Villain Song / Western Animation

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Villain Songs in Western Animation.

• Grizzle, the villain of Adventures in Care-a-Lot, sings "Grizzle's Bad" in the direct-to-DVD "Oopsy Does It."
• Dr. Robotnik in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "Sonic's Song". Notably, in his first attempt to write one, the singer he is holding captive twists it into a "The Villain Sucks" Song.
  • Later on in the episode "Lifestyles of the Sick and Twisted", we get the fantastic little number "Sonic is in my dungeon!👁 Image
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• Alfred J. Kwak:
  • "Miauw" ("Meow"), Krabnagel the cat's ominous Villain Song from episode 3 where he sings about the things he'd like to have to quell his insatiable appetite.
  • "De Kraaienmars" ("The Crow's March") serves as a Villain Song for the Crow's Party as a whole, as they pledge their loyalty to their leader, Dolf.
• Belladonna's song "I Always Get Emotional at Christmas Time"👁 Image
  from "An All Dogs Christmas Carol".
  • In her first appearance, her song "Take The Easy Way Out"👁 Image
    is used to tempt Charlie AND insult her cousin Annabelle.
• Parodied in The Amazing World of Gumball, when Darwin Takes a Level In Jerkass thanks to Gumball encouraging him to speak his mind more. He only makes it halfway through the song👁 Image
  before getting slapped out of it by Gumball.
  • In the episode "The Wicked", Mrs. Robinson gets a song👁 Image
    sung from her perspective (but not exactly by her since she doesn't really speak) about how she enjoys seeing and causing misery and suffering purely for her own amusement. For extra flavor, the song is a parody of 'My Favorite Things' from The Sound of Music.
• American Dad! has "Psychotic Hot Tub,"👁 Image
  where a sapient hot tub (Voiced by Cee Lo Green, no less) tries to murder Stan.
• Parodied in The Angry Beavers episode "Spooky Spoots", where Scientist #1 sings of his intentions to exterminate every ghost in existence to the tune of In the Hall of the Mountain King. He eventually gets tired of singing lyrics and stops because he doesn't like the song.
• While not technically sung by them Aqua Teen Hunger Force's The Mooninites get their own rap song.👁 Image
  
  • There is also the Insanoflex which plays the song "I Like Your Booty (But I'm Not Gay"👁 Image
    . The music video plays for various villains of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
• "Virtuoso of Insanity", an Atomic Betty episode, had Maximus IQ singing a song until it was hijacked by Betty.
• The Musical Episode of Avenger Penguins, "Rock n Roll Penguins" gave its villain Caractacus P. Doom a song called "Caractacus P. Doom Will Rule the World", performed in a lounge style.
• The Backyardigans: the first superhero-themed episode, Race to the Tower of Power, had "We Are Supervillains" and "Key to the World". (The performers (Pablo and Tyrone) are villains just for that episode, but it still counts.)
  • In the episode "Cops and Robots", there's "We Are Bad Bots" sung by Pablo (as the Pablonator) and Tasha (as T-800).
  • "Lady In Pink"👁 Image
    from the spy episode.
  • "I Am Professor Bug" and "Whatever I Want" from Robot Rampage.
  • "Extra, Extra Tough" from Viking Voyage.
• In Harley Quinn's debut episode on The Batman (2004), Harley and Joker celebrate their new partnership with a rousing rendition of Hank Williams' "Settin' The Woods on Fire."👁 Image
  
• Harley Quinn has her own musical number👁 Image
  in the "Harlequinade" episode of Batman: The Animated Series.
  • Which gets bonus points for being a real song from the 1940s entitled "Say That We're Sweethearts Again" by Dorothy Shay.
  • Worth noticing that in the show each villain has its own characteristic musical theme, something very few animated shows, or shows in general, even think about.
• The Musical Episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, "Mayhem of the Music Meister", is full of these: "I'm the Music Meister"👁 Image
  , "Deathtrap"👁 Image
  and "The World is Mine!"👁 Image
  are all examples, and sung by Neil Patrick Harris no less. "Drives Us Bats"👁 Image
  '' tops it off though, being not only a song about how frustrating dealing with Batman is, but also references the theory that half of the insanity in his villains is caused by Batman himself, and gets nearly every damn villain and even several heroes at least cameoing in it.
  • The Joker gets an epic one in the Animated Adaptation of Emperor Joker called Where's the Fun in That?👁 Image
    , which accompanies him exploding the universe for the sake of a music video.
• In "Turf Wars", the Musical Episode and Grand Finale of the 2006 revival of Biker Mice from Mars, pretty much every antagonist in the episode gets their own song.
  • The Nomad Rats sing "We're Nomad Rats" when they first attack the Biker Mice.
  • Hannibal T. Hairball and Dr. Catorkian sing a duet called "Dig Deep" while forcing mind-controlled Martian mice to mine for tetrahydrocarbons. A good deal of the song is simply the two gloating about how evil they are.
  • Vinnie's former girlfriend Harley gets two. The first is "Hard to Be Harley", where she explains why she's gone bad and declares that the Nomad Rats are her only real friends now. Her other song is "Mine, Mine, Mine", where she gloats about how well her plan will go now that Vinnie is under her control.
• Speaking of Cee Lo Green, he did another song on The Brak Show, in an episode featuring a rap battle between Brak and his character Prime Cut Miggety Moe Mack Daddy Jeezabang Doggy Dog Dog.
  • Also from Cartoon Planet, there's Zorak's cover of "Bad Boys" called, "Bad Bug."👁 Image
    
