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[[File:WDTGL.jpg|link=One Piece (Manga)|rightframe|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!]]
 
 
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** Yeah, but the movie happens not more than a few decades before ''[[Return of the Jedi|RotJ]]'', by which point blasters are common and slugthrowers (what projectile weapons are called in canon) are rare, so using blasters is perfectly acceptable.
** On the subject of ''[[Star Wars]]'', the laser guns and lightsabers are already guilty of this trope; [[Word of God]] says ''[[Star Wars]]'' is intended to be a kids' series.
* The 20th Anniversary Edition of ''[[ETE.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' (in)famously substituted guns held by police with walkie-talkies. This was parodied mercilessly in the ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' episode "Free Hat", where all of [[Steven Spielberg]]'s thugs carry walkie-talkies in such a manner that suggests they were "originally" carrying guns. They cock their walkie-talkies to threaten the boys ("Hold it! Don't make me use this walkie-talkie!"), and Spielberg himself at one point steals one and threatens to "shoot".
** Even more so, the same episode has an edited version of ''[[Saving Private Ryan (Film)|Saving Private Ryan]]'', featuring US soldiers being graphically killed by machine guns, while returning fire with walkie-talkies.
** Better still, in Australia, so much was "altered" in the 20th Anniversary Edition that the studio was legally required to resubmit it for classification -- where it was given a ''harsher'' rating of PG from it's original G, due to "supernatural themes". If they had simply released it without any changes, it would have retained its original G rating from 1982. So... yeah.
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* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': "Cheat Commandos", a direct parody of ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', uses conventional guns that make conventional gunfire sounds but fire laser blasts. The enemy faction is actually ''named'' Blue Laser.
** Subverted in the Thanksgiving episode, where Gunhaver actually have a realistic gun.
* Referenced in an episode of ''[[Bonus Stage (Web Animation)|Bonus Stage]]'': Phil is able to tell that Joel has been possessed when he holds up a bank with a gun in his left had because [[The Killer Was Left -Handed|Joel is right handed]]. Unfortunately, Matt Wilson accidentally drew the gun in Joel's right hand, so when he corrected it, the gun became a stupid looking, brightly colored gun.
** Also, in the episode where Joel censors the show "to fit the burgeoning five-to-seven-year-old market", the word "gun" is overdubbed with "blaster" (although it's still clearly a real gun).
 
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