dame devin was actually quite scary to me for some reason, cause like after all, she was a MOTHER. somehow that made her story even more ominous and disturbing.

The moment I saw the title, I knew Preminger was the winner without any second thoughts. He’s petty, devious and kills it in musical numbers? ICONIC 🔥

The way Preminger moves and talks is so iconic, the world is a theatre for him

What I always found hilarious about Barbie and the Pink Shoes was the ballet instructor was the villain for wanting Barbie to keep to the choreography.....lol like girl....

The fact that Preminger was voiced by Martin Short still blows me away lol. I feel like he downed a glass of wine before each recording session and that's just the vibe

Wenlock was always the Barbie villain that terrified me the most. He’s just SUPER creepy…

Rowenas punishment was the one that scared me most as a kid. Like. Dancing forever? Having to keep moving even when your body is shutting down and all your muscles are aching immeasurably??? What if your partner died before you? Does she dance with his corpse or does he drop to the ground and keep dancing alone.

I think Dame Devin should be first only because she’s the only Barbie villain who actually killed not only one but two people, one of them being her own sister. Blaire was also supposed to die despite being a baby, that’s just goes to show how far she willing to go just for power.

If ever there was a movie that needed to be re-adapted into a live musical it is Princess and the Pauper. Just imagine How Can I Refuse live on stage with a Broadway budget 🔥

I know and respect Preminger as #1, but Laverna in Magic of the Rainbow just really, really terrifies me because she's able to gaslight Elina into being her bestfriend as Sunburst and when her reveal happens during the Flight of Spring with only her *voice* in Sunburst's body... just chills, I can't imagine that happening to me irl

Video idea: What if you do a tier list of Barbie couples?

Fun fact: the same voice actress that plays Laverna also plays Saraphina (Annalise’s cat), plays iris in mermaid tail and soooo many other characters in the Barbie world. Just the fact that Laverna and Saraphina are the same voice actress is crazy to me!! You would never think

Gothel, Rowena, Rothbart (the scariest imo) and Preminger are my favorite villains :). Gothel deserves her own movie featuring her backstory.

I think Henna should've been ranked higher But she not only befriended the butterfly fairies mortal enemy and was willing yo let the citizens be eaten Poisoned their queen Gaslit the guards And Imprisoned their prince She basically gaslit gatekeeped and girlbossed the entire movie Also she's really pretty 💜 Edit: I forgot about a handful of these villains but oml these guys are so iconic. I actually cheered for Rothbar, evil bird daddy is an icon

I feel like Preminger is so iconic as he reminds me so much of Disney villains. And old school Disney villains are designed to have a confident Queer-vibe but it makes them so iconic and likeable even though they are villains. Preminger definetly channels that energy too

For Dame Devin. I always assumed that she payed a guy who looked like the royal driver to drive the car into a tree, but baby Blair survived and he couldn't leave her to die slowly or be found so he left her on a door step.

no joke everyone you put in the top 5 genuinely used to scare me as a kid 😭 this ranking is so valid

For the princess Charm School villain, Blair was supposed to die, but she somehow survived the car crash. When Dane Devon found out, she didn’t understand how she was still alive.

Preminger never scared me but his two henchmen did. The way they kidnap the main characters used to give me nightmares

I've gotta send some love to my girl Rowena. The 12 Dancing Princesses will always be my favourite barbie movie and Rowena just made it ICONIC. Her manipulation, line delivery, flare, everything about her character is *chefs kiss*. As someone who studied english litterature for two years her character and the movie's plot makes my little author heart squeal.

Preminger is my favorite villain, but Wenlock from Magic of the Pegasus was the creepiest. Man literally turned women to trolls so he could make his own harem. 4 year old me was terrified.

I knew that Preminger was the top before I even clicked the video and I'm never going to disagree with that.

Preminger is my favorite villain, but to me Wenlock has always been the scariest.

Why did I just realize that Odile is practically Janice from friends, physically and in the way she speaks. OH NO

As a late 90's early 2000's Barbie girl, I will always be a fan of the Mouse King and Gothel! They both held such an iron grip on their respective villain plans. You never forgot that they were the threat of the movie. . . . BUT PREMINGER- yeah you have to crown the King. The poodle sidekick was perfection.

