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Dallywack3r t1_je8mpt9 wrote

The episode Disappearing Inque has one of the most grotesque moments in any kids show I’ve ever seen. A man wants the powers of the supervillain Inque, who’s basically a slime woman. Well, she gives him half a vial of whatever gave her the powers. It turns him into a puddle of melted flesh, unable to hold his head an inch off the ground.

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FuriousJazzHands t1_je9fzpe wrote

That scene fucked me up as a kid. There were tons of brutal fates in the show though. The guy who became insubstantial and fell to the center of the earth, the radioactive zombie dad that’s trapped underground, the Splicer who gets injected with a bunch of animals’ DNA and turns into a misshapen monster. Show was dark as hell for a kids show.

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Drakengard t1_je9whdj wrote

> Show was dark as hell for a kids show.

It's certainly one of the reasons why I loved it so much.

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Dallywack3r t1_jeap0at wrote

It was created to satisfy a WB mandate for a “kids show like Buffy,” and despite not having any teen drama, it certainly had that dark edge to it that drew younger viewers to Buffy.

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CombatHarness t1_jeb193m wrote

> despite not having any teen drama

Terry and Dana are like the most high functioning high school couple of all time. They're like a non toxic Peter/MJ

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