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Originally Posted by Locke

and when characters in Batman TAS got hurt, they'd bleed.

BTAS also pushed the envelope on EVERYTHING.

It's last season had a really disturbingly tragic analysis of an abusive relationship. (complete with a woman being pushed through a window and falling several stories, nearly dying, and still taking her abuser back at the first sign of any half-hearted redemption) It's first season had child abuse and child slavery. (and regular slavery) A shitload of really dark and real stories populated the entire run. Hell, even when the DCAU evolved into Justice League into the 2000's, there was an episode where a women was tortured in her dreams and died in real life.

Batman was pretty unique. The 90's flip-flopped between shows that got away with A LOT, and shows that got away with almost nothing. For every Batman, Gargoyles or Beast Wars, there was a show that had nothing but weak lasers, excuses for dodging certain death, and used "destroyed" instead of "killed."

The 90's was, honestly, pretty eradict and hard to pin down WHAT was popular/widespread.