Evil Uncle / Animated Films

• Barbie movies:
  • Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses: Duchess Rowena is technically their first cousin once removed, but she acts the part for the twelve royal sisters.
  • In Barbie in A Christmas Carol, the "Jacob Marley" role goes to Eden's aunt Marie, her abusive guardian who raised her to be "a perfectly selfish ninny", in her ghost's words. In flashbacks to Marie in life, she's a vicious Stage Mom who controls every aspect of the girl's life and cuts her off from her friends to make her into London's next great songstress.
  • Merliah's nemesis in Barbie in a Mermaid Tale is her aunt Eris, who usurped the throne of Merliah's mother.
  • Blair Willows of Barbie: Princess Charm School learns that she has this dynamic with Dame Devin upon learning she is truly the long-lost princess Sophia.
• Disney:
  • The Lion King: Scar is probably one of the most famous examples, murdering his brother and afterwards attempting to murder his nephew in order to take the throne, all based on Hamlet.
  • Subverted in Encanto with Bruno. He’s built up to be an omen towards his family and the locals because his prophecies depicted bad things happening. Mirabel almost believes it until she met and interacted with him. She finds out that all the things she heard were just rumors and that Bruno is a loving man who tried to use his prophetic gift to help others, including his family. He also turns out to be protective of Mirabel and was ready to get into an argument with his own mother if it meant keeping his niece from being ostracized like him.
  • Hercules: Hades. The movie never mentions it, but Hades is technically Zeus' brother (Hell, most of the Greek gods are related), so he's Hercules' uncle and MAN, he's evil. He tries to usurp his brother Zeus, tries to kill Hercules lots of times, enslaves demons and mortals, and plans to rearrange the cosmos upon taking control of Olympus.
    • The TV series frequently mentions that Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are brothers. For some reason though, the uncle/nephew relationship between Hercules and Hades is glossed over.
    • Though it must be said, Hades was Hercules' uncle as well in the original myths, but it was Hera rather than Hades who was the main antagonist in the story. Granted, Hera is Hercules's aunt (and stepmother).
  • In the Finale Movie of Teacher's Pet, the main villain is a Mad Scientist named Dr. Ivan Krank, who also happens to be the uncle of Leonard and Spot's classmate Ian.
• In Felix the Cat: The Movie, the main antagonist the Duke of Zill is Princess Oriana's uncle.
• Isle of Dogs: Downplayed with Mayor Kobayashi. Even though he's the Big Bad of the movie, he takes in Atari (his nephew) when his parents are killed in an accident, even going so far as to give him a guard dog in spite of his hatred of dogs. He even sends his own army to Trash Island to rescue Atari when he realizes that the boy had flown there. Seeing what Atari had gone through on Trash Island with the dogs and hearing his haiku is enough for him to admit his wrongdoings, cancelling his decree to keep the dogs on the island, and donating a kidney to Atari.
• The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire: Petrie's uncle Pterano complete with eyebags, long fingers, and an English Accent. Except for the killing bit, but he does kidnap Ducky... and then saves her in the end, so he's not evil. He's got his regrets.
• Subverted with Aunt Figg from Tom and Jerry: The Movie. While she's referred to as "aunt," Robyn Starling confirms she's not actually related to the woman. It's implied that Figg was originally Robyn's nanny hired to look after her by Mr. Starling. When Robyn's dad was seemingly killed in an avalanche, Figg and her Amoral Attorney Mr. Lickboot tried to take advantage of the situation to gain access to Robyn's trust fund as her only parental guardian. As such, Figg is completely horrible to the girl to the point she repeatedly runs away from home, but knows how to put on the façade of being a sweet, caring old lady worried for the safety of her charge. It never once dawns on her to keep using the façade while she's in Robyn's presence so she'll have free range to spend the Starling money.

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