Disney.
From its inception nearly 100 years ago, the company has produced countless characters.
From classic movies such as Pinocchio to more modern films like Big Hero Six, we have seen
plenty of villains get their comeuppance…
But that doesn’t always mean that they take the big dirt nap.
From characters seeing the error of their ways… to being trapped or arrested… to
probably actually wishing for death, today we’re going to explore the fates of the
villains who weren’t killed.
I’m Brad with WickedBinge and this is Disney Villain Fates, Got off Easy to Worse Than
Death.
First up, we have the villains whose actions got them a slap on the wrist at most.
These are the villains who Got Off Easy Our first entry is a really dark character.
That’s right, say Hello to The Coachman from Pinnochio.
Or maybe a good punch to his face would be a better response, considering all the twisted
stuff he pulled… and literally faced zero consequences.
You heard us right, this human trafficker and abuser faces absolutely no comeuppance
whatsoever for helping transform the boys he brings to Pleasure Island into donkeys
before selling them off.
The Coachman absolutely delights in the boy's suffering and has absolutely no remorse for
his actions.
It is kind of shocking that he doesn’t suffer any retaliation for what he does.
I mean, the Evil Queen from Snow White gets struck by lightning, falls off a cliff, is
crushed by a boulder and is eaten by vultures.
And as both Snow White and Pinnochio take place during Disney’s Golden Era, you’d
think The Coachman gets something but nope, which we really, really hate.
Moving along to probably the worst step parent in animated Disney, Lady Tremaine from Cinderella
takes the next slot.
Cold, entitled, greedy and uncaring, this woman is a textbook Karen.
Like The Coachman, Lady Tremaine faces very little backlash for what she does during the
course of her movie.
Despite her and her daughters treating Cinderella as nothing more than a servant and doing her
best to prevent Cinderella from trying on the glass slipper, nothing really happens
to Lady Tremaine.
True, she is found out as trying to deceive the Prince and Duke by denying Cinderella
a chance to try on the shoe.
But apart from having Cinderella taken out of her abusive household and found out as
a liar, Lady Tremaine seems to walk away with no other real punishment.
Next, we have Sir Ector and Sir Kay from The Sword in the Stone.
This father and son duo are, let's face it, jerks during a good chunk of the movie.
Boarish, arrogant and not the brightest bulbs in the box.
They prefer to heap on chores on Arthur, or Wart, as they like to call him.
Ector and Kay enjoy a good battle and seem to have little to no interest in furthering
their learning and look down on those who do.
When the news reaches them of the Sword stuck in the Stone and whoever pulls it out would
be crowned as the new King of England, however, Ector and Kay jump at the chance.
After neither of them are able to pull out the sword, only to witness Arthur removing
it, Ector and Kay are humbled to the point of being willing to serve as Arthur's knights
moving forward.
While being humbled isn’t always a great experience, they are not punished any further
and even seem to grow into better men after Arthur becomes King.
Good for them!
Probably the most powerful entry on this list gets placed here; Chernabog from Fantasia’s
segment A Night on Bald Mountain.
As this big fella is more or less the closest version of the Satan in Disney, he has a lot
going for him.
While he just wants to release a perpetual night on the village and torment the spirits
and monsters he calls up, Chernabog doesn't seem to have a wider scale of evil in play.
And the dawn comes and he attempts to ignore it, Chernabog is eventually forced to succumb
to the light and revert his form back into the peak of Bald Mountain.
However, as he is not killed, just sent back into hiding for an unknown amount of time,
his actions aren’t really met with a whole lot of consequences.
Our last Sword in the Stone baddie claims our next spot, the Mad Madam Mim.
As she is Merlin’s rival, it goes without saying that Mim is a crazy powerful witch.
However, she definitely does not fight fair during hers and Merlin's Wizard Duel to determine
the fate of Arthur.
Even though she sticks to the rules of the contest for the most part, her chosen forms
during the fight are animals where she tries to either kill or severely hurt Merlin.
After she exploits a loophole and transforms into a purple dragon, Mim is finally defeated
after Merlin turns himself into a germ and makes her severely sick.
And while getting sick always sucks, Madam Mim doesn’t have anything else happen to
her other than bedrest and lots of sunshine, which she hates.
And as Merlin points out, she will be back to her old self in no time.
Though we don’t know how long her recovery time is, Madam Mim is placed in the lower
part of this category.
