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* InUniverse example in ''Film/MeanGirls''. Cady finds Mrs. George to fall deep into the Valley, thanks to her plastic surgery. The sight of her fake breasts approaching Cady is met with PsychoStrings, and Cady is clearly unnerved by her lack of reaction to her little chihuahua gnawing on her tit.
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* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' has an AnimatedActors [[ToonTown neighborhood]] named Uncanny Valley, consisting of TurnOfTheMillennium 3D characters that looked realistic but seemed very off. The most prominent of them, Bob the Dwarf, is introduced right away with the title characters complaining his design makes it hard to know if [[EyesAlwaysAverted he's making eye contact]].
* ''Film/IRobot'': Detective Spooner (Creator/WillSmith) asks why Doctor Calvin strives to make the robots so human, adding that people wouldn't trust them otherwise. He also adds that he finds the new models having faces makes them creepy.
* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' has an AnimatedActors [[ToonTown neighborhood]] named Uncanny Valley, consisting of TurnOfTheMillennium 3D characters that looked realistic but seemed very off. The most prominent of them, Bob the Dwarf, is introduced right away with the title characters complaining his design makes it hard to know if [[EyesAlwaysAverted he's making eye contact]].
* ''Film/IRobot'': Detective Spooner (Creator/WillSmith) asks why Doctor Calvin strives to make the robots so human, adding that people wouldn't trust them otherwise. He also adds that he finds the new models having faces makes them creepy.
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* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' has an AnimatedActors [[ToonTown neighborhood]] named Uncanny Valley, consisting of TurnOfTheMillennium 3D characters that looked realistic but seemed very off. The most prominent of them, Bob the Dwarf, is introduced right away with the title characters complaining his design makes it hard to know if [[EyesAlwaysAverted he's making eye contact]].
* ''Film/IRobot'': Detective Spooner (Creator/WillSmith) asks why Doctor Calvin strives to make the robots so human, adding that people wouldn't trust them otherwise. He also adds that he finds the new models having faces makes them creepy.
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* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' has an AnimatedActors [[ToonTown neighborhood]] named Uncanny Valley, consisting of TurnOfTheMillennium 3D characters that looked realistic but seemed very off. The most prominent of them, Bob the Dwarf, is introduced right away with the title characters complaining his design makes it hard to know if [[EyesAlwaysAverted he's making eye contact]].
* ''Film/IRobot'': Detective Spooner (Creator/WillSmith) asks why Doctor Calvin strives to make the robots so human, adding that people wouldn't trust them otherwise. He also adds that he finds the new models having faces makes them creepy.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': In-universe, Blanks, people who are born without a soul. While they look and act like completely regular people, other people are subconsciously aware of their lack of a soul, and the sheer unnaturalness of it causes them to instinctively hate and fear Blanks. Even if being a Blank makes you immune to the Warp, [[BlessedWithSuck it won't do much good when you get lynched by an angry mob]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': In-universe, Blanks, people who are born without a soul. While they look and act like completely regular people, other people are subconsciously aware of their lack of a soul, and the sheer unnaturalness of it causes them to instinctively hate and fear Blanks. Even if being a Blank makes you immune to the Warp, [[BlessedWithSuck it won't do much good when you get lynched by an angry mob]].
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* Music/TheCaretaker:
** The heavily sample-based music is designed to evoke this, quietly distorting the originals in ways meant to be atmospheric ambience, yet always subtly ''off'' by way of low quality, vinyl scratching sounds, and [[BrokenRecord inappropriate looping]] and inconsistent track-by-track flow. His more conceptual albums like ''An Empty Bliss Beyond This World'' and ''Everywhere at the End of Time'' are meant to be musical illustrations of the headspace of those suffering from mental disorders like Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and become even more unsettlingly warped and disturbing over time in a
** In a more visual sense of this, the accompanying album cover illustrations by Ivan Seal also count. While
* The genre of
** Music/{{Sophie}}, one of the genre's popularizers (if not [[TropeMakers originator]]) is a master at this, taking a step further by designing all her sounds from scratch, designing bizarre synths comparable to rubber/plastic/elastic using waveforms and chaotically integrating them
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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' plays with this. To the people of the New England Commonwealth, the Institute's 1st- and 2nd-generation Synths, which look like {{Skele Bot}}s and {{Murderous Mannequin}}s respectively, are pure Nightmare Fuel because of this trope. 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.
