Alternate versions

The only uncut version of this film is available on VHS in Japan. All other releases (including US "Director's Cut" DVD) contain less violence and gore. It also exists on Japanese DVD totally uncut - cat. # BBBF - 1646.

Original UK video releases were cut by 1 min 7 secs by the BBFC to remove shots of improvised illegal weapons. In this case 2 fish used as nunchakus and a starfish used as a throwing star. The cuts were fully restored in the longer and re-edited 2004 Hollywood DVD release.

Warner Home Video released two versions on VHS in 1989: R-rated and unrated. The unrated version, though, still has some cuts to it for gore and violence.

The original DVD release from 1998 contains a heavily edited "R" rated version, despite the front cover selling it as a director's cut.

In the uncut version, the main villain gets his intestines ripped out onscreen.

The Finnish videoversion excludes all the gore but includes the scenes, which are added to the Director's Cut version as "deleted scenes".

The full uncut version from Japan contains 10 extra minutes,which include:

• The wheelchair death is gorier and quite longer. He squeezes his body till his intestines burst out of his stomach (along with buckets of blood). Then Toxie takes the wheelchair, picks it up and thorws it aside.
• The villain who gets choked with the vine and has roses shoved into his eye shockets is gorier and longer. It shows Toxie choking him more and also blood squirting out his neck (he also spits out blood) and it also shows Toxie shoving the roses in his eyes.
• A gorier version of the scene when Toxie punches the Blackvillain's face in showing blood run down his face and also his body droping to the ground, showing what's left of his head.
• When Toxie bashes the two villains; heads off, it usually cuts to them dancing; in the uncut print their bodies first drop to the ground, causing blood to splash out of their necks (and it also shows toxie tearing hair from their scalps!)
• The Indian villain's death shows Toxie tearing his ears off his head
• Toxie chases down 3 rapists and kills 2; in the R-rated version the 3rd one (a woman) is never shown. In the uncut print he chases her to a radio station where he shoves cords, microphones in her body
• A scene showing Toxie and the japenese chick playing a game.
• A new scene of Toxie complaning that everyone in Japan is staring at him.
• Two fights scenes are added. One between two warriors (one gets crushed by Toxie's foot and the other gets thrown on some stand) and a japanese dragqueen who keeps trying to rape Roxie

Big Mac Junko's death is longer and gorier. You see more chooping on his leg and a new shot of his arm being chewed up.

The current American release of The Toxic Avenger DVD trilogy, called THE TOX BOX, contains the uncut version of The Toxic Avenger, Part II. This Director's Cut DVD version contains all the aforementioned cut scenes and includes an alternate audio commentary by Lloyd Kaufman.