The Disney Villains and the Seven Deadly Sins

[Big Disney Fan]

With Halloween upon us, I've decided to dedicate this thread to the Disney bad guys and how they measure up to the Seven Deadly Sins of old. I actually discovered this from an article at LaughingPlace.com: http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID509740.asp.

Of course, times have changed a bit since the article was made (around 2005) and I've decided to improve on it with villains that were not in there as well as any ones that were there. Anyway, here it is. Note, however, that in no way will I try to crowd all the villains in one post. Okay, let's begin the article I discovered and improved on...

POOR UNFORTUNATE SOULS: Disney's Most Wanted Villains
A great actor once said that it was always more fun to play the bad guy. After all, what better character than the villain to really be able to let loose and, if not to chew the scenery, at least burn it down?
The villains in Disney films have always had an almost cult following, a special fondness in the hearts of movie fans, even if they were threatening to skin a puppy, devour our hero or even destroy a city. Villain merchandise can be found in the theme parks, where they are the "stars" of the popular "Fantasmic!" show. Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston even devoted a whole book to the subject.
So why all this fascination with the dark side of Disney magic? Perhaps we are unable to fully care for the protagonist without a suitably hissable antagonist, a carry-over from other forms of entertainment, from literature to drama to mainstream motion pictures. After all, what would David be without his Goliath, or Sherlock Holmes without his Professor Moriarty, or Bugs Bunny without his Elmer Fudd, or Luke Skywalker without his Darth Vader? Or perhaps we see in these villains sides of ourselves that we keep hidden, letting these outrageous characters do what we would never dream of, a vicarious trip into the shadows of our own souls. Or maybe it's just what that great actor felt: they are more fun.
But whatever the fascination with heavies, from Lady Macbeth, Hannibal Lecter and Goldfinger to the Wicked Witch of the West, the Joker and Bill the Butcher, the bad guy (and gal) has always been big -- bigger than life, in fact -- and Disney's stable of villains are no exception.
So in celebration of All Hallow's Eve, I'd liked now to "honor" these thieves, fiends and evil monarchs, and compare them to the Seven Deadly Sins they so readily embrace... and we so eagerly relish. This is Part One. We'll begin with the least deadly sins and work our way up the ladder to the most deadly sin of all.

#1: LUST
Lust? In a Disney film? Sure, when the bad boy (or girl) can't have what he (or she) wants (i.e., the good girl (or boy)).

MORTIMER MOUSE

• FILM: "Mickey's Rival" (1936)
• DVD: Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Part One
• In all their many years of courtship, Mickey has only had one rival for the affections of his Minnie, and that was Mortimer Mouse. Smug, egotistical and just plain obnoxious, Mortimer is the polar opposite of our main mouse, and his cowardly nature is exposed when Minnie is endangered. Mickey, of course, comes to the rescue.
• OCCUPATION(S): Lover boy
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Technically, none
• QUOTE: "Well, if it ain't my old sweetie, Minnie Mouse!"
• FINAL VERDICT: He leaves Minnie to fend for herself against an enraged bull, but would eventually show up again years later on the "Mickey Mouse Works" and "House of Mouse" series.

DONALD'S DOUBLE

• FILM: "Donald's Double Trouble" (1946)
• DVD: Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Part Two
• After yet another one of their arguments between them, Daisy doesn't ever want to see Donald again, leaving Donald devastated. So our main duck hires a debonair look-alike Lothario to try and win her back for him. Unfortunately, it all backfires when the duck's doppelganger falls in love with Daisy for real and takes her on a date to the amusement park. Needless to say, Donald is not happy...
• OCCUPATION(S): Lothario
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Again, technically none
• QUOTE: (to Daisy) "Darling, we'll paint the town vermilion."
• FINAL VERDICT: Both Donald and his twin are seen beating it out of the park and escaping a humiliated Daisy's wrath.

VICKY ROBINSON

• FILM: "The Parent Trap" (1961)
• ACTOR: Joanna Barnes
• DVD: Available
• What's a glamorous socialite/gold-digger to do? She's hooked a handsome and (more importantly) rich ranch owner, but no sooner does she start reeling him in to the altar than not one but two bratty daughters arrive on the scene to keelhaul such a loathsome deal. Then, to make matters worse, the ex-wife shows up, and she's not quite the spinster the hubby-to-be made her out to be. And now what, camping???
• OCCUPATION(S): Lover girl, society gal
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Her mother, a very different type of Mrs. Robinson
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Terrorism, abuse
• QUOTE: "First change I make in that household, off she goes to a boarding school in Switzerland."
• FINAL VERDICT: Doused with honey and licked by baby bears, Miss Vicky angrily calls off the engagement and storms off in a huff.

BARNABY

• FILM: "Babes In Toyland" (1961)
• ACTOR: Ray Bolger
• DVD: Available
• The leering would-be Lothario Barnaby wants Mary Contrary all for himself. There's just one problem: she is to marry Tom Piper, a problem easy enough to resolve: he simply dispatches his dim-witted lackeys to dispose of the boy. Naturally, the plan fails, and Barnaby must face off with a shrunken Tom and an army of toy soldiers in Toyland.
• OCCUPATION(S): Lothario
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Gonzorgo and Roderigo
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Kidnapping, attempted murder, trespassing, assault and battery
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Castle In Spain"
• QUOTE: (trying to woo Mary through aforementioned song) "You'll eat nothing but cake/You'll drink naught but champagne/You'll be in on the take/In our castle in Spain."
• FINAL VERDICT: Barnaby is shrunk as well, and is defeated by Tom in a swordfight.

