History FamilyUnfriendlyDeath / WesternAnimation

* In ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Meet Frankenstein,'' 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.''

* ''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.

* ''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. 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.

** 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. 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.

* ''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. A set of mice babies is impaled on a thorn bush by a vicious butcher bird, who not only gets a KarmaHoudini but gets to mock the other animals for their squeamishness. 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 go for 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.

** 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 the Joker. 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.

** The deaths of 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.

** The episode about "Splicers" which ended with the Big Bad being injected with so much animal DNA he mutated into a gigantic blob-crab-monster.
** The episode where Bane's crony died from taking way too many venom-derived slappers, while Bane himself was in an all-but-dead vegetative state.
** Another episode 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.]]

** One episode had the intensely disturbing scene where a man fell into a hole slowly filling with toxic waste. His limbs fell off when he hit the ground.

* Toffee from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' 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.

* 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 a still-sentient skull that gets violently stomped and crushed by Eda, King and Raine.

* ''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.]]]]

** 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.

* ''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.]]]]

** The episode about "Splicers" which ended with the Big Bad injecting himself with so much animal DNA he mutated in a gigantic blob-crab-monster.

* An unaired ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' short featured a scene where Minnie Mouse 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 [[MickeyMouse Mickey]] is on vacation. Towards the end of the short, his conscience drags Pluto to Hell.