movies/tv Surprisingly dark moment from your old cartoons?

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Have you ever watched a show as a kid that went way darker then it normally would? I mean a drastic shift in tone that was almost scary and kind of awesome at the same time.

 

One that comes to mind for me is Xaiolin Showdown. Most episodes were pretty cheezy but enjoyable, however Omi from Episode 39 still is burned into my brain years later. That happy little kid went full on exorcist. Between that demented grin the Joker would be proud of and the brutality of how he was attacking his friends it was one of the most iconic epidodes of that whole series for me.

 

What was your surprisingly dark moment from your old cartoons?

[Stormbringer 346]

Ahem, the entire series of Courage the Cowardly Dog. That show is amazing though, and still remains to be one of my favorite childhood shows.

 

After all...

 

Return the slab... Or suffer my curse...

[Gone Airbourne 21,977]

Do you want me to start with Ren & Stimpy? Well that show was more perverted than anything or how about the Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy pretty dark show but very funny. 

[Darker 1,352]

Courage the Cowardly Dog was made to be dark.

HIM from the Powerpuff Girls, because he's basically Satan, who likes to do aerobics.

Imperfect Cell in Dragon Ball Z. The way he absorbs people is incredibly scary.

Some moments in the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

Tirek, in the old MLP. 

 

But to be fair, there is no moment extremely dark for me in a cartoon that creeped me out or scared me. Cell was the closest.

Edited September 2, 2014 by Darker

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,162]

The scene of Charlie in Hell from "All Dogs Go To Heaven" is still one of most chilling things I have ever seen in animated media.

[neznamkaksa 79]

Well King of Shamans and Yu-Gi-Oh had some fucked up soul draining stuff,also Courage the Cowardly dog is dark,but apart of that i dont know other...

[Stormbringer 346]

@@Darker,

 

LEFT TURRRRRRRRRRRRRN! 

[Fawkes The Phoenix 737]

All episodes of "Courage, The Cowardly Dog".

When Tom and Jerry suicide, i didn't realise how dark it was when i was a child.

[QuirkyUsername 1,576]

While the Azula part in Sam's video was a great part in the Avatar serious I'm fairly disappointed that made it in and nothing from Invader Zim. An interesting bout of character development but not overly disturbing. 

And there was an episode of Tom and Jerry where they killed themselves?! O.O I thought that was the title of a shitty creepypasta not an actual episode.

[Jeric 46,867]

So I guess I gotta throw all the Don Bluth movies out since he basically mastered dark in children's animation. Same with ones like The Last Unicorn.

 

Ok, I got one.

 

In Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves ... the transformed Queen walks through her dungeon. There is a skeleton of a prisoner who died reaching out for a pitcher of water just slightly out of reach.

 

"Thirsty? Have a drink!" says the Queen as she kicks the pitcher toward the remains.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bet you forgot about this scene?

[Khaoios 1,970]

Courage the Cowardly Dog was made to be dark.

HIM from the Powerpuff Girls, because he's basically Satan, who likes to do aerobics.

Imperfect Cell in Dragon Ball Z. The way he absorbs people is incredibly scary.

Some moments in the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

Tirek, in the old MLP. 

 

But to be fair, there is no moment extremely dark for me in a cartoon that creeped me out or scared me. Cell was the closest.

 

Holy Shit..........before i stepped into this thread, I was just thinking about HIM, Tirek, and Grim Adventures XD (Courage was "eh", imo.  I didn't see it dark, but stupid.). 

[A Black Circle 1,586]

Gonna name a few from Hey Arnold:

Mr. Hwynh lost his daughter (lost, she wasn't killed) in "a war." Judging by age and nationality, we can assume it's the Vietnam War.

 

Helga's Mom is a drunk.

 

In Pigeon Man, the titular was going to hurl himself off the building after his cages were destroyed.

[Sazama Ichida 2,367]

You ever seen Courage The Cowardly Dog? Now THERE'S a show that REALLY pushes to the limit what you can get away with using a Y7 Rating...

Also Check out Mr. Enter's reviews of the most disturbing scenes in kids shows.

[A Black Circle 1,586]

You ever seen Courage The Cowardly Dog? Now THERE'S a show that REALLY pushes to the limit what you can get away with using a Y7 Rating...

 

Also Check out Mr. Enter's reviews of the most disturbing scenes in kids shows.

Yeeup.

Done.

 

I wonder what the darkest thing in courage is.

[11th Doctor Whooves 794]

[member=AyazeTC]: We've already got a topic to discuss dark things in cartoons, so I'm combining your topic with the original.  In the future, please run a search to see if a topic like the one you're planning exists.

[sweetolebob18 728]

Well, I missed Dumbo, so I missed the whole "Dumbo's mother goes insane" thing (though I've heard about it)

 

Worst I ever saw was "The hunters chase Bambi's mother while she is trying to lead them away from Bambi & then shoot her"  Although, to me, that was more sad than scary.  The scary scene in that movie was the forest fire.

 

Lion King.  Simba's uncle murders his father & then convinces Simba he is responsible.  A clear reference to Hamlet (another laugh riot, although AFAIK not a children's cartoon)

[Haruhi-chan 486]

How about the Rugrats? There's a lot of references in there that you never noticed as a child. In the Rugrats movie, the first one, Charlotte says "Born under venus, look for a--hello?" You can clearly get what she was actually going to say. XD I'm not sure if its considered dark, but it is well... yeah.

Edited November 24, 2014 by Loki of Sassgard

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,162]

So I guess I gotta throw all the Don Bluth movies out since he basically mastered dark in children's animation. Same with ones like The Last Unicorn.

 

Ok, I got one.

 

In Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves ... the transformed Queen walks through her dungeon. There is a skeleton of a prisoner who died reaching out for a pitcher of water just slightly out of reach.

 

"Thirsty? Have a drink!" says the Queen as she kicks the pitcher toward the remains.

 

 

 

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Bet you forgot about this scene?

 

I honestly never considered that one. I saw that scene so many times as a kid that it never affected like that. Now that I think about it in my adult years, it's actually kinda chilling. O_O

 

Also, this guy from Little Nemo scared the absolute crap out of me.

 

[A Black Circle 1,586]

[member=AyazeTC]: We've already got a topic to discuss dark things in cartoons, so I'm combining your topic with the original.  In the future, please run a search to see if a topic like the one you're planning exists.

I did.

 

And I didn't find anything.

 

(In fact, I do everytime, and I think once before I've searched and not found anything. Or this is the first time. Idunnno)

[~Sugar Sprinkles~ 638]

Now, I would say this one episode from Courage the Cowardly dog, even though the entire series was dark, but there was one episode that I found to be the most cruel, dark, and sad.

 

 

It was the episode where Courage lost his parents. To refresh your memory, that psycho vet sent his parents away in a rocket ship to some other planet and Courage tried everything to save them, but as he escaped, he saw the rocket take off and began to get really upset and Courage was refreshed by seeing missing dogs on a milk carton and he began to be MAJORLY depressed and did not say anything or move remembering the loss of his parents not knowing if they were dead or alive (which comes to find out, they were alive, but was never seen again or mentioned). He then was sent to the vet to get checked out of his strange behavior and saw it was the vet that sent his parents away. The vet nearly sent Muriel and Eustace, but thankfully Courage saved them before his "other" parents left too. He then sent the vet away on the rocket instead and you saw him land on a planet with a bunch of dogs, as well as his parents. 

 

It was dark because it was a loss of his parents and him being FAIRLY young and being absolutely devastated and pretty much assumed they were dead. I kind of made me depressed being a kid and making me think, what would happen if my parents were sent away and never seen again. It was showing pretty much Courage being orphaned when he was very little. I think that was very dark, more dark than many other Courage episodes. Infact, I barely watch that episode now being 20 years old because it depresses me and everytime I see it, I tear up.

[Yoshi89 5,293]

From the Mario cartoons, King Koopa threatening to kill Santa Claus.

[Red Cedar 1,408]

The first half hour of the original, G1 animated Transformers movie. Sure, the Decepticons and Autobots were supposedly at war, but as a kids show, no one ever really got injured or killed. Well, that changed in the movie, big time, and I was sitting there with a theatre full of other shell-shocked teen boys, all of whom simultaneously must have coined the phrase "crap just got real!".

[Alex Z 848]

The Ed, Edd N Eddy episode The Day the Ed Stood Still.

[Megas 27,875]

The episode in King of the Hill "Pigmalion" with Trip Larsen is brutally killed right in front of Peggy and Luanne.

 

Even for an older audience that episode, and scene got really fucked up not to mention that it felt wrong for King of the Hill

Edited November 25, 2014 by Domon Kasshu

[Ruddboy Olaf 10,628]

I can remember a few, but this video sums most of them up:

(Not listed in this video, is the episode 'The Mask' from 'Courage The Cowardly Dog'.

It depicts domestic violence, sexism, and even prostitution).

Oh god. The tape worm from Mr. Meaty.

 

I avoided meat for weeks after watching that episode.