A robotics prodigy grieving his brother's death assembles a makeshift team, led by a soft, inflatable healthcare robot named Baymax, to confront the person responsible. Don Hall and Chris Williams's 2014 film sets its Marvel-derived plot in a hybrid San Francisco-Tokyo city and keeps its emotional focus on loss rather than spectacle.
Two royal sisters are separated by one sister's uncontrollable ice powers, and the younger one sets out to bring her home rather than defeat her. Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee's 2013 film reworks Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen into a story about repair between siblings rather than romance.
Judy Hopps, the first rabbit on the Zootopia police force, partners against her will with Nick Wilde, a fox con artist, to solve a missing-mammal case that exposes prejudice baked into the city's design. Byron Howard and Rich Moore's Disney feature restructures a buddy-cop plot around predator-prey tension, using new fur-simulation software and years of zoo research to render a mammal metropolis that looks, and argues, like it was built for its inhabitants rather than around them.