History FamilyUnfriendlyViolence / WesternAnimation

** The bear animatronic being shot and exploded in "Fuzzy Dice", only offshoot by him being a robot.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' has Captain K'nuckles's story about how he got two wooden hands: When he was a kid he stuck one hand in the garbage disposal, which was ''hand-operated''. Since he couldn't afford to buy a fake hand, he carved a replica of one he saw in a pawn shop... but it was for the wrong hand so he ''cut off his other hand'' and carved another replica for the first hand he lost. Later in that same episode, Flapjack calls K'nuckles a liar, so a gang of people come out, says he stole all his stuff until ''he was reduced to a pair of eyeballs and one wood hand''.

** At the end of "But I Have a Receipt", Mordecai stabs the store clerk in the chest with a ruler. He somehow gets off alright, though he has difficulty putting on his seatbelt.

** The original cut of ''WesternAnimation/HareRibbin'' had the ending gag with [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the Russian Dog crying after he thinks he killed Bugs]], and wishing it would've been him instead. In response, Bugs shoots the dog in the mouth. The Hayes Office objected to it, and Bob Clampett was forced to change it. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d at the end:

* ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'' is a [[FollowTheLeader clone]] of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', but with that series's violence and sadistic nature taken up a notch. It's to the point that these two were the true inspiration behind Itchy and Scratchy from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', according to WordOfGod.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode "Haunted." It's half-an-hour of a grown man viciously pummeling a teenage boy, while all the boy's friends refuse to believe his attacker exists. [[spoiler:The attacker ''didn't'' exist. Which meant that to the friends, ''he was beating himself up''. And was at one point clearly diagnosed as being under so much stress (for fear of the imaginary attacker) that it was damaging his health.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', despite being a beloved and classic cartoon, is famous for having some of the most violent gags ever devised in theatrical animation, especially the older episodes. These include Jerry slicing Tom in half, shutting his head in a window or a door, Tom using everything from axes, pistols, explosives, traps and poison to try to murder Jerry, Jerry stuffing Tom's tail in a waffle iron, kicking him into a refrigerator, plugging his tail into an electric socket, pounding him with a mace, club or mallet, causing a tree to drive him into the ground and so on. Luckily, these are all AmusingInjuries, so there is no blood and gore.

* While ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' largely avoids this and sticks to the family friendly stuff, they've nevertheless had their moments. The deaths of the [[PsychoRangers evil clones of the Mane Six]] at the hands of the Tree of Harmony [[https://derpibooru.org/images/1997383 actually had to be toned down]] it was so violent, and you can ''really'' tell the animators knew they had nothing to fear in their final season when they kicked it off by having [[https://derpibooru.org/images/2004578 King Sombra get his skin peeled off on-screen when he was killed]].

*** It's not even the first time Proto Man has directly threatened human beings-- in "Bro Bots", his revelation as the HeelFaceMole in that episode is met with resistance. So how does he keep the heroes under control? By threatening to shoot a nearby governor in the head--

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' is usually pretty in-line with its TV-Y7 rating, but the season 2 finale has a child impaled onscreen with an EnergyBlade, a scene so gruesome it made execs almost reconsider the scene entirely. There's even a closeup of the sword going through the character's torso. Season 3 later has two characters experience [[AnArmAndALeg dismemberment]].

** The shorts directed by Creator/GeneDeitch are infamous for getting pretty harsh with the violence, which scenes like Tom getting thrown into a pot of boiling water, having a shotgun wrapped around his neck, getting his head crushed with a burning-hot griddle, or getting BuriedAlive. He would also get beaten to a pulp by [[FatBastard his master]], and it was so brutal that Jerry would wince while watching it.

** The original cut of ''Hare Ribbin''' had the ending gag with [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the Russian Dog crying after he thinks he killed Bugs]], and wishing it would've been him instead. In response, Bugs shoots the dog in the mouth. The Hayes Office objected to it, and Bob Clampett was forced to change it. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d at the end:

* ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'' is a [[FollowTheLeader clone]] of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', but with that series's violence and sadistic nature taken UpToEleven. It's to the point that these two were the true inspiration behind Itchy and Scratchy from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', according to WordOfGod.

** Taken UpToEleven in the direct-to-DVD movie ''The Fast and the Furry'', in which a large number of secondary characters are [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids rather messily]] KilledOffForReal. To elaborate, [[spoiler:a mother of four is heavily implied to be devoured by jungle insects, a man is cooked alive by a mermaid, a little old lady and her dog fall to their deaths, a MadScientist is vaporized, and a CorruptCorporateExecutive is disintegrated]].

