5. Aggressive Swordplay - The Secret Of NIMH
United ArtistsHey, lets give Disney a break. Their movies often don't hold a candle to the violence portrayed in other animated films such as The Secret of NIMH. Memorable for its creepy owl and rats gaining intelligence through animal testing, the story is about a small field mouse named Mrs. Brisby, who copes with her husband's death while trying saving her family from certain destruction on the human farm where they live. Along the way she meets the hyper-intelligent rats of NIMH, their friendly Captain of the Guard named Justin (who looks a lot like Disney's Robin Hood), and the evil rat Jenner who vies for power over the rat clan. Jenner kills the leader of the rats by crushing him with a cinder block, and draws swords against Justin. Several stabbings ensue, blood is shown, but at the end Justin proves to be the better swordsman. He rises as the new leader of the rat clan. Hope for the rats and Mrs. Brisbys future is restored. But just then Jenner comes back from the dead, ready to run his sword through Justin's heart. He sneaks up on Justin, but before he can stab him in the back Jenners reluctant accomplice, throws a dagger, pinning him in the back. Jenner gasps, falling over dead as his accomplice succumbs to his own stab wounds, content going to grave knowing he took Jenner down with him.