Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:17 Beheading By a Fish Monster 3:47 Firefall from Space 5:41 Fall to Death 7:21 Mauling By a Tiger 8:46 Volcano of Death 10:05 Death by WTF 12:17 Combo of Death 14:28 Live Entombment 16:25 Killer Snakes 18:05 Circle of Death 20:59 Finish
Had to give you a thumbs up just for this wonderful pinned post with time stamped index. This is how compilations videos were done before UA-camrs gots the stupid. Now they not only don't do that, they do movie/show reviews without telling you what they are reviewing so you can't look it up. That being said I have a problem with the fire from the sky segment. You tell us that there is a lame explanation for how Rage survived but don't tell us what it is. Also the Easter Island episode you didn't point out the obvious plot hole or tell us if the idiot scriptwriters resolved it. If the missing link died immediately after creation then why do we exist.?
@@bentonmarcum8924 Hey! Sorry it took me 8 months (!) to get to this comment, but somehow it got burried... 1) Thank you for your thumbs up. I appreciate it greately! 2) I'm a devotee of clarity and structure, so time stamped index just makes sense to me. 3) If I remember correctly (it's been a while since I saw that episode) the lame explanation for how Rage survived is in the clip I present. It's basically: "I didn't die. I live". It's sooo Palpatine in Rise of Skywalker... 4) You are right. That is a silly plothole. If I ever get to discuss that episode in my Quest for Quest series, I will definitely mention that. My idea behind this video was to comment on the death scenes, not really the episodes, so that's my excuse. But yeah, you're making a good point.
Do you know what's even more HORRIFYING? The concept of a Jonny Quest sequel/reboot "updated for modern audiences". Imagine this: the original series was released in the 1960s, and The Real Adventures is from the 1990s. Shouldn't we expect a new show in the 2020s?
@@KlaxontheImpailr Exactly. In more ways than one. The Jonny Quest franchise has always been pretty serious. The Venture Bros took basically the same premise for a show but satirized it brilliantly (at least the first few seasons were brilliant in my opinion). So a Jonny Quest reboot couldn't really be serious, but it also couldn't be funny and meta, because that's what The Venture Bros already is.
The one thing I did respect about cartoon Network in Hanna-Barbera is that they actually like taking risk with their cartoons compared to Nickelodeon and Disney
I remember the season 2 episode where Jonny and Hadji are working on Jonny’s grandpa’s ranch and the three of them find find a private company making nuclear weapons; and the villain at the end gets exposed to high doses of radiation. His nearly dead body body is being taken away by men in hazmat suits. That stuck with me for years.
Just so you know, your number 3 didn’t die. It’s explained that he was eventually dug out of the entombed wall, but by that point his mind was a mess. It was appropriate, since the man wasn’t directly responsible for the woman’s death but kept the truth of her death hidden and attempted to kill Johnny, Jessie, and the descendant of the ghost.
Whoa, I messed up with that one. Truth to be told, I don't like the ending to the Haunted Sonata, so I usually skip it. It's just too sweet and overly sentimental for my taste. But still, his actual fate is worse than death, so I don't mind the no. 3 spot.
Yeah. I guess it just wanted to teach him a lesson he would never forget and let him spend the rest of his days as a complete mental wreck or paranoid and terrified if he ever snaps out of it, which is as close as she could get to getting her revenge on her murderer.
Good job on the video! Please make more about other brutal deaths in other shows or movies because there's many that you can mention that are all dark and disturbing in their own right?
Unfortunately for that guy, he didn't die, he was dug up from the catacombs lucky for him but the worst news for him he was in deep shock and traumatized. But on the bright side Anna can finally rest in peace.
Jonny Quest is one of the best H-B cartoons ever and that's saying a lot. Hanna-Barbera provided such an enormous amount of great entertainment throughout my life I almost feel indebted. I do have to agree that the death scenes you've shown here are noteworthy.
Thank you for your beautiful and wise words. Hanna-Barbera gets a bad rep nowadays. People either forget, or simply ignore the fact that generations grew up watching cartoons created by them. Some of my earliest memories are of... watching the OG Scooby-Doo. I credit the show for my love of dogs and my knowledge of the English language.
The death from In the Wake of the Mary Celeste reminds me of a few things. 1.) that primeval, cosmic kind of inexplicable horror, 2.) the Loc-Nar from the Heavy Metal film, and 3.) a tv movie called The Stone Tape. The latter two kind of tie into the first, both being ancient entities humanity is capable of controlling (except for that ending in Heavy Metal, but you get what I mean).
I remember a GQ episode... I think the title was "Less Than Zero"... where Johnny, Race, and Hadji go to a haunted Italian castle. A pair of would-be "ghostbusters" are there t show off their ghost repelling technology, banking on the Quest family name attracting financiers, both to help improve their so-so- equipment as well as to enrich themselves. They wind up in a "The Walls are Closing In" room (well, ceiling actually), and while the resultant carnage isn't shown other than Race's disgusted look when he opens the door and checks inside, their terrified looks and screams shown before the POV moves away were quite unsettling.
My very favorite TV show as a kid, even though it reliably scared the absolute fucking shit out of me. They just don't make western cartoons this hardcore anymore. The closest we've gotten in recent memory was probably Gravity Falls, which was a fantastic show, but nowhere near the level of nightmare fuel I had in my childhood.
My top 3 shows as a kid were The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Batman TAS, The Pirates of Dark Water (stay tuned). 90s were an amazing decade for cartoons.
This cartoon had a lot of scary moments even not involving death. For example, Surd chasing Jonny all over Questworld disguised as Medusa. That was some freaky stuff considering I was only 5 years old back then.
It's kind of amusing what kids cartoons were able to get away with in the 1990s. I remember watching the 90s Incredible Hulk show and the writers clearly having She-Hulk orgasm when she first hulks out.
The show is so dark and there some other violent deaths i wanted to point out. The nerve gas from episode 2, Walker and his goons thrown into the water and get eaten by Alligators.
For some reason i remember Jessie Bannon dying in this show, that is where the clip of her flicking her hair back in the intro came from. She and Johnny were about to fall of a mountain he had Jesse by the hand, he lost his grip and she fell. Unless it was some other girl in the show it happened to.
Hmm, I don't remember that scene/episode. Gonna need to check. But Jessie definitely didn't die. She was close to dying, though. There's an episode where she's in a plane crash and she has to bury the pilot afterwards. Man...
I honestly wish we could go back to these kinds of shows. Even if it was off screen, knowing that someone actually dies in these cartoons makes this much more thrilling. *sigh* Twas a time when people were not woke snowflakes nor liberal pansies. (Please excuse any mention of politics) @@Land_Far_Away
Thank you for your sharing your comments and memories! I wanted to devote this channel mostly to celebrating Jonny Quest, but UA-cam has recently stepped in. Now I have to rethink my plans.
The one thing from this show that terrified me for years as a kid was Medusa. The type of ghost you listed as number 1 is what's called a "Death Echo", it's when they are cursed to re-enact their deaths over and over again due to the emotional shock. According to lore, if a witness can communicate with the ghost and persuade them to accept their death, they would break the curse and so the ghost can move onto the after life.
Yeah, the Medusa looked creepy as hell. Plus Frank Welker's brilliant voice acting made her even scarier. Didn't know about the "Death Echo". I know such phenomena from literature, but didn't know the name. Thanks for spreading the knowledge.
Honestly, these are great choices. But the one that comes to mind when it comes to horrible death, in my opinion, is the death of the villains in that elephant episode. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of it.
Thanks man. YES! I do know that episode, it's called "Ndovu's Last Journey". The main villain gets impaled on elephant bones. That's a great choice as well. I should have included it in honorary mentions of sorts.
That's definitely one of the reasons. Back in the 90s I treated this show like an animated version of The X-Files. It gave me thrills, but wasn't as scary as some things on The X-Files.
QUick comment on the Haunted Sonata episode. The composer descendant actually wasn't killed. During the epilogue of the episode, the characters talk about that. They do imply the dude went insane being walled up before they (I presume workers brought in by the Czech Prime Minister seeing as to her personal relationship with the Quest family) freed the guy. Not dead, though arguably a worse fate. Enjoyed the video. RAoJQ was a solid show back in the 90s.
Whoa, I messed up with that one. Truth to be told, I don't like the ending to the Haunted Sonata, so I usually skip it. It's just too sweet and overly sentimental for my taste. But still, you said it best. His actual fate is worse than death, so I don't mind the no. 3 spot.
I wonder about this show's fascination with Prague. That's such a random location for Americans, yet the Quests go back there twice in one season. Maybe they had a Czech writer on board.
@@Whazaaam The first time made sense considering they wanted to touch upon the Golem lore. When Gargoyles touched upon the Golem, they also ended up in Prague. Still you make an interesting point considering they could have set Haunted Sonata anywhere in central Europe and gotten the same effect. Probably just a choice as an excuse to bring back the Prime Minster character, as a reasonable location the Jonny and Jessie to be by themselves without any other main characters with them (something I'll always commend American animated shows on. Anime is already unafraid to do different kind of stories with smaller groups of it's main cast, and I'm happy to see American shows try it as well. My personal favorite animated show growing up, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, did this a lot).
@@chopdog6563 A lot of great points. As for The Haunted Sonata, I would guess Vienna would be a more obvious choice of location for an episode focusing on a classical composer/pianist. But maybe they wanted to avoid the comparison to the slightly overused story of Mozart and Salieri? Especially given the whole jealousy plotline.
