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{{quote|''"One way you can tell if a child will grow up to be a criminal is if they're born with their faces already pixellated."''}}
{{quote|''"CRIME BLURS YOUR FACE!"''
|From a ''Cracked Magazine'' parody of ''[[COPS (series)|Cops]]''}}
(Not to be confused with ''[[Pixilation]]'', which is the [[Stop Motion]] animation of live actors.)
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== Advertising ==
* Used by [[Vitamin Water]] with its XXX flavor. The bottle repeatedly takes on and off the label like a woman flashing her breasts and is censored in a similar fashion.
== Anime and Manga ==
* In some anime, the pixellated object may not ''actually'' be offensive, but the object is pixellated in order to get the viewers to use their own imaginations as to what the object in question might actually be. ''[[Please Teacher!]]'' and ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' GXP have used this on occasion.
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' manga used pixellation as a Penalty Game: a TV producer who threatened to show a video of Yugi getting beaten up (pixellating his face) was made to see everything in pixellation.
* Spoofed, like everything else ever, in ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' - beautiful but scarily [[Meta Guy|perceptive]] Misaki is displayed at first with a black bar across her eyes. "I'm not a criminal," she deadpans. The black bar vanishes, to be replaced instantly by a pixel grid. "And I'm not," she continues, "in an adult video, either." The pixels vanish, and her face is revealed for the first time in the series.
** [[Excel Saga (manga)|The manga]] occasionally uses pixellation for [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo|lawyer-friendly cameos]]. Volume 19 had Gojō Shiōji wearing a pair of [[Classic Disney Shorts|circular black ears]], which were obscured with pixellation. An earlier volume featured a similarly-obscured [[Super Mario Bros.|tortoise-dragon creature]], as part of a joke about why "Teriha" kept getting kidnapped.
* Used humorously in the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' manga: rather extreme and bloody [[Amusing Injuries]] are pixellated. Almost exclusive to Ed as a result of Winry seeing he's busted up his automail again. It's used at one point on Al's body's face when the characters are wondering, horrified, whether Al's body has rotted at all while he's not in it.
* [[.hack]] did this one too in Twilight, with Ouka beating up some skeletons.
* Subverted in the manga version of the sixth episode of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' (and in the [[Better on DVD|uncut version of the episode proper]]). The [[Monster of the Week]] has captured all the women and children and is displaying them on a monitor to Kamina, with pixels covering the necessary areas. When their safety is threatened Kamina exits Gurren ''on the sole condition that the pixels are removed.'' When the baddie complies Kamina is infuriated to see that what the pixels covered were, in fact, the towels that the girls had been wearing the entire time. The only one who actually ''deserved'' to be pixeled was Gimmy, a little ''boy.''
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' normally use [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]], except when Chisame walks in on [[Rated "M" for Manly|Jack Rakan]] [[Fan Disservice|while he's taking a shower.]]
* In the ''[[Please Teacher!]]'' anime, two of the episodes show the contents of a box belonging to Mizuho being pixelated; they're presumably possessions from her life as an alien and/or mementos from her deceased father, but the audience never gets to know what they really are, since even in the DVD releases the contents are kept pixelated.
** They're shown in the manga to be
* ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]'' pixelates one of the ninja after Onsokumaru steals his swim trunks.
** Then there's the time Onsokumaru got attacked by a crocodile. The ninjas discuss the possibility of just pixelating the carnage instead of helping him.
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== Film ==
* DVD releases of ''[[Grease]]'' blur out all Coca-Cola logos in the diner scene. This probably wouldn't have even been noticeable were it not for the fact that there's one part of the scene where two characters are conversing in front of a wall-sized Coke ad...
** Likewise, in a TV edit of ''[[Superman
* An early example of this appeared in 1936's ''[[Charlie Chan
* One cut of ''[[Highlander|Highlander: Endgame]]'' has a distracting example of this during a rooftop fight scene. There's a very obviously blurred-out JVC sign in the background. The sign is not censored in the "earlier cut" of the film which comes as a DVD extra.
== Live
* Clothing brands and store names receive this treatment in the Korean Series ''[[You Are Beautiful]]''.
** Korea has recently allowed dramas to show product names, but puts a disclaimer at the start of each episode informing the viewer.
* Korea blurs it out whenever someone uses a knife as a weapon on a television series.
* In an episode of ''[[Seven Days]]'', pixellation was used to cover up the relevant bits during a college streaking event for exactly the opposite of its official purpose. Unfortunately, the pixellation wasn't thorough enough to hide the fact that none of the actors was actually nude.
* ''[[MythBusters]]''
** This was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Adam: "This ingredient is made of blur. Ha! And this has blur in it too. Blur is very dangerous. You don't wanna mix blur with blur."
** Cranked up to eleven for the MB episodes used in the new Science Channel show [[Head Rush]]. Even the writing on Adam's shirts gets blurred out. But then, the Science Channel is a commercial-free zone. It's probably simpler to blur out anything that might qualify as [[Product Placement]] than risk a lawsuit.
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* In the Discovery Channel program ''Man vs Wild'', host/survival expert Bear Grylls must occasionally be completely nude when drying his clothing to avert hypothermia. For obvious reasons, he is seen blur-clad in these shots.
