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1. DORIS (Meet The Robinsons) - She's a freaking artificially intelligent, malevolent, manipulative, power-hungry, homicidal BOWLER HAT. And it actually manages to be TERRIFYING in the film's climactic sequence, no less! How does this villain not get more attention? (Fun fact: We have John Lassenter to thank for this monstrosity. Were it not for his input, we'd have been stuck with Goob as the solo villain of the movie!)

2. Br'er Fox (Song Of The South) - His movie's never been re-released and clips are hard to come by, so I think now most people only know him as the antagonist of Splash Mountain. He's great and faithfully realized in that ride, but his character and moments in the film deserve more attention and recognition. The guy's freaking hilarious with the way he talks and his insane, imaginative scheming. 

3. El Capitan (Duck Tales: Treasure Of The Gold Sun) - When you think of Duck Tales, Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica DeSpell, and Merlock get all the recognition, but no one seems to remember El Capitan, the main antagonist of the series' premiere TV movie (split into 5 episodes). He was an intriguing antagonist who left us with answered question, Jim Cummings' voice acting for him was simply delightful, and I could never not be entertained by his stark-raving mad obsession with GOOOOOLD!!! Thankfully, the Nostalgia Critic reviewed this pilot film and gave him some good press, so he might get more recognition.

4. Bill Sykes (Oliver And Company) - Yeah, I feel his potential was wasted and that what they were going for with him could have been executed a lot better than it was. Despite this, I still think he made an alright villain. The larger-than-life size of him and his everything was well realized, Robert Loggia's voice was suitably nasty and subtly menacing, he darkened the mood and raised the stakes in every scene he was present in, is one of Disney's darker and more realistic villains (the depiction of his loan shark dealings, right down to the "cement shoes" phone call, is disturbingly accurate), and he gets one of the most intense, gruesome demises of any villain in a Disney movie. That's pretty unforgettable!

5. Shan Yu (Mulan) - Like Sykes, I feel he could have been better executed and his motivations behind his vendetta with the Emperor better explored, but for what he was, he was alright. I find it odd that many call him "forgettable" since I can very distinctly remember every scene he featured in, many of the lines he spoke, and all the downright horrific things he did. This is a guy who has his army massacre an entire village where an imperial camp is and not only kill a little girl in the process, but actively target that little girl rather than her just being collateral damage and then lay her doll by her corpse as a mocking gesture. The killing and the corpse isn't shown on-screen but it's shocking that they got away with inferring it at all! Plus his design and voice by Miguel Ferrer are super intimidating.

6. Mr. Dark (Something Wicked This Way Comes) - This film in general is underrated because many people remember it for it's failings rather than it's successes, and Johnathan Pryce as Mr. Dark was one of it's absolute highlights. He gives a very chilling, sinister, mostly subtle yet simultaneously theatrical performance as a villain who acts as an emissary of Hell. Many of the scenes he featured in were genuinely frightening to me, and he had such a hateful malice to him that I was invested in seeing when he'd get his. A great villain who shouldn't go overlooked.

7. Royal Pain (Sky High) - Again a movie that is underrated in general, but no one who's seen it could forget about good ol' Gwen Grayson, AKA Royal Pain, the film's main antagonist. She's an evil genius who attended Sky High but was never appreciated for her skills, so she grew up to become a supervillain only to get de-aged and grow up back into a teenager in order to set off her current scheme. She's also got a crazy jester for a henchman/adoptive father and when she dons her armor she speaks in Patrick Warburton's voice. I think this chick might have been Lord Dominator's precursor in a lot of ways and she deserves the same amount of loving!

8. Percival McLeach (The Rescuers Down Under) - Yet another overlooked gem of a movie that contains an exceptionally great villain in McLeach. Most poachers are in the business for profit. McLeach is clearly in it for fun - he enjoys capturing, torturing, and killing animals, and the scary part is that he's no standards against doing the same to humans, namely human children. He treats his pet lizard Joanna the way an abuser treats his spouse and is a total ignoramus who shamelessly admits that he never made it past third grade. George C. Scott is insanely entertaining in the role, making this character as funny as he is despicable and threatening. He's a horrible, horrible man yet needs more love for being so good at being bad!