Is it just me or Wenlock is the Andrew Tate of Barbie Cinematic Universe.....

A lot off earlier villain’s had some pretty well known voice actors, too. Kelsey Grammar voiced Rothbart, Anjelica Huston voiced Gothel, Martin Short voiced Preminger, Catherine O’Hara voiced Duchess Rowen, and Tim Curry voiced BOTH Phillipe and the Mouse King. And they’re all excellent 😌

I think Rowena's motivation was that she was completely BROKE ! her carriage broke, and i think her henchman mentions it, her becoming queen would give her the wealth and comfort she wants

Fun fact: The only barbie movies with no villain are, Thumbelina, Perfect Christmas, Starlight Adventure, and Puppy Chase.

I think Lydia’s voice actress and design just sells the character for me, it’s just so classic barbie villain

I grew up with Barbie Pegasus and Swan Lake! I used to watch those movies on repeat. Wenlock was such a strong villian to me. The flashback scene with Anika's sister being transformed into a Pegasus was so heartbreaking and messed up.

We did get a motive for Lydia in the movie, when Melody is explaining to them what happened she explains that Lydia was jealous of the other muses

Rovena has always been the scariest for me. I think it's because of this very idea of someone controlling me, taking my entire personality away and making me feel I'm wrong to be the way I am and punishing me for being this way. Plus, her slowly poisoning the father was just painful. I still feel anxious just thinking about her.

I think for me it will have to be Laverna from Fairytopia, since she was the first barbie villain I saw, and even though I have watched almost all of the barbie movies, there is just something about her that was terrifying. I remember being a little scared of her and not liking her at all and thought she was pure evil as a child, and now I still think that she was one of the best/worst barbie villains for the reasons Caitlin explained. Yet there were other villains in this list that made sense and some villains were really evil and scary. This is also because the Fairytopia movies were my favorite when I was little especially Magic of the Rainbow so they are really nostalgic to me. Side Note: Not too long ago I was watching a not too old video of Caitlin's (I swear this was like two days ago) and I thought to myself that what if she does a ranking barbie movie villains, and now she did! I just laughed and was like no way! LOL

31:20 that's called heterochromia iridium and I love it too, it's one of the few genuinely cool things to start with the prefix 'hetero-' /hj Also I hadn't noticed that about Wenlock before, so thank you Cait for pointing it out xx

for me, queen ariana was your standard barbie movie villain with a decent amount of depth and threat. the real standout and what made her more interesting for me was her daughter, princess luciana. it would have been easy and trope-ish to make her into a snobby, spoiled princess who goes along with her mother's plan because she's also in love with the prince. but they decided to make her into a sweet, lovely girl who only wishes to experience falling in love. while the love in her head is certainly very idealistic snd you could argue that when her mother shut it down it was just a more realistic arguement, still hearing that your own mother never loved your father is heartbreaking. this contrast between her and her mother makes the two more nuanced as we see this abusive relationship unfold. and i think without princess luciana being the way that she is, queen ariana wouldnt have been so memorable for me.

- Dame Devin is such an iconic villain! I just LOVE her golden ruffle/frill collar dress so much. Also I always thought it was lowkey hilarious how quickly Delancy literally went from "omg mom you killed the queen?!?!" to dancing with everyone at the end 😂😂 like she was so fast with processing that lol. - so true about Love is for Peasants! It's such a good villain song!!! - 😂everyone is literally trying to take over the kingdom lolll but it makes for such fun villains so im not complaining, haha! this video was so cozy to watch! so much nostalgia with the good villains 💖

"the forced marriage is dark when you think about it" no kidding considering annika only just turned 16 and wenlock... definitely is older than 18 that's for sure. and he also did the same thing to brietta 16 years earlier, so he's at least a decade older and a double offender.

