Animated cinema has left us real gems that, far from limiting themselves to a strictly childish audience, they choose to create mature stories with notable narrative significance. Many of these films have truly traumatic scenes, marked by the death of one of their characters.
This ranking categorizes the level of impact of deaths in children’s films: dramatic moments before which children and adults will feel a tear fall down their cheek. Now, when we speak of animated cinema we refer to the western one; since oriental movies like Studio Ghibli deserve their own list.
9- ‘Up’
The initial sequence of ‘Up’ It is one of the best narrated not only in animated films, but also in the seventh art in general. A review of a lifetime as a couple, with moments directly focused on adults, which concludes with the death of the woman who will be the protagonist of the film. While it is true that the emotion of the scene is not reduced to the death of the character, the delicacy and care with which the relationship is treated makes the start of Pixar’s work numb the eyes of even the bravest.
8- ‘Backwards’
We continue with another of the highest rated Pixar films in recent decades. ‘Upside Down’ has a really deep proposal that is developed with a children’s movie makeup. Nevertheless, the death of Ping Pong overwhelms any heart, also having a really interesting plot background, a direct result of the irremediable growth of the girl in whose head we enter.
7- ‘Tarzan’
To the sound of ‘Two worlds are’, ‘Tarzan’ has a shocking first act in the visual and narrative in equal parts. While it is true that the death of the protagonist’s parents, as well as that of the little ape, are more than enough to impact the audience; It is not until the end of the tape that we will fall into a sea of tears. A film about accepting one’s nature that, before the death of Kerchak minutes after being filled with pride for his adopted son, closes in a prodigious way.
6- ‘Finding Nemo’
The fear of Marvin, Nemo’s father, is perfectly justified and Pixar did not shake his hand when it came to granting truth to the character’s motivation. The barracuda in the first sequence not only ends up with his wife, but with most of his unborn children.. One more evidence that the study created by Steve Jobs prioritizes the formality of the story rather than making a white and inconsequential film.
5- ‘Brother bear’
‘Brother Bear’ is one of the most underrated Disney films, belonging to a stage in which the House of the Mouse was beginning to occupy a second place at the box office. However, the death of Koda’s mother – the heartwarming cub – leads to one of the saddest scenes in the studio. The protagonist, after learning the value of being a bear, has to reveal to his little friend that he was the one who killed his mother., which he has been looking for throughout the footage. Is there something worse? Yes, that the protagonist’s brother is trying to hunt down both of them.
4- ‘The ice age (Ice Age)’
Perhaps the death of the Manny family, the mammoth of ‘Ice Age’ is not exactly explicit; but it is traumatic. This proposal from Blue Sky Studios was a resounding success in animated cinema and, when it is revealed that the humans hunted his wife and son, it is impossible not to get excited. A path of empathy, redemption and overcoming grief that few expected.
3- ‘The lion king’
Mufasa’s death in ‘The Lion King’ needs no introduction. It is one of the most painful moments of childhood for millions of people who, regardless of how many times we have seen it, will break our voices. “Dad dad. You have to wake up “: probably the hardest line of dialogue in animated cinema.
2- ‘Bambi’
If there is one death at Disney that surpasses Mufasa’s, it is that of Bambi’s mother. It was the first time that the studio had an impact on the audience in this way., using a withering shot on a winter night. As in ‘The Lion King’, it is the turning point of the first act necessary for the rest of the story; But that does not mean that it has aroused trauma for generations.
1- ‘In search of the enchanted valley’
Not Disney, not Pixar, not DreamWorks: the first place goes to Universal Pictures. Piecitos’ mother fights a fearsome “teethaur” and perishes in the process. The farewell between mother and son is prodigiously written; while the scene of the little “long neck” chasing his own shadow, thinking that he has found his mother, is the perfect complement to this crude animation film scene.
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