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* ''[[Transformers]]''▼
*** ''[[Beast Wars]]'' is a very violent show, exploiting the [[Mecha-Mooks]] loophole [[Bloodless Carnage|as far as it can]]. Characters are bashed up, blown apart, shot, stabbed... And usually ''alive'' in the next episode. When someone actually ''dies'', it tends to go even further: Tarantulas was vaporized by one of his own mad science devices, leaving nothing but his feet with smoke rising from them. The last we see of Terrorsaur is his desperately outstretched hand slowly descending into the lava. And we'll spare you the details of Depth Charge, Rampage, and [[Wave Motion Gun|Tigerhawk's deaths]]...▼
*** And let's not forget Beast Wars Megatron ''popping a cap in Optimus Prime's head''. He got better, but still, giant gaping hole in the head of one of the biggest adored heroes of a generation.▼
** ''[[Transformers Animated]]''▼
*** ''[[Transformers Animated|Animated]]'': Blurr. gets trapped in a tunnel and crushed by its closing walls. After which his killer (in disguise) casually hands his cube-sized remains over to the nearest Autobot who has no idea what he just tossed down the disposal chute. Considering the show had no "real" deaths up until this point, this made the emotional impact even worse.▼
*** More than one person on the [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?act=idx AllSpark] forums has claimed [[He's Just Hiding]].▼
**** Whereas [[Word of God|the lead character designer]] has stated [http://derrickjwyatt.blogspot.com/2009/03/turn-back-now-spoilers-ahead.html he's pretty much] [[Schrödinger's Cat]] at this point.▼
** ''Generation One''▼
*** And who can forget the [[Transformers: The Movie|original movie]]? Where most of the [[Kill'Em All|first two seasons]]' cast has [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|bridges dropped on them]] in very graphic and sadistic manners, not counting those who died offscreen. Prowl melts from the inside out after being blasted by Scavenger, Ironhide has his computer-brains blown out execution-style by Megs, Optimus gets blasted and stabbed a dozen times(supposedly the fatal wound was due to a stab) while Hot Rod is held hostage, Kranix and another Lithonian are eaten by the Sharkticons, Gears gets digested by Unicron, the Conehead Seekers get chomped by Uni's robot form, and Ultra Magnus gets blown to pieces (originally was going to be drawn and quartered), [[Disney Death|although put back together shortly after]]. Shockwave was supposed to be stomped by Unicron, but they cut out the shot. Red Alert was also supposed to die by being shot in the back by Devastator, but that scene was never animated.▼
*** Did everyone forget the first 5 minutes of this movie? An entire planet of robot people, BILLIONS of "men" "women" and "children" are sucked into Unicron's hungry maw, chewn up, and used as fuel! Genocide in my children's film? [[Memetic Mutation|More likely than you think.]]▼
*** Though [[Karmic Death|deserved]], [[The Starscream|Starscream's]] painful disintegration at the hands of Galvatron wasn't too family friendly either. Though we do find out by later in G1 that his spark is indestructible, most likely [[Joker Immunity|by popular demand.]]▼
** ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' really hits the ground running, with {{spoiler|Cliffjumper's}} death at the servos of Starscream a few minutes into the first episode, achieved via 'Scream ''jamming his claws through his chest'', followed by his poor victim visibly bleeding out [[Symbolic Blood|energon]] all over the floor with a look of utter shock on his face. The Autobots get some action in as well, with Bulkhead dispatching a Vehicon by essentially yanking its robo-guts out with his bare hands, and ''slowly'' at that. Granted, he was a drone, but it was still rather nasty (even if Miko thought it was awesome). Later episodes have lovely moments such as Tailgate, an old partner of Arcee's, being sliced open by Airachnid. [[Symbolic Blood|Energon]] splatters '''everywhere.''' That one probably only got by because they used a [[Gory Discretion Shot]].▼
*** And then there's {{spoiler|Breakdown's}} death at the hands of Airachnid. She lures them into a trap, and then proceeds to ''slice them up''. [[It Got Worse|Then the remains]] [[Oh Crap|get collected by MECH...]]▼
*** Insecticons always seem to be on the receiving end of one of these. One is leapt upon by scraplets (basically cybertronian army ants), and falls into a chasm while it's limbs fall off. Another gets into a brutal fight with Megatron, which ends with two of it's limbs being torn off before it's head is sliced off. And another gets toxic shrapnel in its torso after an explosion, causing it to writhe in agony before finally dying.▼
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] in "To Love A Patty" grabs some clams and smashes them into little pieces while still alive. The worst is when he holds one in the air for a few seconds before snapping its jaws and breaking the shell in half. You can see that one's tongue fly off.▼
