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[[File:nothingtoseeherefolks.jpg|frame|The elephants may be a bit much.]]
A completely nude character's "naughty bits" are blocked from the camera by a convenient prop or oddity of architecture, yet every other character in the scene gets an eyeful, usually resulting in either ogling and [[
Another common example is when a female character takes a bath. The bubbles will generally cover her "naughty bits"
In comics, [[Speech Bubble Censoring|speech bubbles are very serviceable too]].
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[[Bowdlerized]] is when the original footage is censored to allow normal viewing for a different audience, which contains some overlap with this.
For hidden faces, see [[The Faceless]]. For bedtime '''Scenery Censor''' techniques, see [[Modesty Bedsheet]]. Related to [[Godiva Hair]] and [[Hand or Object Underwear]]. TV shows and movies (be they animated or live action) that use [[Shower Scene|bathing scenes]] usually rely on [[Censor Steam]] or [[Censor Suds]]. For cases in which an actress is pregnant but her character isn't, see [[Hide Your Pregnancy]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* An add for Fruice played this for laughs as we are introduced to two girls hiding behind a bush, apparently naked talking about a "natural thing". Cue two shirtless guys walking in, then we see that the thing they're hiding is a bottle of Fruice and the girls are just wearing tube tops.
* A 2016 Advert for "Bernie and Phyl", a furniture retailer, features a salesman who had to show a male customer around despite the man being maked the whole time. The customer's "member" was covered with random items.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f9vqrpHRk8 This Advert] by ''Impulse'' featuring the [[Spice Girls]].... enough said. {{Spoiler| The band memebrs were actually wearing tube tops, short shorts, and even a dress in a way that made it look like it.}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' plays with this trope in a few episodes.
** Shinji, panicked and shocked by discovering a [[Everything
** In ''Rebuild 2.0.'', the above scene is repeated with Asuka instead of Shinji, and when Misato picks up the can this time, a smaller cup with a straw sits, blocking her. That still doesn't stop Shinji from seeing Asuka naked, whose reaction was... well, [[Megaton Punch|not good]].
** Episode 5 has Shinji walk in on Rei just after she got out of the shower. After Shinji knocks her down and she drops her towel, a desk lamp in the foreground keeps her breasts obscured until she gets dressed. In the ''Rebuild'' version of this scene, Rei's nipples are clearly visible just before she gets up off the floor
** Then there are there are all of the times when Rei gets in her cloning tube. Naked.
* ''[[Puni Puni Poemi]]'' has a scene with at least half a dozen naked women in a (tiny) Japanese communal tub, but no matter what camera angle is used, the one rubber duck in the tub with them is always blocking the naughty bits that would otherwise be visible.
* In addition to [[Censor Steam]], [[Hot Springs Episode|episode 20]] of ''[[Persona 4: The Animation]]'' uses this to hide the girls' lady bits from the audience. There are many, many conveniently positioned arms. At one point, a washtub held at a funny angle is used to hide {{spoiler|Naoto's}} entire upper half.
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* ''[[Naruto]]'':
** The "Orioke no Jutsu" covers [[Gender Bender|Naruto's female form]] up with clouds or some sort of mist. Results in Iruka-sensei getting a [[Nosebleed]].
** And ... [https://web.archive.org/web/20120521013928/http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100409154612/naruto/images/b/bb/The_Three_Elements_of_Sage_Chakra.PNG this].
** And when Suigetsu recovers from injuries in a tank of water [https://web.archive.org/web/20141023120356/http://read.mangashare.com/Naruto/chapter-417/page007.html what appear to be bubbles in the tank] cover his lower half.
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''
** Done during its [[Hot Springs Episode]]. Kamina is covered by Boota hovering in between his legs, while Simon's drill covers him. In fact, it looks less like "covering" and more like temporarily "becoming" said part. What's really funny is that the Sci-Fi channel broadcast still blurred the first shot of naked Kamina, presumably because you could still see his ass. This has the effect of making Boota's presence less obvious and it seems that that one shot originally showed his penis.
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** Also, in the anime version of Raijuuta's Arc, Yutarou decides to give Yahiko an agressive speech about how he will train with Kaoru and become better than Yahiko and such... when Yahiko is about to get into the bathtube. A small part of the scenery covers the space between his legs.
* Creed from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' has one of these. One is when he's in a rose bath [[Stalker with a Crush|daydreaming about Train]], and his privates are covered by strategically placed rose petals.
