They may not be at the top of the mountain
in terms of the big animation studios, but Paramount Animation still has plenty of fun bad
guys - both big and small - to enjoy throughout its films. But out of all these baddies, which
ones are the most notable for their villainy? I’m Kyle with WickedBinge, and this is
Paramount Villains: Evil to Most Evil Just so we’re all on the same page, for this
list we’re going to primarily be focusing on the villains from Paramount’s fully
animated films. We will, however, make a couple of small exceptions for
Paramount’s most popular hybrid films. With that being said, let’s start with our
least evil Paramount villain: Mayor Humdinger from the Paw Patrol movies. For as goofy as
this guy typically is, he still manages to be both devious and corrupt through both his role as
mayor of Foggy Bottom and his position as leader of the Kitten Catastrophe Crew. Now, obviously the
villain of a show made for preschoolers is going to be able to do THAT much evil, hence why he’s
at the top of our list, but in both Paw Patrol movies he does have the occasional impressive
or villainous moment. In the first movie, Humdinger uses his henchmen to try and capture
the pups by any means necessary. Afterwards, he turns the city’s subway into a roller coaster
- and when that naturally causes a ton of chaos, this so-called mayor just bails, not really
caring about the danger he’s put his citizens in. He then causes even MORE danger when he
destroys the controls of the Cloud Chaser, prompting a massive storm. He’s even too
much of a coward to confess to his crimes, all while claiming that “mayors can’t get
arrested”. We only see him as a secondary antagonist in the second movie, but his
brief stint as the powered-up Mega Mayor is still enough to show how little Humdinger
has changed despite his previous arrest. But while Humdinger was a pretty bad leader,
it could be argued that Ika Chu from “Paws of Fury” was even worse… This kitty-warlord’s main
goal is to destroy the village of Kakamucho, all for the sake of his own greed and selfish
desires - much like the Mel Brooks character that he’s based off of. Really, just the fact that
he only wanted to destroy it so he could keep his ‘perfect view’ from his own village speaks to just
how heartless this guy is. If this wasn’t enough, Ika Chu is also willing to punish and enslave dogs
and even other cats for the pettiest of reasons. But for as sneaky, manipulative and murderous as
he can be when push comes to shove, Ika is also incredibly cowardly. Again, he really only cares
about himself, to the point where he’s not above insulting his minions like Ohga, even when they’re
not only doing his dirty work for him but are also much stronger than him. So, yeah, it’s safe to
say he’s not exactly the smartest cat around. Following him, we have the shark-monster
wrestler, Tentacular from “Rumble”. Sometimes even when you have it all, you
can still have a huge chip on your shoulder, and this guy certainly shows that. From the
start of the film, Tentacular is introduced as the monster wrestling champion. But even
with all these wins, Tentacular just can’t let go of how often he was compared to Rayburn
- and, after years of living in his shadow, Tentacular vows to not only defeat Rayburn’s son,
but also tear down everything that Rayburn built up during his life so that he doesn’t have to
live in his rival’s shadow ever again. While Tentacular starts off as your simple rival/sports
movie-level bully, he’s able to slowly amp up his maliciousness throughout the film. Despite all
she does to help him win his fights, Tentacular is also pretty callous towards Winnie, his coach.
Additionally, despite all the support and love that the town of Stoker had shown him up to that
point, Tentacular didn’t hesitate when he got the opportunity to wrestle for Slitherpoole instead,
even though doing so would leave Stoker without a monster to fight in its stadium, causing the town
to go bankrupt. This makes his eventually-revealed desire and attempt at tearing down the stadium
himself all the more cruel and selfish. Sometimes just being intimidating is
enough to fall into the role of villain, as we saw with Rango’s Rattlesnake Jake. Known
as both the Grim Reaper and the Serpentine Devil, this weapon-welding cold-blooded (literally)
outlaw was made famous in the town of Dirt for always taking at least one soul with him each
time he leaves. When it comes to his fights, he’s both sadistic and manipulative as he
enjoys playing with his enemies before he kills them. He’s also clever and incredibly
perceptive, making it pretty much impossible for the citizens of Dirt to trick him, despite
getting pretty close to doing so with their hawk disguise. But while Jake is later revealed to
be working with the TRUE villain of the film, he’s not exactly the most loyal to his allies.
