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* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': "No monsters were harmed during the making of this film."

* ''Literature/MoongobbleAndMe'': InUniverse example in book 3 -- when Edward learns "some fuzz from a baby bird" was a required ingredient in a potion, he initially gets upset, but Urk assures him that the bird's mother gave it to them and that "the little tweeter is fine."

* ''Fanfic/AlwaysVisible'': Unlike the film, in '''Always Visible''', Delia's beloved dog was killed by her own father in retaliation for the fact that animal belonged to his daughter's rapist.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In "Serves Me Right for Giving General George S. Patton the Bathroom Key", Hank announces to the audience at the end of the episode, "No pipes were harmed in the making of this episode.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'': In addition to the standard Humane Society disclaimer, the credits also feature a disclaimer that the Spanish Steps in Rome were not harmed in the making of the film, and that the stunt was a reproduction on a studio set.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1A7gU6BhKg This video]] posted by Lancaster Archery Supply, a major archery dealer in Pennsylvania, features a contest that the company put on, involving LAS employees and a couple of guest shooters trying to put an arrow into a simulated vital area of an elk (wapiti) at 100 yards. A ''steel'' silhouette of an elk, with the only safe area being the cutout representing the vital area. It opens with the following parody of this trope:

* In ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', after Guybrush feeds a drugged hunk of meat to Governor Marley's piranha poodles, an important notice pops up: "These dogs are not dead, they are only SLEEPING. No animals were harmed during the production of this game." The [[UpdatedRerelease Special Edition]] adds a bold voice-over that narrates the Important Notice.

* The closing credits of ''VideoGame/StarshipTitanic'' explain that "no starlings were harmed" for the game, referring to a puzzle where starlings [[spoiler:are pureed using the ventilation system]].
** This puzzle is optional, by the way, allowing a less squicky solution.
* This is parodied in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', a video game pastiche of a ZombieApocalypse movie. After one of the campaigns are finished, a fake "Credits" screen rolls showing various statistics about the player's performances. This roll ends with "X zombies were harmed in the making of this film." where X is the number of zombies the players have slaughtered. As this number is generally about 1,500, this is a very awesome moment for the players.
* ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998'': The end credits feature the disclaimer "No sheep were harmed during the making of this game. A few Gnorcs, but no sheep."
* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'':
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'', the game that features the Sheepinator, gives us:
--->"No sheep were harmed in the making of this game. For the most part. The one that was had it coming."
** ''Quest For Booty'': "No heliogrubs were harmed in the making of this game."
* The credits for ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'' note that a few demons were, in fact, hurt pretty badly in the making of the game.

* An advertisement for a ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' game on the Nintendo Gamecube said, "No turtles were harmed in the making of this game (that part comes when you play it)".
* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' included an assurance in the final credits that no pixel was harmed during the game production. (No guarantees about animals, given that this was the game where clicking on a critter could eventually make it go up in a mushroom cloud.)
* In the ending of the shareware version of ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'', one of numerous gag messages in the ending text is "No animals were harmed during the creation of this video game, although one dog did get its butt spanked when it peed on the carpet."
* The SNES version of ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}} II: The Tribes'' has this in its end credits, presumably in homage to the Simpsons episode quoted at the top: "No Lemmings were hurt during the making of this game. One got sick, and somebody shot a duck, but that's about it."
* The end credits for ''VideoGame/{{Interstate 76}}'' proudly announce: "No polygonal animals were harmed during the making of this product."
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 1'' and ''2'' feature the line "No cows were harmed in the making of this game" at the end of their credits sequences.

* The end credits for ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}} 2'' end with the line "No gargantuan monsters were harmed in the making of this game", most likely in reference to the {{Kaiju}}-sized Leviathan in the Chicago level.
* Parodied in one of Eggman's announcements in ''VideoGame/SonicColors''. Well, [[ExactWords at least the first sentence is true]]:
--> "No aliens were harmed in the creation of this park. They were all harmed ''after'' the park was created."

* At the end of ''[[VideoGame/DesertStrike Jungle Strike]]'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis only, there is a disclaimer that says something along the lines of "No bovine were harmed during the making of this game."
* Parodied at least in the box art's back cover for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version of ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'':
-->'''WARNING:''' EXTREME CARTOON VIOLENCE! No cartoon characters were maimed or mutilated during the making of this game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Startopia}}'': "No [[http://startopia.wikia.com/wiki/Memau Memau]] where harmed during the making of this game."

