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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' and the [[DCAU]] in general, which comprises ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'', ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', and ''[[Justice League]]''. Especially ''Justice League''! Interestingly enough, ''Batman: The Animated Series'' briefly received a [[Prime Time]] slot shortly after it premiered on weekday afternoons, after there was a general critic outcry of "What Do You Mean It's for Kids?" Sadly, the primetime slot fell quickly to the [[Animation Age Ghetto]]. ''[[Lobo (web series)|Lobo]]'' is a clear exception that it's rated TV-MA and is certainly not for kids.
* ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' and ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold]]''. Despite being aimed at kids, both can be pretty violent (several superheroes such as {{spoiler|B'wana Beast and the first Black Canary}} are killed over the course of TBATB) and contain a fair amount of double entendre. The Young Justice episode "Bereft" and the Brave and the Bold episode "The Mask of Matches Malone!" are rife with examples.
** More recent episodes of ''Young Justice'' have been rife with [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], implications of [[Twincest]], and the episode "Failsafe" {{spoiler|which featured, among other things, three characters committing suicide for the sake of the mission and everyone dead at the end. Thankfully it was [[All Just a Dream]]...}}
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* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]''. The show features adult themes like an overkill (by Nickelodeon standards) of cursing and the darkest backstory of any Nickelodeon character (Helga, who is considered the unfavorite in her family in favor of her [[Stepford Smiler]] sister, has a verbally abusive father, and a mother who is clearly a depressed alcoholic).
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'': Not only because the main premise is about two kids that became friends with Death Itself, but also because the show depicts a series of grotesque situations quite unusual for a children´s show.
** It's other half ''[[Evil Con Carne]]'' also counts due to the brain injuries towards Hector.
* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'': [[G-Rated Drug|G-rated drugs]] in the forms of candy and maple syrup, stories full of bizarre, dark events that would make Lemony Snicket's ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' blush, and animation that makes ''Ren and Stimpy'''s look sane and on-model.
* ''[[Time Squad]]'': On the outside, it's a show about an orphaned history whiz taken to the future by a [[Time Cop]] and his [[Robot Buddy]] to help them fix the past. On the inside, there's rampant [[Ho Yay]] and [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] (most of which is centered around the [[Ambiguously Gay|Ambiguously]] [[Camp Gay]] [[Robot Buddy]] the Larry 3000), subtle yet excessive [[Freud Was Right|sexual imagery]], obscure [[Parental Bonus]] and [[Genius Bonus]] moments, [[Stoners Are Funny|drug humor]] ("Betsy Ross Flies Her Freak Flag" had George Washington's army acting like stoners; Larry has acted drunk on two occasions), and the [[Dude, Not Funny|jarringly cavalier take on child abuse and endangerment]] (cf. Otto's childhood in the orphanage and some of his adventures with Buck and Larry).
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