Prince John

**Prince John** is the main antagonist of the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood (which based on the legendary heroic outlaw of the same name). He is an evil lion who serves as the (former) ruler of England and Robin Hood's arch-nemesis.

He is voiced by the late Peter Ustinov while in House of Mouse, he is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

## Robin Hood

Prince John is first seen collecting taxes which caused him to be excited which is before Robin Hood and Little John robbed him just so they can give it to the poor. John let them go into his car despite (Sir Hiss warning him). After Robin and Little John got the taxes, John notices this as well as angrily order his guards to go after them but however they failed to get the taxes.

At the arrow competition, Prince John can't wait to capture Robin Hood as well as talking about his other plans with Sir Hiss given that the competition was just a trap. Just then, Robin and Little John disguise themselves in order not to get captured. After Robin won, John had Robin arrested which is before Little John forces Prince John to release Robin in order to escaped. When the Sheriff of Nottingham caught Little John, John orders the guards to kill Robin which cause a fight but thankfully, Robin won the fight.

Prince John then heard a song making fun of him from the Sheriff and Sir Hiss which caused him to be angry. The Sheriff tells John that he heard the song from the village. John tells the Sheriff and Sir Hiss to double the taxes and squeeze every last drop out of the villagers.

At the castle, John was very angry before Sir Hiss tells him that Friar Tuck got arrested which caused him to have a great plan of capturing Robin Hood. After that, John went to sleep unaware that John is taking the gold and rescuing the villagers until later. He then has his guards to put them back in the prison cell, but it was too late since the guards crash into it. He would later order his guards to kill Robin but Robin however escaped which caused Prince John to be angry and chased Sir Hiss.

It's later revealed that John and his henchman got thrown in royal rock pile as a punishment for his actions.

## Personality

Prince John is very greedy, deceitful, manipulative, selfish, and egocentric in nature. He loves money more than anything in the world. He is also very possessive and materialistic and materialistic of whatever gold he owns as seen when Robin Hood robs him as well as being very abusive to his henchman.

Despite this, He did seem to care about his mother whenever Sir Hiss brings up about her.

## Trivia

* In Prince John's early design, he was originally supposed to be a tiger before being portrayed as a lion due to his brother had to be portrayed as lion which could explain why he does not have a mane.
* One of the several elements that make Robin Hood one of Disney's darker feature films both in the Main Canon (alongside Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Dinosaur) as well as outside of it, was Prince John's inspiration, although some aspects were removed to tone down much violence and to make the Disney film more suitable for young children rather than adults.