History Main / TamerAndChaster

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' featured quite a bit of fanservice from the '40s-'80s and had several issues that had the characters making sexual references. Afterward, Creator/{{Archie|Comics}} made an attempt to portray their characters as chaste. This included censoring sexual jokes in re-issues, [[MissingEpisode essentially banning]] certain issues from being re-issued, and attempting to outright {{retcon}} Cheryl Blossom away in the early 2000s. Eventually, Archie did away with these restrictions and in the 2010s began embracing the HotterAndSexier treatment.
* This was about the only area where ComicBook/WonderWoman Post Crisis [[Comicbook/WonderWoman1987 volume 2]] was tamer than [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 volume 1]]. George Perez was just as kinky and politically outspoken as William Moulton Marston, but Perez's kinks weren't ''tied'' to his politics in the same way Marston's were and Perez was coming in on the heels of decades editorial spent trying to tone down the kinky elements of Wonder Woman. [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 Volume 4]], if not exactly ''kinky'', otherwise went back to the levels of sexual subtext and overtness as volume 1.
* Creator/DCComics' universe reboot ''ComicBook/New52'' has Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}}, whose costume shows a lot of leg but otherwise has been notably downplayed in favor of a more ordinary teenaged girl look; Characters/PowerGirl, who for about a year had a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_powergirlnew52_6447.jpg much more modest costume]] that even lacked her infamous [[CleavageWindow "boob window"]]; and the Star Sapphires in the ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' books, whose new costumes aren't nearly as {{stripperiffic}} as the old ones.
* ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'': Riley Rossmo's redesign of her for volume 4 of her solo series gives her a costume that is much less revealing than the notoriously stripperiffic ones she'd worn since the New 52 era. The more cartoony art style also leads to a general reduction in the level of fanservice.
* [[Characters/TeenTitansStarfire Starfire]] has always been a {{stripperiffic}} MsFanservice but the ComicBook/New52 reboot appearance in ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' made her [[HotterAndSexier more so than before]]. This was met with ''heavy'' criticism, resulting in her eventual redesign in ''ComicBook/Starfire2015'' to be more like her [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 cartoon counterpart]]. Her costume still shows skin but in a far tamer manner.
* [[Characters/SpiderWomanTitleCharacter Spider-Woman]] spent decades as one of Marvel's MsFanservice heroines, with her [[FormFittingWardrobe very skintight outfit]] that highlights her large bust, and frequent MaleGaze shots of her behind. Jessica Drew would then change her costume to a far more modest outfit in her [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman2014 2014 series]], which no longer highlighted her body in such a way and the MaleGaze elements were gone. That said, this ended up being temporary due to StatusQuoIsGod, and the 2019 ''Strikeforce'' saw her returning to the classic skintight outfit once again.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsPsylocke Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock]] gets to play with this trope thanks to ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur 2019}}''. For years after she had her mind swapped with the ninja assassin Kwannon, Betsy was known for her "ninja thong swimsuit". Once she reclaimed her original body, she started to tone it down. Now that Kwannon is in her old body again and is pulling that shift with that outfit, Betsy gets to become ComicBook/CaptainBritain and the armor she wears covers a ''lot'' of skin.
* The original ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' series, being an UltimateUniverse take on ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' for Marvel's MAX imprint, took full advantage of the leniency towards content the mature rating enabled by featuring tons of uncensored nudity. This began to be toned down in later installments (primarily due to them being published under Marvel instead of MAX and therefore having to abide the mainstream publisher's content restrictions), to the extent that the 2006 ''Squadron Supreme'' series had the Amphibian, who initially [[InnocentFanserviceGirl went nude with little concern over what people would think of her]], reluctantly donning a costume per Doctor Spectrum's wishes, the few panels beforehand where she's still naked no longer showing her breasts, genitalia and buttocks unobscured.
* ''ComicBook/{{WildCATS|WildStorm}}''' Void has an appearance that is essentially "what if the ComicBook/SilverSurfer was a hot woman?" Her original appearance was of a human face on a silver female body that accentuated all her curves. The rebooted version present in ''ComicBook/TheWildStorm'' has the same backstory of a Russian woman who was changed by a space experiment, but she wears her astronaut outfit, which isn't form-fitting and gives off more of a cute vibe. Taken a step further it's revealed that this isn't her real appearance, but just something she does to appear more human -- she's actually a faceless silver humanoid figure that possesses no physical sexual characteristics at all.

* ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'' is notoriously HotterAndSexier than anything else ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' related, no small part in thanks to the fact the mangaka is also a hentai artist. Later chapters attempted to tone down the sexuality though, including swapping Misty's {{stripperific}} design for something resembling her anime design more.

* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' along with becoming LighterAndSofter, the {{Fanservice}}, while still very present, is a lot less than in the earliest strips. The earlier strips had a lot more BlackComedyRape and much more HomoeroticSubtext, some so blatant it could only be called text. Some of the old fanservicey strips were even [[OldShame deleted]]. Ironically, inverted with the fifth season of the anime. After 4 seasons of toning down the fanservice, the 5th season goes all out in pandering to the YaoiFangirls, animating some of the raunchiest strips such as April Fools 2011 and Buon San Valentino.

** {{Downplayed}} with Ophelia Salvadori, whose SexMagic and backstory of sex abuse are so key to volume 3's story it's impossible to avoid completely. However, she's [[https://www.zerochan.net/2630611 depicted]] [[ChildByRape visibly pregnant by rape]] in the {{flashback}} to her first meeting with Carlos Whitrow; the corresponding scene in episode 13 cuts the then-current pregnancy but keeps her line asking Carlos if they're the next "man"[[note]]Carlos was assigned male at birth but magically neutered in order to serve as Ophelia's minder without being vulnerable to her [[SmellsSexy Perfume]], and has a non-binary gender identity.[[/note]] she's expected to breed with.

* Creator/DCComics' universe reboot ''ComicBook/TheNew52'' has Supergirl, whose costume shows a lot of leg but otherwise has been notably downplayed in favor of a more ordinary teenaged girl look; ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'', who for about a year had a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_powergirlnew52_6447.jpg much more modest costume]] that even lacked her infamous [[CleavageWindow "boob window"]]; and the Star Sapphires in the ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' books, whose new costumes aren't nearly as {{Stripperiffic}} as the old ones.

* ComicBook/{{Starfire}} has always been a {{stripperific}} MsFanservice but the ComicBook/New52 reboot appearance in ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'' made her [[HotterAndSexier more so than before]]. This was met with ''heavy'' criticism, resulting in her eventual redesign in ''ComicBook/Starfire2015'' to be more like her [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans cartoon counterpart]]. Her costume still shows skin but in a far tamer manner.
* ComicBook/SpiderWoman spent decades as one of Marvel's MsFanservice heroines, with her [[FormFittingWardrobe very skintight outfit]] that highlights her large bust, and frequent MaleGaze shots of her behind. Jessica Drew would then change her costume to a far more modest outfit in her [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman2014 2014 series]], which no longer highlighted her body in such a way and the MaleGaze elements were gone. That said, this ended up being temporary due to StatusQuoIsGod, and the 2019 ''Strikeforce'' saw her returning to the classic skintight outfit once again.
* [[ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock]] gets to play with this trope thanks to ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur 2019}}''. For years after she had her mind swapped with the ninja assassin Kwannon, Betsy was known for her "ninja thong swimsuit". Once she reclaimed her original body, she started to tone it down. Now that Kwannon is in her old body again and is pulling that shift with that outfit, Betsy gets to become ComicBook/CaptainBritain and the armor she wears covers a ''lot'' of skin.

* ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1949'', unlike its [[Literature/TheBlueLagoon source novel]], has its sexual content toned down, which can be attributed to the implementation of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode.
* ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'' has almost none of the raunchy sexual humor that Michael Bay's predecessors had. The female protagonist is also nearly fully clothed throughout the film, unlike the female characters in Bay's series.
* In ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'', ComicBook/HarleyQuinn's costumes are a bit less revealing than in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'', but more importantly the film has much, much less MaleGaze. This continued in ''Film/TheSuicideSquad''.

