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WARNING: spoilers (duh) and very, very sad GIFs ahead.

Disney started their theme of traumatic animal plots very early on.

is basically on everyone\'s list of most upsetting Disney movies ever.

Yes, he does eventually make it out of the hole and back home, but dear lord, when he just gives up and lays down in the mud? The agony is too much to bear.

While the death itself is very sad, it\'s seeing Simba begging his father to get up that really just twists the knife in your heart. Oh, and then Simba curls up under his dad\'s lifeless paw, which is right about when we start going blind from the tears.

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We can\'t even talk about this one. We sobbed making this GIF. That\'s all you need to know.

tells a better love story in the first 10 minutes than

does in five films. But it\'s a horribly depressing love story. Ellie finds out she\'s infertile and then Carl has to watch her die later in life. F--k you, Disney.

After all the crap Ariel puts her father through, he ends up sacrificing himself to Ursula to save his daughter and he becomes a shriveled old sea plant. And Ariel has to watch it happen.

Sarah McLachlan, you already torture us enough with your ASPCA commercials, and then you went ahead and provided the haunting soundtrack to Jesse\'s tale of abandonment? You\'re the worst.

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We can still hear Jock\'s tormented howl as he sees his friend lying motionless in the street.

We will never get over Dumbo\'s mom reaching through the bars to cradle her son.

Not only do we lose Nemo\'s mom (Disney is always killing off parents!), but Marlin loses almost all his children in the most gruesome fashion.

Maleficent is betrayed by the one man she truly loved, and in the most devastating way possible. Not only does he trick her

drug her, but he chops off her wings in an almost unwatchable scene.

Obviously going to something called the Festival of Fools wasn\'t the best idea for Quasimodo, but that doesn\'t make the humiliation scene any less nauseating. Especially when he begs for his master to help him, who of course just sits there like the a--hole he is. Just awful. We couldn\'t even bring ourselves to GIF the more brutal parts of this moment.

! If he wasn\'t brought back to life in the end, we would have sworn off his movie forever.

The toys. Holding hands. Facing their doom together. So. Much. Sobbing.

Lewis travels back in time to watch his mom drop him off at the orphanage. And he almost,

stops her. But then he pulls back and simply watches as his mother leaves him behind. Deep, dark stuff from Disney. This ranks as a

The original, unbearably sad animal movie scene. It came out more than 50 years ago, and all these decades later, it\'s still impossible to watch without crying until your eyes are raw.

OK, now that we\'re all nice and depressed, let\'s have a great rest of day! 

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