Cruella de Vil "102 Dalmatians"), Rachel York (musical), Victoria Smurfit ("Once Upon a Time"), and Wendy Raquel Robinson ("Descendants"). The character became a pop-culture type epitomizing a person who is very, very mean. Cruella ranked 39th on AFI's list "100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains". Cruella's name is a pun of the words "cruel" and "devil", an allusion which is emphasized by having her country house nicknamed "Hell Hall". In some translations, for instance in Polish, Cruella De Vil is known as "Cruella De Mon", a play on "demon". In Italian, she is called "Crudelia De Mon" (a pun on "crudele", cruel, and "demone",
Sympathy for the De Vil last week's "Once Upon a Time". One of the things that occasionally bugs me about the narrative for this season, and which "Sympathy for the De Vil" happily corrects, is this idea that every villain has a kernel of goodness in them. Cruella de Vil (Victoria Smurfit) is bad all the way through, and the show is better for it." Sympathy for the De Vil "Sympathy for the De Vil" is the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of the American fantasy drama series "Once Upon a Time", which aired on April 19, 2015. In this episode, a young Cruella