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John Murdoch posted:This brought to mind that in Batman: The Animated Series (and every other ensuing DC animated universe show, though maybe not so much Zeta Project If you own the DVD set of BTAS the two parter Heart of Steel has creator commentary where they talk about the increased levels of violence they could get away with on otherwise human looking characters because they were robots. In particular a scene that has a woman robot crushed violently by an elevator. Batman really pushed the boundaries of what they could get away with in cartoons at the time. It was mentioned earlier that guns in cartoons had to look futuristic or shoot lasers, the Batman show runners actually convinced the censors to let them use real guns due to how silly it would be for 20's style gangsters to be shooting laser canons. The episode Heart of Ice also featured a scene where Mr. Freeze points his gun directly at the camera which was apparently a big no-no for cartoons too.
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) they were always excited to have a robot show up so they could gently caress them up particularly gruesome ways, often including creative decapitations. And then there was Scarface, the ventriloquist dummy, who I'm pretty sure got destroyed by the end of every single one of his episodes. I think it might've even been his first episode where he gets gratuitously shot to poo poo with a tommy gun.
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foobardog posted:Yeah, it's interesting because this is the same sort of thing where implications are often scarier than actually seeing things. Like we should not be applauding censorship for the sake of censorship, but great artists often do better when limited. I think John K of Ren and Stimpy fame is a great example. It was better when he had to sneak past the censors rather that just say whatever offensive thing came to his head. Art through adversity can be really strong, censorship sometimes forces creators to be way more clever then they would be otherwise.
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