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(Onion AV Club)   The twenty-five best Disney villains of all time. Missing from the list: Walt Disney   (avclub.com) divider line
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UberDave [OhFark]
2023-01-28 1:09:10 AM  
Totally missing:

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thecactusman17 [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 2:09:16 AM  
26 is Walt, 27 is the "next slide" button.
 
I Ate Shergar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 3:10:11 AM  
Conspicuously absent:
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I Ate Shergar [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 3:12:06 AM  
Though, the presence of #13 on the list reminded me of this observation.
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bostonguy [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 3:33:04 AM  
Firefly is on Disney+ so that makes him a Disney villain.

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Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 3:44:16 AM  

I Ate Shergar: Conspicuously absent:
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What about lil' ol' me?
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Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste
2023-01-28 4:16:01 AM  
26. The Jews
 
Bslim
2023-01-28 6:00:10 AM  
How are Palpatine and Darth Vader not the top two?

THIS LIST IS BOOOOOOLSH*T!
 
yohohogreengiant [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 6:17:18 AM  
Failure without
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Gordon Bennett [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 6:19:06 AM  

UberDave: Totally missing:

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I did not know that Disney was involved in Midnight Madness until seeing this post.

Now that I do know, I think you made an excellent choice. I'm still a bit sad about Stephen Furst's death.
 
hoodiowithtudio
2023-01-28 6:19:31 AM  
Did I not see the baddie with possibly the most haunting song?
 
NathanAllen
2023-01-28 6:45:31 AM  
This sack of shiat.

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RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-01-28 6:48:21 AM  

yohohogreengiant: Failure without
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RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-01-28 6:51:53 AM  
Also...

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Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-28 7:01:08 AM  

RoyFokker'sGhost: Also...

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Ben Affleck?
 
Ragin' Asian [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-28 7:02:38 AM  
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RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-01-28 7:12:37 AM  

Ragin' Asian: RoyFokker'sGhost: Also...

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Ben Affleck?


Britt Lombard as Captain Monistario in the 50's Zorro TV series. Absolutely ruthless (by 50's TV standards). Would punish the peons to trap or frame Zorro.
 
FutureWars
2023-01-28 7:27:26 AM  
Ratigan is better than all of those chumps.

/never forget the orphans and widows he drowned
 
Zafler
2023-01-28 7:28:23 AM  
This list is crap. Chernabog wasn't a villain, had repeats of the same villain in their live action and animated versions, and totally snubbed Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame.  I award this listicle author no points, and may a god of some sort have mercy on their souls.
 
soopey [OhFark]
2023-01-28 7:28:40 AM  
I don't think it's technically a Disney movie, but the Magnet from The Brave Little Toaster should be somewhere on the list. Talk about a terrifying pure evil villain.

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WickerNipple [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 7:57:13 AM  
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Nikan1 [BareFark]
2023-01-28 8:03:24 AM  
List is a total fail without...

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shabu
2023-01-28 8:05:11 AM  
Scared the living shiate out of young me laying on the luggage rack of my family's version of the Vista Cruiser at the drive in. I think the motion of whatever my folks were up to in the car didn't help. All that lurching and rocking...

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shabu
2023-01-28 8:12:06 AM  
Oh, and worst villain from a racoon's pov

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shabu
2023-01-28 8:16:19 AM  
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fngoofy
2023-01-28 8:29:47 AM  
Fark subby and the Walt bashing.
 
shabu
2023-01-28 8:42:09 AM  

fngoofy: Fark subby and the Walt bashing.


He did try to wipe away his labor troubles through HUAC

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WhippingBoi
2023-01-28 8:46:06 AM  
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List is missing the worst two villains of all time...
 
theflinx
2023-01-28 8:48:03 AM  
"Missing from the list: Walt Disney"
your presentism is showing.
 
RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-01-28 9:17:39 AM  

shabu: fngoofy: Fark subby and the Walt bashing.

He did try to wipe away his labor troubles through HUAC

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Disney was pissed at Sorrel because the proposed Animator's Union was going to take away his biggest advantage in hiring: Disney had the highest pay rate for animators in the industry at the time and Sorrel's goal was to unionize so that all the animators from every studio, including Disney's competitors, received the same pay and benefits as Disney animators.

Not saying Walt was an angel, but he didn't just blindly hate the idea of a union. He wanted to keep that advantage in attracting talent.
 
EyeballKid
2023-01-28 9:18:50 AM  
AV Club now shilling for the mouse?
 
SomeAmerican
2023-01-28 9:19:43 AM  
My wife and I limited ourselves to the villains from Wikipedia's Disney Villains article.  We picked our favorite ones, and found there were six.  Then we realized that they boiled down to three types:

Gaslighting psychopaths: Mother Gothel & Hans.  These characters know they are evil, have clear but self serving objectives, and use charisma and mental & emotional manipulation to achieve them.

Heroes made me do it: Syndrome & Hades.  These characters have immense power paired with equally immense resentment.  They claim the hero left them no other choice but to do evil.

Self righteous narcissists: Gaston & Ernesto de la Cruz.  These characters are so self centered that they are incapable of believing that anything they do isn't justified.
 
EyeballKid
2023-01-28 9:19:50 AM  

fngoofy: Fark subby and the Walt bashing.


Keep wishing on a star that you'll be a real adult some day.
 
AntonChigger
2023-01-28 9:39:39 AM  
"Oh Elsa, if only there was someone who loved you" was one of the most straight up icecold backstabs in all of movie history.

