Line #93 FamilyUnfriendlyDeath/WesternAnimation


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13	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
14	** Deaths include impalement, explosion, and being eaten, done to Ghost Princess, Clarence, and one of the fruit witches from "Dad's Dungeon", respectively. That last one is a rather ''[[BloodierAndGorier bloody]]'' death too.
15	** In the episode "No One Can Hear You", Freak Deer is killed when a piece of rubble ''snaps his neck''. If that didn't kill him, being chucked into a river to his doom shortly after certainly did.
16	** In the AlternateUniverse "Farmworld", alternate Ice King is crushed by an unexploded bomb and starves to death; we don't see that but we do see his skeleton, still trapped. Later, after the bomb explodes, alternate Marceline is melted in a toxic pool.
17	** In [[WhamEpisode "Wake Up"]], [[spoiler:the person that dreams Prismo]] is ''turned to ash'' by the Lich, onscreen. Jake wasn't the only one who was shocked and horrified about that.
18	*** [[spoiler: He recovered several episodes later thanks to a complicated plan.]]
19	* In ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein,'' the main characters ''bury an (imagined) monster alive'' while singing, "We'll make this place his ''tomb!''" The main reason is because the monster is revealed to be ''nice.''
20	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "The Rerun", Darwin suffocates to death onscreen. It's undone by the end of the episode, but it's still rather shocking for a show that mainly has cartoony slapstick violence (which admittedly can look rather painful, but is still ''mostly'' in line with the general expectations of the level of violence a Y7 rating would allow.)
21	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "True Colors", Marcy is [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed through the heart]] by King Andrias. [[spoiler: Subverted in the Season 3 premiere, as Marcy is revealed to be NotQuiteDead. That said, she barely manages to stay alive. King Andrias reveals he used the magic of the Moss Man crossed with the Shadowfish to revive her so she can become a human host for [[MindHive The Core.]]]]
22	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAnimalsOfFarthingWood'' loved this. One character, a puffed-up bullying pheasant, got a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when he sees the cooked and roasted body of his wife cooling on a farmhouse windowsill -- a death he unintentionally caused -- before being shot as well when the nearby farmer overhears him crying. An adorable set of mouse babies are bloodily impaled on a thorn bush by a sadistic shrike, who not only gets a KarmaHoudini but gets to mock the other animals for their squeamishness. (And yes, ''this is how shrikes kill their prey in RealLife''.) An ultra-cute family of newts is hinted to have burned to death. A baby rabbit is shot. The entire hedgehog family get SquashedFlat by a lorry whilst attempting to cross a busy road. Mrs Mouse, the one who lost her babies, gets killed and eaten by ''one of the main characters'', who didn't recognize her. They didn't shy away from the whole KarmicDeath angle, either; Scarface, one of the first real villains, gets assassinated by [[SociopathicHero Adder]]. She swims up to and fatally bites him when he's recovering from an injury near the riverbank; complete with him screaming and writhing in agony from the venom.
23	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
24	** Roku's death in the WholeEpisodeFlashback. Basically he gets hit directly in the face by a vent of poison gas and falls over, after which his friend abandons him and his dragon tries to cover him when they're both engulfed in a pyroclastic flow.
25	** Combustion Man dies from exploding, after his third eye is messed up by Boomerang.
26	** Jet dies from getting his chest crushed by a jagged chunk of rock. (Thanks to the ever-looming MoralGuardians, his death was rather ambiguous, and they make a gag out of it in "The Ember Island Players.")
27	--->'''Zuko''': Did Jet just... die?\
28	'''Sokka''': Y'know, it was really unclear.
29	** Noatak and Tarrlok in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' die in an explosion, after Tarrlok opens the fuel cap of their getaway boat and activates an electric glove over the top of it. It's not graphic, but it's no less amazing that Mike and Bryan still managed to get away with a MurderSuicide on a Saturday morning Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} show. Given all the brutal violence in the show, this one was at least quick and painless.
30	** Zaheer demonstrates that it is [[AscendedFridgeHorror indeed possible]] to asphyxiate people with airbending. He bends the air from [[spoiler:the Earth Queen]]'s lungs, and her slow death is shown entirely on-screen as she first struggles for breath, her eyes turning bloodshot, and finally collapses. While the dialogue rather jarringly [[NeverSayDie avoids 'kill' or 'dead']] (she was 'taken down', or is 'no more'), there is no ambiguity at all over what has occurred. Once again, it is not ''graphic'' in the sense of bloody violence but is a [[NightmareFuel startling]] example of the trope in such a show.
31	** Three of the four Red Lotus members get this. Ming Hua is visibly electrocuted to death. Ghazan seemingly dies in a collapsing lava cave. And P'li has her Combusion Bending literally explode in her face, having a breastplate thrown over her head just as she was about to fire her ability.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
33	** Clayface lent himself to scenes like this. Two most shocking examples were when he absorbed Batman, and we see Batman's silhouette flailing around inside him, and almost not making it out alive, and when he [[BodyHorror absorbed his "daughter"]], a creation of his clay that had mutated into its own personality.
34	** The Ventriloquist has a split criminal personality manifested as a DemonicDummy, Scarface. Scarface technically isn't alive, so he would get butchered in various methods, onscreen. He's been shot up by machine guns (twice) and shredded repeatedly.
35	** ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'s death in "Over The Edge". It's AllJustADream caused by Scarecrow's fear gas however it doesn't stop her death from being any less graphic. She falls several stories off a building onto a car -- a cop car her dad was driving in, no less -- and is noticeably bruised up. She ends up dying quickly in [[DiedInYourArmsTonight her father's arms]].
36	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'':
37	** In the episode "Sneak Peek", a tabloid reporter gains the ability to [[IntangibleMan go through walls]]. He finds out that Terry is Batman and Terry tries to convince him not to reveal his secret. Unfortunately, he's hit with a case of PowerIncontinence and starts to be like this permanently, falling through several stories. Terry tries to rescue him, but the reporter couldn't stay tangible for long and just keeps falling, presumably to the center of the earth.
