History UncannyValley / Other

** A variant on this phenomenon shows up in ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' and its musical version ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', after Professor Henry Higgins successfully teaches his Cockney protégé Eliza Doolittle to speak and behave more formally. To see if the upper class will perceive Eliza as one of their own, Professor Higgins takes his pupil to an ambassador's ball, where they meet a Hungarian interpreter who also studied English under the professor. The interpreter wants to see if Eliza is as aristocratic as the others purport her to be, and correctly observes that she speaks English with unnatural eloquence. (But from there, he assumes English isn't her first language. He then jumps to the EntertaininglyWrong conclusion that she's a fellow Hungarian -- and of royal descent to boot, based on the assumption that her genteel ''manners'' must have come naturally even if her speech didn't.)

** A variant of this phenomenon shows up in ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' and its musical version ''Theatre/MyFairLady'', after Professor Henry Higgins successfully teaches his Cockney protégé Eliza Doolittle to speak and behave more formally. To see if the upper class will perceive Eliza as one of their own, the professor takes his pupil to an ambassador's ball, where they meet a Hungarian interpreter who also studied English under Professor Higgins. The interpreter wants to see if Eliza is as aristocratic as the others purport her to be, and correctly observes that she speaks English with unnatural eloquence. (But from there, he assumes English isn't her first language. He then jumps to the EntertaininglyWrong conclusion that she's a fellow Hungarian -- and of royal descent to boot, based on the assumption that her genteel ''manners'' must have come naturally even if her speech didn't.)

* Spray-on tans appear this way - skin should ''not'' be that orange!

* When a non-native speaker of a language masters it so well that they pass for a native speaker, their grammar/spelling mistakes are no longer overlooked, leading to embarrassment when they find out that they were talking to a non-native speaker with a great command of their language. Not scary by any stretch of the imagination but still awkward.
** What ''can'' be uncanny, however, is a non-native speaker who has mastered the language to the point where they don't make grammar mistakes and don't have a discernible accent anymore. Often, they pass for a native speaker, yet there's still something slightly ''off'' about the way they speak to an actual native speaker's ears.

* [[http://nerdist.com/we-must-bring-creepy-lucy-statue-to-its-rightful-home-on-midnight/ This]] poorly done statue of [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy.]]

* Down the Rabbit Hole covers bizarre findings online. One of episodes covers "My Finger Family", which shows cheap animations for a foreign nursery rhyme. [[https://youtu.be/NceTdz8KlYU?t=2m50s This part of the video]] shows the mother and father "dancing" by simply swaying their bodies side to side like cheap puppets. For a brief moment, the brother is shown and his face is awful; the character has long eyelashes and full red lips, which would look ok on a little girl, but not a little boy.

* In the musical ''Ride the Cyclone'', [[MrSmith Jane Doe]], who was [[LosingYourHead decapitated]] in the ride accident and thus [[LossOfIdentity deprived of her identity]], invokes this with her [[BlackEyesOfEvil vacant black eyes]], [[CreepyDoll doll-like mannerisms]], and [[UncannyValleyMakeup deathly pale makeup]].

* NBC's Saturday Morning Cartoon bumpers from Fall 1990 fall deep into uncanny valley for some. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCJb01FxV0o Here]] it is.

* The Japanese tradition/hobby/fetish of ''[[SubculturesInJapan kigurumi]]'' - cosplaying human and humanoid anime characters using masks and bodysuits - seems to back into the Uncanny Valley from the human side, due to the mad creepy effect the results sometimes have.

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* Those who heard the first human voice ever recorded probably thought of this trope. While the technology is highly impressive (the recording is thought to date back to 1860), to hear "Au Claire de la Lune" in such poor (by our standards) quality is more than a little [[BlackSpeech off-putting]].

