Basic Trope: A naked character's naughty bits (or other things that aren't allowed to be shown in the work) are covered by scenery.
- Straight: David is naked, but a shrub is covering his crotch.
- Exaggerated:
- Something really large and gigantic covers David's whole body.
- Everyone is naked and they always have something covering up the more questionable parts of their anatomy in spite of how much they're moving around.
- Downplayed:
- David's wearing underwear, which is barely hidden by the scenery.
- Alice's genitalia is covered up by shrubbery, but her breasts remain exposed.
- Something is covering David, but it's a small object and isn't really doing a good job.
- The Never Bareheaded David isn't naked, but has simply lost his hat and has the scenery obscuring the top of his head until he gets his hat back.
- Justified: David planned it.
- Inverted: Everything but David's crotch is covered by something.
- Subverted:
- The scenery moves, exposing David.
- David is standing behind some bushes in such a way that suggests he's nude and is trying to cover himself up with them, but it turns out he's wearing clothes.
- Double Subverted:
- Something else comes to block the view.
- David loses his clothes and then the shrubbery starts obscuring his private parts.
- Parodied:
- "Uh oh, I'm naked! Hey, I can use this thing to cover my no-no zone!"
- The character's naughty bits are hidden by objects that happen to resemble what they're covering.
- Zig Zagged: Some scenes have David's privates covered up by the scenery and some scenes leave his genitals uncovered.
- Averted:
- David's nudity is never censored.
- No one is seen naked.
- Censorship of nudity does not rely on having the naked characters conveniently standing behind something.
- Enforced:
- "We need to have a scene for the sake of Fanservice/comedy, but this show airs before the Watershed... I know, let's have something cover him up!"
- The work is intended to be viewed by children. Censoring nudity with the scenery would therefore be a necessity, should the plot require a character to be nude.
- There isn't technically anything preventing the creators from showing nudity uncensored, but they feel it would be funnier to have everything covered up by conveniently located objects.
- The actor playing the naked character isn't comfortable with appearing naked on-camera, and body doubles are out of the question, so the character's nudity is obscured by conveniently located objects as a compromise.
- Lampshaded: "Wow, David's sure lucky that thing's covering his wiener."
- Invoked:
- "Ha! You can't see my privates 'cause they're behind this thing!"
- David realizes he's naked and uses his hands/an object to cover himself with.
- Defied:
- David deliberately moves in a position where the scenery can't cover his genitals.
- Someone removes or pushes aside whatever is hiding David's nudity.
- Discussed: "That's one way to censor yourself."
- Conversed: "Why not just have a Censor Box over David's crotch?"
- Implied: "Isn't that the shrub David covered himself with?"
- Deconstructed: David hides behind the foliage because he's really uncomfortable about his body and has a crippling fear of being seen in his birthday suit.
- Reconstructed: David allows the foliage to hide his nudity so that he can ease into feeling better about his body and getting over his fear of being seen naked.
- Played For Laughs:
- David realizes that while his penis is hidden by the plants, nothing's covering up his bare behind.
- David's modesty is covered by a statue of a rooster.
- Played For Drama: The scenery doesn't just censor David's nudity for the sake of modesty, but also because he has unsightly scars on his private parts from a traumatic incident in his past.
- Played for Horror:
- David's privates are covered up by the body of someone killed by a Serial Killer.
- It's not nudity that's being censored by objects, but grisly murder scenes.
Get back to Scenery Censor so that a conveniently placed tree can cover your shame.
