History WouldHurtAChild / AnimatedFilms

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAsRapunzel'', Gothel [[spoiler: kidnapped Rapunzel as a baby and raised the the girl as a servant]]. She also uses her magic to almost murder Prince Stefan's little brother and sisters. The brother was only saved because Stefan pushed him out of the way at the last minute.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieOfSwanLake'', Rothbart turned the children in the EnchantedForest into [[BalefulPolymorph animals against their will]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'', Duchess Rowena emotionally abuses King Randolph's daughters when they are put under her supervision. She later tries to [[spoiler: trap the girls forever in the magic pavilion. When that fails, she orders the guards to put the girls in prison if they see them. The youngest three daughters are barely five! Finally, she attempts to curse the teenage Genevieve to dance forever]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'', Duchess Rowena emotionally abuses King Randolph's daughters when they are put under her supervision. She later tries to [[spoiler: trap the girls forever in the magic pavilion. When that fails, she orders the guards to put the girls in prison if they see them. Finally, she attempts to curse the teenage Genevieve to dance forever]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'':

** ''The Wild Thornberrys 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).

** After allowing the Hebrews their freedom, Rameses later changes his mind and leads his army to chase them down, catching up to them during the crossing of the Red Sea. When he's thrown from his chariot, he commands his men to keep going and KillEmAll, despite knowing that there are many children among them.

* ''WesternAnimation/HappilyNeverAfter'': Frieda changes he story of ''Little Red Riding Hood'' so the wolf eats her, and also threatens to feed the baby Rumpelstiltskin stole to the crocodiles.

* Percival [=McLeach=] from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' was going to lower Cody into a river full of crocodiles. And before that, he threw knives at him as part of an interrogation, as pictured above.

** 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 to the tribe by sunset.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Judge Claude Frollo, in the first few minutes of the film, would have dropped baby Quasimodo down a well if not for the intervention of the Archdeacon, who demanded that Frollo raise the infant to atone for killing Quasimodo's mother. He also tries to burn an innocent family alive in their own house, two children included.

* 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.

** ''WesternAnimation/RugratsGoWild'': Siri the Clouded Leopard doesn't come off as sadistic as Scar Snout, but she's shown to be aware of the babies' presence and all too gleeful to seek them out to feed on them nonetheless.

* Percival [=McLeach=] from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' was going to lower Cody into a river full of crocodiles. And before that, he threw knives at him as part of an interrogation.

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* 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.
* A plan involving Randall and [[spoiler:Mr. Waternoose]] in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' may not have specifically aimed at killing children, but the results of the Scream Extractor seem anything but harmless.
* ''WesternAnimation/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 -- which really triggers a VillainousBreakdown in Ratigan.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Judge Claude Frollo, in the first few minutes of the film, would have dropped baby Quasimodo down a well if not for the intervention of the Archdeacon, who demanded that Frollo raise the infant to atone for killing Quasimodo's mother. He also tries to burn an innocent family alive in their own house, two children included.

* [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant The Coachman]] in ''{{WesternAnimation/Pinocchio}}''... well, let's just say that he does ''worse'' than hurt.
* Captain Hook of ''WesternAnimation/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. He even pulls a [[ISurrenderSuckers false surrender]] on Peter after the latter agrees to spare Hook's life.
** 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 to the tribe by sunset.
* Madam Mim in ''WesternAnimation/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.

* Percival [=McLeach=] from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' was going to lower Cody into a river full of crocodiles. And before that, he threw knives at him as part of an interrogation.
** Notably, [=McLeach=] doesn't want to just kill Cody, but specifically wants to feed him to the crocodiles, as he dunks him once before pulling him back up to lower him again, and when Bernard steals the keys to his rig so he can't lower Cody any more, he gets his shotgun out...to shoot the rope, not Cody. He's not just willing to hurt/kill a child, he wants to do it in the most horrifying way he can at the moment.

