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* ''[[Transformers]]''
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*** 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]]''
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**** 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] [[Schrodingers Cat]] at this point.
** ''Generation One''
*** And who can forget the [[Transformers:
*** 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.]]
** ''[[
*** 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.
* [[
** 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 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 ''[[
** 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 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''.
** In the same episode, creatures like dog-sized piranhas with legs got onto the submarine after EATING A WHALE TO NOTHING BUT BONES ONSCREEN, and in one scene while they were running for their lives from the creatures, a female scientist was too slow, and we got a shot of the creatures swarming her as Race was forced to slam the door shut to prevent them from getting to the rest of them all, and you hear the woman being graphically devoured, complete with squelchy crunching sounds.
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* 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.
* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'': "[http://couragede.tripod.com/episodes/episoderamses.html King Ramses' Curse]". The titular King Ramses is a very gaunt and oddly animated figure with three curses. Two were mostly harmless, but the third was swarms of locust that quickly devour anything and ''anyone'', including Eustace and two anthropomorphic cats.
* While many episodes of ''[[Batman:
** In ''[[Batman Beyond]]: [[The Movie|Return of the Joker]]'', the Joker is killed off fairly early in the story. There are actually two versions of the death scene. Originally, Robin shot the Joker. The [[Moral Guardians]] thought this was too violent, so the scene was reanimated to show the Joker getting wet and tangled up in wires, slipping and [[Nightmare Fuel|accidentally electrocuting himself]]. How this is supposed to be any less violent?
*** They thought that an indirect death is less violent than a direct death. Also, guns.
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*** The episode with the "daughter" is made extra [[Nightmare Fuel|disturbing]] by the fact that while she has a totally separate and distinct personality she is still a part of Clayface, which allows him to find her [[Implacable Man|no matter where she runs]]. It also doesn't help that at the [[Downer Ending|end of the episode]], Robin observes that Clayface has essentially [[Karma Houdini|committed murder in a way that cannot be prosecuted]].
** So the Ventriloquist has a split criminal personality manifested as a [[Demonic Dummy]], Scarface. Scarface technically isn't alive, so he would get butchered in various methods, onscreen. He's been shot up by machine guns (twice) and shredded repeatedly.
* While he [[No One Could Survive That|actually survives]], it was pretty startling to watch ''[[
** The main series when Black Mask pulled a [[You Have Failed Me]] on his [[Number One]] by using Nth metal to make him float upward until he's stopped by a ceiling window, talking to him for a bit, then ''opening the window''. It would probably be a lot worse if Mask's next action (picking a new [[Number One]] with the ''exact same line'' as the one he just killed) wasn't completely hilarious.
** One episode of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' had the intensely disturbing scene where a man fell into a hole slowly filling with toxic waste. His limbs fell off when he hit the ground.
*** The episode about "Splicers" which ended with the Big Bad injecting himself with so much Animal DNA he mutated in a gigantic blob-crab-monster. Yikes!
*** The episode where Bane died from taking way too many slappers.
* ''[[Captain N:
*** This seems to be a reference to a [[Nintendo Power|Howard & Nester]] [http://hn.iodized.net/tetris0405.htm comic] introducing Tetris that featured the exact same plot.
* The Ghost of Christmas Future sequence in ''[[Mickey's Christmas Carol]]''. Yes, ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' is supposed to be scary at times, but here, Scrooge (McDuck, in this case) is ''pushed'' into his own grave by the Ghost of Christmas Future (played by Pete, cruelly laughing the whole time while taunting "Richest man in the cemetary!"), into a coffin belching hellfire and brimstone!
* ''[[Superman:
** How can we forget Dan Turpin? After he frees Superman, and the timely arrival of the forces of New Genesis, Darkseid is forced to withdraw, but not without firing one final Omega Beam, which streaks toward Superman before curving around and ''instantly vaporizing'' Turpin.
** Mala and Jax-Ur go out by getting sucked into a black hole. This would perhaps be [[Together in Death|acceptable]], except that, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1iJXOUMJpg well]...