The entombment from the Haunted Sonata was the one that stayed with me. I was a very introspective 7 year-old so I not only perceived this as being buried alive with a skeletal corpse, but that the gentleman would be supernaturally kept alive in this wall. It made an intense impression on me, lol.
What, no love for the two commandos that die to the island traps? One falls onto a pit of spikes and the other is eaten by tentacles. Now that shit fucked me up.
I remember that snake pit episode more than the others. That and the Jersey Devil one. God this show is probably to blame for my love of gore at such a young age. Need to buy this series asap
That Jersey Devil episode was scary indeed. And it had a baby with a tattoo. I also think this show is what made me such a fan of horror, crime stories and extreme metal.
"They don't convey the horror of what has just happened, and since they didn't seem to care much, neither do we as viewers." I'm sorry but that is something that an AI would say. "Caring" is irrelevant in horror deaths. A death can feel insanely brutal despite what the characters are like or how the characters around react to it.
Agree to disagree. To me it's all about characters reacting to what's going on, who is being killed and how. But it's just my personal preference. I don't like slashers for this very reason.
I'm a huge fan of the original series from 1965. Nothing compares to the big band jazz provided by Hoyt Curtin, and the adventures with their use of futuristic technologies were exciting and fun to watch! I think it's a shame Jonny and Hadji went from 10 year old boys to older teens.
Yess, the intro to the OG JQ is beyond epic! I understand the logic behind making the sequel/reboot series about teenage Jonny and Hadji. Personally, I didn't mind it. After all, this creative choice allowed them to be more involved in the action, and opened the show to new kind of stories.
Thank you. I'm considering doing a sequel. Some of these episodes stuck with me for a long time as well. That's why I'm making these videos almost 20 years later.
You got me thinking about it. The guy doesn't know, I would presume, he's hunting a tiger, because at that point of the story it's still a mystery. He's probably an assassin looking for a human murderer. That would explain why he's so ill-prepared for a tiger attack. So yeah, that elevates this scene.
Yes, that's a great choice. I believe @masontyler3237 has already mentioned that one in a previous comment. I'm thinking about doing a follow-up to this video. I should have included some honorary mentions.
Another one which stands out to me is the one where the gang investigates another haunted mansion (in Paris or something I think,) and the two scientists helping them are thrown into a room and crushed by a lowered stone ceiling. As with many of the deaths, you don't explicitly see it, but Race remarks after the incident how the gang is better off than "these two poor guys," or something. Sorry, don't know the name of the episode though. If anyone does, definitely let us know!
I think you're talking about the episode "More Than Zero". I need to rewatch that one. Thank's for your suggestion. I'm thinking about doing a follow-up to this video. I should have included some honorary mentions.
It's been a very long time since I last saw Johnny Quest (well this version at least), and let me tell you how I thought these deaths were very gruesome even if they never or barely showed it in full screen. Considering that it used to air on Cartoon Network (at least where I am from), it was shocking to say the least. But I had a blast watching this series!
Thanks for sharing your memories! Actually these are similar to my own. I too watched this show on Cartoon Network. It was weird seeing it sandwitched between mostly mild and innocent shows. The Real Adventures provided some of my early glimpses into aduldhood.
Yesss, I don't mention Swat Kats on this channel enough, but I loved that show as well. I credit that epic intro for turning me into a metalhead. I'm actually about to do a rewatch.
That's fair. "Undersea Urgency" aired in Season 2 of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, and that one was intended as more of a continuation of the OG JQ, while Season 1 was a bit of a departure.
10) That was just crazy. They could have said that she lost 20 years of her life working on this facility and needed something out of it other than shame and regret; 9) Very very dramatic but I like to think Rage escaped but lost a leg and an arm; 8) This episode was probably one of the most memorable. The story however is a bit weak... and clichee but the death is horrifying because the priest could have stopped it but didn't. 7) I have no idea why you think that the hunter was anything other than a faker. Being a hunter is anout being stealthy and finding stealthy beasts. The fact that the fool didn't bring close range (fire)arms says volumes aboit how inexperienced he was. Also Shades?! In the middle of the night!?! 6) This death is not as ridiculius as you think. The alien could have been there of his own choice and against his own people' law of interfeering with natural evolution. So he choose this remote area that was about tobe destroyed by the active Volcano to experiment on an ape and cover his tracks. But he didn' expect the volcano to errupt so soon. 5) we discover that the sinking of the ships the first mate survived and wrote about it. So the aliens just want the gold. Everything else is inconsequential. 4) s strange that they aurvived long enough to make a cure but not long enough to save themselves; 3) It was stated at the end of the episode that they dug the guy out but he lost his sanity being traumatized by the event. 2) Salim fell from that height and survived and tried to jump to safety. So it was not a fall death unless he fell head first; 1) That is a weird death. Why not a haunting? Also why is the Lady running to throw herself but was actually pushed ?! It makes no sense. This is a weird circle of death and revenge.
I love the show, but I hated the CGI segments. The villains appearing when they should be dead was annoying for both Rage and Surd. I remember these episodes. Ghost Quest was Jonny x Jessie shipper's dream.
Yeah, back in 90s the CGI segments were pretty innovative, but they didn't impress me even back then. Nowadays these segments are the only thing that really ages this show.
I understand your number one but personally I think the one with haji's cousin will have more impact. Its literally a 'reap what you sow' kind of deal as the servant attempted to grab his leg and showed us, the audience, the horrors of what awaits him! Also with that being said, I'm surprised you didn't mention the following with a ghost episode; The Ghost Snapped the neck of the Butler / assistant before attacking and dragging the villain into that wall. On top of that they later said that he was screaming Madness so he clearly survived. I will definitely say the real Adventures of Jonny Quest definitely continue the traditions of the original show as there were many many gruesome deaths and villains receiving they're just desserts. I do kind of wish you could have covered the living supercomputer as well as that is a nightmarish yet amazing episode at the same time!😂
Thank you for your lenghty comment. I appreciate it dearly! The snake pit kill is horrible as all hell. My number one is not as scary in presentation, but conceptually it just hit me really hard. But hey, it's a highly subjective list. Yeah, the guy surviving being entombed in a wall was a dud on my part. For some reason I blocked out the fact that the guy survived. Probably because everything else in that episode was so gruesome. There's definitely enough material do to a sequel to this video! Funny that you mention the supercomputer episode, because I will be posting a review today in the afternoon. However, I'm not much of a fan of that one. My biggest problem is namely that fact that it's a biocomputer, not a living creature. I just couldn't grasp it. Can't wait to hear your thoughts.
Just because something's PC doesn't mean it's bad. Adventure time, Young Justice, and Team Titans, to name a few, were amazing shows and they are definitely PC.
@@MarkPiccolo you're saying Young Justice, Invader Zim, and Avatar the Last Airbender has crap animation? Besides, wasn't your argument that modern shows are bad because they're PC and sugarcoat things? It seems you're stuck in a nostalgia hole. A lot of those shows everyone remembers were the exception to the crap they usually put on TV at the time. And I'd also like to point out that the most acclaimed shows from the 90's that everyone still talks about, like Batman TAS, were very PC and sugarcoated things like death which seldom occurred. Batman TAS also stood out BECAUSE of its quality animation and deeper stories where most animation at that time was still relatively cheap with meaningless mind numbing stories to push toy lines. Nowadays cartoons have to follow different types of censorship and heavy studio mandates. Since the advent and proliferation of CG, 3D and things like flash, animation has become cheaper, and so has its look. Which is why things are usually stylized, like adventure time, regular show, gumball, or mlp to fit the new ways things are animated. But besides that, gumball is a marvel of animation if you actually saw it. Instead of staying in your nostalgia hole, try to expand and look at the great shows that have existed through the 2000's, the 2010's and what's currently being made, like Kipo, samurai jack, over the garden wall, Castlevania, and Hilda. Animators nowadays have a lot more freedom to tell stories because of streaming and they take advantage of that.
True, but I wouldn't expect to see anyone from Team Quest die. It's a caroos for kids after all. Although Jonny's mother is dead and hardly ever mentioned. Props to the show, however, that we did some major characters die (even though they were villains).
I 14:36 I remember this so fresh as yesterday...my God this one was so so frightening...trust me when I say this ...I was only 8-9 years old when I saw that. When we went to see any historical monuments I use to get scared bcoz of this episode
Yo recuerdo un episodio donde los descendientes de los vikingos aun viven ocultos en los manglares de Florida y usan a los cocodrilos. Los tipos malos son el dueños y los trabajadores de una torre petrolera. Al final del episodio estos atacan la torre y matan a todos o se los comen los cocodrilos. Pero el tipo mas malo de todos muere decapitado por el jefe vikingo. No se muestra pero la pantalla negra se ve un filo rojo y se oye claramente el ruido al cortar la cabeza.
It's an art piece by Zdzisław Beksiński. It doesn't really have a name, because as a rule he wouldn't name his works (he believed a name limits viewer's possibilities of interpretation), but it's sometimes refered to as "Crawling Death". There's a biopic about Beksinski called "The Last Family" (2016).
