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* The Sunday edition of the August 26 2018 ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' strip in which Mr. Dithers dreams of beating the crap out of Dagwood before his wife wakes him up, removed the panels of him pounding Dagwood over the head with both fists and strangling him.
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* The Sunday edition of the August 26 2018 ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'' ''ComicStrip/Blondie1930'' strip in which Mr. Dithers dreams of beating the crap out of Dagwood before his wife wakes him up, removed the panels of him pounding Dagwood over the head with both fists and strangling him.
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* Wrestling/BookerT's promo against Wrestling/HulkHogan on the 1997 [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} Spring Stampede]] ended with "Hulk Hogan, we comin' for you, nigga!" on live pay-per-view. The VHS release changes it to "Hulk Hogan, we comin' for you, sucka!" for obvious reasons.
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* Wrestling/BookerT's promo against Wrestling/HulkHogan on the 1997 [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} Spring Stampede]] ended with "Hulk Hogan, we comin' for you, nigga!" on live pay-per-view. The VHS release changes it to "Hulk Hogan, we comin' for you, sucka!" for obvious reasons. The WWE Network featured the unaltered dialogue, but after the acquisition by Creator/{{Peacock}}, it was changed to the bowdlerized version again.
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* This is one of the reasons why sets in the TabletopGame/YuGiOhCardGame get release schedules that get released months later, as the Western card designers needed time to redesign the cards. This is the reason why for a long time in ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' the Official Trading Card game had huge advantages over the Trading Card game because the Official Card game was always one set ahead.
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* This is one of the reasons why sets in the TabletopGame/YuGiOhCardGame ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game get release schedules that get released months later, as the Western card designers needed time to redesign the cards. This is the reason why for a long time in ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' the Official Trading Card game had huge advantages over the Trading Card game because the Official Card game was always one set ahead.
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Named after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), who first did it on Literature/TheBible and Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays; for instance, changing [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia's drowning]] from suicide to accident. It's worth noting that Bowdler himself created his "Family Shakespeare" versions as a way to introduce Shakespeare's plays to audiences who would otherwise be barred from experiencing them at all, [[MisBlamed and actively encouraged people to seek out the originals.]] Sadly, this cannot be said of most modern Bowdlerisers. Before him, the French Duke of Montausier published "ad usum Delphini" versions of works for the Dauphin (heir apparent) of France. "Ad usum Delphini" is now a synonym of this trope.
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Named after Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), who first did it on Literature/TheBible and Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays; for instance, changing [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia's drowning]] from suicide to accident. It's worth noting that Bowdler himself created his "Family Shakespeare" versions as a way to introduce Shakespeare's plays to audiences who would otherwise be barred from experiencing them at all, [[MisBlamed and actively encouraged people to seek out the originals.]] originals]]. Sadly, this cannot be said of most modern Bowdlerisers. Before him, the French Duke of Montausier published "ad usum Delphini" versions of works for the Dauphin (heir apparent) of France. "Ad usum Delphini" is now a synonym of this trope.
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* Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir altered a lift in their ''Film/MoulinRouge'' program to be more family-friendly at the Olympics. The original lift had Virtue straddling Moir's shoulders with her crotch in his face. That being said, the final results is still [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEKdWrtz6U a highly sensual program.]]
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* Around the turn of the century, there was a memo circulated by Turner Broadcasting for CNN that declared that "foreign" stories be referred to as "international" stories. Wrestling/{{WCW}} received this memo, which wasn't meant for them. This lead to the term "foreign object" (a weapon that shouldn't be part of the match, e.g. a chair at ringside) being changed to "international object." Back in [=WWF/E=] Jim Ross called weapons used in matches "international objects" on at least one broadcast as an in-joke.
* Also in WCW, when the Music/InsaneClownPosse were working there, the "Violent" in Violent J's name was deemed unacceptable, causing the commentators to refer to him as Jake Jeckel. Sometimes. Other times they called him Violent J. Consistency was not a hallmark in late period WCW.
* When 'asshole' chants first became a thing in professional wrestling, Turner Broadcasting tried very hard at first to figure out a way of censoring the chants. Since there was no way to get the fans to stop and
* During the early 2000s, UPN forced Wrestling/{{W|orld Wrestling Federation}}WF to rename two of its wrestlers.
