"No no no, this won't do at all! When your head explodes, there's got to be WAY more brain matter flying out!! Bloosh!!"
— Akira Dorotabo, Super Cruel and Terrible Tales of Mangaka
"Man, the PS4's good at rendering a screaming girl's guts! (Although I doubt they'll be putting that in the marketing packages.)"
You know something, DC? Psychotic clowns are scary enough. Psychotic clowns with the skin of their faces cut off and then sewn on again are enough to make both Jack Nicholson and the late Heath Ledger go, "Damn, that's a bit unsubtle." But that's the new 52 for ya — heroes get piping on their outfits, villains get extreeeeeme. If you're gonna show Catwoman boning Batman, Joker has to go further.
Speaking of women, Wonder Woman shows up throughout the story too, mostly to tell everyone how rad it is that Superman's going to start killing people and ruling the world now and think about maybe moving in and gettin' a piece of that Sadness Beard now that Lois and any potential babies are out of the equation...Superman freaks out because she stabs Ares with a sword because she might've killed him, 12 pages after she straight up explodes a tank with a bunch of dudes in it. Superman's not very good at paying attention is what I'm getting at.
—Chris Sims
, "The Injustice: Gods Among Us Prequel Comic is the Dumbest Comic You'll Read All Year"
, "The Injustice: Gods Among Us Prequel Comic is the Dumbest Comic You'll Read All Year"It's the entire production. Every inch of this story seems to fetishize death, whether it be in discussions of it or, in the end, in grotesque shots of Sontarans with their (alarmingly bright green) viscera spewing about the place. This is Doctor Who that does not just use violence to resolve plot threads here and there, it seems to love violence and see violence as central to the show's pleasure.
With both human and dinosaur enemies, Turok really showed it's M-rating with the cool weaponry. Being able to slice and dice an enemy, including their neck arteries, which would spray blood everywhere as they slowly dropped to the ground. Animated gore and violence were the reason for the M-rating, but importantly it showed early in the console's lifespan that Nintendo were not going to be as strict with censorship as they had been in the past.
—N64 Gleen Plant, "N64 Glenn Plant's M Rated Nintendo 64 Games"
, "N64 Glenn Plant's M Rated Nintendo 64 Games"