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** One interesting example is what they did to the story of "[[Rapunzel]]". In the most commonly encountered version, Mother Gothel learns that Rapunzel's being visited in her tower when ''Rapunzel tells her''—asking her, "How is it, good mother, that you are so much harder to pull up than the young Prince? He is always with me in a moment", which makes the heroine seem at best a bit on the dim side. In the original edition, Rapunzel was only naive, not stupid: she wanted to know why her dresses had grown so tight.

*** Specifically, why they're so tight around her stomach...

* ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' is often a victim of this trope because it has giant Brobdingnagians and small Lilliputians which make for easy kid appeal, but the original novel is satirical and includes a scene where Gulliver upsets the Lilliputians by pissing on a fire to put it out. This scene, needless to say, is nearly always changed.

** Most modern renditions leave out ''vast'' amounts of ''Gulliver's Travels'', starting with scenes like the one in which a Brobdingnagian woman uses Gulliver as a ''dildo'', and moving on to excise the entire ''second half'' of the book with the voyages to Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhyms, which can in no way be made kid-friendly.