** "Badd Ass" Wrestling/BillyGunn's name was deemed problematic because of the gun reference. He went by Mr. Ass for a few years. (Yes, "gun" was deemed more offensive than "ass." Weird.)
** Val Venis' name was deemed unacceptable because it rhymed with penis. One of his nicknames had been 'The Big Valboski', and that briefly became his real name.
* Wrestling/ColtCabana's [[AssKicksYou flying asshole]] is referred to as the "flying apple" in Wrestling/{{Chikara}}. Similarly, [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]]'s [[BellyFlopCrushing shadows over hell]] is called "shadows over Hades".
* Since action figures are marketed to kids, when Wrestling/BallsMahoney was working for WWE, his action figure was named on the box as "B. Mahoney."
** Wrestling/BillyGunn pops up here again. His [[FinishingMove finisher]] was called the Famasser, which might have angered parents. Initially toy boxes listed his finisher as the Fame-er, but eventually settled on Famouser. Interestingly, WWE now spells the move Famouser after the PG switch.
** A Wrestling/ChrisJericho figure was released sporting his "[[BigShutUp SHUT THE HELL UP!]]" shirt, but it was changed to "SHUT THE HECK UP!"
** In the "Attitude Era" Jeff Jarrett would come to the ring with a guitar painted with "Don't Piss Me Off" but it was sometimes written "Don't P*** Me Off". His action figure's guitar said "Don't Make Me Mad".
* As a family friendly publication covering something not really family friendly, ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' would Bowdlerize some wrestler's names. In ''PWI'' Balls Mahoney was simply Mahoney, [[Creator/HardGay Razor Ramon Hard Gay]] became "Razor Ramon H.G."[[note]]And only got to keep the "H.G." so people wouldn't confuse him with [[Wrestling/ScottHall the other Razor Ramon]][[/note]], and Billy Gunn was ''never'' referred to as "Mr. Ass".
* WWE's Divas Undressed special. Even though it aired during the graveyard block, they still spent a lot of time cutting away to judge reactions during particularly racy bits.
* In one particularly disappointing example, the heel character of Wrestling/MuhammadHassan was completely written out of storylines following the London terrorist bombing of the summer of 2005. This despite the character referring to himself as an Arab rather than a Muslim (although his ring entrance did make liberal use of Islamic imagery) and using a garrote made of piano wire as a heel weapon (a more stereotypically [[TheMafia Italian]] way of murdering someone, and in fact Hassan's portrayer, Mark Copani, was partly Italian-American).
* At ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 22'', Wrestling/MickieJames grabbed Wrestling/TrishStratus' crotch to break a hold. The DVD edited out Mickie licking her fingers afterward since Vince [=McMahon=] didn't like it, or because Mickie received a bigger {{Face}} reaction than Trish did.
* WWE briefly had a show on the CW called Saturday Morning Slam. Because it was in a children's programming block it had to be rated TV-G/TV-Y7. As such, all moves involving the head and neck could not be shown.
* Indy wrestler Wrestling/DaltonCastle's gimmick includes his being accompanied at all times by two men who form human furniture for him and fan him off during matches. When he made a few appearances in TNA in 2015, they had him accompanied by two women instead, although otherwise they left his gimmick intact.
* In a confusing case of this, during Wrestling/KevinOwens "My Son Is A WWE Superstar" minidoc, they identified his mother as Suzanne Steen, rather than Suzanne Benoit, which she introduced herself as. This may be due to her sharing a name with disgraced wrestler and murderer Wrestling/ChrisBenoit.
* Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling has done this on occasion to unsigned wrestlers working on Dark. Jennacide was, after her first appearance, renamed to Bionic Beast Jenna. Luchador Australian Suicide was renamed to El Australiano[[note]]This may have been a trademark issue, as TNA had a character named Suicide that featured prominently in their
** When deathmatch icon Wrestling/NickGage showed up to
* The full matches uploaded to WWE's official Website/{{YouTube}} channel are often subject to this, especially pre-2010 matches. For example, weapon attacks to the
* Wrestling/BookerT's promo against Wrestling/HulkHogan on the 1997 [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} Spring Stampede]] ended with "Hulk Hogan, we comin' for you, nigga!" on live pay-per-view. The VHS release changes it to "Hulk Hogan, we comin' for you, sucka!" for [[CatchPhrase obvious reasons]].
