{"id":2519540,"date":"2025-12-10T08:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zootopia-2-teaches-kids-they-have-trauma-and-its-parents-fault\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:30:05","slug":"zootopia-2-teaches-kids-they-have-trauma-and-its-parents-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zootopia-2-teaches-kids-they-have-trauma-and-its-parents-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Zootopia 2&#8242; Teaches Kids They Have Trauma And It&#8217;s Parents&#8217; Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzootopia-2-teaches-kids-they-have-trauma-and-its-parents-fault%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2519540&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the release and reception of *Zootopia 2*, wich debuted during the Thanksgiving holiday and has grossed over $600 million worldwide, breaking several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scarlett-johansson-sues-disney-over-black-widow-release\/\" title=\"Scarlett Johansson Sues ... Over Black Widow ...\">box office records<\/a> in 2025. While the original *Zootopia* used animal species as a metaphor for racism, the sequel shifts to portraying reptiles as the &#8220;bad guys,&#8221; continuing it&#8217;s social justice commentary. The author criticizes Disney for incorporating activist politics into children&#8217;s media,noting that overt representation of LGBTQ+ themes,as seen in *Lightyear*,may have led to financial losses and subsequently more subtle messaging in films like *Zootopia 2*. <\/p>\n<p>Instead of direct social issues, Disney now focuses on themes of emotional vulnerability and trauma, with characters often confronting personal and familial problems. this trend, seen in recent Disney and pixar movies such as *Turning Red*, *Elio*, and *Encanto*, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >portrays family structures negatively<\/a>, encouraging children to question and sometimes reject their families. The article argues that these narratives promote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-parents-torpedo-democrats-crt-and-transgender-policies\/\" title=\"Virginia Parents Torpedo Democrats&#039; CRT and Transgender Policies\">anti-family agenda<\/a> and align with the mental health industry&#8217;s emphasis on therapy for deep emotional issues, which has grown significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to older Disney classics like *Toy Story* and *Monsters Inc.*, where family and found-family bonds are central and celebrated, the author contends that modern Disney films push children toward distancing themselves from their families. Ultimately, the article views this shift as Disney using its media to subtly spread leftist values and undermine conventional family relationships.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Zootopia 2<\/em> opened in theaters during the coveted Thanksgiving release slot. The highly anticipated follow-up to Disney&rsquo;s smashingly successful original <em>Zootopia <\/em>film has already grossed more than <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/zootopia-2-milestone-global-box-office-1236634395\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$600 million<\/a> worldwide. It has broken several opening weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/11\/zootopia-2-box-office-records-1236631348\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">records<\/a> and is already one of the highest-grossing films of 2025. <\/p>\n<p>The original <em>Zootopia <\/em>movie used different animal species as a metaphor for racism, something the second film expounds on as it makes reptiles the &ldquo;bad guys.&rdquo; Setting the blatant attempts at scoring social justice points aside, this new movie has another problem.<\/p>\n<p>As activist politics have gone mainstream, children&rsquo;s media has been directly affected. Some of it has been very direct, with movies like <em>Lightyear <\/em>featuring a homosexual couple kissing. <em>Lightyear <\/em>was considered a box office failure, reportedly losing more than $100 million. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/insidethemagic.net\/2024\/09\/executives-blame-disneys-massive-lightyear-bomb-on-lgbtq-inclusion-per-report-ld1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports have claimed<\/a> that executives blamed the loss on the movie&rsquo;s LGBT representation, which was heavily promoted on social media at the time.<\/p>\n<p>This may have resulted in Disney pulling back on LGBT representation in other projects, such as their first-ever Pixar television series, <em>Win or Lose<\/em>. The show planned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/disney-pulls-transgender-storyline-win-or-lose-1236088172\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">feature a transgender character<\/a>, but the story was modified to remove that narrative when released.<\/p>\n<p>But Disney isn&rsquo;t going to stop using its media to propagandize children with leftist values &nbsp;&mdash; it&rsquo;s just changing <em>how <\/em>the propaganda will look. The LGBT propaganda was evidently too blatant, causing Disney to bear that financial burden. So Disney has shifted toward a more subtle activist agenda, filling the films with Millennial therapist slop.<\/p>\n<p>One of <em>Zootopia 2<\/em>&rsquo;s defining moments occurs when the two main characters restore their friendship by opening up about their emotional baggage. Nick, the male fox character, talks about his distrust and childhood scars, centering Nick&rsquo;s childhood trauma as one of the movie&rsquo;s biggest villains. Throughout the course of the story, the film&rsquo;s creators repeatedly bring up the animals&rsquo; emotions and frame the characters&rsquo; relationships around their need to be vulnerable. In doing so they end up turning a story about crime-solving heroes and nefarious villains into a vapid misunderstood-feelings plot.