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August 24, 2024

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CRACKED.COM Dumbest censorship spider-Man can't punch Ninjas are violent, so the turtles had to be heroes in the U.K. — Source

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Dumbest censorship Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Ninjas are violent, so the turtles had to be heroes in the U.K. CRACKED.COM

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Dumbest censorship splass Daryl Hannah's butt in Splash was too much for Disney+, so they covered it with digital hair. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM Dumbest censorship spidey has to be straight Spider-Man is contractually obligated to be a straight, white man. Andrew Garfield got in hot water once, for suggesting in an interview that Peter Parker could maybe be bisexual. — Source

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Dumbest censorship Naked chick Tweety was pink and featherless in his first appearance. Не was eventually given yellow feathers because censors objected to a naked bird. CRACKED.COM — Source

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DAILY PLANE 6 Dumbest censorship DC can't do masturbation Neil Gaiman was once told that he couldn't mention masturbation in Sandman, as people do not masturbate in the DC Universe. His reaction was that that explains a lot about the DC Universe. J'MLEE2016 CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dumbest censorship Brock's mom Apparently, 4Kids didn't think American children could handle Brock being abandoned by his parents in Pokemon - so they changed it to his mom being dead. When his mom did show up, they just pretended they didn't create a huge plot hole. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dumbest censorship The Penguin can't smoke Colin Farrel wasn't allowed to puff a stogie in The Batman, despite smoking being, like, half of what the Penguin does. — Source

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Dumbest censorship Heroes can't go down The creators of the Harley Quinn cartoon were informed by DC that heroes don't do that - that being giving oral sex. Their rationale: It's hard to sell a toy if Batman is ... going down on someone. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dumbest censorship cousins Sailor Moon's English dub covered lesbian lovers Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune as cousins. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dumbest censorship Lifetime (for Gays) Lifetime has released multiple versions of their movies-gay and straight. The straight versions cut the homosexuality itself, and replace the gay lover with a straight one. — Source

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CRACKED COM Dumbest censorship Pregnancy Lucille Ball wasn't allowed to mention (or even visibly show) she was pregnant, despite her body doing a great job of filling everyone in. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dumbest censorship castlevania Nintendo of America had a no religious symbols policy - so when the Castlevania series made it to the U.S. all Christian crosses were removed. From a game about vampires. — Source

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Donald by WALT Disney DUCKS ATOM SOLAB Dumbest censorship Donald and the bomb In a 1947 comic, Donald Duck tries to build an atom bomb. It wasn't the WMD that made censors flip out - it was the fact that Donald sold a hair tonic after his attempts caused everyone in town to go bald. I'VE GOT A WAY PICKED PROF. DUCK'S ATOMIC OUT TO MAKE MONEY- AND LOTS OF IT! HAIR-GROWER CLANG M *WILL GROW HAIR ON ANYTHING CLANG! $1 OO A BOTTLE CRACKED.COM Beaut مسطه that - . KAC DEARTS COMICS - - — Source

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CRACKED.COM Dumbest censorship Hannibal Horribly mangled bodies? That' OK - as long as no butts are visible. They amped up the gore to cover the corpses' asses with blood. — Source

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A Dutch pro-Christian public broadcasting company changed David Attenborough's documentaries to support creationism. They cut lines, replaced spoken English with completely different spoken Dutch, and removed any reference to evolution. And they'd still present everything as a BBC program from David Attenborough. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Pokemon movie is actually a retelling of the classic Frankenstein story, which ends with the lesson that life is precious no matter how it came to be: I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. But you wouldn't know if you watched the American version, in which half of the plot is cut and the moral is replaced by: fighting is bad, which is a very stupid lesson to learn from a series about monsters fighting. — Source

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The Star Trek episode Amok Time showed us Vulcans' mating season, which is triggered by a condition called Pon Farr which would kill Spock unless he mates... Unless you saw the German edit, which changed Pon Farr to a space fever, cut out all mating references and turned everything else that happened into a hallucination Spock was having. CRACKED COM — Source

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In the TV edit of Snakes on a Plane, the film's iconic line: I've had it with these motherf*cking snakes on this motherf* cking plane! Became: I've had it with these monkey- fighting snakes on this Monday-to- Friday plane! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Fifty Shades of Gray

