10 Key Changes We Wish Recent Movies Had Made

6. Kill Buzz - Toy Story 4

Every Toy Story film so far has been about the fear of mortality and yet not one character has died. This being Pixar - who killed Nemo's mother, Bing Bong and Ellie to fit their ideas of living and a loss of innocence - that lack of a kill count is curious. Sure, you could say that Toy Story is more for kids, but again, this is Pixar, who made a movie for kids about the Afterlife. It's not their style to hold back.

Toy Story 4 in particular should have been more brutal in telling the end of Woody's story and it could have served its most underused character - Buzz Lightyear - WAY better by killing him off. For four movies, Woody has been wrestling with a shapeless fear, presented as one of abandonment or redundancy and in the end, Toy Story 4 lets him get beyond that by giving him the tools to be free and live his life to the full.

The only issue here is that one of the things that inspires him is being rejected again, when he's supposed to believe that's a fact of life. Far more clever would have been reminding Woody about the real fear he has - of DYING or being forgotten (they're the same in this world) - by having his best friend, who's been relegated to second stringer by now, killed off. That would have had way more impact and would have made more sense, giving Buzz an ending as well as Woody.