Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-2175012-20171205173216/@comment-28898825-20171207114836

A few things to add:

1. King Candy (Who I consider possibly the best Disney villain since Hades, or at least tied with Dr. Facilier) I'd say isn't really a "Twist" villain, or at least not in the same sense as the others. Right from the first scene or two of him, with him determined to not let Vanellope race and threatening to have Ralph thrown in the Fungeon, it was clear that King Candy was a bad guy. His "Twist" was rather in the style of the villain he was: At first, he came across as one of Disney's more comedic villains (a la Prince John or Captain Hook), but the twist revelation about him revealed him to be a dead- serious villain.

2. I may be in the minority here, but I'd say Hans was a very good villain. His revelation about being evil was a shock to me the first time I saw the movie, but upon repeated viewings, I could more see the scheming sociopath he was and the ways he used his skills as a social chameleon to manipulate everyone and his skills at adapting to changing circumstances to make everything work in his favor. When interacting with a person, he'd subtly adopt that person's personality traits as his own to make them see him as a kindred spirit and begin to trust him (i.e. Towards Anna he acts friendly, cheerful, and playful, towards Elsa he acts regal and dignified, etc.). This is how many real- life evil, dangerous people operate, especially con artists and online predators. In the battle at the ice palace, there's also a "Blink and you'll miss it" scene in which we see Hans's eyes briefly flicker up to the ceiling moments before he "Accidentally" causes a stray crossbow arrow to sever the giant chandelier so it falls and nearly crushes Elsa. Other people may not like Hans, but I find him a very good villain, partly because for a character in a fantasy/ fairy tale movie, he offers a great picture of what real evil can look like.

3. In discussing this, the OP leaves out that this movie also saw probably the absolute worst example of the "Twist villain" in recent animated history: Smiler in 'The Emoji Movie.' One of the many reasons why that movie sucked so hard was because of how heavily it relied on so many of the overused tropes and cliches that have become prevalent in recent animated movies and did so in such crappy, half- assed ways, and trying to make Smiler a "Twist villain" was a perfect example. Even though her revelation as a villain was supposed to be a surprise to the viewers, just looking at the creepy smile plastered across her face made it clear right from the start to anyone with a fully- functional brain that she was evil. It would be like if Prince Hans wore a black cape, had a curly mustache that he was constantly twirling with his finger, and a nefarious "MWA HA HA HA HA"- style laugh right from the beginning.