What do you think Captain Hook's relationship with the other villains would be? Such as Jafar, Maleficent, Cruella, Ursula, Hades, Scar, Frollo, Facilier, etc.
Maleficent and Ursula honestly intimidate him after his experiences with the very dragon-like crocodile and the octopus. He knows better than to do anything to get on their bad side and has a healthy respect for their capabilities as villains.
Scar is a bit of a wild card as a full-on animal villain. As with Ursula and Maleficent, he keeps a bit of distance between himself and Scar. He doesn’t totally trust a predator…especially a predatory villain who betrayed his own brother.
Hades’ wisecracking gets old after awhile but he can appreciate and respect his ability to make deals and find loopholes in existing rules to suit his goals.
He does not like Frollo. At all. He’s disgusted by how the man looks at and treats women. Hook is guilty of many things…but he’s a gentleman. He has zero respect for a man like Frollo.
Jafar and Cruella are often shown together in Disney promotional material with Hook, so I’ve always headcanoned that the three of them were close. I personally ship Disney’s Hook and Cruella because I think they’d just…click. They’re both fashion-conscious, upper class British villains who don’t have magic and whose enemies are rather non-traditional (children and animals). In a lot of ways, they’re outliers from the other villains and I honestly think they’d just look cute together as a villain power couple. However… I get the sense that Jafar wouldn’t appreciate his two best friends leaving him out as a third wheel (or possibly there’s some kind of love triangle going on)… So “my” version of Hook eventually has a pretty serious falling out with him. And once Hook is on his bad side, he finds out just what a menace Jafar can be to have as an enemy.
Facilier is a more recent villain and didn’t come along until post-redemption arc in my personal version of Disney Hook’s timeline, so I admittedly haven’t given this one as much thought. If he were still in his villain days and met Facilier, I think like with Hades, Hook would appreciate Facilier’s impressive ability to sweet-talk someone into making a questionable deal and they’d likely connect over having a non-traditional enemy. (Can you imagine Facilier explaining to the other villains how his climactic showdown was with a firefly?? But Hook has dealt with fairies so…) However, in terms of his magic and his physical appearance, I think Facilier would remind him a good deal of Jafar, and so he’d be a little wary of getting too friendly with him after his falling out with Jafar.
Scar and Mufasa (The Lion King) vs Jude and Taryn Duarte (The Folk of the Air)
(Jude and Taryn art by @eerna)
Propaganda under break. Spoilers for The Cruel Prince (Book 1 of The Folk of the Air trilogy)
Scar and Mufasa
Scar literally kills his brother, and makes his nephew carry the guilt around, to take his throne because he is jealous and can. Honestly anyone 90s or younger kids gotta know this in their heart.
Jude and Taryn Duarte
No propaganda submitted.
Poll Runner's Note: But from what I've read, they start off being quite close but, in part because of the faerie Locke staging a love triangle with them (for fun? The guy sounds like a real class act, I hope someone stabs him right in the neck), they became enemies. Taryn stood by and let Jude go through a long term relationship knowing it would end with him going "No I'm leaving you for your twin sister". That's messed up!
Scar paced impatiently by the mouth of the main den. It had been days since he'd seen his queen, Zira. She had gone to have her cub, who she promised Scar would be a worthy heir — not like her first-born, who was a hopelessly foolish excuse for a son, and unfit for the title of 'king'.
Just then, a trio of hyenas scrambled up to the den, making Scar's ears prick back.
"What do you want?" he snapped.
Shenzi, the leader of the pack, nearly fell backwards. "Scar, Zira told us to come get you — fast!She says the new cub's ready to meet you."
Without another word, Scar bounded out of the den.
Catching his breath, Scar stalked into the depths of the gorge where he had once plotted the demise of a different heir.
"Scar," croaked Zira, "come meet your new heir."
"Zira," Scar cooed back, his voice low and saccharine, as he padded over to the pair of lions, "it is lovely to see you."
The lioness directed his gaze to the little brown cub who was cradled by a crop of large rocks.
"I named him in your honor. This," she announced proudly, "is Kovu."