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* '''Defied''': A character then sends explosives to blow up the headquarters of the national censorship bureau and then says "What censors?"

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* '''Defied''': A character then sends explosives to blow blows up the headquarters of the national censorship bureau in response, leaving charred bodies in the aftermath and then says "What censors?"
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* '''Defied''': ???A character then sends explosives to blow up the headquarters of the national censorship bureau and then says "What censors?"
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** The characters are [[FourthWallAwareness aware of the age rating]].

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** The characters are [[FourthWallAwareness [[NoFourthWall aware of the age rating]].
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* '''Inverted''': "Alice and Bob" is a show for adults. Alice stops herself from swearing, until she realizes she actually can swear on a show like this.

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* '''Inverted''': "Alice and Bob" is a show for adults. Alice stops herself from swearing, until she realizes she actually can specifically makes sure to swear on a show like this.in order to comply with the age rating.
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'''Basic Trope''': Characters in a work are aware of its age rating, and disallow others to say/do inappropriate things for that reason.
* '''Straight''': In an episode of the children's show "Alice and Bob", Alice is about to say a swear word, but Bob stops her by pointing out that they're in a show for kids.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is about to release a ClusterFBomb while doing drugs and [[FullFrontalAssault committing a gory massacre in the nude]]. Bob tells her not to do that because it's a children's show.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice is about to make a joke that goes slightly above PG. Bob tells her not to, because the show is G-rated.
* '''Justified''':
** The characters are [[FourthWallAwareness aware of the age rating]].
** They have in-universe reasons to not say/do inappropriate things, such as [[NotInFrontOfTheKid being around Charlie, who is a kid]].
* '''Inverted''': "Alice and Bob" is a show for adults. Alice stops herself from swearing, until she realizes she actually can swear on a show like this.
* '''Subverted''': It seems like Bob is stopping Alice from swearing because he's aware that the work is for kids, but it's really just because [[LittleBrotherIsWatching the young and impressionable Charlie is around]].
* '''Double Subverted''': And then he looks at the camera and says, "Oh, and them, too!"
* '''Parodied''': The work is for adults, but the characters still pretend to censor themselves due to the "children" in the audience watching anyway.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': The reasons for stopping other characters for doing inappropriate things vary.
* '''Averted''': There are no references to doing inappropriate things in "Alice and Bob".
* '''Enforced''': A way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar, or to sneak in some ParentalBonus and/or DemographicallyInappropriateHumor.
* '''Lampshaded''': "What kids? Who are you looking at?"
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* '''Implied''': Bob stops Alice from swearing by saying "Not in front of the kids". Since they're in a children's show, and Alice and Bob actually were around some children at the time, it's unclear which kids he's referring to.
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