FROM "WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT"
WARNING: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!
Yes, this film does in fact count as a Disney film, despite
being released under Disney's owned "Touchstone Pictures". The film
is flooded with more Disney cartoon characters, as opposed to other classic
cartoon characters; and Disney markets the characters of Roger, Jessica, and so
forth as their own by selling toys based on them at their parks, made Roger
Rabbit a walk-around character for a few years (as evidenced in the Disney Sing Along Song Video "Disneyland Fun"), and even having a ride dedicated
towards the film at "Disneyland" that's still in operation. Much like
how Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" became an official
Disney film even though it was released as a "Touchstone" film when
it came out, the same applies to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", only
difference is Disney decided to market it as their Disney brand faster than
they did with the other film. And that's great, because I can't think of any
other Disney villain to fill the 4th spot on my list better than the scariest
aspect of the whole entire movie.
We never hear about Judge Doom or see him, until we're near
the end of the half hour mark, and when we do, his appearance comes as a complete
surprise. When Eddie reaches down to pick up an electric buzzer that the dead
corpse of the murder victim Marvin Acme has dropped, he is prevented from doing
so when he is suddenly stabbed by the sharp-tip of a long pointy cane.
Wondering who the wise-guy is, the camera pans up revealing an angry and
ominous tall pale faced man dressed completely in black from his fedora hat
down to his shoes, complete with a dark cape, wearing yellow tinted glasses,
and having an evil skull attached to the top of his cane, while we hear such
grim music playing in the background. And the first words that come out of his mouth when we meet
him are "is this man removing the evidence from the scene of the
crime".
Now before I talk about one of his infamous scenes that
follows after his introduction, I must talk about more about this guy's
appearance and the actor they got to play him! Many actors were considered for
the role such as Christopher Lee, Roddy McDowall, and even Robin Williams. The
one who came very close to playing Doom was the great Tim Curry, but was deemed
to be too scary for younger audiences where the role would eventually go to Doc
Brown himself Christopher Lloyd, and choosing him for the role for all we know
didn't make the character any less scary! Before this film, everybody would
mainly know Lloyd as the crazy comic relief actor, and seeing him go onto a
role as scary as this before he would play villains in other films was shocking
for many! I can't tell you how big of a mind blow that it was for me as a kid
that Doc Brown, the Pagemaster, Uncle Fester, and the Angel Al played the
villain who I dreaded and feared every single time that he appears on-screen.
And I still can't get over how frightening and intimidating he is. His wardrobe of being all covered with black as he slowly walks around and stares at people with
those giant cold dead eyes through his glasses with a face as sinister as a
deadly vulture, and as nasty as a gargoyle while his theme music plays all makes
you feel scared stiff by his presence. Not to mention that this guy is supposed to resemble the infamous Nazi, Judge Roland Freisler.
Speaking of Nazis, doesn't he look like Toht from "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
Also is it just me but does he kind of look like Slug Worth from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"?
Jeez, no wonder why Judge Doom looked so familiar to me as a kid, and so Nazi like when I learned more about them during a tragic part of history as I got older.
What I admire most about Christopher Lloyd's performance as Doom is how he can make everything he says sound so menacing, instead of just
looking it. His voice is calm and yet so serious and demanding that it never
sounds like he's playing up the characters villainy in a way for us to have fun
with it. Even when he smiles, mocks Eddie, and acts eccentric (like when he tells
Eddie about his plan) it still comes across as absolute terror, rather than
watching Lloyd pull off a wild performance that's similar to the previous
characters that he's played. I'm not saying that's it's not over the top
because it is, but not over the top to the point where he loses his edge, or having you feel unfazed by his presence and the things he says and does. It's
the perfect balance of knowing how much the character should be over the top, and
how much he should remain intimidating. He does have like two moments that I
found to be funny, but they still have a grim edge to them, which I will gladly
point out later. Much, much later.