Well 3:03 it was her own fault for what is happening and I noticed this episode reminds me of Deepsix dive, Deep Blue Sea and Underwater with Kristin Stewart, it is a coincidence that the mummies design look completely identical to the Zombies from Scooby Doo on zombie island, the Live Entombment just reminds me of this movie called the Dark Tower 1987 not to be confused with Stephen King which I don’t want to spoil it if anyone has seen the movie from 1987, Ezekiel Rage is a pretty underrated villain along with Jeremiah Surd because I did notice that he is like Dr Phibes and the Phantom of the opera. I wonder what underground base is where the white tiger is hiding? What is that thing when you are doing the top 10 And the last is the number 1 is Johnny and Jesse actually kissed and I wonder how their fathers would react to this?
Thank you so much for such a rich comment! I really appreciate it. You got some impressive knowledge of horror movies there. Yeah, I'm sure folks behind The Real Adventures were inspired by all kinds of horror movies, but I would also like to believe that many of their scary ideas were original. And maybe even they inspired people behind the Zombie Island? That's a 1998 movie, while The Real Adventures was a 1996-1997 production. I'm planning to discuss Rage and Surd in an upcoming video because both were really cool. I really like how many of Quest's villains weren't just some evil dudes. They had depth. You mean the illustration I use? That's a paiting by the great Zdzisław Beksińsk called "Crawling Death". If you like dark art, you have to check out Beksiński! He was the master! How would Dr. Quest and Race react to their kids fooling around? That's a good question! They have pretty unusual parenting style when it comes to exposing them to all kinds of violence, but hooking up is something completely different, I guess.
@@Land_Far_AwayThe studio that did the second season of The Real Adventures did Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and the other three of the first four Direct to Video Scooby-Doo movies. Mook DLE. Also, you forgot the deaths of Clark and Hill from Race Against Danger. Killed by a spiked pit and torn apart by fake vines.
The death scene that scared me the most in this series was in Season two's More than Zero Two scientists got trapped in some room by this evil entity haunting the house they were studying When they got locked in the ceiling started pushing down to them on I mean just imagine the hopelessness those scientists felt when the ceiling was coming down and they couldn't get out It was slowly coming down on them and just when it reached the bottom the scientists were squished flat like insects it's just horrible to imagine Locked in a room with a ceiling coming down on you and you only have half a minute to live to be crushed freaking A that sucks
Yesss, that's the one! In season 2 they would occasionally flirt with the idea of Jonny and Jessie being a thing. Like I say in the video, this episode stuck with me for over 15 years!
I would say four of your choices definitely stuck with me for over 20 years. Especially the close ups of the villains’ faces in the moment of their death. The guy in the snake pit, the lady who falls to her death, the dude in the hazmat suit who changes into a mummy (shudders) and the family who sees the ghosts and they’re all shouting “Noooooo!” Not sure if they died, but that stuck with me
@@VenusHeadTrap2 This just shows how amazing series this was! I really can't wrap my head around the fact that The Real Adventures aren't as revered nowadays as, let's say, Batman: TAS (which I also love).
Man undersea urgency got to me as a kid, not cause of the death of that one scientist but more so the body count of those scuba workers johnny and Jessie were working with until it was just those two cause we got much from their deaths on sound alone. For a second I even thought haji was one of them, keep in mind this was when I was like four maybe five years old seeing these episodes and they weren't really aired in order at the time.
Thanks for sharing your memories! While doing this list I avoided scenes of mass killings, but there are so many more disturbing death scenes in this whole series than just these ten I picked. Undersea Urgency is easily one of the scariest episodes of JQ ever. I can see how it would traumatize a child. I didn't see it back in the 90s. For some reason, Cartoon Network in my country would focus on season one. I barely have any memories of watching season two episodes in the 90s.
@@Land_Far_Away Ty. I love that film. It still spooks me a bit that it could be theoretically possible to make hurricanes and typhoons from space with a strong laser or large mirror. X_x
That's the artpiece by the brilliant Zdzisław Beksiński known as... AE73 (Beksiński didn't believe in naming his art, because a title often forces an interpretation onto a viewer), sometimes refered to as "Creeping Death". If you like really creepy art, Beksiński was the man!
I never watched that version of Johnny Quest before and have been meaning to for some time, but man is this some dark stuff! I knew Johnny Quest had its moments at times, but this is darker than the other Johnny Quest shows that I watched on Cartoon Network! Even so, I still want to watch it because Johnny Quest was a good cartoon and one of the gems of Hanna Barbera.
By the way, do you know where I can watch the full series of The Real Adventures Of Johnny Quest? Is it on the Max streaming service because it would be easier for me to watch it then?
@@NightFangClash I don't think so, but I'm based in Europe, so at least here you can't watch Jonny Quest on Max. Not sure about US. I'm rely on my DVDs.
@@Land_Far_Away thx for making these videos these are quite refreshing more than some modern cartoon. Back then consequences were more varied than straight up death threat
To be fair , it was just being faithful to the original show , in which characters would die quite a lot. Usually not shown too disturbingly . With a few exceptions .
Such faithfulness is worthy of high praise. Especially from today's perspective. In general, The Real Adventures was a wonderful reboot/sequel of the original show.
Yeeep...and I still remembered these, or at least from the episodes I watched. God, this show did NOT pull any punches. Swat Katz either, but here was very graphic even without always showing it.
God damn this show was fucking awesome! Definitely one of the greatest American action shows ever underrated has hell and sadly a forgotten gem. The creativity alone to the plots was fantastic and unique in its own right and no show has come close to it in like 20 years. Such a shame it's so obscure and only got 2 seasons. Seriously I've got all of the episodes burned into my mind despite me not seeing it for over 20 years that's how memorable it was! Sure it may have been due to reruns but still. Also the guy buried in the wall lived he just went crazy I believe this was stated at the end of the episode. And let's face it it would've been really really fucked up if they just left him there...
Yess, that's what I did: I rewatched the whole series few years ago, for the first time since the 90s, and I was shocked just how much of it stuck with me for decades. Truly amazing show!
It has been pointed out to me before that the guy buried in the wall did survive. I really messed that up, yeah. Still that's a horrible way to go. Honestly, him surviving sounds like something ad-libbed late in the game, because an executive complained. The whole episode is hardcore as it is. It featues a woman being thrown down the stairs and then buried in a wall! And that's not sugarcoated.
@@Land_Far_Away Lol it would've been really screwed up if Johnny and the gang just left him there and it was also stated they dug up her body and gave her a proper burial. Maybe if no one saw him get taken in their I can see it but definitely not with witnesses that are supposed to be the good guys and she definitely had to have a happy ending getting properly buried
Yeah, the gang dealt with dead bodies on several occasions. I remember one episode in which Jessie survived a plane crash, but the pilot did not, so she had to bury him under rocks. Man, this show...
Same here! My were: Batman TAS, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, The Pirates of Dark Water, Swat Kats. For some reason, I never caught OG Jonny Quest on TV, so I didn't watch it until much, much later. Same for Extreme Ghostbusters.
@@Land_Far_Away Oh yeah Batman TAS and the Pirates of Dark Water, those were awesome. Also Cadillacs and Dinosaurs now that I remember (I wish Cadillacs, PoDW and Swatkats had more seasons). I'm from Argentina and watched on Cartoon Network, maybe that's why I saw OG Jonny Quest.
That was an awesome time do be a kid! So many great shows that are still enjoyable 25+ years later. I haven't seen Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, but I will check that one out. Thanks! I have a video on The Pirates of Dark Water and I will be posting a review of S01E01 of The Real Adventures today or tomorrow (depends on copyright checks).
I'll join the other comments in saying I expected the two poachers from N'dovu's Last Journey to be on this list. Particularly the one that gets thrown onto an elephant tusk. Still this was a fun watch. Despite how often I watch the show I still forget how brutal it can be. (And wow Haunted Sonata... forgot about that one entirely. It's gotta be my least favorite episode so I never go back and watch it)
I think construction workers dying from poisonous gas (I included these scenes in the intro) and a composer pushing his student down the stairs (No 3) would qualify. That's pretty explicit for children cartoons. But if you're looking for something more extreme then try anime or adult animation.
