Toon Talk Special: Disney's 50 Most Wanted Villains - Part 1 - Oct 28, 2005

Toon Talk Special: Disney's 50 Most Wanted Villains - Part 1
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ALAMEDA SLIM

Film: Home on the Range (2004)
Voice Actor: Randy Quaid
Supervising Animator: Dale Baer
DVD: Available

He’s the “real rip-roarin’ deal to those who moo�?, a fancy pants cattle rustler with his sites set on buying up the entire territory. Armed with a hypnotic knack for the art of yodeling, Slim unknowingly crosses the wrong critters: a determined trio of bovine bounty hunters out to save their farm from his dastardly designs.

Partners in Crime: The Willie Brothers, Mr. Wesley.
Gotta Sing-Sing: “Yodel-Adle-Eedle-Idle-Oo�?
Quote: “Call me crazy, but I think these cows got it in for me!�?
Final Verdict: Smacked down by the barnyard animals, Slim is arrested and hauled off by the sheriff.

GLUTTONY

Whether it is a hunger for supremacy or, more likely, just a taste of the lead character, these villains are starving to death. Blood thirsty? You have no idea.

THE BIG BAD WOLF

Film: Three Little Pigs (1933)
Voice Actor: Billy Bletcher
DVD: Walt Disney’s Timeless Tales, Volume 1

You would think that with a hit song about him, the Big Bad would get more respect, or at least some pork rinds. All that huffin’ and puffin’ can take a lot out of a wolf, not to mention those clever disguises (an innocent sheep, a Fuller Brush man) take some talent to pull off as well. And what dedication: he comes back for more in three follow-up shorts.

Partners in Crime: The three little wolves (in subsequent shorts)
Quote: “By the hair on your chinny-chin-chin, I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in!�?
Final Verdict: Slides down the chimney of Practical Pig’s house, right into a pot of boiling oil, sending him howling into the distance.

THE WOLF

Film: Peter and the Wolf segment, Make Mine Music (1946)
DVD: Available

Certainly one of the most ferocious creatures in Disney lore, this wolf is also the only villain on this list to share title billing with the hero of their story. He’s a hungry one, too - he wants to gobble up all of Peter’s friends - but hey, that’s only natural for this carnivorous predator.

Final Verdict: Young Peter is the local hero when he captures the beast by lashing him to a tree.

BRE’R FOX and BRE’R BEAR

Film: Song of the South (1946)
Voice Actors: James Baskett and Nicodemus Stewart
DVD: Not available … still

The Abbott and Costello of the Briar Patch, these two are actually their own worst enemies. In their persistent pursuit of the scrawny Bre’r Rabbit (who would hardly be much of a meal for either of them, let alone both), they are consistently tripping each other up - putting their collective foot in the tar, if you will.

Quote: Bre’r Fox: “I got ’im this time!�?
Bre’r Bear: “I'm gonna knock his head clean off!�?
Final Verdict: Outfoxed by Bre’r Rabbit’s “Laughing Place�? scam, they get on the wrong end of a hive of angry bees.

“BIG BOY�? CAPRICE

Film: Dick Tracy (1990)
Actor: Al Pacino
DVD: Available

The Godfather of Four Color crime, “Big Boy�? didn’t earn his nickname from his big pronouncements, but from metaphorically devouring his opponents, as in a mobster massacre to rival St. Valentine’s. He’s back in business and on top of the world, ma, “leetle friend�? ablazin’. But, mother of mercy, is Dick Tracy the end of “Big Boy�??

Partners in Crime: Mumbles, Flat Top, et al.
Gotta Sing-Sing: “More�? (which he warbles while trying to teach Breathless Mahoney and her chorines the number)
Quote: (To the other gangsters) “You get behind me, we all profit; you challenge me, we all go down! There was one Napoleon, one Washington, one me!�?
Final Verdict: In the final showdown with that pesky do-gooder Tracy, “Big Boy�? falls to his doom.