Ranking the SADDEST moments from Disney and Pixar movies that broke me
Before we begin may I just say that I had to redo this entire chart because I forgot Tumblr only lets me post 10 pictures so at first this chart had 21 SPOTS and I already wrote it up until like the eleventh when I realized I had to redo it.
GENERAL WARNING: This is sad, people. Like, really sad. The kind of sad that can make you cry, but also the kind that sinks in you for the rest of the day and doesn't leave until the next morning. This is just plain angst, death scenes, break up scenes, hurt scenes, you know the deal. If you aren't looking to be depressed by scenes from children's movies, please scroll away. If you are, welcome, and here's a tissue. You're gonna need it bud.
These are gonna be ranked from the least sad/tolerable to sobbing-on-the-floor kind of deal. Again, I'm sorry, but you know that I had to mix in some good ol' angst in people's dashboards. Keep in mind, this may not be too sad for u or u might feel that I missed some stuff, but these are just scenes that I considered sad.
10. Moana's grandma dying in "Moana"
Coming in on the last spot is the death scene of Moana's grandmother. I genuinely loved her character so much and I was so heartbroken and surprised when she suddenly died. It's ranked on the last spot because she later had an impact on the movie, so it felt like she was still there, which is really heart-warming and how actual death should be seen as.
9. The dad dinosaur dying in "The Good Dinosaur"
I don't know how many of you watched this movie (but you should, it's really cute!), but I think that a death scene of such an important character not even twenty minutes into the movie should be illegal. And they even had a fight before he died, so his son never got the chance to apologise! It's on this list not because it was so emotional, just because I hate when a family member who's very important dies.
8. Ian not getting to see his dad in "Onward"
Okay, I know this is not a death scene, however it still had a huge emotional impact on me. This whole movie resolves around the fact that Ian wants to see his dad, even just for a minute, so when he doesn't at the end, it's really devastating. The gesture he did for his brother is incredible, and I understand why he did it, I just wish that after all the trouble he went thru he could finally see him.
7. Ray's death in "Princess and The Frog"
Ray is one of the funniest characters in the entire movie, and this was one of the saddest death scenes Disney ever had.
Was he too good to die? Yes.
Was this the saddest part of this movie? Also Yes.
Did Disney had to do this? No.
It's really not fair, poor Ray. At least he got to be with his Evangeline.
6. Bing Bong Perishing in "Inside Out"
Bing Bong didn't actually die, however, he just kind of perished. I have to admit, he was kind of annoying to me when I first saw him on the screen, but I immediately regretted that thought when this scene happened. I love how he cared so much about Riley and Joy that he sacrificed himself for them, that was really cute. "Inside Out" all together was a really emotional movie, but I remember that the line "Go! Go, save Riley!" had me tearing up.
5. Bambi's mom dying in "Bambi"
Wow, my fellow angst lovers (I mean.. I'm assuming you like angst since you're already this far.. If you don't, than wow, you must be really curious!), we already made it to top five! The death of Bambi's mom honestly deserves a place on any chart of sad scenes, because some people even consider it the saddest. This scene is so sudden and so genuine that I still cry every time I see it, which isn't every often because I haven't watched "Bambi" in forever. Again, death of an important family member getting to me isn't anything new. But at least that made him closer to his dad!
4. The flashback scene from "Encanto"
Who would have thought that one of the saddest scenes from Disney and Pixar I would ever watch is from Disney's most recent movie: The Encanto. The scene where they showed how Abuela fell in love with Pedro was incredibly cute and heart-warming, which made his death even more tragic. There are three things that broke me about this scene:
1. The way he kissed all of his babies before trying to calm down the horse riders, before his death
2. Abuela's cry, that's so fucking raw and beautiful and horrifying and heart-wrenching in the same time that it did make me cry when I watched this two weeks ago. I think that Abuela crying here is one of the best animated cries ever
3. The entire song "Dos Oruguitas". SO beautiful and SO sad
wow my man Pedro didn't even say a word and I literately cried over him
3. Tadashi dying in "Big Hero 6"
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"Big Hero 6" came out in 2014 and I'M STILL MAD ABOUT THIS DEATH SCENE 7 YEARS LATER
Tadashi is one of the best (*ehm* and the hottest *ehm*) animated characters of all time and he didn't deserve what Disney gave him
NOT EVEN 20 MINUTES INTO THE MOVIE
There was a period of time I refused to rewatch Big Hero 6 just and only because I didn't wanna se Tadashi dying again. I seriously think that his death was stupid and unnecessary, plus it somehow felt rushed, and without showing his helpful side but replacing it with the "somebody has to help" BS.
