The Darkest Disney Project

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The darkest Disney project

Peter Pan 1953

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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Peter Pan 1953

+2 pirate mentions that he “almost forgot how to slit the throat”

+5 a place called cannibal cove is seen (and mentioned) on Captain Hooks map

+2 Captain Hook suggests boiling tiger Lilly in oil (amongst other nasty methods of getting info)

💀+6 some pirate is annoying Captain Hook with his singing; Captain Hook promptly decides too shoot him for it

+3 at some point in the past Captain Hook got his hand cut off and fed to a crocodile

+4 the lost boys are this close 🤏🏼 to making Wendy fall too her death onto a pile of rocks (and tinker bell is totally trying to murder her)

+3 the chief threatens to burn the lost boys along with John and Michael at stake if tiger lily isn’t found

+3 the mermaids trying to drown Wendy

Why is everything in Neverland trying to kill you

+3 tiger lily was this close 🤏🏼 to actually drowning

+1 smee reminiscing about the good old days involving “cutting throats” with Captain Hook, (it’s implied he wants them to go back to doing that)

+3 Captain Hook plants a bomb in Peter’s home attempting to murder him

+1 Captain Hook flipping his promise around; he won’t lay a finger (or hook) on Peter Pan but he will find a way to kill him without touching him

+3 Much like a Bond villain Captain Hook tells everyone else his plan to blow up Peter Pan while it’s already in effect

+2 tinker bell appears like she could be dead after the explosion…she’s fine tho

+3 the pirates make Wendy walk the plank (she gets rescued tho)

💀+5 Captain Hook throws a pirate off the boat, pirate must have drowned

+2 Captain Hooks pirates are chasing after the children with the intent of causing some sort of harm to them

+3 pirate is this close 🤏🏼 to decapitating John

I’m starting to think there’s another reason you don’t grow up in Neverland

Score: 54

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The darkest Disney project

Alice in wonderland 1951

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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💀+10 the walrus eats a bunch of oyster children (likely ALIVE)

+3 the carpenter is about to assault the walrus with a hammer (not even for eating kids, but for eating all of them and leaving him none)

💀+6 3 playing cards presumably get their heads chopped off

💀+6 another playing card presumably gets beheaded for the mistake of falling down

+3 queen of hearts threatens to cut off Alice’s head

+3 queen of hearts is this close 🤏🏼 to ordering Alice be beheaded…again

+3 at the trial the queen of hearts does eventually order Alice be beheaded; she gets chased down by litterally everyone in the movie and eventually wakes up

Score: 34

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The darkest Disney project

Cinderella 1950

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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💀+6 Cinderellas dad dies offscreen of unknown causes

+3 “Cinderella was abused humiliated and forced to become a servant in her own house” the narrator said it for me

+3 lady tremaine continues to treat her own step-daughter as a servant

+4 Cinderellas total bitch step sisters tear apart her dress that she was gonna wear to the ball (doesn’t help that it’s sorta shot like a rape scene)

+2 Cinderella loses hope after that scene

+2 upon learning that Cinderella got away the king flies into a violent rage nearly killing the grand duke

+4 lady tremaine locks Cinderella in her room in an attempt to keep her from ever getting out of her abusive home life

+4 dark character: lady tremaine, the definition of an abusive mother, will do anything to crush Cinderella just because she Damn well can

+3 sad character: Cinderella, you know it’s bad when your parents dying isn’t the worst thing about your life; her home life is so bad that I’m a little surprised her fairy godmother didn’t come sooner

Score: 31

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The darkest Disney project

The adventures of ichabod and Mr. toad 1949

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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Wind in the willows

+1 Mr. Toad gets shot at a lot during train chase

+1 Mr. Toad appears to have drowned (is fine tho)

