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* ''Dot in Space'' (the last sequel to WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo) has never been released outside of its native Australia, meaning the best place to find it these days is the internet. Why is that? Could it be that the titular Dot is just a little girl who tries to save a Russian dog trapped in orbit, but in doing so, is almost electrocuted and narrowly avoids being blown up in a rocket explosion, crushed by metal piping to fall and crash-lands on a planet inhabited by ScaryDogmaticAliens who quickly ambush and capture her and subject her to public humiliation, persecution, [[PerpSweating interrogation]], [[MadeASlave imprisonment in a slave labour camp]] [[WouldHurtAChild and abuse]] for no reason other than their own FantasticRacism? Dot escapes her imprisonment but then encounters [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]], [[WhenTreesAttack hostile trees]] and active volcanoes [[FedToTheBeast then is recaptured and left at the mercy of an alien dinosaur]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero after unintentionally revealing her location]]. Luckily, said monster spares her life.]]

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* ''Dot in Space'' (the last sequel to WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo) has never been released outside of its native Australia, meaning the best place to find it these days is the internet. Why is that? Could it be that the titular Dot is just a little girl who tries and just wanted to save the life of a Russian stranded dog trapped in orbit, but in doing so, is yet over the course of the film, she was almost electrocuted by a perimeter fence and [[BigDamnHeroes narrowly avoids being blown up in a escaped Whyka's rocket explosion, crushed by after rescuing her before it blew up]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished in which the resulting shockwave caused some metal piping to fall and crash-lands almost crush Dot and threw her off course, resulting in her crash-landing on a planet inhabited the wrong planet]] where she [[BoundAndGagged was ambushed and captured]] by ScaryDogmaticAliens who quickly ambush and capture subjected her and subject her to public humiliation, humiliation and persecution, [[PerpSweating interrogation]], [[MadeASlave imprisonment in a slave labour camp]] [[WouldHurtAChild and abuse]] [[FantasticRacism for no reason other than their own FantasticRacism? not being round]]?
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Dot escapes her imprisonment but then escapes, [[spoiler:she encounters [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]], [[WhenTreesAttack hostile trees]] and active volcanoes [[FedToTheBeast then is recaptured and left at the mercy of an alien dinosaur]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero after unintentionally revealing her location]]. Luckily, said monster spares her life.]]

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* ''Dot in Space'' (the last sequel to WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo) has never been released outside of its native Australia, meaning the best place to find it these days is the internet. Why is that? Could it be that the titular Dot is just a little girl and just tries to save the life of a Russian dog, trapped in orbit, yet over the course of the film, she is almost electrocuted and narrowly avoids being blown up in a rocket explosion, the resulting shockwave causes some metal piping to fall and almost crush her, as well as throwing her off course, resulting in her crash-landing on a planet inhabited by ScaryDogmaticAliens who quickly ambush and capture her and subject her to public humiliation, persecution, [[PerpSweating interrogation]], [[MadeASlave imprisonment in a slave labour camp]] [[WouldHurtAChild and abuse]] for no reason other than their own [[FantasticRacism]]?
** Even after Dot escapes, [[spoiler:she encounters [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]], [[WhenTreesAttack hostile trees]] and active volcanoes [[FedToTheBeast then is recaptured and left at the mercy of an alien dinosaur]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero after unintentionally revealing her location]]. Luckily, said monster spares her life.]]