Queen Ariana's backstory confused me when I learned what 'the devil's tango' was cus she either did IT with the old king and luckily got a daughter. But because the line is 'when I found out king Richard had a son, I had a daughter right away' I wondered how she knew her child was going to be a daughter or she could of kidnapped a child from the orphanage or even a rich couples child.

What I like about the Mouse King is that he was voiced by the iconic Tim Curry. Rothbart can be pretty scary. My sister would go and hide whenever he would appear onscreen. Raquel and Lydia were the two villains that annoyed me the most. Raquel for stealing Barbie's bracelet and Lydia for having Slider kidnapping Liana. Like, Raquel should've been suspended and put in jail for stealing a bracelet and I would've punched Lydia in the face for being a menace.

“Forcing someone into marriage...” Kinda reminds me of what love potions intend to do

Honestly now after watching this and thinking about it for a while Gothel is my new favourite villain. I just love that her motive is not power and wealth, but rather really cruel revenge. She always asserts power and just acts in such a badass way, then her being defeated by her own spell is a nice contrast to that. Also I fucking love Otto for some reason, that last scene were he has to bring her tea is such a hilarious and in-character way to show how they ended up and it always makes me grin.

The Princess and the Pauper is just the best Barbie movie. It has the most beautiful and heartwarming songs, interesting plot which (thanks to Preminger and his plan) makes you really engaged in what's next, amazing iconic dresses (especially the Anneliese's one), the CUTEST couples that you genuinely ship AND the best villain ever. Preminger is just a whole package, he is really really evil, manipulative and will do everything to make his plan work, he can sing, he has an unique look and is just an interesting character

I think the scariest was Gothel for me but Rowena was just so evil. I hate bad mother figures.

My favorite villain is Laverna because i was obsessed with her for a while after i watched the Fairytopia trilogy. I always repeated her lines and yelled "FUNGUS" at random times imitating her voice. Idk, she's just so iconic to me

I like the villain from the Pegasus movie because he actually made Barbie so mad that she wanted to kill him. He isn't my favorite villain I don't think. But the way he affected her in that movie really stuck with me. A hero have a moment of weakness and indulge in bad thoughts? That moment was a pleasant surprise.

If we're gonna talk about Wenlock, let's talk about Wenlock. Watched Pegasus yesterday, perfect timing. So he does have heterochromia, but *HE GIVES IT TO HIMSELF!!* When he transforms at the end of the movie back into a regular guy, he has two brown eyes. Dude was like "I'm ugly, give me height and muscle and all the things I could possibly want in my appearance," then looks at himself in the mirror, decides he's still ugly so says "give me blue eyes." Not satisfied so goes "give me yellow instead." Man is _still_ not satisfied, so says "give me both." Damn. Talk about being insecure. Also, the his backstory starts with him stealing the staff of a powerful sorcerer. Why then, at the end of the movie, does the all powerful staff turn into an oar? Like... Annika undoes all his spells, but the staff was the one who did the spells(not its fault, just doin what it's told) and therefore should still remain the staff because a spell was not put upon it... I mean unless he used the staff to make his own magic staff... but then he would have had to keep the original staff to make sure no one else took it... Idk. Seems flawed to me. Okay. I've edited this like... 10 times now. I think I've said all that I needed to say. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

I think that most of the excellence around all of these villains is the voice acting. Everyone is just eating up every single second of screen time they get. They’ve also got some serious star power behind a few of them. They got Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, and the legendary Tim Curry behind them.

Malucia is admittedly an interesting villain because she's really fun and subversive. Little kids in almost all Barbie movies are meant to be the cutesy girls to market toys, but not Malucia. She's bratty, greedy, and she commands attention in every scene. I remember her so well because she's just so much fun to watch. I love unorthodox villains and little kids are some of my favorites.

This video being uploaded the same day I find out Martin Short (the iconic Preminger himself) will be playing Lumiere in a Beauty & the Beast 30 Year celebration special next month. 🥰💜🕯

The thumbnail omg 😂😂

I already knew Preminger is number one. He is THE villain of Barbie movies. How could I refuse? 🎶

Tbh I always wanted a part two to Barbie Princess Charm School. Maybe even a prequel to the life of Dame Devin being a lottery winner. The question I have is about how did her brother even become king? And marry Isabella? Did he met her when he visited Devin during her time in princess charm school? Because it wouldn’t make sense for him to be a prince and not Dame Devin.

