Web Video / Disney Villain Songs (Lydia the Bard)

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The Disney Villain Songs are a fan video series by Lydia the Bard on YouTube.

Each video takes a Princess from Disney Animated Canon (or Disney Princess-adjacent in the case of Anastasia), and it transforms them into a villain, often via changing one specific event in their canon source story which has far-reaching consequences so that they're driven down a darker path—basically a Grimmification of Disney Princesses. In every video, the now-evil princess's Villain Song (which is usually based deliberately on one of the princess's canon songs as a corrupted version of them) plays throughout; most of the videos have a description in the video summary of the background which led to the featured princess's dark side turn (barring the earliest video, "Jasmine's Villain Song"); and a few videos have accompanying storytelling animatics showing where the corrupted princesses' paths lead them.

Lydia the Bard performs the vocals for every video, with different artists behind the arrangements and animatics per video.

Videos include:

1. "Jasmine's Villain Song" — a minor key version of "Arabian Nights."
2. "Elsa's Villain Song" — a minor key version of "Into the Unknown."
3. "Ariel's Villain Song" — a minor key version of "Part of Your World."
4. "Rapunzel's Villain Song" — Animatic by sacredhyacinth, a minor key rewrite of "Mother Knows Best / I See the Light."
5. "Aurora's Villain Song" — a minor key rewrite of "Once Upon a Dream."
6. "Mulan's Villain Song" — a minor key rewrite of "I'll Make a Man Out of You."
7. "Megara's Villain Song" — Animatic by MaepleTea, a minor key rewrite of "I Won't Say (I'm In Love)."
8. "Snow White's Villain Song" — an original song entitled "I Won't Back Down," with the Mirror's vocals done by annapantsu.
9. "Moana's Villain Song" — Animatic by MaepleTea, a minor key rewrite of "How Far I'll Go."
10. "Mirabel's Villain Song" — Animatic by Shrubbug, a minor key rewrite of "We Don't Talk About Bruno."
11. "Anna's Villain Song" — Animatic by MaepleTea, a minor key rewrite of "For the First Time in Forever," with elements from "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"
12. "Merida's Villain Song" — Animatic by Neal Illustrator, a minor key rewrite of "Touch the Sky."
13. "Anastasia's Villain Song" — Animatic by Shrubbug, a minor key rewrite of "Journey to the Past."
14. "Cinderella's Villain Song" — Animatic by Sarah's Works, a minor key rewrite of "So This Is Love."
15. "Belle's Villain Song" — Animatic by luck_buggy, a minor key rewrite of "Beauty and the Beast," with elements from "The Mob Song."
16. "Tiana's Villain Song" — Animatic by Sarah's Works, a minor key rewrite of "Almost There" with elements of "Friends on the Other Side." This is the first song where Lydia did not do the main vocals, as Tiana's vocals are by Sierra Nelson, and Lydia voiced Charlotte la Bouff instead.
17. "Isabela's Villain Song" — Animatic by Sofia Mochi, a minor key rewrite of "What Else Can I Do?"
18. "Asha's Villain Song" — Animatic by MaepleTea, a minor key rewrite of "This Wish," with Magnifico's vocals by Alex Runicles.
19. "Dolores' Villain Song" — Animatic by Shrubbug, an original song entitled "Rule the Quiet."
20. ''Tinkerbell's Villain Song" — Animatic by Lazy Eule, an original song entitled "Fall Little Wendy Bird Fall."

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This series provides examples of:

• Accomplice by Inaction: Mirabel calls out Dolores for hearing everything that was said about her and Bruno, but not saying or doing anything to defend either of them.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • As Asha descends into villainy, King Magnifico apologizes to her for his harsh reactions and admits to only being human, in contrast to his egotistical film self who becomes increasingly self-righteous and villainous.
  • Peter Pan's more insensitive moments like laughing at a group of mermaids trying to attack Wendy and refusing to return with Wendy to London isn't in Tinkerbell's Villain Song video.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • "Anastasia's Villain Song": Downplayed. Unlike in the movie, the Dowager Empress Marie refuses to believe Anya is the real Anastasia after being bombarded with so many fake Anastasia's for so many years, and she rejects her out of hand and throws her out.
  • "Cinderella's Villain Song": Although Prince Charming marrying someone else after he extensively tried and failed to find his original partner from the dance was only politically pragmatic, he doesn't look at all sombre or regretful when Cinderella goes on a rampage against him and his new wife, only angry.
  • "Belle's Villain Song": Downplayed. Belle is well aware of her incredible beauty and intellect, openly calling herself "the beauty" and "the smartest girl in all the land," while in canon she did no such thing.
  • "Isabela's Villain Song": Downplayed. Alma is actively forbidding Isabela from making anything other than flowers from childhood and outright throwing her in her room for playing in the mud, contrast to canon where Isabela was seemingly completely unaware that she could make anything other flowers and never showed any interest in playing around until the latter half of the movie.
