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In General
Various evil-doers who make life hell for the inhabitants of Forever After.
- Card-Carrying Villain: Most of them aren't subtle about their evilness. The Wicked Witch especially seems to revel in being mean and petty.
- Hero Killer: Most of them have been responsible for the deaths of every Prince Charming. Some of them like the Witches even meddle with stories outside of theirs to kill other Princes.
- Obviously Evil: It doesn't take a high IQ to identify them as bad guys.
- Pointy Ears: The villains' ears are very long and pointy, making them look more inhuman.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Whenever their eyes go pitch black, you can expect something to go wrong.
Main Villains
Thirteenth Wise Woman
Hira
"Quite a party, girls... I must have missed my invite"
The thirteenth Wise Woman and the villain of Sleeping Beauty's fairy tale. She cursed the titular princess out of anger over not being invited to the celebration held in honor of Sleeping Beauty's birth.
- Armor-Piercing Question: Asks a number of them when Robin confronts her, starting with her questioning why Robin even cares that she curses people, why she's seemingly not allowed to torment people less clever than her and what makes her relatively painless curse that much worse than Briar Rose's parents severe mismanagement of their kingdom.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She curses a baby to one day fall into eternal slumber because she didn't get invited to a party. Aside from the fact that this is a major overreaction, it's hardly baby Sleeping Beauty's fault that his parents chose to not invite Hira.
- Evil Is Petty: Curses an infant to get back at the parents for not inviting her to the baby shower. She also refuses to lift the curse after having promised to do so when Robin comes back with the Queen of Hearts' wig because she enjoys having the kingdom in her grasp and seeing the beautiful queen drool in her sleep.
- Green and Mean: Green is her main theme color, and she's the main villain of Sleeping Beauty's story.
- Hot Witch: A very attractive magic user who loves showing off her body with form-fitting outfits.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Robin correctly deduces in episode 39 that most of Hira's bad attitude is the result of her feeling always excluded and looked down on by others.
- It's Personal: She has no love for the Wicked Witch. Because he murdered her mentor Bastinda and took her place in her fairy tale.
- Karma Houdini: Hira never faces any actual consequences for cursing a child and an entire kingdom over a petty grudge against the other Wise Women. In fact, in a way she's rewarded for it, as the curse is so strong that the heroes are forced to indulge her until she lifts it. And due to the nature of the curse, no one even realizes what Hira did after waking up.
- The Bad Guy Wins:
- Temporarily, at least. Robin and Tank are unable to keep Briar from activating his curse, which leads to the castle being overgrown by brambles and all of its inhabitants falling into a deep slumber. Robin and Tank are forced to retreat and wait a hundred years before they can continue the fairy tale.
- Zig-zagged in the end. Hira lifts her curse on Robin's behest to give the other Wise Women another chance to prove they don't dislike her. When she continues lifting it, the king and queen apologize for their behavior, Briar comes to admire her for her power and it's implied he'll become her student. So in a way, the bad guy did "win", even after her curse was lifted and her story got an happily ever after.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: In episode 38 she calls Robin (and Prince Charmings in general) out on only viewing the people of Forever After as story characters she has to appease to go home instead of actual people.
- Statuesque Stunner: A very attractive witch who towers over everyone around her.
- Villain Has a Point:
- While her reaction to it isn't justified, you can kind of see why she'd be angry over being the only Wise Woman who wasn't invited to the party, simply because the king and queen were too lazy to make one additional golden plate for her.
- Her remark about the blessing of beauty being kind of superfluous since Sleeping Beauty's parents are already good-looking and would have passed that on to her is also pretty on the mark.
- She's also not wrong when she describes the king and queen as basically bumbling idiots who should never have become parents, let alone rulers over an entire country.
- Would Hurt a Child: She cursed Briar when he was a baby and made sure the curse would come true when he was fifteen years old.
Mother Gothel
Gothel
"The beautiful bird sits no longer in the nest"
A garden-themed Witch and the villain of Rapunzel's fairy tale. She kept Rapunzel stuck in a tower for years.- Evil Old Folks: An older woman who took a baby from its desperate parents as payment and attacks the Prince Charmings coming to Rapunzel's rescue.
