| “ | You think you can banish the great Rasputin? By the unholy powers vested in me, I banish YOU, with a curse! Mark my words, you and your family will die within a fortnight. I WILL NOT REST UNTIL I SEE THE END OF THE ROMANOV LINE FOREVER! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin cursing the entire Romanov family to death. |
| “ | Now, my dark purpose will be fulfilled, and the last of the Romanovs will DIE! | „ |
| ~ Rasputin upon getting his reliquary back before his song "In The Dark Of The Night" starts, and his most famous quote. |
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (Russian: Григорий Ефимович Распутин), or better known as his surname Rasputin, is the main antagonist of Don Bluth's 9th animated feature film Anastasia.
He is loosely based on the real-life Russian psychic of the same name: however, in the film, he is depicted as a far more malevolent and manipulative undead being of black magic than the real-life Rasputin, though the two share the common title of "Mad Monk". He also takes inspiration from a mythical figure called Koschei the Deathless. He is Anastasia and Dimitri's arch-nemesis.
The character was voiced by Christopher Lloyd, who also played Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and his singing voice was provided by Jim Cummings, who also voiced Dr. Robotnik in Sonic SatAM, Gillecomgain in Gargoyles, Steele in Balto, Jacques in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, Scar in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Fusilli in Courage and the Cowardly Dog and Budzo in Zambezia.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Instead of just getting revenge on the Tsar, the one who banished him, he takes it to the extreme and curses his entire family, causing the Russian Revolution and getting most of them killed.
- He attempts to murder Anastasia (who at the time was only a child) on the frozen surface of the Neva River as she is escaping by jumping her and trying to drag her into the icy waters with him, but is unsuccessful.
- He constantly abuses his minion Bartok.
- He becomes obsessed with the idea of completing his revenge, planning to kill Anastasia at all costs.
- He sabotages the train that Anastasia is on and only Anya, Pooka, Vladimir, and Dimitri survive when it crashes.
- He invades Anastasia's dreams and nearly makes her commit suicide.
- While he was plagued by nightmares at one point at a time, he eventually realized those nightmares were himself doing evil things and began to enjoy them.
- Even after Anya is reunited with her grandmother, Empress Marie, at long last, he still wants to go full throttle with his plan to kill her, despite what Bartok (who can almost be said to have somehow taken a liking to Anya, and is even looking forward to attending her return celebration in Paris) says.
- By this point and time, it’s clear that the two are not really on the same page with one another, and Bartok gives up on his master (without doing anything to try to protect Anya) when the latter begins his final confrontation with the Grand Duchess.
- He takes advantage of Anya’s dog, Pooka, to lead Anya into a garden maze and lures Anya out onto the Pont Alexandre III with his eerie voice.
- Now face to face with Anya for the first time since her childhood, and once she remembers him, he destroys parts of her dress.
- Believing that he now has her right where he wants her, he destroys a large chunk of the bridge Anya is standing on, which will send her plummeting into the icy Seine River below. As he shouts that no one can save her, if one looks closely, he raises up his reliquary, and it’s seen through this that he is about to deliver the final blow and send her to her final resting place, and he would have if Dimitri (who originally planned to return to Russia, but rethought his decision and decided to go back to her after smelling a rose Anya gave him) hadn’t returned to come to her rescue.
- During the climax, he enchants a nearby Pegasus statue to hold off Dimitri while he still attempts to kill Anya.
- While his body parts falling off provides some comedy to the audience, he is still treated as a very horrifying threat in-universe.
Trivia[]
- Rasputin is the first adaptation of the real life figure to be a Pure Evil villain, preceding Matthew Vaughn's Grigori Rasputin from The King's Man.
- In a 1995 draft script for the film, Rasputin was given a more in-depth reason for his villainy: Nicholas II ordered his men to execute him multiple times (albeit without any given explanation for it). Had this been kept, then it would either potentially make Rasputin himself a Near Pure Evil by depicting him as a tragic villain, or that he would still remain a Pure Evil by subverting this entirely.
- Rasputin's death by melting is similar to Judge Doom's another Pure Evil villain played by Christopher Lloyd.
External Links[]
- Rasputin on the Villains Wiki
- Rasputin on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
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