X The Vietnamese version of Fifty Shades of Gray had no sex. Vietnamese audiences were confused when they saw a theatrical version of Fifty Shades of Gray in which all of the sex scenes were cut out. By editing out 20 minutes of screen time and leaving only a few kisses, Vietnamese censors angered audiences and left them bewildered by an ending that made no sense. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SCARFACE CRACKED.COM was incredibly difficult to censor for TV because of its constant use of profanity. So, the censors had to get... Where'd you get the beauty scar, tough guy? Eating pineapple? ...a little bit creative. Maybe too creative. — Source

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In the edited-for-television version of GHOSTBUSTERS the lines where Stantz and Venkman refer to Peck as being d!ckless were changed to calling Peck CRACKED.COM Wally Wick and some kind of rodent. — Source

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Chinese government censors were very heavy-handed when editing Skyfall. One scene where a French hitman kills a Chinese security guard was completely deleted. In another, lead character James Bond asks a woman if her tattoo was the result of forced prostitution. While the audio didn't change, the Chinese subtitles had Bond asking if the tattoo was mob related. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A line in Casino went, We may have to kick a k**e's a** outta town. ROBERT JOE DENIRO SHARON PESCI STONE CASINO 1 MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE The TV version changed a** to butt - but they left the racial slur. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Men in Black 3

The Chinese version of Men in Black 3 is missing 13 minutes. The part of the movie that takes place in Chinatown, both the aliens disguised as Chinese restaurant workers and the innocent bystanders whose memories were wiped, were deemed too offensive for the country's release. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Delta Airlines showed an edited version of the movie Carol in which the lesbian lovers, played by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, never even kiss! CRACKED.COM — Source

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Piranha 3D for Indian TV cut the gore and nudity, which is half of the movie. To avoid the hiccups in the musical score that occurred with every cut, it was removed altogether. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Grace Kelly's and Clark Gable's lines in Mogambo changed in Spain, SO they weren't adulterers. They were now brother and sister - but still shared a bed. Somehow, incest was an improvement! CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Simpsons

The Arabic version of The Simpsons was almost a completely different show. RUCK The beer-swilling, bacon-loving lout that is Homer Simpson turned into a juice drinking, halal abiding man named Omar Shamshoon. The Arabic dub also cut strong religious references and scenes featuring Moe's Tavern. The end result left audiences confused as a lot was lost in translation. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM The Chinese version of The Shape of Water edited out the masturbation scene and most of the 55 O - 10 5 I sex scenes. In addition to affecting the continuity of the film, it destroys one of del Toro's central themes: natural female sexuality. — Source

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CRACKED.COM A Grey's Anatomy doctor suggested a patient smoke one cigarette a day to relax. مصر In France, the suggestion changed to eating one bowl of rice a day. — Source

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The Wolf of Wall Street is filled with sex scenes and swear words, so 45 minutes of its total runtime were cut upon entering the United Arab Emirates. It's unfortunate that a lot of those controversial scenes also carry the plot forward. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In the kid's cartoon Steven Universe, a lesbian couple sucks at baseball because they can't stop flirting with each other. USA SWEDEN I'm trying, but all I I'm trying, but I'm having wanna look at is you. problems concentrating. USA SWEDEN Don't worry. Focus on Don't worry. You can look at me when you're running for home. victory when you run. But in Sweden, the women suck at baseball because....no reason? CRACKED.COM — Source

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The TV cut of The Matrix turns the edgy rebels into youth pastors- Replacing Jesus Christ! with: Jeepers Creepers! And Neo's badass line How about I give you the finger? with: How about I give you a flipper? CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM Due to the stereotypical appearance of Sao Feng, the Pirate Lord of Singapore, 10 minutes of his screentime were cut from the Chinese release of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. That's about half of the character's screentime, which pretty much renders his arc in the movie incomprehensible. — Source

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CRACKED COM Why did you take ours and not give up your own? I HAD то, YOU *****! What did Starlight Glimmer say to make Canada's Treehouse TV censor My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic? Fools. Because on that channel, even words like fools and losers need to be censored. — Source

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