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* In a non-video variant of this, ''Manga/OnePiece'' creator Creator/EiichiroOda has stated that he started changing the shape of the word balloons so that it would be easier for English translators to fit in more text.

* Al in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is AnimatedArmor, but not so animated to have his "mouth" move -- this made dubbing so easy that [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the 2003 anime]] used an actual boy instead of [[CrossDressingVoices having a woman dub his voice]].

* This seems to happen a lot with Kyon in the anime adaptation of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', which is an [[TheArtifact artifact]] from the original {{Light Novel}}s in which little distinction is made between Kyon's thoughts, Kyon's words as narrator, and Kyon's spoken dialogue.

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* The Kideo personalized videos used this trope to help "add in" children into popular cartoon series. Whenever the child's name is said, the character saying the name will be conveniently out of frame or standing in a static pose/scene so as to make adding lip flaps as easy as possible.
* Traditionally, when animated characters are [[RogerRabbitEffect presenting an award as part of a live telecast]], ProductionLeadTime means that the winner won't be known until after the scene is animated. The character will cover their mouth with the envelope to allow the voice actor to dub in the winner's name.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' had one exchange between Gumball and Darwin in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E3TheBoredom "The Boredom"]] occur with their mouths off-screen, possibly indicating that the producers expected it to be cut and didn't want to waste time animating it if it did.

-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/CartoonSushi Ultra City 6060]]'' (a GagDub of ''{{Anime/Patlabor}}'')

* The Kideo personalized videos used this trope to help "add in" children into popular cartoon series. Whenever the child's name is said, the character saying the name will be conveniently out of frame.

-->-- ''Ultra City 6060'' (a GagDub of ''{{Anime/Patlabor}}'')

* In ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', the villain Hexadecimal has an unmoving harlequin mask for her face. She snaps between a few pre-set expressions to match her current mood, but never emotes or moves her lips beyond that.

* Traditionally, when animated characters are [[RogerRabbitEffect presenting an award as part of a live telecast]], AnimationLeadTime means that the winner won't be known until after the scene is animated. The character will cover their mouth with the envelope to allow the voice actor to dub in the winner's name.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E14LisaTheGreek Lisa the Greek]]" ran into an issue; it references the teams playing in UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XXVI, but was animated [[AnimationLeadTime before anyone knew who those teams were]]. The dubbing is obvious, and it looks like crap. So, for a later Super Bowl reference, the makers of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E12SundayCruddySunday "Sunday Cruddy Sunday"]] {{lampshaded}} the trope by turning the whole thing into MadLibsDialogue and having the characters obscure their mouths with beer mugs as they name the teams with obviously dubbed-in dialogue. Then they do the same thing with a reference about "UsefulNotes/BillClinton and his wife Hillary" watching the game, because Clinton was being impeached at the time for lying about having an affair, the joke being that they might have to dub over Clinton's name (and marital status) as well by the time the episode aired. (This is presumably why re-airings of the episode never redub it for the latest Super Bowl matchup; it's always the Broncos and Falcons.)

* This seems to happen a lot with Kyon from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', apparently an [[TheArtifact artifact]] from the {{Light Novel}}s in which little distinction is made between Kyon's thoughts, Kyon's words as narrator, and Kyon's spoken dialogue.

* Al in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is AnimatedArmor, but not so animated to have his "mouth" move -- this made dubbing so easy that [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]] used an actual boy instead of [[CrossDressingVoices having a woman dub his voice]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' had one exchange between Gumball and Darwin in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E3TheBoredom "The Boredom"]] occur with their mouths off-screen, possibly indicating that the producers expected it to be cut and didn't want to have to reanimate the scene.

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' does it more cleverly; members of Section 9 can communicate with a cybernetic form of telepathy, which also happens to allow long stretches of dialogue where the characters don't move their mouths. It's useful in-universe to avoid lip-readers (sometimes they'll even mouth completely different words while communicating telepathically), but either way, you don't have to worry about LipLock. The sequel went even further with a character whose entire face was a cybernetic customization that [[FrozenFace was totally expressionless]].

* Pretty much all the ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'' don't have a mouth or even a TalkingLightbulb, so it's very easy to dub over the dialogue. The English and Japanese dubs therefore show extensive differences; for instance, Metabee gets more dialogue when he supercharges with the Medaforce, the English dub adds a robotic filter, and Victor gets additional English dialogue during his LaughingMad moment in episode 48 because his back happens to be turned.

* When the Cave of Wonders gives WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} permission to enter, his "Proceed" command is framed as a close-up on the Cave's eyes. According to the directors they could never find a way to have the CaveMouth form the syllables of the word without it looking strange so they staged the shot to avoid showing the mouth.

* In ''Film/TheBeastOfYuccaFlats'', the soundtrack and dialogue was entirely dubbed in by director Creator/ColemanFrancis. The few times someone speaks, their head is either turned away from the camera, out of the shot, or so far away you can't tell what they're saying.

* Creator/OrsonWelles's ''Film/Othello1951'' was famously made in bits and pieces over several years on a shoestring budget, to the extent that most (if not all) of the footage was shot without sound. Welles found a way around this by beginning most of his longer soliloquies with characters facing away from the camera, forcing angles and avoiding close-ups, and using shadows and dramatic lighting extensively to obscure the faces. The sound was dubbed in later. Most critics agree that the movie turned out better for having a small budget, as Welles had to make it more cinematic than most Shakespeare films. It even won top prize at Cannes.

