Why do kids shows and movies have useless weapons?

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Recently, I've taken an interest in pirate history. This interest was sparked from Assassin's Creed: Black Flag (videogame). In the game you play as a pirate captian, going around sinking ships and slaying soldiers with swords and guns, which of course are bloody and violent sequences. However, you can analyze at shows like Jake and the Neverland Pirates WHO HAVE SWORDS BUT NEVER USE THEM! Also, even Star Wars: Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels include lightsabes (pretty much swords) but they never actually slay anyone with flesh. This does happen a couple times in the flick series but never in the spinoff shows. Even in Samurai Jack, although there is blade to blade combat, no blood is ever drawn (probably because he usually fights robots, and at least I don't recall blood). I'm SURE you guys can list kids shows or movies with swords (swords, not guns) where no blood is drawn, and I'd love for you guys to list them. Oh yeah, Peter Pan. Awesome pirate movie, but no blood :(   So tell me, why do these shows include swords if they never use them? I mean, come on, violence is AWESOME. Show some damn flesh slashing for once. These kids will see it one day anyways, but we'd have some outraged parents which I suppose have minor points. Anyways, once again, 
why do these kids shows and movies include swords if they never use them?

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A lot of kids shows have character designs which incorporate weapons but because of parents organizations they can never actually use them. The designers know the kids are going to take the toys and immediately use the weapons, so it's kind of a wink and a nudge to the kids that these characters are still tough even if they can't do anything on screen. During the 90's there were some cartoons and stuff that got around that, Batman the Animated Series had some scenes where people got shot or stabbed (not by batman obviously). If you need a real reason outside of parents groups I'd say that adding serious violence affects the tone of a series, kids in the age where they're buying action figures don't actually like dark stuff that much.

Why do kids shows and movies have useless weapons?

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