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EveryAardman Animationsmovie or short has had its fair plowshare of villainy , and some villains rank high-pitched than others . From the ridiculously vicious and tragic Toad inFlushed Awayto the hellish Piella Bakewell inA Matter of Loaf and Deaf , there is a wide mountain chain of role and villain in Aardman Animations . While some stood out in the minds of the audience as incubus fuel , other villains were made to be comical yet tragic or , to some extent , redeemable .
The best Aardman baddie rank include both humans and animals , Fannie Farmer and patrician , and even ruler of the ancient world . Similar tothe Disney Villains , the Aardman villains add up from different time periods and , in some cases , portion out the same universe . While they may not havecatchy villain songsor wizardly powers , Aardman does a practiced occupation ensuring that villains have a purpose , and they remain some of the lethal characters in stop - motion animation today .
Aardman Animation has a grotesque array of stop - move picture show on its CV , with several having earned gold status with critic and audiences likewise .
10Agent Red
Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon (2020)
InA Shaun the Sheep Movie : Farmageddon , Agent Red is in charge of her organization , the Ministry of Alien Detection , or M.A.D. After she see an alien as a young lady and ends up ridiculed for it by her classmate , Agent Red decides to capture an foreign , no matter what . In this case , the unknown encounter to be Shaun ’s unexampled Quaker , Lu - La. After a few setbacks when she accidentally captures Bitzer , Agent Red lastly manages to capture Lu - La but eventually has an unexplained change of substance at the end once she proves to the populace that aliens are substantial .
9Lord Nooth
Early Man (2018)
Lord Nooth may be the leader of the Stone Age inEarly Man , but he is moreidiotic and chesty than villainous . He relegate Dug and his champion to the Badlands and only cared about the money he could make from the association football game in the Bronze City . Desperate to win against Dug ’s team , Lord Nooth even dressed up as a mascot to escape the biz with the money make headway from it . He acts more like a spoiled child rather than a villain and literally ends up at the very bottom of the pot once his dodge is exposed .
8The Toad
Flushed Away (2006)
The Toad fromFlushed Awayhas one of the most tragical villain backstories ever told . As a tadpole , The Toad was living the good life at Buckingham Palace with Prince Charles and eventually got flushed down the drain after the Prince got a new preferent rat . Left with a hate of all matter rodent , The Toad plots to wash out away Ratropolis in a massive flood and repopulate the city with thousands of his tadpoles . In the destruction , The Toad ’s plans end up frozen and literally spit - tie in the sewers , thanks to Rita and Roddy .
7Queen Victoria
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)
As a historic figure , the tangible - life Queen Victoria accomplished many peachy things during her reign . This remorseless translation of Queen Victoria was resolved to pass over pirates out of existence for good inThe Pirates ! Band of Misfits . As a member of a secret society that consume exotic animate being , Queen Victoria wants to add Polly the Dodo to the menu at any cost . She fights tooth and nail to get what she wants but has the personality of a toddler when she ends up stranded at the mercifulness of the animals she tried to consume .
6Preston
Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
A secure , silent case , Preston the cyber - dog fromWallace and Gromit : A snug Shavedoesn’t waver to use personnel to get the problem done . Originally built to be helpful and friendly , Preston was anything but . He had no remorse when he framed Gromit for a sheep rustling criminal offence . He also showed no loyalty to his proprietor ’s daughter , Wendolene Ramsbottom , since he forced her into his sheep rustle scheme and shut up her aside when she renegade . Preston was eventually crushed up in a bounder food processing car and rebuilt to his original , harmless state .
With Robin Robin arriving on Netflix this Christmas , it ’s deserving looking at some of the dependable little flick in Aardman ’s catalogue .
5Piella Bakewell
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
Piella Bakewell was the villain inWallace and Gromit : A Matter of Loaf and Death . After lose her card girl balloon job due to system of weights increase , Piella Bakewell vowed to kill bakers , with Wallace as her current " baker ’s twelve . " Piella was brutal to her pet dog Fluffles , does n’t waffle to incriminate Gromit of prick her to stop him when he tries to interfere in her programme , and even tries to blow up Wallace with a cake disguised as a turkey . While her taradiddle wasanother one of Aardman ’s tragic villain story , she was fixated on revenge against baker and met her luck in her balloon .
4Victor Quartermaine
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
InWallace and Gromit ’s first full - length feature film , The Curse of the Were - Rabbit , Victor Quartermaine was the villain . He was obsess with guns and search , but even more so money . set to win the gentle Lady Tottington ’s money and heart by any means necessary , Quartermaine saw Wallace as a job and want to eliminate him no matter what . Accompanied by his dog Phillip , Quartermaine set out to kill the Were - Rabbitwith little heed for the town ’s vegetable contest . Quartermaine eventually had a psychotic dislocation and revealed his true colors to Lady Tottington when she tried to represent the Were - Rabbit .
3Anthony Trumper
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Anthony Trumper was the scoundrel from the firstShaun the Sheep Movie . As the city ’s animal warden , Trumper was ruthless in his task to ascertain that all isolated animals were locked up and would apply any method necessary to capture them , even murder and animal cruelty . While none of the characters in the Shaun the Sheep universe have any speaking lines , Trumper ’s action and body speech show that he means business . After he threaten the Mossy Bottom Farm animate being and about throws Shaun off a cliff , he cease up fired from his job and forced to repay his debt to society .
2Mrs. Melisha Tweedy
Chicken Run (2000) and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)
In a comedy about escaping chickens , Mrs. Melisha Tweedy was anything but funny . With her determination to get rich by selling crybaby pies , Mrs. Tweedy was unpitying , cruel , and avaricious , earn her one of Aardman ’s andDreamworks ' most democratic villains . Stuck with an distressed marriage , she abuse her hubby Willard at every chance when he dares to mention that the chickens are up to no good . She vote out the hens who do n’t place enough eggs with zero self-reproach and even rise up a string of lights to cope with her malign goal . That being said , she is the only Aardman baddie to repeat her role as she will be in the upcoming filmChicken Run : Dawn of the Nugget .
1Feathers McGraw
Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
Feathers McGraw was one of several that show an Aardman villain does n’t demand to speak to be malevolent . After he moves into Wallace and Gromit ’s house as a temporary boarder , this villainous and evil bird sets out to pull off an extraordinary diamond rip-off with Wallace ’s Techno Trousers and a cagey camouflage . Feathers even went as far as to advertise Gromit out when he take on over Gromit ’s room and tried to use a toy wagon train set to bunk . After a train chase panorama that really show offAardman Animations’technical prowess , Feathers ends up mesh aside in the zoo .
While Aardman may not have the same shine as Pixar and Illumination , it ’s a beloved studio for a reason . From its submarine to its villains , its character are always memorable .
Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) from Early Man
