Nero (The Story Keepers)

Rising to Power is when a villain or villainess seizes their opportunity and gain power, channeling it into taking control over a nation or terrorizing a protagonist. It's like betraying a hero, invasion, revealing their evil plans or true colors, ambushing a hero or demanding their obedience.

Live-Action Movies

 * Scrappy-Doo: Morphs into Scrappy-Rex.
 * Sir Trenton: Arrives to tell Stripes that he's about to be scratched from tomorrow's race, has his hench-horses lock Sandy in her stables, and orders them to knock Stripes out.
 * Cliff Vandercave: Kidnaps Pebbles and Bam-Bam and traps them in a giant mining machine. He orders Fred and Barney to give him the Dictabird in exchange for their safe return. When Fred and Barney gave Cliff the bird, Cliff told them that he's leaving town with the money he embezzled, and then starts the machine to kill Pebbles and Bam-Bam.
 * Happy Chapman: Confronts Garfield and Odie in the train luggage room before threating the latter with a shock collar.
 * Ramsley: Reveals he murdered Master Gracey's beloved bride Elizabeth Henshaw, has his master marry Sara to break the curse, locks Megan and Michael in the trunk and throws Jim out of the mansion before they could tell Master Gracey.
 * Sir Edgar: Finds out about Ella's curse, has her kill his nephew Prince Charmont at the stroke of midnight, reveals that he killed his brother to become king and he ordered Ella not to tell anyone about his evil plan.

Animated Movies

 * Baron Ruber: Fuses Excalibur on his hand and reveals his sinister plan to take over Camelot when he takes Kayley hostage.
 * Darla Dimple: Orders Max to man the water valves, flooding Mammoth Studios in process.
 * Gaston: Gathers an angry mob to kill the Beast.
 * Maleficent: Turns herself into a dragon to battle with Prince Phillip.
 * Ursula: Grows giant-size and seizes power over the ocean.
 * Jafar: Wishes to become Sultan and takes control over Agrabah.
 * Scar: After Scar killed his brother Mufasa, and then makes Simba run away from home, he took over the Pride Lands with his hyena minions.
 * Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear: Imprisions the toy gang, but demands their obedience.
 * Hopper: Has his gang round the Ant Colony up to finish collecting food for them and he took control over Ant Island.
 * General Mandible: Reveals his ruthless plan to Princess Bala about flooding the colony, and he locks her in his office.
 * Judge Claude Frollo: Ambushes the Court of Miracles, orders his henchmen to lock up the Gypsies and has Quasimodo taken back to the bell tower.
 * Mother Gothel: Stabs Flynn Rider and then prepares to take Rapunzel to another hiding place.
 * Captain Hook: Captures Peter Pan and the Lost Boys in Return to Neverland.
 * Professor Ratigan: Seizes power over Mousedom.
 * King Candy/Turbo: Morphs into a Cy-Bug and confronts Ralph.
 * Hans: Prepares to kiss Anna, but betrays her and reveals his cruel plan to seize power over Arendelle.
 * The Nerdlucks: Transform themselves into Monstars and trash the court.
 * Coco LaBouche: After yanking Wawa out of Chuckie's hands, the wicked Coco orders Jean-Claude to lock the babies up during her wedding with Chas, and orders Kira to destroy Wawa, opening Kira's eyes to the truth.
 * Sloan and Bree Blackburn: Reveal themselves as poachers who are responsible for kidnapping Tally, shooting the rhino at the river and then building an electric fence to kill a thousand elephants in Tembo Valley during the solar eclipse.
 * Dawn Bellwether: Explains her villainous plan to rule Zootopia as mayor, and use the night howlers to dart every predator to keep it that way.
 * Sir Miles Axlerod: Explains his plan to make the cars who use Allinol go back to gasoline and become the most rich and powerful cars in the world. Then he will have the cars who once laughed at him and the Lemon thugs to come to them and respect them, so they won't be ashamed of who they are.
 * Vicky the Babysitter: Ages 18-years-old, but explains her evil plan to get to the biographic channel to take over the world in The Fairly OddParents TV movie Channel Chasers.
 * Mortimer: After the evil Mortimer tricked Jason into rescuing his parents, he grabbed the orb from Jason, and then wishes for him, Andrea and Steve to be stranded on a small island, but turns Nevada into Mortopolis by using the orb's magic.
 * Tabitha Harperstein: Kills James and Charlotte for tattling on her at the party.
 * Dylan Krumholtz: Confronts Martin Fisherman and then explains his sinister plan to steal money from people to save Krumholtz Industries from forclosure.
 * Alameda Slim: Lassos Maggie, Mrs. Calloway and Grace, and reveals his plan to buy Patch of Heaven, disguised as Yancy O'Del.