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* ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'': When Iroha lands her LimitBreak, everything suddenly cuts behind Japanese screen doors. Then, she [[FullFrontalAssaults throws off her clothes]] then it rapidly cuts to her beating down on the opponent, then- did she just turn into a [[{{Animorphism}} bird]]?

%%* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': T'Pol (Creator/JoleneBlalock) in the "Carbon Creek" episode.

* ''Film/{{Gone}}'': Jill behind the curtain during her ShowerScene.

* In ''Film/LeapYear'', this trope is played with when Creator/AmyAdams showers, unaware that her [[BelligerentSexualTension love interest]] is watching her silhouette through the curtain--he points this out to embarrass her, and then gives her a similar show.

* ''Webcomic/DocRat'': The premonition of Ben and Daniella's first time: [[https://crosstimecafe.com/speedreader/doc_rat.html#985 the strip before their]] SexyDiscretionShot shows their silhouettes at dinner, and Danni looks like she's about to jump over the dinner table at Ben.

** In the "[[Recap/SeinfeldS4E17TheOuting The Outing]]" when he and Jerry are MistakenForGay, he sees [[BrickJoke the exact same thing]] happen but with a male nurse and a male patient.

* Shizuru in ''Anime/MaiHime''... in FanDisservice mode, since the scene in question is a flashback of her apparently raping Natsuki in her sleep (although whether it actually happened is debatable).
* [[HotTeacher Machiko]] in ''Manga/MaicchinguMachikoSensei'' in some shower and bath scenes; however she end up with show [[MsFanservice more than]] [[NakedPeopleAreFunny her simple silhouette]] every time.

* ''Webcomic/DocRat'': The premonition of their first time: [[https://crosstimecafe.com/speedreader/doc_rat.html#985 the strip before their]] SexyDiscretionShot shows their silhouettes at dinner, and Danni looks like she's about to jump over the dinner table at Ben.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Happens in "[[Recap/CodeGeassS1E3TheFalseClassmate The False Classmate]]", hen Lelouch brings Kallen a change of clothes while she's showering, she is seen as a silhouette behind a yellow shower curtain. During the ensuing conversation, she accidentally causes the shower curtain to open, exposing herself to him causing her to have a NakedFreakOut.

** In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E20Fade Fade]]", Comicbook/LoisLane silhouette is seen [[ShowerScene showering]] behind the shower curtain in the Talon, when the VillainOfTheWeek uses his {{Invisibility}} powers to sneak into the bathroom and [[PeepingTom peek]] on her.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', with Rei. [[NippleAndDimed Slightly less so in]] ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion''.

* Happens in ''Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} #20 with ''Comicbook/KateBishop'' after she smuggles herself into Madame Masque's headquarters as a BodySushi, she is later seen as a silhouette dressing screen while admonishing all the old men in the room for EatingTheEyeCandy.

* Happens in ''The Amazing Spider-Man 1999 #57'', to [[ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson Mary Jane]] when she [[DressHitsFloor drops her robe]] to join Peter in bed.

* ''Film/{{Gone}}: Jill behind the curtain during her ShowerScene.

* A character arc point in ''[[Film/TheBradyBunch A Very Brady Sequel]]'' revolves around Greg and Marcia watching each other in this way. Then, they figure out that, well, if Roy is alive, then, [[NotBloodSiblings well]]...yeah.

%%* Willow in a scene from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Ohhhh.

* In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'', Franchise/WonderWoman is sleeping nude in her room when she suddenly notices Ares is her room creepily sitting in the corner and she sits up in shock, shown only as a silhouette. For the rest of the scene she has GodivaHair or a ModestyBedsheet to cover her nudity. When Ares leaves she stands up to stare outside her balcony, and her semi-transparent curtains just happen to blow to cover her and silhouette her body.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E12TheGunganGeneral "The Gungan General"]] one of Turk Falso's pirates has the "mudflap girl" silhouette etched on both sides of his speeder's tank.

