Ririka herself has a dog. Nekozawa is a lot nicer than his obsession with black magic and creepy subjects would lead you to initially believe, though. In Peacemaker Kurogane , after going crazy and gay , Suzu is depicted as having a fondness for cats.
For a while, the Team Rocket trio's Meowth from the same series had it as his overriding goal to become a Right-Hand Cat for Giovanni, though lately he seems to have decided he'd rather stay with Jessie and James.
For another definition of "right hand" , Giovanni also had Mewtwo, for a short time. Referenced in School-Live! When the girls are discussing the source of the Zombie Apocalypse , one of them theorizes a Big Bad could be behind it all.
Yuki draws an Obviously Evil man with a cigar and a pet cat. In Urusei Yatsura , the principal of Tomobiki high is sometimes seen petting a white cat while plotting against the students. He's hardly a villain more of a Cloudcuckoolander , but the parody is obvious.
Toyed with in Shaman King , where Ren's villainous giant of a father is shown petting a fully-grown panda in his lap. Comic Books. Hecate even helped to spring her from prison once.
Catwoman's Spear Counterpart Catman is ofen accompanied by a big cat: usually either a tiger or a pair of panthers. She's not really much of a "villain" but is one of the antagonists. She even has pajamas with cats on them. Wonder Woman Vol 1 : Nazi agent Red Panzer has a pet cat which he strokes while brooding and thinking up plots.
Comic Strips. Dick Tracy : The cat called Kitty Square had the odd trait of smoking cigars. At different times, he belonged to two different villains: Matty Square and subsequently Mr. Bribery attempted to break Kitty of the smoking habit, and when he that failed, he attempted to drown Kitty in the city reservoir. Bribery tied a heavy steam iron to Kitty's collar and prepared to toss it into the deep water.
Kitty slipped out of the collar and attacked Bribery. For some reason, this endeared Kitty to Bribery, who took Kitty home and continued to light the cat's cigars. Films — Animation. Cinderella : Lady Tremaine has a cat named Lucifer. He is intelligent enough to understand that Cinderella is unfairly put-upon with the chores, and mean enough to complicate them at one point.
Films — Live-Action. And Then There Were None : In the film adaptation, Judge Warwick , who turns out to be the evil mastermind behind the murders, holds and strokes a house cat while explaining his scheme to one of the survivors. He later uses the cat to test the Frankenstein serum. Austin Powers Dr. Evil, a parody of Blofeld, with Mr. Starts as a Persian, becomes a Sphinx cat after the cryogenic revival.
Mini-Me, in turn, has a Mini-Bigglesworth a Sphinx kitten. Come and See : The Nazi death squad commander watches the slaughter impassively from his car while a loris sits on his shoulder and nuzzles his neck.
The ostentatiousness of the pet makes him even more despicable. In the Dick Tracy film serial, Moloch is often seen stroking a black cat. The Egyptian explains why this may be a trope among villains. The amoral and manipulative courtesan Nefer is holding a cat which she uses to warn the protagonist of the perils of falling for her he doesn't listen.
Nefer: There is a reason why the goddess of love takes the form of a cat. Sinuhe: When I look at you I cannot think of cats or gods Nefer: Look, Sinuhe. A cat's paws are soft, but they hide claws. A cat takes pleasure in tormenting its victim. Not until the creature is nearly dead will it show pity Blofeld: Right idea, Mr. Bond: But wrong pussy. The book was published in Discworld : Lord Vetinari has a right-hand dog : an elderly, wheezing, farting, terrier.
On the death of Wuffles, he is replaced by Mr Fusspot , whose favourite chew-toy is a rubber sex aid. In both cases, interviewees have their train of thought acceptably derailed. Vetinari's aunt Meserole, from whom he learned much, had an actual pet cat, although it was rather less elegant than the traditional example and had a tendency to fart. In The Dresden Files book Changes , Harry Dresden's fairy godmother the Leanansidhe, who takes pleasure at someone upgrading her from "Spooky death Sidhe lady" to "Spooky, crazy death Sidhe lady," is waiting for Harry in his home with his cat Mister on her lap.
She also swivels his chair around, despite it not meant to have that function. One of the earliest examples of this trope would be Victorian Era supervillain Dr. Nikola, who was always accompanied by a huge, black cat named Appolyon. In Flannery O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" an escaped convict called the Misfit murders an entire family, who is stranded by an isolated road after an accident, and afterwards picks up and strokes their pet cat that had caused the accident.
The main character, Abby, unintentionally causing her to disintegrate by spraying her with water is how she discovers Rha's weakness.
