Thread:NerdWithAKeyboard/@comment-2059440-20180829092849/@comment-29644557-20180830045141

That was my reasoning. The Marvel and Spider-Man franchises are intended for all ages (that's why they're so popular). Even the Marvel MAX comics (which are intended for 18+) have never featured Carnage. If we were to mark him as mature just based on a few outstanding violent instances/dark themes, then we'd have to do the same with other pages. (For example, when Carnage commits bloody ofscreen murder and is a serial killer in an all ages franchise he's marked as mature, but when Bill Cipher commits murder onscreen and has instinces of ripping skin and muscles off of a screaming head, turning a man's face inside out, and disintegrating a baby in an all ages franchise he's fine?)

As for Jerome, he's marked as mature because he got his face removed and reattached it, which is a dark concept, but the removal AND reattachment happen offscreen during commercial breaks, with only PG-13 levels of blood shown as results of the activities.

Those are my reasonings; that Marvel/Spider-Man is an all ages franchise with Carnage being a dark (but not even game changing) villain, and that Gotham is a teenage-geared television show with dark concepts, but is restricted by its rating and television presence from going 18+. I expressed these reasonings in a discussion a while back, but all they did was anger people.