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** Many [[MechaMook Grinders]] in ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' are also destroyed in very gruesome ways.

* The ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress "The Girl in the Flower Dress"]] features Debbie, a scientist for the mysterious Centipede project, getting roasting alive onscreen, screaming before she turns into a blackened, decaying skeleton. It was slightly toned down for Channel Four pre-watershed airings in the UK but was still pretty horrific.

** Caleb's death - bisected from the groin up. Being a psychotic, misogynistic serial killer seems to make this acceptable viewing, however.

** The Swedish Chef was strangled by his own spaghetti bolognese.
*** And beaten by a sentient pile of dough, shot by a turtle, hit in the head with his own cleaver...yikes.

* The ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E5GirlInTheFlowerDress "The Girl in the Flower Dress"]] features Debbie, a scientist for the mysterious Centipede project, getting roasting alive onscreen, screaming before she turns into a blackened, decaying skeleton. It was slightly toned down for Channel Four pre-watershed airings in the UK, but was still pretty horrific.

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" has an unusually graphic ending for ''Who'' -- the Daleks activate a time-altering superweapon which almost kills the Doctor, and ages the Doctor's companion Sara from a beautiful young woman into an old woman, then into a mummified corpse, a skeleton, and then to dust. Steven then puts the weapon into reverse, which causes the Daleks to de-age into foetuses, which eject from their cases, flop about and die. The Doctor even picks up one of these foetuses and laughs about how great it is that he's wiped out every Dalek on the planet, leading to a WhatTheHellHero moment from Steven.

** Believe it or not, ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'' was the first Power Rangers season to show blood. (As a ''plot point'', nonetheless. [[spoiler: The blood dripping from Zen-Aku's hand indicates he isn't a normal Org, as Orgs don't have hearts and therefore can't bleed.]]) In another episode where Alyssa is attacked and Zen-Aku tends to her wounds she has a bloody scrape on her leg.

** A rather nasty, MechaMooks loophole exploiting death in ''[[Series/PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'' where [[EvilVersusEvil two groups of enemy mooks have a battle royale]]. The mooks are Tengas (bird men) and Cogs (spandex robots) You see Tengas and Cogs sluggin it out for a few shots, then it cuts to one Tenga holding down a struggling Cog while another Tenga ''tore open its stomach and ripped out its electronic guts.'' This wasn't ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' footage that slipped past the censors, either - Tengas were ''Power Rangers''-exclusive mooks, so it was all original footage. (Also, Tengas are hatched from eggs and explicitly alive. This makes the ones who were on the ground and not moving at ''all'' explicitly ''dead.'')
*** Oh my goodness, ''Zeo''. Louie Kaboom, the temporary leader of the Machine Empire. Under a [[MoreThanMindControl love spell]] cast by the new villains he takes on the Rangers in combat, and is eventually defeated. However, unlike most of the mindless minions that fell to the Rangers, he remained alive for a few moments, ''stumbling around in pain while on fire and professing his love for the villain that brainwashed him.''

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Kevan Lannister was killed alongside the High Sparrow, the Faith Militant, the Tyrells, and countless other people in the explosion of Great Sept.

** "The Daleks' Master Plan" has an unusually graphic ending for ''Who'' -- the Daleks activate a time-altering superweapon which almost kills the Doctor, and ages the Doctor's companion Sara from a beautiful young woman into an old woman, then into a mummified corpse, a skeleton, and then to dust. Steven then puts the weapon into reverse, which causes the Daleks to de-age into foetuses, which eject from their cases, flop about and die. The Doctor even picks up one of these foetuses and laughs about how great it is that he's wiped out every Dalek on the planet, leading to a WhatTheHellHero moment from Steven.
** The death of [[spoiler: beloved companion Clara Oswald]] in "Face the Raven" resulted in complaints being lodged against the BBC by parents who felt it was too disturbing for younger viewers (in part because it was the first time in more than 30 years that [[spoiler: a companion had been killed in a violent fashion]]).

** Many of the aliens in ''Series/UltraSeven'' were killed by Seven with the [[BattleBoomerang Eye Slugger]], meaning they were chopped into pieces on-screen. So you got a lot of beheadings, aliens being sliced in two, monsters getting their arms chopped off, and that sort of thing. Perhaps the most gruesome death was from "Super Weapon R-1", where Ultra Seven kills the mutant alien Gyeron Starbem by tearing off one of its bladed arms and using it to slit the monster's throat.

** Take Ultraman Taro and Ultra Seven above, combine them, and take it UpToEleven and you have ''Series/UltramanAce''. Perhaps the most memorably graphic was the death of Muruchi, in which another monster called Doragory kills by tearing Muruchi into pieces. ''On-screen.''

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Narrowly averted in an early episode, where -- after he devour everything in sight -- Cookie Monster attempts ''to eat KermitTheFrog''. Cookie shows some mercy, however.

*** They actually only got away with this one due to a ChannelHop. They told the first network ({{Fox}}) that the characters would later turn out to have survived, which makes it okay somehow. They then "neglected" to tell the second network (Disney) that the death had ever happened, so they didn't have to keep the promise, and they stayed dead.

* While their deaths aren't actually seen, ''{{Kenan and Kel}}'', in "Two Heads Are Better Than None", find three severed heads on a table. Of innocent victims. Who had been previously introduced.

* ''[[AfterschoolSpecial CBS Schoolbreak Special]]'': The 1984 episode "Dead Wrong: The John Evans Story," the true story of a death row inmate who went on a crime spree that ended with the murder of a pawn shop owner, shows at the end a very chilling electric chair execution (a re-enactment) of Evans for his crimes.

** In [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS3E15Spacetime "Spacetime"]], Gideon Malick crushes an business man's head in ''very'' graphic detail.

