As someone who has watched a lot of toons during the 90's, some channels had stricter censorship laws/rules than others. When Batman:The Animated Series was on Fox Kids, they had some draconian type rules, some made sense (On screen deaths) to just silly (Could show homeless men, but no homeless women or children). The creators did a rather funny comic strip detailing what they couldn't show on Fox. Once the show moved to WB, they were able to make the toon closer to the funny books. They would have never made episodes like "Mad Love" or "Over The Edge" on Fox. Heck, you couldn't even say "Death" or "Dead" or 'Die" in most 90's toons. Note all the butchered anime episodes on CN. Nobody ever died. They were SENT TO ANOTHER DIMENSION! And I agree. Probably won't see any on screen deaths on this show..But still, they've gotten stuff past the censors before.. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Radar/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic