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*** [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|How can]] [[Disney Acid Sequence|you tell?]]

* "Main Hoon Don" from the Bollywood movie ''Don''; in a twist, it's sung by someone who has to impersonate the villain. {{spoiler|Or so we thought.}}

** Lyricist Leslie Bricusse helped adapt the film into a stage play for regional theatres and gave each of the other brats a song as well, which aren't as mean but certainly sum up their vices: "I Eat More" for Augustus, "Chew It" for Violet, and "I See It All on TV" for Mike.

* Although he doesn't sing it himself, Necros, [[The Dragon]] from the [[James Bond (Film)|Bond]] film ''[[The Living Daylights (Film)|The Living Daylights]]'' gets a thoroughly [[Badass]] [[Villain Song]] called, "Where Has Everybody Gone?" It's always playing on his Walkman when he's about to strangle people with the headphone wires. ''And'' his [[Leitmotif]] is the instrumental version of the song. The song fulfills the criteria of the [[Villain Song]], in that while the [[Big Bad]] is a fairly low-key [[Smug Snake]], Necros is the main physical danger to Bond throughout the movie, manages to get away with a surprising amount of successful assassinations for a [[Bond Villain Stupidity|Bond Villain]], and gets a spectacular, over-the-top final fight/death scene.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MagCoUYvIXE The opening of] ''[[Goldfinger (Film)|Goldfinger]]'' is about the title character and his obsession with gold.

** And another Bond example: the theme to ''[[The World Is Not Enough (Film)|The World Is Not Enough]]'' by [[Garbage]] is, after you've seen the film, an obvious Villain Song for {{spoiler|Elektra King.}}

** A similar example is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIYfoeBOhTU "Gollum's Song"] from the ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Two Towers]]'' soundtrack, sung by Emiliana Torrini. (It was originally written for Bjork.)

** As is "New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)" from the [[New Jack City]] soundtrack, by [[Ice T]].

* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film)|The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' has two: "Sweet Transvestite" and "You'd Better Wise Up, Janet Weiss ('''SLUT!''')". Which makes sense, since the evil Dr. Frank-N-Furter is much more important than the hero Brad Majors ('''ASSHOLE!''')

** Three, actually-- "I Can Make You A Man/Charles Atlas Song" is all about what he plans to do with Rocky.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRCMxodXrQo "World War II Boy"] from [[The Blood Waters of Dr. Z]], sung by an offscreen Jamie DeFrates as the [[Mad Scientist]] walks back to his lab from the beach at the beginning of the film. Only counts if you interpret the lyrics to be about escaped Nazi scientist Doctor Leopold and him "planning re-veenge on [his] friends!''

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvUbbYX9BMs "Professional Pirate"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSXciBh8KoY "Shiver My Timbers"] from ''Muppet Treasure Island''. The former is sung by (for good measure) Tim Curry, and the latter ends with Captain Flint opening fire on his own crew with [[Guns Akimbo|two flintlock pistols]]. And this is in a ''Muppet'' movie. Produced by ''Disney''.

** Arguably also "We Started This Op'ra Sh*t" for [[Mega Corp|GeneCo]] as a company; it's certainly the most [[Chewing the Scenery|scenery-chewing]] number in the film, and features Rotti, Luigi, Pavi, and various GeneCo employees and customers generally hamming it up.

* In the film ''Troll'' a song called "Cantos Profane" is performed by Torok the troll's minions.

* ''[[Sesame Street (TV)|The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland]]'' has [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|Mandy]] [[Dead Like Me|Patinkin]] singing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT5mWEWTb6A "Make It Mine"]. It's [[Ear Worm|very catchy]].

* Despite being a very low-level and banal form of evil, Sharpay and Ryan get one in each of the three [[High School Musical|High School Musicals]], but it's only in the third one where "I Want It All",' is one of the big show-stopping numbers.

** And some people prefer these upbeat songs to the ballad-y ones by the protagonists.

* While more Grouch than villain, [[Sesame Street|Oscar]] sings the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IHMctrKCg "Grouch Anthem"] at the beginning of the movie ''Follow That Bird'': "Don't let the sunshine spoil your rain! Just stand up and complain!"

* In ''[[Suicide Club]]'', the psychopath Genesis sings a downbeat rock song with his minions in an abandoned bowling alley while his other minion rapes and stabs a woman trapped in a bedsheet sack. Good stuff.

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlufxatPxnA Leprechaun's rap number] at the end of ''Leprechaun: In the Hood''.

* Hans Conreid brings on his [[Large Ham|large ham]] with the songs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcYTilauRLo "Get-Together Weather"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8TQOzyCu8Q "Do-Mi-Do Duds"], <small>AKA</small> "Dress Me", an unconventional [[Camp]] [[Villain Song]], while his many minions and staff of the Terwilliker Institute sing [[Alma Mater Song|"Terwilliker Academy"]] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVRxzvkJao "The Elevator Dungeon Song"]; in ''~The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T~'', the only live-action movie by [[Dr. Seuss]].

* In both the film of Pink Floyd's ''[[The Wall]]'' and the album that inspired it, the three songs in the third act sung by the fictional Pink's fascist persona: "In the Flesh", "Run Like Hell" and "Waiting for the Worms". In addition to being a comment on the stupidity of fascism and bigotry, using holocaust imagery to show just how far our protagonist has fallen, they are also over-the-top villain songs sung with a sense of insane glee with some of the catchier melody-lyric parings (to the point that you start singing a split-second before realizing that some of the lyrics aren't for polite society).

* Carolyn' car radio sing-a-long of Bobby Darin's ''Don't Rain On My Parade'' in ''[[American Beauty]]''

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oppHeMlaLVM&feature=related The song about] [[The Spanish Inquisition]], "The Inquisition", from Mel Brooks' ''[[History of the World Part One]]''. After some opening narration and a brief air of seriousness, it comprises the entire segment.

** He also had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzE08aInn4 Just the Two of Us] in ''The Spy Who Shagged Me''.

** [[They Might Be Giants]] made the Goldfinger-style [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqzDAQaDQzY Dr. Evil].

* In the sci-fi parody ''The Creature Wasn't Nice'' (AKA ''Spaceship''), the titular monster stops his rampage long enough to sing a little ditty entitled "I Want To Eat Your Face".

* In the early [[Adam Sandler]] movie ''[[Going Overboard]]'', General Noriega briefly sings "It's A Sad Sad World When Your Head Looks Like A Pizza". Yes.

* The Gremlins in ''[[Gremlins 2]]'' organize their own rendition of "New York, New York" with the Brain as lead vocals.

* The Golan/Globus production of ''Red Riding Hood'' had two. The Big Bad Wolf gets "Good at Being Bad". The wicked duke ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) gets "Man Without a Heart".

* [[A Nightmare On Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]] had (oddly enough, the rap numbers) "Are You Ready For Freddy?" and "Nightmare on My Street" made to coincide with the release of one of his films.

* Angela's briefly raps in ''[[Sleepaway Camp III Teenage Wasteland]]''.