Talk:Mayor Lionheart/@comment-1146923-20160121045720/@comment-26864513-20160215111321

You have a good point Hey. The weakness in the surprise villains isn't so much that they're a surprise, rather, it's how long they become a villain for. Callaghan was originally going to have a deeper backstory but the directors ultimately cut that out, which in my opinion is probably the reason why Callaghan is slightly weaker as a villain (add to that the fact that the legendary James Cromwell was severly underutilised). Hans on the other was so focused on the surprise factor, that again, he had little to no screentime. What I love about Zootopia is that the villain's antics and machinations still happen before they even reveal their true intentions.