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136-590: This is a list of Disney Villain characters , often based on fictional antagonist characters who have been featured as part of the Disney character line-up. Some of these villain characters have appeared in sequels, video games, comic books, stage productions, or live-action adaptations of the original films. Much like with the Disney Princess line with some of Disney's female lead animated characters, Disney's villain characters are also often grouped together as part of
272-550: A Disney Villains franchise , formed by various antagonists from Walt Disney Pictures productions, with a main focus on characters from animated films, mainly those from Walt Disney Animation Studios productions. The characters listed here are featured in Disney productions and merchandise as "official" villains. These characters are seen in most current Disney Villains related merchandise, live events, attractions, etc. The characters are also known as "The 13 Reflections of Evil". These characters appear or have appeared in
408-418: A melodramatic manner, with mustache-twirling, eye-rolling , leering , cackling , and hand-rubbing . In 1895, Thomas Edison and Alfred Clark made The Execution of Mary Stuart depicting Mary, Queen of Scots being decapitated. It describes neither Mary nor her executioner as villains (though at the time, it was deemed so realistic that audience members believed an actual woman had been beheaded in
544-433: A photorealistic CGI feature-length remake is in development with a script co-written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Lindsey Beer. Paul Weitz , Chris Weitz , and Andrew Miano will produce the film; a joint-venture production between Walt Disney Pictures , Depth of Field Studios, and Known Universe Productions. Disney described the film as a "companion piece" to The Jungle Book (2016) and The Lion King (2019), as
680-430: A " black hat " or " bad guy "; the feminine form is villainess ) is a stock character , whether based on a historical narrative or one of literary fiction . Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines such a character as "a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime ; scoundrel; or a character in a play , novel , or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in
816-514: A Halloween , on the night before Halloween , the Evil Queen plans to conquer Halloween , and asks her cauldron to show the viewer several villains to which one of them helps her in her plan. Among them, Peg Leg Pete , Ursula , Captain Hook , Yzma , Professor Ratigan , Alameda Slim , Judge Claude Frollo , and Horned King are the ones with a main focus. In Kingdom Keepers , Disney villains form
952-547: A Life in the Woods were inherited by Anna Wyler, Salten's daughter, who renewed them in 1954. After her death, Wyler's husband sold the rights to Twin Books, a publishing company which subsequently filed a lawsuit against Disney, claiming Disney owed it money for the continued licensing for the use of the book. Disney countered by claiming that Salten had published the story in 1923 without a copyright notice, thus it immediately entered into
1088-534: A Life in the Woods , the production was supervised by David D. Hand , and was directed by a team of sequence directors, including James Algar , Bill Roberts, Norman Wright, Sam Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, and Graham Heid. The main characters are Bambi , a white-tailed deer ; his parents (the Great Prince of the forest and his unnamed mother); his friends Thumper (a pink-nosed rabbit ); and Flower (a skunk ); and his childhood friend and future mate, Faline . In
1224-399: A Millionaire? and features several villains as hosts, asking questions about the film in which they are featured. The "Phone-a-Friend" feature is renamed "Phone-a-Fiend" and will connect the player to Cruella de Vil. There is a sub-franchise derived from Disney villains entitled Disney's Divas of Darkness . The line-up includes Maleficent , the Evil Queen , Cruella de Vil , Ursula , and
1360-672: A Song" sung by Donald Novis ) and Original Music Score . In June 2008, the American Film Institute presented a list of its " 10 Top 10 "—the best ten films in each of ten classic American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Bambi placed third in animation. In December 2011, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant". In January 2020, it
1496-460: A convincing villain must be given a characterization that provides a motive for doing wrong, as well as being a worthy adversary to the hero. As put by film critic Roger Ebert : "Each film is only as good as its villain. Since the heroes and the gimmicks tend to repeat from film to film, only a great villain can transform a good try into a triumph." The actor Tod Slaughter typically portrayed villainous characters on both stage and screen in
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#17328593851071632-480: A deleted song, an image gallery, and a game entitled Disney's Big Book of Knowledge: Bambi Edition . This release also marked the first use of " Disney Second Screen ", a feature which is accessed via a computer or iPad app download that syncs with the Blu-ray disc, allowing the viewer to follow along by interacting with animated flip-books, galleries and trivia while watching the movie. A UK version of Diamond Edition
1768-468: A digitally remastered and restored Platinum Edition DVD was released; it went on moratorium on January 31, 2007. Bambi was released as a Diamond Edition on March 1, 2011, consisting of a Blu-ray and DVD combo pack. This release included multiple bonus features not previously included in Bambi home releases: a documentary entitled Inside Walt's Story Meetings – Enhanced Edition , two deleted scenes,
1904-531: A forest stream, the deer are startled by a sudden trickle of beer cans and other debris, and Bambi's mother tells him, "Man is in the forest. Let's dig out." In 2006, the Ad Council , in partnership with the United States Forest Service , started a series of Public Service Announcements that feature footage from Bambi and Bambi II for wildfire prevention. During the ads, as the Bambi footage
2040-491: A group known as the "Overtakers". The Villainous board game franchise, published by Ravensburger, puts players in the roles of Disney villains. It has been praised by critics and fans for its lush artwork and easy-to-learn yet compelling strategy elements. The game is unique in that it features an asymmetrical structure, with players working to complete their own unique goals. The core game, The Worst Takes It All , has been followed up with five expansions (to date): Wicked to
2176-523: A hideous monster who destroyed his family out of spite . Shakespeare also ensured that Iago in Othello and Antonio in The Tempest were completely void of redeeming traits. In an analysis of Russian fairy tales , Vladimir Propp concluded that the majority of stories had only eight " dramatis personae ", one being the villain. This analysis has been widely applied to non-Russian tales. The actions within
2312-466: A log and getting shot by a man. Larry Morey, however, felt the scene was too dramatic, and that it was emotional enough to justify having her death occur off screen. Walt Disney was also eager to show the man burned to death by his fire that he inadvertently started, but this was discarded when it was decided not to show the man at all. There was also a scene involving two autumn leaves conversing like an old married couple before parting ways and falling to
