Basic Trope: A family-friendly work has a surprisingly graphic/disturbing death. Often a cause for "What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?".
- Straight: The show "The Adventures of Hiro" is a TV-Y7 cartoon, but the death of Big Bad Emperor Evulz in the Grand Finale is surprisingly disturbing.
- Exaggerated:
- "The Adventures of Hiro" is rated TV-Y and usually has very little violence, and the death of Emperor Evulz features so much Gorn that it wouldn't be too out of place in a TV-MA series.
- Family-Unfriendly Deaths happen so much that it’s hard to tell if the show is even for kids.
- Evulz experiences a Cruel and Unusual Death.
- Otherwise, Hiro has had enough of the bastard and unleashes an enraged No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and it's shown in graphic detail.
- Brutal or not, EVERYONE dies. No exceptions.
- Downplayed:
- Emperor Evulz's death scene is only slightly too graphic/disturbing for an otherwise child-friendly work.
- "The Adventures of Hiro" isn't actually a kids' show, but is rated TV-PG or TV-14 and features a death that's rather disturbing for that rating.
- The death is bloodless or only shows minimal blood (whether because of outright Bloodless Carnage or the cause of death doesn't involve visible injuries; e.g. poisoning) but it's still rather intense and disturbing for a kids' show.
- Emperor Evulz is Killed Offscreen or his death is given some sort of Discretion Shot, but the implications of it are surprisingly horrifying.
- Family-Unfriendly Violence
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: "The Adventures of Hiro" is a TV-MA show loaded with graphic violence and deaths, but for some reason someone has a very non-graphic and actually quite hilarious death at one point.
- Subverted:
- The show has a graphic injury, but Emperor Evulz survives.
- The death seems like it's going to be played out in a gory, disturbing fashion. However, it's then played in a way that's suitable for the target audience instead.
- Double Subverted: Emperor Evulz then dies, and his death is even more gory than before.
- Parodied: A death this violent happens in the work, but Never Say "Die" is still explicitly in effect; Lance says "I can't believe Evulz di-", only for Hiro to correct him.
- Zig-Zagged: Evulz dies a cruel death, only to be resurrected. Then dies again, but non-graphically. Then brutal deaths start occuring left and right, but turns out the audience was for adolecents.
- Averted:
- Nobody dies.
- The work is aimed at an adult audience anyway.
- Any deaths are kept appropriate for the target audience.
- Enforced: The show kills off a character in a brutal way as response to the complaints.
- Lampshaded: "Wow, that was weirdly brutal. Those don’t happen around here that much."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: A character looks like they are going to die a brutal death, but they live or their death isn't brutal at all.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Ok, guys, we can stop pretending this is a kids show."
- Implied:
- You only see the chalk markings of Evulz's death.
- You only see a shot of Evulz's fallen helmet.
- Dead-Hand Shot
- You don't see him getting mauled to death, but Evulz is heavily implied to have been killed by a creature chasing him.
- Gory Discretion Shot
- Sound-Only Death
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