I don't sympathize with Ezma that much even as an adult. I do realize that there are a lot of thankless jobs out there, and Kuzko could have been a nicer person, but at the same time Ezma was trying to do his job instead of hers. She wanted power that didn't belong to her and didn't care who she had to hurt or kill in order to get it.

​​@@lucindamobley5492you must love Disney Who your favorite Disney character

Well I always thought that Maleficent was not wrong, she just overreacted in the animated version. And sher Khan was also not that evil, he was following his instinct and natural desire. The worst is Frollo. It is very horrible when the giver of Justice and the leader of a place is actually the biggest enemy

Uh no, he is at fault for not being better. Rearing is important but you have to take responsibility.

@@johnnotrealname8168 Oh, absolutely. I wasn't clear. He's definitely old enough to be responsible for his own decisions. I'm just saying that you can't say that Yzma's not the villain (or not A villain), as this video seems to imply.

I think Yzma is surely a villain an evil one at that...... but throughout most of the film I'd say Kuzco just happened to be more evil.

Tbf he wasn't wrong, Belle *did* have feelings for The Beast. It wasn't like he was making an irrational assumption.

@@theyoshifankidTrue, but it doesn’t warrant killing the Beast. It makes you wonder how we would have reacted had a human won Belle’s affections.

@@speedracer2008 Oh absolutely, by no means am I suggesting his actions were justified. Just that Gaston wasn't wrong in determining that Belle did in fact have feelings for The Beast, it didn't come from warped logic or anything. . Thinking about it now, a logical response to realizing this would be to see Belle as a bit of a weirdo. She has feelings for a non human, from his perspective not having seen her bond with The Beast, that would be a bit strange. So maybe there is something to be said that he was being a sicko by reacting with jealousy to this creature rather than being confused by Belle. . As for what he would have done if a human won Belle's affections, I think he would have done the same but probably bided his time more. With The Beast it would be easy to get the townsfolk on his side, while for a human he would need to kill him either in a secret way or by turning everyone against him so they would know but not care.

@@theyoshifankidhonestly I think because Gaston didn’t know the beast was actually a human prince is why he went so crazy is cause he ego couldn’t stand that what he considered a disgusting monster is what won Belles affections over him. He likely would have just tried harder to win over Belles affections if he realized the beast was an actual man and actually had way more than him.

It's funny how Beast and Gaston have some similarities at the start of the movie. Beast learns and grows. Gaston because worse as the movie goes on. Obviously, its who is the true beast but it's an interesting comparison.

Your friend’s mom was right

Truth!

I thought Elsa had good sense when she advised her sister Anna to not marry someone you just met.

@@melissacooper8724 Yea and quite the way for Disney to laugh at themselves.

FR that "love song" practically screamed "Dysfunctional Relationship Ahead" to anyone paying attention to the lyrics... 🤔😄

I hate tremaine as well. She doesn't even get any comeupearns

@@fishfoxIn Cinderella 3, she and Drizella are turned into frogs and when the spell is undone, they are shown wearing dresses that resemble Cinderella’s when she was a maid

There is a book in the villain series about Lady Tremaine's backstory. I won't say what happened for those who haven't read it yet, but I will say that because of it, I'll never watch the animated Cinderella ever again. To quell your curiosity, let's just say the story revealed to me what the introduction meant by "He felt she still needed a mother's care, and so he married again".

Who would say is the worse when it comes to gaslighting? Frollo, Mother Gothel or both?

@omarcogle1965. Ooh that's tough. I'm going to have to go with Frollo. That man freaked me the hell out as a kid and as an adult too tbh. He was the worst I think because he had a whole institution behind him that he could manipulate to do even more damage. At least, Mother Gothel was pretty limited to the damage she could conceivably cause and FRollo wasn't. That makes him worse imo.

There’s definitely no excuse

@@YSO992 Yep, agreed. Frollo wanted to "improve society" by committing genocide against an "inferior people," and he was driven by unyielding religious zealotry to make this happen. Mother Gothel had no such ambitions--she just wanted to retain her youth, beauty and vitality. A much less lofty, and destructive, goal...