* The end credits for Bad Boys' Love in ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' states that no birds were harmed in the making of this game [[spoiler:although many of the bird characters seriously were]]. It may have been because one bird is a Luzon Bleeding-Heart, a species with plumage that makes it look like they've been shot in the chest.

* ''VideoGame/SidAndAlsIncredibleToons'' presents this disclaimer in the manual:
-->No toons were injured in the creation of this game. Our artists worked exclusively with nontoxic inks and erasers, and all animation was conducted with the express approval of the International Commission of Kindness and Humanity Toward Toons.
* As pictured above, the disclaimer stating that no kangaroos were harmed during the game's making is actually the first thing the player will see when playing ''VideoGame/HangARoo''. It comes before the title screen and the Developers' name.

* ''Miitopia'' [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laughs]] in its description for Frog Juice: "Don't worry, no frogs were harmed in the making of this juice."
* In ''VideoGame/TheDarksideDetective'', the end credits report that no pixels were harmed in the making of the game, but some of the programmers did get carpal tunnel.
* ''VideoGame/FightOfAnimals'' has the following disclaimer:
--> Animals are adorable, we love them. It is shameful to let animals fighting each other in the REAL WORLD in anyway. We do not encourage any actions that harms or abuses any creatures on the planet. This game was simply for entertaining purposes, there are no animals injured or killed in the game.
* One of the LoadingScreen tips in ''[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2]]'' is "No skateboarders were harmed in the making of this game. Except the ones who recorded bail mocap."
* ''VideoGame/AmazonGuardiansOfEden'': The message at the end "The producers wish you to inform you that no insects were harmed in the making of this game." Considering you've killed an enormous ant not long before...
* In the ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' trilogy movie (a free DVD shipped with copies of ''Jak X: Combat Racing'', providing a look back at and a summary of the previous three games) narrated by [[WeaselMascot Daxter himself]], it's explicitly said, "''Yes'', an [[MixAndMatchCritter ottsel]] WAS harmed during the making of this game!" over images of him facing his usual abuse.
* ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' ends with "A total of 34 animals were injured or maimed in the making of this game. After all, we could accept nothing less than total and complete realism."
* The first ''VideoGame/PajamaSam'' game has this: "No animals were harmed and no cheese was eaten in the making of this game. Mmmmm, cheese. Bye bye now bye bye."
* No animals were mistreated or harmed in any way during the production of ''[[VideoGame/SpyFox Spy Fox in Dry Cereal]]''...although quite a few were milked.
* ''Super Bobido World'' (A ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' GameMod)) has the message "Lots of Koopas were hurt in the making of this" in the credits. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON8WUuPWTis As seen here.]]
* After the end credits for ''[[VideoGame/ClayFighter ClayFighter 63 1/3]]'', a message appears saying that [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lockjaw.png "This animal was severely hurt in the making of this game. Rest in peace Lockjaw."]]
* At the end of ''[=HunCraft=]'' (a Hungarian FanSequel to ''VideoGame/StarCraft'') the end credits say: "Lots of animals were harmed during the production of this game. And a [[HumongousMecha Titan]] stepped on a duck."
* One of Dr. Eggman's PA announcements in ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' explains that "no aliens were harmed in the creation of this park." [[ExactWords This is true]]...because he then explains that "they were all harmed ''after'' the park was created".

* At the end of the trailer for ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'', an [[FreezeFrameBonus unreadably fast]] wall of text informs you that some animals ''were'' harmed in the making of this advertisement, including five canids, two raptidons, and one genetically unidentifiable space organism.

* ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'' has this: "The producers wish to advise that no puppets were killed or maimed during the production of this film".

In particular, according to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Humane_Association The Other Wiki]], a scene in the 1939 film ''Jesse James'', wherein a blindfolded horse was ridden off a cliff to its death, is the direct cause of the founding of the American Humane Association's film division (the trademark holder on the phrase "no animals were harmed"), and the "No animals were harmed" language dates directly to the controversy over that movie.

