AVATAR- The Last Airbender.

Now, the Avatar series has got to be one of the most successful cartoons ever made. It had the capabilities of attracting not only the children but the adults as well. This cartoon had me and my friends hooked and we didn’t want to miss even a single episode. It was so captivating that we would wanna watch it over and over again.
But apart from fun and action this cartoon is renown for its violence as well. Al though not on a large scale but it still had some scenes that was really not suitable for kids. There were fight scenes and scenes of Aang and other using fire to fight. Now this could seriously result in fires if kids who watch this cartoon are monitered on a regular scale but apart from that this cartoon was excellent. Keep in touch for more info on the Avatar movie to be made soon.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang),[1] is an American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network. The series was created and produced by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who served as executive producers along with Aaron Ehasz. Avatar is set in an Asian-influenced world[2] of martial arts and elemental manipulation. The show drew on elements from East Asian, South Asian, and Western culture, making it a mixture of what were previously traditionally separate categories of anime and US domestic cartoons.
The series follows the adventures of the main protagonist Aang and his friends, who must save the world by defeating the Fire Lord and ending the destructive war with the Fire Nation.
One hundred years before the start of the series, a 12-year-old Airbender Aang learns that he is the new Avatar. Fearful of the heavy responsibilities of stopping an impending world war and with the impending separation from his mentor Monk Gyatso, Aang flees from home on his flying bison Appa. During a fierce storm, they crash into the ocean, and Aang's Avatar state freezes them in a state of suspended animation inside an iceberg.

Aang and Appa are awoken a hundred years later by two siblings of Southern Water Tribe origin, Katara and Sokka. Aang learns that the Fire Nation started a war a hundred years ago, just after his disappearance. The Fire Nation's opening move in its campaign for global conquest was to launch a genocidal attack on the Air Nomads which drove Aang's entire race to extinction, thus making him "the last Airbender" left alive. He realizes that he must fulfill his destiny of becoming the Avatar and return balance to the world by defeating the Fire Nation. Aang sets out to master the three unlearned elements: Water, Earth, and Fire. With Katara and Sokka, Aang decides to head first to the North Pole to find a Waterbending master.
Aang soon discovers that Sozin's Comet, which Fire Lord Sozin used as a power supply to start the war, will return in the coming summer, giving the Fire Nation enough power to ultimately accomplish victory. Aang realizes that he must master all four elements and end the war before this time. For most of their journey to the North Pole, the group is pursued by Zuko, a banished Fire Nation prince and son of Fire Lord Ozai who is obsessed with capturing Aang to restore his lost honor
After leaving the North Pole and mastering Waterbending, Aang travels to the Earth Kingdom to master Earthbending. There, the group meets Toph, a blind Earthbending prodigy who becomes Aang's second teacher. The heroes discover information about an upcoming solar eclipse which would leave the Fire Nation powerless and open to invasion. They struggle to reach the Earth King with this vital information, but are detoured by Appa's kidnapping. The psychologically self-tormented Zuko, his sister Azula, and her two friends Mai and Ty Lee chase the group as they struggle to reach Ba Sing Se. Azula engineers a coup from within that topples the Earth King and destroys any hope of a large-scale invasion of the Fire Nation.

The group recovers from the fall of Ba Sing Se, and travel to the planned invasion site. On the day of the solar eclipse, Aang's group and a smaller band of warriors launch a smaller invasion, which ultimately fails. Zuko confronts his father and defects from the Fire Nation. After a series of events, he manages to gain the trust of the protagonists and becomes Aang's firebending teacher. Aang and Zuko unlock the firebending secrets of the "Sun Warriors" and Sokka and Zuko travel to a Fire Nation prison to rescue Sokka's father and Suki.
On the day of Sozin's Comet, Fire Lord Ozai harnesses the comet's power to start a genocidal campaign to destroy the rest of the world. Aang and his friends face the self-proclaimed "Phoenix King" Ozai, Azula (now crowned as the new Fire Lord by Ozai), and the Fire Nation army. Aang confronts and defeats Ozai while the Order of the White Lotus takes back Ba Sing Se from the Fire Nation. At the same time, Zuko is incapacitated by Azula, whom Katara then defeats. Zuko becomes the new Fire Lord and promises to help re-build the world alongside Aang.