** The 1976 film removed all sex scenes between Sue and Tommy, likewise deleting a subplot that involved Sue thinking she might be pregnant because of it. Chris and Billy's two graphic trysts with QuestionableConsent are also toned down to Chris about to give him fully consensual oral sex. The film also however goes the other way round; the scene in the showers at the start, given a handful of sentences in the book, becomes a slow-motion {{Fanservice}} sequence of various girls naked or getting dressed. Additionally, Carrie is given a bathtub scene where she washes off the pig's blood.
** The 2002 film toned down the shower scene from the 1976 film - where the girls are either in {{Modesty Towel}}s or only showing bras. Chris and Billy are shown in bed together, but Chris has a ModestyBedsheet. Carrie's bathtub scene happens again but this time, she's fully clothed.
** The 2013 film likewise has no nudity in the shower scene (as Chloe Grace Moretz was only sixteen at the time); Carrie is nude when it happens in the book and other two films but is wearing a ModestyTowel here. Tommy and Sue get their sex scene restored, but Chris and Billy don't have theirs; a deleted scene did show some foreplay, but it was fully clothed. Ironically, the film does apply AdaptationalSkimpiness to the first gym class scene; a volleyball game in 1976 and baseball in 2002, it now happens in a pool to get the girls into swimsuits (and give Tommy a ShirtlessScene).

* The [[Film/LogansRun film]] and [[Series/LogansRun TV]] adaptations of ''Literature/LogansRun'' ''had'' to be by comparison to the novels, which was a case of Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad and [[JustifiedTrope understandably so]]. The original novel had things like orgy houses with glass walls where strangers could hook up, watch, and be watched by others having anonymous sex, with a ''thirteen-year-old girl'' propositioning the protagonist by saying she was sexually skilled above all others available and another minor character saying she was sexually involved with a boy ("boys" and "girls" in this setting means ages 7-13)! Casual drug use was also very common. Needless to say, the adaptations bumped the death age from 21 to 30 and ''greatly'' toned down the oversexed setting. They also changed Logan's character from a near-sociopath ConsummateProfessional hitman who had been looking for Sanctuary in order to be a legend in destroying it in the original books to a bit more of an AdaptationalNiceGuy; Creator/MichaelYork's Logan was more or less a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who got drafted into the job, and Gregory Harrison's was a soft-spoken HitmanWithAHeart who was already questioning things before he ended up running.

* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' in general has less skintight and skimpy costumes than the comics the various shows are based on, partially due to the reality of costuming and stunt work, partially due to the CW's large teen audience, and partially due to a desire to downplay the sexualization of their cast.

* ''{{Series/Charmed 1998}}'''s final season became this, in heavy contrast to the {{Fanservice}} heavy fifth and sixth seasons (the seventh was somewhere in the middle). This is due to all three lead actresses protesting the skimpy outfits, so the Halliwells no longer get turned into {{Cute Monster Girl}}s, and Phoebe's wardrobe in particular is toned down. Holly Marie Combs's pregnancy meant that [[HideYourPregnancy her clothes would be more modest]]. A new character, Billie, was introduced to fill the MsFanservice requirements, but she didn't go as far as the sisters had in previous seasons.
* "Series/TheDukesOfHazzard": When it was discovered, a few episodes into the first season, that the show was becoming popular with children, the producers toned down the sexual content considerably. While Bo was still popular with the ladies, references to his sexual adventures were cut, and while Daisy continued to dress in skimpy clothing she behaved in a more modest and less flirtatious way.

* Downplayed with Wrestling/MollyHolly. She was already a TokenWholesome amongst the sexualized Divas when she debuted in 2000 (having told WWE she would not do risque storylines), but she did provide mild {{Fanservice}} with her ring gear showing slight cleavage, the occasional SexySantaOutfit and swimsuit shoots for the Divas. A 2002 FaceHeelTurn saw her character becoming a self-righteous prude who hated any sexuality and targeted Divas who flaunted their bodies. There was also a swimsuit contest where she competed wearing a demure 1950s-style bathing suit, and the 'Divas Undressed' lingerie shoot had her wearing modest pajamas.

* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive6'' initially marketed itself with less lewd material to focus more on the gameplay, even showing in trailers and gameplay more males (Hayabusa, Zack, Jann Lee, and Hayate) than females (Kasumi and Helena), both of them with fewer curves and more coverage (especially Kasumi). As the game continued to add {{Stripperific}} costumes for the ladies over time, this became increasingly subverted.

** Zig-zagged with [[MusicalAssassin Zhenji]], whose outfit seems to rotate between modest and revealing every game. She starts out {{Stripperiffic}} in ''3'', then turns modest in ''4'', then back to Stripperrific in ''5'', then back to modest in ''6'', then ''back'' to Stripperiffic again in ''7'' before finally settling on modest for good from ''8'' onward.

