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[[File:WDTGL.jpg|link=One Piece|frame|Look out! He's gonna <s>kill</s> [[Never Say "Die"|get]] that guy with his <s>[[Implausible Deniability|gun]]</s> spring-loaded showerhead thingy!]]

 

|'''Mark LoPresti'''}}

 

** An interesting example: The Digimon Revolvermon is basically a giant revolver barrel with limbs and a cowboy hat. While the English dub changed his ''name'' to Deputymon, his appearance and attacks were not altered at all.

** Probably because, if they erased his gun, he would look more like a human than a Digimon.

** This was edited much less in Canada (''Gundam SEED'' aired at 9PM or later on Fridays) -- mainly editing out the over-graphic deaths had by some "extras" (such as from the radiation weapons—swelling and popping), and toning down a bit of the (somewhat-infamous) Kira/Flay encounter.

*** One [[Epileptic Trees|fan theory]] is that the gun edits were intentionally ludicrous: Bandai and CN both realized that the fans would see right through the edits, but it still had to be done, so they were made silly-looking to give viewers something to laugh at.

** They did not exactly "stop doing it", actually, as ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep|Birth by Sleep]]'' censored [[Significant Anagram|Braig]] combining his Arrowguns into a sniper rifle. This edit manages to be even ''more'' ridiculous than in Xigbar's case, as Braig's Arrowguns are pretty much stylized [[Automatic Crossbows|crossbows]] that [[Frickin' Laser Beams|shoot lasers]]. It probably goes without saying that the resulting sniper rifle looks less than realistic.

** Clayton's aforementioned rifle was not edited or censored in any shape or form in ''[[Tarzan]]''. It's as realistic as the guns in ''Pirates''... whereas Xigbar's gun-arrows are decidedly not. Children are probably going to see these movies before playing ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' (or at least, it would be more likely for their parents to allow them to see them), so this censoring really makes little sense.

* Nintendo's Famicom Light Gun originally featured a realistic revolver design in Japan. When it was converted into the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] Zapper overseas, it was given a "futuristic" redesign to comply with U.S. safety standards. Later versions of the Zapper even changed the color of the gun's coating from its original gray to orage due to revised standards. This also applies to all light gun peripherals that had been exported from Japan to the overseas market. Light guns such as Sega's Virtua Gun (renamed the Stunner overseas) and Namco's GunCon were originally sold in realistic-looking black coating in Japan but were repainted orange for the overseas market to distinguish them from real guns.

* Sort of an in-universe example: [[Commander Keen]] used rayguns in his first games, the Invasion of the Vorticons trilogy (and the opening story of Keen Dreams), then switched to a Neural Stunner for the rest of his games. This was likely due to how 1.) all the Vorticons Keen slaughtered were mind-controlled instead of evil and Keen didn't want to risk ending up responsible for the annihilation of an alien race again, and 2.) stunned enemies with stars circling their heads are more amusing to look at in a game that pioneered DOS as a gaming platform.

* Forgotten character Fang the Sniper from Sonic the Hedgehog was originally meant to have a [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolver]] for a weapon. The revolver itself was never used in any games (despite some unused sprites of him holding it), but for his playable appearance in ''[[Sonic the Fighters]]'' he was given a cork-shooting popgun.

* ''[[Night Trap]]''. "Weird Eddie", one of the Martin's neighbors, invented a laser gun in order to combat them and the augers. Interestingly, the SCAT team has real guns. (Though no one is shown being shot on-screen.)

 

== Web Animation ==

{{quote|'''Justin Pierce''': My comics hero, Steve Purcell, once got a cartoon deal with FOX in the 90s. He quickly learned that censors didn't dislike violence so much as they disliked accessible violence - the sort of violence kids could easily mimic. Thus the more exaggerated it was, the safer you were. If your knife fight doesn't work, simply replace the knives with atomic bombs. It's a good rule to live by. }}

* ''[[Amazing Super Powers]]'' explored the limits of this in [http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/hc/12012008/ this hidden comic].

 

== Western Animation ==