When we think of Pixar movies, we typically think of wonderful stories that tug at our
heart strongs. Stories that teach us something about humanity and make us
feel all sorts of emotions… Whether it’s happiness, laughter or uncontrollable sadness…
But let’s not gloss over the fact that Pixar also has its fair share of deaths and killing…
I suppose it makes sense given the fact that the
studio hasn’t shied away from more mature topics in its storytelling.
But today we’re really going to break it down. We want to know
how much killing there’s been in the Pixar universe. We want a number.
Welcome to WickedBinge. This is The Pixar KILL COUNT.
So, let’s start things out with the rules… Counting kills can be a bit
tough. If this were a more realistic movie or TV show…
we would likely limit deaths to humans only… But this is Pixar… and humans aren’t usually
the focal point of these stories… But Pixar has made just about everything human-like…
Toys. Bugs. Cars. Emotions.
So, we can’t really make that distinction here.
We’re going to include any death that we witness on or
offscreen… and the ones that are only mentioned or referenced that are pivotal to a plot point.
Then there are other instances where the concept of “death”
is slightly different in the context of a certain film’s world.
Think Coco or Inside Out. We’ll explain how these are counted when we get there…
And finally, we’ll be working our way through the Pixar feature film library chronologically
in the order in which the films were released. With all that said, let’s begin.
Starting with… The original Toy Story.
Despite having a few rather “gruesome” moments… at least from the perspective of a toy…
Toy Story doesn’t have a whole lot of deaths. At least, ones that we can confirm.
Side’s room is essentially a torture chamber where he rips his toys apart limb by limb.
But, for the most part… they’re reassembled.
Not exactly how they once were… which is terrifying… but most of them survive.
That’s why we can’t include his sister’s doll Janie or the Pterodactyl toy.
But, there is one exception… We’re going to need a moment of silence for Combat Carl (1). Sid
blows up this G.I.Joe style action figure with some serious firepower… and there isn’t
anything left after the dust clears. Making him the first casualty of the Pixar universe.
Which brings us to the next movie, A Bug’s Life.
First, we’ll mention quickly: Hopper and Molt’s Mother (2). Who they reference very,
very quickly as having died. And that Hopper promised her that he wouldn’t murder his brother.
We also have Harry The Mosquito (3)… who is attracted to a deadly bug zapper lantern…
gets zapped and falls to his death.
Them during one of the greatest dictator speeches in animated history… Three of Hopper’s
minions (6)… including Axel and Loco… are made an example of by their leader and crushed to death.
Finally, Hopper (7) meets his gruesome end when he’s picked up by a bird
and fed alive to her babies… Which may very well be the most gruesome death in any Pixar film.
Next, there aren’t any deaths in Toy Story 2…
And although many would argue that Monsters Inc also falls into the no-death category…
We’re going to go ahead and claim one kill for Randall (8). Yes, it’s tough to say… But when
he’s thrown into the human world and mistaken for a gator… the implication sure seems to
be that he’s being exterminated like a pest with a shovel… So, we’re going to count it.
Now, the movie starts out SUPER dark in terms of death… and that movie is Finding Nemo.
We’ve said it in other videos, as far as the death toll goes,
Finding Nemo is essentially the Saving Private Ryan of Pixar movies…
Considering Marlin’s whole family, minus him and Nemo, are wiped out by a Barracuda.
But what is the exact number? Well, we won’t be able to know for sure… But the best we can
do to tally is take what Coral mentions. She says that there are over 400 eggs. So,
if we assume the bare minimum is 401, and Nemo survives… that’s 400 deaths (408).
And then of course, Coral (409) herself dies too.
Later on, we hear about poor Chuckles (410) being shook to death by Darla.
And of course, the horrifying scene in which the Anglerfish (411) is eaten by Blenny.
Finding Nemo actually has the biggest body count if only for that opening scene…
But The Incredibles also has its fair share of deaths.
Thunderhead (412) is sucked up with a missle by his cape…
Stratogale (413) is sucked into a wind turbine by her cape…
Meta Man (414) was crushed by an elevator shaft due to the snagging of his cape…
Dynaguy (415) has his cape snagged around his neck…
And Splashdown (416) is sucked into a tornado… By his cape.
We’re also going to include Gazerbeam (417)… one of the Supers who fell to
The Omnidroid V4… because we get a glimpse at his corpse.
And on this note… We also have a very quick reference to the following
Supers being killed while fighting various versions of the Omnidroid…
Universal Man, Psycwave, Everseer, Macrobust, Phylange, Blazestone, Downburst,
Hyper Shock, Apogee, Blitzerman, Tradewind, Vectress, Stormcide and Gamma Jack (431).
And these get a little murky… but we’re going to include several guards who are killed.
But the two guards (433) that Mr. Incredible throws the huge piece of metal at,
near the front gate are definitely dead. And the one guard (434) he nailed in the head with rock
falls pretty hard from a good distance, so we’ll call that a kill.
Then, the guard (435) that Dash fights on top of his little flying vehicle
blows up when it hits the mountain… then when Dash is being chased by three more,
one guard (436) crashes his ship over the water when it hits something…
And then the two other guards (438) piloting crash into one another inside the cave.
