JCC Who is the scariest Disney villain?

I think if we were to list all of them, it would take too long. Plus, we can't fit all of them on here. I believe there's a good case to put Jafar on this list, but Jafar was so cartoonish that he never registered with me. Don't get me wrong. He's a terrible guy and all who definitely deserves life in prison according to real-world laws. But here's my list:

1. Claude Frollo (Hunchback of Notre Dame), given how he treats Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and Phoebus, as well as his genocidal desire to wipe out the Romani folks in Paris.

2. Anna and Elsa's grandfather, Runeard (from Frozen II). Don't really need to explain why. He was genocidal toward the Sami folks in Norway. I'm glad that Anna and Elsa were able to help both the Sami folks and the people in their hometown.

3. Hans (Frozen I). I don't need to explain why. He was just a couple of steps from turning into Anna and Elsa's granddad as a ruler. I'm glad that Anna and Elsa defeated him.

4. Lady Tremaine (from Cinderella and Cinderella III). While I know there are many reasons to put Jafar, Radcliffe, Ursula, Gaston, Hades, and Maleficent on this list, Tremaine was always frightening to me as a kid. On a more positive note...

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I'm glad her daughter, Anastasia, helps to stand up for Cinderella and the Prince in the third film. She actually proves herself to be a nice person.

I chose these four on my list because they are the most realistic. I love the Disney protagonists, but the villains are all pretty terrifying, to say the least. I can see why some people compare them to Palpatine.

 

the phaeroaeh in the prince of egypt

 

The executives.

 

Death Coach in Darby O’Gill and the Little People

 

As a boy I was very deeply disturbed by Ursula in the Little Mermaid.

 

Kahn was cool and sinister, but I never felt fear or personal threat from him.

 

How do you feel about Ursula now?

 

Also so Ursula release ink?

 

Think I'll go with Ursula.

 

Well, I was never truly scared of any Disney villain but I think it's one of these two and in these moments:

 

John Smith from Pocahontas. Don't really need to explain why.

 

The Horned King, what with the skull face, the undead army, the fact that you’re having to sit through The Black Cauldron…

Although to be honest the only moment in a Disney thing that scared me as a kid was when Pete lights up his cigar in the Christmas Carol adaptation and pushes Scrooge into his grave.

 

Chernabog isn't scary, Chernabog is awesome

 

I think the first Disney film I saw was Snow White. This was back in the 1970s pre-home video days when Disney films would only get rereleased in theatres every few years, so the scary moments were even scarier in that setting. I remember the queen from Snow White really scaring me--in both her forms, but especially when she was the old witch.

I was very frightened by Chernabog. And even though he wasn't a "villain," I also remember being scared of Yen Sid, the sorcerer in The Sorcerer's Apprentice segment (and like Punk, I also remember that the brooms were kind of disturbing)

 

Frollo is certainly the most evil. - Rape and Genocide don't make for family viewing.

 

I love The Great Mouse Detective, and the climax is pure nightmare fuel.

 

Walts frozen head.

 

The rat in lady and the tramp was the only Disney villain that scared me and that I didn’t directly aspire to be

 

Declining or stagnating stock price.

 

Definitely the demon of Bald Mountain. That's got shades of Tolkien's Morgoth and Nazgul. And now I'm wondering if JRRT watched Fantasia. It was released just 3 years after The Hobbit was published, so it may have been in his mind as he was writing LotR and refining The Silmarillion.

 

Have you… have you read what Tolkien thought of Disney? The dude hated Snow White so much he gave specific instructions to never let Disney acquire the rights to anything he wrote.