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What Was The Most Violent Scene?

posted 17 years ago by rogerc210
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I'd be hard pressed to think of a scene on this more violent & brutal than the crashing of the flying platforms in Fraudulent Volcano.When they were pursuing our heroes, & they raced into a cave, & they went splat! right into the mountain. Totally unexpected & w/ no warning. The platforms seemed to be the sourse of a perspective error during the JQ Theme montauge. As it showed them floating b/n peaks, one of the peaks was closer than they were, & looked almost as small. For the closer peak to look the same size as a very similar one in the background, it would have to be a lot smaller-unless they really were that small, & the fp's that slow.

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[–] johntracytb5 17 years ago

I dunno---I think there are plenty of violent scenes which were, at the time, pretty unsettling (for kid viewers, at least). I've never cared a lot about the guys in the flying platforms; they were asking for what they got (the nerve of them shooting through the roof and windows of a car which contained small children)!

For me, at least, it's far more unsettling to see Race tossing a grenade into the hands of an unsuspecting baddie (in "Terror Island"), even when the explosion (and obvious death toll) happens off screen. There are plenty more scene throughout the series in which Race causes someone's death in a similar manner---always, of course, in the cause of protecting the Quests. Still, hearing the grizzly screaming of the villains (and several helpless Indians forced to help them) as they are torn apart by crocodiles in "Treasure Of The Temple" was a lot worse than the quick death of the platform jockies...

[–] rogerc210 17 years ago

The characters in question definately got what they deserved, but I don't mean violent as in necessarily unjust, I mean violent as in the show really threw down. I'm tempted to say JQ was ahead of its time, but it's almost anachronistic from a very anachronistic time. It is in some ways a classic example of a toon that's even bolder by today's standards than it was when it was made. Even though many of today's shows are a lot more gratuitously & grafically violent, JQ was violent in a the manner of a show made in an era when hypersensativity & political correctness had yet to kick in. It was a refreshing show about virtue vs corruption. Also, it was an example of how all that can be used to great effect without profanity, or sexual references. Yes the Treasure Temple deaths were brutal too.

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[–] statum106 17 years ago

To me it was the dialogue that followed the deaths of the main villain. You'd see money die by a giant crab or spider and then you'd hear Race say "well, that's the end of Chiu Sing-Ling and his diabolical experiment." Or when they went up against that old German pilot who dies by his own grenade...

"Not the end I'd wish on anyone but he deserved it," chimes Dr. Quest.

Stuff like that is priceless.

[–] rogerc210 17 years ago

I think the episode was Arctic Splashdown. I was in my lower grade school years, & noticing that toons never got killed. It was the scene where Race discovered a bomb on the boat, threw it overboard, & it landed right in the middle of the raft the thug who planted it was on. After the explosion, I asked my older sisters if he was dead & they affirmed. I was like "Woah! People DO die in this cartoon don't they." I was more watching it to be watching it up to that point, or if I saw fatal occurrences, I wasn't disposed to analyzing whether people died in the show or not.

If I'm wrong if I don't & wrong if I do, you're having your cake & eating it too.

[–] latrodectra 16 years ago

I always thought the guy who was thrown to his dragons by his assistant (if I remember correctly, it's been a while) had a pretty nasty death. However I haven't seen most of the series aside from what I catch on Boomerang so as of right now that's my vote for grisliest death.

[–] pn2006 16 years ago

The speedboat chase where Race crashes down on the Lizardmen marks by far one of the nastiest death scenes.

[–] fubleduck 12 years ago

Jonny & Race were in the hydrofoil when they made the jump that crowned their pursuers. The boat was a hydrofoil as stated above, but just b/4 it crowned the baddies, it presented the bottom of a regular boat. If we're to believe the makeshift ramp took out the undercarriage, wouldn't that shorten the jump?

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[–] vorlonhomeworld 15 years ago

That was Ashida being thrown to his death by Sumi, and yea, that was pretty violent, even though they didn't show anything, it was implied, and Ashida gave a pretty convincing scream!

Come to think of it, that whole episode was pretty violent!

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[–] chaunceypierce 15 years ago

"Monsters In The Monastery" It wasn't shown, but the aftermath of what the real Yeti did to all the fake ones causing the commotion. Dead bad guys strewn everywhere.

[–] Carycomic 15 years ago

No contest!

Race Bannon taking on Chu Sing Ling's whole garrison in "Terror Island." I still get a chuckle everytime those two jeep wheels come rolling around the corner. Lol!

[–] mercybrown-1 15 years ago

I find the scene where Race shoots the panther particularly unsettling. Not the first two shots that take the animal down, but the last one in the head to make sure it's dead. I'd never seen anything like that in a cartoon before.

[–] Carycomic 15 years ago

Well, you have to remember (and, I vaguely do, as I am now fifty!) that this series was originally produced for prime-time TV viewing.* Just like THE FLINTSTONES, THE JETSONS, and TOP CAT. But, those were made mostly for "the little kiddies." JQ was done for the slightly older crowd (adolescents and teens)!

*Back when 7:30-8PM was still considered prime-time.

