Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade got to me as a kid, the guy decomposing to dust. I think it was most horrifying to me because his daughter was watching him, and the thought of that happening to someone I knew while I watched was super disturbing. My parents didn't let me watch Raiders or, god forbid, Temple of Doom until I was older, though.
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Disturbing kid friendly "deaths" in media
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Watching the clip from Kinnikuman and having watched the show growing up, it's a bummer they cut the whole fight with the exception of the ramen technique. I always thought Nazi dude was a weakling with him being defeated without doing anything at all but seeing how his back got broken now was just ughhh.
The "return of the Nazi gas chamber" line is way more horrible though
The "return of the Nazi gas chamber" line is way more horrible though
I've always been fascinated by this clip but wasn't aware it was from a Mark Twain movie. It's dark and brutal and that transformative mask was/is nightmare inducing.
ClivePwned
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The very last episode of Blake's 7.
https://youtu.be/_9feQ2sXhu0?t=1m17s
spoiler:
https://youtu.be/_9feQ2sXhu0?t=1m17s
spoiler:
as a result of a misunderstanding, every single hero characters dies in this scene, in fact the only regular in the entire series to survive is the series' main villain
PuppetSlave
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My mom wrote with an sharpy on VHS tapes which she deemed not for children(hid the tapes as well). Temple of doom got three exclamation marks. Hence me and my brother schemed to bypass this rule as soon as possible.
But it's funny what as an child you deem scary. Indiana jones with it's monkey brains and ripping out hearts I could deal with even though i was forbidden from watching it but ghostbusters 1 with the ghost library jump scare which was deemed ok for me to watch, actually scared me more.
Actually I think it did somewhat traumatize my two year younger brother when we got hold of an evil chucky movie when I was maybe 9. He was very scared of and really did not like dolls with eyes all child hood. I think it is something that still bothers him somewhat.
I remember being disturbed by the animals of the farthing woods cartoon. It was pretty creepy.
Psyrgery ES
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The fantastic 4 movies have some sort of family unfriendly deaths
In the first one Doom casts some lightning rays that pierce through some poor guy's body leaving a huge hole.
In the second one I think Silver Surfer blows one guard's half body to chunks, but it's made less gory by having the chunks and rest of the body being like petrified, in order to avoid blood I think.
In The good dinosaur, the fucking pterodactyl eating a critter whole.
And freedom planet, you get a decapitation in the opening cinematic. Yeah, the guy sheds crystals rather than blood but still. You can say that scene sets the mood for the rest of the story in edgyness and cringeness.
In the first one Doom casts some lightning rays that pierce through some poor guy's body leaving a huge hole.
In the second one I think Silver Surfer blows one guard's half body to chunks, but it's made less gory by having the chunks and rest of the body being like petrified, in order to avoid blood I think.
In The good dinosaur, the fucking pterodactyl eating a critter whole.
And freedom planet, you get a decapitation in the opening cinematic. Yeah, the guy sheds crystals rather than blood but still. You can say that scene sets the mood for the rest of the story in edgyness and cringeness.
Psychological Intellect
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yoooooooooooooooooooo, i haven't seen this scene since I was a kid. damn ;(
That goddam scene. I put that one up there with Batgirl falling off a roof onto her dad's car as "Reasons you might want to make sure your kids are okay with TAS before you let them watch it all".
For me, though, the true standout is in Korra where the woman with the eye on her forhead who can create explosions has her whole head neatly wrapped up by a metal bender as she fires. It's gruesome, and horrendous, but a fitting end for the character.
Love that series.
Imperfected
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In terms of fucked up Tom & Jerry episodes, I'm not sure if you can really top the one where Jerry spends the entire runtime trying to make Tom commit suicide.
Like, really, just... wow. Wow.
Like, really, just... wow. Wow.
GoldandBlue
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How about that episode where a shark man gets blown up and all that remains is red mist and his disembodied head floating past the camera. There's also that episode where a clone trooper equipped with a flame thrower was going around burning the geonosians to death in their tunnels they use to ambulance retreat in.
Horse Detective
Why the long case?
This series .
Just watch this .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pypyDDPmIQ
It's like game of thrones for kids .
And yes , this was a kids show .
What the fuck did I just sit through...
Yeah I really liked that movie but the deaths were too much for my kid mind. That whole scene where Christopher Lloyed with his eyes popping out and the screaming had me like wtf is even going on here lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTdxPvUhnVY
"He died?! And this is supposed to be a kids movie!"
I can't attest for its effectiveness now, i actually find it kind of amusing, but i found it disturbing as a kid.
"He died?! And this is supposed to be a kids movie!"
I can't attest for its effectiveness now, i actually find it kind of amusing, but i found it disturbing as a kid.
Good.
the great thing is that years later i discovered that The Shrike in the series is a real life bird also more commonly known as the Butcher bird .
And yes , it really does impale it's prey on tree's or barbed wire or anything else pointy like a bird version of Vlad Tepes .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQYO10MT3c
This show made me feel Happy, sad , nervous and depressive and at the same time still taught me stuff .
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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Elsa wasn't Donovan's daughter, though.
FlashbladeGAF
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This episode has a small flashback, where Clayface explains what he did after he managed to get himself back together.
...I didn't remember that she was basicaly Natalie Portman in Leon
holy crap
After all these years.
super-heated plasma
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Watch the Japanese version of Voltron from the eighties. Holy crap does it change the show so much.
