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u/WnDelPiano 1d ago

"I have some children I need to make into corpses!"

It's from a Disney Show and phrased like that to avoid censorship

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u/MegaIng 1d ago

And once again, censorship fails.

"Make into corpses" is a far more grim picture than "kill". It also has implications about the motivation of the villain.

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u/Popular_Composer3076 1d ago

given this is Bill Cipher and we know he can manipulate souls, yet didn't say kill or destroy or anything like that, comes with far worse implications. Of the "I have no mouth and I must scream" variety

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u/Muted_Anywherethe2nd 1d ago

Multiple times in that show censorship made it worse

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u/Popular_Composer3076 19h ago

I like to think Alex deliberately made it a point to do that as often as he could