She doesn't hold her cats in her hand, but Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter , probably the second most sadistic person in the series behind Voldemort himself, is seemingly addicted to cats. Her office is lined with plates and pictures depicting cats. As well, her Patronus was in the shape of a Persian cat, and it paced in front of her during the courtroom scene in Deathly Hallows to protect her from the dementors; Word of God states that "she [likes] anything decorated with kittens though found the real thing inconveniently messy.
In between the two is Argus Filch, the Jerkass caretaker at Hogwarts, with his unpleasantly scrawny and dust-colored Mrs. His genuine love and affection for her to the point of being driven to tears when she was nearly killed is one of his few redeeming traits. Hermione Granger herself also has a pet cat, the very intelligent Crookshanks.
In Yulia Latynina's Inhuman , when Mehmed Lee "Eat-Alive" Trastamara an incredibly old, infamous man, the right-hand of the Evil Overlord that founded the empire, the inventor of many nasty viruses, as well as a brainwashing symbiont, and the great-grandfather of the Villain Protagonist who comes to him for advice finally appears in the flesh, he is sitting in a chair with a big white and red cat resting in his lap. Despite being both ancient and retired, "Eat-Alive" still has a hand in almost everything that happens in the Human Empire and more, to the extent of eventually organising a successful coup d'etat and establishing himself as the most adroit and savvy opponent of the alien conspiracy.
Let's just say, he earned that cat. Subverted in Reginald Hill 's Joe Sixsmith series, where loving cats is a sign of virtue. Sixsmith has a much-beloved pet cat who goes everywhere with him and enjoys a good snack of beer and crisps at the pub; he later discovers that one of the friendlier police inspectors has multiple Persians.
In the Novels of the Change , Chessmaster Sandra Arminger pets her Persians as an aid to concentrating on her schemes. In , even before Blofeld made it cool, back in the original book of The Hundred and One Dalmatians , Cruella de Vil had a white Persian cat, as opposed to the heroic dog-loving Dearlys. When they actually met the cat, Pongo and Perdita Missis found she was actually nice we had already learned of Cruella's drowning of her kittens — as if that woman needed extra Kick the Dog credentials.
She then joined the dogs in wrecking Cruella's private fur collection. In an early version of Tolkien's Legendarium , Morgoth, the first dark lord, had a right hand cat name Tevildo the lord of cats. He was massive in size and commanded other giant cats.
While he would be cut from the "final" version of the stories, Tevildo is notable for being considered the original version of Sauron. Discussed in The Unadulterated Cat. The Right Hand Cat is not a Real Cat, because there are no unwanted animal bits hiding underneath the laser table. Live-Action TV. Conan : Conan O'Brien 's impression of an NBC executive involves talking in an "evil" voice and miming petting a cat in his arms.
Jeff just happens to be stroking a white, very fluffy throw cushion: Larry: Hey, nice pillow. Yeah, um— you look like Blofeld. Jeff: [busts out laughing] I look like I've got a kitty and we're making evil plans! Hal: Lois, please stop me if you see me laughing in front of an earth globe while stroking a white cat.
Gatehouse: People don't do bad things just because they want to stroke a white cat. Music Videos. Madonna is holding a black cat in her arms in her music video for "Express Yourself". For Austin Powers , Dr. Evil is shown holding Mr. Bigglesworth on the playfield. Also, a small, easy-to-miss plastic model of Mr. Bigglesworth is screwed to the inside of the cabinet, near the upper-right corner. Puppet Shows. In the extended version of The Muppets ' Villain Song "Let's Talk About Me", Corrupt Corporate Executive Tex Richman gets a little sidetracked from boasting about how great it is to be him when he mentions gold-plating his gold, which leads him to: I even got a guy to gold-plate my cat I don't regret much, but I do regret that If I could start all over, I'd do it all the same Except I wouldn't gold-plate little Twinkles again!
Blackgaard with Sasha, from Adventures in Odyssey. Tabletop Games. The cover to the Paranoia splatbook "High Programmers" has a High Programmer petting a cat with one eye. Warhammer 's Vampire Queen Neferata has a ghostly cat familiar called Bastet, and her vampiric descendents - the Lahmian Sisterhood - also tend to go in for cats in a big way. Intentionally invoked on this forum as a suggestion for a good use for a template that creates an undead made from a taxidermied skin that can pass for a living creature to all but the most keen-eyed of observers Pyewacket, Gillian's familiar in Bell, Book and Candle.
Whiskers mirrors Charlotte's actions and helps her in her scheme to ridicule Virginia. Video Games. Parn can actually take on a human form thanks to the curse on him and his master and serves to create obstacles for the player.
It's revealed that he was a stray cat adopted by the Crooked Man's fiancee before her death. Even when he's battling the Warriors of Light, he allows Shanoa to roam around the battlefield for morale support. In fact, one of the most important mechanics of the battle is preventing said morale boost from reaching Quickthinx via destroying the floating heart which personifies it.
