While The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Tangled (2010) gave us Dr. Facilier and Mother Gothel respectively, we haven't seen a traditional villain since 2013. Even in that case — Hans from Frozen — the villain pales in comparison to the conflict that Elsa has with her own powers.
Ultimately, Disney has stepped away from cartoon-type villains that are exaggeratedly evil and have honed in on more human conflicts. Rather than one character being an incarnation of all things evil, conflict stems more from interpersonal conflict and differences in values.
Some movies don't need villains, something that has been proven by Disney projects such as Brother Bear and Queen of Katwe. From the power-hungry, Scar, in The Lion King, to the Sea Witch, Ursula, in The Little Mermaid, Disney has had its fair share of incredible antagonists.
In Frozen, Hans goes from a courtly charmer to power-hungry villain. According to Hyrum Osmond, one of the supervising animators for Hans, Hans initially appears as a handsome, dashing character. The crew wanted the audience to fall in love with him and the relationship he could have with Anna.
Te Fiti is a major character in Disney's 2016 animated feature film Moana. She is a goddess with the power to create life—an ability that she used to create the islands of Polynesia. After her heart had been stolen by Maui, she became Te Kā, a demon of earth and fire and the main antagonist of the film.
In Disney's original animated “101 Dalmatians” from 1961, Cruella de Vil is an evil woman in her sixties whose goal is to kill and skin the Dalmatians for their fur as a new fashion statement.
Ercole Visconti is the main antagonist of Pixar's 24th full-length animated feature film Luca. He is an Italian teenager and local bully and showoff in the town of Portorosso, but as the film progresses, he shows that he's much more vile than that.
Diablo was created to give Maleficent something to interact with, and his inspiration was taken from the raven familiar of the Evil Queen (Lucille La Verne) in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. Though he doesn't speak, his animation encapsulates how much he adores serving Maleficent.
Gaston from Beauty and the Beast and Hans from Frozen are currently the youngest Disney Villains to date, with Hans being 23 and Gaston being around his mid-20s.
Edgar Balthazar is certainly one of the evilest villains in Disney history, and that is because he abuses his position of power and trust and hurts the Duchess in the cruelest of ways. Simply because he wants as much money from her as possible, he takes her cats and throws them out into the wide world, abandoning them.
1. Count Dracula, the Dracula films (1931–present) Dracula is the most influential horror villain of all time. The Count stalks like a slasher, murders in droves like a serial killer, and is the inspiration for every single vampire movie made after 1931.
This is the villainous counterpart to Heroic Mime; while the hero's silence makes them open to interpretation, the Silent Antagonist's silence makes them a sort of Enigmatic Minion, or in the worst of cases, an Unknown Rival or an utterly implacable force of nature.
Unlike the other three fairy godmothers in the movie, Maleficent is an evil sorceress, and her evil enables her to perform many magical and powerful spells.
Personality. Chernabog desires only to amuse and appease himself, and will commit any atrocity needed to do so. He is commonly depicted as a ruthless and manipulative monster who is feared by all who encounter him. He is one of the most powerful and destructive villains that Walt Disney has ever created for that reason ...
