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Any other cartoon where a rabbit in the field gets brutally killed?

posted 12 years ago by Alfabeta
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I'm not sure if a scary memory from my childhood of seeing rabbit/hare getting killed (blood and all) in a cartoon comes from this or some other cartoon.
Are there any others with a scene like that?

I tried to remember more about the scene I'm thinking of. As far as I can recall, the movie/show I'm thinking of had a possibly rabid hare (a big mean lightbrown-ish bunny with possibly white foam coming out of its mouth) attacking and biting or scratching another big hare that looks like him (but isn't rabid or mean) in a field of wheat or something like that. I think he even draw blood (cut the other bunny who then started bleeding from his throat or thigh a bit). That scene was one of the most disturbing cartoon scenes I saw as a kid, but I have no idea where it was from. I really though it's Watership Down, but I don't think that it is, now that I've seen that cartoon again. I think the cartoon/show I'm thinking of possibly didn't have much violence in it except for that part (although it may have been bleak-ish). That's why it was so shocking.

There may have been a human birthday party too. Maybe a kid was having a birthday party in the vicinity and saw the hares fight or something like that. Then again, maybe I'm confusing that with something else.

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[–] lightning_lj 11 years ago

if you go looking for movies where small animals are brutally killed in a field.. you have problems

[–] 11 years ago

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[–] mikimcsween 10 years ago

I vaguely remember a hare bouncing through fields and another larger rabbit comes galumphing over and tears it apart :O
Perhaps this is a deleted scene from this film
But wtf is wrong with people man? Who would make a CARTOON like that ???

[–] lightning_lj 10 years ago

My guess is that they were trying to show things from the animal's perspective? what goes on in their world when we take it over and drive them away

[–] ShadoWolf0913 10 years ago

"Cartoons," that is, animated films, are not simply for kids. Animation is a style, not a genre, and can be about mature subjects as well as happy, playful stories. It's too bad that people tend to group all animated films as "children's films," and any that don't fit into that description are widely criticized. There are much more violent scenes in live action films; why are those generally acceptable but the same thing in an animation is wrong? (Although I do understand "Watership Down" was marketed specifically towards children, which I'm not sure I agree with.)

[–] Superstar51292 9 years ago

These people probably think South Park is for kids too.

[–] StarskyandChinaHutch 10 years ago

There was that deleted Bugs Bunny short from way back in which Elmer Fudd teamed up with the axis powers (and a time-traveling Kanye West who wanted to hook up with his political equals) to finally destroy that wascally wabbit...

[–] happyterwilliger 8 years ago

You might be thinking of a scene in "The Animals of Farthing Wood" in which a rabbit gets gunned down, although compared to "Watership Down" it's fairly tame.

Did the forgotten generations scream or go full of resignation, quietly protesting innocence?

[–] Alfabeta 8 years ago

Man, there's a lot of death and shot animals in that show. No, that's not it. As far as I can recall, the movie/show I'm thinking of had a possibly rabid hare (a big mean bunny with possibly foam coming out of its mouth) attacking and biting or scratching another hare just like him in a field of wheat or something like that. I think he even draw blood (cut the other bunny who started bleeding from his throat a bit). That scene was one of the most disturbing cartoon scenes I saw as a kid, but I have no idea where it was from. I really though it's Watership Down, but I don't think that it is, now that I've seen that cartoon again. I think the cartoon/show I'm thinking of didn't have much violence in it except for that part (but it was kind of bleak).