Who is your favorite Disney Villain? Maybe it is The Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, or Captain Hook from Peter Pan, or Ursula from The Little Mermaid, or maybe even Hades from Hercules.
Why is that villain your favorite? What makes that villain so special in order to be more likable over the others? Is Cruella De Vil from One Hundred and One Dalmatians your favorite villain because there is nothing more evil than wanting to kill dogs (yeah, I know, this is one of the most cruel things a villain could do) for their skin? (Probably, that's why NO ONE likes Cruella!) Or is it Hans from Frozen because he truly empowers the selfishness and cruelty of some people in the world? (Not really, I HATED him!) Or maybe it is Ursula because she looks fat and ugly? Or is it Assistant Bellwether (the sheep) from Zootopia because you somehow understand and justify her motives? Or is it Te Fiti from Moana because you TOTALLY understood her and think that she isn't a Disney Villain after all? (Well, she might not have done her evil acts without real intent and that is why I understand her! Nevertheless, one might argue that her acts are worse than MOST Disney Villains: she almost kills the entire nature in the world! If you thought that killing dogs was bad, well how does this sound, huh?)
What I want to say is what do you think makes a villain the best villain? (Probably not their evil acts alone, because as a counterexample we have Te Fiti: the villain that almost accomplish the cruelest thing, yet she is the villain we ALL LOVE! Well, we could even argue that she is not a villain at all!) I think what makes a villain the best or most likable is their reason for doing what they are doing and, to a some small extent, their methods. Clearly a villain without any a reason is not a villain worth having the title of Best or Favorite, in fact, I would say that it is most likely considered as one more villains in the list of Disney Villains. One more villain that nobody cares about. How can a villain who has no reason for doing what he does can be likable or even a villain worth considering interesting? A villain that is a villain for simply being evil is a villain that has no meaning at all besides of the mere fact of existing! On the other hand, with a few exceptions, if their methods are not so cruel like the destruction of every living thing on the planet or like killing people for no apparent reason (yes, I mean killing a person just for being singing, if you know what I mean) then their methods might be justified and maybe even forgiven! However there might be a few recent exceptions (once more, Te Fiti) for reasons that... Oh wait, no more spoilers! If you haven't seen Moana, you shouldn't allow one more day of your life to pass without watching that amazing movie. You should go RIGHT NOW to the theaters and do yourself a BIG favor!
(My favorite villain, as you can clearly see, is Te Fiti!)
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