Welp, I guess that fanfics are the only way any of us are ever going to emotionally recover from this *aggressively starts writing fanfics where he didn't die, but just got hurt*
2. Ellie dying in "Up"
Coming in at the second place, probably the saddest thing that has ever happened in the first 12 minutes of any movie ever. This love story and the song "Married Life" are already good enough reasons to love this movie. Even tho many people love rewatching "Up" many times, I have actually seen this movie only once. It was a long time ago, but I remember that I was like sad or something, so I decided to watch it because it seemed like a movie that would cheer me up. HUGE mistake. I cried so hard that I almost threw up, so yeah. Definitely deserves a place this high on this chart.
1. Literately the whole movie "Coco"
This is the saddest movie I have ever watched, and in my opinion, the saddest movie Disney and Pixar ever made. This is the only movie I ever watched in a cinema that I seriously considered walking out of, just because I couldn't bear it. You're probably thinking that I'm overreacting a bit, but I lost my grandpa (who meant the world to me) not even two weeks before seeing this film, so it hit me like a bus. After it, I cried for weeks on end because it still bothered me, and to this day I haven't rewatched it (like I do with the rest of Disney movies) and I probably won't. It did have it's humour and I love "Un Poco Loco", but there isn't a sum of money you could pay me to rewatch this movie.
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That would be all for this ranking! Hope you went thru it without too many used tissues. Tell me in the comments which Disney/Pixar movies scenes are the saddest to you!
The next ranking will be much happier than this one, so stay tuned and if you want me to rate something requests are open!
I 100% disagree with you on Inside Out. Don't care about Bing Bong. But Riley crying in class because she's homesick? The whole ending with her on the bus running away, this little kid sinking into depression? That you can do visibly see with her clothes getting darker and she's just so broken? Her parents freaking out? Yeah. Nope. Much sadder than Bing Bong perishing. I sob every time.
Okay, I know The Lion King is supposed to be inspired by Hamlet, but let’s be honest, it takes out a lot of the interesting, psycho-drama parts of Hamlet.
The mystery over whether or not Hamlet’s uncle actually killed his dad or if Hamlet was already insane? Gone.
The mystery of whether or not Hamlet’s uncle and mom were plotting to kill his dad? Gone.
Hamlet’s cruelty and Gertrude’s horror after he accidentally stabbing Polonius? Gone.
Hamlet’s descent into insanity? Gone.
Tragic ending? Gone.
Possibly homosexual bromance? Gone.
Now, you might say, but it’s for kids. I say, why?! It’s a play about court intrigue, insanity, and familial murder! Why would you even try to adapt that for kids?! Pick a different play (and not Romeo and Juliet, which is mostly about gang violence and horniness). Take the dick jokes out of one of the comedies, like Comedy of Errors or Twelfth Night, and do that instead. Kids would eat up the whole separated twins thing!
Also, they didn’t include the line “How now, a rat?” even though it’s a movie about animals!!! It does not deserve my respect.
As someone who full on did a Twelfth Night readers’ theater in library with kiddos (K-4) I can say with full certainty that kids do indeed eat that shit up. Twin shenanigans, gender bending nonsense... “I need someone who’s really good at burping” Come. On. Made for middle school.
I toned down the drinking a little and how batshit Malvolio went but other than that, pretty much the same.
K-2 got name tags and were human puppets while I told the story and moved them around. I did the “I never gave her a ring” monologue to give them a taste of the language.
