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Many villains, especially from musicals or Disney animation, have impressive songs in which they boast about how good it feels being evil, or that use to expose their Evil Plan. But there are also villains that don't have a song. While The Hero and their companions have their own musical numbers, the villain doesn't sing a single note. This choice can be made for various reasons: to show that the villain is a Serious Business individual, likely to be hated for their wickedness, to highlight his or her scary nature, or maybe because the villain has a bad voice. It could also have happened that the villain was originally meant to have a song, but for various reasons, it ended up being cut. Remember: this trope applies when there's the lack of a Villain Song in a work in which such a song would be expected. Could overlap with Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor, but not always. Evil Is Cool and Evil Is Hammy have less chance to apply to a villain who follows this trope. Contrast Villain Song, though they can sometimes be used together if the song is sung by someone other than the villain. |
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The Dutch series Bassie & Adriaan has at least one song per episode, but they are always sung by the two protagonists (sometimes joined by a chorus of extras), never any of the villains. | |
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Hades from Hercules, despite being such a Large Ham. He did sing in the TV spinoff, however. | |
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Aladdin (2019) is an example, as while Jafar did have a short song in the original, he doesn't sing in the remake. | |
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Tzekel-Kan in The Road to El Dorado didn't get a song, though he was originally going to have one during the scene where he takes control of the jaguar statue. It was called "Trust Me," and appears on the soundtrack. | |
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Carface in All Dogs Go to Heaven. He did, however, sing in the sequels and TV series. | |
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In Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, however, he had "You're Only Second Rate". | |
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Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty was actually going to have a Villain Song, but it was cut. She instead gloats over her evil deeds with a Villain Poem that mocks the traditional version of her Fairy Tale. | |
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The 1955 film version of Kismet falls into this by deleting the Wazir's Villain Song from the stage musical. | |
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In the film version of Oliver!, Bill Sykes never sings, although other people sing about him. In the stage version, instead, he does. | |
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Animal Crackers (2017): Inverted. The villain, Horatio, and his henchmen, are the only characters to sing. Their Villain Song, "Could've Been Mine" is the only Broadway-style, non-diegetic song. Horatio also sings "Welcome" at the beginning, although that song is diegetic because it's part of a circus performance. The other vocal songs are used as background music rather than being sung by the characters. | |
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In The Music Man, Villainy-Free Villain Charlie Cowell doesn't get to sing any musical numbers (not counting his part in the "talk, talk, talk" number "Rock Island"), nor does Mayor Shinn. | |
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The Man Called Flintstone doesn't give the Green Goose a song. He doesn't even participate in anyone else's song as the Green Goose or Triple X. | |
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Inverted in Labyrinth — It was Jim Henson's idea to have a singing villain, and from there the filmmakers hired a performer who not only filled the role but also wrote all the songs. Jareth gets three on-screen musical numbers, and the only other characters who sing are a menacing Wacky Wayside Tribe who really aren’t that mean spirited, just unaware that limbs aren’t reattach-able like theirs are. | |
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Prudy, Penny's mother in Hairspray (2007), doesn't get to sing, although Allison Janney has a musical background. | |
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In Spring Awakening, the adults, who range from useless to actively abusive, don't sing at all throughout the musical. | |
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Despite singing a single line while playing the piano, Lady Tremaine in Cinderella has no Villain Song, which makes her even scarier. One of the stepsisters begins "Sing, Sweet Nightingale" while the other plays the flute, but mercifully our focus shifts to Cinderella's rendition. | |
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Steven Universe has numerous musical numbers, but sticks to Steven's point of view, where they represent some sort of communication he's aware of. All his encounters with sentient antagonists tend to be too brief and traumatic to have anyone expressing themselves so openly. One comical exception to this is that Greg's scummy ex-manager Marty still manages to sing—because it's not a Villain Song, it's an in-show advertisement he did for money (and made by plagiarizing Greg's song "Comet"). This trope is eventually subverted in the fourth season, where there is a Villain Song from Yellow Diamond to Blue Diamond. However, this keeps with songs' usual portrayal in the series, as we only hear it thanks to Steven's Exact Eavesdropping on a private conversation (the subject of which is more humanizing than boastful). It's not until Steven Universe: The Movie do we get a malicious Villain Song in "Other Friends". | |
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The Musical Touken Ranbu series includes virtually every character in some singing role— the Touken Danshi of course get primary singing duty, but the various historical figures are allowed to sing covers of some songs during the special "festival" performances. The overall villains, the Time Retrograde Forces, never get to sing, although none ever get to speak either. | |
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Downplayed in Earth Girls Are Easy — Ted, Valerie's unfaithful fiance, doesn't get a song, but neither do any of the other male characters; singing wouldn't fit Woody's zoned-out personality, and the alien trio Learnt English from Watching Television and hardly speak as is. (The unproduced Jukebox Musical stage adaptation would have given Ted two Villain Love Songs: Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" and Richard Marx's "Should've Known Better".) | |
