Disney Villains

Disney Villains
Original work	Animated films
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Films and television
Film(s)	Mickey's House of Villains Once Upon a Halloween Descendants
Games
Traditional	Disney's Villains' Revenge Kingdom Hearts series Disney Villains Challenge

Similar to the Disney Princesses, the Disney Villains have their own franchise. The franchise consists of Disney's most well-known and beloved villains and span from various forms of media and merchandise, typically aimed at an older audience.

Members

Over its more than 90 year history, Disney has brought to life more than 125 different villains from films, sequels, television, video games, books and even the Disney theme parks. Although many evil characters and enemies have been created, not all of them are official members of the Disney Villains franchise.

Conversely, some "villains" that are marketed are not necessarily villains since they do not fully agree with the primary antagonists but still cause trouble to the protagonists; Anastasia Tremaine being one such example ("villain" and "antagonist" are not the same thing).

Primary members

Note: Often cited as the most popular of the villains, these villains are seen in most, if not all, current Disney Villain related productions, merchandise, attractions, etc.

• Maleficent
• The Evil Queen
• Cruella De Vil
• Ursula
• Captain Hook
• Jafar
• Hades
• Scar
• Queen of Hearts
• Dr. Facilier
• Chernabog

Recurring members

• Pete
• Gaston
• Lady Tremaine
• Claude Frollo
• Yzma
• Oogie Boogie
• Mr. Smee
• Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed
• Pain and Panic
• Iago
• Flotsam and Jetsam
• Diablo
• Kronk
• Mother Gothel
• Cheshire Cat
• Lucifer
• Kaa
• Big Bad Wolf
• Si and Am
• Madam Mim
• Shere Khan
• Shan Yu
• King Candy
• Sour Bill
• Governor Ratcliffe
• Jasper and Horace
• Anastasia Tremaine
• Drizella Tremaine
• Madame Medusa
• Horned King
• Prince John
• Sir Hiss
• Sheriff of Nottingham
• Honest John
• Gideon
• Stromboli
• The Coachman
• Monstro
• Percival C. McLeach
• The Headless Horseman
• Ratigan
• Clayton
• Lawrence
• Fates
• Sid Phillips
• Hopper
• Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear
• Stinky Pete
• Emperor Zurg
• Syndrome
• Randall Boggs
• Mortimer Mouse
• Martian Robot
• Ringmaster
• Pink Elephants
• Heffalumps
• Woozles
• Captain Gantu
• Dr. Hämsterviel
• The Lonesome Ghosts
• Edgar Balthazar
• Br'er Fox
• Br'er Bear
• Hitchhiking Ghosts
• Queen Narissa
• Michael "Goob" Yagoobian
• DOR-15
• Hans
• Duke of Weselton
• Yokai
• Tamatoa
• Bellwether

Sub-franchises

Disney's Divas of Darkness

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Disney's Divas of Darkness (also shortened to Disney Divas, DDD, or Disney's Bad Girls) is a sub-franchise consisting of the most recognizable female Disney Villains. It can be seen as a counterpart to the Disney Princess franchise because it too targets a female audience but consists of evil characters instead.

Members

• The Evil Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
• Lady Tremaine (Cinderella)
• Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland)
• Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
• Cruella De Vil (One Hundred and One Dalmatians)
• Madam Mim (The Sword in the Stone)
• Madame Medusa (The Rescuers)
• Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
• Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove)
• Mother Gothel (Tangled)

Disney's Sinister Cats

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Disneyland t-shirt featuring members of the group.

Disney's Sinister Cats is a lesser known sub-franchise consisting of felines. It should be noted that several of its members were not the main antagonists of their respective films. This franchise is also known as Disney Cats, but it should be noted that the franchise does not include feline protagonists like Oliver or Thomas O'Malley under this banner.

Members

• Lucifer (Cinderella)
• Si and Am (Lady and the Tramp)
• Shere Khan (The Jungle Book)
• Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland)
• Felicia (The Great Mouse Detective)
• Scar (The Lion King)

The Thirteen Reflections of Evil

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A poster of The Thirteen Reflections of Evil.

