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If the violence leads to actual death, it's a [[Family-Unfriendly Death]].
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* An ad for Sunfresh Tomatoes decries the idea that squeezing a tomato will give you a hint as to its freshness and flavor. Which it does with a "parody" of a wartime hospital, complete with tomato juice "blood" squirting everywhere and loud, ''agonized'' screams from the damaged produce...▼
* An [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTeC9fKlHSk ad for the Scion XD] takes the viewer into a dark, gritty, [[dystopia]]n world inhabited by "sheeple", then lets loose monsters called the "little deviants" to tear them apart in a way that's probably meant to [[Crosses the Line Twice|cross the line twice]], or at least provide [[Comedic Sociopathy]], but instead comes across as bone-chilling, complete with a [[Bloodless Carnage|bloodless severed head sliding into the street]]. The sheeple themselves live on the slopes that border the [[Uncanny Valley]], as well. See the even creepier webgame version [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025052541/http://www.littledeviant.info/ here]. Also, apparently we're supposed to cheer for the little deviants? Riiiiight. It doesn't help that "sheeple" is generally considered a rather snobby term. Oh, and we're supposed to avoid being "sheeple" by... [[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man|doing exactly what the commercial tells us to do and buy a Scion XD]].▼
* A commercial for a board game called ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrx2tnSw0U Grape Escape]'' featured happy dancing claymation grapes getting run over by a roller, decapitated with a pair of scissors, and smashed with a boot with each of their expressions more painful than the next, with a catchy parody of "Funiculi Funicula" with lyrics that went something like "Make 'em, take 'em, to the factory. Bash them! smash them! Now they're history!"▼
* There was a commercial for a game called ''Battle Tanks'' featuring Snuggles the fabric softener bear getting run over then blown to smithereens by a tank, at the end of the commercial Snuggles comes back badly damaged missing her legs, one arm, and an eyeball, and coughing up stuffing. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HXGIFPxbtk Here it is.] [[Nightmare Retardant|Quite funny, actually.]]▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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** Or in the manga when the same Zaku had one of his arms blown ''off'' at the forearm because of Shino's bugs (in the anime both arms are just injured).
** Naruto stabbing himself with a kunai to make a promise and remove some poison. The wound healed itself (unbeknownst to Naruto) and the actual scene of him doing it was cut in the broadcast version in the U.S (though Kakashi's line makes it fairly obvious). Oddly enough, later episodes are even more lenient when it comes to censorship.
** When fighting Killer Bee, Sasuke on separate occasion is impaled with multiple swords like a pin-cushion and has so much of the flesh on his chest blow off [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117233631/http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-413/page013.html to the point that you can see his ribs sticking out]. [[Good Thing You Can Heal|He's lucky his friends can heal him]].
** In the fight in the manga between {{spoiler|Naruto and Pain}} the latter pins down the former by ''sticking a spike through both of his hands and into the ground''. This is eventually followed by ''six more spikes''; one in each of his arms, hips, and legs.
*** Later, from the same arc {{spoiler|Naruto's eight-tailed form is essentially a fox without any skin, and the nine-tails tries to get Naruto to open the seal by making the seal on his chest into a massive bloody hole}}.
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* The Yu-Gi-Oh Manga had the Shadow Game between Marik and Mai. Remember how in the anime, the duelists would lose memories every time they lost a monster or life points? Well, in the manga, the duelists take whatever damage is done to their monsters (it's worse when you realize that in the manga, the monsters don't disintegrate or explode when they die, like in the anime). When Mai's monster attacks Marik's, it chops its head off. So MARIK'S HEAD FALLS OFF, AND HE PICKS IT UP - STILL TALKING. It gets worse. Later Marik summons a horrific electric torture device that looks like something out of the ''Saw'' movies and uses it to electrocute Mai.
** Oh, and remember the [[Bowdlerise|*Cough* "Dark Energy Disks"]] in the Yugi/Arkana duel? Well not only are they back to the original saw blades, one SLICES INTO ARKANA'S LEG AS YUGI FREES HIM AND HE SCREAMS IN PAIN. Yikes.
*** Happened quite a bit in the manga back when it was in its early days and the focus wasn't so much on card games, but more on Yami dealing out 'justice'. Almost all of what Yami did was Family-Unfriendly Violence, but it wasn't the bad guys that suffered, oh no. A couple of example of FUV towards the main characters includes Yugi getting ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090125192032/http://www.onemanga.com/Yu-Gi-Oh/48/16/ hung from a chain by the Millennium Puzzle]'', and Joey/Jonouchi being tortured ''with tazers''. Hoo boy.
*** In fact, the very first "game" played in Yu-Gi-Oh involves knives...
* Usually avoided by ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', but {{spoiler|Sailor Venus'}} death comes to mind. ''She gets impaled through the stomach by large stalagmites'' and then burns to death. But don't worry, she gets better.
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*** The manga has it even worse (For an example, when Gohan rips apart the Cell Juniors, you can see their ''[[Your Head Asplode|brain splatering around]]''!).
