A look at Judge Doom, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit 

The thing I love about Judge Doom/Baron is that it introduced the concept of a truly dangerous homicidal maniac into precious sanitized world of kids entertainment... for a lot of kids, we saw a truly evil remorseless killer that was in the form of a cartoon but would kill someone in "real life"... it caused you to unintentionally grow up and realize the world is dark and you gotta stop thinking so innocently about it all... which is pretty much what the whole movie is about... Eddie used to love all this cartoon stuff but was forced to grow up when his brother was murdered by a symbol of childhood... a toon.

Honestly, Judge Doom is just such a well-made and well-performed villain that you just can't get enough of him. That, and he is completely unique.

The quote "Remember me, Eddie when I killed your brother, I talked just like thisss!" will always be burned into my brain

I love the fact that there might actually be a true "body" of what Judge Doom was in Baron Von Rotten. The picture I saw of him was so evil and terrifying it brought me back to the very first time I saw those scary eyes and was like "Oh yeah! He Judge Doom all right!"

I had the exact same reaction as you as a child. The part where he gets rolled over and the screaming. It shocked me even though he was a bad guy. Then he got up and that helped ease the trauma but was very weird also. Then he blows himself up which was very freaky, and his eyes and the voice...It's actually quite alarming even now. One shock after another, after another. Then he melts as he deserves and that's traumatic too, but he's gone. I still have this weird fascination with this scary as hell mysterious character. Nostalgic fear/fascination. I want to know more.

That fact that his true form traumatized me is a kid easily places him as one of the most memorable movie villains of all time, if not among the greatest. He is psychotic, kills toons without mercy or remorse, and can change the form of his arm like the Green Lantern or T-1000 at the drop of a hat. Easily one of the most dangerous movie villians.

I watched this as a child in the early-mid 90s. Finally looking this up it’s strange to me people were scared by it, I just found it a cool villain.

0:46- Agreed. Before Doom was introduced, the film was very cynical and uncomfortable in tone with Eddie aside from his sprinkles of decency with the kids and Bettie Boop- is willing to ruin a happy Toon's love life for the bills. Doom's introduction gives someone to root against as Eddie gradually becomes more and more like his comedic and empathetic self.

The beauty of Judge Doom's evil motives is that he doesn't really need much of a backstory for them to make sense. Judge Doom is miserable. He desperately wants to be something that he is not and will never be. He also lives in a world where a "toon's purpose in life is to make people laugh" and he's a toon that either can't make people laugh or believes that he is above doing so (a few scenes suggest the latter) Someone with this level of internalized misery and self-hatred is gonna project it onto others. If Doom can't be happy or comfortable in his own painted skin than no other toon gets to be...And certainly privileged humans that see him as their toy don't get to be happy either. This is why he looks and sounds so uncharacteristically *alive* and *elated* when he's talking about his freeway and the future world without toons! No more toons to lift the spirits of humans! No more toons to dance, and sing and act like humans' pets to relegate him to such an undignified fate. And yet, as he closes his monologue by informing Eddie Valiant of his victory and begins to *walk away from it all* forever more... Judge Doom fails to do something so "human" and basic : walk around a slip hazzard. He walked directly into it..He literally could not resist it...And his glass eye pops out...And his henchmen laugh at him...No matter what he does, he can't escape it. He cannot hide what is inside.

I say, go for the villain series. Villains always get the best lines and songs and leave the strongest impressions. Me, I'm partial to the Doom=Pistol Packin' Possum theory. Most of all because the actual answer of Doom's identity remains a mystery within the movie itself, which makes the movie a meta detective story.

80s family films where dark and edgy. Which is what I love about them and why they are well deserved classics

It would have been cool if we did see what Judge Doom looked like. This movie really does stand out as #1 for using classic animation. While there were other movies that were made that tried to capture the original Who Framed Roger Rabbit idea, it will probably never be done again, nor will it be compared to the original.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is one of my Favorite Movies. I'll never forget the First time I watched it. And you brilliantly explained the Reason why Judge Doom is one of the Greatest Antagonist and Movie Villain of all time.

