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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9747699" data-attributes="member: 4534">This thread is inspired by Stephen King's recent comment regarding the violence of Marvel movies being almost "pornographic."  In a nutshell, King's criticism is the movies show all sorts of destruction to a city but very little on how that impacts the people there.  i.e. No blood.  It's a similar argument I heard Larry Hama make when he said the 80s GI Joe cartoon was "morally bankrupt" for depicting violence without anyone suffering from the natural consequences.  For those who might not know, Hama wrote the 1980s GI Joe comic and most of the bios for the figures sold by Hasbro.  The comic book was quite different from the cartoon and when the Joes or Cobra shot at someone they might actually injure or kill them.  I'm not here to say fictional violence is necessarily bad.  Like many of you, I play table top RPGs and most of those revolve around violence.  Except for Cyberpunk 2020 where gameplay revolves around creating a bakery where you treat your employees with respect and pay them a living wage.  But I've had a similar thought to King that one of the problems with violence in the media is that we don't very often see the negative consequences.  I think more media, even media aimed at children, should better show the consequences of violence.  Don't go thinking I'm a monster, I'm a reasonable person after all, at least I think I am, so it's not like I want to expose a six year old to an episode of GI Joe where Duke holds Scarlet as she attempts to hold in her intestines after Stormshadow guts her with a katana.  While that's a reasonable consequences to having someone slash your belly with a razor sharp sword, I'm inclined to keep things age appropriate.  And I do think injuries and even character deaths can be age appropriate for children.</blockquote>

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