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Villains Disney are not so different from us as we explained in our last article.

Normally they don’t want too much to make them happy, just the same as us, but they don’t know when to stop.

Cruella De Ville - Disney Villain

The Queen in Snow White, just wanted to be beautiful, that’s all. Cruella just wanted a fur coat! Not too much too ask, but sometimes they take it to extremes and become too obsessed with what they want.

when the animators at Disney put together the storyline they have to keep the viewer interested enough in the plot. The villain has to have a chance of winning and often does much to the sorrow of the hero, but the hero normally comes along to save the day as did the Prince with Snow White!

This seems somewhat like real life!

Sometimes all is not what it seems when it comes to cartoon villains. In Beauty and the Beast, we are led to believe in the beginning of the movie that the beast should be feared, but as the movie open, we soon learn that he has terrible emotional problems and soon gets our sympathy.

Cruella though, although she was a smart well educated woman, eventually becomes crazy and looses control. The audience needs this to show that this kind of behavior is really unacceptable and something that only out of control people and we are not out of control – are we?

Sometimes the villain is very challenging. In The Sword and the Stone for example, Madam Mim bragged that she had more power in her little finger than Merlin did in his whole body. This makes the enormity of what Merlin must do so huge and it shows that with great effort in the end after tribulation, that good always wins!

Peter Schnider, President of feature animation at Disney once said “The villain is the key to the movie and you have to have everyone rise to the same level…there must be a worthy adversary or you have no picture.

Strong words indeed to show that the Disney Villain is one of, if not the most important part of the show.

Disney Villains are all around us and the reason we like them so much is because no matter what our morals, no matter our codes of conduct and no matter how much we obey the laws, there is a villain inside each one of us.

Just like our cartoon counterparts, it just takes a bit of social breakdown before we become like a Disney Villain.

We Love Disney villains

Well before breakdown of all our assets we start our own self preserving strategy with our little lies and the beginning of all the things that we hate in the bad guys.

Disney knew long before maybe we even realized, that the audience just loves to hate the bad villain and so the Disney Villain was born.

Inside of all of us is the villain and we just can’t help admire in a small way the naughty goings on when the villain appears on the screen and so I am going to devote some articles to the Disney Villain.

Without a villain, there can be no hero and they are an essential part of the story, sometimes bigger than the hero as he forces his anger, misery and insensitivity onto the lives of others. As he acts he teases and torments the viewers with emotion, pouring each moment into our souls and into our spirit, some of us rising to applaud his actions and others reeling in terror.

And then the hero acts!

Where do these Disney Villains live? Inside of us, our past, our childhood memories, our daily struggles and fears as children and the dark side of each of us, living in a cartoon strip to remind us who we are and where we have come from. all of us can relate in some way to the Disney Villain.

We all want something we cannot have, but the villain is prepared to go places we are not and so secretly, we sometimes hope that he will win so that we can experience and enjoy his moment as if it were our own.

Maybe Disney villains came from his life. He endured many sufferings as a young man and as success chased him so did the darkness of life. Bouncing back and forth from success to misery, maybe his villains were his way of telling his own story and releasing the pain.

But strangely, the villains also had a humor as if they were taunting us, laughing at our lives, yet still entertaining us.