Basic Trope: Surprisingly disturbing violence for a family-friendly work.
- Straight: "The Adventures of Alice and Bob", a kids' show, features a scene in which the titular characters are fighting with guns, and Alice accidentally shoots Bob, causing him to bleed.
- Exaggerated:
- Family-Unfriendly Death
- "The Adventures of Alice and Bob" is rated TV-Y and features a scene where Bob gets bisected in half, with large amounts of blood.
- Downplayed: "The Adventures of Alice and Bob" is a work aimed at older children that features someone bleeding from an injury in one scene.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Despite being rated TV-MA and featuring large amounts of graphic violence, there's a scene in "The Adventures of Alice and Bob" where someone suffers Amusing Injuries.
- Subverted: Although it seems like Bob is bleeding, he actually just fell in some red berries.
- Double Subverted: Then Alice accidentally shoots him, and the result is not pretty.
- Parodied: "The Adventures of Alice and Bob", a kids' show, features a scene where Bob's family gets brutally beat up by some unfriendly violins.
- Zig-Zagged: Some episodes of "The Adventures of Alice and Bob" feature Amusing Injuries, while others use more realistic gunplay and blood.
- Averted:
- It's an adult series as it is.
- There is no violence.
- All violence is kept family-friendly.
- Enforced: The writers felt that Scare 'Em Straight was the only way to get the point across of not playing with a gun, without the risk of kids trying to repeat it.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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