Left: The original hentai doujin
Right: The serialized manga
Right: The serialized manga
"Moral judgeyness aside, it's just weird from a fandom perspective how a lot of popular VN franchises started out as niche porn that was later cleaned up for general audiences – there's this whole aspect of the IP's history that you have to awkwardly skirt around any time the subject comes up in polite company. Like, imagine if Batman's first known appearance had been in an oddly high-budget Tijuana bible, and every time a comics industry thinkpiece wanted to name-check the iconic page depicting the first time he donned the cowl, they had to discreetly crop out the panel where he's getting railed by Superman."
Some works have a past connecting them back to a previous, sometimes unwholesome incarnation, such as a previous version of a work being pornographic. A self-censored release involves the work being toned down to be more suitable for mainstream audiences.
This may happen from being derived from early drafts of other works of the authors, especially creators who worked in the doujinshi industry: limited runs of self-published fan comics. Some kinds of dōjinshi happen to be outright pornographic in an attempt to gain some quick capital with fans, creating the potentially unsettling feeling the character started in the mind of the author with an unsavory tone. For some artists, this can be a little awkward, but the attempt to hide it is pretty futile in practice.
While keeping the porn might stay true to form, mainstream works tend to be more lucrative. In addition, because of the different attitude toward such things in Western society, this can be a shaky prospect, as many artists become well-remembered for their racier art, and often make attempts to distance themselves from it.
This is a Sister Trope of Tamer and Chaster and Lighter and Softer, which is where an adaptation or later installment of a work (typically by a different production team) tones down the original's sexual or disturbing content; conversely, Hotter and Sexier and Darker and Edgier cover the opposite angles. Porn Creator Going Mainstream covers In-Universe examples of creators of pornographic works branching out into non-pornographic works. Other related tropes include Creator Backlash (where a creator expresses dislike for a past work in hindsight), Bury Your Art (where a creator actively tries to erase a previously published work from history), I Was Young and Needed the Money (a general excuse for an Old Shame), Rule 34 (a "rule of the Internet" that "if it exists, there is a porn version of it"), and Rated G for Gangsta (a general trend of creators producing more mainstream-friendly content when they get popular). Fanservice is a more different kind of opposite.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro (Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san) is by a former hentai creator and originated as a series of webcomics/image sets featuring the titular character and her senpai and boyfriend Hachiouji. The image sets are technically safe for work with no nudity or sex at all, but are clearly made as fetish fuel with femdom and soft S&M themes. The cute yet sadistic Nagatoro is emotionally manipulative and verbally and physically abusive towards Hachiouji, while also being affectionate in her own twisted way. The author dubbed her type as "sadodere". In the serialization, she quickly mellows out past the first few chapters into a more conventional teasing girl who is way more "dere" than "sado". But the serialization is turn much more raunchy and shows more skin than the image sets ever did, dipping into the author's other interests like embarrassed or shameless public nudity and exhibitionism through other characters, though the most explicit it gets is Barbie Doll Anatomy unlike his prior hentai works.
- Dream Hunter Rem started life as a one-shot hentai OVA. Due to popular demand, this one-shot was re-edited and re-released with a newly made episode as a mainstream title and eventually spawned four sequels.
- The Elder Sister-like One: The original story was a series of onee-shota (mature woman with adolescent/pubescent boy) hentai doujins. However, the underlying relationship was deemed so heartwarming that it was made into an all-ages monthly serial. Downplayed in that the creator would not only continue producing the H-doujins alongside the new family-friendly version, but state in the author notes that the doujins are still canon to the manga, merely taking place further down the timeline.
- Hellsing: Kohta Hirano, the creator, started out writing freelance hentai featuring characters that eventually became the cast of the aforementioned work. In fact, one of his works, Legend of Vampire Hunter, is identical in plot and character design to the first book of Hellsing — except, of course, that the busty police officer is only threatened with rape in the latter work. Hirano being Hirano, he lampshades this all the time in the author's notes in the first volumes. Other characters used in previous hentai titles that were roped into the Hellsing series: Alexander Anderson from the short comic Angel Dust, Pip Bernadotte and the Major from Coyote, Doc and Schrödinger from Doc's Story, Renaldo from Magic School and the Captain from Desert Guardian. One of Anderson's many nicknames is "Angel Dust Anderson".
