Professor Ratigan: World's Greatest Criminal Mind

This post is about a most underrated Disney villain, Professor Padriac Ratigan from The Great Mouse Detective. Ratigan was voiced by the horror movie legend Vincent Price (my friend Tyrone The Terrible does a great impersonation of him) and is one of the best over-the-top examples of a Disney villain ever. We first saw the Great Mouse Detective at the age of 13 and it's been one of our favourites ever since. Ratigan is a fun villain. He combines creepiness and hamminess. Ratigan is a rat but he does not like being refered to as one (so whatever you do, don't call him a rat under any circumstances) because it upsets him- and do you know what happens when someone upsets him? He rings a little bell, his extremely fat cat shows up and eats the poor sap who offended him. We love Ratigan. He's our second favourite Disney bad guy. There are so many reasons why we like him but we cannot list them all in one day. So here's to Ratigan, to Ratigan, one of a kind, the world's greatest criminal mind.

Tazmin the cousin from hell.

In the very first school we went to, we met a nice girl named Kirsty and became friends with her. She lived in a very clean adode and had a great pair of parents- her dad was a comic genius, her mother was very smart, and she had a great older brother who is a hardcore gamer and wrestling extraordinare, also he's a great athlete. However there is one member of her family that we constantly tried to avoid and that's her cousin Tasmin. Tasmin is one monster of an 12 year old. She's 10 parts Tsundere, 10 parts Enfante Terrible and all Creepy Child. She had all the markings of an evil genius. She looks like Miranda Cosgrove of Drake and Josh and Icarly fame, and is basically what we call an Expy of Megan from Drake and Josh in everywhere. Her hobbies included making Kirsty and her brother's life miserable, torturing us, and playing practical jokes. Her absolute favorite animals in the whole wide world are cats. She was a bit catty herself, so much so my brother and I always swore she was a werecat like Irene from that movie Cat People. I had a nightmare with her in it once, and she turned into a cat creature of some kind. She was extremely clever for a girl her age- a bit too clever. I mean she had her own hi tech evil fortress full of booby traps and everything. And she was also extremely evil, so evil that she has her own evil laugh and even has her own villain song (which she wrote all by herself). Trust me, she is really good at being evil, she's the world's youngest criminal mind. We even a cat-like version of her as one of the villains in our Biker Mice mini series.

This is what she looks like normally:



























And this is a photomanip we did of her as a werecat: