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** ''Saturnine Night'' gives us a more "routine" example with Dr. Robot Hughes, a scientist whose lifelong goal is the creation of successful sex robots. His previous attempts were all ''terrible'' failures due to the Uncanny Valley. Only when a ''Qashmal'' guided him to an unconscious Galateid did he manage to create one that actually worked - and that was because [[CloningBlues he'd unwittingly created a clone]].

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** ''Saturnine Night'' gives us a more "routine" example with Dr. Robot Hughes, a scientist whose lifelong goal is the creation of successful sex robots. His previous attempts were all ''terrible'' failures due to the Uncanny Valley. Only when a ''Qashmal'' guided him to an unconscious Galateid did he manage to create one that actually worked - and that was because [[CloningBlues he'd unwittingly created a clone]].clone.
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Turn this trope UpToEleven and you'll most likely have a HumanoidAbomination.

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Turn this trope UpToEleven [[ExaggeratedTrope up to 11]] and you'll most likely have a HumanoidAbomination.
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Turn this trope UpToEleven and you'll most likely have a HumanoidAbomination.
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** It's brought up again in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' as intentional on the developers' part for the [[MechaMook Motorized Patriot]], who was in fact based on a nightmare of Ken Levine's about the porcelain dolls his grandparents had when he was a child.

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** It's brought up again in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' as intentional on the developers' part for the [[MechaMook [[HostileAnimatronics Motorized Patriot]], who was in fact based on a nightmare of Ken Levine's about the porcelain dolls his grandparents had when he was a child.
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* The music video for Serj Tankian's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxKA1uETxE Empty Walls]]" features the lead singer parading around a CircusOfFear with a bizarre, sociopathic look on his face, while various small children play happily... or, as some people have interpreted it, re-enact the War on Terror.

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* The music video for Serj Tankian's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxKA1uETxE Empty Walls]]" Music/SofiTukker's "Swing" features the lead singer parading around a CircusOfFear with a bizarre, sociopathic look on his face, while various small children play happily... or, as some people have interpreted it, re-enact the War on Terror.Sophie and Tucker both developing large anime-style eyes in an otherwise live-action video.
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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Uncanny Valley is invoked in Judge Doom as {{foreshadowing}}, [[spoiler:considering that he's actually an AxCrazy toon disguised as a human]]. He is at least half a head taller than any other character. His eyes are often hollow and he ''never'' blinks. Creator/ChristopherLloyd only blinked between takes or when his face was out of frame. Every smile is a SlasherSmile. He has a lot more strength than an average man. He is shown ripping the industrial dip barrel open with one hand. His skin is pale and lifeless. His vocal cadence is either too clipped or too drawn out to be normal. He talks, just, Like, THIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!

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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Uncanny Valley is invoked in Judge Doom as {{foreshadowing}}, [[spoiler:considering that he's actually an AxCrazy toon disguised as a human]]. He is at least half a head taller than any other character. His eyes are often hollow and he ''never'' blinks. Creator/ChristopherLloyd only blinked between takes or when his face was out of frame. Every smile is a SlasherSmile. He has a lot more strength than an average man. He is shown ripping the industrial dip barrel open with one hand. His skin is pale and lifeless. His vocal cadence is either too clipped or too drawn out to be normal. He talks, just, Like, THIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!
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* The final boss of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'', [[spoiler:Fecto Forgo]], looks a lot like a human embryo and has uncannily photorealistic and detailed eyes, which is especially apparent when they [[EyeAwaken dramatically open their eyes]] and [[spoiler:deliver their threat to consume everything]]. Their true form, [[spoiler:Fecto Elfilis]] has a similar effect -- while they have a humanoid, angelic design, they also have disproportionately large hands, CreepyLongFingers, and digitigrade legs, which adds to their appearance as an AngelicAbomination. Even further, as [[spoiler:Chaos Elfilis]], their eyes are sunken ''inward'' to give the effect of [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou staring at the player.]] The effect is that they look otherworldly and just plain ''wrong'', since they are an invader not native to this world, and [[spoiler:plan on subsuming the entire planet for their own purposes]].

