10 Deleted Scenes That Made Movies Way Darker

Zootopia is one of Disney's smartest and most socially conscious movies in recent times, using the dichotomy of predators and prey as a thinly-veiled allegory for systemic racism in modern America - if not the world.

But the film originally took this commentary down a far darker path, with the prey instituting "tame collars" to be worn by all predators, which would deliver an electric shock in the event that they ever acted "aggressively."

This led to the infamous "taming party" deleted scene, in which Morris, a young polar bear, receives his tame collar, as is presented by his father Koslov.

Though Morris, not knowing any better, seems genuinely excited to receive the collar as a rite of passage, his father is clearly disturbed by the ritual.

This culminates in Morris wearing the collar and, after getting excited, being zapped, much to his and his father's mutual horror.

It's a fittingly brutal allegory for white supremacy in America, but ultimately just too upsetting and real for an animated movie primarily designed as escapism.

The entire tame collar concept was eventually removed in favour of more subtle means of discrimination against the predators, thankfully jettisoning this scene with it.