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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Randall Boggs (Monsters Inc franchise)
October 20, 2026 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
We have now reached one of the most iconic villains in the Monsters franchise, Randall Boggs. Randall Boggs has appeared in every major piece of Monsters Inc franchise from the original movie and the prequel and the sequel television series. Randall is a great Pixar villain. Part of what makes Randall is iconic is his voice performance from Steve Buscemi. Buscemi has a voice that suits villainous roles and much like how Tony Jay is associated with Frollo due to his voice performance , the same is true of Buscemi as Randall.  Now, while Randall is the secondary antagonist in both Monsters Inc and Monsters at Work, he is imo the most iconic villain in the Monsters franchise. Â
Now, I’ll admit the prequel movie seems to underuse Randall as it seems to want to show how the rivalry between Randall and Sully started but I don’t think Sully and Randall share many if any scenes at all in Monsters University. And while Randall does have a grudge against Sully for being the top scarer, he is truly more of Mike’s rival.
This is something we see at the beginning of the prequel movie as him and Mike are sharing a room on campus.  With that out of the way, let’s begin.
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Villains Profile: Desmond Spellman (Casper Meets Wendy)
October 19, 2026 in Blogs
We’ve now reached our final live action Casper villain in this crossover movie, Casper Meets Wendy. Now for some background, Wendy the Good Little Witch is another Harvey character that first debuted in backup stories in the Casper comics before being spun off into her own series. She debuted in the 1950’s and she is at best described as a female version of Casper in that she is a witch who performs good deeds.
If Wikipedia is to be believed, the classic Wendy design is just a take on Casper as that is what Harvey did for most of their characters. Whereas Casper lives with her uncles, Wendy lives with her aunties who do appear in this third and final movie though they have different names than their comic counterparts. Also wow does this movie feature a lot of alum from the previous two Casper movies playing different characters.  Cathy Moritary who played Carrigan who I opened this event with plays of Wendy’s aunts. I will say the casting for the witch aunts is quite something as besides her, you have Shelley Duvall and Terri Garr.
Other returnees include Pauly Shore playing an Oracle and Ben Stein in his third cameo in a Casper movie. Â Okay I gotta ask why of all people did Ben Stein appear in all three Casper movies playing a different character each time.
Returning to the character of Wendy for a moment, in the original script for the 1995 movie, Kat Harvey was meant to be named Wendy but this was later changed so Universal wouldn’t have to pay for the rights for her character. So Casper and Wendy until four years after the theatrical film in the better of the two Saban movies. The biggest claim to fame this movie has is being the first starring role for Hilary Duff as an eleven year old Duff played Wendy in this movie.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Dr. Doofenshmirtz (2nd Dimension)
October 18, 2026 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Wow, I cannot believe it has taken me this long to cover Phineas and Ferb on this series. Doof while being the main antagonist of the series isn’t really evil, he’s just if anything lonely and wants a better life than what he has in life. He’s a divorcee dad who’s had a terrible life, I mean he has a plethora of tragic sad backstories, the most baffling being neither of his parents showed up for his birth.  Cartoon logic! Now while our Dr. Doofenshmirtz isn’t really evil, the very first Phineas and Ferb movie does ask what would happen if he truly was and that is where we get 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz to show what would happen if Doof actually won.  This Doof has taken over the Tri-State Area and is leading a dictatorship.  So by the time we meet him, he’s already won. He seems to be a power hungry type of villain who already has power and wants more.  I will say nothing this Doofenshmirtz does can be as scary as how he looks at Oogie Boogie Bash out at California Adventure. Yikes!
Now, let’s move onto to looking at this 2nd Dimension Doof to look at how he stacks as a villain compared to everyone else I’ve covered this year.
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Villains Profile: Jinu (KPop Demon Hunters)
October 16, 2026 in Blogs
KPop Demon Hunters was the massive hit for Netflix last year becoming the most watched movie on the biggest streamer.  I’ve been wanting to cover it on Villains Profile for a while but tbh Gwi-Ma the main villain is just kinda boring whereas Jinu the secondary antagonist is rather fascinating in how he parallels Rumi, our main character and the hero of the story.  Rumi being half demon adds such an interesting layer to her character as she was taught to hate demons and kill them on sight. This led to a form of self-hatred and the belief that demons cannot feel. Jinu challenges this belief by flat out saying that is all demons do.
Now with this being a musical, I will be doing things a little differently as Jinu has multiple songs and instead of aligning them to one category, I will instead place them where they most fitting places and you will see that as I continue on.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Yzma (The Emperor’s New Groove)
October 15, 2026 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
The Emperor’s New Groove is an outlier in terms of Disney movies, it still has a classic fairy tale feel to it with the story which Disney is known for yet it is much more comedic than most Disney movies we had seen at the time of the release of this movie.  Now, the movie this stated as and the movie released in theaters as this did start as a more traditional type Disney movie which was documented in the documentary, The Sweatbox. Which officially has never been released but it is known that this was once a more serious movie known as Kingdom of the Sun before becoming the lighthearted comedy people love. Heck n the original version of the movie, Eartha Kitt had a villain song.  Eartha Kitt not having a villain song in this movie is the one major disappointment I have.
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Monstrous Musicals: The Rocky Horror Glee Show
October 14, 2026 in Blogs
A high school version of The Rocky Horror Show does not exist nor should it. This is not a show that high schoolers should be performing. Do understand this is not coming as a conservative talking point but rather, Rocky Horror has a fair share of material that younger brains might not fully grasp and it is more explicit than many schools would be comfortable with putting it on.
