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Bring the tissues, because Disney knows how to break hearts like nobody else. Join us as we revisit the most devastating farewells in Disney history, from heroic sacrifices and tragic accidents to heartbreaking off-screen losses that still leave a mark. Our countdown includes unforgettable moments from “Up,” “The Lion King,” “Inside Out,” “Coco” and more! Which one hits you hardest?
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00:00Simba, what have you done?
00:03Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:05And today, we're counting down our picks for the most emotionally resonant character deaths in Disney productions that never led
00:12to resurrection.
00:13This means major story spoilers ahead.
00:16We're only focusing on theatrically released movies, and out of respect, excluding deaths in non-fiction films.
00:22Hey, hey, hey, goodbye.
00:34An off-screen death can be more potent than an on-screen one when the absence is emphasized.
00:39The troublemaking Mabel Tanaka spends her childhood exploring the forest glade outside Beaverton with her wise, nature-loving grandmother.
00:47She instills in the child a deep respect for this land and its creatures by listening to the sounds of
00:53nature.
00:53Feel better?
00:58That's what nature does.
01:01It's hard to be mad when you feel like you're part of something big.
01:10A montage shows them having fun around their favorite spot, until they vanish as we reach present day.
01:16It's a haunting illustration of how the people who shape our identities disappear just that suddenly.
01:21But the grief becomes the engine for Mabel's crusade to save the glades from a freeway, still guided by memories
01:27and the spirit of grandma.
01:29Beaver, beaver, beaver, chopped wood logs, chopped wood logs, coconut, hospital, dancing man, potato, red heart, red heart.
01:42Number 29.
01:44Weebo, Flubber.
01:45It's gonna be alright.
01:48It's like that time you ran into the wall when I first met you.
01:52Look at you upstairs, up to AC.
01:54It's easy to get attached to the floating robot Weebo, who serves as the absent-minded Professor Philip Raynard's loyal,
02:01albeit sassy, assistant.
02:02This machine possesses real feelings, genuine jealousy, and a secret unrequited love for her creator.
02:09As she bravely attempts to stop the villainous Chester's henchmen when they break into the professor's home to steal the
02:15miraculous flying rubber.
02:16I think I found it.
02:17You found it alright!
02:19You found it alright!
02:20You found it alright!
02:21You found it alright!
02:25What was that?
02:27Take two?
02:28Sadly, the goons smash Weebo to pieces with a baseball bat in a genuinely distressing scene.
02:33She remains functional just long enough to give Raynard a holographic message and blueprints to create her daughter.
02:40Weebet ultimately represents the legacy that rounds out her mechanical mother's humanization.
02:45Number 28.
02:46Kokuum, Pocahontas.
02:48Chief Powhatan's strongest warrior is expected to secure their tribe's future by marrying Pocahontas.
02:54I told him it would make my heart sore.
02:59But he's so...serious.
03:03Stoic and dutiful, Kokuum grows suspicious as his betrothed secretly meets English settler John Smith in the forest.
03:10When he discovers them embracing, he attacks in a fit of jealousy.
03:15Smith's friend Thomas then arrives to shoot Kokuum in a panic.
03:19Get away from him!
03:20Pocahontas, it won't help!
03:21He was only...
03:22He killed him!
03:23The mighty warrior's death finally confirms to Pocahontas that these outsiders pose a threat to her people.
03:29She and Smith nonetheless become brokers for peace when Powhatan uses Kokuum's murder as justification for war.
03:36As reckless as Disney's fictionalized history lesson is in many ways, the idea of love preventing further bloodshed is noble.
03:44This is the path I choose, father.
03:46What will yours be?
03:48Number 27.
03:49Joe's Mother and Ruth Young.
03:51Mighty Joe Young.
03:53This remake of a classic Giant 8 movie raises the stakes in very Disney fashion.
03:58We meet Jill Young as a child living in the Cameroonian Mountains with her primatologist mother Ruth.