38	** The episode "Splicers", which ended with the Big Bad being injected with so much animal DNA he mutated into a gigantic blob-crab-monster.
39	** The episode "The Winning Edge", where Bane's crony died from taking way too many venom-derived slappers, while Bane himself was in an all-but-dead vegetative state.
40	** The episode "Heroes" has two of the Terrific Trio (one is two-dimensional and the other made of gas) getting sucked into the ventilation, with the third (a molten rock monster) getting cooled off permanently. [[StalkedByTheBell If they didn't die now, their gradually worsening genetic instability would have eventually killed them anyway.]]
41	** The show specialized in doing this while making it a GoryDiscretionShot. People were fed to crocodiles, run over by trains, and exploded. The one that sticks out is the end of "April Moon", where a doctor attempts to save his wife from the gang by giving them new equipment. By the end of the episode, it's revealed that his wife was actually in on it the whole time and was cheating on him with the gang leader. The doctor knows, but the leader doesn't. So he comes in to get upgraded anyway, telling him "no holding back" and the pissed-off doctor... obliges, and ''lowers a drill toward his face''. [[NothingIsScarier Cue black]].
42	** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', the Joker is killed off fairly early in the story. There are actually two versions of the death scene. Originally, Robin shot and impaled the Joker through the chest with a spear gun. The MoralGuardians thought this was too violent, so the scene was reanimated to show the Joker getting wet and tangled up in wires, slipping and accidentally pulling a lever, electrocuting himself.
43	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'':
44	** Black Mask pulled a YouHaveFailedMe on his NumberOne by using Nth metal to make him float upward until he's stopped by a ceiling window, talking to him for a bit, then ''opening the window''. It would probably be a lot worse if Mask's next action (picking a new NumberOne with the ''exact same line'' as the one he just killed) wasn't completely hilarious.
45	** While he [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat actually survives]], it was pretty startling to watch ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula'' and suddenly see the Joker falling into a river while his own joy-buzzers electrocute him and he screams while sinking. Add the occasional electrical surge where you see his silhouette sinking deeper into the water. The same movie also has the real death of Dracula: Batman uses a device that stores energy from the sun on him and he is ''burned alive'' and Batman gives him a blow that knocks him into pieces, sending ash and bone everywhere.
46	* ''Franchise/{{Ben 10}}'' had its share of Family Unfriendly Death, often relying [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman on the fact most characters are aliens]] to get away with it:
47	** The [[WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}} original show]] had [[EvilCounterpart Kevin 11]] killing sentient robot Slix Vigma by impaling him on his Diamondhead arm, and almost give the same fate to Ben. Villain Ghostfreak was burnt to ashes, twice.
48	** The ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' pilot depicts a [[FacelessMooks Forever Knight]] dying by being disintegrated in the explosion of his own dysfunctional weapon.
49	*** The premiere episode had a scene that averted the BloodlessCarnage trope on a TV-Y7-FV rating. Specifically, after a particularly intense fight, Ben looks to the stomach of the alien helping him, saying "your suit is leaking water". The alien puts his hand to the bluish liquid, brings it up within view of the camera, and gravely mumbles "that's not water" before falling down into his death throes.
50	** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' had some gruesome deaths of its own. Those include alien crook Mizaru being eaten alive by a giant carnivorous worm (though this one is played for comedy); FallenHero Carl Nesmith killing his doctor off-screen and leaving his dead body in a cold chamber, where he is found by Ben and Gwen; and AntiVillain Old George being electrocuted by [[EldritchAbomination Diagon]] until he turns into ashes. We also see two cases of ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice just offscreen behind a GoryDiscretionShot. While getting stabbed with swords is a fairly mundane ''way'' to die, it's still pretty high up the "holy crap, did they get away with that in a kids' show?!" chart. Especially given the ''sounds'' we sometimes hear.
51	* The destruction of NOS-4-A2 in ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand''. In just a few scenes his left arm is blown off in an explosion, and he is shortly grabbed by the werewolf Ty Parsec, who growls at him before throwing him. We then see him, graphically impaled on a metal spike, thrash around and scream before exploding into pieces. The only way Disney could have been able to get away with this would be because he was a robot and not an organic creature.
52	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster''. An episode, in the world of ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'', a rather non-violent game with no enemies whatsoever, implied that many of the oddly shaped bricks that made up the wall [[AndIMustScream were in fact former people]]. Kevin and the group were captured and threatened with being turned into bricks and forced to stay trapped as part of the wall forever, complete with a visual of what that might look like. This seems to be a reference to a [[Magazine/NintendoPower Howard & Nester]] [[http://hn.iodized.net/tetris0405.htm comic]] introducing Tetris that featured the exact same plot.
53	* The ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' episode "Mind Pollution" shows Linka's cousin Boris dying onscreen of a drug overdose, and "Utopia" shows [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZoTfIe6zlk a family being killed in a drive-by shooting,]] with a DeadHandShot and the ground covered in blood.
54	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': [[http://couragede.tripod.com/episodes/episoderamses.html "King Ramses' Curse"]]. The titular King Ramses is a very gaunt and oddly animated figure with three curses. Two were mostly harmless, but the third was swarms of locusts that quickly devour anything and ''anyone'', including Eustace and two anthropomorphic cats.
55	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'':
56	** One episode has BumblingDad Jack Fenton kill off a ghost by ''squeezing it to death''. Even if it was a mutant beast and the ghost blood they ooze was green, seeing that thing pop like a cherry doesn't help.
57	** What happened to [[spoiler:Danny's human half in his BadFuture]] in "WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy" manages to combine this with GoryDiscretionShot. Vlad refuses to divulge any of the details, but it's widely considered the most shocking moment in the series.
58	** Also, the death of Danny's clone -- the disintegrating flesh, the sad, trapped look, the arm reaching out to his "father", the [[AndIMustScream mouth opening slightly...]]
