He edges out Khan for the number five slot thanks to his ILBaV song, “Be Prepared,” expressing sentiments definitely not boy scout-approved. (i.e., the leopard in Tarzan, the bear in The Fox and the Hound and the saurians in both Rescuers movies.)Ħ. Khan’s above-it-all delivery is an interesting alternative to the voiceless predator usually threatening the hero in a Disney film. George Sanders lent his sophisticated, urbane voice to the sophisticated, urbane tiger, a one of a kind performance that could never be duplicated (except by the late Tony Jay, who did an excellent job voicing Khan in the direct to video sequel). Facilier happens to be an exception to this particular trope halfway through the film he’s forced to turn to his Friends to keep his plans afloat – and it’s pretty obvious he’s already quite a bit in debt to (and more than a little intimidated by) said Friends.ħ.
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(These guys are villains, they know how to fight dirty.) He’s no slouch in the singing department either: thanks to Keith David he delivers a powerhouse performance of “Friends on the Other Side,” his ILBaV song, backed up by an exceptionally creepy chorus of voodoo dolls and scary masks.Īnimation villains tend to hold the upper hand until the very last second (if not later) when a risky gambit on the part of the hero suddenly saves the day. ‘The Shadow Man’ originally ranked higher on this list, but the competition knocked him down a few slots. Lyric-wise, Curry had a little help too: Thomas Dolby, Mister “Blinded by Science” himself wrote and produced “Toxic Love,” one of the best I Love Being a Villain songs ever.Ĩ. Viscous goo one second, shadowy smoke the next and a leering grin on his face the entire time, Hexxus can’t wait to destroy the titular rainforest and replace it “with parking lots and shiny shopping malls” with a little help from his friends, the “greedy human beings will always lend a hand.” The velvet voiced Mok might resemble the love child of Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Dorian Gray, but he sings like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop – which is not surprising since that pair of punkers perform Mok’s songs on the soundtrack.Īnd as for his musical counterpart… Tim Curry gender-bended for all he was worth in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and wore a wicked set of horns in Ridley Scott’s Legend as Ferngully‘s Hexxus, the unleashed spirit of destruction, he belts out “Toxic Love,” a torch song to pollution that would make Dr. (You see, if he finds the ‘perfect voice’ he can unleash a demon from another dimension yadda yadda…) (This is a sneaky trick to cram 11 villains into a ten-best list, but don’t tell anyone.) Once you overlook the rather unusual schnozzola sported by Rock & Rule’s hero (okay, so the human race has wiped itself out and animals have evolved upwards to take their place, but does he have to have a snout stretching out to here?), you can enjoy ultra-decadent, rock and roll megastar Mok’s evil scheming.
A tie between Mok in Rock & Rule and Hexxus in Ferngully, The Last Rainforest. (Due to his resemblance – both vocal and physical – to media mogul Rupert Murdoch?) Not content with being the ringleader of the film’s trio of villains (“ Bogus, Bunce & Bean / One fat, one short, one lean / These horrible crooks / So different in looks / Were nonetheless equally mean”), Bean is also an unforgiving music critic: coming across an underling indulging in a bit of impromptu lyricizing, Bean pelts him with a lit cigarette and opines “you wrote a bad song, Petey!”Īnytime a live-action director like Wes Anderson dabbles in animation and adapts the work of an author like Roald Dahl, odds are you’re not going to wind up with a standard issue Hollywood cartoon indeed, Anderson applied his quirky yet straight-faced sensibility to an animal tale that was pretty unusual to begin with.ĩ. “Possibly the scariest man currently living,” according to one of the film’s characters.
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