Few things. I do like that you say you aren't objective about this, there's no way to be. I've gotten into arguments about this very thing, though it was less "what is more brutal" and more "what is worse". I always say the best way to die is the quickest and least painful, so I choose shotgun mouthwash and that really seems to disturb people. "But that's so over the top and messy!" "I'll be dead why would I care?!" 10. I actually did miss it on my first viewing. I was wondering where she went. 9: Ezekial Rage was amazing. A well written even sympathetic villain when you realize what the feds did to his family. They'd never write a character like that again in a million years, unless it was a bunch of racist cops and he was black. 8. Never saw this one. But that would make a great reaction image next time someone posts something gross in my friend circles. 7. Asking for it? By trying to put down a tiger running around a city killing people? I think you mean he was probably more prepared to die than its other victims. 4. This one really bothered me actually. The idea of rapid aging or withering away is just under used enough that when it does show its face it always gets a reaction, and I think this or the episode where the man wishes for immortality but doesn't get eternal youth bundled with it was my first exposure. 3. This concept was first introduced to me by Edgar Allen Poe though, getting bricked in. Very high up on the list of worst ways to go, trapped in a wall or cave always bothers me. I'd say the ghost was less an animal and more a protozoa. 2. idontdosnakesidontdosnakesidontdosnakesidontdosnakesidontdosnakesidontdosnakes 1. Well if you think that is scary you should look up the common religious concept of hell. Because that is what this is. Rather than argue this list though or make my own I think I'd like to just mention the original series and how horrifically out of place it was in the 60s compared to most other cartoons, even action cartoons. A pulp comic come to life. Lots of brutal deaths there, the Yeti episode actually scared me when I saw it as a toddler, Zen's spider robot electrocuting the soldier, the mummy dragging a guy back to his crypt to entomb him, the fighter pilot's plane catching on fire before he crashed and giving him plenty of time to burn alive, guys thrown into acid and lava... But the one that always bothered me was the komodo dragon episode, after establishing that komodos will eat people while they are still alive. The main villain has this big henchman that Race managed to best in hand to hand combat. After they escape he's whipping and scolding him, and finally the big guy has enough. Takes the whip from him, picks him up as he is screaming for mercy, casually walks over to a pit they are keeping komodos in and chunks him in. As he screams and you hear bones snapping and flesh tearing (or was that my child imagination?) the big guy stands at the top of the pit laughing at him. I was genuinely horrified, even as a kid in the 90s watching reruns of the show it absolutely messed with me and gave me nightmares. Maybe it is because I saw it before Real Adventures, but it is the only one to do that. /essay post
Thank you for such an insightful comment. I appreciate it a lot! To address at least few of your points... 1) English is not my native tongue. That's why my wording can sometimes be imprecise or just weird. 2) Ezekiel Rage was indeed a great villain. I've always liked his creepy design and his tragic backstory. He was basically trying to start the Apocalypse because of the death of his family. This show had several villains of similar caliber, Surd being my favorite. 3) The show's writers drew inspiration from various sources, including literature. I'm sure they read Poe's "The Rats in the Walls", although I myself know the concept of immurement from medieval history. 4) There are many different visions/depictions of hell, but each and every one addresses man's worst fears. The idea of re-living one's death/murder every night for eternity is definitely hellish. 5) For some weird reason I never caught reruns of the OG Jonny Quest as a kid. Cartoon Netword never aired them in my part of the world. I saw them only in my 30s. That was an exceptional cartoon, indeed, but I don't have nostalgia for it. Unlike the Real Adventures which I grew up watching. Anyway, check out the Jonny Quest documentary, which is on UA-cam.
@@Land_Far_Away I less make points and more just type up incoherent rambling haha Rage left a huge impression. I was raised in an evangelical Christian home so my mother overheard him and didn't like it. Still let me watch but was sure to say "this isn't how a Christian behaves". But when they found the 'book of rage' and it was a family photo album she caught that too. "What?" "The government did in his family" "Oh." It was like a switch flipped for her, where he was a propagandic caricature before he was now sympathetic and an example of how things can escalate out of control in a cycle of revenge. Ezekiel was still a monster, but one that was created rather than born. It was such a mind blowing moment, something you never forget. OG Quest is helped a lot by comparing it to its contemporaries. Just in an era of Cartoon Network before they tried to compete with Nicktoons and all these reruns from the 50s, 60s and 70s it really stood out. I think the one that came closest to it was Space Ghost, and even it never got the grit down right. When I first saw it in the early 90s it even managed to give the cartoons of that era a run for their money. The Batman Animated series was very adult, but couldn't quite get away with that level of violence even if it was way better animated. The only one I remember even coming close before Real Adventures was Mighty Max. Sadly it was still a product of its time, and even with all their creativity it never could quite overcome the curse of limited animation.
Well, one person's ramblings are another person's gripping read. Thanks for sharing your story. You don't expect any complexity in cartoon villains. 99% of the time they're doing the evil thing just for the sake of being evil. Meanwhile The Real Adventures really had a neck for villains with interesting agenda, or a tragic backstory. Also, so many of them met their end before the show was cancelled. My dad caught few episodes of The Real Adventures with me. We definitely watched the werewolf one together. I remember him being pretty surprised how "adult-oriented" the show was. Oh, and the werewolf was another sympathetic villain. I lived through the 90s never realizing how exceptional decade that was, including the animation. There were so many gems! I just wish The Real Adventures and Pirates of Dark Water would finally get some recognition from wider public.
@@Land_Far_Away At least Real Adventures and even Mighty Max were concluded. Pirates never was. I will say Mighty Max also had a werewolf episode, where one werewolf was kind of a cerberus. I don't remember much about it past the three headed one, an old man looking for his cat being killed, and that I think it and the Real Adventures episode got mixed up in my head. I used to think the three headed werewolf came from the 90s Johnny Quest, weird how old memories can do that sometimes.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:17 Beheading By a Fish Monster
3:47 Firefall from Space
5:41 Fall to Death
7:21 Mauling By a Tiger
8:46 Volcano of Death
10:05 Death by WTF
12:17 Combo of Death
14:28 Live Entombment
16:25 Killer Snakes
18:05 Circle of Death
20:59 Finish
And that tiger is a rare white one.
With the mummy one that was pretty mild consider to get rid of water it means a body gets a rapid breakdown of cells and becomes organic fluids.
Had to give you a thumbs up just for this wonderful pinned post with time stamped index. This is how compilations videos were done before UA-camrs gots the stupid. Now they not only don't do that, they do movie/show reviews without telling you what they are reviewing so you can't look it up.
That being said I have a problem with the fire from the sky segment. You tell us that there is a lame explanation for how Rage survived but don't tell us what it is.
Also the Easter Island episode you didn't point out the obvious plot hole or tell us if the idiot scriptwriters resolved it. If the missing link died immediately after creation then why do we exist.?
@@bentonmarcum8924 Hey! Sorry it took me 8 months (!) to get to this comment, but somehow it got burried...
1) Thank you for your thumbs up. I appreciate it greately!
2) I'm a devotee of clarity and structure, so time stamped index just makes sense to me.
3) If I remember correctly (it's been a while since I saw that episode) the lame explanation for how Rage survived is in the clip I present. It's basically: "I didn't die. I live". It's sooo Palpatine in Rise of Skywalker...
4) You are right. That is a silly plothole. If I ever get to discuss that episode in my Quest for Quest series, I will definitely mention that. My idea behind this video was to comment on the death scenes, not really the episodes, so that's my excuse. But yeah, you're making a good point.
Do you know what's even more HORRIFYING? The concept of a Jonny Quest sequel/reboot "updated for modern audiences". Imagine this: the original series was released in the 1960s, and The Real Adventures is from the 1990s. Shouldn't we expect a new show in the 2020s?
Oh, I wouldn't want that... Let's hope The Venture Bros. successfully sabotaged the idea of a Jonny Quest sequel.
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@@Land_Far_Away Venture Bros. is a hard act to follow.
@@KlaxontheImpailr Exactly. In more ways than one. The Jonny Quest franchise has always been pretty serious. The Venture Bros took basically the same premise for a show but satirized it brilliantly (at least the first few seasons were brilliant in my opinion). So a Jonny Quest reboot couldn't really be serious, but it also couldn't be funny and meta, because that's what The Venture Bros already is.
Probably wouldn't be anything like the 90's show and would probably be CG or 3D animation.
I remember re-watching this show a year ago and thinking whenever someone died: "did THAT just happen!?". This cartoon was brutal at times.
Most of us were complete clueless. it’s like that scene in Robotech with exposure to space.
The one thing I did respect about cartoon Network in Hanna-Barbera is that they actually like taking risk with their cartoons compared to Nickelodeon and Disney
Totally agree! There was a lot of innovation and pushing boundaries on Cartoon Network back in the 90s. They were the cool ones.
I remember the season 2 episode where Jonny and Hadji are working on Jonny’s grandpa’s ranch and the three of them find find a private company making nuclear weapons; and the villain at the end gets exposed to high doses of radiation. His nearly dead body body is being taken away by men in hazmat suits. That stuck with me for years.
Thanks for sharing! That sounds ghastly. I might do follow-up video. I will make sure to include this death scene and mention you.
Just so you know, your number 3 didn’t die. It’s explained that he was eventually dug out of the entombed wall, but by that point his mind was a mess. It was appropriate, since the man wasn’t directly responsible for the woman’s death but kept the truth of her death hidden and attempted to kill Johnny, Jessie, and the descendant of the ghost.
Whoa, I messed up with that one. Truth to be told, I don't like the ending to the Haunted Sonata, so I usually skip it. It's just too sweet and overly sentimental for my taste. But still, his actual fate is worse than death, so I don't mind the no. 3 spot.
Was about to mention that he didn't die. Will say it was nice after freeing him they gave that woman a proper burial with honors.
Yeah. I guess it just wanted to teach him a lesson he would never forget and let him spend the rest of his days as a complete mental wreck or paranoid and terrified if he ever snaps out of it, which is as close as she could get to getting her revenge on her murderer.
Good job on the video! Please make more about other brutal deaths in other shows or movies because there's many that you can mention that are all dark and disturbing in their own right?
Unfortunately for that guy, he didn't die, he was dug up from the catacombs lucky for him but the worst news for him he was in deep shock and traumatized.
But on the bright side Anna can finally rest in peace.
Jonny Quest is one of the best H-B cartoons ever and that's saying a lot. Hanna-Barbera provided such an enormous amount of great entertainment throughout my life I almost feel indebted. I do have to agree that the death scenes you've shown here are noteworthy.
Thank you for your beautiful and wise words. Hanna-Barbera gets a bad rep nowadays. People either forget, or simply ignore the fact that generations grew up watching cartoons created by them. Some of my earliest memories are of... watching the OG Scooby-Doo. I credit the show for my love of dogs and my knowledge of the English language.
