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[[File:OneHandedGirl.jpg|frame|A [[Blatant Lies|nice little]] [[Fairy Tale]]: a brother is about to lop his sister's hand off.]]
{{quote|''"[[The Joker]] in our show could not kill, because it was a children's television show. Instead of him murdering people we would have him give 'em that [[Slasher Smile|hideous Joker grin]], which in its own way is almost worse".''|The writers of ''[[Batman:
▲{{quote|''"[[The Joker]] in our show could not kill, because it was a children's television show. Instead of him murdering people we would have him give 'em that [[Slasher Smile|hideous Joker grin]], which in its own way is almost worse".''|The writers of ''[[Batman the Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'', on [[The Joker]]}}
Violence is funny, as long as no one you like gets hurt. Unrealistic [[Slapstick]] violence is funnier still, perhaps because it's clearer it can't happen to the audience, but sometimes shows cross the line.
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Maybe the programme shows the consequences of violence a little too vividly, maybe the designated target has become too sympathetic. Whatever the reason, the result is prime [[Nightmare Fuel]].
Sometimes caused by [[What Do You Mean
If the violence leads to actual death, it's a [[Family
{{examples
== [[Advertising]] ==
* 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, [[
* 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]] ==
* ''[[Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin]]'' may star [[Talking Animal
* Many [[Shounen]] series (e.g. ''[[Naruto]]'', ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', ''[[One Piece]]'' - see below) contain scenes of surprisingly graphic violence considering that most are aimed primarily at kids/early teens.
* ''[[Naruto]]'' has Sasuke pulling Zaku's arms until they ''dislocate''. There wasn't any blood but the poor guy was screeching like there's no tomorrow. You can understand why this scares the crap out of Sakura, even though that's the guy that just stomped her into the ground a minute ago.
** The climax of the Land of Waves arc, particularly Zabuza's final clash with Kakashi.
** 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
*** In fact, the very first "game" played in Yu-Gi-Oh involves knives...
* Usually avoided by ''[[
* More than one ''[[Pokémon (
* ''[[One Piece]]'' contains frequent instances of characters being shot, stabbed, slashed, savagely beaten, what have you. This is particularly jarring given the series' [[Crap Saccharine World|cartoony look]] and the story's (supposedly) [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|heavily idealistic perspective]].
** One such example is when Luffy is captured by the Bluejam pirates during a flashback. One member decides to interrogate him by {{spoiler|beating the everloving crap out of him with spiked gloves, until he is barely conscious. Luffy was SEVEN YEARS OLD at this point}}.
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** The fact that GAINAX allegedly had spent so much money on court costs dealing with the complaints resulted in the director and the production team having to [[Gainax Ending|redo their int]][[Mind Screw|ended ending]] due to the unforseen "budget constraints."
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. In spades.
** For a few examples, we've got dismemberment (Frieza tearing Nail's arm ''singlehandedly'') and impalement (Dedoria once impales a Namekian warrior with his ''fist'', as does Gohan [[Super
*** 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.
== [[
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027163722/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/stories/goldbird.html The Golden Bird]'', the hero's [[Green
▲* 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|dystopian]] 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.]]
▲* In ''[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
** 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 (
* 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|
Nor in her bower to shine the brighter.
But she shall die and turn to clay,
And you shall wed another may.'' }}
* In ''[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt1/pt113.htm The Brown Bear of the Green Glen]'', the brothers set on the hero and leave him for dead.
* 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 (
* 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
== [[Film]] ==
* If the original three ''[[
** Actually, the third film ''was'' PG-13.
* The entirety of ''[[Felidae]]''. It was in a time where animation was for kids, and got fairly low ratings (Germany: FSK 6, meaning kids 6 and up), but was chock full of graphic violence. It was also marketed at kids with the trailers, but was later taken off the air instead of re-rating it.
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* The seal in ''[[Happy Feet]]'' is well-known as a nightmare-inducing creature. The chase scenes are intense enough to be mildly disturbing to some adults, and ''terrifying'' for the small children who are the film's target audience.
* Similar to the seal chase in ''[[Happy Feet]]'', the film ''Balto'' features a scene in which the main characters are suddenly attacked by a vicious and enormous bear, which can be very terrifying for young children (especially seeing the main character get almost crushed to death by said bear).
* ''[[Charlie and
* 1985's ''[[Return to Oz]]'' has the electroshock treatments in the asylum meant to make Dorothy forget Oz, and the reference to "damaged" patients being locked in the cellars.
