Kidnapping, mass murder and child slavery all feature in Disney’s animated movies, proving that their villains are often darker than people realize.

And that's why the MCU has, for better or for worse, made villains that always are worthy of matching up with our heroes.

We rank the best villains from Nickelodeon's iconic series Avatar: The Last Airbender, from Commander/Admiral Zhao to Long Feng.

Some of the most intelligent anime villains challenge conventional ethics with their brilliance. Characters like Makishima, Father, and All for One masterminded plans involving meticulous preparation.

No Disney movie is complete without an evil, conniving, and despicable villain. For every hero, heroine, Prince Charming, or Disney Princess, there is always the bad guy who stands in the way of ...

Meet the funniest movie villains to hit the screen. 1. Doctor Evil (Austin Powers) Image Credit: New Line Cinema Warner Bros. Pictures. What started off as a parody of James Bond’s Ernst Stavro ...

He’s not exactly the scariest or most feared villain, but there’s no way you ... but it’s a clear warning that something truly evil is coming. And compared to every other antagonist in ...

This is, unfortunately, but one example of a larger trend of Hollywood being unable or unwilling to specify who actually are the villains out ... aren’t actually any evil people out there ...

He’s one of the few Cids in the series that is evil ... He’s truly something to behold in Final Fantasy 12 and way more menacing than the overarching villain, Vayne. Jecht is hard to describe ...

The Quantumania villain is Kang the Conqueror ... preventing the more evil Kang variants from emerging. Maybe he was truly evil before realizing what he needed to do. Kang (Jonathan Majors ...