2448-454: A magical duel using fireballs. Mickey's sorcerer hat is bounced off and there is very little time to put it back on, but then Aladdin saves the day by escaping the kitchen to the backstage room on the magic carpet and giving Daisy who gives Mickey the lamp to trap Jafar. Mickey sucks Jafar into the lamp, while the rest of the villains flee, restoring the House to normal. In the film Once Upon
2584-484: A meadow, Bambi briefly sees the Great Prince but does not know that he is his father. As the Great Prince wanders uphill, he discovers the human hunter, named "Man" by all the animals, is coming and rushes down to the meadow to get everyone to safety. Bambi is briefly separated from his mother during that time but is escorted to her by the Great Prince as the three of them make it back in the forest just as Man fires his gun. During Bambi's first winter, he and Thumper play in
2720-426: A mohawk, and her nails painted bright red. Her goal throughout the film is to become queen and disrupt the coupling of Ariel and Prince Eric , both of which connect villainy to drag queens , suggesting that there is inherent evil in those who do drag. Villains in fiction commonly function in the dual role of adversary and foil to a story's heroes. In their role as an adversary, the villain serves as an obstacle
2856-488: A more direct way than live-action villains. That their character design is based on caricatures of racist, antisemitic, and/or homophobic stereotypes with exaggerated features. That female animated villains are portrayed in ways that feed into misogynistic ideas and traditional gender roles. Sattar Sharmin and Sanyat Tania have argued that animated villains frequently fall into two categories: women who exhibit societally undesirable traits, or men displaying feminine traits. In
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#17328593851072992-526: A painter of animals, come and lecture to the animators on the structure and movement of animals. The animators visited the Los Angeles Zoo and Disney set up a small zoo at the studio with animals such as rabbits, ducks, owls, and skunks, and a pair of fawns named Bambi and Faline so that the artists could see first-hand the movement of these animals. LeBrun's sketches depicted realistic animals, but as characters they lacked personality. Marc Davis created
3128-423: A pure villain. Folklore and fairy tale villains can also play a myriad of roles that can influence or propel a story forward. In fairy tales villains can perform an influential role; for example, a witch who fought the hero and ran away, and who lets the hero follow her, is also performing the task of "guidance" and thus acting as a helper. Propp also proposed another two archetypes of the villain's role within
3264-541: A quest to get more evil in the Underworld by summoning up Disney's most powerful villains so he can keep his job. This show features Maleficent , Jafar , the Evil Queen , Cruella de Vil , Captain Hook , Scar , Yzma , Ursula , and Chernabog in a variety of comical situations while performing various musical numbers from their respective appearances. This show debuted on the Disney Magic cruise ship March 27, 2010, and
3400-476: A reputation for being one-dimensional. In modern animation, animated villains that are more significant and fleshed out have become increasingly common as cartoons have begun to be favored by adults. Shows such as Adventure Time , Gravity Falls , and Rick and Morty range from child to adult cartoons, but are all watched by a largely older audience. It is sometimes alleged that villains in animated works, such as Disney movies, often embody stereotypes in
3536-482: A short film adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . In 1914, Lois Weber made a film of The Merchant of Venice with Phillips Smalley as a villainous Shylock . The 1915 film The Birth of a Nation has "Northern carpetbaggers" inciting black violence as its villains. The 1916 film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea has a man named Charles Denver as its villain. In the same year, Snow White had Queen Brongomar as
3672-540: A total domestic rental of $ 18,735,000, which equates to a gross of around $ 40 million. In 1982, it grossed another $ 23 million in the United States and Canada and in 1988, a further $ 39 million, taking its total in the United States and Canada to $ 102 million, making it (at the time) the second highest-grossing animated movie of all-time after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . With grosses from international reissues,
3808-511: A viewer's eye to the characters. Due to World War II , which began in Europe in 1939, Pinocchio and Fantasia failed at the box office. Facing financial difficulty, Disney was forced to cut 12 minutes from the film before final animation to save production costs. All lyrics are written by Larry Morey ; all music is composed by Frank Churchill Bambi premiered in London on August 8, 1942, as
3944-749: A villain can be. In the 2024 short The Most Wonderful Time of The Year , the Disney Villains and Sideshow Bob , along with some other villains from franchises from other Disney brands, sing a carol for Halloween. The Disney Villains are a main focus in the Descendants franchise. In the Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants appear Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar and Cruella de Vil, along with their children, Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos, respectively. They live on The Isle of
4080-416: A villain's game, but for a noble cause in a way that the audience or other characters can sympathize with. They may be more noble or heroic than an antihero, but the means to achieve their ends are often considered exploitative, immoral, unjust, or simply evil. Characters who fall into this category are often created with the intention of humanizing them, making them more relatable to the reader/viewer by posing
4216-523: A villain's sphere were: When a character displays these traits, it is not necessarily tropes specific to the fairy tale genre, but it does imply that the one who performs certain acts to be the villain. The villain, therefore, can appear twice in a story to fulfill certain roles: once in the opening of the story, and a second time as the person sought out by the hero. When a character has only performed actions or displayed traits that coincide with Vladimir Propp's analysis, that character can be identified as
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4352-590: A villain, but used this definition instead: a "villain" was defined as a character(s) whose wickedness of mind, selfishness of character and will to power are sometimes masked by beauty and nobility, while others may rage unmasked. They can be horribly evil or grandiosely funny, but are ultimately tragic. Other Disney villains who got a nomination here were Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty , Ursula from The Little Mermaid , Lady Tremaine from Cinderella , and Stromboli from Pinocchio . [REDACTED] Category Villain A villain (also known as
4488-642: A villain. There were also villains in 1960s children's film. For instance, 101 Dalmatians and the 1966 Batman both had villains. The former having Cruella de Vil and the latter being the first time comic book supervillains were adapted to film. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the Star Wars films introduced Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine . 1980s films had villains like Khan in Star Trek , John Kreese in The Karate Kid and its sequels, Skynet in
4624-658: A villain. The 1923 film The Ten Commandments has the main character's brother be a villain due to his commitment to breaking all of the Ten Commandments . In 1937, Walt Disney 's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had the Evil Queen as a villain. In 1939, The Wizard of Oz had Wicked Witch of the West as its villain. In the 1940s, serial films about superheroes introduced supervillains as characters like Dr. Dana in Batman . The 1949 film Samson and Delilah has Hedy Lamarr as
