Here in the writer’s room, Halloween is one of our favorite holidays.
We love all facets of the fall, and that of course includes the world of seasonal, spooky
animations.
But do we love the villains that make our Halloween movies so spooky?
Honestly, sometimes we do.
But they need to be punished anyway.
Hi, I’m Bad from WickedBinge and today we’ll be Sentencing Animated Halloween Villains
for their Crimes.
For this list we will be taking a look at some of the more sinister aspects of these
animated classics; the crimes.
We have chosen all our favorite Halloween animations and lined up the villains so that
they can be sentenced accordingly.
While these aren’t all strictly Halloween movies, they are all family friendly animations
that we think are best to watch in October.
(Or September, if you like to get a head start on it like we do.)
Finally, this should go without saying, but a big spoiler warning is in effect for all
of the movies we’ll be discussing.
With that said, let’s take it to the court.
First up on the Docket we have Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.
There are actually a few characters from our first movie who will be approaching the bench
today.
The laws of Halloween Town are different than our own, so we’re going to be very lenient
with some of the more ambiguous crimes.
(We’re not sure if Graverobbing the living dead is more of a breaking and entering situation,
for instance.)
But that doesn’t mean we can let everything slide.
First to stand trial is Dr. Finkelstein.
You may be thinking he’s not really a villain, but he is a pretty important antagonist, especially
to Sally.
He may have created her, but he created her with sentience and then locked her up.
The fact that she seems to have a mature, adult mind, means that we can’t call this
child abuse exactly, but we are still going to charge him with abuse.
Because he has shown such an interest in community projects, the court has decided to be lenient.
With his scientific mind, we sentence him to one year community service – in a public
lab where his creations will be both dictated and monitored.
It would be silly to let that brain of his go to waste, after all.
Up next are the town’s favorite Trick or Treater’s; Lock, Shock and Barrel.
Since they are minors and cannot be tried as adults, we will be sending them directly
to reform school.
They were manipulated, yes, but we think they need to learn the consequences of, well, kidnapping
the Sandy Claws.
Then we have to deal with their boss.
That’s right, our next defendant is Mr. Oogie Boogie himself.
He may have a great voice and an awesome lair, but we refuse to be dazzled or distracted
from his crimes.
While he may not have ordered for Santa to be kidnapped in the first place, he was all
too happy to keep him hostage, tying him up in that aforementioned lair.
Not only does he abduct Sally as well, but he goes so far as to hold her body parts hostage
at one point.
(That one sounds worse than it is because of Sally’s condition, but still.)
For that we’re going to charge him with coercion.
He disobeys several orders from Jack about not murdering his friends, and since Jack
is royalty we can only assume that’s some sort of treason?
It’s overshadowed slightly by the fact that the order he was disobeying involved the attempted
murder of three people, including Jack himself.
That’s two counts of attempted murder and one count of attempted regicide, technically.
For all this, we have very little choice but to condemn Oogie Boogie to the death penalty.
This means he more or less met a just end in the film itself.
But don’t get through any pumpkin shaped doors just yet.
We have one more entry from this film; Jack Skellington.
We love Jack.
Everyone loves Jack.
The thing about it, is that if you’re Santa Clause, he really is the villain of the movie.
The kidnapping, and even the breaking and entering we can chalk up to an honest miscommunication
– letting Jack off the hook for many, MANY of his crimes.
There are a few however, such as heist of an entire Holiday as well as identity theft
that just need to be addressed.
Considering the non-violent nature of those two charges, the court is once again inclined
to be lenient.
We sentence Jack to one year probation as well as sensitivity training regarding ALL
holidays, in the hope that these mistakes are never repeated.
Following that is another Tim Burton feature that we love to watch right around this time
of year; Corpse Bride
Unlike A Nightmare Before Christmas, where even the heroes needed to be sentenced, Corpse
Bride has brought us only one defendant; Lord Barkus.
There are only three counts against Lord Barkus today, but they are all serious.
One, of course, is murder.
Though the exact details of the crime were left to the imagination of the film’s young
audience, we know that he wounded Emily and left her for dead.
Since it was intentional, we have to charge him with murder in the first degree.
Then he stole her family’s money.
He would make the case of course that he just inherited the money she stole from the family,
but he ended up with those blood jewels either way – and remember he was the one who put
her up to the scheme in the first place.
The third and final charge against Lord Barkus is the conspiracy to murder his other bride,
Victoria.
Honestly, we could not think of a more just end than what came to him in the movie, letting
him spend eternity in the land of the dead with the people who want to see him brought
to justice most.
But since the court can’t just wait for him to drink poison as he did in the film,
we sentence him to execution by hanging.
Moving onto another very unsettling watch we have Coraline.
