User blog comment:LoveWaffle/"LEGO Marvel Super Heroes" Announced/@comment-16516632-20130108225435/@comment-1895174-20130110231449


 * 1) Technically it was in The New Batman Adventures.  He also made a few appearances in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
 * 2) The censor for cartoons is different, but not any less.  While the amount of violence allowed on screen may be greater, the censor is still the same for other forms of content.  While not the most violent, cartoons from the 90s, particularly the early 90s, were chock full of sexual innuendo.
 * 3) Then again, the censor has never been standard.  The 90s Spider-Man cartoon may have had a ban on realistic guns and most other potentially controversial content (again, look to Michael Morbius), but Batman: The Animated Series had none of this.
 * 4) The Cartoon you are thinking of is The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, in itself a spin-off of Grim & Evil.  The character was never called "Death", but "Grim", "the Grim Reaper", or some pun referring to the fact that he's a skeleton.
 * 5) But this is all irrelevant, because the standards for a kids' cartoon is different than that of an E-rated video game.  A character young children can play as who has the word "devil" in his name and dresses with a devil motif might cost the game an E rating.