Talk:Princess Twilight Sparkle - Part 1/@comment-26973802-20140909173008

Why are they more at ease showing extreme scenes of violence (like punching in the face) towards good characters (like Rarity) but not villains (like Tirek)?

Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon are like that too. Cell absorbing the rich man and Buu blowing Smitty up from the inside were equally gruesome. In the edited version most of the rich man's death scene was left intact (innocent victim) while all we got with Smitty (who was evil) was Buu going toward his mouth, then Hercule's reaction, then the explosion. Also they can show Goku and Piccolo spitting out blood but not Frieza, and he's the most evil villain in the series. That was a deliberate decision on the editors' part to show a hero rather than a villain in extreme pain.

As for Sailor Moon, notice how the most brutal death scenes are redeemed villains? The villains who stay evil get a family-friendly disintegration. Neflite is the first villain to turn good and he gets stabbed in bloody fashion. Even though Ann gets revived, you can see blood trickling from her lip when she gets stabbed. Diamond gets stabbed too and you can see some blood. Yet when Malachite gets stabbed by Sailor Moon, or when Germatoid gets stabbed in the eye by Sailor Uranus, you see no blood at all and it's not the least bit graphic.

You'd think they'd be more willing to do it to villains than heroes coz they have it coming. Disney movies know it - it's usually only the villains that get brutal death scenes, like Clayton (hanged), Horned King (skin sucked off bones), Maleficent and Ursula (stabbed), etc. Even on the rare occasion they kill off a good character, like Mufasa in The Lion King, he fell to his death, while his murderer, Scar, is eaten alive by hyenas.

Yes I know they have yet to kill off a good character (aside from Fuzzy Slippers which was done in a subtle way) but still.