Recently I have been watching a lot (and I mean A LOT) of Disney films with my daughter. She is at the age now where she can understand them and enjoy them a lot more, and naturally she doesn’t really want to watch Game of Thrones, or John Carpenter’s: The Thing, so we have normally snuggled up in her half human sized bed to watch a Disney film. Of course I utilise this to mainly watch a film from my childhood.

I have noticed, however, that a lot of the Disney films that I watched growing up were pretty brutal in places. Maybe I did not notice when I was a kid, or given that a lot of character’s go through things that should, by all medical logic, have killed them, yet in the next scene they are up and running about as normal, but occasionally when a character actually dies in one of these classic Disney films, mainly the antagonists, they tend to die in a rather horrific way.

So here are some of the most brutal deaths in some of your much loved children’s Disney films. These are in no particular order, as each one is just as bad as one another.

  1. Death from having a wardrobe hit you – Beauty and the Beast
    This is quite a savage one and one that people will instantly remember. During the siege of the Beast’s castle, Gaston’s militia are ambushed by the servants of the castle trapped in the bodies of household objects. At one point the Wardrobe, who up to this point has been a very nice and warming person, leaps off of the railing and lands on top of someone, killing them instantly.

     

  2. Death by Hanging – Tarzan
    During his fight against the antagonist; Clayton (played by Brian Blessed), Tarzan falls into a series of hanging tree vines. Clayton decides to follow him, swinging a machete chaotically in an attempt to cut the native jungle boy in half. As he gets caught in amongst the vines, he begins to get trapped. He desperately tries to cut himself free, but as he does the vines around other parts of his body begin to tighten, the more twisted he becomes. Eventually it all gives way and the adventure falls to his death. Now the fall would have been enough, but Disney decided that this particular villain must have been so bad that he deserved to be hanged.

     

  3. Buried in an Avalanche – Mulan
    As Mulan prepares for the up coming battle against the Huns, she sets up a firework and points it right at the side of a snow covered mountain. It is clear that once the enemy has reached her planned “kill zone”, Mulan fires it (with total disregard for her friend sitting on it, the dragon; Mushu – played by Eddie Murphy). The firework crashes into the side of the mountain and it creates an avalanche. The show pours over the approaching Huns army and buries the enemy in layers upon layers of snow, wiping them from existence in what can only be described as a mass murder.

     

  4. Eaten Alive By Hyenas – The Lion King
    At the end of the Lion King, the usurper; Scar has claimed the pride lands and allowed the hyenas to eat whatever they want. Simba returns and challenges him, besting him in a battle. We all knew that Scar was not one to fight people with his brawn, which was why he easily got Mufasa out of the way, so naturally he has a few dirty tricks up his sleeve. Thanfully Simba bests him and decides that, instead of exiling him or killing himself, he’ll let his starving minions; the hyenas, tear him apart and eat him alive on pride rock, probably before killing the hyenas, as they had grown too reckless and hungry during their time under Scar’s rule.

     

  5. Falling to your Death – Up
    Now this is classic way that villains die in Disney films, but this particular one seemed worse considering how high up they are. Realising that his hero is a fraud, and insane having lived a life of isolation with no one by dogs around him, Carl Fredricksen attempts to escape in his floating house, but Charles F. Muntz is desperate to stop them from leaving with the creature he has searched for his whole life. As he frantically tries to catch them, he runs straight out he door and falls miles through the air onto the ground below, most likely being impaled by a tree.

     

  6. Burning Alive in Molten Hot Lead – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Whilst trying desperately to kill Quasimodo, Judge Claude Frollo scales the church of Notre Dame (Assassin’s Creed style) as the city below burns in a hell fire of molten lead (poured by the Hunchback and his sentinel minions). Unfortunately for Claude, the stone gargoyles near the top of the church must not have been designed for climbing, and so it begins to break away at his feet. He climbs on for dear life as he witnesses his burning fate in the eyes of the statue, just before it breaks off and he falls to his death (we hope, because if he survives the fall then he would suffer a fate worse than death as his body is consumed by the molten hot lead. Regardless, there will be nothing left of the poor man of the cloth).

     

  7. Ageing hundreds of years in a few seconds – Tangled
    This is a more modern Disney film, but still savage none the less. In this, Mother Gothel, who has managed to keep herself alive for hundred of years using the power of a sun droplet residing in an ancient flower, singing to it and keeping herself young, has kept hidden a child born using the flowers power whose hair does the same sort of thing.
    Well her power of immortality is trying to escape and so she attempts to stop it. Rapunzel cuts her own hair, stopping the power, and somehow it instantly affected her kidnapper/adoptive mother. It appears that their fates were intertwined, and with that all her years catch up to her. She falls from the window, which would have killed her anyway, but as her rope hits the ground, only dust remains.

     

  8. Torn Apart by Baby Birds – A Bug’s Life
    After being previously fooled by the ants’ fake bird (the Grasshoppers arch enemy), the antagonist Hopper chases Flik, but the clever ant has a plan in mind; lure him to a real bird nearby. Hopper believes this to be another decoy and does not run at the sight of it, as does his Grasshopper brethren. The bird grabs him and takes him to its nest to be eaten alive by three baby birds. It is worse than that guy who gets eaten by the baby T-Rex in Jurassic Park: The Lost World!

     

  9. Sucked into a Plane’s Propeller – Incredibles
    The kid who wanted nothing more than to be Mr. Incredibles’ number one fan. Sure he made some bad decisions, but did he really deserve such a fate? His cape is caught in the propeller of his own private jet (a fate hinted earlier in the movie) and it pulls the poor guy into it, ripping him apart instantly into has to be a cloud of gore and pink mist (obviously shown off screen). Did he really deserve it? Maybe… he did try to kill a baby moments earlier.

     

  10. Skin Ripped off and Squashed – The Nightmare Before Christmas
    Oogie Boogie just really wanted to have a bit of fun. He kept all the bugs inside of his sack safe and alive, as well as owned the only casino in all of Halloween Town. Now how are the people going to keep themselves entertained for the other 364 days of the year?
    Now Jack Skeleton, seizing an opportunity to take down Oogie Boogie, grabs hold of a loose thread and attaches it to one of he bag-man’s hanging ceiling fan of death. It rips him apart almost instantly, tearing his skin revealing all of the insects beneath who fall into the molten lava below. Oogie manages to avoid the lava but is eventually stepped on and crushed by Santa Clause himself.

 

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