+2 mole nearly gets decapitated by Mr.winkie

+2 multiple knives and other weaponry get thrown at our 4 main characters

Sleepy hollow

+1 generally dark atmosphere when Ichabod is in the forest

+2 the headless horseman’s scary first appearance

+3 Ichabod nearly gets decapitated by the headless horseman

+2 scary chase scene between Ichabod and the headless horseman

+3 Ichabod nearly gets decapitated by the headless horseman again

+3 Ichabod nearly gets decapitated by the headless horseman a third time

+3 Ichabod nearly gets decapitated by…gee if I had a dollar for every time the headless horseman tries to cut off this dudes head

+3 not only Ichabod but also his horse nearly gets decapitated by…Britney Spears

No it’s the headless horseman

+3 Ichabod nearly gets decapitated by the…pillsbury dough boy

No it’s the headless horseman

💀+7 Ichabod gets hit with the headless horseman’s pumpkin head and may or may not have died

+3 dark character: the headless horseman: a super scary guy who will stop at nothing to get ahead…literally

Score: 39

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The darkest Disney

Melody time 1948

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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Once upon a wintertime

+2 frozen body of water breaks apart putting all our characters in a perilous situation

+2 Jenny and rabbit this close 🤏🏼 to falling over waterfall

Bumble boogie

+1 the bee is being constantly attacked by various musical threats

Johnny Appleseed

💀+5 Johnny dies in his sleep in what has gotta be the least brutal death possible

It’s More like 2 points tho his reaction to himself dying and the fact that it’s onscreen gives us 3 more

Little toot

+3 toot causes a giant ocean liner to go straight into a city; which must have injured or even killed countless people

+1 little toot appears to have drowned (is fine tho)

Pacos bill

+2 widowmaker gets circled by vultures who then proceed to try and eat the small horse

💀+5 slue foot sue ends up bouncing off into space never to be seen again

Score: 32

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The darkest Disney project

Fun and fancy free 1947

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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Bongo

+1 bongo doesn’t seem to be treated that well by the circus

+1 bongo almost falls outta the train and almost gets run over

+1 lumpjaw rampages towards bongo (a little frightening)

+1 in general lumpjaw seems to be kinda creepy to bongo’s girlfriend

+2 lumpjaw tries to crush bongo with a boulder

+2 bongo goes down waterfall, girlfriend thinks he died

Mickey and the beanstalk

+4 once prosperous happy valley has turned into a desolate wasteland

+5 Mickey, Donald, and Goofy shown starving with little food between the 3 of them

+3 “are their spirits broken have they lost hope, yes” Jesus Christ narrator (this isn’t even the only bleak description of the 3 characters situation the narrator gives us)

+4 Starvation makes Donald go insane

+4 Donald was this close 🤏🏼 to slaughtering their cow with an axe

+2 Donald goes crazy again after mickey sells the cow for beans

+1 one of the puppets is totally down to kill the cow

+1 Willy the giant was this close 🤏🏼 to accidentally slicing goofy with his knife and impailing Donald with his fork

+2 Willy the giant smashes Mickey with mace (survived but still)

+2 Willy appears to fall to his death (is shown alive soon after tho)

Score: 36

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Make mine music from 1946 is Not on Disney+

This movie is so messed up that it had to be locked away from the innocent public so they wouldn’t have to witness the twisted horrors boiling in the darkest depths of Walt’s mind

Either that or the mouse house forgot about it

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The darkest Disney project

Saludos amigos 1942

The 3 caballeros 1944

(both entries were short so I decided to make it a 2 for 1 deal)

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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Saludos amigos 1942

Pedro

+1 Pedro is caught in treacherous weather; dark vibes

+3 Pedro runs outta gas and crashes

+2 Pedro’s parents go looking for him

+3 Pedro’s parents think he’s dead

Score: 9

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The 3 caballeros 1944

+1 gouchito nearly falls to his death (not really focused on tho)

+1 Panchito makes his entrance guns blazing

+1 in general panchito likes blasting his guns all over the place

+1 Panchito briefly points guns at Donald

Score: 4

Food for thought: these 2 movies are not as dark as the golden age movies, considering the fact that they (along with the rest of the package age movies) were made during WW2 this could be because real life was too dark at the time and people needed lighter movies to balance it out

