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The Voltron series underwent a great deal of censorship for the American version. To appease American censors at the time, all death was eliminated. All those that died were now shown to be robot duplicates, or were said to be sent off to heal, or being sent into another dimension even.

Voltron unedited couple slashed in half

Couple sliced in half with much blood

  • In Episode 9, "Girl in the Land of Evil", Hunk urges Twyla to wake up and join him in the fight against Zarkon, however she is too crushed by her despair to trust even a fellow human (that race being responsible for the destruction of her homeworld, after all) and chooses to step off a cliff rather than live without her brother. Finally, the team members pay their respects at her very-Christian-looking grave (placed at the site of her suicide). None of this made it to the Voltron counterpart, "A Pretty Spy".
  • Episode 22, The Deadly Flowers, featured in the Japanese version the flowers killing people in great number. In the American version, the people were just under a sleeping spell.
  • In Episode 38, "GoLion Hunting", innocent helpless people are being brutally murdered by the Death Commandos, a group of blue skinned people who enjoy cutting them up. There is a great amount of blood shown. None of this made it to the Voltron counterpart, "Raid of the Red Berets".
  • In Episode 51 "Golion's Desperate Battle". Death Of Daibazaal And Golion Leg Bite Grab Sword Stab Mecha Daibazaal Explosion Go Lion goes one-on-one with the Mecha Beastman Daibazaal in an incredible battle. With some help from the spirit of Fala's father King Raimon, Go Lion is victorious! In the heat of battle, Honerva betrays Sincline and helps out the GoLion team before being viciously killed by Sincline. Before she goes, Honverva reveals some disturbing family secrets: Honverva is in fact the mother of Daibazaal and Sincline's mother was a human from Altea! The final battle is not over yet.... The penultimate episode of Golion Prince Sincline has deposed Daibazaal and remade him into a Mecha Beastman, meanwhile Golion is en-route to Galra for the final showdown with Daibazaal's forces. What the Worf effect in its full force as Daibazaal gets his chips and Prince Sincline is told an unpleasant truth as he uses the flesh cannon to fire explosive naked people at the Golion. Though why the space mice are getting excited and wearing a dress suggesr a level of campness that was not explored in Voltron.
  • In Episode 52 "Burn, Galra Castle". assistance from Princess Amue and Ryou Shirogane on the ground, the final assault is underway. Raible transforms Castle Gradam into a flying fortress to join the fight as Sincline's officers beg to surrender but are ruthlessly destroyed by an enraged Sincline. As the Castle Galra begins to fall, Shirogane seeks personal revenge on Sincline for the death of his brother as the two fall from the top of the crumbling castle! With the universe free once again, GoLion is assembled as a shrine but the team skips the ceremony for some well earned relaxation and reflection...The final decisive battle for the fate of the universe is at hand, the Golion team and Sincline have one last confrontation on the grounds of Castle Galra. Firing his flesh cannon with what appears to be 'naked people' he may have needed to get out the spam javelin too Golion Torture Of Laser Mouse Shoot Spike Nails Face Prince Sincline Ryou Stab Chest Sincline (Now aah!) Prince Sincline Slash Chest (Damn You!) Falling Jump Off Ryou Shirogane And Prince Sincline (Both Screaming) Amue Crying (R Ryou?) Akira Yell (Ryou!) Blow Of Ryou Shirogane And Prince Sincline Death Of Ryou Shirogane And Prince Sincline (I Did It's Bro?) Amue Crying Screaming (RYOU!!!!!).

To see this and other examples, or learn more about Voltron, visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldEvents and look through all that stuff there.

Content edits[]

  • Shots of shooting/explicit torture (e.g., whipping) prisoners/civilians/slaves, and some shots of corpses were removed.
  • Bloody arena battles, most notably in the first episode of the series, were heavily edited to remove most of the graphic scenes of characters dying.
  • Zarkon's soldiers were referred to as robots as opposed to alien soldiers. Also, crews of space ships that were destroyed were often either said to have been evacuated prior or referred to as robot-ships in order to lessen the impact of their deaths.
  • In the case of special characters who died in the original series, they sometimes escaped (in the case of Haggar/Honerva) or sent off-planet to receive medical treatment for their injuries, even though they died in the original Japanese series. Since this was the case with Sven (Shirogane) and Nanny (Hisu), the scenes of their funeral and characters visiting their graves were thus cut. While Sven was "brought back" through the use of Shirogane's younger brother Ryou (who was an exact lookalike of his dead brother) being declared to be Sven, both Haggar and Nanny would be absent for several episodes until the show's United States exclusive second season aired, bringing them back to the forefront.
  • The beginning of episode 21 heavily implies that Sincline (Lotor) raped Princess Amue (Romelle) during her days as his prisoner. In Voltron's case, the removal of a sequence where Sincline knocks Amue out before carrying her off her cell and some dialogue changes suggest that Lotor's abuse of Romelle was physical rather than sexual, though it could be interpreted either way (eg, in both versions he attempts to kiss her by force and she slaps him away, she's later seen returning to the cell alone and in tears, and some girls kept hostage with her refer to him as "wretched" or as a "beast").

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Exceptions to Editing Character Deaths

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