* ''Disney/MakeMineMusic'': In ''All the Cats Join In'', when the older teenage girl goes to take a shower and strips down behind the glass door, where we can only see her silhouette.
* Happens to Disney/{{Mulan}} in the beginning of the movie, as she is getting changed at the Matchmaker.

* ''Anime/{{Persona5TheAnimation}}'': After Makoto convinces Sae to go wash up (and thus leave her computer unattended so Makoto can get the files off of it), there is a brief shot of the shower door with Sae's silhouette behind it.

** In ''ComicBook/UltimateWolverineVsHulk'' #6, Betty Ross, the Ultimate ComicBook/SheHulk, is seen showering as a silhouette. Later she steps out of the shower in a ModestyTowel and drops it in surprise when she sees Ultimate Wolverine has sneaked into her apartment and it soon escalates into a FullFrontalAssault from her. A combination of Sexy Silhouette, CensorShadow, GodivaHair, ToplessnessFromTheBack and SceneryCensor is used to cover her nudity during the sequence.

* ''Series/TheBigValley'': In "In Silent Battle," Major Eliot is propositioned by prostitute, who tells him she has an upstairs room nearby. He contemptuously tells her to leave him alone, but later sees a silhouette of her getting ready for bed and goes over there (unfortunately for her).

** "Momstrosity" starts with a PsychoShowerMurderParody, with a someone slowly approacing Jo Lupo (Creator/EricaCerra) Sexy Silhouette as she's taking a shower behind the glass door... but it turns out to be just Kevin's [[CuteMachines pet robot EMO]]. But she's still pissed it saw her naked and demands Carter get rid of it.

When a person, more often than not a woman, is showing off her [[CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces curvaceous figure]] via a silhouette, implying nudity without showing any. Usually, the character is shown to be undressed or undressing behind a backlighted screen of some kind, but often the projection of the shadow itself is used. NippleAndDimed will almost always be in effect, as the silhouette focusing on the curvature of the breasts without the nipple.

When only a part of the character's body is hidden in shadow, then it' using CensorShadow. Also compare BarbieDollAnatomy, CensorSteam, MaleGaze and WatchingTheReflectionUndress.

** In episode 57, Aoi's demon partner Koma is trying to feed her his manju that would have them to BodySwap, and one of the scenes in the montage he tries it when she is in the shower where only her silhouette is seen.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': During a {{Filler}} episode of Part I, Naruto caught a glimpse of Hinata, naked, while she was dancing in the middle of a river, and the camera gives us a silhouette of her as she does so. In actuality, she was practicing a new Jutsu, and Naruto never realized who it was.

* ''Manga/OnePiece''. After easily incapacitating Nami who [[InterruptedBath interrupted her bubble bath]], [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Kalifa]] proceeds to taunt Nami by slowly getting out bath and slowly getting dressed behind a screen where her naked silhouette is shown.

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* WebVideo/YouthAndConsequences: Colin watches Farrah behind the shower curtain as she strips down to enter his [[NudityEqualsHonesty "Chamber of Trust"]] so they can exchange their secrets safely.

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* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': [[Recap/DollhouseS02E07 Meet Jane Doe]], Echo is seen a silhouette in the shower when Paul talks to Boyd about her in the phone.

* ''Series/{{JAG}}:'' In [[Recap/JAGS05E07Rogue Rogue]], Raglin sneaks into his CO's house to try and kidnap his wife, who is in the shower. Except Harm anticipated this and the woman in the shower is really a Marine NCO being used as bait.

** In [[Recap/LostGirlS3E1CagedFae Caged Fae]], with Bo showering at the prison with all the guards also as SinisterSilhouettes surrounding her and EatingTheEyeCandy.
** [[Recap/LostGirlS3E6TheKenziScale The Kenzi Scale]] has Fake Kenzi's silhouette showering behind the glass at Dyson's place.

* ''Series/MutantX'' has Ashlocke watching the silhoutte of Avaris getting dressed in "Past as Prologue".

* ''Series/OneLifeToLive''. When Tina and Cain are on the run, they hang a sheet between them to change, and tease eachother with their sexy silhouttes.