* This is invoked with the Manikins in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne''. In-universe, it is discussed that they are not human, and even though they do look a lot like them, the characters just think there's something... ''off''. In the game, their tendencies to do random spasms, their mostly expressionless faces and pale skin (pale even by Megaten standards) are unsettling at best. They are usually friendly, however.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': The Elibe duology invokes this as part of its ArtificialHumans theme. A few things that both [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade war dragons]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade morphs]] have in common are that they're both described as hardly feeling sentient, being produced in masses by the games' respective final bosses, and a majority of them lacking any proper intelligence, which results in them looking very "off" compared to the two species (Manaketes and Humans respectively) they're modeled after. They also tend to lack emotions, though in the case of ''Blazing Blade'', Kishuna is capable of displaying them.
* 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]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' plays with this. To the people of the New England Commonwealth, the Institute's 1st- and 2nd-generation Synths, which look like {{Skele Bot}}s and {{Murderous Mannequin}}s respectively, are pure Nightmare Fuel because of this trope. 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.
* This is invoked with the Manikins in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne''. In-universe, it is discussed that they are not human, and even though they do look a lot like them, the characters just think there's something... ''off''. In the game, their tendencies to do random spasms, their mostly expressionless faces and pale skin (pale even by Megaten standards) are unsettling at best. They are usually friendly, however.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': The Elibe duology invokes this as part of its ArtificialHumans theme. A few things that both [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade war dragons]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade morphs]] have in common are that they're both described as hardly feeling sentient, being produced in masses by the games' respective final bosses, and a majority of them lacking any proper intelligence, which results in them looking very "off" compared to the two species (Manaketes and Humans respectively) they're modeled after. They also tend to lack emotions, though in the case of ''Blazing Blade'', Kishuna is capable of displaying them.
* 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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* This is invoked with the Manikins in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne''. In-universe, it is discussed that
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': The Elibe duology invokes this as part of its ArtificialHumans theme. A few things that both [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade war dragons]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade morphs]] have in common are that they're both described as hardly feeling sentient, being produced in masses by the games' respective final bosses, and a majority of them lacking any proper intelligence, which results in them looking very "off" compared to the two species (Manaketes and Humans respectively) they're modeled after. They also tend to lack emotions, though in the case of ''Blazing Blade'', Kishuna is capable of displaying them.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': In-universe, Blanks, people who are born without a soul. While they look and act like completely regular people, other people are subconsciously aware of their lack of a soul, and the sheer unnaturalness of it causes them to instinctively hate and fear Blanks. Even if being a Blank makes you immune to the Warp, [[BlessedWithSuck it won't do much good when you get lynched by an angry mob]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' plays with this. To the people of the New England Commonwealth, the Institute's 1st- and 2nd-generation Synths, which look like {{Skele Bot}}s and {{Murderous Mannequin}}s respectively, are pure Nightmare Fuel because of this trope. 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.
* This is invoked with the Manikins in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne''. In-universe, it is discussed that they are not human, and even though they do look a lot like them, the characters just think there's something... ''off''. In the game, their tendencies to do random spasms, their mostly expressionless faces and pale skin (pale even by Megaten standards) are unsettling at best. They are usually friendly, however.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': The Elibe duology invokes this as part of its ArtificialHumans theme. A few things that both [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade war dragons]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade morphs]] have in common are that they're both described as hardly feeling sentient, being produced in masses by the games' respective final bosses, and a majority of them lacking any proper intelligence, which results in them looking very "off" compared to the two species (Manaketes and Humans respectively) they're modeled after. They also tend to lack emotions, though in the case of ''Blazing Blade'', Kishuna is capable of displaying them.
* 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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* ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'' has mentioned the Uncanny Valley several times. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTAJBQSm10 First in an episode specifically about it,]] then revisited in a Halloween episode and again in an episode about Kinect's controls.
* ''WebAnimation/GoingToTheStore2011'' and its sequels invoke this with featureless, unemotive CGI mannequins, their absurd bodily movements, and the remarkably high attention to detail in inserting them into real-world settings.
* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'' mentions in episode 20 that the Salamanders invoke this reaction in the common citizens of the Imperium, as they have jet-black, coal-like skin and glowing red eyes.
* The ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' episode "Alone In The Woods" does this on purpose. A ways in, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/2/2e/V6_06_00019.png/revision/latest?cb=20181208180011&format=original the eyes of some of the characters get seriously, SERIOUSLY dilated pupils]] and start talking in a tired monotone. That's not the animation -- ''that's the Apathy Grimm eating away at their will to live''.
