What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole]]'': A "PG" rated film by [[Zack Snyder]] with {{spoiler|owls clawing and slashing each other apart, characters dying, bats tearing apart owls, impalements...}} And yet, it was aimed to kids.

* The original ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' got this reaction when we get to meet Sid, who tortures and mutilates [[Toys]].

* ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'' features the [[Anyone Can Die|mass]] [[Kill'Em All|slaughter]] [[Dwindling Party|of almost]] all of [[It Was His Sled|the major original cast]]. This one also fits [[Animation Age Ghetto]].

* The original ''[[Shrek]]'' has swearing and [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|adult jokes]] and gruesome deaths. Yet kids seem to don't care.

* The entire point of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] series ''Galaxy of Fear'' was to be a horror series for kids. [[Body Horror]] and [[Mind Screw]]s abounded to the point where the book that revolved around ghosts was the least scary of the twelve. Hell, they introduced a planet that eats people alive in the ''very first book''. Other lovely highlights include worms that suck the marrow out of your bones so that the empty space can be filled with a serum that makes you [[And I Must Scream|an unwitting zombie]], a [[Mind Rape|machine that traps you in your own nightmares]], forcible conversion into a [[Brain In a Jar|B'omarr brain spider]], swarms of [[Eaten Alive|beetles that eat you from the inside out]], other humans [[I'm a Humanitarian|who also think your flesh is tasty]], and some of the sickest [[Evil Scientist|EvilScientists]] in the Star Wars universe. Good God, everywhere these kids go people die like flies! Special mention goes to the psychological trauma that goes with the question "If clones made of you have all your memories and think they are you, ''how do you know you yourself aren't a clone?''

* The ''[[Discworld]]'' kids' books.

** The Tiffany Aching novels have a pre-teen (to start with) witch facing various inhuman creatures, including the Queen of [[The Fair Folk]] (one of Pterry's nastier villains) and a being of pure hatred towards witches. To say nothing of more mundane problems such as teenage pregnancy (not hers). All the books also feature references to sex, which become steadily less coded as they go on. Interestingly, ''[[Wintersmith]]'' and ''[[I Shall Wear Midnight]]'' don't use the "smaller hardback" format of ''Maurice'' and the first two Tiffany books, although they're still listed as "for younger readers". Pterry's view is that '''all''' ''Discworld'' novels are aimed at anyone who understands the jokes.

* ''[[Animorphs]]'' features a lot more violence and [[Nightmare Fuel]] than you would expect, despite being for kids.