The Thirteen Reflections of Evil was a Disney Villain group made for the Epcot pin trading event in September 2013. In the story the Evil Queen found an incantation which if performed with a magic mirror on Friday the Thirteenth, would summon 13 of the most evil villains from across time and space. The villains then broke the mirror and hid the thirteen shards so no one could use it against them.

Members

1. Chernabog
2. Maleficent
3. The Evil Queen
4. Jafar
5. Ursula
6. Cruella De Vil
7. Dr. Facilier
8. Hades
9. Scar
10. Captain Hook
11. Queen of Hearts
12. Gaston
13. Oogie Boogie

Leaders

In most crossover appearances featuring the villains, a specific villain would act as the ringleader, or the central figure of the project to whom the others are (more or less) subservient.

• Maleficent - The most frequent and quintessential leader of the Disney Villains. She led the villains in several park attractions, promotional material, the Kingdom Hearts series, and was the second-in-command of the Kingdom Keepers novels.
• Pete - The leader of the villains in the House of Mouse episode "Pete's House of Villains" and second-in-command in the Kingdom Hearts series.
• The Evil Queen - Led the villains in Fantasmic!, Cinderella's Surprise Celebration and One Man's Dream II: The Magic Lives On! She also led the villains along with Jafar in Villains Night Out! at Hong Kong Disneyland. She has also served as the centerpiece in various forms of merchandise and marketing.
• Chernabog - Led the villains in the Kingdom Keepers novels, as well as being the centerpiece of several Disney Villain related merchandise and promotional material.
• Jafar - Jafar was the leader in the direct-to-video film Mickey's House of Villains. He also led the villains along with the Evil Queen in Villains Night Out! at Hong Kong Disneyland.
• Hades - Hades serves as the ringleader in the Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom attraction, the central villain in the Disney Cruise Line’s Villains Tonight!, and was the host of Disney's Unleash the Villains event in 2013 and 2014. Hades also serves as the protagonist of Villains Unite the Night at the Magic Kingdom.
• Captain Hook - Led the villains in the Disneyland Paris show Disney Dreams! and was the second-in-command in Mickey's House of Villains.
• Ursula - Led the villains in the Disney Cruise Line show, The Golden Mickeys.
• Dr. Facilier - Facilier served as the central villain in Disney's Maleficious Halloween Party, Villains Mix and Mingle from 2011 to 2014, and served as the host of the villain-centric event Club Villain.
• Lady Tremaine - Tremaine led the villains during the Sinister Soirée character dining event in Cinderella's Royal Table during Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party in 2014.
• Cruella De Vil - Led the villains in the Halloween segment of Disney on Ice: Let's Celebrate!.
• Oogie Boogie - Led the villains in Disney's Not So Spooky Spectacular and served as the host and narrator of World of Color: Villainous!.
• Tamatoa - Tamatoa was featured as the central villain in Wonderful World of Animation.

Other media

Television specials

In the Disney's Scary Tales (1981) episode special as part of The Wonderful World of Disney, Hans Conried (voice of the Evil Queen's Magic Mirror from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) hosts the special with Disney Villains in eight segments including Captain Hook from Peter Pan, Edgar Balthazar the Bulter from The Aristocats, Willie the Giant from Mickey and the Beanstalk, Kaa and Shere Khan from The Jungle Book, the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cruella De Vil from One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Madame Medusa from The Rescuers, and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.

Mickey's House of Villains

The Disney Villains guest star in this House of Mouse with Jafar as the leader. He and the rest of the villains overthrow Mickey Mouse and locks all the heroes in the kitchen and kick Mickey and friends out forcing them to fight to get the club back.

Disney's Villains' Revenge

In this computer game, Captain Hook, the Evil Queen, the Queen of Hearts, and the Ringmaster change their respective stories to their own advantage.

