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The 7 Most Terrifying Disney Movie Deaths

By Levi Ritchie November 20, 2008 855,993 views
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Kids, like adults, love it when bad things happen to bad people. So Disney movies always make sure the villain gets what they've got coming to them in the end.

And, sometimes, Disney gives them what they had coming, and then way, way more. Here are seven Disney villains who got dispatched in (sometimes literally) gut-wrenching ways sure to keep the kiddies up for many nights.

#7.
Ursula, from The Little Mermaid

Ursula is a sea witch, which any marine biologist will tell you means "eight-legged obese Mermoctopus." After the movie's heroine Ariel meets Prince Eric (Eric? Really Disney?), she decides that she absolutely must become human, probably due to the limitations of human/mermaid sex.


"Oh, okay, I can see why this is going to be a problem."

The evil Ursula gives her a set of legs and lungs in exchange for her voice. Being an evil bitch, Ursala makes the trade at the bottom of the ocean. Ariel becomes human and almost drowns, barely managing to make it to shore, and Ursula, who's somehow a heavy smoker, cackles raspily because she totally saw that shit coming. What a bitch.

How She Died:

Near the end of the movie, Ursala blackmails king Triton into giving her the Magical Trident, the "One Ring" of The Little Mermaid. This allows her to transform into a giant, super Ursula that controls the weather.

The Prince, deciding that he's had quite enough of this shit, steers his ship through a whirling vortex of doom and freaking impales Ursula right through the gut.


In Greek, for bonus weirdness. Death-y goodness at 2:00.

For whatever reason, this causes lighting to strike her for an effective electro-stab combo. If they'd only stuck an explosive in her mouth, they would have covered the shark-kills from all four Jaws movies.

She screams in agony and falls back into the ocean, the saltwater and electricity searing through the massive open wound in her belly and charring her huge, exposed intestines (that last part is implied but not shown).

The horror of this fresh in everyone's mind, the king gets his Trident back, and makes everyone happy and everything better somehow. Is there no problem a large-scale impalement can't solve?

#6.
Scar, from The Lion King

Scar is King Mufasa's brother. He not only conspired against and subsequently killed his own brother, but tried to kill his nephew and (presumably) boned his late brother's wife.

This is the sort of thing that goes on all the time among lions, but nobody makes a fuss until the lions start talking.

How He Died:

When the fully grown Simba finally returns from his frolicking adventure with the comedy relief, he returns, likely hoping for some kind of peaceful resolution. Scar is having none of it, despite that fact that he's an old rag next to Simba.

After the longest, least sexy catfight we've ever seen, Scar is thrown from the cliff and finds himself in front of his hyena minions. The very same hyena minions he just sold out to Simba a few moments before. The heyenas question his leadership skills, and quit their jobs, leaving Scar to think about what he's done. Oh wait, no they actually tear him to shreds.

The lesson: Never insult a Hyena.

Fun fact: Hyena's jaws are strong enough to crush bone. We of course have no way of knowing which part of Scar's body their teeth ripped through first, so we're forced to assume it was his dick.

#5.
Shan-Yu, from Mulan

Shan-Yu is a Mongolian warlord. The movie says very little about where he came from, but, judging by the eyes, we're going to assume he's a distant Mongolian relative of Darth Maul.

How He Died:

Mulan, who the movie repeatedly demonstrates is the single competent human being in China, follows Shan-Yu alone, eventually climbing onto the roof to set up an elaborate trap. Shan-Yu uses his Mongolian ninja powers to jump through the roof right next to her.

Using her fan, Mulan manages to pull the sword out of his hand in a move that makes Bruce Lee look like a white belt. Just as Mulan is about to kill Shan-Yu, the assistant producer reminds her that this movie needs a G rating. So, she stabs her sword into the ground and kicks him instead. Our bloodlust looks like it's going to go woefully unfulfilled. But wait!

It's Deus Ex Machina, the friendly dragon, come to help her! He fires a rocket the size of Texas, strong enough to lift the 600-lb man off his feet and torpedo him into a building crammed full of miscellaneous fireworks. Kapoosh.

So basically, it's the ludicrously violent death from Naked Gun, only instead of being played for laughs, it's the climax of a kids movie. Burning chunks of Mongolian fall from the sky, always kept barely off-camera or behind an explosion, as everyone below celebrates. Happy days, indeed.


"I think you've got one of Shan-Yu's teeth in your hair."

#4.
Clayton, from Tarzan

Clayton is a hunter who visits Tarzan's neck of the woods. Everything from the red scarf to the tiny-ass mustache gives off clear douchebag signals. He's the neighbor your father used to hate. Worse, he turns out be a hunter of gorillas (not actually legal) and he shoots Tarzan's adopted daddy to death.

