Has the cartoon industry gone more "kid-friendly"?

[Denia]

Most recent episode of Sym-Bionic Titan. When Lance and Ilana broke into the military base, the men used guns on them.

I think some Justice League and TMNT '03 episodes had guns in them.

[nascarfever_88]

I'm pretty sure there were actual guns in Spectacular Spider-Man and Wolverine & The X-Men.

[nlmsfan]

It happened in Batman: The Brave and The Bold "Journey to the Center of the Bat!". I specifically remember because I wasn't expecting it in that kind of show. By now I've learnt not to waste time with preconceived notions with that show, since they've proven that practically anything can happen. Young Justice &Generator Rex also have realistic guns that fire real ammunition. Both of those are rated PG though, but they are aimed towards kids.



Neither of those had realistic guns. SSM had guns that fired small balls with spikes on them, and WatXM had your standard laser gun.

[pop l]

SSM had varying degrees of guns, some more realistic than others, but the censors had a problem with the sound not the look of the guns so they all had a lasery sound to them in the show but still looked like guns. There was also silenced guns that looked and sounded like silenced guns (well the TV/film version of silenced).

I can't remember enough about WatXM to say about that though.

[No Cats Without Whiskers]

Wolverine and the X-men only had laser guns.

How do they decide which cartoons get's to have real guns and which only get's to have "futuristic" ones anyway?

[DrummaBOIIIII]

It's all a matter of what each network's basic standards and practices are. Some channels will allow real guns, others won't. Some will allow the use of the word "dead" or "kill" and others won't.

[kija]

I wonder if there would be a backlash against laser guns in cartoons if a person was hurt or even killed from a laser gun shot (has that ever happened? Not counting Transformers the movie).