10 Best Disney Villain Songs

5. "The Virginia Company (Reprise)" - Pocahontas

This is a tricky one. Listening to the lyrics, everything about it seems villainous. A leader and his men are jovially singing about killing an unsuspecting individual (or maybe two or three) for no real reason other than that they are stalwart and British and they want some gold. The lyrics sound pretty bad and--as this reprise to "The Virginia Company" occurs early in the plot of Pocahontas (1995)--it seems as though it would serve as early character establishment for the bad guy of the film.

The only problem is that the leader doing the singing is John Smith, the romantic male lead and secondary protagonist. Even in the beginning as he happily mimes beheading Native Americans, he is portrayed as more ignorant than anything else. Still, the overall message of the song is clearly not the one that we are meant to be supporting, and the men doing John Smith's backup singing do engage in some unwarranted battling later in the film. "The Virginia Company (Reprise)" has some halfhearted villainy, but its message becomes incredibly relevant in later scenes (and songs).

Most villainous lines: "We'll kill ourselves an Injun, or maybe two or three! We're stalwart men and bold of the Virginia Company!"

 
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