In cartoons you watched as a kid, were they trying to kill the crazy person by knocking them out or only putting them out of commission so they could contain them? (lemmy.world)

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[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 8 months ago

The latter

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Well, the characters were trying to knock them out, because the creators couldn't show them killing people.

Even in GI Joe where everyone had deadly weapons and their own attack jetski submarine, nobody died.

So it's not like they always decided knocking out was the best plan, it was just a replacement for killing them.

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I'm convinced this why the foot in the cartoon TMNT were robots instead of people.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 8 months ago

Batman TAS showed guns, but they used 1940 weapons that couldn't relate to the current times

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

So they are covertly killing them? Like how alcohol in Zelda is milk sorta hehe?

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Actually makes sense, cuz the crazy person was liable to mix up the plot and think their team were the baddies and they needed to "save the day"

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