* In ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' Chapter 158: "Reassembling Companions," [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204071931/http://www.onemanga.com/Hunter_X_Hunter/158/09/ page 09] does this with a shout bubble over [[Fan Nickname|Pedoclown]] Hisoka's naughty bits; a panel cut-off on [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204152912/http://www.onemanga.com/Hunter_X_Hunter/158/10/ page 10], and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090131101740/http://www.onemanga.com/Hunter_X_Hunter/158/11/ page 11]'', which is probably '''[[NSFW]]''', actually uses two frames with strategically placed speech bubbles to indicate that he just got an ''erection''. Understandably, the two [[Cute Shotaro Boy
* In ''Wild Act'', volume 3, Yuniko's... lower half... is covered by a shovel. Ryu Eba doesn't see what we see, and we see quite a bit.
* Despite this being fairly common in ''[[Cutey Honey]]'' ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTNAhYP2A4&_helmeo just watch the intro]), [[Fan Service]] wasn't the focus of the original series. That's what ''New Cutey Honey'' was for.
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** A scene immediately after Ed [[Shower Scene|takes a shower]] in where he's talking to Al without bothering to cover up (until [[Team Pet|Shao May]] crawls out of Al's armor and sees him, complete with [[Luminescent Blush]] ''through panda fur'') has one of the spikes on Al's armor in the frame to cover the exact point where Ed's genitals would be.
** A far more blatant example occurred right after this when Envy walks in on them, asking if they were done yet. Ed had forgotten his [[Modesty Towel]] at the moment, but Envy's head makes up for it.
* When a yaoi title doesn't want the awkwardness of invisible penises or censoring bars, it often adopts a Scenery Censor approach to
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]]'':
** In episode 6 a female school teacher strips naked in front of her class of children. One of the children's heads blocks the view of her groin, and moves as needed to prevent any viewing of it.
** In episode 12's opening title; a nude Mariel is on the screen. As the camera pans down, Taro's head pops up to cover her genitals.
* Subverted in ''[[Gunbuster]]''. The girls are having a bath, and while you'd think foam or water or ''something'' would cover their naughty bits... it doesn't.
* ''[[To
** Male characters are sometimes shown naked too, just using this to cover the bare minimum.
* ''[[Buso Renkin]]''
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* Part of the plot in ''[[Don't Cry,Girl]]''. In chapter 1 Masuda quickly arranges his apartment so that his penis is always blocked from the camera's view by some object. Or while talking he suddenly has the remote control in his hand resting in just the right place.
== [[Art]] ==
* [[Older Than Steam]]: The art that hangs in museums is no stranger to
* ''The Birth of Venus'' by Sandro Botticelli has Venus fully nude though her hands cover her breasts and her long hair is blowing in the wind to conveniently cover her genitals.▼
* ''Olympia'' by Edouard Manet has a bare breasted woman on a bed with the white sheets covering her lower area.▼
==
* Happens all the time in Italian comics ''[[Dylan Dog]]'', ''Nathan Never'' and the like, which often feature staggeringly beautiful women. Breasts (with *gasp* nipples!) and butts (female and male) are shown but the genitals still need to be covered with strategically placed items, pieces of furniture, or (during showers, baths and similar) implausibly high splashes of water... especially irritating since the rest of the water is often not splashing at all.
* This trope is used quite often in the ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' comics, much in thanks to the more realistic depictions of certain supervillains. It is almost always very well done and almost never
** For example, read through volume 4 (''Legacy''). Norman Osborn reveals
** Another example is the Clone Saga arc, where both Mary Jane and Gwen Stacy appear totally nude, with smoke covering Gwen's breasts and nether regions, and a Peter Parker clone's ''hand'' covering Mary Jane's.
** An interesting aversion is Electro, who, every time he appears naked, nothing obscures... anything. Yet when Electro appeared in ''Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions'', Spidey still blocks the view of his crotch with his hand.
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* Comics in general do this all the time with strategically placed word balloons.
* Mostly averted in ''[[Watchmen]]''. We see full frontal shots of naked Dr. Manhattan several times. Lampshaded by his groin region being covered on occasion by transparent objects that don't actually hide anything.
* ''[[Batman]] Confidential'' #18 may set some kind of record for this trope as it features an issue long fight between Batgirl and Catwoman in a nudist club with masks being the only item of clothing either of them is wearing. The artist, Kevin Maguire, continually manages to cover up everyone's naughty bits, with a raised hand here, a well positioned turn, and my favorite, a bowl of
* An infamous ''[[She Hulk]]'' cover when John Byrne was in charge. She's naked but everything is obscured by the motion of a skipping rope. That's actually shown to be a subversion within the book itself, where she's still skipping rope, and then stops, showing herself to be wearing a halter top and a pair of pants.