04:03Her bond with the guerrillas is strengthened in tragedy when poacher André Strasser raids the clearing and fatally shoots both
04:11Joe's mother and the intervening Ruth.
04:13He needs someone to protect him.
04:15Will you do that for me?
04:19Promise me you'll protect him.
04:21I promise.
04:23While Jill cradles her dying mother and sings their favorite lullaby with her one last time, Young Joe is forced
04:30to hide.
04:30This shared orphanship demonstrates to young viewers the importance of protecting our fellow primates from the brutalities of greed.
04:37That does, however, prove to be Strasser's undoing when he comes back for Joe after the guerrilla grows into a
04:43giant.
04:44Goodbye.
04:54Number 26.
04:56Quasimodo's Mother.
04:57The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
04:59Disney's twist on Victor Hugo opens with an uncompromising look at Romany plight in 15th century Paris.
05:05Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin.
05:13And he saw corruption everywhere except within.
05:19The cruel Judge Claude Frollo pursues a woman accused of theft and ironically ends up stealing her baby.
05:25In the struggle, the mother falls and suffers a fatal blow on the stone steps of a cathedral.
05:31Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt on the steps of Notre Dame.
05:36My conscience is clear.
05:38You can lie to yourself and your minions.
05:40You can claim that you haven't a qualm.
05:44But you never can run from or hide what you've done from the eyes.
05:49It's a disturbing symbol of the injustices of this moralistic setting.
05:54Even after the Archdeacon talks Frollo out of killing the child upon seeing his deformities,
05:59he raises Quasimodo as an abused servant.
06:02Only with the kindness of Esmeralda will he find the strength to stand up against the system that orphaned him.
06:07All my life you have told me that the world is a dark, cruel place.
06:11But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you.
06:15Number 25.
06:17Auntie.
06:17Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
06:19Nice aunt.
06:21Come on, you guys.
06:27You guys, come on.
06:28A suburban backyard becomes a lethal jungle after Wayne Zielinski's shrink ray turns his children
06:33and the neighbor boys a quarter inch tall.
06:36Their best protection is their new friend, a docile worker aunt they name Auntie,
06:41who shares a cookie crumb and lets the kids ride on his back.
06:45He also fights off a predatory scorpion, but not without taking several poisonous stings.
06:50No!
06:53You saved my life.
06:57It's gonna be okay.
06:58As Auntie succumbs to his injuries, this Disney slapstick adventure takes on some real consequences,
07:04as well as disarmingly big emotional depth.
07:08Number 24.
07:09Winnie Foster.
07:10Tuck Everlasting.
07:12What we tucks have, you can't call it living.
07:16We just...
07:18are like rocks stuck at the side of a stream.
07:22In 1914, runaway teen Winnie Foster is taken in by the Tuck family,
07:28who she learns stopped aging thanks to an enchanted spring.
07:31She and Jessie fall so deeply in love that he pleads with her to drink the water
07:35so that they can live together forever.
07:37But his father Angus assures Winnie that there are worse fates
07:41than following the natural order of existence.
07:43You can't have living without dying.
07:49Don't be afraid of death, Winnie.
07:53Be afraid of the unlived life.
07:56Almost 90 years after a harrowing jailbreak,
07:59Jessie returns to Tree Gap to find the grave of his beloved.
08:02Winnie choosing a full life over the burden of immortality
08:06ends Tuck Everlasting on a devastating philosophical note.
08:09Jessie is saddened by his personal loss,
08:12but seems happy that Winnie found meaning in life.
08:15Winnie Foster!
08:17I will love you until the day I die!
08:20Number 23.
08:21Lemur Colony.
08:23Dinosaur.
08:24One of Disney's boldest animation experiments
08:26doesn't shy away from the horrors of the prehistoric world.
08:30After his family is killed by predators
08:32and he is stolen from his nest by over-rafters,
08:35the Iguanodon Aladar is born into the sanctuary of a remote lemur colony.
