Rising to Power

"Finally YOU will bow to ME!"

- Jafar seizing power over Agrabah.

In works of fiction, there comes a time when the villain seizes his or her opportunity and gains power, channeling it into taking control over a nation or terrorizing the protagonist(s). In other words, the villain is Rising to Power. The villain takes matters into his or her own hands does something that can warp his or her mind or change him or her into a more powerful force. Sometimes he or she can win the day when he or she obtains his or her power over others. This can also lead to evil laughter or a Villainous Breakdown. Villains who usually display this are dictators, giant monsters, masterminds, master manipulators, or evil geniuses. There are many ways the villain can rise to power:


 * 1) Betraying the hero(es).
 * 2) Invasion.
 * 3) Revealing their evil plan.
 * 4) Revealing their true colors.
 * 5) Ambushing the hero(es).

Cartoons & Anime

 * Vilgax: absorbs Diagon and his power to become an immensely powerful, godlike entity.
 * Zs'Skayr:
 * Succeeds in using a space station to cover the Earth in a corrodium beam that mutates all terrestrial life and blocks out the sun.
 * Conquers and destroys Vilgaxia and turns the majority of the local Chimera Sui Generis into Ectonurite minions.
 * Master Cyclonis: Uses Far Side technology to upgrade her Nightcrawlers and to convert Cyclonia into a giant flying mobile fortress with which to successfully conquer the entire Atmos.
 * The Incurseans initially conquer and take over Earth.
 * V.V. Argost: Gains the ability to take Zak's place in controlling the Cryptids in a genocide against humanity, by stealing Zak Monday's Anti-Kur powers.
 * El Malefico: Morphs into a giant version of himself using The Code Of Masked Wrestling and successfully takes over the world starting with Las Vegas.
 * Upon learning that Heinz Doofenshmirtz: Succeeded in moving the Earth to an early autumn with his latest -inator, Aloyse Von Roddenstein leads the villains of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. to reveal themselves to the world and builds an -inizor, which is ten times the size and strength of Doof's -inator, to move the Earth into perpetual winter and later (in a failed attempt) to a new Ice Age.


 * Iron-Masked Marauder: captures the legendryy pokemon celebi to build twig monster out of forest material. He reveals to a captured Jessie that he plans to use Celebi overthrow Giovanni & rule Team Rocket

Live-Action Movies

 * Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Persuades Menken to inject a serum into his arm and writhes in pain as he transforms into the Green Goblin, then puts on an armored suit.
 * Scrappy-Doo: Morphs into Scrappy-Rex.
 * Symbiote Vemon: When the parasite lands on Eddie Brock, he transforms into Venom, giving him the power to kill Spider-Man.
 * The Penguin in The Lester the Lab Rat Movie 2: Lester meets the Witches: Makes an attempt to declare that taking over the city of New York has begun.
 * Davy Jones: Both he and his crew summon the Kraken to bring down Will Turner.
 * Edwin Epps: Reads from the Bible to force the slaves to obey him.
 * Theodora and Evanora: Together rally their army to take over Oz.
 * Kahmunrah: Summons the army of the dead from the portal.
 * Emperor Palpatine: Has the Clone Army wipe out (almost) all of the Jedi so he can form a Sith Empire and rule with an iron fist.
 * Norman Osborn: Inhales some vapor, giving him the strength to transform into the Green Goblin.
 * Damien Thorn: Repeatedly destroys his enemies who learns that he's the Antichrist, and comes that much closer to securing and fulfilling his destiny to lead the world into chaos.
 * Megatron and Sentinel Prime: Successfully unleash bring a Decepticon army from the moon, and destroy and capture the city of Chicago during their invasion of Earth.


