Despite the frequent violence, there is no blood or gore in any scene.

Despite the massive popularity of the film, Zombi 2 was banned in several countries, including Great Britain, due to its massive gore content.

Despite the NES's system limitations, the game retained most of its violence and gore.

Despite the young main characters, cute monster designs, and initial appearances of a shōjo or Pokémon-esque series, the story quickly takes on a much darker and more disturbing tone, with later volumes involving some graphic depictions of gore and sexual violence.

Despite being a broadcaster, Partridge is a socially incompetent and awkward character prone to one-upmanship, embarrassing social faux pas and displays of deep insensitivity to social norms.

Despite the general perception that American culture is characterized more by diversity than by homogeneity, the American ideology of cultural homogeneity implies an American mindset that because Eurocentric cultures are superior to others, people with different cultures should conform to the dominant monocultural canon and norms.

Despite the seemingly clear weight of condemnation of such practices, some critics disagree with the division of international legal norms into a hierarchy.

Despite their different sources, both seek to establish values in such a way that they become accepted ' norms '.

Despite progressive measures imposed by law, some traditions stayed remained intact, and new norms for the Cuban family took time to develop.

Despite the fact that college drinking is at elevated levels, the perceived amount almost always exceeds actual behavior The social norms approach has shown signs of countering misperceptions, however research on resulting changes in behavior resulting from changed perceptions varies between mixed to conclusively nonexistent.

Despite the discomfort of jumping from the boat into swamps, rivers and marshes the film apparently rekindled in Bogart his early love of boats and on his return to California from the Congo he bought a classic mahogany Hacker-Craft runabout which he kept until his death.

Despite its mixed critical reception, Kid Icarus is a cult classic, and had shipped 1. 76 million copies by late 2003.

Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.

Despite its limitations, Durkheim's work on suicide has influenced proponents of control theory, and is often mentioned as a classic sociological study.

Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and is a staple of Christmas television around the world.

Despite the tepid critical response at the time, Duck Soup is now seen as a classic political farce.

Despite the show's minuscule budget, Countdowns original director Paul Drane was able to create several memorable music videos especially for the show, including the classic film-clips for the AC / DC hits " It's A Long Way To The Top " and " Jailbreak ".

Despite having minor supporting roles, Abbott and Costello stole the film with their classic routines, including an abbreviated version of " Who's On First?

Despite the poor sales figures, the game has been lauded by gamers for its humorous depictions of American culture and parody of the role-playing video game genre, and has since become a cult classic.

Despite not possessing the four-octave range boasted by Kiske, Deris's vocal similarity to Kai Hansen, his enthusiasm, his strong songwriting skills, the return of the " classic " Helloween sound in songs such as " Where the Rain Grows " and " The Game Is On ", and the seeming rejuvenation of Weikath and Grapow seemed to strike a chord with the fans.

Despite a somewhat tepid response to the album, Helloween nonetheless completed a successful world tour, highlighted by the return of classic songs such as " Starlight ", " Murderer ", " Keeper of the Seven Keys " and " How Many Tears " to the setlist.

Despite his achievements in professional sport, Strawberry is most widely recognized in Europe for his role in the classic The Simpsons episode, " Homer at the Bat ", in which Bart Simpson and Lisa Simpson taunt Strawberry with his signature mocking chant of " Daaarryyl, Daaarryyl, Daaarryyl!

Despite their poverty, Zhu was sent to a classic private school in 1892.

Despite having seen few operas and not knowing how to read music, he began stage-directing them in the 1970s and has since become one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit.

Despite this, many classic rock acts consistently attract new generations of fans.

Despite this, at many American classic car shows, automobiles typically range from the thirties to sixties.

Despite these concerns, classic cars are involved in relatively very few accidents.

Despite a tendency to shun such occasions, Weller accepted the award in person, and performed four songs at the ceremony, including the Jam classic " Town Called Malice ".

Despite an ostensibly democratic constitution based on the sovereignty of the people, the Roman Republic was in reality a classic oligarchy, in which political power was monopolised by the richest social echelon.

Despite their previous band's status as gothic rock icons, Love and Rockets moved towards a slightly brighter and more pop-influenced sound, as demonstrated by their first minor hit being a cover of the Motown classic " Ball of Confusion ".

Despite its derogatory intent, it was seized upon by those playing it, and the term appears in Rhoma's 1973 dangdut classic Terajana:

Despite being a gory remake of a classic made by a controversial, non-mainstream director, the film was a huge commercial success, the biggest of Cronenberg's career, and was the top-grossing film in the United States for two weeks, earning a total domestic gross of $ 40, 456, 565.

Despite not having quite as many appearances as other DC Thomson characters such as Dennis the Menace or Desperate Dan, Beryl is still considered one of the classic characters which define the popularity of British comics.

Despite this offensive peak, Rizzuto was a classic " small ball " player, noted for his strong defense in the infield.

Despite popular conceptions promoted by movies and television, many US police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time, after which officers must transfer out or return to patrol duties.

Despite his combat skills not being the match of Grayson's ( although there are some similarities, in that they are far superior to Todd's when he was Robin ), his detective skills more than make up for this.

Despite the efforts of Sergeant Cuff, a renowned detective, the house party ends with the mystery unsolved, and the protagonists disperse.

Despite solving numerous murders over the next few decades, in Falk's last appearance as Columbo in the 2003 cable-TV movie Columbo Likes the Nightlife, the detective is still a lieutenant.

Despite his mental instability, Rorschach was described as " tactically brilliant, and unpredictable " by Nite Owl, and possesses surprisingly good detective skills, as displayed when he is able to locate the Comedian's costume in his apartment when the police could not.

Despite its anthology format, there were a number of characters who appeared in more than one episode, including Robbery / Homicide partners Tony Calabrese ( Tony Lo Bianco ) and Bert Jameson ( Don Meredith ), vice cop turned homicide detective Charlie Czonka ( James Farentino ), and stakeout / surveillance specialist Joe LaFrieda ( Vic Morrow ).

Despite some operational autonomy, all regulations and standards of policing were established by the central Ministry ; Moscow was directly co-ordinating important operations in Ukraine ( such as anti-corruption investigations regarding statesmen of higher levels or other political-related issues ), including deployment of detective brigades from central offices in case of need.

Despite his detective training, Terry's ambition is to be a physician, and, under Bruce, he learns to create cures, remedies and antidotes.

Despite numerous scrapes, he returned to Washington, D. C., with information that Scott evidently thought valuable enough to raise him to the rank of captain and he swiftly took over charge of the Union Intelligence Service from the Scottish detective Allan Pinkerton.

Despite this, Davies is by no means a poor detective, and although he can take longer than his colleagues, and is dogged by bad luck, he does usually " get his man " in the end.