* In an early issue of ''[[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]]'', Betty Ross is transformed into the Harpy ''sans culottes'', with shadows hiding her breasts and genitals; when she changes back into human
* Cloud, a [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|sentient cloud]] that could assume [[Gender Bender|either male or female human form]], used little cloud puffs to cover the genital and (in female form) breast areas, although it wasn't clear as to whether those parts of his/her anatomy were actually formed or just left nebulous.
* When [[Mercy Thompson]] shifts from coyote back to human, she ends up naked. The ''Mercy Thompson: Homecoming'' comic uses
* In an televised interview, ''[[Alix]]'' author Jacques Martin notes that for an album, he always had to "cheat" for a barechested female character. Except for one dramatic scene where he couldn't do it without ruining the effect, so he snuck it to print before the editor noticed (it was probably for a [[Anthology Comic|weekly magazine]] like ''Le journal de [[Tintin]]'' at the time).
* Birthday Girl in ''Knight and Squire'' is an [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] superheroine who is ''always'' naked, but also always surrounded by balloons. Except when she reports to the Knight, when her videophone image has a black bar across it labelled "Inappropriate".
* In one old issue of ''[[The Creeper]]'', Ryder had to [[It Makes Sense in Context|remove his "fake" Creeper suit to see if his real Creeper suit still worked]], and gets fully naked, having a shoe on the corner of a desk cover his bits.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
* ''[[Bloom County]]''▼
** Parodied: After Opus the Penguin got a nose-job, the results were concealed from the reader for about a week by a series of increasingly improbably placed household objects.▼
** ''Bloom County'' once did an entire week with all the characters naked (purportedly as a ratings grab) and covered in this fashion. The last strip has Milo standing behind a potted flower, ordering Opus to remove his bow-tie; when he does so, the flower stretches across the panel to cover up his neck.▼
* Happens in ''[[Zits]]'' when Jeremy is home alone and decides to march around the living room naked.▼
* Used as a gag in a ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' strip in August 2009 (no longer on the ''Houston Chronicle'' site).▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* Hanyuu and Yuki's linked hands [[Discussed Trope|would have prevented anyone watching from the doorway]] from seeing Kyon's "most interesting areas" in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]''.
* Most of the time [[Watchmen (comics)|Dr. Manhattan]] is shown in ''[[I'm a Marvel...
== [[Film]] ==
== Films -- Animation ==▼
* The title character of 2007's CG-animated ''[[Beowulf (film)|Beowulf]]'' fights the monster Grendel in the altogether, with his goods blocked from view by his leg, a sword, smoke and a table, among other things. Grendel's mother (voice, face and rendered body of [[Angelina Jolie]]) is "clothed" in weird gold water... ''stuff''.
* In ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', when Ariel is transformed into a human, she's shown in the shadows where barely anything is visible. When she's on the shore, she's wearing nothing but her [[Seashell Bra]], and the audience never sees anything but her legs and upper body until she finally gets dressed. However, her three (male) best friends, a crab, a seagull and a fish, are with her all the time and presumably see everything. (When her father Triton transforms her into a human at the end of the movie, he also gives her a sparkling dress to wear).
* In ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]: Curse of the Were Rabbit'', right after Wallace has {{spoiler|had the Were-Rabbit curse lifted, and woken up (so he is now stark naked)}}, Gromit gives Wallace a box to wear. Naturally, the box reads "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|May Contain Nuts]]."
* ''[[Treasure of Swamp Castle]]'': Szaffi bathing.
* ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', Bart, skateboarding in the nude, passes by several dozen conveniently placed objects... and then they subvert it when he passes a fence with a hole in the middle, resulting in a lengthy, uncensored shot of his animated genitalia, while the ''rest'' of him is covered
{{quote|"[[Lampshade Hanging|DON'T LOOK WHERE I'M POINTING!]]"}}
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* The ''[[Austin Powers]]'' series has a [[Running Gag]] where Austin or a female character will have their privates covered from view by random objects in the environment. The things used to cover usually get more and more phallic in Austin's case, and more voluptous in the case of any woman. At one point, Vanessa Kensington conceals her breasts behind a drawing of a pair of breasts.
* Played straight in Daniel Craig's nude scene in ''[[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider|Lara Croft Tomb Raider]]'', in which he paces back and forth behind a table that ''just'' covers up his modesty.
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* Subverted in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. When Alex is being checked in to the prison, he is stark naked with a box in front of the camera at groin level... {{spoiler|then they remove the box.}}
* According to the DVD commentary on ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'', Eric Bana was going to be covered by strategically placed objects during his fight with the Hulk Dogs, but upon realising the result was like ''[[Austin Powers]]'' they went for his [[Magic Pants|Amazing Stretching Pants]] instead.
