Pixar, like Disney, is one of the most iconic animation studios around.
And although more recently, they sometimes skip having a villain in their films… the
pixar library is filled with unique bad guys.
We’ve already covered the earliest Pixar films, but today we’re going further to
see how this next batch of Pixar villains deserve to atone for their crimes.
I’m Brad with WickedBinge and this is Sentencing Pixar Villains to their Crimes (Part 2).
Today, the movies we’ll be tackling are Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, and Ratatouille.
We’ll be starting off with the first movie on our list, fan-favorite Finding Nemo.
Whilst only appearing very briefly, the first criminal on our docket is The Barracuda.
This large predatory fish appears very early on in the film, where it attacks Marlin and
Coral, as well as seemingly eating or stealing 399 of the 400 clownfish eggs the two of them
have.
He murders Coral and assaults Marlin, both of which are hefty crimes, and while we can
assume this may be normal behavior for Barracudas, we know from the sharks that predators can
shift to be vegetarians of some sort.
Since we assume the barracuda is as sentient as the other animals, we assume the barracuda
would get punished for this.
We sentence the Barracuda to death, likely through the electric chair since most of the
film takes place in and around Australia.
We know that’s a lot for our first criminal, but thinking about everything we see in the
film, it would make a lot of sense for this punishment.
Crimes: Infanticide
Another predator we see in the film, The Anglerfish is next up on our docket.
The Anglerfish pops up about halfway through the film when Marlin and Dory go deep into
the ocean to gather the mask that they had dropped.
Like the Barracuda, it doesn’t appear for very long, unlike the Barracuda, it only has
one crime to report, and that’s the attempted murder of Marlin and Dory.
Much like the Barracuda, we’re assuming this Anglerfish is sentient like every other
animal we see, hence why we believe it needs to be punished.
We’ve decided that 25 years in prison is more than enough for this attempt.
Sure, one could plead that it’s a predator’s instinct, but like before, we’ve seen predators
stop eating random fish, so sadly, it wouldn’t work.
Crimes: Attempted Murder
Our final water based criminals, The Sharks are up next on trial.
Bruce, Anchor and Chum are three sharks who Marlin and Dory meet early on in their journey.
Initially they seem scary and quite intimidating, essentially kidnapping Marlin and Dory for
their intervention meeting.
Chum, the smallest and sort of craziest shark is also responsible for the murder of his
“fish buddy” showing he isn’t fully clean yet.
When Dory starts bleeding, Bruce gets a sniff of her blood and attempts to murder and eat
her and Marlin.
This however, would likely be dismissed because it’s shown to be because of instinct and
nothing else as far as we can tell.
The most appropriate punishment for the three of them would likely be 25 years in prison
with a chance at parole, mostly for the murder, and that would be only on Chum, as for Bruce
and Anchor, they’d likely get community service.
Bruce and Anchor seem to be pretty far along in turning themselves away from eating fish
and the court would likely see that.
Chum however seems pretty quick to fall of the wagon and as such, likely won’t be able
to convince the court he’s alright.
However, if Marlin and Dory were to testify or he could convince the court, it’s likely
that Chum would get a lighter sentence.
Crimes: Murder, Attempted Murder
From water to land, our next criminal is Dr. P. Sherman.
Sherman is a dentist and one could argue, the main villain of the film, due to being
the one who kidnapped Nemo early on in the film.
Now, in Sherman’s eyes, he saw Nemo as unable to survive in the wild and thought he was
doing a good thing.
However, he’s also responsible for kidnapping Gill at least it’s implied that way since
Gill is said to also be from the ocean.
Now, in his defense he isn’t aware at how sentient the fishes are, although he does
get a hint at the end of the film.
However, one could also argue he is an accessory to the supposed continuous manslaughter that
Darla commits, because he supplies her with all the fish she ends up killing.
We’ve decided that 6 months in jail with a chance at parole and 6 additional months
of community service would be adequate for him.
If he was fully aware at how sentient the fish were, then his punishment would be much
more severe, but as it stands, he can only get this much at the moment.
Crimes: Fish-napping
The final criminal, is a sad one, but it’s Darla.
Darla is the niece of Dr. P. Sherman and while she doesn’t live in Australia from what
we can see, she visits her uncle quite often.
Darla has two crimes under her belt, mostly because, like Dr. Sherman she isn’t aware
of how sentient the fish are.
