Seems to be a fair bit of misuse here. A lot of examples are not, "X was added to increase the rating", but "the censors gave this a weirdly high rating without anything to deliberately increase it being added."
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, all reportedly edited to an extent from an R/15 rating? How did the people behind this website recieve such classified information? :O
Does the Inside Out example really qualify?
This trope is about pointless scenes added just to bump the rating (like a brief swear), and Riley's depression and Bing Bong's death were really important to the plot.
Shouldn't this be Trivia? It's about real life things done to bump up ratings, not in-universe tropes.
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They still show In-Universe, so not really.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
We should really add here all the cases in which music "artists" put a slur in the middle of their songs; lyrics just to have the "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" in the front of their C Ds. Examples (among thousands) are Maroon 5 in "Moves Like Jagger" or Taio Cruz in "Dynamite".
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You mean they actually do it so that they can be considered 'adult', and not just out of expression or something in their that rhymed?
That's sad, bro. But yeah, go for it.
Should there be a separate trope called "Avoid the Dreaded NC-17 Rating?"
There are plenty of examples of films being edited to receive an R rating, including on this page, that I think are enough to warrant its own page. If not, we could separate the inversions of this trope.
Although, I'm sure it would fall under Trivia.