Cruella De Vil

* Live Action
* Animated

Ms. De Vil

## Personal information

### Personality

Evil, sarcastic, ambitious, greedy, relentless, rude, reckless, psychotic, decadent, chic, egotistical, bipolar, short-tempered, cruel, ruthless, sadistic, glamorous, obnoxious, hateful

### Love Interest(s)

Maleficent, Evil Queen, Jafar, Scar, Queen of Hearts, Mother Gothel

### Allies

Pongo, Perdita, Dalmatian Puppies, Anita Radcliffe, Roger Radcliffe, Beast, Belle, Fairy Godmother, Carlos De Vil

### Enemies

James (husband, later deceased) Carlos De Vil  (son)

Cassandra De Vil (daughter)

Diego De Vil (nephew)

**Cruella De Vil** is one of the antagonists in the Disney Channel Original Movie, *Descendants*, and the main antagonist of Disney's 1961 animated feature film, *101 Dalmatians*. She is also the mother of Carlos and Cassandra De Vil.

In Descendants she's portrayed by Wendy Raquel Robinson. In Descendants: Life after Happily Ever After she is portrayed by Glenn Close.

## Character Information

### Personality

Cruella is described as cruel, greedy, mean, and sarcastic. She has a strong hatred of dogs, in which she would even go as far as to skin them nearly alive to make a fur coat. Carlos says that Cruella loves her furs more than she loves him, she proves this by saying she would miss him solely because if he went to Auradon, he wouldn't be able to do chores for her. As they are leaving for Auradon Prep she goes as far as chasing him down to prevent him from leaving. When he does leave she calls him an "ingrate" and leaves.

## Appearances and Timeline

### Before Auradon

Cruella has become wealthy off her large collection of fur coats and is consequentially rude and spoiled. She makes fun of Anita Radcliffe and her husband Roger for making a living from songwriting. Cruella desires to make a fur coat from the Radcliffes' Dalmatians and promises to return in three weeks to collect the puppies when they are born. Upon the night of the puppies' birth, Cruella is at first dismayed to find their coats completely spotless but cheers up when Anita tells her that the spots would appear in a few weeks. Cruella makes an offer to buy the puppies, all the while mocking Roger for his song-writing career and splattering Roger and Pongo with ink from her pen. However, when Roger firmly states that the puppies are not for sale, she furiously ends her friendship with Anita and storms out, vowing vengeance.

Weeks later, two thieves named Jasper and Horace successfully steal the puppies when the Radcliffes are out. While Cruella is questioned about the theft, the police are unable to find anything against her, and Anita does not want to charge her, despite Roger's doubts. However, as the days go by, the police still suspect her, so she goes into hiding at her old mansion, Hell Hall at Suffolk, where Jasper and Horace and the puppies reside, proving that she was the mastermind behind the theft. She demands that the henchmen kill and skin the puppies for her that very night before furiously leaving the house. The next morning, Cruella learns that the puppies have escaped the house in the night and she and her henchmen begin a perilous search for the puppies on the snowy country roads through Cruella's roadster and Jasper and Horace's beat-up truck. Cruella shouts at Horace and Jasper for reckless driving, despite her obviously worse driving skills. The next day, on Christmas Eve, Cruella, Jasper, and Horace realize that the puppies have fled to Dinsford and they begin searching there. While driving her car across town, she sees a long procession of black puppies walking past her into a van. Realizing at the last second that the puppies are the Dalmatians in disguise, she pursues the van in her car as it leaves town. Cruella tries to ram the van over a cliff but instead collides with Jasper and Horace in their truck. The three villains tumble down a steep mountain and land in the cold snow in a tangle of automobile wreckage. Cruella cries the loss of her dream coat and Jasper tells her to shut up.

### Life on the Isle

Cruella (alongside Horace and Jasper) was banished to the Isle of the Lost under the rule of Belle and Beast (Adam). Cruella's mansion was transferred but her money was used to foundate Auradon, which Cruella was outraged by. Cruella would befriend other villains who were also banished on the isle and then she met James, a good man who went to the Isle alongside his mentor Yen Sid to teach the next generation who would be born on the Isle. Cruella had a bitterness of men already due to Roger and Adam, but she wanted company in her mansion other than her henchmen. So Cruella tricked James and the two fell in love and a few years later had a child. Yen Sid, finally realizing the situation and expressing concern for one of his apprentices, warned James about Cruella's past and to be very cautious moving forward due to Cruella being unhinged. James started to slowly see Cruella's toxic side and he finally drew the line when Cruella was about to hit their son. James stood his ground and warned Cruella to stay away from him and his son. Cruella, not liking to be told no and having a past track record of not handling being denied well, kills James and takes the child. Sometime after that, Cruella had another child, this time a girl, with a unknown father.

Years later, the son is now a 15 year old teenager hanging out with other VKS his age. Over the years, Cruella's hatred of men grow the point she would abuse Carlos (physically and emotionally, I.E gaslighting and guilt tripping) out of spite of her ex and Roger.

### Descendants

Once Carlos has grown into a teenager, he is given an offer to attend Auradon Prep. This gives Maleficent an idea and she convinces Cruella and the other villains to send their children there and have them steal the Fairy Godmother's wand to use for evil. Cruella is at first reluctant and says she will miss Carlos but she eventually agrees.

The week of family day, Cruella and the other villains video chat with the kids, who reveal the upcoming coronation to them. While web chatting, she notices Dude, Carlos's new dog and quotes he would make lovely ear muffs, which causes Carlos to talk back, insulting her stuffed dog "Baby" and asking her to skin dogs a rest, causing Jafar to laugh and the two have a brief argument.

Cruella gathers with the other villains on coronation day to watch it live on television and when Jane steals the wand and accidentally creates a hole in the barrier, Cruella is joyed along with the other villains but doesn't manage to escape.

At the end of the movie, after she and the other villains have been defeated, Cruella watches fireworks with Jafar and Evil Queen from Maleficent's balcony.