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== Anime & Manga ==
* In the first few episodes of 4Kids' ''[[
** In one instance, a poison dart gun was changed to shoot poison ''suction cups''.
** In the flashback to Luffy and Shank's origin stories, Shanks is held up point blank with a gun to his temple and he casually points out that the man holding the gun is in danger of a backblast if his skull causes the bullet to shrapnel, just to show how badass he is. In the 4kids version the man is holding a popgun, although Shank's lines remain mostly unchanged. Shank's man shoots the would-be shooter dead and they didn't bother changing his gun, but left in a comment that it was full of blanks and that the other man simply fainted.
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** In ''[[Digimon Data Squad]]'', RizeGreymon's bullet sounds were changed to laser sounds, even though he was still shooting from a gun.
*** Oddly, the name of the attack was still "Trident Revolver".
** Also in ''Digimon Data Squad'', BomberNanimon, originally a giant bomb, attacked the amusement park. In the U.S., he was changed to Citramon, a giant orange, and a living [[Homage]] to [[
** 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.
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*** 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.
* Not just the broadcast version, but the English Dub period (even on the DVD) replaced the firing sounds of the head vulcans of various Gundams in ''[[G Gundam]]'' to sound more like rapid-fire lasers.
* Both the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' card game and TV show have monsters that wield or resemble guns edited into lasers... [[Memetic Mutation|in]] ''[[Memetic Mutation|America!]]''. The most notable example of this is the monster called "Barrel Dragon", which could be described as resembling several guns welded together in Japan (whether this counts as [[Truth in Television]] is arguable). An exception is the "Ancient Gear Soldier" in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', which uses a submachine gun-arm - it can be argued this was just because editing it would have looked ridiculous.
** Several guns are left intact however, but are slightly redesigned to look less like real guns. One particular trap card features an old fashioned flintlock, in the japanese version, that was covered in gold ornaments for the international release.
** There's also the henchmen who had their guns removed and were considered threatening because they were ''pointing'' at someone. This was parodied several times in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
{{quote| '''Thug:''' Don't move a muscle or we'll shoot you with our invisible guns!<br />
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* In the anime version of the manga ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn|Reborn]]!'', Reborn's gun is colored green and is actually a [[Equippable Ally|shape-shifted form of his pet lizard]], and the [[Magic Bullets|special bullets]] it fires transform into energy before they can hit and power-up Tsuna (with the bleeding from the shots removed too). Similarly, Lambo's grenades are colored purple. Oddly enough, the other guns in the series remain untouched. This however was probably done in order to give the show a standard transformation sequence and the Lambo thing because [[Rule of Funny|it's funnier that way]].
** Also, instead of shooting himself with his Ten-Year Bazooka, Lambo now leaps inside of it. Kind of odd...
* An interesting reversal: in the English dub of the ''[[
* In ''[[Mega Man NT Warrior]]'' they have laser guns, and the originally-sharp laser swords were blurred from the original...sometimes. Somewhat justified, as [[Everything Is Online|all combat takes place on the Internet with AI]].
** The names of some battlechips, the universe's weaponry, were also altered or changed entirely if they had specific words in them. Notable changes include Sword to Cyber Sword, Mini Bombs to Mini Boomer, Shotgun to Blaster and Cannon to Mega Blaster. Strangely enough, the upgraded versions of the Cannon weapon, Hi-Cannon and Mega Cannon, retained their original names.
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** This becomes even less believable when lasers that were previously guns are shown being shot around in a Space Station takeover during a flashback of an event which took place fifty years previously. Because of course, they ''had'' lasers in the nineteen-fifties. And space stations.
* In ''[[Transformers Armada]],'' Demolishor's missiles were frequently shown to ''stay in place but fire missile-shaped lasers.'' Of course, it does provide an explanation for the usual "we can see he's only got four, so how come he's been blasting away all day and never runs out?" problem that some Transformers have. Most weapons fire appears to be lasers, but Cyclonus has more than once told an enemy to "eat lead".
* In the [[
* Played literally in one episode of [[Full Metal Panic]] Fumoffu: when a thug explains to his boss the features of the Steyr SPP machine pistol, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jOS2e2y-I an ad reminiscent of the 50s or 60s plays, advertising the gun as "fun for the whole family!" while a father, mother, and two children spray bullets willy-nilly]. (The SPP might be the civilian version of the TMP, but it's no toy.)