• Bump in the Night
  • Destructo sings "I'm Bigger than You" in one of the Karaoke Cafe segments, where he brags about how everyone should do what he says because he is tall and powerful.
  • The episode "It Sang from Beyond the Stars" had alien duo Sleemoth and Gloog masquerade as a rock band and sing a song called "Invaders", which explicitly mentions their plans to invade Earth in the lyrics.
• Ralph Bakshi's TV version of Dr. Seuss's The Butter Battle Book features an eerie Disney Acid Sequence in which a sinister Mad Scientist sings about building weapons of mass destruction.
• Professor Coldheart's song from Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings. See for yourself👁 Image
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  • And his OTHER song from The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine. There's just something about the guy.👁 Image
    
• Centaurworld:
  • "The Nowhere King's Lullaby"👁 Image
    is a recurring leitmotif for the series' nightmarish Big Bad, the Nowhere King, in the form of an Ironic Nursery Tune. While it's never sung by the subject himself, the song is always present whenever his presence is invoked, culminating with his big reveal at the end of the first season.
  • "Fragile Things": The taurnado's half of the title song's reprise, where it sings in opposition to Horse and about its intent to consume her and the herd.
  • "The Rift: Part 2": "Nothing Good" is this to the unnamed woman, as she sings about her determination to see her mission through and the foolishness of letting affection blind you to what must be done.
• Central Park:
  • Though short, "Central to my Plot" in "Episode One" outlines Bitsy's overarching plan to turn Central Park into the biggest real estate deal in history. Her reasons for doing this are expanded in "Make 'Em Pay" (below).
  • In "Skater's Circle", Bitsy sings "Make 'Em Pay", where she sings about how she'll make everyone pay for treating her badly and ignoring her.
  • In "Dog Spray Afternoon", Helen sings "If There's a Will", a song about the struggles of being Bitsy's assistant and about playing the Long Game in order to gain Bitsy's fortune.
    • In a rare Dark Reprise for a villain song, "If There's a Will (Reprise)" has Helen hatch a plan to kill Bitsy's dog and Make It Look Like an Accident in order to guarantee her place in Bitsy's will, complete with Evil Laugh.
  • "Rival Busker" opens with Griffin, the rival of the title, singing "First Class Hands," emphasizing how superior he is to Birdie as a narrator. Though Griffin is just doing his job, he acts as antagonist to Birdie throughout the episode.
  • In "Squirrel, Interrupted", Bitsy sings "Big Deal", where she sings about how she despises her brother and his extended family.
  • Arguably, "T.O.S.G.A.N.O", from "Hot Oven" qualifies, since it outlines Helen's current Evil Plan to get rid of Shampagne the dog.
• ChalkZone
  • The Big Bad Skrawl sang "Skrawl's Song" in three episodes (His debut in "The Skrawl", "Chalk Queen", and "Double Trouble"). Every time, the song had the same tune, but different lyrics. The first instance is used to introduce himself and explain his resentment towards Rudy Tabootie, the second time is as a Villain Recruitment Song directed at Rudy's friend Penny and the final time, he sings it as a duet with Craniac 4 as they gloat about their scheme to use a robot double of Rudy to destroy all the magic chalk, enslave the real Rudy and take over ChalkZone.
  • In "The Smudges", the female smudge Zibble at one point possesses Snap and plays the piano while singing a few lyrics about ordering Snap, Penny, and Queen Rapsheeba to leave the house.
  • Old Man This Year sings "I'm Out of Time" in "The Day ChalkZone Stood Still" after he freezes ChalkZone in time so he doesn't have to give his crown to Baby New Year.
• In The Charmkins, Dragonweed gets two villain songs, one about how nice life in Thistledown is and another about his threats to Lady Slipper if she won't dance for him.
• Despite being a show circling around musical numbers, Class of 3000 has surprisingly few of these. One that stands out is Big D's song "All We Want Is Your Soul,"👁 Image
  explaining that he wants Little D's soul as payment for making him famous.
• The Clone High musical episode has two: The Pusher (voiced by Jack Black) gets the aptly-titled "I Am the Pusher👁 Image
  ", and Principal Scudworth gets "Build It Higher"👁 Image
  after he takes over the PTA.
• Codename: Kids Next Door:
  • Grandma Stuffum's rock opera, "Slamwich", in the episode F.O.O.D.F.I.T.E. GWAR did the music for the episode, and the number is a combined variation of their songs "The Private Pain of Techno Destructo" and "Gor-Gor".
  • Also, Stickybeard's "Licorice, Licorice👁 Image
    " from L.I.C.O.R.I.C.E., which tells the story of Black John Licorice, a rival candy pirate. Also counts as a "Villain Sucks" song, as Black John is a more vicious pirate who'd "do anything for candy, even steal it from his mom".
  • Robin Food, the Villain of the Week for L.U.N.C.H., has his own Bragging Theme Tune to exposit what he does. In A.W.A.R.D.S. he and his Hungry Men do the opening number for Villains Choice Awards.
  • The Spinach Inquisition.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog: The Man In Gauze. The Man In Gauze. KING RAAAAAAAAMSEEEEEEES👁 Image
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• Cubix: Robots for Everyone has Dr. K briefly rap "Who's the Baddest."👁 Image
  
• The Cuphead Show!:
  • The Devil has one👁 Image
    in the first episode, expositing on who he is and his obsession with stealing souls. It becomes lampshaded when his Henchman interrupts him and the Devil snaps, "I was singing!"
  • "Ghosts Ain't Real" has a bunch of ghosts musically scare👁 Image
    Cuphead and Mugman with one of these.
  • Cala Maria gets a number of her own👁 Image
    in an opera-like piece that takes cues from Carmen's Habanera.
  • The series soundtrack includes a expanded version👁 Image
    of King Dice's "Roll The Dice" show theme, where King Dice encourages people to take a gamble and roll the dice.
• The villainous singer ghost Ember from Danny Phantom sings "You Will Remember"👁 Image
  in Season 1 episode, Fanning the Flames. According to the show, the song is about Ember being stood up by her date, which caused her to be heartbroken. Some time after Ember went home, she fell asleep and her house mysteriously caught on fire, killing her. Many fans believed Ember committed suicide by burning herself alive within her house.
  • Ember appeared again in the Season 3 episode, Girls' Night Out, where she sings a song of the title name.👁 Image
    
