Round 1 Elimination: Hans
Round 2 Elimination: Governor Ratcliffe
Round 3 Elimination: Gaston
Round 4 Elimination: Mor'du
Round 5 Elimination: Lady Tremaine
Round 6 Elimination: Mother Gothel
Round 7 Elimination: Dr. Facilier
Round 8 Elimination: Jafar

I choose Maleficent. Although she is one of my favorite villains and arguably one of the most iconic and entertaining, she really isn't that frightening in her film to me. She seems more like a vindictive, competitive, sinister woman to me than a true villain at heart.

Ursula is a competitive, cruel, cold-hearted manipulator who went after a "child" of her enemy; Not to put her in a sleeping spell but to make her live the rest of eternity in torture as one of those little creatures! She lures in "the lonely, the miserable and the weak" in their times of despair, manipulating them so that she can turn around and trap them in a torturous state for the rest of their lives/eternity. That is more frightening to me than what Maleficent does.

Evil Queen Grimhilde is incredibly villainous, with her jealousy knowing no bounds or limits. She believes she can do whatever she wants, including killing someone because they make her feel bad about the way she looks. She is ridiculously competitive and stubborn, never ceasing to go after Snow when she finds out that her plans to kill her have failed. The simple fact that another female who is prettier than her could even be alive, was too much for her to bare. That's a woman with some serious issues and this woman had authoritative power over a kingdom? Yikes! She also practices witchcraft, black arts, black magic, and sorcery which is incredibly frightening. She is very symbolic of a Satanist, in my eyes. Those people are truly frightening to me as their #1 rule is self-centeredness: Do whatever you want, whenever you want it (regardless of what anyone else thinks). It is their excuse for all kinds of horrors.

Shan Yu is based on a hybrid of real life villains Attila the Hun & Genghis Khan, two of the most terrifying names of all history. Did anyone else see the village that Shang's father failed to protect? That was the work of this guy, Shan Yu. Talk about a frightening scene. He had to have slaughtered the entire military as well as every townsperson including the women and children. I wont speak about this in detail but it's likely that the women of the village had slower and more painful deaths than everyone else in town. What an absolutely horrendous way to die. This guy was murdering countless people with his hands and simple weapons. He was killing people up close and personal in gruesome fashion. He also killed people "just because" as shown in his line, "How many messengers does it take to send a message?" and he clearly commands equally sinister people as one of his soldiers gave an evil smile and answered "Just one." before setting up his bow and arrow. An avalanche couldn't kill this guy and when he popped out of the snow along with his hardiest soldiers, well that was the stuff scary movies are made of. This is hands down to me, without a doubt the all-time worst DP villain as he combined torture and murder for nothing other than his own ego and power.

I don't think that she is the scary.

jeangreyforever: Yes, I somewhat recently did my own ranking of the DP villains and therefore analyzed them in much more detail. While doing that, I noticed that The Queen's collection of books in her dungeon (where she performs black magic) included "Black Arts; Witchcraft; Black Magic; Disguises; Sorcery & Poisons" which is what led me to see her as symbolic of "Satanists". Also her self-centered attitude at everyone else's expense.
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I am glad I was able to help you look into some more details about the villains, especially since you have brought so many details to light for me about other things. :) I see Maleficent as a very iconic villain but agree with you, she doesn't do much and isn't physically dangerous until the end. Her henchman are also just awful, looking for a baby for 16 years with no concept of growth and the baby turning into an adult. They say "you are who your friends are" and her henchman aren't as frightening as say Ursula's who are pretty manipulative and coy. I can see why most villains work best alone though.

Either her or Maleficent. They seem to be about the same in the "dour" quality, and they seem to rely on performing magic, but they are not particularly crafty.

A crazy Hun warrior is super scary. However, THIS guy isn't threatening at all to me.

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quishy11: I LOVE your icon photo! I recognized "Piggy" immediately! "Lord of the Flies" just so happens to be one of my favorite books and movies. <3

I guess.

I don't think she's that scary... she makes me laugh more than anything else.

I can't believe the the evil queen has the most votes right now I thought that she was pretty scary. Disney closed down the snow white ride because it was to scary, and I never got to ride it because that one part in the ride where she transforms made my sister start screaming that she wanted off the ride. Also when we tried watching the movie, she didn't do so well with that either. I personally think that she was pretty scary.

^^Yes!

Newbe: Agreed. I never got that scared on that ride (because my mother subjected me to far more horrifying films at that age) but my younger sisters cried on that ride because the evil stepmother scared them. I remember going to Disneyland and seeing her up in the window similar to the way she was watching snow white when the prince arrived and I always thought it was creepy. She's definitely a frightening woman to me so I agree with you. Personally, she is my #2 scariest villain. :D

^^Yes!