4760-540: Is a 1999 video game which tells the story of how the Evil Queen , Captain Hook , Queen of Hearts , and the Ringmaster change the story from the original movie to the way they wanted the story to end, with no "Happily Ever After". In the Kingdom Hearts series of action role-playing games developed and published by Disney Interactive Studios and Square Enix , Disney villains play a major role as they seek to harness
4896-459: Is a character who relies on their instincts and ability to cause destruction to achieve their ends. The evil intentions of their actions are often easily identified, as they act without concern for others (or their wellbeing ) or subtlety . The rampaging villain can take the form of a very powerful individual or a rampaging beast but is still one of the more dangerous villain archetypes due to their affinity for destruction. The authority figure
5032-403: Is befriended by an eager, energetic male rabbit named Thumper , who helps to teach him to walk and speak, a young male skunk he mistakenly calls "Flower" (who is so flattered, he keeps the name) and a female fawn named Faline. Curious and inquisitive, Bambi frequently asks about the world around him and is cautioned about the dangers of life as a forest creature by his loving mother. One day out in
5168-470: Is defeated by their own greed, pride, or arrogance. The traitor is a villain who emphasizes the traits of trickery, manipulation and deception to achieve their goals, which is often to offer or supply information to the protagonist's opposition to halt them on their journey; often in exchange for their own freedom or safety. The traitor's goals are not always evil but the actions they commit to reach their goal can be considered inherently evil. Animation
5304-414: Is driven by an ambiguous motivation or is not driven by an intent to cause evil. Their intentions may coincide with the ideals of a greater good, or even a desire to make the world a better place , but their actions are inherently evil in nature. An anti-villain is the opposite of an antihero. While the antihero often fights on the side of good, but with questionable or selfish motives, the anti-villain plays
5440-434: Is effeminate men, sometimes referred to by subject experts as "sissy villains," where their mannerisms represent stereotypes relating to gay men. Another example is the depiction of masculine women, which emulates drag queens or butch lesbians. Adelia Brown makes a similar allegation about Ursula from The Little Mermaid . Ursula is closely modelled after the famous drag queen " Divine " with her heavy makeup, hair styled in
5576-619: Is home to several different villains. Winsor McCay in How a Mosquito Operates had a cartoon mosquito torment a human being and in 1925, Walt Disney created Pete as an antagonist for the Alice Comedies with Pete later becoming an antagonist of Mickey Mouse and his friends and the first Disney villain. Fleischer Studios later had Bluto as the antagonist of the Popeye cartoons. Hanna-Barbera created Tom as an antagonist of Jerry . Likewise,
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5712-500: Is in the fourth season , where Maleficent, Ursula and Cruella De Vil form a group known as the Queens of Darkness. In The Simpsons short Welcome to the Club , several Disney Villains, among them Evil Queen (in her witch form), Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Maleficent, Cruella de Vil, Ursula, Kaa, Jafar, Scar, and Hades, try to show Lisa Simpson through a musical number how much fun being
5848-432: Is not always the case. As seen often in animated films, female villains are portrayed with "ugly" appearances to contrast the beauty of the protagonist, in turn associating unattractiveness with evil. This paints female villains in a negative light compared to their heroine counterparts, and showcases the duality of the female villain character. The ethical dimension of history poses the problem of judging those who acted in
5984-413: Is one that has already attained a level of command and power but always craves more. They are often driven by their desire for material wealth , distinguished stature or great power and appear as a monarch , corporate climber or other powerful individual. Their end goal is often the total domination of their corporation, nation, or world through mystical means or political manipulation. Often this villain
6120-509: Is our problem." The film earned RKO theatrical rentals of $ 1,270,000 in the United States and Canada in its initial release. Disney lacked access to much of the European market during the war, however, the film earned rentals of $ 1,685,000 internationally for an initial worldwide total of $ 2,955,000, Disney's third highest, behind Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) with $ 7.8 million and Pinocchio (1940) with $ 3.2 million. The film
6256-517: Is shown, the screen will momentarily fade into black with the text "Don't let our forests...become once upon a time", and usually (but not always) ending the ads with Bambi's line "Mother, what we gonna do today?" followed by Smokey Bear saying "Only you can prevent wildfires" as the Smokey logo is shown on the screen. Bambi had previously been the Forest Service's advertising icon beginning in 1942, but
6392-579: Is simply heard yelling at her granddaughter from upstairs in her hairdresser. In the third film, Descendants 3 , appear Hades, Dr. Facilier, Lady Tremaine, and Mr. Smee. Celia, Dr. Facilier's daughter, and Squeaky and Squirmy, Mr. Smee's twin sons, are also introduced. A fourth film, Descendants: The Rise of Red , feature Queen of Hearts, and teen versions of her, Maleficent, Hades, and Captain Hook. The film also introduce Red, Queen of Hearts' daughter. The Disney Villains star in Mickey's House of Villains ,
6528-576: Is the perfect time for her to return to power and make the Magic Kingdom "The Place Where Nightmares Come True"—a play on the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts slogan of "The Place Where Dreams Come True". She is also accompanied by Captain Hook. The Disney villains star as the main characters in the Disney Cruise lines' variety show, Villains Tonight . This musical stage production features Hades on
6664-414: Is the universal term for characters who pose as catalysts for certain ideals that readers or observers find immoral, but the term "villainess" is often used to highlight specific traits that come with their female identity—separating them, in some aspects, from their male counterparts. The use of the female villain (or villainess) is often to highlight the traits that come specifically with the character and
6800-513: Is unambiguously evil. William Shakespeare modelled his archetypical villains as three-dimensional characters and acknowledged the complex nature that villains display in modern literature. For instance, he made Shylock a sympathetic character. However, Shakespeare's incarnations of historical figures were influenced by the propaganda pieces coming from Tudor sources, and his works often showed this bias and discredited their reputation. For example, Shakespeare famously portrayed Richard III as
6936-1081: The Terminator films, Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future films, The Joker in Batman and Dark Helmet in Spaceballs . 1990s films had villains like General Mandible in Antz , Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park , Edgar in Men in Black , Van Pelt in Jumanji , Rameses in The Prince of Egypt , Carrigan in Casper and Shan-Yu in Mulan . The Star Wars prequels also introduced several villains in addition to those
