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* 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.}}

 

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' plays with this trope in a few episodes.

** Shinji, panicked and shocked by discovering a [[Everything Is Better With Penguins|penguin]] in the bathtub, confronts his new roommate Misato while he is still undressed. As he rants, his "naughty bits" are hidden by a beer can on the table in the foreground. During the conversation that ensues, Misato picks up the can, revealing that Shinji's modesty is still defended — by [[Crowning Moment of Funny|a much smaller container clearly labeled "toothpicks"]]. [[media:1139987684110.jpg|Click here]] for image.

* 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.

 

* 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 distracting—it can take two read-throughs to realize that the Hobgoblin is naked during his entire first appearance.

* 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".

 

* 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 And I'm a DC]]'' is from the waist up. The reason is obvious.

 

 

* 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).

* ''[[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 up—at least in the uncut version that was shown in the movies and is on DVD and Blu-Ray. The TV version plasters a censor box that reads, "European Version Only" over the hedge with the long hole in it.

{{quote|"[[Lampshade Hanging|DON'T LOOK WHERE I'M POINTING!]]"}}

* 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.

* 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.

 

* 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]]''

* 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".

 

* [[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]).

 

* ''[[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.

 

* 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'':

* 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.

 

* 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.

** Also his nephew [http://cyantian.net/blog/2010/03/19/03192010/ Darius]{{Dead link}} during a dream.

 

* 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.

* 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''.

 

* 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 [[princess]]es.