I agree with last place. It’s just stupid. I like the older Barbie villains because they have personality. I also hate the Lost Birthday villain. He’s just dumb and no real character traits other than he hates children to the point he’s willing to destroy a cruise ship

To me, Preminger is the best villain! He is sassy, smart, have a pretty outfit AND is a good singer. This man is perfect and iconic, entertaining too 😊 My number 2 is Rowenna from Twelve dancing princesses; she has an evil monkey, can manipulate the king AND killed him, she uses the power of the golden flower well, is super severe. This lady is smart and cruel. Her grey dress is ugly but her personality is great! My number 3 is Queen Ariana from Island Princess; she married a rich king then kill him to take his money plus she manipulates her daughter AND tried to kill Prince Antonio by poisoning the wedding cake. Also her rats can hide anywhere and are agile, it's hard to see them doing an evil trick.

Rothbart’s nose should have a ranking spot of its own just for the scary factor if it 😂

Something I love about Preminger is that is does ballet 😂 In his song and when he asks the Queen to marry him he does some ballet steps! (I’m a dancer btw)

Human Nalu is seen as the villagers are being frozen by Wenlock in magic of Pegasus.

Also Rothbart is voiced by Kelsey Grammer who plays sideshow Bob in the Simpsons. His voice is so iconic!

Barbie's Gothel still terrifies me to this very day. She gave me nightmares as a kid and I can't even tell if it's the way she looks or her personality.

Dame Devin is a perfect role for an antagonist nowadays like she's an Icon even the side character like Delancey and Portia

Arianna was violent "then I play crochette with his head!" That was wild

I love how with Martin Short you can tell he is having a F**KING BALL with playing Preminger, he is just having fun and yes he is a wonderful goofy comedian but he loves playing villains and honestly can you blame him? Also I have him shouting "IDIOT!" as a text message tone.

I’ve always been obsessed with Barbie Swan lake and, for so long, I thought it was because of Odette’s fantastic dress and because you can’t go wrong with talking animals (when you’re 6 at least). What I now know is that I’ve been in love with Rothbart since I was a child. I blame it on my brain worms but you can’t beat a pointy-nosed bird man

lydia used to terrify me as a child 😭 diamond castle was my fave growing up & i remember her traumatizing me

Preminger is my favorite villain. He's sassy, smart, theatrical, flexible with his plans, observant, has a great singing voice, and has that passion in every word he says. I strive to cosplay as him one day and he's actually very hot. I apologize to everyone for saying that if I scarred you. I have a crush on him and I will never be sorry. How can I refuse him?

The Mouse King will probably be number one for me still, since having Tim Curry’s voice elevated you quite a bit as a fun, but also capable, villain.

Caitlin: Laverna is at her best in the first movie. *Proceeds to show a clip of her from the third movie.*

wenlock's my favorite barbie movie villain. idk anyone like preminger in real life, but i know ppl like wenlock. it's a realistic and accessible evil to come from a barbie movie; entitled misogynists obsessed with the value of beauty are more comprehensible villains and strike deeper than a villain like agent dunbar or someone, and when a character like wenlock changes his mind? rescinds the offer that's been on the back burner for the protagonist to use as a last resort? an unpredictable villain, going against the plot progressions we're used to/comfy with, that we can see mirrored in real life, is phenomenal character design.

I loved Dame Devin, honestly, she's one of my favorite Barbie villians, after Preminger of course.

Your top ten is very solid. Not sure how fairy secret girl was so high, tho, she wasnt even on screen much (the princess filled more of the on-screen powerful villian role tbh). Great list tho! I also liked Secret Door's backstory about her being the only princess w/o magic, in a world where every creature seems to have magic in some form, and this not being her first time stealing it, was interesting

The fact that Gothel used to scare me as a child, like ACTUALLY scare me

31:18 your friendly reminder that it is called heterochromia. The strain that Wendlock had is complete heterochromia.