* ''Videogame/{{EverQuest II}}'' zig-zagged this trope. When Update 64 came out Antonia Bayle - the game's "mascot" who'd previously dressed in a bra and a belt with a sash - went through a PlotRelevantAgeUp and switched her bra and sash for a relatively demure gown. On the other hand, halter-top armor was introduced about this same time, and a couple of Stripperiffic villainesses (Cara Omica and Sullon Zek) were introduced.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' is a ''minor'' case. Many of the {{Fanservice}} elements and {{Stripperiffic}} potential is still very much there, right up to the Sex Appeal slider and a pretty lengthy segment where the player spends a whole mission in the nude for a very justifiable reason (although it's not sexualized at all), but unlike ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' the game is not overdosed with sex jokes at every turn--in fact, there are very little, and with more general humor, ReferenceOverdosed, and AffectionateParody in their place.

* A company-wide version: Since the release of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, Sony has implemented new content rules for developers, limiting sexual content and fanservice in games released on Sony's consoles. This is ironic since Sony originally made its name in gaming for having virtually no licensing restrictions as the HotterAndSexier and RatedMForManly alternatives when compared to Nintendo. To further the irony, there have been games that have been censored for the [=Playstation 4=], such as ''VideoGame/OmegaLabyrinthLife'', that have been released ''uncensored'' on the ''Nintendo'' Switch!
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' has considerably less {{Fanservice}} baked into the character designs than [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 its predecessor]], which was [[BestKnownForTheFanservice infamous]] for its main heroine's {{Stripperiffic}} outfit. It also contains almost no innuendo or sex-related humor, though that's partly a side effect of the main cast being born in PeopleJars and thus having no knowledge of sexual reproduction in the first place.

* ''[[VisualNovel/{{Nekopara}} NEKOPARA -catboys paradise-]]'' is the SpearCounterpart entry in the ''NEKOPARA'' series, and the least raunchy of the games. While the other entries are H-Games with all-ages versions available, ''-Catboys Paradise-'' was developed as an all-ages title from the start.

* ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' is possibly one of the earliest examples -- the advent of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode forced the producers of the cartoon to change her from a flirtatious flapper in a very short dress to a much more conservatively dressed spinster/career girl. This was eventually undone years later. Betty Boop has since gone back to being a sexy flapper in a [[LadyInRed red dress]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'', in addition to the early 2000's edgy jokes being removed from the show, it also removes the gratuitous {{Fanservice}} it had concerning how super heroines, female villains, and female aliens were portrayed in the comics, many, if not most, of them were in the MostCommonSuperpower group, with curves for days, often dressed in skintight LeotardOfPower to outright {{Stripperific}} outfits, and battle damage leaving said women with MaleGaze gaps in their clothing could happen as well. The show has all women more modestly dressed, with more average curves and battle damage is not fetishized in any way.

** Season 2 has almost no nudity or sexual content to speak of, to the point where four sorceresses stripping to share a bath is filmed in cutaways that would fit in a PG-13 film.

* Music/JanetJackson's 2015 album ''Unbreakable'' was almost free of sexual content, and is very tame compared to her previous albums. She is also now fully clothed in concerts, with no suggestive choreography.

Also related to {{Bowdlerise}}, which is about editing questionable or offensive content from a work; and LighterAndSofter, especially when the work opens itself up for children.

Possible reasons for this shift in tone include the creators [[ThinkOfTheCensors thinking of the censors]], wanting a bigger audience for their material, or the former sexual content being an OldShame. In a PornWithPlot story, expect the ongoing story to be more invested to the plot and less to the porn.

JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith BleachedUnderpants, where a creator's works become tamer and chaster over the course of a career. This trope refers only to changes within a single work or franchise.

Possible reasons for this shift in tone include the creators [[ThinkOfTheCensors thinking of the censors]], wanting a bigger audience for their material, or the former sexual content being an OldShame.

* The original ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' series, being an UltimateUniverse take on ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' for Marvel's MAX imprint, took full advantage of the leniency towards content the mature rating enabled by featuring tons of uncensored nudity. This began to be toned down in later installments, to the extent that the 2006 ''Squadron Supreme'' series had the Amphibian, who initially [[InnocentFanserviceGirl went nude with little concern over what people would think of her]], reluctantly donning a costume per Doctor Spectrum's wishes, the few panels beforehand where she's still naked no longer showing her breasts, genitalia and buttocks unobscured.

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* This was about the only area where ComicBook/WonderWoman Post Crisis [[Comicbook/WonderWoman1987 volume 2]] was tamer than [[WonderWoman/1942 volume 1]]. George Perez was just as kinky and politically outspoken as William Moulton Marston, but Perez's kinks weren't ''tied'' to his politics in the same way Marston's were and Perez was coming in on the heels of decades editorial spent trying to tone down the kinky elements of Wonder Woman. [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 Volume 4]], if not exactly ''kinky'', otherwise went back to the levels of sexual subtext and overtness as volume 1.

** Neither adaptation includes Chela's suggestion from volume 2 that [[ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange Pete take advantage of his reverses to experiment sexually]], and episode 13 of the anime cuts Miligan jokingly propositioning Oliver after they win the Battle of Hell's Armies.

* The first part of ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' saw the characters engage in numerous on-panel sex and nude scenes, which the second part reduced the sexual content to mentions and implications. It's justified by the change in characters -- the main cast in the first part was a group of fully legal adults, while the main cast in the second part is entirely underage.

* ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1949'', unlike its [[Literature/TheBlueLagoon source novel]], has its sexual content toned down, which can be attributed to the implementation of TheHaysCode.

* The first ''Anime/DevilHunterYohko'' OAV had scenes that bordered on softcore porn, like [[spoiler:a BrainwashedAndCrazy Osamu's AttemptedRape of Yohko]]. However, the OAV after that one were LighterAndSofter to appeal to younger audiences.

* In the light novel and manga versions of ''Literature/FarmingLifeInAnotherWorld'', main character Hiraku runs a village made up mostly of women who keep him up much of the night explicitly trying to become mothers, even setting up locks on the outside of his room so he can't escape. In the anime, while the elves make frequent reference to their desire to have Hiraku help them repopulate their clan, they never act on it, and he deliberately pretends not to notice or understand anything they're saying. Even Hiraku's eventual children are largely removed from the story. [[spoiler:The last few episodes show Lu ending up pregnant, but with hardly even a tacit acknowledgement that she and Hiraku have taken that leap in their relationship, to the point where some anime-only viewers may almost wonder ''how''.]]
* Downplayed with ''Manga/FoodWars'': While the signature food-gasms of the manga can still result in sexy scenes, there have been an equal amount of times where the food-gasms simply are used for comedy rather than fanservice, which includes characters becoming vegetable-themed magical girls, a parody of ''Anime/{{Free}}'', etc.

* The Latin American version of ''Manga/KishinDoujiZenki'' was toned down in various scenes which shown FullFrontalAssault, changing and extending other scenes, since the anime was adapted to be emitted for younger audiences during the "anime fever" of TheNineties.

* Zigzagged in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''. The anime is, on average, significantly less risque than the manga and focuses more on the themes of found family, but at the same time Creator/KyotoAnimation added fanservice to scenes where none existed in the manga (most prominently seen in the BeachEpisode, where they had [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Lucoa]] come along).

** Neither adaptation includes Chela's suggestion from volume 2 that [[ShapeshiftersDoItForAChange Pete take advantage of his reversiism to experiment sexually]], and episode 13 of the anime cuts Miligan jokingly propositioning Oliver after they win the Battle of Hell's Armies.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' featured quite a bit of fanservice from the '40s-'80s and had several issues that had the characters making sexual references. Afterwards, Creator/{{Archie|Comics}} made an attempt to portray their characters as chaste. This included censoring sexual jokes in re-issues, [[MissingEpisode essentially banning]] certain issues from being re-issued, and attempting to outright {{retcon}} Cheryl Blossom away in the early 2000s. Eventually, Archie did away with these restrictions and in the 2010s began embracing the HotterAndSexier treatment.
* Creator/DCComics' universe reboot ''ComicBook/TheNew52'' has Supergirl, whose costume shows a lot of leg but otherwise has been notably downplayed in favour of a more ordinary teenaged girl look; ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'', who for about a year had a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_powergirlnew52_6447.jpg much more modest costume]] that even lacked her infamous [[CleavageWindow "boob window"]]; and the Star Sapphires in the ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' books, whose new costumes aren't nearly as {{Stripperiffic}} as the old ones.