** Even more creepily is that Spongebob took care of a baby clam in an early episode. Yet he killed a bunch for really no reason... [[Love Makes You Crazy|because of love.]]▼
* ''[[Herman and Katnip]]'': In one cartoon, the cat catches several mice, ties them to a stick, and starts roasting them alive with an expression of sadistic glee; to make it worse, the cat and the mice were [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] of the most human-like sort.▼
** Herman and Katnip had a lot of these, it was one disturbed cartoon. In the Christmas episode the [[Designated Hero|supposedly heroic mice]] kill the [[Designated Villain|apparently evil cat]], turning his corpse(you can tell he died as he makes no movements, not even blinking) into Christmas tree, plugging his tail into a electric socket, all while Christmas carols plays! Is it any wonder that these creepy characters were the inspiration for the Itchy and Scratchy?▼
** A ''lot'' of the Famous Studios/Harvey Toons cartoons have this kind of carnage. Baby Huey was regularly assaulted by foxes and other predators with ''fire axes'' and the like; his indestructibility doesn't make the scenes any less traumatic. One reason why the Famous Studios cartoons are so disturbing when similar stunts from MGM or Warner Brothers cartoons aren't: the expressions on the faces of the perpetrators are ''frighteningly malicious'', and not in that Grinch-Eyebrows Evil Laugh way that Chuck Jones used in his run on ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''.▼
** One cartoon (A Bicep Built for Two) has Katnip being pursued by a giant body builder cat who stole his girlfriend, in the end Katnip uses two shotputs he'd been using as biceps to smash the bully's skull which kills him because his 9 lives come out, there was no blood though.▼
* In ''Once Upon a Time'' (an adaptation of the fairy tale "Frau Holle"), the evil stepsister [[Trapped in Another World]] passes by an oven filled with animal-shaped cookies that want to be let out. The stepsister refuses to do so, and the animals then burn to death while screaming in agony.▼
* In ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] Meet Frankenstein,'' the main characters ''bury an (imagined) monster alive'' while singing, "We'll make this place his ''tomb!''" Still not disturbed? Well, the monster was ''nice!''▼
* ''[[Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures|The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]'' was filled to the brim with not very child friendly deaths. For example in one episode the villain '''was impaled on Elephant bones'''. Another villain was shot to death with a machine gun.
** The episode where an undersea lab is attacked by what can only be described as sabertoothed C.H.U.Ds. As the survivors of the attack are making their way to escape pods, one lady scientist stops to try and grab the body of one of the dead creatures "for future study" (with the entire group yelling at her not to go near it). Whoops! [[Not Quite Dead]]! The scene cuts to a [[Gory Discretion Shot]], but the clear implication is that the creature ''bit the woman's face off''.
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** There was also the episode in which Race and the boys faced off against a man who had a literal shadow puppet monster which had already killed several, and could reach them anywhere, at any time, and couldn't be killed since it was just a shadow, so they couldn't shoot it or capture it. Logically, they thought that if they turned out the lights, it would cease to exist. They were wrong-all that did was make the monster invisible!
** Another from the original series had two villains pursuing the Quest group in a canoe which Race manages to sink. Looking almost as if they're smirking, several crocodiles slide into the river. One of the bad guys shouts that he can't swim, the other replies, "Well, you'd better learn fast!" ... and then their screams are utterly horrific, making it '''quite''' clear that the crocs are taking them before they have time to drown....
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== Other Works ==
▲* [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] in "To Love A Patty" grabs some clams and smashes them into little pieces while still alive. The worst is when he holds one in the air for a few seconds before snapping its jaws and breaking the shell in half. You can see that one's tongue fly off.
▲** Even more creepily is that Spongebob took care of a baby clam in an early episode. Yet he killed a bunch for really no reason... [[Love Makes You Crazy|because of love.]]
