This Fan Artist's Collection Of Favorite Disney Villains Is Honestly Fantastic
It's not a bad time to kick back and check out some of Disney's most evil characters, right?
You can usually tell a lot about a Disney fan by which villains they love most, and this artist’s picks are anything but predictable. From Monstro to Hades, the collection leans hard into the dark side, and that is exactly what makes it so fun.
The artist behind the work, Grincha, has built a gallery of more than 20 Disney villains reimagined in her own style. She is a Mexican illustrator with wide-ranging pop culture interests, and this villain lineup shows just how much personality she brings to fan art.
These are the Disney bad guys she actually wanted to draw, sequel villains skipped and all. Read on.
1. Monstro - Pinocchio
The movie Pinocchio actually features four protagonists, and Monstro, the man-eating whale, is the last of them.
grincha2. Chernabog - Fantasia
"Chernabog from the Disney movie 'Fantasia' in 'Night on Bald Mountain.' This one was inspired by a painting I saw at Disney World; I took a photo and saved it."
grincha3. John Silver - Treasure Planet
"This is by far the hardest villain I've done! Man, he's such a complicated character—his arm!! HIS ARM!!! is so aaaahhh!"
Long John Silver is a cybernetic pirate captain in Treasure Planet.
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4. The Horned King - The Black Cauldron
The Horned King's main goal was to find the Black Cauldron and use its power to unleash an army of immortal warriors called the Cauldron Born.
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5. Scar - The Lion King
Scar, the main antagonist of The Lion King, is Mufasa's brother and Simba's uncle. Scar is embittered when he loses his spot as next in line to be king when his nephew is born.
"As one of Disney's most infamous villains—made especially notorious for his success in murdering Mufasa—Scar is a primary member of the Disney Villains franchise."
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This gallery wastes no time getting into Disney's darkest characters.
6. Jafar Snake - Aladdin
"Perhaps you'd like to see how s-s-s-s-snake-like I can be?" - Jafar
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7. Si and Am - Lady and the Tramp
"I know there's no real villain in that movie, but these kittens really pissed me off when I was younger."
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8. The Firebird - Fantasia 2000
According to Cornel1801:
"Walt Disney described the art of animation as a voyage of discovery into the realms of color, sound, and motion. The music from Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, inspires such a voyage. And so we conclude this version of Fantasia with a mythical story of life, death, and renewal."
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9. Frollo - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Judge Claude Frollo is the main antagonist and the kind of human that our nightmares are still made of well into adulthood. He is one of the most vile villains in all of Disney's storytelling.
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10. Shere Khan - The Jungle Book
Shere Khan is a powerful Bengal tiger in The Jungle Book, notoriously feared by all the other animals in the jungle. His fear of guns and fire leads him to deeply hate mankind.
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Disney fans have an interesting relationship with Disney villains. The villains serve an obvious purpose in the stories we love most, and some of them are even too interesting and fascinating to hate!
Other Disney villains are so evil that we could never feel anything other than hate... or could we? Cruella De Vil is often considered the worst villain of all time, the most evil... and yet Disney gave her a live-action movie with a complicated backstory.
Why does Disney have to do this to us when it comes to villains? Let the evil villains stay evil.
This “Old Masters” vibe is similar to 77 Fascinating Paintings that prove the influencers were already painting villains.
11. Captain Hook - Peter Pan
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12. Gaston - Beauty and the Beast
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13. Lady Tremaine - Cinderella
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14. Cruella De Vil - 101 Dalmatians
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These villains only get more iconic as the list goes on.
15. The Wicked Queen - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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16. Prince John - Robin Hood
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17. Maleficent - Sleeping Beauty
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18. Maleficent Dragon - Sleeping Beauty
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19. Jafar - Aladdin
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20. Yzma - The Emperor's New Groove
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21. Queen Narissa - Enchanted
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22. Ursula - The Little Mermaid
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23. Hades - Hercules
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We're dying to know who your absolute favorite, diabolical Disney villain is... whether they've been featured or not! There are plenty of Disney villains to choose from, and they all have their own stories to tell, don't they?
We can only speculate how long it will be before Disney moves toward giving the next villain on their list a live-action backstory... is there any villain you'd love to see featured that way? We're thinking Yzma, honestly.
Yzma would absolutely steal the spotlight.
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