For more info on the Avatar, cut and paste the following sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_The_Last_Airbender

http://www.tv.com/avatar-the-last-airbender/show/28841/summary.html

http://www.avatarchapters.org/

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=avatar+episodes&revid=702766660&ei=564pSr3JEpiNkAWviuWHCw&resnum=0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=B7ApSoXeM8mMkAXqlfX4Cg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JThd2WDKSqk

Tom and Jerry.

Tom and Jerry is a series of animated theatrical shorts created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that centered on a never-ending rivalry between a housecat (Tom) and a mouse (Jerry) whose chases and battles often involved comic violence. Hanna and Barbera ultimately wrote and directed one hundred and fourteen Tom and Jerry cartoons at the MGM cartoon studio in Hollywood, California between 1940 and 1957, when the animation unit was closed. The original series is notable for having won the Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) seven times, tying it with Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies as the most-awarded theatrical animated series.
Again, apart from unlimited fun this cartoon is noteworthy for the two characters enmity toward each other and the height to which they can go to try and destroy each other. Now if kid were to try stunts which Tom and Jerry had gone through there would be chaos. They can either break glass or starts fires and stuff or practically beat up each other. Read further more on what this cartoon has to offer….
The plots of each short usually center on Tom's numerous attempts to capture Jerry and the mayhem and destruction that ensues. Since Tom rarely attempts to eat Jerry and because the pair actually seem to get along in some cartoon shorts, it is unclear why Tom chases Jerry so much. Some reasons given may include normal feline/murine enmity, duty according to his owner, Jerry's attempt at ruining a task that Tom is entrusted with, Jerry eating Tom's master's food which Tom has been entrusted with safeguarding, revenge, Jerry saving other potential prey (such as ducks, canaries, or goldfish) from being eaten by Tom or competition with another cat, and attempts to seduce feline femme fatales, among other reasons.


The first Tom and Jerry title card ever. Which was used in the early 1940s. These cards are no longer seen on re-issue prints or re-runs.
Tom rarely succeeds in catching Jerry, mainly because of Jerry's cleverness, cunning abilities, and luck. Interestingly enough, many of the title cards show Tom and Jerry smiling at each other which seems to depict a love-hate relationship rather than the extreme annoyance each displays towards the other in each cartoon. There are also several instances within the cartoons where they display genuine friendship ("Springtime for Thomas") and concern for each other's well-being (such as in "Jerry and the Lion" where Jerry in one instance tricks Tom into thinking he has shot Jerry, and Tom comes running with the first aid kit).
The short episodes are famous for some of the most violent gags ever devised in theatrical animation: Jerry slicing Tom in half, shutting his head in a window or a door, Tom using everything from axes, pistols, explosives, traps and poison to try to murder Jerry, Jerry stuffing Tom's tail in a waffle iron (and also into what it seems as an old washing machine once), kicking him into a refrigerator, plugging his tail into an electric socket, pounding him with a mace, club or mallet, causing a tree or an electric pole to drive him into the ground, sticking matches into his feet and lighting them, and so on.[1] Despite all its popularity, Tom and Jerry has often been criticized as excessively violent.[2]:42[3]:134 Despite the frequent violence, there is no blood or gore in any scenes (Except when Tom gets sliced into pieces in the opening credits of Tom and Jerry:The Movie,blood is clearly visible). A recurring gag involves Jerry hitting Tom when he's preoccupied, with Tom initially oblivious to the pain—and only feeling the effects moments later, and vice versa; and another involves Jerry stopping Tom in midchase (as if calling for a time-out), before he does something, usually putting the hurt on Tom.


