| “ | Now I lent you money and I don't see it. Do you know what happens when I don't see my money, Fagin? People get hurt. People like you get hurt. Do I make myself clear? | „ |
| ~ Bill Sykes threatening Fagin over his loan money. |
| “ | Now don't cry, little girl, they only eat when I tell them to. (Snickering) | „ |
| ~ Bill Sykes "comforting" Jenny Foxworth while tying her up. |
William "Bill" Sykes is the main antagonist of Disney's 27th full-length animated feature film Oliver & Company, a modern take on Charles Dickens' classic 1838 novel Oliver Twist.
He is a ruthless loan shark settled on New York City who manages a shipment company as a cover for his criminal activities. By the time of the film's events, Fagin has been owing Sykes a lot of money that was loaned to him, leading Sykes to threaten Fagin's life and his dogs unless he gets paid by any means.
He was voiced by the late Robert Loggia.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He ran criminal operations as a loan shark while running his "Sykes' Shipments" company, harshly punishing those clients who fail to pay him back and even giving tips to those who work for him about how to dispose of their victims, like making a man be beaten down and then throw him into water with "cement shoes" at one point.
- He threatened to Fagin, his dogs, and destroy his home just for not paying him back despite Fagin's efforts to gather enough money, sending his dogs Roscoe and DeSoto to retrieve Fagin, nearly choking him by closing his car's window on his throat and then scaring him into the Hudson River after reluctantly giving him three more days to pay him back by honking his horn to call his dogs back.
- He unleashed Roscoe and DeSoto on Fagin when he tried to explain his plan because he did not have the money with him, only stopping once Fagin is able to show Oliver and explain that they can blackmail the Foxworths, the rich family that adopted him, into giving him enough ransom money to pay him. This led him to give him twelve additional hours, but not without warning him that it would be his last opportunity to prove his worth.
- He resolved to kidnap Jenny Foxworth, Oliver's owner, once Fagin went back on the plan and opted to give Oliver back to her, roughly taking her into his car after seeing the whole ordeal and nullified his financial transaction with Fagin to silence him.
- He tied Jenny up at his office while he prepared to call her family to begin the ransom and taunted her to not be scared by Roscoe and DeSoto, as they’ll maul her only if he gives the order.
- He threatened Jenny's butler Winston into communicating him with her parents if they don't wish her to be harmed even though there's little Winston can do due to Jenny's parents being away on a trip.
- He took a handgun to deal with a "pizza delivery guy" at his door, and while this was a distraction from Tito, Einstein, and Francis, he didn't know this and was likely willing to kill the man instead of just asking him to leave.
- He swung an axe to cut off the power when Tito used a crane to take Jenny, Oliver, and the dogs away to safety, leading them to fall abruptly from a great height, which would have killed them if they hadn't landed safely on a metal slide.
- He chased Fagin, Oliver, the dogs, and Jenny as they escaped through New York City's streets, even following them into the subway and putting all of them in danger just to retrieve Jenny and kill her friends. When Dodger and Oliver attacked him, he tried to kill them by throwing them off the Brooklyn Bridge, which would’ve succeeded if not for Dodger holding Oliver by the mouth.
- Plus, he was aware that Oliver and his friends are sapient animals, yet he didn’t care and still tried to kill them anyway.
- While he treated Roscoe and DeSoto fairly, he just saw them as weapons of intimidation for his victims, failing to notice them getting fatally electrocuted in the subway rails.
- Although he gave Fagin more time to pay his debt, even letting him off the hook once he opts to kidnap Jenny due to Fagin going back on their plan, he still threatened Fagin into silence and most likely didn’t want to deal with him anymore, not to mention how he tried to kill him later on for rescuing Jenny, making his "generosity" pragmatic.
Trivia[]
- While part of Fagin's criminal operations to train children into criminals and brutally killing Nancy out of paranoia of her ratting him out, Bill Sikes, his original counterpart from the original Oliver Twist story, still helps an injured Oliver when it would have been easier to leave him to die, and his regret of murdering Nancy is too great for him to shake the guilt away from himself, even attempting to abandon his dog Bulls-Eye for seeing him as a representation of his guilt. Plus, Sikes fails the Heinous Standards to Fagin as he plays an overall indirect role in his plan to teach children how to commit crimes and doesn't do enough to stand out on his own. Therefore, he doesn't count as Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Bill Sykes on the Villains Wiki
- Bill Sykes on the Disney Wiki
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