History ShooOutTheClowns / AnimatedFilms

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'': Downplayed. The movie focuses more on half the turtles (i.e. Leonardo and Raphael) and the building conflict between them. The other two turtles, Donatello and Michelangelo, only get 20 minutes of screen-time each.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' focuses more on half the turtles (i.e. Leonardo and Raphael) and the building conflict between them. The other two turtles, Donatello and Michelangelo, only get 20 minutes of screen-time each.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'':
** The [[GentleGiant abominable snowman]] (who dislikes being called that), leaves the room in which Sulley and Mike are in, with the excuse of going to get more snow cones, but it feels a little too convenient, seeing as they [[HeelRealization discuss Sulley's]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone reasons]] for wanting to go back to the factory to save Boo following [[KicktheMoralityPet him accidentally scaring her,]] {{foreshadowing}} their PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure. Also comes back as a {{brick joke}} later when Sulley is sliding down the mountain and he zooms past the yeti carrying the snow cones.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' focuses more on half the turtles (i.e. Leonardo and Raphael) and the building conflict between them. [[DownplayedTrope However, the other two turtles, Donatello and Michelangelo, both get 20 minutes of screen-time each.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' focuses more on half the turtles (i.e. Leonardo and Raphael) and the building conflict between them. [[DownplayedTrope The other two turtles, Donatello and Michelangelo, both get 20 minutes of screen-time each.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' focuses more on half the turtles (i.e. Leonardo and Raphael) and the building conflict between them.[[DownplayedTrope The other two turtles, Donatello and Michelangelo, both get 20 minutes of screen-time each.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' focuses more on half the turtles (i.e. Leonardo and Raphael) and the building conflict between them. [[DownplayedTrope The other two turtles, Donatello and Michelangelo, both get 20 minutes of screen-time each.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' focuses more on half the turtles (i.e. Leonardo and Raphael) and the building conflict between them. The other two turtles, Donatello and Michelangelo, [[DownplayedTrope both get 20 minutes of screen-time each.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' focuses more on half the turtles (i.e. Leonardo and Raphael) and the building conflict between them. The other two turtles, Donatello and Michelangelo, both get 20 minutes of screen-time each.

* At the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' all the fish in the reef disappear when the Barracuda attacks Coral and her eggs and kills them, leaving Nemo as the only survivor and causing Marlin to become overprotective of him. And when Nemo gets taken away by a diver, Mr. Ray and his class immediately swim and hide. And then when Darla arrives, the rest of the Tank Gang besides Gill immediately hide, knowing that she is going to kill Nemo because of her inability to take care of her pets, and dont appear again until after Gill knocks Nemo into a sink drain, causing the dentist to return Gill to his tank.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'', Mater disappears after Lightning's second night in Radiator Springs. He doesn't return until summoning a stampede of Tractor cows that happens [[TearDryer just after the dramatic song "Our Town"]] that showed the {{dark and troubled past}} of Radiator Springs (Expect for a brief moment in the background).

* At the very beginning of ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' all the fish in the reef disappear when the Barracuda attacks Coral and her eggs and kills them, leaving Nemo as the only survivor and causing Marlin to become overprotective of him. And when Nemo gets taken away by a diver, Mr. Ray and his class immediately swim and hide.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Lumalee and the Penguin King, who have penchants for BlackComedy and being TheComicallySerious respectively, disappear near the end of the movie, with the movie becoming darker and more violent from then on.

* ''WesternAnimation/SmurfsTheLostVillage'' uses this trope similar to ''Snow White''. In the third act, Gargamel finds the Smurfs. Quickly, their comical personalities are dropped when they're all frozen with Freezeballs. As Smurfblossom's being taken away, she ceases to be a GenkiGirl and asks Smurfette, "How could you do this to us?". When Smurfette is turned back into a lump of clay, the trope gets zigzagged as the Smurfs are mourning her. Even Grouchy drops his usual grouchy self and appears to be in tears over Smurfette's supposed death. They return to their comical personalities when she comes back to life.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', the Narrator performs the usual opening and closing, but is otherwise completely absent from the film, which is DarkerAndEdgier than [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 the its parent series]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Gobber, Fishlegs, Ruffnut, Tuffnut and Snotlout are notably absent from the scene where Stoick disowns Hiccup, as well as the scene where Hiccup finds that he lost his leg in the battle against the Red Death.
* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', during Manny, Sid and Diego's confrontation against Soto, Scrat is absent. Scrat is not part of their story, so it's pretty much expected. Earlier, right before the ArtShift flashback about what really happened to Manny's family, Diego tells Sid to "Shut up" and he stays quiet for the rest of the scene.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' inverts this for its FinalBattle. What looks like the movie's climactic battle, a dark and dangerous duel in the rain that ends with a major TearJerker as Tai Lung crosses the MoralEventHorizon... is suddenly interrupted by Po, who appears at the top of the temple steps, doubled over and gasping for air. [[CueTheSun The sun is shining behind him]], signifying that the darkness has passed and now it's time for the ''real'' final battle to begin. What follows is one of the greatest examples of how a story's climax can be both hilarious and awesome at the same time.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'', neither the penguins nor the lemurs are present during Marty's confrontation with Alex, who's been [[HorrorHunger driven mad by hunger]].

** Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', where Donkey doesn't follow Shrek into the wedding church in the climax, but he does appear on Dragon moments later when she smashes through the window and eats Lord Farquaad whole.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'', Mater disappears after Lightning's second night in Radiator Springs. He doesn't return until summoning a stampede of Tractor cows that happens just after the dramatic song "Our Town" that showed the {{dark and troubled past}} of Radiator Springs (Expect for a brief moment in the background).

** ShooOutTheClowns:

** ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'': Around the third act, [[spoiler: after the revelation of Sully cheating and Mike's ensuing breakdown and venture into the human world, Oozma Kappa help Sully into the human world and it is then Sully and Mike share a introspective moment alone in the human world while their Oozma Kappa brothers await in the monster world]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', [[Creator/TomKenny The Narrator]] performs the usual opening and closing, but is otherwise completely absent from the film, which is DarkerAndEdgier than [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998 the 1998 series]].

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', where Donkey doesn't follow Shrek into the wedding church in the climax, but he does appear [[spoiler:on Dragon moments later when she smashes through the window and eats Lord Farquaad whole]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', Mater disappears after Lightning's second night in Radiator Springs. He doesn't return until summoning a stampede of Tractor cows that happens just after the dramatic song "Our Town" that showed the {{dark and troubled past}} of Radiator Springs (Expect for a brief moment in the background).