* [=SuperMagic PowerMan=] and Lanolin Lady in ''TheAquabatsSuperShow'' episode "Showtime!" are vaporized using [=SuperMagic PowerMan=]'s magic headband worn by the young girl they just saved, who turns into Space Monster M.

** Let's not forget Warren, when he gets flayed alive onscreen which is the second most gruesome moment in the show (first being when Gnarl eats Willow's skin). And like Caleb, he was a psychotic misogynist who deserved it. At least Caleb being chopped in half was somewhat offscreen. Even worse with Warren is when he returns in the Season 8 comics as a body with no skin.

* ''SesameStreet'': Narrowly averted in an early episode, where -- after he devour everything in sight -- Cookie Monster attempts ''to eat KermitTheFrog''. Cookie shows some mercy, however.

* ''TheMuppetShow.'' A large monster eats a smaller, cuter monster ''while singing a very eerie version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" to his victim.'' Did the person who came up with that gem have a vore {{fetish}} or something?

** [[spoiler:Spike's]] DyingMomentOfAwesome - ''being burned alive from the inside out''. It's awesome by virtue that [[spoiler:he]] [[TakingYouWithMe took an entire army]] with [[spoiler:him]], but watching [[spoiler:his]] skin shrivel and burn is pretty horrifying.

** "The Daleks's Master Plan" has an unusually graphic ending for ''Who'' -- the Daleks activate a time-altering superweapon which almost kills the Doctor, and ages the Doctor's companion Sara from a beautiful young woman into an old woman, then into a mummified corpse, a skeleton, and then to dust. Steven then puts the weapon into reverse, which causes the Daleks to de-age into foetuses, which eject from their cases, flop about and die. The Doctor even picks up one of these foetuses and laughs about how great it is that he's wiped out every Dalek on the planet, leading to a WhatTheHellHero moment from Steven.

** Frax's death in ''[[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]]'' was a DiesWideOpen involving a scream and parts of his robotic face falling apart. This after his having been reprogrammed into a mindless automaton by the BigBad.
** Believe it or not, ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]'' was the first Power Rangers season to show blood.
*** As a ''plot point'', nonetheless. [[spoiler: The blood dripping from Zen-Aku's hand indicates he isn't a normal Org, as Orgs don't have hearts and therefore can't bleed.]]
** In another episode where Alyssa is attacked and Zen-Aku tends to her wounds she has a bloody scrape on her leg.
** Flashbacks in showed ''vines assault and grow through the bodies of two terrified humans''. Apparently, a bloodless death can't possibly disturb anyone.

** A rather nasty, MechaMooks loophole exploiting death in ''[[Series/PowerRangersZeo Zeo]]'' where [[EvilVersusEvil two groups of enemy mooks have a battle royale]]. The mooks are Tengas (bird men) and Cogs (spandex robots) You see Tengas and Cogs sluggin it out for a few shots, then it cuts to one Tenga holding down a struggling Cog while another Tenga ''tore open its stomach and ripped out its electronic guts.'' This wasn't ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' footage that slipped past the censors, either - Tengas were ''Power Rangers''-exclusive mooks, so it was all original footage.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is well known for having ostensibly started off as a somewhat educational sci-fi series that would be fun for the whole family... but quickly led to the tradition of kiddies hiding behind the couch. From Dalek {{Death Ray}}s, to being eaten alive by a [[PrimalFear giant spider-thing]], to [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E1SmithAndJones having your blood sucked out of your neck through a straw]], almost every other adventure brought a new and painful way to die.
** Two fairly notorious examples from the classic episodes would be a guard falling into a pool of acid in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]'' (mostly notable because the Doctor seems to make a [[BondOneLiner mean-spirited quip]] about it afterward) and Kane, the low-temperature-lifeform villain in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]'', exposing himself to direct sunlight, resulting in his face melting off, ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''-style (one of the few occasions on which the series' special effects managed to be memorably gruesome).
** "The Daleks's Master Plan" has an unusually graphic ending for ''Who'' - the Daleks activate a time-altering superweapon which almost kills the Doctor, and ages the Doctor's companion Sara from a beautiful young woman into an old woman, then into a mummified corpse, a skeleton, and then to dust. Steven then puts the weapon into reverse, which causes the Daleks to de-age into foetuses, which eject from their cases, flop about and die. The Doctor even picks up one of these foetuses and laughs about how great it is that he's wiped out every Dalek on the planet, leading to a WhatTheHellHero moment from Steven.

** ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' was far worse when it came to this. Especially in the early 80s. In the first episode of ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman'', for example, construction workers are skeletonized into piles of sludge and bones. The BigBad leader's name is Queen Hedrian, after the Japanese word "Hedoro", which means sludge.

* Caleb's death in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - bisected from the groin up. Being a psychotic, misogynistic serial killer seems to make this acceptable viewing, however.

** Let's not forget Warren, when he gets flayed alive onscreen which is the second most gruesome moment in the show (first being when Gnarl eats Willow's skin). And like Caleb, he was a psychotic misogynist who deserved it. At least Caleb being chopped in half was somewhat offscreen.

* ''Gimmie A Break!'': One of the earliest episodes of this 1980s series, "Your Prisoner is Dead," depicts Carl shooting a robber in self-defense; the suspect dies at the hospital, and Carl -- explaining to his daughters and Nell that he had been placed on administrative leave while the investigation ensues -- tells Samantha that the robber did not die a bloodless death, and likely felt pain in his final moments, [[TruthInTelevision a stark contrast to what they had seen on television]].
* ''The Great Space Coaster'': An early episode showed a live-action clip of a man pulling a drain plug, and the suction pulled everything in sight, including people, into the drain, until all existence is wiped out! Played for laughs, of course.