* The animation version of ''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood]]'' loved this. One character, a puffed up bullying pheasant, got a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment when he sees the cooked and roasted body of his wife cooling on the windowsill (A death he inadvertently caused). A set of mice babies is impaled on a thorn bush by a vicious butcher bird, who not only gets a [[Karma Houdini]] but gets to mock the other animals for their squeamishness. A ultracute family of newts is hinted to have burned to death. A baby rabbit is shot. Mrs Mouse (the one who lost her babies) is killed and eaten by ''one of the main characters'', who didn't recognise her. This is just a small selection.
** They didn't go for [[Karmic Death]] either; one of the first real villains gets assassinated by the resident [[Sociopathic Hero]].
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' was notorious for using the [[Mecha
** One particular episode focused on a robot that had developed a personality, and actually cared about a puppy. The puppy gets held hostage so the robot will fight Jack. It gets cut down in seconds, just like all the others.
*** Which is a fairly clear deconstruction of the whole idea of using [[Mecha
** 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:
** 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
** 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.
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** 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
* 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.
* Another example occurred in the cartoon ''[[Western Animation/The First Bad Man|The First Bad Man]]'', in a scene that is often cut from television the villain Dinosaur Dan during one of his robberies walks up to a shaggy haired caveman pulls up his beard like a curtain and shoots him in the head at point blank range with a non-bloody hole through his head and falls over dead.
* Roku's death in a flashback in ''[[
** Combustion Man who dies from exploding after his third eye is messed up by Boomerang.
** Also Jet, who dies from getting his chest crushed by a jagged chunk of rock.
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** The crowning moment of this trope for Captain Scarlet has to be when the titular character throws an electric cable into a Mysteron agent. He screams and ''catches fire'' as he's electrocuted.
* ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' has a number of harrowing deaths by implication: the first Fireflash to go missing was full of passengers. Seeing as the second one was intact on the floor of the ocean after crashing, one assumes all the passengers and crew of the first died of suffocation in the sunken aircraft while the aircraft's instruments were reading wildly off course.
* ''[[Generator Rex]]'' has quite a few, and we aren't talking just [[Mecha
** The show as a whole seems to be making a game of killing off said [[Red Shirt|Red Shirts]] in the most brutal ways possible in a kids cartoon. So far, the highlights of this trend include a soldier falling into [[Our Monsters Are Different|EVO]]-Piranha infested water, and screaming before being dragged under... Man, the show once even managed to avoid [[Bloodless Carnage]]; although it happened with [[Bug War|a swarm of giant insects]], the blood splatter they exploded into was red.
* ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'': Spontaneous explosion, being run over, swallowed by a giant space monster, [[Ret-Gone|erased from history]], inflated and popped, implosion, etc. [[Disney Death|They generally got better]], needless to say.
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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
** More drastic example happens to Celestia's pet bird Philomena, which burns to ashes ''on screen'' {{spoiler|- of course, as a [[The Phoenix|phoenix]], she rises from her own ashes few seconds later.}}
* A few deaths on ''[[
* The ''[[
* ''[[
** The original show had [[Evil Counterpart|Kevin 11]] killing sentient robot Slix Vigma by impaling him on his diamondhead arm, and almost give the same fate to Ben. Another example includes villain Ghostfreak, who was burnt to ashes ''twice''.
** ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** Similarly, [[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]] had some gruesome death too. Those include alien crook Zanmaro being eaten alive by a giant carnivorous worm (though this one is played for comedy); [[Evil Clown|Zombozo]] being hinted to have buried someone; [[Fallen Hero]] Carl Nesmith killing his doctor off-screen and leaving his dead body in a cold chamber, where he is found by Ben and Gwen; and, finally, [[Anti-Villain]] Old George being electrocuted by [[Bigger Bad]] [[Eldritch Abomination|Diagon]] until he turns into ashes.
* The ''[[Young Justice (
* ''[[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.
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