Increasing cartoon violence

Here's some news: it isn't increasing, only decreasing because people have the need to complain so much about today's cartoons and its "extreme" images and sound effects.

It's strange, since old cartoons like Tom and Jerry and the past Disney/Warner Brothers cartoons weren't that innocent either; racial jokes, portraying weapons and the use of them, and what is more fun than your favourite cartoon character going out to hunt an animal for no apparent reason? Get that moose, Mickey.
Most people don't even approve of hunting (for fun), yet you didn't hear them complain back then, but in this age people seem to do nothing else. It's their hobby to make a big deal out of everything.

Not to mention that the show Animaniacs is filled with adult humor itself, and even after people discovered so, it stayed silent.
Though when someone dares to create a cartoon with either one of the typical features the old cartoons used to have on this day and age, it's suddenly "bad for the children". That's because the violence in old cartoons is not called "cartoon violence", but "comic relief", and why start bashing a cartoon older than you after so many years anyway, right?

The reason why parents think Ben10 is worse than Tom and Jerry is because the general description of Ben10 is "A boy who can turn into aliens fights crime and other aliens, ACTION YEAH!", while Tom and Jerry's description says "A cat trying to catch a mouse.", even though what they mean is "A cat who tries to brutally murder a mouse, but the mouse always wins the blood fest".
The series Pokémon isn't even allowed to show guns, though a gunshaped limb on a Pokémon that shoots objects similar to bullets is alright. And for some reason, people who push their pets to fight each other to the death is fine, too.

I once saw a Mickey Mouse cartoon where Mickey grabbed an enormous rifle and started shooting like a maniac because he thought there was a burglar in his house. Who decided guns can't be portrayed now all of the sudden? Yes, these past cartoons weren't really made for children, in fact, they were made for adults, but that doesn't take away the fact that children didn't get to see them. Eventually. Even now children get to see them because it belongs to "culture", yet mommy and daddy don't like it when Junior is watching Ben10 and Spongebob.

It all has to do with time.
All the violent, yet ignored and appreciated cartoons come from an age where these jokes were normal and cartoons respected, whatever the subject was. But as time progressed people started questioning things, and in the end no one is allowed to do anything.
And in this new age, where people are fully aware they're being chained down by society and are not allowed to have any freedom of speech, new cartoons arise, and they're childish and dull because of going through too many "I-c-what-u-did-thar"-filters.

I'll pick the movie "All Dogs Go To Heaven" as an example.
There are two movies and a tv series, and the first movie had it all; criminality, gambling, drinking, lust, murder, and Hell, yet parents already started complaining about this one when it came out. While it is considered a classic to the rest of the world.

The second movie is "nice", and that describes it all. The main character was just the empty shell of the person he once was, and the story comes nowhere near the first; this is a true childrens' flick. The series has the same tone.

You can say that because the first movie got criticized on its themes, they took the opportunity to alter the second movie. I don't think the original creator had any say in this, otherwise he basicly sold his soul to 4Kids.
If there is something you'll have to keep in mind it's that you don't always have to give those few people who're complaining, because that's exactly why everyone complains so much now and why there are Muslim extremists in the world winning the media battles. They're just 3 guys with a computer and a phone, people.

That's all, folks!