** In [[Recap/SeinfeldS4E11TheContest The Contest]], George visits his mother at the hospital and sees the silhouette of her attractive roommate getting a sponge bath from a sexy nurse. He revisits at the same time the next day just to see that happen again.

When a person, more often than not a woman, is shown behind a backlighted screen of some kind, usually during a conversation with a man. The person is often undressing while doing so.

Expect her to have to bend down. A lot. ''Slowly''. Expect also that the screen -- which is apparently supposed to ensure some form of modesty -- will be as thin as paper and positioned right in front of a source of light, leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination and thus utterly defeating its supposed purpose.

Compare CensorShadow and CensorSteam.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Black Dog Serenade". Faye Valentine's silhouette is seen behind a shower curtain while she is taking a shower.
* Done in the ''Manga/DragonBall'' anime during the Bulma's ShowerScene in Oolong's double-decker camper.
* The [[spoiler:temporarily un-chibified]] Yuki in ''Manga/HaruhiChan''.
* Done in some of ''Franchise/LupinIII'' media (tv series, special and movies), usually with [[MsFanservice Fujiko]].

* [[HotTeacher Machiko]] in ''Manga/MaicchinguMachikoSensei'' in some shower and bath scenes; howewer she end up with show [[MsFanservice more than]] [[NakedPeopleAreFunny her simple silhouette]] every time.

* Reversed version in ''Manga/OnePiece''. Califa's silhouette is shown while she is ''dressing'', after she takes a bath in front of Nami to humiliate her.

* In ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'', there is a scene involving Sakurako and Kyuu.

* Doronjo in ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'', especially in the remake.

* Played in a sophisticated manner in ''ComicBook/LePetitSpirou'', where the curvaceous Maths teacher is seen waiting for a car lift. It's dark and headlights casts a clean shadow of her against a nearby wall. Add the fact her skirt is rather sheer, and that's about as nude as a fully dressed person's shadow can be. Cue slow motion walking.
* Quite a lot of this in ''ComicBook/SinCity''.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'': The silhouette turns out to be a bound bodyguard's.
* Happens to Disney/{{Mulan}} in the beginning of the movie, as she is getting changed at the Matchmaker's.
* Played with in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Eddie sees what he thinks is the silhouette of Jessica Rabbit in a hotel window, but once he gets up there, much to his horror it turns out to be [[{{Butterface}} the hideous Lena Hyena]].
* Speaking of rabbits, Lola Bunny intentionally makes one as she enters the arena at the start of the game in ''Film/SpaceJam''.
* When Rosita and Gunther sing and dance for the show in ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'', Rosita has a quick costume change that involves stepping behind a screen and FlungClothing appearing as her silhouette gets larger and larger.

* In ''Theatre/StateOfTheUnion'' Grant is distracted by the curvaceous shadow Mary casts as she changed her clothes in an adjoining closet. (Said shadow was presumably cast by someone pinch-hitting for the non-curvaceous Creator/KatharineHepburn.)

** Played with in the second ''Austin Powers'' movie, with the tent scene.

* The second ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' movie had some girls changing in the back seat with a blanket hanging in front--when a track pulls up behind with high beams to highlight them perfectly. Burt Reynolds and Creator/DomDeLuise (who think that the ladies are ''nuns''--[[spoiler:they're actually just actresses just playing nuns]]) are [[AccidentalPervert practially biting their lips in the front seat]].
* Spoofed in ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3: The Final Insult'' when Tanya (Anna Nicole Smith) undresses behind a screen [[spoiler:but reveals a BiggusDickus]], much to the [[{{Squick}} chagrin]] of Frank Drebin. [[spoiler:''With a 90-degree angle!'']]
* Played straight in ''Film/TheShadow'', when Penelope Ann Miller's character strips behind one of these while talking to Alec Baldwin's character.
* Played around with in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''. Robin and Marian are both behind a curtain that they don't know is see-through, and Robin, as he finishes an incredibly overdone opera-style love song, drops to one knee, causing his sword scabbard to rise up like a...[[GagPenis you know]].
* A character arc point in ''[[Film/TheBradyBunch A Very Brady Sequel]]'' revolves around Greg and Marcia watching each other in this way. Then, they figure out that, well, if Roy is alive, then, [[NotBloodSiblings well]]...yeah.