I bring this up as today’s entry in Monstrous Musicals looks at a time when the show Glee in its second season did a Rocky Horror tribute episode. Let’s also take this a but further and acknowledge that this was not a tribute episode to The Rocky Horror Show but The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Understandable as the populous at large is more familiar with RHPS than the stage show it is based on. How much of a tribute to the movie is this? It opens with a recreation of the iconic lips from the movie. The only time I’ve ever seen the Usherette adapted for screen was the flawed (awful) TV remake.
Do I take issue with hem tributing the movie when the episode is about the glee club putting on a production of the stage show? Kinda yeah.  I mean I get it as the movie is what people know like I said but it would’ve been cool if they could’ve included a song that wasn’t in the movie like Once in a While. I just imagine Cory Monietih’s voice coulda nailed that song and it coulda fir in with Finn’s storyline as it dealt with him being self conscious about his body and being nervous about appearing in his underwear onstage. Yet another reason, this show shouldn’t be done in high schools.
I mean let’s take this even further with the idea of casting a student as Rocky which makes sense but then the teacher, Mr. Shuester pulls him out this role because it’s too adult and puts himself into the role of Rocky. Seemingly forgetting that he would be sharing a sex scene with one of his students. Talk about an idiot teacher moment.
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Monstrous Musicals: Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show (2001 Revival)
October 13, 2026 in Blogs
Now, that I’ve looked at the two original productions and the movie version of Rocky Horror, I wanted to look at a revival and one of the biggest revivals I know of was the 2000 – 2001 Circle in the Square and this production implemented many changes from the movie as this was one of the first revivals to use the revised script by O’Brien.
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Also if you’ll notice the look of Frank on the album cover, he has an almost vampiric look.
One of the most fascinating aspects of this production was how they would rotate out celebrity guests to play the Narrator. The names that stuck out to me the most when finding this information is that Penn and Teller were brought in for this role.
What I’d pay to see that. I kinda wish I could have seen what this set looked like in person but just by looking at the costumes, it so screamed punk while also updating it for the early ‘00s. Alas much like the rest of the world after 9/11 ticket sales for this show took a nosedive.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: Dr. Frankenollie (Runaway Brain)
October 12, 2026 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Today’s entry is gonna be rather short but it is still worth looking at as it fits the theme of evil scientists even if this character is offed yet after we meet him.  Runaway Brain is interesting in Disney history as it is one of the most buried Disney shorts as it is viewed as one of the most anti-Disney things ever released by the Mouse House. This comes from how director Chris Bailey wanted to do something darker and edgier than you’d normally see. This short is something that Disney seems embarrassed of as it is used as a teaching tool of what not to do. Matt Draper goes into more detail in his video out this short that I’l link to here.
This short is one dripping in horror and that makes it stand out amongst all the other Mickey Mouse shorts as something different. One of the biggest horror references we get is when Mickey first arrives at the house of the mad doctor and it recreates the iconic shot from The Exorcist.
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Villains Profile: Kibosh (Casper: A Spirited Beginning)
October 9, 2026 in Blogs
We now arrive at our second of the live action Casper films and while Universal did have plans for a theatrical sequel, that never came to fruition and instead the film rights for Casper landed at 20th Century Fox with the film being produced jointly by The Harvey Entertainment Group and Saban Entertainment. Yes, the company behind the original run of Power Rangers released two Casper movies. This is the second time looking at a movie from them for a Halloween Villains series as last year we looked at the villains of Addams Family Reunion from them.
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Villains Profile: Death (Puss In Boots: The Last Wish)
October 8, 2026 in Blogs
You cannot outrun death. That is just a fact of life, death is something that comes for all of us and you might think you can just laugh in the face of death. This is where Puss in Boots: The Last Wish comes in as Puss in on his last life and knowing of the last wish would do anything to get his nine lives back.
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Monstrous Musicals: Shock Treatment
October 7, 2026 in Blogs
For years, Richard O’Brien tried to get a sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show off the ground. Those scripts are floating out there somewhere but alas we are not looking at those movies that were never made.
Instead, in 1981 we got a sorta sequel in Shock Treatment. O’Brien would describe this movie as not a prequel or a sequel but an equal.  This movie compared to RHPS received a cold reception upon release and at one point, O’Brien would describe this movie as an abortion.  Overtime however, this movie has developed a small following.
I think part of the issue with this movie and the reason it was rejected is it being tied to Rocky Horror was a mistake imo. Yes, we have various cast members from the original movie returning but they are not playing the same character. Then tie into the fact that Bostwick and Sarandon didn’t return as Brad and Janet. I believe Bostwick was unavailable and Sarandon was asking for money than they could afford to give her as her star was on the rise.
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A Look at Disney: Villains Profile: The Mad Doctor (short)
October 6, 2026 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Evil scientists are a staple of villainy. There is just something fun about mad scientist characters and Disney has a plethora of them to look at which I will be doing all this month celebrating the most nefarious experimenters that came from the lab inside the Magic Kingdom. Now a caveat, I do have two mad scientists that originated in television shows on Disney Channel but since I don’t exactly enjoy looking at villains from long running shows, I am instead only gonna cover their movie counterparts. And in a similar vein, The Mad Doctor would return and be expanded upon decades later in the Epic Mickey duology of video games. I’ve never covered a video game character on this series and wouldn’t know where to start so while I have played both games, I’ll be sticking to only his original appearance
The Mad Doctor is perhaps the oldest villain I have ever covered on this series at least in regards to Disney villains as this short film came out in 1933, a whole four years before Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Now keep in mind, that since this is just a short film that’s nearly a century old, The Mad Doctor isn’t a complex villain. Yes, he’d be developed more in Epic Mickey and Epic Mickey 2: Rebrushed but those are hours long whereas this short is only seven minutes and oh spoilers, it’s a bad dream Mickey is having.
