History NightmareFuel / TheFoxAndTheHound

** By some miracle, though, Copper, and the hunter walk right past him. After that, Tod, still reeling, exhausted, and in agony, then crawls into an abandoned woodchuck hole, and lies there helpless, and in immense pain for two days until his mate finally finds him. Unfortunately for her, she isn't as lucky as he is, and then later dies from the same trap.

* A lot of Tod's closer shaves with death are ''horrifying.'' In particular, he gets a few close calls when he learns about steel traps, but always figures out ways to spring them safely, and begins to make a game out of doing so. Then one day he pushes his luck too far, is fooled by a new bit added onto a trap to make it spring easily, and gets caught. He escapes and keeps his foot, but not without essentially ripping himself free, and he's slightly crippled from that point on.
** Later on, his first mate is also caught in a trap, and doesn't get out again.

-->'''Coper''': "Tod! If it's the last thing I do, ''I'll get you for this!''"

** "Tod! If it's the last thing I do, ''I'll get you for this.''"

** "Tod! If it's the last thing I do, ''I'll get you for this.''

* There's something particularly ''adult'' about the way Amos and Copper confront Tweed at her door and demand Tod's head. Amos has always been aggressive, but never to this level. Have you ever had an older man, taller and stronger than you, ''gun in hand'', trying to ''force his way into your home?'' It's AdultFear taken to its logical extreme, even discounting the fact that they're there for ''the closest thing Tweed has to a '''child.''''' Just look at [[OhCrap her expression]] when she's got her back against the door blocking Amos outside; this isn't sustainable, and she bloody well knows it.

* Just the way the movie opens itself is enough to instill a sense of foreboding dread in the viewer. It opens on an OminousFog-shrouded screen with no music at all, apart from a low, keening wind that just ''sounds'' cold before the film's title card appears on the screen, which itself lends to the opening's ominous atmosphere. Something about the font and its color, which is so similar in tone to the fog in the background it feels as if the title is forming out of the fog itself, just sets your hair on end, and lets you know right from the get-go that this is ''[[DarkerAndEdgier not]]'' going to be your standard happy-go-lucky Disney film.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Nothing can do [[DeathGlare Death Glares]] like furious animals.]]

* A simple difference between the novel and the film: Tod and Copper are never friends.

* Chief getting hit by the oncoming train in his obsessive effort to kill Tod. Even Amos is shouting at him to get out of the way, and all Chief can do is [[DeerInTheHeadlights look upon the train in sheer terror as he realizes his mistake far too late]], and is sent flying into the ravine below, much to Copper's grief. It truly is a miracle that the worst he suffered was a busted leg. Unfortunately, it also triggers Copper's newfound hatred for Tod as he vows revenge for his father figure's brush with death.

** In particular, right after Amos wounds the bear's shoulder. It roars in pain, then looks down at Amos with a SlasherSmile that the ''Joker'' would be proud of. Instead of "just" an ''angry'' bear, they now have an '''''enraged''''' bear to deal with.

* Combined with TearJerker: Big Mama sings a song about how Copper is going to become a hunter, which Tod must be wary of. The song is dark enough, but the situation becomes darker when Dicky and Boomer open Amos’ shed to show Tod a wall of’’’animal pelts’’’.

* Combined with TearJerker: Big Mama sings a song about how Copper is going to become a hunter, which Tod must be wary of. The song is dark enough, but the situation becomes darker when Dicky and Boomer open Amos’ shed to show Tod a wall of ‘’’animal pelts’’’.

* Combined with TearJerker: Big Mama sings a song about how Copper is going to become a hunter, which Tod must be wary of. The song is dark enough, but the situation becomes darker when Dicky and Boomer open Amos’ shed to show Tod a wall of animal pelts.