History TearJerker / Dumbo

** The fat crow putting his arm on the shoulder of the young bespectacled one who appears the be the crying harder (albeit silently) than the rest of the crows.

** The parallels get even worse than that as shown under FridgeBrilliance in the Fridge page for this movie. Dumbo is the interracial offspring from his mother (who is an Asian elephant) and his father (who was an African elephant). [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything So the main reason the other Asian elephants in the circus shun Dumbo is because he is different from them...]] [[MalignedMixedMarriage Wow.]]

If there's one thing Disney is notorious for, it's for [[Tearjerker/{{Disney}} having tons of sad moments in their movies]] but even then, ''Dumbo'' is considered one of their most tearjerking movies.

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[[caption-width-right:320:Baby Mine, don't you cry...]]

** It's a famous enough tearjerker to became the subject of a gag in another movie. In Creator/StevenSpielberg's ''[[Film/NineteenFortyOne 1941]]'', one of the characters (General Stilwell) goes to see ''Dumbo'' in theaters, 1941 being the year the film came out. There's the inevitable scene of him crying when "Baby Mine" starts.

** This goes even further, as earlier in the film, the roustabouts whom are setting up the circus are all shown to be black. Not only that, but they are forced to work in awful working conditions in the rain. This heavily reinforces the point.

** The parallels get even worse than that as shown under FridgeBrilliance in the Fridge page for this movie. Dumbo is the interracial offspring from his mother (who is an Asian elephant) and his father (who was an African elephant). [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything So the main reason the other Asian elephants in the circus shun Dumbo is because he is different from them]] Wow…

If there's one thing Disney is notorious for, it's for [[Tearjerker/{{Disney}} having tons of sad moments in their movies]] but even then, ''Dumbo'' is considered [[UpToEleven one of their most tearjerking movies]].

* If there's one thing Disney is notorious for, it's for [[Tearjerker/{{Disney}} having tons of sad moments in their movies]] but even then, ''Dumbo'' is considered [[UpToEleven one of their most tearjerking movies yet]].

* The beginning of the movie with the storks dropping the new babies off. Dumbo's mother is eagerly awaiting her baby's arrival, and is heartbroken into the next day when Dumbo doesn't come the first night.

* In the beginning, when the other elephants call him Dumbo for the first time. Dumbo looks up at them and smiles because they're laughing and he's too innocent to understand that they're laughing ''at'' him.
* Meta-Tearjerker: For the 60th anniversary DVD of the movie, there was a behind-the-scenes bonus feature that revealed that a Dumbo II was being made. It contained a great synopsis that showed lots of promise, and even showed interviews of the few surviving works of the original saying that they were very excited for this film. But then, the movie ended up being cancelled. That means the public may never see this promising sequel and these interviewed original crew members died having never seen their last project being finished.

* If there's one thing Disney is notorious for, it's for [[Tearjerker/Disney having tons of sad moments in their movies]] but even then, ''Dumbo'' is considered [[UpToEleven one of their most tearjerking movies yet]].

* If there's one thing Disney is notorious for, it's for being good at getting the viewers to cry but even then, ''Dumbo'' is considered [[UpToEleven one of their most tearjerking movies yet]].

** This goes even further, as earlier in the movie, with the Song of the Roustabouts. The roustabouts are all black-skinned, and are forced to do awful labor in such terrible conditions in a rainstorm. That could have been reinforcing the point.

** This goes even further, as earlier in the movie, with the Song of the Roustabouts. The roustabouts are all black-skinned, and are forced to do awful labor in such terrible conditions in a rainstorm. [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped That could have been reinforcing the point.]]

* A minor, but important one: Timothy [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls the crows out for ridiculing Dumbo]], noting how Dumbo's been ostracized for his ears. During the speech, [[EverybodyCries each crow sheds a tear]]. Being patterned after black stereotypes (aka Jim Crow, the leader's name), they probably sympathize with Dumbo because [[FridgeBrilliance they also know what discrimination is like.]]

* Dumbo crying after being humiliated by the clowns during a performance.

** If that weren't sad enough, there's also [[https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/122/MPW-61120 this movie poster decipting the scene]], and shows all three characters (Dumbo, Mrs. Jumbo, and Timothy) crying.

* Dumbo crying after being humiliated by the clowns during a performance.
* The beginning of the movie with the storks dropping the new babies off. Dumbo's mother is eagerly awaiting her baby's arrival, and is heartbroken into the next day when Dumbo doesn't come the first night.