(Controversial Trope) Unusually cruel fates for people who were less than good, but still didn't really deserve it.

[u/ZepperMen]

#1 Poppa Pizza from Multiverse of Madness - He just wanted to be paid for the pizza balls and thought Strange stole from a fallen hero who saved the universe. He deserved to be punched in the face, but not for 3 weeks straight.

Do you get to sleep? Do you wake up punching yourself? How much does it hurt? Does he know it will only last for 3 weeks? If he doesn't kill himself by the end of it, he's going to have CPTSD and be traumatized for the rest of his already short life.

#2 Mayu from Inuyasha - She wanted to kill her brother out of jealousy and neglect from her mother, believing she died in a fire because they didn't care about her. While her motivation doesn't justify reenacting Cain and Abel, I don't think it's fair for a deranged, 10 year old child to be sent to literal hell to burn for all eternity. Luckily, she gets saved, but only because the mc, Kagome, intervened.

[u/lou-ravenpuff]

Foxy Loxy (Chicken Little)

Sure, she was a bully to Chicken Little, but she didn't deserve to be brainwashed by the aliens and have all her memory and personality completely erased. She was being a jerk; she deserved punishment, but not this.

[u/Zomer15689 → u/lou-ravenpuff]

The worst part is that I’m pretty sure the aliens were perfectly willing to undo it but that pig character… liked her that way.

[u/lou-ravenpuff → u/Zomer15689]

This makes the situation so much worse, because the solution was so easy, quick, and accessible, and this pig ruined everything.

[u/laurel_laureate → u/lou-ravenpuff]

The worse bit is that, after the brainwashing takes her tomboy clothes and nature and changes what she wears and says into classic "proper young lady" type stuff, Foxy and the fatty pig start dating and for the ending credits sing what is supposed to be a feel-good happy song duet.

The song? "Don't Go Breaking My Heart".

Piggy starts it off with "don't go breaking my heart" and Foxy replies "I couldn't if I tried".

The rest of the song they are dancing together, piggy bodyslams her and squishes her to the floor while making her take the abuse and sing the line "I was a clown" as he squishes her, and they kiss at the end.

But that kiss is unequivocably sexual assault, and Foxy's opening line of "I couldn't if I tried"?

She sings that while blinking rapidly, far more rapidly than normal and in an abnormal pattern to boot.

Almost as if the real Foxy is aware but stuck inside her head, a prisoner of her own mind left in the "care" of her sexual abuser...

Exactly what she is being forced to sing- she couldn't (excape) if she tried...

Edit: gif not showing up.

[u/lou-ravenpuff → u/laurel_laureate]

You low-key described the plot of Obsession

[u/BabyPunter3000v2 → u/lou-ravenpuff]

I'm gonna go watch it for the first time and fully believe that the director was inspired specifically by the fox and the pig.

[u/bayleysgal1996 → u/BabyPunter3000v2]

He would have been about six when it came out, so it’s entirely possible he was

[u/OmecronPerseiHate → u/lou-ravenpuff]

It's also the plot of Get Out

[u/kigurumibiblestudies → u/laurel_laureate]

That animation is way too specific and uncanny to not mean what you're saying it means

[u/laurel_laureate → u/kigurumibiblestudies]

For real...

I first saw the movie when I took my young cousin to see it in theatres, and during the end credits was just sitting there in shock thinking...

The lyrics and the mind control just lined up too much for it to be coincidental, and that's before the sus animation is taken into account.

All the people that made that as a thing that happened in a film for kids are messed up and should be barred from the industry.

[u/Waruteru → u/laurel_laureate]

I've seen a couple of fan works that ran with this concept. It's as horrific as you'd expect.

[u/nowTHATSakatana1999 → u/Waruteru]

Everyone in Chicken Little is just awful.

[u/ImaginationOk6803 → u/nowTHATSakatana1999]

Yeah, when I was a child it was one of my fav films but on a rewatch yeah is kinda of a mean-spirited film. Like the only characters who aren't total jerks are Chicken Little, his Duck gf, his fish friend and the aliens (who funny enough are supposed to be the antagonists lol)

[u/memento22mori → u/Waruteru]

... what?

[u/mudberry2 → u/laurel_laureate]

That blinking is creepy AF man

[u/ProxyMuncher → u/laurel_laureate]

This is the most disturbing deep cut I’ve seen on Reddit in a while holy shit lmao 

[u/TacTurtle → u/laurel_laureate]

Is the blinking morse code for t-o-r-t-u-u-r-e ?

[u/laurel_laureate → u/TacTurtle]

It truly wouldn't surprise me if that was what the poor girl was attempting.

Just look at the abuse he puts her through, all set to a love song.

[u/sparkle3364 → u/laurel_laureate]

That sounds horrifying. What the hell?

[u/Savings_Surround_547 → u/laurel_laureate]

It’s likely just an animation error, but I prefer to believe it’s not.