* The quiz show ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'' has a round called ''What Have We Pixelated?'' where they play sections of music videos with a pixelated item which the panel must guess the identity of. A hard round which has included items such as a person, an upside-down table on a ceiling, and a hand in a box.
* In one episode of ''Backpackers'', which takes place in D***** Land,
* British automobile [[Magazine Show]] ''[[Top Gear]]'' often uses pixellation of a person's mouth in conjunction with audio bleeping when presenters or guests let loose with profanities on the show. Very common during the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" segment, as the celebrity drivers get a bit excited doing the lap around the ''[[Top Gear]]'' test track.
** And their survival instructor in the Arctic episode, an ex-special forces guy, is described as "a man with a pixelated face".
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* On ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', whenever Oscar smokes a joint it's blurred out. Six years later on ''[[Community]],'' [[Society Marches On|they don't have to.]]
* In [[Canada's Worst Driver]], stop signs cover the mouths of the contestants when they swear (along with the accompanying [[This Trope Is Bleep|bleep]] ). Punk rocker Jakob and his nominator Stacy from season five got anarchy symbols instead. Blur is also applied to license plates on the contestants' cars and on brand names (labels on fast food containers, for instance).
* Some Reno911 skits had the actors who normally played the police officers portray perps. The "perps'" faces would be pixellated much like on ''[[COPS (series)
== Music Videos ==
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] pixellates its previous logos from when it was the World Wrestling Federation when showing archival footage; this is because of a lawsuit from the World Wildlife Fund over the use of the initials.
** The WWF also used pixellation as part of one of their storylines, when Ric Flair showed up with a title belt, claiming to be the "Real World Heavyweight Champion". The belt in question was actually the NWA World Championship, which Flair had held at the time he jumped to the WWF, and which the NWA had refused to return his security deposit on, so he decided to keep the belt instead. After Flair was forced by court order to return the belt, the story continued onwards, with Flair using a heavily-pixellated WWF Tag Team Championship belt in place of the NWA belt (a [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade was hung]] on this by WWF president Jack Tunney, who claimed he had ordered the pixellation since the WWF did not recognize Flair's belt as an actual championship, and thus will no longer show it on TV).
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* Parodied in a recent [[Rooster Teeth Shorts|Rooster Teeth short]], in which everything from tattoos to brand labels are censored ''in real life'', much to the confusion and annoyance of some of the characters.
* Helix from ''[[Freefall]]'' has PG-13 vision system - he sees black bars in place of "inappropriate" body parts.
* The [[Desu Des Brigade]] uses 'Cover Otter' when naughty bits show up, if they can't be cut around. Especially prevalent in the [[Kekko Kamen]] and [[Bible Black (anime)|Bible Black]] reviews.
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* Oddly, used apparently straight in several strips from ''[[VG Cats]]'', for rude body parts. Doesn't affect crude immature scrawling done by the characters, but any show of breasts or penises (or anything that'd resemble them closely) gets pixelated.
* Occasionally, ''[[Bob and George]]'' would censor profanity with pixellation, but a black bar was used just as often. Naturally, this was parodied in [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=041201 this strip], in which an entire dialogue box is censored. Note that it usually [[Cluster F-Bomb|didn't shy away from that]].
* Whenever a character is naked in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' (usually Elan), pixellation is used for covering the person's gentials. Even though s/he does not have any, on the basis of being a stick figure.
* Used in ''[[The KAMics]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20121019103514/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4849994/ here]
* In [http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/god/ God(tm)] pixellation is used to cover up [http://theoryofeverythingcomics.com/god/01/GOD01_07a.htm corporate logos] and names of products.
== Western Animation ==
* On ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode where Ned Flander's wife dies ("Alone Again, Natura-Diddly" from season 11), Homer videotapes Flanders showering as part of his dating video. Judging by how long the pixels extend, [[Bigger Is Better in Bed|Flanders has nothing to be ashamed of]]..
** Also used on the season six episode where Marge becomes a cop ("The Springfield Connection"): When Marge goes to investigate a domestic dispute involving Principal Skinner and his mom, Skinner tells the camera man to digitally blur out his face to conceal his identity.
** Another episode had a horrified cameraman exclaim, "There isn't enough pixels in the world!" after seeing Homer's naked ass.
* Parodied in the first episode of ''[[Drawn Together]]'', where Princess Clara couldn't tell that Foxxy was flipping her off because her middle finger was blurred...then realized it when she extended her middle finger and saw that it got blurred.<ref>this also happens on the DVD version, even though the DVD is said to be uncut and uncensored. In this case, the pixellation is only used as part of a visual gag</ref>
* Parodied in ''[[Futurama]]''. The characters are watching a futuristic version of ''[[COPS (series)
* Played with on ''[[Invader Zim]]''. Dib goes on a paranormal talk show with some footage of an unmasked Zim and GIR. When GIR eventually shows up as a surprise witness, his face is pixellated...even though he makes no other attempt to hide his robotic identity. He moves a lot as he speaks, even occasionally leaving the cover of pixellation.
** He also claims to be a woman named "Stacy" during this appearance.
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