[–] LighthouseKeeper 14 years ago

There were many, to be sure. My personal favorite on the disturbing scale was the death of the sentry by the furious General Fong ("Quetong Missile Mystery"). It looks like Fong shoots him in the throat! And as he dies he lets out this gurgling wet scream that just tells you blood is going into his lungs...

[–] Niki_Catalina 14 years ago

Which episode is it when Race shoots in to a bulldozer blade and the bullets richocet and you see the guy come staggering out and falling down dead?

And I'm not sure the good folks at PETA like the scene on the river where the crocs are attacking the boat and RAce, Jonny and everyone are gunning them down?

Yes the original JQ was WAY ahead of its time!

"When people run in circles its a very very - Mad World"

[–] Carycomic 13 years ago

The former scene is from "Terror Island," where Chu Sing Ling invents a gigantizing bacteria. The latter scene is from "Turu the Terrible," about an invalid crackpot with a killer pet pteranodon!*

*I've often thought those crocs had become conditioned to going after the occupants of dug-out canoes capsized by Turu. Hence, boats = food.

[–] Poisoned_Dragon1964 13 years ago

Offhand, the three instances that startled me the most were when, in The House of Seven Gargoyles, the acrobat masquerading as a gargoyle was sniped off the roof of the mansion; in Shadow of the Condor, the Baron meets a violent death in the air when his plane is struck by one of the condors; and Dragons of Ashida, where Sumi throws his cruel master to the dragons, to be devoured.

Each of these episodes, besides the penultimate deaths of each of their villains, were jarring for other reasons. The beatings administered in each was unusual fare for cartoons (in Gargoyles, Ivar roughs up the dwarf Sorenson, shaking, slapping him, and throwing him to the ground. "You will regret this!" Sorenson vows. In Condor, the Baron ties Julio to a chair in the basement, and beats him bloody, in an effort to make him tell where he had hidden the Baron's good luck mascot, the dachshund Willie. And then there were the faintly sado-masochistic lashings Sumi endured on his hands and knees, at the hands of Dr Ashida, easily the nastiest villain of the series.

Most episodes contained remarkable violence, but these stood out for me. They're among my favorite episodes.

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[–] nickm2 13 years ago

For me the most grim deaths were in 'Pirates from Below'; those guys attacking 'The Crawler' in those minisubs; every time Dr Quest crushed one of the subs with his craft's pincers, I always thought that was a HELL of an unpleasant death--crushed or drowned.

NM

[–] DreamLordsNextDoorNeighbor 13 years ago

Didn't a villian nerve gas a villiage in an early show?

An object at rest, cannot be stopped!

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[–] shempXIV 12 years ago

I'M SURPRISED no one's mentioned the mad scientist in the wheelchair & his "pet" pterodactyl sinking into the quicksand [?] together! Or Dr. Zin's gigantic mechanical "daddy long-legs" that shoots some "tentacle-like" gizmo on some soldier's forehead (presumably killing him).

For a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, JQ could be pretty creepy and violent (not that I'm complaining, mind you) -- I could see where SOME small/young youths could've been a little "distressed" by some of it.

[–] arthurdamage1 12 years ago

That's a tough one.

Professor Ashida getting torn apart and devoured by his giant lizards was pretty harsh.

The old fart in the wheelchair (from "Turu the Terrible") sinking in the hot tar is memorable too...

[–] cowgoesmoo 12 years ago

Just one, because it's personal.

There was a scene in which a pygmy bad guy is standing in front of a pile of lumber. Race is on the other side, slides back a plank, and then slides it forward really hard into the back of the pygmy's head, knocking him out. My brother later did that to me in a hardware store and it hurt like hell. Whenever that scene came on in a re-run, I had to turn away. I remember in the 80s or 90s, they brought JQ back into syndication, but this time they clipped out the scene of the board making contact.

[–] Oddark123 12 years ago

I add my vote to Ashida's death.

However the yeti ending made for one of my favorie JQ episodes. All those dead yeti impersonaters getting taken down by the real thing. Honestly the best scene HB ever did featuring a yeti throughout all their different series with yeti/abominable snowmen episodes. The guy's line at the end just makes it sound so epic to me.

I refuse to argue on IMDB until the general populous actually uses their brains

[–] WTNMovieFan 12 years ago

I agree with the yeti aftermath scene as being the most violent to me. I didn't see this episode until just a few years ago. There were only five or six shows the networks would rerun on Saturday mornings. I guess the rest were considered too violent for young eyes.

JQ will always be a favorite!

[–] magickbox 11 years ago

Race putting down the black panther after shooting it to rescue the tied up native. Even though you didn't see the panther being killed, you do see Jonny's reaction.

[–] tintinrulz 10 years ago

Does the DVD release retain all of the scenes from the original airing? (I know racist remarks etc. have been removed). What about the visuals? Are they all there? Thanks.

[–] magickbox 10 years ago

Sorry, I don't know about the dvd release. I've only caught the episodes shown on cable. I think It was on BOOMERANG. I'm pretty sure the visual aspect of the panther being shot wasn't edited. I think its the way I remember it from way back in the Sixties (but then again, who knows. Memories can be tricky). Personally I would prefer the unedited version if I was purchasing a copy. Perhaps other people reading the posts can help answer your question.