10 Surprisingly Rubbish Animated Movie Villains

There is absolutely no reason why Rasputin in the cartoon version of Anastasia should be a bad villain. He's pretty much one of the most mysterious, interesting bad guys in all of history, so they really had to try for him to be so ineffectual in this film. Yes, he does partially succeed in his mission, and for children's animated villains he does have rather an impressive body count after killing almost all of the Romanovs.

But then he spends several years just sort of moping around in the underworld, casually rotting, until his bat thing has to come along and let him know that Anastasia is still alive. Not super proactive for someone who was willing to sell his soul to see the end of the Romanov dynasty.

But let's dive right into the real problem that's staring us all in the face. That vial. That stupid vial. He stored the source of all his power, the swarm of green demony things, in a glass vial, aka the fragile material that a toddler could make short work of if left alone for five minutes. All that time spent, only for a teenage girl to be able to gently crush it under her heel. Talk about egg on your face.