Superman: The Animated Series was a pretty big offender.
- "The Last Son of Krypton":
- Lois Lane give one so blatant even Clark brings it up:
Lois: [While looking at a photo of Superman] Nice 's'.
Clark: Excuse me?
Lois: Right here. [Points at the "S" symbol on Superman's chest]- Young Clark informs Lana Lang about how he is seeing through things with his X-Ray Vision, she asks if he's looked towards the girls' locker room. note
- When he's demonstrating his enhanced senses to Lana, he says that "Jenny's telling Pete Ross that her folks are going out tonight." There aren't too many innocent reasons why that subject would come up... and Lana even calls her a "little tart" in response.
- "Fun and Games":
- When Toyman has Bruno Manheim and Lois prisoner, he asks Lois to take notes as he kills Bruno. How does he plan to kill him? Put him in front of a firing squad of toy soldiers. Toyman even puts the blindfold on him.
- The fact that when Lois was kidnapped she was wearing only a bathrobe and a towel on her head, yet in Toyman's warehouse, she wakes up to find she's been dressed as a doll, meaning her robe was removed while she was unconscious.
- Pretty much every part of Corben's blatant sexual advances towards Lois is "The Way of All Flesh".Corben: I've been thinking about you a lot... especially these last few months in prison...
- He then forces a kiss on her, which gives us this.
Corben: I... I didn't feel anything... [gawks at her, obviously distraught]- And then, later on:
Scientist: You can never get sick, you are invulnerable to injury, you'll never feel pain again!
Corben: And what about pleasure?- And then, later on...
Woman: [offscreen] It's so big, Mr. Luthor... [Luthor and the woman are revealed to be on a yacht] I've never seen a yacht this size!- And then, later on... Corben crushes an apple ("I can't taste anymore!"), throws away a vase of flowers ("I can't smell anymore!"), and walks over to Luthor's woman ("Can't...can't...") and throws her overboard in rage.
- "The Main Man":
- The bar Lobo is introduced in is called "The Steaming Load".
- Lobo, while brandishing a crowbar, threatens the Preserver with a colonoscopy if he doesn't give back his bounty.
- Lobo says, as Superman leaves him behind, that he's going to kick Superman's "big red S" (you know, the color the letter is inside the shield. And the color of his shorts).
- Lobo describes how he and Supes would be tied down and tortured, and throws in a Weird Aside how it would be enjoyable under other circumstances.
- The Latin American dub gets away with having Lobo outright call Superman a "hijo de perra" ("son of a bitch" a toned-down version of "hijo de puta," a "son of a slut"). More than oncenote .
- The Preserver's fembots each have a metal hose in their mouth, which sprays knockout gas on any captive who gets too rowdy. Lobo ties the hoses together, pointing and giving the audience a suggestive look as they grow large enough to press against each other and blow the fembots' heads off.
- Not only is the Jabba-like alien despot after Lobo basically a huge turd with eyes, but his name is even Emperor Spooj.
- Several in "My Girl":
- Lana Lang, dressed in an expensive dress with a diamond brooch, is surrounded by journalists. One asks "Lana, are the jewels real?" to which she replies, in a flirty tone: "Everything's real, boys."
- Superman is trying to warn Lana about Lex Luthor. She says "...I know how to handle Lex. I know how to handle most men, in fact. It's only Clark Kent I've ever had any trouble pinning down."
- And there was a part where Lana goes "And I like powerful men.". Earlier, Luthor is asking Lana why Superman was at her apartment. In her explanation, she says Supes told her Luthor was a "bad boy"... and she likes bad boys, complete with a seductive tone.
- Early in the episode when Clark and Lois attend a fashion show, Lois scoffs at one of the models, saying "The only thing holding that dress up is faith."
- We also get Male Gaze, courtesy of Lex's point-of-view shot, of Lana's legs and butt.