During his introduction we learn that this heartless man
is the Judge of the town where all cartoon characters live together, who bought
the election by spreading millions of dollars, and hates Toons just as
much as Eddie does, only worse! Unlike how Eddie just chooses not to work for
Toons, and just keep his life separate from them, Doom carries out the law
against guilty Toons (or so he claims) by dipping them in a barrel full of three
paint thinners that he calls the Dip that will erase any Toon from existence. And
he demonstrates this method, by putting on a rubber glove, and picking up a cute
little squeaky red shoe that cuddles up against his shoes, where we then watch the poor thing cry and sizzle as he's being dipped. After seeing him melt away, we cut to the smoke from the dip rising up on Doom's emotionless face, and see his rubber glove covered with the gooey red paint left over from
the Toon, that looks more like blood than it does paint. The reason why the
scene is disturbing for many is we're not seeing someone who is good, or goofy
getting axed off for no real reason. We're seeing something completely innocent
and cute being killed in a very harsh and gruesome matter from this empty
hearted man, that's still just as hard to watch as it was for many of us growing-up as kids.
Though the scene of him killing the shoe is indeed his most
disturbing scene before the climactic battle at the end of the film. His most
suspenseful scene is when he goes to the bar looking for Roger to dip him for
his supposed murder. Roger's powerful speech of the power of laughter gets interrupted
when Eddie sees a flashing red light signal in a secret room that they’re
hiding in, indicating that Judge Doom is near. He starts off scaring and
harassing the patrons as he asks where the rabbit is while also describing what he
looks like, and getting their attention to get an answer by writing a 5,000
dollar reward on the chalkboard so hard that it hurts their ears, while also
changing the lunch special from "French Dip" to "Rabbit Dip". One
of the bar patrons jokes about a rabbit in the bar that causes everybody to
laugh, and understanding that nobody is going to tell him, he just gives a
fumed smile to silence everybody, instead of yelling or doing something
violent, and tries to search the bar for clues of the rabbits presence. He
finds a record of the song used for the opening of the Looney Tunes cartoons
"Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", noticing how out of place it is to have
it in a bar full of drunks; and smells the record and picks up the scent that a
Toon has touched it recently. He out of nowhere tosses the record that
accidentally hits one of his weasel henchmen which causes them to laugh, and he
uses violence to silence them and reminds them that they'll laugh themselves to
death if they don't stop laughing. Instead of tearing the bar apart, he uses a
method to lure a Toon to him by constantly tapping the famous "Shave and
Haircut" rhythm around the bar since no Toon can resist it, which is the
moment where I get the most suspense from him in this scene, because of how he
calmly searches the place by constantly tapping this silly tune as Roger is
having trouble resisting it. After seeing the movie so many times, I
know exactly when Roger gives in, but I still find myself caught in the
suspense for how he moves closer and closer to Roger's hiding place as he’s tapping.
And if say Eddie prevented Roger from popping out, I bet Doom would find Roger
since he seems to have notice the peep-holes, hence why he slowly taps against
the wall, while reciting those words to that beat.
When Roger pops-out, Doom grabs him by the neck without
warning and is ready to throw him into the dip! Aside from the tension that
constantly builds in the scene, and with the exception of the climax, this is my
favorite scene with Judge Doom, because we get to see how he does his job. When searching for a Toon wanted for a crime, we see how observant he is about the
surroundings, and how knowledgeable he is with Toons that he uses to his
advantage. And when he has the Toon in his grasp, he goes straight to the
execution. No trial, no jury, hell he doesn't even allow him to say any last
words before dipping him, it's just death because your guilty cause he says so,
which makes him to be a dark and sadistic version of Eddie the more I
think about it. Though I do find it a bit odd that he'd be willing to give him a
last request despite being so merciless, and eager to finish him off, especially
from the guy who's trying to protect him. This is also the first time when we
see him yell, and use physical force to shut people up and keep them in line,
which is just as threatening as his overall presence.
Despite having a violent hatred towards Toons that's a million
times worse than Eddie’s since he has authority over them, he does have Toons
working for him. Originally Doom was going to have a pet vulture named Voltaire
on his shoulder, but was eventually dropped, but can be seen as part of
Doom's action figure. Doom was also going to have a group of Kangaroos
that jump out of his brief case holding signs reading "You are
guilty" when he gives Roger a small trial at the request of the
bar-patrons, but was cut as well. Seven weasels designed after the weasels in "The Wind in the
Willows" from “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad” with each
distinctive personality like the seven dwarfs were originally going to
accompany, but the number was dropped to 5 but they all still had their own distinctive
characteristics. One is childishly goofy, another is a heavy smoker, there's a weasel
so insane that he wears an unbuckled straight-jacket, the one wearing a
green-suit has a Puerto Rican accent, and the leader of the gang is smart and
less kooky than the others, who talks and acts like a wise guy. They're funny
for their wild behaviors and contagious laughter, but they're just as violent and
sick as their boss is, who as Toons seem to be not upset by the fact their
master is planning to slaughter innocent Toons left and right whether it's
justified or not. If anything they enjoy it and get a good laugh out of it. Doom
doesn't seem to show any care for them since he's always shown to be abusing
them and never complementing or praising their work or loyalty to him, but he still does see them as good use to him, especially from the leader
of the pack who keeps the rest of the gang in line, and appears to be almost as
smart as he is.
