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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9749014" data-attributes="member: 4534">I think there might be a happy medium between Kill Bill levels of violence and something more appropriate for children.  Like I said in my first post, I'm a reasonable person, so I don't think it'd be appropriate for a program aimed at young children to feature graphic violence.  But the GI Joe cartoon featured characters shooting at one another, firing missiles, blowing vehicles and buildings to smithereens, and the animators took great pains to makes sure the audience knew nobody got hurt.  That strikes me as wrong.  That's actually fairly common with licensed material.  For Masters of the Universe figures, each one came with a little comic book because American children need lore to help get them excited to play the game, and it was quite different from the more popular cartoon.  In the comic, He-Man didn't have the Prince Adam alter ego, he was from a jungle tribe rather than a member of the royal family, his primary weapon was an axe, the stories were more complex, and the art was darker.  Like GI Joe, the comic and the cartoon was produced by completely different teams whose schedules didn't permit them to consult one another.</blockquote>