Although not as popular as Disney, Pixar or Illumination, Blue Sky is a company well known
for their animated features. Love them or hate them, Blue Sky has given us such classics as the
Ice Age franchise, The Peanuts Movie and the two Rio movies. With Blue Sky bought out by Disney
and having a sort of mini-resurgence of sorts with a new Ice Age Project premiering on Disney+ it’s
finally time to talk about them. One thing Disney in particular is known for, and many films try to
replicate, is an interesting villain to bounce the story off of. But which of these dastardly
devils are the ones with the most damning pasts and which aren’t nearly as nefarious.
I’m Brad with WickedBinge and this is Blue Sky villains: Evil to Most Evil.
One major rule before we get going, only one
villain per film unless the villain is part of a duo and both need to be talked about.
This is only really elligible for one entrant, but it’s still necessary to point out.
So, with no further adieu, we get to talking about the baddest of the bad,
and the evilist boys around, this is the Bad to Evil.
Ranking together, Cretaceous and Maelstrom from Ice Age 2: The Meltdown is next on our list.
The two of them are ancient creatures that were trapped in ice during the flash freeze of the Ice
Age. During “The Meltdown” the two start to thaw out and subsequently hunt down Manny and the gang.
These two don’t really do much except hunt down for food after being frozen for decades
if not longer. We can’t fault them for trying to eat, even if they were after our main cast.
Ranking next on our list is Rudy from Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Rudy is an albino dinosaur
who scratched out Buck’s eye and then tried to eat him. Unlike Cretaceous and Maelstrom he does try
to ambush and kill Buck and company more for revenge than for food. Although he does seem
to be focusing more on instinct than pure evil intention. However, no matter how you slice it,
Rudy’s pure instincts do seem to take over for the most part. By the end of the film he
does try to ambush and kill the whole group, including the newborn Peaches, but once again,
it seems to be mostly out of instinct for food than pure evil, hence why he can’t rank lower.
Ranking next on our list is El Primero from Ferdinand. Primero is an egotistical bullfighter
who shows little beyond trying to boost his own reputation in preparation of his final bullfight.
He tries to use his status to stop anyone from using Moreno’s bull farm because none of his bulls
impressed him. He eventually attempts to fight Ferdinand because he sees him as the “best bull”.
He is consistently shown to view his own status as more important than what happens to the bulls
and Moreno. But by the end of the film he ends up retiring with dignity and honor while
letting Ferdinand live his peaceful life. He turns himself around and all in all is one of the better
“villains” simply because he’s mostly just a prick and not really evil.
Up next on our list is Sour Kangaroo from BlueSky’s version of Horton Hears a Who.
Sour Kangaroo who we will be referring to as Jane from now on because that is her name,
albeit not her most common alias. Jane is one of the many adult characters who are against Horton
during his quest to reveal the microscopic Whos. This gets to the point that she attempts
to blow away the speck the Whos are on, which would lead to them all dying. This was because
she didn’t know for sure they existed and ended up not believing in them but
when evidence arrived that they existed, she turned herself around and reformed.
She definitely ranks here because unlike many other villains she does turn herself around,
but she can’t rank too much higher because she did attempt a genocide of sorts.
Coming from Ice Age: Collision Course, up next is Gavin. Gavin
is a Dakotaraptor and the father of Roger and Gertie who steals eggs for a living,
mostly to feed his children. Initially, Gavin doesn’t seem like that bad of a guy,
mostly just trying to feed his family and survive, but we quickly learn that he’s a pretty bad guy.
Gavin learns of the asteroid on a collision course with Earth and that Buck is trying to stop it,
so he decides to stop Buck. He believes that due to their ability to fly they would survive the
crash while the mammals would not. He is trying to kill the Herd to stop them from saving all life
specifically so he can rule the earth after the crash. By the end of the film, it’s revealed that
they wouldn’t survive, so Gavin has a change of heart and helps the herd stop the meteor.
This change of heart is what stops him from falling lower, because he is one
of the few to change their ways, even willing to sacrifice himself for his kid, earning this spot.
The superior sabretooth Soto from Ice Age is next to our list. Soto was the leader of a
pack of Sabretooth Tigers that included Diego. When his family and cubs are killed by humans
he starts hunting them down for his own perverted version of justice. He starts hunting down humans
for revenge, even deciding to hunt down the young children of these humans. Soto tries
everything he can to get and deal with the baby as well as Manny and Sid. He then tries to kill
not only the sloth and mammoth but Diego as well after his betrayal. Soto is sort of justified
in his hatred of humans, and he’s honestly not that bad compared to some others on this list.