This is truly an immeasurably impressive film !!! It made me think that this film reminded me, or really reminds me, of what, despite its impossibility, I have hoped dreamed of the world to look like sometime in the future - that of flying cars, beautiful futuristic, high-tech, small and big cities in addition to a functioning, political, world peace-leading world power, this world would be inhabited alongside us, alongside us, along with this crime-parody film by animated characters !!! The characters from the different worlds, realities and universes of countless different cartoon-computer-animation-TV and movie series like the city of Los Angeles, Hollywood, would live together, all over the world, even in my home country of Finland, with the people who created them, us. doing so and otherwise living among us in peace and harmony, and a kind of union would be created for them to guarantee fair and legal representation for all the different characters in the universes of millions, billions of TV series and movies, across different fictional worlds, between us and fictional characters, love, trust, humility and above all peace is our goal. This film is very much reminiscent of my dream of such a future. Before this movie, I was pretty sure of it, and this movie really confirmed that tones can't be killed but Judge Doom, originally named Toon by Baron Von Rotten, came up with a way: a poison he called dip, which was a mixture of turpentine, acetone and benzene, which causes the Toons to be destroyed, causing them to melt into paint because those chemicals are paint thinners and the Toons in this film are in fact mere revived, living ink and paint drawings, traces and stains on paper and those substances dissolve them. Judge Doom is a great character and my favorite even though he's evil, and believe me, even if it was barbaric and a little ironic considering that I would like the animated characters to live with us in the future, as in this movie I would still have supported Doom's plan to destroy ToonTown so that Doom could build that Freeway on top of the destroyed ToonTown, though I didn't want Doom to dismantle the tram company, but he could have developed a solution that would have ensured that people would use Freeway a huge amount of trams as well. in addition. But a great movie nonetheless, absolutely awesome because it reflects my utopian thoughts and dreams about the future of our world !!!

Glad to know I am not the only one who places this movie as their personal favorite movie of all time as this has held that title since I was 4 or 5 years old. No movie has even come close to toppling it. This movie just has everything that I could ever asked for: cartoons, film nor, taking place in the detective story golden age of hollywood,, sexy damsel/film Fatale, etc. The score is also amazing and one of Alan Silvestri's best works. Judge Doom continues to be one of my favorite villains of all time!

He was the most scariest thing ever in a kids movie since Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch in The Witches.

You've got good taste; Roger Rabbit is also my all-time favorite movie, and I learned a few new things. I never noticed the shoe kicking the cop, nor did I realize Lloyd cut his hair like that for the role. Side note: I'm impressed by the Weird Al decor the the background. :-) My only criticism is that the buzzard's name, Voltaire, isn't pronounced VAHL-ih-TAHR, but Vole-TARE. It's the name of a French writer/historian/philosopher. Aside from that nitpick, excellent video. :-) You'll be pleased to know I heard about it from a Roger Rabbit Facebook group, so you're bound to get some good publicity.

I encourage you to examine other cinematic villains. There's plenty to choose from. The Borg Queen from "Star Trek: First Contact", T-1000 from "Terminator 2", Agent Smith from "The Matrix", Biff/Griff/Buford Tannen from the "Back to the Future" films, Hans Gruber from "Die Hard", Thanos from "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Endgame", The Wicked Witch of the West from "The Wizard of Oz", or Emperor Palpatine from the "Star Wars" films.

2:24- Maybe it's like an interior heating system inside the suit so the Toon inside doesn't suffer from being overheated being in the suit all the time.

I was just thinking about this movie today. Wonderful video.

I was 13 when the movie came out, so I thought Judge Doom was HILARIOUS!!!

DUDE YOU DESERVE WAY MORE VIEWS!! I TOTALLY LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!

I love judge Doom he's maniacal insanely madly Toon he is the best XD

Thanks for making this video. I love the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Judge Doom makes for the perfect villain. Judge Doom never did scare me, then again I love the villains. In any movie or show or book I always gravitate towards the villians as I find them way more interesting than any other characters... I saw the Roger Rabbit movie as a teenager. As soon as Judge Doom came on screen I knew right than he was the villain and had killed Acme, I didn't know why but I knew it was the Judge. It wasn't the dark clothes, but the fact that Judge Doom wore sunglasses indoors and wore his hat kinda low, like he was concealing something, that's how I knew he was the villain. I also noticed that before the reveal of his toon self, when Judge Doom smiles, it's an un-natural smile, un-human like smile... There are many unanswered questions about Judge Doom but like you, it's more fun to have it be a mystery. There are questions that I ponder over suxh as, being a toon, why does Doom hate his fellow toons? Even with the books, they don't resolve that question, I believe either a book or comic says that as a toon Judge Doom played a villain, got in an accident and somehow lost his memory and Judge Doom thought he was a real villain. However, in the reveal in the movie, the Judge knows he's a toon. Even before the reveal, the Judge knows he's a toon which is why he wears a glove to dip the shoe and when the dip is spilled over in the bar the Judge backs away as he knows since he's a toon, the dip would kill him too. So, since Judge Doom knows he's a toon, why hate his fellow toons? Why does Judge Doom specifically hate Roger Rabbit? Judge Doom frames Roger Rabbit for the murder of Acme and even before that, I think he had something to do with Jessica Rabbit being set up for those patty cake pictures so that Roger Rabbit will be upset and not be able to perform for audiences. Judge Doom seems to really hate Roger Rabbit specifically, but why? These questions have no answer but like you said, the mystery is more fun...