She commits at least one case of Manslaughter when she kills the fish we see in the photo,
and then assaults Nemo in the bag when she thinks he’s dead.
Darla may have killed other fish based on her reputation, but we can’t blame her too
much being a child.
At worst, she may get a slap on the wrist or a few months of community service, but
nothing more than that.
Darla’s reputation proceeds her, and if it wasn’t for the fact that she was unaware
of what kind of damage she was doing she’d probably get a much harder sentence.
Crimes: Animal Cruelty
After scouring the ocean for criminals we move back to the 1960’s with The Incredibles.
But first we need to move further back to talk about our first criminal, Bomb Voyage.
Bomb Voyage is a mime based criminal who appears during the prologue of the film.
It’s heavily implied that he’s been commiting crimes for a while and while it’s unknown
what all he’s done, we can confirm that he’s committed Bank Robbery, Arson, Vandalism
and Attempted Murder whilst on screen.
Whilst the first three are obvious as part of his shtick, but the specific Attempted
Murder is against a child, specifically of Buddy, when he sticks a bomb on the boy.
This in itself is a serious crime, even considering what Buddy becomes at the end of the film.
Bomb Voyage is a repeat criminal with at least one attempted murder under his belt, and this
means the punishment should be life in prison without a chance at parole.
We can’t in good conscience give him more, because his worst crime was an attempt and
not a full on murder, so, he gets off easy for now.
Crimes: Attempted Murder, Bank Robbery, Arson, Vandalism
Jumping from the beginning to the very end of the film, The Underminer is the next criminal
on the docket.
He pops up only briefly, having a much more expanded role in the sequel.
Despite his brief appearance, he has quite a few crimes to talk about.
Those being Disturbing the Peace, Vandalism and Destruction of Property.
It’s also implied that he may have caused some physical damage to civilians and maybe
even killed some, however, we have no evidence of that.
The damages that the Underminer did are likely in the thousands if not more.
Despite all the destruction he caused, his punishment would actually be quite small,
a few years in prison with a chance of parole is the highest we’d go.
Now, this is mostly because we aren’t accounting for The Incredibles 2 in this list, so as
it stands he’d probably be out of prison in no time, just to go straight back with
the second film.
Crimes: Disturbing The Peace, Destrution of Property
A much smaller threat, all things considered, Gilbert Huph is our next criminal.
Huph is the head of Insuricare, the company that Bob works at during the film.
While he doesn’t fit the typical aesthetic of a “criminal” he does commit a few criminal
actions that are worth noting.
Firstly, he does try to get Bob to commit insurance fraud, and it seems that this is
a repeated crime because it’s implied that Gilbert has been doing this for a while and
forces all his employees to do this.
This means that even when someone is supposed to gain benefits, Gilbert denies them, which
is fraudulent on it’s best day.
He also criminally threatens Bob, threatening to fire him if he doesn’t do what he says,
which could also be considered criminal coercion to some degree.
Gilbert’s crimes are non-violent, which means his punishment would not be nearly as
severe as others, being a few years in prison and a week or so of community service.
Gilbert likely has many more crimes we’re unaware of, and it’s implied that he doesn’t
really care about the law, which means it’s unlikely this is all he’s done.
But, with what we have, we really can’t punish him further.
Crimes: Fraud, Criminal Coercion
From small men to right hand women, the next criminal on our docket is white-haired beauty
Mirage.
Mirage works with Syndrome during the film and is the one who hires Bob to deal with
the Omnidroid.
She starts off strong by stalking both Frozone and Bob under the orders of Syndrome.
She causes Destruction of Property when the tablet explodes and causes the sprinklers
to go off.
She criminally coerces Bob into facing off against the Omnidroid, is an accessory to
the two different counts of attempted murder when Syndrome uses the omnidroid against Bob
twice.
She also helps commit the attempted murder of Helen, Dash and Violet, being the one responsible
for firing off the rockets at their plane.
Mirage does get the benefit of the doubt because most of the crimes are done under orders by
Syndrome.
By the end of the film, she’s switched sides, helping the Incredibles with their escape
back to the city.
Mirage does have a lot of crimes that are hard to deny, but what she does have is a
good character, and even if the charges aren’t dropped, it’s likely her punishment won’t
be too severe.