59	* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': In "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E48InLikeBlunt In Like Blunt]]", one of the SHUSH agents murdered by Phineas Sharp ended up in a pet food can, implying a rather gory demise.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' is a bit infamous for having some notably gruesome death scenes. The show's BigBad, Ming the Merciless, is killed off in the beginning of a five-part arc (he got better) and his death scene sees him get vaporized into ash. One villain, Doctor Dark, seems to suffer a DisneyVillainDeath by falling, but the end of the episode reveals he's still alive and in the fall caused him to lose an eye and get half his face horribly disfigured; when he returns in a later episode he's KilledOffForReal after dissolving into a skeleton.
61	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DynomuttDogWonder'', some supervillain's WeirdScience ray gun made the completely human Blue Falcon melt into a blue puddle.
62	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': One of the ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts starts with a butterfly getting rather graphically squished.
63	* In ''The First Bad Man'', in a scene that is often cut from television, the villain Dinosaur Dan during one of his robberies walks up to a shaggy haired caveman, pulls up his beard like a curtain, and shoots him in the head at point blank range with a non-bloody hole through his head and he falls over dead.
64	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', the ''Future Tense'' episode, [[spoiler:Alexander Fox is grabbed by his father Xanatos. [[DefeatEqualsExplosion Energy comes out of Xanatos body and encase Fox, causing him to explode.]] He screams before his death and [[FreezeFrameBonus for a fraction of a second, you can see his eyes bursting out]].]]
65	* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' has quite a few, and we aren't talking just MechaMooks or [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman EVOs]]. Most onscreen deaths are [[FacelessMooks Providence]] [[RedShirtArmy soldiers]] fighting alongside the main characters. You know things are tough when ''in the very first episode'' you see crashed dropships and the bodies of the Providence operatives that were sent to save Rex from [[BigBad Van Kleiss]]. The show seems to be making a game of killing off said {{Red Shirt}}s in the most brutal ways possible in a kids cartoon. Highlights include a soldier falling into [[OurMonstersAreDifferent EVO]]-piranha infested water, and screaming before being dragged under. The show once even managed to avoid BloodlessCarnage; although it happened with [[BugWar a swarm of giant insects]], the blood splatter they exploded into was red.
66	* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'' manages a few. Ripcord makes a HeroicSacrifice early on, Maj. Hidalgo gets vaporized into a pile of ashes by Baroness when he tries to extort more money out of her, and Cobra Commander feeds a pesky [[TheMole mole]] to his giant pet snake.
67	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' contains lots, though it's usually done with a huge dose of BlackComedy, and [[NegativeContinuity everyone's alright by the next episode]]. In one episode Billy is turned into chocolate, and he starts ''eating himself'' until he's only a head. At the end he explodes into chocolate syrup, which Mandy and Grim start eating.
68	* ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'':
69	** In one cartoon the cat catches several mice, ties them to a stick, and starts roasting them alive with an expression of sadistic glee. The cat and the mice were {{Funny Animal}}s of the most human-like sort.
70	** In the Christmas episode the [[DesignatedHero supposedly heroic mice]] kill Katnip, by turning his corpse (you can tell he died as he makes no movements, not even blinking) into a Christmas tree, plugging his tail into a electric socket, all while Christmas carols play. There's a reason these characters were the inspiration for ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow''.
71	** A ''lot'' of the Famous Studios[=/=]Harvey Toons cartoons have this kind of carnage. WesternAnimation/BabyHuey was regularly assaulted by foxes and other predators with ''fire axes'' and the like; his indestructibility doesn't make the scenes any less traumatic.
72	** One cartoon ("A Bicep Built for Two") has Katnip being pursued by a giant body builder cat who stole his girlfriend, in the end Katnip uses two shotputs he'd been using as biceps to smash the bully's skull which kills him because his 9 lives come out. There was [[BloodlessCarnage no blood]], though.
73	* An unaired ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short featured a scene where WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse buries [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]] alive in a nightmare [[GoodAngelBadAngel his conscience]] created while he is forced to stay at Minnie's house while his owner [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey]] is on vacation. Towards the end of the short, his conscience drags Pluto to Hell.
74	* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'':
75	** In Book 2, Agent Mace is split in half after an unexpected train car appeared. He then attempts a TakingYouWithMe on MT, who finishes him off by slamming him into the train's wheel that grinds him ([[KarmicDeath no less the method he tried to commit on MT]]), complete with a DeadHatShot. Despite being made of metal, he does bleed [[AlienBlood silver blood]]. In the finale, Agent Sieve is killed when Alan Dracula fires his laser vision and he explodes into a silver bloody mess.
76	** In the final episode of Book 3, Simon ends up being killed by a Ghom when it [[VampiricDraining sucks up his life force]], and we get to see it ''melting the flesh off his bones'' before ultimately reducing him into ash. This scene was considered so violent and gruesome that it resulted in executive trouble for the series, as it briefly went on hiatus due to concerns of it being too dark for children.
77	* In the sixth episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'', we meet a Dr. Mengele {{Expy}} named Herman Mangler. He falls into a toxic waste dump, and we see his body liquefying as he screams "It's eating my flesh!" before he sinks under the water. That is the last we see of him that episode. In the next episode, his ally drains the swamp and retrieves Mangler's corroded, worm-eaten skull. This was on a Saturday morning cartoon, from Creator/SunbowEntertainment, the studio that produced ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' the same year.
78	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': Jerrica and Kimber's MissingMom Jacqui died in an airplane crash. Nothing is shown besides the broken airplane, but that [[NotEnoughToBury just makes]] [[NoBodyLeftBehind the implications worse]]. Jerrica was left with PartingWordsRegret due to being upset at her mother before she left.
79	* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' has the infamous episode "Johnny's Royal Flush" in which Johnny is turned into a fish, flushed down the toilet, and pursued by a hungry SewerGator, that in the end is sucked into what is essentially a giant fan, ripped apart and turned into shoes and bags.
80	* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'':
81	** In one episode the villain '''was impaled on elephant bones''' (GoryDiscretionShot used, obviously, but everyone winces and it's not a large leap to imagine what they saw). Another villain was shot to death with a machine gun.