- Imaizumi Brings All the Gals to His House began as an erotic doujin where the underlying relationship was so unexpectedly heartwarming that it got a more sanitized manga version (known in Japanese as Imaizumin-chi wa Douyara Gal no Tamariba ni Natteru Rashii: ~DEEP~, with the ~DEEP~ in the title differentiating it from the original doujin) as a monthly serialization to expand on the popular romance. The author still produces the original H-doujin concurrently with the ongoing serialization, which are canon to each other.
- Mezzo Forte was originally a hentai OVA. Curiously, each of the two Mezzo Forte episodes only has a single two-minute sex scene — and it's easily edited out without any plot impact, as was done in some US versions. Japanese contractual obligations to add hentai material, meet overseas distributor's adult content policies. Mezzo Forte was not supposed to be porn at first, but the producer bankrolling it believed it was the only way it would make money and forced the team to add in the gratuitous nudity and sex. Basically, the American release was what they had really wanted to do all along (once they found a different publisher). The followup TV series was also non-hentai.
- Project A-Ko was originally being produced as part of the Cream Lemon
hentai series, but during development, the producers thought the comedy was too good to be broken up with sex scenes. The final product still retains plenty of Fanservice though, like a few shots of B-Ko bathing, and lots of Panty Shots.
- SHUFFLE!, openly — somewhere around episode 10, an R-15 warning was added to the television broadcast, after which the ecchi content was upped... occasionally.
- Yandere Dark Elf She Chased Me All The Way From Another World: Downplayed. The manga is an Adaptation Expansion of an earlier hentai doujin with the same basic premise of a yandere dark elf pursuing The Hero after he returns to Earth, insisting that they're married. While there is no explicit sex, the mainstream version is still an ecchi series featuring plenty of censored nudity and risqué moments.
- Ultimate Muscle: When the final 26 episodes of the series were commissioned by 4Kids Entertainment, Toei Animation had them animated with their specifications in mind. Meaning characters like Meat were deliberately drawn without the symbols on their heads as opposed to airbrushing them for international airings, fights were done without blood and so on.
Comedy
- Paul Reubens's Pee-Wee Herman was a stand-up character for adult comedy nightclubs and his playhouse show played out like a kids' show with adult humor (the type that is more R-rated, not PG-rated, as seen in many animated films and TV shows). One of his routines involved him and his friend Hammy wearing shoe mirrors to see up Hammy's sister's dress. Hammy's sister catches them trying to look up her dress, then tells them the joke is on them because she's not wearing any panties.
Comic Books
- Empowered grew out of Adam Warren being forced by financial difficulties to turn to the questionable but lucrative market of superhero-themed bondage pin-ups. Gradually, he found the single images developing into longer gag strips, and finally a full-blown comic series with fleshed-out characters. (Although while it doesn't have any graphic nudity or hardcore images, the comic still has strong erotica and sex-comedy elements.)
- Nickelodeon Magazine featured a comic strip titled Patty-Cake that was written by Scott Roberts and first appeared in the magazine in 1998, but the series actually began as a comic book distributed by Permanent Press that began publication in 1994. The pre-Nickelodeon Magazine comics were more adult, featuring occasional profanity and mature humor.
- A non-sexual example in The Phoenix. It includes a comic strip called Looshkin, featuring the titular blue cat and a living teddy bear named Bear. The strip features a lot of slapstick and Surreal Humour. The original incarnation, the 2003-2005 Alternative Comics series Bear, had that but also included swearing and stronger violence, so it was aimed at adults.
