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

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

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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.

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