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85. Scrooge
Source: The Muppets Christmas Carol
Villain: Ebeneezer Scrooge
Nominator: wallmasterz (3 left)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULaNvmjZWxg

Villainy: 4
Characterization: 4
Melody: 3
Total: 11/30

"Don't ask him for a favor cause his nastiness increases / No crust of bread for those in need / No cheeses for us meeces"

I feel like this might be where I start to actually upset people with the drops, because basically everyone loves The Muppets. This one falls where it is for largely the same reasons as The Phony King of England. It's cute in a "look at the silly singing mice puppets" but it's still not, by itself, all that good of a song. High-pitched goofy voices work to establish that a character is meant to be cartoony, but they don't often translate into something that is a great song on its own merit out of the context of its scene.

Also like The Phony King of England, it's not a song by Scrooge, but a song about him, so any characterization of him gets a shade of grey thrown over it because the song itself is pretty mean spirited. "Look close and there must be a sweet man inside... Nah!" It limits how much it tells you about him or the things he's done in favor of focusing on how people in the town revile him. That being said, what it does say specifically that he's done, like gouging the housing market to make people choose between shoddy overpriced homes or no home at all, is pretty awful.