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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I continue to be disappointed that Disney/Pixar can't tell a hero's journey story without the impetus being the loss of parent(s).  It's so one note.

I also was irritated by the older brother being so intense.  Why is it that the rule following quiet one always has to learnt forgive and sacrifice for the loud obnoxious one?

We watched it last night.  half a day later I think I actively disliked this movie.  [/quote]

You mean other than...

A Bug's Life
Cars (1-3)
Monsters Inc (1 and 2)
Wall-E
Toy Story (1-4)
Brave
Inside Out
The Incredibles (1 and 2)
Ratatouille

Pixar has made 22 movies and by my count 17 of them have no death of a parent at all. A few deal with death and loss in ways that are kind of adjacent but only Nemo features the parent death as it happens but the movie is not about grieving the parent at all. It is about grieving a spouse and being a parent alone more than a child learning how to deal with their parent dying. Up has death and is heartbreaking but the parent dying/being absent isn't the central feature or tragedy. Coco, The Good Dinosaur, and Onward revolve around the grief of losing a parent. That's it.

In terms of major Disney animated films. Yes Frozen has the death of their parents, but I'd like to direct you to Moana as an amazing counterpart. And Zootopia and Tangled, the other animated movies Disney has pushed out in the last decade feature no parents dying at all.

So take your trope from the Lion King days and park it back where it belongs, in 1999.[/quote]

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