GASTON

• FILM: "Beauty and the Beast" (1991)
• VOICE ACTOR: Richard White
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Andreas Deja
• DVD: Available
• He's the golden boy of his provincial town, an ace hunter whom all the girls go ga-ga for and, oh yes, every last inch of him is covered with hair. So why can't Gaston nab the beautiful Belle for his bride? Must be all that reading she does. No matter, with an ego the size of his pecs, he is certain he'll win her over... or else.
• OCCUPATION(S): Pub proprietor, town bully, hunter
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Lefou, Monsieur d'Arque, local yokels
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted murder, kidnapping, breaking and entering, wrongful imprisonment, assault and battery, arson, inciting a riot, trespassing
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Gaston"
• QUOTE: "Were you in love with her, Beast? Did you honestly think she would love you when she could have someone like me?"
• FINAL VERDICT: While battling it out over Belle atop the Beast's castle, Gaston loses his footing and falls to his doom.

CLAUDE FROLLO

• FILM: "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1996)
• VOICE ACTOR: Tony Jay
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Kathy Zielinski
• DVD: Available
• The poster boy for "Disney lust", Frollo has his beady eyes set on the voluptuous Esmeralda, a "burning desire" that haunts his very soul. He finally finds a use for his abused "foster son" Quasimodo, manipulating him into finding the gypsy for him, so he can burn her at the stake. What better way to show a girl you love her?
• OCCUPATION(S): Judge
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Phoebus (for a while), an army of soldiers
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted genocide, manslaughter, attempted murder, attempted infanticide, abuse of power, kidnapping, wrongful imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Hellfire"
• QUOTE: "The gypsies live outside the normal order. Their heathen ways inflame the people's lowest instincts. And they must be stopped."
• FINAL VERDICT: Notre Dame itself seemingly comes to life to squelch his evil, sending Frollo to fall to his doom.

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#2: GLUTTONY
Whether it's for supremacy or, more likely, just for a taste of the protagonist, these antagonists are all starving to death. Bloodthirsty? You have no idea.

THE BIG BAD WOLF

• FILM: "The Three Little Pigs" (1933)
• VOICE ACTOR: Billy Bletcher
• DVD: Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
• Given the hit song about him, you'd think ol' Big Bad would get more respect, or at least a few pork rinds. All that huffin' and puffin' and blowin' down of one's house must take a lot out of a wolf, not to mention those not-so-clever disguises (an innocent sheep, a Fuller Brush man) that take some talent to pull off as well. And what dedication: he comes back for more in not one, not two, but three follow-up shorts.
• OCCUPATION(S): Predator
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: His three little cubs (in subsequent shorts)
• CRIMES COMMITTED: None; wolves have every right to stalk prey
• QUOTE: "By the hair on your chinny-chin-chin, I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Slides down the chimney of the Practical Pig's house, right into a pot of boiling oil, sending him howling into the distance. But he would keep coming back again and again to try and get a taste of the pigs...

THE WOLF

• FILM: "Peter and the Wolf" segment of "Make Mine Music" (1946)
• DVD: Available
• Certainly one of the most ferocious creatures in Disney lore, this wolf is also the only villain on this list to share title billing with the hero of their story. He's a hungry one, too; he wants to gobble up all of Peter's friends. But hey, that's only natural for this carnivorous predator.
• OCCUPATION(S): Predator
• CRIMES COMMITTED: None; again, wolves have every right to stalk prey
• FINAL VERDICT: Young Peter is the local hero when he captures the beast by lashing him to a tree.

BRER FOX AND BRER BEAR

• FILM: "Song of the South" (1946)
• VOICE ACTORS: James Baskett and Nicodemus Stewart
• DVD: Not available... still
• The Abbott and Costello of the wonderland of Uncle Remus, these two fumbling fools are actually their own worst enemies. In their persistent pursuit of the scrawny Brer Rabbit (who would hardly make much of a meal for either of them, much less both), they're constantly each tripping up the other, putting their collective foot in the tar, if you will.
• OCCUPATION(S): Predators
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, terrorism, assault with a deadly weapon
• QUOTE: Brer Fox: "I got him! I got him this time!"
  Brer Bear: "I'm gonna knock his head clean off!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Bamboozled by Brer Rabbit's Laughing Place scam, they wind up on the wrong side of a hive full of bees.