08:39That is, until their home is obliterated by a meteor shower.
08:43Come on!
08:44Go!
08:45Go!
08:45Come on!
08:46Mom!
08:47Sheree!
08:48Mom!
08:49Mom!
08:50Sheree!
08:51Mom!
08:53Sheree, where are you?
08:59Run, Aladar!
09:00Run!
09:00Run!
09:01In the aftermath of this frightening set piece,
09:04Aladar is once again left without a family.
09:06And the hardships continue as he joins a post-apocalyptic migration,
09:10with Bruton's sacrifice to thwart a Carnotaurus attack,
09:14marking another pivotal point of drama in Dinosaur.
09:17Of course, the whole film is an emotional odyssey for viewers of any age.
09:22I'm going to go on believing it.
09:24I, for one, am not willing to die here.
09:28Number 22.
09:30Old Jack and Dewey.
09:31Eight Below.
09:32Adventure begins after a snowstorm forces Jerry Shepard to abandon his eight sled dogs
09:37at a research base in Antarctica.
09:39If we could just get a plane, like the one that we flew in on,
09:42it would only take three hours, that's it.
09:44Son, the only thing we've got left are C-130s,
09:47and they sure as hell can't land at a field base.
09:51We can't just leave them out there.
09:58Unfortunately, dog lovers, it's not an entirely Disney-fied adventure.
10:02Old Jack is too weak to escape his chains and accept help,
10:06and ultimately freezes to death.
10:07So too does Dewey after he's injured in a fall,
10:10with his pack sticking by him in his final moments.
10:13Jerry eventually comes back in the spring to rescue the remaining dogs after a tireless pursuit.
10:18But as far as raising the stakes with Canine Peril,
10:22Eight Below is downright cold-blooded for a Disney movie.
10:25I'm so sorry.
10:27I'm really sorry, Jerry.
10:29I don't want to talk about it.
10:30You want a drink?
10:31Number 21.
10:32Old Yeller.
10:33Old Yeller.
10:34A film studio synonymous with happiness somehow popularized the old question,
10:39does the dog die?
10:40But it wasn't lucky for Old Yeller.
10:43He chewed up some, but he ain't bad hurt.
10:47Based on Fred Gibson's novel,
10:49Old Yeller follows the exploits of young Travis Coates and his eponymous pup
10:53on a 19th century Texas homestead.
10:56It's all fun and games until Old Yeller comes down with rabies after fighting a wolf.
11:01I know, Mama.
11:03He was my dog.
11:07I'll do it.
11:08After seeing his friend's devastating affliction,
11:11Travis takes on the unbearable responsibility of putting him down.
11:14This moment is widely considered one of the most heartbreaking in the history of family films.
11:19But one of Disney's defining lessons on love and mercy
11:22ends on the life-affirming note of Travis taking in Old Yeller's puppy.
11:26Don't look like to me he's hardly big enough to learn nothing yet.
11:29He's big enough to learn.
11:31He's big enough to act like Old Yeller.
11:33Number 20.
11:34Leslie Burke.
11:35Bridge to Terabithia.
11:37Jess Ahrens is a quiet 6th grader,
11:39overlooked by his father and mistreated at school.
11:41That all changes when he meets the spirited new kid, Leslie Burke.
11:46There's drawings you made.
11:47You really seen all those things yourself?
11:51No, but...
11:54The two form an unlikely bond and escape their troubles in the magic kingdom called Terabithia.
11:59They embark on many adventures until one day changes everything.
12:03After seeing her perfectly happy and carefree,
12:06Jess returns home to devastating news.
12:09Leslie died while trying to cross into their imaginary world.
12:13I'm sorry, son.
12:16No, you're lying.
12:17The guilt overwhelms Jess in both realistic and disturbing ways.
12:21For a family film, this is a grim reminder of our mortality.