/Syndrome should also be higher
 
baltimoreblonde
2023-01-28 9:43:20 AM  

Zafler: This list is crap. Chernabog wasn't a villain, had repeats of the same villain in their live action and animated versions, and totally snubbed Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame.  I award this listicle author no points, and may a god of some sort have mercy on their souls.


Frollo would have been in my top 3, for sure. And I was surprised Hans was so far down the list, because his villain turn was so unexpected.
 
Concrete Donkey
2023-01-28 9:46:40 AM  

I Ate Shergar: Though, the presence of #13 on the list reminded me of this observation.
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What always gets me is when people apply modern ideas to early 1700s France because they failed history every year they took it in school
 
LazyPredator
2023-01-28 10:13:47 AM  
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With all the missing parents in almost every Disney film you'd think this persona would be up there.
 
imaconnect4guy
2023-01-28 10:19:16 AM  
List is a joke.  How does Frollo not even make the top 25?
The hunchback Of Notre Dame Hellfire English (Disney)
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NOLAhd [OhFark]
2023-01-28 10:21:54 AM  
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He literally ends up in Hell. Or whatever happened at the end of that movie.
 
cwheelie
2023-01-28 10:30:31 AM  
*stomps off to find something else to die salty about*
 
Mimekiller
2023-01-28 10:32:10 AM  
gather around kids and I will regale you of a time when the AV club provided interesting and insightful looks into media and pop culture and believe it or not was not puking up things like OMG TOP DISNEY TOONS
 
Another Government Employee
2023-01-28 10:41:56 AM  

Bslim: How are Palpatine and Darth Vader not the top two?

THIS LIST IS BOOOOOOLSH*T!


They aren't originally Disney.
 
Another Government Employee
2023-01-28 10:46:16 AM  

RoyFokker'sGhost: shabu: fngoofy: Fark subby and the Walt bashing.

He did try to wipe away his labor troubles through HUAC

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Disney was pissed at Sorrel because the proposed Animator's Union was going to take away his biggest advantage in hiring: Disney had the highest pay rate for animators in the industry at the time and Sorrel's goal was to unionize so that all the animators from every studio, including Disney's competitors, received the same pay and benefits as Disney animators.

Not saying Walt was an angel, but he didn't just blindly hate the idea of a union. He wanted to keep that advantage in attracting talent.


The other issue was Walt NEVER shared credit, which caused issues for the artists when they wanted to show their portfolios.
 
Another Government Employee
2023-01-28 10:47:09 AM  

Nikan1: List is a total fail without...

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I'd argue Eiger was worse.
 
SpocksEars [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 10:50:47 AM  

RoyFokker'sGhost: yohohogreengiant: Failure without
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Thank you!
This guy took an entire ship's crew of hundreds, and lobotomized the ones he didn't outright murder.
Every.
Single.
One.
That always creeped me out as a kid, especially the scenes where the Palomino crew are going through the old crew's quarters, looking at family photos.
 
Nurglitch
2023-01-28 11:21:30 AM  
I like to sing 'Mother knows best' to my kids.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 11:38:40 AM  

I Ate Shergar: Though, the presence of #13 on the list reminded me of this observation.
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According to Fark, Beast should have changed himself to appeal to women. Because evidently the one thing women really hate is being yourself.
 
RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-01-28 11:39:19 AM  

Another Government Employee: RoyFokker'sGhost: shabu: fngoofy: Fark subby and the Walt bashing.

He did try to wipe away his labor troubles through HUAC

[Fark user image 425x182]
[Fark user image 425x149]

Disney was pissed at Sorrel because the proposed Animator's Union was going to take away his biggest advantage in hiring: Disney had the highest pay rate for animators in the industry at the time and Sorrel's goal was to unionize so that all the animators from every studio, including Disney's competitors, received the same pay and benefits as Disney animators.

Not saying Walt was an angel, but he didn't just blindly hate the idea of a union. He wanted to keep that advantage in attracting talent.

The other issue was Walt NEVER shared credit, which caused issues for the artists when they wanted to show their portfolios.


Yup. Especially after moving out to Hollywood. Ub Iwerks was his first collaborative partner (co-created Mickey, created Clarabelle Cow & Horace Horsecollar, refined the look of Silly Symphonies and the early Disney 'style') and Ib left in 1930 because Walt was taking all the credit while Ub did all the work. Even that had a reason since Universal screwed Walt out of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit prior to Disney Studios (Walt swore he'd never work on a character he didn't own after that). Like Chris Rock said, 'I ain't saying it's right, but I understand...'

Walt had some inexcusable stuff too, like not hiring female animators, even during WW2; he made a deal to exempt his animators from the draft & war service by doing those instructional and patriotic shorts. He was definitely a misogynist, possibly an anti-semite, debatable about being a racist (I think Song of the South was more a tone deaf failure than overt racism; again, open for debate).

In all, he was a highly complex man that was a mixture of the attitudes of his era, childhood trauma from the abuse by his father, and several early business setbacks. I'll admit to being a Disney/Marvel/Star Wars stan, but I also try to look at Walt with an even hand; praising the good and condemning the bad.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 11:42:25 AM  

WhippingBoi: [Fark user image image 276x183]

List is missing the worst two villains of all time...


Get over it. George Lucas allowed the Christmas Special to be made, that makes him the worst person associated with Star Wars.
 
Tyrone Slothrop [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 11:44:03 AM  

EyeballKid: AV Club now shilling for the mouse?


AV club shills for anyone in the entertainment industry. That's what "entertainment journalism" *is*.
 
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