• DC Super Hero Girls has Ra's Al-Ghul's "You're Mine"👁 Image
  as he puts it Kara under his Red Kryptonite based control - it's an In-Universe Ear Worm that keeps her under. The heroes, as it turn out, have some Awesome Music of their own to break the control👁 Image
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  • To a lesser extent, there's the much shorter and extremely less subtle "We Really Mean It"👁 Image
    , which goes out of it's way to say that their villainous lyrics aren't metaphors in hilarious fashion.
  • Earlier in the series, during Livewire's string of havoc upon the girls, we get "A Million Volts"👁 Image
    , which is sung from the electric villain's point of view.
  • The Super Villain Girls get "Too Much Fun"👁 Image
    , which is a surprisingly uplifting song about causing as much chaos and destruction as you please.
• Dexter's Laboratory: The Hip Hop Experiment gives us "Mandark's Plan."👁 Image
  It's sung by rapper YZ, but he sings it as if he were Mandark, boasting about how he'll rule the world, lock up Dexter, and have Dee Dee as his wife.
• Being a musical series, the animated adaptation of Donkey Kong Country (1996) had several. Most of the songs are forgettable at best, but those sung by Kaptain Skurvy are actually quite catchy.
  • For example: "Pirates Scorn"👁 Image
    and "Booty Boogie"👁 Image
    for Skurvy, while K. Rool has (but isn't limited to) "One of Us"👁 Image
    and "No One's Going to Make a Monkey Out of Me."👁 Image
    
    • From the same episode as "One of Us" comes "The Mirror Never Lies,"👁 Image
      a preceding song by Kaptain Skurvy where he convinces Donkey Kong that he's a Kremling Pirate. Klaptrap, although he's more of a neutral than anything, gets a song of his own called Someone Get My Teeth Back!👁 Image
      
    • Of particular mention should be "Become a Bad Guy,"👁 Image
      In which we get some amusing anecdotes of just a few of the villainous things King K. Rool does whilst Candy helps Donkey Kong try to figure out how he can play the part of a villain. (Ironically, the scene treats King K. Rool as a Card-Carrying Villain when common advice from actors about how to play a villain is that most villains don't see themselves as bad.)
  • Though he isn't always evil, the self-absorbed Bluster Kong has a few songs in episodes where he's a lesser antagonist, such as Brewing a love potion to use on Candy Kong👁 Image
    in "A Thin Line Between Love and Ape" or "Here I Go Creeping"👁 Image
    in "Barrel Barrel, Who's Got The Barrel" where sings while stealing the Crystal Coconut.
• The Ice Witch voiced by Hillary Duff in the Dora the Explorer special "Dora's Ice Skating Spectacular" has "I'm the Best,"👁 Image
  a song about her being the self-proclaimed best ice skater in the kingdom.
• The Drawn Together episode "Foxxy vs. the Board of Education" gives the Board of Education a song where he sings about his scheme of making money by deliberately making black people fail their SATs so that they'll always be stupid enough to buy useless crap.
• The Dreamstone: "War Song of the Urpneys"👁 Image
  is usually only used as background music for scenes involving the villains, but it is actually performed by the Urpneys in the episode "Megattack" as they are preparing their attack on the Land of Dreams. The lyrics are basically a Badass Boast in song form, like any good military march, that not only brag about how powerful the Urpneys are (which is a lie), but also how they enjoy being evil (which is also a lie, that's the opposite of how the Urpneys actually feel.)
• Duck Dodgers has the Martian Queen, Tyr'ahnee, sing "Blues in the Night."👁 Image
  
• In an episode of Eek! The Cat, two witch cat sisters who serve as the villains perform two songs: "Anabelle Must Simply Disappear👁 Image
  ", and "Send in the Lawyers👁 Image
  ", in a rock opera style.
• In the Evil Con Carne episode "The Pie Who Loved Me", Hector Con Carne gets "Things I Adore", which starts with him singing about how he likes everything in the world, then changes to him singing about his desire to conquer the world.
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • "The Pixie Rap"👁 Image
    from School's Out! The Musical has Sanderson and Head Pixie rap about how they've raised Flappy Bob to believe boringness and excessive safety are fun as part of their 37-year plan to take over Fairy World. They get several reprises throughout the movie.
  • Norm the Genie would later get "Gimme the Wand"👁 Image
    in Fairy Idol, which consists of Norm expressing his desire to win the Fairy Idol singing contest so he can become a fairy godparent and in doing so be freed of his lamp forever.
  • Vicky is given four songs in the Nickelodeon Magazine comic story "It's Not Over Till the Babysitter Sings", which explains what she was doing during the events of School's Out! before Timmy wished for children to be in charge of the world. The four songs consist of one where she gloats about how much she enjoys tormenting the children she looks after (sung to the tune of "B-I-N-G-O"), one where she and her fellow cruel babysitters lament not having children around to torment (sung to the tune of "My Darling Clementine"), one that she sings while trying to stop the bus bringing the children to the Learn-A-Torium (sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle") and a final song where she complains about working as a lunch lady at the Learn-A-Torium (sung to the tune of "Frere Jacques").
• In a deleted scene from the Family Guy episode "Lois Kills Stewie" Stewie performs his villain song "I've Got A Little List"👁 Image
  describing the people that he hates and killing them in creative ways.
  • Very appropriately, Stewie's song is a version of the one from The Mikado.
• Two out of three of the Van Beuren Studios Felix the Cat shorts had these: "Bold King Cole" had "You Talk Too Much, You Never Shut Up,"👁 Image
  and "The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs" had "We Take What We Want and We Want What We Take."👁 Image
  