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* The final boss of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'', [[spoiler:Fecto Forgo]], looks a lot like a human embryo and has uncannily photorealistic and detailed eyes, which is especially apparent when they [[EyeAwaken dramatically open their eyes]] and [[spoiler:deliver their threat to consume everything]]. Their true form, [[spoiler:Fecto Elfilis]] Elfilis]], has a similar effect -- while they have a humanoid, angelic design, they also have disproportionately large hands, CreepyLongFingers, and digitigrade legs, which adds to their appearance as an AngelicAbomination. Even further, as [[spoiler:Chaos Elfilis]], their eyes are sunken ''inward'' to give the effect of [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou staring at the player.]] The overall effect is that they look otherworldly and just plain ''wrong'', since they are an invader not native to this world, and [[spoiler:plan on subsuming the entire planet for their own purposes]].
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* The final boss of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'', [[spoiler:Fecto Forgo]], looks a lot like a human embryo and has uncannily photorealistic and detailed eyes, which is especially apparent when they [[EyeAwaken dramatically open their eyes]] and [[spoiler:deliver their threat to consume everything]]. [[spoiler:Their true form as Fecto Elfilis]] also has this trait, as while they have a humanoid, angelic design, they also have disproportionately large hands, CreepyLongFingers, and digitigrade legs, which adds to their appearance as an AngelicAbomination. Both are clearly meant to look otherworldly and just plain ''wrong'', since they [[spoiler:are an invader not native to this world, and plan on subsuming the entire planet for their own purposes]].

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* The final boss of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'', [[spoiler:Fecto Forgo]], looks a lot like a human embryo and has uncannily photorealistic and detailed eyes, which is especially apparent when they [[EyeAwaken dramatically open their eyes]] and [[spoiler:deliver their threat to consume everything]]. [[spoiler:Their Their true form as Fecto form, [[spoiler:Fecto Elfilis]] also has this trait, as a similar effect -- while they have a humanoid, angelic design, they also have disproportionately large hands, CreepyLongFingers, and digitigrade legs, which adds to their appearance as an AngelicAbomination. Both Even further, as [[spoiler:Chaos Elfilis]], their eyes are clearly meant sunken ''inward'' to give the effect of [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou staring at the player.]] The effect is that they look otherworldly and just plain ''wrong'', since they [[spoiler:are are an invader not native to this world, and plan [[spoiler:plan on subsuming the entire planet for their own purposes]].
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* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''
** Used very subtly, but very effectively, in ''Film/TheTerminator'' with the T-800. Initially he sticks out by just being a little ''too'' large and muscular for any normal human being, being played by ''Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger'' at the prime of his bodybuilding career. Not long after he gets his eyebrows burned off in an explosion, giving him an overly intense steely gaze and an almost skeletal face. Then he loses his eye and wears wide-brim sunglasses, even at night, which completely dehumanizes him despite still ''appearing'' human. Add in his stilted way of talking and his eerie movements, and even at first glance it's clear to audiences that something is seriously wrong with this guy.
** The T-1000 follows suit, despite looking far more normal and average and even being able to act far more human than the T-800 right out of the box. Emphasis on "acting" human, as there's always something off about the way he talks, the way he stands motionless while speaking, the way he never visibly breathes or blinks, the way he runs, the way he is able to fire a gun without blinking or flinching. Creator/RobertPatrick studied insects and modeled his movements after them, as he surmised that, unlike humans, a machine would act like an insect and have "absolutely no wasted movements".
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* In ''Literature/{{Argo}}'', androids are usually designed to look like {{Funny Animal}}s to avoid this trope, so that humans would be less intimidated by them.

