15 Amazingly Dumb Cases of Censorship

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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: SYFY WIRE

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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

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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: The Mary Sue

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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.

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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.

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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: Variety

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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: CBR

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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

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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: Variety

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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: Showbiz CheatSheet

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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: BuzzFeed

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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.

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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 *WILL GROW HAIR ON ANYTHING M CLANG $1 00 A BOTTLE CRACKED.COM But معقد Donald but many - . MALE DENTY COACE et -

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