* The ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' manga, when Lucy is captured by Gajeel. The manga has him just chucking knives at her like a dartboard. They never showed a knife anime version instead he brutally attacks her.
▲== [[Commercials]] ==
▲* An ad for Sunfresh Tomatoes decries the idea that squeezing a tomato will give you a hint as to its freshness and flavor. Which it does with a "parody" of a wartime hospital, complete with tomato juice "blood" squirting everywhere and loud, ''agonized'' screams from the damaged produce...
▲* An [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTeC9fKlHSk ad for the Scion XD] takes the viewer into a dark, gritty, [[dystopia]]n world inhabited by "sheeple", then lets loose monsters called the "little deviants" to tear them apart in a way that's probably meant to [[Crosses the Line Twice|cross the line twice]], or at least provide [[Comedic Sociopathy]], but instead comes across as bone-chilling, complete with a [[Bloodless Carnage|bloodless severed head sliding into the street]]. The sheeple themselves live on the slopes that border the [[Uncanny Valley]], as well. See the even creepier webgame version [http://www.littledeviant.info/ here]. Also, apparently we're supposed to cheer for the little deviants? Riiiiight. It doesn't help that "sheeple" is generally considered a rather snobby term. Oh, and we're supposed to avoid being "sheeple" by... [[The Man Is Sticking It to the Man|doing exactly what the commercial tells us to do and buy a Scion XD]].
▲* A commercial for a board game called ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlrx2tnSw0U Grape Escape]'' featured happy dancing claymation grapes getting run over by a roller, decapitated with a pair of scissors, and smashed with a boot with each of their expressions more painful than the next, with a catchy parody of "Funiculi Funicula" with lyrics that went something like "Make 'em, take 'em, to the factory. Bash them! smash them! Now they're history!"
▲* There was a commercial for a game called ''Battle Tanks'' featuring Snuggles the fabric softener bear getting run over then blown to smithereens by a tank, at the end of the commercial Snuggles comes back badly damaged missing her legs, one arm, and an eyeball, and coughing up stuffing. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HXGIFPxbtk Here it is.] [[Nightmare Retardant|Quite funny, actually.]]
== [[Fairy Tale]]s ==
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027163722/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/goldbird.html The Golden Bird]'', the hero's [[Green-Eyed Monster|envious]] brothers shove him down a well to kill him, and succeed in trapping him there.
** Similarly, the brothers in ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/412.htm The Bird Grip]'' throw the hero into a lions' den, and in ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/368.htm The Golden Blackbird]'', into a lake.
* In ''[
* In ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/009.htm The Blue Mountains]'', the hero must suffer a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] for three nights to free the heroine.
** Also in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130313071234/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/threeprincesseswhiteland.html The Three Princesses of Whiteland]''.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130313071200/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/bluebelt.html The Blue Belt]'', the hero's eyes are burnt out by a troll and his own mother.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130313071415/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/trueuntrue.html True and Untrue]'', Untrue gouges his brother True's eyes out in a rage.
** Similarly in ''[
* In [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|Grimms']] ''[
* In ''[
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130803001541/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/31girlwithouthands.html The Girl Without Hands]'', the Devil insists that the miller chop off his daughter's hands.
* In ''[
* In ''[
* In ''[
** In the [[Child Ballad]] ''[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch006.htm Willie's Lady]'' ([[Child Ballad]] #6), the hero's mother also is keeping the heroine in labor without giving birth until the hero tricks her into revealing how she cast the spell, and undoes it.
{{quote|''Of her young bairn she?ll neer be lighter,
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* In ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/223.htm Clever Maria]'', the king goes to cut off Maria's head on their wedding night; she survives only because she had a dummy ready in her place.
* In ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/038.htm The Grateful Beasts]'', Ferko's brother put out his eyes and break his legs.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131129130936/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/armlessmaiden/stories/onehandedgirl.html The One-Handed Girl]'', the heroine's brother chops off her hand.
* In ''[
* In ''[
* Almost every [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|Grimms']] Fairy Tale ever. Consider the Grimms' "[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]", in which the evil step-sisters first cut off pieces of their feet to fit the golden slipper, and later had their eyes pecked out by birds who were avenging Cinderella. The ''second'' volume is even worse—those are the "Morality Tales", wherein "bad children" face even ''more'' sadistic fates.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131104144636/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/books/portugual/pedroso/maidenwithrose.html The Maiden with the Rose on her Forehead]'', a woman finds a beautiful girl in enchanted sleep in her husband's house. Not knowing she is his niece, she beats her (accidentally reviving her) and burns her all over with a red-hot iron to make her ugly. Then she enslaves her, maltreating her.
** Similarly in ''[
* In ''[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/books/slavonic/wratislaw/beautifuldamsel.html The Beautiful Damsel and the Wicked Old Woman]'', a prince [[Rags to Royalty|marries a peasant girl]] but when she is coming to the wedding with an old woman, the woman gouges her eyes out and thrust her into a cave.
