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As someone who watches a LOT of kid's movies with my daughter, I notice an alarming regularity of torture in children's media.

You like Pixar movies, right? Pick a Pixar film, ALL of them have a torture scene. It's bizarre.

It's late, so I'll be succinct about these, but let's define torture as follows:
Torture - noun - the act of deliberately inflicting severe physical or psychological suffering on someone by another as a punishment or in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or force some action from the victim

Fair?

This is a short list I can think of off the top of my head

Toy Story
Sid tortures Woody "Where are your rebel friends NOW?" as he burns his forehead

Toy Story 2
Stinky Pete tortures Woody "You can go to Japan together or in pieces. Now GET IN THE BOX!"

Toy Story 3
Buzz gets put in the "time-out chair" with a burlap bag put over his head and is forced to turn on his friends

Monster's Inc.
Mike is put in the "scream extractor" and is interrogated "Where's the kid?" as the extractor inches towards his face.

Wreck it Ralph
Ralph asks "What's going on in this candy coated Heart of Darkness?" Sour Bill tries to run away but Ralph picks him up and threatens to lick him. "I'll take it to my grave" "Fair enough" and Ralph pops Sour Bill in his mouth "Had enough?" "OKAY OKAY I'LL TALK!"

Cars 2
The green-gasoline in his tank, the spy car is put in front of the radiation shooting camera and is interrogated about who the other spy is and who has the information about the green gas he recovered that could unravel their plan to get revenge for being discriminated against for being "lemons." His engine explodes (he's killed?) in spite of giving up the information.

The Incredibles
Mr. Incredible is restrained via some black goop and asked about his family's whereabouts on the island.

Finding Nemo
Near the end of the film when Dory finds Nemo but Marlin has wandered off thinking Nemo was dead, they need to know which way Marlin went and come across the little crabs sitting on the pipe "heyyyyyyyyheyyyyyyyyyyheyyyyyyyy" "Yeah I saw where he went, but I'm not telling you, and there's no way you're gonna make me." Dory lifts him up and threatens to feed him to the seagulls sitting on a small rock until he starts screaming "OKAY ILL TALK ILL TALK HE WENT TO THE FISHING GROUNDS!!!"

I could go on, but I hope to make this simple point:
These films do NOT have to include a torture scene. It's simply odd to me that it appears so often, instilling the idea early on that torture works for getting information or cooperation out of people.

Finally, I point to one of many pieces of research on the matter https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325643/

Good points, I agree with you. I was on the fence about posting it because of your reasons. (I didn't even think of Mr. Incredible, but now it's very obvious.)
In the end, I also enjoyed it, and here it is.>> ^acidSpine:

Overall I liked this film. The first act was cool and unexpected, it really worked setting up the character and the situation then straight into the second no messing about. I thought it was a bad choice to fade out before he hit the asteroids, it was pretty weak. I thought you could have got way more out of that scene if you saw the ship fly through with the asteroids colliding behind it.
It also has to be said that character was such a rip-off of Mr Incredible (I'm pretty sure some of the performance and camera angles were nicked too but I'm too lazy to prove it). Still I liked it

Overall I liked this film. The first act was cool and unexpected, it really worked setting up the character and the situation then straight into the second no messing about. I thought it was a bad choice to fade out before he hit the asteroids, it was pretty weak. I thought you could have got way more out of that scene if you saw the ship fly through with the asteroids colliding behind it.

It also has to be said that character was such a rip-off of Mr Incredible (I'm pretty sure some of the performance and camera angles were nicked too but I'm too lazy to prove it). Still I liked it

"Mr. Sansweet didn't ask to be saved, Mr. Sansweet didn't want to be saved, and the injuries received from Mr. Incredible's so-called "actions" causes him daily pain."

I know ALL the words...

FYI - He calls him Buddy, which is Syndromes real name. Syndrome is voiced by Jason Lee. Earlier in the film Mr. Incredible calls him Brodie... and Brodie Bruce is the character that Jason Lee plays in the Jay and Silent Bob movies.