* Referenced in a ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'' cartoon, where [[{{Otaku}} Japanese Culture Greg]] is going to the prom with Chizuko, his robot date.
-->'''Science Fiction Greg:''' You think I'd be into life-size realistic robots, but that thing makes me want to barf up my earlier energy drink into the one I'm currently drinking.
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* In William Saroyan's ''The Human Comedy'' Mr. Mechano, who advertises a particular brand of patent medicine in a drugstore window, frightens Ulysses so badly that he goes running through the streets calling for his family.
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* In William Saroyan's ''The Human Comedy'' Mr. Mechano, who advertises a particular brand of patent medicine in a drugstore window, frightens Ulysses so badly that he goes running through the streets calling for his family.
-->The man moved like a piece of machinery, although he ''was'' a human being. He looked, however, as if he had been made of wax instead of flesh. He seemed inhuman and in fact he looked like nothing so much as an upright, unburied corpse still capable of moving. The man was the most incredible thing Ulysses had seen in all of his four years of life in the world.
-->The man moved like a piece of machinery, although he ''was'' a human being. He looked, however, as if he had been made of wax instead of flesh. He seemed inhuman and in fact he looked like nothing so much as an upright, unburied corpse still capable of moving. The man was the most incredible thing Ulysses had seen in all of his four years of life in the world.
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* In ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'', some characters complain about how creepy the human-like boomers are, such as Nene in ''Tokyo 2040'' regarding the secretary boomer she works for. And that's not counting when they [[AIIsACrapshoot malfunction]] and transform into [[MechanicalMonster Mechanical Monsters]]. Another example happens in the ''[[{{Prequel}} AD Police Files]]'', where there was a case involving a pair of boomer [[SexBot prostitutes]] having gone rogue. Turns out there was a brief market for [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Sexbots]] until this trope kicked in, so now the sex organs from these robots are being illegally recycled in maidbots and waitress bots that weren't designed for them, causing some of them to go insane (due to a combination of hormonal imbalance and traumatic memories that can't be erased).
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* In ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'', some characters complain about how creepy the human-like boomers are, such as Nene in ''Tokyo 2040'' regarding the secretary boomer she works for. And that's not counting when they [[AIIsACrapshoot malfunction]] and transform into [[MechanicalMonster Mechanical Monsters]]. Another example happens in the ''[[{{Prequel}} AD Police Files]]'', where there was a case involving a pair of boomer [[SexBot prostitutes]] having gone rogue.prostitute]] going berserk. Turns out there was a brief market for [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human Sexbots]] until this trope kicked in, so now the sex organs from these robots are being illegally recycled in maidbots and waitress bots that weren't designed for them, causing some of them to go insane (due to a combination of hormonal imbalance and traumatic memories that can't be erased).
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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': April the Robot from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E15IWasMadeToLoveYou I Was Made To Love You]]". The the main characters all slowly realize there is something wrong with the super-cheery way she talks, the way she walks, and eventually her huge amounts of strength.
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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
** The three creepiest characters on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' are generally considered to be [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E3SameTimeSamePlace Gnarl]], [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush the Gentlemen]], and [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E9ThePuppetShow Sid]]. The first two by virtue of exaggerated and odd movement, and the last due to being a self-animating ventriloquist's dummy.
*** The "lead" Gentleman, played by Creator/DougJones, famous for his equally creepy performances as "The Pale Man" (also known as 'the creepy guy with eyes on his hands') and the faun in ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. Also the creepy "Angel of Death" (also known as 'the creepy guy with eyes on his wings'. is there a pattern here?) and much less creepy Abe Sapien from the ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' movies. As a trained mime and body artist, he clearly excels at placing himself smack in the middle of the Uncanny Valley.
** April the Robot from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E15IWasMadeToLoveYou I Was Made To Love You]]".The She's an in-universe example, as the main characters all slowly realize there is something wrong with the super-cheery way she talks, the way she walks, and eventually her huge amounts of strength.strength.
** Played with with Warren's second creation, the Buffybot. Though it has the same problems as April, her friends fail to realize they're talking to a robot, merely thinking that their friend that they've known for years is behaving oddly for some reason, until Buffy herself shows up.
* The mascot from ''Series/{{Community}}'' falls under this trope. Having been designed to have no ethically distinguishing features, it ended up being an androgynous WhiteMaskOfDoom.
** The three creepiest characters on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' are generally considered to be [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E3SameTimeSamePlace Gnarl]], [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush the Gentlemen]], and [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E9ThePuppetShow Sid]]. The first two by virtue of exaggerated and odd movement, and the last due to being a self-animating ventriloquist's dummy.