• Freakazoid!'s inexplicable "Hello Dolly" parody, "Bonjour Lobey."👁 Image
  
  • "Where did he go!? That Invisibo!?"
• Futurama:
  • The Robot Devil's upbeat, pyrotechnics-and-dance-filled tour of Robot Hell👁 Image
    in "Hell Is Other Robots".
  • The Evil Robot Santa is so cool, the Planet Express crew sings his Villain Song👁 Image
    to celebrate Christmas (or rather X-mas) Eve, even thought he just tried to murder them!
  • All the music in the pre-uncancellation finale, "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", is effectively one long number. The Robot Devil still gets probably the best lines.
    Leela: That isn't what I meant! That isn't what I signed!
    R.D.: You should have checked the wording in the fine! ... priiiinnnt!
  • In Bender's Big Score, the Scammers are left out of the film's two songs, probably because they're one-off villains not related to any previous storylines. Robot Santa and his cohorts get an impressive number called "This Trinity's Going to War"👁 Image
    near the end of the film, but he's on the humans' side this time.
• Garfield on the Town features "We The Claws"👁 Image
  , which is sung by a gang of cats who want to hurt Garfield for intruding on their turf.
• The Garfield Show:
  • The special "The Lion Queen" has Egomaniac Hunter Dirk Dinkum sing "Bad Boy", which had him reveling in what a repugnant and spiteful piece of garbage he is.
    Nobody likes to be
    Hated by the population
    'Til I find, I don't mind
    When they say "Go away!"
    Folks believe and perceive
    I am an abomination!
    They despair, I don't care
    When they say "Go away!"
  • The "Bewitched" special has two Villain Songs.
    • "Be My Ghost", where the ghosts inhabiting the underworld sing about how much they like scaring the living.
    • Varicella sings "Varicella Song" when her plan to turn all humanity into frogs almost succeeds.
  • In the "Mean Machine" special, the antepenultimate part "Robot Rampage" has Master Control sing "That Fat Cat", where he expresses how he must eliminate Garfield to prevent him from thwarting his plan, while the final part "The Robot Revolution" has him sing "Alarm Song", where he orders his minions to stop Garfield and Odie.
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero:
  • According to an interview👁 Image
    with Buzz Dixon, the episode "Cobrathon" was originally supposed to involve Cobra singing a "We Are the World" parody titled "We Want the World".
  • The episode "Cold Slither" features a song for the band of the same name created by Cobra (actually just Zartan and the Dreadnoks in bad wigs), though they lip-synch it rather than sing it. Unfortunately, you never get to hear the whole song without dialogue spoken over it.
  We're Cold Slither! You'll be joining us soon! A band of vipers playing our tune! With an iron fist and a reptile hiss we shall rule!
• The Paramount Modern Madcap "Goodie The Gremlin" (1963) features the "Gremlin Creed👁 Image
  ," a song by the bad gremlins on how evil and mischievous they are.
• The bizarre Christmas Special Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer has an equally-strange Villain Song, namely "Grandpa's Gonna Sue The Pants Offa Santa,"👁 Image
  in which the Big Bad and her lawyer inexplicably break into a Latin dance number about how Grandpa will clean out Santa in a lawsuit over Grandma's disappearance, complete with psychadelic background.
• "Brains"👁 Image
  from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. Sung by Voltaire, to add to the fun.
  • Underfist has Mindy's song "Trick or Treater Eaters".
• The animated short The Groovenians gives us "The Money Song"👁 Image
  by King Norman (voiced by Dennis Hopper).
• "The Spooks' Song"👁 Image
  from Halloween Is Grinch Night. Although the monsters during the whole sequence are pretty tame, the music is very intense.
• Hazbin Hotel:
  • In "Overture", Adam sings "Hell is Forever", a rock song about his Black-and-White Morality view of demons and angels and how Charlie's hopes of redeeming Sinners don't have a shot.
  • In "Scrambled Eggs", Velvette sings "Respectless", where she hypes herself up as a Card-Carrying Jerkass above the other Overlords before accusing Carmilla Carmine of killing the deceased angel.
  • "Finale" starts out about Charlie and her friends before the Vees start to plot to conquer Hell.
  • The Vee's part of "Hazbin Guarantee (Trust Us)" involves them picking up a random sinner, sexually exploiting her, then throwing her out just as quickly.
  • "Once We Get Up There" is a Vee-centered song where Vox convinces the other Vees to start planning a rebellion against Heaven to achieve godhood and take over the whole universe. Valentino plans to use angels as more sex slaves and Velvette plans to make clothes out of dismembered angel wings.
  • In "Storyteller", Lute sings "Gravity", about how she desires to get revenge on Charlie for Adam's death.
  • "It's a Deal!" has "Don't You Forget" and "Don't You Forget (Reprise)":
    • "Don't You Forget" is a jaunty showtune sung by the cannibalistic Overlord Rosie, who is revealed to be the owner of Alastor's soul. During this, she politely demands that Alastor remember his place as her "pet", playfully taunts him over the deal they made, and how she's the puppetmaster pulling her servant's strings.
    • "Don't You Forget (Reprise)" is, as the title suggests, a reprise of "Don't You Forget", where Vox has captured Alastor and gloats over his impending victory and Alastor himself mocks him all throughout.
  • "Silenced" has a whopping three villain songs. "Bad With Us" follows Vox charismatically drawing the other overlords to his side, in a variety of musical styles to appeal to each. "VOX POPULAI" finds Vox challenged by Lucifer, only to turn the citizen's of Hell to his side as the "people's voice". In "VOX DEI" Vox becomes a truly threatening villain compared to his previous songs, calling out the hypocrisy of the angels and declaring holy war on Heaven.
  • "Weapon of Mass Distraction" features Vox's solo villain song "Brighter", which gives insight on the type of person Vox truly is by further exploring his previous human life and how much his ultimate goal has not changed ever since.
• In the episode of Hey Arnold! "Eugene, Eugene!", Arnold plays the Big Bad of the title play and gets a Villain Song called Nice Guys Finish Last where he sings about...well, the fact (in THAT ending) that he's won because The Hero was too nice a guy. In the true ending, he's instantly proven wrong.
• The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange:
  • In the episode “Welcome to My Fruitmare”, Teddy Juicer, an obvious parody of Freddy Krueger, sings a song number to Orange about how he enjoys tormenting his victims, which is fittingly titled "Pain is My Vocation"👁 Image
    .
  • "Little Cart of Scaries" gives us two different songs:
    • The first comes from the Broccoli Overlord, who gloatingly sings to the Chickpeas about how he actively enjoys being evil, in the aptly titled "Evil Broccoli"👁 Image
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    • The second comes from the Venus Fruit Trap, an Expy of Audrey II that was send down by the Broccoli Overlord to consume all the fruits in the grocery store. To convince Nerville to let it devour Orange and his friends, the Venus Fruit Trap sings a song spoofing "Feed Me Seymour" titled "Stuff Me"👁 Image
      , where the Fruit Trap sings about how it'll reward Nerville with various trinkets if he feeds it one of his friends, that being Apple.
• Histeria! has "The Sound of Stalin,"👁 Image
  which features the leader of Soviet Russia singing about his favorite things... purging and secret police.
• Home Movies - In the "Starboy" epic, the Triumvirate of Evil's minion Mister Pants👁 Image
  gets one.
• From the 1970 animated adaptation of Horton Hears a Who!: "We're the Wickersham Brothers, we're onto your plot — pretending you're talking to Whos who are not! It's a deep, dire, evil, political plot — pretending you're talking to Whos, who are not!"
• I ♡ Arlo: "The Bog Lady" from the Season 1 finale "The Uncondemning", as the titular Big Bad has Arlo trapped in her domain of the Heart of the Swamp and forces him into staying with her forever.
• Invader Zim: Zim had an excellent villain song for the last episode. It involves him pretending to be Santa and rule the world by forcing people to obey him. It's more awesome than it sounds.👁 Image
  
