10 Awesome Movie Moments Where You Think The Villain Might Actually Win

There's a good reason why there aren't any other family films included on this list, because they typically leave no room for audiences to consider that something very, very bad might actually happen to the heroes. Nobody wants a cinema full of wailing kids, after all.

But Toy Story 3 was something different: it was the culmination of 15 years of storytelling, a film made primarily for those who grew up with the series and were now themselves adults.

It also followed the likes of WALL-E and Up, two of the studio's most ambitious and daring offerings to date, so the prospect of Toy Story 3 taking things in a more mature direction didn't seem so far-fetched.

Roughly two-thirds of the way through the threequel, Woody (Tom Hanks) and the other toys find themselves betrayed by the villainous Lotso (Ned Beatty), who leaves them to be killed by a gigantic incinerator.

The sequence is so fraught with genuine peril, and came at a point in Pixar's tenure where it really felt like they might offer up the ultimate existential gut-punch by having the toys, who link hands and appear to accept their fate, be consumed by the furnace.

Thankfully that ultimately wasn't the case, with the Aliens making the save courtesy of a giant crane claw, causing every adult watching to breathe a massive, snotty, tear-soaked sigh of relief.

Admit it, though - Pixar had you going, didn't they?