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* The 1937 ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre'' adaptation of ''Film/AFreeSoul'' resulted in massive revisions to the plot. In the film, Jan throws over her safe, dull boyfriend Dwight and takes up with Ace, a charming mobster. After they have sex without benefit of marriage, Ace becomes violently possessive. Dwight kills Ace after Ace threatens to reveal his affair with Jan and ruin her reputation. Dwight is then acquitted of Ace's murder. ''A Free Soul'' was made in 1931, during UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra, when movie makers could get away with stuff like that. By 1937, when the movie was adapted for radio, UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was firmly in place, so the plot was completely rewritten. In the Lux version, Ace is a gambler instead of a mobster. He and Jan get married instead of just having an affair. Further, it's ''[[SparedByTheAdaptation Ace]]'' who kills ''[[DeathByAdaptation Dwight]]'' in the radio show, and by a GunStruggle instead of with malice aforethought as in the film. Making the murder a GunStruggle allowed for Ace to be acquitted, since by 1937, guilty parties were no longer allowed to escape punishment in Hollywood productions.
* The ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' adaptation of the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Damaged Goods'' replaced cocaine with a FantasticDrug called Smile, and doesn't have the Doctor take it. Chris's sex scene with David Daniels is [[ButNotTooGay toned down]] to them just kissing.
* On ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'':
-->'''Bill''': "This guy is such a total pussycat, it's stunning."\\
'''Peter''': That was Fox News analyst Ralph Peters, who, by the way, left off the word "cat" in the original quote...
* CILQ-FM in Toronto, Canada, cut out parts from ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow'' when they aired it. For [[https://www.cbsc.ca/decisionsarchive/19-9900/19-9900-0722_PD_E.pdf example]], on July 14, 2000, removed content included a "comment about blacks and the mentally challenged and property value" at 10:07 AM, along with "Howard imitating [a] mentally challenged [person]" and "more comments about the mentally challenged" at 10:10 AM. However, these edits were not enough to prevent the episode from breaking the rules of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
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* Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir altered a lift in their ''Film/MoulinRouge'' program to be more family-friendly at the Olympics. The original lift had Virtue straddling Moir's shoulders with her crotch in his face. That being said, the final results is still [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEKdWrtz6U a highly sensual program.]]
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* The 1937 ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre'' adaptation of ''Film/AFreeSoul'' resulted in massive revisions to the plot. In the film, Jan throws over her safe, dull boyfriend Dwight and takes up with Ace, a charming mobster. After they have sex without benefit of marriage, Ace becomes violently possessive. Dwight kills Ace after Ace threatens to reveal his affair with Jan and ruin her reputation. Dwight is then acquitted of Ace's murder. ''A Free Soul'' was made in 1931, during UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra, when movie makers could get away with stuff like that. By 1937, when the movie was adapted for radio, UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode was firmly in place, so the plot was completely rewritten. In the Lux version, Ace is a gambler instead of a mobster. He and Jan get married instead of just having an affair. Further, it's ''[[SparedByTheAdaptation Ace]]'' who kills ''[[DeathByAdaptation Dwight]]'' in the radio show, and by a GunStruggle instead of with malice aforethought as in the film. Making the murder a GunStruggle allowed for Ace to be acquitted, since by 1937, guilty parties were no longer allowed to escape punishment in Hollywood productions.
* The ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' adaptation of the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Damaged Goods'' replaced cocaine with a FantasticDrug called Smile, and doesn't have the Doctor take it. Chris's sex scene with David Daniels is [[ButNotTooGay toned down]] to them just kissing.
* On ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'':
-->'''Bill''': "This guy is such a total pussycat, it's stunning."\\
'''Peter''': That was Fox News analyst Ralph Peters, who, by the way, left off the word "cat" in the original quote...
* CILQ-FM in Toronto, Canada, cut out parts from ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow'' when they aired it. For [[https://www.cbsc.ca/decisionsarchive/19-9900/19-9900-0722_PD_E.pdf example]], on July 14, 2000, removed content included a "comment about blacks and the mentally challenged and property value" at 10:07 AM, along with "Howard imitating [a] mentally challenged [person]" and "more comments about the mentally challenged" at 10:10 AM. However, these edits were not enough to prevent the episode from breaking the rules of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
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* Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir altered a lift in their ''Film/MoulinRouge'' program to be more family-friendly at the Olympics. The original lift had Virtue straddling Moir's shoulders with her crotch in his face. That being said, the final results is still [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEKdWrtz6U a highly sensual program.]]