How He Died:

When it comes to jumping around trees in the jungle and swinging from vines, nobody can beat Tarzan, though we suppose a freaking double-barreled shotgun that doesn't need reloading doesn't hurt your cause. Having failed to learn the lessons of history and the first two Rambo films, Clayton decides his superior weaponry is all he needs to fight Tarzan on his own turf.

The struggle ends up with Clayton suspended over a cliff, tangled up in vines. He starts hacking away at everything, save for the vines that are tightening around his neck which, quite frankly, we would have started with.

Finally, he cuts one vine too many and they can't support his weight. Vines still around his neck, he falls...

Lightning strikes, revealing the shadow of his dangling, lifeless corpse. Clayton snapped his neck on the vines and he is left hanging there, his big swollen tongue hanging out, his eyes bulging, and the contents of his bowels slowly making their way down his trouser leg.

Or he died from exposure after hanging there for two or three days. Either way, what the hell Disney?

"Uh oh, looks like someone forgot that the bad guys in Mulan are Huns, not Mongolians. The Huns who, you know, had their leader die of a f*****g nose bleed in his sleep"

Doesn't matter at this point since we all know how consistent Disney films are with their original source material.

11/14/2009 1:56:39 AM
UncleNorathOWEN

If you hate disney so much, then stop watching them and boring us with complaints.

11/8/2009 10:44:43 PM
Superstar2559

Really, let's shoot for another ten to call it even. Then there would be a good list of mediocre characters; though I should call myself on one point.

I believe I may have added a few to the list who are okay-when they get caught in funny scenes-but annoying and stupid at every other time. I am referring to items #2, #3, and #16. I feel they're great in these scenes:

#2. "Sword in the Stone"-Sir Ector loses his sword to a cast-iron pan when he executes his "Fat Man Blade Slam" and further dealt a prolonged noggin conkin' from the same pan. Kay gets his ugly mug wrapped in grimy mop noodles and swiped against the floor. Then Merlin ends the humiliation with "Allakazam"...bastard.

#3. "The Black Cauldron"-Taran, Nionwe, Phlegm, and Gurgi meet the ghastly three sisters. It should be noted that they are biologically related, impossible as it seems. What ensues is a conversation long and semi-annoying, so bear with me. I don't remember their names, so I'll give them names: the tallest will be Meredith, the short bony nutjob will be Ida, and the chunky one will be Maggy.

First, Meredith-the tall one with the headwrapping and the schnozz-states the gang will be transformed into frogs for soup.

Ida loses her teeth when Taran yanks his arm out of the bite path, literally crumbled or shattered.

Maggy, whom thinks she is a master seductress with the face of an English whore, flirts with our sexagenarian fairy (Phlegm); personally I would totally roast this plump little turkey, because no sensible man would pass up a woman with double Ds and a protruding badonkadonk similar to a hippo (not to mention she's free of STDs, because no man ever got jiggy with her, most likely because they couldn't get over the warts, whens, and moles randomly put on her body).

Anyway, Ida gets annoyed with her and casts a transforming spell bolt, causing the old man to intantly turn into a frog. He hops away as the crazy b***h pursues with a mallet or skillet, nearly lands in a hot water cauldron, and then takes two seconds to see insanity from Ida's wooden spoon. Phlegm hops and is changed back to human by Maggy, who's about to give him a bear hug, just when Ida casts another frog bolt.

Now as Maggy looks around, Phlegm is squished between her heaving breasts. Truly a f*****g blessing, if he could get past the shallow dislike of whens and moles, plus the green-grey skin that makes her look undead. Maggy tells Ida she will never forgive her for hating the nonexistent romance between her and Phlegm.

"There you are", Maggy says as he hops free of the boobs. Then she blows a pink kiss bolt, returning Phlegm to human form. However he crouches there and whips out a long tongue to snatch a fly, swallows with disgust, and the other two laugh hysterically.

That was the rundown of funny scenes which will exempt Disney characters from the blacklist of bad characters from now on. I apologize for the mistake of adding them to my list.

11/6/2009 12:44:49 PM
Omadeus

If anyone feels like blurting someone they think is horrible on a Disney film, let it fly.

11/6/2009 11:30:41 AM
Omadeus

Oh...a little correction:

On "Aladdin & the King of Thieves", Saluke turns into a gold statue because he caught the Hand of Midas with his bare hand. "The Midas Touch" indeed.