• Adaptational Villainy:
  • As stated above, every video's featured Disney Princess ends up diverging from their canon portrayal and ending up a villain, often by exploiting their harrowing backstories and showing how one little tweak in the course of events could have led to them completely snapping and taking a turn for the worse.
  • However, they aren't the only ones...
    • "Megara's Villain Song": Hercules isn't moved by Meg's Heroic Sacrifice, instead he's overwhelmed with bitterness at the revelation she was working for Hades. Instead of offering to sacrifice himself resurrecting her from the River Styx, Hercules leaves her behind to rot and he ascends to godhood through a less altruistic path.
    • "Merida's Villain Song": After Merida was too late to mend the bond torn by pride; King Fergus, the lords and their sons all went back on everything that Merida had initially convinced them of when pacifying them, interpreting the whole incident with Bear Elinor as a cautionary tale against breaking from their traditions and doubling down on resuming Merida's betrothal, while Merida and Fergus' relationship understandably took a nosedive from which they would never recover. Additionally, immediately after Elinor's death, King Fergus also killed the permanently-transformed Hamish, Hubert and Harris — whilst that act in itself could be seen as a Mercy Kill given the triplets' fates and how the transformation also transforms the victim's human mind, one can only imagine what was going through Fergus' mind when he afterwards skinned the bearified triplets and incorporated them into his pelt.
• Adapted Out: Only three of the Lost Boys appear in "Tinkerbell's Villain Song": Slightly, Cubby, and Nibs. The twins and Tootles are absent, underscoring that Tinkerbell was only able to ensure the survival of three of her friends. John and Michael Darling are also absent.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: When Magnifico sees Asha holding his wish, he begs for her to stop, saying he's only human and begging her forgiveness. It doesn't work, and she crushes his wish in front of him.
• Alternate Universe Fic: Mostly What If?'s, but there are a couple continuations where the princess's start of darkness occurs after their source work's canon ending has passed.
• Ambition Is Evil: Several of the princesses after their falls to darkness turn to pursuing power and domination in ways that hurt others. Ariel seeks world domination so she can make humanity suffer for Eric's betrayal, Mulan and Tiana are both consumed by their cravings for power to the point where Mulan experiences The Dark Side Will Make You Forget and Tiana's ambitions turn insatiable, and Megara is a vengeful Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist who plans to dominate Earth and Olympus, and she won't take "we don't want you as our new god" for an answer.
• And I Must Scream: Ariel spent three years stuck as a polyp as a result of her deal with Ursula before her father freed her. Is it really any wonder that she became so unhinged when she got her original form back?
• Animal Motifs: Mirabel is represented by butterflies, the magic briefly giving her a large pair of butterfly wings as she goes about her revenge.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Belle is portrayed as this, having behaved like her canon self up til this point while secretly imagining vengeance against the villagers who mocked her and her father, and while plotting to have the Beast's spell become permanent (effectively sentencing the servants to death and himself to mental deterioration into an animal). The animatic is meant to be when she finally drops her act.
• Break the Cutie: Many of the characters in these songs were once their canon, happy selves. However, many of them went through horrors so traumatic that they were left broken and either sought revenge or took a path that their canon selves never would have. A key example is Tinkerbell; it's all but stated that this is the same Tinkerbell from the Disney Fairies movies, meaning that she was once a kind, curious, helpful person. But after people started to lose their belief in fairies, Pixie Hollow saw a mass extinction event that left all but a few fairies (Tink and a handful of her friends) alive. Tink tried everything she could to find a cure, only to fail each time (even having to watch Fawn die in her arms). Tinkerbell resorted to kidnapping Peter and the boys who would become the Lost Boys simply because she had no other choice.
• BSoD Song: Isabela's song has elements of this towards the end, as the tone of her asking "What else can I do?" shifts over time.
• Cain and Abel: Anna's corruption in her Villain Song drives her to pure contempt and resentment for Elsa while erasing the love that she once had for her, and she seeks out a fight with Elsa using her new ice powers, freezing Elsa in ice and looking upon her work without a hint of warmth.
• Calling the Old Man Out:
  • Moana's father burned the boats and locked her away; she only managed to escape because he was distracted by the grief of her mother being among those who died as a result. She confronts him with the results of his cowardice and reveals her willingness to let everyone die to prove her point.
  • Both Mirabel and Isabela confront their families with how they treated the former as The Unfavorite and The Scapegoat and forced the latter to act as their perfect little model granddaughter, respectively.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Played for Drama in "Tinkerbell's Villain Song"; the faeries have been declining and dying out due to lack of belief, driving Tinkerbell to extreme ends in an effort to ensure the survival of her and her few remaining friends.
• Cliffhanger:
  • Cinderella's villain song ends with the prince managing to grab a sword from a nearby guard and swing it at Cinderella's neck, just as Cinderella sees him coming and reaches for her wand. The animatic ends without revealing who struck first.