Many of you who seen the movie are probably guessing that
I'm going to talk about his overall plan next, but I feel like now would be the
perfect time for me to talk about a scene involving Judge Doom that didn't make
it into the final cut. After when Eddie leaves Roger at the bar, he sneaks into
Jessica's (Roger's wife) dressing room at the "Ink & Paint Club" to see if Acme's Will is in her possession, but discovers that someone else is in there
but couldn't see who it is. Eddie starts to chase the mysterious figure, until
he runs into the giant Gorilla who threw him out of the club from the previous
night, and gets knocked out. Eddie awakens to see an angry Judge Doom standing
above him, asking him what he was doing in the dressing room, with Jessica and the Gorilla present. Eddie tells him about what happened and blames
Jessica to be part of the murder which offends her, and causes Doom to take him
to Downtown Towntoon and have his weasels torture him. Eddie is thrown out of
the tunnel leading to Toontown the next morning, and discovers that the weasels
have painted a cartoon pig head around his face. Eddie rushes home in terror and
embarrassment, and washes it off with paint thinner, and after walking out of
the shower, he sees Jessica in his office.
There are a couple things that I admire about this scene.
First off, the effects for the painted-pig head around Eddie's face are phenomenal,
it totally looks like that its really stuck to his face for how it’s animated
and how he interacts it. And when we see him wash it off, we see the head melt
away through Eddie's silhouette behind the curtains. Judge Doom's presence just
like in the rest of movie is as eerie as you can imagine (especially when we first
see him), and I like seeing him work with the Gorilla who hates Eddie, and
having his Weasels actually do something wicked to Eddie, since all we've seen
them do is threaten Eddie and chase him and Roger. On top of it, this scene is
pretty disturbing, since Eddie seems to be in pain with this cartoon figure
around his face when he touches it, as if it is now a part of him. And even
worse, when he washes it off, we see a splatter of red paint (that looks more
like blood) with the eyes from the pig blinking (indicating that this thing was
alive) and gets pulled down the drain along with its snout. The shoe's
death is depressing, but this is way more disturbing in comparison if not as
sad. But as good as the scene is and as impressive as the effects are, I can
see why it was cut-out. I know it was cut for breaking the pace, or adding not
much to the plot (aside from giving Jessica a reason why she thinks Eddie
suspects her, and why Eddie left using the toilet without a shirt). But those
aren't the reasons why I personally felt that it should be cut from the movie,
not to say that they aren’t already good reasons. The real reason why I
agree with it being cut is because Eddie was already taken to Toontown by the
weasels, and when he goes back to chase Jessica later on, while his fear based
on TWO bad experiences there is understandable, it doesn't feel as emotionally
gripping as him going back ever since his Brother died there after so
long. Giving him two reasons for him being afraid to go, instead of one, just
didn't feel necessary since his first one is not only perfect, but beautifully ties
into his character and hatred towards Toons. Furthermore, I know that Toontown
isn't shown, but we still see the entrance and sign in that deleted scene, and
when we see it again when Eddie goes back, it doesn't feel as intense or leaving
you with much wonder of what it all looks like, since the scene that was deleted
already showed that, and now we have to wait even longer after seeing it a
second time as he gets ready. So the choice of cutting out this impressive
sequence is sad, but justified giving that it would be more of a struggle for
Eddie to return after so many years as we eagerly wait to go in after
hearing so much about Toontown. But the omission of the scene isn't a huge loss
since you can now view it on the DVD. Well most of it, the scene of him looking
in the mirror screaming in his office that was shown in the trailer (that
had many people on the internet questioning about) is excluded for some reason.
