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What Pixar Moment Is Way Too Dark For A Kids Movie?

The Incredibles is not meant for kids, IMO.

Hannah Marder
by Hannah Marder

BuzzFeed Staff

So, I've been rewatching a lot of Pixar films in quarantine, and something I've noticed is that they're a LOT darker than I remembered.

Mr Incredible watches as someone jumps off the roof of a skyscraper in The Incredibles
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I mean, The Incredibles starts with a suicide attempt.

Finding Nemo starts with Marlin losing not only his wife, but also HUNDREDS of his children.

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Nothing like some casual mass slaughter to start off a kids movie.

I remember watching Toy Story 3 with my younger cousins and thinking, "Man, this is way too dark for a kids movie" during the incinerator scene.

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They hold hands and wait for death. It doesn't get much darker than this.

Even the shorts are pretty dark — yeah, Lava has a happy ending, but does anyone else find it super bleak when the volcano slowly sinks under the ocean and thinks his dream has died?!?

The volcano sinks underwater as the song says, "With no lava, his song was all gone. He filled the sea with his tears and watched his dream disappear"
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His love is literally right in front of him but can't see him, and he can't sing because he's half underwater. That's pretty dark stuff.

And who can forget when Mr. Incredible thought his whole family had died in The Incredibles?

Mrs. Incredible says over the radio that there are children aboard, and Mr. Incredible shouts "no!" Mirage says the target was destroyed
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And then he threatens to murder Mirage...it's just a lot.

What Pixar moment do YOU think is super dark and bleak, especially for a kids movie or short? Let us know what the moment is and why it's so dark (or when you first realized it was really dark) in the comments below, and you could be featured in an upcoming BuzzFeed Community article!