  • Dolores' Villain Song ends with Dolores' family managing to restrain her while she gives a Slasher Smile, but what happens next/whether they get their voices back isn't revealed.
• Continuation:
  • Snow White's turn to villainy in her song happens after the canon ending of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  • Dolores' snapping and turn to villainy occurs during the happy ending of Encanto.
• *Cough* Snark *Cough*: "Mulan's Villain Song" features this when she mockingly sings the opening lyrics to "I'll Make A Man Out Of You."
  Mulan: Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons? *cough*Misogynist!*cough*
• Cynicism Catalyst: Many of the points of divergence boil down to this, such as Ariel, Rapunzel, Megara and Cinderella feeling betrayed by their respective Love Interests, or Snow White grappling with the knowledge that her own stepmother wanted her dead.
• Darker and Edgier: While none of the other villain songs are sugary and sweet, "Tinkerbell's Villain Song" is, by far, the darkest one Lydia had made for the channel. With the death of Silvermist and Fawn, Tink and her friends kidnapping kids (and creating the Lost Boys) so they won't die from non belief, and the fact that we see an (offscreen) murder of a child, how could it not be?
• Dark Reprise: Every video's song is a reprise of one of the attached Disney Princess's canon songs, except now the Princess has been turned into a jaded villain.
• The Dark Side Will Make You Forget:
  • Mulan initially starts her revolution with the aim of creating a better, more progressive China, free of the institutional gender rules that left her powerless to stop her father's and many others' avoidable deaths in war, but by the time she's ready to make her move on the Emperor, she's lost sight of her original altruistic motivations and all she really cares about now is her victory.
  • Moana initially wants to save her island and her community by returning the heart of Te Fiti, but six months of imprisonment by her father, being helpless to make him see reason while her mother and friends are dying around them, do a number on her emotional state. Though she still eventually manages to set out and retrieve the heart, she ultimately decides that she'd rather watch her father and everyone who's still alive reap what they sowed and denies the heart's restoration.
• Deal with the Devil:
  • Megara makes one with Charon after Hercules abandons her to rot in the River Styx: Charon gave Meg knowledge of how to steal the gods' power and immortality for herself, starting with Hades, in exchange for Charon getting a seat in her new pantheon after she overthrows Olympus.
  • Anastasia makes one with the demons inside Rasputin's reliquary, promising them power over an entire empire through her if they help her to ascend to Empress of Russia.
  • The splitting point in Tiana's Villain Song is that she accepts Dr. Facilier's deal from the movie's climax, offering her her human form back and the grand restaurant that she and her father always dreamed of making. Tiana regains her human form and gets everything she wanted with seemingly no strings attached... but her ambitions become insatiable, corrupting her and hurting every one and thing around her over time, plus it's implied that she's now herself indebted to Dr. Facilier's Friends on the Other Side in exchange for making use of their magic for herself.
• Death by Adaptation:
  • "Aurora's Villain Song": Shortly after Maleficent's kiss revives Aurora, the former is shot dead by King Stefan's men.
  • "Belle's Villain Song": The servants all lose their sapience one by one after the rose is destroyed, effectively "dying" by reverting into lifeless objects forever.
  • "Megara's Villain Song": Hades is stripped of his immortality and reduced to a withered wraith, joining the lost souls of the dead in the River Styx.
  • "Moana's Villain Song": Te Kā's darkness spreading unchecked for months leads to Sina's death, pushing Moana over the edge. The song implies that most of the people on Motunui have died to Te Kā's darkness, and Moana has every intention of ensuring Chief Tui and the others die too.
  • "Merida's Villain Song": Merida is too late to save Elinor and her three brothers from permanently transforming, body and mind, into bears — Bear Elinor is put down by Fergus and the lords' men moments later, while the bear triplets are killed and skinned offscreen. Merida's subsequent Roaring Rampage of Revenge claims the lives of MacGuffin, Dingwall, MacIntosh, their sons, all their men, and King Fergus.
  • "Tinkerbell's Villain Song": First, it's shown that Silvermist and Fawn have been killed by nonbelief before Tinkerbell could set up the Lost Boys. Then, at the end of the animatic, Wendy falls from the pirate ship as it's flying back to London, and dies.
• Death of Personality: Belle's Villain Song subjects the Beast to this. With the rose's destruction, he slowly and painfully devolves into just a mindless, animalistic beast, physically alive, but with no remnant left of his old identity.
• Deconstruction Fic:
  • Ariel's Villain Song to a degree. It draws attention to the lasting psychological trauma that Ursula's victims will be grappling with after they're freed, particularly the ones who were stuck as helpless polyps in her collection for years.