* "[=RealDoll=]" sex dolls. Film technicians who have worked with Real Dolls for movies report that handling them is creepily like handling corpses. Obviously, they, their flawless sexiness and their eternal sexual submission is massive FetishFuel and/or an alternative to prostitution / free-willed women for some, thus enabling the uncanny valley to be ignored a bit. Sankaku Complex appears a disturbing amount of times here.

* This effect is actually triggered by perfectly lifelike humans in Capgras delusion. People suffering from this delusion believe that others have been replaced by identical impostors or machines, due to perceptual abnormalities that cause them to mis-perceive real people as unreal. It's most commonly seen in schizophrenia, although it can also be associated with conditions like dementia or prosopagnosia (face-blindness).

* This effect can be triggered by real, lifelike humans in Capgras delusion. People suffering from this delusion believe that others have been replaced by identical impostors or machines, due to perceptual abnormalities that cause them to misperceive real people as unreal. It is most common in schizophrenia, although it can also be associated with conditions like dementia or prosopagnosia (face-blindness).

* Many people on the Autistic Spectrum have difficulty with normal expressions of emotions, some have facial features that make them look OlderThanTheyAppear, and other walk more stiffly than normal. It has been noted that the stronger the Autism, the more obvious these Uncanny traits can become.

* [[http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-01/04/robot-receptionist Nadine,]] the robot receptionist. She looks almost exactly human, exhibits moods and emotions, and apparently even has her own personality. She's a friendly conversationalist and all, but I still wouldn't want to have a desk next to hers.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile#Duchenne_smile Duchenne smile]], named after the French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne, only involves the muscles around the corners of the mouth, where a genuine smile involves the muscles that contract around the corners of the eyes as well. This "fake" smile is used to show politeness. It's also been called the "Botox smile," because the cosmetic treatment paralyzes muscles to give a similar effect.

* Commercial animatronics for restaurants aimed at children, such as Chuck E. Cheese's and Showbiz Pizza, [[http://share.ojooo.com/30-delightfully-creepy-animatronic-shows-from-our-childhood-remind-us-how-weird-things-once-were seem to be uniformly horrifying]]. The anthropomorphic animals (and occasional human characters) are the approximate size and shape of a person, but thanks to their unnaturally stilted motions, perfectly round recessed eyes, and gawp-mouthed stares, they go from 'charming' to 'terrifying.' The startlingly human cast of many animatronic eyes or human-like teeth in animals that had no business with those features only makes the effect worse--[[http://r2-store.distractify.netdna-cdn.com/postimage/201410/9/5ce2254915b6d084c4fc7bf0374a68da.jpg Dook LaRue]] is one of the most visually distressing offenders.
** They can be manually overriden and controlled by individual operators in the control room if a special occasion calls for it, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB0-i6cdpcg this]] Showbiz Pizza training video shows. That's when things jump off horrifying and into the heart-attack inducing category.

** Some person in China decided to take this one step further and [[http://www.dreammask.cn/ produce ''realistic'' kigurumi masks]].

* [[http://www.geppettostudios.com/GEPPETTO_HYPERLINKS/Shanti_files/Lotta%20Luv%20%28Central%20Park%29232.jpg This abomination]], which looks like the bastard offspring of [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Jynx]] and [[Theatre/AvenueQ Lucy the Slut]] made real. Made worse by the fact that it's played by a man.
** It looks like one of those "Little People" costumes that serve as St. Patrick's Day leprechauns and Santa's Elves at Christmastime. Depending on one's age and size, they're either comical or ''very'' creepy, because of the oversized heads.

* Because certain details and structures are curiously similar to human faces (especially and mostly at a young age), cats can sometimes fall into the Uncanny Valley, depending on not only the cat and the viewer but also the context and facial expression. Though not immediately apparent in most breeds beyond kittenhood, it remains close enough that an oddly-drawn cat can be drawn in such a way that to humans its face can look like that of a ''[[UncannyValley very]]'' oddly-drawn human, such as on some editions of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''The Door Into Summer''.