Best villain death in a Disney flick?
 

So for some reason I've decided to fill in all the gaps in my DVD collection of classic Disney flicks, so I've been watching a bunch of them. One thing I always liked as a kid, and STILL like, is how they kill the villains off at the end of the movies. That's typically the point where they discard all the goofy and silly kid-friendly crap and just get hardcore.

Anyway, which one always struck you as the best? I'm talking Disney Animated Features Canon, btw.


The Queen (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves): Falls off a cliff and is (presumably) crushed by a boulder. Ya know, I always wondered what the Dwarves would've done had they caught her before she killed herself? I'd like to have seen that; Dopey slitting her throat and Sneezey using her skull for an ashtray.

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty): Turns into a dragon and gets stabbed through the heart with a sword.

The Horned King (The Black Cauldren): Sucked into the Black Cauldren. Well, this one's kind of debatable. I mean, the guy was a skeleton even before getting sucked into the pot. He was kinda already dead.

Rattigan (The Great Mouse Detective): Falls off of Big Ben. On a side note, Rattigan is one of the most underrated Disney villains ever. Vincent Price needs to rise from the grave, already.

Sykes (Oliver & Company): Gets his **** run over by an oncoming train.

Ursela (The Little Mermaid): Impaled by the mast of a ship. The most girly Disney flick in my collection, and not one I like all that much, but damn if that chick's death wasn't pretty sweet.

Percival McLeach (The Rescuers Down Under): Sent screaming over a waterfall. Would've been better if they'd let the crocodiles eat him instead of copping out with a waterfall.

Gaston (Beauty and the Beast): Falls to his death into a deep chasm. Dude coulda had a foursome with the three blonde chicks but nooooo he had to go to the castle and try to win Belle over. Dumbass had it coming.

Scar (The Lion King): Gets eaten alive by a pack of hyenas. Oh yeah.

Judge Frollo (The Hunchback of Notre Dame): Falls from the top of the Cathedral. I think. I could never finish this movie. Ugh. Not even Tony Jaye could make it worthwhile.

Shan Yu (Mulan): Blown up by a rocket. Mulan should've been the one to kill him. Freakin' Mushu, stealin' her thunder.

Clayton (Tarzan): Neck snapped after accidentilly hanging himself on some vines.

Rourke (Atlantis: the lost Empire): Turns all blue and falls apart or something. I hated this movie so I haven't seen it in a while.


Ya know, now that I've put that list together, I've just realized that the violent villain deaths are more of a modern Disney thing. Most of the classic Disney flicks either didn't have major villains or they didn't die at the end. Their defeats where usually kind of whimsical (Captain Hook and Shere Khan come to mind). I mean, just look at the huge gap of time between Sleeping Beauty and The Black Cauldren.


Anyhow, if I had to choose one it would be Scar from the Lion King. Getting eaten alive is pretty sick, especially for a Disney flick. Runner up: although I really hate Oliver & Company, Sykes' death was badass (AND they killed his two guard dogs, holy crap).

I haven't seen most of these films in years, but the one that instantly came to mind upon reading the thread title was that dude in Tarzan. I remember seeing the shadow of his limp body dangling from that tree and thinking it was pretty hardcore.

Tarzan's one of the few post-Lion King Disney flicks that's actually good (ignoring the Rosie O'Donnell bits, that is). As a villain, I wouldn't say that Clayton should rank among Disney's best, but his death was certainly awesome.

Yea , Clayton's death was pretty hardcore for a G movie

I never did like that. out of all the films that needed a bunch of talking animals, this wasn't one of them. Plus, they never got too far into the Tarzan legend, even in the 2 sequals and cartoon series.



seconded.

Lilo and Stitch was hilarious..

Yeah, Lilo & Stitch and The Emperor's New Groove are the only other ones I can stomach.

Both of those were only good because they deviated greatly from the standard Disney formula (New Groove felt more like a Looney Tunes flick, in fact).

I agree but the marketing really ticked me off because it made me believe it was going to be something else. I still like it though.

I'm with a lot of the others when I say Clayton...that freakin' rawked to the max seeing his silhouette on that tree swinging in the flash of lightning! It's a very memorable scene in Tarzan, almost subtle because if you don't pay attention you can miss it. Very dark in a "kids" movie, even though I love Tarzan!

Yeah, going with Clayton's death as well. That was the first one that came to mind when I read the title of this thread. My second fav would have to be Ursula's at the end of Little Mermaid. That was a badass death.

I think it doesn't get better than Scar's death.

Scar's is the best I guess.

As far as animated villain deaths in general go, I gotta go with Sharptooth in Land Before Time. Those little dinosaurs defeated him with teamwork.

I love hose ones as well. But I fee the movie Teacher's Pet was vastly underrated. Now that was one of my favorite post Lion King films./

I immediatelly came to think about Scars death in The lion king. It's a bad ass death..:)