* In Great Britain, the horse racing industry gets ''really'' indignant when people, not unreasonably, suggest that persistent losers are routinely converted to petfood so as to get a little money back on a wasted investment. The racing authorities point out that any animal which is so badly injured during a race as to necessitate humane killing is destroyed by the course vets under rigourously humane conditions. The site of an on-course accident is usually screened off so as to spare watchers the sight, but this does ''not'' mean the carcass is then discreetly sold on to Pedigree Petfoods. It is pointed out that pedigree horses bred for racing are usually so full of equine-specific veterinary drugs that if they were turned into petfood, the meat would be poisonous to cats and dogs. (This was also a factor in the horse-meat scandal that affected British supermarkets in 2013.)
* Greyhound racing is dogged by allegations that aging or surplus dogs are un-necessarily routinely put down, not always humanely; dog-racing maintains that old greyhounds do not make suitable family pets and cannot be re-homed when their racing days are over. Animal rights groups dispute this, and retired greyhounds are increasingly adopted (with many owners saying they are in fact quite good, sweet pets).

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[[folder:Art]]
* Contemporary artist Guillermo 'Habacuc' Vargas, who allegedly let a dog starve to death in an art exposition.
* A Danish exhibition featured ten blenders, each containing water and live goldfish, with [[SchmuckBait an invitation to the viewer that they could press the button if they wanted to]]. At least seven fish were pureed.
* It doesn't stop at animals. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrhasius_(painter) Parrhasius]] and Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti, about two thousands years apart, were both suspected of torturing ''people'' to death - the former, while painting [[Theatre/PrometheusBound Prometheus]], the latter, Jesus' crucifiction.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Averted in ''Film/OnBodyAndSoul'', which was filmed at a slaughterhouse and includes a scene of a cow being slaughtered. The closing credits say "Some animals were harmed during filming, but none of them for the sake of this film," that is, the cow would have been slaughtered either way.
* Averted multiple times in 1927 documentary film ''Film/{{Chang}}'', in which the locals of northeastern Thailand trap and shoot to death both a tiger and a leopard. Viewers may find this disturbing, and they may find it even more disturbing if they know that the events of the documentary were mostly staged, with the tiger and leopard being killed at the behest of the filmmakers.
* Averted famously in the classic Jean Renior film ''Film/TheRulesOfTheGame'' during the rabbit hunt.
-->'''Creator/RogerEbert:''' The death of one rabbit in particular haunts the film's audiences; its final act is to fold its paws against its chest.
* Sometimes, films are monitored and animals die anyway. For example, a giraffe died of unrelated causes during the filming of ''Zookeeper''. [[http://www.humanehollywood.org/index.php/movie-archive/item/zookeeper Here's the AHA review.]]
* ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. That's a real water buffalo getting slaughtered.
* In the movie ''Film/{{Oldboy|2003}}'', the main character eats a live octopus. (The scene was shot in four takes, meaning that four octopi died.) For added irony, Cho Min-sik -- the actor playing the character -- is a vegetarian. He's also a devout Buddhist, and he prayed for forgiveness before filming each take.
* The Inuit film ''[[Film/AtanarjuatTheFastRunner Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner]]'' was panned by the American Humane Association because it featured characters cutting up real dead animals and whipping sled dogs. All the animals killed for the movie were used in the traditional Inuit way, and no parts were wasted.
* The exploitation film ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' is infamous for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust#Animal_cruelty scenes of gratuitous animal death]], among other things.
* This seems to be a common occurrence in cannibal exploitation films, such as ''Film/CannibalFerox'', where they killed several animals on-camera for the movie. Though Creator/GiovanniLombardoRadice DIDN'T do so (and in fact hated making the movie), and when told that [[Creator/RobertDeNiro De Niro]] would have done it by director Umberto Lenzi, said, "De Niro would have kicked your ass all the way back to Rome!"
* To make a horse fall down the stairs in ''Film/AndreiRublev'', the filmmakers shot it in the head. They got it from a slaughterhouse where it was due to be shot the next day.
** They also lit a cow on fire. The fact that, in context, ''this is actually more or less comic relief'' says just...it says ''something'', anyway.
* The bunny boiling scene of ''Film/FatalAttraction'' was done by boiling a real, already dead rabbit.
* ''Film/KillerOfSheep''. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The lead character works in a slaughterhouse.
* ''Film/TheNewLand'' features a scene where Karl Oskar and his son are caught in a snow storm, and to keep his son from freezing to death, Karl Oskar kills the ox pulling their wagon, pulls out the insides and places his son inside the dead ox. The crew got a real ox set to be slaughtered and killed it for real on camera.