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#17328593851077072-711: The Anglo-French and Old French vilain , which in turn derives from the Late Latin word villanus ,. This refers to those bound to the soil of the villa , who worked on the equivalent of a modern estate in Late Antiquity , in Italy or Gaul . Vilain later shifted to villein , which referred to a person of less than knightly status, implying a lack of chivalry and courtesy . All actions that were unchivalrous or evil (such as treachery or rape ) eventually became part of
7208-664: The Arapaho Nation with 2000 VHS tapes of the movie. The dubbing was never issued again in any other forms, until it was uploaded on the streaming platform Disney+ in October 2022. Bambi was the first of three Disney movies to receive a dubbing in a Native American language . The next such instance had to wait until 2016, when Pixar's Finding Nemo received a dubbing in Navajo , and then Disney's Moana in Hawaiian two years later. While
7344-608: The Cartoon Art Museum entitled "The Disney Villains" included displays featuring Disney's official villains, along with other villainous characters such as the Hunter from Bambi , and Br'er Fox & Br'er Bear from Song of the South . Disney villains play a vital role in the nighttime show Fantasmic! , performed at the Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios theme parks. In
7480-632: The Looney Tunes had villains like Elmer Fudd , Yosemite Sam , Marvin the Martian and Blacque Jacque Shellacque . In 1937, Disney made the movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and it had the Evil Queen as its antagonist. Since then, Disney made a lot of animated movies with villains based on fairy tale villains. Disney Villains became a major part of that franchise. Saturday-morning cartoons also had villains like Dick Dastardly , Muttley and Snidely Whiplash . Since then cartoon villains have had
7616-543: The Queen of Hearts . The Villains Designer Collection re-imagines the stylish wickedness of Disney villains. This line of merchandise includes Maleficent, Cruella de Vil, the Evil Queen, the Queen of Hearts, Ursula and Mother Gothel. The Vinylmation collection also includes a Villains series. Several books dedicated to Disney villains have been released. Among them are: There are also books to color, like Disney Villains: All
7752-636: The University of Montana , an Arapaho-language dubbing of the movie was produced in 1994, in collaboration with the Northern Plains Educational Foundation. The final product was, however, only a partial dubbing, as the spoken parts were dubbed in Arapaho, but all the songs were left in English . The dubbed version of the movie premiered on November 3 the same year, and Disney later provided
7888-410: The evil queen and Lady Tremaine , are influenced by jealousy/vanity whereas only 4% of male villains are driven by these same factors. Rather the men, such as Hades and Captain Hook , have motives grounded in wealth and power, giving in to masculine stereotypes and signifying an attachment to the patriarchy . Additionally, in animation there is a history of mothers and grandmothers being posed as
8024-529: The public domain . Disney also argued that if the claimed 1923 publication date was accurate, then the copyright renewal filed in 1954 had been registered after the deadline and was thus invalid. The courts initially upheld Disney's view; however, in 1996, the Ninth Circuit Court reversed the decision on appeal in Twin Books Corp. v. Walt Disney Co. , 83 F.3d 1162 (1996). The American copyright of
8160-451: The "Man's" camp, their campfire suddenly spreads into the forest, resulting in a wildfire from which the forest residents flee in fear. Bambi, his father, Faline, and the forest animals manage to reach shelter on a riverbank. The following spring, Faline gives birth to twins under Bambi's watchful eye as the new Great Prince of the Forest. The voice cast was all uncredited, as was the practice at
8296-402: The "how" and "why" behind their motivations rather than simply creating a one-dimensional character. Because of their motives, many of these types of villains are commonly nicknamed "anti-villains". Bambi Bambi is a 1942 American animated drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures . Loosely based on Felix Salten 's 1923 novel Bambi,
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#17328593851078432-468: The 2002 film adaptation of the animated television series House of Mouse . Set during a Halloween party, Jafar tells Cruella De Vil , Ursula and Captain Hook his plan to take over the club at midnight. Led by Jafar, they take over the club through the musical number "It's Our House Now", and all the other villains in the House join in. In the process, the Card Soldiers traps all the heroes in
8568-660: The Blot is defeated. The game also features an animatronic version of Captain Hook from Peter Pan as a boss. In the second game , The Mad Doctor tries to rule in the Shadow Blot's stead. In the first game, the Mad Doctor supplied robots for the Blot. If the player choose the Hero path, The Mad Doctor turns from a robot into a toon. If the player chooses the Scrapper path, The Mad Doctor is left in
8704-550: The Core , Evil Comes Prepared , Perfectly Wretched , Despicable Plots , and Bigger and Badder . Disney villains proved their mark in cinematic history when the American Film Institute named Grimhilde the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the 10th-greatest movie villain of all time . Other Disney Villains on AFI's list were the unseen hunter(s) from Bambi and Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians . AFI did not rely on Disney's classification of who qualified as
8840-815: The Disney Dream on January 26, 2012. In August 2024, was announced that a theme land focused on the Disney Villains will be built at the Magic Kingdom , at Walt Disney World . The land, named as Villains Land, is described as the home of the Disney Villains from Walt Disney Animation Studios films. On September 3, 2024, it was announced that the final performance of Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy will be permanently closed on October 7, 2024, to make way for an all-new Disney Villains-themed stage show, which will debut in mid-2025 in Sunset Showcase Theater at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Disney's Villains' Revenge
8976-545: The Lost, an island where all of Disney's villains and their various sidekicks have been imprisoned, along with all the other villains and their children. Mal, Evie, Jay, and Carlos were chosen by Prince Ben (son of King Beast and Queen Belle) to live in The United States of Auradon. In the animated series Descendants: Wicked World , appear Freddie, Dr. Facilier's daughter, CJ, Captain Hook's daughter, and Zevon, Yzma's son. In
9112-483: The Rage and Disney Villains Giant Book to Color ~ Diabolical Deeds! Several characters from the Disney villains make meet-and-greet appearances at various Disney Parks locations. Previous parades such as Disney's Hollywood Studios' Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade, SpectroMagic and Disney's Once Upon a Dream Parade featured a float dedicated to villains, and Parade of Dreams (an Ursula float). A 1999 exhibit at
9248-444: The abilities they possess that are exclusive to them. For example, one of the female villain's greatest weapons is her alluring beauty, sexuality or emotional intelligence. The perversion of inherently female traits in storytelling also alludes to the demonic display of the succubus and their affinity for utilizing their beauty as a weapon—a trait utilized by many female villains throughout modern fiction and mythology. However, this