• In The Jack Rabbit Story: Easter Fever, the deranged pig chef Madame Melegg sings about her intention to make the world's largest omelett by forcing the chickens she's kidnapped to lay two million eggs.
• The Misfits' "Outta My Way"👁 Image
  from Jem and the Holograms could be a Villain Song for Pizzazz.
  • It could be said that any song by the Misfits is a villain song. (Another good one is "Making Mischief"👁 Image
    .) As well as "Gimmie!"
  • "Mind Games"👁 Image
    is one for the Stingers, singing how they're enjoying playing with an old lady's head for kicks.
• In Justice League Unlimited, Circe does her own rendition of "Lulu's Back In Town."👁 Image
  
• In the short-lived cartoon Little Clowns of Happytown, the Big Bad, Awful BeBad got his own brief song👁 Image
  in one episode, in which he and his bumbling henchmen sing about how Bebad takes delight in being "awfully bad."
• Littlest Pet Shop (2012) has the song "BFFs"👁 Image
  in the episode "Penny for Your Laughs."
  • The twins sing another song, "Two Times as Cute,"👁 Image
    in "What, Meme Worry?"
  • They get another song called '"Two for One👁 Image
    " in the episode "The Inside Job."
  • Their father joins for "Biskit Family Business."👁 Image
    
• Making Fiends: Vendetta has several.
  • "Me and My Best Friend Marion"👁 Image
    is a song based on pretending to be friends with Marion so Charlotte won't play with Vendetta.
  • She also gets "If you lived upon the moon..."👁 Image
    , which is a alternate version of Charlotte's song "If I lived upon the moon" where she points out the downsides of living on the moon and openly hopes that such misfortunes befall Charlotte.
  • She also shares quite a few songs with Charlotte. "Neighbors"👁 Image
    and "Cheese"👁 Image
    (Charlotte's dream Vendetta).
• Megas XLR: The Regis Mark V will destroy you with its theme music.👁 Image
  