* ''[[
* ''[[Hook]]''
* Michael Jackson's ''[[Moonwalker]]'', where [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jsnAYNIk_DE he is shot down on his stoop]. (At about 4 mins into it)
* Disney's ''[[Fantasia]]''. Some people had to be carried out of the theater during "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" after seeing shadows of Mickey taking an axe to an animated broom, or our hero nearly get drowned by an ''army'' of animated brooms relentlessly fetching water.
* Disney's ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' has several musical numbers that take place during death, fire and/or torment sequences, and burning down the whole town.
* ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]''
** Basil of Baker Street getting the snot kicked out of him by Ratigan on the face of Big Ben was pretty terrifying for a Disney movie.
** Ratigan has his pet cat [[Family
** His cat got one too when she was ripped to shreds by the Royal Guard dogs.
* The flashback to the laboratory in ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'', complete with a shot of one of the heroes being impaled through the midsection with a giant syringe. Ironically, in the book the N.I.M.H. researchers were portrayed as normal, and actually pretty nice, people.
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** Mrs. Brisby getting a nasty slash across her wrist with a piece of wire, complete with a little puddle of blood on the floor.
** The fight scene between Jenner and Justin. And when Jenner's crony throws the knife in his back.
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' was PG-13. Those parents that took their [[Misaimed Fandom|eight-year-olds]] ''deserve'' the therapy bills they will be fielding for the rest of their natural lives, though admittedly, [[Misaimed Marketing|the picture books, sticker sets and lunchboxes]] [[What Do You Mean
* ''[[Coraline (
* ''[[G.I. Joe:
** 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
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland (
* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (
* Much of ''[[The Three Stooges]]''' violent slapstick is humorous by nature, but the short ''They Stooge to Conga'' deserves mention here. Curly gets electrified, set on fire, and literally has his nose put to the grindstone. But Moe has a climbing spike dig into his head, his ear, ''and his eye''. This is why that particular short has rarely been shown on television.
* The original PG-rated ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (
* In ''[[WALL-E]]'' throught the first act, any injuries are [[Amusing Injuries]]. Then in the second act we get {{spoiler|WALL-E getting violently tasered by AUTO, a dying WALL-E later getting ''crushed underneath the holo-dectetor'' as AUTO violently tasers the button to make it shut, and the film's [[The Dragon|Dragon]], GO-4, getting (accidentally) kicked out of a window, [[Family
* In ''[[The Lion King]]'' not only is there the [[Family
* ''[[Captain America:
* ''[[Arashi no Yoru
* ''[[Watership Down]]'': bunny rabbits shredding each others' ears, saying "I'll kill you" with blood on their mouths and paws, a dog biting and shaking rabbits while blood sprays around. Rated U in the UK.
* Despite its PG rating, ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' contained a lot of onscreen violence that would bof given the film a PG-13 rating nowadays such as Jango Fett's '''ONSCREEN''' decapitation, Anakin's arm getting chopped off, just to name a few.
** In fact a head butt between Obi-Wan and Jango during their fight on Kamino was cut in the UK release so it would get a PG rating and not a 12a, which is the UK counterpart of the PG-13 rating
== [[Literature]] ==
* K.A. Applegate's series, ''[[Remnants]]'', featured much over the top mayhem, including the homicidal alien Riders and Blue Meanies, and the [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destruction of the Earth]] by an unstoppable asteroid.
* ''[[
** Let's see, Cinderpelt {{spoiler|getting her leg crushed by a car}}, Brokentail {{spoiler|[[Eye Scream|getting his eyes clawed out]]}}, all of Tigerstar's [[High
** When Lionblaze discovers that his power is to {{spoiler|kick so much ass that by the time he's done, he is absolutely drenched in his opponents' blood}}, most fight's involving him become rife with this. And don't get me started on most of the prophetic nightmares throughout the series.
* The ''[[Deptford Mice]]'' - dear god, where do we START?! Well, how about the rats who worship Jupiter, {{spoiler|a giant mutated cat who breathes fire}}, and feed him live sacrifices, while skinning their own prey alive? And the rat who was rude to a higher-ranking officer in his youth, so said officer cut the kid's lips off? And {{spoiler|Madame Akkikuyu's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] - she throws herself onto a bonfire when she realises Jupiter's spirit is possessing her.}} And on another "upsetting the [[Moral Guardians]]" note, it's heavily implied that Madame Akkikuyu started out as a prostitute.
