History DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything / AnimatedFilms

* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron}}'': Spirit’s time at the Cavalry camp with attempts to break him is eerily reminiscent of Indian boarding schools, with his hair being cut short, hunger, thirst, and restraint used as punishment, and a racist military officer overseeing the whole thing.

** Some viewers have noted that the Spider-Society seem more apt to a cult than an organization of superheroes, with the back half of [[https://youtu.be/GQ90GIuawAo one video]] outright comparing the mechanics of the Society to fascist ideals, pointing out how the Society also has a somewhat "megalomaniacal" leader in Miguel (note how, during his HiddenDisdainReveal to Miles, he ferociously emphasizes how ''he'' has been the one working to keep the multiverse in order). Many Spider-People, even the ones that would normally be against this kind of thinking such as the ''Spectacular'' and LEGO Spider-Men, agree collectively with the concept of Canon Events where people close to them must suffer or die because they are "supposed" to happen in order to help them become better Spider-People-- no matter how heartless it seems to enforce these events-- and try to convince everyone else that this philosophy is the "ideal" one. Anyone who dares question this line of thinking (such as [[spoiler:Gwen]]) gets harshly reprimanded or exiled, no matter their contributions to the group beforehand.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' features this with ComicBook/TheJoker and his subtext with Batman leading to a scene where he corners Batman in his batcave, throws him into a chair, and leans over him while getting ''really'' close to his face with a rape face.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' Subverted. Kup, an OldSoldier Autobot, is constantly being reminded of situations he's lived through. When the Autobots finally confront the BigBad, [[spoiler: the planet-eating Unicron, who has transformed into the biggest robot ever seen and is attacking Cybertron,]] Hot Rod asks him, "Doesn't this remind you of anything?" Kup replies, "Nope. I've never seen anything like that before."

* ‘’WesternAnimation/{{SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron}}’’: Spirit’s time at the Cavalry camp with attempts to break him is eerily reminiscent of Indian boarding schools, with his hair being cut short, hunger, thirst, and restraint used as punishment, and a racist military officer overseeing the whole thing.

* ‘’WesternAnimation/{{SpiritStallionoftheCimmarron}}’’: Spirits time at the Cavalry camp with attempts to break him is eerily reminiscent of Indian boarding schools, with his hair being cut short, hunger, thirst, and restraint used as punishment, and a racist military officer overseeing the whole thing.

* ‘’WesternAnimation/{{SpiritStallionoftheCimmaron}}’’: Spirits time at the Cavalry camp with attempts to break him is eerily reminiscent of Indian boarding schools, with his hair being cut short, hunger, thirst, and restraint used as punishment, and a racist military officer overseeing the whole thing.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', Miles' powers activating leads to him growing several inches overnight, sweating profusely, and, after some PowerIncontinence, getting [[ADateWithRosiePalms his palm]] [[UrbanLegends covered in hair]]. He even dismisses all of these effects as "a puberty thing."

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', after Buzz Lightyear [[TomatoInTheMirror finds out that he is just an action figure]], he jumps over the banister trying to fly to the window... and tumbles down the stairs painfully and breaks his arm off. Many adult viewers have suggested the parallels to a suicide attempt. It that wasn't enough, the scene that shows him [[DrowningMySorrows getting drunk]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext on Darjeeling tea]], proclaiming himself "Mrs. Nesbitt" and his [[LaughingMad hysterical laughter]] when Woody finds him is startlingly reminiscent of an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic person]] struggling with a mental breakdown.

* ''WesternAnimation/HortonHearsAWho'': The Mayor of Whoville is ridiculed for believing there's a giant invisible elephant in the sky. [[{{God}} Sound familiar?]]

--->'''Baymax:''' We jumped out a ''windoooow''!

** Everytime Xibalba and La Muerte kiss, notice how his ''[[SomethingElseAlsoRises black wings seem to rise as well]]''. It’s also worth mentioning that La Muerte's candles shot off fireworks during TheBigDamnKiss.