12:25But we expect no less from what's considered one of the saddest Disney movies of all time.
12:29Number 19.
12:31Lilo and Nani's Parents.
12:32Lilo and Stitch.
12:33While on-screen deaths can be powerful,
12:36seeing how they affect the living can be just as impactful.
12:39By the time the movie begins,
12:41some time has passed since the deaths of Lilo and Nani's parents.
12:44We never get to see them, but their absence looms large.
12:48That's us before.
12:51It was rainy and they went for a drive.
12:56What happened to yours?
12:59I hear you cry at night.
13:01Do you dream about them?
13:03Nani is stretched thin,
13:05trying to hold down a job while also stepping into the role of parental guardian.
13:08As much as she tries,
13:10she's more of a loving sister than a guiding role model.
13:12Lilo, meanwhile, feels isolated and adrift,
13:16trying to make sense of her broken family.
13:18Their grief lingers in every scene,
13:20and it becomes even more heartbreaking when the sisters face separation.
13:26Until we meet again.
13:34Number 18.
13:35Henry, The Good Dinosaur.
13:37While not among Pixar's best,
13:39The Good Dinosaur has a surprisingly poignant and emotional blow.
13:42The movie begins with Henry,
13:44an Apatosaurus father,
13:46trying to teach his timid son Arlo how to be strong.
13:50You're such a coward.
13:51Buck!
13:54I ain't a coward.
13:56Although he's a bit harsh,
13:57he knows when to be compassionate,
13:58and Arlo clearly loves him for it.
14:01Their bond was odd but sincere,
14:03which makes Henry's death all the more devastating.
14:06After reassuring his son on a stormy day,
14:08the two are caught in the path of a flash flood.
14:10With no time to escape,
14:12Henry hurls Arlo to safety,
14:14and is swept away in an instant.
14:16Papa!
14:17Papa!
14:19Papa!
14:21The death is shockingly abrupt,
14:23but what deepens the sorrow is the affection he showed only moments ago.
14:27Number 17.
14:29Hector Barbosa.
14:30Pirates of the Caribbean.
14:31Dead Men Tell No Tales.
14:33This pirate captain remains a favorite among Pirates fans.
14:36Once a ruthless villain,
14:38he evolved into one of the saga's greatest heroes.
14:41There be room for only one captain.
14:45Oh!
14:46You filthy beast.
14:48Time to race the dead.
14:50In his final appearance,
14:51he allies himself with Jack Sparrow
14:53to defeat the vengeful ghost Salazar.
14:55In the process,
14:56he learns that the brilliant astronomer Karina
14:58is his long-lost daughter.
15:00He later reveals his identity in the final battle,
15:03giving his life to save hers.
15:18The arc may be a little cliche,
15:20but Geoffrey Rush elevates the moment with warmth and sincerity.
15:24For a pirate who's always chased treasure,
15:26his final act,
15:27protecting the one thing he truly valued,
15:30felt like a perfectly tearful goodbye.
15:33Number 16.
15:34King Agnarr and Queen Iduna.
15:36Frozen and Frozen 2.
15:38These movies have many hard-hitting moments.
15:41Olaf's death in particular felt sudden and gut-wrenching.
15:44I'm sorry.
15:46You're gonna have to do this next part on your own.
15:49Okay?
15:50His calm acceptance of impending death
15:52is enough to make us cry,
15:54even if he comes back.
15:55At its heart,
15:57this series is a tale of two sisters
15:58shaped by the trauma of losing their parents.
16:01That loss is first felt in Frozen's
16:03Do You Wanna Build a Snowman,
16:04where we see just how much Anna and Elsa depended on them.
16:12The gloves will help.
16:14See?
16:15Conceal it.
16:16Don't fear it.
16:17Then the tragedy deepens in Frozen 2
16:20when the sisters find their shipwreck.
16:22The waves are too hot!
16:23Iduna!
16:29Elsa!