82	** "Undersea Urgency", in which an undersea lab is attacked by what can only be described as sabertoothed C.H.U.Ds. As the survivors of the attack are making their way to escape pods, one lady scientist stops to try and grab the body of one of the dead creatures "for future study" (with the entire group yelling at her not to go near it). But it's actually NotQuiteDead. The scene cuts to a GoryDiscretionShot, but the clear implication is that the creature ''bit the woman's face off''.
83	** In the same episode, creatures like dog-sized piranhas with legs got onto the submarine after eating a whale to nothing but bones ''onscreen'', and in one scene while they were running for their lives from the creatures, a female scientist was too slow, and we got a shot of the creatures swarming her as Race was forced to slam the door shut to prevent them from getting to the rest of them all, and you hear the woman being graphically devoured, complete with squelchy crunching sounds.
84	** "More Than Zero", the last episode of the ''Real Adventures'' series ever produced. While investigating a haunted house, two scientists get thrown into a room with the walls rapidly closing in on them. And, unlike most situations like that on the show, they die ''horribly'' offscreen. Not to mention the Lovecraftian appearance of the ghost itself and the caretaker dissolving into dust at the end.
85	** In the movie ''WesternAnimation/JonnysGoldenQuest'', Dr. Zin betrays a scientist named Dr. Devlin who had come to work for him by blasting him with a laser cannon, causing Dr. Devlin's skin to melt off until he's a charred black skeleton and crumbles to ash while screaming in agony the whole time.
86	** The episode in which Race and the boys faced off against a man who had a literal shadow puppet monster which had already killed several, and could reach them anywhere, at any time, and couldn't be killed since it was just a shadow, so they couldn't shoot it or capture it. Logically, they thought that if they turned out the lights, it would cease to exist. They were wrong-all that did was make the monster invisible.
87	* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "[[Recap/{{JusticeLeagueS2E5And6OnlyADream}} Only a Dream]]", Dream!ComicBook/LoisLane's death gets a ScreamDiscretionShot, but presumably she was either shot through or fried by Superman's EyeBeams.
88	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': This being a show that runs on FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and where DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, the characters have died in several unpleasant ways such as explosion, [[OffWithHisHead decapitation]] and ''[[SuicideAsComedy suicide]]''.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'':
90	** In the episode "Big Bro Po" there is a very horrific sequence where Bian's father, Taotie, got in his HumongousMecha and crushed Po to death. At the end of the carnage, Po is shown, dead, on a table, with an apple in his mouth. Taotie then tells Bian that they are going to ''eat'' him. At least it wasn't real...
91	** In the one-hour special "Enter the Dragon", Po is crushed to death inside of a giant funnel. [[Main/ThatWasNotADream And this was]] ''[[Main/ThatWasNotADream not]]'' [[Main/ThatWasNotADream a dream]].
92	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
93	** Many cartoons, especially ones directed by Creator/TexAvery and Creator/BobClampett, feature characters committing suicide by shooting themselves in the head; there was no blood though. However, Clampett's original cut of "Hare Ribbin'" took this trope up a notch when, [[spoiler:instead of Bugs giving a gun to a dog to kill himself, he pulls out the gun and ''shoots the dog in the mouth'']]. Understandably, the Hays Office wasn't pleased with this ending.
94	** In "Buddy's Bug Hunt", the KangarooCourt of bugs sentence the [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrunken]] Buddy to death by [[ManOnFire cigar lighter immolation]]. Fortunately it was AllJustADream, aside from [[CrashingDreams his behind being burned]] [[SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass by magnified sunlight]] while he was knocked out.
95	* The Ghost of Christmas Future sequence in ''WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol''. ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' is supposed to be scary at times, but here, Scrooge ([=McDuck=], in this case) is ''pushed'' into his own grave by the Ghost of Christmas Future (played by WesternAnimation/{{Pete}}, cruelly laughing the whole time while taunting "Richest man in the cemetery!"), into a coffin belching hellfire and brimstone.
96	* ''WesternAnimation/MonkieKid'': The Spider Queen's [[ArtificialLimbs robotic]] [[SpiderLimbs abdomen]] is ripped apart in a [[ShadowDiscretionShot shadow discretion shot]], and dragged into the Trigram furnace by the [[spoiler:lady bone demon's]] [[CombatTentacles combat tentacles]], never to be seen again.
97	* You never expected this to appear in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' of all places, but here we are:
98	** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E2TheCrystalEmpirePart2 the 2-parter third season premiere]] the villain King Sombra is [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered to pieces]] onscreen. At the time he was the only villain KilledOffForReal, and you can even see his severed horn flying toward the screen.
99	*** King Sombra has the misfortune of undergoing this ''twice'', as he is brought BackFromTheDead in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E2TheBeginningOfTheEndPart2 Season 9's premiere]], only for the Mane 6 to vanquish him with a magical blast that obliterates him into dust. You can even see his skin getting torn off his face right before he disintegrates.
100	** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone The Lost Treasure Of Griffinstone]] we get the backstory of Arimaspi, the monster that stole the griffon's Idol of Boreas but ultimately fell into the Abysmal Abyss in what originally is built up as a DisneyVillainDeath. Then Rainbow Dash and friends go down into the abyss and find [[https://derpibooru.org/902369 stone cold proof]] Arimaspi at best was killed by the fall, or at worst was injured by it and ''died suffering of exposure''.
101	** In the [[UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode infamous]] "The Mean 6", the evil clones of the main ponies are destroyed by the Tree of Harmony for trying to take the Elements, being grabbed and hung high by tendrils of light, and their bodies wither and sag (appearing as if they were ''melting''), before the Tree flashes white and they turn back into clumps of wood.
102	* In ''Once Upon a Time'' (an adaptation of the fairy tale "Frau Holle"), the evil stepsister TrappedInAnotherWorld passes by an oven filled with animal-shaped cookies that want to be let out. The stepsister refuses to do so, and the animals then burn to death while screaming in agony.