* ''ComicBook/{{WildCATS|WildStorm}}''' Void has an appearance that is essentially "what if the ComicBook/SilverSurfer was a hot woman?" Her original appearance was of a human face on a silver female body that accentuated all her curves. The rebooted version present in ''ComicBook/TheWildStorm'' has the same backstory of a Russian woman who was changed by a space experiment, but she wears her astronaut outfit, which isn't form-fitting and gives off more of a cute vibe. Taken a step further when it's revealed that this isn't her real appearance, but just something she does to appear more human -- she's actually a faceless silver humanoid figure that possesses no physical sexual characteristics at all.

** The 2013 film likewise has no nudity in the shower scene (as Chloe Grace Moretz was only sixteen at the time); Carrie is nude when it happens in the book and other two films, but is wearing a ModestyTowel here. Tommy and Sue get their sex scene restored, but Chris and Billy don't have theirs; a deleted scene did show some foreplay, but it was fully clothed. Ironically, the film does apply AdaptationalSkimpiness to the first gym class scene; a volleyball game in 1976 and baseball in 2002, it now happens in a pool to get the girls into swimsuits (and give Tommy a ShirtlessScene).

* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' notably reduced Lola Bunny's bust size and tone down her sexualization in the [[Film/SpaceJam first film.]]

** The animated adaptation of the novel tone down a lot of the overt eroticism and {{Gorn}} from the novel and removes the sexual content entirely due to Chinese censorship regulations. Censorship also forces Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji's relationship to be downplayed and never stated onscreen to be romantic (Wei Wuxian's hammy acting as Mo Xuanyu aside), though the Ship Tease is enough to drive the point home to viewers by the epilogue. The chibi spinoff (which is already LighterAndSofter) similarly tones down the romance, although it's less subtle on the premise that it's a gag series with questionable canoncity and shouldn't be taken seriously.
** ''Series/TheUntamed'' greatly tones down all disturbing aspects of the novel and removes all the romantic aspects between Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji and turning them into HeterosexualLifePartners instead to pass censorship while still keeping the original dynamic between the two.

* Season 1 of ''Series/AlteredCarbon'' featured copious amount of nudity while the LighterAndSofter second season only had a single brief nude scene.
* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' in general has less skintight and skimpy costumes than the comics the various shows are based on, partially due to the reality of costuming and stunt work, partially due to the CW's large teen audience, and partially due to a desire to downplay the sexualisation of their cast.

* ''{{Series/Charmed 1998}}'''s final season became this, in heavy contrast to the {{Fanservice}} heavy fifth and sixth seasons (the seventh was somewhere in the middle). This is due to all three lead actresses protesting the skimpy outfits, so the Halliwells no longer get turned into {{Cute Monster Girl}}s, and Phoebe's wardrobe in particular is toned down. Holly Marie Combs's pregnancy meant that [[HideYourPregnancy her clothes would be more modest]]. New character Billie was introduced to fill the MsFanservice requirements, but she didn't go as far as the sisters had in previous seasons.

* The novelization of "Music/BannedFromArgo" tells the story behind the BawdySong's lyrics, with the seemingly-sexual situations involving Kirk, Spock, and Nurse Chapel having other explanations, and Sulu's plants "seducing" the governor's wife being a hysterical exaggeration by the man to explain his wife leaving him.

* Wrestling/KellyKelly debuted doing a striptease segment on ECW, competed in swimsuit contests and was part of a MsFanservice dance trio called 'Extreme Expose'. After the PG switch, she was portrayed as more of a GirlNextDoor. And while they would draw attention to whenever she graced the cover of a magazine like Maxim and she did the stink face in some of her matches, she was pushed as a more serious wrestler with a GoodIsNotNice persona.
* Wrestling/{{Layla}} too was part of 'Extreme Expose', and a MsFanservice from her Diva Search days. Then in 2008 she became William Regal's modest 'queen' and later after becoming part of Wrestling/LayCool, she was more TheDitz. She did reverse this in 2014 when she became Fandango's dance partner and had a few {{Catfight}}s with Summer Rae.
* Downplayed with Wrestling/MollyHolly. She was already a TokenWholesome amongst the sexualised Divas when she debuted in 2000 (having told WWE she would not do risque storylines), but she did provide mild {{Fanservice}} with her ring gear showing slight cleavage, the occasional SexySantaOutfit and swimsuit shoots for the Divas. A 2002 FaceHeelTurn saw her character becoming a self-righteous prude who hated any sexuality, and targeted Divas who flaunted their bodies. There was also a swimsuit contest where she competed wearing a demure 1950s style bathing suit, and the 'Divas Undressed' lingerie shoot had her wearing modest pyjamas.