* Nicolette Sheridan got one in ''Film/BeverlyHillsNinja''. And so did Chris Farley.
* In ''Film/NoGoodDeed2002'', Erin (Crator/MillaJovovich) has a shower in front of Jack (Creator/SamuelLJackson), who is tied to a chair. As Jack tries to escape in the foreground, in the background, we see Erin's shapely body behind the shower door.
* In ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'', when the T-X walks down the street naked, her whole body from behind is covered in shadow. It's quite sexy.
* And in ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'', Kyle Reese [[WatchingTheReflectionUndress watches Sarah Connor's shadow]] as they both strip off for TimeTravel.

* ''Film/CircusOfHorrors'': When Inspector Ames is searching the circus for Nicole, he sees her silhouette going through her limbering up routine projected on to the wall of of her tent.

* Willow in a scene from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Ohhhh.
* T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) in the "Carbon Creek" episode of ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]''.
* Rachel does it in the hospital during the "Laryngitis" episode of ''Series/{{Glee}}'', prompting Finn's rendition of [[TwoGuysAndAGirl "Jessie's Girl"]].
* ''Series/{{Eureka}}''[='=]s Jo Lupo (Erica Cerra) while taking a shower in "Momstrosity".
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
** In an episode, George visits his mother at the hospital and sees the silhouette of her roommate getting a sponge bath from a sexy nurse. He revisits at the same time the next day just to see that happen again.
** In the episode when he and Jerry are MistakenForGay, he sees the exact same thing happen with a male nurse and a male patient.
* ''Series/RelicHunter'': Nigel (and the audience) are treated to a backlit silhouette of Sydney undressing in a tent during a rainstorm in "The Emperor's Bride".
* ''Series/GeneralHospital''. While they're on the run, Laura insists on sleeping separately from Luke, hangs a sheet in between them, and while changing for bed, teases him like this.
* ''Series/OneLifeToLive''. The exact same thing happens when Tina and Cain are on the run, except that he also does it to her.

* The ''Crystal Flash'' move in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' has Samus surrounded by a blinding corona of energy, with only her silhouette, stark naked- it's even more apparent in the "official artwork", that she's naked as the day she was born and shows a very nice view of her bottom.
* Played with in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' with Miss Petunia, the Bathing Beauty. Luigi encounters her in a bathroom where he can see a svelte woman taking a bath behind the curtain, but once he moved it, Miss Petunia is actually a pig-like BrawnHilda. It might have more signification that a simple joke, as some background information revealed that [[IWasQuiteALooker she used to look beautiful]], enough to be the Miss Ghost runner-up from six years before the events of the game.
* In a very odd example of this trope, in ''[[VideoGame/RType R-Type Final's]]'' final level (if you go the normal route, there's an inexplicable image of a naked woman and naked man that will appear in the background of the level who race toward each other, appear to start having sex, then merge into a ball. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-05 presents]] Susan this way. [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-17 Twice]]. ''"[[http://community.910cmx.com/index.php?showtopic=8549&view=findpost&p=350112 Hot damn]]"!''

* The trope is used [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00526.html here]] on Thelma from ''Series/NipAndTuck''.

* In a nice ParentService, Minerva Mink does this in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' when she bath naked in a lake and in a ShowerScene.

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' has one-episode character Julie Bruin. Julie's intro has her orange silhouette dancing with {{Gainaxing}} effect.
* Heather from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' in her several ShowerScene during ''Island''.

* Spoofed in ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3: The Final Insult'' when Tanya (Anna Nicole Smith) undresses behind a screen [[spoiler:but reveals a BiggusDickus]], much to the [[{{Squick}} chagrin]] of Frank Drebin and Rocco. [[spoiler:''With a 90-degree angle!'']]