 * Dracula: Succeeds in capturing Frankenstein and in using him to bring his children to life.
 * Joo Yoon: Began his rise of power to become governor.
 * Both male and female M.U.T.O.s: Conquers San Fransisco as they reunites, where the male gives the female a stolen nuclear warhead and turned the city into nesting ground.
 * Ronan the Accuser: Fuses the Orb which is called the Power Stone (one of the Infinity Stones) to his giant hammer, taking control of the universe.
 * Sir Trenton: Arrives to tell Stripes he's about to be scratched from tomorrow's race, orders his men to take Sandy to her stables and orders them to knock Stripes out cold.
 * Happy Chapman: Confronting Garfield and Odie in the train luggage room before threatening the latter with a shock collar.
 * Cliff Vandercave: Kidnaps Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm and traps them in a giant mining machine. He orders Fred & Barney to give him THe Dictabird in exchange for their safe return. Though Fred & Barney give him teh bird, Cliff announces he's leaving town with the money he embezzled, and then starts the machine.
 * Sir Edgar: After finding out about Ella's curse, Edgar orders her to kill Prince Charmont on the stroke of midnight, reveals he killed his own brother and tells Ella not to tell anyone about this plan.
 * Ramsley: Reveals he killed Master Edward Gracey's beloved bride Elizabeth Henshaw, locks Megan and Michael in the trunk and throws Jim out of the mansion before they could tell Master Gracey.

Animated Movies

 * Baron Ruber: Fuses Excalibur to his hand and reveals his plan to take over Camelot when he takes Kayley hostage.
 * Mor'du: Demands a spell from the witch to give him the power to conquer the kingdom of his brothers. Returning to his kingdom, he demands his brothers' obedience and drinks the spell. He turns into a giant bear and instead of healing the family bonds murders his brothers and destroys his kingdom.
 * Jafar: Wishes to become Sultan and takes control over Agrabah.
 * Darla Dimple: Orders Max to man the water valves, flooding Mammoth Studios in the process.
 * Shan-Yu: When Captain Li Shang gives Shan-Yu's sword to the emperor, the falcon swoops down and snatches the sword, tossing it to Shan-Yu, who grabs it and raises it over his head in triumph.
 * Ursula: Grows to a giant size and seizing power over the oceans after stealing the Trident from King Triton who sacrificed himself and saved his daughter Ariel's life by turning into a polyp.
 * Morgana creates a giant ice pedestal and uses her magic and the power of the Trident to make King Triton and his subjects bow before her.
 * Scar siezes power over pride rock with his Hyena minions.
 * Lotso imprisons the toy gang and demands their obedience.
 * Dr. Phillium Benedict: Explaining To TJ Detweiller & Principal Prickly his plan to end summer forever.
 * Sheldon J. Plankton: Enslaves everyone in Bikini Bottom and orders them to seize Squidward in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
 * Hopper: Has his gang round the Ant Colony up to finish collecting food for them and takes control over Ant Island.
 * General Mandible: Reveals his wicked plan to Princess Bala about flooding the colony, and he locks her in his office.
 * Judge Claude Frollo: Ambushes the Court of Miracles, orders his henchmen to lock up the Gypsies and had Quasimodo taken back to the bell tower.
 * Governor Ratcliffe: Prepares to attack Pocahontas' village.
 * Professor Ratigan: Seizes power over Mousedom.
 * Captain Hook: Captures Peter Pan and the Lost Boys in Return to Neverland.
 * Mother Gothel: Stabs Flynn Rider and prepares to take Rapunzel to another hiding place.
 * King Candy/Turbo: Morphs into a Cy-Bug and confronts Ralph.
 * Hans prepares to kiss Anna, but instead he betrays her and leaves her behind to freeze to death as he reveals his plan to seize power over Arendelle.
 * Rex Pickles drinks the magic potion and turns into his mutated monstrous form.
 * Nerdlucks: After stealing the talents from five NBA stars, the Nerdlucks turn themselves into Monstars and trash the court.
 * Coco LaBouche: After forcefully yanking Chuckie's teddy bear out of his hands, Coco orders Jean-Claude to lock the babies up during her wedding with Chuckie's father. She orders her assistant Kira to destroy the bear, before slamming out of the room, opening Kira's eyes to the truth.
 * Sloan and Bree Blackburn: Reveal themselves to be poachers who kidnap Tally, shooting the rhino at the river and building an electric fence to kill a thousand elephants in Timbo Valley and interrogate Eliza.
 * Richard Kingswell: After tricking Jason and Gunther into rescuing their parents, the wicked Richard locks them in the bear cage and locks Stacey and Wolfgang in their basement.
 * Tabitha Harperstein: Murders James and Rachel, and reveals her sinister plan to overthrow Mayor Ratwell and seize over New York.
 * Myron Frensky: Reveals he's the thief who stole treasure from the Monaco beach, tried to freeze Lenny at the fair with his statue ray gun and tells him he's gonna kill Sylvia and pushes Lenny in the mud.
 * Captain Gutt: After Manny steals his replacement ship, the furious ape then creates a new one and vows to destroy evertyhing that's dear to Manny before heading to the continent. Gutt later beats Manny and the gang to the continent and takes Ellie and Peaches hostage, stating that Manny took everything he had and the evil captain inteded to do the same.