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* Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir altered a lift in their ''Film/MoulinRouge'' program to be more family-friendly at the Olympics. The original lift had Virtue straddling Moir's shoulders with her crotch in his face. That being said, the final results is still [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEKdWrtz6U a highly sensual program.]]
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* When Scott
** When Adams did a story about a police officer shooting a criminal in the leg, he was told he couldn't use guns, so instead the officer shoots the crook with his donut, which makes it funnier.
* Gary Larson often had his ''[[ComicStrip/TheFarSide Far Side]]'' cartoons rejected because they were "too scatological". Often this meant they only contained innuendoes, such as a boy sitting behind an outhouse and playing a tuba.
** And as Larson relates in his book ''The Prehistory of The Far Side'', an editor once told him he could not use the term "dork" because it meant "penis" (Larson didn't know this, he says, till he looked the word up later).
* The ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' comic for June 25, 1994 has John reacting to Michael's girlfriend Rhetta all dolled up with a "BOINGG!" above his head. The rerun of this strip published on June 24, 2023 removes this, likely to avoid the Main/UnfortunateImplications of a middle-aged man being aroused by a teenage girl.
* The original
* In an early ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip set on a farm, Garfield said, "Wanna swap sheep jokes?" Although Jim Davis didn't intend it that way, his editor thought that it sounded like a bestiality joke. It became "dirt jokes" as a result.
%%* Boy, have ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' and ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' gone through ''this''.
%%** What's weird is that in one instance ("[[http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Yust%20Sven I yust got out]]") it ''[[http://books.google.com/books?id=7jF1vg_A8OIC&pg=PA227&dq=%22i+yust+got+out%22+%22dilbert%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=s9PMUOrtBNGy0QHp9IHYBw&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22i%20yust%20got%20out%22%20%22dilbert%22&f=false improved]]'' the
* In a Finnish translation of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'', of the story introducing the Vultures, one of the members of the gang is
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* Many PhysicalPinballTables have options to tone down racy or possibly offensive voice clips for certain markets, as a form of AdjustableCensorship. A notable example would be ''Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters'', which not only allowed suppressing the saucier quotes, but also came with a "modesty decal" to cover Elvira's massive knockers on the backglass. Other examples include ''Pinball/{{ACDC}}'' muting swearing in the song lyrics and covering up bare breasts on the dot-matrix display animations, as well as alternate photographs of the models in Stern's ''Pinball/{{Playboy|Stern}}''. In both cases, there are three levels: completely uncensored, a DigitalBikini variant with mild swearing left intact, and characters fully clothed and no swearing at all.
* ''Pinball/{{NASCAR}}'' allowed operators to replace the default backglass art with one that changed the "Miller Lite" logo on Rusty Wallace's car with a "Rusty" logo instead, in case their location was sensitive to alcohol-related advertising.
* ''Pinball/SouthPark'' got this twice over.
** The "G"-rated AdjustableCensorship option changes the software in various ways - all mentions of farting are altered (Terrence and Phillip's "Super Fart Bumpers" become "Super Pop Bumpers", while the MatchSequence changes from them farting numbers to burping them instead), while the famous "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" exchange is cut down to "They killed Kenny!" "Rats!" Furthermore, the game also came with decals to cover up potentially offensive playfield art, such as Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo.
** The original version of the game software included completely uncensored dialogue (the game's highest setting otherwise is "PG-13", which still bleeps out harsher cursing), as well as a removed VideoMode that involved Cartman and Stan trying to be lesbians by engaging in a literal carpet-eating contest. Creator/ComedyCentral demanded these changes soon after the game's release.
* In ''VideoGame/DevilsCrush'' for the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16, the pentagrams were geometrically altered for the U.S. version, becoming eight-pointed. In the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version, ''Dragon's Fury'', anything star-shaped was changed into a simple five-pointed star.
* The home version[[note]]a home {{Physical Pinball Table|s}}, not a video game port[[/note]] of Bally's ''[[Pinball/CaptainFantastic Capt. Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy]]'' replaces the racy artwork of the original with a family-friendly quasi-psychedelic depiction of Music/EltonJohn and the Cowboy.
* Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''Pinball/SuperMarioBrosMushroomWorld'' reuses the VideoMode from their earlier ''Pinball/SuperMarioBros'', but replaces the Bullet Bills with Boos instead.
