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The nuttier the villain is, the better the song is. The Barnum (see "Master of the House" from Les Misrables) and the Straw Nihilist (see "Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) get particularly good ones.

This song is almost always a measure of how important the villain is. If the villain has one, they'll get equal billing with the hero, and will probably steal the show. If they don't (e.g. Dr. Carrasco in Man of La Mancha, Charlie Cowell in The Music Man), they're not very important to the plot, and nobody qualifies as the Big Bad. Villains can get other songs where they pretend to be nice, but if they don't get at least one song to strut their villainy, they're (usually) not important (the big exception being villains who successfully offer a Deal with the Devil: There, the hidden malice and seductiveness is usually the point of the song anyway).

Compare Villain Love Song (where the villain sings about their admiration towards an object of affection, which can overlap), "The Villain Sucks" Song (which is sung about the villain by someone else), and Rock Me, Asmodeus! (the devil directly involved in rock & roll).

Please note that just because a song is sung by a villain, doesn't necessarily make it a Villain Song. The Phantom of the Opera may have a showstopper in the form of "The Music of the Night", but he doesn't use it to gloat over his villainy. Villain Songs don't have to be personally sung by the villain either (see the title song from Spaceballs), though exceptions are fairly rare outside examples of "The Villain Sucks" Song.

Advertising

Louie the Fly: Starting with ads in the 1960s, Australian insect repellent brand Mortein gave a Villain Song for their Talking Pest of a mascot.Louie the Fly, I'm Louie the Fly, straight from rubbish-tip to you!Spreading disease with the greatest of ease, straight from rubbish-tip to you!I'm bad and mean and very unclean, afraid of no one, except the man with the can of Mortein.Hate that word, Mortein!
Magic: The Gathering advertised Streets of New Capenna with a song for each of its demonic mafia crime families.
Raid Insecticide Campaign: In Argentina, a series of four ads depicted bugs gloating about what they did in the house to the tune of popular songs. However, the songs had "Raid" as their very last word, causing the singer's fellow bugs to scream it in terror before dying in an explosion as expected of such ads.

Comedy

"Asshole" by Denis Leary is a Jerkass Song, with the narrator reveling in doing stuff like pissing on the seats of public toilets and driving a car that gets bad gas mileage because he likes to annoy people."I'm an asshole, and I'm proud of it."

Comic Books

Joker actually sings one (although we can only read the lyrics) in The Killing Joke. Best argument ever for actually animating The Killing Joke.
Joker's song from "The Killing Joke" covered as a cold lament of madness.
Oh, and in case that wasn't enough for you: Here, have The Killing Joke, METAL EDITION. You're welcome.
As it turns out, they did animate The Killing Joke, so there's another version covered by some dude called Mark Hamill.
In League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969, Terner, the would-be Humanoid Abomination, sings a version of The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" as he prepares to be possessed by Oliver Haddo.
The Musical Episode of Nodwick has Utharr's lyric-changed version of "Enter Sandman", followed by the entire bad trio's version of "We are the Champions".
Matthew Patel from Scott Pilgrim has the honor of singing his own song called "Slick", complete with fireballs and demon hipster chicks.
"Carnage Rules", by Green Jelly. Don't need to tell you who this is about.
Bowser sings one in Nintendo Power's Super Mario Adventures comic.
V for Vendetta has "This Vicious Cabaret", in which the antihero V sings about how he's manipulating the other characters.