** While [[VillainTakesAnInterest Edwin Black is still interested in Asagi]], it is severly downplayed (helped by Black making only a couple of appearances in the story) compared to the visual novels where one of his main goals was to make her his wife[=/=]SexSlave (and he succeeded in a few of the bad endings).

* ''Videogame/BattleToads2020'' changed the design of notoriously stripperiffic villainess The Dark Queen from her black teddy and thigh high boots to a practically puritan black and purple jumpsuit. The game even threw in a TakeThatAudience aimed at people who disliked the change where the Dark Queen throws a minor character out of an airlock for criticizing it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' is series of StylishAction games with its fair share of vulgarity and a titular teasing HotWitch character who uses her hair as both clothing and a weapon (meaning the stronger the attack, the more nude she becomes). The spin-off game ''VideoGame/BayonettaOriginsCerezaAndTheLostDemon'' stars said character as a prepubescent girl and lacks the usual adult language and fanservice as a result, in addition to taking on a stylized fairy tale art style.

* The first two games in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', both feature topless female characters and generally sexier outfits. Starting with ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', topless characters are removed and clothing in general becomes much more conservative. Come ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', AmazonianBeauty [[HornyVikings Nords]] and NubileSavage outfits (such as the Fur and Forsworn armor sets) make a comeback, but are still nowhere near as sexualized as earlier entries in the series. The [[GameMod modding]] community, [[HotterAndSexier on the other hand...]]
* ''Videogame/{{EverQuest II}}'' zig-zagged this trope. When Update 64 came out Antonia Bayle - the game's "mascot" who'd previously dressed in a bra and a belt with a sash - went through a PlotRelevantAgeUp and switched her bra and sash for a relatively demure gown. On the other hand, halter-top armor was introduced about this same time, and a couple Stripperiffic villainesses (Cara Omica and Sullon Zek) were introduced.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' is far cleaner than [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} the other games in the series]]. There are no brothels (even though Goodneighbor is based on Scollay Square, which was once a Red Light District in its real-life namesake), prostitutes or sex slaves anywhere in the game, and raider women tend to dress far more modestly. Outside of implications in a single character's backstory, there is also not a single instance of rape, despite [[CrapsackWorld the setting]]. If the player romances any of the companions, consummation is a simple fade-to-black, a cartoony picture of Vault Boy waking up only wearing pants, and a mildly suggestive comment, as opposed to [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas the previous game]] going for a much longer fade-to-black and [[TheImmodestOrgasm loud moaning]].

* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearStrive'' follows this direction with the entire cast wearing much more urban inspired fashion, which consequently has everyone looking more covered than they have ever been. And the game itself also follows a more restrained style compared to the more bombastic one of the series past.

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' would tone down sexiness to an even greater extent, among the most notable being Skarlet--who trades in the [[{{Stripperiffic}} barely-there]] [[ChainmailBikini wear]] from [[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 her debut]] to a red/black bodysuit for assassination that reveals her face and cleavage ''at the most''. .
* The original release for ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden 3 (2012)'' really tried to make the series a little more grounded, with Ryu only equipping what he has in hand, no unexplained magic save statues, etc. That also extends in the attempt of toning down the provocative designs the series has been known for under Team Ninja’s hands, all new females seen are dressed quite modestly compared to what the series has provided before, with only Momiji sticking out as she still wears her original outfit. Then comes the ''Razor’s Edge'' re-release in 2013, the same way it tried to undo some of the attempts at making the series more grounded, it also brought back some of the risqué content, the new cutscenes with Ayane contain some little nudity and gratuitous breast jiggling.

* The ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'', a franchise that's ''very'' well-known for its emphasis on fanservice, temporarily became this in ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV'', in which the new head of the dev team, Daishi Odashima, specifically wanted the series to be taken more seriously and be less dependent on it. Ivy, [[MsFanservice the poster girl for fanservice in the series]], received a more modest outfit, while the many of the other female fighters were cut out due to a 17-year TimeSkip as smaller-chested successors took their place. One of the few returning female combatants was Hilde, the armor-wearing TokenWholesome princess from ''IV'', still as wholesome as ever, though this was arguably counterbalanced by fellow veteran Tira--never a modest dresser to begin with--having perhaps her most scanty default attire to date, as well as newcomer Elysium [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith taking on the form of]] [[spoiler:Sophitia, but with even less clothing than the Grecian holy warrior wore in ''III'' and ''IV'']]. Furthermore, there was much less MaleGaze and butt {{jiggle physics}} were cut.

