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Kinda surprised this wasn't already in the summary.


See also CensorSteam, GodivaHair, SexySilhouette, and SceneryCensor.

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See also CensorSteam, GodivaHair, SexySilhouette, and SceneryCensor. For the opposite effect, hiding nudity behind ''light,'' see LensFlareCensor.
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* ''Film/{{WatchMen}}'': Dr. Manhattan's genitals are often obscured by a nimbus of light. Not always, though.

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* ''Film/{{WatchMen}}'': ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Dr. Manhattan's genitals are often obscured by a nimbus of light. Not always, though.
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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Invoked by Spectra in one story, when she's hired by a goblin hunter to take his son's virginity. By the time she realizes the son is secretly gay they've already got an audience of his friends and hunting mates, so she casts ''minor illusion'' to create a small cloud of darkness to hide herself before shapeshifting into a masculine form to service him.
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* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'' presents a remarkably inconsistent use of this trope. The main antagonist of the movie, an otherworldly female vampire only known as Space Girl, is played by an incredibly hot Mathilda May and remains totally naked like 90% of her screen time. Shadows are used to censor some of the nudity, like when she's going up some stairs after escaping the autopsy room. Yet the rest of the movie doesn't bother and she's shown with her assets in full display. More jarring as this happens in the same sequence.

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* ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'' ''Film/Lifeforce1985'' presents a remarkably inconsistent use of this trope. The main antagonist of the movie, an otherworldly female vampire only known as Space Girl, is played by an incredibly hot Mathilda May and remains totally naked like 90% of her screen time. Shadows are used to censor some of the nudity, like when she's going up some stairs after escaping the autopsy room. Yet the rest of the movie doesn't bother and she's shown with her assets in full display. More jarring as this happens in the same sequence.

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* Covered nicely in ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns''; The manga often pans away when Jeremy is raped, and when it does show any of what is happening, it is shadowed out or left blank.

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* Covered nicely in ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns''; The the manga often pans away when Jeremy is raped, and when it does show any of what is happening, it is shadowed out or left blank.



** Lisanna when she is captured, stripped naked and thrown in a prison cell, since unlike Erza and Mirajane (who were also captured) [[GodivaHair she doesn't have long hair that can cover her breasts]], and there are no [[SceneryCensor conveniently placed candles or bubbles]] that can cover her genitals.

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** Lisanna when she is captured, stripped naked and thrown in a prison cell, since unlike Erza and Mirajane (who were also captured) [[GodivaHair she doesn't have long hair that can cover her breasts]], and there are no [[SceneryCensor conveniently placed conveniently-placed candles or bubbles]] that can cover her genitals.


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* ''Literature/TheSongOfHiawatha'' has an unusual example in print and in-universe: When Minnehaha blesses the cornfields by running naked around them at night, the darkness literally wraps around her so that no one watching will be able to boast about seeing her.
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Per TRS. Just For Pun was turned into a Just For Fun page and renamed to JustForFun.Punny Trope Names.


A character (male or female) is full-on naked, but the artist doesn't want to reveal all. Yet an outright CensorBox will be just horrible (unless this was a comedy). This is a dilemma. What to do? Eureka! Just add some crafty shading and ''voila''! A convenient shadow! Now we can keep those [[JustForPun private parts, well, private]].

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A character (male or female) is full-on naked, but the artist doesn't want to reveal all. Yet an outright CensorBox will be just horrible (unless this was a comedy). This is a dilemma. What to do? Eureka! Just add some crafty shading and ''voila''! A convenient shadow! Now we can keep those [[JustForPun private parts, well, private]].
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