When Eddie finds out through Jessica that Doom's the one who
killed Marvin Acme, and his most recent victim R.K. Maroon (head of
"Maroon Cartoons"), he escapes and waits at the entrance of the
Toontown tunnel with a barrel of dip to blow out the tires of the cartoon
talking taxi cab, Benny. He then takes them to the "Acme Factory"
where the murder of Marvin Acme took place, and we find out about his
motivation. It turns out that Doom killed Marvin Acme so he can get his hands
on Toontown since he owns it, as well as killing R.K. Maroon for knowing too
much about his scheme and his attempt to protect the Toons if he finds Acme's
Will after selling his studio to "Cloverleaf Industries" that Doom
owns. And to blame for the murder of Marvin Acme, he framed Roger by putting
paint that's similar to his glove onto the rope of the safe that was dropped on
Acme. If the Will doesn't turn-up by midnight, he'll use a Dip Mobile that he created that
will erase Toontown off the map, to make-way for a freeway that he'll be
creating. But with the Red Car Trolley system being the best means of
transportation in Hollywood, Doom bought it so that he can dismantle it, that way people will have no choice but to drive and go on his freeway route, as the
others working at the station for the Red Car Trolley are put out of work. As
crazy as his plan may seem, this scheme was indeed a problem for Hollywood back
during the time of where the film takes place. There was a conspiracy with
Private Corporations to eliminate public transit in order to demand people to drive so
that automobile industries can keep on making money, as well as demolishing
poor neighborhoods (mainly people of color) to create a freeway. And the fact
that Doom is using this strategy against Toons who are supposed to represent
people of color is a clever scheme for the villain to do based on the period
that the film takes place in, and who the Toons represent. And a part of me
doesn't think that he's just going to destroy Toontown, but also any Toon
that's either still living there refusing to leave, or try to flee for their
lives given how empty he feels and thinks of Toons. As for the mystery aspect
leading up to Doom being the villain, it is way too obvious where even a kid
can claim that he's the bad-guy just by his appearance in the film. But with that said, the
mystery still leads up to questions that we're curious to see get answered,
such as what he's going to do to Toontown, and if R.K. Maroon or Jessica are
allied with him since they seem so suspicious. And when we do have our answers,
we're still left with more questions about Doom's character, which I’ll get into a
little later.
Doom ties up Jessica and Roger on a crane with escape-proof Toon rope, and orders his weasels to dip them and kill Eddie. Eddie puts on a show causing the weasels to laugh themselves to death as Toon angels, as the leader gets kicked into a vat of dip who doesn't go to Toon heaven since he's been completely erased, now leaving Eddie to fight against Doom, resulting with in my opinion the best fight to combine live action and cartoon animation. Eddie has to use Toon props like a singing sword, a giant magnet that has electric hands to grab metal objects, and a hole to help him break free for when he's trapped, while Doom on the other hand uses real-life weapons. His cane appears to really be a sword that he points at Eddie when the magnet takes grip of his sword, and when Eddie is trapped he decides to flatten-him with a steamroller, as opposed to just stabbing him. Furthermore, Doom is proven to be a heavy hitter since the sound of his punches come across as highly painful. Not as violent as say Ratigan's punches, but still painful. And as we're watching this fight, we find ourselves worrying about the dip spray cannon heading towards Roger and Jessica to give the fight plenty of suspense, where it's not just Eddie's life that we're worrying about but also the cartoon characters that we've became so attached too.
When Doom falls during the fight, he doesn't get knocked out by a cartoon gag as you think he would, he accidentally gets his foot and hand attached to a moving steamroller after making physical contact with "Acme Glue" during the fight where he's about to be crushed. And we don't see a part of him getting mulled by the steamroller, as in we see it about to crush him and cut to the characters reactions to prevent us from seeing it. No, we actually see the steamroller crush his whole entire body, as he screams in such cartoony fashion which is funny (being the first of 2 funny moments that I mentioned earlier) but still gruesome by all accounts.
That is until we realize that his blood and guts aren't splattered all over the floor and the steamroller.
We discover that is body is as flat as a pancake, and see him spring back up and move as if he's made of rubber. In a shocking twist we discover that this man isn't just a villain, but a Toon in disguise that's funny for some at first due to this reveal, but still freaky for how he moves around with a flat life-less human-like face. Pause the moments when we see his human face turn around as he's flatten and tell me that it's not the least bit creepy. When he inflates himself back up like a balloon by sucking the helium out a tank close by, as the music indicates that something drastic is going to happen when he's back on his feet, he still looks just as uncanny as he did before, where we see his face and arms blow-up, his hat pop-right off him as he stands there looking lifeless, and loses his two false eyes, where a bit more of his true form that has frightened many kids, and still scares many people today is revealed.
