It's no wonder these Disney villains lost. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down the times Disney bad guys doomed themselves with their own choices.
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00:00 "You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it!"
00:05 Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down the times Disney bad guys doomed themselves with their own choices.
00:12 There will be some spoilers ahead.
00:14 "I make my third wish. I wish to be an all-powerful genie!"
00:20 Number 20. Not clearly labeling poisons. The Emperor's New Groove.
00:26 If you're going to keep a secret lair full of deadly poisons, you've got to stay organized.
00:31 "Oh right, the poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison chosen specially to kill Kuzco. Kuzco's poison.
00:38 That poison?" "Yes, that poison!"
00:41 It's easy to blame Kronk for messing up the assassination attempt, but he's right.
00:46 Yzma needs a better labeling system. Instead of killing Emperor Kuzco,
00:50 the pair accidentally turn him into a llama thanks to a shoddy label.
00:54 "This isn't poison. This is extract of llama!"
00:58 "You know, in my defense, your poisons all look alike. You might think about relabeling some of them."
01:05 Things get even more chaotic later in the movie when Yzma knocks over an entire case
01:09 full of unlabeled potions. She might think she's pulled one over on our heroes,
01:14 but we have to assume she learns her lesson after she gets transformed into a kitten.
01:18 "Where did it go? Where is it?" "Looking for this.
01:23 Is that my voice? Is that my voice? Oh well."
01:28 Number 19. Standing on the Gargoyle, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
01:32 "Leaving so soon?" Claude Frollo has clearly never seen a Disney movie,
01:38 because otherwise he'd known that falling from a height is the number one way the villains die.
01:43 After falling over a ledge of the cathedral and hoisting himself up onto the gargoyle,
01:47 he could easily make it back to safety. But he's so obsessed with killing Esmeralda and Quasimodo
01:52 that he instead stands up on the gargoyle and raises his sword to deal the final blow.
01:57 "I should have known you'd risk your life to save that gypsy witch,
02:00 just as your own mother died trying to save you."
02:05 That, of course, is his fatal mistake. In a stroke of divine justice, the gargoyle breaks
02:10 and Frollo plummets to his death. It's a satisfying ending for one of the creepiest
02:15 villains ever animated. Number 18. Provoking the Bird, A Bug's Life
02:21 Flick's plan to scare the evil grasshoppers away from the ant's nest using a fake bird is pretty
02:26 smart. And it almost works. "We are going to build a bird. A bird that we can operate from the
02:32 inside, which would then be hoisted above the ant hill and hidden high in the tree."
02:38 Unfortunately, P.T. ruins everything when he sets the bird on fire. However, the ruse pays
02:44 off in the end when Flick is able to lure Hopper to a real bird's nest. Assuming it's another
02:48 trick, Hopper makes the mistake of taunting the bird instead of running for his life.
02:53 "Another one of your little bird tricks? Are there a bunch of little girls in this one too?
02:59 Hello, girls!"
03:00 The bird snatches him up and her chicks make a quick meal out of him. Considering that birds
03:07 are by far the most dangerous thing around, he should have played it safe, even if he didn't
03:12 think this one was real. Number 17. Dealing with Dark Spirits,
03:16 The Princess and the Frog Everyone knows that when you make deals
03:20 with the devil, you pay the price. The money-hungry Dr. Facilier promises wayward souls to his friends
03:25 on the other side, who are actually dark voodoo spirits. "Don't blame me. You can blame my friends
03:33 on the other side." "You got what you wanted!"
03:39 In return, they give him magical powers to carry out his evil plans. But when those plans go awry
03:44 and Dr. Facilier can't pay his debts, he has to pay with his own soul instead.
03:49 "How am I ever gonna pay back my debts?
03:51 Real! Congratulatory! No, I'm not ready at all!"
03:59 You could make the case that his real fault was greed, or maybe even overconfidence,
04:04 but there are plenty of other underhanded ways to make money without risking your soul.