Kingdom Hearts

The Disney Villains are antagonists in the game series, with the Disney Villain Council led by Maleficent being a prominent force. All the members command the Heartless horde as a means of controlling their respective worlds, and in turn help Maleficent in locating the Keyblade. The council consisted of Maleficent, Pete, Jafar, Hades, Captain Hook, Oogie Boogie, Ursula, and Scar. Hector Barbossa and Riku were also members for brief periods of time. Most of the members meet their demise, although Hades, Captain Hook, and Pete are the only ones to survive; while Maleficent is later resurrected, Pete is the only one to rejoin her. In the Kingdom Hearts manga series by Shiro Amano, it is revealed that a spot on the Disney Villain Council was offered to the Cheshire Cat, though he saw their goals as beneath him and refused.

Other villains also appear in the series though not connected to the council, including Clayton, Shan Yu, Master Control Program, Chernabog, Monstro, Claude Frollo, Mother Gothel, Hans, and Randall Boggs. Gaston also appears in the mobile game Kingdom Hearts χ.

Trivia

• Almost all Disney Villains wear mostly red, black, and purple. By contrast, white, blue, and gold are the traditional "good" colors.
• Notaby, the deaths or defeats of several Disney Villains (both of those who are part of the franchise and are outside it) have involved a fall:
  • Professor Ratigan, Percival C. McLeach, Gaston, Claude Frollo, Zira, and Charles F. Muntz are the only villains to have been officially killed by a fall, while this is implied to have also happened to King Runeard.
  • While not the direct cause, the deaths of Maleficent, Scar, Sa'Luk, Clayton, and Mother Gothel did involve them falling. (throught with Scar and Clayton, the fall did play a crucial role in their deaths, while the falls of Maleficent, Sa'Luk, and Gothel were irrelevant in comparation, as Maleficent and Gothel were dying neverthless, while Sa'Luk was already dead when he fell).
  • While they survived, the defeats of Hades, Morgana, Shere Khan (in The Jungle Book 2), and Hans did involve a fall in some way.
    • Shere Khan is also technically part of the second case, as he died by falling into a wildfire in the 2016 live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book. (thought whether he was killed by the fire or the fall is debatable).
  • The Evil Queen and Merlock are somewhat of odd cases, as their exact cause of death were never shown:
    • While never explicitly shown, it is implied that the Evil Queen was killed by a boulder rather than by the fall, thought this wasn't explicitly shown, leaving her cause of death ambiguous.
    • Merlock was last seen falling at the climax of DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, yet he has wished for immortality centuries before the events of the film. However, Gene the Genie was turned into a mortal shortly after, and whether Merlock was injured by the fall, or if he was even still falling at all (since he fell from space, and Genie became a boy mere moments after he fell), is unknown, as is the effect of the Genie's transformation with the wishes he granted before.
  • By contrast, Scroop's death was caused by him ascending into outer space.
• Most villains appear to have either green, yellow or black (no iris) eyes.
  • Green eyes were considered to be a sign of either magic, evil and/or witchcraft during the Middle Ages, yellow eyes are often common in animals but not humans, and villains' eyes are generally smaller than those of heroic characters and tend to not reflect any light at all, giving them a rather soulless look.
  • Occasionally, there are villains with blue eyes (Gaston), brown eyes (Stromboli, Jafar, King Candy), gray eyes (Ursula, Mother Gothel), or violet/purple eyes (Vanessa, Doctor Facilier).
• If not counting Sid Phillips from Toy Story (due to the fact that he grew up, as revealed in Toy Story 3), Gaston from Beauty and the Beast and Hans from Frozen are currently the youngest Disney Villains to date, with Hans being 23 and Gaston being around his mid-20s. (Although as Sid was 11 years old in Toy Story and the third film takes place 11 years later, he would be 22 when he appears as an adult and therefore still younger than Hans and Gaston.)
• Scar from The Lion King, Hades from Hercules and King Runeard from Frozen II are currently the only Disney Villains to be biologically related to the main protagonist of the movie. (Scar is Simba's uncle, Hades is Herc's uncle and Runeard is Anna and Elsa's grandfather.)
