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For one reason or another, children's shows also shy away from using "God." Whenever religion comes into play, it is generally replaced with [[NotUsingTheZWord something along the lines of "the big guy."]] This one also has its roots in ancient tradition: in Judaism, it is considered blasphemous to use any of God's various actual ''names'' except in specific prayers, so His titles ("God" is considered a title; also "the Lord", "the Name", etc) are used instead. Jews don't say or write their God's real name, and this even extends to combinations of letters which spell out parts of it. Words such as Damn and Hell will likely be replaced by [[GoshDangItToHeck "Dang it!"]] while Hell is replaced by underworld or [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]] and so on. Similarly to the die and kill examples below, if a situation is serious enough in cartoons aimed at slightly older children, God's name may be used as a suitably f-bomb level expression of shock or horror. If a character is actually discussing religion in a cartoon, God's name is used with a similar level of gravitas, but may be much more frequent, or used in a genuinely cheerful context.

* In the beginning of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', Miss Gulch demands that Toto be "destroyed".

The most common example is euphemisms for death in children's shows, even in cases where [[CharacterDeath a character is]] ''[[KilledOffForReal killed]]'' and they are thusly rendered '' dead'', the script will never use those two words. Almost always, the writers don't even get very creative with poetic descriptions, and will apply basic synonyms of "destroyed" to living things that we usually associate with inanimate objects, or have the characters unable to finish their sentences. ("Is he...?") ''Hell'' is also constantly neutered; when the plot absolutely needs something similar, they often resort to calling them "Nether-something" (of course, except for [[FreestateAmsterdam the Netherlands, aka Holland]]) or even "Another Dimension."

* In the ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}'' comic book, the rather violent death of BigBad Nerissa is described as her being "destroyed".

* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'': The series itself has no problem saying "killed" or "die" but Superboy usually says "hearsed" instead, especially early on. He slowly grows out of this aversion but still tends to use "hearsed" when the situation isn't serious.

* In the ''Comicbook/{{WITCH}}'' comic book, the rather violent and quite graphic death of BigBad Nerissa is described as her being "destroyed".

* The heavy censorship for any lyrics relating to violence, drugs/alcohol, sex, etc. on Nickelodeon's music video channel [=NickMusic=] have led to some hilarious examples of this, including a refrain of Cloe Wilder's "I Wanna Be Alone With You" being left as "If looks could [[spoiler:kill]] I would [[spoiler:die]]".

For one reason or another, children's shows also shy away from using "God." Whenever religion comes into play, it is generally replaced with [[LowestCosmicDenominator something along the lines of "the big guy."]] This one also has its roots in ancient tradition: in Judaism, it is considered blasphemous to use any of God's various actual ''names'' except in specific prayers, so His titles ("God" is considered a title; also "the Lord", "the Name", etc) are used instead. Jews don't say or write their God's real name, and this even extends to combinations of letters which spell out parts of it. Words such as Damn and Hell will likely be replaced by [[GoshDangItToHeck "Dang it!"]] while Hell is replaced by underworld or [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]] and so on. Similarly to the die and kill examples below, if a situation is serious enough in cartoons aimed at slightly older children, God's name may be used as a suitably f-bomb level expression of shock or horror. If a character is actually discussing religion in a cartoon, God's name is used with a similar level of gravitas, but may be much more frequent, or used in a genuinely cheerful context.

* The original "Baby Shark" campfire song ends with the shark eating a swimmer, who goes to heaven in some variations. Most recent renditions, including the most popular one by Pinkfong, has the sharks pursuing a school of fish who swim away and find safety.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', during the scene where Gaston and Beast are fighting on the roof of the castle, the line where Gaston says "Belle is mine!" originally said "Time to die!" but was changed to the former because Disney decided the latter was too dark. However, Gaston still can be seen mouthing the original line.

It should be noted also, that this isn't for examples in which a show has a character being "taken away" instead of killed. If the character really ''was'' taken away, then it's not an example of this trope. If the character was obviously killed but instead they refer to their death with "they were taken away", of if a certain version of something changes a character's death scene so they never died, then it is an example.

* After the Adpocalypse on ''Website/YouTube'', the site started to demonitize videos that did not meet their "family friendly" regulations, much to people's annoyance. This meant that their video could get demonitized just for having words in the video such as profanity or yes, words that address death such as "death" "die" or "kill". This extends to ''[[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad not being allowed to say the names of certain viruses and diseases]]''. This has forced videos to not use words addressing death, rape, or similar things and find ways to [[LoopholeAbuse work around it]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ReturnToNeverLand'', Tinker Bell apparently does this when telling Peter Pan that Jane's lack of belief in fairies is killing her, judging by when Peter informs the Lost Boys that "Tink's light's gonna go out" unless Jane starts believing in fairies again.[[labelnote:*]]When Tinker Bell dies, her light really ''does'' go out, as her body stops glowing when she loses consciousness, then starts glowing again after Jane's renewed faith reverses Tink's death.[[/labelnote]]

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The most common example is euphemisms for death in children's shows, even in cases where [[CharacterDeath a character is]] ''[[CharacterDeath killed]]'' and they are thusly rendered ''[[KilledOffForReal dead]]'', the script will never use those two words. Almost always, the writers don't even get very creative with poetic descriptions, and will apply basic synonyms of "destroyed" to living things that we usually associate with inanimate objects, or have the characters unable to finish their sentences. ("Is he...?") ''Hell'' is also constantly neutered; when the plot absolutely needs something similar, they often resort to calling them "Nether-something" (of course, except for [[FreestateAmsterdam the Netherlands, aka Holland]]) or even "Another Dimension."

For one reason or another, children's shows also shy away from using "God." Whenever religion comes into play, it is generally replaced with [[LowestCosmicDenominator something along the lines of "the big guy."]] This one also has its roots in ancient tradition: in Judaism, it is considered blasphemous to use any of God's various actual ''names'' except in specific prayers, so His titles ("God" is considered a title; also "the Lord", "the Name", etc) are used instead. Jews don't say or write their God's real name, and this even extends to combinations of letters which spell out parts of it. Words such as Damn and Hell will likely be replaced by [[GoshDangItToHeck "Dang it!"]] while Hell is replaced by underworld or [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]] and so on.

-->-- '''Nurse Joy''', ''Anime/{{Pokemon}} Sun and Moon'', Episode 21

'''But please note as well that just because 'defeated' or 'eliminated' is used in replace of "killed", or "they were...taken from us..." is used instead of "they were...killed", it doesn't make it an example of this trope either. Sometimes alternatives are used because they sound flashier, have a better impact, or because the enemies really ''do'' just get "defeated" and fade away. After all, the creators often don't want their characters coming off as cold-blooded killers. This is for examples in which it is obviously censored due to the fact that they don't want to ''mention'' death. Any other form of replacing death with anything else does NOT count as this trope.'''