When a character in your own movie writes a song on how horrible of a person you are,
that says a lot about your character.
Yep, we are giving Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians this next spot.
Ok, first off, seriously, who in their right mind would want to make a coat out of dog
fur?
That is just on a whole other level of messed up.
But that is what Cruella wants.
Going as far as ordering her goons Jasper and Horace to break and enter Rogers’ and
Anitas’ home to kidnap the puppies.
After the dogs manage to escape Hell Hall, Cruella, along with Jasper and Horace, begin
to search the countryside for Pongo and Perdita.
Though they are initially fooled by the dalmatians disguising themselves, Cruella quickly finds
out after the soot starts coming off in the snow.
The dogs hop onto the back of a truck to escape, with Cruella in hot pursuit.
During the chase however, Cruella crashes her car over a cliff, but survives.
She is last seen crying at the loss of her dream coat, as well as her car being totaled
and Jasper telling her to shut up.
While getting into car crashes isn’t great, Cruella gets off extremely lightly for her
awful actions.
Our first more recent Disney villain is next, The Duke of Weasle-Town, er we mean Westleton.
This smarmy Duke is the first person to try and take negative action against Elsa after
the Queen of Arendelle accidentally reveals her ice magic during her coronation.
Claiming the Queen is a monster, The Duke plots in secret with his bodyguards to have
Elsa killed.
His reasons being not only to end the perpetual winter Elsa unknowingly caused, but also to
take advantage of Arendelle’s resources.
After Elsa is captured during the attack of her ice palace, The Duke’s plans of the
assassiantion attempt go unnoticed.
However, once Elsa is able to reverse the curse she caused due to her mourning Anna’s
supposed fate out of love, The Duke, along with the other dignitaries are shocked.
His actions in plotting to have Elsa killed are eventually discovered however and The
Duke is forcibly escorted back to his ship, being informed that Arendelle will never trade
with Westleton again.
While we can see why Elsa or Anna did not take further action, as it might have sparked
a war between Arendelle and Westleton, we still think the Duke got off way too easily.
But as we don’t know the level of damage losing Arendelle as a trade partner did to
Westleton’s economy, The Duke is getting placed below the above entries.
The grumpy hunter Amos Slade from The Fox and The Hound rounds up this category.
Alright, let's face it, in terms of Disney villains, Amos isn’t that bad of a guy.
Amos has been shown to love his dogs and on rare occasions, is polite to his neighbor,
Widow Tweed.
However, his hunting obsession where Tod the Fox is concerned takes Amos to a dark place
at times.
Amos is the guy who broke up the friendship of his hound dog Copper and Tod the fox when
the two were young, believing the two were natural enemies.
During his final attempt to shoot Tod, Amos decides to chase the fox in a wildlife preserve,
along with Copper.
In addition to his gun, Amos brings along several bear traps.
When he is attacked by a bear, Amos loses both his gun and manages to get his leg stuck
in one of his bear traps.
Luckily for him and Copper, Tod arrives and manages to fight off the bear, saving both
of them.
After seeing that Tod saved his and Copper’s lives, Amos shows appreciation for the fox
and leaves him alone at last.
Amos is last seen having his leg tended to by Widow Tweed, and as his other dog Chief
puts it: ‘sure makin’ a big fuss over a little hurt leg’.
Amos is definitely going to bear [pun intended] some scarring at the very least to his leg,
but as his fate could have been much, much worse, we are putting Amos at the bottom of
this category.
Alright, we are going to be moving away from those who got off lightly for their actions.
Now we are going to focus on characters that faced more severe
consequences for what they did to the heroes of their movies.
These are the Brutal Fates.
Might be slightly odd to put her this high up on this section, but we are giving Yzma
from The Emperor's New Groove the top slot.
As Kuzco’s royal advisor, Yzma definitely has a position of power.
And, in typical royal advisor fashion, she wants to kill off Kuzco after being fired
from her position in order to claim the throne for herself.
What Yzma does not realize though, is what she believed to be poison that Kuzco drinks
is a llama potion.
After learning that Kuzco is still alive, Yzma enlists Krok in hunting the young emperor
down to finish the job.
Even though the two come close to catching Kuzco, Yzma never meets up with him until
they both make it back to the palace.
During the fight, Yzma is transformed into a cat when she and Kuzco make a mad scramble
for a potion.
