| “ | 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 owns a shipment company as a cover for his criminal activities and is the boss of the petty yet kindhearted criminal Fagin. By the time of the film's events, Fagin has been owing Sykes too much loan money, leading Sykes to threaten Fagin's life and those of 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 his own men about how to dispose of their victims regularly, like making a man suffer and then throw him into water with "cement shoes".
- 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 pushing him into the Hudson River after reluctantly giving him three more days to pay him back.
- He instructed one of his men on how to kill one of their victims before Fagin came to his hideout to tell him about how to recover his money.
- He sicced Roscoe and DeSoto on Fagin when he tried to explain his plan due to not having 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, leading Sykes to give him twelve additional hours but not without warning him that it would be his last chance.
- He resolved to kidnap Jenny Foxworth, Oliver's little 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 threatening Fagin and "closed" their account 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 are gonna eat her only if he orders them to do so.
- He threatened Jenny's butler Winston into communicating him with her parents if they don't wish her to get hurt 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, Sykes didn't know this and was likely willing to kill some innocent working 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 abruptly fall 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.
- Even worse, Sykes was aware that Oliver and his friends are sapient animals, since he spoke to them to taunt them and order them around, and even trusted Roscoe and DeSoto to serve as his security, yet he didn’t care and still tried to kill them anyway.
- While he treated Roscoe and DeSoto fine, feeding them with dog treats and even freeing them from a net when Fagin and his pets rescue Jenny, it's likely he just cares for them due to helping him to intimidate his victims, not batting an eye when Roscoe and DeSoto are fatally electrocuted in the subway's rails.
- Although he seems a bit forgiving and generous for a crime boss given how he constantly gives 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 by declaring that their account was "closed", he still threatened Fagin into silence and most likely was done dealing with him, not to mention how he tries to kill him later on for rescuing Jenny, making his "generosity" pragmatic.
Trivia[]
- Bill Sikes, his original counterpart from the original Oliver Twist story, doesn't count as Pure Evil because, while part of Fagin's criminal operations to train children into criminals and brutally killing Nancy out of paranoia of her ratting him out, he still helps an injured Oliver when it would have been easier to leave him to die and heavily regrets murdering Nancy to the point he can't shake the guilt away from himself, even trying 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.
- Fittingly, while Oliver from Oliver and Company counts as Pure Good, his original book counterpart does not, making both of them mirror images of their villains.
External Links[]
- Bill Sykes on the Villains Wiki
- Bill Sykes on the Disney Wiki
- Bill Sykes on the Hate Sink Wiki