* ''Guardians of Ga'Hoole''. For a children's book series, there's a lot of blood and absurdly gory injuries. For instance, an eagle's tongue is torn out, Ezylryb bit off his own talon, and last of all, the death of the owl Phillip, who was {{spoiler|killed by Nyra by first being slashed across the chest and then HAVING HIS HEART PULLED OUT.}}
* The ''[[Redwall]]'' series is another fantasy [[Talking Animal]] young adult/children's series that is also filled with [[Family
** And in non-death violence, one [[Big Bad]] gets half of his face ripped off by a hawk. Another survives gets bitten in the head by an adder and has [[Two
* 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
* ''[[
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Dick Tracy]]'': For a comic strip in the mid-20th Century, it was extraordinarily bloody with Tracy often tortured and villains often suffering gory [[Karmic Death
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the game masterpiece ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'' is not exactly directed to children, but rather grownups' childhood memories of the (already creepy and somewhat disturbing) Alice children's book (or its Disney counterpart, still creepy). As it takes the rather naive and innocent protagonist to do horrible disturbing things like decapitating card soldiers and burning ablaze one of the book's characters. Just to name a few.
** The fates of the Dormouse and March Hare. *shudder*
* Mimi at one point in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Lackadaisy]]'': Cute, big-eyed anthropomorphic kitties... hacking each other to bits with hatchets, smashing each other in the face with a riflebutt, and pumping each other full of lead.
** While the comic isn't ''really'' meant for kids, the fact that the cast consists of very cute anthro-cats plus the fact that the series is often compared to the cute family film ''Cats Don't Dance'' (mainly due to the art style and, once again, the cats) moves it into Family Unfriendly Violence Territory.
* Anytime ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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** Some vestiges of it still remain in more recent plots. Galen's was particularly grisly, for one...
*** [http://images.neopets.com/faerieland/crash_fede37c686.jpg THIS]. [[Colony Drop|That]] [[The Bad Guy Wins|is]] ALL.
* ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has how Zuko got his scar. Although we do get a [[Gory Discretion Shot]], it's entirely obvious that Ozai ''shot his son in the face with fire'' (for speaking out of turn, no less), which would be rather...''disconcerting'' to younger viewers.
** "The Boiling Rock" has a man tortured by being held upside down for a long time, which sounds like [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]], but is actually quite painful and is a real form of torture.
** In "Appa's Lost Days," Appa gets into a fight with a [[Mix
** Bloodbending is first introduced in ''The Puppetmaster''. The victims always look in great pain and shock. Potentially, a Bloodbender could not only manipulate muscles which is implied, but crush the victim's internal organs, stop the heart or, in a similar vein to extracting fluid from plants (killing the plant in the process)... yeah.
** The GENOCIDE that occurred in the story universe 100 years prior to the plot of the show? Sure, they never directly call it genocide, they never directly call it mass-murder or large-scale killing, they never actually show them getting killed, but however you look at it, the Fire Nation killing off every single one of the Air Nomads for being Air Nomads is GENOCIDE.
*** Aang crying over the skeleton of his dead mentor and all of his attackers' is a pretty chilling scene, it has to be said.
* ''[[
** Oddly enough though, the closest the series ever came to blood was in the recent direct to video film ''Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars'' which features Tom attempting to grab Jerry only to crush a tomato. This leads Tom to believe that he ''crushed Jerry's body to the point that his hand is covered with Jerry's blood''.
*** Later in the same movie, the Martians decide to invade Earth. When they get there, one of the lovable astronauts we had been watching throughout the movie gets up and confronts one of the aliens face-to-face, remarking that he didn't look too tough. The alien gets angry, so he whips out his ray gun and actually vaporizes the astronaut, reducing him to a pile of ash. [[It Gets Worse]]. The aliens then decide to go on a rampage, and start vaporizing every innocent civilian in sight, while you hear their screams of pain. It's not gory, but it's not done in a cartoony style, making it traumatizing and out-of-place in a Tom and Jerry movie.
*** One cartoon directed by Chuck Jones contained another 'false gore' scene. The storyline involved Jerry and another mouse playing malicious pranks on Tom to make him believe he was attacking himself in his sleep. They tried lowering a hangman's noose where he was sleeping, placing a gun on a string nearby, and other stuff. Then the mice poured ketchup on Tom's belly while he was asleep, covered a knife with ketchup, and put the knife in Tom's hand. When Tom woke up, he thought the ketchup on the knife, and his belly, was blood, and that he'd accidentally stabbed himself. When he found out what the mice were doing, he shoved them in a bottle, rigged with a gun that would go off if they tried to escape.