  • After the events of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Evil Queen's actions against Snow White, her own stepdaughter, left the once-idealistic and -naive princess with trust issues that she didn't have before. Furthermore, with the Queen's death, Snow inherited all her worldly possessions by default, including the Magic Mirror, who was quite willing to pour a few poison words into Snow White's ear just as he previously did with the Evil Queen.
  • Belle's Villain Song completely deconstructs the Beast's and his staff's gambit to break the curse by all but forcing Belle to exchange places with her father as the Beast's prisoner. The woman has already spent her entire life being ostracized by the village for the crime of having a sharp mind above her breasts and uterus, she doesn't take kindly to the Beast's ill treatment of her old and ill father, and the fact the Beast and the household technically only started an interest in her because of what she can offer them rubs Belle the wrong way because it reminds her of Gaston valuing her solely for her looks. The result is that Belle never truly sees past the initial poor first impression that the Beast's belligerence and cruelty left on her, even when he genuinely starts to fall for her, and she plots her own victory over him all the while.
  • Dolores' Villain Song deconstructs Dolores having to deal with hearing what everyone in her village is saying since she was a child because she doesn't know how to turn her Super-Hearing off. This takes a heavy toll on her mental state which reaches its breaking point when Mirabel restores the Madrigal family's powers.
• Delicate and Sickly: In a Flashback, the effects of people losing their belief in faeries is shown when Fawn collapses while trying to help Tinkerbell find a solution. She's so weakened that she's unable to drink on her own, and Tinkerbell cradles her body while tilting a bowl into her mouth.
• Did You Actually Believe...?:
  • Belle mocks the servants and Beast for thinking they could lock the smartest woman in the village in a castle and she wouldn't have a vengeance plan.
  • Mirabel and Isabela in their respective villain songs ask their family if they really expected they'd suffer years of abuse and never retaliate.
• Dramatic Irony: Ariel never finds out that Eric abandoned her for a woman he'd only just met because it was Ursula bewitching him, just as Rapunzel doesn't know that Flynn "abandoned" her because he was imprisoned for months and had no way of contacting her.
• Every Scar Has a Story: The right side of Merida's face is scarred, as a result of Bear Elinor attacking her when the transformation fully subsumed her human mind at the Celestial Deadline, right before the bear was slain by Merida's father and his men in front of her.
• Evil Costume Switch:
  • When Megara after destroying Hades is announcing her takeover of the Underworld during her animatic, she shifts out of her movie appearance, taking on a more royal-looking dress and hairstyle.
  • Snow White in her Villain Song's image is wearing a lower-cut, plainer and more royal dress with muted reddish colors which exposes more cleavage.
  • Merida's attire in her animatic looks notably tougher than her canon default attire, with leathers chords around her forearms, a loincloth-piece in place of any skirt, boots, and most strikingly, a pelt made out of Elinor's bear form. To a slighter degree, King Fergus' pelt now has three baby bear heads on it made from his own sons, signifying that he is not a Hero Antagonist in his daughter's feud with him and the other lords.
  • Isabela during her villain song switches her original dress for a much simpler, looser-fitting and low-cut yet very elegant gown which appears to be part vine, symbolizing how she's freeing herself after a lifetime of upholding image and expectations but she's also showing her thorns.
  • Tinkerbell wears Excessive Evil Eyeshadow, goggles, boots, and dark long sleeves under her iconic dress.
• Eviler than Thou:
  • After being freed from the River Styx, an embittered and hateful Megara steals Hades' power and life essence for herself, leaving the Hercules Big Bad's desiccated spirit to join the lost souls in the River Styx while Meg sets about using her new powers to overthrow the Olympians herself.
  • By the time that Hans reveals his deception and ambitions to Anna, the loss of her original naivete that comes with her personality's corruption by ice magic has already opened Anna's eyes to the warning signs that he's a Manipulative Bastard, so instead of being helpless and left for dead by Hans, Anna freezes him into a solid block of ice and becomes a far bigger threat than either he or Elsa's blizzard could have ever been.
  • Anastasia gets the best of Rasputin, taking his vial of demonic spirits for herself and using them to claim her birthright as empress (as well as revenge on those who let her down) by force.
  • Implied in Belle's song. When Gaston leads the mob to attack the Beast's castle and murder him, he instead finds a vindictive Belle waiting for him. And she has a fully-feral Beast at her beck and call, which she promptly sets on him.
• Evil Is Angular: In the animatic for Belle's Villain Song, her facial features are sharper-looking than they looked in the original movie, reflecting that this version of the character is much more dangerous and cruel.
• Extremely Protective Child: One of Belle's motivations for mercilessly betraying the Beast and leaving him and the castle staff to be completely consumed by the Enchantress's curse is because he locked up her father before she offered to trade places with him.
• Femme Fatale: Belle successfully pretends to slowly fall in love with the Beast, all the while plotting to avenge herself and her father on him when his guard is lowered.
• God Save Us from the Queen!: Anastasia ascends to the throne and reclaims Russia, then immediately sets the reliquary's demons onto the people. She even declares that her rule will be "taking Russia hostage."