* In the 1918 version of ''Literature/TarzanOfTheApes'' that is a real lion being killed.
* In the 1925 version of ''[[Film/BenHur1925 Ben-Hur]]'' several horses really were killed during the chariot race crash.
** In the early days of Hollywood a common technique for getting horses to fall on cue was to attach a long wire to the horse's fetlocks.[[note]]Basically the ankle, for those unfamiliar with horse anatomy.[[/note]] When the wire ran out it would yank the horse's leg out from under it and the horse would fall, usually with fatal or at least debilitating results.
* As mentioned above, the 1939 film ''Film/JesseJames'' had a blindfolded horse that walked off a cliff and died. This particular incident led to the founding of the American Humane Association.
* Averted ''in-universe'' in ''Film/ThePrestige'', with the disappearing bird cage trick. Played straight by the film's makers, as the crushed sparrow seen when the trick's method of operation is revealed is fake.
* In ''Dracula: Prisoner of Frankenstein'', there is a scene where a real bat is in a jar and blood starts being poured into the jar. At first the bat seems to enjoy it, happily lapping up the blood, but then they start pouring in too much and it panics as it starts to drown in it. It's not known whether the bat drowned or not.
* ''Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie'' has "Some goats, pigs, and sheep were nuked during the original photography of some operations."
* The infamous pseudo-nature film ''[[Film/TrueLifeAdventures White Wilderness]]'' created the SuicidalLemmings myth by driving lemmings off a cliff from a rotating turntable and into a river.
* The 1936 Creator/ErrolFlynn film ''The Charge of the Light Brigade'' infamously averted this by having horses run into tripwires, which killed 25 of them and one stuntman. Afterward, disclaimers that animals would ''not'' be harmed in the making of films became more commonplace, although instances of animal deaths and harm would still continue for years until stricter standards were put into place, as this section wholly demonstrates.
* The 1983 Iraqi film ''Al-Mas'ala Al-Kubra'' (a.k.a. ''Clash of Loyalties'') was the last to use the "Running W" technique, in which a horse has an anchored wire attached to its leg and is then brought to a full gallop. This trips the horse and launches its rider off when the wire reaches its limits. This frequently killed the horse.
* In ''Film/TheBeastmaster'', Sultan, the tiger who played Ruh, died two years after the movie due to complications from the black dye they used to cover his fur, since they apparently didn't know it was toxic or realize that [[EpicFail even large cats]] [[ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare tend to lick their own fur]]. As a result the tiger in the second movie is normally colored and a different animal.
* 27 animals were said to have died in the production of ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'' due to bluffs, sinkholes and jagged fencing.
** According to ''Website/{{Cracked}}.com'''s article: [[https://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_817_23-outrageous-marketing-lies-you-see-every-day 23 Outrageous Marketing Lies You See Every Day]] explains that those 27 animals died from dehydration, exhaustion, and drowning during a break in the filming of the movie. The American Humane Association claims that they monitored all the "Significant animal action", and that no animals were harmed during the ''[[ExactWords actual filming]].''
* At least two horses died during the filming of ''Film/MissouriBreaks'', and several more were injured. (One was drowned, and the other one had to be put down after being crippled by a tripwire.)
* In ''Tintorera'', a Mexican ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' [[FollowTheLeader knockoff]], real sharks were killed.
* The intro of ''Seed'' displays footage of actual animal cruelty (raccoons being beaten, a skinned dog, a mink being flayed and stomped) borrowed from [=PETA=].
* A rabbit was slaughtered in ''Film/{{Nekromantik}}''.
* In the ''Film/PinkFlamingos'' DVD, John Waters says the following regarding the chicken scene: "Animal rights activists always say to me, "How could you kill a chicken for a movie?" Well, I eat chicken and I know the chicken didn't land on my plate from a heart attack. We bought the chicken from a farmer who advertised freshly killed chicken. I think we made the chicken's life better. It got to be in a movie, it got fucked, and then right after filming the next take, the cast ate the chicken!"
* In the original ''[[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Friday the 13th]]'' a scene where a camper cuts off the head of a snake is real; the owner and handler of the harmless bull snake was not told and reportedly had to be held back by several crew members upon witnessing the scene.
* The '70s horror film ''Stanley'' revolves around the eponymous snake's owner, the snakes he sells to others, and what happens when everything goes out of control. Out of the numerous snake deaths shown on scene, the ''only'' fake one is a woman biting a snake's head off. What's more, when a snake is shown eating a rat, the snake was already dead and the rat was being toyed with and tortured by the filmmakers (they only finished the scene and killed it when the crew began feeling physically ill). This, among other reasons, kept the film off DVD until 2012.