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Frozen doesn't have a single straight example of Villain Song, despite numerous opportunities and near-misses. "Let It Go" is a Not Evil, Just Misunderstood Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Unwitting Instigator of Doom song for Elsa, and Prince Hans's part of "Love is an Open Door" is a cleverly-disguised Villain Love Song, but neither the evil Duke of Wesselton nor post-Reveal Hans actually sing anything during their time on-screen. "Let It Go" was going to be the Villain Song (while Elsa was still the villain of the story), but while it was being written the writers realized that it was too empowering to work as one; and also realized Elsa herself hadn't done anything wrong. | |
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In The Muppet Christmas Carol, unlike in most other musical adaptations of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge never sings before his encounters with the three Ghosts of Christmas. Other characters sing about him and to him instead. The first time he sings is during the Christmas Past sequence, when he sings along with Belle's parting words in the song "When Love Is Gone": the moment that marks the beginning of his Heel–Face Turn. Only on Christmas morning when his reform is complete does he sing a full solo, "Thankful Heart." | |
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Inverted in Figment, a musical puzzle adventure game. Dusty, the protagonist, is the only major character who does not sing, while each of the game's three villains gets their own song. | |
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The Lion King (2019) came rather close to cutting "Be Prepared" outright (early promotional materials noticeably omit it when listing the songs), and even in the final version, it's drastically cut down from the original. | |
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In the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the Wicked Witch of the West doesn't get to sing. It's worth noting, however, that her counterparts in The Wiz and Wicked do have songs. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote some new songs for the stage version of Wizard, including a song for the Witch called "Red Shoes Blues". The song is better than the title suggests and it basically opens the second act. |
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Tarzan doesn't have songs for Sabor (who, granted, is a non-speaking leopard) or Clayton. | |
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Many consider "Shiny" from Moana to be the film's villain song, although Tamatoa is really nothing more than a One-Scene Wonder. The film's actual villain, Te Ka, gets no song, as she's a giant monster of lava and rage. She does get sung at by Moana, but that doesn't really count. Maui also gets a song where he steals Moana's boat, but that's more of a Jerkass song, as he's the film's secondary protagonist from shortly after that point on. | |
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Exaggerated in Mulan. Shan Yu and his army of Huns don't just lack a song, they stop the musical portion of the film in its tracks. Up until about the halfway point of the film, Mulan functions as a typical Disney Musical. Starting with the introductory "Honor to Us All" (wherein the entirety of Mulan's village comes together to give musical exposition on Mulan's expected place in society as a daughter, a woman, and eventually a bride and mother) and continuing with the mournful, introspective "Reflections" and the fiery, upbeat "I'll Make a Man Out of You", the film delivers on its promised musical numbers. The Huns appear between these sets as ominous figures, clearly the villains of the film but not committing much on-screen villainy beyond skulking in the dark and sending threatening messages to the Emperor. (The implications of their actions are that the Huns are murdering and ravaging their way across China, but none of the outright bloodshed is shown directly to viewers. It's carefully concealed just outside the view of the camera, or committed just after a scene cuts away.) It's only at the end of the upbeat and irreverent "Girl Worth Fighting For" (sung by the soldiers marching to war, cheerfully fantasizing about the beautiful women who make the fighting all worthwhile) that the true devastation of the Huns is made apparent, with the Mood Whiplash literally cutting off the song. In the space of a second, the film goes from a marching chorus of joyful soldiers and Mulan's comrades preparing to engage in a playful snowball fight to the sight of a burned-out village, flames still flickering in the gutted ruins of the town. The Huns have massacred every civilian in the village and killed the soldiers sent to protect it. From that moment on there are no more musical numbers, no more bursting into song — the Huns are too terrible for that, too evil and cruel to exist in the same universe as random musicals. Not even at his moment of apparent triumph over the Emperor of China does Shan Yu get a song to gloat, and not even in their final victory over the Huns do Mulan and her companions get a song to praise their heroics. | |
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Shere Khan from The Jungle Book (1967), who actually did not sing at all except for the final lyrics of "That's What Friends Are For." He was originally going to have his own Villain Song, however, he does his very best to make his one singing line count, though, ending it on a bone-rattling bass note (performed by Bill Lee of The Mellomen). | |
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Zigzagged in The Book of Mormon. General Butt-Fucking-Naked doesn't get a Villain Song, and only gets to sing after he converts; however, he does appear in the role of Satan (complete with eyepatch) in Elder Price's nightmare of Hell, "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream", and gets a verse to himself. | |
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Yzma from The Emperor's New Groove originally did have one called Snuff Out the Light (back when the movie was more of a traditional Disney musical), but this was cut when the movie changed directors and the whole story got retooled. | |
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While Show Boat doesn't really have a villain (not counting the character from the Show Within the Show, who is quite affable offstage), the most antagonistic characters in the first act, Parthy, Pete and Sheriff Vallon, don't sing at all. That is until the 1994 revival reassigned "Why Do I Love You?" to Parthy to make her come across as more sympathetic. | |
