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
   The Iron Giant says Superman

   A weapon decides what it wants to be, on the way up to meet a missile.
   706pts
3. 3
   Charlotte's last words

   Charlotte's Web says goodbye to a pig at a fairground.
   706pts
4. 4
   Baby Mine

   Dumbo's mother rocks him through the bars of a circus wagon.
   529pts
5. 5
   The ending of Grave of the Fireflies

   Two children starve in wartime Japan, in the bluntest scene animation has produced.
   529pts
6. 6
   Bing Bong's goodbye

   Inside Out's imaginary friend chooses to be forgotten so Riley can climb out.
   433pts
7. 7
   WALL-E holds EVE's hand

   A robot who has lost his memory remembers one thing.
   433pts
8. 8
   Mufasa's death

   The Lion King's stampede, and a cub trying to wake his father.
   433pts
9. 9
   The incinerator scene

   Toy Story 3's toys stop struggling and hold hands as the furnace pulls them down.
   433pts
10. 10
    Hiccup wakes up

    How to Train Your Dragon's hero discovers what winning cost him.
    317pts
11. 11
    When She Loved Me

    Toy Story 2 shows Jessie being outgrown, then left under a bed.
    176pts
12. 12
    Andy hands over his toys

    Toy Story 3 ends on a driveway with a college student explaining Woody to a child.
    176pts