• Grimmification:
  • Ursula collects her dues and Ariel spends years stuck as a polyp before she's freed, becoming a hateful serial killer as a result of her trauma.
  • Maleficent revives Aurora with true love's kiss and is murdered by Aurora's own father in front of her moments afterwards.
  • Merida's mother and brothers are permanently turned into bears and are killed and skinned by her father as a result of her decisions, and Merida kills the only family she has left in revenge.
• Happy Ending Override:
  • Snow White ends up following in Grimhilde's footsteps and becoming an Evil Queen herself, thanks to the influence of the Magic Mirror.
  • Mirabel puts the doorknob in the rebuilt Casita, everyone regains their powers... and then Dolores snaps and begins magically stealing everyone's voices.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard:
  • Although Hades' mistreatment of Meg isn't the only factor in her becoming the threat that she does, nevertheless, when she escapes the River Styx with Charon's aid, the first thing that Hades' former servant who was completely at his mercy does when she gets free is to drain him of all his power so that he's no more substantial than the lost mortal souls in Styx.
  • Mirabel inflicts this on her entire family. Pushed over the edge by their neglect and mistreatment, she snuffs the Miracle Candle, robbing all of them of theirs and their household's treasured magic.
  • By revealing his deception and true manipulative personality to Anna, Hans unwittingly gives her the final push she needed for her proverbial heart and spirit to completely freeze over, and she promptly freezes him into a block of ice with her new powers.
• An Ice Person: A side-effect of the ice magic in Anna's heart is that she "unlocks" ice powers very similar to Elsa's, and she quickly becomes an even worse threat to Arendelle than Elsa ever was.
• Innocently Insensitive: In Dolores' Villain Song, Mirabel had no idea how much Dolores was actually suffering from her gift; while she was trying to be kind and do the right thing for her family, she never considered that Dolores might not want her power back.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • "Mulan's Villain Song": Shang still wins the war against Shan Yu's Hun army without Mulan's presence, albeit with many more casualties.
  • "Megara's Villain Song": Hercules still ascends to true godhood in Olympus even without attempting a Heroic Sacrifice to save Meg from Styx.
  • "Moana's Villain Song": Moana still sets out on her quest, even if it starts six months late and without the ancestral boats (which have been destroyed), and she still retrieves the heart of Te Fiti and reaches Te Kā before she turns back.
  • "Anna's Villain Song": Despite being told by the trolls that there is no cure for the ice magic freezing her heart, Anna still ends up returning to the Arendelle palace, and Hans reveals the truth of his manipulations to her in the same room as in the movie.
  • "Belle's Villain Song": Gaston and the village still attack the Beast's castle even without Belle's return to the village to incite them. In fact, the attack apparently occurs earlier than in the movie.
• Kick the Dog:
  • "Belle's Villain Song": Belle decides to twist the knife as the Beast is succumbing to his curse and losing his sapience by telling him she never cared for him and considers him "less than nothing."
  • "Tinkerbell's Villain Song": As Wendy is plummeting to the ground, she watches Iridessa and Rosetta save the falling Lost Boys, possibly giving her a Hope Spot. Tinkerbell flies in front of her face... only to smile and tell her it won't hurt that bad.
• The Kindnapper: Tinkerbell and her friends basically kidnapped Peter and the Lost Boys. This is because Tink realized that if the children whose laughter gave them life never stopped believing, then the fairies they were connected to could keep living. The only way to ensure they never stopped believing (in other words, never grew up) was to take them to Neverland. To her credit, the kidnapped boys are clearly happy there, as they can be children forever. But Tink does acknowledge that she stole children from their families, and she clearly feels guilt over it, but believes that there's no other option.
  Tink: You don't seem to quite understand what is at stake, this messed up little family that I had to make. If I could let them all go home, please know that I would, but it'd do more harm than good!
• Last of His Kind: It's heavily implied that every other fairy in Pixie Hollow (including Silvermist and Fawn) died due to unbelief, leaving Tinkerbell, Iridessa, Rosetta, and Vidia as the last of Neverland's fairies.
• Lonely at the Top:
  • Implied in Merida's Villain Song. She gets to sit on her family's throne with control of her own fate, but her entire family is dead, the last of them to die by her own hand, and her new subjects including the staff who looked after her and her brothers look anxious or regretful at the regime change. The unhappy scowl on Merida's face as she sits on the throne with her victory speaks volumes.
  • Tiana in her Villain Song. She gets the greatest restaurant in all of New Orleans like she always wanted, but along she way she sells out Prince Naveen to Dr. Facilier, hurts and de-homes the animal friends that they made along with hundreds of human people, and she eventually drives away her childhood best friend Charlotte once the latter has seen what Tiana is becoming and realizes she can't stop her.