3-4 got the same but then got to get cast and act it out with some of the language, some modern, very shortened...one third grade girl got very into Cesario (ponytail up in the hoodie over her forehead, lowered her voice, whole nine yards)...and at one point messed up the “I’ll do my best to woo your lady.”
She said, “I’ll do my best to woohoo your lady.” I play the Sims. It took everything in me not to lose it. But same kid was still talking about being “Cesar” the next year.
Sandry looking suspicious of you if you try to hurt her friends. Sorry all the background are the same. It's like 12:30am why am I like this? They had no options for Daja's hair and I'm mad about it
Ultimately we’re still looking at a story of a woman changing for her man, but since she’s getting uglier instead of prettier this time it’s unproblematic?
Did you watch the first movie? Cause like she didn’t change herself into an ogre. When the spell broke she remained an Ogre because thats what she truly was the whole time cause her dad was a frog, she ain’t change for anyone, she didn’t remain human, she became her true self, an ogre and Shrek still loved her for who she was regardless like this ain’t complicated or “problematic”, I don’t get how you don’t know that unless you forgot that major plot point that was like the climax of the first movie.
She didn’t change for her man, she changed because of him. The curse on Fiona was that she was going to take the form of her True Love be they human or ogre or anything else. And if you watched the second movie, you would have known that the fairy godmother specifically designed it that way so her son Prince Charming could be the True Love and become king. Also, if you had watched the second movie, you would have known that Shrek literally tried to change himself for his woman. But since the gender roles are reversed this time it’s unproblematic, right?
Shrek didn’t fall in love with Fiona being an ogre he fell in love with her after getting to know her and realizing that they have a ton in common and have good chemistry. Ya know, like a normal person. He didn’t even know she was an ogre until the last like 5 minutes of the movie, at which point he assures Fiona that even tho she isn’t conventionally attractive to everyone else, she is beautiful to him.
I want this in every library, everywhere. After all, some kids won’t even google this stuff because they don’t want parents/siblings checking their browser history.
This is really awesome. And if you’re not familiar with how the Dewey Decimal system works - the numbers subject-based, which means these numbers are applicable in EVERY library. So if you see something you want to research on this list - look for those same numbers in any of your local libraries.
DO YA'LL WANT SOME FANTASY AND SCI-FI BOOKS/SERIES/AUTHORS TO REPLACE HP/JKR? THEN BOY DO I HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOU!
TAMORA PIERCE HAS 8 SERIES (9 IF YOU INCLUDE HER MOST RECENT ONE) ABOUT LADY KNIGHTS AND A DEMIGOD WITH ANIMAL MAGIC AND A COP WHO CAN TALK TO THE DEAD AND THERE'S 4 MAGES WITH A MAGICAL PSYCHIC BOND AND ONE OF THEM IS A BLACK LESBIAN AND THERE'S A SPY WHO HELPS WITH A REVOLUTION AND THEY'RE AWESOME. (there's some attitudes that are a little outdated but TP started writing in like the 80s so)
BRIAN JACQUES (OBM) WROTE THE REDWALL SERIES WHICH IS ABOUT ANIMALS WHO LIVE IN AN ABBEY CALLED REDWALL AND THERE'S HEROES AND WARRIORS AND PIRATES AND BADGERS WHO LIVE IN VOLCANOES AND SAILORS AND OVERTHROWING TYRANTS AND DEFEATING VILLAINS AND GENERAL BADASSERY AND THEY'RE JUST REALLY COOL OKAY? GO READ THEM
NEXT UP WE HAVE KA APPLEGATE WHO WROTE ANIMORPHS. I DIDN'T READ THEM BUT APPARENTLY THEY'RE GOOD BOOKS WITH RELEVANT THEMES AND KIDS TURNING INTO ANIMALS. ALSO KA APPLEGATE ISN'T A TERF.