* The UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo version of ''VideoGame/PinballDreams'' removed the crosses in the "Nightmare" table.
* ''Pinball/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' ships with a gun grip and trigger to launch balls and fire at in-game targets. Operators have the option to replace the grip with a fire/launch button "for sensitive locations".
* Several of the changes required by Creator/{{Universal}} for ''Pinball/TheBigLebowski'' include removing Walter's Colt .45 and a marijuana leaf from the playfield art.
* Universal also nixed the caged female dancers from the backglass art on ''Pinball/MonsterBash''.
* ''VideoGame/ZenPinball'' and all its offshoots aim for a blanket E10+ rating, which often means that tables based on more adult subject matter end up censored accordingly. This extends to their recreations of older pinball tables, which alter the artwork to remove cigars, add heavier clothing to scantily-clad women, and relabel beer cans "soda".
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* Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir altered a lift in their ''Film/MoulinRouge'' program to be more family-friendly at the Olympics. The original lift had Virtue straddling Moir's shoulders with her crotch in his face. That being said, the final results is still [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEKdWrtz6U a highly sensual program.]]
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* Many PhysicalPinballTables have options to tone down racy or possibly offensive voice clips for certain markets, as a form of AdjustableCensorship. A notable example would be ''Pinball/ElviraAndThePartyMonsters'', which not only allowed suppressing the saucier quotes, but also came with a "modesty decal" to cover Elvira's massive knockers on the backglass. Other examples include ''Pinball/{{ACDC}}'' muting swearing in the song lyrics and covering up bare breasts on the dot-matrix display animations, as well as alternate photographs of the models in Stern's ''Pinball/{{Playboy|Stern}}''. In both cases, there are three levels: completely uncensored, a DigitalBikini variant with mild swearing left intact, and characters fully clothed and no swearing at all.
* ''Pinball/{{NASCAR}}'' allowed operators to replace the default backglass art with one that changed the "Miller Lite" logo on Rusty Wallace's car with a "Rusty" logo instead, in case their location was sensitive to alcohol-related advertising.
* ''Pinball/SouthPark'' got this twice over.
** The "G"-rated AdjustableCensorship option changes the software in various ways - all mentions of farting are altered (Terrence and Phillip's "Super Fart Bumpers" become "Super Pop Bumpers", while the MatchSequence changes from them farting numbers to burping them instead), while the famous "Oh my God! They killed Kenny!" "You bastards!" exchange is cut down to "They killed Kenny!" "Rats!" Furthermore, the game also came with decals to cover up potentially offensive playfield art, such as Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo.
** The original version of the game software included completely uncensored dialogue (the game's highest setting otherwise is "PG-13", which still bleeps out harsher cursing), as well as a removed VideoMode that involved Cartman and Stan trying to be lesbians by engaging in a literal carpet-eating contest. Creator/ComedyCentral demanded these changes soon after the game's release.
* In ''VideoGame/DevilsCrush'' for the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16, the pentagrams were geometrically altered for the U.S. version, becoming eight-pointed. In the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version, ''Dragon's Fury'', anything star-shaped was changed into a simple five-pointed star.
* The home version[[note]]a home {{Physical Pinball Table|s}}, not a video game port[[/note]] of Bally's ''[[Pinball/CaptainFantastic Capt. Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy]]'' replaces the racy artwork of the original with a family-friendly quasi-psychedelic depiction of Music/EltonJohn and the Cowboy.
* Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''Pinball/SuperMarioBrosMushroomWorld'' reuses the VideoMode from their earlier ''Pinball/SuperMarioBros'', but replaces the Bullet Bills with Boos instead.
* The UsefulNotes/SuperNintendo version of ''VideoGame/PinballDreams'' removed the crosses in the "Nightmare" table.
* ''Pinball/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' ships with a gun grip and trigger to launch balls and fire at in-game targets. Operators have the option to replace the grip with a fire/launch button "for sensitive locations".
* Several of the changes required by Creator/{{Universal}} for ''Pinball/TheBigLebowski'' include removing Walter's Colt .45 and a marijuana leaf from the playfield art.
* Universal also nixed the caged female dancers from the backglass art on ''Pinball/MonsterBash''.