* One of the ''[[Scary Movie
* In the film of ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' there is a mixed sex shower. As the camera pans around we see naked young men and women showering, chatting and walking about. But somehow a bit of plumbing always manages to be between the camera and any genitals. The boobs do show up, though. There is also Dizzy and Johnny's sex scene which cuts away before they get farther than removing their shirts.
* Naked Leeloo in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' in a tube before her "bandages" get applied. Her fully nude body is actually visible in the background in several brief shots, which is rare for a PG-13 film.
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* In Tim Burton's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'', Alice loses her clothing when she grows into a [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|giant girl]]. Until the Red Queen gives her appropriately huge clothes, most of her below the shoulders is hidden behind various buildings and trees.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* This is common in depictions of Adam and Eve in children's [[The Bible|Bible]] story books, along with [[Godiva Hair]] for Eve.
* On the covers of the ''[[Xanth]]'' books, when they depict nude characters (such as female centaurs, who don't wear clothes) they're strategically posed so some part of the scenery or a body part covers the naughty bits.
* This happened in an episode of ''[[Hell's Kitchen|Hells Kitchen]]''. Contestant Ed, who was hammered drunk after a reward session at a winery, was encouraged to get naked in the hot tub by other contestants. He did, and this trope happened instead of the usual censor blur.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]''
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* ''[[JAG]]'' has an example of the bubbles version.
* ''[[The Bill]]'' has a nude model's genitalia covered by [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|a bit of wood from an artist's easel]].
* Ea, the main character of the Japanese made-for-TV drama ''[[Invisible Girl Ea]]'', is found nude by the main male character, and she stays that way pretty much the entire series. Partially justified as clothing (or anything touching her skin) causes her invisibility superpower to malfunction. Regardless, no effort is made to conceal her nudity, outside some clever camera work and the occasional lens flare blocking things that are too much even for late-night Japanese
* ''[[Firefly]]'' uses this quite a bit:
** For example, River's [[Girl in a Box|out-of-the-box]] scene in the pilot episode, Saffron showing up naked in Mal's bunk in "Our Mrs. Reynolds", and Mal himself strutting about in the cargo bay stark naked at the end of "Trash."
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** Lwaxana Troi would have discretion shots of the neck up. This was used on Seven of Nine several times.
** When Captain Picard was captured and tortured by Cardassians, his naked form was hidden from the audience by the room just being really, really dark. For the record, Patrick Stewart really did film that scene in the buff, although he requested a closed set.
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[
** Similarly, Gary Burghoff's withered left hand was concealed throughout ''M*A*S*H''.
** A more obvious example is when, in one episode, Hawkeye bets Trapper that he could walk around the camp naked and no one would notice. The scene runs like a blueprint for the ''Austin Powers'' examples.
* In the series premiere of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', a kidnapped USAF sergeant is stripped naked and evaluated as a Goa'uld host; she gets this treatment rather unsubtly as she's hauled all over the room. After she's rejected, {{spoiler|Daniel Jackson's wife}} is similarly appraised... and then this trope gets ''utterly averted''. Full frontal nudity is already extremely unusual in a scene filmed for American television, but the contrast with the first scene made it downright shocking in this case.
* A non-naughty version occurs in the first couple of episodes of the fourth season of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''. Between season three and four, Jason Momoa got a tattoo on his left forearm and since the first episode of season four carried on directly from the end of the last episode of season three, he spent the episode first wearing a bandage on the arm (the character had been injured) and then a long sleeve coat. A few episodes later, we finally see him "acquire" the tattoo, eliminating the need for this trope.
* An episode of ''[[New Tricks]]'' has this with {{spoiler|a nudist chopping logs.}}
* The ''[[CSI]]'' episode "4x4" involves Sara and Greg forced into a shower due to a potential exposure to hazardous materials/disease. The camera spends a lot of time on closeups of their face and feet.
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' was that Wilson's face was always half-obscured. This started out with only the top half of his face being seen over the fence to add a mysterious feel to the character, then it turned into a [[Running Gag]] as the show started putting other objects to obscure the bottom half of Wilson's face in increasingly silly manners. On one occasion this was [[Incredibly Lame Pun|inverted]], and the ''top'' half of his face was covered while showing the bottom half.
* ''[[NCIS]]'' has bodies on an examination table fully undressed, but with a lamp casting overly bright highlights on the body's no-no region. If they're female, their chest cavity is open.
* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', we've seen all the main characters (except Robin) partially naked. Especially in the aptly-named episode "Naked Man."