RICK RIORDAN. YOU LEARN ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY AND NORSE MYTHOLOGY IN AN EASILY COMPREHENSIBLE WAY. ALSO THERE'S A FAIR AMOUNT OF BIPOC MAIN CHARACTERS AND QUEER CHARACTERS AND DIVERSITY AND HUMOR.
ARTEMIS FOWL BY EOIN COLFER. I LOVED THAT SERIES GROWING UP. MORALLY COMPLEX MAIN CHARACTERS AND THEMES OF OVERCOMING SEXISM AND MAGIC AND TIME TRAVEL AND I'VE ONLY READ THE FIRST 5 BOOKS BUT THEY'RE GOOD. EOIN COLFER ALSO HAS ANOTHER BOOK THAT'S ABOUT FIXING YOUR MISTAKES AND I LIKED IT A LOT.
THE ENCHANTED FOREST SERIES BY PATRICIA WREDE. MAYBE IT'S JUST BC I'M ACE AND I THEREFORE LOVE DRAGONS BUT IT'S A GREAT SERIES ABOUT SUBVERTING TRADITIONAL FAIRY TALES AND JUST BEING AWESOME IN GENERAL.
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. FATE USES 3 ORPHANS AS ITS PUNCHING BAG BUT IT'S KINDA EDUCATIONAL AND FUNNY IN A DRY WAY AND HAS A VERY GOOD REDEMPTION FOR THE MAIN ANTAGONIST. 13/10 WOULD RECOMMEND.
YOUNG WIZARDS BY @dduane. FOLLOWS TWO WIZARDS WHO SAVE THE EARTH/UNIVERSE OVER AND OVER AND OVER. HAS AN AUTISTIC CHARACTER. ONE OF THE MAINS IS HISPANIC/LATINE (I'M NOT SURE WHICH IS THE CORRECT TERM SORRY). REALLY COOL BOOKS.
UGLIES BY SCOTT WESTERFIELD. IT'S GOT 4 BOOKS ABOUT A SOCIETY OBSESSED WITH PHYSICAL BEAUTY AND THERE'S REVOLUTION. ALSO SCOTT HAS A SERIES ABOUT VAMPIRES THAT'S REALLY COOL.
THE HUNGER GAMES SERIES. LITERALLY ABOUT CLASS OPPRESSION AND REBELLION AND THERE'S GOOD DEPICTIONS OF TRAUMA AND WAR AND PTSD AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF (/s). REALLY GOOD.
WARRIOR CATS. NEVER READ THEM BUT IT'S CATS WHO ARE WARRIORS. HOW COOL IS THAT.
Anyway that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Feel free to add on.
Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]
For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.
Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016). There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.
okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back
“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]
As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.
The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.
Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)
Do you think the virus is Dr. Verity's fault? Anyways, I hope you're staying safe!!
That’d be nice, as all we’d need is a Kiel vaccine to fix it :(
And I’m all good, given that as a writer, I’m pretty used to isolating myself. But I was thinking of starting a video series while schools are closed, of me reading a few chapters from each of my books per video (with a few side comments/annotations here and there), in case that might help anyone’s boredom. Would anyone be interested in that?
I’m writing a paper about the LIW community as a subculture, and I really want to do the best study possible. I really want to talk to people who have been here from the beginning and people who came to LIWs later. I also really want to talk to people who can talk about what you witnessed in LIW fandom when Lovely Little Losers was airing. If you would like to be interviewed (especially if you live in the UK), please let me know, whether you’re a creator, a fan, or both.
Kill the “Medieval Girl is “Not Like Other Girls” by wielding a sword and is therefore better than traditionally-inclined women” trope 2k16
Some of the greatest accomplishments by medieval and renaissance women were accomplished over a banquet table or tea. And there were tons of women warriors (many and most of whom merely ended up casualties of war, as was the case for most warriors of either sex).