MASTER CONTROL PROGRAM

• FILM: "Tron" (1982)
• VOICE ACTOR: David Warner
• DVD: Available
• The corrupt Master Control Program is planning on ruling the world, one computer at a time (talk about your computer viruses). Its User Ed Dillinger has stolen Kevin Flynn's video game creations and rewrote them as his own. Now Flynn and some of his pals are out to put a stop to this... even if it means getting sucked into the computer realm to play games for dear life to do so. But the MCP and its partner Sark aren't about to let some User sabotage their plans...
• OCCUPATION(S): Computer program
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Ed Dillinger, Sark, Warrior Elite of MCP
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Abuse, murder, attempted murder, theft, kidnapping, terrorism
• QUOTE: "No one User wrote me; I'm worth a couple million of their man-years."
• FINAL VERDICT: During the final showdown between Tron and Sark (who now has the MCP's powers), Flynn leaps into the tower of light that is Master Control and distracts it, long enough for Tron to hurl his identity disc into the one break in the tower's barrier and destroys it (and Sark with it).

BIG BOY CAPRICE

• FILM: "Dick Tracy" (1990)
• ACTOR: Al Pacino
• DVD: Available
• The Godfather of Four Color crime, "Big Boy" didn't attain his nickname from his big pronouncements, but rather by metaphorically devouring his opponents, as in a mobster massacre to rival St. Valentine's. Now he's back in business and on top of the world, ma, "leetle friend" a-blazin'. But, oh, mother of mercy, could Dick Tracy spell the end of Big Boy Caprice?
• OCCUPATION(S): Crimelord
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Mumbles, Flattop, Shoulders, Pruneface and many others
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Kidnapping, terrorism, attempted murder, theft, fraud, assault and battery
• GOTTA SING-SING: "More" (which he warbles while trying to teach the number to Breathless Mahoney and her chronies)
• QUOTE: (to his fellow gangsters) "You get behind me, we all profit; you challenge me, we all go down! There was one Napoleon, one Washington, one me!"
• FINAL VERDICT: In the final showdown with the pesky goody-two-shoes Tracy, Big Boy falls to his doom.

Well, what do you think so far? And this thread is only getting started. More will be added at a later time.

[lpetiti]

I think that this is very clever.

[Big Disney Fan]

Here is the next sin...

#3: GREED
To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, "greed is good", especially for these would-be treasure hunters, who seek their fortunes in gold and jewels and... dead animals?

LONG JOHN SILVER

• FILMS: "Treasure Island" (1950)/"Treasure Planet" (2002)
• ACTOR/VOICE ACTOR: Robert Newton/Brian Murray
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Glen Keane
• DVD: Both available separately
• In both Disney versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic swashbuckling tale, the character of Silver is depicted as a contradiction: on the one hand, he's leading a mutinous plot to take over the ship; on the other, he becomes a father figure of sorts for young Jim Hawkins. But is their relationship just a ruse for Silver to get closer to the treasure map? Or will his true feelings for the boy overcome his true nature?
• OCCUPATION(S): Cook
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: His fellow mutineers
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Mutiny, piracy, kidnapping, arson, theft, breaking and entering
• QUOTE: (from "Treasure Island") "Fortune sits on the shoulder of him what schemes."
  (from "Treasure Planet") "That treasure is owed to me, by t'under!"
• FINAL VERDICT: With the help of Jim, Silver manages to escape in a lifeboat.

EDGAR

• FILM: "The Aristocats" (1970)
• VOICE ACTOR: Roddy Maude-Roxby
• ANIMATOR: Frank Thomas
• DVD: Available
• This butler seems to get along just fine with Madame Adelaide Bomfamille's family of cats... until he learns that when she passes on, the cats will receive her inheritance before he does. Naturally, this butler vows revenge by relocating the cats to the countryside. When they finally reach home, he again stops them and boxes them into a trunk bound for Timbuktu. Will Scat Cat and his gang of alley cats be able to halt the butler's selfish party for good?
• OCCUPATION(S): Butler
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Catnapping, grand theft, trespassing
• GOTTA SING-SING: A new version of "Rock-a-bye Baby"
• QUOTE: "I'll be gone! No! Oh, no, they'll be gone. I'll think of a way."
• FINAL VERDICT: One swift kick in the seat of his pants, courtesy of Frou-Frou the horse, is all it takes to send this ornery butler into the very trunk intended for Madame Bomfamille's cats and leave that trunk to be taken to Timbuktu.

PRINCE JOHN

• FILM: "Robin Hood" (1973)
• VOICE ACTOR: Peter Ustinov
• ANIMATOR: Ollie Johnston
• DVD: Available
• While the king's away, the prince will play... and the people of Nottingham will have to pay. "P.J." wallows in gold-encrusted richness while his minions tax the poor right out of their homes. Their only hope is that meddling Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who threaten to crash John's selfish little party for good.
• OCCUPATION(S): Would-be monarch
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Sir Hiss, the Sheriff of Nottingham
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Treason, abuse of power
• QUOTE: "This crown gives me a feeling of power! POWER! Forgive me a cruel chuckle, heh-heh-heh, power..."
• FINAL VERDICT: The treasonous mama's boy and his pals are sentenced to hard labor in a penal rock quarry.