- Flowery Elizabethan English: She speaks in the old English language.
- Purple Is Powerful: An evil witch who has presumably done in at least one Prince Charming and whose primary color is purple.
The Sea Witch
Echinoidea
- Ambiguously Evil: While her offering Aurelia legs that will cause her immeasurable pain with every step certainly isn't a good thing to do, she never forces Aurelia into anything and doesn't seem to actively go after her to take the deal or sabotage her like many of the other villains do to the princesses in their stories. That being said, the Wicked Witch refers to her as a "a real piece of work", and it's shown that she killed off a previous Prince in Episode 29, so make of that what you will.
- The Ghost: She is mentioned several times by the other characters in the story, but since Aurelia decides not to seek her out in the end, she never actually appears in person. Subverted when she returns in the second season as a part of Damian's army.
Makemnoit
Makemnoit
"Cursed. Blessed. It depends how you look at it."
A witch who is the villain of the Light Princess. She cursed Coira, the titular princess, to lose her gravity.- Black Sheep: Her family is ashamed of her for being a "magic-wielding spinster" which is the reason why she wasn't invited to her niece's christening.
- Dark Is Evil: A villainess who wears an all-black dress.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Downplayed. Similar to Hira, Makemnoit responded to not being invited to a party by cursing a baby with a life-long ailment. However, the cursed princess herself doesn't actually seem to mind being cursed and it's more her parents, specifically Makemnoit's brother, who take an issue with it.
- Early-Bird Cameo: She can be seen harassing the Fates alongside Hira in episode 19.
- Evil Aunt: She's the Light Princess' aunt and also the witch who cursed her. Downplayed, as neither Makemnoit nor Coira really view what was done to Coira as a curse. Of course, Coira is unable to be upset about it due its very nature.
- Evil Is Petty: Just like Hira, she repaid an injustice done to her by cursing the perpetrators child, who had nothing to do with the whole affair.
- Freudian Excuse: Her family dismissed her for her interest in magic, so she became a witch.
- Get Out!: Yells this at the Wicked Witch when he tells her that Hira won't wait for her forever.
- Insistent Terminology: She never calls the Wicked Witch by his title, only referring to him as "The Usurper". This is because he stole his position by murdering the original Wicked Witch who was her best friend's mentor.
- Insult Backfire: In episode 60 Tank yells at her that she's just like Hira, meaning her selfish and petty attitude. Makemnoit takes it as a compliment.
- It's Personal: She has a deep-seated hatred for the Wicked Witch due to him killing Hira's mentor Bastinda, who was the original Wicked Witch of the West.
- Karma Houdini: Similar to Hira, Makemnoit faces no consequences for her actions once her fairy tale is resolved, despite her curse almost leading to a young woman drowning and her own niece being nigh emotionless for her entire life.
- Villainous Friendship: She's shown to be good friends with Hira, to the point she gets insulted on Hira's behalf when Tank calls her a witch instead of a Wise Woman.
- What Is Evil?: When Tank calls her out for cursing a baby for something her father did, Makemnoit merely replies that the difference between being cursed and being blessed is in the eye of the beholder.
The Queen of Hearts
"Off with everyone's head! Off with every head in the kingdom!"
One of the monarchs of Wonderland. A spoiled tyrant with a bad temper.- Adaptational Species Change: In the book the Queen of Hearts was really a playing card and/or one of Alice's small cats in the real world. In Forever After's version of the story, the queen is a regular human like Alice and Wonderland seems to be a shared dream of them both, as when everything and everyone turns into their real world counterparts, only Alice, Tank, Robin and the queen remain.
- Break the Haughty: During Alice's trial, Alice not only counters every single accusation of hers with hard logic, but also correctly deduces that the queen doesn't actually know her wig was stolen, has no proof against them and, last but not least, that the queen isn't actually the almighty Hanging Judge she thinks she is, but instead a spoiled Womanchild whom everyone has been indulging for far too long. This causes Wonderland and the queen's castle to break apart, leaving the queen as what she truly is: a devastated, lonely woman forced to abandon her fantasy-land and finally grow up.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She wants to behead the knave because she suspects him of having stolen her execution wig. This goes over to wanting to behead Alice when her subjects claim only an outsider would steal from her, to screaming for the heads of every subject in her kingdom because no one knows where Alice is.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: As in the original story, the queen is anything but a merciful ruler. Her subjects live in fear of her and she's ready to execute pretty much anyone if they so much as annoy her.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Something relatively trivial like one of her wigs being stolen sends her into enough of a homicidal rage to order all her subjects (and Alice) beheaded.