*** The "lead" Gentleman, played by Creator/DougJones, famous for his equally creepy performances as "The Pale Man" (also known as 'the creepy guy with eyes on his hands') and the faun in ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. Also the creepy "Angel of Death" (also known as 'the creepy guy with eyes on his wings'. is there a pattern here?) and much less creepy Abe Sapien from the ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'' movies. As a trained mime and body artist, he clearly excels at placing himself smack in the middle of the Uncanny Valley.
** April the Robot from "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E15IWasMadeToLoveYou I Was Made To Love You]]".
** Played with with Warren's second creation, the Buffybot. Though it has the same problems as April, her friends fail to realize they're talking to a robot, merely thinking that their friend that they've known for years is behaving oddly for some reason, until Buffy herself shows up.
* The mascot from ''Series/{{Community}}'' falls under this trope. Having been designed to have no ethically distinguishing features, it ended up being an androgynous WhiteMaskOfDoom.
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* Mentioned in ''Manga/MedakaBox'' as the reason of why Medaka's drumming solo failed to elicit any kind of reaction from her audience. Her playing was perfect to the point of coming across as cold and mechanical, lacking human emotion to it. Akune expresses that it's similar to the Uncanny Valley effect although Zenkichi claims it's the opposite: that Medaka is perfect to an inhuman degree, hence why her act came out as off to her listeners.
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* Mentioned in ''Manga/MedakaBox'' as the reason of why Medaka's drumming solo failed to elicit any kind of reaction from her audience. Her playing was perfect to the point of coming across as cold and mechanical, lacking human emotion to it. Akune expresses that it's similar to the Uncanny Valley effect although Zenkichi claims it's the opposite: that Medaka is perfect to an inhuman degree, hence why her act came out as off to her listeners.
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While the uncanny valley is usually known to be {{unintentional|UncannyValley}}, it can also intentionally be used in a work for the purpose of creeping out characters rather than viewers. As a result, they can be unsettled by someone or something they think lurks in the uncanny valley, even though the thing or character being encountered may very well be harmless. If it's another character rather than an inanimate object who comes across as unsettling, they may end up wondering why others are afraid of them, especially if they're otherwise good-natured.
See also UnintentionalUncannyValley, for when the reaction comes from viewers instead of characters within the work.
See also UnintentionalUncannyValley, for when the reaction comes from viewers instead of characters within the work.
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While the uncanny valley is usually known to be {{unintentional|UncannyValley}}, it can also intentionally be used in a work -- either for the purpose of creeping out the characters rather than viewers.InUniverse, or for [[IntendedAudienceReaction deliberately creeping out the audience]]. As a result, they can be unsettled by someone or something they think lurks in the uncanny valley, even though the thing or character being encountered may very well be harmless. If it's another character rather than an inanimate object who comes across as unsettling, they may end up wondering why others are afraid of them, especially if they're otherwise good-natured.
See also UnintentionalUncannyValley, for when the reaction comes from viewersinstead of characters within the work.
seeing something that ''wasn't'' meant to be creepy.
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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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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': In-universe, Blanks, people who are born without a soul. While they look and act like completely regular people, other people are subconsciously aware of their lack of a soul, and the sheer unnaturalness of it causes them to instinctively hate and fear Blanks. Even if being a Blank makes you immune to the Warp, [[BlessedWithSuck it won't do much good when you get lynched by an angry mob]].
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': In-universe, Blanks, people who are born without a soul. While they look and act like completely regular people, other people are subconsciously aware of their lack of a soul, and the sheer unnaturalness of it causes them to instinctively hate and fear Blanks. Even if being a Blank makes you immune to the Warp, [[BlessedWithSuck it won't do much good when you get lynched by an angry mob]].
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': In-universe, Blanks, people who are born without a soul. While they look and act like completely regular people, other people are subconsciously aware of their lack of a soul, and the sheer unnaturalness of it causes them to instinctively hate and fear Blanks. Even if being a Blank makes you immune to the Warp, [[BlessedWithSuck it won't do much good when you get lynched by an angry mob]].
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': In-universe, Blanks, people who are born without a soul. While they look and act like completely regular people, other people are subconsciously aware of their lack of a soul, and the sheer unnaturalness of it causes them to instinctively hate and fear Blanks. Even if being a Blank makes you immune to the Warp, [[BlessedWithSuck it won't do much good when you get lynched by an angry mob]].
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