9384-561: The animated television series House of Mouse , Bambi being a character to summon in the video game Kingdom Hearts and its sequel Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories , and Bambi, Thumper, Flower, Faline and Great Prince of the Forest being playable characters in Disney Magic Kingdoms . On December 17, 2018, a prison sentence passed against a man, in what is considered the biggest deer poaching case in Missouri history, contained
9520-403: The ants, and then all of a sudden we decided, you know, we're way off the story, this has got nothing to do with the story of Bambi . We also had a family of grasshoppers, and they get into a family squabble of this or that, and Bambi is watching all of this, and here's the big head of Bambi in the grasshoppers. And what's that got to do with the story, and this would go on many times. Originally
9656-736: The best ten films in ten classic American film genres – after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. Bambi was acknowledged as the third best film in the animation genre. It is also listed in the Top 25 Horror Movies of All Time by Time magazine. Bambi , Time states, "has a primal shock that still haunts oldsters who saw it 40, 50, 65 years ago." American Film Institute The off-screen villain "Man" has been placed No. 20 on AFI's List of Heroes and Villains . Some critics have cited parallels between Frank Churchill's theme music for "Man" (which consisted of three simple notes) and John Williams 's theme music in Jaws (which consists of two notes). Paul McCartney has credited
9792-433: The case of men with feminine traits, this may stem from both a homophobic and misogynistic point of view which is further discussed below. As for female villains who are portrayed with "displeasing" characteristics, not only are they crafted to look unattractive, but their motivations for becoming evil are rooted in very trivial matters. Debra Bradley's survey on Disney films discovered that 28% of female villains, such as
9928-414: The company's second feature-length animated film and their first to be based on a specific, recent work. However, the original novel was written for an adult audience, and was considered too "grim" and "somber" for a regular light-hearted Disney film. The artists also discovered that it would be challenging to animate deer realistically. These difficulties resulted in Disney putting production on hold while
10064-666: The connotations worsened, so that the modern word villain is no unpolished villager, but is instead (among other things) a deliberate scoundrel or criminal. At the same time, the mediaeval expression "vilein" or "vilain" is closely influenced by the word "vile", referring to something wicked or worthless. As from the late 13th century, vile meant "morally repugnant; morally flawed, corrupt, wicked; of no value; of inferior quality; disgusting, foul, ugly; degrading, humiliating; of low estate, without worldly honor or esteem", from Anglo-French ville , Old French vil , from Latin vilis "cheap, worthless, of low value". In classical literature,
10200-502: The embodiment of national political cultures that may collude or collide against one another. The usage of villain to describe a historical figure dates back to Tudor propaganda, pieces of which ended up influencing William Shakespeare 's portrayal of Richard III as a spiteful and hunchback tyrant . The sympathetic villain or anti-villain is one with the typical traits of a villainous character but differs in their motivations . Their intention to cause chaos or commit evil actions
10336-400: The false donor will pose as a benevolent figure or influence on the protagonist (or those associated with them) to present them with a deal. The deal will present a short-term solution or benefit for whoever accepts it and, in return, benefit the villain in the long term. During the story's climax, the hero often has to find a way to rectify the agreement in order to defeat the villain or achieve
10472-474: The festivities. Jafar and Oogie Boogie soon follow, and arriving last is Maleficent showing the audience how Halloween should really be celebrated. In the Dream Along with Mickey stage show at Walt Disney World 's Magic Kingdom , the Disney villains appear onstage to threaten Mickey Mouse , Minnie Mouse , Donald Duck and Goofy . Maleficent states that since people no longer believe in dreams, it
10608-417: The film Spartacus had Marcus Licinius Crassus as its villain. In the same year, the film Psycho had Norman Bates as a villainous protagonist. The 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird , like the book, had Bob Ewell as its villain. Other 1960s films like The Guns of Navarone and The Great Escape had Nazis as their villains. Beginning with Dr. No in 1962, every James Bond film has had
10744-495: The film "the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's animation studio". English film historian Leslie Halliwell wrote that Bambi was "one of Disney's most memorable and brilliant achievements with a great comic character in Thumper and a climactic forest fire sequence that is genuinely thrilling." He concluded that it was "a triumph of the animator's arts". In June 2008, the American Film Institute revealed its "10 Top 10" –
10880-771: The film has a worldwide gross of $ 267 million. Prior to Bambi ' s initial release on home video on September 28, 1989, initial orders placed in the United States and Canada up to the end of August totaled 9.8 million units, the second largest number of orders for a video at the time, behind E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , with a wholesale value of $ 167 million. Even in home video, it has seen multiple releases, including three VHS releases — in 1989 (Classics Version), 1997 (Masterpiece Collection Version), and 2005 (Platinum Edition version), one Betamax release in 1989 (Classics version), two Laserdisc releases in 1989 (Classics version) and 1997 (Masterpiece Collection version). In 2005,
11016-414: The film has an approval rating of 91% based on 53 reviews with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website consensus reads: "Elegantly animated and deeply touching, Bambi is an enduring, endearing, and moving Disney classic." Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 91 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Critics Mick Martin and Marsha Porter call
11152-484: The film was intended to have six individual bunny characters, similar to the dwarfs in Snow White . However Perce Pearce suggested that they could instead have five generic rabbits and one rabbit with a different color than the rest, with one tooth, would have a very distinct personality. This character later became known as Thumper. There originally was a brief shot in the scene where Bambi's mother dies after jumping over
11288-482: The final battle room to rot. Lastly, at the end of the second game, several versions of Pete look like they're going to try to take over the Wasteland. Several Disney Villains are present as playable characters in the video game Disney Magic Kingdoms , acting as antagonists in new storylines placed after the events of their respective films. Alternate versions of several Disney Villains appear as playable characters in
11424-426: The final design of Bambi by incorporating LeBrun's realistic study of deer anatomy but exaggerating the character's face by making his proportions baby-like (short snout, big eyes, etc.). Although there were no humans in Bambi , live-action footage of humans was used for one scene: actress Jane Randolph and Ice Capades star Donna Atwood acted as live-action references for the scene where Bambi and Thumper are on