No kidding, you're a black comedy god when the funniest sequence in your movie is a montage of superheroes dying due to clumsiness.
Ragnorok64
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It's always weird to me that a broken off piece of Clayface somehow had the form and personality of a little girl.
Horned King from The Black Cauldron got it pretty hard
I was like 7 when that came out. I had read all the books and I remember MANY kids screaming and crying in the theatre during the scene where they raised the dead. The movie if I remember correctly was pulled from theatres for being too scary. Didn't come back out for like 10+ years.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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The chick who was eaten by the water dino in Jurassic World.
Nightshade
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Still surprised Pixar got away with this. I would imagine it's because they had basically delivered nothing but successes at the time.
And it's for the no capes joke too. I actually laughed at this.Still surprised Pixar got away with this. I would imagine it's because they had basically delivered nothing but successes at the time.
"we are standing in a room with a dead guYAAAAAAAAAGH!!!"
BKatastrophe
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Nah bruh. Nah.
Speaking of the DCAU:
the ending of the Late Mr. Kent from Superman The Animated Series:
Bowman, the dude in the screenshot who framed a poor man for murder from what I recall and attempted to Kill Clark, not knowing he was Superman, is foiled by him and Lois in a culmination of missteps and events
The innocent man is rescued by Superman before he is executed by the gas chamber. Later in the ending and some future date (his execution) Bowman is led into the chamber, and not shown, you can see gas entering the room as the episode ends.
How the hell was this aired to children lol. I'm not the best at summaries so here's a fan wiki link!
http://dcau.wikia.com/wiki/The_Late_Mr._Kent
I just want to establish how funny it is that
Metropolis has a death penalty and Gotham doesn't.
HxH is a dark fucking series at least 50% of the time. I wouldn't let my kids watch that shit until they were 14 at least. The Chimera Ant arc had some moments that still make me insanely uncomfortable.For a series that can light hearted at times Hunter X Hunter deaths our fucked up
friskykillface
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Worst death in Jurassic park history imo
She didn't get chopped in half or die instantly, she got swallowed whole and will die in that dinos stomach by acids or who knows what
Hey there is nothing wrong with eating some children's brains.
Unspoken90
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I remember a movie about witches on the Disney channel when I was younger. A woman was turned into a mouse and then stepped on.
The Witches based off the children's book by Roald Dahl
BKatastrophe
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The Queen eating the kids
the girl Hunter with the beehive or whatever the fuck went to NGL with some other Hunters, and she tries to send a message to the Hunter Association. Immediately after sending the message, she gets shot a bunch and then you see AND hear her corpse being munched on. Pretty sure she was even dead yet. Then you see her leftover clothes later when Killua, Gon, and Kite find the place where she was attacked.
I'm still disturbed a bit just thinking about it.
I don't know why but the idea of someone being turned into something like an animal/rodent or even an object and destroyed is just one of the most horrorific deaths to me. There's just something about it that just... wrong.
The best part is how Zelda just goes "Good!" all smug like afterwards.
Its kind of funny because if I recall correctly that character was popular despite being a minor character in the first arc, then Togashi just brings the character back just for that lol
civilstrife
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Technically a reanimation instead of a death. But this moment from Monkey Island 2 always got to me.
If i recall correctly, it was an innocent woman who thought the mouse potion was a perfume (or maybe the one who sips the poisoned suop?), and she's stepped on intentionally by a witch under the assumption that the mouse was a transformed child.
So it's disturbing in multiple levels.
Curiously i loved that movie as a kid and it nurtured my love of witches in fiction.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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All the kids in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Horned King from The Black Cauldron got it pretty hard
I second this.
Vigilant Walrus
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Hunchback from Notre Dame
holding a demonic gargoyle as the fanatic pummels into a sea of fire.
Of all the Disney films, Hunchback is one of the films I've thought the most about. It's so dark, and it tried to do justice to showing life under the most oppressive and dangerous institution of all time. It's a shame the film was not a success at the level of many of the others.
holding a demonic gargoyle as the fanatic pummels into a sea of fire.
Of all the Disney films, Hunchback is one of the films I've thought the most about. It's so dark, and it tried to do justice to showing life under the most oppressive and dangerous institution of all time. It's a shame the film was not a success at the level of many of the others.
Immediately what came to mind for me. As an adult that shook me, I mean really, a friggin double suicide...
I was gonna bring this film up. The girl that got trapped and lived in a painting at the beginning of that movie really got to me as a kid.
HyperZone<3
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Ian McShane (Ian McShane, in a kids movie!) gets the shit killed out of him in Agent Cody Banks when he's fed a nanobot-filled ice cube that then proceeds to consume him from the inside. It looks agonizing, and considering how PG safe the rest of the movie is it hits especially hard.
can't find a clip to share, sorry.
can't find a clip to share, sorry.
chaobreaker
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These "death" screams were surprisingly intense. I was taken aback lol.
https://youtu.be/TCAb1lNfZHU?t=52s
Those were stock sound effects. I probably heard them in at least a dozen shows in my life.
There's a part in the arc where Meurem impales a crying little girl and picks at her brain. Pretty sure it was censored in the anime
Had to edit this, just read the chapter again
Had to edit this, just read the chapter again
holy shit
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