History WouldHurtAChild / AnimatedFilms

* [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant The Coachman]] in ''{{Disney/Pinocchio}}'' does ''worse'' than hurt.

* Shere Khan in ''Disney/TheJungleBook'' is insanely devoted to slaughtering a certain human boy.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys Movie'': Sloan and Bree Blackburn viciously target animals regardless of age, abducting an innocent cheetah cub just so Bree can get a coat from his fur and Sloan threatens the Thornberry kids without any conscience too, throwing Eliza from their helicopter into the river when she interferes with trying to takeout the entire herd of elephants (including at least one child there too).

** ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'': Scar Snout the Wolf has no qualms whatsoever about targeting six innocent babies (ages ranging from newborn to 3) just to eat them. While we can't hear his thoughts, he's sapient given ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats'' sharing the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'', so therefore, it's logical to believe he knows he's targeting human babies.
** ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParisTheMovie'':

** ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrysMovie'': Sloan and Bree Blackburn viciously target animals regardless of age, abducting an innocent cheetah cub just so Bree can get a coat from his fur and Sloan threatens the Thornberry kids without any conscience too, throwing Eliza from their helicopter into the river when she interferes with trying to takeout the entire herd of elephants (including at least one child there too).

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': Once Big Baby learns about [[AbusiveParents Lotso's true nature]], Lotso does not hesitate to beat Big Baby right in the stomach with his wooden mallet. This eventually causes Big Baby to pull an ''epic'' TheDogBitesBack moment towards Lotso by throwing him into the dumpster.

** ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParisTheMovie'': Jean Claude, Coco [=LaBouche=]'s right hand man, uses a giant [=RoboSnail=] animatronic to go after the babies in a Reptar animatronic and nearly kills them at least once.

* ''Rugrats Movie'' Trilogy:

** ''WesternAnimation/RugratsInParisTheMovie'': Jean Claude, Coco [=LaBouche=]'s right hand man, uses a giant [[=RoboSnail=] animatronic to go after the babies in a Reptar animatronic and nearly kills them at least once.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrysMovie'': Sloan and Bree Blackburn viciously target animals regardless of age, abducting an innocent cheetah cub just so Bree can get a coat from his fur and Sloan threatens the Thornberry kids without any conscience too, throwing Eliza from their helicopter into the river when she interferes with trying to takeout the entire herd of elephants (including at least one child there too).

** Earlier, the Indians capture the children, suspecting that they have hidden Princess Tiger Lily and threaten to burn them at the stake if she is not returned by sunset.

* Captain Hook of ''Disney/PeterPan'' puts a bomb in a house full of children, makes a teenage girl walk the plank and sics his pirate crew on the children when they try to escape from him... and just watch him go all AxCrazy in the climax against Peter.

* Madam Mim in ''Disney/TheSwordInTheStone'' tells 12-year old Wart she's afraid she's going to have to kill him.. by turning herself into a cat while he's transformed into a little bird. It's downplayed because Merlin intervenes in time, but still.

* ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'': The FauxAffablyEvil Ratigan is revealed -- in [[VillainSong song,]] no less - to have drowned widows and orphans. Near the end, during the Big Ben battle, he's shown kicking Olivia off a large gear, directly into the path of being crushed by two other gears. Luckily Basil is able to rescue her, just barely in time.

* Captain Hook of ''Disney/PeterPan'' puts a bomb in a house full of children and makes a teenage girl walk the plank.. and just watch him go all AxCrazy in the climax against Peter.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': Once Big Baby learns about Lotso's [[AbusiveParents true nature]], Lotso does not hesitate to beat Big Baby right in the stomach with his wooden mallet. This eventually causes Big Baby to pull an ''epic'' TheDogBitesBack moment towards Lotso by throwing him into the dumpster.

* {{WesternAnimation/Coco}} has the villain [[spoiler: Ernesto De La Cruz]] throw the main character Miguel, age 12, off a building and before that, attempt to prevent him from leaving the Land of the Dead, which would have killed him.

* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Helen explains to Dash and Violet that yes, the {{Mook}}s would hurt a child. And they try to. Fortunately, the kids are resourceful enough to fight back... [[spoiler: The fact that this is also the case with Syndrome is also a [[EvenEvilHasStandards contributing factor]] to Mirage's HeelFaceTurn.]]

* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Helen has to explain to Dash and Violet that yes, the {{Mook}}s would hurt a child. And they try to. Fortunately, the kids are resourceful enough to fight back... [[spoiler: The fact that this is also the case with Syndrome is also a [[EvenEvilHasStandards contributing factor]] to Mirage's HeelFaceTurn.]]

* Discussed in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Helen has to explain to Dash and Violet that yes, the {{Mook}}s would hurt a child. And they try to. Then again, the kids are resourceful enough to fight back... [[spoiler: The fact that this is also the case with Syndrome is also a [[EvenEvilHasStandards contributing factor]] to Mirage's HeelFaceTurn.]]

* Reconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Helen has to explain to Dash and Violet that yes, real villains would hurt a child. And they do. Then again, the kids can fight back... [[spoiler: The fact that this is the case is also a [[EvenEvilHasStandards contributing factor]] to Mirage's HeelFaceTurn.]]

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* Shan-Yu from ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' is the most terrifying animated example of this trope. He picks up a little girl's doll that his scout bird brought him, talks about having to return it to her. and the next time we see the doll, [[EmpathyDollShot it's lying in the barren wasteland of a town that was burned to the ground.]]

* WesternAnimation/Coco has the villain [[spoiler: Ernesto De La Cruz]] thrown the main character Miguel, age 12, off a building and before that, attempt to prevent him from leaving the Land of the Dead, which would have killed him.

* Percival [=McLeach=] from ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'' was going to lower Cody into a river full of crocodiles.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Ballerina}}'' obsessive StageMom Regine tries to [[spoiler:murder Félicie after she gets the part of Clara in The Nutcracker, instead of her daughter Camille]]. She also hits Victor in the back of the head with a heavy tool

* ''Animation/KrishnaAurKans'': Putna is a demonic sorceress who's so powerful and sadistic that she's ''offended'' when tasked with killing only one kid, going on a rant as to how she's much better suited to killing kids in at least the triple digits.

* The other PG Pixar Film, ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', has the villain send dogs to attack the kid there, and before he died, almost shot the kid as well. Pixar seems to tell people that villains can, and WILL, harm and kill children if they have the option.

* [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant The Coachman]] in ''{{Disney/Pinocchio}}''. He does ''worse'' than hurt.

* Shan-Yu from ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' is the most terrifying animated example of this trope. He picks up a little girl's doll that his scout bird brought him, talks about having to return it to her.. and the next time we see the doll, [[EmpathyDollShot it's lying in the barren wasteland of a town that was burned to the ground.]]

** [[spoiler: And the modern day townspeople who were enthusiastically planning to BURN NORMAN TO DEATH.]]

* The Grand Duke of Owls in ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'', near the film's climax, ''asphyxiates'' child protagonist Edmund when the boy-turned-kitten refuses to give up, in a supremely dark example of MoodWhiplash. A combination of DisneyDeath and AllJustADream makes it better, but it's still shocking.

* Jack Skellington from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', apparently. A line from "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" suggests Jack will beat a trio of children if they harm the eponymous Claws, which is odd considering nothing in Jack's behaviour hints he'd do such a thing.
** Actually, Jack's not the one who fits in this category. The trio of children in question - Lock, Shock, and Barrel - are the minions of the BigBad, Oogie Boogie. They don't know Jack very well, but they live with Oogie. ''[[TheHero Jack]]'' wouldn't actually hurt kids, ''Oogie'' would have no problem with it. It's more likely that the trio assume that if they screw up their job, Jack will punish them the way Oogie would.

* The Rat Leader in ''WesternAnimation/LuckyAndZorba'' was ready to [[spoiler:let the rats eat Lucky (a young seagull) and Yoyo (a kitten)]]

* [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant The Coachman]] in ''{{Disney/Pinocchio}}'' .

* The Rat Leader in ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyAndZorba]]'' was ready to [[spoiler:let the rats eat Lucky (a young seagull) and Yoyo (a kitten)]]

* The Rat Leader in [[WesternAnimation/LuckyAndZorba]] was ready to [[spoiler:let the rats eat Lucky (a young seagull) and Yoyo (a kitten)]]

* ''Disney/BigHero6'' opens with the 14-year-old protagonist nearly being viciously assaulted by a SoreLoser gangster and it's quite clear that [[BigDamnHeroes had Tadashi not shown up when he did]], it would have ended ''very badly''.