Basic Trope: A movie that was originally given a set rating gets an unrated version with content that would not earn the original rating.
- Straight: The Troper Movie was originally rated R, but the DVD release includes extra nudity for an unrated version.
- Exaggerated: The movie was rated G, but the DVD release makes it Bloodier and Gorier plus some explicit sex to make it unrated.
- Downplayed: An R-rated movie only includes an extra swear word to get the title for DVD.
- Justified: That extra scene was important to the plot.
- Inverted: The unrated version actually removes content.
- Subverted:
- This Wiki Films releases an "unrated version" of The Troper Movie on DVD, but it turns out to be identical to the theatrical cut.
- The rerelease is stated to be unrated solely due to a shift in the MPAA guidelines after the original 1951 release.
- Double Subverted:
- ...except that Alice, the female lead, does the whole film in the nude whereas she was fully clothed throughout the theatrical cut.
- ...except that it becomes Bloodier and Gorier, replacing the Gory Discretion Shots are replaced with extreme bloodletting and Family-Unfriendly Violence.
- ...except that Bob, the male lead, swears enough for two sailors when he didn't in the theatrical cut.
- …the pre-Hays cut, not the recut most are familiar with.
- Parodied: The Troper Movie was originally rated R. For the DVD release, it's changed into a conflict-free, cutesy kids' movie, but still branded as "unrated."
- The unrated edition of a PG-13 movie is the same rating tier but includes every last unused cut and concept bunch confusingly mixed in. Unrated is explicitly stated at the end to mean "unexamined for quality".
- Zig-Zagged: The director, studio, and/or other parties involved in preparing the DVD cut of the film increase the content for mature audiences in some scenes, reduce it in others, add a Deleted Scene here, remove a scene from the theatrical cut there, et cetera.
- Averted: There is no unrated version.
- Enforced: The distributor wants to sell the movie as Hotter and Sexier than the normal version, and adds extra scenes to released an unrated version.
- Lampshaded: "Let's have sex to make it unrated!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The film is released in a country where ratings are mandatory, and the so-called "Unrated Edition" carries a rating.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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