4:59
- Palpatine, you were supposed to be dead!
- No, I live.
The death from In the Wake of the Mary Celeste reminds me of a few things. 1.) that primeval, cosmic kind of inexplicable horror, 2.) the Loc-Nar from the Heavy Metal film, and 3.) a tv movie called The Stone Tape. The latter two kind of tie into the first, both being ancient entities humanity is capable of controlling (except for that ending in Heavy Metal, but you get what I mean).
Thank's for your insights! Folks behind this show definitely were into some dark stuff. I would love to retrace all of their influences.
The one with the black pearl and the scientists getting crushed to death in the side room freaked me out
Good one! Thanks for sharing.
That’s the one I thought of too.
I still have memories of that one to this day.
That was one that stuck with me all the way until this day. I thought that would’ve made number one.
I remember a GQ episode... I think the title was "Less Than Zero"... where Johnny, Race, and Hadji go to a haunted Italian castle. A pair of would-be "ghostbusters" are there t show off their ghost repelling technology, banking on the Quest family name attracting financiers, both to help improve their so-so- equipment as well as to enrich themselves. They wind up in a "The Walls are Closing In" room (well, ceiling actually), and while the resultant carnage isn't shown other than Race's disgusted look when he opens the door and checks inside, their terrified looks and screams shown before the POV moves away were quite unsettling.
Yesss, that's a good one too! It was actually the very last episode of The Real Adventures to air (No 52 out of 52).
Props to your editing skills! I know this is a rather grim topic for a video but there is so much visual humor here!
I remember the Elephant Graveyard episode where the bad guy is impaled. and the Jersey Devil
Great choices! The Elephant Graveyard one is definitely going on my second list. The Jersey Devil episode was cool as well. It had a tattooed baby.
My very favorite TV show as a kid, even though it reliably scared the absolute fucking shit out of me. They just don't make western cartoons this hardcore anymore. The closest we've gotten in recent memory was probably Gravity Falls, which was a fantastic show, but nowhere near the level of nightmare fuel I had in my childhood.
My top 3 shows as a kid were The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Batman TAS, The Pirates of Dark Water (stay tuned). 90s were an amazing decade for cartoons.
This cartoon had a lot of scary moments even not involving death. For example, Surd chasing Jonny all over Questworld disguised as Medusa. That was some freaky stuff considering I was only 5 years old back then.
True dat! This cartoon definitely made numerous horror fans.
There was also Exosquad and a shit ton of brutal deaths.
It's kind of amusing what kids cartoons were able to get away with in the 1990s. I remember watching the 90s Incredible Hulk show and the writers clearly having She-Hulk orgasm when she first hulks out.
Oh yes! Apart from quality, that's one of many other reasons why it's so interesting to re-watch these old cartoons now.
This series it s one of the most underated in the history now
Definitely! It still boggles my mind why it never became a hit with the audience.
The show is so dark and there some other violent deaths i wanted to point out. The nerve gas from episode 2, Walker and his goons thrown into the water and get eaten by Alligators.
Oh yeah, that's a dark one too! I'm thinking about doing a follow-up to this video, so I might include that one.
For some reason i remember Jessie Bannon dying in this show, that is where the clip of her flicking her hair back in the intro came from. She and Johnny were about to fall of a mountain he had Jesse by the hand, he lost his grip and she fell. Unless it was some other girl in the show it happened to.
Hmm, I don't remember that scene/episode. Gonna need to check. But Jessie definitely didn't die. She was close to dying, though. There's an episode where she's in a plane crash and she has to bury the pilot afterwards. Man...
I remember "More than Zero" having a few disturbing deaths inside of it, like the scientists being crushed alive
Oh yeah, this show didn't pull any punches. I will probably make a list with additional 10 death scenes at some point.
I honestly wish we could go back to these kinds of shows. Even if it was off screen, knowing that someone actually dies in these cartoons makes this much more thrilling. *sigh* Twas a time when people were not woke snowflakes nor liberal pansies. (Please excuse any mention of politics) @@Land_Far_Away
I really do appreciate that you gave credits one of the most underrated animated series ever. And one of the darkest. Thank you!
Thank you for your sharing your comments and memories! I wanted to devote this channel mostly to celebrating Jonny Quest, but UA-cam has recently stepped in. Now I have to rethink my plans.
Sigh, I wish shows like Pokemon, Amphibia, and The Owl House had brutal death scenes like these.
Thank you for commenting! Yeah, the days of cartoons with such brutal death scenes are far gone.
I only remember the poachers being killed by elephants. Other than that, I totally forgot how brutal and dark this show was.
That one was brutal as well. To be fair, it was on my list.
The one thing from this show that terrified me for years as a kid was Medusa. The type of ghost you listed as number 1 is what's called a "Death Echo", it's when they are cursed to re-enact their deaths over and over again due to the emotional shock. According to lore, if a witness can communicate with the ghost and persuade them to accept their death, they would break the curse and so the ghost can move onto the after life.
Yeah, the Medusa looked creepy as hell. Plus Frank Welker's brilliant voice acting made her even scarier.
Didn't know about the "Death Echo". I know such phenomena from literature, but didn't know the name. Thanks for spreading the knowledge.
@@Land_Far_Away Full disclosure, I got the name from that WB fantasy action series, Supernatural.
Cool. I know of the show. Haven't watched it myself. It was a reaaally long-running one, right?
Honestly, these are great choices. But the one that comes to mind when it comes to horrible death, in my opinion, is the death of the villains in that elephant episode. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of it.
Thanks man. YES! I do know that episode, it's called "Ndovu's Last Journey". The main villain gets impaled on elephant bones. That's a great choice as well. I should have included it in honorary mentions of sorts.
@@Land_Far_Away Thank you.
what about hawk bawlings where horses trampled him to death @@Land_Far_Away
Atleast this show didn't sugarcoat death.
The gruesome deaths in this series were probably reason why people remember this show so well.
That's definitely one of the reasons. Back in the 90s I treated this show like an animated version of The X-Files. It gave me thrills, but wasn't as scary as some things on The X-Files.
QUick comment on the Haunted Sonata episode. The composer descendant actually wasn't killed. During the epilogue of the episode, the characters talk about that. They do imply the dude went insane being walled up before they (I presume workers brought in by the Czech Prime Minister seeing as to her personal relationship with the Quest family) freed the guy.
Not dead, though arguably a worse fate.
Enjoyed the video. RAoJQ was a solid show back in the 90s.
Whoa, I messed up with that one. Truth to be told, I don't like the ending to the Haunted Sonata, so I usually skip it. It's just too sweet and overly sentimental for my taste. But still, you said it best. His actual fate is worse than death, so I don't mind the no. 3 spot.
I wonder about this show's fascination with Prague. That's such a random location for Americans, yet the Quests go back there twice in one season. Maybe they had a Czech writer on board.
@@Whazaaam The first time made sense considering they wanted to touch upon the Golem lore. When Gargoyles touched upon the Golem, they also ended up in Prague. Still you make an interesting point considering they could have set Haunted Sonata anywhere in central Europe and gotten the same effect. Probably just a choice as an excuse to bring back the Prime Minster character, as a reasonable location the Jonny and Jessie to be by themselves without any other main characters with them (something I'll always commend American animated shows on. Anime is already unafraid to do different kind of stories with smaller groups of it's main cast, and I'm happy to see American shows try it as well. My personal favorite animated show growing up, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, did this a lot).
@@chopdog6563 A lot of great points. As for The Haunted Sonata, I would guess Vienna would be a more obvious choice of location for an episode focusing on a classical composer/pianist. But maybe they wanted to avoid the comparison to the slightly overused story of Mozart and Salieri? Especially given the whole jealousy plotline.
The entombment from the Haunted Sonata was the one that stayed with me. I was a very introspective 7 year-old so I not only perceived this as being buried alive with a skeletal corpse, but that the gentleman would be supernaturally kept alive in this wall.
It made an intense impression on me, lol.
Thanks for sharing! Yeah, that one was a shocker!
What, no love for the two commandos that die to the island traps? One falls onto a pit of spikes and the other is eaten by tentacles. Now that shit fucked me up.
Glad you bring that up! It was on my list. I will probably do a follow-up video at one point.
The tentacles didn’t eat him, they tore him apart. Completely different.
I remember that snake pit episode more than the others. That and the Jersey Devil one. God this show is probably to blame for my love of gore at such a young age. Need to buy this series asap
That Jersey Devil episode was scary indeed. And it had a baby with a tattoo.
I also think this show is what made me such a fan of horror, crime stories and extreme metal.
"They don't convey the horror of what has just happened, and since they didn't seem to care much, neither do we as viewers."
I'm sorry but that is something that an AI would say. "Caring" is irrelevant in horror deaths. A death can feel insanely brutal despite what the characters are like or how the characters around react to it.
Agree to disagree. To me it's all about characters reacting to what's going on, who is being killed and how. But it's just my personal preference. I don't like slashers for this very reason.
I'm a huge fan of the original series from 1965. Nothing compares to the big band jazz provided by Hoyt Curtin, and the adventures with their use of futuristic technologies were exciting and fun to watch! I think it's a shame Jonny and Hadji went from 10 year old boys to older teens.
Yess, the intro to the OG JQ is beyond epic!
I understand the logic behind making the sequel/reboot series about teenage Jonny and Hadji. Personally, I didn't mind it. After all, this creative choice allowed them to be more involved in the action, and opened the show to new kind of stories.
