![]() ![]() She is the tyrannical, oppressive, wrathful and deranged ruler of Wonderland, the wife of the King of Hearts, and Alice's arch-nemesis. The Queen of Hearts is the main antagonist of Disney's 13th full-length animated feature film Alice in Wonderland, which is loosely based on the 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice found there by the late Lewis Carroll. ![]() ~ The Queen of Hearts discovering her white roses being painted red Who’s been painting my roses red? WHO’S BEEN PAINTING MY ROSES RED?! ~ The Cheshire Cat about the Queen of Hearts to Alice. Her most well-known non-animated outing is as Regina Mills, the recurring antagonist (and occasional anti-heroine) of TV's Once Upon A Time, a series that gives her a Maleficent-style perspective flip and renders her story a bit more complex than the original's "jealous older woman" trope.All ways here, you see, are the Queen's way! The huntsman's mercy prompts the evil queen's more desperate and personally involved gambit as she poisons Snow White (although she doesn't kill her, in a moment of uncharacteristic charity).īut 1937 was too early for Disney to start subverting fairy tale traditions, so the studio's first animated hit ends with Snow White saved by true love's kiss and Grimhilde vanquished. Of course, you can't keep a good (or in this case, bad) queen down, and this defeat hasn't stopped the iconic character from cropping up in plenty of Disney-affiliated media since her debut. Usually referred to as just "the evil queen", Grimhilde is the vain stepmother of the eponymous Snow White who has her adopted offspring killed for the crime of being too beautiful. Of course, the woodsman can't bring himself to go through with it, although audiences were mercifully spared the scene of him bringing the Queen an animal's lungs as 'proof' that the girl is dead and then watching her promptly chow down on them, a shocking moment featured in the original Snow White fairy tale. The original and the greatest evil queen in Disney history, this one is so wicked that few viewers even know she has a real name. ![]() With that said, let's get into the evil queens of Disney's animated movies. Meanwhile 101 Dalmations' iconic antagonist Cruella Deville may be a fashion queen, but her sights are set on a lavish coat instead of any political power so she is also out of the running. The Sword In The Stone's underrated Madam Mim is out, as she's not a royal and doesn't have any apparent interest in scheming to become one, the late great Eartha Kitt's Yzma of The Emperor's New Groove fame is also out as (as the title implies) her ambition is to become emperor, not queen, and Moana's angry island goddess Te Ka is out on the technicality that while she may rule a large stretch of land, she predates the concept of monarchy. So any self-proclaimed queen or villainess vying for a throne is included here, meaning there are a few iconic Disney villainesses who didn't make it. Of course, the term does need clarifying, as Maleficent is technically the "Mistress of Evil" and The Little Mermaid's Ursula never actually reaches the throne. Related: Frozen 2 Referenced The Little Mermaid (But Is It Canon?) From their very first cinematic outing, 1937's classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, all the way through to the first draft of 2013's megahit Frozen, the evil queen has been a recurring figure in the Disney animated canon, and one who has donned many guises (and disguises) over the decades. ![]() Fairy tales are full of evil queens (and stepmothers, and witches, and all manner of untrustworthy female characters) and as Disney usually turns to these myths for inspiration, their animated movies have inevitably offered up a veritable bevy of evil queens. But the studio has a long history of utilizing the evil queen archetype for many of their most iconic baddies. ![]()
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