6. Pokemon
The popularity of Pokemon is baffling if one pauses to think about it. It's essentially thinly veiled dog fighting, minus the part about "putting down" the loser. So they might as well go all the way and make it a proper dog fighting analogue. Your Pokemon loses? It gets a bullet in the cranium. Maybe if Nintendo were to go that route, its fans would finally realize just how sick the whole concept is. These Pokemon are animals that have been enslaved, encaged in something the size of a baseball, and forced to fight until they can't anymore. How can parents knowingly buy their children the latest Pokemon game while, at the same time, refusing to buy them something along the lines of, say, Call of Duty on the basis of it being too violent? It seems to me that, rather than making informed decisions, as they should be, parents are just going off of what they hear or assume, like the parents who took their kids to see
ParaNorman without doing any research first and got offended when it wasn't as kid-friendly as they stupidly expected it to be. Rather than relying upon things like ratings, parents should make decisions based upon their own judgment, not someone else's, because every case, and every kid, is different.