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* The AnimatedAdaptation of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' uses the {{Gorn}} version, as well as to [[NoSmoking censor Jotaro smoking]] because he's a teenager. The latter lead to fans joking that Joseph and Polnareff should have been able to SpotTheImpostor instantly, since [[IdentityImpersonator Oingo-as-Jotaro]] ''didn't'' get censored when he smoked.
* In ''Anime/DanganRonpa3 - Side: Despair'', these are used to cover up the gorier parts of [[spoiler:[[DeadlyGame the first Mutual Killing Game]]]] in Episode 7, as well as the scene in Episode 9 in which a Reserve Course student decapitates himself with a chainsaw. [[TooHotForTV The Blu-ray removes them.]]

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* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' briefly does this to the lower body of the newly human Ariel, when she's still wearing her SeashellBra...and nothing else.

* Several instances in ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' place the camera in the position to look up Kirigiri's skirt, with this trope coming into play (such as [[SkirtsAndLadders climbing a ladder]] or squatting down to look for clues). In the UpdatedRerelease that includes a What-If side-story called School Mode, this gets lampshaded by the game with each character's School Mode ending including a pair of their underwear as a prize: apparently hers are so dark that it's virtually impossible to see anything anyway. The same applies to [[spoiler:Celestia Ludenberg]]'s dress during her execution.

[[caption-width-right:350:Thanks to that conveniently cast shadow, there's [[BlatantLies no possible way]] to tell what's in Jotaro's mouth. Is it a lollypop? A straw?]]

* 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.

** In ''Super Smash Bros. 4'', this was applied to the in-game character models as well.

* [[BiggerBad Laampros]] in ''{{Webcomic/TheYoungProtectors}}'' is always naked, but his demon-parts are obscured by this most of the time (the rest of the time, a character or special effect just happens to be in the way).

* Several instances in ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'' place the camera in the position to look up Kirigiri's skirt, with this trope coming into play (such as [[SkirtsAndLadders climbing a ladder]] or squatting down to look for clues). In the UpdatedRerelease that includes a What-If side-story called School Mode, this gets lampshaded by the game with each character's School Mode ending including a pair of their underwear as a prize: apparently hers are so dark that it's virtually impossible to see anything anyway.

* In ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'', these are used to cover up the gorier parts of [[spoiler: [[DeadlyGame the first Mutual Killing Game]]]] in ''Side:Despair'' Episode 7. [[TooHotForTV The Blu-ray removes them.]]

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* Used in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' to depict a woman in labor, as back in the days of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode, showing pregnancy and a woman going into labor was considered too risque.

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* In ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'', these are used to cover up the gorier parts of [[spoiler: [[DeadlyGame the first Mutual Killing Game]]]] in ''Side:Despair'' Episode 7.

** The UltimateMarvel version of the Hulk lacks MagicPants, so he usually wears shadows instead.

* [[BiggerBad Laampros]] in ''{{Webcomic/YoungProtectors}}'' is always naked, but his demon-parts are obscured by this most of the time (the rest of the time, a character or special effect just happens to be in the way).

* [[BiggerBad Laampros]] in ''{{Webcomic/YoungProtectors The Young Protectors}}'' is always naked, but his demon-parts are obscured by this most of the time (the rest of the time, a character or special effect just happens to be in the way).

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* [=ClockUp=]'s ''Maggot Baits'' uses this for {{Gory Discretion Shot}}s, if you disable the {{Gorn}} CG variants.

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* The ''Literature/MercyThompson: Homecoming'' comic uses anything � even shadows � to cover up Mercy's breasts and genitals.

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* The ''Literature/MercyThompson: Homecoming'' comic uses anything — even shadows — to cover up Mercy's breasts and genitals.

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

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

* The "Anubis" enemy in the FirstPersonShooter ''[=PowerSlave=]'' (''VideoGame/{{Exhumed}}'' in Europe) has shadows under his kilt. Good thing too, because he does not know how to sit politely.