# How did Disney emotionally devastate you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927 "2018-03-02T21:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/1 "2018-03-02T21:26:13Z")
There have been many, many times Disney has played me so hard I’ve wept rivulets. It’s all the dying in all the cartoons, I think. Bambi’s mom, Simba’s dad, Trusty the bloodhound in Lady and the Tramp. Freaking Up doesn’t even wait for the movie to start before it starts killing off beloved characters. But the one scene that just killed me wasn’t even a death. It was Dumbo’s mom singing Baby Mine. She reaches through the bars to stroke her little baby one last time. . . 'scuse me-- allergies. It may be this one scene really gets to me because it was the first time a cartoon made me do anything beside laugh. Also, I was quite young. My dad should have known better than to show this to me, especially since my very own mother died when I was 5-- not that long before I watched this movie on The Wonderful World of Disney. I was inconsolable and am glad it isn’t one of those Disney clips they show all the time. How did Disney traumatize you? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/2 "2018-03-02T21:35:09Z")
^ You nailed it in one. Thanks, loads. And I was probably over 20 when I first saw it. :o ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/3 "2018-03-02T21:39:39Z")
My parents took almost 7-year old me to see Return to Oz. I only saw it that one time, but I remember being terrified of Wheelies and the multiple heads of the queen at the end. It was way, way, way too intense for me. The only time I have literally had a nightmare from a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/4 "2018-03-02T21:48:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > It was way, way, way too intense for me… Did you become an axe murderer, develop a mental illness, or find your life impaired in some way as a result of seeing this movie at a young age? ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/5 "2018-03-02T21:55:08Z")
By having Davy Crockett die at the Alamo and by shooting Ol’ Yeller! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/6 "2018-03-02T22:02:33Z")
The Fox and The Hound. The scene where the hound stands between his owner and the fox about to get his head shot off made me cry like a baby. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/7 "2018-03-02T22:13:03Z")
The earliest one I remember was “The Jungle Book.” I was fine with everything up to the end. But when that evil little girl showed up and took Mowgli away from his friends? That got to me. In Dumbo, I hated the crows for picking on him. That was awful for me to watch. Quite frankly, I’m not sure how any of this is for children. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/8 "2018-03-02T23:07:17Z")
Shooting Old Yeller. I could handle the rest of it. And then, the death of Ellie in _Up!_. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/9 "2018-03-02T23:34:31Z")
When I saw The Jungle Book after reading Kipling, and realized that Disney had made buffoonish singing cartoons out of something I thought was magical and wise. I was maybe ten so that would be 1966. Don’t think I watched another Disney cartoon for several decades after that rude awakening. None of the tear-jerking scenes before that moved me much. I had read far too many books written for adults by then. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/10 "2018-03-03T00:23:34Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Did you become an axe murderer, develop a mental illness, or find your life impaired in some way as a result of seeing this movie at a young age? Maybe. I’m not telling. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/11 "2018-03-03T00:52:32Z")
I used to work for them. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/12 "2018-03-03T01:46:21Z")
When Andy quit on Woody for Buzz. I never liked that upstart Buzz. ( I know it’s Pixar) ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/13 "2018-03-03T01:48:41Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > I used to work for them. 'Nuff said. I’ve heard Disney referred to as “Mauschwitz” by some of the people who worked there in the pre-Little-Mermaid era. ---
**Author:** ![Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Backwater\_Under\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Backwater_Under_Duck)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/14 "2018-03-03T02:20:02Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > By having Davy Crockett die at the Alamo and by shooting Ol’ Yeller! ☹ I was seven when he plugged Old Yeller. Only time I ever saw it, and I remember it as plain as day. Totally worst ever. On the other hand, I knew everybody at the Alamo was goin’ down. I was born in Lubbock. It wasn’t so pain-full as perfectly melodramatic, and that time I was only five. Best dyin’ scene ever. Buddy Ebson as George Russel: _Give 'em what fer, Davy._ ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/15 "2018-03-03T03:02:19Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > I’ve heard Disney referred to as “Mauschwitz” by some of the people who worked there in the pre-Little-Mermaid era. I think that term was banned. Duckau was a popular replacement. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/16 "2018-03-03T03:07:17Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > I’ve heard Disney referred to as “Mauschwitz” by some of the people who worked there in the pre-Little-Mermaid era. Among other things, I worked on a merch project for Little Mermaid, so it was a bit after that. My favorite term at the time was ‘Junior Corporate.’ ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/17 "2018-03-03T03:09:18Z")
Bambi’s mom was traumatic when I was little. Ellie’s death in _Up_ made grown up me cry. It’s one heck of an odd formula for a movie, especially for a kid’s movie: [ol] [li]Kill a loved one[/li][li]Torment the survivor[/li][li]Happy ending[/li][li]Money, money, money![/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/18 "2018-03-03T03:19:23Z")
Seeing _Finding Nemo_ a few weeks after our son died was a big mistake. My wife, our two kids, and I had been moping about the house for a while in our sadness. We decided we should go to the movies. We love Pixar movies, so we picked their latest offering, not knowing what it was about. Dammit, dammit, dammit. When Nemo’s Dad says, “I’ll never let anything happen to you.” sent me over the edge. Seeing me cry sent the wife and kids into tears. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/19 "2018-03-03T03:57:32Z")
{{{hugs}}} **Drumgod** ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927/20 "2018-03-03T05:10:24Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > My parents took almost 7-year old me to see Return to Oz. > > I only saw it that one time, but I remember being terrified of Wheelies and the multiple heads of the queen at the end. > > It was way, way, way too intense for me. The only time I have literally had a nightmare from a movie. I wouldn’t say Return to Oz emotionally _devastated_ five year old me…more like emotionally “baptized me in a lake of liquid fire, reborn, cleansed, free to scrawl my own design on a morally blank world.” 'Loved that movie. Still do. Those Wheelers do still creep me the heck out, though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-disney-emotionally-devastate-you/809927.md?page=2)