Transformers is probably the most violent kids' cartoon on TV! Always has been. That's what happens when your characters are robots and thus exempt from the same constraints that exist for people and animals. There's NO way they could repeatedly tear up a character like Waspinator over and over again in a regular kids' cartoon! You'd only see it in adult-oriented cartoons like South Park.

"Oh my God, they killed Waspinator!"
"You <people-born-to-unmarried-parents>!"