Those eyes, those horrible red hot "burning eyes"! And that evil grin and "high-pitch squeaky voice"! Oh how I dread that final form he takes!
As if his human form wasn't scary enough, now we have to look at his half Toon form, as he laughs and tries to kill Eddie, by chasing after him with yellow springs attached his shoes, and taking off one of his gloves where his cartoon hand turns into yellow cartoon weapons that seem funny when they're used on Toons but highly deadly to humans, such as a giant anvil, and a long and large buzzsaw! And what makes his appearance even more horrifying is that "he's not just any Toon" that looks scary as hell, but the fact that he's the same Toon who killed Eddie's brother Teddy, which makes this villain a higher threat than we realized. All we hear about what the Toon are his red eyes and squeaky voice that sound menacing, and when we see him along with Eddie being paralyzed by this (from such powerful acting from Bob Hoskins) we too feel the same since his image is worse than we have ever imagined it to be. Originally they were going to reveal Doom's Toon mouth and red hands with long nails, and in theory I think it would probably be just as traumatizing as looking at his cartoon eyes, since we'd be looking at a cartoon mouth attach to Christopher Lloyd's large dead eyes.
After all Lloyd still looks scary without the cartoon features added onto him, and even without the hat and glasses. Just take a look at a rare of picture of him as cartoon Doom before they animated the eyes on to him.
That still screams out as the face of a demented killer.
What I find so amusing about his transformation is, we only see him take that form for like 2 or 3 minutes, which isn't long at all. But as short as those few minutes are, he still scares the daylights out of us in every single frame he's in for how insane and hideous he looks and acts. Throw in a tragic connection that Eddie has with him as he looks at him in fear, a few deadly weapons, and put Jessica and Roger at risk again with time being a factor, and you get one of the ultimate final forms that a Disney villain has ever took.
And if you're curious to know what imagine of Doom has scared me the most as a kid, it's this!
His eyes swirling to the blade of the buzzsaw as he gets closer and closer to Eddie, with an urge to kill look on his face...oh how I'd always look away from that scene as a kid for how sadistic it looks.
Now when I think about this twist, while it is obvious that he's the film's villain, there are many subtle hints and clues that he is a Toon, much like the hints and clues to King Candy being Turbo in "Wreck It Ralph" for example. The most notable one is how he dresses. Every human in the film is dressed in appropriate clothes that match the film’s time period and their work positions. Doom on the other hand dresses how a cartoon badguy would dress, complete with a skull topped cane, there's no way that any normal person would dress themselves in that kind of clothing unless they're playing the part of a villain. And since cartoons are not subtle when they dress like villains, it would make sense why Doom would dress that way. You may also notice a few things off about him. I mean doesn't his face look as rubbery as a mask? Can anyone remember a time where he ever blinks his eyes since he's always shown to be staring? Don’t his teeth look a little phony? And why the hell does his cape and clothes keep blowing backwards even when there's no gust of wind blowing at him? His movements aren't quite natural either for how exaggeratedly stiff they are, not to mention that it takes Doom awhile for him fall when he trips on fake eye-balls, and when he collapses he's covering one of his eyes, not because of it being damaged but to prevent the others from seeing his Toon eye. If him not falling down immediately like a normal human being would, he seems to not be harmed by the bullet that's fired at him by Jessica, if anything he runs off acting as if he wasn't even hit. If he can't be harmed by a bullet, then you may notice him in earlier scenes in the movie acting a bit hesitant towards the dip. When he first demonstrates of what the dip can do, he puts on a rubber glove. At first we think it's to prevent him from getting his hand all dirty when the Toon is dead, but why doesn't he take off his other glove instead of putting the rubber glove over his other one, because he'll reveal his Toon hand. Not to mention that he always backs away from the dip when it drips towards him, or when he decides to kick it rather than pushing it as he clears away from it. Lastly, when we get to the climax, rather than just killing the characters right then and there, he tells them all about his plan, and uses slow and inefficient death-traps to finish them off, and unless if he's a bond villain, he has to be a Toon since that's something that mainly a Toon would do. And as a bonus hint that leads to him being the same Toon that killed Eddie's Brother is when we find out that he killed Marvin Acme, he killed him by dropping a safe on his head which is the same method he used to kill Teddy and injure Eddie, the only difference is he used a piano.