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* While wearing a latex bodysuit in an episode of ''[[Jonas]]'', Joe had to place his hands awkwardly in front of his crotch because, according to one producer, "there was a lot of Joe showing." It is worth noting that neither of his brothers, who were both wearing similar outfits, had this problem.
* In the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode "[[City Limits]]", Joel unexpectedly opens an umbrella in the theater to obscure some nudity in the movie.
* Used in ''[[That '70s Show]]'' when Hyde forces Fez to serve customers naked in the Photo Hut.
* In the first series of the ''[[The Armstrong and Miller Show]]'', there is a running in-show series called ''Nude Practice'', a parody of the ''[[James Herriot]]'' vet stories, where the vets running the practice are committed nudists. In scene after scene, Ben Miller, Alan Armstrong and the lovely Sarah Alexander, all nude save for wellies and cloth caps, tend to animals whilst working through every posible scenic censor this trope has to offer. In the final episode, they do in fact knowingly dispense with the scenery censorship and get blatantly full-frontal naked.
* ''[[Sherlock]]'': Done in "A Scandal in Belgravia" when Irene Adler decides to recieve Holmes and Watson totally naked.
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* Discussed in an episode of Polish sitcom ''Swiat wedlug Kiepskich'' where the main protagonist and his manchild neighbour are watching an episode of Latin American soap opera, and the said neighbour gets quite turned on by the erotic scene, even though everything goes under the blanket. When the protagonist tells him how pathetic he is, he tries to defend himself by assuring than in the next scene the girl will go to the bathroom and will probably be stark naked, to which the protagonist points out that "they will just put a flower in front of the camera to cover her ass".
▲== Music Videos ==
* [[Played With]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hySoCSoH-g8 this] music video.
* This is almost ridiculous in the music video for AKB48's song "Ponytail and Scrunchy": the girls head into the locker room after some sports session, and they are constantly obscured by random towels, locker doors opening, shampoo bottles, etc. Only, there's some random chihuahua that ''just happened'' to wander in without them noticing, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|panting heavily while he watches]]. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Lucky dog...]] (You can see the video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXtaahxjls&feature=related here]).
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
▲* ''[[Bloom County]]''
▲** Parodied: After Opus the Penguin got a nose-job, the results were concealed from the reader for about a week by a series of increasingly improbably placed household objects.
▲** ''Bloom County'' once did an entire week with all the characters naked (purportedly as a ratings grab) and covered in this fashion. The last strip has Milo standing behind a potted flower, ordering Opus to remove his bow-tie; when he does so, the flower stretches across the panel to cover up his neck.
▲* Happens in ''[[Zits]]'' when Jeremy is home alone and decides to march around the living room naked.
▲* Used as a gag in a ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' strip in August 2009 (no longer on the ''Houston Chronicle'' site).
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'',
** Illustrations of marilith (powerful demons with [[Evil Is Sexy | attractive female torsos]] and six arms) will often depict her topless and covering her breasts using one of her swords. [https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/nuntonlibrary/images/8/88/Marilith.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120114230350 Here's one well-known example.]
** Glasya ([[Demon Lords and Archdevils|Princess of Hell]], known for her [[Evil Is Sexy|diabolical beauty]]) was naked in the illustration for the original ''Monster Manual II'', covering her chest with her tail.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[Devil May Cry]]''; Dante has a sword which appears to cover the a poster of an apparently topless woman; he takes it off, and strategically blocks the view of it, but right before the "camera" changes angles, it is revealed that the woman's breasts were covered (by stars, but still). Later games in the series mysteriously include a bra in the same poster.
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2'':
** Played with, possibly as a homage to the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' toothpick scene. Raiden is stripped of his clothes towards the end, and has to run around preserving his
** If you pay attention, at some point during this whole sequence, there's a frame or two where Raiden's dangly bits ''aren't'' covered... but his character model doesn't ''have'' [[Barbie Doll Anatomy|dangly bits]]... (as evidenced when he does sideflips). In ''The Document of MGS2'', you can pause and move the camera around freely in any cutscene, including the one in the torture chamber. This allows you to get a full view of Raiden's (lack of) privates.
** In the cutscenes before the section of running around naked, the camera stays clear of Raiden's lower half while he's strapped to the torture bed. One shot has the camera zoom out, with Olga stepping into the frame maintaining Raiden's cover.
* In ''Bikini Karate Babes'', the character Venus finds herself tied to a tree after removing another fighter's top. Aphrodite (that character) finds her and rips off her top to reveal a bra. She then rips that off and Venus's dignity is preserved only by Aphrodite holding her bra like a trophy. Oh, and did I mention it's live action?
