10 Disney Animated Deaths That Scarred You For Life

Much like Blender's death in The Brave Little Toaster, Hopper's death gets away with its brutality because it's not a human one - but again, that doesn't mean it isn't incredibly chilling. This guy is literally eaten alive, torn limb-from-limb by a very hungry pack of birds, their black, eager eyes a stark contrast to the traditionally 'aww' perception of baby birds that we all have.

And that's the genius of this death scene - it takes something that we usually find cute and adorable and turns it into a ruthless killing machine. The reason this scene worked is the same reason why clowns and dolls are scary... it's because they're not supposed to be. It's all about the context - in a dark house in the middle of the night a doll would be terrifying, but in a toy store it's just a regular doll.

So as Hopper is faced with a primal fear, we're faced with the very important question of "how the hell did Pixar manage to make birds so terrifying?" You'll never be able to look at the creatures in the same way again - everytime you see a pigeon in the park or a sparrow on your garden wall, you'll remember Hopper; his cries, his screams and his pleas, which constituted his last few moments of life before being shredded like a sheet of paper. Ouch.