History FamilyUnfriendlyDeath / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':

* 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 ''[[KillEmAll entire town]]'', onscreen, dragging them screaming into its maw one by one, complete with slurping sounds.

** In the Christmas episode the [[DesignatedHero supposedly heroic mice]] kill the [[DesignatedVillain apparently evil cat]], 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''.

* 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 a living creature.

** 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 UpToEleven 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.

** 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 electrocuting himself.

* ''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. [[AdultFear Anyone who knows much about science and testing would figure that shooting someone with a virtually-untested chemical probably]] ''[[AdultFear would]]'' [[AdultFear cause death]].)

** In "Buddy's Bug Hunt", the KangarooCourt of bugs sentence the [[TheIncredibleShrinkingMan shrunken]] Buddy to death by [[ManOnFire cigar lighter immolation]]. Fortunately it was AllJustADream, aside from [[CrashingDreams his behind being burned by magnified sunlight]] while he was knocked out.

** In the Christmas episode the [[DesignatedHero supposedly heroic mice]] kill the [[DesignatedVillain apparently evil cat]], 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 ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow''.

* ''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 Shadow Moth to revive her so she can become a human host for [[MindHive the Core.]]]]

** In the AlternateUniverse [[FanNickname "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.

* Five words: ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''.

* ''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.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
** 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''.
** 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.
** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous Lair of Grievous]]", a clone trooper falls into a pit of lava.
** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E12TheGunganGeneral The Gungan General]]", pirate Turk Falso is Force-choked by Dooku to death ''onscreen''.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E12TheMandalorePlot The Mandalore Plot]]", a bomber commits suicide by jumping to his death from a balcony in order to avoid being captured.
** 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...]]
** In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E17BountyHunters Bounty Hunters]]", Embo effortlessly breaks a pirate's neck, with the shot being filmed from behind the only thing hiding it.
** 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]].
** 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.
** 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''.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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).
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** 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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In True Colors, Marcy is [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed through the heart]] by King Andrias.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}}:

* Graphic train wrecks aside, the cast of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' 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.

** 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, and the pissed-off doctor tells him that everything will be fine as he ''lowers a drill toward his face''. [[NothingIsScarier Cue black]].

* The Nirvana 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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'', the villain is finally tricked into turning himself from a fish into a full human being... underwater. There are no cuts and no convenient camera angles. He drowns in real time, center frame.

** In a MGM cartoon titled "Wild and Woolfy", in one 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.

* ''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.

** 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 [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar 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).

** "Revelation" contains a scene where Joker gas is released from a giant plant, gassing three firefighters who fall down and die ''onscreen''. They probably [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar got away with this]] because it's only later stated that Joker gas kills people.