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Disney Villains
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Original workWalt Disney Pictures films
Print publications
Book(s)List of books
Novel(s)
Films and television
Film(s)
Animated seriesHouse of Mouse
Games
TraditionalDisney Villainous
Video game(s)
Miscellaneous
Toy(s)Villains Designer Collection[1]
ExtensionDisney's Divas of Darkness[2]

This is a list of Disney Villain characters, often based on fictional antagonist characters who have been featured as part of the Disney character line-up. Some of these villain characters have appeared in sequels, video games, comic books, stage productions, or live-action adaptations of the original films.

Much like with the Disney Princess line with some of Disney's female lead animated characters, Disney's villain characters are also often grouped together as part of a Disney Villains franchise, formed by various antagonists from Walt Disney Pictures productions, with main focus on characters from animated films, mainly those from Walt Disney Animation Studios productions.[3][4][5]

List of villains

The characters listed here are featured in Disney productions and merchandise as "official" villains.

Primary villains

These characters are seen in most current Disney Villains related merchandise, live events, attractions, etc. The characters are also known as "The 13 Reflections of Evil".[6]

Minor villains

These characters appear or have appeared in the franchise less frequently.

Merchandising

In August 2018, a

Prospero Hall, published by Ravensburger and released exclusively to Target stores. The game has players compete as Disney Villains attempting to accomplish their goals from the film, while simultaneously trying to slow down their opponents. As of March 2021, four standalone expansions have released, with each adding three different playable villains.[75]

Villain merchandise was available at the former Villains in Vogue store in Sunset Blvd, at Disney's Hollywood Studios. This first store was so successful that the Disneyland Villain Shop was opened afterwards in 1991.[76] Both of these have since now closed.[citation needed]

USAopoly has released a number of products featuring Disney villains. Among them is a Monopoly-based board game called My Disney Villains Monopoly, where the players decide which of 30 villains can appear on each space on the board (characters that appear in the game that are not part of the official Villain list include Beagle Boys, Three Little Wolves, Pom-Pom, Man, Hound Dogs, and Chief); a checkers game;[77] and a collector's card game set.[78]

An online Disney trivia game called Who Wants to be a Villionaire, released in October 2001, is loosely based on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and features several villains as hosts, asking questions about the film in which they are featured. The "Phone-a-Friend" feature is renamed "Phone-a-Fiend" and will connect the player to Cruella de Vil.[79][80]

There is a sub-franchise derived from Disney villains entitled Disney's Divas of Darkness. The line-up includes

Queen of Hearts.[2]

The Villains Designer Collection re-imagines the stylish wickedness of Disney villains. This line of merchandise includes Maleficent, Cruella de Vil, the Evil Queen, the Queen of Hearts, Ursula and Mother Gothel.[1]

The Vinylmation collection also includes a Villains series.[81]

Books

Several books dedicated to Disney villains have been released. Among them are:

  • Disney Villains: The Top Secret Files by Jeff Kurtti
  • Disney's The Villains Collection: Stories from the Films by Todd Strasser
  • Disney's Villains: A Pop-Up Book by Walt Disney Company
  • Disney Villains: The Essential Guide by DK Publishing
  • Disney Villains (Ultimate Sticker Books) by DK Publishing
  • Disney Villains: The Essential Guide to the Evilest of Them All by DK Publishing

There are also books to color, like Disney Villains: All the Rage and Disney Villains Giant Book to Color ~ Diabolical Deeds!

Live events

Several characters from the Disney villains make meet-and-greet appearances at various

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
.

A 1999 exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum entitled "The Disney Villains" included displays featuring Disney's official villains, along with other villainous characters such as the Hunter from Bambi, and Br'er Fox & Br'er Bear from Song of the South.[84]

Fantasmic!

Disney villains play a vital role in the nighttime show

Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios theme parks.[85] In the shows, the Evil Queen decides it is time to finish off Mickey Mouse
once and for all, and invokes other villains to help her.

Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party

Cruella de Vil, Maleficent, Jafar, the Evil Queen and Dr. Facilier during Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party.

Disney villains appear in

Oogie Boogie (from The Nightmare Before Christmas) soon follow, and arriving last is Maleficent showing the audience how Halloween
should really be celebrated.

Dream Along with Mickey

In the

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
slogan of "The Place Where Dreams Come True". She is also accompanied by Captain Hook.

Villains Tonight

The Disney villains star as the main characters in the Disney Cruise lines' variety show, Villains Tonight. This musical stage production features Hades on a quest to get more evil in the Underworld by summoning up Disney's most powerful villains so he can keep his job. This show features

Chernabog in a variety of comical situations while performing various musical numbers from their respective appearances. This show debuted on the Disney Magic cruise ship March 27, 2010, and the Disney Dream on January 26, 2012.[87]

Video games

Disney's Villains' Revenge

Queen of Hearts
, and the Ringmaster change the story from the original movie to the way they wanted the story to end, with no "Happily Ever After".