16:30They learned that Agnarr and Iduna died searching for a way to help Elsa control her powers.
16:35What's even sadder is that Anna and Elsa see a haunting vision of their final embrace before they drowned.
16:41Number 15.
16:42Pedro Madrigal.
16:43Encanto.
16:44At the start of the film,
16:45Mirabel's grandmother, Alma,
16:47tells the story of how the Madrigal family came to be.
16:50She recalls how she and her husband Pedro were forced to flee their home.
16:54And your abuelo
16:56was lost.
17:00The magical Encanto was born to protect them,
17:02blessing their family with extraordinary gifts.
17:05But we learn that there's a more painful truth behind the story.
17:08In a later, far more emotional flashback,
17:11we see young Alma's raw reaction to Pedro's death.
17:14Though his murder isn't shown,
17:16her grief is overwhelming.
17:17So profound that she barely notices the miracle forming around her.
17:29The scene's emotional honesty caught many viewers off guard,
17:33refusing to sanitize Alma's pain.
17:35It's powerful enough to move anyone to tears.
17:38Number 14.
17:40The Supers.
17:41The Incredibles.
17:42This moment is unique in that it doesn't focus on one death,
17:45but many.
17:46When Mr. Incredible breaks into Syndrome's lair,
17:49he uncovers an evil plan 15 years in the making.
17:52We learn that a robot has been secretly eliminating dozens of superheroes.
17:56Based on Bob's reaction,
17:58he seemed to personally know many of the victims.
18:11We don't get to meet these characters,
18:13but the revelation,
18:14underscored by Michael Giacchino's music,
18:17haunts us nonetheless.
18:18What began as a fun homage to the superhero golden age
18:21suddenly turns dark and tragic,
18:23as the implication of a mass murder hits us with an unexpected weight.
18:36Number 13.
18:37Hector Rivera.
18:38Coco.
18:39This Pixar film is a heartfelt tribute to Mexico's Day of the Dead.
18:43While it celebrates the beauty of the afterlife,
18:45death still plays a part in the film's most heartbreaking moments.
18:49The revelation that Hector was murdered,
18:51rather than having abandoned his family,
18:53is the film's emotional peak.
18:55You walked me to the train station,
18:57but I felt a pain in my stomach.
18:59I thought it must have been something I ate.
19:02Perhaps it was that chorizo, my friend.
19:04Or something I drank.
19:08For most of the story,
19:09Miguel's family believed that Hector left them and died forgotten.
19:12In truth, he was poisoned by Ernesto de la Cruz,
19:16who stole Hector's music to become famous.
19:18This shattered Hector's family,
19:20leaving him to spend decades trying to reunite with his wife and daughter Coco.
19:24While Coco's eventual death was bittersweet,
19:27the implications of her father's loss are much more impactful.
19:37Number 12.
19:38Wilden Lightfoot.
19:40Onward.
19:40While this fantasy film is full of magical spells and dragons,
19:44at its core,
19:45it's a road trip about two sons who want to spend time with their dad.
19:48When we first meet Ian and Barley Lightfoot,
19:50their father Wilden has long since passed.
19:53His absence is a sore subject among their family,
19:56and the tragedy only gets sadder.
19:58By the third act,
19:59Ian is able to recast a spell that resurrects Wilden for only a few moments.
20:11Although he hoped to meet his father for the first time,
20:14he lets his brother have that honor.
20:16It's a deeply moving scene,
20:18especially for those who have wished for one last conversation with someone they've lost.
20:34In a film that doesn't have main character deaths,
20:37Mulan finds emotional weight in the horrors of war.
20:40During the upbeat,
20:41a girl worth fighting for number,
20:43the tone suddenly shifts when Mulan and her unit come across a burned village.
20:47There, they find that the Imperial Army has been wiped out,
20:50along with the entire village population.
20:53Among the dead is Shang's father, General Li.
20:56The General?