* ''VideoGame/ZenPinball'' and all its offshoots aim for a blanket E10+ rating, which often means that tables based on more adult subject matter end up censored accordingly. This extends to their recreations of older pinball tables, which alter the artwork to remove cigars, add heavier clothing to scantily-clad women, and relabel beer cans "soda".
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* Ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir altered a lift in their ''Film/MoulinRouge'' program to be more family-friendly at the Olympics. The original lift had Virtue straddling Moir's shoulders with her crotch in his face. That being said, the final results is still [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEKdWrtz6U a highly sensual program.]]
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* A commercial for Air Action Vigorsol gums released in early 2007 showed a squirrel eating the gum and extinguishing a fire in the woods with [[{{Fartillery}} a freezing fart]]. After complaints, the commercial was altered so that the squirrel gets ice breath instead, and the final shot (which had the "R" in the Vigorsol logo lifting a leg to let a small fart out) had the fart sound bleeped out. Curiously, they later made a sequel commercial where the squirrel brings some gums to a couple of penguins so that they can escape from the melting ice float they're on with a rocket-boosted fart, which wasn't censored at all.
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* One series of Franchise/{{Lego}} sets from 2005 had two completely different iterations depending on the country it was sold: in North America, the line was called ''Dino Attack'' and featured human characters fighting against mutant dinosaurs with armed vehicles, while the rest of the world had ''Dino 2010'', which had near-identical sets but with all the weapons removed and replaced with nets and harpoons, implying that they were capturing the dinosaurs to keep them in a safe place. Curiously, it appears that ''2010'' was the original intent and ''Attack'' a DarkerAndEdgier retool for American audiences, given that the set numbers are different and higher on the American sets (for example, ''Dino 2010'' set 7295 matches up with ''Dino Attack'' set 7474).
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* The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' trading card game had to censor some card artwork in the sixth booster set: Sistermon Noir was replaced with Sistermon Ciel (something that already happened before in ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuthHackersMemory''), [=BaoHuckmon=]'s art was edited to remove Sistermon Noir in the background (Sistermon Ciel was already in the picture in this case) and both Deputymon and Gundramon have the smoke coming out from their gun barrels removed (albeit the latter still keeps the shots coming out from all his other gun barrels).
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* The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' trading card game ''TabletopGame/DigimonCardGame'' had to censor some card artwork in the sixth booster set: Sistermon Noir was replaced with Sistermon Ciel (something that already happened before in ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuthHackersMemory''), [=BaoHuckmon=]'s art was edited to remove Sistermon Noir in the background (Sistermon Ciel was already in the picture in this case) and both Deputymon and Gundramon have the smoke coming out from their gun barrels removed (albeit the latter still keeps the shots coming out from all his other gun barrels).
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* ''TabletopGame/SevenWonders'': The Manneken Pis started as a promotional Wonder whose B side has a single, very expensive stage that gives you all sorts of stuff, including the right to get a well-chilled beer from whoever ends up winning. When it was re-released in the ''Wonder Pack'', the beer reference was removed.
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* In WebVideo/TheUnluckyTug's fandub of the ''WesternAnimation/{{TUGS}}'' episode "Sunshine", Zorran calls Izzy Gomez a "rusty old piece of scrap metal" instead of a "South American heap of junk".
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* OrwellianRetconOrwellianRetcon: When a Retcon is performed by going back and changing the original work, so that subsequent printings of "the same" work are actually different.
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* BlackBlood and MadeOfBologna: Covering up extreme gore and blood through digital editing or redrawing the carnage so it's less shocking.
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* The Museum of Reading in England has a replica of the Bayeux Tapestry on display. It was created using a drawing of the original as a guide. However, the drawing put shorts on a figure who was originally naked, so the replica does too.
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* The Museum of Reading in England has a replica of the Bayeux Tapestry Art/TheBayeuxTapestry on display. It was created using a drawing of the original as a guide. However, the drawing put shorts on a figure who was originally naked, so the replica does too.
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* WebVideo/DavidNear: What appears to be the [[https://youtu.be/OA2IAYG663E?t=246 original cut]] of "[[https://youtu.be/0zi3yUSKBv4 Laughing Jack (Story Time)]]" has Jack greet a girl with "Well hey there, sexy..." before he learns said girl is only 11 years old (which [[ChildHater repulses him]]). The official upload cuts out the word "sexy" for [[PaedoHunt understandable reasons]].