Films — Live-Action
- In the 1970s and 1980s it was not uncommon for porn films to have second versions released to mainstream theatres with sex scenes either removed or toned down. Examples include Café Flesh and Dixie Ray, Hollywood Star (the latter actually having an actual well-known film and TV actor, Cameron Mitchell, in a supporting - but non-sexual - role). In the case of Flesh Gordon, the X-rated cut was confiscated at the time and probably destroyed. Averted with the infamous Deep Throat, which was released uncensored (since an R-rated cut would have been pointless). Since the 1980s it has been commonplace for some of the higher-budgeted porn films to shoot sex scenes with a second camera, or restage them altogether, to allow versions of the films to be shown on cable or released to video where hardcore is illegal. Such productions regularly appear today on networks like Cinemax.
- The 1975 horror film Forced Entry was a loose remake of a 1973 porno of the same name.
Live-Action TV
- Dream On had nude scenes with alternate takes wearing underwear for broadcast syndication (it also briefly aired on the Fox network).
- When The Sopranos was being produced, they made sure to be prepared to change certain scenes for syndication. They would frequently record alternate versions of scenes where a nude character (often the strippers in the club) would be in bikinis or lingerie, and occasionally a scene would be recorded with softer dialogue to avoid Hong Kong Dub later.
- Stargate SG-1: The Pilot Movie "Children of the Gods" includes a lengthy scene of full-frontal female nudity when Apophis offers Daniel Jackson's wife Sha're to his queen Amaunet as a host. This was added at the behest of original network Showtime and is kept on the DVDs of the series; however, syndicated airings, reruns after the Channel Hop to the Sci-Fi Channel, and the Re-Cut of the episode as a Made-for-TV Movie cut it down to Shoulders-Up Nudity and Toplessness from the Back.
Music
- Some "hentaigrind" bands such as Aloys Fudanshi abandoned the hentai side of things and switched to regular Grindcore, blackened Death Metal and powerviolence from Alive onwards.
- The Black Eyed Peas re-wrote "Let's Get Retarded", a song from their 2003 album Elephunk, as "Let's Get It Started" to serve as a promo song for television coverage of the 2004 NBA Playoffs. Guess which version ended up becoming a bigger hit...
- Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You" has a radio-friendly version called "Forget You". This went recursive when The Muppets (2011) had the chicken Muppets cover it as "Cluck You", based on the non-explicit version.
- Goldo's One-Hit Wonder "Boom-Da-Boom" is mainly known for the version that describes the narrator being in a dream involving various Disney characters (and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). The original version was about the narrator getting involved in a high-speed chase-turned-fight which goes From Bad to Worse when someone pulls out an AK-47.
- John Lennon wrote a song titled "Maharishi", full of swearing as The Diss Track on said Indian guru who disappointed him. The version recorded by The Beatles in The White Album might have a dirtier title in "Sexy Sadie", but its language is cleaner and some lyrics are more vague if still bitter because George Harrison asked Lennon so.
- Little Richard's original lyrics to "Tutti Frutti" contained unacceptable levels of swearing and sexual innuendo (being a pretty transparent reference to gay anal sex) for contemporary radio broadcast, so songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie was brought in to hurriedly write new, clean, lyrics.
- Klaus Schulze's album Body Love and its sequel album began as the score to a pornographic film of the same name.
- The original version of the song "Blind Dance" by Violet UK is 18 minutes long, a near ethereal Gothic Metal song centering around Intercourse with You and the protagonist being a submissive in BDSM, and containing The Immodest Orgasm combined with Cluster F-Bomb. The commercial/radio edit version barely clocks in at 4 minutes (if that) and is an ambient sound/electronic Apocalyptic Log with some bits of the drums and orchestra from the original thrown in. Both actually are good, but they aren't even the same song despite the name.
- Jackie Wilson and LaVern Baker recorded an X-rated version of their duet "Think Twice" as a piss take during the recording sessions for that single, which later turned up on bootlegs and specialty compilations.
- The Lou Bega song "Mambo No. 5" had a Disney version in which the references to alcohol were removed and instead replaced with ice cream parlors.
- The hymn "What Child Is This?" (among other Christmas and New Year texts) is set to the tune of "Greensleeves", which is usually interpreted as either a song about a promiscuous young woman or a prostitute, or a song about a woman being mistaken for one of these things.