Actually making a significant difference as a female warrior a la Joan of Arc was near-impossible. Meanwhile there were numerous Kings’ mistresses who ended wars and created public service programs like hospitals over tea and therefore had far more positive, powerful, and lasting impact upon the world we live in today than most of the warriors in history, male or female. It’s just that most female accomplishments are often written out by historians, dismissed as being nothing but frivolous partying (when in fact said “frivolous partying” did more to shape the medieval and renaissance periods than 90% of the wars fought). It was a Sumerian princess in a tower who essentially invented literature, a Japanese noblewoman attending parties who wrote the first modern novel.
Women who defied gender roles were awesome, yes. Women who used “feminine” pursuits to assert their strength were JUST AS awesome.
“Other girls” were almost ALWAYS AMAZING. Just because the dudebros who have held the pens for centuries who reinforce the idea of “traditional masculinity = strength” have written out the importance of the banquet table, chivalry, and legends DOES NOT MEAN THAT MISOGYNISTIC B.S. SHOULD BE REINFORCED NOW.
“Proper ladies” were rarely, if ever shallow or mere baby machines, even if they were treated as such. We should not be perpetuating that. The pens are in our hands now. Use them for good.
ALSO *medievalist pushes up glasses* this public/private dichotomy was NOT REALLY A THING during the Middle Ages (and I am sad to say that tea-drinking was very limited.) The banquet table was EXPLICITLY a political space! as well as one for partying! In the heady days of second-wave feminism, Joan Kelly wrote a whole article about how the Renaissance limited noblewomen’s roles more. Also there’s a great book called Gendering the Master Narrative by two of my favorite medievalists and you can read a synopsis of why it’s awesome here.
ALSO ALSO. 90+ percent of women were, obviously, not members of the nobility. Although disadvantaged in law, they often enjoyed a certain degree of equality in practice (until men noticed, in the case of professional regulation.) But you know what the vast, overwhelming majority of people in the Middle Ages were doing? Farming. And farming requires everyone to work. This doesn’t mean that there wasn’t a gendered division of labor, but it meant that everyone cooperated. And according to the “boring,” everyday documents I spend most of my professional life working with (yay?) husbands and wives cooperated and shared initiative in decisions; single women could and did participate in professions and get known as sailors and healers and weavers. I don’t want to get too carried away and proclaim a “golden age” because, y’know, sexism was a huge thing, it was hard to divorce for cruelty, etc. But while official medieval thought often portrayed women as sinks of iniquity (thanks, patristic authors,) some women were writing against that (thanks, Christine de Pizan! thanks, Heloise!) and they weren’t portrayed as delicate flowers. And they were certainly not isolated from active life. I could give you essays on how religious women managed land and founded hospitals and fed and fought with their neighbors.
Tl; dr: medieval women were indeed awesome, for many and varied reasons.
Okay, so here’s the deal. Tali loves the fridge. I don’t know why, but every single time we open it, she bolts for it and jumps in. She crawls into the back of the fridge and nestles int the smallest little corner she can. Now naturally, my biggest fear has been that I’ll close the fridge without knowing she’s in there. And of course, today I went to go grab my Brita filter to pour myself some water. I wasn’t really watching the fridge, and I just opened and closed it really quickly to put the Brita back while I was looking somewhere else. And then I looked around and realized that Tali had been in the kitchen, and now she was nowhere in sight. So immediately, I throw open the fridge door, and there is is, hanging out in the back, content as can be.
Fridge cat just got weirder. Today Tali got into the bathroom while I was showering, which of course made me a little nervous. I didn’t want her to freak out and hurt herself or go on a scratching spree. But evidently she loves water, so she jumped in and just splashed around for a while and got back out. But then she kept whining to get back in, so my boyfriend put a cooler down so she could get in and out with ease, which she took great advantage of. She’s soaking wet now, and very content.
The Most Iconic Libraries from Film and TV by Neville Johnson
From hit TV shows to blockbuster movies, libraries often find themselves at the centre of the action. Whether our favourite characters are quietly pursuing the answer to their problems through literature, or causing absolute mayhem between the bookshelves, they’ve served as a base for many a story. To help you get your head around some of modern media’s most famous libraries, Neville Johnson has dissected five of our favourites by studying their on-screen appearances.