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* In ''Literature/{{Argo}}'', ''Literature/{{Argo}}'' and the rewrite ''Literature/AniDroids'', androids are usually designed to look like {{Funny Animal}}s to avoid this trope, so that humans would be less intimidated by them.
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* ''Fanfic/ADevilAmongstWorms'': Several people on Earth-Bet have this reaction to Makima. Notably, Alexandria describes her as lacking the sorts of micro-expressions and subtle facial tells that regular people have, describing her changes in expression as being akin to different frames in a film.
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* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'':

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI I Feel Fantastic]] (also known as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09iknuzDlw Fantastic Hey Hey Hey]]). It's a video of an animatronic woman singing an off-putting song, made all the more creepy by the low quality camera and how jerky and inhuman her movements and voice are. Just in case you're feeling extra brave, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6TdRD3moBk you can watch the entire 16 minute video it was sourced from]].



** The ever-loved, the original [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173 SCP-173]]. It... it's ''kinda'' vaguely humanoid... but that face. Staring at it is so hard, so awkward. You want to look away. You can't. You mustn't. [[spoiler: You did--SNAP!]]
** 106 is already bad enough, what with looking like the rotting carcass of an old man... but, somehow, when he was young, despite being much less putrid, and a lot more human-looking, he was [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-young-man much, much worse]].
** 2852, the idea of a hollow shell and some cicada matter patched together to look like a human... and succeeding is just horrifying, especially the eyes which apparently have no function, not to mention the adult baby talk that they apparently spew.
** SCP-096, with its gaunt, distorted face with blank, empty eyes, huge, gaping mouth and impossibly long, spindly limbs. What doesn't help is its incredibly human sounding, yet also very distorted sobs of anguish... and screams of pure, unbridled rage as it slaughters those unfortunate enough to look at it. The head of the squadron that initially found it refused to see an art piece done in its likeness due to being haunted enough by just the sound of it, not wanting to put a face to that awful, uncanny noise.

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** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-096 SCP-096]], with its gaunt, distorted face with blank, empty eyes, huge, gaping mouth and impossibly long, spindly limbs. What doesn't help is its incredibly human sounding, yet also very distorted sobs of anguish... and screams of pure, unbridled rage as it slaughters those unfortunate enough to look at it. The head of the squadron that initially found it refused to see an art piece done in its likeness due to being haunted enough by just the sound of it, not wanting to put a face to that awful, uncanny noise.
** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-106 SCP-106]] is already bad enough, what with looking like the rotting carcass of an old man... but, somehow, when he was young, despite being much less putrid, and a lot more human-looking, he was [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-young-man much, much worse]].
** The ever-loved, the original [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173 SCP-173]]. It... it's ''kinda'' vaguely humanoid... but that face. Staring at it is so hard, so awkward. You want to look away. You can't. You mustn't. [[spoiler: You did--SNAP!]]
[[spoiler:You did--*[[NeckSnap SNAP!]]*]]
** 106 is already bad enough, what with looking like the rotting carcass of an old man... but, somehow, when he was young, despite being much less putrid, and a lot more human-looking, he was [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-young-man much, much worse]].
** 2852, the idea of
[[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2852 SCP-2852]], a hollow shell and some cicada matter patched together to look like a human... and succeeding is succeeding. It's just horrifying, especially the eyes which apparently have no function, not to mention the adult baby talk that they apparently spew.
** SCP-096, with charcoalman on Website/DeviantArt has made many [=SCPs=] fall into the Uncanny Valley, but [[https://www.deviantart.com/charcoalman/art/SCP-4666-It-Never-Sleeps-840082763 his depiction of]] [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4666 SCP-4666]] is his most well-known by far.
* Someone had the idea to feed the "Screaming Frog" video into Google's Deep Dream neural net software. The results? After what seems like what would take countless iterations, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JSrKS6KUWE this.]] [[EyesDoNotBelongThere The frog's eyes pop up and disappear all over
its gaunt, distorted face with blank, empty eyes, huge, gaping mouth body]], it's sprouting some sort of tentacle-toe things all over the lower half of its body, and impossibly long, spindly limbs. What doesn't help the video itself occasionally morphs into different things for an instant, such as a car or a dog. Now, keep in mind that Deep Dream is its incredibly human sounding, yet also very distorted sobs of anguish... and screams of pure, unbridled rage as it slaughters those unfortunate enough meant to look at it. The head of like a human dream -- and not after our sleeping brains distill it into a form we can understand, for these are the squadron pure memories of this neural net. If that initially found it refused to see an art piece done in its likeness due to being haunted enough by just turned a relatively harmless frog video into [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Frog-Sothoth]], then [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm the sound real forms of it, not wanting to put a face to that awful, uncanny noise.our own dreams would be truly maddening]].