- Hanging Judge: In the trial she calls up for the knave she is seemingly judge, jury and executioner and she starts screaming for his head the second it starts. In fact, her default reaction to any crime, no matter how small it might be, is to immediately order the offending party to be beheaded. Subverted, as Alice eventually figures out that the Queen never actually executed anyone. The king has been pardoning everyone behind her back and the card soldiers only pretended to follow her orders to indulge her.
- Off with His Head!: Screams this verbatim as her introductory line.
- Psychopathic Womanchild: She wants everything done her way as soon as she demands it and throws homicidal tantrums when she thinks she's been wronged.
- Wicked Heart Symbol: Her kingdom, her subjects and her person all carry heart-symbols, her title is the Queen of Hearts and she's an ill-tempered despot.
Aladdin's "Auntie"
- Addled Addict: She craves magic power and becomes noticeably more unhinged the longer she has to wait for her next fix (the lamp, in this case). Lea even describes her as "shaking like an addict" during the time they wait for Aladdin to come back from the Cave of Wonders.
- Bald of Evil: She is completely bald and obviously doesn't mean Aladdin well.
- Bald Mystic: A powerful sorceress with not a single hair on her head.
- Because Destiny Says So: She claims only Aladdin can open and enter the Cave of Wonders because "it is destined".
- Blatant Lies: She is very obviously not Aladdin's aunt and merely needs the girl to get her the magic lamp.
- Femme Fatalons: She wears rings on her left hand that make it seem like she has golden claws.
- Gender Flip: The sorcerer who tricked Aladdin was a man in the original story.
- Kick the Dog:
- When Aladdin shows hesitance opening the summoned cave, she presses the girl on it, caring nothing for her so-called niece's reservations.
- After the rope ladder breaks, she takes advantage of Aladdin being trapped in the cave and refuses to help her up unless she hands over the lamp, while simultaneously attacking Lea when she tries to help Aladdin.
- Long-Lost Relative: She claims to be Aladdin's aunt who has been living on the Barbary Coast until recently. Subverted as it's very obvious she's lying through her teeth.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: She is only ever addressed as "auntie" by Aladdin. We never find out what her actual name is.
- There's No Place Like Home: In the end it's revealed that her addiction to magic came from a desire to accumulate enough of it to return to her homeland.
Dragon Prince
- Big Bad Duumvirate: Formed one consisting of him and his mother in his original fairy tale.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He's shown to really care about his mother and didn't want her worrying about his absence.
- Green-Eyed Monster: His introduction has him fuming over his love interest the Flower Princess dancing with someone else. This eventually escalates into him attempting to kill them, see If I Can't Have You… below.
- If I Can't Have You…: When he realizes the Flower Princess has chosen Summer over him, he flies into a jealous rage, transforms into a dragon and tries to kill them both.
- Lean and Mean: A rather gangly fellow and one of his story's main villains.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: He has the ability to turn into a gigantic fire-breathing dragon and is one of the villains of his story.
- Villainous Crush: In his own fairy tale he was in love with the Flower Princess. The feeling was not mutual, much to his anger.
Old Drybones
Death
- Disproportionate Retribution: Anansi and Lea helped themselves to some of the soup Drybones seemingly wasn't eating anyway. He proceeds to try and eat them alive in retaliation.
- Ghostly Gape: Once he starts getting hungry his mouth opens disturbingly wide, making his whole face look like a pitch-black maw.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The soup cooking in his hut is all but stated to be made out of human blood, bones and meat. Later on when he's hungry he tries to eat Lea alive, then Anansi when the latter returns the next day.
- Lean and Mean: He's a skeletal old man who hoards food he doesn't actually need and answers to harmless pranks with murderous intent.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Despite being the embodiment of Death, he can be easily avoided by climbing somewhere high up and out of his reach. He's also pretty easy to dupe.
