No one expects a big surprise from children's movies, but Disney Pixar has used films like Toy Story and Monsters Inc to shock even adult audiences.
Pixar movies may be for children, but some of their best plot twists surprised even adult audiences. The Disney studio has established a specific formula over the years to the point that it's typically easy to guess what will happen. However, the writers for movies like the Toy Story sequels, Coco, and Monsters Inc seemed to have recognized this and used audiences' expectations to twist the plot more unexpectedly.
9 Stinky Pete Could Escape His Box In Toy Story 2 The kindly character turned villain trope is one that Pixar audiences have grown conditioned to, but when Toy Story 2 was released in 1999, it hadn't yet become so common. Throw in the fact that Stinky Pete was supposed to be stuck in a box and that audiences weren't necessarily looking for an additional villain, and the character's sudden betrayal was a significant surprise.
7 Doc Hudson Was A Piston Cup Winner In Cars Cars was Pixar's version of a classic "rookie athlete" story, which meant Lightning McQueen would end up with a wise old mentor to teach him the real meaning of life. From the moment the overly-confident racecar met Doc Hudson in Radiator Springs, it was clear that this was the character for the job.
4 Lightning McQueen Doesn’t Finish His Final Race In Cars 3 Like Toy Story 3 took viewers by surprise by using the end of previous installments against them, Cars 3's most effective plot twist came from the fact that it was always expected that Lightning McQueen would win the final race. Lightning had been determined to prove that only he could decide when he was done racing, and everyone expected him to pull through in the end.
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