* There's a controversy about ''Film/LifeOfPi'' where the tiger, King as he's known in real life, was alleged to have nearly drowned during one scene but the AHA still gave the film permission to use the disclaimer. And from other allegations, [[FridgeHorror it wasn't the only time...]]
* A seagull was accidentally killed during the filming of 1969's ''Last Summer''. Star Barbara Hershey was so disturbed by this she spent a couple of years credited as "Barbara Seagull" and even took a pay cut on one of her films when the producers did not want to allow the alternate billing.
* The Danish movie ''Film/FlickeringLights''[[note]]''Blinkende Lygter'' in Danish[[/note]] had one of the main characters, in anger, pull out a pistol and [[DisproportionateRetribution shoot a mooing cow]]. Albeit, a stuntman did it, the cow was real and so was the gun. Zigzagged a bit with the fact that the stuntman was a trained vet.
* The much-maligned ''Film/TheAssassinationOfTrotsky'' shows a real Mexican bullfight in graphic detail. As if to drive home the unpleasantness, the filmmakers even show the bull being carved up for steaks afterwards.
* ''Film/WakeInFright'' features a violent kangaroo hunt about halfway through. There's some controversy over whether the roos were actually killed for the movie, or whether the filmmakers merely shot footage of a professional cull.
* Creator/SamPeckinpah killed lizards for ''Film/TheBalladOfCableHogue'' and chickens for ''Film/PatGarrettAndBillyTheKid'' with squibs. Some of his crew members were disgusted by this and begged Peckinpah to stop, to no avail.
* One scene in ''The Babe Ruth Story'' has a small dog hit with a baseball on-screen. It yelps in pain.
* ''Film/CaptiveWildWoman'': There's a genuine fight between a circus tiger and lion, which is broken up by turning a real fire hose on the tussling big cats.
* Lots of films that employed the {{Slurpasaur}} trope also had their dressed-up lizards or baby alligators chomp on one another for real, most notably the original ''Film/OneMillionBC'' and the old color adaptations of ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' and ''The Lost World''.
* The horse head used in the infamous scene from ''Film/TheGodfather'' was real -- the filmmakers bought the head from a slaughterhouse, then added Khartoum's stripe and the fake blood.
* ''Film/RogerAndMe'' shows a Flint woman slaughtering a rabbit for meat, first whacking it on the head with a club and then peeling off the skin.
* Creator/IngmarBergman:
** ''Film/EnPassion'' features several scenes of dead sheep, killed as a matter of course by the farmers on the island where the film was shot.
** ''The Serpent's Egg'' features a scene in which starving Berliners chow down on a recently dead horse. Bergman wanted to kill the horse on screen, and when star Creator/DavidCarradine objected, asking if Bergman wasn't worried about his immortal soul, Bergman responded "I'm an old whore. I have shot two other horses, [[Film/EnPassion burned one and strangled a dog]]." They eventually agreed to kill the horse offscreen.
* A litter of piglets was hanged on-screen in ''Film/VaseDeNoces''.
* The infamous 1903 film ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocuting_an_Elephant Electrocuting an Elephant]]'' contains actual footage of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an elephant being killed by electrocution]]. This was done because the elephant, a female named Topsy, had such a bad reputation that, when the owners of the amusement park where she was being kept at the time tried to move her on after they dismissed her handler and were left with no-one capable of controlling her, no zoos or circuses were prepared to accept her, so she had to be killed.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* [[RefugeInAudacity Hilariously subverted]] in [[http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2007/07/02/070702sh_shouts_handey "My Nature Documentary"]], by Creator/JackHandey...
--> ''Show monkey wandering around, injured, lost and alone. Make him trip, using fishing line attached to his leg. (Try to get this on first take, because after that monkey will probably try to bite off fishing line.)''
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[[folder:Music]]
* The poor fishie in the music video to [[Music/FaithNoMore "Epic"]]. (Allegedly, it belonged to Music/{{Bjork}}. Allegedly, it survived.)
* The video for Music/NineInchNails' "Closer" features a cow carcass and the decapitated head of a pig, both picked up from a slaughterhouse; crewmembers had to frequently spray the carcasses with aerosols as the carcasses began to rot and smell under the hot stage lights. Played straight with the living monkey "tied" to the cross, who is shown in behind the scenes footage to be able to freely and comfortably remove itself from its "bindings".
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* During filming of the 1988 TV-movie ''Bluegrass'', a pregnant mare's labor was induced prematurely so that the birth could be caught on camera. The foal died shortly afterwards, leading to an investigation by the AHA.
* A real dead cow was bought from a slaughterhouse for an episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' as the prop one looked too fake.
