YMMV / The Disney Villain

• Evil Is Cool: This was the entire reason the book was made—over 50 of Disney's animators requested Frank and Ollie to make a book about the Disney Villains and how they were created, and they decided "Sure, why not?" and went ahead and wrote it.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The section on Dumbo points out how the film has No Antagonist, with one of the examples being the Ringmaster who has no idea what to do with Dumbo after justifiably locking up Mrs. Jumbo. Six years after the book was published, the computer game Disney's Villains' Revenge has the Ringmaster being the Big Bad of Dumbo.
• Nightmare Fuel: The creepy-looking sculpture of Queen Grimhilde on the cover.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Frank and Ollie cite The Horned King as one of the biggest flaws of The Black Cauldron, feeling the film presented him in a way that robbed him of mystery and presented him with so much action and close ups, that it made him come off as a villain who was approachable and unpleasant rather than all powerful.
  "Typical of the failings, the Horned King, who should have been mysterious, was as ordinary as the leader of a street gang. As Roy Disney said later, their approach was "too literal-minded. He was just a guy." The use of close-ups and too much activity gave the impression that here was a man one could argue with. He should have been as unreachable and intimidating as Chernobog. No one should speak in his presence. The words should wither in one's throat. We should not even know if this evil creature was man, animal or demon. Here was unlimited power on the verge of taking over the world that somehow had to be stopped, and that was the special challenge to the tiny band of characters who carried the hopes of the future on their uncertain shoulders. It seemed an impossible burden for the heroic cast as well as the inexperienced staff of the studio."