* In [[Fairy Tail]] one goon of the Naked Mummy Dark Guild is seen using a shotgun loaded with magic bullets. In the anime it was changed to a more toy-looking rifle.
* In ''[[Pokémon]]'', no Officer Jenny even carries a gun. They just have fire-spewing attack dogs tackle the bad guys, which is obviously much safer. Even when a [[Cowboy Cop|"wild"]] Jenny appears with only a talking bird as a Pokémon, she uses...[[Improbable Weapon User|well, pretty much bowling balls]]. The bad guys prefer to make their Pokémon do the fighting as well, [[Justified Trope|though that's a lot cheaper and easier than using a gun]]. The one episode that had a character with a gun got [[Missing Episode|banned]] [[No Export for You|almost worldwide]], even though no one was shot with it. However, giant mecha and battleships firing a barrage of missiles are apparently just fine, even though most Team Rocket robots fire [[Abnormal Ammo|nets, energy beams or glue]] considering they want to steal and not hurt Pokémon.
** 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.
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* In [http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2005-08-04/ one part] of the syndicated comic strip ''[[Dilbert]]'', Dogbert gets a job as a hostage negotiator, telling the assailant to come out unarmed. He then orders a policeman to shoot him... with a ''donut that fires bullets''.
** According to one of Scott Adams' books, based on his blog: it was originally a gun, but this was changed to a blank panel with 3 "BAM!" sound effects due to [[Executive Meddling]]. It was subsequently changed to firing from a doughnut after he found out that he could get away with it.
* When Gladstone Publishing reprinted various ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
* While not a direct use of this trope, it is subverted in one story of [[The Punisher]] 2099. The Punisher runs across a female copycat vigilante of him, who prefers to kill crooks using painful methods and weapons. The Punisher looks down on her for this, saying that he prefers clean kills and doesn't take pleasure in killing. She sneers at him because he uses lasers. According to her, lasers burn into flesh and boil the blood. The wound always go septic and the nerves rarely regrow. They may look nice in the "Holo-dramas", but they're just as nasty as what she uses.
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* In ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'', Carface's tommy gun is turned into a tommy gun... that fires red lasers. How they got advanced laser weaponry in 1939 is never explained. Oddly enough, they leave in the part where they violently gun down Charlie in front of the apple cart (and a [[Nightmare Fuel|bunch of other things wrong with this movie]]).
* ''[[An American Tail|Fievel Goes West]]'' is a mixed example. While there are some revolvers, those only get aimed at inanimate objects or [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|aimed so badly]] they don't come close to hitting anyone. When the cats (and one dog) have their shoot-out, it's with slingshots that use bullet and ricochet sound effects.
* The [[Disney Animated Canon]] both uses and averts this trope. Played straight in ''[[Saludos Amigos]]'', ''The Three Cabelleros'' (Panchito's gun) and ''[[Pocahontas]]'' (plenty people get shot, but there's no carnage in sight), but averted painfully in ''[[Tarzan]]'', ''[[Atlantis:
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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 ''[[E.T. the
** Even more so, the same episode has an edited version of ''[[
** 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.
* The [[Live Action Adaptation]] ''[[G.I. Joe:
* ''[[
* ''[[Bugsy Malone]]'': The "splurge-guns" and the pies.
* ''[[Captain America:
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* [[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]] has the bullets from Torque's usual gun changed to lasers (green, the color of his suit), but his finisher (which has [[More Dakka]], [[Beam Spam]], and a [[Macross Missile Massacre]] ''at once!'' [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]], after all.) remains the same as it was in [[Kamen Rider Ryuki]].
** {{spoiler|Possibly justified by the fact the Riders' gear were made by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]].}}
* ''[[Captain Power and
* A tv comedy pilot "Inside O.U.T." (a parody of ''[[Mission Impossible]]''), made after the infamous year 1968, made a point to show the good guys' guns shot non-lethal tranquilizer bullets.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Super Smash Bros]]. Brawl'', it was specifically said that [[Metal Gear|Solid Snake]] could not use guns... but his rocket launcher, mortar, grenades, and land mines are all good. This may have also been for gameplay reason though, since a projectile that moves almost instantly (like Sheik's needles) that you could [[Spam Attack|fire almost constantly]] would be [[Game Breaker|really cheap]] (also, [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosions]] [[Rule of Cool|are more fun]] and [[Rule of Funny|more hilarious]]). Also, [[Star Fox (
* Occurs within the ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' [[Novelization]] of ''Tiberium Wars''. Within the novel, the regular infantry of Nod (the bad guys) are armed with energy weapons. While Nod do have lasers within the game, its only limited to special forces, while the regular mooks get conventional weapons. The trope is almost invoked by one soldier "Where the hell'd they get-" after seeing the lasers. The change isn't because of censorship, but as a result of a continuity error.