@@pdruiz2005 I am unsure about how gypsies were treated in France (Very badly no doubt.) but the only other example I can think of is Spain and their reason for disliking gypsies is rather dry: "The Roma who insisted on maintaining a separate existence and nomadism would be incarcerated, expelled, or even sentenced to death. Although the legislation mentioned the Roma’s distinct customs, dress, and language, the most essential point of contention was domicile-establishment. According to contemporary visions, what made the Roma “dangerous” and transformed them into a group perceived as external to the Spanish commonwealth was their lack of permanent residence in recognized communities....The Roma were aware of these connections. Many argued that local citizenship was a means to acquire the “constitutions, exemptions and privileges” of natives, while others rejected their identification as Gypsies protesting that they were not foreigners. Outside observers tended to agree. The French consul in Cádiz, for example, explained that the Roma could be considered natives, but that they were usually not included in this category as long as they remained vagabonds....At stake was not so much where they lived, not even how they lived (though both things could be useful indicators), but under which legal and political conditions....Like the church (which was defined not as a building or an organization but as the community of believers), proper polities were made of the sum total of relations between authorities and members and between members among themselves; they did not include houses, or streets. They featured an adequate legal regime, a local fuero."-"Indigenous Reducciones and Spanish Resettlement: Placing Colonial and European History in Dialogue" (2018) By Tamar Herzog. It certainly had to do with religion, being good person means living in a cuidad (Yes, even for agricultural pursuits.) but it is not exactly just muh fanatic.

It's so ironic that Disney is planning to make a Spin-Off for a problematic dude while removing Li Shang, one of the most interesting characters, from the Mulan Live Action 2020 film.

@trinaq and @thelunaralchemist2563 : The prequel was actually scrapt !! .

@@giuliapicchiotti For real!? Thank God. We don’t need another remake/prequel/sequel without any appreciation (to say the least and very kindly) for the source material.

Nah the "bookshelf" got me lol 😭

Well he should hate bookshelves then not smart women

Agreed. They sacred me the most as a child.

@@lexiatel One of the most scary villains for me as a child was Medusa from "The Rescuers, even her looks gave me chills. I haven't seen the movie since I was a kid so i don't know how I would feel about her today.

@user-dq6rp4sq1u Nah she was more goofy to me as a kid. The other villain from the movie where they went to Australia was scary in my opinion. But it’s just an opinion, not trying to say your wrong or anything

The fact villains like them are more likely to appear in real life is what makes it scary especially if you are a guy who has been in male only spaces and heard them talking about women and you have a sister or daughter and now know that guys like them are real and could be targeting your sister or daughter one day. I have definitely felt the gut wrenching chill as my school bullies discuss girls in the PE locker rooms knowing my sister goes to the same high school and had made absolutely sure all the girls knew what they said unfortunately I was an unpopular geek and many of my warnings were taken as jealousy or some kind of revenge on girls who called me names, when dispite them picking on me I didn't want any of the girls to suffer what those guys had in store for them but I couldn't make them listen sadly.

​@@sawanna508Medusa has the same effect as Gaston and Frollo they are people you could definitely meet in real life just as Frollo and Gaston are predators of women Medusa is a child abuser these are people you could be living next to or pass in the street that's what makes them more scary I think.

She also raised Kuzco which lead to him being selfish so she's always bad even before she got fired.

Yeah, it was just two tyrants fighting for the throne.

I suspect she murdered his parents. She had a connection with Kuzco’s dad, by when he was young. And when he met, fell in love, and married his wife, Yama was furious. After Kuzco was born, she knew he would turn out just like his, so she figured she him as a puppet in a secret revenge plot.

I thought the same thing rewatching it as an adult, but loved it as a kid 😅

Same

Right?! I mean, sure, it's ridiculous to leave a fortune to cats, but if you just take care of them you get to spend it how you like.

There are some rich eccentric people IRL who would leave their money to their pets. As for the movie, wasn't the owner's intentions that her cats would be cared for by her butler? I mean, the cats can't fend for themselves!

As the great Dennis sayed: "They would if they had money."

He hunts half the time, he is a brute of a man, I grant that this was his lowest point.

In one remake they actually made peace. Although I would find that an interesting what if story for Disney characters.

There was also a cancelled Jungle Book DVD Trequel where Shere Khan was gonna be redeemed (maybe via him learning that not all humans are blood-thirsty killers and/or realising Mowgli is just as much of a jungle animal than he, Baloo, Bagheera, Haithi, Kaa and King Louie are)

and to think, nowadays if they made a villain like that it would be all "REEEEE WOKEISM STRIKES AGAIN DISNEY HATES MEN!"