We envision 15 years in prison with a chance at parole, but if the charges against her
were dropped she’d get next to nothing because all of her crimes were against the Parrs.
Mirage isn’t that hardened of a criminal, and unless she’s done something we don’t
know about, she’d likely get out on good behavior.
Crimes: Attempted Murder, Stalking, Desctruction of Property
The final incredible villain on our docket is Syndrome.
This Earl Hickey-voiced character is a supervillain who originally went by the names of “Buddy”
and “Incrediboy” because he wanted to work with Mr. Incredible.
After Mr. Incredible told him he wasn’t allowed He starts off strong by breaking into
Mr. Incredible’s car without permission or acknowledgement from Bob.
After being kicked out of the car he decides to commit his life to villany and building
the Omnidroids.
This has caused up to nineteen cases of murder, since we see 18 heroes in the montage, and
also are introduced to Gazerbeam’s corpse prior to that.
He then attempts to murder Mr. Incredible twice with the omnidroid, and then attempts
to murder Helen, Dash and Violet with a rocket when they try to land on Nomanisan Island.
Upon unleashing the Omnidroid, he’d also get in trouble for vandalism, general destruction
and Distrurbing the Peace.
At the end of the film he also tries to kidnap Jack Jack, which really doesn’t go very
well for him.
Syndrome’s crimes show that he is really deranged and very obviously searching for
revenge he likely won’t get.
So, we’ve decided the best punishment for this dangerous criminal would be execution,
likely through the electric chair, although one could argue that maybe a firing squad
might be more fitting.
Syndrome has plenty of issues, and is named after that for a reason, falling into having
a “hero syndrome” and we feel his punishment should reflect how dangerous he is.
Crimes: Serial Murder, Attempted Murder, Destruction of Property
From superheroes to vehicles, we move to one of the most memed on pixar films, Cars.
The first criminal on the list are the Delinquent Road Hazards.
These four cars seem to be a gang of some kind, formed up of multiple cars that are
shown to be menaces on the road.
They don’t appear for very long but they do commit a pretty obvious act of Reckless
Endangerment by making Mack the Semi Truck fall asleep on the trip to California.
This causes the disappearance of Lightning McQueen which becomes a media circus unlike
any other.
Since the film takes place in a fictional arizona town, we’ll be using Arizona laws,
and in Arizona, a charge like this only gives two years in prison and five years probation,
so that’s all we can give this group at the moment.
If it wasn’t for the fact that they only appear briefly we’d be willing to assign
them more crimes, but as it stands, this is all they really do.
Crimes: Reckless Endangerment
Similarly, whilst not a villain, our next criminal is Doc Hudson.
Doc is sort of antagonistic during the film, but he’s not really a villain, and he barely
has a crime under his belt.
His only crime, beyond being old and rude, is criminally coercing Lightning into crashing
on the race track.
Sure, this was to teach him a lesson about how to win and such, but that doesn’t change
that it’s still technically criminal.
However, it wouldn’t surprise us if Lightning dropped this charge because of everything
else that happens.
The outcome we find the likeliest would be a few months of community service, as we doubt
there would be any prison time for such a small crime, especially from a first timer,
as far as we’re aware.
Doc does redeem himself by the end of the film, however that doesn’t absolve him of
these crimes and subsequently this punishment.
Crimes: Criminal Coercion
The final criminal on the docket for this film is Chick Hicks.
Chick is one of the three best race cars at the different events we see throughout the
film, and is one of the three that goes to the tiebreaker for the piston cup.
Chick is a terrible person and is the most hardened criminal in this film.
Chick’s main crime beyond cheating at most of his events is assault.
We see four different assaults, two on unnamed cars and two on Lightning himself.
The final one is the one we see that causes Lightning to pop a tire and need to get it
replaced during the film.
Now, keen viewers and those with good memories may think we’ve forgotten one, but no, the
final assault, the one he does on The King that causes a crash, we’re classifying as
attempted murder.
This is because he does this with full knowledge of what may happen and we see how much damage
it does to The King.
It’s even implied that he’s done this before and this is by far the worst crime
in the film.
Assuming there’s no laws protecting these actions while in the races, he’d feel the
full force of the law.
The punishment should fit the crime, and this crime is morally reprehensible, so we’d
give him life in prison with a chance at parole.
Honestly, we wish he had done more, because we just do not like this character and we
wish we could sentence him to execution.
