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. See also:
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * Marvel Animation
 * Marvel Films
 * Star Wars

Disney Animated Canon

 * 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 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). 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.
 * 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 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.
 * Percival C. McLeach, the sadistic, brutish Evil Poacher from The Rescuers Down Under. 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, which suggests that he was originally intent on murdering Cody anyway, and that he wanted to torture him first regardless. Oh, and it's 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.
 * 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, 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, revealing his previous lies to be a show of needless sadism. Even before that, he was willing to have his hyena minions not only kill Simba but also his friend Nala, who was not only also a cub but someone who Scar didn't even NEED to have killed, unlike Simba and Mufasa who at least were in his way to the throne. Has no remorse for his actions? Check - in fact, when he's about to kill Simba near the end, he gloats about having killed Mufasa. Furthermore, he carelessly turned the Pride Lands into such a hell-hole and has no problem with it, 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. 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.
 * 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.
 * Another reason for him being absolutely terrifying is because, despite his more anthropomorphic traits, he's actually fairly realistic in regards to how he managed to accomplish becoming a tyrant. He manages to manipulate the Hyenas into granting him power via bribing him with food and a better life, and it is suggested he didn't even particularly value them at all due to how easily he was willing to turn on them as well as how he abused them frequently afterward, which has historical precedence.
 * Another version of him adds more horrible crimes to his rap sheet. In The Lion Guard, 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.
 * In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Judge Claude Frollo is likely the most evil character the company has ever invented. Frollo's Establishing Character Moment involves him murdering a woman and attempting to drown her baby for being deformed. 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, as well as burn large sections of a city, 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 Archdeacon 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 the history of all Western animation.
 * The degree of his creepy lust for Esmeralda 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.
 * 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.
 * It's made even worse with his comment about returning the doll to the girl. Not only is he obviously going to murder her, but it has creepy, creepy, pedophiliac undertones.
 * 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.
 * 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 mutilate him.
 * 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.
 * Next we have a surprising one:  from Frozen II,.

Pixar

 * 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. 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 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!
 * Lots-o'-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: 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 in "the Box" (a sandbox, which to toys is the equivalent of being buried alive in a sandpit), 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, 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 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.
 * Cars 2
 * is the overall leader of the Lemons who is an old model of a . 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, while having Zündapp create an electromagnetic pulse to have the lemons use it to target other cars. At Tokyo, (plus, he even has his lemons target other cars at the World Grand Prix ); 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, 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, . Eventually, when his plans are foiled, Zündapp voice-activates the bomb on Mater's hood to kill him after 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. While Redline's death is only seen in a reflection of a picture of Mater, if one looks closely, he can be seen struggling to survive, until the full-powered EMP hits him and lights him on fire. His eyes become completely black, and all there is of him is nothing but a dead car that was originally sentient. That's a horrible way to die, especially for a kids' movie.

Animated

 * 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.
 * Hakon is a violent and sadistic, psychopathic viking warmonger who massacred of most of Goliath's old clan, and who gets off on raw hatred of others. When his spirit is left all alone for eternity, he even bemoans the fact that he has no one around to hate and feud with anymore!
 * 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.
 * 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. In the comics, which are canon, he only gets worse.
 * 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.
 * The Legend of Tarzan:
 * Queen La is the mystical queen of Opar, who created and enslaved a race of leopard men from mundane leopards. La has a bad habit of incinerating her followers who cross or fail her, and a history of killing men who reject her. When Professor Porter is brought to her, she decides to have him sacrificed before she falls for Tarzan; attempts to kill Jane; and later tries to sacrifice Tarzan for rejecting her. In her next appearance La's leopard men start to rebel against her and try to place Jane as the new queen to free them; after La gets back into power, she executes some of the leopard men but plans on doing something special for the leader of the rebels—attempting to feed him to a monster. During the next battle, La incinerates more of the leopard men, and when Tarzan is seemingly killed, mocks Jane about it. Despite La's death, her spirit later returns and possesses Jane in an attempt to get her power back. During the final fight against her, La possesses Tarzan and muses at the prospect of killing his beloved wife using his own body.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Tron Uprising:
 * 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.
 * Get Ed:
 * 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.
 * 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 then 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 create a dimensional portal for Bill and his demon underlings to enter through while also creating enough power to tear the entire universe apart. Ford's associate Fiddleford McGucket was left traumatized after accidentally looking through the portal into the nightmare world, and 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 (which he succeeds at) and destroy his secret journals (which he fails at), and finally breaking the Dimensional Rift that he coaxes an emotionally distraught Mabel into giving him while in the form of Blendin Blandin, 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, burning the three journals and ordering his minions to eat Dipper, unleashing distortion and destruction upon the entire town, turning many residents to stone and using them 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, using the rationale that he was making things the way they ought to be. In the Grand Finale, he tortures Ford with around 500 volts of electricity in order to make him tell him how to break the anti-weirdness barrier around Gravity Falls, then deciding 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, stating he was going to "make some children into corpses." 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 in retrospect. 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?
 * 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 Earth was weak and that he and his "planet" 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 in the Spear of Selene, 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 build their own rockets to go to Earth. But once Della was gone, Lunaris shot himself in the arm with his ray gun and told his people that Della had done it in an act of treachery, 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. With Penumbra's help, Donald found Lunaris' war room, where Lunaris confronted him and revealed that once the invasion is launched, he was planning on first killing the Duck family's kids, Donald's nephews included, 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 it's 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 the Duck family's vilest and most personally effecting adversary to date.
 * 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 Cassandra 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. 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.