Tom and Jerry title card used in 1956.
The cartoon is also noteworthy for its reliance on stereotypes, such as the blackening of characters following explosions and the use of heavy and enlarged shadows (e.g., Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse). Resemblance to everyday objects and occurrences is arguably the main appeal of visual humor in the series. The characters themselves regularly transform into ridiculous but strongly associative shapes, most of the time involuntarily, in masked but gruesome ways.

For more info on Ton and Jerry cut and paste the following sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_and_Jerry

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/tomjerry/

http://www.tomandjerryonline.com/

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=tom+and+jerry&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=SKspSs7UD8yfkQXw663xCg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=8&ct=title#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR9BsLERi4c

Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo was an American animated series created by Van Partible. It premiered on July 7, 1997 on Cartoon Network and ran for 65 episodes and 4 seasons. The series originally lasted for 12 1997 episodes and a half hour's worth of original pilots, was renewed in 1999 and officially ended in 2004.
Johnny Bravo originally appeared in two animated shorts created for Cartoon Network's World Premiere Toons and was one of several characters to be given an ongoing series. Many celebrities starred on the show as well.
Initially, the show aired using the same creative format as the original animated shorts. However, the show was completely retooled in the latter seasons, changing the animation style and the personalities of several characters. The show's final season returned to the original format. Johnny Bravo was used in the show JBVO that involved taking the show requests from viewers. JBVO ran for roughly one year.
• Johnny Bravo (voiced by Jeff Bennett) — Johnny has the looks of James Dean and sounds like Elvis Presley. He is incredibly narcissistic and dim-witted, traits that lead to a severe incorrigible inability to attract women, becoming a running gag throughout the series. Another running gag is Johnny's catchphrase, "She wants me," after women beat him up for refusing to leave them alone. One notable exception to this was during the Cartoon Network's 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Award Show Spectacular Live In Stereo during which Johnny served as the host and was very witty and suave. The character is memorable for his incredibly quick movements (usually done while trying to impress women), which were accompanied by the distinctive sound effect of a bullwhip crack, often flexing his muscles in a bodybuilder fashion. He dresses in an oversized black muscle shirt and very small jeans based on one of creator Van Partible's clothes.
• Bunny Bravo (voiced by Brenda Vaccaro) — Johnny's mother had a lively past and sometimes reveals a surprising hidden talent. The show's original format portrays her as a calm, nurturing woman, but was made into a louder, more extroverted character once the show was retooled. She's very dedicated to her son, but as a result of her awareness of his low intellect and womanizer attitude, does not always treat him and his problems seriously. Bunny hopes that Johnny will find that special someone he's been looking for. Bunny is mostly referred in the show as Momma by Johnny, who pronounces in an Elvis-esque manner.
• Suzy (voiced by Mae Whitman) — Suzy is a little red-haired Scottish girl (5-years-old) from the neighborhood (often called "Little Neighbor girl" by Johnny) who is very cunning and talkative. In many episodes she is shown to have a major crush on Johnny. Her parents were never shown, but she is often shown to be related to big time celebrities. In the early series, Suzie was more of a cute-type character with a round head and in the retooled series, she is thin-looking and more grown up.
• Carl Chryniszzswics (voiced by Tom Kenny) — Carl is a local genius and Caucasian geek who is very intelligent, but somewhat eccentric and timid. He was introduced after the show's retooling following the end of the first season, and seems to be Johnny's only friend, although Johnny often denies that. Carl sometimes uses Johnny for his experiments' sake, and used to make fun of him in high school, as Carl was much taller than Johnny at the time which is why Johnny acts rudely to Carl and refuses to be his friend. Carl really likes Johnny and continues to hang out with him, even after all the mean things Johnny does to him and says about him.
• Pops (voiced by Larry Drake) — Pops is the greedy owner of a local chili restaurant who could be considered as Johnny's substitute father. He often gives fatherly tips and advice to Johnny; however, his advice often turns out to be useless, sometimes provoking trouble for Johnny. His diner's chili is made from rather suspicious ingredients and he serves food made from many animals, such as possums, pandas, cougars, seals, horses, and bald eagles.