Crimes: Assault, Attempted Murder
The final film on our docket has a surprising amount of criminals, and that is Ratatouille,
the french rat cooking movie.
The first criminal on our Paris docket is Mabel.
Who is the old lady we meet early on in the film.
It’s uknown what her life was like prior to the film, but what we see are a few violent
crimes she might be able to avoid sentencing for.
She carries gallons of rat poison that she intends to use on the colony of rats that
WE know are sentient but it’s unknown if she does.
She then attempts to kill Remy and Emile, but once again, she doesn’t seem aware of
their humanlike intelligence or sentience so this would likely be thrown out.
However, her final attempted murder, of Remy and the rest of the colony happens after she
witnesses Remy go back for the book and the rats making a boat which at least to us would
imply that she should know they’re smarter than they seem.
However, despite this, these would likely be thrown out because there was no way to
know that the rats were sentient at the time, so she’d likely just get community service
or have to pay La Ratatouille for the damages.
Of course, there’s also a chance she was fully aware and she could get a much harsher
sentence, but we have to go off what we know.
Crimes: Animal Cruelty
From old and frail to bold from jail, sous chef Horst is our next criminal.
It has been confirmed that Horst has spent some time in prison, and we’re not sure
for what, so we’re going to assume that each of his stories are true at least in some
sense, especially since his only real criminal action was criminally threatening Skinner
when he came onto the property after being forced to leave.
He mentions that he’s defruaded a major company, committed armed roberry with a ballpoint
pen and killed someone with his thumb.
Now, killing someone is broad, and he doesn’t use the term “murder”, so it could be
classifed as self-defense or manslaughter.
Based on the fact he’s not currently in prison, manslaughter makes the most sense.
The armed robbery, is interesting because the item he used, the ballpoint pen, is a
unique way of doing things.
Assuming France applies double jeopardy standards he probably won’t get in trouble for those
things again, and just the threat would run him a few months in jail at worst.
However, without double jeopardy, he’d likely land 25 or so years, however, seeing as most
countries utilize double jeopardy, we will as well.
Crimes: Fraud, Armed Robbery
The secondary antagonist of the film, Anton Ego is the next criminal on our docket.
Anton Ego is the world renowned food critic and a lover of food by his own admission.
Ego doesn’t really do much in terms of criminal acts, even publishing his second review of
Guestau’s prior to the information of the rats being public wouldn’t be considered
criminal.
However, he does have one crime under his belt that is worth mentioning and that is
technically, the manslaughter of Guestau.
When Ego goes to the resturant he publishes a scathing review that ends up causing the
resturant to lose a star.
This heartbreak causes Guestau to die, and while this is a bit fantastical, one could
argue that there is a link between these two events.
Ego’s sentence would be rather light, as there was no intent to murder, maybe 2 to
3 years in prison with a chance of parole would be sufficent, even if that’s a very
low ball for a crime of that stature.
Sure, Ego didn’t pull a trigger but his actions did lead to the death of Guestau,
if this isn’t thrown out, this is an applicable punishment for the man.
Crimes: Third Degree Manslaughter
The final criminal on our docket and on the list is Chef Skinner.
Skinner is the head chef of Guestau’s restaurant and was previously Guestau’s sous chef.
He takes over the resturant and then comes Linguini, he tries his damndest to stop Guestau’s
will from going through which is a crime in itself.
He doesn’t really commit any crimes during the beginning of the film where he is a chef,
mostly doing stuff after he was fired as head chef.
Sure, he attempted to murder Remy but he was unaware of the sentience of the rodent at
that time.
After knowing about his sentience, he commits Grand Theft Auto, impedes Traffic, commits
Destruction of Property and trespasses on both a boat and the kitchen of the restaurant.
All of this because he was chasing Remy after being at least slightly aware of his sentience.
He then manages to not only kidnap Remy using a mouse trap, he then criminally threatens
Remy followed by extorting him with the same breath and threat.
Skinner’s sentence would be life in prison with a chance at parole, although based on
his personality, it’s unlikely he would get that parole.
Skinner may not have murdered anyone, even hs worst crime is before he’s aware of Remy’s
sentience, however, it is worth noting that after learning of his sentience he continually
does criminal actions.
Crimes: Animal Cruelty, Grand Theft Auto, Destruction of Property, Trespassing, Extortion