Exactly!

Do u mean the original? Because the live-action was boring for me

Exact, that's what I don't like of Gaston, he only loves her beauty of Belle, and he is very irrespecful with her, even forcing her to marry him, threatening her father, and I feel it was like "harassment" when in her own house he tries to kiss her without her consent, I think she wouldn't have opened the door for him.

Note when he invites her to go to the tavern to go look at his trophies he’s referring to her as a trophy he wants for her beauty. He even lists what he expects of her as a wife: rubbing his feet, cooking him meals and bearing their six or seven sons

@sub-zero710 A hyper-religious perv is even scarier than a "regular" perv, though people in the latter category simply find other justifications for their abuses. (10/8/2023)

​@@daniellemusella1594 Religious perverts are scarier because the more they push down their desires but this has them coming out even more and they have a public face of being a good person. Frollo is even more scarier than that because he holds actual power, he has the ability to jail humiliate and kill anyone that keeps it from getting his way.

There are alot of people in power regardless of affiliation that make him look redeemable at least, if not fairly mundane. It's sick...

They looked the same except different hair colors, eye color, and in different dress. You should figure out why you think they look better.🥴

I think it was her looks and lack of interest. There is no way he would've wanted an ugly bride. Belle was considered beautiful by the village but also strange. Gaston is a hunter so it makes sense why he would choose Belle over the triplets.

Men like Gaston treat people, especially women, as conquests and ornaments, not as full human beings. The triplets were more than willing to be with him, and then some. That didn't attract him. They were too easy. Belle, though also beautiful, was a challenge. She was worth the trouble. And bending someone as headstrong and independent as Belle to his will would only burnish how magnificent and wonderful Gaston was as the all-powerful man.

@@pdruiz2005 Sure but he had no interest in other women. Your trophy men are not picky about conquests, they want all of them. I think he genuinely wanted to marry her and have seven or eight children (I should note that whilst this may seem large today, in the 19th Century, or 18th Century I guess, this would be completely normal especially for Catholic countries. Ireland for example had up to a third of the population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland whilst left with the potato.). He has a dysgenic guy as his best mate, I think that says something about how kind he can be.

No, unfortunately People are trying too hard to find redeeming qualities in Gaston's pursuit of Belle. The town labeled Belle as the most beautiful girl in town. Gaston deems this title is worthy for someone as "Great" as him "Because he deserves the best". You are right in your opinion for who you think is beautiful but if the Town says otherwise, Gaston wouldn't look twice at them. I bet if Belle was placed in a larger town or city of that era, she'd just be an ordinary but funny girl, thus Gaston would leave her alone. No, he does not like her for her love of books. After the Belle song, Gaston insulted her love of books. He said "It's not right for a woman to read, soon she starts getting ideas, thinking." Which adds to the idea of what Belle is to him: A trophy. Yes, he is attracted to her lack of interest but not in the way that is charming. He is a hunter, she is the prey. Her lack of interest and avoidance of him are seen as a challenge. He gets frustrated when she is not falling over him as fast as the rest of the town. To the point of trying to make her marry him by force twice (Holding a wedding outside her home without even getting her opinion, threatening to lock her father in an asylum if she doesn't). So no, Gaston isn't pursuing her because he wants to be better, he is pursuing her because it will boost his ever growing status and ego. Yes, the Beast has his issues but people are easily or willfully ignoring the walking, giant red flag that is Gaston.

Because he's a villain?? He's supposed to be unlikable

@@wendeboyd503 true but I have and can like villains.

Same. Kids can pick up on predatory vibes more easily than adults think - it's a survival instinct, not something you're taught. But being taught to be too 'nice' can quickly counteract those commonsense instincts and then they have to be re-learned in adulthood. My military parents never let me lose mine.

@@cmm5542 i like the way u put that. Kids are usually more sensitive to certain things.