21:03Although he had little screen time,
21:05it's clear Shang admired him and sought to earn his pride.
21:08This jarring scene is a harsh turning point for both Shang and the audience.
21:12It wouldn't have worked nearly as well
21:14if it didn't contrast with the film's light-hearted first half.
21:39This may not be one of the most beloved Disney films,
21:42but that doesn't mean it doesn't pack an emotional punch.
21:45Kenai, Danahi, and Sitka are three brothers living in a post-Ice Age world
21:50who have to work hard for survival.
21:52Never try to milk a caribou.
21:54At the beginning of the film,
21:55the siblings hunt down a bear that steals food from them,
21:58and during the combat that ensues,
22:00Sitka gives his life in order to protect his siblings.
22:03Sitka.
22:04Sitka!
22:09It's only the fact that Sitka's spirit lives on in Brother Bear
22:12that makes this death one of the more manageable.
22:15Number 9.
22:16Kerchak, Tarzan
22:17At the beginning of Tarzan,
22:20the character of Kerchak actually seems more poised to be an antagonist than anything else.
22:30He doesn't take to Tarzan like his mate Kala does,
22:33and is reluctant to give him his respect.
22:35You can't learn to be one of us.
22:37Because you never give him a chance.
22:38Give him a chance.
22:40Kala, look at him.
22:41He will never be one of us.
22:44Until the very end, there is conflict between these two.
22:47But when Kerchak is mortally shot by Clayton,
22:49it's clear that he and Tarzan have always been family.
22:52He calls Tarzan his son in his final moments,
22:55and honors him by calling him the king of the gorillas.
22:58Take care of them.
23:02My son.
23:03Wipe those tears away.
23:04This is only going to get worse.
23:12Number 8.
23:13Tala
23:13Moana
23:23Moana's grandmother is one of the most important people in her life,
23:27and she gives her granddaughter much inspiration in the beginning of the film.
23:30It soon becomes clear that Grandma Tala is very sick,
23:33and despite the villagers trying everything in their power,
23:36it doesn't look like they're going to save her.
23:38I can't leave you.
23:41There is no way you could go
23:44or that I won't be with you.
23:46Despite the fact that this death doesn't even take place on screen,
23:50it's still very emotional.
23:52Like Sitka, though,
23:53Tala continues to be present throughout the film
23:55as her soul takes on a different form.
23:58I know a girl from an island.
24:00She stands apart from the crowd.
24:04She loves the sea and her people.
24:07She makes her whole family proud.
24:10Number 7.
24:11Coral
24:11Finding Nemo
24:12Shh, you're going to wake the kids.
24:15This opening scene is totally underrated
24:17as one of the bleakest to ever take place in a Disney film.
24:20I like Nemo.
24:22Nemo?
24:23Well, name one Nemo,
24:25but I'd like most of them to be Marlon Jr.
24:27Just think, in a couple of days,
24:29we're going to be parents.
24:30Clownfish Marlon and Coral are horsing around in their reef
24:33when all of a sudden danger strikes in the form of a barracuda.
24:36Choosing to attempt to protect her eggs rather than save herself,
24:41Coral ultimately meets a grim end alongside all of her unborn children,
24:45except one.
24:52This intro serves to show how important Nemo is to his father
24:56as the only egg to survive the attack.
24:58I promise I will never let anything happen to you.
25:03Nemo.
25:03Pretty dark stuff for a family movie.
25:06Number 6.
25:07Tadashi Hamada
25:08Big Hero 6
25:09Thanks for not giving up on me.
25:13As one of Disney's more modern animated films,
25:16older fans may not be familiar with the story of Big Hero 6.
25:20Hiro and Tadashi Hamada lost both of their parents when they were young.
25:23Oh, what would Mom and Dad say?
25:25I don't know.
25:27They're gone.
25:28They died when I was three, remember?
