History Main / CensorShadow

* ''BlackCat'' does it, when Creed is naked and having nanomachine treatment to make him immortal. The camera pans extremely low, but his crotch is blacked out by the shadow of some of the machinery.

* {{Linkara}} [[HangingALampshade laughed]] at such shadow in Hardcore Station #1 for being so small that one could conclude that "Space Stalin has a tiny penis."

A character (male or female) is full-on naked, but the artist doesn't want to reveal all. This is a dilemma. What to do? Eureka! Just some crafty shading and ''voila''! A convenient shadow! Now we can keep those [[IncrediblyLamePun private parts, well, private]].

* ''TheLittleMermaid'' briefly does this to the newly human Ariel, when she's still wearing only a SeashellBra.
** A bit of a subversion here, as the shadows don't cover her body that well.

* ''BloodC'' does a number of shadows during incredibly violent scenes.

* This happens quite frequently in {{Hellboy}} with Hecate, the Baba Yaga, and the occasional demon. Partially justified thanks to Mignola's black-on-white {{Chiaroscuro}} art style.

See also CensorSteam, GodivaHair, and PeekABoo.

* Although ''SeikonNoQwaser'' has ''no problem whatsoever'' showing nipples (hell, it's been called [[{{ecchi}} borderline]] {{hentai}}), when Katja lifts up her skirt, telling Hana she can kiss in [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "a much nicer place"]], her "nicer place" is enshrouded in shadow.

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* ''DrMcNinja'' uses this to cover for a catastrophic failure of MagicPants [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/13p39 here.]]

* In a StoryArc in the AnthologyComic ''Marvel Comics Presents'' showing the origin of {{Wolverine}} (running away from Project X) he's nude the entire time, but for shadows. The one time the artist couldn't justify any shadows he was suddenly in a pair of tighty-whities.

* ''{{Kaiji}}''

* ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''

Not only used for nudity, it's oftentimes used as a result of ExecutiveMeddling last-minute censorship of something gory, causing a random dark slash covering half the screen and the {{Gorn}} behind it. Almost like a GoryDiscretionShot, only a bit sloppy.

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* Although ''SeikonNoQwaser'' has ''no problem whatsoever'' showing nipples (hell, it's been called [[{{ecchi}} borderline]] {{hentai}}), when Katja lifts up her skirt telling Hana she can kiss in [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean "a much nicer place,"]] her "nicer place" is enshrouded in shadow.

* ''BlackCat'', when Creed is naked and having nanomachine treatment to make him immortal. The camera pans extremely low, but his crotch is blacked out by the shadow of some of the machinery.

* In the ComicBook version of AnitaBlake, a wererat's genitals are covered this way.

* ''ElfQuest'': In "Siege at Blue Mountain Part 1" Leetah and Nightfall dance in the moonlight. In the first panel a shadow covers Nightfall's genitalia.
* For a female example, in ''X-Men Versus the Fantastic Four,'' Susan Storm momentarily becomes extremely fed up with her husband, Reed, because [[ReedRichardsIsUseless Reed is balking at using a machine to cure Kitty of permanent phasing]]. (It's complicated). When in private, she uses her forcefield to [[ClothingDamage blast off her entire uniform]] and most of her body is conveniently in shadow, but not so much you can't tell she's got nothing on.
* In an early issue of ''TheIncredible Hulk'', Betty Ross is transformed into the Harpy sans culottes, with shadows hiding her breasts and genitals.
* The ''MercyThompson: Homecoming'' comic uses anything - even shadows - to cover up Mercy's breasts and genitals.

* ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Chain of Command". Picard would show his butt, and have [[strike:5 lights]] FOUR LIGHTS cast shadows preventing anything from being seen.

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* {{Linkara}} [[HangingALampshade laughed]] at such shadow in Hardcore Station #1 for being so small one could come to conclusion that "Space Stalin has a tiny penis."

A character (male or female) is full-on naked, but the artist doesn't want to reveal all. This is a dilemma. What to do? Eureka! Just some crafty shading and ''voila''! A Convenient Shadow! Now we can keep those [[IncrediblyLamePun private parts, well, private]].

** Oddly enough, [[ExecutiveMeddling the censored version]] of the {{anime}} does not use shadows when avoiding [[NippleAndDimed nipples]] and {{Panty Shot}}s, but ridiculously obvious zooms, scenes cut clean out, and a nice views of the scenery or sky.

Alternate title: Convenient Shadow.

A subset of [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=gvf9q5zl97jqaaswhey0cd6b Shadow Tropes]]. See also CensorSteam, GodivaHair, and PeekABoo.

* {{Linkara}} [[HangingALampshade laughed]] at such shadow in Hardcore Station #1 for being so small one could come to conclusion that "Space Stalin has a tiny penis."