What if VGC had censorship like Spider-man?!

Posted by Tyler Durden

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[SIZE=1]By [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_television"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]1994[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1], heavy [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]censorship[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] was being enforced by Fox because certain shows were being banned for excessive violence in some countries. So in a bid to make the Spider-Man animated series as [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politically_correct"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]politically correct[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] as possible, the producers of the show were instructed to abide by their extensive list of requirements. Among the notable restrictions were:[/SIZE]
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[*][SIZE=1]Not mentioning "death", "die", "kill" or other words with a strong negative meaning. Death was to be avoided, leading Semper to skirt around the issue. "Destroy" and "destruction" were frequently employed as synonyms.[/SIZE][SIZE=1] For example: [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]Rather than explicitly stating that Uncle Ben was killed it is only said that he "was shot" and that Peter "let him down." [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]It is stated that the [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]Punisher[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1]'s family was "caught in a crossfire between rival gangs", and the same applied to the wife of the [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroyer_(Golden_Age)"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]Destroyer[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1]. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]At one point, when the Green Goblin returns after seemingly perishing, Spider-Man says, "You?! But I thought you were-" and the Green Goblin cuts him off with, "I'm not.. but you'll soon be!" before throwing a Pumpkin Bomb at Spider-Man. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]When [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydro-Man"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]Hydro-Man[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] was defeated and evaporated, Mary Jane asked "Is he-?" Spider-Man cuts her off by saying "Not necessarily." He goes on to explain that water that evaporates always eventually returns to the earth in the form of rain. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]There were exceptions, such as when Felicia's mother was attacked by Kraven, and stated "That madman nearly killed you." or when Mary Jane suggested that Harry was trying to "avenge the death of his father." [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]Many realistic guns were not allowed, and no firearms could shoot bullets, so instead they fired lasers complimented by 'futuristic' sound effects. This often led to scenes in which ordinary policemen wielded futuristic pistols. However, in Episode 3.09, Robbie Robertson's son Randy finds a real-looking gun in his father's desk, though it is never fired on screen, and in Episode 56, when Keane Marlow is telling the story of how he lost his wife, the bank robbers are firing a pistol and a semi-automatic. In "Day of the Chameleon", the Chameleon is about to pull out a realistic looking pistol from behind his back before Spider-Man stops him. In "Sting of the Scorpion" a flashback shows Jameson's wife's killer supposedly using a realistic gun in a drive by shooting. It is worth noting that the team behind the roughly contemporary [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Animated_Series"][COLOR=#0000ff]Batman: The Animated Series[/COLOR][/URL] portrayed realistic, if [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Gun"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]anachronistic[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1], firearms onscreen throughout that show's run without ever having an episode banned or censored as a result. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]Spider-Man was not allowed to hit anyone with his fist, however there were a few exceptions. In Episode 39 ("The Spot") in which he used his spider-sense to guide a punch through a dimension portal and knock out the Spot. He also punched the Scorpion twice in "The Final Nightmare." [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]No crashing glass was allowed. However, in Episode 43, when Spider-Man and Doc Ock were battling in Felicia and Anastasia Hardy's home, Ock accidentally smashed a glass window with one of his tentacles. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]No children in peril, although there was a scene where a teenager was stuck to the bottom of an elevator, about to be crushed until Spider-Man saved him. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]No vampires were allowed on the show. This created complications with the use of the characters [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbius_(comics)"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]Morbius[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] the living vampire and [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(comics)"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]Blade[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] the vampire hunter. Consequently, Morbius only drained victims through suckers on his hands, rather than by biting them in the traditional vampire style on the neck, and rather than blood, his sustenance was referred to only as "plasma." However, the word "blood" is used regularly in non-vampire episodes. True vampires later appeared anyway, primarily in the form of Blade's vampire mother, but they are not shown actually biting anyone. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]Spider-Man was not allowed to harm any pigeons when he landed on rooftops. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]Cletus Kasady a.k.a. [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnage_(comics)"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]Carnage[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] was not a serial killer in the series, he was just a madman. Carnage never actually used his symbiotic blades to harm anyone, he was either stopped or dodged. He also absorbed people's energy rather than killing them outright. However, he has made a few references to attempts to murder. For instance, when Baron Mordo stated to him that he needed a few more life forces, Carnage said "Only a few? Too bad!". He also referred to his process of draining life force as "feeding". [/SIZE][/LIST][SIZE=1]There are, however, notable exceptions to these rules. Examples include:[/SIZE]
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[*][SIZE=1]When Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson confront Hydro-Man in Episode 2.03 for the last time, Hydro-Man vaporizes when he touches hot ground, and never returns. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]Due to the unstable DNA structure of the clones of Mary Jane Watson and Hydro-Man, they vaporized and died. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]Several other characters, including [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterio"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]Mysterio[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1], Jameson's wife and the Kingpin's father were implied to have died off-screen. [/SIZE]
[*][SIZE=1]It should be noted that the restricted words were sometimes mentioned regardless of Fox's censorship. For example, in "The Insidious Six", Scorpion states that he'd "kill to work for the Kingpin" (a common exaggeration used by many). Another variation appears in "Hydro Man", where [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Allan"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]Liz Allan[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] says the word in [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_latin"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]pig latin[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] to Mary Jane. When trying to reason with The Spot, Spider-Man said "You're no killer." Scorpion even said the word "kill" in his first appearance and the death words were used regularly in the Six Forgotten Warriors five-part episode saga. [/SIZE][/LIST][SIZE=1]After the [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]September 11, 2001 attacks[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1], [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_Family"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]ABC Family[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] heavily edited the episode "Day of the Chameleon" to remove the [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]World Trade Center[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1] buildings, parts of the New York skyline, and a helicopter crashing into a building, exploding, and falling to the ground below, among other shots. This resulted in the first scene being impossible to comprehend as it was originally intended. Dialogue was re-looped to match the new, shorter version. Some production credits from the episode are missing as well, due to their being on screen during the omitted footage. They also removed the last two episodes of the second season since both of them featured a building burning down. Another noticeable edit can be viewed in season three's "Enter the Green Goblin" episode. In the original, the Goblin Glider slams into a building with Spider-Man riding on top. In the newly edited version, the scene is cut, and Spider-Man emerges from a hole in the side of the building. Another edit occurs near the end of episode 21, when it is revealed that Kraven and Punisher's last battle with the "Man-Spider" was in fact inside the parking garage of the World Trade Center, and that Kraven had deduced the location by smelling some webbing left at a previous battle and detecting remnant soot in it from the [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_bombing"][SIZE=1][COLOR=#0000ff]terrorist bombing of the early 1990s[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][SIZE=1]. The whole sequence of Punisher finding out where they are and Kraven's explanation of how he knew where to look for them was cut, though the battle scenes within the garage are left intact, since obviously they could belong to any parking garage until the final revelation.[/SIZE]