  • Anastasia has control of Russia via her Deal with the Devil, yet she keeps her grandmother and Dmitri alive (albeit tied up and clearly terrified for their lives). She claims that they're "the special few blessed to join [her] table", that they're her new family. After years alone in an orphanage, it makes sense that she'd want anything resembling a family, even a hostage/fake one.
• Manipulative Bastard: Aside from the canon manipulations of canon villains like Mother Gothel and Hans tying into the princesses' falls into darkness, Belle really takes the cake.
• Murder by Inaction: This is what Moana's villainy consists of. Rather than directly hurting anyone, she simply refuses to restore Te Fiti's heart when she has the chance, intentionally leaving her father and the rest of Motunui's population to die from Te Kā's blight.
• My God, What Have I Done?: At the end of Isabela's villain song, Alma is shown with tears in her eyes, implying that she realizes she's the one who turned her granddaughter into a monster.
• Nemean Skinning: In "Merida's Villain Song", Merida is wearing a pelt made of her late mother's bear form, which apparently gives her supernatural powers when she confronts Fergus. Fergus himself has skinned Hamish, Hubert and Harris' bear forms and added them to his pelt offscreen — this serves to show that as bad as Merida has become, Fergus is no better.
• Nothing Personal: Tinkerbell swears this in regards to her targetting Wendy; even using the phrase as a lyric in her song.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist:
  • Mulan founds her revolution on anger and disgruntlement with the rigid system and government and a desire to bring sweeping change for the better, but by the time she's ready to make her move, blind ambition has consumed her and all she truly cares about is winning.
  • Meg advertizes her campaign against the Olympians to mortals as a human revolution against Jerkass Gods to make the world better for mankind, but it becomes increasingly clear to everyone In-Universe and out towards her song's end that she's just motivated by her own desires for revenge and power, and that she'll be just as bad as the Olympians if not even worse should she become the new Top God.
• Not the Fall That Kills You…: Wendy falls from the pirate ship, and the scene cuts to black just before she's shown hitting the ground.
• Offing the Offspring: After Merida failed to save Hamish, Hubert and Harris from permanently becoming bears and losing their humanity, some time later, their father King Fergus is wearing a pelt made out of three bear cubs. Yeah.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Lords MacIntosh and MacGuffin outlive their respective sons by a very short time during Merida's Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Patricide:
  • Merida's story climaxes with her running Fergus through.
  • More indirectly than the above, Moana effectively signs Tui's death certificate by refusing to restore Te Fiti's heart, leaving him to die with everyone else as Te Kā's ash cloud chokes Motunui to death.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Asha avenges Magnifico crushing her mother's wish by crushing Magnifico's own wish.
• Point of Divergence:
  • "Ariel's Villain Song": Ursula's ploy to bewitch and marry Eric while disguised as Vanessa succeeded.
  • "Rapunzel's Villain Song": Mothel Gothel set Flynn up to be arrested by the Kingdom of Corona, leading Rapunzel to believe that he abandoned her and made off with her crown.
  • "Aurora's Villain Song": Just after Maleficent revived Aurora with true love's kiss, she was shot dead by King Stefan's men.
  • "Mulan's Villain Song": Shang caught on to Mulan's true identity much earlier than in the movie.
  • "Megara's Villain Song": Instead of repaying Meg's sacrifice by offering up himself in order to save her from the River Styx, Hercules felt bitter that she'd been Hades' agent in the beginning and he left her to her eternal fate.
  • "Moana's Villain Song": Chief Tui caught Moana in the cavern of old Motunui ships, and he burned the ships there to prevent her from using them.
  • "Anna's Villain Song": After Elsa accidentally blasted ice magic into Anna's heart, the most important effects that manifested were different: instead of threatening to eventually turn Anna to solid ice and only being curable by an act of true love, the ice magic is corrupting Anna's personality and it's incurable.
  • "Merida's Villain Song": Merida was seconds too late in mending the bond torn by pride at the bear transformation spell's Celestial Deadline.
  • "Anastasia's Villain Song": Anya didn't present the music box which validates her claim to be the lost Romanov, and the Dowager Empress rejected her out of hand.
  • "Cinderella's Villain Song": Jaq and Gus were too late in stealing the key when Cinderella was locked in her room after the ball.
  • "Belle's Villain Song": Belle internally snapped after years of abuse, ostracism and harassment by everyone else around her and her father, although she hid it well and behaved much like her canon self at first.
  • "Tiana's Villain Song": Tiana accepted Dr. Facilier's deal offering to grant her dreams for her.
  • "Isabela's Villain Song": Mirabel didn't cause Isabela's discovery of what else she could do with her gift, and instead, Isabela discovered it on her own at a later time, without Mirabel's positive influence.
  • "Asha's Villain Song": When Magnifico destroyed Asha's mother's wish in front of her, Asha gave in to justifiable fury instead of opting to move beyond it.
• Precision F-Strike: Belle briefly curses in her villain song, saying "To hell with your flower!"