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The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: All six of the videos have several musical numbers, but the ones that actually have the McDonaldland gang facing an antagonist ("The Legend of Grimace Island", "Birthday World" and "The Monster O'McDonaldland Loch") noticeably do not provide Villain Songs for One-Eyed Sally, Professor Pinchworm or Stiles. | |
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In Enchanted, Queen Narissa does not sing. | |
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In The Jungle Book (2016), Shere Khan is the only one of the three antagonists (the other two being King Louie and Kaa) who hasn't his own song (the other two have "I Wanna Be Like You" and "Trust in Me" in respective order) as a way to fortify his Knight of Cerebus status. | |
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Singin' in the Rain: Lina Lamont has no singing number, not counting the few lines of "Would You" she can be heard singing as Kathy overdubs her since her voice is really awful. This is averted in the Screen-to-Stage Adaptation, which gives her a comic song, "What's Wrong with Me?" | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has quite a few musical numbers, and while the majority of the earlier songs are sung by Pinkie Pie, everyone else has gotten in on the action at least once — if not a solo number, then during a Crowd Song. However, neither Discord nor Trixie nor Nightmare Moon, three pretty hammy villains, have any song. King Sombra doesn't have one either (makes sense, since he barely says anything at all anyway). The Flim Flam Brothers do have songs in the second and fourth seasons (although they're more antagonistic than evil), and Queen Chrysalis has her songnote shared with another character, with the same voice actor singing both parts during the finale. And it is just awesome. May not apply to Discord as of "Three's a Crowd" with his song "Glass of Water". He is considered to be "reformed" from his previous villain status at this point and never did sing while he was considered one. But he does remain rather morally ambiguous. | |
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Queer Duck: The Movie is an Animated Musical, but the film's antagonist Reverend Vandergelding is one of the few characters in the movie who doesn't sing (aside from some participation in Queer Duck's song about how he came out to his parents). | |
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Inverted in Home on the Range where the evil cattle thief and yodeler Alameda Slim is the only character to sing in the film. | |
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Neither Warren T. Rat from the first An American Tail movie nor Cat R. Waul from the second has a Villain Song, though the villains in the direct-to-video sequels have them. | |
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Cheating gambler Big Jule and nosy cop Lt. Brannigan don't sing in Guys and Dolls. | |
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Jafar from Aladdin is a borderline case: he only had a Dark Reprise of "Prince Ali" but no Villain Song of his own, although some were written for him. The first, "My Time Has Come", was cut for being too slow and introspective, as did "Why Me?" which was recorded and storyboarded. The third, "Humiliate the Boy", was cut for basically stopping the story during what in the final film is a very short scene (Jafar becoming a genie and then getting trapped in his lamp.) In Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, however, he had "You're Only Second Rate". In the stage musical, he gets one called "Diamond in The Rough", in which he and Iago convince Aladdin to go to the Cave of Wonders. It helps that Jafar’s actor in the stage play is the same person who voiced him. |
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Finian's Rainbow plays with this in an amusing way: Senator Rawkins doesn't sing and outright refuses to do so until his heart is magically lightened. | |
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Moulin Rouge! has a Downplayed version. The villainous Duke never gets a song to himself, with the closest thing he has being his role in "Like a Virgin", which is mostly sung by Harold Zidler, and then in the last third becomes a duet between the two of them. Additionally, he gets a few lines during "The Pitch". However, considering the vast majority of solos in this film are given to Christian, Satine, and Zidler, the Duke still has more solo singing than most other characters. In the Broadway adaptation, he would go on to have a much larger singing role. | |
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Averted and played straight in the Once Upon a Time Musical Episode "The Song in Your Heart"; whilst Regina the Evil Queen and Zelena the Wicked Witch of the West both have showstopping numbers, Rumplestiltskin prepares to sing, with his usual Leitmotif swelling in the background... before stating he'd rather poke his eyes out with a rusty fork. "Do you think the Dark One sings?" | |
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There are many fans of Buffy who see the appeal of both the Musical Episode "Once More, with Feeling", and the villainous activities of the Evil Trio of Warren, Andrew and Jonathan. Such fans would undoubtedly have loved for the episode to have a Villain Song by the Trio. The writers surely could have come up with something good, and of course, the actors were all guest stars who were probably completely available for an episode that season. No doubt, though, it would have been too difficult and involved sacrificing too much of the screen time used for other stuff, to rewrite the episode in such a way that it included the Trio. But the magical effect that caused everyone to burst into song was operating throughout Sunnydale, so of course, there must have been some such song that happened off-screen, which was not recorded by the TV show — but that's exactly the kind of thing Fan Fiction is for... | |
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Squiddy from Team Umizoomi, other than the fake fanfare. | |
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West Side Story: Bernardo and Chino, while by no means evil, act antagonistically towards the leads, and do not get songs of their own. Averted in the film version, where Bernardo sings "America" as a duet with Anita. Corrupt Cops Krupke and Schrank don't get a song either. | |
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