The Wicked Witch of the West (Spoilers!)
Bastinda
- Crazy-Prepared: Had Hira keep a potion on her to restore her memories in case she was revived. Said potion also activates if not drank in case she wouldn't willingly take it.
- Early-Bird Cameo: We actually see her long before learning her name, during Tank's explanation of how witches work in episode 29.
- Gone Horribly Right: She was the one who turned the Wicked Witch from a Prince Charming into a villain. Unfortunately for her, he decided he liked the power too much to share and murdered her to take her place. Subverted. We later find out Bastinda let Damian kill her and take her place so he wouldn't be reset with the story after losing his role of Prince Charming.
- Hero Killer: If Tank's flashback in episode 29 is anything to go off of, she's put several Prince Charmings in the ground.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She let Damian kill her with a bucket of water, so he could take over her role in the story and realize their plan to change Forever After's cruel system.
- Posthumous Character: By the time the series begins, she has already been killed.
- Walking Spoiler: Her very existence is a spoiler that the male Wicked Witch isn't the original.
Rothbart
Baron von Rothbart
- Dark Is Evil: A selfish sorceress wearing a black dress and dark-colored accessories.
- Gender Flip: A man in the originial story, a woman here.
- It's All About Me: Rothbart doesn't really care who gets hurt in her experiments, as long as her scientific curiosity is satisfied.
- Laser-Guided Karma: In the version of the story Robin and her group visit, Rothbart was turned into a swan and stuffed into a birdcage by Odette. The very same thing she did to him over and over again.
- Never My Fault: She has no idea why Odette would be mad enough at her to turn her own swan curse on her and take over her workshop. After all, she "only" turned him into a swan against his will. And it was for an experiment on love so really what's he so upset about?
- Non-Indicative Name: "Rothbart" is German for "Redbeard". This Rothbart is neither a ginger nor does she have a beard.
- Oh, Crap!: Her reaction when Odette turns himself back into a human.
- We Have Reserves: When Tank and Robin call her out for her treatment of Odette, Rothbart shrugs it off by claiming that there are dozens of princesses and that no one is going to care about one or two going missing.
Minor Villains
Demon Trees
"Oh, not the trees again" - Snow White
A bunch of evil living trees under the Wicked Witch's command.
- Hero Killer: According to Tank and Snow White, they were responsible for the death of Robin's predecessor. They very nearly get her too.
- Treants: They're bloodthirsty evil tree-monsters whom the Wicked Witch regularly employs to dispose of the Prince Charmings who come to Snow White's hut.
- When Trees Attack: The Wicked Witch summons them to keep Robin from finishing Snow White. This is apparently not the first time he's done this, as both Snow White and Tank note that the last Prince Charming didn't stand a chance against them.
The Briars
- Botanical Abomination: A gigantic hedge born from a curse that can entrap people and grow eyeballs.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: At some point the briars grew eyes on themselves that follow Robin's and Tank's every movement.
- Garden of Evil: It forms one around Briar Rose's castle, preventing Robin and Tank from entering.
- Hellish Pupils: The briars have snake-like eyes with red, slanted pupils.
- It Can Think: Implied. It seems to go straight after the human inhabitants of the castle and at one point eats Robin's sword when she tries to hack it to pieces. Appears to be Subverted in episode 26 when Hira points out that they aren't sentient, but the briars still do things like develop eyes to better watch the heroes and snap at Tank when he suggests burning them down, putting that claim into question.
- Man-Eating Plant: Downplayed. It doesn't eat people, but anyone it traps within itself falls into a deep slumber that can only be broken once it's defeated.
Demon Army
- Always Chaotic Evil: All of them are evil monsters who seem to enjoy terrifying and enslaving humans.
- Conservation of Ninjutsu: Despite outnumbering Momotaro and his companions, the army is incapable of overwhelming or even harming them during battle, with the only successful attack against the heroes coming from the Wicked Witch's magic.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The heroes make short work of them once the fighting starts.
- Youkai: The army consists of various kinds of them, including but not limited to Oni, Bakeneko and Nekomata and Yurei.