103	* The Nelvana adaptation of ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' adhered faithfully to the books -- themselves riddled with liberal FamilyUnfriendlyViolence and FamilyUnfriendlyDeath alike -- but was often forced to downplay some of the violence translated with a few of the books gorier deaths (like one of Badrang's failed goons he has ''tickled'' until he falls to his death, whereas he was just riddled with arrows and tortured to death in the book) but sometimes ''upped'' the drama in the deaths with the demises of some of its more major characters, with violence beyond what was the cartoon's standard; Badrang himself, for instance, instead of simply being run down by Martin in a berserk rage, was tricked into falling into a pit after a short battle... straight onto Martin's sword, visibly choking to death amid bloody squelches atop Martin with no GoryDiscretionShot sans the cape with a large new lump poking out from under it obstructing the actual sight of the sword out of his back.
104	* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Fists of Justice" featured one of the giant baby guardians of youth impaled through the chest with a mace-rattle, with a bloody gaping hole in the chest for good measure.
105	** In the episode "Sandwich of Death" the Master Sensei dies after being force-fed the Double Death Sandwich.
106	** Not to mention the guards who died trying to prevent the heroes from reaching Master Sensei in the first place.
107	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': Spontaneous explosion, being run over, swallowed by a giant space monster, [[RetGone erased from history]], inflated and popped, implosion, etc. [[DisneyDeath They generally]] [[NegativeContinuity got better]], needless to say.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}}'':
109	** In "Robotman", Robotman himself falls into a trash compactor, gets crushed into a cube and deactivates when his batteries fall out.
110	** In "The Revenge of Protoboy", Protoboy gets his motherboard violently torn out of his chest by Robotboy, causing him to deactivate shortly afterwards and fall into the ocean.
111	* In the Mickey Mouse cartoon ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain'', Doctor Frankenollie gets caught in a violent explosion when he turns on his brain-swapping machine, [[DieLaughing laughing maniacally the whole time]]. When Mickey finds the doctor and tries to shake him awake, his body crumbles into a pile of ash and bones.
112	* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' was notorious for using the MechaMooks loophole to depict scenes of violence that, had the recipients been humanoid, would qualify as {{Gorn}}. Backgrounds of dead robots with close-to-human anatomies [[LudicrousGibs liberally distributed]] and [[MachineBlood oil]] ''everywhere'' are common, and every few episodes the titular character will be sprayed with [[HighPressureBlood veritable fountains of oil]] as he mercilessly hacks robots apart. Added to this is a heavy implication that many, if not all, or these robots are completely sentient, just in case you weren't feeling uncomfortable enough.
113	** One particular episode focused on a robot that had developed a personality, and actually cared about a puppy. The puppy gets held hostage so the robot will fight Jack. It gets cut down in seconds, just like all the others.
114	** Another episode had a starving family come to Jack looking for food. However, they only eat metal, and think his sword would make a tasty treat. It's only after Jack slices off the face of one of them that they're revealed to be robots disguised as humans, at which point they begin tearing themselves apart and eating each other. Made all the more disturbing by having the red tinted metal under their disguises.
115	** This habit ends up getting a HypocrisyNod during the revival season when Jack goes into a HeroicBSOD after [[TheseHandsHaveKilled experiencing his first human kill.]]
116	--->'''Jack's Inner Self:''' "We've never killed a human before, have we? Sure, MOUNTAINS of robot corpses..."
117	* The GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' starts with Professor Pericles getting [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the local EldritchAbomination, which kills him from the inside out. Then it absorbs Brad, Julie, and Mr E. Then it proceeds to eat the ''entire town'', onscreen, dragging them screaming into its maw one by one, complete with slurping sounds.
118	* The death of the cat people in the otherwise pretty tame ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': They disintegrate horrifically, and you can actually see ''bone fragments''. And in the flashback, when the pirates force the villagers into crocodile infested waters... their deaths occur offscreen, but you still hear the screams and other horrible sounds, as the camera shows the horrified faces of the two girls that survived because they hid behind a tree.
119	* The 1981 ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' cartoon depicted Doctor Doom as both looking and sounding remarkably like a robot -- more particularly, Darth Vader -- which may explain why, in his final appearance, robot or not, he is ''slowly vaporized by his own laser and dies screaming.''
120	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
121	** In "Dying for Pie," Squidward imagines this happening to [=SpongeBob=] at work. At the moment [=SpongeBob=] gives a customer his order, he suddenly [[GoryDiscretionShot explodes off-screen]], and the sequence ends with ''sponge pieces'' raining on the restaurant floor.
122	** In "To Love A Patty" Spongebob grabs some clams and smashes them into little pieces while still alive. The worst is when he holds one in the air for a few seconds before snapping its jaws and breaking the shell in half. You can see that one's tongue fly off.
123	*** Keep in mind, in the episode "Rock-a-bye Bivalve" Spongebob and Patrick cared for a scallop. For all we know one of those scallops was the one they nursed back to health.
124	* Toffee from ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' gets his skin vaporized by Star's [[DisintegratorRay most powerful spell]], this reduces him to a horrendous black ink-like creature with his skeleton showing, then he gets crushed by a pillar thrown by Ludo.
125	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'':
126	** Durge surrounds and absorbs Obi-Wan, much like Clayface mentioned above. Then Obi-Wan uses the Force to ''explode'' Durge from the inside out, scattering bits of him all over the room. Durge is shown in a later shot to be NotQuiteDead, but still, that's not pleasant.
127	** [[HeroKiller General Grievous]] gets two of these as part of his EstablishingCharacterMoment. First a hapless Padawan is ''crushed'' as Grievous lands on him. Then he grabs another Jedi with his mechanical foot, and visibly [[NeckSnap snaps his neck]] before tossing his corpse into the ceiling.
128	** Grievous' debut in the second season has him murder his way through dozens of clones and senate guards, crushing them and slicing them up. Most of it takes place off screen, but the ''sounds'' are gruesome enough.
129	* These happen nearly all the time in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', to the point where [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids it’s one of the main reasons people question it’s status as a kids show]].