dude how come you don't have more subscribers?? your descriptions and explanations are entertaining in a very sincere, nonchalant way! and touching topics and characters often forgotten and only remembered by us oldies. keep up the great work! subscribed!!

1:55- Imagine if Mandark played Doom- Doom: When I killed your brother I talked just like this! Eddie barely suppressing his ability to laugh. Doom: I have red eyes and a squeaky high voice! Fear me! Eddie: I know I'm supposed to be scared of you, but HAHAHA! Doom: Screw This! (makes one of his hands into a buzzsaw). Eddie: You're right. You're right I gotta beat you to save Roger and Jesssca- Eddie sees Roger and Jessica's souls flying up due to laughing to death.

Thank you for this video still shook @ 34 years old #BestVillian of all time in film.

Awesome video mate thanks!

There is another bts animation/live action frame of Doom that is featured in the 1993 book The Disney Villain with the live action bit being black and white and the animated eyes being in color which definitely adds to the eeriness of the scene.

Judge doom really did make the movie, the perfect villain

This was awesome man!!

1:08-1:28 After hearing him talk about WFRR and how excited he was to play Fester Addams because he loved "The Addams Family" comics as a kid, I've come to the conclusion that Christopher Lloyd is a troll (I mean this as a compliment) You see winks of troll energy come through in "Cuckoo's Nest" and moments on "Taxi" but also as Judge Doom. *AFTER DIPPING THE SHOE* Older 1st time viewers : "Damn movie, it's like that?" *Doom's face beneath the fumes smirking* "It's *like* that. Problem?" *WHEN REVEALING HIS BUZZSAW HAND* "You think this can't cut through stuff, you bout to learn today!"

Him getting crushed by the roller and creepy laugh..so freakin terrifying

Judge Doom : A disturbed Toon with a Thousand Faces , Brilliant Makes a lot of sense. (Stephen King) is pretty twisted whoever made this character up was on another brainwave. Just Brilliant. Lots of Mystery still untold or unseen as to Judge Doom considering many edits from the script it was written but never made to the screen 🤔 yet it still existed in history. Fascinating.

I had a dream that he chased me through the neighborhood. What a trip.

This is my #1 movie of all time, even as a kid. And a story my father lovee to tell people is when i was maybe 4-5 i would want this movie on a lot, and every, single, time Judge Doom revealed himself i would run away screaming even when i knew it was coming. My dad loves that story.

Great video

Villain series wow I am trying to kick some of them off to obviously my version yes I am interested

hey bro, i was traumatized by doom as well. BADLY traumatized

He is a perfect villain. Calm on the outside. Perfect crazy in the inside

OMG, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is *also* my all time favorite film. *I have found my people* And I have subscribed awaiting your review!

you deserve so many more views and subs dude wtf!?

The dip scene scarred me for life

This video was awesome 🤩 I was traumatised by judge doom when I was 6.

Tim Curry V.S. Christopher Lloyd? Yeah hard to tell who would have been a better Judge Doom #GreatActors

One of the best twists in cinema history.

I used to always think Judge Doom was a Toon-Human offspring that went psychotic

Judge Doom is a terrifying villain. Though the idea that he was Baron Von Rotton or Pistol Packn Possum is good, I thought he would be a toon from the movie Cool World. Cool World is another movie that mixes live action with animation, except Rodger Rabbit did everything better. In Cool World, all the toons look mean and not child friendly( basically cartoons not made by Disney or Warner Bros.), while the environment looks like a hellish version of Toon Town. Of course this can’t work because Who Framed Rodger Rabbit came out before Cool World.

Now we have to come up with something to help people (like you & me) overcome their Childhood Trauma of him

Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of the best darkest Disney villains alongside Judge Claude Frollo from Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Emperor Belos from The Owl House. Roger Rabbit is one of my favorite Disney movies though

One thing I noticed during the movie was that at the end when judge doom starts melting, yellow paint seeps out of judge doom instead of blue paint, if judge doom's true form stayed how it was originally portrayed, he would have blue paint seeping out of him instead of yellow paint, so that means that his true form was indeed never truly revealed because baron von rotten was blue so he would leak blue paint, OR he was using a different toon form while also wearing judge doom's disguise.

