Movie: It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Villain: Henry F. Potter (played by Lionel Barrymore)

Brand of Evil: Vicious slumlord and the richest man in Bedford Falls. After creating George Bailey's crisis -- by quietly "keeping" the $8,000 deposit envelope tucked inside the newspaper Uncle Billy hands him -- Potter then refuses to lend George the money to save the Building & Loan from ruin during the bank examiner's visit.

Heartless Quote: "You're worth more dead than alive."

Movie: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Villain: Granville Sawyer (played by Porter Hall)

Brand of Evil: Officious human resources screener whose job is to give employees intelligence tests. Sawyer takes it upon himself to psychoanalyze impressionable 17-year-olds and provokes Kris Kringle into busting out his cane as a weapon.

Heartless Quote: "I told you he had latent maniacal tendencies."

Movie: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)

Villain: Grinch (played by Boris Karloff)

Brand of Evil: Cave-dwelling grouch whose hate of the whole Christmas season has made him "a bad banana with a...greasy black peel!" The Grinch has the "wonderful, awful idea" to stop Christmas from coming by dressing up as Santa, forcing a dog into reindeer slavery, and stealing every last crumb in Who-ville.

Heartless Quote: "They're just waking up! I know just what they'll do! Their mouths will hang open a minute or two then the Whos down in Who-ville will all cry Boo-Hoo!"

Movie: Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

Villain: The Bumble (aka the Abominable Snow Monster of the North)

Brand of Evil: Yeti who's inexplicably driven into a rage at the sight of Rudolph's lit nose. As if it's not bad enough that the loveable Rudolph is mocked by his reindeer pals, he's then pursued by this mono-syllabic thug until Yukon Cornelius knocks The Bumble out and Rudolph's fellow misfit, the dentist-wannabe Hermey, pulls out the monster's teeth.

Heartless Quote: "Roooar!"

Movie: Frosty the Snowman (1969)

Villain: Professor Hinkle (played by Billy de Wolfe)

Brand of Evil: Inept magician who loses his hat to a gust of wind and is forever muttering affirmations such as "Think nasty, think nasty, think nasty." You know Hinkle's a bad guy when his pet rabbit, Hocus Pocus, joins forces with the adorable Karen to help Frosty make a break for the North Pole. Heck, even Santa feels the need to scold the mustached-antihero and sends him home to write the mother of all "I will not..." lists.

Heartless Quote: "Aha! I've got you! And the second you're all melted, that hat will be mine!"

Movie: Scrooge (1970)

Villain: Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Albert Finney)

Brand of Evil: Banker/professional money lender/loan shark who hates Christmas, dislikes everyone -- family, employees, business associates -- and has a particular disgust for the poor. It's no surprise he's home alone when the ghosts show up.

Heartless Quote: "If I could work my will, nephew, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."

Movie: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)

Villain: Winter Warlock (played by Keenan Wynn)

Brand of Evil: Mountain-dwelling wizard who lives to terrify trespassers. Winter's past actions have instilled enough fear in the forest animals that they're compelled to hide the baby Claus when his sled is blown off course into the forest of the Whispering Winds. Later, his icy heart is melted when the grown Claus presents him with a choo-choo, unleashing a frightening sense of humor.

Heartless Quote: "You mustn't mind the tree monsters. Their bark is worse than their bite. Ha, ha, ha, ha!"

Movie: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)

Villain: Herr Burgermeister Meisterburger (played by Paul Frees)

Brand of Evil: Aptly employed as the mayor of Sombertown, the Herr first encounters Santa when the infant is left on his doorstep. Later, he outlaws toys after he trips on a wooden duck and falls down the stairs in front of City Hall, breaking his funny bone. Unlike the Winter Warlock, Burgermeister Mesisterburger isn't reformed when given a toy by Santa. Instead, he issues Wanted: Dead or Alive posters and burns the town's toys in front of a group of crying children.

Heartless Quote: "Ah, take the little, er, baggage to the orphan asylum. That's the proper place for foundlings anyway."

Movie: A Christmas Story (1983)

Villain: Scut Farkus (played by Zack Ward)

Brand of Evil: Schoolyard and neighborhood bully who terrorizes the town of Hohman, Indiana, prompting Ralphie to plead for a Red Ryder BB gun and unleashing the events later known as "the Scut Farkus Affair." Years later, the adult Ralphie is still traumatized by Scut's yellow eyes and rancid coonskin cap.

Heartless Quote: "What, you gonna cry now? Go on, cry for me crybaby, cry!"

Movie: Scrooged (1988)

Villain: Frank Cross (played by Bill Murray)

Brand of Evil: Updated Scrooge as a selfish network TV executive who bah humbugs his way through Christmas Eve by cancelling everyone's bonus, firing a random low-level employee, and bestowing crappy gifts on his family.

Heartless Quote: "Grace, what in the hell is this? (Oh, it's a painting, one of my kids did. See, there's Santa Claus and there's Mrs. Claus.) Honey, how many fingers does Mrs. Santa Claus have here? (Eleven.) Eleven. Right. It's crap. Lose it. I don't want it on the wall."