With only one potion remaining, Yzma attempts to use it to restore herself back to her human
form, only to fall off the roof of the palace and then is smashed by a trapdoor after she
bounces off a trampoline.
Since Kuzco was able to use the potion to get his human body back, Yzma is stuck as
a cat, as well as having Kronk teaching her squirrel language as a Junior Chipmunk.
Yzma gets her fair share of bumps and bruises during the fight and to be forever confined
to a body that wasn’t hers is a harsh way to go.
But apart from that, Yzma is free and seeing her being reduced to a cute, fluffy cat is
oddly satisfying.
Since her fate is seemingly irreversible though, Yzma gets the top slot for the Brutal Fates.
From someone who is doomed to live out their life as an animal to someone who gets their
butt kicked by animals, we have Edgar from the Aristocats here.
As scheming as Edgar is, we gotta admit, his way of thinking brings up a lot of questions.
He believes that he will have to wait until Duchess and her kittens are gone before he
gets any of his employer's fortune.
And yeah….while it's super weird to leave one’s pets the benefactors of one's money
in a will, Edgar should have realized he would still have control of the fortune before jumping
into action.
But his plans of first drugging and abandoning Duchess and her kittens only for them to return.
Edgar resorts to trying to ship the cats off to Timbuktu in a steamer trunk.
But this is the attempt where Edgar meets his fate.
Like we said, this guy gets his butt handed to him by not only Thomas and the other alleycats,
but also by Frou-Frou the horse.
At the end of the fight, Duchess and her kittens are able to escape the trunk, only for Edgar
to be trapped in the trunk instead.
The delivery men come shortly afterwards and take the trunk away with Edgar still inside.
What lands Edgar below Yzma is that while we like to believe Edgar eventually got out
of the trunk, he got quite a beating and was trapped for an unknown amount of time.
The most tragic villain on this list Professor Robert Callaghan AKA Yokai from Big Hero Six
gets placed here.
Since his daughter was lost in an alternate dimension due to a malfunction with the Silent
Sparrow Portal, Professor Callaghan goes to extremes in his plans.
He holds Alistair Krei as solely responsible for his daughter's predicament and plans to
send him to the same dimension as his daughter.
Professor Callaghan starts a fire during the Science Showcase in order to simultaneously
stage his death, as well as to steal Hiro’s Microbots.
He later uses the Microbots to collect and assemble the broken Silent Sparrow Portal.
While he was presented as a kind and caring teacher at the start of the movie, Professor
Callaghan under the disguise of Yokai has no problem in attacking Hiro and his friends
after they try to interfere with his plans.
During the final fight between the Big Hero Six and Yokai, Professor Callaghan nearly
succeeds in killing his former students.
It isn’t until Hiro manages to destroy a majority of the Microbots that Professor Callaghan
is defeated.
After he is captured, he witnesses Hiro going into the now repaired Silent Sparrow Portal
and is able to rescue Professor Callaghan’s daughter.
Sure, fighting six super smart young adults with amazing tech would undoubtedly cause
some physical damage.
But we are placing Professor Callaghan here because of the emotion and psychological damage
he seems to suffer after seeing what damage his actions caused.
We are happy for him that his daughter was saved and we like to think Professor Callaghan
would reform but still, we also feel like his placement in the Brutal category is deserved.
The main villain of Frozen, Prince Hans is up next.
Don’t let his pretty boy face fool you, this guy is as cold as ice.
While for a good chunk of the movie, Hans presents himself as a caring visiting Prince
of the Southern Isles, he is in reality a remorseless and power-hungry man.
When Anna is freezing to death as a result of Elsa’s magic, Hans seemingly comes into
the room to save her, only then leaves her for dead, as part of his plan to execute Elsa.
Hans briefly gains control of the throne of Arendelle and orders the death of Elsa for
treason.
When he is able to catch up with Elsa though, Hans' attempt to kill her is blocked by Anna.
After Elsa is able to reverse the curse affecting Ardendelle, Hans is subsequently punched off
the ship by Anna that he and the sisters were on and later arrested.
Not only that but we are told Hans will face further punishment once is back at the Southern
Isles.
If he had just been punched and arrested, Hans would have landed higher in our ranking
but it is that ambiguity of what other punishment Hans will face that lands him here.
A lesser known character finds her way here; Foxy Loxy from Chicken Little is our last
entry here.
This tomboy fox is a textbook school bully, as well as her being a great baseball player.