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* ''Dot in Space'' (the last sequel to WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo) has never been released outside of its native Australia, meaning the best place to find it these days is the internet. Why is that? Could it be that the titular Dot is just a little girl and just who tries to save the life of a Russian dog, dog trapped in orbit, yet over the course of the film, she but in doing so, is almost electrocuted and narrowly avoids being blown up in a rocket explosion, the resulting shockwave causes some crushed by metal piping to fall and almost crush her, as well as throwing her off course, resulting in her crash-landing crash-lands on a planet inhabited by ScaryDogmaticAliens who quickly ambush and capture her and subject her to public humiliation, persecution, [[PerpSweating interrogation]], [[MadeASlave imprisonment in a slave labour camp]] [[WouldHurtAChild and abuse]] for no reason other than their own [[FantasticRacism]]?
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FantasticRacism? Dot escapes, [[spoiler:she escapes her imprisonment but then encounters [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]], [[WhenTreesAttack hostile trees]] and active volcanoes [[FedToTheBeast then is recaptured and left at the mercy of an alien dinosaur]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero after unintentionally revealing her location]]. Luckily, said monster spares her life.]]
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* ''Dot in Space'' (the last sequel to WesternAnimation/DotAndTheKangaroo) has never been released outside of its native Australia, meaning the best place to find it these days is the internet. Why is that? Could it be that the titular Dot is just a little girl and just tries to save the life of a Russian dog, trapped in orbit, yet over the course of the film, she is almost electrocuted and narrowly avoids being blown up in a rocket explosion, the resulting shockwave causes some metal piping to fall and almost crush her, as well as throwing her off course, resulting in her crash-landing on a planet inhabited by ScaryDogmaticAliens who quickly ambush and capture her and subject her to public humiliation, persecution, [[PerpSweating interrogation]], [[MadeASlave imprisonment in a slave labour camp]] [[WouldHurtAChild and abuse]] for no reason other than their own [[FantasticRacism]]?
** Even after Dot escapes, [[spoiler:she encounters [[QuicksandSucks quicksand]], [[WhenTreesAttack hostile trees]] and active volcanoes [[FedToTheBeast then is recaptured and left at the mercy of an alien dinosaur]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero after unintentionally revealing her location]]. Luckily, said monster spares her life.]]
** Also, there's no telling what could have happened to Dot if she'd been discovered at the space center.
** On top of all the above, [[spoiler:we don't even see Dot and Whyka return to Earth though WordOfGod says they do.]]
** Also, how Dot has not been traumatized after everything she went through remains a mystery.
** The planet Pie-Arr-Squared is shown to be a particularly hostile world. In addition to devastated villages and a dictatorship influenced by FantasticRacism, [[spoiler:there is also the numerous aforementioned dangers Dot encounters, all of which have deterred the Squaries from trying to escape from prison and which they will still have to live with even without Papa Drop's tyranny.]]
** The film also has heavy references to [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Nazi Germany]], such as the main villain [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Papa Drop]] behaving in a similar manner to [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf Hitler]], one of the [[PerpSweating Roundy interrogators]] doing a Nazi salute, and [[InnocentAliens the Squaries]] being persecuted and imprisoned in slave labor camps, which is eerily similar to how the Jews were treated during [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust the Holocaust]]. We should be thankful we never find out what Papa Drop's version of the FinalSolution was (From what we see in the film, it appears to be nothing worse than working, starving and beating the Squaries to death, though it's possible it would have been much worse if the film hadn't been aimed at kids and would have had to be toned down accordingly). This ([[TraumaCongaLine and everything Dot goes through throughout the course of the film]]) may be the most likely reason why this film is seldom seen outside of its native country of Australia (and even there, it's hard to find as the only time it has ever seen the light of day on home media is on VHS and as a bonus feature on the DVD release of the original film alongside ''Dot and the Smugglers''.) In Germany, this film would be automatically banned for the same reason due to references to Hitler and Naziism being outlawed after [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII World War II]].
** Even the theme from the OpeningScroll emphasizes the foreboding nature of the film.
** [[AssholeVictim Not that he doesn't deserve it of course]] [[spoiler:but Papa Drop gets overinflated enough to float up into space where he would most likely die from either starvation and dehydration, suffocation or hypothermia or be burned by rays from the nearest star or even the Sun (which might even cause him to expand [[ExplosiveDecompression until he explodes]]) or in the atmosphere of the nearest planet if he doesn’t get hit by floating debris or even Dot's rocket, or even spend the remainder of his days as a [[GeniusLoci living planet]] if he's lucky.]]
** The very worst part of all that Dot goes through over the course of the film is that, like she says to Whyka at one point, she's going to have a hard time explaining it all because no one is going to believe her.
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* The ''Film/ShortCircuit'' movies are family movies about a war robot who gained awareness after getting struck by lightning and is very friendly. But the movies have things that would probably not fly by today as PG, such as some of the swearing (The biggest offender was a black guy in the second film saying "motherfucker"). The first film has the title character accidently spotting a woman naked in the bathtub. But the worst was in sequel as [[spoiler: Johnny was getting slaughtered by Oscar's goons, especially the bleeding. This also gives stakes to Johnny to the point of almost dying at the end.]]