When Doom finally gets killed once and for all its just as grim as we saw him get run over by a steamroller. As soon as Eddie releases the dip from the Dip Mobile, it comes bursting out at him like a fire hose. And rather than just dying right there and then, he slowly melts as we watch him melt to the bottom of the dip. His reactions and how he quotes the Wicked Witch in "The Wizard of OZ" are funny, but his death is still horrible, especially when being killed from the very weapon that he created to kill Toons, which now makes his hate against Toons even more messed-up considering that he is one. And when it's all over we see his suit, false teeth, and rubber mask with red paint where the eyes are, and yellow paint surrounding the body that looks as gory as the remains of the other victims we've seen that been dip. On top of it, believe it or not his death summons all the cartoon character in the film as they gather around his corpse to cheer and wonder who he really is. Oh isn't that sweet! Actually it kind of reminds me how all the cute Munchkins from "The Wizard of OZ" came out from hiding to look at the witches’ corpse and joyfully sing about her demise. There is a song during this scene!
There's been some debate on who Judge Doom really is since we never see his full cartoon form under the mask.
There's a comic-book called "The Resurrection of Doom" that reveals his full form.
Which doesn't look scary for how Dr. Seuss like it looks.
But given that the comic came out much later, I'm only judging who he could be by what's evidenced in the film. At first I thought he was a weasel, or else why would he have weasels follow him and take orders from him. But then I read a small theory of who Judge Doom could really be which is this cartoon figure that is seen in Maroon's office...
Really think about it. He has the same "burning red
eyes" and devilish grin as Doom. They both wear a dark suit, gloves, and a
fedora hat. And Doom's gun reflecting on the poster is the same exact gun that
he has, which looks like the character on the poster is aiming his gun right at
Maroon. The evidence is there, if not crystal clear and could be untrue, but I
find it a bit too coincidental. My personal theory of Doom’s past
based on this poster, disguise, and motivation is, it seems that he starred in
one cartoon that was popular enough for Maroon to put a picture of it in his
office. But since we never see any other posters of him because they're
mostly related to the Roger and Baby Herman cartoons, frustrated for not making it big as Roger and the other
successful Toons, who has probably been in cartoons that pale to the one that he was
best known for, he hated Toons for being upstaged by his own kind and decided
to seek a way to take vengeance upon them and make a living off of it, while also putting
up the best act that no Toon has ever taken which is playing a live human while
hiding his identity since people are very prejudice towards them, and doesn't want
to be known as one. But before gaining a business and position as Judge of Toontown,
he pulled off the heist to use the stolen money to gain his position and own a
business, and after stumbling across the plans of the freeway, he felt like
that it was time to completely erase Toons all together rather than killing
individual Toons that have committed a somewhat crime. And the reason why he
framed Roger for the murder is because he hated Roger most of all since he is
the Maroon cartoon favorite and figured he might as well start with him before
Toontown. As for his size, maybe he's a little bigger in real-life since Roger
looks smaller in a few of the posters. But he could have used stilts, hence
why he walks so weird. Keep in mind that this is a theory and I could be wrong,
but the ambiguity of what this Toon is still keeps him to be a fascinating villain. This is just my personal two cents on one of the famous topics
regarding the film.
There are few Disney villains that scare me all the way through a Disney film, and Judge Doom was one of those Disney villains who I feared as a kid. He looks and acts scary beyond belief in both his human form, and Toon form. His pure hatred towards Toons by killing them without even trying them to eventually wiping them out all together with a weapon that he's created is insane and sadistic, especially when being one himself! His motivation is ingenious giving the film's setting and subtle social commentary of the time. His weasel henchmen are fun, but just as crazy and nasty as he is. And leaving the viewers with many questions after he's killed makes him more of a fascinating villain, thus being my favorite live action Disney villain of all time, despite his character really being a Toon. But hey he's mostly shown being played by a live actor, so it counts!
"Remember me Eddie? When I killed your Brother, I talked...JUST...LIKE...THIIIIIIS!"
-Judge Doom
-Judge Doom
