Talk:Bellwether/@comment-24308881-20160308140458/@comment-1635429-20160331080145

For myself, personally, Disney is spending so much time worrying about keeping the villain a surprise that they're cutting down their screentime and consistent writing in order to do so.

With Bellwether, they spend all this time developing her as this cute, bumbling assistant, from her mannerisms to her voice, that her turn feels completely out of place. Sure the motivation is there, but with that high-pitched, squeaky voice (which would work perfectly for a sympathetic side character), she sounds like a child trying to act tough when she gives her villainous monologue, and to me, she doesn't come off as threatening or clever. Just flat out annoying.

What's more, they don't give her "evil" side (her true side) enough time to develop and sink in. With older Disney villains, like Jafar or Ursula, they're obviously evil, but that's not the main reason behind their popularity. They're popular because they're entertaining. That's the thing. They're evil, we know they're evil from the start, so that means the filmakers can spend time getting the audience to be charmed by their villanous personalities. Charmed by their characters. But nowadays, they waste time building up some fake persona that becomes totally irrelevant by the end of the film, and by time the credits roll, we hardly know these characters, so they come off as nothing more than throwaway side plots.

Some well done examples of "plot twist" villains include Lotso and King Candy. Perhaps the only ones I feel have been done any legit justice, and that's because the filmakers actually took time in the entirety of their screen time to develop their characters, instead of waiting for the last twenty minutes of the movie, which gives the villain about seven to ten minutues to shine. Not enough.