Pro Wrestling
- A fair number of professional wrestlers in WWE have undergone some changes, sometimes as a result of a Heel–Face Turn but more generally because WWE has in recent years attempted to become more family-friendly. The most notable of these is John Cena, who rose to fame as a heel that belittled his opponents through R-Rated rap promos. Within record time, Cena was PG-ized by the WWE when they saw his popularity and has gone full-tilt towards erasing any edginess about Cena in favor for a G-Rated version of Cena that they could shill to children. On the Divas side, Mickie James (who did several nude photoshoots before becoming a WWE wrestler) and Kelly Kelly, who started out with fairly perverted gimmicks (Psycho Lesbian and "extreme exhibitionist," respectively) before being converted to generic Divas.
Theatre
- Avenue Q, an R-rated musical parody of Sesame Street, has a "School Edition" that somehow manages to trim the decidedly not school appropriate show to roughly a PG-13 rating in film terms. This involved cutting "The Internet is for Porn" in favor of a new song called "My Social Life is Online," cutting "My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada" and "You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You're Makin' Love)" without replacing them, shortening the scenes with the Bad Idea Bears, and changing some character names to make them more appropriate.
- Heathers: The Musical is a Black Comedy set in a high school, including multiple suicide attempts, drug references, swearing, a sex scene in "Dead Girl Walking", and explicit on-stage murders. Later on, a "Teen Edition" was licensed to schools, intended to tone down some of the more offensive content and make it something that would be appropriate for actual high school students to perform. Mainly, most of the swearing was censored, as well as most sexual scenes.
- Any instance of drug use was replaced. "Big Fun" in particular was mostly rewritten, as well as "who needs cocaine?" being replaced with "my novocain" in "Freeze Your Brain". However, "Veronica's gotta be tripping on shrooms now!" in "Yo Girl" and "those ghetto moms on crack" in "The Me Inside of Me" went unchanged.
- In "Beautiful", most of the insults were subbed in for less vulgar ones. Veronica also says that Heather Duke's "parents sent her to Europe while her nose job healed" instead of "her mom did pay for implants". The bulimia scene is entirely replaced as well.
- "My Dead Gay Son" uses the rewritten West End version, which removed the more sexual jokes (like the "getting busy in the shower" line).
- "Shine a Light" was edited so that Mrs. Fleming no longer admits to faking her orgasms.
- In "Meant to Be Yours", the line about the students' "burnt bodies" was replaced with "destruction".
- One song, "Blue" (which has some very crude innuendo), was replaced entirely for being too inappropriate, while some more were added. The original producers of the musical had involvement in adding the new songs.
- The performance license for Mean Girls includes the full unaltered book from the Broadway production, but also includes a list of optional changes for the show's more risque lines so high school productions can choose to censor themselves if they want to be more parent-friendly without violating license agreements. A significant portion of the changes are devoted to removing the word "bitch" from lines or taking the edge off of references to drugs or alcohol (like changing a reference to stealing oxycodone to stealing vodka).
Video Games
- The maid training simulator/Virtual Paper Doll H-Game Custom Order Maid 3D 2 received a clean 12+ release titled Custom Order Maid 3D 2: It's A Night Magic. There's also Custom Cast, an all ages mobile app version of just the character creator intended for VTubers which also has an option to create male characters, unlike the original (without mods, at least).
- Databrawl was, in its original creation, a quickly put together re-release of a game published under Duncan's previous account, Protest Simulator (now known as Riot Simulator). While Protest Simulator may have not directly been the reasoning for said account being terminated by Roblox, the entire game concept was reworked to remove itself from its original context. Despite Databrawal being now a far cry from its original concept, Riot Simulator has had various attempts at re-releases and remakes by Duncan on his current account, many of which being no longer accessible, either due to moderator interference or political controversy resulting in takedowns.
- Data East began its line of billiards games with a clean Arcade Game titled Side Pocket. However, all the (likewise clean) console releases of Side Pocket, not counting the Numbered Sequels, were based either on the nudity-enhanced update Pocket Gal or its sequel Pocket Gal Deluxe.