When Dash and Violet are running through the woods
they smash another guard’s (439) ship into a tree which blows up.
When the family reunites, Mr. Incredible takes an empty ship
and throws it at an oncoming guard ship (440), blowing it up and killing him.
And then of course… During the climax of the film, the super villain Buddy (441) is sucked
into a jet turbine… By his cape. There’s probably a lesson there.
There are no deaths in the movie Cars, so we’ll skip that one and go to Ratatouille.
First off, we have both Auguste Gusteau (442) and Alfredo Linguini’s
mother (443); who are mentioned and both die off-screen of unknown causes.
But the scene that is most memorable for its darkness is the 17 rats (460) that
have been snapped by rat traps and displayed in a store window
like some sort of Crusades crucifixion display. This scene got dark quick.
Now, we get to WALL-E.
Now, the point of the film was to humanize robots… They were the main characters after all. So,
in this case… We will include robot deaths. Which does actually increase our count quite a bit…
There are 48 dead WALL-E Robots (508) that we see. Who presumably passed away when
their batteries died. We’re counting robots in this movie, so we have to count them.
GO-4 (509) takes a serious fall… and that’s a pretty obvious robot death.
EVE shoots a SECURE-T bot (510) in the chest with a laser…
and we also see 33 more SECURE-T bots (543) destroyed immediately after during the fight.
And then of course, AUTO (544) is crushed and killed at the end.
We’re also going to include the 5 captains (549) that are referenced
briefly who died before the events of the film.
Moving onto UP.
It may not have the biggest kill count, but I would argue it has the most emotionally impactful.
Right away, the movie starts with a miscarriage (550) in the intro… Good God, Pixar.
And of course, Carl’s beloved Ellie (551) dies of old age.
Then we have the Surveyor, Botanist and Explorer (554) that were killed by Charles Muntz.
Now, Toy Story 3 had one of the darkest scenes in Pixar history
where we thought everyone was going to die… but they all survived. So let’s move onto Cars 2.
Cars 2 actually gets really grim…
Leland Turbo (555) is crushed by a car crusher used by Professor Z’s goons.
Nick Gremlin (556) fell into the sea after Finn sprayed oil slick.
Then there are actually 15 unnamed Henchman Cars (557) that are blown up in a fiery explosion.
Then Rod Torque Redline (558) is shot with the electro magnetic pulse on full power,
which blows up his engine… I mean, this one is pretty dark… he’s literally tortured to death.
Fred Pacer (559) and Paul Hugo (560) are crushed in an elevator.
And Tony Trihull (561) is blown up by Finn’s bombs that pulled into his magnet…
Moving onto Pixar’s next movie: Brave… There is only one single death.
And that of course is the death of Mor’du (562).
Now… Inside Out is one of those movies where death is a bit different.
We’re dealing with emotions, after all. Cloud Guy (563) is casually blown away
by Bing Bong… and I think we can count that as a death. And if that’s the case,
Joy also kills his wife (564).
But the saddest death in the movie, obviously, is that of Bing Bong (565)… Riley’s imaginary
friend who sacrifices himself so Joy can carry on her journey. Sorry Bing Bong…
Gone, but not forgotten… Well, I guess technically he was forgotten, but what are ya going to do?
Now he head back to a prehistoric time for… The Good Dinosaur.
Henry (566) is tragically swept away on a tidal wave…
A prehistoric bug (567) has its head ripped off by Spot…
And of course, Thunderclap (568) is killed during the climax of the movie.
There’s only one death in Finding Dory.
The Giant Squid (569) is crushed while trying to eat Nemo. Serves it right.
Which brings us to Coco… Which creates a bit of a logical issue in the context of a kill count…
That being that everyone in The Land of The Dead is… well, you know… dead.
But we’re not going to count every single person we see there. Instead,
we’re only counting those who we see die in the human world… or die in the Land of the Dead.
So, Cicharon (570) fades away after his wife forgets about him.
Hector (571) is poisoned by Ernesto De La Cruz…
And Ernesto De La Cruz (572) is crushed by a giant bell.
Finally, Mama Coco (573) dies of old age and is finally reunited with her father.
We’re taken back to the Incredibles universe with The Incredibles 2…
Where Winston and Evelyn Deavor’s parents (575) die. Their father is shot to death by thieves
and their mother dies from a heart attack from grief.
Moving onto the movie Onward…
Wilden Lightfoot (576) dies of an unspecified illness.
He also fades away after the 24 hours runs out… but we’ll only count that as one single kill.
And an Artificial Dragon (577) is destroyed by Ian Lightfoot.
And now we get to Soul…
Joe Gardner’s Dad dies of unknown causes…
And we weren’t sure if they should count, because they were revived… But Joe Gardner (578) and The
Hospital Cat (579) die, but are revived when Joe takes 22’s badge. We’ll count them. Same
with Paul (580)… who has his soul accidentally taken out by Terry when he was mistaken for Joe.
Wow… that’s a lot of carnage for a family animation studio. Pixar really isn’t afraid to get
dark when they have to… Let us know in the comment section what you think was the most memorable
Pixar death. Be sure to hit that notification bell… But most importantly, stay wicked.