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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* ''[[Zoom (TV series)|Zoom]]''. Jittery, terrified talking paper collage vegetables in a garbage disposal, waiting and waiting for the horrific moment when the memorably nasty-looking blades would start spinning and puree them all.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' had its share of gruesome deaths, even if [[Never Say "Die"|it's not fond of the]] ''[[Never Say "Die"|word]]'' "[[Never Say "Die"|death]]."
** Frax's death in ''[[Power Rangers Time Force|Time Force]]'' was a [[Dies Wide Open]] involving a scream and parts of his robotic face falling apart. This after his having been reprogrammed into a mindless automaton by the [[Big Bad]].
** Flashbacks in ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force|Wild Force]]'' showed ''vines assault and grow through the bodies of two terrified humans''. Apparently, a bloodless death can't possibly disturb anyone.
*** They actually only got away with this one due to a [[Channel Hop]]. They told the first network ([[FOX]]) that the characters would later turn out to have survived, which makes it okay somehow. They then "neglected" to tell the second network (Disney) that the death had ever happened, so they didn't have to keep the promise, and they stayed dead.
** ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm|Ninja Storm]]'' had a cyborg villain suffer melting at the hands of another, treacherous villain. His half-slagged body is seen in a rare exception to PR's [[Everything Fades]] tendency. His executioner [[Bond One
*** ''Ninja Storm'' has one that wasn't the death itself, but... the monster of the week was a pig. The Rangers beat him, he goes giant, they beat him again, he explodes... and then we see [[Big Bad|Lothor]] eating his barbecued remains; the other villains were as disgusted as should be expected.
** The Master's hatching from Matoombo's body near the end of ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force|Mystic Force]]'' was almost ''[[Alien]]''-level bad. The exact same thing happens to Titan of ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]''.
** A rather nasty, [[Mecha
*** Oh my goodness, ''Zeo''. Louie Kaboom, the temporary leader of the Machine Empire. Under a [[More Than Mind Control|love spell]] cast by the new villains he takes on the Rangers in combat, and is eventually defeated. However, unlike most of the mindless minions that fell to the Rangers, he remained alive for a few moments, ''stumbling around in pain while on fire and professing his love for the villain that brainwashed him.''
** Many [[Mecha Mook|Grinders]] in ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' are also destroyed in very gruesome ways.
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** The Swedish Chef was strangled by his own spaghetti bolognese.
*** And beaten by a sentient pile of dough, shot by a turtle, hit in the head with his own cleaver...yikes.
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* ''[[Through the Dragon's Eye]]'', a 1990s kids' educational series for schools, featured an anthropomorphized quagmire which would merrily drag cast members down to their doom. And this was used in a ''cliffhanger''.
** The [[Big Bad]], who happens to take the form of a sort of skeletal bird with an exposed ribcage, wrapped in a black cloak and with Freddy Krueger-style scissor fingers, actually ''melted'' several of the secondary characters. Seriously. Into pools of liquid...
*** They got better. But not until right at the end, weeks later. And kids were actually ''required'' to watch this in classes.
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* Same can be said of [[Bones]], and it's probably so parents can tell the kids to bugger off for the first five minutes and come back after the titles. The show uses up its [[Nightmare Fuel]] quota nice and early, while the parents get to revel in the [[Squick]], totally guilt-free and without having to worry about sudden violence or [[Nightmare Fuel]] later in the program.
* While most ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series simply have [[Monster of the Week|kaijin]] [[Made of Explodium|blow up when killed]], ''[[Kamen Rider Amazon]]'' shows the titular hero decapitating and removing limbs, with copious amounts of blood; this actually caused the series to be canceled when [[Moral Guardians]] complained. When the World of Amazon is revisited in ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', Amazon's attacks simply cause a brief fountain of blood, followed by an explosion.
* ''[[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'' introduces Kamen Rider Scissors/Masashi Sudou who gets a particularly memorable send-off when he is eaten alive by his own Mirror Monster.
** {{spoiler|The titular rider}} gets himself stabbed in the back in the penultimate episode, complete with [[Blood From the Mouth]]
** Not to mention {{spoiler|Kamen Rider Ohja}} getting gunned down by dozen of police.
* [[Kamen Rider Double]]:
* Caleb's death in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - bisected from the groin up. Being a psychotic, mysoginistic serial killer seems to make this acceptable viewing, however.
* Despite being comedy, ''[[Get Smart]]'' often had characters die in [[Nightmare Fuel]] ways. Particularly disturbing was the murderer whose aerosol weapon coated his victims in transparent plastic, within which they suffocated while looking like department-store mannequins.
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