The Evil Queen

**The Evil Queen** (also known as Queen Grimhilde, the **Wicked Queen**, the **Queen**, or *the Witch* in her disguised form) is the main antagonist of *Thomas and Twilight Sparkle Meets* *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*, and the first Disney villain in the Disney animated features canon. Determined to remain the fairest one of all, the Queen becomes insanely jealous of Snow White, the only one whose beauty surpasses her own. She eventually disguises herself as an old woman to tempt Snow White into eating a poisoned apple, in a final attempt to do away with her only, unknowing rival. Depicted in early designs as a fat character, her appearance eventually evolved into a much more sinister, stately beauty. She is generally one of Disney's most iconic and menacing first villains, once being voted the 10th greatest movie villain of all time by the American Film Institute. In the movie, she was assisted by Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's old enemies, Diesel 10, Robbie Rotten, Ratigan and his lackey Fidget to kill Snow White, because she is more beautiful than the Queen. Her penultimate evil scheme was transforming into an old hag feeding a poisoned apple to Snow White, but received her punishment in the end when lightning struck the mountain edge the Queen is standing on, causing her to fall to her death.

### Personality

From the outside, the Queen appears to be calm, regal, and sophisticated, but in reality, this collected and stately facade hides an extremely sadistic, hateful, cold and sinister person. She is ruthless, jealous and obsessive and wants nothing more than to be the fairest in the land. She also has an extreme vanity that made her utterly intolerant of rivals. Being solely focused on the idea of becoming the fairest of all, the Queen does not appear to be significantly involved in governing her kingdom, though the skeletal remains of prisoners in her dungeon point to her being a cruel ruler. In the end, her mad vanity and jealousy of Snow White's superior beauty and the Prince's affections eventually drove her to murderous insanity. She transformed herself into a hideous hag and conjured a poison named the "Sleeping Death" to achieve this end as a sign of her determination and desperation.

The Witch, being an alternate form of the Queen, has some of her personality traits, most notably her vanity and unstable jealousy of Snow White, kept intact. However, due in part to the transformation, she has also become more outwardly maniacal and sadistic, constantly cackling insanely as well as once trying to play an extremely cruel joke on her pet raven by making it seem as though she wanted it to eat the poisoned apple. Despite her insanity, she was also extremely intelligent and calculating, wanting to ensure that she does not overlook anything in order to make her plans an absolute success. This trait was especially evident in her stopping herself while gloating about how the poisoned apple will ensure Snow White's eventual demise in order to look up whether there was a cure for the effects of the poisoned apple that would be able to cause her plans to fail.

## Returns

During the Christmas season, after Snow White and her husband, now known as King Charming, marry and have a child named after Snow White, Snow White the Second, the Evil Queen was revived by Diesel 10 with The Black Cauldron, though she didn't know it yet, and she cast a spell to create a magical ice storm to freeze the young Snow White Jr. However, the storm just barely misses her and freezes the village. With some help from some new friends, such as a dwarf named Grunyon and some giants, the Evil Queen was defeated once more. However, she soon reunites with the being who revived her both the first time and right then and there, and pledged her loyalty to Diesel 10 in exchange for revenge.

## Trivia

* The Evil Queen will return to get revenge on Thomas, Twilight and their friends in Thomas and Twilight Sparkle's Adventures Series.
* She, along with other Disney villains, helped inspire Queen Narissa from *Enchanted* (Narissa's hag form even looked very similar to the Queen's).
* The Queen never interacted with Snow White in the film on-screen. She only interacted with Snow White in her witch form. In the original story and even in alternate versions of *Snow White*, however, Snow White does indeed interact with her stepmother.
* Her scream upon falling to her presumed death is later reused for Maleficent when she gets stabbed in the heart by Prince Phillip in *Sleeping Beauty*.
* Her transformation is considered one of the scariest scenes in a Disney animated movie.
* When talking to Princess Sofia, Snow White mentions her stepmother when telling her not everything is as it seems.
* The Queen almost never smiles in the film, while in her normal form, except when making the potion, while, adding the black as night potion, if you look closely, she gives a brief grin. She does smile more frequently when she is in her hag form.

## Gallery

The Evil Queen in her witch form.The Evil Queen's deathDescendants (2015)