that Beckett isn't having these people hanged because he's punishing them for their crimes, but merely because they're inconvenient to him. He also has  just because he was becoming a liability. Oh, and per supplemental materials, he spent at least some time as a slaver. Values Dissonance aside, modern audiences are clearly intended to react to the guy as pure evil.
 * It should be noted that hanging a child is especially heinous for more than just the obvious reason. Hanging is meant to be a quick death by snapped spinal cord. Children typically don't have enough weight for this to happen from hanging by the neck, so for them it's a slow, painful suffocation instead. Incidentally, there have been stories of similar happenings during the Holocaust.
 * Blackbeard from the fourth film is also an example:.
 * 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! That being said, it makes even the Warden, who is said granddaughter of Trout Walker, and also horrific in her own right, someone to be pitied and felt sorry for.
 * 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."
 * And there's also Mr. Dark in the adaptation of Ray Bradburry's Something Wicked This Way Comes. A devil incarnate who leads a Circus of Fear in enslaving the souls of everyone in town, speaks with lies and manipulation in his every word in order to lure victims right to where he wants them, is not opposed to torture or murder in order to get his way, tries to have children beheaded at one point of the film and later on attempts to take one of them to be his child while the other one would be turned back into an infant for his midget underlings to abuse, and attempts a massive Mind Rape on Charles Halloway in order to break him and send him to a Fate Worse Than Death. Dark is also filled with nothing but evil thoughts, not able to comprehend positive emotions and cannot stand The Power of Love.
 * Nizam from Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Not only does he have no regrets in murdering close family and hiring an entire group of Psychos For Hire, but he wants to rewind time so that an act he did as a kid (saving his brother from a lion) never happened and he would be the king from the beginning. He's willing to wipe the only kind action he's ever done from history. That's a whole new level of wrong.
 * Cannibalistic psychopath Butch Cavendish of The Lone Ranger 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, when the Comanche saved Butch's life, he repaid them by slaughtering them, earning Tonto's undying hatred.

Video Games

 * As writted in the Video Games section, Master Xehanort as well as his Heartless and Nobody incarnations Ansem the Seeker of Darkness and Xemnas, as well as his apperentice, Vanitas from Kingdom Hearts are truly horrible and despicable. Vanitas is somewhat excused since he is completly made of darkness. For Xehanort's actions, look to the Video Game section.
 * As for Disney Animated Canon villains in the same series, Frollo appears in Dream Drop Distance slightly toned down in regards to his lust for Esmeralda, but still as hateful and manipulative and genocidal as ever. In Kingdom Hearts II, Scar makes his appearance as the Big Bad of the Pridelands. Pete states that Scar was so evil, he became a Heartless on his own. In fact, Scar's such a monster that he retains his original body when he becomes a Heartless, something only Terranort managed to do. That's right, kids; Scar is as evil as Xehanort, the Big Bad of the entire series.

Disney Theme Parks

 * 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.