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* The first season of ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Z]]'', when it was dubbed, was one of the worst offenders of this. The company that dubbed it took special care to delete every frame where a hit connected and replace it with a sloppily-drawn star on a black background. (And in a show where the main draw are the big fights, it's not hard to understand why this was so horrible.)
** Same goes for the edited version of ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'', where ''many'' hits are replaced with this and barrages of punches or blasts are completely removed.
* The ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' [[OVA
* ''[[Ranma
* While the first seasons of ''[[Digimon]]'' merely relied on cuts for censoring of physical violence, ''[[Digimon Savers]]''' dub used an insultingly childish impact screen to censor a [[Groin Attack]], and was rightly derided for it.
** The first example in ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' came in episode 4, where Gabumon gets punched in the face by Red Vegiemon. A white flash is put in its place, and also is inserted from time to time during Veemon's [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] by Red Vegiemon.
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* Happened in ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]''. When Blonsky hit Spars in the face with a chair, the POV was hers and there was a split second of blinding white.
* Used during Wez's fatal headbutt attack in ''[[The Road Warrior]]''. Not exactly censoring anything, since it shows the limp body being thrown over the wall immediately afterwards.
* Occurs twice in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'': First when Po crashes into the exhibition/ceremony, and later when the Furious Five battle [[Big Bad|Tai Lung]] on the bridge.
* Used in an unusual scene in the 1983 Lou Ferrigno film ''Hercules'', where the title character fights a bear. When Hercules punches the bear from the POV of the animal, his fist flies towards the camera repeatedly, and each time, strange strobe lights flash and lasers sound, due to the cheap FX used in the low-budget film. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqMfxmzVd28\]
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* Graphical adventure game ''[[Deja Vu]]'' used intertitle cards that covered the entire first-person view window, like the ones in the 1960s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman TV series]]'', when you fired a gun ("BLAM") or punched someone ("SOCKO").
* In ''[[The Sims]]'', a cat killing mice gets the same "censor pixels" as a nude Sim. Sims fighting or dying in fires invoke no censor pixels, however.
* Then there's ''[[
* In every ''[[Street Fighter]]'' game where you can play as Akuma, when you do the Shun Goku Satsu and it connects, the screen flashes with these before cutting back to the famous "Shoushi!" pose.
* ''[[Fire Emblem Elibe|Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword]]'' and ''[[Fire Emblem:
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** For context, she was a plant clone made by Poison Ivy.
* Used and abused in ''[[Ben 10]]''.
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' - Mostly just when it was funny.
* Most of the [[DCAU|DC Animated Universe]], unless a character himself (such as Superman or Batman's cape) obstructs the impact shot. [[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman]] animators were also fond of using silhouettes, which arguably worked with his shadowy image.
** This is notably absent in a number of fights after ''[[Justice League]]'' went [[Heroes Unlimited]]. Such as the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Panic in the Sky", when Galatea fought Supergirl while taunting her, making the fight seem especially gruesome. [[media:
* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' is by far ''the'' worst abuser of this trope. Not only is it used when a character is punched or kicked ''anywhere'', the same applies to Jack Spicer's Jack-Bots (and other [[Mecha-Mooks]]) ''and'' to every single impact that is deemed too harsh for the executives to handle.
* When Frankie punches out her date on ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]''.
** Used in another episode when Bloo gets punched in the face by a young girl for taking some toy glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth. The punch is shown from the POV of Bloo, and the girl's fist flies towards the camera before the split-second Hit Flash.
* Exception: ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' -- [[A-Team Firing|No one ever got shot]], but the moment of impact was always visible.
* Often subverted in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', which has exaggerated, [[Slow Motion]] impact shots, with green goo and teeth flying everywhere.
** It will however use it at other times, sometimes with hidden bonuses, such as the episode "Los Dos Mojos", where a hit flash from Bubbles is actually the words "Mojo" rapidly cycled.
* Needless to say, used quite often on ''[[Looney Tunes]]''.
** In one [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] short, Bugs hits a dog over the head with a club. You see Bugs raise the club, then a flash, and then the dog has a [[Cranial Eruption|huge bump on his head]], while Bugs is holding a broken club. The swing of the club is never seen, ironically making the action appear all the more violent.
** A particularly clever example occurs in ''Bugs Bunny Rides Again'': Chased by Yosemite Sam, Bugs goes through a tunnel and then covers the exit with a brick wall. As Sam enters the tunnel, the screen goes dark - and suddenly we see him silhouetted against the wall for a brief instant.
*** The versions cited above have suffered editing due to concerned parties afraid of what they called "imitatible violence." Since race issues were also treated differently, they likewise suffered this sort of editing.
**** It's worth noting the Golden Collection DVD sets have the unedited versions of the cartoons.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' isn't shy about showing violence, but they had a creative variation on this trope in an episode in which time was skipping ahead at random intervals. After Fry delivers a pickup line to Leela, there's a short timejump, and we see Fry with a black eye saying "Oww..."
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'' used these particularly well, normally showing punches to the face from the point of view of the victim. Just as the incoming fist is filling the screen,
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' would often have a shot of someone's fist rushing at the camera, a brief
** Got a little odd in "Aftershock Part 2," though, when at one point they had two characters talking, had the
* The 2003 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series uses a variant - whenever a sword is used, the screen quickly cuts to black and the movement of the slash is shown. Even if it is [[Bowdlerization]], it looks [[Rule of Cool|pretty cool]].
* Used in ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers]]'', when [[Villain with Good Publicity|Pete]] knocks Mickey out.
* Completely averted with [[Spectacular Spiderman]], which had virtually every blow delivered on screen.
* Used occasionally in the [[Donkey Kong Country]] animated series, most notably when DK punched King K. Rool or another Kremling.
* Done once and only once on [[South Park]] (which is known for it's often graphic and brutal on screen violence) in the episode "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride" when one of the the kids while playing football headbutts Pip who was not wearing a helmet.
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