Though, funnily enough, Jake is actually shown having a ‘code of honor’ of sorts, as he will
side with others if they have a common enemy or he legitimately respects or admires someone. Above
all else, he absolutely hates liars, to the point of calling Rango out as a liar, even those Rango’s
lies weren’t personally impacting him. He also easily breaks off his alliance with Major John,
killing him shortly after John tries to betray him while at the same time sparing Rango as thanks
for saving his life. But even if this technically qualifies as a good deed given how awful John
was, Jake is still a snake with a pretty notorious body count and a cruel nature. So… yeah, any
sense of ‘honor’ he has can only go so far. We’ve finally arrived at the first of our
Spongebob movie villains, that being King Posiedon from the third movie. Of all the Paramount
villains, it could be argued that Posiedon is the most vain, as all he cares about is keeping
his skin looking and feeling silky-smooth and without any wrinkles. In order to do this, he
captures innocent snails and uses their snail slime until they are unable to produce anymore,
after which he simply throws them in his dungeon. Given that he’s driven by vanity as well as
his belief that his skin is more valuable and important than the actual lives of snails,
we feel that Posiedon deserves our Pride Medal While his evil motivation may be pretty lame, it
can’t be denied that Posiedon is a pretty cruel and incredibly selfish leader, easily being
worse than both the show and the first movie’s version of King Neptune. It should also be noted
that for anyone who dares to stand up to them, he sentences them to death by stage show, using
these executions more as a source of entertainment for himself than actual justice. Really, the only
reason why we’re unable to put him any lower on our list is, much like Rattlesnake Jake, the end
of the film does show that he’s not entirely evil. Just… y’know, mostly evil. Yeahhh, him doing the
bare minimum of letting Spongebob, Gary and the other snails go after Spongebob teaches him the
power of friendship isn’t exactly a super high bar to clear, but compared to some of our upcoming
villains, it’s still a good deed regardless. And hey, if you thought Posiedon was
pretty spoiled, Coco LaBouche certainly takes her entitlement to a whole new level. As
a businesswoman, Coco only cares about getting her next big promotion and is willing to do
anything to get it - even if it means lying to an innocent guy like Chaz Finster in order to
get herself a husband and a child to show to her boss. Given that she isn’t all that interested
in dating and seems to absolutely hate kids, this just makes her whole scheme that much
harder to watch, as you know it’s going to end in either heartbreak for Chaz or a new terrible
homelife for Chuckie. Speaking of Chuckie, it’s made clear over and over that Coco could care
less about her would-be stepson, to the point of stealing his teddy bear simply because she thinks
it’s disgusting. She’s equally cruel to the other Rugrats, having her assistant essentially kidnap
them and keep them locked away so that they can’t ruin her wedding. Again, these are innocent
babies! It takes a special kind of bad guy to be mean to literal babies. Even Angelica can’t
escape her ire, given how she threatened the girl just for eating her fancy chocolates. In the end,
it’s her ego, her temper and her unwillingness to be anything less than cold-hearted and out
for only herself that bites her in the end. Next up is our other Spongebob movie villain, the
dastardly BurgerBeard. This is another villain to where, while he may be incredibly silly, he also
proves to be a pretty big threat when he wants to be. Through finding a magic book, BurgerBeard is
able to steal the Krabby Patty recipe, not caring about all the chaos and destruction that he throws
Bikini Bottom into through these selfish actions so long as he can have his own successful food
truck. He’s also pretty mean to his seagulls, threatening to turn them into hot wings, despite
them not doing anything to him other than being mildly annoying. Later on, when Spongebob and
the gang eventually confront him, BurgerBeard doubles down on his cruelty and uses his magic
book to send them to Pelican Island in the hopes of them getting eaten. Though BurgerBeard may not
be out here trying to take over the entire world, all the trouble he brought to Bikini Bottom
really can’t be understated - and really, the fact that he chose to try and kill
Spongebob and the others instead of, you know, just making a copy of the
recipe so that they could BOTH have it, just further emphasizes his selfishness.