9. Marluxia (Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories) - Maleficent and Xehanort get the most attention as far as Big Bads in this series go, so Marluxia is the one who goes the most overlooked by virtue of being the villain of the first spin-off title meant to bridge KH and KHII, said game having a notoriously difficult to master card system, and he himself having pink hair and fighting with flower pedals. The thing is that while he doesn't quite measure up to the darker villainy of Maleficent or Xehanort, his plan was actually perhaps the darkest one in the entire series, one that hinged on Sora getting completely brainwashed and losing his friends, his true memories, and his sense of identity in his obsession with a false friend who was in fact Marluxia's abused captive. Even more twisted, Marluxia's intentions might not have been entirely unjustified given how Xemnas treated his Organization and planned to do with them! Plus, he makes fighting with flower pedals look badass, alright?

10. The Horned King (The Black Cauldron) - Much like "Something Wicked This Way Comes", this movie is more remembered for it's failures, and once again it's greatest success was in it's villain. While some deride the Horned King as being boring, generic, and not threatening enough, I and many others find him to be ridiculously frightening and dark for a Disney villain. This is the first villain in the animated canon who didn't pick any singular or secluded targets to exercise his malice - he wanted to persecute the entire human race and dominate the entire world and be worshiped as a god by a legion of undead followers. The design for the character and John Hurt's voice acting adds to the creepy levels. Plus, he also had a nightmarishly gruesome death scene. If there's one memorable takeaway to be found in this movie, it's this villain.

11. Chef Skinner (Ratatouille) - As far as Disney/Pixar villains go, I think this is easily the funniest one we've had. Quite a few people aren't too fond of Linguini's plot in the movie and thus aren't interested in Skinner and his part in it, but I found his constant bouts of anger and paranoia over Linguini reclaiming his heritage and of Remy's part in all of it to be a riot. Plus he was used to take a shot at how Michael Eisner was running Walt Disney's company and recycling it's ideas with the assumption that if it has the founder's name on it, it'll sell. You can't not love that!

12. Dr. Hamsterviel (Lilo and Stitch) - Yeah he had no role in the original movie, but he's the only true villain that the Lilo and Stitch sub-franchise has and I personally found him to be very amusing. Jeff Bennett just does a fantastic job at his voice, with his accent, tone and choice of insulting words being a clear reference to the French Taunter from "Monty Python And The Holy Grail." I also like his design and all the jokes made about people confusing him for being like a bunny, a gerbil, a mouse, etc. rather than like a hamster. And for a comedic villain, he can be surprisingly menacing and efficient at evil sometimes, like in "Leroy and Stitch."

13. Professor Ratigan (The Great Mouse Detective) - He gets low on this list because, for the people who have seen the movie and do know of him, he has a VERY sizable fanbase and I've never heard a bad word said about him. But he could use some more mainstream attention, he is that great a villain, so he gets on here anyway. You just have to love the way he's characterized, animated, and voiced by Vincent Price - it just all comes together so perfectly to create a wonderfully entertaining and memorable villain.

14. Constance Hatchaway (The Haunted Mansion) - There are actually very few Haunted Mansion characters who are legit terrifying since the whole thing is mostly silly and fun, but this ax-crazy, murderous gold-digger is an exception. She's creepy enough in the regular ride in the Magic Kingdom, though she has a pretty dark sense of humor with the marriage-related things she says. But in the bigger version of the ride elsewhere, she gets a whole section to herself where she gets just plain terrifying. Never has the wedding march been so scary, and when I hear talk of "corpse bride", this is who I'd immediately think of!

15. The Phantom Blot (Mickey Mouse comics) - Mickey Mouse's greatest adversary, yet he's seldom ever appeared outside of comics. He showed up once in Duck Tales where he was terribly misrepresented, and then later in Mickey's Mouse Works/House of Mouse where he was depicted accurately. A gentleman thief with almost no ethics but a few standards (he won't ever attempt to kill anyone by his own hand, so he'd set up "suicide traps" instead, yeah...) shrouded in a dark, inky cloak, this guy is quite the enjoyable villain for Mickey to face and he ought to be utilized in more Disney projects.
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Bill Sykes reminds me of Dick Dastardly...