* Given that a large chunk of its characters were robots, Ruby-Spears' ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' was able to get away with dismembering or otherwise mutilating them ([[{{Bowdlerise}} but not on FOX]]), with key examples including:

* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Haunted." It's half-an-hour of a grown man viciously pummeling a teenage boy, while all the boy's friends refuse to believe his attacker exists. [[spoiler:The attacker ''didn't'' exist. Which meant that to the friends, ''he was beating himself up''. And was at one point clearly diagnosed as being under so much stress (for fear of the imaginary attacker) that it was damaging his health.]]

* The {{Franchise/Transformers}} franchise has a history of this.

* This trope comes up a lot in superhero cartoons. Take ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''; we've got two scenes of stabbing (in one of them you can see the knife ''go through the hero's back'')-- [[spoiler:they're both fake, in one way or another, but still creepy]]. One of the stand-out examples would be Black Beetle slamming ComicBook/WonderGirl's body repeatedly against a wall for ''ten seconds'' while we get flashes to all her unconscious teammates.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' is usually pretty in-line with its TV-Y7 rating, but the season 2 finale has [[spoiler:a young girl stabbed onscreen by an EnergyBlade]], a scene so gruesome it made execs almost reconsider the scene entirely. Season 3 later has a reformed ally of the heroes experience [[AnArmAndALeg literal dismemberment]], complete with a horrific quip from the BigBad responsible.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has a surprising amount of this considering that it's a Disney show. Some of the highlights are Dipper nearly getting his tongue cut off with lamb shears, a kid getting eaten alive on screen ([[spoiler:though he was fine by the end albeit "twaumatized" in his words]]), and Dipper embedding an ax in a monster with no [[GoryDiscretionShot gory discretion shot]]. The show has also has shown blood on a few different occasions, such as taxidermy animals bleeding from their eyes and mouths as they chant demonically. One episode also shows a bunch of demons playing a game using a ''dead body'', where, after spinning said body a la Spin the Bottle, the spinner eats whoever it lands on.

** In ''WesternAnimation/FalseHare'', the Big Bad Wolf gets shut into an iron maiden while trying to kill Bugs during a fake rabbit club initiation. His son opens it [[TooGruesomeForCartoonPhysics and cringes at the results]].

** At the end of "But I Have a Receipt", Mordecai stabs the store clerk in the chest with a ruler.

** In "Katastrophe," Dr. Viper's mushroom monster assistant takes the full force of an explosion and ends up splattered all over the Turbokat. Because he's amorphous, he's later revealed to have reconstituted himself offscreen (presumably [[Film/Terminator2 T-1000]] style).

** One of the most disturbing examples is in "Candy Is Dandy", where the girls get addicted to candy to the point where it's treated like a drug addiction. When Mojo Jojo betrays their trust of rewarding them with the candy by stealing it, they beat him to the point where he is hideously deformed and has blood dripping from his mouth. They seem to leave Mojo in that state a lot.

** Even ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', which got away with blood and on-screen deaths, has a few glaring moments - most notably, Bruce getting hit in the stomach with a baseball bat, ''which is being held out by a passing motorcyclist'' and thus connected with huge amounts of force, then getting up a few seconds later without so much as a cracked rib. The Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse in general has very violent "kids shows" (though it may not have been intended to be).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' is aimed at preschoolers and airs on ''Disney Junior'', an early childhood aimed network. Despite this its level of violence is on par with cartoon aimed at elementary schoolers. Fights are not bloody but can look rather painful.
* Ironically, this is much less common in Warner Bros' WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons, where the impact of the violence is often blunted by the recipient's reactions to it (and [[RuleofFunny the usual cartoon exaggeration]]. For example, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck can be shot point-blank with a gun, and come out with nothing more than a misaligned bill and frustration towards WesternAnimation/BugsBunny for getting the upper hand once again.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' goes full-throttle with this. The first episode has [[spoiler: Cliffjumper getting stabbed by Starscream, complete with MachineBlood]], while episodes three and four include Bulkhead tearing out an Vehicon's "guts" and Optimus and Ratchet slicing their way through a small army of [[spoiler: the robot undead]].
** Later we get to see CarFu where the Autobots run cars off the road and [[EveryCarIsAPinto blowing up]] at least one of them, with ''human'' mooks inside. As a bonus, this is apparently acceptable for Optimus's order to use MINIMAL force.
** In "One Shall Fall" Optimus goes all out on Megatron. He grinds his truck wheels ''into Megatron's face'' and then punches hard enough to spill energon, more MachineBlood. You wouldn't ''want'' to see what that would have looked like on a regular human.
* In fact, the {{Franchise/Transformers}} franchise has a history of this, and ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is no exception. It's rare for an episode to end without at least one or two cast members (one of whom is usually [[TheChewToy Waspinator]]) having been grievously wounded during its runtime.