If Preminger wasn’t number one I was gonna be like “who are you and what have you done with Caitlin?” Icon👏

Dame Devin definitely was a bit more evil just because she got rid of Blaire’s mom through setting up a car crash where Blaire was supposed to die as well but she found in front of her adopted moms house

Would be cool to see you ranking Barbie movie parents.

As soon as I read the notification, I knew in my heart…. It’s Preminger.

Preminger is my favorite villain in Barbie by far! Can't believe Princess & the Pauper will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year!!!

I honestly love Ariana as a villain. Her plan was just so well thought out and when I watched it for the second time, I has to pause to actually take in the lyrics of her song. Her family tried to commit treason, she married a king just to gain the status of queen only for the king to die later because of a heart condition, then planned to commit treason again by poisoning the king, queen, and literally everyone else who was at the wedding.

Preminger is top tier, always my favorite, he’s a king, he’s a god, he is life, he’s everything

Smh Malucia deserves better, I Want It All is an iconic bop, and this is coming from someone who didn't even grow up with that movie! Watched it for the first time very recently and Malucia became like, genuinely one of or maybe just straight up my favorite Barbie villain, she's so much fun!!

Preminger is almost like an evil Kusco. You can't not love Kusco, and you can't not love Preminger.

My Facebook messenger notification is Preminger's scream.

rothbart has always been my fav. like his motives, his DESIGN, his voice it’s just all so good

Seeing this list and having never seen Diamond castle, is Lydia just Laverna all over again? Her styling looks identical

I also really liked madam carp “If you weren’t such a lazy cow” loool

28:18 Laverna doing dwayne eyebrow raise meme 🤣🤣🤣🤣

PREMINGER IS VOICED BY THE GUY WHO PLAYS JACK FROST IN THE SANTA CLAUSE MOVIES??? HOW DID I NEVER REALIZE THIS

Preminger supremacy!!!!!! Always stan a man who rhymed champagne with Charlemagne. Also I did not know Martin Short voiced him but given that they got Tim Curry for the mouse king I’m also kind of not surprised. Im ngl I’m surprised dame devin is so low considering she arranged for the murder of 2 people (successfully) and a baby, all her own family.

Lowkey "I want it all" from Open Door is my favorite barbie villain song. It's just so fun. I love how petty and bratty Malucia is.

I saw your title, thought "there is no way it's not Preminger", then saw your thumbnail background. And I was pleased.

My brother and I watched Princess and the Pauper for the first time a few years ago, and could NOT get over Preminger saying "Why, helloooo". Became one of our inside jokes. The way he said it and his face, we lost our minds laughing, he's the best.

The top scorer's voice acting was on another level too, absolutely iconic but legitimately good too

Dame Devin needed to be higher! An ICON truly! And she was RUTHLESS!!

At first I was surprised that the Mouse King was so "low", but when I saw the others on top 10, I thought: "Oh, makes sense." I'm glad you have changed your mind about Ariana. I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that you were going to say "If I saw Rowena in real life, I would run." :D But yeah, your option is relatable too. You've probably remembered already, but her henchman's name is Desmond. Especially your top 3 is amazing. Thank you for this video, it was a joy to watch.

The Princess And The Pauper is also my best Barbie movie of all time. Dominic, Perminger, Annaliese, Julian, Erika, Erika's boss, everyone is iconic including their pets like it's so beautifully made it's unbelievable, I could watch it a million times. And also I can sing every one of their songs and my favourite is 'if you love me for me'

OH MY GOD THE MOUSE KING.... when i was little he really freaked me out for some reason tbh. the noise he makes when getting knocked out early in the movie and the way his model moved genuinely scared me to the point where i would hide when the first fight scene came on. i now love him. his voice acting makes up for any shortcomings of that movie i stg.

How can you beat the Mouse King? Tim Curry is so fun in that role. Him asking if the Nutcracker wants to be dismembered or barbecued? Iconic.

I've always loved Lydia. Just classic powerlust

I knew number 1 was gonna be Preminger there's no competition when it comes to that legend