10+ Sad Facts About Classic Kids’ Movies That May Ruin Childhoods

We do it by looking through family photos, old videos, or talking around tables with our family.

Sometimes, however, it is by going through the old movies or shows that brought us some joy!

So let's get into some of these classic movies that have some dark facts behind them!

Apparently, there are many levels to Fievel and the Mousekowitz family that I missed the first time around.

Supposedly there was enough audio recording for an entire other sequel. However, a clause in Robin's contract stated that no material could be used for up to 25 years after his death.

There's a very convincing Pixar fan theory that says Nemo is dead. He supposedly died with his mother and the film is an analogy of Marlin's grief.

The word "Nemo" is Latin for "no one."

According to one fan theory, Disney tends to differentiate between their princesses.

If you look at the characters who are depicted wearing dresses with sleeves, they come from royalty. Those who wear long gloves, are commoners.

The barren futuristic wasteland that Wall-E inhabits is based on the real-life nuclear disaster of Chernobyl.

The design teams studied images of the nuclear fallout and made their model mirror the destruction.

The killing of Bambi's mother is so traumatic, there's a psychological condition known as "The Bambi complex."

It refers to an especially strong sympathy and love for cute animals, as well as a stronger aversion to them being killed.

Apparently this former Pixar employee also derived pleasure from Frankensteining his own childhood toys.

In the movie, NIMH stands for the National Institute of Mental Health. Supposedly this was a real spot where horrible experiments were actually conducted on rats and mice.

As if you needed another reason to be afraid of this film.

There are a number of examples of Disney animators slipping sexually explicit messages into the films.

For example, the scene in The Lion King where Simba collapses on the overhanging rock, the dust from the flowers spells S-E-X.

In the Italian version of the tale, Dopey is mute and purposely holds everything he wants to say back.

The one word he does say, is "mama," leaving fans to believe that something terrible happened to his mother, resulting in him refusing to speak.

Fans believe Walt Disney chose to stick to that version of the tale.

The dead or absent mother is a common theme in Disney films.

Many believe this was Walt's way of dealing with the death of his own mother.

He had purchased a home for his mother that had a leaky gas line.

It wasn't discovered in time and his mother died as a result.

In an original draft of The Santa Clause, Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) was originally supposed to shoot Santa, thinking him to be a burglar.

Apparently the makeup was what made it so unbearable for Carrey.

Talk about dedication to your craft!

The young child star lost her mother during post-production.

Mara wasn't even 8 years old when her mother lost her battle with cancer.

The success of Finding Nemo drove many people to purchase clown fish from their local aquariums. However, in an effort to "free" the fish, many flushed them down the toilet.

Which ended up killing them all.

This seems almost unbelievable, but apparently there was a salmonella outbreak shortly after the release of The Princess and the Frog, specifically caused by frogs.

In a bit of journalistic fun, it was suggested that it could have been caused by children trying to kiss frogs and turn them into princes.

While co-directing and co-writing Cars, Joe Ranft tragically lost his life - in a car crash.

The irony is only surpassed by the tragedy.

Howard Ashman was the lyricist for the film. He was also openly and publicly battling AIDS. Many have interpreted the songs in Beauty And The Beast to be commentaries on the AIDS crisis.

Ashman died of the disease before the film's release earlier that same year.

The flight went down in 1974 in Bali.

Over 100 people were killed that day, which is so utterly tragic.

The original Grimm Brothers fairytale version of Cinderella is incredibly dark and violent. In it, Cinderella's stepsisters cut off chunks of their feet in order to make the glass slipper fit.

Cinderella also enacts revenge by having birds peck their eyes out.

They really had to clean up The Hunchback of Notre Dame in order to make it even passable as a film.

In the book, Esmerelda's dies and her body is thrown unceremoniously into a graveyard to decompose. Quasimodo stays beside her dead body out of grief until he dies of starvation.

The real story of Pocahontas is a tragedy. She was taken prisoner from her lands and forcibly converted to Christianity.

She was given the Christian name of Rebecca and made to openly denounce her sacrilegious ways.

Apparently a number of graphic images were cut from the final boat scene.

One of which included a giant needle being injected into a person's arm.

In order to capture the inside of a whale in the most realistic way possible, Pixar sent members of the Finding Nemo design team to take pictures of the dead beached whales that would wash up on shore.

Charlie's mom gives Scott the number where she can be reached in case of an emergency. Scott reads the card and replies "1-800-SPANK ME? I know that number!"

It was an actual sex chat hotline.

The Brazilian voice actor who played Harry Potter was Caio César, who was also a police officer, passed away in the line of duty.

According to the IMDB trivia, there were:

"43 instances of violence and other unfavorable behavior in this film, including 23 instances of battery, nine acts of property damage, three slang uses of the word '[expletive],' three acts of violence involving animals..." and so much more.

If you can, let us know what they are below in the comments!

If you can't, let us know which fact put a damper on your day!