130	** The genetically identical clone troopers are given screentime to establish personalities and likeableness, but they are ''still'' killed off in violent ways. Notable examples include two naval officers being sucked into vacuum by having their escape pod cut open in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E2RisingMalevolence Rising Malevolence]]", and from "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E5Rookies Rookies]]", Sergeant O'Niner's execution by commando droids and Cutup's being ''eaten by a giant eel''.
131	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E7DuelOfTheDroids Duel of the Droids]]", Grievous graphically kills a Transdoshan scavenger named Gha Nachkt with the lightsaber blade visibly tearing through his chest.
132	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous Lair of Grievous]]", a clone trooper falls into a pit of lava.
133	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E12TheGunganGeneral The Gungan General]]", pirate Turk Falso is Force-choked by Dooku to death ''onscreen''.
134	** Cad Bane is the guy who manages to get away with gangland style, on-screen executions in a children's show. In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E22HostageCrisis Hostage Crisis]]", he snaps a guard's neck.
135	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E2CargoOfDoom Cargo of Doom]]", a Rodian Jedi Master named Bolla Ropal is tortured to death on screen by Cad Bane and the battle droids. When he finally dies, the droid operating the controls announces it in such a disturbing tone of depression in comparison to their usually high-pitched voices, you can't help but shiver.
136	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E5LandingAtPointRain Landing at Point Rain]]", they turn it up to eleven with flamethrowers being used on Geonosians by the clone troopers. They burn and scream the whole scene and some of them get especially lucky with being sliced in vertical halves by the Jedi.
137	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E8BrainInvaders Brain Invaders]]", when Barriss Offee is being attacked [[BrainwashedAndCrazy by a mind-controlled clone trooper]], she takes out her lightsaber and ''guts him'', with a close-up of the weapon impacting his torso.
138	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E12TheMandalorePlot The Mandalore Plot]]", a bomber commits suicide by jumping to his death from a balcony in order to avoid being captured.
139	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E13VoyageOfTemptation Voyage of Temptation]]", Anakin stabs [[spoiler:Tal Merrik]] with his lightsaber, with the blade going through his back and ''out his front'', center-frame. What makes it even worse is the [[{{Foreshadowing}} casual, almost sardonic way he dismisses the murder of an unarmed man...]]
140	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E17BountyHunters Bounty Hunters]]", Embo effortlessly breaks a pirate's neck, with the shot being filmed from behind the only thing hiding it.
141	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E13Monster Monster]]", Asajj Ventress travels to the far side of Dathomir, where she holds incredibly violent contests to determine which Nightbrother clan representative should receive Sith alchemical augmentation and serve as her spy against Count Dooku. She does this by bringing the candidates to an arena, dimming the area lights and ''systematically murdering all but two of them with a scythe on a chain and their own weapons''. Ventress clearly decapitates at least two while laughing maniacally and when another throws a spear at her, she grabs it in midair only to whip it quite visibly into the chest of another man. Then, after Ventress has selected Savage and brought him back to the Nightsisters to be imbued with their Magics, the "coven" tests his loyalty—commanding Savage to kill the only other survivor of the games, Savage's blood brother. Savage does so, with a NeckLift and [[NeckSnap the customary follow-up]].
142	** During an escape scene in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E19Counterattack Counterattack]]", a clone trooper dies in a rather horrible way: being cut in half by a vent's security doors. Thankfully, the scene is blocked out by a convenient door closing just prior.
143	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E20CitadelRescue Citadel Rescue]]", [[spoiler:Even Piell]] gets mauled by an anooba. Though they skipped on showing the wounds he should have had, it is quite clear that it nearly ''tore out his throat''.
144	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E3Prisoners Prisoners]]", [[spoiler: Riff Tamson]] gets blown to bits, with blood and his severed head shown on screen. He also uses his explosive knives on multiple Republic fighters and they also scream as they die.
145	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E10CarnageOfKrell Carnage of Krell]]", not only does [[spoiler:Waxer have tearful last words,]] but Krell suddenly stops using his lightsabers on the clone troopers and breaks a clone's back over his knee. At the end, [[spoiler:Dogma executes Krell]] via shooting him in the back with a blaster onscreen.
146	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E13EscapeFromKadavo Escape from Kadavo]]", Keeper Agruss lords over Obi-Wan that as a Jedi it's against their code of honor to kill an unarmed opponent, including one as sadistic and evil as him. Captain Rex notes that [[LoopholeAbuse clone troopers have no such rule]] and proceeds to throw an electrostaff [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice clean through him]], causing his hoverchair to lose control and veer into the nearby console, letting the electrocutions finish off what the impalement started. This probably wouldn't have slipped through the censors if the slaver wasn't such a utterly evil bastard.
147	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E14AFriendInNeed A Friend in Need]]", Ahsoka decapitates four Death Watch members simultaneously on-screen, with their heads falling off their shoulders a second or two afterward. Presumably, this avoided getting censored on television because the Death Watch members were wearing close-faced helmets, the delay in the heads falling off may have tricked the censors, and/or there was likely no way to censor it without removing some of the scene's story context (Ahsoka is saving herself and killing her would-be executioners at the same time).
148	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E20Bounty Bounty]]", Dengar kills two Kage Warriors by sticking remote explosives to their chests and detonating them; only the camera angle saves the viewers from the LudicrousGibs that could have been. And later, [[spoiler:Krismo Sodi]] takes out Major Rigosso with an electrified sword through the gut.
149	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E1Revival Revival]]", [[spoiler:Adi Gallia]]'s tunic is drenched with blood after Savage impaled her on his horns. The scene is so brief and is shot from an angle that is very easy to miss.
150	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E14Eminence Eminence]]", Savage Opress decapitates a room full of Black Sun's leaders when they refuse to side with Darth Maul. While these shots were removed for the televised version, their headless corpses (with visible lightsaber burns) can be seen collapsing in the uncut version.
