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And now we come to the exciting conclusion of this look at the Disney villains and the Seven Deadly Sins! Introducing the deadliest sin of all...

#7. VANITY
Foolish pride and the vane quest for perfection can easily escalate to megalomania. Do you have an itch to conquer the world? If so, then apply here.

THE QUEEN/THE WITCH

• FILM: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937)
• VOICE ACTOR: Lucille LaVerne
• ANIMATORS: Art Babbitt (Queen)/Norm Ferguson (Witch)
• DVD: Available
• She doesn't have a name per se, but if she did, no matter what it is, it would always fit the phrase, "Vanity, thy name is..." Obsessed with her own beauty (and threatened by Snow White's), she destroys it via a dark spell that transforms her into a haggard crone with a special gift for the fair maiden in the form of a luscious red apple.
• OCCUPATION(S): Monarch, stepmother
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: The Slave in the Magic Mirror, the Huntsman
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder
• QUOTES: (as the Queen) "Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"
  (as the Witch; to Snow White) "Now make a wish and take a bite..."
• FINAL VERDICT: Pursued by the Seven Dwarfs to the top of a high peak, lightning strikes and the Witch falls to her doom.

LADY TREMAINE AND HER FAMILY

• FILM: "Cinderella" (1950)
• VOICE ACTORS: Eleanor Audley (Lady Tremaine), Lucille Bliss (Anastasia), Rhoda Williams (Drizella) and June Foray (Lucifer)
• ANIMATORS: Frank Thomas (Lady Tremaine), Ollie Johnston (the stepsisters) and Ward Kimball (Lucifer)
• DVD: Available
• Lady Tremaine, the mother of all stepmothers, coddles and spoils her two homely daughters Anastasia and Drizella (not to mention that brat of a cat Lucifer) at the expense of stepdaughter Cinderella, who she has brow-beaten into submission as their scullery maid. What more proof could there be of her inherent wickedness?
• OCCUPATION(S): Lady, stepfamily
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Abuse, assault, wrongful imprisonment, destruction of royal property
• QUOTES: Lady Tremaine (regarding Cinderella) "Oh. Pay no attention to her."
  Drizella (scoffing at the idea of Cinderella going to the ball): "Ha! Her, dancing with the Prince!"
  Anastasia: "I'd be honored, Your Highness. Would you mine holding my broom?"
  (both sisters laugh sadistically)
• FINAL VERDICT: Even though Lucifer evidently falls to his doom out the tower window, the fate of the Tremaine trio is left unsaid in the film. That may have been for the best, though, because in the original story, they had their eyes pecked out by angry birds.

THE QUEEN OF HEARTS

• FILM: "Alice In Wonderland" (1951)
• VOICE ACTOR: Verna Felton
• ANIMATOR: Frank Thomas
• DVD: Available
• This loudmouth is practically bursting with rage, and pity any underling who crosses her. It is ironic that she's the queen of hearts, since she doesn't seem to have one of her own; witness the revelry in her eyes when she whacks at that poor hedgehog in the crazy croquet game or has some unfortunate decapitated for the most miniscule of offenses.
• OCCUPATION(S): Monarch
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: The King of Hearts, an entire deck of card soldiers
• CRIMES COMMITTED: None; absolute monarchs can do as they please
• QUOTE: "Off with their heads!"
• FINAL VERDICT: She, along with all of Wonderland it seems, chases that foolish girl Alice out of their dreamlike realm.

CAPTAIN NEMO

• FILM: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1954)
• ACTOR: James Mason
• DVD: Available
• The infamous captain of the Nautilus yearns to crate his own undersea utopia, and he's not above a little terrorism to make his plans succeed. All that time underwater has driven Nemo a little mad... mad at the world, that is. He plans to unleash his discoveries (such as a little thing called atomic power) upon all of mankind, his idea of payment for all of its injustices.
• OCCUPATION(S): Submarine's captain
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: The crew of the Nautilus
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Terrorism, abuse, kidnapping, murder, attempted murder, assault and battery
• QUOTE: "What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can."
• FINAL VERDICT: Wounded, Nemo blows up his island fortress of Vulcania and orders the Nautilus to the ocean floor one last time.