11560-491: The first Disney film to premiere abroad. It was released in theaters in United States five days later, on August 13. The film was released during World War II and did not perform as well as hoped. Roy O. Disney sent a telegram to his brother Walt after the New York opening of the film that read: "Fell short of our holdover figure by $ 4,000. Just came from Music Hall. Unable to make any deal to stay third week ... Night business
11696-458: The first was also made available on Disney+, the latter was only distributed for free in schools in Hawaii , and never received any home media release form. At the time of the film's release, Bambi received mixed reviews from the critics, mainly because of the lack of fantasy elements in the film and objection towards a dramatic story of animals and their struggle to survive in the woods and avoid
11832-739: The franchise already had. Early 2000s films like the Spider-Man trilogy , The Dark Knight Trilogy , the Harry Potter films, The Lord of the Rings films and Avatar all had villains like, Green Goblin , Two-Face , Lord Voldemort , Saruman and Miles Quaritch . In the 2010s, the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe have had several notable supervillains such as Thanos and General Zod . The term villain
11968-491: The franchise less frequently. In August 2018, a strategy game titled Disney Villainous was designed by Prospero Hall , published by Ravensburger and released exclusively to Target stores. The game has players compete as Disney Villains attempting to accomplish their goals from the film, while simultaneously trying to slow down their opponents. As of March 2021, four standalone expansions have released, with each adding three different playable villains. Villain merchandise
12104-1276: The games are Queen of Hearts in Wonderland, Clayton in Deep Jungle, Chernabog in End of the World & Symphony of Sorcery, Shan Yu in the Land of Dragons, The Evil Queen in Dwarf Woodlands, Lady Tremaine , Anastasia and Drizella in Castle of Dreams, Captain Gantu in Deep Space, Claude Frollo in La Cité des Cloches, Gaston in Beast's Castle, King Candy in Candy Kingdom, Mother Gothel in Kingdom of Corona, Randall Boggs in Monstropolis, and Hans in Arendelle. Other villains outside
12240-424: The ground, but Disney found that talking flora did not work in the context of the film, and instead a visual metaphor of two realistic leaves falling to the ground was used instead. Disney and his story team also developed the characters consisting of a squirrel and a chipmunk that were to be a comic duo reminiscent of Laurel and Hardy . However, after years of experimentation, Walt felt that the story should focus on
12376-401: The happy ending. Similarly, the devil archetype is one that also makes an offer to the protagonist (or someone associated with them) and appeals to their needs and desires. However, the devil archetype does not hide their intentions from the protagonist. The subsequent story often follows the protagonist's journey to try and annul the agreement before any damage can be done. The beast
12512-424: The hero must struggle to overcome. In their role as a foil, they exemplify characteristics that are diametrically opposed to those of the hero, creating a contrast distinguishing heroic traits from villainous ones. Other have pointed out that many acts of villains have a hint of wish-fulfillment, which makes some readers or viewers identify with them as characters more strongly than with the heroes. Because of this,
12648-541: The icy pond. The animators learned a lot about animals during the film's production, giving them a broader spectrum of animation styles to use in future projects. The backgrounds for the film were inspired by the Eastern American woodlands. One of the earliest and best-known artists for the Disney studio, Maurice "Jake" Day , spent several weeks in the Vermont and Maine forests, sketching and photographing deer, fawns, and
12784-500: The idea of his first full-length feature at the time, with Bambi as one of the possible choices. Later that year, Franklin approached him with the idea, but Disney eventually refused, feeling that his animation studio was unprepared for the technical difficulties that Bambi would have presented. Franklin sold the film rights to Walt Disney in April 1937. Disney began work on crafting an animated adaptation immediately, intending it to be
12920-531: The identity of a villain in the modern sense of the word. Additionally, villein came into use as a term of abuse and eventually took on its modern meaning. The landed aristocracy of mediaeval Europe used politically and linguistically the Middle English descendant of villanus meaning "villager" (styled as vilain or vilein ) with the meaning "a person of uncouth mind and manners". As the common equating of manners with morals gained in strength and currency,
13056-420: The kitchen, throws Mickey and his friends out into the street, while the House's name changes to the "House of Villains". Mickey, Donald and Goofy in turn try to return things to normal, but Chernabog keeps throwing them out. Minnie also tries to demand that they leave the club, but is expelled by Captain Hook. Afterwards, Mickey dresses in his famous sorcerer outfit from Fantasia and challenges Jafar to
13192-508: The making of that film.) In 1896, Georges Méliès made a horror film titled The House of the Devil which had The Devil as an antagonist. Edison's The Great Train Robbery , released in 1903 had the bandits who rob the train as its villains. In 1909, there was a feature length adaptation of Les Misérables with Javert as a villain and in 1910, Otis Turner had a Wicked Witch as the villain of
13328-759: The motherly stereotypes in their villains. Other female villains are portrayed as hyper-sexual and powerful beings that are used to juxtapose the beauty or physical characteristics of the heroine ; for example, the Lady Tremaine and stepsisters in Cinderella . Male villains also hold several traits that are characteristically feminine. Characters like Jafar ( Aladdin ) and Hades ( Hercules ) have features such as shaded eyelids and accentuated facial features, similar to those typically associated with femininity. Zachary Doiron has argued that animated villains are based on homophobic stereotypes. As an example, he brings up
13464-425: The narrative forward and influence the hero's journey. These, while not as rounded as those that appear in other forms of literature, are what is known as archetypes . The archetypal villain is a common occurrence within the genre and come under different categories that have different influences on the protagonist and the narrative. The false donor is a villain who utilises trickery to achieve their ends. Often
13600-434: The narrative through another character. The legacy of the villain is often transferred through that of bloodlines (family) or a devoted follower. For example, if a dragon played the role of a villain but was killed by the hero, another character (such as the dragon's sister) might take on the legacy of the previous villain and pursue the hero out of revenge. The fairy tale genre utilises villains as key components to push
13736-532: The narrative, in which they can portray themselves as villainous in a more general sense. The first is the false hero : This character is always villainous, presenting a false claim to be the hero that must be rebutted for the happy ending . Examples of characters who display this trait, and interfere with the success of a tale's hero, are the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella who chopped off parts of their feet to fit in
13872-994: The official line-up that also make appearances include Sabor in Deep Jungle, the Master Control Program & Sark in Space Paranoids, CLU & Rinzler in The Grid, the Beagle Boys in Country of the Musketeers, Julius in Traverse Town, and Davy Jones & Cutler Beckett in The Caribbean. Monstro, the whale from Pinocchio , is both a character and a location as well as a boss in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix . Epic Mickey introduces new villains to