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The darkest Disney project

Bambi 1942

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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Bambi 1942

+2 many deer run for their lives from hunters

💀+7 bambis mom shot to death off screen

+2 Bambi goes looking for his mother

+2 “your mother can’t be with you anymore” that line is just the cherry on top of this trauma sundae

💀+8 pheasant gets shot and dies

+1 faline gets chased by scary dogs

+3 many rocks fall on scary dogs, most likely injuring them or even killing them

+4 forest fire

Score: 29

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The darkest Disney project

Dumbo 1941

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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+1 dumbo gets bullied by older elephants

+1 some kid bullies and harasses dumbo for having big ears (but honestly this kid making fun of someones big ears would be like Eric cartman laughing at someone for being fat)

+2 dumbos mom goes on violent rampage

+2 dumbo gets separated from mom

+3 dumbos mom gets locked in rather small cell, that’s some animal cruelty right there

+1 circus tent falls and leaves multiple elephants badly injured

+1 pink elephants; weird and spooky atmosphere

Score: 11

You know how I always knew dumbo was gonna be light

in this movie dumbo gets separated from his mom

In any other Disney movie…she would have DIED

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The darkest Disney project

Fantasia 2K 2000

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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Symphony #5

+2 angular butterfly gets chunk blown outta it (not graphic)

Pines of Rome (space whales segment)

+1 baby whale appears to have gotten crushed by iceberg (is fine tho)

Raspody in blue

+1 kid runs into traffic; remains unharmed but still dangerous situation

Steadfast Tin soldier

+1 jack in a box is a total creep to dancer figurine

+1 creepy red eyed rats with sharp ass teeth give dark vibes to one scene

💀+6 jack in a box face-plants into furnace and burns to death

Yo-yo flamingo

+1 a bunch of flamingos try to drown another flamingo (played for laughs but still kinda messed up)

Sorcerers apprentice

+11 go see fantasia post

Donald’s ark

☠️+10 this is an adaptation of Noah’s ark: a story in which almost all life on earth drowns in a giant flood (implied)

+3 Donald almost gets drowned in the great flood

+2 Donald thinks daisy is dead and vice versa

The firebird

+3 Mother Nature awakens animalistic abomination known as the firebird

+3 the firebird lava blasts Mother Nature

+6 lava engulfs forest leading to its destruction

+3 the firebird chases down Mother Nature

+5 the firebird eats Mother Nature and she comes back traumatized

I’m not sure if this counts as her dying and coming back to life since I don’t think she counts as mortal

That being said…she is MOTHER Nature…and you know how Disney is with parents

+2 ruins of the forest shown

Score: 61

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The darkest Disney project

Fantasía 1940

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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Fantasia 1940

Sorcerers apprentice

💀+9 Mickey straight up slaughtered a sentient broom (and you can kinda see it)

+3 Mickey almost drowns

Rite of spring

💀+5 Dino bites pterodactyl on the head and then drowns it

+3 many Dinos get chased by creepy t-Rex trying to eat them

+3 violent altercation between t-Rex and stegosaurus

💀+11 stegosaurus brutally dies on screen by t-Rex bite

☠️+16 many dinosaurs walk around a desert, multiple die and it’s implied that this is how the dinosaurs went extinct

Pastoral symphony

+1 storm scene (dark atmosphere)

+1 Zeus sends multiple lightning bolts to Dionysus (Dosent hit him but still)

+1 baby unicorn and baby Pegasus in perilous situations (they both get rescued)

Night on bald mountain/ave Maria

+1 generally dark atmosphere

+8 chernabog drops multiple smaller monsters into presumably hell

+3 chernabog deformed some human looking creatures into monsters

+8 many monsters jump right into hell

+3 dark character: chernabog…just chernabog, a really scary giant demon, the closest Disney might ever get to portraying the devil

Score: 77

Trivia time: read the name yen sid backwards…yeah he’s actually based on Walt

Next movie: fantasia 2000

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The darkest Disney project

Pinocchio 1940

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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+1 cuckoo clocks depict child abuse and killing animals