Webcomics

In the webcomic Narbonic, mad scientist Dr. Lupin "Wolf" Madblood and his 15,000 robot duplicates spend a week of strips singing the "Madblood Battle Anthem".
Richard from Looking for Group has a very... touching song from the upcoming animated movie.
Two, if you count his duet with Cale.
In an in-comic example, Jason of Something*Positive asks Davan to play Judas Iscariot in his deliberately provocative play, Nailed! Davan's big musical number is called "You're The Son Of God, But I'm A Son Of A Bitch".
Played with in DMFA: Fa'lina goes into song and dance about how she's literally invincible in her university since she's a Physical God (with no followers) and has complete predictive power of whatever goes on in school grounds. Unfortunately we don't get to witness the hysterical song, but it ends with Fa'lina in some kind of top hat.
The main villain of Homestuck's Show Within a Show Squiddles!, Skipper Plumbthroat, gets Catchyegrabber and Plumbthroat Gives Chase in the Squiddles! album.
Although mostly lyric-less, Homestuck's main villain proper, Jack Noir, has the very catchy and uptempo theme song - Black, which starts off slow and simple, then builds into a grand production.
Jack also gets The Ballad of Jack Noir, the main version of which is a simple chiptune, but there exists a scrapped version with lyrics.
There's also a whole album of Villain Songs in the form of The Felt, for the resident time-travelling Gang of Hats. Special mention must go to the baroque, atmospheric Scratch (for Doc Scratch) and the tense, slow-burning majesty of English (for Lord English), which later appeared in the comic itself as part of The Reveal.
Caliborn, Lord English's younger self, gets The Lordling, and the terrifyingly "vast" track Eternity Served Cold.
The entire Midnight Crew also has a cover of I'm a Member of the Midnight Crew by Eddie Morton as their theme, a sample of which was used in the afformentioned song Black.
Meenah and her counterpart The Condesce get a non-vocal one called "Hate You". While there are no lyrics, it has a nice beat and even ends with the two of them laughing evilly!
Eridan's Leitmotif has lyrics written for it, and he becomes a minor villain alongside Gamzee in ACT 5 ACT 2.
Brawl in the Family has "A Simple Request", sung by Ganondorf about what he wants for Christmas: the Triforce.
There's also "The Minion Song", sung by Bowser Koopa, lamenting the many deaths of various videogame common enemies and chastising the heroes for their slaughtering them wholesale.
The Good Witch has "Things Will be Different." This is a rather unusual Villain Song in that it is both very upbeat and sung by the comic's protagonist. (Justified since she's a Villain Protagonist.) The song focuses on Angel's happiness that she is free from her previous life as a transsexual male who was ostracized by everyone in the town, and how great life will be now that she has infinite power. Which is to say, great for her, as she is also ruining the lives of everyone else. Throughout the song, she carelessly transforms innocent bystanders into random and bizarre things, and hypnotizes the others into singing with her. Ultimately, it foreshadows the selfish and arrogant bitch she'll eventually become.
Evil Plan has a theme for Mad Scientist Kinesis, by Andrew of Songs To Wearpants To.
Fraud from A Loonatic's Tale gets one in the chapter "Fraud's Day Out," set to the tune of Voltaire's Villain Song Brains!

