History Main / BarbieDollAnatomy

* ''Film/Barbie2023'': Not long after arriving in the real world, the [[Franchise/{{Barbie}} trope namer]] informs a group of cat calling road workers that she has no genitals. [[spoiler:Averted at the end of the film when she becomes human and visits a gynecologist.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'': In an implied departure from the movie, the Terminator's in the first Now Comics adaptation of the action franchise lacked, uhm... accessories unnecessary to their mission. Mind you, Now was stuck with UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode and only one movie at the time with which to build a universe, leading to some off the beaten path concepts, including Termidogs and a moonbase. Skynet took the image of a thankfully fully clothed Ben Franklin.

* The ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' manga would be practically R-rated if not for the fact that the girls all seem to have the same level of anatomical detail as a Barbie doll. Ken Akamatsu's other series, ''Manga/LoveHina'', suffers the same "affliction". The magazine in which ''Love Hina'' and ''Mahou Sensei Negima'' were published had forbidden depictions of lower parts and nipples. The nipples were allowed since then, but it would be kind of weird if they suddenly appeared halfway through. One fan once asked Akamatsu why he never drew nipples on any of his characters. Akamatsu replied that a nipple attacked him when he was young and he has been traumatized ever since. His later manga ''Manga/UQHolder'' plays it straight at first, but gradually introduces nipple outlines for female characters and instances of genetalia shown via outline for two male characters.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' openly displays Goku's genitals in the very first chapter. Goku and his son Gohan also end up fully exposed when their Great Ape transformations wear off after tearing up their clothing. While the original series displays Bulma's nipples more than once, her genitals are never seen.

* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'' used to use this, but later the magazine in which it is serialized began allowing nipples, so they appear. Played with as the restriction was lifted, however: it seems that the majority of nipple shots are reserved for villainous characters, whereas the only heroic character to get nipple shots is [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Shigure]].

* There is not one person in the ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' universe who knows what a nipple is.
* ''ComicBook/BillyMajesticsHumptyDumpty'' features an alien woman (the mother of the titular Humpty Dumpty) who is naked for most of the comic. She has no visible nipples or genitals.
* A couple of Marvel's early ''[[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Conan]]'' comics featured a nipple-less Conan for some reason. He quickly regained them for good.
* Franchise/StarWarsLegends has ''ComicBook/DarkEmpire''. Palpatine is [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:PalpyIsAKenDoll-DE.jpg clearly lacking]] his, ahem, Galaxy Gun and Death Stars. Or, as the wiki puts it, "Palpatine ignites a lightsaber and is bereft of genitalia."
* An issue of the ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' limited series ''Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth'' is drawn in a photorealistic style, except when depicting an alternate reality, non-scarred version of Deadpool who removes his shirt for a brawl and inexplicably lacks nipples. Maybe he lost them in his full-body wax.
* One issue of ''ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}}'', when the title character is in a coma he gets a makeout scene with the spirit of his mystic sword... but seems to have misplaced his genitalia.
* In ''ComicBook/Earth2'', Mercury seems to be lacking parts when he crash-lands NakedOnArrival to grant Jay Garrick his super-speed powers.
* In one of the ''Love Bunny & Mr. Hell'' backups in ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', Love Bunny tries to elevate her profile by combining two big popularity boosters, showing more skin and the panty shot, with panties that are the exact color of her skin tone. People end up with the impression that she really has no genitals.
* Creator/{{DC|Comics}}'s ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, on the other hand, has mostly been nipple-less for the last 70-odd years. Every so often, an artist like Marshall Rogers will include them, but mostly his chest is smooth.
* ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk is often (if not always) drawn without nipples. This wouldn't be so obvious if he didn't appear shirtless in every single one of his appearances.
** The alternate Hulk in ''ComicBook/SpacePunisher'' is always naked. As well as absent nipples, he has a smooth and featureless crotch where his genitals should be.
* ''ComicBook/TheIntimates'' has Destra, who walks around shirtless all day. She's got a sheer cape draped over her shoulders that technically covers her breasts, but it's ''sheer''. She doesn't seem to have nipples, but artist Giuseppe Camuncoli did a few sketches of her with them plainly visible -- apparently, the reader is supposed to just imagine they're there in-universe.
* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' has The Engineer who is naked but has no visible nipples or vulva (though she would have visible areola Depending on the Artist and is shown with bolts for nipples in the second crossover with Lobo).
* ''Jamie's Jungle Jinks'' is about a little jungle girl who's always topless, yet has no nipples.
* The title character from ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' actually doesn't have any genitals (no angels do). This never stops him from having sex. His equally impaired brother also manages to ''give birth''.
* In a final chapter of one of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', the masculine angels are drawn completely naked, but with no genitalia whatsoever, likely as a reference to suggestions in Christianity that angels are largely sexless.
** Ditto for the angels in the graphic novel version, at least, of ''Murder Mysteries''.
** When Dream's remaking the Corinthian, both of them lack nipples.
* Taken literally by Beautie from ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', who is a robot based on a girl's fashion doll.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Pyrenee}}'', the titular girl Pyrénée spends almost the entire book naked, but while she has visible nipples, she does not have visible genitalia.
* In the ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}'' miniseries ''Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance'', Batman accidentally shoots Judge Harvey Dent's daughter Debbie Dent in the chest (she had been disguised as the Joker) and thus performs impromptu surgery to remove the bullet, and in the process, rips her shirt clean off. In spite of there being at least one clear shot of her bare chest, she does not appear to have nipples.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' villain Eradicator once merged with a normal human man, but while there was a full-frontal shot of his nude body, he was notably devoid of genitalia.
* In an implied departure from the movie, the Franchise/{{Terminator}}s in the first Now Comics adaptation of the action franchise lacked, uhm... accessories unnecessary to their mission. Mind you, Now was stuck with UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode and only one movie at the time with which to build a universe, leading to some off the beaten path concepts, including Termidogs and a moonbase. Skynet took the image of a thankfully fully clothed Ben Franklin.
* Issue 23 of ''ComicBook/TomStrong'' involves a race of bat-people living on the moon, the females of which go topless but have nipple-less breasts.

