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Deceptively Dark Children's Media 2013-10-21 00:06:48 Reply

So what are some books, movies, shows, games, etc. that are aimed toward a younger audience but touch on dark or disturbing themes?

Examples:
Earthbound - Everything Giygas-related is pretty dark, the man himself is scary
Neon Genesis Evangelion - Starts as a generic mecha anime, ends with characters sustaining serious psychological damage.
Courage the Cowardly Dog - Disturbing imagery, themes of exorcism, death, the undead, etc.
Coraline - Themes of reality, dark temptations, and sacrifice of the soul.
Final Fantasy IX - Never played it, but from what I'm told the protagonists are morally gray and have pretty selfish motives.
9 - Intense fucking movie. Takes place after the apocalypse, and unlike WALL-E, the humans are actually dead.

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Response to Deceptively Dark Children's Media 2013-10-21 01:32:13 Reply

Rocko's Modern Life - there was an episode where Heffer died and went to Hell.

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Response to Deceptively Dark Children's Media 2013-10-21 01:33:50 Reply
At 10/21/13 01:32 AM, MrSoxfan wrote: Rocko's Modern Life - there was an episode where Heffer died and went to Hell.

Also that Suck-O-Matic episode. Now that was nightmarish.

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Response to Deceptively Dark Children's Media 2013-10-21 01:42:10 Reply

WOW MOVIES MADE FOR SMALL CHILDREN SCARE ME

Stop fapping to Coraline, kiddos

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Response to Deceptively Dark Children's Media 2013-10-21 01:58:45 Reply

Child's Play

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Response to Deceptively Dark Children's Media 2013-10-21 02:23:17 Reply
At 10/21/13 01:58 AM, Aethos wrote: Child's Play

Ren and Stimpy could be frightening. I'm not referring to the lovable classic episodes, but the far more graphic ones from Season 2 onward.

To this day, I'm still haunted from when Stimpy was skinned one time. And had his hide fed to a vicious baboon.

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Response to Deceptively Dark Children's Media 2013-10-21 03:19:28 Reply

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Response to Deceptively Dark Children's Media 2013-10-21 03:29:22 Reply

Some of those are for teens and adults OP...

Anyways Pixar movies are a great example with some of the depressing/dark themes that are added in there for their mature audience.

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Response to Deceptively Dark Children's Media 2013-10-21 03:29:45 Reply

Spongebob Squarepants. No really, the writers of the second session made Spongebob look gay and completely retarded. He had brain the first season, but in the second one he just walks like a triple idiot. They make him look like he's possessed or something. And there are often images of innards and muscles.
The man who ruined Spongebob with his untalented and uncreative writing is no other than Aaron Springer.
Also, Casey Alexander because in his episodes side characters are rude and like to solve problems with torches and hayforks.