| NOTE: This page is only about Cruella's movie and Dalmatian Street incarnation as other versions of Cruella were not voted as Pure Evil. |
| “ | Darling, I live for furs. I worship furs! After all, is there a woman in all this wretched world who doesn't? | „ |
| ~ Cruella de Vil foreshadowing her obsessions to her "friend" Anita Radcliffe. |
| “ | Any way you like! Poison them, drown them, bash them in the head! You got any chloroform? I don't care how you kill the little beasts, but DO IT! AND DO IT NOW! | „ |
| ~ Cruella demanding her henchmen Jasper and Horace Badun to kill the dalmatians by any means. |
Cruella de Vil is the main antagonist of Disney's 101 Dalmatians franchise, serving as the main antagonist of Disney's 17th full-length animated feature film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, based on Dodie Smith's 1856 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, and its 2019-2020 television spin-off 101 Dalmatian Street.
She is a wealthy and extravagant socialite known for her love for fur coats made of dogs' skins. Once classmates with Anita Radcliffe, Cruella obsessess with a dalmatian fur cost, so she decides to kidnap the dalmatian puppies Anita and her husband Roger have gotten from their dogs Pongo and Perdita, hiring the dimwitted criminal brothers Jasper and Horace Badun for the job as her henchmen.
She was voiced by the late Betty Lou Gerson in the original film and by Michelle Gomez in 101 Dalmatian Street.
What Makes Her Pure Evil?[]
One Hundred and One Dalmatians[]
- While Anita Radcliffe regards her as one of her school's friends, it's unknown if Cruella regarded her as a friend likewise, considering how rude Cruella was while visiting her, knocking Nanny by bursting the door open, leaving a trail of smoke with her cigarette, mocking Roger for marrying Anita and only showing interest in the upcoming dalmatian puppies that Pongo and Perdita, Anita's and Roger's pet dogs, were going to have, with Perdita hiding during the whole visit proving she knew Cruella wasn't up to anything good.
- Condescendingly tries to buy Pongo's and Perdita's 15 puppies once they are born so she can produce a dalmatian fur coat with them because of her obsession with spotted fur, storming out furiously when Roger and Anita decline her offer.
- Hires Jasper and Horace Badun, two dimwitted burglar brothers, to steal Pongo's and Perdita's puppies while them, alongside Anita and Roger, aren't home by breaking into the house and locking Nanny up in the attic once they fail to trick her into letting them in by passing off as repairmen.
- Gloats at her house for all the grief she is causing to Anita and her family when the theft is reported by the newspaper, only to then receive a call from Jasper and Horace and refuse to pay them until the job is done before calling Anita to "comfort" her.
- Purchases legally 84 additional dalmatian puppies to produce her dalmatian fur coat, hiding them alongside the 15 puppies she kidnapped at Hell Hall.
- Demands Jasper and Horace to kill the dalmatian puppies quickly once the police starts getting closer to discover that they are the ones behind the crime, suggesting the burglars to poison, drown, fatally bash to the head or use chloroform on the dalmatians to kill them, threatening to report them to the police so they can take the blame if they don't do it.
- Forces Jasper and Horace to pursue the 101 dalmatians with her once Pongo and Perdita come to their rescue, insisting they look for them no matter how long it takes them.
- Uses her car to try and ram off the lorry truck which the dalmatians have boarded to come back to London off a cliff to kill them with Jasper's and Horace's help even though doing so would also kill the innocent lorry truck driver who has nothing to do with her plans, only failing to do so because of Jasper's and Horace's incompetence.
- Repeatedly abuses Horace and Jasper for annoying her, to the point where they are terrified of her. When Pongo, Perdita and the 99 dalmatian puppies escapes, Cruella berates Horace and Jasper for one last time by calling them idiots, fools and imbeciles.
101 Dalmatian Street[]
- Desires revenge over Doug and Delilah, the descendants of Pongo and Perdita, sixty years after the events of the original film for no other reason than vengeance even though the dalmatians that foiled her plans are long-dead by this point.
- Even worse is that she is now aware that dogs are sapient and still intends to force those dogs she captures into a skinning machine.
- Tests her skinning machine by placing Dawkins' precious Princess Positron doll through it out of spite.
- Mistreats her grand-nephew Hunter de Vil by leaving him trapped in a container for six months due to forgetting he was there with nothing but dog food to not starve, resulting in Hunter suffering sanity slippage over the time he was stranded there.
- When Hunter calls her out for being a monster upon realizing her plans for the dalmatians, Cruella takes it as a compliment, showing that she is fully aware of her vile actions and has her henchmen throw him back in a cargo container because she has grown "bored" of him.
- Attempts to force Dough and Delilah watch their puppies be turned into a fur coat before forcing them into the machine to turn them into a pair of matching luggage.
- Tries to force Hunter to give her Dorothy, the youngest dalmatian of Doug and Delilah, intimidating him when he hesitates to do it, leading Hunter to nearly get her killed by her machine if not for the dalmatians, who despite being animals, aren't monsters like de Vil, letting her to be deservedly taken into custody.
- While she had some comedic moments throughout the first film, she sheds them in the sequel series and is taken with utmost seriousness.
Trivia[]
- Only her film counterpart by taking 101 Dalmatian Street as canon counts as Pure Evil, as the latter was produced by Disney while disregarding the franchise's other spin-offs and continuations, such as 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure or the alternate continuity 101 Dalmatians: The Series.
- Disney conceptual artist Ken Anderson considered at one point during the development of The Rescuers to bring Cruella de Vil back as that film's main antagonist, now wishing to extract a polar bear from a zoo for his fur, but the idea was scrapped as the filmmakers didn't want to reuse Cruella or make a 101 Dalmatians sequel. If Anderson's original concept had been kept, it's unknown how this would have affected Cruella's Pure Evil status.
External Links[]
- Cruella de Vil on the Villains Wiki
- Cruella de Vil on the Disney Wiki
- Cruella de Vil on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- Cruella de Vil on the Wikipedia