04:08 Number 16. Toying with Mowgli for Too Long, The Jungle Book
04:13 Shere Khan has been hunting for the Man-Cup for some time, and when he finally gets Mowgli in his
04:18 clutches, you'd think he'd want to dispatch him as quickly as possible. But Mowgli shows no fear of
04:23 the tiger, and this annoys Shere Khan. He's a predator, after all, and he loves the thrill
04:28 of the chase. "And such spirit is deserving of a sporting chance. Now, I'm going to close my eyes
04:35 and count to ten. It makes the chase more interesting." Instead of devouring Mowgli right
04:41 away, he gives him ten seconds to run, and this is just enough time for Baloo to show up and save
04:46 the day. Kaa the python makes the same mistake. He hypnotizes Mowgli and has an easy opportunity to
04:52 swallow him, but he wastes time singing and toying with the boy, and his prey slips out of his grasp,
04:57 literally. Number 15. Admitting His Deeds Where Everyone Can Hear, Coco
05:03 It seems that Ernesto de la Cruz committed the perfect crime. He got away with poisoning his
05:08 best friend and is still beloved by his fans, even in the afterlife. In fact, decades pass before
05:14 anyone, even his victim, figures out what happened. Despite Ernesto starring in a film that recreates
05:20 the murder, "You want friendship? I will do heaven and earth for you, amigo." "Suck it!"
05:26 "You know, I did all my own stunts." Eventually, Ernesto makes the same blunder that brings down
05:34 so many movie villains. He gets too cocky. He's foolish enough to admit his misdeeds just a few
05:40 feet away from a stadium full of people, not to mention a live video feed. "You're just the guy
05:45 who murdered him and stole his song!" "Murdered? I am the one who's willing to do what it takes to
05:50 seize my moment. Whatever it takes." The crowd and Pepita turn on Ernesto, and he finally gets what
05:58 he deserves. Number 14. Don't underestimate the Good Fairies, "Sleeping Beauty." Individually,
06:05 Flora, Fauna, and Meriwether are no match for Maleficent, but together, they're a force to be
06:10 reckoned with. The Evil Fairy's first mistake is to cast her curse before Meriwether has bestowed
06:15 her blessing, giving the Blue Fairy a chance to counteract the worst effects. "Not in death,
06:21 but just in sleep. The fateful prophecy you'll keep. And from this slumber you shall wake
06:27 when true love's kiss the spell shall break." Later, Maleficent captures Philip, the only
06:34 person capable of breaking the spell, but once again ignores the Good Fairies. They free Philip
06:40 from the dungeon pretty easily, and even give him some sweet weapons. "So arm thyself with this
06:45 enchanted shield of virtue, and this mighty sword of truth. For these weapons of righteousness will
06:54 triumph over evil." And just when it seems that Maleficent has him defeated, the fairies enchant
07:00 his sword so that it strikes a killing blow. You'd think by that point Maleficent would have learned
07:04 to take them a little more seriously. Number 13. Relying on pain and panic, "Hercules." It's a
07:12 lesson many a movie villain has learned the hard way. Don't count on bumbling henchmen to do your
07:17 dirty work for you. Hades needs to get Herc out of the picture in order to defeat Zeus. For some
07:22 reason, instead of killing Herc himself, he sends pain and panic to turn the baby mortal and finish
07:28 him off. Of course they screw it up. "Hades is gonna kill us when he finds out what happened.
07:33 You mean if he finds out. Of course he's gonna fin- if. If it's good." Miraculously, they do
07:41 manage to smuggle Hercules out of Olympus, but they fail to make sure he drinks all of Hades'
07:46 potion. This leaves him with his superhuman strength intact. It makes you wonder why Hades
07:51 keeps these two around at all. "I'm about to rearrange the cosmos and the one shmale who can
08:00 last it up is waltzing around in the woods." Number 12. Driving onto train tracks, "Oliver and Company."