- In "Target", Clark offers to sleep over at Lois' apartment. She gives him (and the viewer) a very amused Meaningful Look before he goes on to point out that someone had just tried to murder her.
- "Mxyzpixilated"
- Mxy tells Auguste Rodin's "Thinking Man" sculpture (whom he calls McGurk) to "finish his business". Yes, Mxy just said Thinking Man was taking a shit.
- Mr. Mxyzptlk's wife Ms. Gsptlsnz is so blatantly sex-on-legs that the radar must've just given up on her; she's basically Veronica Lake by way of Jessica Rabbit in terms of figure and hair, sultry voicing, and apparently spends her days lounging around the 5th dimension in a midriff-exposing shirt and unzipped Daisy Dukes. It comes to a head in a scene in "Mxyzpixilated" where, in an attempt to distract Mxyzptlk from his crusade against Superman, she gives what can only be described as a Power Perversion Potential montage, changing her look to various Sexy Whatever Outfit. In order, a Femme Fatale, a sexy schoolgirl, a pin-up inspired sailor outfit, a frilly bikini, a cheerleading outfit, a tropical dancer, a Betty Grable swimsuit, a bathrobe-bra-and-panties combo, then finally nothing but a towel. Alas, her loving but temporarily obsessed husband is Not Distracted by the Sexy.
- On the page of comics Jimmy hands Clark early in the episode are several parodies of other comics, the last of which involves a character saying they'll kill themself if the art gets any worse.
- In "Double Dose":
- Parasite reaches to grope Livewire — ostensibly to absorb her powers. But the whole scene, complete with Livewire shouting, "I said no!" comes off like a creepy rape metaphor, but the Media Watchdogs allowed it anyway.
- Most of that episode was one long Double Entendre. Livewire was the biggest offender, but Parasite gleefully joined in nearly every third line. The crowning example was Superman's solution to combat both Parasite's skin-to-skin-power-stealing powers and Livewire's electric powers: a (clear) full-body latex bodysuit. Livewire's reaction: "Ooh, the boy scout brought protection!"
- When Superman's bodysuit is destroyed and Parasite drains him of his powers, Livewire moves in to finish him off, but Parasite grabs her and in a creepy way says: "You said 'no' to me for the last time, baby" while she screams in agony from her powers getting drained, making this scene an even more blatant rape metaphor than the previously described one.
- "Brave New Metropolis" has a reference to The Oldest Profession, with a passing motorist yelling at Lois Lane to "Go stand on some other corner, you tart!"
- In "Monkey Fun" , Lois and Jimmy are digging through a pile of plush toy monkeys and squeezing each one in an attempt to find one that will play a particular song to calm down Lois' rampaging giant pet chimp, Titano. Jimmy expresses doubt that they will ever find the correct toy; Lois snaps, "Shut up and keep squeezing the monkeys!". It could be more of a Shout-Out to Wizard Magazine which at the time had a recurring character named Keep Squeezin Them Monkeys Lad
- In "Ghost in the Machine", when Luthor is unveiling a new weapons system that unexpectedly fails, Lois heckles him: "What went wrong, Lex? Premature product launch?"
- "World's Finest":
- When Batman shows up in a jetpack, The Joker asks if he has "propulsion envy."
- Batman is tracking the Joker through an informant who was obviously staying... in a strip bar. Complete with girls serving alcohol drinks and girls dancing in cages. How did that get past the censors?!
- Not to mention when Batman asks where Joker is, the informant suggests that he's "making ha-ha with Harley Quinn."
- In "Prototype", Lois, thinking Clark is standing right next to her (he's not) asks "Hey, Smallville, how far's your car?" An older man instead replies "Right around the corner, toots. We going to your place or mine?" The way he's leering at Lois leaves little doubt what's on his mind.