  • Ursula from The Little Mermaid was originally intended to be Ariel's aunt.
  • In the novel Tarzan of the Apes, Clayton was Tarzan's biological cousin.
• Edgar Balthazar from The Aristocats seems to have more morality than most Disney Villains. When he was getting rid of Duchess and her kittens, he could've just killed them, but he chose to abandon them in the woods.
• Prince John from Robin Hood and Governor Ratcliffe from Pocahontas are the only Disney Villains to be based on actual people.
• Hades is presumably the oldest of the Disney Villains, being an immortal god. Mother Gothel from Tangled, while she's not immortal, is presumably the oldest human Disney Villain.
• Gaston, Jafar and Judge Claude Frollo are currently the only three male Disney Villains to have an obsession with the female lead of their respective films (Belle for Gaston, Jasmine for Jafar, and Esmeralda for Frollo).
  • In deleted versions of The Lion King, Scar was to fall into lust with Nala at one point.
• Maleficent is currently the only Disney Villain to serve as the protagonist of their own theatrical feature film.
  • Both Iago and Kronk have led their own direct-to-video features in The Return of Jafar and Kronk's New Groove, respectively.
• Captain Hook from Peter Pan is the only villain to be a part of the Disney Adventurers line-up.
• Dr. Facilier is the first black Disney Villain.
• Amos Slade and John Silver are so far the only Disney Villains who redeem and learn the errors of their ways.
  • However, Shere Khan was originally intended to reform in the cancelled third Jungle Book movie, whereas King Candy was at one point considered reforming as well when he and Turbo were conceived as different characters.
• Hans is the first Disney Villain to be a love interest to a Disney protagonist. However, it might not count, since Hans never really loved Princess Anna in the first place, and Anna's interest in Hans was more like a naïve infatuation than actual love.
• Ursula, Jafar, Scar, Hades, Clayton, and Hans are the only Disney Villains to have known siblings (Morgana, Nasira, Mufasa, Poseidon, Zeus, Lady Waltham, and the twelve princes of the Southern Isles respectively).
• Of the eleven primary members of the franchise, only five are known to have died during their film: Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Ursula, Scar, and Dr. Facilier. Jafar is killed in the sequel to Aladdin. Cruella, Hook, the Queen of Hearts, and Hades survive all their films.
• Music plays a significant part in the role of a Disney Villain. Villains engaging in song and dance traces all the way back to 1940's Pinocchio, with Honest John's "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee", though the staple was truly popularized as a centerpiece of a Disney animated musical with Ursula's "Poor Unfortunate Souls" in 1989. However, whether they perform a song or not, villains are commonly represented by a leitmotif featured in the scores of their respective film. These villains include:
  • The Evil Queen ("A Special Sort of Death")
  • Chernabog ("Night on Bald Mountain")
  • Captain Hook ("A Pirate's Life (Is a Wonderful Life)"/"Never Smile at a Crocodile")
  • Maleficent ("Maleficent Appears")
  • The Queen of Hearts ("March of the Cards")
  • Professor Ratigan ("The World's Greatest Criminal Mind")
  • Ursula ("Poor Unfortunate Souls")
  • Gaston ("Gaston")
  • Jafar ("On a Dark Night")
  • Scar ("Didn’t Your Mother Tell You Not to Play With Your Food")
  • Governor Ratcliffe ("Mine, Mine, Mine")
  • Judge Claude Frollo ("Hellfire")
  • Hades ("Speak of the Devil")
  • Shan Yu ("The Huns Attack")
  • Yzma ("Beware the Groove")
  • Queen Narissa ("Narissa Arrives")
  • Dr. Facilier ("Tiana's Bad Dream")
  • Mother Gothel ("Mother Knows Best")
  • King Candy ("Messing with the Program")
  • Hans ("Hans")
  • Yokai ("The Masked Man")
  • Tamatoa ("Shiny")
• Scar, Clayton, Dr. Facilier, Yokai, Ernesto de la Cruz and King Runeard are the only villains to permanently kill off a major character in their respective films.
  • An argument could be made for the Headless Horseman, who possibly killed Ichabod Crane when the former spirited the latter away. However, Ichabod's final fate was left ambiguous.

References

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