Children's cartoons depict death more often than films for adults, and their main characters are more than twice as likely to be killed off, according to research released on Tuesday. The study found the main characters in children's cartoons were two and a half times as likely to die as protagonists in films for adults, and were almost three times as likely to be murdered -- often in violent ways. "Rather than being innocuous and gentler alternatives to typical horror or drama films, children's animated films are, in fact, hotbeds of murder and mayhem," said study researchers Ian Colman and James Kirkbride. It compared deaths of main characters with the two top-grossing films for adults released in the same year, not including action or adventure films marketed to children.
via Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News
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