I mean, it’s not like the Krusty Krab would be a direct competitor for him,
given that it’s underwater and all. But hey, at the end of the day, BurgerBeard was
just a wannabe restauranter. If you want a TRUE businessman baddie, look no further than Scheck
from the Hey Arnold movie. Known as the CEO of Future Tech Industries, Scheck tried to tear down
Arnold's neighborhood to avenge his family - who had been humiliated during the street’s famous
Tomato Incident back in colonial times - under the guise of wanting to bring the neighborhood
into the future. He’s willing to do anything from pushing people out of their homes and businesses
to stealing and burning historical documents in order to get what he wants. He’s extremely
underhanded when it comes to his business deals, and despite the fact that he’s fighting a trio of
nine-year olds throughout the film, he seems to get a special sort of enjoyment out of trying to
destroy their hope when it comes to their ‘save the neighborhood’ efforts. Scheck also crosses the
line when he tries to cause the bus that Arnold, Gerald and Helga are on to crash just for the
sake of getting rid of the evidence they have, and then later actually tries to run down Arnold
and Gerald, plus a whole bunch of other people, during an escape attempt - which he
would have done with a smile on his face, if not for Grandma Gertie stealing his
tires. Talk about being over-the-top evil… as well as an evil that easily earns
our Wrath Medal as - again - all this is just about getting revenge on a neighborhood
for a rebellion that happened decades ago. Entering the upper half of our list, next are the
pair of poachers from the Wild Thornberrys movie, Sloan and Bree Blackburn. It should be
said that poachers are probably as close to a ‘real-world villain’ as we’re
gonna get on this list - and really, you should’ve expected that any villain who
was this cruel to animals was going to make it pretty far down on our ranking. Both Sloan and
his wife pretend to be zoologists with a focus on preserving endangered species in order to get
closer to these animals and use them for their own gain. While it’s implied that these two have
captured and killed many animals over the years, their grand plan during the film - using
explosives to frighten a herd of over a thousand elephants during their migration,
causing them to stampede into an electric fence so that they can kill them and harvest
their ivory - certainly takes the cake. This one plan alone earns him our Greed Medal, as you have to be pretty damn greedy to try
and kill over a thousand elephants in one shot. What’s worse and perhaps even more terrifying
is Sloan’s temper and willingness to kill anyone - even children like Eliza and Debbie -
if they dare to try and stand in his way. Of all the villains we’ve mentioned so far, he takes
his greed and cruelty to a whole new level, and even his one bright-side as a character
- that being the genuine love and respect he has for his wife - isn’t enough to stop
us from seeing these two as total monsters. Although, while it’s great to protect animals,
some animals can be pretty villainous too - as we see with Dag the Coyote from the movie,
“Barnyard”. While there’s something to be said for the whole “Circle of Life” thing - that
all animals have to eat, even if it means eating other animals - Dag takes what would otherwise be
just a part of nature and turns it into a cruel game for him and his pack. He gets a kick
out of terrorizing the barnyard’s chickens, and later on even goes out of his way to
kidnap an innocent chick, Maddy. Again, he does this for his own amusement rather
than just his need to eat, as he tries to scare Maddy before attempting to eat her. Dag also
purposely goes after what he sees as ‘easy prey’, making him come off as not only cruel but also
lazy, given that he and his pack could just as easily go after wild animals like rabbits or even
deer if they really needed to eat. But of course, what puts him this low is his most infamous
crime - that being the murder of Ben the Cow. Afterwards, he taunts Ben’s son, Otis, with his
father’s death and tries to manipulate him into letting Dag and the other coyotes take what they
want. This and the way he kills Ben (going for the leg) shows just how underhanded Dag can be, fully
leaning into the stereotype of the cruel coyote. But while he may not be as scary as a
sharp-toothed coyote, the goofy pie-mascot version of Moriarty that we saw in “Sherlock Gnomes” was
still able to make quite the impression. Once just a simple truck ornament, Moriarty discovered
a love for destroying lawn ornaments and thus vowed to destroy every gnome in London, all
for his own amusement. Through this goal, he became rivals with Sherlock Gnomes, and
while his overall goal remained the same, his temporary defeat at the hands of the
detective prompted him to create a new ‘game’ of sorts. After faking his death, he and
his gargoyle henchmen were able to manipulate Watson into giving them the location where
all of London’s garden gnomes are being safely kept. If not for the efforts of Sherlock and the
others, Moriarty would have literally murdered dozens of innocent gnomes, just for funzies!