Gaston was probably the most creepy out of them all he didn’t ( thankfully it was a children’s movie) aspect the word no leat it was just a cartoon especially when you become an adult it makes you have chills down your spine because men like him take advantage of women and even worse children least this was just make believe Xx

@@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt it’s 🎉it’s hard 2 weed out the jack asses

Well in the third film, Drizella (spelling idk) suggested to Lady Tremaine to beat Anastasia with a stick she found, so based on that I wouldn't be surprised if she did ever actually beat Cinderella or her own daughters

"ONE MORE FRIGGING DAY" So true. So many stupid decisions drive a lot of plots forward. Why did Gothel even tell Rapunzel her actual birthday? Just move it a bit and she wouldn't have gone all "these lights that happen every year on my birthday must mean something!" Elsa's parents could have.... not made her feel ashamed about her abilities her entire life; might have been a good idea. Merryweather I forgive the writers for though; she was impulsive and acted without thinking throughout, so was at least consistent there.

Hook is still a villain as he as murdered his own men and tries to kill kids , sure Peter is a brat but most kids are. And about Merryweather considering who Maleficent is why would they want her as she could have curse the baby for any little reason

I don't understand why the fairies had to hide Aurora in the forest anyway. I mean, Maleficent already cursed Aurora as a baby! What else can she do besides wait until Aurora is 16 for the curse to happen?

@@melissacooper8724I'm guessing it was a better safe than sorry thing

I watched at 7 am traumatized

Honestly that explains why that movie traumatized me and why I haven’t watched it since

For me, I was immediately suspicious when he said, "I love crazy." No man ever says he loves crazy.

That's because we've been socially conditioned to believe love 'can't' be immediate. Which is a relatively new development in less than 50 years of history, which isn't really long enough to test anything's sociological impact properly. And actually, attraction develops within four minutes. The only reason you need to take longer is to check the other person's MORALS, as Anna finds out, not because 'falling in love' is actually a long process, scientifically speaking.

Indeed. And it’s what makes them interesting and “realistic”.

@@LucienSabre Yeah but being a villain is bad since they have bad mental health compared to heroes and are dark reflections of them and the heroes are more relatable and interesting than the villains since they made mistakes like real people, are nicer and have better mental health and character develop alongside some henchmen. Villains aren't mostly reflections of reality but there is evil in the world, almost no one goes to sleep thinking oh can I do evil tomorrow evil laugh, everyone thinks is doing the right thing.

@@spongebobcoolduke1537 Sure it (being a villain) is bad, but some villains are pretty relatable too - and even less have “bad mental health”….of course I don’t mean _root for the villain,_ but many Disney villains are so memorable exactly because they’re equally interesting, relatable and well-developed as the heroes.

@@LucienSabre When you put it that way, I agree and Yes that's true.

Interesting fact: the Evil Empire in Star Wars is also modeled after Nazis.

The only difference is that Claudius is regretful while Scar is purely evil and wicked.

@@DavidBContentExtravaganza3967 True

​@@DavidBContentExtravaganza3967Scar is not evil. He restored natural order by inviting the hyenas, aka nature's cleaners, back to the pridelands. He also established a system of succession based on merit rather than strength.

​@@vetarlittorf1807Killing his brother, conning his nephew into running away & the Hitler/Nazi parallels prove otherwise.

​@@dolleyes5062Animals kill each other all the time and the Nazi imagery proves nothing. The final scene in Star Wars A New Hope was directly taken from the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, but that doesn't make the rebels evil.

I actually love rewatching Disney movies as an adult. They are masterpieces and for me this shows in their capability to deal with serious topics, creating stakes, terrifiying villains and flawed, loveable heros and heroines while still being a light and fun experience for the whole family. This is great cinema ❤

I watched as a kid I was terrified 1. Hellfire 2. Him Murdering someone at the beginning 3. His death I don’t like that movie anymore

@@dogqueen1247 Was it murder or an execution?

@@johnnotrealname8168 in the beginning he murders Quasimodos mother, throwing her down the stairs of the church. It's definitely not an execution and I think it's one of the most graphic scenes in a Disney movie, because you see someone dying.

@@Teufelspentagramm The @#£%? WoW! I did not expect that.

i commented on that. And my aunt and I decided it was inappropriate for my cousin, who was seven, at the time it came out.

@@clarky23 Yeah. It didn't affect me too much and this is me thinking in hindsight. There's also the possibility that it probably went over my head at 8 and I was actually a bit older when I started noticing things.