* In ''[
* In the original story of [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517040322/http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/rrPathNeedles.html Little Red Riding Hood] the Wolf kills the grandmother and puts her blood in a bottle and her flesh in the cupboard. When Red turns up she says she's hungry. Lucky for her there's wine and meat for her to eat. Then the wolf tells her to take off her clothes and hop into bed with him.
* Lithuanian folklore features cannibal witches who eat children. One of such tales went into absurdity when witch mutilates herself to the death by chopping all her body parts, because she wants to impersonate some child's mother, who is supposedly lacking both her legs and arms and finally even her head.
* In "[[Sun, Moon, and Talia|Sun Moon and Talia]]" (the ''original'' story of "[[Sleeping Beauty]]"), the King, rather than kissing the princess like in the tale we're most familiar with, [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|he rapes her]] ([[I Love the Dead|even though he thinks she's dead]]). Which results in her being impregnated and having twins, all while still in a magic induced sleep. It turns out this King is also an already married man, and later when he returns and takes her and the kids back to his castle, he kills his wife so he can marry the pretty young princess.
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* ''[[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra]]'' is PG-13, and parents do need to take that "Parental Guidance" seriously in this case. Remember that scene in ''[[Indiana Jones|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' where the woman is threatened by a red-hot poker held close to her face? In this, an iron mask is welded directly to someone's face while still red-hot, with much sizzling and screaming. Worse, we see it from the ''victim's'' POV as it looms closer... closer... *frizzle*.
** The kid-friendly action heroes of the toys and 1980s cartoon are here depicted as actually killing enemy soldiers, occasionally in some rather brutal ways, ranging from "crossbow to the face" to "forklift through the gut."
* [[Pixar]]'s ''[[A Bug's
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'': Long before Alice fights the Jabberwock, you see why you ''do not'' underestimate the Dormouse in battle; she is very good at [[Colossus Climb|climbing onto any enemy in a fight]] and then [[Eye Scream|going for the eyes]].
* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (1997 film)||Hercules]]'', Herc gets this treatment several times through the course of the movie.
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* One of the reasons the BBC gave for the terminating the [[Virgin New Adventures]] (in the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]]) was that they had gone overboard on the sex n' violence. The BBC [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] that followed included such stories as "The City of the Dead", where the Doctor does horrible things to his broken leg, and "Interference", where he spends most of the first book being pointlessly<ref>his guards probably didn't even care what he knew</ref> tortured in a Saudi cell.
== [[Live
* Though played for comedy, some of the contestant eliminations on MTV game show ''[[Remote Control]]'' were freaky. Being pulled screaming through the back of the set by people in freaky costumes, while the audience chants your failure like a Roman colosseum... rather disconcerting to a child.
* The black and white television version of ''[[Zorro]]'' had one particularly disturbing episode. Some witty banter between some Spaniards was taking place in the foreground, while Indian slaves were being whipped in the background—complete with screams.
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* ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (animation)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' was working with [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?]] source material and adapting it for seven year olds, so had to tone down the characters' bloodier excesses ([[Family-Friendly Firearms|and replace their guns with tanks and flamethrowers]]). It still leaks into this pretty frequently, though. An example is an episode where Sam and Max raise a baby alligator, and discover it won't eat any food except off Max's arm. His arm gets increasingly mangled throughout the episode, until eventually he mentions he's lost all sensation in it, and they both giggle about it.
** ''The Effigy Mound'', a (now out-of-print) Sam & Max sketchbook, features some of the censors' notes from the show. It becomes readily apparent that they [[Completely Missing the Point|weren't any more clued in about this whole "Sam & Max" business]] than the people who thought it would make for a good kids' show in the first place.
* Happened quite a few times on ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]''. Aside from the brutal monster battles, some of the human fights can get pretty intense as well. "The Fortress of Deception" features a scene where Lance is taken in for questioning. He is tortured by getting shocked and beaten by a large muscular man, blood is seen trickling from his mouth and he spits some of it out, later that same man is seen lying on the floor in a puddle of blood and teeth.
* Quite a few times on ''[[Adventure Time]]'', but most notable is "Dad's Dungeon", where a fruit witch accidentally eats her [[How Do You Like Them Apples?|cursed apple]] and consequently gets covered in vines, which rot off to reveal an apple that has entrapped her. Her two sisters then eat her and what's left behind is a ''bloody apple core covered in bones.'' No not apple juice that sorta looked like blood, '''actual blood''' (it was even visible on the red apple skin). Did we mention this was a [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|kid's show]]?
=== ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' ===
* "Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy IV". [[SpongeBob]] shoots Squidward with Mermaidman's belt, making him undergo [[Transformation Trauma|painful transformations]]. Among them, getting set on fire, losing all skin, and getting cut in half. Later, [[SpongeBob]] shrinks every single citizen of Bikini Bottom. They get their revenge on him by invading his body - he HAS holes everywhere, so invading wasn't much of a problem for them - and ''crushing him from the inside''. This includes breaking his bones, destroying his kidney, punching out his eyes and brain... Yes, it did look creepy and painful.
* One time, Spongebob killed a flock of scallops to protect his beloved Krabby Patty. At one point, you can see one of the tongues flying out.
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