* The film of ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' did this to deal with the fact that the American version of the book had "Sorcerer's Stone" instead of "Philosopher's Stone". Every time someone mentioned the "Philosopher's Stone" in the film, their mouth was obscured so that they could be redubbed saying "Sorcerer's Stone" for the American release, and usually it was referred to as just "the Stone" to side step the issue altogether. It's most obvious when the heroes confront Hagrid about the stone and their mouths are obscured by his door.

* Sexploitation director Doris Wishman is notorious for this, as she could not afford sync sound. Any one of her films features copious shots of the backs of people’s heads, their feet, random furniture, and people shouting from adjacent rooms. In one point during ''Film/BadGirlsGoToHell'', the camera points at ducks in the park while the heroine and a man talk on a park bench, offscreen. Then when the camera cuts back to the two of them on the park bench, his face is turned away from the camera, and hers is buried in her hands as she cries. In another Wishman film, the very silly ''Film/NudeOnTheMoon'', the moon people communicate telepathically. The human people tend to have phone conversations where one person is shown listening while the other is talking offscreen. In one scene the two astronauts hold their microphones to their faces to speak to each other, despite the fact that they're sitting right next to each other in the cockpit.

* This tends to happen in the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series, especially with conversations between characters in the same room (most of them take place over the "CODEC" and feature the characters as talking heads). It's sometimes justified by the characters having to whisper or avoid lip-reading, but it's a bit too much sometimes. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' is considered the worst at this. ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps'' is an interesting variant, as the PSP's graphical limitations made this a necessity, but the voice actors were so liberated from LipLock that they gave an exceptionally good performance.

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* Incredibly {{inverted|trope}} in ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''; the series would sometimes waste animation time by mistakenly animating a character saying a line that was actually said by someone offscreen (i.e. King Koopa mouthing one of Toad's lines in "Hooded Robin and his Mario Men").

* IN ''Film/TheBeastOfYuccaFlats'', the soundtrack and dialogue was entirely dubbed in by director Creator/ColemanFrancis. The few times someone speaks, their head is either turned away from the camera, out of the shot, or so far away you can't tell what they're saying.

* In the SoBadItsGood B-horror movie ''Film/TheBeastOfYuccaFlats'', the soundtrack and dialogue was entirely dubbed in by director Creator/ColemanFrancis. The few times someone speaks, their head is either turned away from the camera, out of the shot, or so far away you can't tell what they're saying. In the words of the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' crew:
-->"Coleman Francis solves the problem of sound sync!"

* ''Film/TheMummy2017'', as ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'' noticed, features a suspicious number of voiceover narrations, especially over plot-relevant scenes. They suspected this was the filmmakers [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff deliberately playing to foreign audiences]], as the film was a severely-altered remake of a classic property starring controversial celebrity Creator/TomCruise, and such audiences would neither know about this controversy nor care about the older ''Mummy'' films.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E14LisaTheGreek Lisa the Greek]]" ran into an issue; it references the teams playing in the then-upcoming UsefulNotes/SuperBowl, but was animated [[AnimationLeadTime before anyone knew who those teams were]]. The dubbing is obvious, and it looks like crap. So, for a later Super Bowl reference, the makers of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E12SundayCruddySunday "Sunday Cruddy Sunday"]] {{lampshaded}} the trope by turning the whole thing into MadLibsDialogue and having the characters obscure their mouths with beer mugs as they name the teams with obviously dubbed-in dialogue. Then they do the same thing with a reference about "UsefulNotes/BillClinton and his wife Hillary" watching the game, because Clinton was being impeached at the time for lying about having an affair, the joke being that they might have to dub over Clinton's name (and marital status) as well by the time the episode aired. (This is presumably why re-airings of the episode never redub it for the latest Super Bowl matchup; it's always the Broncos and Falcons.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E12SundayCruddySunday "Sunday Cruddy Sunday"]] {{lampshaded}} the trope by turning the whole thing into MadLibsDialogue and having the characters obscure their mouths with beer mugs as they name the teams with obviously dubbed-in dialogue. Then they do the same thing with a reference about "UsefulNotes/BillClinton and his wife Hillary" watching the game, because Clinton was being impeached at the time for lying about having an affair, the joke being that they might have to dub over Clinton's name (and marital status) as well by the time the episode aired. (This is presumably why re-airings of the episode never redub it for the latest Super Bowl matchup; it's always the Broncos and Falcons.)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E12SundayCruddySunday Sunday, Cruddy Sunday]]" ran into an issue when an episode referenced the teams playing in the upcoming UsefulNotes/SuperBowl, but was animated [[AnimationLeadTime before anyone knew who those teams were]]. The dubbing was obvious, and it looked like crap. So, for a later Super Bowl reference, the makers of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E12SundayCruddySunday "Sunday Cruddy Sunday"]] {{lampshaded}} the trope by turning the whole thing into MadLibsDialogue and having the characters obscure their mouths with beer mugs as they name the teams with obviously dubbed-in dialogue. Then they do the same thing with a reference about "UsefulNotes/BillClinton and his wife Hillary" watching the game, because Clinton was being impeached at the time for lying about having an affair, the joke being that they might have to dub over Clinton's name (and marital status) as well by the time the episode aired. (This is presumably why re-airings of the episode never redub it for the latest Super Bowl matchup; it's always the Broncos and Falcons.)