14008-496: The original book, Bambi was a roe deer , a species native to Europe; but Disney decided to base the character on a mule deer from Arrowhead, California . Illustrator Maurice "Jake" Day convinced Disney that the mule deer had large "mule-like" ears and were more common to western North America; but that the white-tail deer was more recognized throughout the United States. The film received three Academy Award nominations: Best Sound ( Sam Slyfield ), Best Song (for "Love Is
14144-741: The past, and at times, tempts scholars and historians to construct a world of black and white in which the terms "hero" and "villain" are used arbitrary and with the pass of time become interchangeable. These binaries of course are reflected to varying degrees in endless movies, novels, and other fictional and non-fictional narratives. As processes of globalization connect the world, cultures with different historical trajectories and political traditions will need to find ways to work together not only economically, but also politically. In this evolving framework of globalization, tradition, according to political theorists like Edmund Burke , historical figures perceived and evaluated as either positive or negative become
14280-433: The players decide which of 30 villains can appear on each space on the board (characters that appear in the game that are not part of the official Villain list include Beagle Boys , Three Little Wolves , Pom-Pom , Man, Hound Dogs, and Chief); a checkers game; and a collector's card game set. An online Disney trivia game called Who Wants to be a Villionaire , released in October 2001, is loosely based on Who Wants to Be
14416-540: The plot". The antonym of a villain is a hero . The villain's structural purpose is to serve as the opposite to the hero character, and their motives or evil actions drive a plot along. In contrast to the hero, who is defined by feats of ingenuity and bravery and the pursuit of justice and the greater good, a villain is often defined by their acts of selfishness, evilness, arrogance, cruelty, and cunning , displaying immoral behavior that can oppose or pervert justice. The term villain first came into English from
14552-849: The power of darkness. The villains are antagonists in different worlds, such as the Villains group led by Maleficent , with Pete as her main henchman, Hades in Olympus, Jafar in Agrabah , Ursula in Atlantica, Oogie Boogie in Halloween Town, Captain Hook in Neverland , and Scar in the Pride Land . Other villain in the group outside the official line-up is Captain Barbossa of Port Royal. Other Disney Villains in
14688-405: The rights to the doe's affections. Bambi is awakened afterward by the smell of smoke; he follows it and discovers it leads to a hunter camp. His father warns Bambi that Man has returned with more hunters. Bambi is separated from Faline in the turmoil, but finds her cornered by Man's vicious hunting dogs, which he manages to ward off. Bambi escapes them and is shot by Man, but survives. Meanwhile, at
14824-421: The sequel, Descendants 2 , Uma, Harry and Gil, children of Ursula, Captain Hook and Gaston, appear as the main antagonists. Dizzy, Drizella's daughter, also appears as a more friendly character. Maleficent appears in a lizard form, having that appearance after the events in the previous film, while Ursula yells at her daughter from the kitchen in her restaurant, only one of her tentacles visible, and Lady Tremaine
14960-434: The shoe. Another role for the villain would be the dispatcher, who sends the hero on their quest . At the beginning of the story, their request may appear benevolent or innocent, but the dispatcher's real intentions might be to send the hero on a journey in the hopes of being rid of them. The roles and influence that villains can have over a narrative can also be transferred to other characters – to continue their role in
15096-457: The shooting death of Bambi's mother for his initial interest in animal rights . Soon after the film's release, Walt Disney allowed his characters to appear in fire prevention public service campaigns. However, Bambi was only loaned to the government for a year, so a new symbol was needed, leading to the creation of Smokey Bear . Bambi and his mother also make a cameo appearance in the satirical 1955 Donald Duck short No Hunting : drinking from
15232-486: The shows, the Evil Queen decides it is time to finish off Mickey Mouse once and for all, and invokes other villains to help her. Disney villains appear in Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party , a Halloween -themed event held annually during the months of September and October at the Magic Kingdom theme park of the Walt Disney World Resort and at Disneyland Paris . A stage show and meet-and-greet with
15368-535: The snow while Flower hibernates. One day his mother takes him to find food when Man shows up again. As they run off, his mother is shot and killed by the hunter, leaving the little fawn mournful and alone. Taking pity on his abandoned son, the Great Prince leads Bambi home as he reveals to him that he is his father. Next year, Bambi has matured into a young stag, and his childhood friends have also entered young adulthood. They are warned about becoming "twitterpated" by Friend Owl and that they will eventually fall in love, but
15504-415: The stipulation that the prisoner must view the film at least once each month during his one-year prison sentence. The Silly Symphony Sunday comic strip ran a three-month-long adaptation of Bambi from July 19 to October 4, 1942. Set in the middle of Bambi , Bambi II shows the Great Prince of the Forest struggling to raise the motherless Bambi, and Bambi's doubts about his father's love. The film
15640-460: The studio worked on several other projects, and eventually Pinocchio became the studio's second film. In 1938, Disney assigned Perce Pearce and Carl Fallberg to work on the film's storyboards, but attention was soon drawn away as the studio began working on Fantasia . Finally, on August 17, 1939, production on Bambi began in earnest, but progressed slowly owing to changes in the studio personnel, location, and methodology of handling animation at
15776-406: The surrounding wilderness areas. However his first sketches were too "busy" as the eye did not know where to focus. Tyrus Wong , a Chinese animator, showed Day some of his impressionistic paintings of a forest. Day liked the paintings and appointed him art director of the film. Wong's backgrounds were revolutionary since they had more detail around the center and less around the edges, thus leading
15912-477: The threat of humans. The New York Times claimed that "In the search for perfection, Mr. Disney has come perilously close to tossing away his whole world of cartoon fantasy." Manny Farber of The New Republic wrote that "Bambi is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant… Mickey wouldn't be caught dead in this." Farber added that "In an attempt to ape the trumped-up realism of flesh and blood movies, he has given up fantasy, which
16048-475: The three films feature wildlife that requires extensive CGI and special effects . On June 13, 2023, it was revealed that Sarah Polley is in talks to direct the film, which is said to be a musical that will feature music from six-time Grammy-winning country star Kacey Musgraves . Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster wrote the most recent draft of the script. As of March 2024, Polley was reportedly no longer attached as director. The copyrights for Bambi,