Web Videos

Dr. Horrible's revenge song Brand New Day in Act II of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Which is well and truly blown out of the water by his song Slipping in Act III of the series. Which is then torpedoed by the final song of the show, Everything You Ever. By this point, the shiver-inducing My Eyes (or On the Rise) has been left long behind. Combined with the Batman: The Brave and the Bold examples, it's clear that Neil Patrick Harris is made of Villain Songs.
It helps a bit that the latter part of Everything You Ever, between the second and third verses, has sort of a Dark Reprise, with a chorus in the background singing to the tune of Brand New Day.
Though because Dr. Horrible is a Villain Protagonist, (and at least three of his songs describe his villainous motives), this trope is probably better exemplified by Captain Hammer's Everyone's a Hero in Their Own Way near the end of the film, which demonstrates he's a complete jerk while superficially sounding heroic.
Given how unnecessarily brutal he is to Doctor Horrible (he could probably have stopped him without grabbing him by the neck and slamming his head into a van or throwing a car at his head) and the fact that he tries to murder Dr. Horrible in the end (granted, Horrible intended to murder him first, but two wrongs don't make a right), one could perhaps argue that Hammer is also a villain anyway. That would make Everyone's A Hero a straighter example of this trope and A Man's Gotta Do an unusual case of a villain song started by one villain and then hijacked by an opposing villain (since Horrible starts it and Hammer takes over).
And the two versions of the Bad Horse Chorus, sung on behalf of the Evil League of Evil's leader.
It can be argued that every song in Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog is a Villain Song except for 'Caring Hands' and 'Penny's Song' (both of them being sung by Penny). 'My Freeze Ray' is somewhat on the ropes, it's more about love, but it has it's more sinister lines, plus it's sung by the anti-villain anyways. So They Say is similar in that the majority of it isn't evil, though Captain Hammer and Dr. Horrible both have lines in the song.
Played with in New Kids On The Rock's Christmas special, Ryan's Christmas Wish: The Large Ham villain The Misery Meister gets his own jaunty alliteration-filled villain song (which occurs about 11:51 into this video), but the flashiness is limited to intentionally stiff dancing, tossing rag dolls around, and menacingly wielding a small meat grinder, and after a verse we flash forward two minutes later to the very ending of the song. Also, as a Funny Background Event, Ryan is seen yawning and rubbing his eyes after the song is finally finished.
Epic Rap Battles of History: Whenever one of the rappers is a villain in their original work, expect them to boast about their evil deeds. Whenever the battle is Evil vs. Evil, it's a double example as both rappers attempt to out-villain the other.
Bill O'Reilly's second verse in the first episode.
The entirety of the "Adolf Hitler vs. Darth Vader" trilogy, natch.
Joseph Stalin's verse in "Rasputin vs. Stalin".
"Al Capone vs. Blackbeard".
"Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter".
HAL 9000 in "Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs".
Walt Disney in "Jim Henson vs. Stan Lee".
"Shaka Zulu vs. Julius Caesar", to a lesser extent.
"Alexander the Great vs Ivan The Terrible", which portrays both as well as Catherine the Great when she joins the battle as brutal, warmongering tyrants.
Halloween Episode "Vlad the Impaler vs Dracula"
"The Joker vs Pennywise" is a battle between the two most famous Monster Clowns in fiction.
Thanos in his battle with J. Robert Oppenheimer is clearly enjoying being an iconic Marvel villain.

Thanos

Genghis Khan shows great pride in brutality during his verses in "Genghis Khan vs. The Easter Bunny".

Genghis Khan

As does Freddy Krueger in his battle against Wolverine.

Freddy

Donald Trump averts this in his first battle against Ebenezer Scrooge, where he insists he's the more moral of the two. However, he plays this straight in his later battles against Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, both of which portray him as a flagrantly racist and authoritarian President Evil.
Remus/The Duke of Sanders Sides fame made his debut in "Dealing With Intrusive Thoughts" with "Forbidden Fruit", an almost disturbingly catchy tune that perfectly encapsulates Remus' personality.
Mashup artist William Maranci put together one of these for the COVID-19 coronavirus, of all things. "Toxic" by Britney Spears and "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons provide the back-beat, while the stitched together lyrics allow the virus to gloat over its villainy:This is it: the apocalypse!I'm waking up: I feel it in my bones!'Nough to make my system blow!Welcome to the new age! To the new age! Welcome to the new age![...] Let the bodies hit the floor!
Puppet History has several villain songs sung by musicial guests on the show, such as The Beast of Gvaudan singing about all the French villagers he eats, two bottles of poison making a Boastful Rap, and the demon Asmodeus performing a diddy about Demonic Possession. The Wham Episode "The Bloody Life of England's Fastest Surgeon" meanwhile has this Played for Drama, where the Arc Villain reveals himself as an Evil Counterpart to the show's host, and threatens to skin Ryan in order to effectively Take Over the World. And to "cheer" Ryan up, he performs his own song describing him doing just that.
In the "Goblins" one-shot in Critical Role, each of the players has a "Goblin Song" that they can sing at any point in the game for a re-roll. All of them are used in the session, all of them are hilarious, and all but one of the re-rolls are worse.
Parodied multiple times by ProZD:
An example:King Dragon (singing): Who cares if those orphans were sad? It feels good to be bad!(Gets stabbed with a katana)Dennis: ...What? He's been singing for, like, two minutes.
He also gets a rap number.
Slovenian parodist Klemen Slakonja's Putin, Putout at [1] is a hilarious send-up of the Russian leader that would put any Disney villain song to shame, complete with references to Pussy Riot, Eurovision, dancing bears and other theatrics.