Category:Censorship Tropes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|'''WARNING:''' The following program is a realish documentary, and may contain language which is is vulgar, offensive, or grammatically awkward. Such language has been censored whenever possible, but for the sake of higher ratings, we may have let a few gratuitous and especially titillating instances slide.|The opening of the "[[Something Completely Different|American Dicks]]" episode of ''[[Duckman]]''}}

 

 

''Interesting tropes about {{spoiler|[[This Trope Is Bleep|blank]]}}ing out things not meant for corrupting sensitive eyes or ears.''

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People responsible=

* [[Media Watchdog]]

* [[Moral Guardians]]

Visual cover-up techniques=

* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]] (formerly "Anime Anatomy")

* [[Censor Shadow]]

* [[Censor Steam]] (also a Bathing Trope)

* [[Censorware]]

* [[Digital Bikini]] (sometimes used in conjunction with a [[Shower Scene]], [[Bathtub Scene]], or a [[Hot Springs Episode]] of an anime that has been [[Bowdlerization|edited]] when aired in America)

* [[Godiva Hair]]

* [[Hit Flash]]

* [[Censor Decoy]]: A vital tool used by daring writers who want to get crap past the radar. Say there's a writer or director with two scenes: one that's too violent or sexual to be shown on TV or in the movies, and another that's a bit more toned down, but has heavy innuendo or inferences to violence. The censors will have to choose between which scene can be suitable for air (usually the first choice will be picked as the sacrifical lamb while the second scene will be put on TV or film, but sometimes there will be a goof-up and the radar will be shattered either way).

* [[Censored Title]]

* [[Clumsy Copyright Censorship]] (often used when TV shows or movies are rerun or put on DVD)

* [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]]

* [[Curse Cut Short]] (sometimes used as a [[Comedy Trope]])

* [[Defying the Censors]]: Sometimes you just have to stand up to those who would silence you.

* [[Dub Text]] (only if the dubbers are bored, do it by accident, or [[Refuge in Audacity|want to make a scene more risque than what is originally intended]])

* [[Family-Friendly Firearms]] (used in a majority of American-edited anime)

* [[Frothy Mugs of Water]] (used ''a lot'' in American-edited anime)

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [[Defying the Censors]] on an underhanded level (leads to [[Refuge in Audacity]] if the writers use explicitly racy material and '''''it still gets past''''' or if the writers use this trope repeatedly and the censors either [[Viewers are Morons|don't notice, don't care]], or have fallen for a [[Censor Decoy]] one too many times).

* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]

* [[Live but Delayed]]

* [[Narrative Profanity Filter]] (mostly used in written media, but can also be used on television shows if a narrator is used)

* [[Nipple-and-Dimed]]

* [[Nobody Can Die]]

* [[Scunthorpe Problem]] (mostly seen on Internet forums)

* [[Seven Dirty Words]]

* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]

* [[Streisand Effect]]

* [[Unacceptable Targets]]

* [[Video Nasties]]

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