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* The ''Film/ShortCircuit'' movies are family movies about a war robot who gained awareness after getting struck by lightning and is very friendly. But the movies have things that would probably not fly by today as PG, such as some of the swearing (The biggest offender was a black guy magician in the second film saying "motherfucker"). The first film has the title character accidently spotting a woman naked in the bathtub. But the worst was in sequel as [[spoiler: Johnny was getting slaughtered by Oscar's goons, especially the bleeding. This also gives stakes to Johnny to the point of almost dying at the end.]]
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* Despite receiving a U rating (or a G rating in the United States), ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' contains some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. For example, a shark character eats sapient fish, which is PlayedForLaughs; [[spoiler:a crab injures Fly to the point of blood]]; and [[spoiler:Joe dies by getting a DeathByIrony when he drowns after turning into a human]]. This can be partially chalked up to ValuesDissonance, where Danish values for a kid’s film are lower.

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* Despite receiving a U rating (or a G rating in the United States), ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' contains some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. For example, a shark character eats sapient fish, which is PlayedForLaughs; [[spoiler:a crab injures Fly to the point of blood]]; and [[spoiler:Joe dies by getting a DeathByIrony when he drowns after turning into a human]]. This can be partially chalked up to ValuesDissonance, where Danish values for a kid’s film media aimed at children are lower.
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* According to WordOfGod, Creator/RalphBakshi said that in an interview he had kids in mind when making the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'', which is rated PG but contains a lot of family-unfriendly content such as swearing, graphic violence, innuendo, and partial nudity. The German version of the film has a ''[[SameContentDifferentRating 16+ rating]]''.
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* Despite receiving a U rating (or a G rating if you live in the United States), ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' contains some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. For example, a shark character eats sapient fish, which is PlayedForLaughs; [[spoiler:a crab injures Fly to the point of blood]]; and [[spoiler:Joe dies by getting a DeathByIrony when he drowns after turning into a human]]. This can be partially chalked up to ValuesDissonance, where Danish values for a kid’s film are lower.

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* Despite receiving a U rating (or a G rating if you live in the United States), ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' contains some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. For example, a shark character eats sapient fish, which is PlayedForLaughs; [[spoiler:a crab injures Fly to the point of blood]]; and [[spoiler:Joe dies by getting a DeathByIrony when he drowns after turning into a human]]. This can be partially chalked up to ValuesDissonance, where Danish values for a kid’s film are lower.
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* Despite receiving a U rating (or a G rating if you live in the United States), ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' contains some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. For example, a shark character eats sapient fish, which is PlayedForLaughs; [[spoiler:a crab injures Fly to the point of blood]]; and [[spoiler:Joe dies by getting a DeathByIrony when he drowns after turning into a human]]. This can be partially chalked up to ValuesDissonance, where Danish values for a kid’s film are far different.

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* Despite receiving a U rating (or a G rating if you live in the United States), ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' contains some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. For example, a shark character eats sapient fish, which is PlayedForLaughs; [[spoiler:a crab injures Fly to the point of blood]]; and [[spoiler:Joe dies by getting a DeathByIrony when he drowns after turning into a human]]. This can be partially chalked up to ValuesDissonance, where Danish values for a kid’s film are far different.lower.
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* Despite receiving a U rating (or a G rating if you live in the United States), ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' contains some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. For example, a shark character eats sapient fish, which is PlayedForLaughs; [[spoiler:a crab injures Fly to the point of blood]]; and [[spoiler:Joe dies by getting a DeathByIrony when he drowns after turning into a human.]] This can be partially chalked up to ValuesDissonance, where Danish values for a kid’s film are far different.

