Which Animated Disney Movie Has the Most Deaths
Name an animated Disney film that doesn't, even if it is in a small way, deal with death. It's not easy.
And it hasn't been easy growing up on a diet of cartoon kills, as any fan of the House of Mouse's feature-length productions can testify.
The studio has never shied away from offing its most memorable characters – in fact, squeezing a demise or two into what, on the surface, are films for kids, has been actively encouraged.
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Those doomed characters have included a long line of plummeting villains (no one does death from above like Disney) and a plethora of pitied parents. Disney has always loved plonking an obstacle in its protagonists' path, and there is no greater challenge than being orphaned.
Here is another challenge; getting to the bottom of this list without crying.
This is a rundown of death scenes from 'classic' Disney feature-length animations, so we will save the floods of Pixar tears (I'm looking at you, with reddened eyes, Up) for another rainy day.
There are spoilers ahead. And emotions.
1. The Evil Queen in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Good old Walt didn't hang about. His studio's first animated feature comes with a great and gruesome denouement. The Evil Queen, back in her old hag disguise, meets an extremely sticky end in what remains an amazing sequence.
Her three-pronged demise involves a lightning-triggered fall from a rain-soaked cliff, a following boulder that goes tumbling after her and a pair of hungry vultures ready to pick at what's left. In other words, she ain't getting up.
2. Bambi's mother in Bambi (1942)
No. Still not ready to talk about it.
3. The Curious Oysters in Alice In Wonderland (1951)
If you don't remember the brutal butchering of these poor little sea creatures by the rather unscrupulous Walrus, much to the chagrin of his equally hungry – but not quite as sneaky – accomplice, the Carpenter, then it's because it's not part of the main Alice action, but rather a story within a story recounted to her by Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
If you don't remember it, count yourself lucky – it's dogged my dreams for decades.
4. Nutsy in Lady And The Tramp (1955)
Thankfully, Lady And The Tramp is much more famous for its romantic spaghetti incident than the bit where an unfortunate stray dog is marched unwittingly down a corridor at the pound to his certain death. Great pasta, though.
5. Tod's mother in The Fox And The Hound (1981)
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This often overlooked adventure rips a grisly page right out of Bambi's book by killing off the hero's mother with an offscreen gunshot.
6. Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Disney's rodent riffing on Sherlock Holmes is a riot, except when the villain plunges (how else?) to his death after a battle on Big Ben.
7. Ursula in The Little Mermaid (1989)
The end of Ursula has distinct echoes of the Evil Queen's downfall in Snow White – lightning really has a bolt to bear with Disney villainesses, huh? Ursula also gets impaled by a ship's bough for good measure.
8. Gaston in Beauty And The Beast (1991)
The skulls in his eyes were a dead giveaway (although Disney removed them in some later formats) that arrogant ass-clown Gaston perished in that tumble from the Beast's castle.
9. Mufasa and Scar in The Lion King (1994)
We all remember where we were when Mufasa died (in the cinema, probably), and the pounding hooves of those wildebeest still hurt, but the last few seconds in the life of everyone's favourite evil uncle, Scar, are just as horrifying, albeit without the tears. Being ripped apart by double-crossing hyenas is a rotten way to go.
10. Frollo in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1996)
Easily the most messed-up Disney villain of modern times, Claude Frollo is the judge who won't budge on religion, but can't help having naughty thoughts about the fiery Esmeralda. Fitting then, that he plummets to his death clutching a rather phallic looking gargoyle.
11. Shan Yu in Mulan (1998)
With more blood and guts than Gladiator and Braveheart combined, Mulan isn't exactly your run-of-the-mill Disney. So it's a bit weird then that the death of the nasty Shan Yu is an animated tribute to the 'You're Fired!' bit from the end of Arnie actioner True Lies. At least the resulting fireworks are pretty.
12. Kerchak and Kala's baby in Tarzan (1999)
If you'd written Tarzan off as 'The Disney with all those godawful Phil Collins songs', it's time to give it another chance, for it packs more emotion into its opening five minutes than most soap operas manage in a lifetime.
Before you've had the chance to catch your breath, Tarzan has been turned into an orphan and his future adoptive parents (gorillas Kerchak and Kala) have lost their baby – and the frightening leopardess Sabor is to blame in both instances.
When a grown-up Tarzan kills Sabor later, there's relief all round, but then another villain enters the fray, in the shape of gorilla-hunter Clayton, who dies what is arguably the most graphic Disney death when he accidentally hangs himself with vines while trying to chase Tarzan with a machete.
13. Mr and Mrs Pelekai in Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Brave little Lilo's parents only exist in a photograph, and their deaths are all the more heartfelt because of their mundanity – they died in a car crash.
Lilo has lost her parents before the events of the film, but when you hear her say, 'Family means no one gets left behind', you can't help welling up anyway.
14. Mother Gothel in Tangled (2010)
Does the manipulating Mother Gothel die of old age before she hits the ground after tumbling out of the window of Rapunzel's tower, or is it the fall itself that kills her? Either way, that conniving chameleon that tripped her up has a court date coming up.
15. King Agnarr and Queen Iduna in Frozen (2013)
Frozen's focus on the lives of two sisters is what made it a mega-hit, but the pair's dynamic is defined by the loss of their parents, as per Disney tradition.
The tragedy hits hard because it's done so casually, their ship capsizing at the end of a initially harmless montage that started with Anna asking Elsa if she wanted to build a snowman.
This is why Frozen struck such a raw nerve with audiences – not because of that Let It Go song (okay, perhaps a little) – but because it's about the regret of not spending enough time with those closest to you. And that's why it's a worthy new entry into Disney's impressive tearjerking canon.
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Which Animated Disney Movie Has the Most Deaths
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2017/07/13/15-classic-disney-film-death-scenes-that-destroyed-your-childhood-6775451/
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