When i first saw the movie i was never scared of judge doom. I mean i seen movies like hellrasier but i wanted to be judge doom for Halloween

Judge Doom makes the film, but I really only remembered him from the scene where he revealed he killed Eddie's brother, and the bar scene. What I remember the most was the annoying weasels. "I'm gonna ram 'em!" stuck with me forever. Re-watching it as an adult, Judge Doom is the clear stand-out performance.

Nice job, i like your work on this character because he comes from my favorite movie ever. By Cm

I'd love to see you evaluate Dr viper from the swat kats series. He was unique amongst the villains in that series I think.

You forgot to mention that his plot about dismantling the tram system in LA and replacing it with a freeway actually happened IRL

The part that scared me the most is when that saw blade on his are came out.😬

Chris lee would have been terrifying as judge doom

One more thought here, in the movie when Judge Doom makes his first appearance he talks about the dip, which is made of turpentine, acetone, and benzene which is essentially paint thinner so it would dissolve a painted toon into nothingness... There are some things wrong with this. First is that the statement is made at the beginning of the movie that this dip is the only way to kill a toon. However, Judge Doom keeps telling the weasels to stop laughing as they would one day laugh themselves to death. This is exactly what happens at the end of the movie, Eddie Valient acts silly and makes the weasels laugh themselves to death. So, apparently, there is more than one way to kill a toon, there's not only the dip but they can laugh themselves to death as the weasels did. The second thing is, that the dip only works for painted toons. If a toon was drawn or animated in any other way other than paint, the dip would be harmless to the toon and it's awfully arrogant for Judge Doom to assume that all of the toons in Toontown were all painted when some could have been drawn at the time. Last but not least, we all know, that like Soap Opera characters, toons never really die. Even after being dipped, all someone had to do was animate that toon again and the toon could come back so a future animator could easily bring back the shoe or Judge Doom by simply drawing them again, so they aren't really gone...

Came back to this today after the announcement that Oogie Boogie Bash, Disneyland's trick-or-treat trail, is adding Judge Doom to the 2023 lineup of characters.

3:22 - Volitar? No. Voltaire = Vol-Tear (as in tear a piece of paper). Like the French writer.

When he revealed his true form, that was some scary shit!…

Imagine if Doom was in Kingdom Hearts?

Two foreign dubs found a way to make him scarier. In the Spanish dub, he laughs like an evil clown when he jumps with his springs, and hisses when he cuts the chains with his saw. In the Brazilian dub, the pitch of his voice lowers as he "melts". Also, the kangaroo jury was also going to appear in the bar in response to a barfly saying Roger should have a trial. Two other candidates to play Doom were Alec Baldwin and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It's really interesting to me, I wouldn't say I was extremely traumatized by doom, but the one thing that stuck with me forever was when his eyes became knives, maybe a lil trauma there. But for some reason we search out those things that traumatize us. and we also love them for some reason. My theory is that the only true currency (in terms of movies becoming classics) is memorability. That can be accomplished in many ways, shock value/trauma, comedy, or just some inexplicable thing woven into whats shown on the screen. Doom has that in spades. It's hard to say exactly why some things are memorable and some things are forgettable but it's something. Some certain visuals and scenes just seem to stick with you.

Hey, I saw this really cool movie called “Power Child” by Russell Rapp. Can you review it here?

There is one scene in this movie that is missing that I wish more would talk or know and it has to do with a photo of Judge Doom himself on the Dip Canon and not the crazy White Toon that was using it.

1: The Baron Von Rotten thing is alright, but what I find most fascinating is the scrapped idea of Judge Doom being originally drawn as the hunter who killed Bambi's mother. He's just a shadow/sillouhette in a handful of frames and he has one purpose: to kill. After this, The Hunter is discarded and forgotten, consigned to oblivion, the only attention given him is the hatred and horror of the kids who watched the movie. So here is this shadow, literally drawn to kill, and he sees his fellow toons become famous and beloved. Already imbued with an instinct to kill, he descends deeper into hatred and a desire for revenge, warping into a chaotic entity of pure Toon evil. Judge Doom is just his way of passing himself off as a human and thus gaining access to the very powers of creation and destruction. Thus, THE DIP.

