Grieving
Both words in one sentence
- Mostly, this episode was pulled because Adult Swim was just starting out and a lot of CN censors were worried about how people (who were already vulnerable and mad and grieving from the 9/11 attacks) would react to the climax of Spike shooting the boy between the eyes.
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His mount Rajaion was a member of the Laguz dragon tribe, a sentient creature that he enslaved and drove mad to use as a weapon, a process that eventually resulted in Rajaion's death... leaving behind a grieving widow and a child he never got to meet.
Source: Obviously Evil -
In an expansion on the trope, the cubs are all dead, but the Nue couldn't tell, being driven mad with grief, and refused to accept that they were dead, to further emphasize the sadness that the vicious beast was really a grieving parent.
Source: Monster Is a Mommy
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Mad and Grieving. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/grieving/mad
Grieving & Mad. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/grieving/mad>.
Mad or Grieving. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/grieving/mad.
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