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, 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?  Feared and loathed by all, Pan was a nightmarish character whose end was very well deserved!
 * 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, 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  In the end, all Jafar truly desired was power to do whatever he pleased with.
 * 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

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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, of the East India Trading Company, who serves as the Big Bad of the initial trilogy. Upon his arrival at Port Royal, Beckett assumes illegal control and has the governor's messenger murdered. He later enslaves Davy Jones, forcing him to kill his pet Kraken and making him his personal attack dog of the seas. He later murders Governor Swann when he's deemed to be of no further use to him. It is made abundantly clear that Beckett's prime concern is power and control, and since piracy is a threat to that, he initiates a purge of anyone even vaguely associated with piracy but with all legal proceedings suspended, including the hanging of a 10-year-old boy. In a DISNEY film. Beckett seems overall very apathetic and completely devoid of emotion aside from self satisfaction. 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 Governor Swann, who was an ally, if a coerced one, and certainly wasn't a pirate by any stretch, killed 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 meant to react to the guy as being 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: Priding himself on being one of the most feared men on the high seas. Blackbeard torturing his prisoners and abuses and murders members of his own crew on the basis of "if I don't kill a man every now and then, they forget who I am", incinerating his ship's cook alive just to demonstrate this and resurrecting some of his own slain crew members as mindlessly obedient zombies. On his quest to the Fountain of Youth to avert his prophesied death at the hands of a one-legged man, Blackbeard puts a mermaid named Syrena through hideous treatment for the sole purpose of gaining her tear, first showing her the remains of her own fellow mermaids, and then ordering Phillip, the single man who displays compassion to her, killed in front of her out of spite. While Blackbeard claims to love his daughter, he undersells even this through a risky game of Russian Roulette with his own daughter's life where he orders his chief mook to load two guns with a bullet each, and keep even himself in the dark as to which guns are loaded, and later had the gall to lie to his daughter about knowing which ones are loaded, and later still when he ultimately tried to sacrifice her life to save his own at the Fountain of Youth. Blackbeard even admits he feels closest to God in moments of pain and anguish and calmly tortured and murdered anyone who dared to stand against him. In general, this guy is basically the single most despicable pirate imaginable (much like his Real Life counterpart), and he knows it.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Another literary Complete Monster is Jadis the White Witch from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. 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.
 * Princess Mombi in Return to Oz 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.
 * 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.
 * 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, Comanche saved Butch's life and he repaid them by slaughtering them, earning Tonto's undying hatred.
 * In this Disney Channel original movie Jumping Ship, Frakes is an Australian pirate whose modus operandi involves kidnapping the rich and extorting them for money. Once he's satisfied, Frakes and his gang gleefully murder their victims as opposed to letting them go and feed their bodies to sharks. Frakes is intent on repeating this process to Michael and young Tommy after finding their wallet, stranding them on an island and bartering with Tommy's life to goad Michael into doing his bidding. Once Michael tries to trick Frakes into letting Tommy go for gold that doesn't really exist, Frakes simply draws his gun on them and tries to have them lead him there. In the climax, Frakes abandons one of his crewmates to die in a hole after she breaks her leg, and chases after the protagonists himself, fully intent on simply shooting Michael dead in a show of spectacular rage. Frakes is completely uncaring that one of his victims is a child, displaying callousness and ruthlessly sociopathic behavior, treating the whole affair as a "project." Cruel and greedy, Frakes was as close to a Serial Killer as a live-action Disney movie could get.

