Cautionary Women

Fiona Apple in the video for "Fast As You Can." Photo via The New Fiona Apple Musicians have the best jobs in the world. They not only get to sing and dance before millions but also do some acting on the side.  While most of this acting won't be up for Golden Globes anytime soon, some of them exude villainy enough to go down in our little awards show:  11. Sisters of Oz, "Once in a Lifetime" We figured these monochromatic Sirens do not really like men. 10. En Vogue, "Riddle" Homegirls playing out domestic revenge fantasies and serving face at the same time? Living.  9. Britney Spears, "Criminal" It's Britney, (the) bitch. Watch her grow up from braided schoolgirl to this Bonnie-type miscreant terrorizing London with real-life squeeze Jason Trawick as Clyde.   8. Janet Jackson, "Son of a Gun" That's Janet, Miss Jackson if she's nasty. The pop doyenne plays a...

Akiko Miyazawa as Queen Beryl. Photo via  Houyou no Senshi Queen Beryl  is sorceress of the highest order, sovereign of the Negaverse. Her animosity toward the miniskirt-wearing protagonists can be explained in several ways, depending on the version you've watched. In the anime, Beryl is an out-and-out megalomaniac who happens to fancy Prince Endymion and his reincarnation (Mamoru Chiba/Darien Shields). Beryl as seen in the anime version She has a more romantic bent in the manga. Here she is portrayed as an admirer of Endymion, ruler of Earth in an era so primordial that the Moon still qualifies as habitable. Endymion has feelings for one of the Moon denizens: their princess Serenity no less. Beryl is witch scorned, natch. It doesn't help that the sentient solar energy, Metalia, is training Beryl's inner green-eyed monster. This is a tale as old as ancient Greece. Sailor Moon creator Naoko Takeuchi clearly co-opted the myth of the goddess S...

Ralph Sevelius, aka  DeviantArt's pushfighter , has redrawn Disney Princesses in a galaxy far, far away. Now Ariel is a Jedi knight in a Gungan world; Rapunzel, a Jedi apprentice; Mulan, a bounty hunter; and Jasmine, ravishing again in ponytail, a slave princess.  Hold on to your midi-chlorians as Sevelius prepares other princesses for their Star Wars makeover. As yet, only Snow White chose the Dark Side of the Force. We venture Grimhilde is a very proud stepmother. 

Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy is the best thing to come out of the cinematic misstep that is 1997's  Batman & Robin .  Catwoman and Poison Ivy are not exactly the best of friends. Photo via Comic Book Movie Thurman in character was simply relatable, campy fun. A quick Google tour yields a vast garden of cosplayers and drag queens clearly in wonderment of her Ingrid Ferrin costume. Guess who's a fangirl?  Kim Kardashian as Poison Ivy on Halloween 2011. Via Haute Living DC Comics' famous bad seed started out as the erudite Pamela Isley, a botanist who was experimented upon —poisoned to die with ancient Egyptian herbs, in another version —by her peer Jason Woodrue to blossom into something no longer wholly human.  Ivy's kisses kill, her lips teeming with toxins. She can cause fungi to grow on enemies. She can spout pollen that make people as pliant as bamboos to her whims; she herself is immune to all pathogens. She can literally talk t...