Madam Mim

""want a fight do you!? want a Wizard's duel!?""

- -Madam Mim.

Madam Mim is the main antagonist in The Sword in the Stone. She is a witch who had a Wizard's Duel with Merlin. She ranks 35 on the top 30 Disney villains list [One better than Sid Phillips, but one under Clayton]

Although the film's primary villain, Madam Mim's total screen time in "The Sword in the Stone" does not exceed 20 minutes.

In the film, Madam Mim is a powerful witch living in the woods during King Arthur's youth. She is an old rival of Merlin. Mim is presented as boisterous, mischievous, and rather conceited, a sorceress much impressed with her own power who delights in causing trouble. She is also a somewhat morbid character with a distaste for sunshine and all things wholesome. When Arthur is transformed into a sparrow by Merlin, Mim discovers him and initially tries to impress him with her magic, boasting that it is more powerful than Merlin's. Upon further realizing his relationship with Merlin, she then attempts to torture him eventually decides to try and destroy him, being that she sees all good things as bad.

Mim: "I suppose he sees some good in you..."

Arthur: "Well... I guess so..."

Mim: "Yes, and in my book, that's bad!"

Merlin arrives to rescue Arthur, but Mim refuses to give him up and challenges Merlin to do otherwise. This leads to a "Wizards' Duel" between her and Merlin for Arthur's life, in which both parties transform into a series of animals to destroy one another. The animals Mim turns into were an alligator, fox, chicken, elephant, tiger, rattlesnake, rhinoceros, and finally a dragon. And the animals Merlin turns into were a turtle, rabbit, caterpillar, walrus, mouse, crab, billy goat, and finally a mouse again. She appears to win the duel by cheating, but Merlin quickly turns the tables by turning into a germ and goes inside her, rendering Mim ill and powerless.

Merlin then leaves Madam Mim to recover from her illness, stating she'll need plenty of sunlight - which Madam Mim complains bitterly about as she hates sunlight.