Barbie Doll Anatomy/Playing With

Basic Trope: A nude character lacks nipples, genitalia or both.
 * Straight: When a character's private parts are visible, the "important" details are missing.
 * Exaggerated: A character's entire body lacks detail.
 * Justified:
 * The character had surgery or a rare medical condition, causing a lack of detail.
 * The character is in "cyberspace" or some other form of out of body experience, the lack of details could even be a subconscious desire for modesty or enforced to avoid problems.
 * The character is in the middle of the fog.
 * The character is an android and doesn't need genitals, so they don't have them.
 * Inverted:
 * Gross Up Close-Up
 * A nude character is featureless except for their naughty bits.
 * A mascot based on a species with no external genitals is drawn with them.
 * Subverted:
 * A character seems to lack detail in the private areas, but it's just skin-colored patches.
 * Alternatively, as more commonly used in the Furry Fandom, the important parts are obscured by fur.
 * Double Subverted:
 * ...but when the patches are removed, nothing's underneath.'
 * When shaved, the furries still have nothing.
 * Parodied: The areas in question are rendered so as to look plastic, like on a Barbie.
 * Deconstructed:
 * Linda has no or malformed genitalia and suffers a gender identity crisis, gets made fun of in locker rooms, and struggles with self-image for several years.
 * Or, she dies at a very young age because she can't use the bathroom and the waste keeps building up.
 * A place where all characters lack genitalia experiences a population decline due to the people's inability to reproduce (no genitals means women cannot become pregnant).
 * Reconstructed:
 * ...but eventually stops worrying about what others think, gains a positive body image and decides to accept life as an intersexed or genderless person.
 * She still dies at a very young age because she can't use the bathroom and the waste keeps building up.
 * Storks deliver babies whenever couples wish for them.
 * Zig Zagged: In one scene, the character is drawn with no detail, while in the following scene Fan Disservice-y levels of detail are shown, then the character is drawn with no detail again, and then a normal level of detail in the fourth scene.
 * Averted:
 * Characters are never shown nude.
 * They have ordinary genitalia.
 * Enforced: "Our target audience for this animated cartoon/comic strip/what-have-you is comprised of children who aren't allowed to see detailed human nudity."
 * Exploited: Linda becomes a naturist, rationalising that she needs no pants if there is nothing there to cover.
 * Lampshaded: "Why don't we have nipples or genitalia?"
 * Invoked: "Oh no. Bob's naked and Carol's too young to see that! Please let this be a Shonen.
 * Defied: The character with no detail hides it, usually with a mask or sorts.
 * Discussed: "I hate how Barbie dolls don't have anything down there; it's so unnatural."
 * Conversed: "Umm Alice? How did you and Bob...have Carol if you both don't...you know...?"

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