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: Whilst some of the Princesses turn wicked early on or are that way from the start, others like Moana and Snow White turn to the dark side much more gradually.
• Rage Breaking Point: Dolores utterly snaps when everyone's powers return and she starts hearing the village's gossip and whispers again after finally having some peace.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Rapunzel's eyes appear red when she sets out for revenge on Flynn.
• Red Filter of Doom:
  • The image turns red when Rapunzel sneaks back into the kingdom looking to kill Flynn in revenge.
  • The scenes in which Dolores steals the voices of her family and the city are red, briefly turning gold when both Mirabel and Mariano try to get through to her.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
  • Downplayed with Aurora, who responds to Maleficent's murder by using the same eternal sleeping curse to put her father's subjects to sleep en masse as she walks through the city, with the implication that she's coming for him next.
  • Mulan's reaction to her father's death in the war against the Huns all because Shang wasn't willing to let a woman serve in his place is to launch a coup against Shang and the imperial family.
  • After Bear Elinor permanently turns into a bear and is killed by Fergus to save Merida (before Fergus also kills the permanently-transformed Hamish, Hubert and Harris), Merida goes on a rampage, slaughtering the Dingwalls, MacIntoshs and MacGuffins to the last man for going back on their initial promises to bring meaningful progressive change, before going after her own father for the deaths of her mother and brothers.
• Slipknot Ponytail: Dolores' hair comes undone and falls around her face in the final scene of her villain song.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist:
  • Rapunzel's villain song is slower and quieter than most of the other princesses', she doesn't raise her voice even as she declares her intention to murder Flynn.
  • Belle is cruel, vindictive, and coldly sadistic, and her song is a slow waltz.
• Single Tear: Merida sheds a tear after running Fergus through with his own sword. Fergus tries to reach up to thumb it away and show Merida affection one final time, but dies before he can touch her face.
• Terms of Endangerment: Belle mockingly calls the Beast "sweetheart" to twist the knife.
• That Man Is Dead: Aurora, Mulan, and Anna say as much.
  Aurora: That girl's dead. She died long ago, laid in the ground.
  Mulan: I'm made anew, rising from the fire. Forged from the hate of the girl you knew! She's burned to ash, left up on the pyre!
  Anna: The Anna you knew is dead and gone!
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Mirabel heard herself be considered a curse that would destroy the family for so long that she finally decided to be exactly that.
• There Is No Cure: Unlike in Frozen (2013), the ice magic in Anna's heart threatens to alter her personality instead of turn her to solid ice, and Grandpappy tells Anna and Kristoff that it can't be cured.
• Tragic Monster: Anna, big time. Unlike the other princesses here, she has absolutely no agency over her corruption: the ice magic that Elsa accidentally struck into her heart is gradually and invariably altering her personality to turn her into a completely cold, self-centered monster, and there is no cure.
• Tragic Villain: More of the princesses than not turn evil because they've hit their breaking point and lost all hope of getting what they want through any other way than wicked ways.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Dolores develops the ability to take away people's voices in response to getting her gift back, and all the pitfalls that come with it.
• Uncertain Doom: Mirabel snuffs out the candle, causing Casita to fall apart around her family as she leaves through the gates and closes them behind her. There's a possibility they'll make it out alive, but Lydia leaves it up to the imagination.
• Unkempt Beauty: Throughout her song, Belle undoes her hair and smears her make-up until her hair is a tousled mane, her lips are smeared red, and her mascara is smeared all around her eyes. It makes her look more monstrous, but she's still very much a beauty.
• Villain Protagonist: The princesses are the main characters of their respective videos, singing a Villain Song after events described in the video's description pushed them over the edge.
• Villain Song: The clue's in the title. Every video is essentially a video-long Dark Reprise of a Disney Princess's canon musical number, with an accompanying story describing how one change in events or the fallout of their canon story led them to turn to evil.
• Villainy-Free Villain: Isabela in her Villain Song in a nutshell. She doesn't seriously harm anyone or steal anything, she just locks Alma and Mariano in a pair of vine cages, calls off her and Mariano's loveless engagement by throwing her engagement ring in his face, basically says "fuck you for being a bad grandmother" to Alma at length, and then leaves.
• Walking Wasteland: Anna's ice powers make Elsa's look almost tame by comparison. On top of sharing Elsa's ability to spread ice sheets wherever she walks, Anna spontaneously freezes entire people into blocks of ice faster than they can react, and she can even do it from a distance.
• We Can Rule Together: Tiana offers Lottie a place at her side, just so long as she doesn't oppose her. Lottie can't do it, and leaves.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Tinkerbell noticed fairies dying at an alarming rate, and eventually came to the conclusion that when the child whose laugh created a fairy stopped believing in fairies or died, so too did that fairy. To prevent more fairies from dying, Tinkerbell led her friends to kidnap the children who would eventually become Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, so they would never grow up and thus the fairies born from them would never die. She even states that if she could let them go home, she would, but can't risk her people dying.