MADAME MEDUSA

• FILM: "The Rescuers" (1977)
• VOICE ACTOR: Geraldine Page
• ANIMATOR: Milt Kahl
• DVD: Available
• She may not have that "snakey" haircut or that cool "turn you to stone" stare like her mythological namesake, but this Medusa can still strike fear, especially if you're an orphan. This skid row boutique owner is anxious to move uptown and she has laid eyes on the Devil's Eye to get the job done. Too bad she has an antipathy to mice.
• OCCUPATION(S): Pawnshop proprietor
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Mr. Snoops, pet alligators Nero and Brutus
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Kidnapping, theft, endangering the welfare of a child, assault with a deadly weapon
• QUOTE: (to Penny) "You get down and find the big diamond or you will NEVER SEE THAT TEDDY AGAIN!!!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Last seen sinking into the Louisiana bayou with her alligators, having apparently turned against her, snapping at her heels.

DOC TERMINUS

• FILM: "Pete's Dragon" (1977)
• ACTOR: Jim Dale
• DVD: Available
• The last thing that quack medicine man Doc Terminus expected to find in the little town of Passamaquoddy (besides a tongue twister) is a real live fire-breathing dragon. He practically salivates at the potential windfall the magical beast could bring him and his phony remedies. But first, he has to actually capture Pete's dragon...
• OCCUPATION(S): Medicine man
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Hoagy, the Gogan clan
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Fraud, kidnapping, attempted murder
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Every Little Piece"
• QUOTE: (in response to Pete's saying that Elliot goes to whoever needs him) "I need him!"
• FINAL VERDICT: The not-so-good doctor is literally blown out of town, courtesy of Elliot.

PERCIVAL C. MCLEACH

• FILM: "The Rescuers Down Under" (1990)
• VOICE ACTOR: George C. Scott
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Duncan Marjoribanks
• DVD: Available
• Poacher by trade, McLeach specializes in rare exotic animals, and Marahute, the giant golden eagle, is certainly the rarest and most exotic creature he's ever hunted. He just didn't bargain on the pluck of a young outback boy and a couple of mice (!) determined to protect the winged wonder and her precious nest of eggs.
• OCCUPATION(S): Hunter
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Joanna the goanna
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Poaching, kidnapping, attempted murder, cruelty to animals
• GOTTA SING-SING: A rather warped version of "Home On the Range"
• QUOTE: (while lowering Cody to the crocodiles) "Now, this is my idea of fun!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Crikey! When McLeach falls to his doom into a crocodile-infested river, he's croc chow, mate!

GOVERNOR RATCLIFFE

• FILM: "Pocahontas" (1995)
• VOICE ACTOR: David Ogden Steirs
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Duncan Marjoribanks
• DVD: Available
• Avarice is practically his middle name; all he wants is to find his own "gold of Cortez" just so he can prove himself in King James' court, and if slaughtering savages and pillaging their land is what has to be done, then he's willing to give it a go. Of course, he leaves all the heavy lifting to his underlings, all because of one crick in his spine.
• OCCUPATION(S): Governor
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Wiggins, Percy (in an interdependent kind of way)
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted genocide, inciting a riot, abuse of power, assault and battery
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Mine Mine Mine"
• QUOTE: "I'm very well aware that this is my last chance for glory. But mark my words, Wiggins: when King James sees the gold these peasants unearth, success will be mine at last."
• FINAL VERDICT: Having accidentally shot Captain John Smith, he is put in chains and shipped back to England in disgrace.

CLAYTON

• FILM: "Tarzan" (1999)
• VOICE ACTOR: Brian Blessed
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Randy Haycock
• DVD: Available
• A perfect example of the square-jawed "great white hunter", Clayton serves as the jungle guide to the Porter expedition in their quest for gorillas to study. But he has other plans for the apes, which are anything but scientific, and he's not about to allow some loin-clothed barbarian stand in his way.
• OCCUPATION(S): Safari guide, hunter
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: An army of unscrupulous sailors
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted murder, kidnapping, piracy, cruelty to animals, assault and battery
• QUOTE: (to Tarzan) "Rounding up your little ape family will be all too easy!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Quite possibly one of the most gruesome in Disney history: in his final showdown with Tarzan, Clayton accidentally gets himself hanged in a tangle of vines.

LYLE TERBIUS ROURKE

• FILM: "Atlantis: The Lost Empire" (2001)
• VOICE ACTOR: James Garner
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Mike Surrey
• DVD: Available
• Like Clayton before him, Lyle Rourke, the leader of the Atlantis expedition and a former explorer and mercenary, doesn't really want to come to study of the city's existence. He just wants to steal the very artifact that can protect the city. He doesn't even care if the city really might be gone forever without this artifact, just as long as he gets the profit. And he won't let some young punk named Milo Thatch get in the way.
• OCCUPATION(S): Expedition commander, explorer, mercenary
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Helga Sinclair
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Murder, kidnapping, assault and battery, grand theft
• QUOTE: "I love it when I win."
• FINAL VERDICT: In trying to fight off Milo, Lyle accidentally breaks part of the artifact and Milo uses a fragment to make Lyle one with the artifact and, ultimately, he dissolves.