Anyway, here's a list of thirty of Disney's poorest characters:

1. Cruella De Ville
2. Sir Ector & Sir Kay
3. the three witch sisters from "The Black Cauldron"
4. the Queen & King of Hearts
5. the Witch Queen (from "Snow White")
6. Peter Pan
7. Maleficent
8. Brom Bones ("Sleepy Hollow")
9. Winky ("The Wind in the Willows" aka that story with the impulsive Mr. Toad)

10. the Stepbitches on "Cinderella"
11. illusionist Zarouche from "Hunchback of Notre Dame II"
12. Buster & the Don Knotts-voiced dogcatcher from "Lady & the Tramp II"
13. Aunt Sarah & the Lumberyard rat from "Lady & the Tramp"
14. Heffalumps and Woozles...take your best f*****g guess
15. Governor Ratcliffe (IDC if he was misinterpreted; he looks like a fat douchebag)

16. Jafar, Ahbes Ma'l, and every single baddy from Aladdin's TV show
17. Xira, the old rotten c**t of a rogue matriarch ("Lion King II")
18. the Banshees & Leprechaun King O'Brien ("Darby O'Gil & the Little People")

19. Edgar, the borderline homosexual butler from "Aristocats"
20. Gaston the hunter & Forte the organist from first two "Beauty & the Beast" films

21. Undertow the...uhhhm, tiger shark?..from "Little Mermaid II"
22. the old-ass, elephant socialite wenches from "Dumbo"
23. Mickey plus any other human-sized, rodent anthropomorphs in Disney
24. All Disney dogs and canine anthropomorphs-like Pete, Maxi, Bobbi, and random heterosexual faggots in the new age Goofy universe (I loved Goofy when he was just a lonesome, dopey hobo)

25. Every anthropomorphed fowl whom isn't the Crow gang from "Dumbo", Daffy Duck, Donald Duck & family (any female character could be passable, if they had some boobs and didn't serve sexist roles, but what plump arses they have...ehem moving on), Jose Carioca, Uncle Scrooge McDuck (part of Donald's extended family, but what the hell, I'll mention him), and the hyper Ale Quan (a-lay kwan)

26. All anthropomorphed livestock, except for Captain from "101 Dalmations". FruFru, Pegasus, and any realistic animated horse if you like having the best bestial fantasies.

27. All "normal harmonius families" who portray sexist heterosexual roles:
the asswipe sons, retarded kids, shy coy daughters/b***h sisters, self-dubious/meek mothers/wives, apathetic or bastard husbands/fathers, grandparents whom are too incredibly sweet or malicious, uncles and aunts and cousins portrayed as the weirdass shitballs serving up a dish of awkward/twisted comedy, and finally every other random moron who pops into the already mutilated plot

28. Every minion, lackey, henchy, etc. whom were just so God damn retarded to perform the simplest tasks (Maleficent's demonic animal soldiers for starters)

29. Every cartoon interpretation of actual people-no ethnicity excluded-but an especial light on the asinine cartoons of Caucasians, which have made other races think we're all retarded. Americans aren't all retarded, just the ones who blindly buy "the American Dream" and watch any program on MTV/VH1 with three honorable exceptions: (a) vehicular flip crews like "Pimp My Ride", "Trick My Truck", "Overhauled", etc.;(b) grossout shows like "Jackass" and "Busted & Disgusted";(c) "Celebrity Deathmatch", the show which educates us with musicians and random celebrities long forgotten, via well thought cage matches (PeeWee vs. Jacko)

30. Anything involving Miley Cyrus and high school students doing musicals.

The last characters aren't animated, but I ran out of old school characters who were truly horrible and not funny. I mean you have to give credit to a handful of awful characters who screwed up in the most hilarious ways: Captain James Hook and the Madames (Medusa and Mim).

11/6/2009 11:27:10 AM
Omadeus

To Samehada: Hey there, I'm the new guy here!

I'd just like to say that two of your favorite death's-Oogie Boogie's unraveling and the Jafar Genie's implosion-those were what I would consider "fitting deaths".

Specifically, Jafar was an egotistic, cowardly powermonger and Oogie...God...he sounds like an African-American sociopath with a gambling obsession (listen to his voice). Jafar treated Iago like s**t after being bound to the lamp as a genie, so it isn't surprising that Iago befriends Aladdin and kicks the lamp into the magma, therefore making Jafar face the lethal consequences. Oogie didn't show any clear motives for killing Santa, and so it doesn't surprise me that King Jack would release his bugs to fry in lava, like the f*****g obnoxious psycho he is.

Now on "Aladdin and the King of Thieves": the name of the man with the tiger knuckle claw was Saluke (sah-luke, not sah-lu-kay), and God damn was his death freakihly befitting and scary and epic simultaneously. Saluke's bloodlust and greed got him thrown off a cliff into shark infested seas, and finally transforms him into A FRIGGING SOLID 24 KARAT HUMAN STATUE (arms spread in desperation with horrified face no less).

