Family-Friendly Firearms: Difference between revisions

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* In the first few episodes of 4Kids' ''[[One Piece]]'' dub, guns would occasionally be replaced with a sillier-looking equivalent, the most notable seen in the picture above. Originally the standard flintlock pistol seen in the OP universe, it was heavily edited into something that looks more like a showerhead on a spring. (The weapon changed back to a gun in a long shot and a few other frames that 4Kids missed.) Simultaneously, other guns would be edited or recolored to look less realistic—Navy soldiers' rifles were changed to resemble super-soakers, for example—but would still explicitly shoot bullets.

** In one instance, a poison dart gun was changed to shoot poison ''suction cups''.

** 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.

** Actually, one episode has a store full of people aim shotguns at Ash, thinking he's a robber, and another has an Officer Jenny aim a rifle at the twerps thinking they're poachers. Both of these episodes aired in America uncensored. Only the one where the Safari Zone warden actually fires his gun was banned, presumably because the gun appeared several times and couldn't have been edited out without completely butchering the episode. That, and it could have landed them with an anti-defamation lawsuit for portraying a trigger-happy park ranger.

* [[Asobi ni Iku yo!|Asobi Ni Iku Yo]] both averts and plays it straight. While a lot of real guns are used, the vast majority of time the main good guys use catian weapons, which have both melee and ranged forms that are specifically designed to not harm organic matter. In both cases, getting hit with catian weapon simply causes clothing to disappear, or can apparently vaporize a tank without harming the men driving them. Lots of [[Fan Service]] abound when the female characters get hit with it.

 

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