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Gargolyes got away with a lot of stuff back in 95', Reboot also got away with quite a lot of stuff. but as other mentioned.. it depends on a few things:

-The channel and it's Practice and standards departmet
-The timeslot
-The target audience.

I still remenber when elsa was shot accidentaly by one of the gargolyes. and X-men Morph's death and all the racism and genocide themes.

Carmen Sandiego even if it was an educational kids show it had a few stuff which today would be cut
 
Yes it skipped it. but I was refering to back in 1995 when it originally air. but according to what I read over the internet TD always skips that one
 
They did at first, then showed a version with a tighter shot of Elisa just showing her face or something. There's also lots of jump cuts of impaling and contact scenes cut out on TD's airings.


IIRC, early evening airings for weekday anime has more to do with school hours and afterschool activities (like entrance exam prep) in Japan.
 
Well, the thing is, killing a bunch of random, faceless people trivializes death. When hundreds of people get killed by a bomb, they may seem like random, faceless people, but each person has a life story. It would be a bad lesson to teach kids that killing people is okay as long as you don't know them. It's like that story about the genie who will give a person a million dollars, but in exchange the life of someone he doesn't know will taken. The person accepts the million dollars, figuring it's okay, since he doesn't know the person who will die. He then asks "By the way, who are you seeing tomorrow?" The genie replies "Don't worry, I'm sure he won't know you."
 
I can think of a lot of stuff that annoyed me in this category. In Justice League Unlimited, when the Watchtower laser blows up an entire city, they have Flash saying afterwards that there were "no casualties". What? How? I wish they would have just left that to our imaginations instead.

And the Dragonball Z edits used to drive me nuts, too. Especially the stuff about someone going "to the next dimension" instead of saying they were dead.

Speaking of Disney, there are three episodes of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command that The Disney Channel always skips: Nova Storm, Inside Job,and Conspiracy. I've never seen these episodes so I don't know why they are skipped. I've heard that Nova Storm deals with addiction.

On the flip-side, Mutant League used to show it all: decapitations, impalements, etc. Of course, they were always clear that mutants could be regenerated from even the worst injuries that normal humans couldn't survive. They even took it further to say that the regenerative process was not something the average mutant would want to endure. Still, it made for some great action. I really wish they would release this show on DVD.

Compared to something like Korgoth on Adult Swim, though, Mutant League was nowhere near as brutal. But then, Mutant League was on Saturday mornings, not late at night, either. I didn't care for Korgoth, though, but then I'm not a fan of that type of show. I prefer Mutant League.
 
And yet in season 3 we had Devil Ray die in a fairly violent, if off screen, manner. And by the end of the season a good half of the Legion of Doom was killed off by one of their own comrades. Guess there were different standards from one episode to the next.
 
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