Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at shocking, bleak, or downright morbid scenes featuring the iconic cat and ...

The cat wasn’t yet named Tom. The mouse wasn’t yet named Jerry. And the cat-and-mouse chase storyline wasn’t intended to be followed by a series of cartoons featuring the both of ’em.

But Tom has to pretend to hate Jerry in order to protect so Tom’s owner doesn’t replace him with a cat that actually wants to ...