* A ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deception]]'' promotional image shows Mileena in her second costume (where she is basically nude) or presumably naked holding her sai weapons. The thin blades manage to cover just enough to make it not explicit.
* ''[[Dragon Ball]]: Origins'' has much of the original comics' dirty humor intact, including the part where Bulma flips her skirt at Master Roshi to make him hand over his dragonball, from his POV to boot and both without the knowledge that she's not wearing any underwear at the moment. Conviniently enough, this being a DS game, the offending part is blocked by the gap between the screens. On the other hand, the game also subverts it by being true to the original comic and making no effort to block any view of kid Goku's penis.
* In the not "Naughty" category, ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' has this, in case 1-5. The Blue Badger, a mechanically dancing police mascot (shaped like a badge, not an animal), was moved into storage for a few hours to keep it from being damaged in the bustle of cleaning out evidence lockers. A man broke into this storage room and was supposedly killed there. There is video footage of the attack happening, however, when his identity becomes important, it's easy to note that at all times in the video, his face is constantly either out of shot, or covered by the Badger's batons, which move perfectly in time to his movements.
* ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'' also uses this in a not-naughty fashion to prevent you from seeing King Trode and Princess Medea's faces in flashbacks from before they were cursed. This gets very contrived when the only thing blocking Trode's face is Medea's hand gestures.
* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' gives you a good shot of Serge's naked body, including his butt, but with his arm covering his penis.
* ''[[Geist]]'' was given an "M" rating in the US for (among other things) a brief scene containing
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' (specifically The Lost and the Damned addon) plays this trope straight and then brutally subverts it, when Johnny meets with Thomas Stubbs III, he (Thomas) is naked after a massage and walks around the room conversing normally with Johnny - his genitals covered up by various props - but then suddenly the camera switches to give us a hefty shot of his dangling genitals.
* In ''[[Heavy Rain]]'', the camera angle changes to cover your character's bits whenever they shower or urinate. Madison's breasts are never concealed, though.
* ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan|Ouendan 2]]'':
** During the final song showing the various nations contributing their energy to help reheat the sun (its a weird game, just go with it) there a quick scene where we there a very nude statue in background, one of the contributors pump his fist blocking the view as we see an energy beam firing from the... lower regions.
** In the same game, "[[Hot Springs Episode|Go My Way]]"'s highest difficulty features the cheergirls bathing. During the zoom in before the countdown, you get to see Sayaka (the leader) topless... except her breasts are covered by [[Painting the Fourth Wall|the gap between the DS screens]]. Exactly ''how'' did Nintendo let this stuff slip by?
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* At the beginning of the SNES version of ''[[Terminator]] 2: Judgment Day'', we see a demo of the main character walking around naked on his way to a house, with his private area being censored by fences, trucks, and even motorcycles (however, once the Start button is pressed, it bypasses the whole scene). [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] even lampshades this.
▲* [[Older Than Steam]]: The art that hangs in museums is no stranger to [[Scenery Censor]]. Take [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder_-_The_Close_of_the_Silver_Age_%28%3F%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg this 15th-century painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder]. By an improbable coincidence, all four men's genitals are obscure by leaves or other obstacles (the women and children don't mind showing theirs though).
▲* ''The Birth of Venus'' by Sandro Botticelli has Venus fully nude though her hands cover her breasts and her long hair is blowing in the wind to conveniently cover her genitals.
▲* ''Olympia'' by Edouard Manet has a bare breasted woman on a bed with the white sheets covering her lower area.
* Hilarious [[Lampshade Hanging]] in [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00203.htm this strip] of ''[[Freefall]]''. Florence's efforts to maintain her modesty make for a bit of a running gag; she's successful in keeping first [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00206.htm Sam] and then [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00364.htm Winston] from getting a good look at her completely naked... but she finally meets a [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01407.htm robot who can see right through her clothes and her fur,] and (even though readers still don't see a thing), poor, flustered Flo feels utterly exposed.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is fond of this.
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'' Strip [http://www.megatokyo.com/?strip_id=404 #404.]
* [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/
* ''[[Questionable Content]]''
** [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=519 Two bottles] prevent the reader from catching an eyeful when Raven flashes Sven during a concert.
** [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1915 Flying cat of modesty!]
* ''[[Misfile]]'': [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1112 One naked outburst, three panels.] You can guess where the panel breaks are.
* In the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130606131425/http://friendlyhostility.com/d/20081205.html last panel] of this ''[[Friendly Hostility]]'' strip.