▲* ''[[Herman and Katnip]]'': In one cartoon, the cat catches several mice, ties them to a stick, and starts roasting them alive with an expression of sadistic glee; to make it worse, the cat and the mice were [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]] of the most human-like sort.
▲** Herman and Katnip had a lot of these, it was one disturbed cartoon. In the Christmas episode the [[Designated Hero|supposedly heroic mice]] kill the [[Designated Villain|apparently evil cat]], turning his corpse(you can tell he died as he makes no movements, not even blinking) into Christmas tree, plugging his tail into a electric socket, all while Christmas carols plays! Is it any wonder that these creepy characters were the inspiration for the Itchy and Scratchy?
▲** A ''lot'' of the Famous Studios/Harvey Toons cartoons have this kind of carnage. Baby Huey was regularly assaulted by foxes and other predators with ''fire axes'' and the like; his indestructibility doesn't make the scenes any less traumatic. One reason why the Famous Studios cartoons are so disturbing when similar stunts from MGM or Warner Brothers cartoons aren't: the expressions on the faces of the perpetrators are ''frighteningly malicious'', and not in that Grinch-Eyebrows Evil Laugh way that Chuck Jones used in his run on ''[[Tom and Jerry]]''.
▲** One cartoon (A Bicep Built for Two) has Katnip being pursued by a giant body builder cat who stole his girlfriend, in the end Katnip uses two shotputs he'd been using as biceps to smash the bully's skull which kills him because his 9 lives come out, there was no blood though.
▲* In ''Once Upon a Time'' (an adaptation of the fairy tale "Frau Holle"), the evil stepsister [[Trapped in Another World]] passes by an oven filled with animal-shaped cookies that want to be let out. The stepsister refuses to do so, and the animals then burn to death while screaming in agony.
▲* In ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] Meet Frankenstein,'' the main characters ''bury an (imagined) monster alive'' while singing, "We'll make this place his ''tomb!''" Still not disturbed? Well, the monster was ''nice!''
* ''[[The Mighty Heroes]]'' had the Raven, with a plastic blaster that entombs people in a sheath of greenish plastic. Doesn't seem too scary until you think about the fact that [[Fridge Logic|it means they can't breathe.]]
* One 1970's episode of ''[[Dynomutt Dog Wonder]]'' in which some supervillain's [[Weird Science]] ray gun made the ''completely human'' Blue Falcon melt into a blue puddle.
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*** Which is a fairly clear deconstruction of the whole idea of using [[Mecha-Mooks]] in the first place.
** Another episode had a starving family come to Jack looking for food. However, they only eat metal, and think his sword would make a tasty treat. It's only after Jack slices off the face of one of them that they're revealed to be robots disguised as humans, at which point they begin tearing themselves apart and eating each other. Made all the more disturbing by having the red tinted metal under their disguises.
▲* ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'', in oh so many ways. The genetically identical Clone Troopers are given screentime to establish personalities and likeableness, and are ''still'' killed off. Notable examples include two naval officers being sucked into vacuum by having their escape pod cut open, Matchstick's Y-wing getting disabled and crashing into Tag's, Sergeant O'Niner's execution, Cutup's being ''eaten by a giant eel'', and all the expected deaths by battle droid blasterfire. Nor is this limited to the Clones: Trandoshan scavenger Gha Nackht is stabbed through the chest by Grievous after capturing R2-D2; ditto for traitor Senate Commando Captain Argyus (although to be fair, he ''did'' mouth off to Asajj Ventress).
▲** Also there was Pirate Turk Falso, who was Force Choked by Dooku to death. ON SCREEN.
▲** How about the squads of clone troopers [[Kill It with Fire|burning Geonosian's alive]] as they scream and plunge helplessly off a cliff?
▲** There's also the Rodian Jedi being tortured to death on screen by Cad Bane and the battledroids. When he finally dies, the droid operating the controls announces it in such a disturbing tone of depression in comparison to their usually high-pitched voices, you can't help but shiver.
▲** Cad Bane deserves more of a mention. This is the guy who manages to get away with gangland style, on-screen executions in a children's show.