Quotes
"Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy. But to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live... For me it is a deep personal loss. So it is with a heavy HEART that I assume the throne. Yet out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era... in which lion and hyena come together in a great and glorious future!"

- Scar seizing power over Pride Rock. "Go ahead Wolf Dog! You'll never get home! I'll make sure of THAT!"

- Steele sabatoging Balto's trail. "Now I am the ruler of all the ocean! The waves obey my every whim! The sea and all of its spoils BOW TO MY POWER!!!"

- Ursula seizing power over the sea. "Welcome to the boss level! (Ralph: Turbo!) (King Candy laughs) Because of you, Ralph, I'm now the most powerful virus of the arcade! I can take over any game I want. I shall thank you, but it'll be more fun to kill you."

- King Candy/Turbo confronting Wreck-It Ralph after turning into a Cy-Bug "You see after all those years no matter how Big I got no matter how successful, I've always thought about you. How you EMBARRASSED me! How you HUMILIATED me! How you DESTROYED my relationship with Muriel Finster, the only woman I ever loved (TJ Detweiler to Prickly: That part still grosses me out Sir.) (Principal Prickly to TJ: Shh!) But this time Pete, I'M gonna humiliate YOU! This time, I'm gonna prove to the world that you were wrong and I was right! (Principal Prickly: About what?) About RECESS! About freedom about test scores! I've found a way to prove my theory! I'm gonna get rid of the biggest recess of them all! I am gonna get rid of Summer Vacation! (T.J. Detweiler: You FIEND!) "Fiend" Eh you try to help people, that's the thanks you get. (Principal Prickly: It'll never work Phil) Well actually Pete, that's where you're wrong.) (Benedict presses a button and a holographic globe and moon rise up) You see all i have to do is modify the moon's orbit ever so slightly...and Tide Levels on the eastern Sea Board rise eight feet! Move the moon over here...and the currents that warm california suddenly become ice cold! Summer, as we know it, will become a thing of the past. And without summer... (The globe diagram grows icicles Prickly and TJ gasp)...No summer vacation. (T.J. Detweiler: You'll NEVER get away with this Benedict!) Oh yeah? Well who's gonna stop me?"

- Dr. Phillium Benedict explaining to TJ Detweiler and Principal Peter Prickly his evil plan to rid of summer vacation. "Hello, Eliza. (Eliza turns to see Sloan grinning evilly. Tally wiggles in Eliza's grasp) (Eliza: Sloan? This cheetah cub, where--where did you get him?) I picked him up on the savannah. (Eliza: You bought him?) (Sloan chuckles with sinister glee.) No. I picked him up...right off the ground. (Bree walks to Sloan's side, a menacing sneer covers her face.) (Bree: I told Sloan he shouldn't CUT that rope ladder!) (Eliza gasps: It was YOU!) Yes. (Sloan pulls out his dagger from his boot) Thank you so much for returning my knife to me. (Bree, in mock-symphony: Oh, kitten, you didn't drink all your milk.) (As Bree speaks, she pulls Tally out of Eliza's arms. Tally writhes in Bree's iron grip) (Bree: How are you ever gonna grow big enough to make me a new coat?) I'm afraid you're gonna have to miss the solar eclipse. You can catch it on the Poaching Channel. (Eliza, furious: You build a fence!) Of course. Now here's a question for your famous father: How many volts of electricity does it take to kill a thousand elephants? Hm? (Darwin and Donnie are bound hands and feet by twine, and Eliza has both hands tied behind her back by Sloan) Eliza, you're a little troublemaker. First, you show up on my cheetah hunt, and then you jump from a train to save my rhino. (Eliza, hotly: He's not YOUR rhino.) Oh, really? And then somehow, you knew the poachers had shot him in the river. Yet you were on the train at the time. (Eliza: I guessed.) Perhaps. And now you arrive in the jungle knowing about a fence-- A fence which is no one witness being built. So, my little troublemaker, who told you? (Eliza, stubbornly: No one.) Are your parents working with that Jomo person? (Eliza: They don't even know I'm here) Then who is your source of information? (Eliza, There's no one.) You know too much for a little girl. I have too much invested in this operation to let anything get in my way. If you don't tell who they are, you'll never see that family of yours again."