- The Porn with Plot RPG Dragon Knight 4 was ported to the SNES and PlayStation with all the Optional Sexual Encounters removed.
- Duel Savior Destiny originally had sexual content in Duel Savior Justice, but it later received a clean release that turned most of the sex scenes into something far more PG, faded to black on others and replaced the harem route with one focused around the princess character from the original game who did not originally have a route. In order to do so, she gets dragged along to a number of scenes that were clearly originally written without her presence, making her rather stand out.
- Flower Knight Girl: The version hosted at the FANZA web platform is the uncensored H-Game, while the version hosted at DMM replaces the sex scenes with Date Scenes. The mobile ports, in addition to removing the sexual content, tone down much of the character art outfits.
- Gungrave G.O.R.E. was initially released as a gory take on the Gungrave's predecessors with over-the-top, hyper-violent gameplay where enemies messily explode into a shower of blood and gore along with human enemies that swear constantly, but a year later, Iggymob would release an Ultimate Enhaned Edition for Nintendo Switch which removed most of the violence, profanity, and recolored the blood to something that isn't red. Despite the self-censorship, there are some moments with gore, red blood, and swearing left in tact.
- In I=MGCM, Studio MGCM has made two versions released simultaneously: The DX version and the regular version. The regular version of said game has all pornographic scenes and dialogues from the DX version removed and some of them are replaced with scenes that make sense for general audiences. However, this game still has some Fanservice, Stripperiffic dresses, Sex Comedy, Les Yay subtext, and visual innuendos that include some Demon Realm plants and critters that look like women's breasts, male sex organs, etc., but it's still relatively clean. Because of this, all the main story scenes, dream scenes, hallucinations, Visions of Another Self and imagine spots that are exclusive to the DX version are left to players' imaginations.
- The publisher Kagura Games specializes in translating and releasing H-Game content. All versions released on Steam are fully censored, but patches to undo the censorship are available for free on their website. (The versions released on GOG have the patch available on the same page.) Notably, the censored versions are infamous for being nearly unplayable, if not actually unplayable; for example, the censored version of The Imperial Gatekeeper is Unintentionally Unwinnable due to the removal of the "frisking" mechanic.
- Kimihagu was originally an 18+ H-Game for the PC (in Japan only). Six years later, however, it received a 17+ port for the iPhone (still in Japan only).
- The eroge Koikatsu also has an all ages character creator-only version called Vkatsu meant for Vtubers. A clean version of the game called Koikatsu Party also received a worldwide release.
- There are two general version of Monster Musume TD, hosted on FANZA, DMM site, and Mobile, the former being the explicit H-Game, while the latter two removes the sex scenes (the later-most also tweaking a few of the character designs that are close to explicit). The censored game still features many sexual themes and jokes that come with the story premise of horny monster girls lusting after one boy, but stops just short of showing the explicit content; making the tone more of an Ecchi anime.
- The 18+ yaoi mobile game NU: carnival has a 17+ version called NU: carnival Bliss that tones down the sexual content so it could be published on the Apple App Store and Google Play. The H-scenes are static and zoomed in to avoid showing the more explicit parts of the scenes.
- Taito's Puzznic had one version exclusive to Japanese arcades that rewarded level completion with topless girlie pictures. The PC-98 port replaced them with clothed anime girls, while many other versions, including all home versions, had no girls at all.
- Scarlet Blade is already a risque piece of work; but it turns out that freecree, the CG artist, was simply using cropped versions of his much more risque versions of his artwork and has put them shamelessly on display.
- Utawarerumono was initially an adult game. Its huge success led to an anime and a PlayStation 2 game, both 'clean' to the point of often lacking fanservice (at least of more conventional sorts, though it does occasionally come up). The PlayStation 2 version followed the original, adult game closely but cut off on the brink of an H-scene then picking up afterwards. Only the original, adult game however, so openly blind-sides the player with the revelation that Dorii and Guraa are actually male. The others just kinda leave you unsettlingly uncertain.