I remember watching Mummies of Malenque as a kid and being traumatized by it. Good list.
Thank you. I'm considering doing a sequel.
Some of these episodes stuck with me for a long time as well. That's why I'm making these videos almost 20 years later.
The studio that animated the second season, Mook DLE, went on to do Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, and the mummies look a lot like the zombies.
That makes a lot of sense! Some of the creepiest designs come from season 2.
They also animated several Season 1 episodes and the whole of Season 2 of Swat Kats.
Go back to the original series, probably even more deaths in nearly every episode.
Yup.
08:29. Really, a trained and armed PROFESSIONAL being taken down by this creature doesn't scare you more? Bruh.
You got me thinking about it. The guy doesn't know, I would presume, he's hunting a tiger, because at that point of the story it's still a mystery. He's probably an assassin looking for a human murderer. That would explain why he's so ill-prepared for a tiger attack. So yeah, that elevates this scene.
I need to watch this at some point
It's worth your time! That's a really cool show, even for adults.
What about “Ndovu’s Last Journey?” One poacher gets trampled by an elephant, the other gets impaled on elephant tusks.
Yes, that's a great choice. I believe @masontyler3237 has already mentioned that one in a previous comment. I'm thinking about doing a follow-up to this video. I should have included some honorary mentions.
Another one which stands out to me is the one where the gang investigates another haunted mansion (in Paris or something I think,) and the two scientists helping them are thrown into a room and crushed by a lowered stone ceiling. As with many of the deaths, you don't explicitly see it, but Race remarks after the incident how the gang is better off than "these two poor guys," or something.
Sorry, don't know the name of the episode though. If anyone does, definitely let us know!
I think you're talking about the episode "More Than Zero". I need to rewatch that one. Thank's for your suggestion. I'm thinking about doing a follow-up to this video. I should have included some honorary mentions.
@@Land_Far_Away that's the one, yeah!
I distinctively remember those victims who got their life drained in the episode Eclipse. That disturbed my very much as a child.
Same here! That's why I'm making these videos almost 20 years later.
Try ranking some of the deaths from the original Jonny Quest from the 60's.
Yeah, that's a good idea. I just don't have as much history with the OG series as I have with this one. That dictated the order.
It's been a very long time since I last saw Johnny Quest (well this version at least), and let me tell you how I thought these deaths were very gruesome even if they never or barely showed it in full screen. Considering that it used to air on Cartoon Network (at least where I am from), it was shocking to say the least.
But I had a blast watching this series!
Thanks for sharing your memories! Actually these are similar to my own. I too watched this show on Cartoon Network. It was weird seeing it sandwitched between mostly mild and innocent shows. The Real Adventures provided some of my early glimpses into aduldhood.
This and Swat Kats was my favorite
Yesss, I don't mention Swat Kats on this channel enough, but I loved that show as well. I credit that epic intro for turning me into a metalhead. I'm actually about to do a rewatch.
Undersea Urgency is My Favorite Episode Remind Me of 1964 J.Q.
That's fair. "Undersea Urgency" aired in Season 2 of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, and that one was intended as more of a continuation of the OG JQ, while Season 1 was a bit of a departure.
@@Land_Far_Away Touche' (smile)
wasn't there one where someone crumbles to dust after being freed of a curse of eternal life without eternal youth
Hmm, I don't remember that one, but I will check. It definitely sounds like something this show would do.
@@Land_Far_AwayMore than Zero.
10) That was just crazy. They could have said that she lost 20 years of her life working on this facility and needed something out of it other than shame and regret;
9) Very very dramatic but I like to think Rage escaped but lost a leg and an arm;
8) This episode was probably one of the most memorable. The story however is a bit weak... and clichee but the death is horrifying because the priest could have stopped it but didn't.
7) I have no idea why you think that the hunter was anything other than a faker. Being a hunter is anout being stealthy and finding stealthy beasts. The fact that the fool didn't bring close range (fire)arms says volumes aboit how inexperienced he was. Also Shades?! In the middle of the night!?!
6) This death is not as ridiculius as you think. The alien could have been there of his own choice and against his own people' law of interfeering with natural evolution. So he choose this remote area that was about tobe destroyed by the active Volcano to experiment on an ape and cover his tracks. But he didn' expect the volcano to errupt so soon.
5) we discover that the sinking of the ships the first mate survived and wrote about it. So the aliens just want the gold. Everything else is inconsequential.
4) s strange that they aurvived long enough to make a cure but not long enough to save themselves;
3) It was stated at the end of the episode that they dug the guy out but he lost his sanity being traumatized by the event.
2) Salim fell from that height and survived and tried to jump to safety. So it was not a fall death unless he fell head first;
1) That is a weird death. Why not a haunting? Also why is the Lady running to throw herself but was actually pushed ?! It makes no sense.
This is a weird circle of death and revenge.
I love the show, but I hated the CGI segments. The villains appearing when they should be dead was annoying for both Rage and Surd.
I remember these episodes. Ghost Quest was Jonny x Jessie shipper's dream.
Yeah, back in 90s the CGI segments were pretty innovative, but they didn't impress me even back then. Nowadays these segments are the only thing that really ages this show.
I understand your number one but personally I think the one with haji's cousin will have more impact. Its literally a 'reap what you sow' kind of deal as the servant attempted to grab his leg and showed us, the audience, the horrors of what awaits him! Also with that being said, I'm surprised you didn't mention the following with a ghost episode; The Ghost Snapped the neck of the Butler / assistant before attacking and dragging the villain into that wall. On top of that they later said that he was screaming Madness so he clearly survived. I will definitely say the real Adventures of Jonny Quest definitely continue the traditions of the original show as there were many many gruesome deaths and villains receiving they're just desserts. I do kind of wish you could have covered the living supercomputer as well as that is a nightmarish yet amazing episode at the same time!😂
Thank you for your lenghty comment. I appreciate it dearly! The snake pit kill is horrible as all hell. My number one is not as scary in presentation, but conceptually it just hit me really hard. But hey, it's a highly subjective list.
Yeah, the guy surviving being entombed in a wall was a dud on my part. For some reason I blocked out the fact that the guy survived. Probably because everything else in that episode was so gruesome.
There's definitely enough material do to a sequel to this video!
Funny that you mention the supercomputer episode, because I will be posting a review today in the afternoon. However, I'm not much of a fan of that one. My biggest problem is namely that fact that it's a biocomputer, not a living creature. I just couldn't grasp it. Can't wait to hear your thoughts.
The real Jonny Quest 1964 and Speed Racer-1967 were the best for horrible deaths.
That's one of many reasons why going back in time and re-watching really old cartoons is so neat.
When animation was decent entertaining and non PC or not sugar-coated I miss the 80s and 90s
100% agree with you! I especially remember appreciating cartoons that didn't treat me like a child and didn't think I can't handle darker themes.
Just because something's PC doesn't mean it's bad. Adventure time, Young Justice, and Team Titans, to name a few, were amazing shows and they are definitely PC.
@Worm-revolver seriously those shows are crap animation today has gotten lazy and cheap the 80s 90s and 00s was the best in quality of animation
@@MarkPiccolo you're saying Young Justice, Invader Zim, and Avatar the Last Airbender has crap animation? Besides, wasn't your argument that modern shows are bad because they're PC and sugarcoat things? It seems you're stuck in a nostalgia hole. A lot of those shows everyone remembers were the exception to the crap they usually put on TV at the time. And I'd also like to point out that the most acclaimed shows from the 90's that everyone still talks about, like Batman TAS, were very PC and sugarcoated things like death which seldom occurred. Batman TAS also stood out BECAUSE of its quality animation and deeper stories where most animation at that time was still relatively cheap with meaningless mind numbing stories to push toy lines. Nowadays cartoons have to follow different types of censorship and heavy studio mandates. Since the advent and proliferation of CG, 3D and things like flash, animation has become cheaper, and so has its look. Which is why things are usually stylized, like adventure time, regular show, gumball, or mlp to fit the new ways things are animated. But besides that, gumball is a marvel of animation if you actually saw it. Instead of staying in your nostalgia hole, try to expand and look at the great shows that have existed through the 2000's, the 2010's and what's currently being made, like Kipo, samurai jack, over the garden wall, Castlevania, and Hilda. Animators nowadays have a lot more freedom to tell stories because of streaming and they take advantage of that.
A hunter without a knife, LOL?!
Maybe that's what got him killed: ill-preparedness.
So how DO you know that the scientist in Number 10 was beheaded?
Well, I don't. But these fish creatures weren't large enough to eat a whole person in one bite, but they could easily behead someone, I imagine.
most of these deaths are of the villains so at least they get their comeuppance
True, but I wouldn't expect to see anyone from Team Quest die. It's a caroos for kids after all. Although Jonny's mother is dead and hardly ever mentioned. Props to the show, however, that we did some major characters die (even though they were villains).
What were they thinking!?
I 14:36 I remember this so fresh as yesterday...my God this one was so so frightening...trust me when I say this ...I was only 8-9 years old when I saw that. When we went to see any historical monuments I use to get scared bcoz of this episode
I believe you! I was the same age in 96/97. This show really left a mark on me. This is why I'm making these videos in 2023.