Kingdom Hearts series

In the

Captain Barbossa
of Port Royal.

Other Disney Villains in the games are

Randall Boggs
in Monstropolis, and Hans in Arendelle.

Other villains outside the official line-up that also make appearances include

Cutler Beckett in The Caribbean. Monstro, the whale from Pinocchio, is both a character and a location as well as a boss in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix
.

Epic Mickey series

Yen Sid
approaches and Mickey is forced to flee, leaving some of the Blot undestroyed. Years later, the Blot has Mickey kidnapped so that his heart can be used to escape Wasteland. With Oswald's help, Mickey returns home as the Blot is defeated.

In the second game, The Mad Doctor tries to rule in the Shadow Blot's stead. In the first game, the Mad Doctor supplied robots for the Blot. If the player choose the Hero path, The Mad Doctor turns from a robot into a toon. If the player chooses the Scrapper path, The Mad Doctor is left in the final battle room to rot. Lastly, at the end of the second game, several versions of Pete look like they're going to try to take over the Wasteland.

Other games

Several Disney Villains are present as playable characters in the video game Disney Magic Kingdoms, acting as antagonists in new storylines placed after the events of their respective films.

Alternate versions of several Disney Villains appear as playable characters in the video game Disney Mirrorverse.[88]

Other media

Television

Characters from the franchise have been featured in television specials. The first,

Captain Hook, and Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear
.

In 1977, there was an update to this show entitled

Willie the Giant. Segments from this special were featured in A Disney Halloween
.

A handful of alternate versions of Disney Villains appear in the

fourth season, where Maleficent, Ursula and Cruella De Vil form a group known as the Queens of Darkness.[89]

In The Simpsons short Welcome to the Club, several Disney Villains, among them Evil Queen (in her witch form), Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Maleficent, Cruella de Vil, Ursula, Kaa, Jafar, Scar, and Hades, try to show Lisa Simpson through a musical number how much fun being a villain can be.[90]

Descendants

The Disney Villains are a main focus in the Descendants franchise.

In the

Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants appear Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar and Cruella de Vil, along with their children, Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos, respectively. They live on The Isle of the Lost, an island where all of Disney's villains and their various sidekicks have been imprisoned, along with all the other villains and their children. Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos were chosen by Prince Ben (son of King Beast and Queen Belle) to live in The United States of Auradon.[91]

In the animated series Descendants: Wicked World, appear Freddie, Dr. Facilier's daughter, CJ, Captain Hook's daughter, and Zevon, Yzma's son.

In the sequel, Descendants 2, Uma, Harry and Gil, children of Ursula,[92] Captain Hook[93] and Gaston,[94] appear as the main antagonists. Dizzy, Drizella's daughter, also appears as a more friendly character.[95] Maleficent appears in a lizard form, having that appearance after the events in the previous film, while Ursula yells at her daughter from the kitchen in her restaurant, only one of her tentacles visible, and Lady Tremaine is simply heard yelling at her granddaughter from upstairs in her hairdresser.

In the third film, Descendants 3, appear Hades, Dr. Facilier, Lady Tremaine, and Mr. Smee. Celia, Dr. Facilier's daughter, and Squeaky and Squirmy, Mr. Smee's twin sons, are also introduced.

A fourth film in development, Descendants: The Rise of Red, will feature Queen of Hearts, and teen versions of her, Maleficent, Hades, and Captain Hook. The film will also introduce Red, Queen of Hearts' daughter.[96]

Direct-to-video films

Mickey's House of Villains

The Disney Villains star in

magic carpet and giving Daisy
who gives Mickey the lamp to trap Jafar. Mickey sucks Jafar into the lamp, while the rest of the villains flee, restoring the House to normal.

Once Upon a Halloween

In the film

Horned King
are the ones with a main focus.

Novels

Kingdom Keepers

In Kingdom Keepers, Disney villains form a group known as the "Overtakers".

Board games

Disney Villainous

The Villainous board game franchise, published by Ravensburger, puts players in the roles of Disney villains. It has been praised by critics and fans for its lush artwork and easy-to-learn yet compelling strategy elements. The game is unique in that it features an asymmetrical structure, with players working to complete their own unique goals. The core game, The Worst Takes It All, has been followed up with five expansions (to date): Wicked to the Core, Evil Comes Prepared, Perfectly Wretched, Despicable Plots, and Bigger and Badder.[97]

Legacy

Disney villains proved their mark in cinematic history when the American Film Institute named The Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the 10th-greatest movie villain of all time. Other Disney Villains on AFI's list were the hunter from Bambi and Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians.[98] AFI did not rely on Disney's classification of who qualified as a villain, but used this definition instead:

a "villain" was defined as a character(s) whose wickedness of mind, selfishness of character and will to power are sometimes masked by beauty and nobility, while others may rage unmasked. They can be horribly evil or grandiosely funny, but are ultimately tragic.

See also

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