Alita: Battle Angel - 16 WTF Moments
7. Tanji Gets Sliced In Half
You know what's even more jaw-dropping than a dog getting killed off-screen? A human getting brutally bisected on-screen.
In the third act, Zapan attempts to frame Hugo for murder so that he can kill him legally and claim a bounty for it, but Hugo's pal Tanji (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.) intervenes, attacking Zapan.
Unfortunately he's no match for Zapan, who kicks him into a wall and then slices him in two with his Damascus blade.
Quite how Rodriguez managed to get away with showing Tanji's sliced-up corpse in a freaking PG-13 movie is anyone's guess, because while there's virtually no visible blood, it's still an absolutely horrifying moment.
Considering that they could've just given Tanji a sanitised stabbed-in-the-gut death, this was admirably ballsy, even if it once again feels a million miles away from the tone established earlier in the film.