15 Kids Movie Moments That Felt More Like Horror Films
9. Ursula's Death - The Little Mermaid (1989)
Disney villains have been dying since Snow White, so that's nothing new. The usual manner of death for a Disney villain is a fall from a great height, preferably caused by the villain's own actions. There have been exceptions: Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty got a sword through the heart. But few villains have met their end as violently as Ursula, the sea witch from The Little Mermaid. Near the end of the movie, Ursala blackmails King Triton into giving her the Magical Trident, the "One Ring" of The Little Mermaid. This allows her to transform into a giant, super Ursula that controls the weather. The Prince, deciding to take matters into his own hands, steers his ship through a whirling vortex of doom and quite gruesomely impales Ursula right through the gut. For whatever reason, this causes lighting to strike her, adding insult to injury. She screams in agony and falls back into the ocean, the saltwater and electricity searing through the massive open wound in her belly. With her sickly purple skin, those slithering tentacles, that maniacal grin outlined in blood-red lipstick, Ursula truly was terrifying. But she certainly didn't deserve this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KayUKqw5aTg
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