- Sloan and Bree Blackburn, revealing themselves to be poachers and interrogate Eliza.

"We'll see about that, Inspector Looselips. (He laughs, while pushing a button on Karen) (Karen: Now activating helmet brain control devices.) (Squidward: Huh?) (A radar rises out of the Chum Bucket restraunt, and the helmets on the people's heads cover their faces. They all stand up and drone: All hail Plankton.) (Squidward: What's going on here?) (Plankton puts his headphones on) Seize him, slaves! (Drones: All hail Plankton.) (Squidward: Ah! I'm getting out of here!) (Squidward tries to escape the Chum Bucket, but runs into other drones and he runs into the corner. Everyone marched toward him, continue droning "All hail Plankton". Squidward screamed in horror) (Plankton chuckled evilly) Who can stop me now? (laughing) WHO?"

- Plankton enslaving everyone in Bikini Bottom and order them to seize Squidward in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. ""This is what happens when you dummies try to think! WE'RE ALL JUST TRASH, WAITING TO BE THROWN AWAY! THAT'S ALL A TOY IS!'"

- Lotso revealing his true hatred for all toys "(Kent catches Hogarth sneaking his bike back into the barn) You're late for dinner, Hogarth. (Hogarth tries to escape from the barn but Kent locks the door and stops him) Your mom's working late tonight, Hogarth. So it's just us guys. And we're gonna have a little chat. Sit down! (shoves Hogarth onto a chair and shines a bright light on him) How's that? A little too bright? Good. Forgive me, Hogarth. I wanted you to learn something. (Hogarth Hughes: What can I learn from you?) You can learn this, Hogarth: that I can do anything I want whenever I want if I feel it's in the people's best interest. The giant metal man... where is it? (Hogarth Hughes: I don't know what you're talking about.) You don't? Well... Does this ring a bell?(tosses him a photo of the piece of metal that Hogarth lured the Giant with) (Hogarth doesn't answer) No? How 'bout this? (tosses him the picture Hogarth accidentally took of himself - with the Giant behind him) You've been careless, Hogarth. (Hogarth Hughes: It doesn't prove anything!) It's enough to get the Army here with one phone call. (Hogarth Hughes: Then what's stopping you?) WHERE'S THE GIANT?! k(grabs Hogarth by the jaw) You can't protect him, Hogarth - any more than you can... protect your mother. (Hogarth Hughes: (worried) My mom?) (Kent lets go of Hogarth's jaw and sighs) It's difficult to raise a boy all alone. We can make it more difficult. In fact, we can make it so difficult that it would be irresponsible for us to leave you in her care. And all of that implies... you'll be taken away from her, Hogarth. (Hogarth Hughes, shocked: You can't do that!)Oh, we can... and we will. (Hogarth Hughes: (sees that there is now no other alternative and looks down in defeat) He's in the junkyard. McCoppin's Scrap, off Culver Road.) The junkyard. Of course! Food for the metal eater. I wouldn't worry about this, Hogarth. It isn't really happening. This is only... a bad dream.(Kent stuffs Hogarth with chloroform, knocking him out, and leaving him unconscious)"

- Kent Mansley interrogating Hogarth in the Barn on the Iron Giant's whereabouts threatening to take him away from his mother if he doesn't tell him. When Hogarth reluctantly complies, Mansley then chloroforms the boy. "(After seeing Manny and Co. steal his ship, Gutt growls and turns to a crevice. With a tremendous roar he breaks the iceberg in two and rises with his new ship; he turns to his crew.) Shore leave's over! Get your sorry carcasses on board now! (The crew nervously obeys; Gutt whistles for his narwals to propel the ship. Then he glares at Shira) (Shira: Gutt, I can explain--)(Gutt siezes Shira by the throat) When this ends, I'll have a tiger's skin hanging on my wall. I don't care whose! (Flings Shira to the ground.) That mammoth has taken my ship, my bounty, and now the loyalty of my crew! I will destroy him! And everything he loves!"