--->'''Computer:''' Ooh! That feels sort of good!
--->'''Mouse:''' What does?
--->'''Computer:''' My memory banks are being stroked and by an expert. I feel something. Something happening inside me. And I can't keep it to myself any longer!
---> ''(The computer spits out paper)''

** ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''

*** The way Elsa's parents treat her - keeping her a secret and locking her away from the world, despite how clearly it makes her miserable - is depressingly similar to how a lot of parents treat children who aren't "normal", especially disabled children.
** ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''
*** Olaf mentions that "water has memory," something which played a role throughout the film. In Real Life, this has been used as an excuse by homeopathy practitioners whenever they are being debunked about how there's practically nothing else besides water in their concoctions—this was cheekily played with when they made a joke about how something along the likes of sewage would reflect in the water supply.

** At the end of the film, just right after Frollo falls to his doom, Quasimodo actually looks like if he is marrying Esmeralda to Phoebus. (Because of her almost being tried and sentenced to death by burning by Frollo for a crime she did not commit, is now left with a long, white dress since all of her other outfits were presumably destroyed by Frollo so that she would be executed properly before the trial.)
* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''
** When Mr. Incredible is out rescuing people from a burning building, Helen spots something on his collar and says, "Is that...rubble?" in the same tone of voice one would say "Is that lipstick?" His response goes with this too, in a terribly funny way: "It was just a little...workout. Just to stay loose!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''

* [[WesternAnimation/{{Luca}} Luca]] is about two [[FishPeople sea monsters]] who [[HumanityEnsues turn into humans]] when they are on dry land. However, they revert back to their monster forms if they ever get wet. That is why they try to avoid getting wet, since they fear that humans won’t accept them for who they are. This could be seen as an allegory for LGBT people, who often feel the need to conceal their true identities since they fear that they won’t be accepted into society. [[HoYay The interactions between main characters Luca and Alberto only strengthens this allegory.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado''

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Scoob}}'' has Dick acting disturbingly like an abusive parent to his robot minions. The Rottens all act like young children whose understanding of right and wrong mainly amounts to pleasing their master. They seem to be very aware of Dick's explosive temper, as they are seen trying to pacify him, especially Dusty, who keeps apologizing like a broken record. But Dusty's frantic apologies only infuriate Dick more, and finally blows into a full down tantrum as he pelts Dusty with any object he can find and lobbing insults at the little robot (who is the mental and emotional equivalent of a ''child'' and has curled up into a TroubledFetalPosition at this point) but at this point anything Dusty does just makes Dick even angrier, and he only ceases the physical/verbal onslaught when he gets the idea to make an "example" of the poor little guy whose only crime was to fail despite doing his best and sincerely apologizing for it. He grabs Dusty, who at this point is squirming frantically as Dick rips his head off and crudely stuffs a vacuum cleaner on it.

--> '''Tulip''': This baby is the only good thing to come out of this whole thing!
* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'': The portrayal of the elves and fairies is very reminiscent of American racial politics. The elves are all dark skinned, poorer looking, and voiced by black voice actors. The fairies are light skinned, have fancy balls and are voiced by white voice actors. The fairies rule over the elves and there seems to be some prejudice against them. Sunny, an elf, is desperately in love with Dawn, a fairy, but she never notices him while flirting with every fairy boy she can see. [[spoiler: Her father [[DatingWhatDaddyHates faints in horror]] upon seeing the two kiss at the end of the film.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''

** In a more humorous vein, the end scene has [[spoiler: Jesse, who's just been adopted by Andy, performing the same Hot Wheels trick that Buzz had used at the start of the film, this time to launch herself to the door to open it for Buster]]. Buzz is awestruck and his [[SomethingElseAlsoRises wings pop up]].

---> '''Ken:''' I'm not a girl's toy! I'm not! Why do you guys keep saying that?

* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''

** The scene where [[spoiler:Ralph wrecks Vanellope's cart]] is [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] enough, but listen to it out of context and it sounds like child abuse...and not the [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood humorous kind]].