• Magnus Hammersmith and the Metal Masked Assassin in Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem have "Magnus and the Assassin", with Magnus torturing Toki as he and the Assassin talk of their plots to exact vengeance upon Dethklok. The song focuses mainly on Magnus, though.
  • "The Hammer"👁 Image
    might count as well. It appears to be a fearsome Badass Boast from Magnus and was written during his time in the band.
• Marco Polo Jr has "I'm Mean👁 Image
  " where the Red Dragon proclaims his plan to become king of Xanadu and wage war on the outside world.
• Miraculous Ladybug got a villain song- or, more accurately, a villain rap- in summer 2020. Turns out Hawk Moth, voiced by Keith Silverstein, has a pretty epic singing voice.
• Monkey Dust had a Paedofinder General segment where the Paedofinder General murdered everyone at a nightclub because he believed them to be paedophiles while singing a parody of "Fire" by Arthur Brown.
  Paedofinder General: By the power invested in me by a vote-in on daytime TV, you are condemned as paedophiles! I see no need for legal trials! I will not rest until it's said that every kiddy fiddler's dead!
• In Moral Orel, the most popular song of the school pageant episode was Judas' "I Hate You Jesus"👁 Image
  song. Ironically, it's the protagonist Orel who's playing him, though.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony 'n Friends:
    • "The Ghost of Paradise Estate, Part 3" has "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet", where Squirk gloats about all the wicked things he'll do once he's back in power.
    • "The Glass Princess, Part 1" has "Look at Me", where Porcina sings about her vanity and plans to make the whole world admire her and the raptorians confide to each other their plans to betray her once they get what they want out of their deal, and the raptorians' half of "Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave", where they describe their plans to deceive Porcina for their own ends.
    • "Bright Lights, Part 3" has "There's Nothing Quite Like Shadows👁 Image
      ", where Zeb and Arabus sing about how much they like stealing shadows and anticipate doing this to the heroes.
    • "Crunch the Rockdog, Part 2" has "I Hate Soft"👁 Image
      ", where Crunch sings about how much he hates softness of the body and softness of the soul and wishes to see the whole world turned to hard rock.
    • "The Quest of the Princess Ponies, Part 3" has "Here's to Power👁 Image
      ", in which Lavan sings about how much he loves about holding power for power's sake and giving orders for the sake of bossing people about.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • The show gets its first Villain Song in "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", courtesy of the Flim Flam Brothers, who introduce themselves and the titular cider-making machine in song👁 Image
      .
    • "A Canterlot Wedding, Part 2" features another, with extra puppy-kicking: the "This Day Aria"👁 Image
      . It's also a Distant Duet, between Princess Cadance and the Shapeshifting Seducer.
    • Discord, despite no longer being a "villain" as of season 4 (although still a Trickster and a minor antagonist), finally gets his own song👁 Image
      in "Three's a Crowd", and it's every bit as over-the-top and hammy as you'd expect a villain song from him to be.
    • The Flim-Flam Brothers return in "Leap of Faith", and once again have a song👁 Image
      , this time to promote their Flim Flam miracle curative tonic.
    • "The Cutie Map, Part 1" has Starlight Glimmer's song "In Our Town"👁 Image
      . It sounds pleasant enough but has some damned creepy lyrics. Songwriter Daniel Ingram says he based the song on World War II propaganda music.
      In our town, in our town
      We work as a team
      You can't have a nightmare
      If you never dream
    • Diamond Tiara finally gets a couple in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", though all of them are Counterpoint Duet with the Crusaders. Ironically it's also her final appearance as a villain.
    • Starlight Glimmer also gets "Say Goodbye to the Holiday"👁 Image
      in "A Hearth's Warming Tail", even though it's not technically her, as she merely portrays Snowfall Frost who is a Composite Character of the Grinch and Ebenezer Scrooge.
    • The season 9 episode "Frenemies" has "A Better Way To Be Bad"👁 Image
      , sung by Cozy Glow, Lord Tirek, and Queen Chrysalis.
  • My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship has "Invisible", which doubles as a Motive Rant as it's about how much Wallflower Blush hates being ignored and friendless.
• Oh Yeah! Cartoons
  • The short "What is Funny?" has a scene where Slap T. Pooch finds himself at the mercy of criminally insane gingerbread men, who briefly sing a song called "Tough Cookies".
  • In "Blotto", the Balloon Goon sings "Git the Girl into My World" while scheming to steal Blotto's love interest Dotto.
  • The sentient zits on Suzy's nose in "Fuzzy Bunny Presents: A Kid's Life" sing "We are the Stinkin' Blackheads", where they revel in the torment and humiliation they cause the children who get afflicted with them.
• "Bah, Bug 'n Hum"👁 Image
  sung by the Postman in Olive, the Other Reindeer.
• "Mean, Sour, Nasty and Cruel" from Oliver and the Artful Dodger.
  • It was later reshaped into a Villain Song for Herman the Hermit in Yogi Bear's Christmas special, and Gargamel's Villain Song for The Smurfs (1981) episode "The Blue Plague".
• "Come Wayward Souls"👁 Image
  from Over the Garden Wall, wherein The Beast coaxes people into giving in to his power. The lyrics aren't as threatening unless you know the context.
  • In the episode "Babes in the Wood", the song "The Old North Wind" describes how the titular villain terrorizes Cloud City. Outside of Greg's probably-a-dream, Wirt and Greg are freezing to death, partially from lack of shelter from the biting cold wind.
• The Ozzy & Drix episode revolving around smoking has the villain Nick O'Teen (Voiced by the one and only Tim Curry) singing a song👁 Image
  that spreads his addiction.
• Dr. Blowhole from The Penguins of Madagascar gets several in "The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole". "Porpoise Power Ballad"👁 Image
  and "I Wanna Control You."👁 Image
  "Brand New Plan" is a straight up Villain Song explaining how the creation of a giant machine which is responsable for everyone singing in the first place wasn't part of his plans, but he can easily make it part of it. "Porpoise Power Ballad" is pretty much a Villain Love Song to said giant machine in order to convince it to let him take control of it. The fact he's the best singer present is actually a plot point because it allows him to take control of the machine.
• Pinky and the Brain has "A Meticulous Analysis of History"👁 Image
  a song by the Brain about the exploits of other would-be world conquerors, and how he wouldn't make the same mistakes. (As such, this could well be considered both a Villain Song and a "The Villain Sucks" Song.)
  • He gets another, titled "The Really Great Dictator,"👁 Image
    where he sings to Pinky about his plans for world domination set to the tune of "The French Can Can."
• Western Animation's Ur-Example would have to be the Bluto expy Sindbad's opening number from Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor.
  • The beginning of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, has the Bluto du jour Abu Hassan singing about what a fierce bandit warlord he is. It even gets a reprise later on via a radio announcer.
• Pound Puppies (1980s)
  • Katrina Stoneheart and her daughter Brattina frequently sang short songs to themselves about their hatred of dogs and their schemes to do mean things to them, but one particular song that stands out is "She's a Grand Old Hag", a ditty Brattina sings about her mother to the tune of "You're a Grand Old Flag" in the episode "Whopper Cries Uncle".
  • Katrina is given two villain songs in the Musical Episode "Garbage Night: The Musical". The first is "Mutts Drive Me Nuts", which gets a brief reprisal near the end of the episode. The other is a short number where she sings about capturing the Pound Puppies and making them into a fur coat.
• There is a rock opera episode of The Powerpuff Girls (1998) called See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey that never aired in the United States. At the beginning, the regular villains had a song, Townsville's Going Down.
  • The Gnome villain also sings Give Me Your Answer and Hear Me Fathers, and also sings parts of Best Day Of My Life and You Wanna Make Us Feel Real Good.
  • There's also this song about Mojo Jojo👁 Image
    , sung by Devo.
• Rabbids Invasion:
  • The show's original theme song👁 Image
    is arguably one, as although the Rabbids themselves aren't portrayed as evil in the show itself, the intro sees a number of Rabbids singing as they pull the world's continents together.
  • In the season 4 episode, "Rabbid Pirates - part 1", the Rabbid Pirate Captain and his sidekick sing a cheerful "Rabbid Pirate Shanty"👁 Image
    in order to convince the crew on Mad Rabbid's submarine to join their own pirate crew, after which they proceed to stage a mutiny against Mad Rabbid and trap him within the ship.
• Rainbow Brite got an album called "Paint a Rainbow In Your Heart", so it only made sense for Murky Dismal and Lurky to get their own song called "The Pits👁 Image
  ". The two sing about their love for trying to remove color and how much they like their home base of the Pits.
• In The Real Ghostbusters the episode "The Halloween Door" has the giant demon Boogaloo sing "The Boogaloo is Back in Town."👁 Image
  