MALEFICENT

• FILM: "Sleeping Beauty" (1959)
• VOICE ACTOR: Eleanor Audley
• ANIMATOR: Milt Kahl
• DVD: Available
• Just think; it all could have been avoided if she had only been invited to that party. However, the devilishly delightful Maleficent is only too proud to let this royal snub go by without due recourse, which she provides a cursed spinning wheel. And if that doesn't work, then she can always turn into a fire-breathing dragon...
• OCCUPATION(S): Sorceress
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Diablo (her pet raven), a mess of hideous goons
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted murder, breaking and entering, kidnapping, trespassing
• QUOTE: "Now you shall deal with me, O Prince... and all the powers of HELL!!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Prince Phillip, who can't do much of anything without those three pesky fairies, flings his enchanted sword into the breast of Maleficent-as-a-dragon. Now all that remains of the grand sorceress is a black stain on the ground.

CRUELLA DE VIL

• FILM: "101 Dalmatians" (1961)/"101 Dalmatians" (1996)
• VOICE ACTOR/ACTOR: Betty Lou Gerson/Glenn Close
• ANIMATOR: Marc Davis
• DVD: Second one available, new Platinum Edition DVD for first one available March 2008
• Proving that wicked drama queens never go out of style, the shock-haired, chain-smoking, fur-loving fashion diva Cruella de Vil continues to delight and outrage, even though her shenanigans are anything but P.C.; she does just want to kill a bunch of cute little doggies after all. In both her animated and live-action incarnations, Miss de Vil is the height of selfish elaboration, but we love her for it anyway.
• OCCUPATION(S): Society gal
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Horace and Jasper Badun
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Dognapping, attempted murder, cruelty to animals, reckless driving
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Cruella de Vil"
• QUOTE: "I don't care how you kill the little beasts, but do it and do it now!"
• FINAL VERDICT: In hot pursuit of the dalmatians, Cruella accidentally gets her roadster slammed into by her henchman's old van and is left adrift, howling, in a snow bank.

MAD MADAM MIM

• FILM: "The Sword In the Stone" (1963)
• VOICE ACTOR: Martha Wentworth
• DVD: Available
• The wacky witch claims she is the most powerful magic maker in the land, and all she has to do is defeat that goody-two-shoes Merlin to prove it. So a "wizard's duel" is proposed, with the Mad Madame herself providing the rules... all the better to break them. Alas, that tricky sorcerer goes and uses his head, inflicting upon Mim his own brand of "germ warfare".
• OCCUPATION(S): Witch
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted murder
• GOTTA SING-SING: "The Magnificent, Marvelous, Mad Madam Mim"
• QUOTE: "Sounds like someone's sick. How lovely."
• FINAL VERDICT: Infected with Merlin's disease, Mim is left bedridden, sicker than a dog, helpless against sunshine.

PETER THORNDYKE

• FILM: "The Love Bug" (1969)
• ACTOR: David Tomlinson
• DVD: Available
• At first, this smarmy proprietor of a car dealership in San Francisco wants absolutely nothing to do with a Volkswagen Beetle that seems to have a mind all its own. But when he discovers Jim Douglas driving it in a race, he becomes more and more intent in owning it, by trying to beat Douglas in many an auto race, even trying to cheat in the races (sometimes succeeding in doing so). Thorndyke's plans are forever trapped in high gear, but he'd better beware of Douglas and his VW Beetle pal.
• OCCUPATION(S): Car dealer, racecar driver
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Carole Bennett (for a while), Havershaw, the staff of Thorndyke's dealership
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Theft, abuse, assault and battery, reckless driving
• QUOTE: (to rival Jim Douglas, bad-talking Herbie about racing) "It's too bad this thing doesn't have the gumption to get out to the starting line this morning. I should've enjoyed beating it."
• FINAL VERDICT: After losing the big race to Douglas and Herbie, Thorndyke is now a humiliated mechanic in his own dealership, which he evidently no longer owns.

DR. HANS REINHERDT

• FILM: "The Black Hole" (1979)
• ACTOR: Maximilian Schell
• DVD: Available
• Like Captain Nemo before him, Reinhardt is on a mad mission, one that has taken him to the end of the universe. Blinded by his insanity, he foolishly charters the spaceship Cygnus into the destructive black hole, hoping to find his own paradise on the other side.
• OCCUPATION(S): Spaceship's captain
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Maximilian, a crew of drones
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Kidnapping, terrorism, attempted murder
• QUOTE: "The word 'impossible', Mr. Booth, is only found in the dictionary of fools."
• FINAL VERDICT: Uh, good question. The ending of this movie is about as puzzingly murky as the titular phenomenon.

