The irony is that "unalive" has its origins in the currently-trending character Deadpool. There was an episode of the 2012 animated series Ultimate Spider-Man in which Spider-Man teams up with Deadpool to take down a criminal. Deadpool then casually discusses his plans to "unalive" the criminal at which point Spider-Man says "Unalive... you mean kill him?!"
Deadpool's fourth-wall awareness (which manifests in-universe as mental illness) enabled him to know that he was in an animated cartoon series, but he was applying the standards of animated series from the 1980s and early 1990s, in which death was not discussed and the topic was avoided entirely. Sometimes the baddies spoke of "destroying" or "eliminating" their opponents, but never killing them. Ultimate Spider-Man was a more mature series released in a time when we thought we'd moved beyond such standards-and-practices nitpicking in the name of "protecting the children" but... apparently we have not. New media (YouTube) provoked new moral panics and the cycle repeats...
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The irony is that "unalive" has its origins in the currently-trending character Deadpool. There was an episode of the 2012 animated series Ultimate Spider-Man in which Spider-Man teams up with Deadpool to take down a criminal. Deadpool then casually discusses his plans to "unalive" the criminal at which point Spider-Man says "Unalive... you mean kill him?!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXknwMx0_BQ&t=3m38s
Deadpool's fourth-wall awareness (which manifests in-universe as mental illness) enabled him to know that he was in an animated cartoon series, but he was applying the standards of animated series from the 1980s and early 1990s, in which death was not discussed and the topic was avoided entirely. Sometimes the baddies spoke of "destroying" or "eliminating" their opponents, but never killing them. Ultimate Spider-Man was a more mature series released in a time when we thought we'd moved beyond such standards-and-practices nitpicking in the name of "protecting the children" but... apparently we have not. New media (YouTube) provoked new moral panics and the cycle repeats...
Yeah but Teen Titans Go? Fart jokes indeed.
I liked Ultimate Spider Man; that was not as good as the one in the 90's but better than a lot of other cartoons from recent years.
In general though I agree, I especially think DC does a good job with their animated movies.