** There is an episode during [[The French Revolution]] with Tom messing up a fancy dinner while trying to catch Jerry and another mouse, and being sentenced to death. The last scene is a [[Gory Discretion Shot]] showing a faraway guillotine with drums playing. The drums stop, the blade drops, and there is this visceral, organic ''"chok!"'' sound you hear in your nightmares for the next ten years.
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the direct-to-DVD movie ''The Fast and the Furry'', in which a large number of secondary characters are rather messily [[Killed Off for Real]]. To elaborate, {{spoiler|a mother of four is heavily implied to be devoured by jungle insects, a man is cooked alive by a mermaid, a little old lady and her dog fall to their deaths, a [[Mad Scientist]] is vaporized, and a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] is disintegrated}}. [[What Do You Mean
* Ironically, this is much less common in Warner Bros' [[Looney Tunes]] cartoons, where the impact of the violence is often blunted by the recipient's reactions to it (and [[Rule of Funny|the usual cartoon exaggeration]]. For example, [[Daffy Duck]] can be shot point-blank with a gun, and come out with nothing more than a misaligned bill and frustration towards [[Bugs Bunny]] for getting the upper hand once again.
* The entire ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' series veers between this and [[Bloody Hilarious]]. Every fight scene with robots involves [[Symbolic Blood]] and [[High
** This is actually a parody/homage of samurai films' brutal deaths of combatants.
* For implied violence, the various ''mutilations'' that happen to Baxter Stockman in the 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
* ''[[Justice League (
** ''[[Batman:
* Ever since the writers went off their medication at the beginning of the third season, ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has been a bit like that. In addition to the [[Family
** How about the EXTREMELY detailed death of {{spoiler|Soundwave}}?
* ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' is going full-throttle with this. The first episode has {{spoiler|Cliffjumper getting stabbed by Starscream, complete with [[Symbolic Blood]]}}, while episodes three and four include Bulkhead tearing out an Eradicon's "guts" and Optimus and Ratchet slicing their way through a small army of {{spoiler|the robot undead}}.
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*** There were plenty of bloody bandages in a Games episode (oddly) "Ren's Pecs".
* ''[[Flap Jack]]'' has Captain K'nuckles's story about how he got two wooden hands: When he was a kid he stuck one hand in the garbage disposal, which was ''hand-operated''. Since he couldn't afford to buy a fake hand, he carved a replica of one he saw in a pawn shop... but it was for the wrong hand so he ''cut off his other hand'' and carved another replica for the first hand he lost. Later in that same episode, Flapjack calls K'nuckles a liar, so a gang of people come out, says he stole all his stuff until ''he was reduced to a pair of eyeballs and one wood hand''.
* The earlier episodes of ''[[
* Given that a large chunk of its characters were robots, Ruby-Spears' [[Mega Man (
** Gutsman gets a basketball-sized hole blown through his chest. ("Mega X")
** One fairly cartoony [[Designated Girl Fight]] in "Electric Nightmare" ends with Roll ''vacuuming her opponent's face off.''
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* ''[[Popeye]]'' would punch animals and turn them into [[Let's Meet the Meat|meat products]] or [[Fur and Loathing|fur coats]].
** Happens to birds in the ''Popeye'' versions of both ''Sindbad the Sailor'' and ''Aladdin''.
* The ''[[Teen Titans (
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' was full of this especially in the earlier episodes, the most violent things tended to happen to the monsters they fought they sometimes got decapitated, torn in half, impaled, or ripped limb from limb.
** One of the most disturbing examples is where the girls get addicted to candy to the point where it's treated like a drug addiction, when Mojo Jojo betrays their trust of rewarding them with the candy by stealing it they beat him to the point where he is hideously deformed and has blood dripping from his mouth. They seem to leave Mojo in that state A LOT.
* ''[[
* ''[[Sat AM Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' had a scene of this. In the episode "Sonic's Nightmare", Princess Sally is [[Unwilling Roboticization|roboticized]], not only a [[Fate Worse Than Death
* ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (
** ''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
* Quite a few times on ''[[
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* "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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* In ''Doing Time'' Mrs Puff angrily rips a guards face off.
* A recent episode has Squidward fried alive, and another one has Plankton cut in half by a propeller.
* In "Code in Yellow", SpongeBob tries to perform surgery but ends up only chopping up Squidward such as ink squirting, his heart coming out, his leg cut off with sushi on top, his body parts, and lastly, his nose being put on a burger (talk about disturbing).
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