* {{Averted|Trope}} in ''ComicBook/{{Madman}}'', where Frank's costume has a noticeable bulge in the crotch, and a flashback shows his penis only partially obscured.

* The Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse varies wildly on this, to the point of hilarity: Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} has no nipples, but Dick Grayson does... until he becomes Characters/{{Nightwing|DickGrayson}}, at which point he doesn't again. Fortunately, by the time they made it to ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', they let the improved Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} keep his nipples.

* 52 episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', 52 full frontal transformation sequences, and no sign of genitalia.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
** The Gems, while never being seen without clothes on, seem to be this judging by the mannequin-like shapes they tend to briefly take on when reforming after being poofed, and the fact that several Gems, most prominently Amethyst, have their Gemstones where their breasts would be. Somewhat [[AvertedTrope averted]] with Rose Quartz, who has visible breasts (though they may simply be a result of shapeshifting, [[spoiler:especially since she doesn't have them as Pink Diamond]]).

** Played straight with Steven himself when he's shown naked at the end of "Frybo."

* In ''Manga/Brave10'', even when characters are not covered by CensorSteam, there is a lack of detail in the nudity although the manga pushes things a little farther than the [[BleachedUnderpants anime]].

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', there is an infamous scene where Benny the Cab has an accident, and Jessica Rabbit [[http://archive.fo/xAava goes flying from the impact with her legs spread and her groin visible]]. Later digital versions censored the shot so that her vagina isn't visible, even though it's flesh-colored.

* The ending of ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn features the main protagonists suspended in a liquid-filled tank, sans any form of clothing at all. No attempt is made to cover any of their bodies, but any form of genitals are noticeably absent.

* In the 1950s, the first generation of nudist mags of the "Health and Efficiency" genre permitted monochrome photos of female nipples, but anything visible below the waist was severely airbrushed smooth. For a generation of men whose only exposure to female nudity had been mags if this ilk, discovering ''real'' women had pubic hair and other things were going on down there... well, it could come as a traumatic shock. Similarly, 1950s "art and public education" movies about life in nudist camps and how healthy and life-engendering the lifestyle was, would often be carefully edited to avoid any genitals nearer than fifty feet of the camera - these were acceptable in long-shot, however. ''Very'' long-shot.

* Creator/WalterLantz made a 1940 short titled ''The Adventures of Tom Thumb Jr.'' whete Tom and his companion, a grasshopper, sail to a land where giants live. After getting soaked with water, he takes his clothes off to dry, revealing butt cheeks in the rear but no genitals in front.

* ''Manga/MetroidSamusAndJoey'': [[spoiler:When Samus becomes [[PosthumanNudism stark naked]] when she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to a higher plane of existance, she lacks genitals]].