• While technically not the villains of the episode, the main antagonist of the Regular Show Thanksgiving Special, billionaire Richard Buckner, paid the best musicians in the world and hired the most well known artists of the time, along with celebrity background singers, to write and perform for the Thanksgiving Song Contest with the song "Chewing On Freedom"👁 Image
  in hopes of winning the prized Turducken and its Golden Wishbone, which can grant any wish.
  • The episode "Happy Birthday Song Contest" is about a contest to find a song to replace the overused Happy Birthday to You! Before Mordecai and Rigby can sing their entry, the contest is interrupted by an antropomorphic representation of the song who proceeds to hypnotize people into keeping his song by singing what basically is a Dark Reprise of Happy Birthday to You itself.
  Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear EVERYONE!!!
• At first, "Goodbye Moonmen"👁 Image
  from the Rick and Morty episode "Mortynight Run" is an innocent enough song, sung by the gaseous being named Fart. However, when Fart's true colours are revealed near the end, the song suddenly takes on a VERY sinister light...
• The Return of the King has Where There Is a Whip, There's a Way for the Orcs.
• Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has "Warring Warrior Scientist", a Major General Song parody sung by Huginn and Muninn, the Co-Dragons of Baron Draxum. Eventually, Draxum himself joins in the song, declaring his intention to form an Evil League of Mutants to destroy the Turtles. It's also worth noting that Draxum's part is performed by John Cena. Who knew he could sing?
• In the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Zanzibar", Mr. Bighead has two, one of which is a brief Dark Reprise of the R-E-C-Y-C-L-E song from earlier in the episode.
• The Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "Dance of the Undead" has "Yer Dead Right, Mate"👁 Image
  performed by a zombie ska band called Rude Boy and the Ska-Tastics, (sung by Dave Wakeling of The Beat!) which they use to enslave the town of Crystal Cove.
• The titular toxic trio from The Smoggies share the show's theme song with the Suntots, but get the first verse of the song and join them for the final verses.
• Pirates: They don't just sing sea shanties anymore!
  • During an episode of the obscure Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, the pirates introduce themselves with the "Pirate Song."👁 Image
    
• Eric Cartman's racist song "Minorities in my Water Park"👁 Image
  on South Park's episode "Pee".
  • He gets another one "Cthulhu and Me" from Mysterion Rising.
  • And when Cartman travels to Somalia in order to become a pirate, he rouses the spirits of the other pirates with "Somalian Pirates We👁 Image
    ".
• The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "F.U.N.", in which Plankton sings a demented and deliciously villainous reimagining of Spongebob's friendship song "F.U.N." - "F is for fire that burns down the whole town, U is for uranium - bombs!, N is for no survivors WHEN YOU—..."
  • "Plankton! Those things aren't what fun is about!"
  • Plankton gets a full-blown Villain Song in "Atlantis Squarepantis", simply called "Plankton's Song👁 Image
    ".
  • Plankton gets another one on the Best Day Ever CD called "You Will Obey."👁 Image
    
