Yes.
I've been championing that for a long time. In the comics as well as BP comics simply don't get that blood and guts art that like Punisher or Wolverine get. The ghost spear has been a welcome surprise in the comics.
You simply aren't gonna be allowed to gut someone in a kids cartoon.
then again, it never hindered wolverine's popularity in cartoons even though I don't think he stabbed a single thing ever.