Cautionary Women

NEGATIVE 101. Cruella de Vil in an un-PETA coat. Hell-arious! This is just one in a series of paintings by Deviant artist Justin Turrentine that artfully imagined Walt Disney protagonists deprived of their ever-happy afters. So what if Disney villains won? See more Disney villainesses live happily ever after here .

She's magnificent and marvelous. Merlin's nemesis in Disney's 1963 classic The Sword in the Stone , Mad Madam Mim, wields awesome magic. Too bad she is just that—mad. Her sanity just can't keep up with her abilities. Madame Mim straddles a fine line between adorable and scary. Viewers can't help but feel for Arthur when he flits off to Mim's sunshine-free cottage in the woods.  Had she had the elegant sobriety of Maleficent, Mim would have been livin' la vida maldita in a castle on some forbidden mountain range. Alas, Mim can give Maleficent a run for her Medieval money. Mim can turn into any purple-haired form she pleases: