Family-Friendly Firearms: Difference between revisions

** There is a part in the ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie when Will puts a gun to his head and threatens to kill himself if his friends are not released (because the pirates can't end their curse without him). In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', he leaps to the edge of the ship, just like the movie, and threatens his own life...while pointing the gun at the ground. You probably don't want to encourage children to point guns at their owns heads, but at the same time it was a bit jarring to anyone familiar with the movie.

** Oddly enough, when ''358/2 Days'' came out, they stopped doing that to Xigbar, whose Limit Break has him again merge his gun-arrows into a sniper rifle.

** 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.

** The series' iconic Keyblade was originally planned to be a [http://ds.ign.com/articles/100/1002401p1.html chainsaw-like weapon.] Disney obviously wasn't too happy about this idea.

* ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades|G.I. Joe Renegades]]'' continues the tradition, but makes it clear the lasers are something new and exotic by M.A.R.S. Industries, and that they have just recently begun to replace bullet-based guns—one episode even features Flint remarking on the difference, warning his men to “watch the recoil! These are plasma-pulse rifles, not your daddy's M16's!” Flashbacks to the Joes' early days feature them carrying regular guns, but this is an exception, as nobody else actually appears to own a firearm: when Zartan and his gang threaten a small town in his intro issue, nobody, not even the town's sheriff, appears to consider using firearms, instead resorting to improvised weaponry when the Joes train the citizens to defend themselves.

* While guns weren't all that prominent in ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', when they ''did'' show up, they would inevitably be lasers—even in episodes involving time travel or references to the wild west. The only realistic firearms in the show appeared in a particular after-show [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle|Sonic Says]] segment, which warns about the dangers of real guns.

* Partially justified in ''[[Gargoyles]]'': while the first few episodes portrayed "particle beam" weapons as being accessible only to the very rich (such as millionaire David Xanatos), everybody else carried and used real guns. However, in the episode "Deadly Force", mob boss Tony Dracon steals a shipment of these and sells several of them on the street. Thus, the writers establish that there are energy weapons available for criminals to use if they know where to look. In the end, who used what depended on which group one belonged to: members of the N.Y.P.D. (including co-star Elisa Maza) would uniformly use real guns; high-end baddies such as Xanatos, Demona, and Thailog heavily favored lasers; and anyone else would use whatever the not-always-consistent animation felt like displaying.

* ''[[Superman: The Animated Series|Superman the Animated Series]]'' and ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' both took an approach similar to ''[[Gargoyles]]''. Energy weapons were rarer, more expensive, and generally ''more'' threatening than ordinary guns, more so in the former than the future-set latter. Both shows suffered from inconsistencies, though; sometimes sound effects did not match the visual (both ways, not always biased towards beam weapons), sometimes the same weapon design would be recycled as both beam- and bullet-firing between episodes, and sometimes the ''exact same weapon'', carried by the same character, would do both over the course of an episode.