Cruella De Vil-101 Dalmatians

Anyone with the last name Devil has to be bad! With her crazy black and white hair, pale skin, bright red lips and over the top fur coats, it’s very clear that she’s a force to be reckoned with. She’s introduced as Anita’s friend, but her husband Roger sees right through her false disguise of friendship and never trusts a word she says. When she discovers Pongo and Perdita are having puppies, visions of herself in a glorious spotted fur coat engorge her mind. Only making appearances at the Radcliffe residence when it involves the puppies, Roger is instantly suspicious. She offers them money for the baby Dalmatians but Anita and Roger want to keep the puppies for themselves. Cruella is livid, storms out of the house, and vows to herself she will get those puppies with or without their permission. She uses her henchmen, Jasper and Horace, to obtain possession of the fifteen puppies adding to her collection of eighty four. Apparently 101 Dalmatians is the magic number when making a puppy fur coat. When the puppies go missing Pongo and Perdita take matters into their own...paws and find the puppies themselves. With the help of some animals they meet in their journey, they find their babies plus lots more and snatch them from the grasp of Jasper and Horace. The henchmen inform Cruella that the puppies have disappeared and she literally goes insane. She dives into her car and goes on a rampage around town in search of the dogs. She stumbles on a group of black Labradors crossing the road, as the snow hits their fur the black is washed off and it becomes obvious that these black Labradors are actually the Dalmatians that she is so intent on finding. They manage to jump into a truck and Cruella is right on their tales. She takes a bad turn and winds up in a ditch with no chances of having the spotted fur coat she was dreaming of.

Why she’s number five: Do I really need to explain that anyone who would ever consider slaughtering puppies to make a fur coat is evil? She has an over the top character with a voice that could shatter your ear drums. She pretends to be friends with Anita to get her claws on the puppies, and is vicious to everyone else that surrounds her. She is one villain that could give you nightmares for weeks and have you holding onto your dogs leash extra tight. As Roger puts it, “If she doesn’t scare you, no evil thing will.”

To watch Roger sing his famous song about Cruella click here