THE SANDERSON SISTERS

• FILM: "Hocus Pocus" (1993)
• ACTORS: Bette Midler (Winfred Sanderson), Sarah Jessica Parker (Sarah Sanderson) and Kathy Najimy (Mary Sanderson)
• DVD: Available
• These sibling witches had been hanged three centuries ago by the Salem community for sapping life from children so that they can stay young themselves. But now a newcomer in the neighborhood had inadvertently brought them to back to life by lighting a black candle. Now they have until sunrise the next morning to continue on with their plans to stay young for good.
• OCCUPATION(S): Witches
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Kidnapping, terrorism, murder, attempted murder, wrongful imprisonment
• GOTTA SING-SING: "I Put a Spell On You"
• QUOTES: Winifred: "You know, I've always wanted a child. And now I think I'll have one... ON TOAST!"
  Sarah: "I am beautiful! Boys will love me!"
  Mary: "I smell children."
• FINAL VERDICT: During a last-ditch effort to suck out the lives of siblings Max and Dani Dennison, the sun rises and the three sorceress sisters are reduced to dust.

TRIP MURPHY

• FILM: "Herbie: Fully Loaded" (2005)
• ACTOR: Matt Dillon
• DVD: Available
• Trip Murphy is a hotshot racecar driver with his own thriving multi-media company: endorsements, personal appearances, even his own video game. So he certainly isn't going to be shown up by a girl driving a Volkswagen. Oozing his own brand of smarmy charm, and like Peter Thorndyke before him some 35 years earlier, Trip has an ego forever stuck in high gear, but he better watch out for the redhead in the vintage bug.
• OCCUPATION(S): Racecar driver
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: His brother Larry and lackey Crash
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Theft, attempted murder, reckless driving
• QUOTE: "I'm gonna exterminate this bug."
• FINAL VERDICT: When he is defeated in the big race by Maggie and Herbie, Trip loses it and is carted off to the funny farm.

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#8. EMBODIMENTS OF ALL EVIL
These characters represent more then just a single sin, but embody (in whole or in tandem) aspects of the ultimate evil, the devil himself.

PETE

• FILM: "Steamboat Willie" (1928)
• VOICE ACTORS: Billy Bletcher, Will Ryan and Jim Cummings
• DVD: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Parts One and Two; Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Parts One and Two
• Pete (AKA Black Pete (AKA Peg-Leg Pete)) has the distinction of not only being the "oldest" villain on this list (in fact, he actually predates Mickey Mouse by at least three years), but also the most diverse: beginning with Julius in the Alice Comedies, he was the constant archenemy for not only Mickey (beginning with "Steamboat Willie", where as the steamboat captain he basically makes the mouse do all the work), but also for Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto and even Chip 'n' Dale over the years. Although starting out with sloth, he added on more sins to his repertoire over the years, especially wrath (constantly menacing Mickey and company) and lust (always trying to find someone for his own sake); hence, this joint entry, which was made to explain villains who represent more than one sin, since Pete now has too many sins to narrow down to just one.
• FINAL VERDICT: Pete eventually settled down for the "Goof Troop" series and the movie variations thereof, but was back in fine felonious form in "Mickey MouseWorks" and beyond.

THE MANY VILLAINS OF "PINOCCHIO"

• FILM: "Pinocchio" (1940)
• VOICE ACTORS: Walter Catlett (J. Worthington Foulfellow), Mel Blanc (Gideon), Charles Judels (Stromboli and the Coachman) and Frankie Darro (Lampwick)
• ANIMATORS: Norm Ferguson (J. Worthington Foulfellow and Gideon), Bill Tytla (Stromboli), Charles Nichols (the Coachman), Fred Moore (Lampwick) and Wolfgang Reitherman (Monstro)
• DVD: New Platinum Edition DVD to come out in either 2008 or 2009
• For a cute little wooden puppet, Pinocchio sure has a lot of enemies (like Pete, too numerous, in fact, to narrow down to just one, thus, again, this joint entry). Like Pete, these heavies all run the gamut of sins, from greed (the foxy J. Worthington Foulfellow, alias "Honest John", and his feline stooge Gideon) and lust (for fame, that is, with the vicious puppet master Stromboli) to wrath (the fierce Coachman), sloth (the lazy Lampwick) and gluttony (the briny behemoth Monstro).
• OCCUPATION(S): Con artists for hire (Foulfellow and Gideon), puppet master (Stromboli), coach driver (the Coachman), bum (Lampwick), predator (Monstro)
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Accessory to kidnapping, fraud, wrongful imprisonment, attempted murder, abuse, assault
• GOTTA SING-SING: Foulfellow's "Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee"
• QUOTES: Foulfellow: (to Pinocchio) "Then you haven't heard of the easy road to success."
  Gideon: "Hiccup!"
  Stromboli: (to Pinocchio) "And when you are growing too old, you will make good FIREWOOD!"
  Coachman: "Give a bad boy enough rope and he'll soon make a jackass of himself."
  Lampwick: (about Jiminy Cricket) "Hey, who's the beetle?"
  Monstro: "Rooooooooooooar!"
• FINAL VERDICT: All apparently go on to commit more crimes and atrocities, save for Lampwick, who gets his comeuppance by being turned into a donkey.