+3 Stromboli locks up Pinocchio in a little cage

+4 Stromboli then threatens to turn Pinocchio into firewood

+3 Pinocchio then gets kidnapped by Stromboli

+2 honest John is prepared to commit murder when the the coachman asks if he wants to make “real money”

+2 “I’m collecting stupid little boys” said like a total creep courtesy of the coachman

+3 gepetto looks for his missing child

+2 the coachman’s cart appears to be pulled by donkeys; this detail is only dark if you know what happens next

+21 a bunch of children get turned into donkeys and sold as slaves

+25 in a moment of pure body horror lampwick gets transformed into donkey

+10 we don’t know what happens to the talking donkeys, and I don’t think we wanna know

+12 coachman gets away with turning kids into donkeys

+3 gepetto gets eaten by a whale

+4 gepetto just accepts starving 2 death

+3 monstro smashes his head into side of rock, even if that didn’t kill him it probably injured him and must’ve hurt like hell

🐦‍🔥💀+6 Pinocchio drowns to death (not for long)

+13 dark character: the coachman, dude likes to bait little boys onto his island so he can turn them into donkeys and sell them as slaves, absolutely disgusting human being

I don’t know what’s worse what the coachman actually does or what you THINK someone would be doing when they say that they like to collect “stupid little boys” and take them to a place called “pleasure island”

+3 pleasure island, the whole location gives me the creeps; either the island is the one committing acts of body horror on kids, or it’s getting used by some sicko so that he can use his evil demon powers to strip kids of their humanity…either way this island is worst than Epstein’s

Score: 120

Trivia time: Gideon was originally gonna have a lot of dialogue and be voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc but after the success of dopey from Snow White and the 7 dwarves they decided to make him mute

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What do you think is most likely turning kids into donkeys in Pinocchio

The coachman

Pleasure island

Either one

Voting ended onOct 5, 2024

I’ve been wondering about this all my life

Is The coachman turning them into donkeys or is he exploiting the island’s ability to turn them into donkeys

Part of me is actually leaning towards island but another part of me thinks that it’s the coachman

I did this post twice cause I wanted to add another option

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What is turning kids into donkeys in Pinocchio

What do you think is most likely turning kids into donkeys in Pinocchio

The coachman

Pleasure island

Voting ended onOct 4, 2024

I’ve been wondering about this all my life

Is The coachman turning them into donkeys or is he exploiting the island’s ability to turn them into donkeys

Part of me is actually leaning towards island but another part of me thinks that it’s the coachman

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The darkest Disney project

Snow White and the 7 dwarves 1938

WARNING: spoilers (but you should have already guessed that)

anything else: 1 point or more

Deaths: 5 points or more

MASS deaths: 10 points or more

Dark/sad characters: 3 points or more

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+2 right off the bat queen grimhilde abuses her own stepdaughter by making her a scullery maid

+7 queen grimhilde tries to get the huntsman to kill our main heroine by literally cutting out her heart and shoving it in a box

+3 huntsman almost kills Snow White

+2 freaking demon trees

+1 when the dwarfs think snow is a monster they attempt to kill her (they suggest stuff like “cutting off it’s head” and “chopping it to pieces”)

+2 Grimhilde has creepy transformation scene

+6 Grimhilde plots to have Snow White buried alive

💀+10 skeleton of queen Grimhildes prisoner behind bars reaching for water jug

(the implications are honestly horrific)

🐦‍🔥💀+6 Grimhilde successfully murders Snow White with poisoned apple (not for long tho)

+4 Grimhilde tries to murder dwarfs with boulder

💀+8 Queen Grimhilde falls off cliff gets crushed and then eaten by vultures

+2 keep in mind that through all the traumatic events of this movie Snow White is only 14

+4 dark character: Queen grimhilde: cruel woman who is willing to murder an innocent teenager just for being prettier than her

Score: 57

Trivia time: this isn’t actually the first full length animated movie

that honor would go to a film called the adventures of prince achmed released a decade earlier in 1926