BARBOSSA

• FILM: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" (2003)
• ACTOR: Geoffrey Rush
• DVD: Available
• Their lust for treasure led Barbossa and his motley crew to a cove, wherein was located a chest full of cursed gold doubloons. And the only way to escape eternal walking death is to retrieve every single piece and put it back in the chest. This is a task they'll do anything -- kidnap, ravage, not give a hoot -- to complete.
• OCCUPATION(S): Former ship's first mate, now ship's captain
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: The crew of the Black Pearl
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Mutiny, piracy, kidnapping, breaking and entering, attempted murder, terrorism, theft, inciting a riot, assault and battery
• QUOTE: "You best start believing in ghost stores, Miss Turner... you're in one!"
• FINAL VERDICT: At last, the curse is finally lifted... but not before rival Captain Jack Sparrow blasts Barbossa in the chest with his pistol that still had that one shot.

ALAMEDA SLIM

• FILM: "Home On the Range" (2004)
• VOICE ACTOR: Randy Quaid
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Dale Baer
• DVD: Available
• He's the "real rip-roarin' deal to those who moo", a fancy-pants cattle rustler with his sites set on buying up the entire territory. Armed with a hypnotic knack for the art of yodeling, Slim unknowingly crosses the wrong critters: a determined trio of bovine bounty hunters out to save their farm from his dastardly designs.
• OCCUPATION(S): Ranch hand, land baron
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: The Willie Brothers (his nephews), Mr. Wesley, Rico
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Rustling, fraud, assault and battery
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Yodel-Adle-Eedle-Idle-Oo"
• QUOTE: "Five thousand cattle in the side pocket."
• FINAL VERDICT: Smacked down by the barnyard animals, Slim is arrested and hauled off by the sheriff.

Well, that's the third sin; look for more later.

[Big Disney Fan]

Well, I guess I'll just go on, seeing as how no one seems to want to respond...

#4: SLOTH
Lazy? They would rather sit back and let others do their dirty work or kick back and revel in their ill-gotten gains.

ALONZO HAWK

• FILMS: "The Absent-Minded Professor" (1961)/"Son of Flubber" (1963)/"Herbie Rides Again" (1974)
• ACTOR: Keenan Wynn
• DVD: All available separately
• What kind of father would bet against his own son's college basketball team, even if that son has flunked in one of its courses? That would be Mr. Alonzo Hawk, a shady financier. When Prof. Ned Brainard's fabulous Flubber helps win the game, Hawk quickly gets to the bottom of this and swoops in and steals the prof's flying Model T, in hopes of cashing in on Ned's brilliant invention without lifting so much as a finger.
• OCCUPATION(S): Financier, constructionist
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Theft, attempted murder, abuse
• QUOTE: (to son Biff in "Son of Flubber") "If you weren't so deductible, I'd disown you!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Ned tricks Hawk into trying on a pair of Flubberized shoes, which send him bouncing in the air with no hopes of stopping. Eventually, he does manage to stop (with the help of the entire neighborhood) and he goes to stop Brainard from flying the Model T to Washington D.C., only to run afoul of the law. He must have been let off easy, for Hawk returned for more shifty schemes in "Son of Flubber" and "Herbie Rides Again".

SYKES

• FILM: "Oliver and Company" (1988)
• VOICE ACTOR: Robert Loggia
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Glen Keane
• DVD: Available
• This loan shark, whose favorite hobby is building models, is determined to have his money back from Fagin within three days, leaving the unlucky Fagin to search high and low in all of New York City to find that money. But when he discovers that his new friend, a kitten, is now in the hands of a rich family, Fagin tries to hold the kitty for ransom and goes to Sykes to explain. But it all goes south when Sykes kidnaps the kitten's mistress, a little girl, and takes her hostage.
• OCCUPATION(S): Loan shark
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Pet Dobermans Roscoe and Desoto
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Extortion, kidnapping, terrorism, reckless driving
• QUOTE: (to Fagin) "I lent you some money and I don't see it. Do you know what happens when I don't see my money, Fagin? People get hurt. People like you get hurt."
• FINAL VERDICT: During the chase on the train tracks between Sykes and Fagin and his gang for possession of Jenny, Sykes' limo (with Sykes on it) collides headlong into an oncoming train.

HOPPER

• FILM: "A Bug's Life" (1998)
• VOICE ACTOR: Kevin Spacey
• DVD: Available
• In a twisted bug-eat-bug take on the fable, "The Grasshopper and the Ants", Hopper is the leader of the pack of grasshoppers who force the ant colony to gather food for them while they all party south of the border. He threatens to stomp on any ant that gets in his way, including the inventive Flik, who proves that it's not wise to underestimate an ant with high hopes.
• OCCUPATION(S): Freeloader
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: His brother Molt and the rest of the grasshopper gang
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Terrorism, theft, attempted murder, kidnapping
• QUOTE: "It's not about food; it's about keeping those ants in line."
• FINAL VERDICT: Hopper meets his humiliating end in the hungry beaks of a nest full of baby birds.

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#5. WRATH
Overwhelming anger and/or hate, usually for another race or species, intensify their nefarious schemes and shenanigans.