<\/p>\n<p>This has become a trend in recent years, as more kids&rsquo; media remove the concept of good and evil. In 2022, <em>Turning Red <\/em>told the story of a young girl who turns into a red panda every time she experiences any strong emotions. The &ldquo;red panda &ldquo; was a not-so-subtle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/10\/entertainment\/turning-red-puberty-periods-wellness-cec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">metaphor<\/a> for menstruation, and the film spent much of its run time exploring the emotional baggage the girl inherited from her mother. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, <em>Elio <\/em>also played with the same idea of parental trauma, as one of its main characters expressed fear at inheriting his parents&rsquo; traits, like anger. In 2021&rsquo;s <em>Encanto, <\/em>the protagonist ends the movie by denouncing her grandmother for having harmful, high expectations for their family.<\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise that all of these movies are being targeted at children. These are all direct attacks on parents, grandparents, and family structure. The main characters often become heroes once they denounce their families for being imperfect.<\/p>\n<p>Disney&rsquo;s direct attempts at integrating social justice messaging into their movies didn&rsquo;t work. These subtle messages about families being villainous may be even more nefarious. Each of these movies rely on buzzwords pushed by the mental health industry. They are attempting to degrade familial relationships in favor of therapy. This benefits Disney, which is striving to keep its woke, anti-family agenda alive. It also benefits the mental health industry, which uses these kinds of stories to reinforce the importance of long-term therapy programs.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s no secret that therapy has become normalized in Western culture. Since the Covid pandemic, the number of adults participating in therapy sessions has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2024\/05\/20\/americans-spending-more-time-money-therapy\/73697989007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">risen dramatically<\/a>, and is even higher among young adults. As a result, between March 2020 and August 2022, spending on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House ...s List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">mental health services<\/a> rose by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/news\/press\/2023\/08\/25\/index1.html#:~:text=Spending%2520on%2520mental%2520health%2520services%2520rose%2520by%252053%2520percent%2520from,services%2520increased%2520by%252039%2520percent.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">53 percent<\/a>. Most people in therapy spend an average of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tebra.com\/theintake\/healthcare-reports\/mental-health-practices\/cost-of-mental-healthcare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1,080<\/a> per year on mental health services. The more that therapy is normalized, the greater the profit margin is for the industry. It relies on patients coming back for years and even decades to explore their &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psychedelic-mushrooms-could-soon-be-mental-health-treatment-option-for-arizonans\/\" title=\"Psychedelic mushrooms may become a mental health treatment in Arizona soon\">deeply rooted emotional trauma<\/a>.&rdquo; All the better if they can blame that trauma on their family.<\/p>\n<p>A glance back at Disney and Pixar&rsquo;s older films helps put things into perspective. The classic movie <em>Toy Story <\/em>goes out of its way to show that, despite how Buzz and Woody hurt one another, they are family. They learn to work together for the sake of the child that owns them, Andy. They don&rsquo;t huff about emotional baggage and cut each other off, but work through their problems for the sake of the found-family&rsquo;s structure. The same message can be found in <em>Monsters Inc.<\/em>,<em> Lilo &amp; Stitch<\/em>, and <em>The Incredibles<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>But now Disney seems to be pushing the message that the happiest place on earth is as far away from your family as possible.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brooke Brandtjen is a writer and journalist from Wisconsin who focuses primarily on culture, politics, and religion. She is extremely passionate about the arts and history, and is honored to write for a variety of distinguished publications.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zootopia 2 debuted at Thanksgiving, earning $600M+ globally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3727,"featured_media":2519543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-12-09T140314.334.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[68562,17459,36971,68561,68560],"class_list":["post-2519540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-childrens-movies","tag-parenting","tag-social-commentary","tag-trauma-awareness","tag-zootopia-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Copy-of-Untitled-2025-12-09T140314.334.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519545,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519540\/revisions\/2519545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}