History Main / SpeechBubbleCensoring

See also CensorSteam.

* Used in ''{{Fite}}!'' after Guz's FullFrontalAssault. Made stranger by the [[http://home.comcast.net/~x8099/thomasblue/fite1to4.html#26 bubble in question]] being VisibleSilence.

* Rare non-comic-book example: in the ''SesameStreet'' picture book "Do You Want to Play Hide-and-Seek With Lovable, Furry Old Grover?" Grover tries (unsuccessfully) to hide behind his own word balloons.

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* Semi-example (probably the closest you can come to it in a non-print media): The 1980s film ''City Limits'' had a scene of a girl swimming nude. When ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' showed it, rather than just editing it out, they had Joel open an umbrella (''inside a theater that's inside a friggin' '''space station''''') and start chatting about it, with the umbrella positioned to block the nudity.

* ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers New Avengers]]'' #14: a scene of Spider-Woman I (Jessica Drew) on an operating table nude, surrounded by doctors. Her right breast is hidden by a utensil tray held up by one of the doctors. Her left is covered up by a word baloon. Recreated in #42.
* Mighty Avengers #12 features a scene with Nick Fury in bed with Countess [=DeFontaine=], where her bare behind is hidden by one of these.

* Used with Domino in Incredible Hulks #608, during the Red She-Hulk backup story.

* ''TurnSignalsOnALandRaider'' did this with daemonettes. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They wouldn't have had to bother if daemons had appeared in the comic after their recent set of models were released.]]

* Non-nudity related example: In the manga of ''DeathNote'', the Third Kira of Yotsuba Group (Higuchi), whose identity is meant to be a surprise in the manga, thinks that he should use his Death Note to kill Matsuda, but can't because if he went home alone, the others would suspect him, and his thought balloon obscures his face, preventing the reader from finding out who it is. By contrast, the anime does not attempt to hide that Higuchi is Kira.

[[ToLoveRu http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stupid_bubble.jpg]]
[[caption-width:280: Damn your exclamations, Rito.]]

** Adam Warren seems to find censoring funny, so tropes like this tends to happen a lot in his works.

** You say that as if it's a bad thing...

* America's Best Comics' ''[[TomStrong The Many Worlds of Tesla Strong]]'' featured an alternate reality with No Nudity Taboo. Uncomfortableness ensues. For [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ts.jpg Tesla]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ts2.jpg anyway]].

* Semi-example (probably the closest you can come to it in a non-print media): The 80's film ''City Limits'' had a scene of a girl swimming nude. When ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' showed it, rather than just editing it out, they had Joel open an umbrella (''inside a theater that's inside a friggin' '''space station''''') and start chatting about it, with the umbrella positioned to block the nudity.

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* ''LastRes0rt'' takes an entire page of Jigsaw AND Daisy in the buff (for a clothing scan) and [[http://www.lastres0rt.com/2008/05/always-turn-down-the-embassy-tour/ obscures it with their conversation.]]
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* Mighty Avengers #12 features a scene with Nick Fury in bed with Countess DeFontaine, where her bare behind is hidden by one of these.

* ''ToLoveRu'', as seen in the picture. To go into detail, Yui's panties had been accidentally ''cut off'' at this point, so without the exclamation, we'd have seen ''everything''.
** You say that as if it's a bad thing...
* ''ElGoonishShive'' used this on Nanase during the birthday party arc (and more so in a filler artwork drawn soon after).
** [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-02-19 No topless Lisa either]] for you, folk.
* A rather disturbing instance in ''HunterXHunter'', as seen in the entry on PeekABoo.
* ScottMcCloud does this in ''Making Comics'' when he talks about talk bubbles. When he mentions the placement of talk bubbles, the panel shows him as Michelangelo's David with his hair and NerdGlasses, and his speech is covering where the statue's penis would be.

* America's Best Comics' ''The Many Worlds of Tesla Strong'' featured an alternate reality with No Nudity Taboo. Uncomfortableness ensues. For [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ts.jpg Tesla]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ts2.jpg anyway]].
* The published English language version of ''TenjhoTenge'' has a lot of this artificially inserted for censorship purposes.

* Used in the ''MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi'' manga once or twice.
* Non-nudity related example: In the manga of ''DeathNote'', the Third Kira of Yotsuba Group (Higuchi), whose identity is meant to be a surprise in the manga, thinks that he should use his Death Note to kill Matsuda, but can't because if he went home alone, the others would suspect him, and his thought balloon obscures his face, preventing the reader from finding out who it is. By contrast, the anime does not attempt to hide that Higuchi is Kira.

* ''TurnSignalsOnALandRaider'' did this with daemonettes. [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks They wouldn't have had to bother if daemons had appeared in the comic after their recent set of models were released.]]
* Semi-example (probably the closest you can come to it in a non-print media): The 80's film ''City Limits'' had a scene of a girl swimming nude. When ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' showed it, rather than just editing it out, they had Joel open an umbrella (''inside a theater that's inside a friggin' '''space station''''') and start chatting about it, with the umbrella positioned to block the nudity.
* Another non-nudity related example: the perpetually-hidden left eye of [[OnePiece Sanji]] was once blocked by a word balloon when he was hanging upside down, and thus could not hide it with his hair as he usually does.

* At the end of the Fairy Tail Special chapter "Welcome to Fairy Hills", when Lucy's cat costume disappears, a narration box is placed in front of her butt.

* Jane [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=132973 taking a shower]] in ''EverydayHeroes''.
* Lampshaded in a non-nudity example in SomethingPositive: [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp11252008.shtml here]] and [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03112009.shtml here]].
* In TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain, The 'News in the Nude' anchorwoman is naked with only word balloons covering her regions.
* ''LastRes0rt'' takes an entire page of Jigsaw AND Daisy in the buff (for a clothing scan) and [[http://www.lastres0rt.com/2008/05/always-turn-down-the-embassy-tour/ obscures it with their conversation.]]

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* Non-nudity related example: In the manga of ''DeathNote'', the Third Kira of Yotsuba Group (Higuchi), whose identity is meant to be a surprise in the manga, thinks that he should use his Death Note to kill Matsuda, but can't because if he went home alone, the others would suspect him, and his thought balloon obscures his face, preventing the reader from finding out who it is. By contrast, the anime [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready does not attempt to hide that Higuchi is Kira.]]

* Another non-nudity related example: In the webcomic ''{{Webcomic/Avalon}}'', [[http://www.avalonhigh.com/d/20000522.html a speech bubble is literally censored.]]

* Scott [=McCloud=] does this in ''Making Comics'' when he talks about talk bubbles. When he mentions the placement of talk bubbles, the panel shows him as Michelangelo's David with his hair and NerdGlasses, and his speech is covering where the statue's penis would be.

* In 1954, The Providence Bulletin complained about the {{Pogo}} character Simple J. Malarkey (a caricature of Joseph McCartney), saying that they would drop the strip if Malarkey "ever showed his face again." Walt Kelly continued to use Malarkey, but [[ExactWords covered his face in every panel]], including a sequence in which his face was always behind his own speech bubble.

* ''SecretSix'' #11: A rear end view of Jeanette blocked by a word balloon. [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/606004.html writer Gail Simone was disappointed when she found out]].

* ''ElGoonishShive'' used this on Nanase once.