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* Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdHmDmlJpzU this cinema commercial for Holsten Export]] in which the editors attempt to remove all instances of the beer in question from a family film on the grounds it's "too strong" for the target audience, with no regard to story context. The result is, obviously, anything but PG/12A-but the editors don't seem to care as long as all the alcohol's gone.
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* Parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdHmDmlJpzU this cinema commercial for Holsten Export]] in which the editors attempt to remove all instances of the beer in question from a family film on the grounds it's "too strong" for the target audience, with no regard to story context. The result is, obviously, anything but PG/12A-but the editors don't seem to care as long as all the alcohol's gone.
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To Bowdlerise[[labelnote:Pronunciation]]"Bow" (as in "port bow" or "cow" minus c) plus "dler" (as in ''Film/SchindlersList'') plus "ise" (pronounced like eyes). Alternatively, those who know IPA: /ˈbaʊd.lə.ˌɹaɪz/.[[/labelnote]] means to alter existing programs, plays, etc. so they are less rude and/or offensive. Commonly, this takes the form of swapping "curse" words for [[GoshDangItToHeck euphemisms.]] The term is used in a negative sense, by those who think the alterations are often done with a ridiculously high [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope fear of lawsuits]] and/or [[PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil need for political correctness]]. Sometimes it's understandable -- different countries have different standards, and sometimes all it takes to change a show from something for teens to suitable for kids is the removal of a few swear words, [[GoshDangItToHeck darn it]]. Others are fairly reasonable for broadcast, such as toning down violence since ChildrenAreTenderHearted. Such modifications are also understandable when the work is being adapted into a play that will be [[AdaptationForChildPerformers performed by kids]], not just watched by them.
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To Bowdlerise[[labelnote:Pronunciation]]"Bow" (as in "port bow" or "cow" minus c) plus "dler" (as in ''Film/SchindlersList'') plus "ise" (pronounced like eyes). Alternatively, those who know IPA: /ˈbaʊd.lə.ˌɹaɪz/.[[/labelnote]] means to alter existing programs, plays, etc. so they are less rude and/or offensive. Commonly, this takes the form of swapping "curse" words for [[GoshDangItToHeck euphemisms.]] The term is used in a negative sense, by those who think the alterations are often done with a ridiculously high [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope fear of lawsuits]] and/or [[PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil need for political correctness]]. Sometimes it's understandable -- different countries have different standards, and sometimes all it takes to change a show from something for teens to suitable for kids is the removal of a few swear words, [[GoshDangItToHeck darn it]]. Others are fairly reasonable for broadcast, such as toning down violence since ChildrenAreTenderHearted. Such modifications are also understandable when the work is being adapted into a play that will be [[AdaptationForChildPerformers performed by kids]], kids, not just watched by them.
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* PacifiedAdaptation: When an adaptation is less violent than other iterations.
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CulturalTranslation can often contain elements of Bowdlerization, especially due to ValuesDissonance. See TWordEuphemism for a mild form of bowdlerization. See also CutAndPasteTranslation (which specifically refers to Bowdlerization in translated works and refers more to the final product than the process) and {{Disneyfication}} (which generally goes further, in not only removing content but adding new, "kid-friendly" content). See Administrivia/BluenoseBowdlerizer for when it happens here on the wiki.
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CulturalTranslation can often contain elements of Bowdlerization, especially due to ValuesDissonance. See TWordEuphemism for a mild form of bowdlerization. See also CutAndPasteTranslation DubInducedPlotlineChange (which specifically refers to Bowdlerization in translated works and refers more to the final product than the process) and {{Disneyfication}} (which generally goes further, in not only removing content but adding new, "kid-friendly" content). See Administrivia/BluenoseBowdlerizer for when it happens here on the wiki.
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* TechnicalEuphemism: Technical vernacular used to avoid saying something rude or unsettling.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' toys suffered from this in Germany. Due to their OldShame about their involvement in World War II, Germany in the 80's was very sensitive about toys related to combat. Therefore several of the toys are retooled to make them appear less violent. This is mostly done by removing realistic looking weapons or change them to a non-violent object. For example, Rhino's missile is replaced by a "weather satellite", while Switchblade's bomb is completely excluded from the set.
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* AbridgedForChildren: If works are edited to remove material unsuitable for minors, though it's just one reason why that trope may occur.
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* AbridgedForChildren: If works are edited to remove material unsuitable for minors, kids, though it's just one reason why that trope may occur.