08:09 "This has all been very entertaining, but the party is over." To be fair, Fagin and his motley
08:19 crew are the first to drive into the subway and onto the tracks as they flee from the evil
08:23 loan shark Sykes. But at least Fagin's motorbike has a bit more maneuverability. Once Sykes' big
08:29 fancy car hits the tracks, it's not getting off of them easily. And this is New York City. How
08:35 far does he think he can drive before he runs into a train? "Hey get off my back woman, I'm driving!"
08:45 Sykes is so blinded by greed that he sacrifices both of his dogs and eventually his own life in
08:51 pursuit of a little ransom money. Don't mess around on train tracks, kids. They're dangerous.
08:55 Number 11. Not staying with Anna until she died, "Frozen." This is truly a rookie mistake. Hans must
09:03 be thrilled when Anna shows up at the palace nearly frozen to death and reveals that Elsa's
09:08 responsible. Anna will soon be out of the way, and Hans will have the excuse he needs to take out
09:13 Elsa too. All he has to do is wait with Anna until she dies, and the kingdom will be his.
09:18 "I figured after we married, I'd have to stage a little accident for Elsa."
09:22 "No, stop!" "But then she doomed herself,
09:26 and you were dumb enough to go after her." However, he's so eager to be king, he leaves Anna alone in
09:32 a locked room to prematurely tell everyone that she's dead. He doesn't even bother to post a guard
09:38 at the door, and a snowman is able to break in and free her. You were so close, Hans, you just
09:43 needed to be a little patient. "Anna? But she froze your heart." "The only frozen heart around here is
09:50 yours." Number 10. Butterfingers, Beauty and the Beast. "Too kind and gentle to fight back."
10:01 My, what a fall, Gaston. Wait, that isn't how the song goes.
10:05 He may be capable of a lot, but apparently having a strong grip isn't one of Gaston's many abilities.
10:18 While trying to kill Beast, Gaston is scaling the side of the castle in the rain, and only holding
10:23 on with one hand. After a skirmish, he slips right off the castle, and that's the end of it.
10:29 This is, of course, a convenient plot device that lets the Beast remain innocent by sparing
10:37 Gaston's life, while still giving the villain an ending he deserves. Number 9. Tormenting Toys,
10:44 Toy Story. "We don't like being blown up, Sid." Even though you wouldn't expect your toys to come
10:50 alive and seek vengeance, torture is never a good idea. You see, Sid loved to torment his toys. He
10:56 would burn them and try to launch them into space, but his favorite mode of torture was creating
11:00 Franken-dolls by ripping them apart and putting them together in sinister ways. "Hannah! Genie's
11:08 all better now." Woody rallied Sid's victims to save Buzz, turning them against their creator.
11:15 "We toys can see everything. So play nice." Sid's actions are almost excusable,
11:26 since he didn't know the toys were alive, but Lotso in Toy Story 3 was a toy himself.
11:32 "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?" That psychopath left the toys to die,
11:37 but the gang escapes and gets justice. Number 8. Unguarded Cauldron, The Black Cauldron. The
11:45 Horned King is one of the scariest of all the Disney villains, but he sure isn't the smartest.
11:50 His entire plan for world domination revolves around the Black Cauldron,
12:04 which creates an undead army. The Horned King works hard looking for the thing,
12:08 even using a pig to find it, but once he finally gets it, he leaves it totally unguarded. It's not
12:15 like he didn't have the resources, with all the dead guys supporting him. The lack of guards meant
12:20 that little Gergi could stop the cauldron, instantly killing the army and putting an end to the Horned
12:26 King. Number 7. Cutting the Vines, Tarzan. When you're hanging by a thread, or a vine in this
12:40 case, it's not a good idea to cut your only lifeline, especially when there is another
12:45 vine wrapped around your neck. Clayton shows a disdain for the animals of the jungle throughout
12:55 Tarzan, but in the end, he proves himself to have much less humanity than they do. To defeat him,
13:01 Tarzan doesn't even need to get blood on his hands, since Clayton unintentionally hangs
13:06 himself in the vines, in one of the more graphic villain deaths in the Disney canon.
