10 Innocent Movie Characters Who Got Totally Unnecessary Deaths

Who Framed Roger Rabbit features one of the most traumatic scenes in any non-R-rated movie, where not only is an innocent, benevolent character violently erased from existence, but they also happen to be an animated character.

Mid-way through the movie, the evil Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) decides to flex his jurisdictional muscle while investigating the murder of Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye) in Toontown.

While speaking to Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), Doom notices a toon shoe cowering by his trouser leg, and so picks the shoe up and takes it over to a barrel of dip - a caustic chemical mixture that's the only substance that can kill a toon.

Doom, who is trying to "clean up" Toontown, makes an example out of the poor shoe by slowly lowering it into the dip. We're then forced to watch as the shoe liquefies while descending into the dip, clearly feeling an enormous amount of pain while doing so.

Even with the movie's obvious rootings in film noir, this is a seriously traumatising scene for a supposedly family-friendly piece of entertainment.

And 35 years on, anyone who saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit as a kid surely still remembers the abject horror of witnessing this state-sponsored assassination - one that becomes even more horrifying once we learn that Doom is himself a toon.