History Main / CensorshipTropes

* ImHavingSoulPains

* CulturePolice (used in fictional works to show or satirize what can happen when [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad being P.C. gets out of hand]])
* CurseCutShort (sometimes used as a ComedyTrope)

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: DefyingTheCensors on an underhanded level (leads to RefugeInAudacity if the writers use explicitly racy material and '''''it still gets past''''' or if the writers get crap past the radar so much -- whether or not a CensorDecoy is used -- that the censors just give up in trying to edit the piece).

* {{Bowdlerise}}

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship (often used when TV shows or movies are rerun or put on DVD)

* CulturePolice

* DubText (only if the dubbers are bored, do it by accident, or [[RefugeInAudacity want to make a scene more risque than what is originally intended]])

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: DefyingTheCensors on an underhanded level (leads to RefugeInAudacity if the writers use explicitly racy material and '''''it still gets past''''' or if the writers use this trope repeatedly and the censors either [[ViewersAreMorons don't notice, don't care]], or have fallen for a CensorDecoy one too many times).

* BarbieDollAnatomy (formerly "Anime Anatomy")

* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship

* FunWithAutocensors

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: DefyingTheCensors on an underhanded level (leads to RefugeInAudacity if the writers use explicitly racy material and it still gets past or if the writers use this trope repeatedly and the censors either [[ViewersAreMorons don't notice]], don't care, or have fallen for a CensorDecoy one too many times).

* ScunthorpeProblem

* ThinkOfTheCensors: When characters in a work of fiction are aware that some of what they say or do will get them in trouble with the censors.

* ThisTropeIsBleep

* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion (can be a ComedyTrope or used for non-censorship reasons, such as trying to avoid a lame and predictable pun or subverting the old "Roses are red, Violets are blue" poem)

* CensorBox (can immediately become a [[GagCensors gag censor]] if PlayedForLaughs)

* CensorBox

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms
* FingerOnLips
* FrothyMugsOfWater

* NarrativeProfanityFilter

* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion

* CensorSteam (also a BathingTrope)
* CensorSuds (also a BathingTrope)

* BarbieDollAnatomy

* CensorSteam
* CensorSuds
* DigitalBikini

* CensorshipBySpelling (also a ComedyTrope)

* DubText (when accidental)

* SymbolSwearing

* TooSoon: Sometimes used to censor something in retrospect

* CurseCutShort

* SleepingSingle (also a ComedyTrope used in conjunction with ExiledToTheCouch or if a work parodies the allegedly "squeaky clean" 1950s sitcoms in which married couples were shown not sleeping in the same bed)

* TooSoon: Sometimes used to censor something in retrospect (as seen with the many TV shows and movies made before the 9/11 attacks in which plane hijackings, terrorism, and The World Trade Center towers could be shown).

* CensorDecoy: A vital tool used by daring writers who want to get crap past the radar. Say there's a writer or director with two scenes: one that's too violent or sexual to be shown on TV, and another that's a bit more toned down, but has heavy innuendo or inferences to violence. The censors will have to choose between which scene can be suitable for air (usually the first choice will be picked as the sacrifical lamb while the second scene will be put on TV, but sometimes there will be a goof-up and the radar will be shattered either way).

* CensorshipBySpelling

* DefyingTheCensors: sometimes you just have to stand up to those who would silence you.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: DefyingTheCensors on an underhanded level (leads to RefugeInAudacity if the writers use explicitly racy material or if the writers use this trope repeatedly and the censors either [[ViewersAreMorons don't notice]], don't care, or have fallen for a CensorDecoy).

* MagicPants

* SleepingSingle

* ThinkOfTheChildren

* TooSoon

* AnimeAnatomy

* 4Kids! Entertainment

* CensorDecoy

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: DefyingTheCensors on an underhanded level (leads to RefugeInAudacity if done excessively and the censors ''still'' don't notice or are past the point of caring)

''Interesting tropes about [[spoiler:[[BluenoseBowdlerizer blank]]]]ing out things not meant for corrupting sensitive eyes or ears.''

-- Disclaimer from the webcomic ''{{XKCD}}''

* PeekABoo

* [[{{ptitlebeohy6n8}} I'm Having Soul Pains]]

* ThinkOfTheCensors

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: DefyingTheCensors on an underhanded level (leads to RefugeInAudacity if done excessively)

* {{Gag Censor}}s

* CityOfWeirdos

* DefyingTheCensors: Sometimes you just have to stand up to those who would silence you.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar