# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published August 23, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-12-most-emotional-scenes-in-animated-movies*

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1. **The Married Life montage** — score 1000/1000
   Up compresses a marriage, a lost pregnancy and a widowing into four silent minutes.
2. **The Iron Giant says Superman** — score 706/1000
   A weapon decides what it wants to be, on the way up to meet a missile.
3. **Charlotte's last words** — score 706/1000
   Charlotte's Web says goodbye to a pig at a fairground.
4. **Baby Mine** — score 529/1000
   Dumbo's mother rocks him through the bars of a circus wagon.
5. **The ending of Grave of the Fireflies** — score 529/1000
   Two children starve in wartime Japan, in the bluntest scene animation has produced.
6. **Bing Bong's goodbye** — score 433/1000
   Inside Out's imaginary friend chooses to be forgotten so Riley can climb out.
7. **WALL-E holds EVE's hand** — score 433/1000
   A robot who has lost his memory remembers one thing.
8. **Mufasa's death** — score 433/1000
   The Lion King's stampede, and a cub trying to wake his father.
9. **The incinerator scene** — score 433/1000
   Toy Story 3's toys stop struggling and hold hands as the furnace pulls them down.
10. **Hiccup wakes up** — score 317/1000
   How to Train Your Dragon's hero discovers what winning cost him.
11. **When She Loved Me** — score 176/1000
   Toy Story 2 shows Jessie being outgrown, then left under a bed.
12. **Andy hands over his toys** — score 176/1000
   Toy Story 3 ends on a driveway with a college student explaining Woody to a child.

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