Star Wars: The Force Awakens announced a PG-13 rating yesterday, and now Warner Bros. has issued a statement saying it’s officially aiming for this rating for all the studio’s comic book films from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice through Justice League: Part Two.

The first Star Wars film to be rated PG-13 was Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005); the other two movies in the second Star Wars trilogy were rated PG.  The PG-13 rating didn’t exist until July 1984, after the original Star Wars trilogy was released.

According to History.com, the category was added to indicate a film’s content included a "higher level of intensity," which "may be inappropriate for children under 13 years old” and "may contain very strong language, nudity (non-explicit), strong, mildly bloody violence or mild drug content."  Parents had complained that films such as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins, which contained larger amounts of violence and gore, were receiving PG ratings.

All 12 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films have been rated PG-13, with Marvel leading the way toward older ratings as it has in most things related to geek films.  And now producer Charles Roven has confirmed in an interview with Collider that Warner Bros.’ plan for all of the DC movies is to target that rating.  "We really want to make these films tonally consistent so that, as I said because this is a shared universe, at least our current thinking...  So our plan right now is to make all these films PG-13. In some cases, you know, right there on the edge of PG-13, but still PG-13."

The reason for the Star Wars: Force Awakens rating was given as "sci-fi action violence," according to The Hollywood Reporter.  As the publication pointed out: eight of the year’s top 10 movies (including geek fare Jurassic World, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 2) are rated PG-13.