Coming from the first Rio film, Nigel ranks next on our list. Nigel was once the animal
star of many shows but was replaced, which led to him hating any “pretty birds”. His petty hatred
leads to him wanting to harm any of the so-called “pretty birds” that get in his way, including Blu
and Jewel. Nigel was fully ready to kill Jewel and only stop because Marcel wanted her back alive,
and by the end of the film, he mocks Jewel when her wing is injured and is fully ready to kill Blu
in any way possible. Nigel’s seething hatred leads to his assumed death, although he does reappear in
Rio 2. He seeks vengeance and wants to destroy the Blue Macaws that caused him so much pain,
leading to his team up with Big Boss. Nigel is a being of pure hatred and pettiness,
the only reason he can’t rank lower is because he doesn’t have the highest of body counts.
Next up on our list is Big Boss from Rio 2. Big Boss was the unnamed boss of the illegal
loggers throughout the film, who is trying to eliminate Linda and Tulio on their “bird
watching expedition”. He then tries to kill the two of them while they are tied to a tree they are
about to cut down. He shows no remorse and will kill just about anything that gets in his way,
including Blu and Jewel, two members of a rare and endangered species.
Big Boss is a human threat that cares for nothing but the dollars he makes when in his logging camp.
Hailing from the film Epic, next on our list is Mandrake.
Mandrake leads the Bogans, a race of bat like humanoids who are archenemies to the Leafmen.
He attempts to slaughter them all and take their kingdom, wanting to slay Ronin especially
because of what he did to Dagda, his son. Unlike other villains on this list,
he is shown to care about his family, as he vows revenge on Ronin for harming his son.
He plans to kill the queen of the forest so they can destroy the forest and everything
inside of it. His plan to decimate the forest to take it over is a bit shortsighted, but the
fact he cares enough for his son to get revenge stops him from falling lower, but only barely.
Bagging the bronze medal of evil is the final BlueSky villain, Killian
from Spies in Disguise. Killian is a terrorist who has crossed paths with special agent Lance
Sterling on multiple occasions. During one of Lance’s previous missions he had killed
all of Killian’s crew and maimed him, causing him to get cybernetic implants.
Killian plans to use a powerful drone to destroy Lance and take over the world,
subsequently trying to frame him for things he didn’t do. He gets really close to finishing his
plan and defeating Lance and his agency but by the end of the film he is shown to have at least some
remorse. However, even his remorse isn’t enough to rank him higher, because while he may not have a
massive kill count, he was willing to rack it up for his plans, which ranks him here on our list.
Snatching the silver medal of evil is Captain Gutt from Ice Age:
Continental Drift. Gutt is a large orangutan and leader of a pirate crew that Manny and gang meet.
Gutt is disrespectful, manipulative and egomanical, as he is only ever shown to
care about himself. Even when he is betrayed by Shira, he only seems to care about what that does
to him and not the rest of the crew. He only cares about his crew and the people around him
if he feels he can use them to his advantage, and only after Manny “steals” them. He is murderous,
sadistic and greedy, and shows no concern for anyone but himself, he is actively evil
and unlike other characters on this list, doesn’t have a real reason for what he does.
Finally, grabbing the Gold medal of evil is Madame Gasket from the film
Robots. Gasket is the Queen of the Chop Shop and the mother of the secondary villain
Phineas T. Ratchet. She is shown to be heavily abusive to her husband and her workers,
but surprisingly civil with her son. She is, however, shown to be highly manipulative of her
son, being the one behind most of his decisions when it comes to running Bigweld’s company.
She hates anyone who doesn’t upgrade at every opportunity and has no qualms with destroying
them at every opportunity. She chops up any unupgraded bot and turns them into spare parts,
having a massive body count that is pretty much unmatched on this list.
But don’t leave just yet, we’ve got some Sinner Medals to hand out
Taking our Darwin Medal is Gavin, who believes that because he has wings he’ll survive a meteor
crashing to earth. .
Our Wrath Medal belongs to Mandrake, who wants to destroy a forest to rule said forest.
No surprise, the owners of the Gluttony Medal are Cretacious
and Maelstrom, who are just working on hungry instincts the whole movie.
Taking the Greed Medal is Big Boss, who cares only about the money from the logging and nothing else.
Finally, our Pride Medal owner is El Primero,
who is always so high and mighty because of his status.