16184-538: The three principal characters: Bambi, Thumper and Flower. The squirrel and chipmunk make only brief appearances in the final film. The writing was completed in July 1940, by which time the film's budget had increased to $ 858,000. Although the animators had animated deer in Snow White , they were animated, in the words of Eric Larson , "like big flour sacks". Disney wanted the animals in Bambi to be more realistic and expressive than those in Snow White . He had Rico LeBrun,
16320-401: The time for many animated films. In 1933, Sidney Franklin purchased the rights to Felix Salten 's novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods (1923) to produce a live-action film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , but soon realized that it would be too difficult to achieve. Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists suggested he make an animated version in alliance with Walt Disney , who was contemplating
16456-425: The time. There were many interpretations of the story. As writer and animator Mel Shaw recalled: The story of Bambi had a so many possibilities, you could go off on a million tangents. I remember one situation when Walt became involved with himself. He said 'Suppose we have Bambi step on an ant hill and we cut inside and see all the damage he's done to the ant civilization'. We spent weeks and weeks developing
16592-404: The trio views the concept of romance with scorn. Thumper and Flower soon encounter their beautiful romantic counterparts and abandon their former thoughts on love. Bambi himself encounters Faline as a beautiful doe. Their courtship is quickly interrupted by a belligerent older stag named Ronno, who attempts to force Faline away from Bambi. Bambi successfully manages to defeat Ronno in battle and earn
16728-554: The video game Disney Mirrorverse . Characters from the franchise have been featured in television specials. The first, Our Unsung Villains , was aired in 1956 as part of Walt Disney Presents . In the special, Walt Disney himself hands hosting duties over to the Magic Mirror, who hosts a show devoted to Disney villains such as the Big Bad Wolf , the Evil Queen and Captain Hook , and Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear . In 1977, there
16864-400: The villain character is not always the same as those that appear in modern and postmodern incarnations, as the lines of morality are often blurred to imply a sense of ambiguity or affected by historical context and cultural ideas. Often the delineation of heroes and villains in such literature is left unclear. Nevertheless, there are some exceptions to this such as Grendel from Beowulf who
17000-498: The villainous Delilah and George Sanders as the villainous Prince of Gaza . In 1953, Byron Haskin made a film of The War of the Worlds . Like the book, it has Martians as villains. Cecil B. DeMille 's 1956 remake of The Ten Commandments had two main villains. Ramesses II , played by Yul Brynner and Dathan played by Edward G. Robinson . (It also had Nefertari be a Lady Macbeth figure egging Ramesses on.) In 1960,
17136-507: The villains led by Dr. Facilier (and prior to 2011 by Maleficent ) titled "The Disney Villains Mix and Mingle" is held on the Cinderella Castle Forecourt Stage. Among those to visit are the Queen of Hearts , Captain Hook , and the Evil Queen among others. During the fireworks show HalloWishes some villains arrive to the celebration, starting with Ursula "plopping in" on the party and adding her own musical mix to
17272-483: The villains of many stories. Neil Gaiman 's Coraline presents this phenomenon through the idea of the other-mother. In Coraline , the Other Mother is a loving, caring parent who welcomes Coraline to a new life, helping in the face of troubles back home. By glorifying this other mother, the story paints Coraline's real mother as negligent, in turn causing her to be the villain of the story. Disney films also take on
17408-522: The world of Disney, most of which are from old-style Disney films and attractions. In the first game, Mickey unwittingly creates a monster called the Shadow Blot (not to be confused with the Phantom Blot ). As Mickey tries to get rid of it, Yen Sid approaches and Mickey is forced to flee, leaving some of the Blot undestroyed. Years later, the Blot has Mickey kidnapped so that his heart can be used to escape Wasteland. With Oswald's help, Mickey returns home as
17544-526: Was an update to this show entitled Disney's Greatest Villains , that featured the Evil Queen and Captain Hook again, along with nine other characters from the franchise, plus Willie the Giant . Segments from this special were featured in A Disney Halloween . A handful of alternate versions of Disney Villains appear in the ABC fantasy drama television series Once Upon a Time . A notable case of their appearances
17680-401: Was announced that a photorealistic computer-animated remake was in development. In a Maine forest, a doe gives birth to a male fawn named Bambi , who will one day take over the position of Great Prince of the Forest, who guards the woodland creatures and (unbeknownst to Bambi himself) is his father. Bambi grows up very attached to his mother, with whom he spends most of his time. The fawn
17816-568: Was available at the former Villains in Vogue store in Sunset Blvd, at Disney's Hollywood Studios . This first store was so successful that the Disneyland Villain Shop was opened afterwards in 1991. Both of these have since now closed. USAopoly has released a number of products featuring Disney villains. Among them is a Monopoly -based board game called My Disney Villains Monopoly , where
17952-550: Was only allowed by Disney to use the character for a year. In December 2011, Bambi was among the films selected for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. In its induction, the Registry said that the film was one of Walt Disney's favorites and that it has been "recognized for its eloquent message of nature conservation." Characters of the film appear in several other Disney media, such as guest appearances in
18088-407: Was pretty much the magic element." Even Disney's daughter Diane complained, saying that Bambi's mother did not need to die. When Walt claimed that he was only following the book, Diane protested, saying that he had taken other liberties before and that Walt Disney could do whatever he wanted. Today, however, Bambi is viewed much more favorably. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes ,
18224-461: Was re-released to theatres in the United States in 1947, 1957, 1966, 1975, 1982 and 1988. In its first reissue in the United States in 1947, the film earned additional domestic rentals of $ 900,000 but did much better 10 years later, more than doubling the domestic rental total with a further $ 2.5 million taking its total domestic rental earnings to $ 4.7 million. The film earned $ 14 million in domestic rentals from its reissues in 1966 and 1975 giving it
18360-470: Was released direct-to-video on February 7, 2006. While the film was a direct-to-video release in the United States and other countries, including Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan, it was a theatrical release in some countries, including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Dominican Republic, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom and some other European countries. On January 28, 2020, it was announced that
18496-572: Was released on February 7, 2011. In honor of the film's 75th anniversary, Bambi was released as part of the Walt Disney Signature Collection on May 23, 2017 (digital) and June 6, 2017 (Blu-ray/DVD/digital combo pack). On August 18, 2023, Bambi was re-released in cinemas across the UK only for one week as part of Disney's 100th anniversary. On the initiative of Stephen Greymoming, professor of Native American studies and anthropology at
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