I just wanna know that what doom real face look like

I found out who animated his cartoon eyes and hands, Peter Western, fellow animator Colin White said so on Facebook.

This was supposed to be a kids movie,but if you watch it again as an adult,you realize this movie is for adults not kids.

Try 15, 16, 17, 18 years old and need a Judge Doom costume

The comic saying that Doom is Baron is not canon to the movie; I most believe that his true identity is Pistol Possum. But yeah it's better to think his identity will always be a mistery.

What type of toon is judge doom?

Enjoyed this. Is there a detailed plot breakdown/explanation somewhere that you recommend? I rewatched recently (loved it), but have some plot questions. 1) did Judge Doom set up the frame job from the start? I.e. he told Maroon he would only buy the studio if Acme sold too, so he got Maroon to force Jessica to pose for the patty-cake pictures, knowing he would kill Acme and use the photos to frame Roger (he would have had to have known that Acme was sweet on Jessica, but then I guess that wasn't a secret, Betty certainly knew)? Or did he just see an opportunity and frame Roger after Maroon plotted to blackmail Acme? 2) Why did he need to kill Acme, they were already planning to blackmail him (maybe he knew even with blackmail Acme would never sell Toontown, so he had to kill him)? 3) How did the pattycake pictures get out? Everyone seemed to know about it the next day - but if Maroon wanted to blackmail Acme, he would have kept the pictures private, right? 4) What was Maroon's motiviation? Apparently at the start he wanted to blackmail Acme so he could sell. But then in the end he says he didnt' want to see the Toons destroyed (was he trying to get Acme's will to save Toontown?). He certainly wasn't doing that before he started the plot in motion. Thanks!

Why is sans in background 4:06

Judge Doom/ Baron Von Rotten true and final form is a Terminator

Someone made a pic of Judge Doom of what he looks like under the mask. Some Otter

2:35 a popcorn fart? 😂

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Lol yeah its scary how the original roger rabbit would kill such a wild character who essentially was so chaotic due to being a rabbit that he would come back even scarier

Back to Future

I always thought doom was half man and half toon

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Tim curry could’ve killed this role. He does villain extremely well, more sleazy. He’s phenomenal as hexxus in ferngully (voice acting an animation)

Looks like your parents never knew this movie was barely intended for children, let alone toddlers. I've theorized that that generator of parents were kids in the 70s when their parents made them watch Scooby Doo, and then they grew up thinking all cartoonies were Scooby Doo.. so they thought it was OK for their 80s and 90s kids to watch anything animated with Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, also forgetting how different a 3-year-old thinks compared to an 8-year-old and a 12-year-old. It's kind of why newly married couples should take a course on child psychology before becoming parents, it's kind of why parents should understand animation history before plopping their children before the TV and running off.

kangaroo court found the shoe guilty because the shoe isnt guilty, its a kangaroo court.

has anyone ever told you you look like Dan Aykroyd?

so accidently kicking a cop in the balls means the shoe is subject to death? hey, this aint N. Korea

Look at Temple of Doom (my favourite Indiana Jones movie) it's dark as anything and talk about terrifying. And it's a family friendly movie? The reason today's family friendly movies are rubbish is because they don't have a guy's heart being rip out of his chest while he's still alive

I would love to see bad guys how are you can do all the bad guys and animations movies in specially animes I would love to say that actually and I remember watching Roger rabbit I’m surprised I still remember watching that that movie with Judge to him when his eyes came out it’s still it’s I still remember to this day I wonder if I can ever remake dead to me again I don’t know how Christopher lawyers to play that character again but I would love to see ya gym and another season or another movie I guess I may be a crossover who knows if you guys left stage do you more how are you how are you get scared or hate her more despise up I would love to see him in another picture I’m actually

I would love Tim Curry

2:04 gosh he looks terrifying😳

Real life doom is physicist Edward Witten if evil.

Sykes....

Well nerd 🤓 looks like you and me have something in common.😎👍

Star wars

Wrong video, sorry!!!! Dan aka…

Vol-tare

Micheal Myers etc. never scared me. THIS thing? Even as a grown ass man, this thing is what makes me feel unsafe while watching this film. Up until this point it’s been a detective film while having elements for kids AND adults. But this part? There was just no way to prepare for something like this. You KNOW what you are getting into with Myers, Chucky, etc. but this abomination feels like a genuine invasion into a film it doesn’t belong and to this day causes me revulsion. And the stakes are more personal. His plan is to murder Bugs, Mickey, etc in the most heinous way. Just imagining if Doom SUCCEEDED is more disturbing to me than killers with knives.