Live-Action Remakes

 * While merely a demented Jerkass in the original animated version, the 1996 live action adaptation of 101 Dalmatians turns Cruella DeVil into an example of this trope. A fashion designer and head of her own fashion business that Anita is employed at, Cruella is actually behind a number of illegal poaching operations and uses her business as a cover. She hires lackeys to abduct animals from other people's properties and bring the animal to a skinner who kills them and skins their fur hides off for Cruella to use to make outfits that she could profit off of. We see this demonstrated with a rare Siberian Tiger that Cruella had Horace and Jasper steal from a zoo, an abduction that makes headline news, showing how little qualms she has with greatly inconveniencing humans and animals alike. And then she, of course, tries to do the same with 99 dalmatian puppies. What motivates her? Immense greed, selfish love of fur fashion, and a very clear contempt for animals in general. This is topped off not only by her interactions and actions towards people and animals being far more severe than in the cartoon version, but Glenn Close giving an over-the-top hammy yet surprisingly menacing performance that she admitted she was playing like The Devil incarnate. With no excuse, no redeeming features, no regrets for her actions, and earning the fear, disgust, and hatred of everyone (to the point of Roger designing the villain of his video game after her in the end), Cruella in this version was certainly worthy of being called a monster.
 * She's still as vile as ever in the sequel, 102 Dalmations. Here she'd undergone special therapy that made her forget her old ways and become a better person and model citizen to society. But Chloe, the female lead who used to work with her, believes that it won't last because some people, particularly those capable of doing the things Cruella did, are just incapable of truly changing. She turns out to be right when Cruella's true nature comes back due to a Villainous Breakdown. She proceeds to frame Kevin for attempted dognapping, manipulate Chloe into letting her guard down by "befriending" her at a dinner invitation while her minions go after the puppies she's after, tries to have said puppies killed at a skinning factory so that she can finally make a dalmatian fur coat, and locks both Kevin and Holly up in a cellar to rot when they intervene. Oh, and she deals out a lot of abuse to her main employee, Alonzo, to the point of a Heel Face Turn by him. Further proof that this woman is rotten to the core.
 * In the novelization version of 2016's The Jungle Book (The Strength of the Wolf is the Pack, by Scott Peterson & Joshua Pruett), Shere Khan is far crueler and more vicious than in the film. Having killed Mowgli's father when Mowgli was a baby, Khan wants to kill Mowgli as well as an act of revenge for having been burned by his father. When the wolves try to send Mowgli to the man village, Khan murders their leader and Mowgli's adoptive father, Akela. He threatens to kill the wolf pups if Raksha displeases him. When a jackal provides Khan with useful information, Khan kills him just for asking for scraps of food in return. When Mowgli returns, Khan nearly kills Baloo and Bagheera to get to him, and taunts him about having killed both of his fathers.
 * 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 Sultan and Dalia the handmaiden to force Princess 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 even worse than his original counterpart. He lacks his more humorous, charismatic, and cowardly nature in exchange for being a chilling and threatening sociopath not played at all for laughs. 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 true to his promise 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 (also note that one of the hyenas simply ran toward Scar and the latter attacked first), it means that Scar was not trying to fool Simba when he blamed the hyenas and said he was going to kill them, but to save 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.

Video Games

 * 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."
 * In Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Jolly Roger was once a friend of Jack Sparrow, until he became envious of Jack's status as the next Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, and tried to kill him. Cursed to become an undead being by a vengeful witch doctor, Roger attacks towns, intending to slaughter the inhabitants and resurrect them to serve in his undead army to help him conquer the Caribbean and kill Jack. When Roger finds the protagonist with a man who had betrayed Roger, Roger kills the man after he tries to pay Roger to spare him, only allowing the protagonist to live so they can deliver a message from Roger to Jack.
 * 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.

Disney Comics

 * 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.

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.
 * 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. "Till death do us apart..."