Loxy constantly makes fun of Chicken Little and his friends throughout the movie and during
the alien invasion, makes the costly mistake of hitting one of the robots with a rock.
This attack provokes the aliens into capturing her, along with multiple citizens of Oaky
Oaks.
When she is released along with the others, however, the aliens make the mistake of rewriting
Loxy’s personality.
True, this makes Loxy a lot kinder and happier, but also, getting one’s personality erased
and then rewritten is horrifying.
And it makes it worse once we also take in the fact that Loxy is still a child, meaning
she had plenty of chances to grow into a better person on her own.
So, yeah, Foxy Loxy absolutely deserves a Brutal Fate placement.
And finally, we are going to look at characters who have faced awful fates.
While they are still alive and kicking at the end of the day, they are more than likely
wishing for death.
These are the characters whose fates are Worse Than Death.
We are going to Agrabah to give Jafar from Aladdin the top ranking here.
This Royal Vizier has spent years looking for the Cave of Wonders in order to gain control
of the Magic Lamp.
Jafar is able to manipulate Aladdin into retrieving the Lamp for him, only to double cross Aladdin
and tries to kill him.
Even though Jafar was unable to grab the Lamp before the Cave of Wonders collapses, he proceeds
to hypnotize the Sultan in an effort to get Jasmine to marry him.
After Aladdin reappears and accuses Jafar of his deeds, Jarfar is able to escape but
he also sees the Lamp in Aladdin’s possession.
With Iago’s help, Jarfar is able to steal the Lamp and with the Genie’s magic, turns
Agrabah into a dystopian city.
As Aladdain faces off with him again, Jafar nearly nearly wins after transforming himself
into a giant snake and trapping Aladdin.
Jafar’s lust for power turns out to be what leads to his downfall however.
Even though he already has immense power, Aladdin reminds Jafar that the Genie will
always be more powerful.
Jafar uses his final wish to be turned into a Genie himself, without acknowledging the
drawbacks.
Mainly, being perpetually trapped in his own Magic Lamp unless it was used by someone.
And as Genie used his magic to send Jafar’s Lamp back to the Cave of Wonders, it isn’t
likely somebody would be crossing paths with it.
So to have cosmic power but an itty bitty living space unless released from it, Jafar
is definitely not getting off easy.
Our second to last entry here is going to Tomatoa from Moana.
With an inflated ego and his huge size and strength, Tomatoa is a coconut crab that can
give you more than just a painful pinch with his claw.
He is able to nearly beat Maui to a pulp during his song Shiny.
After Moana is able to distract Tomatoa with a fake Te Fiti Heart in order for Maui to
reclaim his hook from Tomatoa’s shell, the giant crab gives the duo chase.
Though Maui and Moana are able to use a geyser to escape his lair, Tomatoa is not so lucky,
getting knocked onto his shell and unable to get back on his feet.
You might be surprised that we are placing Tomatoa this low but we never see him able
to fix his current predicament, even asking the audience for help during the end credits
of the movie.
As Tomatoa is seemingly immortal, the dude is forever stuck as he is, unable to die or
help himself.
And unlike Jafar, he really doesn’t have the luxury of possibly being freed.
And finally, we have the Greek God of the Underworld, Hades from Hercules.
Tired of his role of looking after the souls of the dead, Hades wants nothing more than
to overthrow Zeus and the other Gods and rule Mount Olympus.
After he learns that if Hercules is around to intervene in his plans, Hades plots on
getting the demigod killed.
After Hades is unable to get Hercules killed by a centaur, a hydra and other monsters,
Hades turns to his unwilling partner Meg to help find out what Hercules’ weakness is.
When Meg falls in love with the demigod and refuses to help Hades, he deduces that the
love Hercules and Meg had for each other would be the key to victory.
Tricking Hercules into giving up his strength, Hades then proceeds his attack on Mount Olympus.
Once Hercules is able to regain his strength again though, he is able to thwart Hades'
attack on Mount Olympus.
Chasing Hades back into the Underworld in order to save Meg, Hercules offers his life
for hers.
After Hercules is able to become immortal due to his actions and saves Meg, Hades gets
punched into the River Styx.
Why Hades is at the very bottom here is not only the fact that he is stuck in the River
Styx, but he is also to be tormented by the souls of the dead forever.
To be dragged down into the River, surrounded by the dead and unable to escape, yeah, we
can safely say that Hades fate is definitely worse than death.
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