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#1: Sep 7th 2025 at 7:11:52 PM

Without the context of seeing it in motion, the current page image doesn't seem age-inappropriate — it's just Bloodless Carnage with a character wincing in pain. If the sword had gone straight through him, that might be disturbing, but right now it's ambiguous enough that it almost looks like an Amusing Injury.

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#2: Sep 7th 2025 at 7:16:13 PM

I can't even tell what's going on in the current, so [tdown]

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#7: Sep 7th 2025 at 9:14:24 PM

Pull, since we can barely see the sword in his head.

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#9: Sep 7th 2025 at 11:42:51 PM

Pull.

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#10: Sep 8th 2025 at 12:44:00 AM

Pull.

It's worth noting that before the Wind Waker image was picked, this was the image beforehand. A lot of people were saying that the blood "doesn't look like blood", but that feels like a red paint argument to me.

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#11: Sep 8th 2025 at 1:49:49 PM

[up][tup]. If I remember correctly, it was changed for being a duplicate of NightmareFuel.Kirby, which has a different image now.

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#12: Sep 8th 2025 at 2:01:21 PM

My only concern there is that I couldn't really see Kirby very easily. But it's still a solid suggestion.

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#13: Sep 8th 2025 at 2:39:45 PM

It really does look like red paint though. (And the idea that splashes of blood are worse than showing violence and pain is so extremely wrong, but I know that's what today's culture says and I'm not going to change people's minds on that.)

So [tdown] and keep current if we can't find anything better.

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#14: Sep 8th 2025 at 3:41:20 PM

10[tup] it's obviously not red paint and it's just a better picture than current

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#15: Sep 10th 2025 at 1:55:34 AM

[up][up] I have to agree an argument like this is very, very red-painty; it might look like paint, but then what about the eyeball and the red blob coming out of the eyeball's hole and emitting this "paint"? With the visual clues, I think it's pretty easy to insinuate that the red stuff is likely blood because that's what typically appears when you wound an organic body part; why would a living creature be bleeding paint of all things?

The reason it might not be shaped like blood is because this is a pixel art game on Super Nintendo aimed at kids, released during an era where games like Street Fighter (or, at least, Street Fighter II) were censored on Super Nintendo due to blood and violence — it couldn't get any more realistic because then it would've most likely been censored/removed. So the final product skirts the line enough to not be too violent to be allowed while still keeping true to what it's supposed to be.

Those have been my two cents.

[tup] 10

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#17: Sep 10th 2025 at 2:04:15 AM

[up][up] Exactly my thoughts. Why would "paint" be coming out of a gaping, red hole on a creature?

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#19: Sep 17th 2025 at 9:38:22 AM

Votes bump; two in the green right now.

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#20: Sep 19th 2025 at 7:31:32 AM

Calling for 10. Before it goes in, is a size-compliant version available?

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#22: Sep 19th 2025 at 11:07:09 PM

[tup] 21

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#23: Sep 20th 2025 at 7:13:28 PM

[up][up] That works. It's in and the tag's updated; caption?

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#24: Sep 20th 2025 at 7:24:11 PM

[up] I've got one:

Caption: That bloody eye is not a good thing for kids.

Edited by SuperNate on Sep 20th 2025 at 7:24:36 AM

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#25: Sep 20th 2025 at 7:29:33 PM

My suggestion:

Kids, avert your eyes!

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