* charcoalman on Website/DeviantArt has made many [=SCPs=] fall into the Uncanny Valley. But his depiction of the Yule Man is his most well known by far. [[https://www.deviantart.com/charcoalman/art/SCP-4666-It-Never-Sleeps-840082763]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI I Feel Fantastic]] (also known as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09iknuzDlw Fantastic Hey Hey Hey]]). It's a video of an animatronic woman singing an off-putting song, made all the more creepy by the low quality camera and how jerky and inhuman her movements and voice are. Just in case you're feeling extra brave, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6TdRD3moBk you can watch the entire 16 minute video it was sourced from]].
* Someone had the idea to feed the "Screaming Frog" video into Google's Deep Dream neural net software. The results? After what seems like what would take countless iterations, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JSrKS6KUWE this.]] [[EyesDoNotBelongThere The frog's eyes pop up and disappear all over its body,]] it's sprouting some sort of tentacle-toe things all over the lower half of its body, and the video itself occasionally morphs into different things for an instant, such as a car or a dog. Now, keep in mind that Deep Dream is meant to look like a human dream. And not after our sleeping brains distill it into a form we can understand, for these are the pure memories of this neural net. And if that turned a relatively harmless frog video into [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Frog-Sothoth]], then [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm the real forms of our own dreams would be truly maddening.]]
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* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'': [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/lester.htm Lester the Manbogey]] is a bio-construct designed to spy on and study colonies of humans by blending in as a human itself. However, it's noted to have a 100% failure rate; even human newborns can immediately tell that Lester is an imposter. Lester's creators are baffled how, since other races can't tell it apart from a real human.
* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': The central HumanoidAbomination is an abnormally tall guy with [[TheBlank no face or hair]] that wears a business suit. He apparently can't talk, and he walks in a very stiff manner, often with his arms out in front of him. He can also teleport anywhere he wants. [[ParanoiaFuel Like inside your house]]. The [[MultiArmedAndDangerous tentacles]] are a bit off-kilter, as well.