  • Bizarrely enough, Squidward gets a Villain Song on Best Day Ever called "Superior"👁 Image
    . The song's a true testament to Squidward's mammoth ego and narcissism — essentially Small Name, Big Ego in musical form.
• Steven Universe: The episode "That Will Be All" features a surprising musical number by Yellow Diamond called "What's the Use of Feeling (Blue)"👁 Image
  . Rather consistent with other Steven Universe songs in the sense that it features the character's musical motifs, and it's less about being evil and more about dealing with emotions about the departed fellow ruler Pink Diamond — specifically, Yellow Diamond is urging her "sister", Blue Diamond, to let go of her grief and get back to running their repressive, brutal empire.
• The SuperMansion Christmas special "War on Christmas" has Mr. Skibumpers sing about his history as a reality-warping being from another dimension and how he intends to cause more havoc now that he's free again, though he's forced to skip a lot of the song by Jewbot.
• Cheatsy Koopa in Super Mario World (1991) gets Cheatsy's Life👁 Image
  in the episode "Gopher Bash". Particularly amusing when the heroes kidnap his minions throughout the song and then join in at the end.
• In Sweet Sea, Sheeba gets a short song praising her status as the meanest creature in the sea.
• Tales of the Wizard of Oz: The Return to Oz special gives several songs to the Wicked Witch of the West, the last one consisting of her arguing with the Wizard on which of them is superior.
• I'm a Shape Bandit. Please understand it. Shape Collecting is what I do.👁 Image
  (14:55)
  • And then there's "Three Terrible Traps"👁 Image
    (28:23)
  • Zilch also has a villain song which we like to call "You Won't Get the Key".
  • As for Squiddy, well...
  • The TroubleMakers have a villain theme song.
  The TroubleMakers: Trouble-Dee, Trouble-Dee, Trouble-Dee, Trouble-Dee,
  Trouble-Dee, Trouble-Dee, Trouble-Dee, Trouble-Dee,
  Trouble-Dee, Trouble-Dee, Trouble-Dee, Trouble-Dee,
  Double the trouble for you!
• Mumbo's "Master of Your Fate"👁 Image
  from the Teen Titans episode "Bunny Raven". Notable in that he is the ONLY villain in the entire show to get one.
  • He gets another one in the DC Nation Teen Titans short "Mayhem at First Sight,"👁 Image
    where he sings about his love for Mother Mae-Eye and the carnage they'll wreak together.
• Thomas & Friends has a song called "Troublesome Trucks👁 Image
  " which qualifies as one for the titular mischef makers. The song is about the Trucks derailing the engines For the Evulz.
  • The 3 musical specials from the CGI era all have one Villian Song each, "I'm Full of Surprises" sung by Diesel, "The Hottest Place in Town" sung by Frankie and Hurricane, and "Free and Easy" sung by Ace (though the latter is somewhat of an aversion as Ace doesn't act antagonistic towards Thomas).
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • The episode "Tiny Toons Music Television" had Montana Max singing (okay, lip-synching) Money (That's What I Want) by Barret Strong. It definitely fits his personality. The album Tiny Toons Sing! does have him sing the song himself👁 Image
    .
  • In the Spring Break special, Elmyra Duff, who is portrayed as being deliberately malicious in contrast to being unaware of her unintentionally harmful treatment of animals in the series, sings a parody of The Police song "Every Breath You Take" called "I'll Be Chasing You".
• Some Tom and Jerry TV movies have villain songs. Tom and Jerry: The Nutcracker Prince has "The King of Cats"👁 Image
  and Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure has "I'm Ginormous."👁 Image
  
• Tom Terrific foe Crabby Appleton has a villain song:
  My name is Crabby Appleton
  And I am really awful,
  It titillates me funny bone
  To do a deed unlawful.
  I'm fond of gloom, impending doom,
  I think good deeds are sappy,
  I laugh with glee, it pleases me
  When everyone's unhappy.
• Alejandro gets an awesome Villain Song near the end of Total Drama World Tour. Behold, "This Is How We Will End It."👁 Image
  
  • Although not much of a villain, but big enough a jerk to count, Blainley has the song "Blainerific".
  • There's also "Versus"👁 Image
    for Alejandro and Heather. Worth noting is it doubles as a "The Villain Sucks" Song to each other.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy has an uncertain case, since it's triple-subverted.
  The Chameleon: I'm so happy, happy, Snappy, Trappy—-
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat:
  • The evil butcher in the episode "Guardian Idiot" gets "The Meat Song".
  • The titular antagonist of "Bet A Billion Bill" has a catchy number where he gloats about winning every bet and gamble that he makes.
  • Jeepers Creepers from "Nightmare on Oak Street" sings a song called "I've Got a Lovely Nightmare for You" while conjuring nightmares to torment Felix and Roscoe.
• Ultra City Smiths: "Family of Orphans" has "Mayor's Song", where Mayor Kevin De Maximum sings about luring in all the tweens in Ultra City (It Makes Sense in Context).
• Victor and Valentino: Tez gets one in his debut episode “Tez Sez” while he dazzles the titular characters with his magic. Of course, it’s all a cover for leading them into a trap.
• Willo the Wisp (1981): Evil Edna got a song titled "Edna's Song", which is featured on the B-side of a vinyl record of "Down in the Woods" (the show's theme tune expanded and given lyrics sung by the main characters). The song has Edna explain why she's a sentient television set (explaining that she used to be a conventional witch and chose to turn herself into a TV set after she first saw one due to being that impressed with the technology's potential) and gloat about how she intends to turn the other characters into various animals of various colors.
• WinxVerse: The Trix, the collective Arch-Enemy of the Winx, hold the honor of having numerous theme songs throughout the franchise.
  • The 4Kids dub of Winx Club has “Mean Girls Rule”.
  • The Italian stage show features “Non C'è Amore” ("There's No Love").
  • The reboot series Winx Club: The Magic is Back features “Step Into the Dark”, which is also played during Dark Bloom’s Transformation Sequence in the Season 1 episode “Dark Bloom”.
• The Rankin-Bass stop-motion Christmas special The Year Without a Santa Claus has two ... well, villains may not be quite the right word, precisely; they're more like obstacles who are mostly just narcissistic instead of being outright evil ... who each get a variant of what's basically the same song, "Heat Miser/Snow Miser". It's by far the most catchy tune in the show.
  • The sequel, A Miser Brothers' Christmas, feature the song "My Kind of Christmas"👁 Image
    sung by North Wind, who plans on ridding the world of Santa Claus so he can take his place for fame.
    • Speaking of Rankin-Bass Christmas specials, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town has the Burgermeister Meisterburger's song "No More Toymakers to the King👁 Image
      " (voiced by Rankin-Bass favorite, Paul Frees) , a Dark Reprise of Tanta Kringle's earlier song "First Toymakers to the King."
    • Another of their holiday specials, Rankin Bass' Jack Frost, features a song sung by the villainous Kubla Krauss (Paul Frees, again), "There's the Rub!👁 Image
      ," about what he would do if he had any henchmen, having already driven them all off by his sheer awfulness.