* K. Fuhr is fond of this technique and uses it from time to time; see for instance [http://boymeetsboy.keenspot.com/d/20010106.html this] ''[[Boy Meets Boy]]'' strip.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', one of Dr. McNinja's old college buddies transforms into a
* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'': Adharia's top rips open ''during a live broadcast'', and all we see are the [http://www.lastres0rt.com/?p=39 tattered bits of her shirt covering up anything interesting]. To top it off, the two men with the best probable view were
* ''[[Goodbye Chains]]'' loves to do this. At one point, they used a word bubble. ''A very tiny one.''
* [
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'', when V gets balefully polymorphed into a lizard; his... her ([[Ambiguous Gender|whatever]]) clothing falls to the ground. Later, after being returned to normal, he/she has to get dressed again. Fortunately, modesty was maintained (and any indication of V's sex obfuscated) with a handy Black Dragon's tail to stand behind.
* The sound effects [https://web.archive.org/web/20100215003326/http://www.exiern.com/comic/begining/the-tranformation/ protect the modesty] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100215012634/http://www.exiern.com/comic/begining/kzaatt/ of undressed characters] in ''[[Exiern]]'', especially when the costumes don't.
* Angora of ''[[The Meek]]'' spends the first chapter naked. Conveniently placed props and limbs cover her nether regions, but her nipples are often showing. Needless to say, this webcomic is [[NSFW]].
* ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'' has had numerous examples of this trope:
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** Dan accidentally [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1007.php stumbles into a room with two other people while naked]. Thankfully for the PG rating, his dignity is preserved by another character's arm.
** And then there is [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1062.php this one].
* Done in ''[[Ansem Retort]]'': Axel is only shown from the waist up and declares that [https://web.archive.org/web/20141003124707/http://www.ansemretort.org/ansemretort/index.html?comic=96 "PANTS ARE FOR THE WEAK!"]
* Done a bit in ''[[The KAMics]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20110402000727/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/index.php?p=87338 some] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100930073704/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/index.php?p=106283 examples] [https://web.archive.org/web/20100930071753/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/index.php?p=383620 for] [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/index.php?p=5112 you]{{Dead link}}.
* Played straight in this [http://www.zapcomic.com/2004/09/20060417/ Zap!] strip, although the robot's head, which is normally straight, isn't here, leading to speculation in the comments about the curvature of the object concealed.
* In [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/03/04/0143-love-at-first-sight/ this] ''[[Sandra and Woo]]'' strip, Woo's naughty thoughts are (partially) censored with shrubbery.
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* Characters from ''[[Intragalactic]]'' [http://intragalacticcomic.com/2010/01/22/129-axls-contribution/ got] [[Tropes for Dummies|manuals]] on this. Also played with in the adjacent pages and eventually subverted when the man's nipples are covered, but not the woman's.
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', this is due to Grace's views on casual nudity, and a lack of [[Magic Pants]].
* In EGS:NP (but canon) arc "MV5" [[Speech Bubble Censoring|speech bubbles]] can't do all the job and it quickly gets ridiculous. And then it turns into a [[Running Gag]] somewhere around the point where censoring element is [http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=391 a bird with halo] out of nowhere.
* ''[[Something
* In one strip of ''A Doemain Of Her Own'', it's something of a running gag that a male character's genitalia are hidden by objects being handed between other characters, all of them with some kind of phallic suggestion in their shape.
* Early in ''[[Apple Geeks]]'', we have [https://web.archive.org/web/20081007033352/http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=38 this]. Note [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|the label on the can.]]
* ''[[Blade Bunny]]'' feels no compulsion to cover up after waking up in a room with a stranger. That stranger has no desire to see Bunny's naked body and blocks her own line of sight, [http://www.bladebunny.com/?p=122 coincidentally blocking the reader's as well].
* Syrys of ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'' spends much of [http://cyantian.net/tales/ Genoworks Saga]{{Dead link}} taking advantage of this. To be fair, he wasn't wearing anything in [[Human Popsicle|cryo]] and I doubt a fox facility would have anything that could fit a [[Big Badass Wolf|seven-foot-tall wolf]]. And of course his fur and genetic enhancements keep him from freezing.
** Also his nephew [http://cyantian.net/blog/2010/03/19/03192010/ Darius]{{Dead link}} during a dream.
* In one ''[[Nodwick]]'' story, the cast were all victims of [[Baleful Polymorph]], and when ultimately cured, were without their clothing. Nodwick was lucky enough to have held onto his helmet (which he covers himself with) while Artax's privates are concealed by his [[Godiva Hair| ''incredibly'' long mustache.]]