- The Witcher had a lot of female nudity for Fanservice, all of which was replaced with censored art in the international release. Studio CD Projekt RED offers an optional "Director's Cut" patch to restore it. The sequels didn't bother, nudity and softcore sex in mature-rated video games having become more accepted since then.
- XXL WOOFIA, an adult Bara mobile game, has a censored version for app stores that covers and crops out the explicit Male Frontal Nudity but keeps the H-scenes and dirty jokes.
Visual Novels
- Aselia the Eternal - The Spirit of Eternity Sword was originally an H-game/RPG mix for the PC. Eventually, it was ported to the PlayStation 2, which doesn't allow adult content. Then it was ported back. So all the references to the sex are there and you can even pinpoint when it happened, you'll just never see it.
- ATOM GRRRL!! was released for Steam with the majority of the yuri left implied, though Big E's "weapon" was left uncensored.
- Many are surprised to find that Comic Party was originally an H-game, considering that all the console versions of the game were pretty clean, as was the anime adaptation (rated PG in most countries) which contained almost no fanservice. (Some of the bonus OVAs and the sequel Revolution series do add some brief nudity, but no sex.)
- DRAMAtical Murder has a 2014 remake subtitled re:code which removes the sex scenes and nudity from the original release, though it also adds more scenes and a new route for Mizuki.
- Key/Visual Arts' games Kanon and AIR were originally H-Games, but the anime adaptations and later releases of the games were clean, and many people thought the hentai actually detracted from the story. (And was oddly placed. See Mai's arc in Kanon, where they go to the school to fight demons, but take a break to eat supper and do it on the desks.) On that note, there's also Eternal Fighter Zero.
- The remake of Kikokugai: The Cyber Slayer removes the explicit sex, presumably opening the novel up to a new audience nine years later.
- Inverted in the case of Little Busters!. Initially released as a clean visual novel with a gripping plot, followed by a manga adaptation, they then re-released it as Little Busters! Ecstasy as an adult version of the original one (plus extras).
- Downplayed in Muv-Luv's non-erotic versions, where they get away with as much as they possibly can, either fading to black at the very last possible moment or showing the scene anyway but the CGs cropped and the most explicit bits cut out. It's notably Muv-Luv Alternative that does the latter, which is understandable given that its content is definitely not meant for anyone who couldn't handle seeing sex and is more to appease the rating systems. The studio also offers a free decensoring patch for the Western releases.
- Subverted in Norn9; the game has scenes that look like this and cuts to black before the characters actually have sex...but the only releases have been all-ages, meaning there never were any sex scenes to remove to begin with.
- Otoboku - Maidens Are Falling For Me started as an H-Game, which is ironic, given how shy Mizuho is in the only slightly ecchi anime.
- Phantom Thief Silver Cat: As per Steam's regulations, the commercial release features censored imagery (save for a couple of oversights), though dialogue makes it clear what's happening in every scene regardless.
- Tears to Tiara was originally an adult PC game. It was later remade for the PlayStation 3 with (what is generally regarded as) superior character design. The anime then took the PS3's take on things.
- At least two visual novels from Type-Moon have received all-ages versions.
- Fate/stay night: The original release version had several explicit sex scenes, e.g. Shirou Emiya having sex with Saber on the Fate route to recharge her mana. These were removed in the PlayStation 2 re-release, which every subsequent version including the HD remaster on Steam used as its basis; they were also cut from the anime adaptations in favor of trippy visuals.
- The remake of Tsukihime, -A Piece of Blue Glass Moon-, had all of its sex scenes excised.
- Rumbling Hearts received the usual removal of sex scenes when it was ported to Dreamcast and PS2, but also has one particular ending replaced in the ports. Said ending involved the protagonist getting kidnapped by his love interest, forced to undergo hormonal replacement therapy, and sexually assaulted. The ports replaced this with a more run-of-the-mill happy ending.
- The remake of YU-NO predictably cut the sex scenes, but it's still very obvious what happened.
