10 Disney Animated Deaths That Scarred You For Life
5. Coral (Finding Nemo)
We never really got to know Coral - Nemo's mother - before she was cruelly snatched away by the teeth of a barracuda, and that makes her death all the more agonising - because the few glimpses of her personality we do get made her seem charming, warm, and friendly, causing her death to hit home extremely hard because you knew she had so much more to give.
At least she went out like a champ, attempting to shield her baby eggs from the aforementioned, slightly peckish, barracuda. Coral only got two minutes of screen time but in that time, she was able to demonstrate numerous likable traits - love, bravery, humour - and this meant that her death felt like a real loss.
Even more saddening is the fact that Nemo never got to know such a fantastic mother, and in a way it almost feels unfair that we got to see her at her very best and he never got to see her at all. On top of that, it's quite depressing to see that Marlin never really gets over her death even when Nemo is all grown up - he's constantly nervous, living in a perpetual state of fear and doubt, the rest of his adult life defined by a few brief, horrifying moments.