Specifically being charged today is Coraline’s Other Mother
The obvious charge would be identity theft, but she is pretty upfront about the fact that
she’s not Coraline’s “old mother” but rather the other mother.
That distinction saves her from one charge, but none of her other crimes.
There are four counts of stalking (with the assistance of her creepy spy-doll.)
There are also three counts of child neglect for the children she locked behind the mirror.
Associated with this, we have three counts of murder in the third degree.
We wouldn’t say that the murders of the children were premeditated, or even intentional,
but the deaths were solidly her fault and happened under her watch during unlegal conduct.
Finally, we have to charge her with two counts of abduction, one for each of Coraline’s
parents.For all these crimes we have little choice but to sentence her to death via electric
chair – though to be honest, we’re a little scared to see if it even works.
Falling back to another old school Halloween treat, we have Scooby Doo and The Witch’s
Ghost.
There are two villains in this who are going to need to be sentenced; Sarah Ravencroft
and her descendent Ben Ravencroft.
We will start with Ben.
Though he has evil intentions, a lot of the things he actually accomplished that were
evil aren’t technically crimes.
A couple examples include orchestrating a fake mystery and tricking Velma.
Even necromancy (which is morally dubious) isn’t technically a crime.
What we can charge him for is conspiracy for world domination?
We’re pretty sure that has to count as some kind of treason.
For that we sentence him to life in prison – and quickly, before he can escape off
to Europe.
For his ancestor, the deceased and reanimated Sarah Ravencroft, the crimes are a little
more ambiguous.
We’re sure she did some evil stuff back in her day, but based on the evidence presented
to us, there are only two charges we can be sure of.
One is property damage, for the destruction of the Puritan Village attraction.
The other, of course, is one count of attempted world domination.
Since she is described in the movie as “one who cannot die” we think sentencing her
to life imprisonment inside her own spell book was an appropriate end.
Then to a more modern film, we present ParaNorman.
The first villain is Judge Hopkins.
Though he and his six zombie associates wreak a lot of havok in the world of the living,
this is after they have seen the error of their ways.
We’re going to focus mostly on his crime of sentencing Agatha Prenderghast to death
when she was but an innocent child.
Wrongful conviction isn’t actually a crime, technically, but we can and will charge him
for inciting panic and manslaughter, since it is the mob mentality and irrational fear
that led to Aggie’s death.
For this, we sentence him to life imprisonment to reflect on his crimes (as we don’t think
he needs the eternal, cursed afterline to realize what he did was wrong.)
We also, unfortunately, must bring charges against the one who cursed him.
Agatha Prenderghast was innocent when she was wrongfully sentenced to death.
But her powerful spirit is guilty of the same rage and violence as those who wronged her.
For holding seven souls hostage and civil unrest (or more specifically, dead civilian
unrest) we are charging her to one year in an afterlife rehabilitation program.
As Norman himself proves in the movie, she is capable of finding her way back to a good
point, the court just wants to help her get there.
Finally, our last Halloween Animation of the day is Over the Garden Wall.
While this one is not technically a movie, we all know the best way to watch this one
is in a single sitting, like a movie.
Honestly, when was the last time you watched this as episodes?
There are a few criminals from Over the Garden Wall for us to sentence today.
One is The North Wind.
He might have been a dream, but that’s just no excuse in this court for bad behavior.
We are charging him with several counts of property damage, for which he shall be sentenced
a hefty fine of two cents.
If it’s enough to start a fortune in this land, we figure it’s enough to show this
mean old cloud we mean business.
Then we have to deal with Adelaide of the Pasture.
She turns out not to be the good woman that was promised, but rather a mean old witch
who lords her magic over others.
She gets one count of extortion for the terrible position that she puts Beatrice into by promising
her her freedom in exchange for a servant.
She also gets two counts of kidnapping for, well, the napping of kids Wirt and Greg.
Even if she was overthrown quickly, there was still an abduction and restraint situation
that she needs charged for – and we know her intentions for after were not good either.
For these crimes, we sentence her to ten years of community service.
Since she was trying to make servants out of other children, we think the most fitting
judgment is for her to serve the community in their place.
Finally, the last defendant of this show and the docket for today is, of course, The Beast.
He also extorts free work from The Woodsman, but that is hardly a charge in comparison
to the grinding children into oil after they have been transformed into Edelwood trees.
We don’t know exactly how many counts of this there are, but he’s been at it long
enough for them to be writing songs about his crimes.
For this, we sentence The Beast to death.
We think that the quick extinguishing of his fire is a kinder fate even than letting him
starve, because we sure would not be letting him get any more oil one way or the other.
And that has been it!
The criminals have been sentenced according to their crimes.
Do you think we were too harsh?
Too lenient?
Let us know in the comments down below.
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