WILLIE THE GIANT

• FILM: "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment of "Fun and Fancy Free" (1947)
• VOICE ACTOR: Billy Gilbert
• DVD: Available
• Willie was a simple giant. All he wanted was some companionship in his lonely castle in the sky. Sure, he went about it the wrong way, by stealing the Singing Harp from Happy Valley, thereby plunging it into famine. But to then have his home invaded by three little Jacks, who steal his food and the Harp? Fi indeed.
• OCCUPATION(S): Homeowner
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Grand theft, terrorism, wrongful imprisonment, assault and battery
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum"
• QUOTE: "Now for the magic wordies. (singing) Fe, fi, fo, fum. He, hi, ho, hum. I am a most amazing guy, a most amazing guy am I..."
• FINAL VERDICT: While angrily chasing Mickey and company down the beanstalk, Willie falls to his doom... although he must have survived the fall because there have been subsequent sightings of him in Hollywood.

THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN

• FILM: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" segment of "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" (1949)
• DVD: Available
• Okay, all you conspiracy theorists out there, try this one on for size: is Brom Bones the Headless Horseman? Think about it: he had the motive (with that spineless Ichabod Crane out of the way, nothing would stand between him and the buxom Katrina von Tassel) and the opportunity; why else fill the timid schoolmaster's head with ghostly tales on that dark and stormy autumn night?
• OCCUPATION(S): Horse rider
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: His black stallion, who bears a striking resemblance to Brom's own horse, Gunpowder
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Murder, terrorism, assault
• GOTTA SING-SING: "The Headless Horseman"
• QUOTE: "Ya-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaah!"
• FINAL VERDICT: With Ichabod gone, Brom marries Katrina. As for the Headless Horseman, well, legend has it he still haunts Sleepy Hollow, always on the prowl for a "head to chop".

CAPTAIN HOOK

• FILM: "Peter Pan" (1953)
• VOICE ACTOR: Hans Conried
• ANIMATOR: Frank Thomas
• DVD: Available
• Humiliated by that blasted boy Peter Pan time and again, Hook writhes with unbridled fury at the mere mention of his name. And for good reason; it was Pan who lopped off one of Hook's hands and fed it to that accursed Crocodile, who enjoyed that little appetizer so much he keeps prowling the area for a second helping. The elegant captain wants nothing more then than to exact revenge on that Pixie Dusted punk once and for all.
• OCCUPATION(S): Ship's captain
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Mr. Smee and the rest of the pirates
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Piracy, attempted murder, kidnapping, terrorism
• GOTTA SING-SING: "The Elegant Captain Hook"
• QUOTE: "Good form, Mr. Smee? Blast good form! Did Pan show good form when he did this (raises hook) to me?"
• FINAL VERDICT: Last seen swimming for his life, the Crocodile chomping hungrily in his wake.

SHERE KHAN

• FILM: "The Jungle Book" (1967)
• VOICE ACTOR: George Sanders
• ANIMATOR: Milt Kahl
• DVD: Platinum Edition DVD now available
• The regally intimidating Shere Khan will not put up with the hated humans (with their frightful "red flower" ("fire" to you)) invading his domain. So upon catching word of a man cub in his jungle, he sets out to find him... and eat him, too. Talk about your "Wrath of Khan"...
• OCCUPATION(S): Predator
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Kaa, a not-so-trusty informant
• CRIMES COMMITTED: None; like wolves, tigers have every right to stalk prey
• QUOTE: "Now, I'm going to close my eyes and count to ten. It makes the chase more interesting... for me."
• FINAL VERDICT: Grabbing the tiger by the tail, Mowgli ties a flaming tree branch to it, sending the now-terrified Shere Khan fleeing for his life.

JUDGE DOOM

• FILM: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988)
• ACTOR: Christopher Lloyd
• DVD: Available
• There's something a little bit... off about His Honor the Judge. He walks a little stiff, his color scheme is monochromatic, his voice is a monotone and... hey, did his eyes just fall out? Could it be that a deep-seated hatred for his own kind is the very reason he conjured up his diabolical schemes to wipe out said kind, such as the dreaded Dip? Not to mention all that crazy talk about a freeway... humph, the very idea of a freeway in Los Angeles...
• OCCUPATION(S): Judge
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: The Weasels (AKA the Toon Patrol)
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, terrorism, attempted genocide, wrongful imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon
• QUOTE: (revealing his true colors to Eddie Valiant) "Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked... JUST... LIKE... THIS!!!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Doom is revealed to be a Toon himself and is "liquidated", Wicked Witch-style, by a blast of his own Dip.

SID PHILLIPS

• FILM: "Toy Story" (1995)
• VOICE ACTOR: Erik von Detten
• DVD: Available
• Every toy's worst nightmare: a kid with an overactive imagination, too much time on his hands, a magnifying glass and seemingly easy access to a lot of explosives. Sid is the schoolyard bully we all know from childhood, easily dismissed by us adults, but all those poor burned, battered and blown-up toys would beg to differ.
• OCCUPATION(S): Neighbor
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Pet pitbull Skud
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Abuse, terrorism, attempted murder
• QUOTE: (reading label on rocket) "'Extremely dangerous. Keep out of reach of children.' Cool!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Spooked by Woody and the mutant toys, Sid seems to be well on his way to years of therapy for an irrational fear of playthings.