Web Animation
- Meru The Succubus is usually found in porn sites, but Skudbutt has released a YouTube upload that removes the sexual content.
- The Singing Catgirl!: Although the base animation has uncensored depictions of intercourse, Nicky Case uploaded a PG-13 version to her main Twitter account.
Webcomics
- Wendy: Wendy, one of Jackie Lesnick's best remembered characters (or character templates) began as the focal character of The Wendy Project, a site showcasing tons of pinups of Wendy and her friends (which, according to the artist's retrospective, were rather badly drawn). The characters would eventually star in the increasingly more wholesome comic bearing Wendy's name, and Wendy's character design was later reused in the filler series Cute Wendy, which became a runaway success and spawned its own sequel/spinoff Girly. Despite the Creator Backlash involved, Jackie has continued to produce short pornographic comics on her Slipshine subscription service to this day, some of which still feature Wendy prominently, although slightly better drawn now.
- Before the webcomic got its start, Las Lindas artist Chalo had a number of pictures of Mora in some rather NSFW situations. Once the comic became popular, the pics were eventually deleted from his art pages, though they occasionally still pop up from time to time on imageboards. The move is somewhat ironic, given the Fanservice-heavy nature of the comic and that Mora has since been shown and implied to have had sex multiple times throughout, not to mention that Chalo does still occasionally post NSFW art of his characters on his social media accounts.
Websites
- TV Tropes didn't ban pornographic content until nearly a decade into its existence, at which point a massive project was undertaken to clean up its act. The fallout can be seen in the several abortive attempts to launch competing wikis which maintained the old content.
Web Video
- The Kill Count: For most episodes, two versions are made available. The free version, uploaded to YouTube, generally has most of the gore blurred out or otherwise censored to comply with YouTube's content policies. A separate, unblurred version is uploaded to the Dead Meat Patreon channel behind a cursory paywall.
Western Animation
- The rejected Cartoon Network pilot Bottom's Butte was originally planned as an adult cartoon called Bottoms Up, with the storyboard for the pilot's original draft "Woman in Heat" being about Peanette trying to help Beverly get laid (the two hooking up with a pair of twin brothers who are anthropomorphic cigarettes) and ending with Beverly naked.
- Dead End: Paranormal Park is based on DeadEndia, in turn based on Dead End. The former iterations have plenty of raunchy sex jokes and, in the case of Deadendia, even guest participations by porn artists. In contrast, the Netflix show has been largely purged of that and doesn't really have anything objectionable for kids barring homophobic countries banning the show.
- The UK kids series Dodo is based on the short film Not the End of the World which has main character Joe sleeping naked, popular girl Molly smoking and Joe's friend mentioning he heard that Molly let a guy touch her boob. Though the series still has some dirty jokes that only adults and older kids will get.
- Downplayed with Jimmy Two-Shoes, which was pitched as a Black Comedy for teens rather than adults, but nevertheless saw its premise neutered when Disney XD got the broadcast rights and wanted to aim for a younger demographic. The initial concept explicitly took place in Hell after titular main character was mistakenly sent there after being killed by a bus ramming him over, with other changes including Heloise intended to be the spirit of a Serial Killer and Lucius being the Devil himself.
- The TV series Oh No! It's An Alien Invasion is based on a short called Oh Shit!.
- The Powerpuff Girls originally premiered in a short called Whoopass Stew!, where Professor Utonium created the "Whoopass Girls" by accidentally adding a literal can of whoopass to his concoction instead of Chemical X. It was Darker and Edgier in general, including having the girls kill their enemies instead of just beating them up.
- Regular Show, whose early seasons already straddled the line between content suitable for Cartoon Network and its nighttime sibling [adult swim], has some of its characters originate from two student films creator J.G. Quintel did in college. One is "The Naive Man from Lolliland," which, aside from a single use of the word "hell," isn't considered all that raunchy. "2 in the AM PM," however, contains explicit swearing and references to drug abuse, with the entire premise surrounding two clerks eating candy laced with LSD during the night shift and tripping out.