Would Jesse go this far, someday?

Posted by Y2kMISFIT

Why do you make so many pointless threads?

Posted by Speedfreak

Quoted post: [SIZE=1]in which he used his spider-sense to guide a punch through a dimension portal and knock out the Spot.[/SIZE]

This right here is why I don't read comic books.

Posted by Linko_16

Read the title and thought of Spider-Man for the N64, and how if you tried to input swear words as a cheat code, Spider-Man would push it aside and replace it with nice words like "Balloons" and "Rainbows." That would be pretty lol.

Posted by junior senior

tl;dr

Posted by Jesse Smith

And you guys ***** cry and complain about my **** puny little *** censoring. My censoring is net even ***** close to ***** bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course I could censor the **** name 'Obama' to 'Obama really sucks'!!!!!! Now THAT word needs ******** censoring!!!! :D:D:D:D:D

[quote]Spider-Man was not allowed to harm any pigeons when he landed on rooftops.

Can I make a new rule that says no one can harm, aka, bash, n00bies, even if they have over 1,000 posts...with the one exception being WackoHater, who you can drive insane day in and day out!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D

Posted by final kaoss

That's one rule that you should've set about 3 or so years ago, otherwise all the "noobies" are going to keep getting chased/flamed out of vgchat.

Quoting Jesse Smith:

Can I make a new rule that says no one can harm, aka, bash, n00bies, even if they have over 1,000 posts...with the one exception being WackoHater, who you can drive insane day in and day out!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D