Every Pixar Villain Ranked From Worst To Best
7. Anton Ego (Ratatouille)
Anton Ego (Peter O'Toole) is one of the most distinctive villains in Pixar's entire filmography: he hasn't got a megalomaniacal master plan nor is he actively trying to ruin anyone's life.
He is admittedly a food critic whose negative reviews apparently hold enough power to make Auguste Gusteau die of a broken heart, but for villainous standards he's pretty much just a guy doing his job - albeit with a massive amount of joyless pretension.
Ego has all the power when it comes to reviewing Gusteau's, yet unlike most villains on this list Ego actually has something of a turnaround at film's end, won over by Remy's (Patton Oswalt) rendition of ratatouille which reminds Ego of his own mother's cooking.
It's a wonderfully tender moment, albeit one punctuated by Ego's loss of his job once word gets out that a rat's been doing the cooking at Gusteau's.
Backed by the late, great Peter O'Toole's superb vocal performance, Anton Ego is a villain like no other: comparatively low-stakes, perhaps, but the sheer fear he commands with the stroke of a pen makes him feel mighty all the same.