Death in cartoons

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• Imipolex G

  2016-11-23 03:37:20

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Cartoon characters: can they die? Should they? What are the philosophical implications of cartoon death?
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-11-23 03:56:58

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Children's entertainment has an odd relationship with death. I mean, there's obviously the whole Disney thing where the mother always dies and the villain's death is nearly always horrible but offstage, but that's not even getting into the odd relationship with death that television cartoons seem to have, nor the broader swath of children's media in the Anglosphere.
  
  I'm kind of curious about other people's thoughts are on what the best way to portray death to a younger audience is.
  
• Anonus

  2016-11-23 04:00:24

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Perdita and Cruella live

  
  

  As does Lady, but Tramp heroically, viciously kills the evil rat