Yo recuerdo un episodio donde los descendientes de los vikingos aun viven ocultos en los manglares de Florida y usan a los cocodrilos. Los tipos malos son el dueños y los trabajadores de una torre petrolera. Al final del episodio estos atacan la torre y matan a todos o se los comen los cocodrilos. Pero el tipo mas malo de todos muere decapitado por el jefe vikingo. No se muestra pero la pantalla negra se ve un filo rojo y se oye claramente el ruido al cortar la cabeza.
Yes, I remember the episode as well! Powerful death scene, even though I don't really like the plot itself.
That snake scene stuck with me as a kid
I can imagine! That's one gruesome death scene...
What was the opening image called i want to know the name
It's an art piece by Zdzisław Beksiński. It doesn't really have a name, because as a rule he wouldn't name his works (he believed a name limits viewer's possibilities of interpretation), but it's sometimes refered to as "Crawling Death". There's a biopic about Beksinski called "The Last Family" (2016).
Man, I totally forgot about Johnny Quest
Well 3:03 it was her own fault for what is happening and I noticed this episode reminds me of Deepsix dive, Deep Blue Sea and Underwater with Kristin Stewart, it is a coincidence that the mummies design look completely identical to the Zombies from Scooby Doo on zombie island, the Live Entombment just reminds me of this movie called the Dark Tower 1987 not to be confused with Stephen King which I don’t want to spoil it if anyone has seen the movie from 1987, Ezekiel Rage is a pretty underrated villain along with Jeremiah Surd because I did notice that he is like Dr Phibes and the Phantom of the opera.
I wonder what underground base is where the white tiger is hiding?
What is that thing when you are doing the top 10
And the last is the number 1 is Johnny and Jesse actually kissed and I wonder how their fathers would react to this?
Thank you so much for such a rich comment! I really appreciate it. You got some impressive knowledge of horror movies there.
Yeah, I'm sure folks behind The Real Adventures were inspired by all kinds of horror movies, but I would also like to believe that many of their scary ideas were original. And maybe even they inspired people behind the Zombie Island? That's a 1998 movie, while The Real Adventures was a 1996-1997 production.
I'm planning to discuss Rage and Surd in an upcoming video because both were really cool. I really like how many of Quest's villains weren't just some evil dudes. They had depth.
You mean the illustration I use? That's a paiting by the great Zdzisław Beksińsk called "Crawling Death". If you like dark art, you have to check out Beksiński! He was the master!
How would Dr. Quest and Race react to their kids fooling around? That's a good question! They have pretty unusual parenting style when it comes to exposing them to all kinds of violence, but hooking up is something completely different, I guess.
@@Land_Far_AwayThe studio that did the second season of The Real Adventures did Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and the other three of the first four Direct to Video Scooby-Doo movies. Mook DLE.
Also, you forgot the deaths of Clark and Hill from Race Against Danger. Killed by a spiked pit and torn apart by fake vines.
Good list. I'll go watch some Jonny Quest now.
The death scene that scared me the most in this series was in Season two's More than Zero
Two scientists got trapped in some room by this evil entity haunting the house they were studying
When they got locked in the ceiling started pushing down to them on
I mean just imagine the hopelessness those scientists felt when the ceiling was coming down and they couldn't get out
It was slowly coming down on them and just when it reached the bottom the scientists were squished flat like insects it's just horrible to imagine
Locked in a room with a ceiling coming down on you and you only have half a minute to live to be crushed freaking A that sucks
Yes, that's a terrifying one! It will definitely be on my sequel list, if I finally get to do another video in this vain.
@@Land_Far_Away I'm sure you'll do your best we all do till then I look forward to it
Thank you for having faith!
@@Land_Far_AwayYou gotta give it to get it from others as my mother always said
Ghost Quest. Damn, I haven't seen that one since the 90s. That's the one where Johnny and Jesse are possessed and at the end they kiss, right?
Yesss, that's the one! In season 2 they would occasionally flirt with the idea of Jonny and Jessie being a thing. Like I say in the video, this episode stuck with me for over 15 years!
I would say four of your choices definitely stuck with me for over 20 years. Especially the close ups of the villains’ faces in the moment of their death. The guy in the snake pit, the lady who falls to her death, the dude in the hazmat suit who changes into a mummy (shudders) and the family who sees the ghosts and they’re all shouting “Noooooo!” Not sure if they died, but that stuck with me
@@VenusHeadTrap2 This just shows how amazing series this was! I really can't wrap my head around the fact that The Real Adventures aren't as revered nowadays as, let's say, Batman: TAS (which I also love).
Would you consider doing a sequel to this vid?
Yes, I would in fact like to revisit this topic in a sequel!
Oh yeah! Back in the days when "kids shows" got BIG BALLS OF STEEL
90s cartoons were crazy in that way!
Man undersea urgency got to me as a kid, not cause of the death of that one scientist but more so the body count of those scuba workers johnny and Jessie were working with until it was just those two cause we got much from their deaths on sound alone. For a second I even thought haji was one of them, keep in mind this was when I was like four maybe five years old seeing these episodes and they weren't really aired in order at the time.
Thanks for sharing your memories! While doing this list I avoided scenes of mass killings, but there are so many more disturbing death scenes in this whole series than just these ten I picked. Undersea Urgency is easily one of the scariest episodes of JQ ever. I can see how it would traumatize a child. I didn't see it back in the 90s. For some reason, Cartoon Network in my country would focus on season one. I barely have any memories of watching season two episodes in the 90s.
The original was known for its violence. The updated version was notable fore its gore. If the show wax done now, it would be an extreme anima.
Honestly, I hope they won't remake Jonny Quest. Not in current cultural climate.
You have any footage from "Johnny Quest Vs. The Cyber Insects?"
I do! I have a DVD from Walmart lying around somewhere. I will get to it eventually.
@@Land_Far_Away Ty. I love that film. It still spooks me a bit that it could be theoretically possible to make hurricanes and typhoons from space with a strong laser or large mirror. X_x
A series where they actually use actual guns rather than sci fi laser guns from the animated spiderman series
Indeed they did!
That's a lot of murder!
Number three on your list reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe's the black cat.
Yeah, that's a possible source of inspiration. The writers of this show would often put their own spin on various popular tales and concepts.
@@Land_Far_Away cool
I need to watch this soon. My uncle showed me this and one episode that was eerily like Carpenter's the thing, kept me awake at night.
That's one cool uncle!
@@Land_Far_Away he is!! Just did not need what was basically the thing when I was 4 yrs old lol.
you know they actually did find the real mary celeste ship
I didn't know that. But it is a popular mystery story, a modern myth. The Real Adventures liked to tackle those.
What is that art used in-between the Jonny Quest clips? It's also kinda creepy lol
That's the artpiece by the brilliant Zdzisław Beksiński known as... AE73 (Beksiński didn't believe in naming his art, because a title often forces an interpretation onto a viewer), sometimes refered to as "Creeping Death". If you like really creepy art, Beksiński was the man!
@@Land_Far_Away thanks for the info bro!
Cheers! You can also check out his biopic called "The Last Family" (2016).
I never watched that version of Johnny Quest before and have been meaning to for some time, but man is this some dark stuff! I knew Johnny Quest had its moments at times, but this is darker than the other Johnny Quest shows that I watched on Cartoon Network! Even so, I still want to watch it because Johnny Quest was a good cartoon and one of the gems of Hanna Barbera.
Do give the series a try. It's really awesome, and surprisingly dark. I'm currently working on a retrospective, so stick around.
By the way, do you know where I can watch the full series of The Real Adventures Of Johnny Quest? Is it on the Max streaming service because it would be easier for me to watch it then?
@@NightFangClash I don't think so, but I'm based in Europe, so at least here you can't watch Jonny Quest on Max. Not sure about US. I'm rely on my DVDs.
i remember in sonata episode they did unbury the guy from the wall but now i m forgetful if he became insane or became vegetative
Yes, you are right. That's a mistake on my part. Someone had pointed out that fact in the comments before.
@@Land_Far_Away thx for making these videos these are quite refreshing more than some modern cartoon. Back then consequences were more varied than straight up death threat
Thank you. I'm happy to share my memories with you.
Shit I remember that fish thing killing someone! Tried looking for that episode forever
Glad you found it! I'm also haunted by some scenes I saw as a kid.
Another cartoon for bigger children was Roswell consispiracies
I haven't heard of that one. Thanks for your suggestion. I will give that one a try.
To be fair , it was just being faithful to the original show , in which characters would die quite a lot. Usually not shown too disturbingly . With a few exceptions .
Such faithfulness is worthy of high praise. Especially from today's perspective. In general, The Real Adventures was a wonderful reboot/sequel of the original show.
what about more than zero
Well, this list could use a sequel or a different take. There's a lot of material to work with.
Yeeep...and I still remembered these, or at least from the episodes I watched. God, this show did NOT pull any punches. Swat Katz either, but here was very graphic even without always showing it.
Oh yeah, Swat Katz was another one of my favorites. Even though I'm a dog person. Vigilante fighter jet pilots? Sign me in!
It's a shame this is not in HBO Max in Latin America
I feel your pain, man. It's not availiable on streaming in my country either. I just happen to be a happy owner of a DVD set.
God damn this show was fucking awesome! Definitely one of the greatest American action shows ever underrated has hell and sadly a forgotten gem. The creativity alone to the plots was fantastic and unique in its own right and no show has come close to it in like 20 years.
Such a shame it's so obscure and only got 2 seasons. Seriously I've got all of the episodes burned into my mind despite me not seeing it for over 20 years that's how memorable it was! Sure it may have been due to reruns but still.