In Puyo Puyo , Accord carries a black cat puppet called Popoi. Bigglesworth after Dr. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. Tropedia Explore. Wiki Content. Troping Utilities. Troper Social Networks. Unofficial Fan Discord Forum. Explore Wikis Community Central.
Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Evil gets angry , Mr. But is that really true or is that just a misconception that has arisen because the aforementioned characters occupy an outsize position in popular memory? Maybe there are other animal species that are just as frequently depicted as the villains in Disney movies, but which are given less attention to compared to the Scars and the Shere Khans in the studio's cinematic universe.
And if so, what are those other animals and why have they, along with cats and their bigger, wild cousins, been chosen again and again as the villains? To answer this question, I looked into every animated movie Disney has produced and distributed , starting from 's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" and ending with this year's "The Incredibles 2," to see which animals are most often depicted as antagonists, what might be the reasons behind this and whether or not these depictions are tied to animal stereotypes that are embedded in our culture.
If an animal plays a villain or is defined as an enemy of the protagonist 1 , I've included it in my data, regardless of how major or minor that role might be 2. I've also expanded the definition of "animal villains" a bit to incorporate instances where a human character might transform herself into a certain animal, such as Maleficent's metamorphosis into a dragon in "Sleeping Beauty," or the animalistic form an alien, monster or anthropomorphic character might resemble, such as the shark-like Captain Gantu in "Lilo and Stitch.
While I've anticipated some of these results, there are a few findings that took me aback entirely:. When it comes to the most common villain in Disney movies, dogs, not cats, actually lead the pack. Dogs have played the antagonist in 13 of Disney's animated movies, while domesticated cats claim a close second with The two are the only domesticated animals among the top 15 list; all the other popular animal villains are wild animals, such as snakes, which tie with foxes for third place.
While there's quite a variety in species when it comes to Disney villains — in total, 54 different animals have played antagonistic roles in the studio's animated films — it's clear from this chart that dogs and cats are the frontrunners.
Together, the two claim almost a fifth of the villainous roles in Disney's animal movies. A whole range of animals constitute the "Other" category and they ran the gamut from larger beasts such as elephants and rhinos to smaller animals like spiders and rats. Most of the animals in the "Other" category have only played the villain once in a Disney film.
It's perhaps not surprising that cats have such a prominent presence among Disney's animal villains, given that the company's mascot is a mouse. One of Disney's longest-running characters is Pete, who started out as a bear but was later was changed to a cat because the studio wanted to establish him as an arch-nemesis of Mickey Mouse. Either they're the main antagonist, as is the case for Mr. And what about dogs, man's best friend?
Well, the close relationship between dogs and humans might be the reason why canines feature so heavily as antagonists in Disney's movies. In several of these films, dogs are considered villains because they are the pets and henchmen, so to speak, of human villains and serve the will of their masters. That holds true for the hunter dogs in "Bambi" as well as Scud, the pet dog of Sid Phillips, the main antagonist in "Toy Story.
While Scud and the hunter dogs are depicted as vicious and cruel because of their close alignment with their masters, not all of the canine antagonists in Disney's movies are clear-cut "bad guys. Dogs are also, compared to cats, more often the protagonists in Disney's animal movies.
The popularity of Disney's dog-centered franchises, such as " Dalmatians" — which spans animated movies, live-action remakes, and TV series — may be one reason why dogs are the most common antagonist in Disney movies.
When Disney films have a dog as a protagonist, it is likely that said protagonist will also have a canine opponent. Although dogs and cats may be the most popular villains, snakes have really gotten the raw end of the deal in terms of their image in Disney's animated movies. Apart from Larry the Anaconda in "The Wild" — which was distributed, but not produced by Disney — there is a significant lack of wholesome representation of snakes in Disney movies.
When you see snakes or snake-like characters appear in the studios' films, they are almost always the antagonists in the story and never positive supporting characters or the protagonists.
Kaa is an especially fascinating example of Disney's aversion towards snakes in that the character only became the enemy of Mowgli, the protagonist of "The Jungle Book," in the studio's adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's books.
The stories differ as to why this was changed in the movie. There are people that suggest it may have something to do with the high number of snake attacks that were being reported in the US during the time of the film's production. That experience was instructive in understanding how pets have been deployed in staged entertainment.
Dogs are easily trainable — a good animal instructor, working with an inventive director and cinematographer, can create the warning barks, rescuing gallops, and other miscellaneous action of a dog hero.
But in the years since You Only Live Twice , the logistical practicalities of cats have been usurped by unfortunate notions of their own intentions and attitudes. No, director Francis Ford Coppola found him on the Paramount lot, and Marlon Brando liked the visual contrast of his warmth and playfulness with the cat to his ruthlessness as a crime figure.
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