** In the expansion to ''Tiberium Wars'', the Black Hand subfaction can upgrade their basic [[Mook|mooks]] to use lasers. That said, they are [[Elite Mooks]], since the Black Hand is apparently Nod's elite.
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** 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.
* 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: [[
* The early ''[[
* ''[[Chex Quest]]'': The opening movie makes it clear that conventional weapons can pass right through the slime-based phlegmoids, so the protagonist must use "zorching" weapons to return enemies back to their home dimension.
* 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 ''[[
* [[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.)
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** Legends Class (smallest size class for non-[[Transformers Armada|mini-cons]]. Car characters are about Hot Wheels size.) G1 Megs is even getting an orange cap. Apparently we're worried about squirrel cops shooting squirrel kids, because that's the scale we're dealing in.
* [[Playmobil]] sets include firearms when appropriate ([http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/07/the_17_least_appropriate_playmobil_sets_for_childr.php or not, as the case may be]) - there used to be a Police seaplane set that included not only sidearms for the police officers, but a sniper rifle too.
* The doll for Yukon Cornelius from [[Rudolph the Red
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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 (
** 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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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', is probably the first example that comes to mind when thinking of this trope. While there initially existed assorted evidence that the guns weren't meant to be perceived as lasers—more-or-less realistic sound effects, boxes labelled “ammo” with visible bullets—the show eventually came to acknowledge the lasers for what they were, including details such as power settings and whatnot. This effect actually made the Joes' laser-specialist characters, Flash and Sci-Fi, utterly useless in the cartoon. That said, the lasers don't even seem to be that particularly effective, since in the incredibly rare occasion someone gets hit, they tend to get back up fairly quickly.
* The same trope was used almost exactly the same way in future cartoon incarnations, such as ''[[G.I. Joe Extreme]]'', the CGI movies and ''[[G.I. Joe: Sigma 6
* ''[[G.I. Joe: Renegades
* While guns weren't all that prominent in ''[[
* The short-lived ''[[
* Partially justified in ''[[
* ''[[Superman: The Animated Series
* The 1990's ''[[X-Men (
* Alongside ''[[X-Men (
* If projectile-based weaponry existed in the present-day ''[[X-Men: Evolution
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider
* Special beams aside, ''[[
* An episode of the ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]'' cartoon, "Invasion of the Tomato Snatchers", Professor Gangreen did a bit of [[Lampshade Hanging]], where at one point he complained, "If this were prime-time, I could use real bullets!"
** In the episode "The Tomato from the Black Lagoon", Zoltan and the Gang of Five were piloting warplanes and attacking Chad, F.T., and Tara with live ammo. Chad tells Tara [[Genre Savvy|that kids should not use guns]], have to use their fingers instead!
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{{quote| '''Tara:''' A tomato!<br />
'''Chad:''' Nah, a prune... now we're gonna hear from the ''Prune'' Board! }}
* Although ''[[
* Unlike its [[Bruce Timm]]-produced predecessor, ''[[
** Averted in ''[[
* ''[[Teen Titans (
* ''[[
* Everyone in the various ''[[
* While the trope was initially in full effect (with some exceptions, such as a scene involving a wild west shoot-out) in the early episodes of ''[[
* The original ''[[
* While early episodes of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (
* The American ''[[Street Fighter (
{{quote| "You know [[Does Not Like Guns|I hate guns]]. '''Guns are for wimps!'''"}}
* For some reason, the human [[Cowboy Cop]] reluctant ally of ''[[The Mighty Ducks (
* This trope is part of the reason why the ''[[
* Similarly, the original ''[[
* In ''[[Zorro
* The fantasy world of Perim in ''[[
* Not-quite-a-gun example: in the cartoons based on ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
* ''[[
* Parodied in ''[[
* Justified at great length in ''[[
* While ''[[
* In ''[[
* Averted in ''[[
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