** And then ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'' had no nudity at all, with the references to the Lust sin simply being PlayedForLaughs. In Europe, it even received a lower rating (PEGI 16) because of this (as well as the fact that almost all of the enemies aren't human looking anymore).

** Since ''[[VideoGame/TheSims3 3]]'', they have made Woohoo less explicit. In ''[[VideoGame/TheSims1 1]]'', using the vibration bed introduced in the ''Livin' Large'' {{expansion|Pack}} (the only way to have sex in the game), Sims are naked (but pixellated) when they get out from under the covers. In ''[[VideoGame/TheSims2 2]]'', Woohooing (now can be done in any double bed) will end with both participants wearing underwear and the default setting has a rather raunchy, although still PG-level, cutscene. In ''3'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheSims4 4]]'', Woohooing is basically just shown as is above the sheet, and it ends with both participants wearing what they wore previously. Even if one managed to noclip, the movements are completely random and anatomically impossible instead of anything titillating.

* Rouge the Bat, MsFanservice of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', was given a bodysuit in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', covering her shoulders, arms, and back and intending to make Rouge less provocative. [[SubvertedTrope The effect was the opposite]] and she was changed back to her revealing catsuit in future titles. In general, Rouge is tamer in every game after ''Videogame/SonicAdventure2'', which gave the bat very revealing alternative outfits.
* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry2LookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'', became infamous for having the sexual humor of the original tone downed considerably (at the request of Creator/{{Sierra}} Online) compared to ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry''. This is a big reason why the game does not include any age verification (unlike the first game) and is also likely why the game was not as big of a seller either. Al Lowe and Sierra Online would correct their mistake in [[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry3PassionatePattiInPursuitOfThePulsatingPectorals the third game of the series]], which marked a return to the sexual humor.

* A company wide version: Since the release of the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, Sony has implemented new content rules for developers, limiting sexual content and fanservice in games released on Sony's consoles. This is ironic, since Sony originally made its name in gaming for having virtually no licensing restrictions as the HotterAndSexier and RatedMForManly alternative when compared to Nintendo. To further the irony, there have been games that have been censored for the [=Playstation 4=], such as ''VideoGame/OmegaLabyrinthLife'', that have been released ''uncensored'' on the ''Nintendo'' Switch!

* ''[[VisualNovel/{{Nekopara}} NEKOPARA -catboys paradise-]]'' is the SpearCounterpart entry in the ''NEKOPARA'' series, and the least raunchy of the games. While the other entries are H-Games with all-ages versions available, ''-catboys paradise-'' was developed as an all-ages title from the start.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' is an odd example, given it is a considerably DarkerAndEdgier and RuderAndCruder compared to the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' directed by Creator/SamRaimi (the show [[BroadStrokes loosely follows]] the continuity of the [[Film/SpiderMan1 first film]]) but in terms of sexual content, the series is a lot more tamer. While sexual relationships between characters is heavily implied, the first movie famously had [[Creator/KirstenDunst Mary Jane Watson]] in a SexySoakedShirt, Peter Parker and Norman Osborn had [[ShirtlessScene shirtless scenes]] and the sequels also had a lot more {{fanservice}} than the animated show.

* The ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'' in general has less skintight and skimpy costumes than the comics the various shows are based on, partially due to the reality of costuming and stunt work, partially due to the CW's large teen audience, and partially due to a desire to downplay the sexualisation of their cast.
* ''Series/GhostWhisperer'' had Melinda in a very sexy and skimpy wardrobe in the first season. To save costs, it was toned down from the second onwards.
* Season 1 of ''Series/AlteredCarbon'' featured copious amount of nudity while the LighterAndSofter second season only had a single brief nude scene.

* The first season of ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' had lots of nudity and sex scenes, with the Hosts being frequently used as {{Sex Bot}}s for the guests among their other purposes as well as also featuring an onscreen orgy. While sexual content is still present in later seasons, far fewer instances occur.

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is known for having a lot of fanservice, but Creator/StudioSHAFT's adaptation ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'' has hardly any, instead being a DenserAndWackier WidgetSeries. The [=OVA=]s, however, bring back the fanservice in full force.