▲** Topped by a bomber committing suicide rather than be captured. How does he accomplish this? By jumping to his death from a balcony. It's almost like they're trying to see how much they can get away with.
▲*** They definitely do try. In one episode, the enemy general had the local villages bombed instead of the clone troopers. They were full of civilians, children even.
▲** The producers have upped the ante again in the episodes concerning the Nightsisters. In "Monster", Asajj Ventress travels to the far side of Dathomir, where she holds incredibly violent contests to determine which Nightbrother clan representative should receive Sith alchemical augmentation and serve as her spy against Count Dooku. She does this by bringing the candidates to an arena, dimming the area lights and ''systematically murdering all but two of them with a scythe on a chain and their own weapons.'' Asajj clearly decapitates at least two while laughing maniacally, and when another throws a spear at her, she grabs it in midair only to whip it quite visibly into the chest of another man.
▲*** Then, after Ventress has selected Savage and brought him back to the Nightsisters to be imbued with their power, the "coven" tests his loyalty—commanding Savage to kill the only other survivor of the games, a man heavily implied to be Savage's blood brother. Savage does so, with a [[Neck Lift]] and [[Neck Snap|the customary follow-up]].
▲** In the Zygerrian Arc, the prison warden lords over Obi-wan that, as a Jedi, it's against their code of honor to kill an unarmed opponent, even one as sadistic and evil as him. Commander Cody notes that [[Loophole Abuse|clone troopers have no such rule]] and proceeds to throw an electrostaff [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|clean through him]], his hoverchair loses control and veers into the nearby console, letting the electrocutions finish off what the impalement started, this probably wouldn't have slipped through the censors if the warden wasn't such a [[Complete Monster|utterly evil bastard.]].
* Many ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons, especially ones directed by [[Tex Avery]] and Bob Clampett, feature characters committing suicide by shooting themselves in the head; there was no blood though.
** One good example of a family unfriendly death occurs in a MGM cartoon titled "Wild and Woolfy". In one scene, the wolf villain comes across his old friend Slim, whom he hasn't seen in years. He greets him by shooting him -- at point blank range -- in the face, and we see his corpse fall over dead.
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** And the one that Oliver pulled apart.
** And by implication only, the engines that ''were'' actually scrapped-a few scenes have ''carcasses of 'dead' engines'' in the background.
* ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades]]'' manages a few. {{spoiler|Ripcord}} makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] early on, {{spoiler|Maj. Hidalgo}} gets vaporized into a pile of ashes by Baroness when he tries to extort more money out of her, and Cobra Commander feeds a pesky [[The Mole|mole]] to his giant pet snake.
* An unaired ''[[House of Mouse]]'' short featured a scene where Minnie Mouse buries [[Pluto the Pup|Pluto]] alive in a nightmare [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|his conscience]] created while he is forced to stay at Minnie's house while his owner [[Mickey Mouse|Mickey]] is on vacation. Also, toward the end of the same short Pluto is actually dragged to Hell by the same conscience!
* Happens in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' of all places. The Windigos, spectral horse monsters that [[Emotion Eater|feed off of]] [[The Power of Hate|the hatred of their victims]] and are slowly freezing the world, are killed when [[The Power of Friendship]] allows a powerful fire spell to be performed. We see them struggling to escape as they're engulfed by the flames and burned to death. It's not ''that'' graphic, but boy is it more than you'd expect from this show!
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* ''[[Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness]]'': In the Episode "Big Bro Po" there is a very [[Nightmare Fuel]] based sequence where Bian's father, Taotie got in his [[Humongous Mecha]] and plumbed, then crushed Po to death IT INCLUDED BLOOD and then ended with Po On a table with a apple in his mouth and the father FLAT OUT TELLING HIS SON THEY WERE GOING TO EAT HIM!
* In ''[[Help! I'm a Fish]]'' the villian is finally tricked into turning himself from a fish into a full human being... underwater. There are no cuts and no convenient camera angles. He drowns in real time, center frame.
* ''[[Swat Kats]]'' pulled this off in the first episode produced (second to be aired) ''The Giant Bacteria,'' featured one-shot villain Morbulus being turned into the eponymous Giant Bacteria monster, who later divides into three parts, each of which is electrocuted to death by the end of the episode.
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