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* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'': ''Website/{{Mortasheen}}'': [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/lester.htm Lester the Manbogey]] is a bio-construct designed to spy on and study colonies of humans by blending in as a human itself. However, it's noted to have a 100% failure rate; even human newborns can immediately tell that Lester is an imposter. Lester's creators are baffled how, since other races can't tell it apart from a real human.
* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': The central HumanoidAbomination is an abnormally tall guy with [[TheBlank no face or hair]] that wears a business suit. He apparently can't talk, and he walks in a very stiff manner, often with his arms out in front of him. He can also teleport anywhere he wants. [[ParanoiaFuel Like inside your house]]. The [[MultiArmedAndDangerous tentacles]] are a bit off-kilter, as well.
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* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': The central HumanoidAbomination is an abnormally tall guy with [[TheBlank no face or hair]] that wears a business suit. He apparently can't talk, and he walks in a very stiff manner, often with his arms out in front of him. He can also teleport anywhere he wants. [[ParanoiaFuel Like inside your house]]. The [[MultiArmedAndDangerous tentacles]] are a bit off-kilter, as well.
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* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' plays with this. To the people of the New England Commonwealth, the Institute's 1st- and 2nd-generation Synths, which look like {{SkeleBot|9000}}s and {{Murderous Mannequin}}s respectively, are pure Nightmare Fuel because of their uncanniness. 3rd-generation Synths, which can [[ArtificialHuman pass for human]], are pure ParanoiaFuel. But potential companion Nick Valentine averts Uncanny Valley, since he's a discarded prototype with obviously fake "skin" and enough wear and tear to have his robot parts showing. As a result, he looks (and acts) human enough to be reassuring, but still obviously a robot instead of an infiltrator, and so is tolerated in Diamond City and even able to work as a private investigator.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' created what were known as "talking heads" for important characters by digitally scanning clay sculptures, which have aged well enough that they generally avoid invoking this unintentionally. However, at least one character was certainly intended to look creepy, and that's [[BigBad the Master]]. As a misshapen amalgamation of both technology and the flesh of various humans and creatures, the figure once known as Richard Grey only has the vaguest suggestion of human features left on his face, with his eyes, nose, and mouth being difficult to discern.
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''VideoGame/Fallout4'' plays with this. To the people of the New England Commonwealth, the Institute's 1st- and 2nd-generation Synths, which look like {{SkeleBot|9000}}s and {{Murderous Mannequin}}s respectively, are pure Nightmare Fuel because of their uncanniness. 3rd-generation Synths, which can [[ArtificialHuman pass for human]], are pure ParanoiaFuel. But potential companion Nick Valentine averts Uncanny Valley, since he's a discarded prototype with obviously fake "skin" and enough wear and tear to have his robot parts showing. As a result, he looks (and acts) human enough to be reassuring, but still obviously a robot instead of an infiltrator, and so is tolerated in Diamond City and even able to work as a private investigator.



* Both games in the [[VideoGame/GadgetPastAsFuture Gadget]] series, ''Invention, Travel, and Adventure'' and ''Past As Future''. Every character but one is locked into a single, vacant facial expression with limited body motions, never moving their legs, with what little movement they can convey being stiff. Special mention goes to a character only known as [[CreepyChild "the boy"]], who is able to float in the air while standing completely still in a straight line. ''Past As Future'' was a remake of ''Invention, Travel, and Adventure'', so the character models are somewhat more detailed and have a little more capability to move, but not by much. According to WordOfGod, this was a creative choice that was leaned into and brought about by the technological limitations of the time, in order to show that the characters in this setting, a bleak dictatorship in a world possibly on the brink of destruction, deliberately keep themselves [[TheStoic stoic]] so as to avoid judgement from the government and hide their true motives. The one character to avert their intentional DullSurprise is Paulo Orlovsky, the dictator of the series who is creepy in his own way because he's a PerpetualSmiler.

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* Both games in the [[VideoGame/GadgetPastAsFuture Gadget]] series, ''Invention, Travel, and Adventure'' and ''Past As Future''. Every character but one is locked into a single, vacant facial expression with limited body motions, never moving their legs, with what little movement they can convey being stiff. Special mention goes to a character only known as [[CreepyChild "the boy"]], who is able to float in the air while standing completely still in a straight line. ''Past As Future'' was a remake of ''Invention, Travel, and Adventure'', so the character models are somewhat more detailed and have a little more capability to move, but not by much. According to WordOfGod, this was a creative choice that was leaned into and brought about by the technological limitations of the time, time but became a creative choice that was leaned into in order to show that the characters in this setting, a bleak dictatorship in a world possibly on the brink of destruction, deliberately keep themselves [[TheStoic stoic]] so as to avoid judgement from the government and hide their true motives.motives. It's interesting to note that one of these characters, Theodore Slowslop, would go on to inspire the [[VideoGame/HalfLife G-Man]] mentioned below. The one character to avert their intentional DullSurprise is Paulo Orlovsky, the dictator of the series who is creepy in his own way because he's a PerpetualSmiler.

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