Darth Vader can be considered the greatest villain of all time for a plethora of reasons, namely his appearance, his iconic voice, his immense strength and his unrelenting rage. However, The Emperor was the driving force behind Vader's actions, on top of ruling with an iron fist.
1. Scar ('The Lion King')
Maleficent is known to be the most powerful Disney villain. She describes her own skills as “All the powers of Hell.” Her powers are all magic based. With her staff she can conjure up spells for example projection, divination, telepathy, superhuman strength, petrification, protection charms and teleportation.
1 Cruella de Vil (One Hundred and One Dalmatians)
Maleficent and Aurora have a close relationship, like a mother-daughter relationship. Even after learning Maleficent's identity and going away from her, after realizing that her father, Stefan, does not show any love or genuine care for her, Aurora sees Maleficent as her fairy godmother.
Based on our analysis, Evil Queen is the most beautiful canon Disney supervillain on this list. According to her magic mirror, she's the second most beautiful woman, next to Snow White.
Professor Ratigan. Possibly the smartest, or at least one of the smartest, Disney villains of all time, Professor Ratigan almost had the crown of England's royalty sitting on his head in THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE.
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.
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.
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.
The Pure Evil villain is a type of villain that is considered to be one of, if not the most evil character(s) in the story with no redeeming qualities. A villain who is Pure Evil is completely evil.
The villain in your story is the character whose primary motivation is malicious destruction. They're usually the main antagonist of the story, causing the biggest source of conflict for the hero.
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.
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.
Overall, Maleficent is probably considered the favorite Disney villain overall and even has her own franchise.
Queen Grimhilde (Queen Ingrid' in Mirror, Mirror (A Twisted Tale)), more commonly known across popular media as The Evil Queen or simply The Queen, is the main antagonist of Disney's 1st full-length animated feature film Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, which is based on the 1812 German fairytale Snow White by the ...
Stefan later betrayed her and stole her wings, so he would be able to become the new king. Stefan later married Leila, Henry's daughter, and she became his wife and queen. Maleficent, enraged from his betrayal, placed a curse on his newborn daughter, that when she will turn 16, she will fall to a sleep like death.
The Maleficent version of King Stefan was initially good, but he became an evil villain. When Stefan was first crowned king after cutting off Maleficent's wings, until Aurora's christening, he appeared to be just a wise king, but that all changed quickly when Maleficent cursed his infant daughter Aurora.
Plot. Maleficent is a powerful fairy living in the Moors, a magical forest realm bordering a human kingdom. As a child, she meets a human peasant boy named Stefan, and they both fall in love with each other.