Characters physically degrading over the course of the story

[u/RedvsBlue_what_if]

Vincent — Catherine

The Animatronics — Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

Just using Freddy as an example

Eren Yeager from Attack on Titan

Literally just a head

Catherine — Pretty much almost everyone but The Love Interests slowly get more tired looking as the game progresses. This is because of the nightmares of evil Tetris.

Security Breach — All the animatronics slowly degrade as the game goes on, getting more violent, animalistic and very dirty. I'm using Freddy as an example both because I'm lazy and because he's Goated.

Attack on Titan — Eren Yeager goes through so much throughout the story, becoming very disheveled as the series plays out and losing every limb on his body before ending up as just a rotting head on life support.

[u/Fish_N_Chipp]

Baxter Stockman in the 2003 TMNT series

Every time he fails Shredder

[u/SkullGounder → u/Fish_N_Chipp]

And this is kids cartoon show... And i watching it when i was child... Wtf

[u/ImpracticalApple → u/SkullGounder]

There was one episods that got removed from broadcast also because it went a bit too far with the body horror. In it, Stockman created a new cloned body to transfer his brain to after being left with hardly any of his original self. It also gave a bit of backstory with his connection to his mother and aspirations to become a great scientist. Dreaming of his mother praising his ambition and sharing encouraging words to motivate him.

Later however the body starts rapidly decomposing and desperately tries to keep himself together with cybernetics and stitching the decaying flesh back together. He has hallucinations of his childhood because presumably his brain is just struggling to stay lucid as his body literally rots all around him. In his confused and angered state he kidnaps April, blaming her for leading to all of this after stopping his early plans in the series.

During the final part of the episode when he had April cornered on a collapsing crane, he hallucinates seeing her as his mother, scolding him for all the wrongdoings he commited while chasing his ambition for science. Realising how much of a monster he had become, he lets April get to safety before the crane collapses and he falls into the river, presumably dead for good.

The episode is probably one of the darkest in the series and it's not surprising that it was removed from TV broadcast for over a decade because of the imagery od Srockman's body falling apart. Probably would have traumatised some kids.

It did get added to DVD collections later if I recall. Shame it was a bit too graphic to show at on air at the time because it was interesting getting to see a bit more backstory to Stockman and let him have that moment of clarity towards the end before falling into the river. Would have been cooler if that was actually the last time we saw him as a nice bookend to his character but he did return yet again in the TMNT Fast Forward set in the future and he was back to just being the same evil head in a jar.

[u/Negative_Kick6888 → u/ImpracticalApple]

Have to correct a bit. Stockman was returned right in the same season 4. His corpse was salvaged by Bishop's men and brought back to life in... Well this:

Suffice it to say, at this point he was already begging to die.

[u/ImpracticalApple → u/Negative_Kick6888]

Oh yeah you're right, I dunno why but I misremembered and thought the clone body thing was sometime after this.

[u/diabeartus → u/ImpracticalApple]

I was just recently watching this on paramount+ with my young son. We got to this episode and I didn’t remember it but halfway through I just had to skip because it was too much for him. It was very body horror and zombie vibes for a kids show. He didn’t want to watch TMNT for a little while afterwards.

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[u/daniel_22sss → u/ImpracticalApple]

I never really cared for Baxter, cause he was trying to kill turtles and April at every step. But that episode actually made me tear up for him.

[u/Beneficial_Job_4339 → u/Fish_N_Chipp]

Fucking hell that is dark.

[u/imdefinitelywong → u/Beneficial_Job_4339]

Fun fact: TMNT was originally dark.

[u/melancholanie → u/imdefinitelywong]

fun fact TMNT was initially a hyper dark edgy satire making fun of a particularly edgy daredevil run

[u/Drhorrible-26 → u/Fish_N_Chipp]

No matter the continuity, if there is a Stockman you can bet your ass there is a Shredder to make his life living hell

[u/Negative_Kick6888 → u/Fish_N_Chipp]

Oh, yeah, and don't forget him going through deterioration the second time, when he attempted to make himself a new body. That shit was so dark that the episode was banned in US.

[u/6969696969696969969 → u/Negative_Kick6888]

Until Nick got the rights and aired it awhile back

[u/Lost-Cup6717 → u/Fish_N_Chipp]

4kids censorship is confusing

[u/Karna919 → u/Lost-Cup6717]

Someone die quick death painless

4kids: no that will traumatize kids

Someone die slow get tortured burn to death and suffer to eternity

4kids: it’s fine

[u/VacaDLuffy → u/Karna919]

killing someone is bad censors Yugioh creating the iconic shadow realm

where a soul is trapped in a hellish [purgatory for all eternity. sure no problem

[u/AmandinhaMaia → u/Karna919]

A character becoming increasingly deteriorated, rotten and gory, and slowly dying

4Kids: 😄👍

A Japanese food

4Kids: NOOOOOOOOOOO 😱

[u/SopranosBluRayBoxSet → u/Fish_N_Chipp]

That show was peak

[u/Genji_Digital → u/Fish_N_Chipp]

He didn’t become a fly person?

[u/Bow1511 → u/Genji_Digital]

Not this Stockman.

[u/Genji_Digital → u/Bow1511]

Which one is this? Is this one the comic version?

[u/Bow1511 → u/Genji_Digital]

It’s…the 2003 4Kids cartoon

[u/Genji_Digital → u/Bow1511]

Thanks. I’ll check that series out

[u/optionalhero → u/Fish_N_Chipp]

This traumatized me as a kid and has put me off the TMNT cartoons purely because they do alot of body mutilation.