Right, well, I think the title of this topic makes what I want to talk about pretty clear. Most of us are at least halfway familiar with Disney's colorful array of characters .. sidekicks, princesses, princes, heroes, and .. the villains!

Which one do you think is the best? Which do you think is the worst? Who do you think would fit in most comfortable with our 21st century times?

Really explore the issue, guys! I wanna hear what you have to say!

Personally, I think Scar is the most badass. Just, straight up. Hence, the title up there at the top of the post. xD Aside from actually killing his brother in one of the most horrific childhood moments of my life (I couldn't watch that part in the movie!) he's just nasty, yet cool, clam and collected.

Close second would be Ursula, the Sea Witch. Anyone who can grow a million feet and wave tentacles around in the air and teach me the word "insignificant" just before getting owned by a ship is a hero of mine. That, and she's sort of just nasty.

Alright, so I'm opening the floor to the rest of you.

Thoughts?

Cruella Deville.

She literally skins what are essentially people in the movie. If the little animated puppies can talk and be the main character, we can only assume that the other hundreds of animals she wears were also equally sapient. Chilling stuff.

Personally, I find someone chasing after the main characters with the intent to cut their skin off and wear it as a coat a little creepy. I'm just glad my young child's brain did not comprehend the sinister, sick nature of this at the time.

For sheer terror, I'd say chef Louis. He's a mass murderer who sings like it ain't no thing. Ursula is all bluster. She doesn't even kill most of her "victims".

But Gaston is the best villain, by far. He's looking kind of bummed out in a bar and everyone starts singing his theme song. CHA 18, chaotic neutral, who even cares about the rest of the character sheet. Did I mention he has a theme song?

The worst villain is whoever the villain in pinnochio was. They were so nonmemorable that I don't even remember if pinnochio had a villain.

There was. Like. A guy who owned Pleasure Island, or something. A bratty kid, too. Pinnochio was weird. Go back and watch it, once. No, really. And then don't look away.

Fair point on Chef Louis, by the way. xD That's, like, the best song by the way. I'm gonna go YouTube it thanks to you.

And Cruella DeVille .. fair point that she skins puppies. But I'm still sticking with Scar. Scar had that added element of psychological torture with what he did. That, and he's a lion.

Alright, alright. Let's keep it off the Pixar stuff. You could argue semantics all day (but I agree, he's a great Pixar villain!)

Let's stick with the traditional 2D animated features!

That guy... the mongol... from Mulan.

The Huns! They were pretty nasty-ass, I must say. I forgot the name of the lead guy, too. And I'm too lazy to do a simple Google search.

Alright. Let's look at it this way.

What's an unredeemable Disney villain? There are villains where you go -- "oh! He's totally a dick, but hey! _____ is sort of cool!"

Jafar is a good example because he's evil as heck, but Iago the parrot is awesome.

I still think Scar is pretty much the most unredeemable guy. There's nothing good that can be said about him, besides the fact that he has an epic theme song.