Censor Shadow: Difference between revisions

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[[File:wonderweiss 6553.jpg|link=Bleach|frame|How convenient!]]

 

A character (male or female) is full-on naked, but the artist doesn't want to reveal all. Yet an outright [[Censor Box]] will be just horrible (unless this was a comedy). This is a dilemma. What to do? Eureka! Just some crafty shading and ''voila''! A convenient shadow! Now we can keep those [[Incredibly Lame Pun|private parts, well, private]].

Not only used for nudity, it's often used as a result of [[Executive Meddling]] last-minute censorship of something gory, causing a random dark slash covering half the screen and the [[Gorn]] behind it. Almost like a [[Gory Discretion Shot]], only a bit sloppy.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Bleach]]'', as seen above.

* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'': Averted in one of the OVAs.

** Lampshaded in [[Gag Dub|Higurashi Parody Fandub]] 8.

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]''

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''. During the prison fight episode risky angles were covered by shadows.

* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' puts a shadow under {{spoiler|Giant!Asura}}'s robes.

* ''[[Blood C]]'' does a number of shadows during incredibly violent scenes.

* In the [[Comic Book]] version of ''[[Anita Blake]]'', a wererat's genitals are covered this way.

* In a [[Story Arc]] in the [[Anthology Comic]] ''Marvel Comics Presents'' showing the origin of [[Wolverine]] (running away from Project X) he's nude the entire time, but for shadows. The one time the artist couldn't justify any shadows [[Digital Bikini|he was suddenly in a pair of tighty-whities]].

* For a female example, in ''X-Men Versus the Fantastic Four,'' Susan Storm momentarily becomes extremely fed up with her husband, Reed, because [[Reed Richards Is Useless|Reed is balking at using a machine to cure Kitty of permanent phasing]]. (It's complicated.) When in private, Sue uses her forcefield to [[Clothing Damage|blast off her entire uniform]] and most of her body is conveniently in shadow, but not so much you can't tell she's nude.

* In an early issue of ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'', Betty Ross is transformed into the Harpy sans culottes, with her breasts and genitals hidden by shadows.

* This happens quite frequently in [[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]] with Hecate, the Baba Yaga, and the occasional demon. Partially justified thanks to Mignola's black-on-white [[Chiaroscuro]] art style. Sometimes Mignola chooses to show nipples, so it must be a stylistic choice.

* Frequently happens to [[Wolverine]] when he ends up naked, especially in Weapon X flashbacks.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The "Anubis" enemy in the [[First-Person Shooter]] ''PowerSlave'' (''Exhumed'' in Europe) has shadows under his kilt. Good thing too, because he does not know how to sit politely.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

[[Category:Darkness and Shadows Tropes]]

[[Category:Censor Shadow]]

[[Category:Lighting Tropes]]