What is the name of the villain in Oliver & Company?

The villain in Oliver & Company is Bill Sykes.

Disney’s 1988 animated film adapts Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist but relocates the story from Victorian London to modern New York City. Bill Sykes, spelled “Sykes” in the film, is reimagined as a ruthless loan shark who operates from a shipyard. Fagin owes him money, and Sykes threatens him when repayment is delayed.

Sykes also drives the film’s main danger after kidnapping Jenny Foxworth and demanding a ransom. His two Dobermans, Roscoe and DeSoto, replace Bill Sikes’s dog Bull’s-eye from Dickens’s novel. In the climax, Sykes pursues Fagin, Jenny, and the dogs onto the Brooklyn Bridge, where he is killed after colliding with a train.

A common mix-up is Fagin, who is the story’s manipulative criminal organizer but not the principal villain. Dodger is Oliver’s streetwise canine friend, while Tito is one of Fagin’s dogs. The character comes from Dickens’s Bill Sikes, although the Disney version changes his occupation, setting, appearance, and name spelling.