- Captain Gutt vowing vengeance on Manny for stealing his ship before heading to the continent "Da-da-da-da-da! Puppy power! I've outsmarted--(gets shocked by his costume) (Velma: Scrappy-Doo.) Correction: The new, improved Scrappy. (As Scrabby speaks, he turns into Scrappy-Rex) Because I, Scrabby-Dappy-Doo have absorbed enough energy to...To rule the world with my all-powerful army! And I've brought you here, puny, pathetic, Mystery Inc...to witness my moment of triumph. All I need to complete my transformation is (As his head grew big, his voice changed) SCOOBY-DOO. (Scooby: Me? Don't you mean Melvin Doo?) SEIZE THEM!"

- Scrappy-Doo morphing into Scrappy-Rex and rising to power "Yes. Well done, Mr. Evers. (Jim, his children, Emma and Ezra spin around to see Ramsley with a stern look on his wrinked face) I must say I'm impressed. You are more persistant than I would have ever imagined. (Jim, surprised: The butler did it? You gotta be kidding me.) (Ramsley turns to Emma and Ezra, giving them a cold look) I will deal with YOU two later. (Emma and Ezra disappear. Jim firmly: Why'd you kill her?) Because the master would not listen to reason. He had everything in the world, and yet he was willing to throw it all away for love. I did tell him it would end badly. (Jim: You're a real cold dude.) No, Mr. Evers, I am a rational man. (While Ramsley speaks, we see a flashback to him secretly giving Elizabeth the poison and betraying Edward Gracey) It was my responsibility to the house, my duty, sir, to see to it that the boy did not make a foolish error in judgment. Running away with that girl would have destroyed this house. (The scene changes back to the present) It would have destroyed everything. And I could not stand by and watch it all fall to ruin. (Megan, encouraging her father: Punch his face in, Dad!) (Jim, furious: Yeah, but first, I'm gonna tell his master what really happened.) The master must never know. Edward and his love will be reunited, and this curse will be broken. (Jim, now shocked: But that's not her. That's my wife.) And what she sees in you I'll never know. But that is of little importance now. The only thing that matters is that the master's pain must end. And it will end tonight. The curse will be broken, and we can all finally move on. (Jim, sternly: Alright, that's it, man. Where's my wife?) Getting ready for her wedding, of course. (Jim: What wedding? He can't marry her. He's dead, and she's not.) True. But that can be easily corrected. Life, I'm afraid, is such a delicate state. (When Jim hears this, he glares at Ramsley) (Jim, breathing fire: Hey, man, if you put one finger on my wife, I swear I'll KILL YOU!) (He launches punches at Ramsley, but passes through the ghostly butler. The evil man smiled with sinister glee) How wonderful. You're going to kill a ghost. (Michael: Leave him alone!) (Megan: Stop it!) (Ramsley waves his fingers, and a small trunk closes itself, trapping Megan and Michael inside) (Jim: Let them go!) (He lunges at Ramsley, but it was no use.) (Jim,furious: You're gonna let my kids out of here, you're gonna take me to my wife, and you're gonna let us out of here right now!) You want out, fine. Let me show you out. (Ramsley grabbed Jim's throat and hoists him up in the air. Jim struggled in Ramsley's grasp, and the evil butler stared at him with cold eyes) Now, for the last time, good night, Mr. Evers. (With a solid toss, he threw Jim through the mansion window, breaking all the glass in process)"

- Ramsley, revealing his betrayal to Master Gracey, has Sara marry the master and throws Jim out of the mansion.

"(Happy Chapman corners Garfield & Odie) Goin' somewhere? (Chapman reaches into his pocket and pulls out the shock collar he used on Odie earlier) (Garfield: Nice accessory, but I don't think I wanna play dress up with you pal! Let's get outta here! Let's beat it!) (Chapman knocks a suitcase over, causing a domino reaction that ends with one large baggage blocking Garfield & Odie's path) (Garfield: OW! Right in the nose again! Now it's gonna get physical, is it?) (Chapman comes closer to the two) Did you really think you could just run away from Happy Chapman? (Garfield: Oh is this a cry for help!) No dumb, dirty animal is ever gonna get the better of me. (He turns to Odie) And let's see how you feel with 200 volts coursing through that thick canine skull of yours."

- Happy Chapman, cornering Garfield & Odie in the train luggage room, before threatening the latter with a shock collar