Will you forgive me? You're the bravest fox I ever met. I'm proud of you.
A great foundation of the show.
- Near the end of Season 1, the animals come across a road separating them from White Deer Park. Earlier in the episode, the hedgehogs had been wondering what White Deer Park is like. The other animals manage to cross both sections of the road fine enough, but things become much harder when it's the hedgehogs turn, especially considering their natural urge to curl into a ball when scared. They manage to cross the first section and reach a safe spot between the two roads, but come the second, Mr. Hedgehog starts to panic, being too scared to continue while his wife tries to urge him on. Even worse, a truck/lorry is barreling towards them. Eventually, all he can say it "Don't curl up" while Mrs. Hedgehog returns to him. Unable to leave him to save herself, they both get run over.
- The scene where the male pheasant discovers the roasted body of his recently shot wife - whom he never showed the slightest respect for, and was shot because she took up the sentry duty he lazily neglected, causing him to cry so heavily that he struggled to see, making him an easy target. His grieving is cut short when the farmer's dog hears him, alerting its owner and the farmer shoots him as well. This relationship couldn't have ended more tragically.
- Bold's death (pictured above) from the end of the second season is an especially major, memorable tearjerker moment, with his mother, Vixen, crying over his corpse..
- Before that, Whisper's callous confession that she mated with Bold because she wanted the pups to take after Fox. She later regrets her words, and making him take her to White Deer Park when the journey was too much for him, but in the moment she tells him this you can practically hear Bold's heart breaking at the thought that his mate might not love him for himself.
- Oddly enough, Scarface's death could count as this, especially when Lady Blue grieves over him despite his treatment of her in previous episodes.
- In the same season, Badger's deterioration into senility and eventually death, which is made even more poignant in that he's the only character to die of old age. In the moments leading to his his final breath, he think he's still in Farthing Wood, with his brothers and sisters still alive. He doesn't even recognize Fox. The animals even roll a boulder in front of his lair to turn it into a sort of tomb, the closest they can get to giving him a funeral. Also note that he was the only character who died peacefully; everyone else died a violent death.Fox: Badger. I'm sorry I was unkind to you.
Badger: A fox? Worried about kindness? Hahahaha... I must be in...… Heaven... - Earlier in the season, many animals have awakened from hibernation, but Mole and his mate, Mateless/Mirthful have died during that time. We're introduced to their son, Mossy, who looks and sounds a lot like his father. Badger, however, think Mossy is Mole and any attempts to tell him causes him to think they're messing with him. It's implied that Badger is already showing signs of cognitive impairment in his old age, so Mossy plays along as to not upset him, though he's clearly not happy about pretending to be his deceased father for Badger's sake. And after Badger finally dies, Mossy is noticeably mournful, clearly having grown close to Badger, just like his father did.
- In Season 2, Weasel ends up forced to spy for Scarface after she lets slip that she saw him kill Mrs. Vole. Not only does Scarface repeatedly abuse and bite her for not doing her job, but the other animals of Farthing Land don’t trust her due to her keeping her distance. And even though the others are often rude to her, she can’t bring herself to betray them, which she even Lampshades at one point. As reviled as character as Weasel often is, seeing her get put through the wringer like this can be hard to watch.
- In relation to this, her reaction to Measley pulling a Screw This, I'm Outta Here after her second bad encounter with Scarface. After admitting that he really does love her, but can’t stand to watch her get killed for not taking the situation seriously, the male weasel simply turns and marches off. Weasel jeers at him at first, but then tearfully begs him to come back, realising that her foolishness might have driven away the one animal who tried comforting her when everyone else wouldn’t even go near her.
- The death of Sinuous, especially since he was the only real joy of Adder's life and what brought out her emotions and better nature. The fact that the other characters who witnessed it were so distraught is poignant, too.
- His actual death isn't pleasant either, being so long and drawn out as he's strangled to death; the animators had the grace to use the Discretion Shot, but you can still see his tail writhing in panic before finally falling limp.
- The audio adaptation skims over the moment of death, but Toad is deeply affected as he is the one who found Sinuous's body, asking Hurkel not to look at what the rats did to the snake and solemnly informing Adder of her mate's death.
- His actual death isn't pleasant either, being so long and drawn out as he's strangled to death; the animators had the grace to use the Discretion Shot, but you can still see his tail writhing in panic before finally falling limp.
- Fox finding Dreamer's body after Scarface kills her. His despairing howls are one of the few times the animals make actual animal noises and it's far more poignant than any of their human-style reactions.
- One of the baby rabbits is shot by a hunter, and Mrs. Rabbit sobs and blames herself for not protecting him while Mr. Rabbit comforts her. It is made worse by the fact that this is the same baby rabbit who was saved from being killed by a snare in a previous episode (something that one of the characters made note of.)
- After Scarface's death, all the animals in the park are rejoicing, specially those that came from Farthing Wood, but not all of them. Just a few minutes after receiving the news Mr. Rabbit is crying, mourning over his wife's death saying that if only Adder had killed him sooner, she'd still be alive. Mr. Hare, having lost his wife too in the same manner, is hugging him in comfort.
- Even worse in the book - Vole is the victim, having lost all of his Farthing Wood brethren to Scarface's Roaring Rampage of Revenge after the latter had healed from the fight with Fox. A grief-stricken Vole shrieks at Fox for not killing Scarface when he had the chance, and when news of Scarface’s death comes he’s too bitter and emotionally wrecked to celebrate.
- Owl suffering a near-Heroic BSoD when she thinks that not warning the others about the poachers returning has lead to Fox being shot. As pompous as she can get at times, she really does care for the others, and the idea that she’s gotten someone she respects killed because of her injured pride reduces her to hysterical tears.
- In the books, Tawny Owl is relieved to find the fox that was killed was not the Farthing Wood Fox… but since the poachers shot more than one fox, he starts to fear that Fox might have been among them. He spends half an entire day and night frantically searching, and when the others find him he’s exhausted himself to the point of being unable to even fly. It’s shocking to see him in such a state, especially considering how he usually quarrels with the other birds.
- When Owl's searching for a male she could mate with, she takes shelter in a familiar bell tower. There she meets a cauldron of bats (yes, that's a name for "group of bats"), who at first don't want her there. She apologizes and explains that she was looking for a male. Some of them tell her that they know someone and go flying to look for him. But when they go back, they brought a crow and then start laughing at them. The raven starts crying and Owl just flies away from there and stops on a tree branch to cry alone under the rain.