Also the guy buried in the wall lived he just went crazy I believe this was stated at the end of the episode.
And let's face it it would've been really really fucked up if they just left him there...
Yess, that's what I did: I rewatched the whole series few years ago, for the first time since the 90s, and I was shocked just how much of it stuck with me for decades. Truly amazing show!
It has been pointed out to me before that the guy buried in the wall did survive. I really messed that up, yeah. Still that's a horrible way to go.
Honestly, him surviving sounds like something ad-libbed late in the game, because an executive complained. The whole episode is hardcore as it is. It featues a woman being thrown down the stairs and then buried in a wall! And that's not sugarcoated.
@@Land_Far_Away Lol it would've been really screwed up if Johnny and the gang just left him there and it was also stated they dug up her body and gave her a proper burial. Maybe if no one saw him get taken in their I can see it but definitely not with witnesses that are supposed to be the good guys and she definitely had to have a happy ending getting properly buried
@@Land_Far_Away One of the greatest underrated gems of all time and I'm so happy more people are covering it in a positive light
Yeah, the gang dealt with dead bodies on several occasions. I remember one episode in which Jessie survived a plane crash, but the pilot did not, so she had to bury him under rocks. Man, this show...
Jonny Quest (more the OG but the newers too) and Swatkats were my favorites cartoons as a child.
Edit: oh and Extreme ghost busters.
Same here! My were: Batman TAS, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, The Pirates of Dark Water, Swat Kats. For some reason, I never caught OG Jonny Quest on TV, so I didn't watch it until much, much later. Same for Extreme Ghostbusters.
@@Land_Far_Away Oh yeah Batman TAS and the Pirates of Dark Water, those were awesome. Also Cadillacs and Dinosaurs now that I remember (I wish Cadillacs, PoDW and Swatkats had more seasons). I'm from Argentina and watched on Cartoon Network, maybe that's why I saw OG Jonny Quest.
That was an awesome time do be a kid! So many great shows that are still enjoyable 25+ years later.
I haven't seen Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, but I will check that one out. Thanks!
I have a video on The Pirates of Dark Water and I will be posting a review of S01E01 of The Real Adventures today or tomorrow (depends on copyright checks).
@@Land_Far_AwayI'll check it out
Number 10 is like a combination of Aliens and Piranha 3D.
That sounds about right. Just add some Lovecraft to the mix as well.
I'll join the other comments in saying I expected the two poachers from N'dovu's Last Journey to be on this list. Particularly the one that gets thrown onto an elephant tusk.
Still this was a fun watch. Despite how often I watch the show I still forget how brutal it can be. (And wow Haunted Sonata... forgot about that one entirely. It's gotta be my least favorite episode so I never go back and watch it)
That was a brutal one, I totally agree. And yeah, The Real Adventures is a show worthy of your time, not only for "what were they thinking" factor.
1:26 premonition time stamp.
Yeah, could it be any sadder?
And i thought venture bros was dark......
Nah, "The Venture Bros." is occasionally gory when it comes to death scenes, but it's rarely emotionally engaging IMO.
I really wanna see the actual deaths in cartoons,no offscreen or anything,just morbid curiosity.
I think construction workers dying from poisonous gas (I included these scenes in the intro) and a composer pushing his student down the stairs (No 3) would qualify. That's pretty explicit for children cartoons. But if you're looking for something more extreme then try anime or adult animation.
Hanna-Barbera had shown deaths in some action cartoons.
The first one...Murlocs...
Kinda, yeah.
@@Land_Far_Away Nobody likes Murlocs...this is what they do out of sight of players
Few things. I do like that you say you aren't objective about this, there's no way to be. I've gotten into arguments about this very thing, though it was less "what is more brutal" and more "what is worse". I always say the best way to die is the quickest and least painful, so I choose shotgun mouthwash and that really seems to disturb people. "But that's so over the top and messy!" "I'll be dead why would I care?!"
10. I actually did miss it on my first viewing. I was wondering where she went.
9: Ezekial Rage was amazing. A well written even sympathetic villain when you realize what the feds did to his family. They'd never write a character like that again in a million years, unless it was a bunch of racist cops and he was black.
8. Never saw this one. But that would make a great reaction image next time someone posts something gross in my friend circles.
7. Asking for it? By trying to put down a tiger running around a city killing people? I think you mean he was probably more prepared to die than its other victims.
4. This one really bothered me actually. The idea of rapid aging or withering away is just under used enough that when it does show its face it always gets a reaction, and I think this or the episode where the man wishes for immortality but doesn't get eternal youth bundled with it was my first exposure.
3. This concept was first introduced to me by Edgar Allen Poe though, getting bricked in. Very high up on the list of worst ways to go, trapped in a wall or cave always bothers me. I'd say the ghost was less an animal and more a protozoa.
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1. Well if you think that is scary you should look up the common religious concept of hell. Because that is what this is.
Rather than argue this list though or make my own I think I'd like to just mention the original series and how horrifically out of place it was in the 60s compared to most other cartoons, even action cartoons. A pulp comic come to life. Lots of brutal deaths there, the Yeti episode actually scared me when I saw it as a toddler, Zen's spider robot electrocuting the soldier, the mummy dragging a guy back to his crypt to entomb him, the fighter pilot's plane catching on fire before he crashed and giving him plenty of time to burn alive, guys thrown into acid and lava...
But the one that always bothered me was the komodo dragon episode, after establishing that komodos will eat people while they are still alive. The main villain has this big henchman that Race managed to best in hand to hand combat. After they escape he's whipping and scolding him, and finally the big guy has enough. Takes the whip from him, picks him up as he is screaming for mercy, casually walks over to a pit they are keeping komodos in and chunks him in. As he screams and you hear bones snapping and flesh tearing (or was that my child imagination?) the big guy stands at the top of the pit laughing at him.
I was genuinely horrified, even as a kid in the 90s watching reruns of the show it absolutely messed with me and gave me nightmares. Maybe it is because I saw it before Real Adventures, but it is the only one to do that.
/essay post
Thank you for such an insightful comment. I appreciate it a lot!
To address at least few of your points...
1) English is not my native tongue. That's why my wording can sometimes be imprecise or just weird.
2) Ezekiel Rage was indeed a great villain. I've always liked his creepy design and his tragic backstory. He was basically trying to start the Apocalypse because of the death of his family. This show had several villains of similar caliber, Surd being my favorite.
3) The show's writers drew inspiration from various sources, including literature. I'm sure they read Poe's "The Rats in the Walls", although I myself know the concept of immurement from medieval history.
4) There are many different visions/depictions of hell, but each and every one addresses man's worst fears. The idea of re-living one's death/murder every night for eternity is definitely hellish.
5) For some weird reason I never caught reruns of the OG Jonny Quest as a kid. Cartoon Netword never aired them in my part of the world. I saw them only in my 30s. That was an exceptional cartoon, indeed, but I don't have nostalgia for it. Unlike the Real Adventures which I grew up watching. Anyway, check out the Jonny Quest documentary, which is on UA-cam.
@@Land_Far_Away I less make points and more just type up incoherent rambling haha
Rage left a huge impression. I was raised in an evangelical Christian home so my mother overheard him and didn't like it. Still let me watch but was sure to say "this isn't how a Christian behaves". But when they found the 'book of rage' and it was a family photo album she caught that too. "What?" "The government did in his family" "Oh."
It was like a switch flipped for her, where he was a propagandic caricature before he was now sympathetic and an example of how things can escalate out of control in a cycle of revenge. Ezekiel was still a monster, but one that was created rather than born.
It was such a mind blowing moment, something you never forget.
OG Quest is helped a lot by comparing it to its contemporaries. Just in an era of Cartoon Network before they tried to compete with Nicktoons and all these reruns from the 50s, 60s and 70s it really stood out. I think the one that came closest to it was Space Ghost, and even it never got the grit down right.
When I first saw it in the early 90s it even managed to give the cartoons of that era a run for their money. The Batman Animated series was very adult, but couldn't quite get away with that level of violence even if it was way better animated. The only one I remember even coming close before Real Adventures was Mighty Max.
Sadly it was still a product of its time, and even with all their creativity it never could quite overcome the curse of limited animation.
Well, one person's ramblings are another person's gripping read.
Thanks for sharing your story. You don't expect any complexity in cartoon villains. 99% of the time they're doing the evil thing just for the sake of being evil. Meanwhile The Real Adventures really had a neck for villains with interesting agenda, or a tragic backstory. Also, so many of them met their end before the show was cancelled.
My dad caught few episodes of The Real Adventures with me. We definitely watched the werewolf one together. I remember him being pretty surprised how "adult-oriented" the show was. Oh, and the werewolf was another sympathetic villain.
I lived through the 90s never realizing how exceptional decade that was, including the animation. There were so many gems! I just wish The Real Adventures and Pirates of Dark Water would finally get some recognition from wider public.
@@Land_Far_Away At least Real Adventures and even Mighty Max were concluded. Pirates never was.
I will say Mighty Max also had a werewolf episode, where one werewolf was kind of a cerberus. I don't remember much about it past the three headed one, an old man looking for his cat being killed, and that I think it and the Real Adventures episode got mixed up in my head. I used to think the three headed werewolf came from the 90s Johnny Quest, weird how old memories can do that sometimes.
Shit....try the 2003 tmnt show
People keep recommending this one to me. My adventure with TMNT ended with the 1987 show.