The world of Trolls is filled with sweetness - from sugar-fueled pop songs to the fun
arts and crafts vibe of the environments. But sometimes, there’s really nothing sweeter than
a villain getting their proper comeuppance. Today, we’re going to be breaking down the
crimes of each Trolls villain as we figure out what sort of punishment they deserve.
Welcome to WickedBinge, and this is Sentencing Dreamworks’ Trolls villains.
Instead of going chronologically, we’re going to be starting with our least evil
antagonists and antagonists, discussing their more
minor crimes before making our way down to our truly heinous villains.
First up, we have the Queen of Rock n’ Roll herself, Queen Barb, come to the stand. With
her desires to have “one nation under rock”, Barb had set off to collect all magic strings
and perform the ultimate power chord, assuring that rock would remain as the only music in the
land. Although she can be a kind and caring queen towards her own Rock Troll subjects,
Barb could be seen as an extremist in terms of hating other types of music - and to an extent,
other Troll cultures. Using a dangerous combo of force and brainwashing, Barb did
all she could to try and erase all these other cultures and music styles on the grounds that,
in her opinion, rock was the best and deserved to be the only one that existed. She specifically
wanted revenge against the Pop Trolls, who she saw as the reason why the original Troll
tribe separated. While we can’t excuse all the invading and brainwashing other Trolls
into becoming Rock Zombies - stripping them of not only their individuality but their
will as well - not to mention the apparent love for property damage and destruction,
we will hand it to Barb that at least she doesn’t have ‘attempted murder’ on her list of crimes - a
low bar, we know, but compared to our other Trolls villains, it’s still an accomplishment. Even so,
all these efforts paint Barb as a fairly malicious leader, and while she does learn her lesson and
even becomes friends with Poppy in the end, the Court of WickedBinge won’t be so forgiving. In
order to pay proper reparations to the other Troll tribes, we sentence Barb to use her
resources to repair and/or pay for all damage caused by her invasion efforts. Additionally,
since her crimes are music based, we also sentence her to Musical Community Service - using her
tribe’s resources to help the other tribes put on concerts and celebrate their styles of music.
Queen Barb Crimes: Kidnapping, Brainwashing, Terrorism, Property Damage
Punishment: Reparations + Musical Community Service
Next, let’s talk about the Troll traitor supreme, Creek. Betrayal is the name of the
game with this guy, and while normally we couldn’t necessarily blame Creek for doing what he had to
do to save himself - as getting eaten is a pretty understandable fear - he crossed that line pretty
clearly when he not only tricked Poppy and her friends into getting trapped, but went so far
as to take Poppy’s cowbell and trick King Peppy and the other trolls into thinking that she had
returned, leading to them getting captured as well. Yeah, this guy was going to sell out his
ENTIRE COMMUNITY and let them get eaten just to save his own skin. He may seem clever and
sympathetic on the surface, but in actuality the guy is just a selfish coward who goes past
self-preservation and into being selfish and even malicious. What’s more, while he claimed that he
would have to live with his traitorous choice for the rest of his life, Creek really didn’t seem all
that broken up about it. You may be able to claim that Creek eventually redeemed himself in the
Trolls: The Beat Goes On series, but that series is considered non-canonical - and even then,
it’s pretty hard to make up for conspiring against and ultimately selling out an entire community of
innocent trolls, some of which being your friends. Looking at all these crimes, we feel that Creek
ultimately deserves 20 years in prison, with a chance for good behavior. While he may not
deserve death for simply trying to survive, him purposely going against the Pop Troll kingdom
and putting all their lives at risk in order to save his own just can’t be overlooked. But hey,
it’ll give a ‘zen guy’ like him plenty of time to meditate on his pretty horrible actions.