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* Despite receiving a U rating (or a G rating if you live in the United States), ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' contains some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. For example, a shark character eats sapient fish, which is PlayedForLaughs; [[spoiler:a crab injures Fly to the point of blood]]; and [[spoiler:Joe dies by getting a DeathByIrony when he drowns after turning into a human.]] human]]. This can be partially chalked up to ValuesDissonance, where Danish values for a kid’s film are far different.
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* Despite receiving a U rating (or a G rating if you live in the United States), ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' contains some FamilyUnfriendlyViolence. For example, a shark character eats sapient fish, which is PlayedForLaughs; [[spoiler:a crab injures Fly to the point of blood]]; and [[spoiler:Joe dies by getting a DeathByIrony when he drowns after turning into a human.]] This can be partially chalked up to ValuesDissonance, where Danish values for a kid’s film are far different.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'' focuses on a man who wants to see God kill everyone in a city he despises. It also contains a scene where [[spoiler: the main characters nearly get executed]] and it also [[spoiler: keeps the DownerEnding of the original story]], unlike most retellings of ''Jonah'' aimed at children and most ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' retellings in general. It says something when Amazon's print of the movie rates it for ages 7 and up.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'' focuses on a man who wants to see God kill everyone in a city he despises. It also contains a scene where [[spoiler: the main characters nearly get executed]] and it also [[spoiler: keeps the DownerEnding of the original story]], unlike most retellings of ''Jonah'' aimed at children and most ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' retellings in general. It says something when Amazon's print of the movie rates it for ages 7 and up.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'' focuses on a man who wants to see God kill everyone in a city he despises. It also [[spoiler: keeps the DownerEnding of the original story]], unlike most retellings of ''Jonah'' aimed at children and most ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' retellings in general. It says something when Amazon's print of the movie rates it for ages 7 and up.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'' focuses on a man who wants to see God kill everyone in a city he despises. It also contains a scene where [[spoiler: the main characters nearly get executed]] and it also [[spoiler: keeps the DownerEnding of the original story]], unlike most retellings of ''Jonah'' aimed at children and most ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' retellings in general. It says something when Amazon's print of the movie rates it for ages 7 and up.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'', a G-Rated Claymation romp from the creator of the Noid and the California Raisins, about Mark Twain chasing Halley's Comet in a custom-built dirigible -- as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Becky Thatcher tag along for the ride. Beyond that rather meta premise, the entire reason for Twain chasing Haley's Comet in the first place is because he "came in with the comet and intends to go out with it" -- a big metaphor for Twain's death wish, which only becomes more obvious as the movie progresses and some of Twain's more existential and sad stories, such as the diaries of Adam and Eve and "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven", are dramatized. And that's not even getting into the absolute existential terror that is the encounter with Literature/TheMysteriousStranger.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'', a G-Rated Claymation romp from the creator of the Noid and the California Raisins, about Mark Twain chasing Halley's Comet in a custom-built dirigible -- as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Becky Thatcher tag along for the ride. Beyond that rather meta premise, the entire reason for Twain chasing Haley's Comet in the first place is because he "came in with the comet and intends to go out with it" -- a big metaphor for Twain's death wish, which only becomes more obvious as the movie progresses and some of Twain's more existential melancholy and sad eccentric stories, such as the diaries of Adam and Eve and "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven", are dramatized. And that's not even getting into the absolute existential terror that is the encounter with Literature/TheMysteriousStranger.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'', a G-Rated claymation romp from the creator of the Noid and the California Raisins, about Mark Twain chasing Haley's Comet in a custom-built dirigible as Tom, Huck, and Becky tag along for the ride. Oh yeah, and the entire reason for Twain chasing Haley's Comet in the first place is because he "came in with the comet and intends to go out with it". In other words, the entire movie is one big metaphor for Twain's death wish, which only becomes more obvious as the movie progresses. And that's not even getting into the absolute existential terror that is ''Literature/TheMysteriousStranger''...

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain'', a G-Rated claymation Claymation romp from the creator of the Noid and the California Raisins, about Mark Twain chasing Haley's Halley's Comet in a custom-built dirigible -- as Tom, Huck, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Becky Thatcher tag along for the ride. Oh yeah, and Beyond that rather meta premise, the entire reason for Twain chasing Haley's Comet in the first place is because he "came in with the comet and intends to go out with it". In other words, the entire movie is one it" -- a big metaphor for Twain's death wish, which only becomes more obvious as the movie progresses. progresses and some of Twain's more existential and sad stories, such as the diaries of Adam and Eve and "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven", are dramatized. And that's not even getting into the absolute existential terror that is ''Literature/TheMysteriousStranger''...the encounter with Literature/TheMysteriousStranger.



* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' undoubtedly has to be Creator/DonBluth's darkest film (with the possible exception of ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''), with relatively small "kid-friendly" scenes in between the controversial themes of gambling, first-degree murder, theft, drinking, terrifying images of {{Hell}} and {{Satan}}, and the real clincher, [[spoiler:the killing of the main protagonist at the end]], something unheard of in Western animation for children.
* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail:'' 19th century Russia: A Jewish family's house is burned down in a pogrom, forcing them to flee to America. During their voyage, a storm strikes the ship and the family's young son is swept overboard and presumed dead. But he survives and ends up on the mean streets of New York, facing all kinds of dangers, at one point sold to a sweatshop by a villain pretending to help him, and all the while trying in vain to find his family, who mourns his "death" and faces the same kind of oppression they thought they were escaping. The only thing that makes this a kids' movie is the fact that it's an animated musical starring anthropomorphic mice.
* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail:'' ''[[{{Sequelitis}} The Treasure Of Manhattan Island]]'' features loads of PoliceBrutality, including officers being paid under the table by corrupt factory owners, deliberately starting a race riot and burning every "mouse house and rat hole" to find someone they're after. It doesn't really help that the movie is set in a time of racism and the one everyone is out to get happens to be a Native American.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' undoubtedly has to be remains Creator/DonBluth's darkest film (with the possible exception of ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE''), with relatively small "kid-friendly" scenes in between the controversial themes of gambling, first-degree murder, theft, drinking, terrifying images of {{Hell}} and {{Satan}}, and the real clincher, [[spoiler:the killing of the main protagonist at the end]], something virtually unheard of in Western animation for children.children then and now.
* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail:'' In 19th century Russia: A Jewish family's house is burned down in a pogrom, forcing them to flee to America. During their voyage, a storm strikes the ship and the family's young son is swept overboard and presumed dead. But he survives and ends up on the mean streets of New York, facing all kinds of dangers, at one point sold to a sweatshop by a villain pretending to help him, and all the while trying in vain to find his family, who mourns his "death" and faces the same kind of oppression they thought they were escaping. The only thing that makes this a kids' movie is the fact that it's an animated musical starring anthropomorphic mice.
* ** ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail:'' ''[[{{Sequelitis}} The Treasure Of Manhattan Island]]'' features loads of PoliceBrutality, including officers being paid under the table by corrupt factory owners, deliberately starting a race riot and burning every "mouse house and rat hole" to find someone they're after. It doesn't really help that the movie is set in a time of racism and the one everyone is out to get happens to be a Native American.



** With the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, ''Star Wars'' has become more adult-oriented, with fewer overly whimsical elements and less comic relief in favor of a slightly less idealistic tone, deeper characters, and gratuitous original trilogy nostalgia. ''Film/RogueOne'', while still watched by many kids, is often cited as [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids the opposite of this trope]].

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** With the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney, ''Star Wars'' as a franchise has become (ironically) more adult-oriented, with fewer overly whimsical elements and less comic relief in favor of a slightly less idealistic tone, deeper characters, and gratuitous original trilogy nostalgia. ''Film/RogueOne'', while still watched by many kids, is often cited as [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids the opposite of this trope]].
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* ''Film/AliceInWonderland1985'' was for kids, but has an overabundance of NightmareFuel, like the Jabberwocky scenes and the White Queen's transformation into a goat.

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* ''Film/AliceInWonderland1985'' was is for kids, but as it's one of the more faithful adaptations of the books has an overabundance a lot of NightmareFuel, like the Jabberwocky scenes and NightmareFuel (i.e. the White Queen's transformation into a goat.goat) even without it turning the Jabberwock into an antagonist Alice must face down in the second half.



** Amusingly, this trope was why Creator/{{Disney}} turned down the first film, as they thought it was too raunchy for them (primarily the subplot with Lorraine becoming infatuated with Marty), whereas other studios thought it wasn't raunchy enough (this was the era of teen sex comedies such as ''Film/{{Porkys}}'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'').

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** Amusingly, this trope was why Creator/{{Disney}} turned down the chance to produce the first film, as they thought it was too raunchy for them (primarily the subplot with Lorraine becoming infatuated with Marty), whereas other studios thought it wasn't raunchy enough (this was the era of teen sex comedies such as ''Film/{{Porkys}}'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'').



* The director and crew of the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''[=-=]riffed movie ''Film/CarnivalMagic'' set out to make it a kid's flick...and yet it features such plot points as the film's comic relief character (Alex the talking chimp) attempting suicide to avoid being operated on and a brief yet shockingly realistic depiction of DomesticAbuse as the antagonist beats his girlfriend. Reportedly, even at the time of the film's release, viewers were left confused at the unintentional case of UncertainAudience that the film presented.