151	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E15ShadesOfReason Shades of Reason]]", [[spoiler:Darth Maul decapitates Pre Vizsla in a blatant execution]]. The camera moves behind Bo-Katan too quickly, so her back blocks the execution from being fully viewed. While the televised version of the episode cut the shot out, the uncut version shows [[spoiler:Vizsla's headless corpse]] afterward.
152	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E7DangerousDebt Dangerous Debt]]", a Pyke guard on a moving elevator -- while fighting with Trace and Rafa Martez over a baton -- gets [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut in half at his upper body]] when he gets caught between the lift's edge and a stairwell beam, being hidden by a GoryDiscretionShot.
153	** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E11Shattered Shattered]]", Maul makes his own reenactment of the Darth Vader corridor scene from ''Film/RogueOne'' against a squad of clone troopers, except he doesn't have a lightsaber. Instead, he gets creative with his usage of the Force, including decapitating two clone with wall panels. [[GoryDiscretionShot The only things we see are their helmets falling from the top of the screen]] and [[BloodlessCarnage no blood]].
154	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has one of these in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E3OffColors Off Colors]]". [[spoiler: In an attempt to save the Off Colors from a robonoid, Lars leaps on top of it and starts beating it with a pointed rock. As the robonoid tries to throw him off, he gets so fed up he stabs the sharp end of the rock into the robonoid's "eye", causing it to explode in mid-air. Lars is slammed against a cliff face, falls thirty feet to the ground, hits a rock, bounces back and finally rolls into a ditch. After his [[BackFromTheDead revival]] he sports a nasty scar over his right eye (which was obscured by his hair), indicating he took shrapnel to the face as well]].
155	* ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'' had a very unfriendly ''near'' death in the pilot, when the protagonists are StrappedToAnOperatingTable and [[PlayingWithSyringes injected with the gene-slamming solution]], only to scream in pain and collapse. One of them manages to break free just long enough to try to demand the BigBad tell them what he just did, before falling over. Granted, the fact that this happens in the first half of the pilot episode [[SpoiledByTheFormat is a pretty good indicator this isn't sticking]], but that doesn't make it much less creepy, especially since said BigBad decides they're beyond hope and orders their bodies to be dumped somewhere. (Also not helping is the fact that the formula used was only tested on one human subject before them. Anyone who knows much about science and testing would figure that shooting someone with a virtually-untested chemical probably ''would'' cause death.)
156	* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'':
157	** In the end of "The Last Son of Krypton", a group of hapless alien explorers find the satelite Brainiac downloaded himself into, and bring him aboard their ship. Brainiac then gruesomely murders them all by impaling them, [[AlienBlood with their blood]] [[GoryDiscretionShot being shown]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence spurted on the walls]]. If it wasn't alien blood, then they absolutely would not have been able to get away with that.
158	** "The Late Mr. Kent" shows two scenes of a ''gas chamber'' execution. The first is of an innocent man accused of a crime, in which they show him desperately trying to keep his face away from the inrushing gas until Superman breaks in to save him, then in the very last seconds of the episode, as the corrupt cop really responsible awaits his death, he figures out how Clark Kent, who he tried to kill for finding out the truth, was able to survive. Then the scene immediately cuts to the executioner's hand pushing the switch over, and fades out.
159	** After Dan Turpin frees Superman, and the timely arrival of the forces of New Genesis, Darkseid is forced to withdraw, but not without firing one final Omega Beam, which streaks toward Superman before curving around and ''instantly vaporizes'' Turpin.
160	** Mala and Jax-Ur go out by getting sucked into a black hole. This would perhaps be [[TogetherInDeath acceptable]], except that, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1iJXOUMJpg well]]...
161	* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'':
162	** In "The Giant Bacteria," Morbulus is turned into the eponymous bacteria monster, who later divides into three separate monsters, each of which is electrocuted to death by the end of the episode, convulsing hideously before either exploding or melting into lifeless brown glop. This technically means he dies three times.
163	** In "The Metallikats," Mac Mange shoots Katscratch with his laser gun, launching him across the room and smashing him into a stack of crates, which collapse onto him. He is visibly shown to burn up in midair, and a close up of his [[DeadHandShot burned, smoking hand is seen]].
164	** In "Bride of the Pastmaster," an oil-eating sea monster has a "Match Head Missile" fired down its throat. When the missile hits the oil in its stomach, the creature blows up from the inside out, and parts of its flesh, as well as a ''lot'' of oil, splatter all over the Turbokat.
165	** In the same episode we see two cyclopes fall off of a cliff. The second one gets a SoundOnlyDeath as he plummets out of sight, but the first one we get to see actually fall all the way down and hit the bottom. We also see the clay figurine representing him back in the Pastmaster's tower explode, just to hammer home how dead he is.
166	** The two "harpies" (what the [[AllThereInTheScript model sheets]] call the little dragons) in that episode are accidentally hit by the bigger dragon's fire breath and burn away to ashes fully onscreen.
167	** The dragon himself is killed with the mystical Dragon Sword, which has been tied to a missile. This one sort of straddles the line. Although the dragon's death is depicted as simply him disappearing in a bright flash of light (complete with a BigNo from the Pastmaster), the fact they show the sword's blade piercing him onscreen is pretty violent, even if there's no blood.
168	** In "Chaos in Crystal," Warden Meece is turned into crystal and a few moments later knocked over, [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattering into pieces]] all over the floor. He's the only crystallized character not shown turning back to normal at the end when the SWAT Kats reverse everything - the result of that would've been ''quite'' nasty.
169	** In "The Ci-Kat-A," the death of the alien queen is pretty gross. A section of burning rooftop falls on her, crushing her fully onscreen and splattering her into gooey chunks of green slime - which [[CoveredInGunge splatters]] all over Mayor Manx, Mr. Young and their chauffeur.
170	** In "The Deadly Pyramid," the Pastmaster's "[[AllThereInTheScript mummy commandos]]" horrifically melt into purple sludge whenever their visors are shattered, allowing sunlight to shine into their eyes. Katchu Pichu also melts when Razor smashes the Pastmaster's crown, which he was using to control the mummies.
