>>53408719The very first 10 minutes of Over the Hedge involve the main villain having a very scary scene where he threatens the protagonist and outright says he will kill him.
Compare this to literally every Pokemon game, including GTI, where references to death are explicitly averted and the one exception to this, S/V, softens the blow as much as possible with a character getting killed offscreen before you've ever met them. Hydreigon's death in GTI is also not a death. You don't actually comprehend just how sheltered Pokemon is, likely because that is all you've played all your life.
I think Explorers and Rescue are better than Gates, or Rescue is at least better in spite of a worse story but the argument it's bad because its "edgy" is horseshit and outs you as a utter manchild