** The various racism allegories in ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', such as Judy's protest that she's not a "token bunny" on the police force, and her claim that [[NWordPrivileges only rabbits can call each other "cute"]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', after Buzz Lightyear [[TomatoInTheMirror finds out that he is just an action figure]], he jumps over the banister trying to fly to the window... and tumbles down the stairs painfully and breaks his arm off. Many adult viewers have suggested the parallels to a suicide attempt. It that wasn't enough, the scene that shows him [[DrowningMySorrows getting drunk]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext on Darjeeling tea]], proclaiming himself "Mrs. Nesbitt" and his [[LaughingMad hysterical laughter]] when Woody finds him is startlingly reminiscent of a [[TheAlcoholic depressed alcoholic]] having to cope with a mental breakdown.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', after Buzz Lightyear [[TomatoInTheMirror finds out that he is just an action figure]], he jumps over the banister trying to fly to the window... and tumbles down the stairs painfully and breaks his arm off. Many adult viewers have suggested the parallels to a suicide attempt. It that wasn't enough, the scene that shows him [[DrowningMySorrows getting drunk]] [[ItMakesSenseInContent on Darjeeling tea]], proclaiming himself "Mrs. Nesbitt" and his [[LaughingMad hysterical laughter]] when Woody finds him is startlingly reminiscent of a [[TheAlcoholic depressed alcoholic]] having a mental breakdown.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', after Buzz Lightyear [[TomatoInTheMirror finds out that he is just an action figure]], he jumps over the banister trying to fly to the window... and tumbles down the stairs painfully and breaks his arm off. Many adult viewers have suggested the parallels to a suicide attempt.

* The final battle between [[spoiler:Rourke and Milo]] at the end of ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' is reminiscent of a bully beating up a nerd.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' Subverted. Kup, a grizzled old veteran Autobot, is constantly being reminded of situations he's lived through. When the Autobots finally confront the BigBad, [[spoiler: the planet-eating Unicron, who has transformed into the biggest robot ever seen and is attacking Cybertron,]] Hot Rod asks him, "Doesn't this remind you of anything?" Kup replies, "Nope. I've never seen anything like that before."

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'', [[MuggleBornOfMages Mirabel's]] relationships with the rest of the Madrigal family are very reminiscent of how a family would handle a young woman with a learning disability. Her parents constantly try to assure her that she's loved and it doesn't matter that she can't do things that others in the family can; the relative she's closest to is her youngest cousin who hasn't gotten his "gift" yet, and when he does she's both happy for him and disappointed that he's surpassed her too now, like a kid meeting developmental milestones that a handicapped adult hasn't; the family matriarch sidelines her and secretly blames her for the family's problems because of the stress her situation causes them; and while the other adults are usually polite to her there's an unspoken assumption in all their interactions that she's inherently less capable and less mature than them, and whenever she tries to help the family she's either given busywork to do or kindly but firmly told to stay out of the way.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'', the Boov convince themselves that the humans are simple and backwards in order to feel better about basically taking over the Earth. Oh even tries to convince Tip that the Boov "liberated" humankind, and later says that Captain Smek taught them that humans were little better than animals. The parallels to human colonialism and the history of maltreating natives should be obvious.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' features this with ComicBook/TheJoker and his FoeYay with Batman leading to a scene where he corners Batman in his batcave, throws him into a chair, and leans over him while getting ''really'' close to his face with a rape face.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}}'', [[MuggleBornOfMages Mirabel's]] relationships with the rest of the Madrigal family are very reminiscent of how a family would handle a young woman with a learning disability. Her parents constantly try to assure her that she's loved and it doesn't matter that she can't do things that others in the family can; the relative she's closest to is her youngest cousin who hasn't gotten his "gift" yet, and when he does she's both happy for him and disappointed that he's surpassed her too now, like a kid meeting developmental milestones that a handicapped adult hasn't; the family matriarch sidelines her and secretly blames her for the family's problems because of the stress her situation causes them; and while the other adults are usually polite to her there's an unspoken assumption in all their interactions that she's inherently less capable and less mature than them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' is a film about a young girl who learns that the women of her family are [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werebeasts]] who gain the ability to transform into giant red pandas when they grow up. She's confused and frightened by the changes to her body, she's at the mercy of her emotions because strong feelings trigger the change and her mother needs to counsel her on how to deal with what she's become. It's a pretty unsubtle allegory for puberty, to the point that her mother initially assumes the first transformation is her first period. Her mother also notes that Meilin's panda spirit arose earlier than it did for others, a reference to children being perceived to hit puberty at younger ages in recent generations.

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' is a film about a young girl who learns that the women of her family are [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent werebeasts]] who gain the ability to transform into giant red pandas in their early teens. She's confused and frightened by the changes to her body, she's at the mercy of her emotions because strong feelings trigger the change and her mother needs to counsel her on how to deal with what she's become. It's a pretty unsubtle allegory for puberty, to the point that her mother initially assumes the first transformation is her first period.