I'll never forget that shout before he finished solidifying:

"Noooo, Noo, AUGHHAHHHhhnnnnnnn....solid m***********g trinket for the in-laws!

11/5/2009 10:51:31 PM
Omadeus

Alright! I'm a new guy on this forum and I will say this once:

I am a part-time Grammar Nazi. Also, anyone who does not post anything relevant to the article or plainly degrades into a s**t-slinging rave; they shall incur my fullest verbal wrath.

In other words, people who post comments to bully other members are without a meaningful life and are mentally retarded.

So Fur b***h...you and those other cunts who don't provide s**t to the perspective on Disney's brutality while you bash Jason Voorhees...here's what I think of you:

Go f**k yourselves with the fat end of a Fat Bastard chardonnay, and PUT YOUR f*****g RETARDED TWO CENTS IN A f*****g JOURNAL until such a time when a sincere apology-or at least an article relevant comment-can be said. If not, I hope you search your cold hollow hearts for a shard of kindness; then use it to unsubscribe from every forum you've joined, so you can spare intelligent blokes like me from sifting through hundreds of c**k'n'c**t remarks for a single grain of truth concerning the article.

You remember, right? The one listing the seven brutal Disney deaths which we're supposed to be discussing and that alone?

Well I'm here to talk about that article. End of this discussion.

11/5/2009 9:57:15 PM
Omadeus

Well actually Gaston doesnt get impaled on his fall he just falls. Watch the video again closer.

P.S Scar is not eaten! He's mauled then burned in the surrounding flames which finally killing him.

11/1/2009 5:11:12 PM
Deathstroke

To bottiggio: "Mongolian ninja skills" sounds waaaaay better than Hun ninja skills. :) I think the author was thinking of South Park when they called that shot, though... "Goddamn Mongolians! Erry time we Chinese build a s****y wall, goddamn Mongolians tear it down!"

...I forgot about Clayton from Tarzan. That was traumatic for me. Gah.

10/28/2009 12:53:32 AM
Sparacino

Awesome, except Syndrome is from a pixar movie.

10/25/2009 3:18:28 AM
PIRATEKING

Uh oh, looks like someone forgot that the bad guys in Mulan are Huns, not Mongolians. The Huns who, you know, had their leader die of a f*****g nose bleed in his sleep

10/20/2009 10:10:03 AM
bottiggio

Proving once again there is no god more cruel and vengeful than Disney. lol

10/20/2009 7:08:49 AM
1337_5K1LL5

Well Disney grew a pair. They finally started killing their villians again.

10/18/2009 3:15:55 PM
ijpowers

Ironically, most of these brusque, horrendous deaths are from the Disney Renaissance (1989-1999), which is considered by some to be Disney's most productive period. These films also turned out to a tad be darker than the usual Disney fare--especially, of course, in these death scenes. I wonder if the villain of this new "Princess and the Frog" film will suffer a nightmare-inducing death, and if Cracked will have anything to say about it.

One can only hope...

10/17/2009 8:42:50 AM
Jaeger7793

Here's a recipie for making thesed things even scarier:

Step 1: Play the videos, but turn off the sound on the videos (not on the computer).

Step 2: Find the nastiest emo rock/heavy metal you can. ("Blood Red Sandman" by Lordi should work pretty well.) Play it in the background.

Step 3: Have nightmares (or a psychotic rush of emotions).

Presto.

10/17/2009 8:17:43 AM
Jaeger7793

Sad that Tony Jay died. Nobody voiced villains as well as he did.

10/16/2009 5:36:16 AM
AtomicSkull

GODDAMN! I totally forgot how cool/f*****g creepy Hellfire is.
Also, how perverted Frollo really is. That's the kind of stuff you don't pick up when you're a kid.

O.o

Great article.

10/15/2009 1:20:31 PM
Zephronias

I guess Syndrome should have listened Edna Mode. f**k Capes!

10/14/2009 8:10:00 PM
strangedaze

I just listened to "Hellfire" and... wow. Just wow. That is creepy as all f**k!! I remember being about 10 at a birthday party and we watched this movie and I was sooooo creeped out. I tried to get everyone to stop watching it and I just felt so disturbed. *Sigh* Repressed memories...

9/29/2009 8:59:04 AM
copperboom

The Aladdin movies had quite a few deaths in them. In the first movie a guy who was being used by the bad guy was ate by the giant talking cat cave. That's kind of bad considering he was not even villian.

7/25/2009 2:04:29 PM
Aniqa
Cracked stuff on