Now apart from funny and stupid stunts by Johnny, this cartoon also has a bit of violence in it. Violence in the sense that whenever Johnny sees a hot chick it is a must that he will go up to her and flatter her. Now, this can also be referred to as sexual harassment and it is a must that when kids see this they try out their luck as well. This can get them into trouble with their parents and teachers. And then there is the part where he gets beaten up by girls, this may dishearten the hopeful one who wanted to try it out but then see that they might beaten up so they drop the chase for a while.
Even though this issue was overlooked by the makers of this cartoon, it nevertheless continues to be aired all over the world in over a 1000 languages and has turnedout to be quite successful.


For more info on Johnny Bravo cut and paste the following sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Bravo
http://jmstein.tripod.com/johnny/

http://www.tv.com/johnny-bravo/show/3705/summary.html

Beast Wars: Transformers.

Now, this has to be one of the most sussessful cartoons ever made as it even had me captivated and i still wanna watch this cartoon and complete the whole series.

Beast Wars: Transformers is a Transformers toyline released by Hasbro between 1995 and 1999, and a full-CG animated television series spawned by it that debuted in 1996. The Emmy Award-winning series was set in the "original" Transformers universe as a sequel to the original series (which was later rebooted by various limited comic book stories from several companies including Dreamwave comics and IDW).

The two main factions of robot "Transformers" are descendants of the two main factions in the original cartoon series: the Maximals are the descendants of the Autobots and the Predacons are the descendants of the Decepticons. The names were intended to stem from the terms Mammal and Predator[citation needed] but were not necessarily consistent with the alternate forms of the Transformers. (In Beast Machines, the process during which Autobots and Decepticons became Maximals and Predacons is respectively referred to as the "The Great Upgrade".)

The leader of the Predacon team is Megatron. He and his forces are a splinter group on the hunt for powerful crystals known as Energon, to be used in a ploy for power and dominance. They do this with the aid of artifacts known as the Golden Disk and Megatron's stolen ship, the Darksyde, which is equipped with a transwarp drive. A Maximal exploration ship, the Axalon, led by Optimus Primal, is sent to stop them. Together the ships plunge through a time/space phenomenon created by the transwarp device during their battle in space, and crash-land on a mysterious planet.

Well, even though this cartoon turned heads of every cool kid, it also had load of violence nad these kid might have tried out some of the stunts involved.dude i gotta tell u the fighting scenes were really good and had some hardcore action that u every cool kid wud wana be involved in. And damn, the weaponry used: the laser guns, the canons, the rotating swords machine guns(rhinox), were so high tech defence material that everyone who saw it would want it for themselves. the same was shown in the actual movie of transformers, the same high tech weaponry, especially 'ironhide's' canons, even i wish that i had those....
n i believe that most kids also had the same perception. they would also wana be superhero characters and wats there stopping them from trying out.

For info on either beast wars of transformers cut and paste the sites listed below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_Wars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Beast_Wars_characters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCMOGPX8-I8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds7NBsHxBZE

VOLTRON

Voltron is a Japanese animated Television series from September 10, 1984 to November 18, 1985, first titled Voltron: Defender of the Universe. There has been a remake of the series, made in the 1990s using CGI techniques. The 1980s Voltron series was based on two unrelated Japanese anime series Beast King GoLion and Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV (both originally produced by Toei Animation & Bandai). The anime was later dubbed into English and edited by the North American television production and distribution company World Events Productions. The adaptation was not a straight dub, however—as much violence as possible was removed from the original Japanese series

Different varieties of Voltron were created:

Lion Force Voltron (Voltron of the Far Universe)

Vehicle Voltron (Voltron of the Near Universe)

* The Aqua Fighter (Sea Team)
* The Turbo Terrain Fighter (Land Team)
* The Strato Fighter (Air Team)

Gladiator Voltron (Voltron of the Middle Universe)

New projects:

* Voltron: Fleet of Doom

* Voltron: The Third Dimension

violence in this cartoon was in the form of robots dueling each other with giant swords or guns, laser rays and advanced high tech weaponry.

kids would have picked up sticks and chased each thinking it were swords and hitting each other with imaginary weapons. wat would happen if one of them hit the other's eye with their imaginary weapon or a kid really got hurt.

there is violence involved in Voltron and as much at it is a great cartoon maybe someone might get hurt trying to be Voltron.