* King Candy in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' [[spoiler:tried to delete Vanellope from the game's code, and when that failed turned her into a glitch. Then when she races him, he slams into her, tries to knock her out using a dislodged gearshift and finally pushes her in front of his car intending to smash her into a stalactite. This trope may be slightly out of place due to all characters being ageless video game characters, but Vanellope was programmed as 9 years old.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'':
** The Hyenas and Scar. The former nearly eat Simba and Nala after they wander onto the elephant graveyards (although averted when Mufasa shows up) and Scar, who shows no qualms about putting his own ''nephew'' in extreme danger to achieve his ultimate goal – becoming king of the Pride Lands. First, he tricks Simba into the gorge below Pride Rock before sending – with the hyenas' help – a stampede of wildebeests through, forcing Simba to hang on for dear life. Mufasa is able to rescue Simba, but this results in Scar murdering the injured Mufasa by throwing him back into the stampede. Later, as a mourning Simba is exiled from the Pride Lands, Scar sends the hyenas after Simba, who would have died if not for sheer luck.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', Snatcher has no qualms with attempting to kill Eggs on multiple occasions as well as Winnie when SheKnowsTooMuch.
* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'': Pitch Black a.k.a. the {{Bogeyman}} gives children [[NightmareWeaver nightmares]] and wants to remake the world into one of "nothing but fear and darkness." Once he realizes that one kid is the only thing left between him and victory over the titular Guardians, he angrily lunges at the kid saying, "[[DeadlyEuphemism There are other ways to snuff out a light]]."

** ''The Wild Thornberrys 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/RugratsGoWild'': Siri the Clouded Leopard doesn't come off as sadistic as Scar Snout, but she's shown to be aware of the babies' presence and all too gleeful to seek them out to feed on them nonetheless.
* ''WesternAnimation/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''.
* The Rat Leader in ''WesternAnimation/LuckyAndZorba'' was ready to [[spoiler:let the rats eat Lucky (a young seagull) and Yoyo (a kitten)]]
* ''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.
* 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.
* ''{{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.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', the alternate-timeline Franchise/WonderWoman has no qualms killing children, shown when she uses her lasso to trick [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Thunder]] to say "Shazam", reversing his transformation. In this timeline, Captain Thunder's true identity is a team of kids.
* ''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/HappilyNeverAfter'': Frieda changes he story of ''Little Red Riding Hood'' so the wolf eats her, and also threatens to feed the baby Rumpelstiltskin stole to the crocodiles.

* A plan involving Randall and [[spoiler:Waternoose]] in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' may not have specifically aimed at killing children, but the results of the Scream Extractor seem anything but harmless.

* ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'': [[spoiler: Agatha, a young girl who can talk to dead people like Norman can, is executed when the town's elites come to the conclusion that she is a witch.]]
** [[spoiler: And the modern day townspeople who were enthusiastically planning to ''burn Norman alive''.]]

* Pitch Black in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' is clearly willing to do something horrible to Jamie once he realizes that the kid is the only thing left between him and victory over the titular Guardians. It's unspecified exactly what Pitch was planning on doing, but anything he could have done (MindRape him with Nightmare Sand, flat out kill him, or turn him into a Fearling) fits this trope.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Judge Claude Frollo, in the first few minutes of the film, would have dropped baby Quasimodo down a well if not for the intervention of the Archdeacon, who demanded that Frollo raise the infant to atone for killing Quasimodo's mother.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', the alternate-timeline WonderWoman has no qualms killing children, shown when she uses her lasso to trick [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Thunder]] to say "Shazam", reversing his transformation. In this timeline, Captain Thunder's true identity is a team of kids.

* Both PlayedStraight and 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... It was already demonstrated when Bomb Voyage planted a bomb on Buddy's cape, which forced Bob to save him while Bomb Voyage escapes. [[spoiler: The fact that this is also the case with Syndrome is a [[EvenEvilHasStandards contributing factor]] to Mirage's HeelFaceTurn.]]

* 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 a [[EvenEvilHasStandards contributing factor]] to Mirage's HeelFaceTurn.]]

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* ''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 -- which really triggers a VillainousBreakdown in Ratigan.
* ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Judge Claude Frollo, in the first few minutes of the film, would have dropped baby Quasimodo down a well if not for the intervention of the Archdeacon, who demanded that Frollo raise the infant to atone for killing Quasimodo's mother.
* [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant The Coachman]] in ''{{Disney/Pinocchio}}''... well, let's just say that he does ''worse'' than hurt.
* 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. He even pulls a [[ISurrenderSuckers false surrender]] on Peter after the latter agrees to spare Hook's life.

* 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.

* Percival [=McLeach=] from ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'' was going to lower Cody into a river full of crocodiles. And before that, he threw knives at him as part of an interrogation.
* 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.]]

* King Candy in ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' [[spoiler:tried to delete Vanellope from the game's code, and when that failed turned her into a glitch. Then when she races him, he slams into her, tries to knock her out using a dislodged gearshift and finally pushes her in front of his car intending to smash her into a stalactite. This trope may be slightly out of place due to all characters being ageless video game characters, but Vanellope was programmed as 9 years old.]]
* ''Disney/TheLionKing'':

* ''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''.