And yeah, they may just be ceramic gnomes, but they’re still alive so- yeah, pretty
messed up. In that sense, his revenge and attempted murder regarding Sherlock Gnomes
is just the cherry on top of this evil pie. Just outside the Podium of Evil, we have our
second “Rango” villain, Mayor Tortoise John. While he may start out seeming humble and even sort
of grandfatherly, John is a corrupt and selfish mayor through-and-through, using his control
over the town’s water supply to both control its citizens and to try and run them out of town,
all in the hopes of pursuing his vision for the future. While John is far from the only corrupt
leader on this list, him being the mayor of a desert town - one with children in it, mind you -
makes his withholding of water come off as all the more monstrous, regardless of whether or not he
thinks turning Dirt into a ‘city of the future’ is for the best. John is also more than willing
to murder others, either through his partnership with the bounty hunter, Rattlesnake Jake, or with
his own two hands. He’s also cowardly, begging for mercy once the tables are turned on him despite
not being willing to give any mercy himself. Getting our Bronze Medal of Evil is Dr. Robotnik
from the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies. Now, don’t get us wrong, we absolutely LOVE Jim Carrey’s
portrayal as the infamous Eggman, but he certainly takes the character to levels of evilness that we
don’t necessarily always see in the Sonic games. During the first movie, Dr. Robotnik puts all
his efforts into capturing the mysterious blue hedgehog, taking a ton of delight in getting
to break out all his gadgets and weapons during these efforts. It should be noted that he doesn’t
really give a damn about the property damage or the risk to innocent bystanders during his fights
with Sonic. He’s also more than happy to threaten the lives of Tom and later Maddie when they try
to stand in his way. His evilness gets bumped up another level in the sequel, however, when we see
him manipulate Knuckles and use him as a means to get him to the Master Emerald. In the case of
both Knuckles and Agent Stone, Robotnik further emphasizes how little he truly cares for his
allies, seeing them only as tools to use alongside his machines. He also once again tries to kill
Sonic, Tom and Maddie, and once fused with the Master Emerald, we hear him rave about how he’s
going to try and take over the whole universe with his new power. With at least one more Sonic
movie to go and Carrey being confirmed to return, it’ll be interesting to see just how much
farther this guy will go in terms of evilness. For our Silver Medal of Evil, we’re giving it
to Jimmy Neutron’s King Goobot. Keeping with the global threats of Paramount Animation, King
Goobot is introduced through a mass kidnapping, in which we see him abduct all the parents
of Retroville. As if that weren’t enough of an introduction, we later learn that Goobot
wasn’t just enslaving the parents of Retroville but wanted to use them as a sacrifice for the
giant chicken-monster, Poltra. But of course, you can’t forget about just how cruel
he is towards Jimmy and his friends, taunting them and crushing Jimmy’s spirit
when it seems like it’ll be impossible to rescue everyone. Really, Goobot’s whole
plot is just incredibly messed up when you consider that it would have made hundreds
of kids orphans if he had succeeded - and even when you exclude all his additional evil deeds
from the Jimmy Neutron tv series, his actions in this one movie are still enough to nearly
send him straight to the bottom of our list. Finally, our Gold Medal of Evil is actually going
to our most recent animated Paramount villain: Superfly from “TMNT: Mutant Mayhem”. Once just
an ordinary house fly before being mutated by his ‘father’, Superfly is the leader of a mutant gang
that strives to overtake and get revenge on the human race. Although he is capable of being kind
to his fellow mutants, almost being a guardian of sorts for them, Superfly is more than willing to
turn on his allies if they try to stand up to him or tell him that he’s wrong for going after
humans. Speaking of which, he’s incredibly vindictive and cold-blooded, having no problems
with killing any and all humans - and any humans that he doesn’t wipe out, he plans on enslaving
and using for his own amusement. While he may claim that he does what he does for the sake of
his fellow mutants, it’s made very clear that he only cares about satisfying his own need for power
and revenge - especially once he starts trying to kill not only the Turtles, who are young teens,
but also his own mutant siblings. Admittedly, when it comes to his SuperDuperFly form, he
really only gets to terrorize New York. Still, given his steadfast goals and unwillingness to
compromise on them, it’s safe to say that if he hadn’t been defeated, Superfly could have
easily killed most of - if not ALL - humans. For all these reasons, we feel that Superfly is
Paramount’s most evil animated villain so far.