• What If?: Most of the videos' stories kick off the Disney Princess's transformation into a villain by changing one meaningful event from their source material that has far-reaching consequences. For examples, "what if Ursula won," "what if Hercules didn't forgive Megara," "what if Anna's frozen heart corrupted her personality instead of her body," "what if Cinderella was too late to meet with the Grand Duke," etc.
• Woman Scorned: The motivations of several princesses for turning to the dark side.
  • Eric didn't really abandon Ariel for a bride he'd only just met, but that's what Ariel believes happened. Couple that with her spending three years trapped as one of Ursula's polyps, and she's now a serial-killing siren who's plotting to dethrone Eric and dominate all of humanity.
  • Rapunzel doesn't react well to Flynn seemingly abandoning her and proving all of Mother Gothel's preachings about the outside world's cruelty true, even though like the above example that isn't what really happened at all on Flynn's end. But Rapunzel isn't content to just go straight back to her tower, oh no: first, she sets back out into the kingdom with the intention of killing Flynn.
  • Meg is not happy that after she fell for Hercules and saved his life, he left her to stay dead and rot in the River Styx for years out of spite at finding out about her initial allegiance to Hades (and unlike the above examples, that is exactly what Hercules did of his own choice). It leads to Meg's soul burning with enough fury in the river to catch Charon's interest, and he pulls her out. After stealing Hades' godly powers for herself, Meg is dead-set on getting revenge on Hercules while overthrowing him and the other Olympians.
  • Ironically enough, Anna's reaction to Hans' true colors is more of a downplayed example due to her personality corruption. Though it is the final push which completes Anna's corruption for good, she isn't surprised when it happens, because the corruption has already eroded her idealism and faith in others to the point where she can see all the warning signs about Hans that she was blind to before. Anna still, very casually, freezes Hans into a block of ice when he attempts to stab her though.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Many of the princesses turn evil because on top of their angst from their respective original works, one tweak to the story led to them being pushed to their breaking points. For some examples:
  • Megara's life story of being cruelly abandoned by a man she loved after she'd sacrificed her life and soul to save him repeats itself with Hercules, driving her to rage against Olympus after he ascends there.
  • Moana chooses to let her father and her entire home choke to death after being locked up by them and denied the chance to save the ones she loved while her mother and friends slowly died to the catastrophe.
  • Merida endures the trauma of her mother and brothers permanently losing their physical and mental humanity directly because of her mistake, then them being killed in front of her by her own father and skinned for pelts, and all the male authority figures go back to trying to forcibly marry her off while she's in turmoil, all of which drive her into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against her own father and all four of her setting's clans.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Mirabel does not exclude Antonio from her revenge, as he's shown among the family when Casita crumbles around them.
  • "Anastasia's Villain Song" shows a little girl and her mother being cornered by the demons of the reliquary. Crowd shots of the Russians being attacked also show young children among the victims.
  • In "Belle's Villain Song", Chip ends up remaining a lifeless teacup. Belle's lyrics suggest that she planned to include him in her revenge from the very beginning, not even considering sparing him.
  • Downplayed as losing their voices didn't hurt them, but Dolores gladly steals the voices of the three children Mirabel befriended.
  • Fearing Wendy will tempt Peter and the Lost Boys to leave Neverland and grow up, Tinkerbell first goes with her canon plan of telling the Lost Boys she's a bird and Peter wants her shot down, then when that fails she leads the fairies to attack the flying pirate ship. This time it works, and Wendy falls to her death.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Anya feigns despair when cornered by Rasputin, and when he moves in for the kill, she snatches his demonic reliquary off his belt and bolts with it.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Belle's light-brown eyes look outright demonic in the animatic for her Villain Song, reflecting her duplicitous and vicious true nature.
• You Killed My Father:
  • Mulan is hellbent on killing Shang because he sent her home and conscripted her father into the army in her place, leading to his death in the war against the Huns.
  • Moana ultimately choose to let her own father and what's left of her home die, out of rage partly that they obstinately prevented her from setting out to stop Te Kā's rampage sooner, leading to the death of her mother.
  • After King Fergus kills the bear-ified Elinor to save Merida's life, this and a pile of other traumas drive Merida to kill him in vengeance.
  • Anastasia uses the demonic powers that Rasputin had wielded in order to seek revenge against him and everyone who celebrated the deaths of her family.
• You Remind Me of X: Belle never sees past the Beast's monstrous exterior, because so much about his initial unkind and possessive behavior towards her and even his similar eyes remind her of Gaston's advances.
• You Will Be Spared: Anastasia spares Dmitri and her grandmother of her demonic wrath, declaring they're her family. However, given they're both tied to their chairs, it's clear that they're both on thin ice.
  Anastasia: But you're the special few blessed to join my table. You're my brand new family now!

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