171	** In the same episode, the Pastmaster gets dropped into lava as the pyramid around him collapses, complete with another BigNo (which is kind of his thing). We see him splash into the molten rock and go under.
172	** In "Volcanus Erupts!", the title monster, a huge fire demon, has a bomb stuck on him. When it goes off, he is violently exploded into several fiery chunks, and his [[AnArmAndALeg severed hand]] (clutching Razor) flies through the air and lands in the ocean.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'':
174	** General Modula killing a soldier he apparently grabbed by the neck. Also a GoryDiscretionShot.
175	** The Sym-Bionic Titan [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling]] the Mutraddi with its weapon.
176	** [[spoiler:Lance stabbing a traitor through the chest]] in the WholeEpisodeFlashback.
177	** [[spoiler:Octus]] getting impaled by an electric-energy Mutraddi.
178	* Although it doesn't kill him, what happens to Baxter Stockman in the original ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon definitely was a bit more violent than your average 80's program. Krang decides he's expendable and attempts to kill him by tossing him inside the Technodrome's disintegration unit, and as it activates we see Baxter's skin disappear leaving him as nothing but a skeleton even as he continues screaming the entire time. Again, he ultimately lives since a fly happens to fly inside it as well causing their DNA to merge, but you have to think about what the device would have done if [[FridgeHorror the fly]] ''[[FridgeHorror hadn't]]'' [[FridgeHorror been inside it at the time....]]
179	* ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'': The short "Wild and Woolfy" has a scene the wolf villain comes across his old friend Slim, whom he hasn't seen in years. He greets him by shooting him -- at point blank range -- in the face, and we see his corpse fall over dead.
180	* The [[BigBad Big Bad]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Emperor Belos, mets his end by having his skin gruesomely melted by boiling rain until being reduced to just a pile of rotten bones and then a still-sentient skull that gets violently stomped and crushed by Eda, King and Raine.
181	* Graphic train wrecks aside, the cast of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' is pretty much guaranteed ContractualImmortality... except for the Spiteful Brakevan that Douglas smashed into matchsticks. And by implication only, the engines that ''were'' actually scrapped - a few scenes have ''carcasses of 'dead' engines'' in the background.
182	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
183	** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is a very violent show, exploiting the MechaMooks loophole [[BloodlessCarnage as far as it can]]. Characters are bashed up, blown apart, shot, stabbed... and usually ''alive'' in the next episode. When someone actually ''dies'', it tends to go even further: Tarantulas was vaporized by one of his own mad science devices, leaving nothing but his feet with smoke rising from them. The last we see of Terrorsaur is his desperately outstretched hand slowly descending into the lava. And we'll spare you the details of Depth Charge, Rampage, and [[WaveMotionGun Tigerhawk's deaths]], to say nothing of Dinobot's and Transmutate's heart-wrenching deaths. And Megatron ''shoots Optimus Prime in the head''. He got better, but still, giant gaping hole in the head of one of the biggest adored heroes of a generation.
184	** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Blurr gets trapped in a tunnel and crushed by its closing walls. After which his killer (in disguise) casually hands his cube-sized remains over to the nearest Autobot who has no idea what he was told to toss down the disposal chute. Considering the show had no "real" deaths up until this point, this made the emotional impact even worse. [[spoiler: The comics later reveal Cliffjumper kept putting off throwing out the cube, [[AndIMustScream meaning Blurr stayed alive in a crushed-up cube for who knows how long]]. Sari eventually helps him recover, but not until after sitting helpless and silent for months.]]
185	** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'':
186	*** Cliffjumper's death at the servos of Starscream happens a few minutes into the first episode, achieved via 'Scream jamming his claws through his chest, followed by his poor victim visibly bleeding out [[MachineBlood energon]] with a look of utter shock on his face.
187	*** Bulkhead dispatches a Vehicon by essentially yanking its robo-guts out with his bare hands.
188	*** A later episode has Tailgate, an old partner of Arcee's, being sliced open by Airachnid causing [[MachineBlood energon]] to splatter everywhere. That one probably only got by because they used a GoryDiscretionShot.
189	*** [[spoiler:Breakdown's]] death at the hands of Airachnid. She lures him into a trap, and then proceeds to ''slice him up''. Then the remains get collected by MECH...
190	*** Insecticons always seem to be on the receiving end of one of these. One is covered in Scraplets (what are basically Cybertronian army ants) and falls into a chasm while its limbs come apart, another gets into a brutal fight with Megatron, which ends with two of its limbs being torn off before decapitation, and yet another gets toxic shrapnel in its torso after an explosion, causing it to writhe in agony before dying.
191	*** [[spoiler:Dreadwing]]'s death. He gets a '''giant hole''' blown through his torso, with disturbingly little emotion on the part of his killer.
192	*** [[spoiler:Megatron]] dies when a giant sword is stabbed through his chest. It's left in his torso for roughly a minute as we see the light fade from his eyes. Too add salt on the wound, he falls from orbit and ends up burning up in the atmosphere.
193	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'':
194	** "Revelation" contains a scene where Joker gas is released from a giant plant, gassing three firefighters who fall down and die ''onscreen''. They probably got away with this because it's only later stated that Joker gas kills people.
195	** In "Failsafe", the alien invaders [[spoiler:disintegrate numerous civilians, the entire Justice League, and half the main cast on screen.]]
196	** Season 2 had one early on when [[spoiler:Aqualad]] stabs [[spoiler:Artemis]] in the chest with a clear bloodstain. [[spoiler: It's faked though.]]
197	** The late season episode "Summit" had Deathstroke shoot [[spoiler: Aqualad and Artemis]] in the chest. While you only hear the gunshots and them falling down, you can clearly see the bloodstained bodies shortly afterwards. [[spoiler: This is also faked. They get up and start walking and talking again, with convincing blood on their chest.]] The same episode also has Ra's Al Ghul stabbed in the back with the blade coming out of his chest. [[ResurrectiveImmortality This is Ra's al Ghul we're talking about, however.]]
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