Animals that are cast as villains the most?

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Aliona

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I am not going to lie to you, the reason for this post is because of the upcoming Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy movie Wrath Of The Spider Queen, it just got me to thinking in animation spiders rarely are protrayed as not being villains.

What animals have been cast as villains or protagonist the most?

I think dogs and cats is even, there are many cartoons with the dog as the hero and cat as the villain, and just as many with the cat at the hero, and the dog as the villain.

Spiders is a good guess, but I think the animals that cast as villains the most are rats and snakes. How often are those animals cast in a possitive light, Disney upcoming move a rat is the main character and is the hero, so things are looking up for the rat.

Another animal that vary rarely are not villains are sharks.

PS: I don't know if you count shows like Ducktales, when animals are protrayed like humans.
 
I would love to see a cartoon where animals like sharks, snakes, weasles, etc. are the good guys, and animals like dolphins, butterflys, unicorns are the villains.
 
The only no-villanous spider I can think of is Blackarachnia from Beast wars, who even started out as a villain.

Otherwise, the anime spider riders actually has humans with sentient spider partners as the heroes against an evil race of insect people.


Cats are villains far more than dogs. Chances are, if a dog is a villain, the hero is a dog too.
 
Rats are usually cast as either villians or wise-guys, depending on what kind of production it is. Maybe Pixar's new movie will rehabilitate the rat's image in animation just a little.
 
I think cats probably get the worst deal when it comes to positive vs. negative depictions. Dogs and other canines don't get hounded (sorry) too much, aside from the occasional Big Bad Wolf, and one unusually inventive, hard luck coyote I could mention. But cats get it from every direction. Sylvester, Tom, decades' worth of Mighty Mouse cartoons, it seems like cats just can't get a break. Even when they are the protagonist in a series, the cat is usually portrayed as a flawed character or a troublemaker (Heathcliff, Garfield).
 
Evil spider:
MC Pee Pants in Aqua Teen Hunger Force (least in his first appearance)

Good spider:
The spider in "Cyberchase" who speaks like Woody Allen

Agreed about cats getting a raw deal---stupid rodents; there's a reason the humans hired those cats to get rid of you, and its' called "bubonic plague"... ;-)
 
Did you ever see the short they now show on Boomerang where Pixie and Dixie take Mr. Jinks to court and he gets slapped with a restraining order? That cartoon just irks me.
 
The thing with cats is that they don't just go after rodents, but also birds and fish as well. However, I do agree that compared to Japanese animation (where there's plenty of cute kitties there), Americans tend to treat felines as villains a little too much,
 
I believe Street Sharks had heroes that were sharks, and in that one Treehouse of Horror segment on the Simpsons, they had dolphins as the villains.
 
Amphibians such as toads and frogs are usually cast as the bad guys. Think of Baron Silas Greenback from DangerMouse and The Frog from Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse.
 
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