* During the filming of horse race scenes for the series ''Series/Luck2011'' two horses were hurt and had to be euthanized. The production crew was cleared of charges of mistreating the horses and the deaths were attributed to the standard dangers faced by thoroughbred horses during racing. The series premiere even included a (fake) scene where a racehorse breaks a leg during a race and is euthanized on the track. The series does not use the "No animals were harmed" message in its credits. After another horse died during the filming of season two, Creator/{{HBO}} decided to simply cancel the series due to the bad publicity (and lower than desired ratings).
* ''Series/IronChef'''s Battle Octopus featured ''live'' cephalopods being cut apart, which raised ValuesDissonance issues when the episode aired in the West.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In the ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter'' trilogy movie (a free DVD shipped with copies of ''Jak X: Combat Racing'', providing a look back at and a summary of the previous three games) narrated by [[WeaselMascot Daxter himself]], it's explicitly said, "''Yes'', an [[MixAndMatchCritter ottsel]] WAS harmed during the making of this game!" over images of him facing his usual abuse.
* ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' ends with "A total of 34 animals were injured or maimed in the making of this game. After all, we could accept nothing less than total and complete realism."
* The first ''VideoGame/PajamaSam'' game has this: "No animals were harmed and no cheese was eaten in the making of this game. Mmmmm, cheese. Bye bye now bye bye."
* No animals were mistreated or harmed in any way during the production of ''[[VideoGame/SpyFox Spy Fox in Dry Cereal]]''...although quite a few were milked.
* ''Super Bobido World'' (A ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' GameMod)) has the message "Lots of Koopas were hurt in the making of this" in the credits. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON8WUuPWTis As seen here.]]
* After the end credits for ''[[VideoGame/ClayFighter ClayFighter 63 1/3]]'', a message appears saying that [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lockjaw.png "This animal was severely hurt in the making of this game. Rest in peace Lockjaw."]]
* At the end of ''[=HunCraft=]'' (a Hungarian FanSequel to ''VideoGame/StarCraft'') the end credits say: "Lots of animals were harmed during the production of this game. And a [[HumongousMecha Titan]] stepped on a duck."
* One of Dr. Eggman's PA announcements in ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' explains that "no aliens were harmed in the creation of this park." [[ExactWords This is true]]...because he then explains that "they were all harmed ''after'' the park was created".
* ''VideoGame/RandalsMonday'': PlayedWith. You have to poison some pigeons to solve a puzzle later, and the game does clarify that they are dead. But they were also drawings, [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/randalsmonday/randalsmonday-17.png so whatever.]]
* At the end of the trailer for ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'', an [[FreezeFrameBonus unreadably fast]] wall of text informs you that some animals ''were'' harmed in the making of this advertisement, including five canids, two raptidons, and one genetically unidentifiable space organism.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'', the notes for one comic featuring a ton of seagulls mentions that said seagulls [[OneHitPointWonder die if you so much as brush them with the physics gun]], then notes that "many, many seagulls were killed in the making of this comic."
* ''Webcomic/PoisonIvyGulch'': Noted on the credits page and similar to the above Freddy Pharkas example.
--> A total of 28 buffalo, 15 donkeys, 8 oxen, 55 jackrabbits, 9 squirrels, 12 vultures, 18 lizards, 42 rattlesnakes, 80 scorpions and 69, 283 ants were killed during the making of this webcomic. In the creation of the same, I could accept nothing less than total realism.

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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'': In "The Splitzies 5000!!!":
--> Cats were harmed during the making of this video.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh'': "No stuffed animals were harmed in the making of this film."

* Parodied in a episode of ''Series/TimeWarp''. "Several stuffed animals were harmed in the making of this episode. And to be honest, they had it coming."

* In ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''[='=]s review of ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'':
-->No puppies were harmed in the making of this video, [[ByNoIMeanYes except for one who genuinely deserved it]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/BillyAndMandysBigBoogeyAdventur'' one of the charges the Boogey Man levies against Billy, Mandy and Grim is that they are "mean to baby animals". The end credits has a disclaimer saying "no one was mean to baby animals during the making of this cartoon".

* In ''WesternAnimation/BillyAndMandysBigBoogeyAdventure" one of the charges the Boogey Man levies against Billy, Mandy and Grim is that they are "mean to baby animals". The end credits has a disclaimer saying "no one was mean to baby animals during the making of this cartoon".