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* The director and crew of the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''[=-=]riffed movie ''Film/CarnivalMagic'' set out to make it a kid's flick...and yet but as their filmmaking experience came from making {{Exploitation Film}}s, it features such plot points as the film's comic relief character (Alex the talking chimp) attempting suicide to avoid being operated on and a brief yet shockingly realistic depiction of DomesticAbuse as the antagonist beats his girlfriend. Reportedly, even at the time of the film's release, viewers were left confused at the unintentional case of UncertainAudience that the film presented.
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* WesternAnimation/JoshuaAndThePromisedLand:
** Joshua's parents have a fallout and it's implied that [[DomesticAbuse Joshua's father was going to beat Joshua's mother]].
** This movie has a lot of brutal violence, or at least references to it.
** In a deleted scene, two of Moses' spies infiltrate the city of Jericho and make a deal with a prostitute named Rahab, with Joshua and Chris overseeing the whole affair. Considering the film's target demographic, it's easy to see why this scene never made the final cut.
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* Like other infamous children's films from the 1950s to the 1970s like ''Film/SantaClaus1959'' and ''Film/SantaAndTheIceCreamBunny'', ''Film/FunInBalloonLand'' itself isn't violent or raunchy, but it fits this trope unintentionally due to ultra-saccharine elements of the film coming across as unintentionally creepy, with the balloons having absolutely horrifying faces that children would most likely be terrified by.
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* ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'': This movie, along with ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', led to the creation of both the PG-13 rating in the USA and the 12 rating in the UK. The trailers presented this picture as ''much'' more lighthearted than it was. Reviewing it for ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', Creator/HarlanEllison described it in terms more suited to NightmareFuel. He deplored its many instances of wanton cruelty played for laughs and said he "heard little children scream and cry" in the theater. The manager later told him he'd never had so many patrons walking out and demanding their money back. There's also a scene in which one of the characters [[spoiler: gives a 2-minute speech about [[SantaAmbiguity how they found out Santa wasn't real]]]], which isn't something one would expect to be discussed in a children's movie. Ellison even felt that having Creator/PhoebeCates in a family movie was a mistake because of her sexy roles in the miniseries ''Lace'' and films like ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh''. The sequel, ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', is far LighterAndSofter than the first movie, taking a more openly comedic bent and dialing back the violence (only one gremlin death is anywhere near as gruesome as in the first film, and it's played more for [[BloodyHilarious laughs]] than for horror), but it was hit with a PG-13 regardless.

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* ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'': ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'': This movie, along with ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', led to the creation of both the PG-13 rating in the USA and the 12 rating in the UK. The trailers presented this picture as ''much'' more lighthearted than it was. Reviewing it for ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'', Creator/HarlanEllison described it in terms more suited to NightmareFuel. He deplored its many instances of wanton cruelty played for laughs and said he "heard little children scream and cry" in the theater. The manager later told him he'd never had so many patrons walking out and demanding their money back. There's also a scene in which one of the characters [[spoiler: gives a 2-minute speech about [[SantaAmbiguity how they found out Santa wasn't real]]]], which isn't something one would expect to be discussed in a children's movie. Ellison even felt that having Creator/PhoebeCates in a family movie was a mistake because of her sexy roles in the miniseries ''Lace'' and films like ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh''. The sequel, ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'', is far LighterAndSofter than the first movie, taking a more openly comedic bent and dialing back the violence (only one gremlin death is anywhere near as gruesome as in the first film, and it's played more for [[BloodyHilarious laughs]] than for horror), but it was hit with a PG-13 regardless.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GummibarTheYummyGummySearchForSanta'' has a scene in which several reindeer drink alcohol and gamble. Also, Kala's design looks a bit [[MsFanservice sexualized]] for a kids movie.
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* Despite ''WesternAnimation/SirBilli'' supposedly being for kids, there's an excessive amount of inappropriate humor and sexual innuendos, and references to older media that younger children probably won't get.
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* ''Film/TheJourneyOfNattyGann'': There are heartfelt themes and character relationships, but the movie is rougher than most Disney fare, featuring a dogfight to the death, an AttemptedRape, and the teenaged protagonist smoking in one scene and saying "Shit" in another.
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Removing misuse. Many parents have taught little kids death and morality even at a young age. This isn't too mature for them at all.


* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'' has mortality and the fear of death as its main themes, and there's a character with several scary scenes, the wolf, who turns out to be Death himself. Puss nearly gets killed by him when he first meets him,and said wolf is after him, traumatizing him to the point he has a realistic panic attack at one point. There are also a few beeped curse words from Perrito the dog and a censored from Kitty before she's interrupted and deaths with people exploding into confetti, and when Puss first meets Death, he gets nicked in the forehead by his two scythes and visibly '''bleeds'''. Some of this may actually be closer to PG-13 material than the PG rating it got.

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