Creek Crimes: Treason,
Conspiring, Assisted in Kidnapping Punishment: 20 years in prison
Moving right along, let’s discuss the first of our Trolls: Band Together villains, that being
Veneer. For as much as Veneer apparently has a heart, being sympathetic towards Floyd and not
wanting him to die, it sure didn’t stop him from using Floyd’s talent for his own gain. As he said,
he loves his sister… aaaand he also loved having plenty of money and fame himself,
citing BOTH reasons for why he couldn’t simply let Floyd go despite all the pain and distress
the poor Troll was obviously in. Velvet may have been the ringleader regarding her plan,
but Veneer was more than complacent in it and benefited from it just as much. If literally
stealing other people’s talents weren’t enough, Veneer was also more than happy to
partake in verbally abusing his and his sister’s assistant, Crimp, often not giving her any sort of
respect or grace and instead choosing to run her ragged. We should also mention that while yes,
Veneer was the one to confess to his and his sister’s crimes in the end, he ONLY did so
when they were essentially already pushed into a corner. So yeah, not exactly the most noble
gesture, even if it was still appreciated by Floyd. But hey, a confession is a confession,
which means we’re able to cut Veneer just a teeny bit of slack. Because he’s nearly an adult,
the WickedBinge court has still decided to try him as an adult. As such, we’re
sentencing Veneer to 10 years in prison, with a chance to get out early for good behavior. We’re
also forcing Veneer to pay reparations to Floyd for all the music he sold using Floyd’s talent.
Veneer Crimes: Abuse, Fraud, Theft,
Complicit in Kidnapping and Attempted Murder Punishment: 10 Years in Prison + Reparations
But while their crimes are similar, it can’t be denied that Velvet is truly the more evil
twin. As we said earlier, kidnapping Floyd and luring the other members of BroZone
to Mount Rageous was her idea. Although they both use Floyd’s talents for their own gain,
Velvet is the one who is constantly pushing Floyd to his limits, only caring about her
own fame and being more than willing to use every last bit of talent that Floyd has,
even if it means killing him in the process. Veneer even points out that Velvet could have
just walked away while she was still on top instead of tapping into a half-dead Floyd for
what would have likely been a half-baked encore. But Velvet truly only cared about her own fame,
and she likely would have continued sacrificing more trolls for the spotlight if she had gotten
the opportunity to do so. Additionally, while Veneer mostly just verbally abused
their assistant, Velvet was often the one actively throwing Crimp into the closet and
even tricked her into building her talent-sucking shoulder pads. Save for our remaining villain,
Velvet is probably the most irredeemable villain in the Trolls series. For these crimes, we’re
adding in additional 5 years to Velvet’s jail time with no chance for parole as well as reparations.
Velvet Crimes: Workplace/Physical Abuse, Fraud,
Talent Theft, Kidnapping, Attempted Murder Punishment: 15 years in prison + reparations
We’ve finally arrived at the original Trolls villain, Chef Bergen. Of all the crimes that
we’ve discussed today, Chef not only has the most serious ones but also the most numerous,
ranging from kidnapping and cooking innocent trolls, to attempted usurpation, treason and
terrorism. Becoming a power-hungry monster after failing to re-capture the trolls that managed to
escape BergenTown, Chef ultimately wants nothing more than to cook each and every troll out there,
feeding them to the Bergens and eventually becoming her home town’s ruler as its queen.
It’s only because of Chef that eating trolls became so commonplace, and it’s implied that
she’s killed and eaten dozens of them before - including Branch’s grandmother. She also
put Bridget in danger of being imprisoned for life after blaming her for the Trolls’ escape,
claiming that Bridget had eaten them all. What truly makes her wicked, however,
is her refusal to accept peace, even going so far as to try one last time to kill Branch and
Poppy. With countless murders to her name and an eager willingness to kill even more, there’s
really no reasoning with a villain like her. Not even being kicked out of BergenTown was able to
stop her from pursuing revenge against both the Trolls and the Bergens. For all these reasons,
we feel like Chef is the only Trolls villain that deserves the death penalty. Specifically,
we’re sentencing Chef to be hanged, a fairly typical punishment for both
a member of a royal court who tries to usurp their king as well as a multi-count murderer.
Chef Crimes: Treason, Terrorism, Kidnapping,
Murder, Cooking Trolls Punishment: Hanging