For more info on Voltron cut and paste the sites listed below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron

http://www.voltron.com/main.asp

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=48m&q=voltron&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=0WMKStDSHdONkAWJ2oynCw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=8&ct=title#

http://www.voltroncentral.net/

captain planet

i remember this cartoon from like primary school n i didn't even miss one episode. it was so great i still even remember some of the line of the entrance song. but this captain planet as the name says it was all bout a group of youths saving the planet every now and then and each of these 5 had a ring with special powers of the element of this planet: earth, water, wind, fire and heart. the great thing about this cartoon was that it taught kids to be considerate towards the environment. recently me n my friends in Uni were talking about cartoons and when i brought up the topic of captain planet every one in the group had something positive to say about this cartoon. nowadays all that i hear kids talking about is power rangers and fighting. most of the programs on t.v right now are related to violence and and isn't so great so i would like to request the television crew to bring back captain planet because apart from kid there are a few ardent adults that want to view this cartoon again.

Whenever the Earth spirit Gaia has needed a champion, she has assembled a team of people who work to protect the planet, each armed with a ring of elemental power. When the team members combine the energies of their rings, they summon a being who is an amalgam of the elements. This being takes on a different appearance and persona based on the minds of the team members who summon him, allowing him to have human mannerisms in keeping with the era. Because he is connected to the minds of the team members when they summon him, the elemental being is also often aware of certain events that occur while he is not active.


Captain Planet was summoned whenever the five Planeteers combined the forces of their elemental rings. This emphasized the show's premise that only by working together could people protect the planet and provide solutions to environmental problems. Likewise, Captain Planet's appearance did not identify him with any one culture or ethnicity, as his hair was grass-green and his skin was blue.

Later in the series, several of Captain Planet's enemies create an opposite number for him called "Captain Pollution", whose abilities derive from radiation, deforestation, smog, toxics, and hate. This enemy is initially able to defeat the Captain Planet, but he eventually overcomes Pollution when he realizes that his enemy is weakened by natural elements such as clean soil and natural lava.

Not only that but in every episode Captain Planet, at least had to beat up or blast something to defeat the bad guys. this is where the negative part kicks in: kid then use fire cracker as bombs and try and play out some scenes from the cartoons and end up getting hurt or setting something to fire. this couuld a reason for fires started by kids that burns downs homes or furniture.

For more info on Captain Planet and to become a planeteer cut and paste the sites listed below: http://www.turner.com/planet/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Planet

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=captain+planet&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=kF4KSob-ItOMkAW6oY2tCw&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=9&ct=title#

http://captainplanetfdn.org/

Violence in Cartoons

well first of all cartoon are a great creation n were actually meant for kids but now many adults are subscribing to cartoon such as naruto and avatar. i am not sayin this is a bad thing, as a matter of fact this is great. now adults don't have to be shy from what they love doing and watching cartoons, from my point of view, is a great way to spend leisure time. but wat about the other side of cartoons which tend to have a bit of violence. for example using dynamite and other vicious traps to try and catch road runner and tom and jerry beating the crap out of each other or other robots trying to destroy each other with high tech weapons. usually kids try and do wat they see in these cartoons and they chase after each other with a fake laser gun or try and ignite a fake dynamite with real matches...

what do you think???

For more info on Violence in Cartoons cut and paste the sites listed below:

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/research_documents/reports/violence/tv_violence_child.cfm

http://animatedfilms.suite101.com/article.cfm/cartoons_cause_violence

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1159766/Cartoon-violence-makes-children-aggressive.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,997149,00.html