SHAN YU

• FILM: "Mulan" (1998)
• VOICE ACTOR: Miguel Ferrer
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Pres Romanillos
• DVD: Available
• Never mind Attila, this guy is one honey of a Hun. A monstrous figure in act and deed, Shan Yu leads a bloodthirsty band to invade China in response to the challenge he infers from the construction of the Great Wall. Devilish in appearance and devious of mind, nothing but total genocide of the offending country will please him.
• OCCUPATION(S): Warlord
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: The Hun army
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Mass murder, war crimes, kidnapping, assault and battery
• QUOTE: (to the Emperor) "Your walls and armies have fallen. And now it's your turn."
• FINAL VERDICT: Thanks to Mulan's cleverness, he is rocketed into a powder keg of fireworks.

DAVY JONES

• FILMS: "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (2006)/"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" (2007)
• ACTOR: Bill Nighy
• DVD: First one available, second one available December 4, 2007
• Jones is the emotional captain of the feared ghost ship featured in nautical lore, the Flying Dutchman, and roams the seas searching for souls to serve upon his vessel for a century. And it just so happens that his latest target is none other than Captain Jack Sparrow himself, whom he thinks owes him a debt of servitude.
• OCCUPATION(S): Ship's captain
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: The crew of the Flying Dutchman, the Kraken, Lord Cutler Beckett (in an interdependent way)
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Piracy, kidnapping, terrorism, assault and battery, murder, attempted murder
• QUOTE: (in "POTC: Dead Man's Chest") "Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different?"
• FINAL VERDICT: In "At World's End", during the big battle in the big maelstrom, Jack uses Will's hand to finally impale Jones' heart. Jones then suddenly starts dying and falls over the side of the ship and into the void below the maelstrom forever.

What do you think now?

[monkey4057]

Eentelesting! Good job

[fantasmic_boy122]

ooo this is GREAT!!! keep going!

[Executioner]

What a great job with showing the sins in the characters traits. Very cool. Thanks for the added input on the films they were in and quotes.

[Big Disney Fan]

Here's the next sin...

#6. ENVY
A lot of Disney baddies are green in the face with it. Jealousy of those who have the power (usually regal), these no-goods will give it everything they've got to get some of their own.

PROF. RATIGAN

• FILM: "The Great Mouse Detective" (1986)
• VOICE ACTOR: Vincent Price
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Glen Keane
• DVD: Available
• When you are the self-proclaimed world's greatest rat... I mean, criminal mind, you should expect to have the world's greatest (mouse) detective constantly throwing a wrench into your plans. Lifelong archenemies Professor Ratigan and Basil of Baker Street have squared off countless times before, but when the villain plots to go after the queen, all bets are off.
• OCCUPATION(S): Crimelord
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Fidget, Felicia, an army of rodent thugs
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Treason, attempted regicide, kidnapping, murder, attempted murder, unlawful entry, assault
• GOTTA SING-SING: "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind"
• QUOTE: "Ooh, I love it when I'm nasty."
• FINAL VERDICT: During his battle royale with Basil atop Big Ben, Ratigan falls to his doom into the mighty Thames far below.

URSULA

• FILM: "The Little Mermaid" (1989)
• VOICE ACTOR: Pat Carroll
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Ruben Aquino
• DVD: Available
• They weren't kidding when they called her, well, a witch. Ursula has it bad when it comes to revenge against King Triton, and will go to the depths of the ocean to get it. The perfect opportunity arises with the mer-king's headstrong, land-loving daughter Ariel. With "just a little bit of magic", the mermaid's dreams come true, as do Ursula's...
• OCCUPATION(S): Former courtier, now sea-witch for hire
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Flotsam and Jetsam
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Treason, fraud, theft, attempted murder
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Poor Unfortunate Souls"
• QUOTE: "Beluga, sevruga, come winds of the Caspian sea. Larynxes, glacydis, ad max laryngitis la voce to me. Now... sing!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Ursula is impaled on the bow of a sunken ship piloted by the little mermaid's true love, Prince Eric.

JAFAR

• FILM: "Aladdin" (1992)
• VOICE ACTOR: Jonathan Freeman
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Andreas Deja
• DVD: Available
• Being the Grand Vizier just isn't enough for Jafar anymore; he wants to rule Agrabah himself as well, and knows that all he needs to do to succeed is find a legendary magic lamp, provided he can find it. Enlisting the aid of a ragged street rat, how was he to know that Aladdin would be his ultimate downfall... or would it be his own lust for power?
• OCCUPATION(S): Vizier
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Iago
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted murder, kidnapping, treason, assault and battery, theft
• GOTTA SING-SING: A sarcastic reprise of "Prince Ali"
• QUOTE: (to Aladdin) "How many times do I have to kill you, boy?"
• FINAL VERDICT: Jafar is tricked by Aladdin into having the Genie turn him into a genie himself, whereupon he's promptly confined to his own magic lamp and then drop-kicked into the desert.