25:30That's what makes it even more devastating when Tadashi,
25:33the elder of the two brothers,
25:35is suddenly killed when he runs into a burning building
25:37to save his mentor, Professor Callahan.
25:40Someone has to help.
25:54While his death is sudden and shocking,
25:56the even more heart-wrenching scene
25:58is when Baymax later shows Hiro footage of Tadashi
26:00in an attempt to cheer him up.
26:02Oh, man.
26:04Wait till my brother sees you.
26:06You're gonna help so many people, buddy.
26:09So many.
26:10Number 5.
26:11Bing Bong
26:12Inside Out
26:13Anyone with the nostalgia for the wonder of childhood
26:16will surely be affected by this scene from Inside Out.
26:19We were best friends.
26:21Yeah, it's sad.
26:27Considering Bing Bong is merely a figment of Riley's imagination,
26:31it's really saying something about how terribly sad this scene is
26:34that it makes it this high on our list.
26:36Come on, Joy, one more time.
26:38I've got a feeling about this one.
26:40Bing Bong has to sacrifice himself by remaining in the memory dump,
26:44eventually fading from Riley's mind forever.
26:46Sing Riley!
26:47Sing Riley!
26:52Bing Bong's final words to Joy are
26:54Take her to the moon for me.
26:56And we can't even watch this scene without getting choked up.
26:59Take her to the moon for me.
27:02Okay?
27:06Number 4.
27:08Rey
27:08The Princess and the Frog
27:09There is a reason why Disney pretty much never kills off
27:13the animal sidekicks in their animated films.
27:15It's just way too hard to bear witness to.
27:17Rey is a scrappy yet romantic firefly who helps Tiana and Prince Naveen
27:22along on their happily ever after.
27:24The scene in which he is crushed by Dr. Facilier
27:27is both totally shocking and completely devastating.
27:34You imagine that this tough little bug will bounce right back,
27:38but sadly he does not.
27:50His funeral is possibly even worse.
27:53Though at least he finally gets to be with his one true love.
28:06Disney definitely has a thing with killing off the protagonist's parents,
28:10and 1942's Bambi may just be the originator of this trope.
28:14The entire plot of the film is based on the death of Bambi's mom,
28:18which takes place early in the story.
28:26You might remember how upsetting this was to watch as a kid,
28:29because you weren't quite used to the harsh facts of life yet.
28:32This death takes place off-screen,
28:34so it's not the moment itself that is truly awful,
28:37but rather Bambi's reaction
28:39when he realizes that his mom isn't right behind him.
28:42Your mother can't be with you anymore.
28:57You knew this one was coming.
28:59What's the worst part about this death scene?
29:01Is it Mufasa desperately trying to save Simba?
29:04Is it the look in Mufasa's eyes
29:06as he sees his own brother throw him to his death?
29:09Long live the king.
29:14Is it Simba trying to wake his dad up
29:16after the king has fallen and crawling under his paw?
29:25Or is it Scar making Simba believe
29:27that his father's death was actually his fault?
29:29But the king is dead.
29:33And if it weren't for you, he'd still be alive.
29:37All of this comes together to create a scene
29:39that imprinted on our childhoods,
29:41and is still just as difficult to watch today.
29:43Number one, Ellie, Up.
29:46You and me, we're in a club now.
29:49If you saw the trailers for Up before it came out in 2009,
29:52you probably went into the theater expecting
29:55a whimsical romp featuring a crotchety old man,
29:57an obnoxious kid, and a cute dog.
29:59So when this movie opened
30:01with one of the most heartbreaking montages
30:03in all of film history,
30:04you may not have been emotionally prepared.
30:13Carl and Ellie's melancholic love story
30:16and Ellie's subsequent death
30:17are hard to handle for adults
30:19even more than for children.
30:24So we totally forgive you
30:26if you fast forward this one when re-watching.
30:29Which Disney deaths hit you the hardest?
30:31Share your feelings in the comments below.
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