The 12 Most Emotional Scenes in Animated Movies

Cartoons built for children, and the two minutes in each one that adults still cannot watch straight through.

1. 1
   The Married Life montage

   Up compresses a marriage, a lost pregnancy and a widowing into four silent minutes.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Bing Bong's goodbye

   Inside Out's imaginary friend chooses to be forgotten so Riley can climb out.
   862pts

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3. 3
   Charlotte's last words

   Charlotte's Web says goodbye to a pig at a fairground.
   731pts
4. 4
   The ending of Grave of the Fireflies

   Two children starve in wartime Japan, in the bluntest scene animation has produced.
   632pts
5. 5
   Baby Mine

   Dumbo's mother rocks him through the bars of a circus wagon.
   448pts
6. 6
   Mufasa's death

   The Lion King's stampede, and a cub trying to wake his father.
   448pts
7. 7
   When She Loved Me

   Toy Story 2 shows Jessie being outgrown, then left under a bed.
   448pts
8. 8
   The incinerator scene

   Toy Story 3's toys stop struggling and hold hands as the furnace pulls them down.
   329pts
9. 9
   Andy hands over his toys

   Toy Story 3 ends on a driveway with a college student explaining Woody to a child.
   329pts
10. 10
    WALL-E holds EVE's hand

    A robot who has lost his memory remembers one thing.
    329pts
11. 11
    The Iron Giant says Superman

    A weapon decides what it wants to be, on the way up to meet a missile.
    329pts
12. 12
    Hiccup wakes up

    How to Train Your Dragon's hero discovers what winning cost him.
    0pts

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