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Politically Incorrect Villains in animated movies.


  • Asterix and the Vikings: Viking society, as a whole, is shown to be extremely sexist, where women have to stay home while men go raiding and pillaging, and before marriage they are physically dragged to the altar (sometimes By the Hair) against their will. Women are also not allowed to inherit wealth or rank, which is why the cleric Cryptograf wants to make her son Olaf marry the chieftain's daughter so that he can become a Heir-In-Law.
  • Gaston in Beauty and the Beast is very quickly established as a chauvinistic pig: "It's not right for a woman to read. Soon she starts getting ideas and thinking." This turns out to be just the tip of the iceberg for a thoroughly nasty piece of work. There may have been a dose of sour grapes in there as well. The look he gives the book after he snatches it out of Belle's hands would seem to imply that it is well above his reading level.
  • Coonskin by Ralph Bakshi, being an animated Blaxploitation Parody film, had many racist characters and racial stereotypes throughout the movie. But we see the most blatant example in Officer Madigan, a cop of the mobs payroll. He's both racist and homophobic even towards the son of his mob boss who is a blatant homosexual. He goes as far as to refuse to bathe before meeting with some black street level thugs who also work for his boss (in his words, they ain't worth it). He gets a combo of Death by Racism and Color Me Black, when "Brother Rabbit" drugs him with some acid leaving him in full blackface, armed, and wearing a dress. This caused him to fly off the handle and shoot it out with some other cops and get riddled with bullets.
    • There's also Simple Savior, who spouts phony pro-black propaganda, and claims to be cousin to Black Jesus. He uses this scam to con "donations" from the people of Harlem so he can "buy guns to kill whites". In reality his money gets kicked up to the mafia who gladly exploit and oppress Harlem to their disposal.
    Doorman: This here's where Simple Savior runs his black revolution, brother. Natural black Jesus is the reverend's cousin, too. He gives people the strength to kill whites.
    Brother Bear: Kill whites? You hear that shit? Any whites?
    Doorman: Yeah, any whites.
    Brother Bear: Ain't this a bitch?
    Preacher Fox: Anyone we want?
    Brother Bear: Ain't this a bitch!
    Preacher Fox: Huh. We can kill anyone we want?
    Doorman: Any whites.
  • King Runeard, Elsa and Anna's grandfather, is identified as one of these in Frozen II. He hated and feared the Northuldra people because they lived in harmony with magic, and therefore he imagined they would try rebelling against him. So what did Runeard do to subjugate the Northuldra? He built a dam to deprive their land of water and weaken them, and when the Northuldra leader tried negotiating with him, he lured him away from the rest of his people and killed him from behind. His actions are the reason the Enchanted Forest and Arendelle were separated from one another by a veil of mist, and why the elemental spirits are attacking Arendelle at the start of the film.
  • Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He wins extra points for being a genocidal racist. To be fair, while it is an unnecessary addition to the original character, the movie actually bends the plot around his racism — it launches the plot by being the reason he gets stuck with Quasimodo in the first place (he chases and murders Quasi's mother coldly because he's racist); his attempted genocide helps to bond Esmeralda and Quasimodo while also pushing Phoebus to betray him; and it adds an extra layer to his crisis of faith about his lust for Esmeralda.
  • Inverted in Mulan. Shan-Yu is one of the few male characters in the movie to never say anything sexist against Mulan, and he seems to appreciate her bravery. This could be because the Huns and other Steppe societies were less sexist against women than the Chinese, and while the women were generally expected to stay home, they were also respected as warriors in their own right and were more than capable of defending themselves while the men were away.
  • NIMONA (2023): The Director framed Ballister for murdering the Queen because she saw the Queen's desire to allow commoners to join the ranks of the knights (Ballister being the first) as an existential threat to the Kingdom that would ruin the kingdom through Slippery-Slope logic. She also seems to see the Kingdom's citizens as necessary casualties when Nimona starts rampaging through the city in the climax.
  • Peter Pan: Captain Hook refers to the Native Americans on Never Land as "redskins". With the movie being a product of The '50s, that term would certainly make him one today.
  • Governor Ratcliffe's entire character from Pocahontas represents the cruelty of European colonization. The lyrics to the song "Savages", describes Native Americans in disparaging ways, painting them as inhuman and inciting violence upon them.
    • In Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, the people of England are fine with Pocahontas when she first shows up, but when she protests the bear-baiting as "barbaric", the king decides she's just a savage and locks her up.
  • While it's surprisingly underplayed in The Princess and the Frog, there are the two Jerkass realtors who tell Tiana, after informing her that she was outbid on the building she was trying to buy, that "a woman of your... background, you're better off to stay where you are". Given the look on Tiana's face, she definitely gets all of the implications. Interestingly, Facilier implicitly tries to apply this trope to the town in general as an excuse for his behavior, which is very untrue.
  • Queer Duck: The Movie continues the original web series' usage of homophobic villains.
    • Queer Duck tries to organize a "gay day" at the theme park Happyland, only for the Mocky Mouse mascot to deny the gay men admittance while yelling "Beat it, you homos!"
    • The movie's main villain is Reverend Vandergelding, a religious fundamentalist who spends a large amount of the film attempting to make Queer Duck straight.
  • In Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, the cadets from the eponymous location's rivaling school frequently call attention to the fact that their opponents are girls and their plans to whoop their butts as a way of highlighting their jerkassery. A downplayed example in that they appear to be young boys who don't know any better, but still worth nothing.
  • The villains of Shrek are pretty racist towards ogres, but this is to be expected in the setting. Special mention, though, goes to the Fairy Godmother from Shrek 2, who is nasty not only to ogres but to everyone who isn't beautiful, because she is a firm believer of Beauty Equals Goodness. Also, her characterization of the cross-dressing Big Bad Wolf as "gender-confused".
  • Superman vs. the Elite keeps Manchester Black calling Superman a "poncy twit" from the original "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" and adds calling Supes in a debilitated state "spastic".


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