13:10 Number 6. Shooting John Smith, Pocahontas. He sure puts the rat in Ratcliffe. This villain
13:20 is obsessed with gold, and will stop at nothing to get it. He thinks the natives are hiding treasure
13:33 in the New World, so he decides they need to die. His men weren't necessarily on board with the
13:39 whole mass murder thing, but they rally together when John Smith is sentenced to death by Chief
13:43 Powhatan. Luckily, Pocahontas stopped the impending battle, but Ratcliffe decided to fire
13:54 anyway, and shot John. Whether he was aiming at John is irrelevant, since John was the only reason
14:06 his men went to war in the first place. He would have been better off literally shooting himself
14:11 in the foot. Number 5. Not changing Rapunzel's birthday, Tangled.
14:16 If you're gonna go through the effort of kidnapping a princess, then you better put some thought into
14:38 your plan. When Mother Gothel took Rapunzel from her family, she took her to a hidden tower in the
14:43 middle of nowhere. But it seems common sense stopped there, because she kept Rapunzel's
14:47 original birthday, instead of changing it to literally anything else. You know, the same day
14:58 thousands of lanterns are released in honor of the missing princess. The connection between the
15:09 lanterns and her birthday lead Rapunzel to the truth, and ultimately, to Gothel's downfall.
15:20 Number 4. Big Mouth, Monsters Inc. Some Disney villains just can't pass up an
15:30 opportunity to brag. Mr. Waternoose makes the mistake of revealing his plan before he can even
15:47 act on it. His power plant, which supplies power through the screams of human children,
15:52 isn't doing too well, so his brilliant idea is to kidnap children to harvest their screams.
15:58 This breaks ethics codes even in the monster world, and luckily he reveals his plot while
16:03 being unknowingly recorded, and is promptly arrested. Mayor Bellwether makes a similar
16:08 mistake in Zootopia. She reveals her plan to Judy, who is always armed with her trusty
16:13 carrot pen/recorder. Will villains ever learn? Number 3. Trusting Hyenas, The Lion King.
16:34 All things considered, Scar is a pretty smart lion. Psychotic, maybe, but smart.
16:41 For whatever reason, let's call it laziness, he relies on the hyenas to help him hatch his plan.
16:46 Everyone knows the hyenas aren't very bright, and Scar himself has noted this on a few occasions.
16:59 Yet he trusts them to kill Simba as a cub, which they don't do, and he trusts them not to turn on
17:09 him, which they actually do. When going through a plan to kill your brother, with the possibility
17:14 of angering a pride of lions, it's important to remember that if you want something done right,
17:19 you'd better do it yourself. Number 2. Wearing a Cape, The Incredibles.
17:25 Capes may look cool, but when you're in the middle of fighting for your life,
17:39 they can be extremely impractical. Capes have taken the lives of superheroes and villains alike.
17:45 This is why Edna Mode has one rule when designing super suits, no capes.
17:57 Syndrome may be able to build giant superhero killing robots, but when it comes to fashion,
18:05 he's clueless. He foolishly adds a cape to his super suit, and gets sucked into his own jet engine,
18:11 and he wonders why Mr. Incredible didn't want to partner with him.
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18:35 Number 1. Becoming a Genie, Aladdin. Don't you love it when a well-laid plan comes together?
18:42 Unfortunately for this Grand Vizier, this did not happen.
18:45 Jafar had everyone and everything where he wanted them. He'd become the most powerful sorcerer,
18:54 he was the Sultan, and he was about to kill Aladdin. Instead, he lets Aladdin talk him
19:00 into becoming a genie. The genie may have phenomenal cosmic power, but it also comes
19:15 with an itty-bitty living space. Good job, Jafar, you let your enemy convince you to enslave
19:32 yourself. He really should have known better, considering his extensive knowledge of arcane lore.
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