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* In one live-action segment of ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', all four members of Limozeen appear on a Thanksgiving e-card. There is a conveniently placed turkey in order to hide the fact that one of the members is played by the creator's wife.
* In "Dolan Life's Mysteries" episode, "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChsgAaTO-gU Does Space Have A "Colour"?]", Hellbent tries to explain that he doesn't use his pinky in public while drinking, then Pringle blocks his hand from [[Flipping the Bird]].
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
** In an episode, used to censor a painting Marge had made of Mr. Burns. On the commentary, everyone talks about how much fun they had making those objects as small as possible.
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** In "Call of the Simpsons" Homer and Bart wind up naked after falling from a water fall after finding each other Homer after finding out his clothes are missing he walks out into the open and a conveniently placed bird's nest covers his crotch.
** In "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" (the season 17 episode where Lisa faces her fear of sleeping next to a graveyard), Chief Wiggum somehow ends up naked in the graveyard next to the Simpsons' house and staggers away listening to music on a Walkman while a strategically placed patch of fog covers his butt (The Simpsons used to allow bare butts to be shown, but the FOX censors have since [[Incredibly Lame Pun|cracked down]] on this, which is kinda stupid considering one of the other episodes they did centered on Marge posing naked for a charity calendar, though that was toned down considerably too).
** In The music video for "Deep, Deep Trouble", Bart is seen naked at one point with his 'privates' being covered by his probable music player.
** Let's not forget the movie, Bart is dared into skateboarding in nude by Homer, and Agnes tells the crowd not to look where she's pointing as random objects covers Bart's 'privates' until... that one scene.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':
** The scene of Katara bathing on screen, using water and [[Godiva Hair]].
** There was also an earlier episode where Zuko tells Iroh to get out of a hotspring, but when he comes out, a visibly [[Squick
** Alluded to in the quite-well-done [[Abridged Series]] by GanXingba:
{{quote|'''Iroh:''' Zuko, you shmuck, it's 5 o'clock. What happens at 5 o'clock?
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'''Iroh:''' You're damn right. Now get your tuchus out of here before I kick it!
'''Zuko:''' ''(moans)'' Now I'm scarred physically ''and'' mentally. }}
* [[Lampshaded]] in [[Tex Avery]]'s ''The Shooting of Dan McGoo'': the bartender, strategically positioned in front of a nude painting, announces, "I don't move from here all through the picture." When a fight breaks out, though, he ducks behind the
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'', in which General Specific changes his uniform while walking past a box, which is labeled "RANDOM BOX" in flashing neon lights.
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'s'' Flint Marko is depicted as nude when he serves as an experimental subject. He is mostly shown from the waist up, but anything lower is obscured by someone standing in front of him, the glare of a pane of glass, or the process of his transformation. After he becomes the Sandman, his lower half initially remains a shapeless mass, until we cut to him maintaining human form, complete with manifested clothes.
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* There is an episode of ''[[The Weekenders]]'' where they went to see the Venus de Milo. Of course, they only showed its head at the beginning. When the camera finally zoomed out, guess what was obscured by a conveniently placed plant.
* One ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode had Vlad hiding his nudity behind an armchair.
* ''[[Home Movies]]'': Mc Guirk is given a kilt, which brings out his suppressed passion for Highland
* ''[[Good Vibes]]'': in scenes where Mondo is naked, his fat belly is enough to cover him.
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'':
** In '''Rent-an-Ed''', Rolf is enjoying himself with the steam, causing his towel to fall. As the kids ran in honor, Eddy demands on what was going on, only for him to see a "naked" Rolf. Edd's head covers the private part as he tries to figure out on what just happened, before covering his eyes with his hat upon finding out.
* In the Season 5 ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' episode XCIX, the [[Worm That Walks| Lazarus-92]] eats Ashi's clothes, and a ''lot'' of this is used to cover her - including her sword, her shield, and Jack's sword, until he gives her his ''gi''.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* Many companies object to visible tattoos, although their popularity is steadily rising. In many cases where clothing is insufficient to conceal a tattoo, bandages are liberally applied.
* Many wedding websites sell tattoo cover-up kits for those who want to permanently mark their bodies and express themselves... except for one day, when they are generally expected to look like [[
* Thanks to the [[Yakuza|unfortunate]] [[Unfortunate Implications|implications]] of having a tattoo in Japan, many public [[Hot Springs Episode]] and [[Furo Scene|bathhouses]] take this to an amusing extreme. Once you're in the right bathing area, you can strut around as [[Naked People Are Funny|naked as a jaybird]], without even worrying about a [[Modesty Towel]]... but there had better be a bandaid over [[Achilles' Heel|that tattoo]], or you'll be asked to leave.
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