Call this post a post of boredom but I LOVE animation, I majored in it after all. One thing I love about animation is the villains, I have always cheered them on since I was a kid, I always wanted the villain to win for once which of course doesn’t happen in Disney (unless they turned over a new leaf in one way or another) so here’s a list of some Disney Villains I feel just do not get the recognition or remembrance they deserve. Some I feel are under-rated while others I feel have faded out of a spotlight that they were once in.

Please remember this is all personal opinion based on my own likes and dislikes and nostalgia~ this list is in no particular order

Mirana Del Ray

Yes I know a majorly lesser one from a Disney sequel, not always the choice of most people but hear me out. Mirana was hilarious to me! She was dramatic, over the top, fashionista who just made me feel like ‘same’ all the time with expressions she made and the way she phrased things. She had some pretty good lines in the movie including one of my favorite being “If I hear one more complaint, I’m going to BEACH myself!” which is honestly a very ‘modern’ sense of humor especially for a Disney sequel. The parody moment of her getting hit by the wave in reference to the first movie had me laughing even harder. Honestly as a threatening scary villain she is not, but she is a fun one that I found to be funny and on some levels relatable. Also, to be perfectly honest, her song in the movie is extremely catchy.

Evil Stepmother

Can I be honest with people, as a child the Stepmother was so intimidating. She was everything that gave me anxiety as a child: high expectations, cold demeanor and just unnerving intimidating stairs. Her green eyes during this scene scared me so much, more so than I think any other villain. She is a very realistic sort of a scary to me: the person you can never impress. I will also have to give her points so to say, for being a classic Disney villain.She use to be in the spotlight often but has faded from it as of recent.

Medusa

I feel that The Rescuers is just an underrated movie in general! I loved this movie as a child: two adventurous mice and a little girl go to great lengths to find a pirate’s treasure and escape a madwoman. How could I not like it!? Though I think Medusa as the villain really helped hold the movie together. She was dramatic, over the top, sassy, overly fake and honestly absolutely insane. She was one of the first Disney characters (and one of the few if I recall correctly) who use and wield a gun on screen, a shotgun no less that she uses to shoot at a child. Plus, her gators and her sassy ridiculous walk when she walks with them, I just adore it. She was both hilarious and terrifying all at once! 

Judge Claude Frollo

Firstly, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, way way waaaaay too underrated. I have met far too many people who said they never bothered to watch it. If you need any reason to be pushed to watch it one of those reasons should be this guy right here. He is by far in my personal opinion one of the evilest and most controversial (for Disney) villains I have seen. He has one of the best songs in the movie that is just full of how eerily obsessed he is with Esmeralda willing to kill her for not wishing to sleep with him, but pretty much sets all of Paris on fire. Honestly talking about him on here won’t do him justice, if you want to see Frollo in all of his evil greatness (and his amazing song) you just have to watch the movie.

The Horned King

As a child, I absolutely loved The Horned King. I thought he was an intimidating, badass villain and let me tell you I was floored when I spoke to other kids and none of them had heard of him before. For those who have never seen the movie, he is from The Black Cauldron, one of Disney’s past attempts at creating a darker toned movie, which I personally still find to be quite a good film though many back in the day and still today, see it as a movie that ‘crossed the unnamed line’ that Disney has of keeping their films as family friendly as possible. I do miss when Disney did try to make more darker things, especially with modern Disney films rarely being up to my standard (there are exceptions) though if you are also interested in a dark movie with a dark villain who is based off of a Lich and Necromancy, check out this movie. As for The Horned King himself, he was a terrifying and powerful villain, raising the dead to be his army with some intense animation of the dead rising from the fog filled with the souls of the damned. Though I won’t spoil the movie for you, I will say, the climax of this movie was pretty dramatic and gruesome.

This was part one guys, I am hoping to do more. Yes I know, its not one of my usual things but animation makes me happy so I felt like making some simple posts of me blabbing away.