SCAR

• FILM: "The Lion King" (1994)
• VOICE ACTOR: Jeremy Irons
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Andreas Deja
• DVD: Available
• Forget that "little hairball" Simba, it is Scar who really just can't wait to be king. When all is said and done, he has murdered his own brother, aligned himself with the scavenging hyenas and sent the Pride Lands into ruin. But when Simba returns from the "dead", his loving uncle sure has a lot of explaining to do...
• OCCUPATION(S): Predator
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Shenzi, Banzai, Ed and the other hyenas
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Fratricide, regicide, attempted murder, inciting a riot, assault and battery
• GOTTA SING-SING: "Be Prepared"
• QUOTE: "Long live the king."
• FINAL VERDICT: Having betrayed them, Scar is left to the hyenas, who dispatch their own brand of jungle justice.

STINKY PETE

• FILM: "Toy Story 2" (1999)
• VOICE ACTOR: Kelsey Grammer
• DVD: Available
• Sure, he's in mint condition, but at what cost? Sitting unwanted on a shelf in a store for years has slowly eroded the sanity of Pete the Ol' Prospector. The Japanese museum Al is planning on sending The Roundup Gang to is Pete's last chance for glory, and no hand-me-down cowboy doll and his upstart space toy pal are going to stand in his way.
• OCCUPATION(S): Prospector
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Al (in a roundabout way)
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted murder, assault
• QUOTE: "Your choice, Woody: you can go to Japan together or in pieces. If he fixed you once, he can fix you again!"
• FINAL VERDICT: It's playtime for Pete with a very creative Barbie owner.

YZMA

• FILM: "The Emperor's New Groove" (2000)
• VOICE ACTOR: Eartha Kitt
• SUPERVISING ANIMATOR: Dale Baer
• DVD: Available
• Sacked from her cushy position as the Emperor's advisor, Yzma seeks revenge by poisoning him and usurping his rule. Alas, the plan backfires with a small potion mix-up, which turns the spoiled Kuzco into a llama who (thanks to her muscle-headed henchman) escapes. To remain Empress, Yzma must take matters into her own bony hands.
• OCCUPATION(S): Royal advisor
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Kronk
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Attempted regicide, treason, kidnapping, assault and battery
• QUOTE: (in response to Kuzco's unexpected reaction to the "poison") "What!! A LLAMA??? He's supposed to be DEAD!!!"
• FINAL VERDICT: Let me put it this way: "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty..."

RANDALL BOGGS

• FILM: "Monsters, Inc." (2001)
• VOICE ACTOR: Steve Buscemi
• DVD: Available
• Basically, he just wants to make himself be the ultimate monster, the Top Scarer, and he'll become and stay that way, no matter what. When a human wanders into the Monster realm, Randall tries to make life miserable for Mike and Sully, and he's got most of the Monsters, Inc. staff on his side.
• OCCUPATION(S): Monster
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Henry J. Waternoose, the Child Detection Agency
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Kidnapping, abuse, trespassing, attempted murder
• QUOTE: (in response to his scaring of Mike in the locker room) "What do you know? It scares little kids and little monsters."
• FINAL VERDICT: During the chase through the doors, Mike and Sully lure Randall into one door (which leads to a bayou) and slams it shut. They then knock it off its hanger. The door goes plummeting to the floor and smashes to bits.

SYNDROME

• FILM: "The Incredibles" (2004)
• VOICE ACTOR: Jason Lee
• DVD: Available
• Annie Wilkes ain't got nothin' on this "number one fan". It all started years ago when Buddy Pine saw his career as "Incredi-Boy" cut short when he was rejected by his idol, Mr. Incredible. Buddy's hero worship turned to hatred, fueling his warped genius into adulthood; his path littered with the bodies of real supers, Mr. Incredible and his family are the next to go.
• OCCUPATION(S): Would-be superhero
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Mirage
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Murder, kidnapping, assault and battery, terrorism
• QUOTE: (to Mr. Incredible) "Oh, I'm real all right... real enough to defeat you! And I did it without your precious gifts; your oh-so-precious powers..."
• FINAL VERDICT: While trying to kidnap baby Jack-Jack, Syndrome's cape is snagged in his plane's engine and then... well, let's just say he should have listened to what Edna Mode said about capes...

BOWLER HAT GUY

• FILM: "Meet the Robinsons" (2007)
• VOICE ACTOR: Stephen J. Anderson
• DVD: Now available
• This fellow was unable to fulfill his own dreams and as a kid, he was never too good at baseball. What's more, his success was eclipsed by that of Cornelius and especially Lewis and, in an effort to place the rap on them for his misfortunes, he's been trying to make life miserable for them ever since.
• OCCUPATION(S): Would-be inventor
• PARTNER(S) IN CRIME: Doris
• CRIMES COMMITTED: Grand theft, kidnapping, abuse, terrorism, assault and battery, attempted murder
• QUOTE: (to Lewis and Wilbur) "Take a good look around, boys. Because your future is about to change."
• FINAL VERDICT: On the run from a Robinson family enslaved by millions of Doris replicas, Lewis manages to return to the present and warn BHG of what would happen if the hat was invented, after which the hat is destroyed. They then return to the future and see it restored. The now-free Robinson family tries to adopt BHG, only to find him missing with new objectives in place of old ones.

Well, so much for sin number six; we'll continue on later...

[Big Disney Fan]

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: Kidn