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Tear Jerker / Babe: Pig in the City

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  • The scene with Flealick chasing a car, almost dying, and briefly finding himself in a sunny green field where he jumps at butterflies with his wheelchair abandoned to the side is almost too much for any person to take.
    • When Ferdinand says, "You're just a little pig in the big city. What can you do? What can anyone do?" and Babe and the monkey turn away to follow Flealick.
  • Also:
    "Thank you, pig..."
  • The animals getting taken away by the pound people. Their whimpers and screams of sorrow as well as the soundtrack make that scene hard to watch without choking.
  • Despite behaving like a Jerkass for most of the time, Thelonius is a pretty tragic character if you think about it too much. Take for example Uncle Fugly's death and his reaction to it.
    Thelonius: I couldn't wake him. I tried. But he wouldn't wake up.
  • When Babe is being chased by the bull terrier in hot pursuit he seemingly believes he may not make it. All while some of his previous life experiences flash before his eyes.
    Narrator: Something broke through the terror—flickerings, fragments of his short life, the random events that delivered him to this, his moment of annihilation. As terror gave way to exhaustion, Babe turned to his attacker, his eyes filled with one simple question:
    Babe: Why?
  • The bull terrier himself is a rather troubled character as well. When he first shows up, he's extremely aggressive and vicious, to the point where he initially seems to be a completely feral brute who only cares about tearing his targets apart. Yet all it takes for him to change his ways is one single act of kindness from Babe, the very same animal he was trying to kill. This moves him so much that wastes no time in becoming very loyal to the little pig, and even opens his heart to him, revealing he believes it's his "job" to be so vicious and implying he was never allowed a chance to be anything else before.
    • It's also rather concerning that he was so savage in the first place, considering that animals are just as sentient as humans in this setting. What kind of upbringing did this poor dog go through to have such a bleak view of the world and on his own existence?
    • His ending is just as sad. His relationship with the poodle didn't last. She left him for another dog, and he has to take care of their kids.
  • A good chunk of the story from the Landlady's perspective is heartbreaking. Her uncle has to be rushed to the hospital and she stays with him hoping that he’ll be alright, only to watch him die right in front of her. She returns home in a state of depression and things only get worse when she finds out her hotel has been ransacked while she was away.
  • One can't help but feel a little sorry for Esme as well. Not only did she get bombarded with a ton of work on the farm after Arthur's injury, she was forced to leave her injured husband's side and embark on a business trip when her efforts prove to be insufficient to save their home from foreclosure. From the moment she steps out of the farm, she gets dragged into a new and hostile world full of shady people and goes through many humiliating situations, and yet keeps fighting for both her beloved husband and Babe's sake, never once showing any concern for herself. While her misfortunes are all played for laughs, it can still be fairly saddening to see this motherly and devoted wife being humiliated to hell and back, all because she just doesn't know how to fit in with the urban denizens.

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