Kids aren't going to pick up on it anyway kids don't have that level of social skill comprehension regardless of how high their IQ is. Take me for an example my mom said when I was younger I literally potty trained myself I decided one day I wasn't going to wear diapers anymore, I had one accident and from that day on I was using the toilet without her help. But even I didn't pick up on this kind of stuff in movies because IQ and social skill comprehension are two totally different things altogether. One deals with how smart you actually are and one deals with how you perceive other people in a socially conditioned way in a socially conditioned society after you are properly socially conditioned by that society. Which doesn't typically happen until you're a teenager and will know all of this thanks to your friends in high school anyway.

@@TheIconicFisherman fair point.

Disney picked up quite some dark source material that time.

Exactly! They ruined her in the live action because Maleficent just liked being evil. If they invited her she would’ve done the same exact thing and laughed that they were dumb enough to invite her.

​@@user-pl3ov4vx3hEXACTLY!

Not only ended him, she fired a rocket at him at essentially point blank range. Mulan is complete badass. Today’s generation has a different concept of” body count” nah guys she literally wiped out an entire army by burying them alive then fired a rocket at the leader 😂

Maybe it was tactless but let’s be honest Maleficent is the only Disney villain who is just evil for the sake of being evil. She just enjoys it. She’s the best villain because she wants to be a villain. Sleeping Beauty will always be my favorite Classic Disney Princess movie because I loved the prince and the villain, but even as a kid I never thought she had any plans other than causing some trouble even if she had been invited or Merryweather hadn’t told her she “wasn’t wanted”.

Yeah definitely

I see him as a necromancer: he steals and animates dead children

@@katarinawikholm5873 that's kinda worst

I agree. I knew from the first time I watched Beauty and the Beast at age four that Gaston was meant to be an example of who NOT to date when I grew up. So I haven't dated any Gastons in my life. Pretty simple!

He did in the sequel

@@nicholassims9837only because Wendy’s daughter made him

@@ultimatebishoujo29 that still counts

@spongebobco…, in Kuzco’s defense, he never had a good parent to learn the positives from until he met Pacha and his family.

@@ninademci1500 Yes indeed he had no real parents and he character develops when he meets Pacha and his family and becomes a better person

Jafar only really saw Jasmine as a means to an end

Because Peter thought it would be funny

​@@ultimatebishoujo29Actually that's just what SMEE says; I always assumed it happened during a fight and Hook refused to accept responsibility for it.

My mom agreed with you when it came out. I never saw it until I was an adult; and then didn't finish it. In the book Frollo is actually a sympathetic villain because he is FORCED to be celibate as a priest. So he can't ask Esmeralda to be his girlfriend. He gets all twisted up trying to suppress his natural desires until he finally blames her for it - didn't start out that way. For once Disney actually made the villain WORSE than the original!

who said it was

Yes! I always felt horrified.

They are pirates

@@nicholassims9837 Do you think the peg legs and hook hands were there for jokes and appearances sake? Piracy wasn't exactly a childish safe career

@@demonprincess9680 They are cartoon pirates plus maybe what they view as childish is different from what we view it as

when the child is raised by faeries. Everyone forgets peter pan hangs out mostly with the fey and mermaids. That's where he's getting his moral/ social cues.

Not exactly. Gaston had a legitimate interest in Belle, even if that interest was as a trophy/conquest. Jafar only saw Jasmine as a means to an end, i.e. putting *his* butt on the throne (with Jasmine and the Sultan conveniently disposed of). It wasn't even his idea- his loudmouth Scarlet Macaw came up with it!

@@MsBee-iw3qwthat’s true

I'm researching for a historical novel on him. I don't think John was actually the most evil of his brothers; and Richard was no saint.

So we're chopping off body parts now ?

@@susannairisastarte5192 But but it was just some “childish mischief” 🤦‍♀️ Peter Pan always creeped me out and that was before I read the real story where he is bad.

He was still a villain in the prequel Tinker bell Pirate fairly movie

I always thought it happened in a fight; not something Pan did 'for fun.' I feel like everyone is overlooking that it was SMEE, Hook's henchman, who is saying this. And while Peter is a more authoritative leader in the book, and rather self-absorbed (like the original Mary Poppins), he's certainly not evil. He takes good care of his 'family' and it's made clear he fights fair while Hook does not. So if he lost his hand in fair fight to Peter, I don't get the condemnation. Would it have been preferable for Hook to kill him when he wasn't fighting back?

@@cmm5542 agree

Even in later media, it shows.

His motives were always horrible. That’s why he is the villain

@@ClausMichaelFastingyup