- "Warrior Queen":
- Soon after her introduction Maxima gets a fanservice heavy scene where she is being bathed by her scantily clad female servants, showing a lot of skin, including kicking her legs up for her servants to wash them. Her modesty is only preserved by Shoulders-Up Nudity shots and Censor Suds and when she surfaces from the water, her servants holding out her robe blocks the view of her body.
- The villain makes several suggestive comments about sexually conquering Maxima and then later reveals he was having a rather intimate affair with Maxima's head servant.
- After her fight with Superman, Maxima tells him "No one has ever lasted this long with me!". While she's talking about combat prowess, it's easy to interpret another meaning for why men don't last long with her.note
- In "Livewire", Lois Lane is doing a live radio interview with the titular pushy DJ, who continually drops hints that she suspects Lois is in a relationship with Superman. Livewire's next line is muffled when the shot cuts outside the building, but you can still quite clearly hear her asking whether Superman's PJ's also have a big red "S" on them.
- Another naughty fact is how Livewire's outfit was created by ionizing the air around her, and she herself describes it as "form-fitting." It's form-fitting because she's just wearing discolored air, meaning every time she's seen, she's technically fighting butt naked.
- "Little Girl Lost"
- The creepy villainess Granny Goodness spouts the line: "You naughty little monkey! Granny will spank you good!" To get the full Nightmare Fuel effect, realize that Granny is voiced by Ed Asner.
- When Supergirl reveals herself (complete with tearing off her street clothes to reveal her costume) when facing Granny Goodness and Intergang.
- Also, this exchange:
Jimmy Olsen: What are you doing?
Kara/Supergirl: What do you think? I'm shutting down this psycho-witch!
Granny Goodness: [gasps] Such language! - From "Where There's Smoke":
- Near the beginning of the episode, before Volcana reveals herself, Jimmy takes a couple of pictures of her, saying she has a "camera-friendly face". When Clark Kent points out that she wasn't really "newsworthy", Jimmy says, "It's, uh, for my private collection."
- Volcana tries to sell some nautical memorabilia by stating that a whistle "was touched by the President's lips", to which her fence dryly responds "What wasn't?"
- At the end, instead of sending Volcana to prison, Superman strands her on a deserted island with plenty of provisions, which she accepts. As he prepares to fly away, Volcana, in a bikini, says, "I hope you'll think of me, especially on those cold Metropolis nights."
- In the episode, "Superman's Pal", Lois is talking to Perry near an open window. During that time, Superman flies outside. Obviously, the flying causes air to blow and Lois talks about how she has to stop wearing skirts while doing a Marilyn Maneuver. So Perry likely got a view of Lois' intimates.
- In "A Fish Story", Luthor orders his men to kill Aquaman, remarking that he is simply "protecting my assets". A few minutes later, as they hear his men being beaten soundly by Aquaman, Lois remarks, "Sounds like your assets are getting kicked."
- The scene in "Unity" where Supergirl is wrapped up by the alien tendrils is kind of... suggestive.
- "Legacy"
- Superman has been brainwashed into believing he is Darkseid's son and Apokolips' greatest champion. After returning from conquering a planet:
Lashina: [hugging Kal] This calls for a celebration! (Kal looks at his "father" nervously)
Darkseid: Go on, savor the fruits of your victory, Kal. You've earned it. [The Female Furies drag Kal offscreen, while Kalibak growls and clenches his fist in jealousy]- This is compounded when Lashina refers to Superman as "lover" and "boy-toy" during a later encounter after Superman has escaped the brainwash. It actually becomes even more obvious later on when we see Superman in his underclothes having a conversation with a partially-dressed Lashina, while sitting on a bed. Which, considering that Superman was mind-controlled at the time, he could not and would not have consented, and Lashina knows this, means that Superman was raped on a children's show.
- After rescuing the unconscious Supergirl from her military prison, Superman takes her to Professor Hamilton in the S.T.A.R. Labs. While they're checking on her health, she's completely naked on the examination table, with only Scenery Censor concealing her naughty bits.