CHERNABOG

• FILM: "Fantasia" (1940)
• ANIMATOR: Bill Tytla
• DVD: Available
• Pure evil personified, Chernabog reigns over Bald Mountain when night has fallen, coaxing the spirits of the dead out of their graves to bask in his unholy visage. Eyes aglow and bat-like wings blotting out the sky, this demon lords over his spectral and skeletal followers in their raucous celebration of the macabre.
• OCCUPATION(S): Monarch
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Grave descration, abuse
• FINAL VERDICT: Church bells chime as dawn breaks, sending Chernabog withering back to his eternal resting place.

MAN

• FILM: "Bambi" (1942)
• DVD: Available
• Has there ever been a more insidious specter of evil in the world of a film then that of "man in the forest", as seen in "Bambi"? Although never seen, their presence is constantly felt, their violence forever imminent. Never has a single cinematic death as that of Bambi's mother, at the hand of man, ever been so traumatic or so immediate.
• OCCUPATION(S): Hunter
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: A pack of vicious hunting dogs
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Murder, attempted murder, terrorism
• FINAL VERDICT: A destructive blaze, caused by a carelessly unattended campfire, destroys the forest, indicating the destructive nature of mankind will never cease.

THE HORNED KING

• FILM: "The Black Cauldron" (1985)
• VOICE ACTOR: John Hurt
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Phil Nibbelink
• DVD: Available
• With a skull-like mask for a face, topped by two mangled horns, plus cloven feet and a spiked tail, it is not difficult to liken the Horned King to the image of the devil of centuries-old lore. (Throw in that hacking cough and he's even more akin to a certain Lord of the Sith we're all familiar with). His mission is a simple one: use the Black Cauldron to raise his own army of the undead and overrun all of Prydain.
• OCCUPATION(S): Monarch
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Creeper, a bunch of brutish warriors, the aforementioned army of the undead
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Grave descration, attempted murder, kidnapping, theft
• QUOTE: "Now I call on my army of the dead: the Cauldron Born! Arise, my messengers of death! Our time has arrived!"
• FINAL VERDICT: After Gurgi makes the ultimate sacrifice to stop the zombie horde, the ol' Hornster is sucked into the cauldron itself and destroyed, PG-rating style.

OOGIE BOOGIE

• FILM: "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993)
• VOICE ACTOR: Ken Page
• DVD: Available
• The classic childhood fear of the Bogeyman is envisioned here in the form of Oogie Boogie, a form that is a stitched-together bag of creepies and crawlies guaranteed to give you the willies. The big Oog likes to gamble with his prisoners' lives, and thanks to his trio of trick-or-treatin' disciples, his latest victim is none other than "Sandy Claws" himself.
• OCCUPATION(S): Con artist
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Lock, Shock and Barrel
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Kidnapping, terrorism, attempted murder, abuse
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Oogie Boogie's Song"
• QUOTE: "Are you a gambling man, Sandy?"
• FINAL VERDICT: Oogie's evil is literally unraveled by Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown.

HADES

• FILM: "Hercules" (1997)
• VOICE ACTOR: James Woods
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Nik Ranieri
• DVD: Available
• This big blue hothead has it in for his older brother Zeus and plots to take over Mount Olympus with a little help from his friends. A clash of the Titans ensues, but, as the Fates predicted, if that wonder boy Hercules crashed the party (and he does), it would be all over. Hades strikes back at Herc's Achilles' heel, Megara, the hero's ladylove and Hades' former femme fatale.
• OCCUPATION(S): Lord of the Dead
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Megara (for a while), Pain and Panic, the Titans
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Treason, attempted murder, kidnapping
• QUOTE: "Name's Hades, Lord of the Dead. Hi, how ya doin'?"
• FINAL VERDICT: After rescuing Meg from the sea of lost souls, Hercules knocks in the Lord of the Dead, who are more then happy to welcome their despised despot.

And there you have it, everyone! So, guys, what did you think of these sins and their correlations with Disney villains? I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did! Again, let's discuss! Thanks!

And one more thing, if you noticed any ones that I missed, let me know.