Non-Humans Lack Attributes - TV Tropes

[discussing a Londo Mollari doll being sold on the station]
Londo: It's a mockery. It doesn't even have any — ahem, attributes.
Sheridan: Attributes?
Londo: Do I have to spell it out for you?

• Inverted with Jamba!'s ringtone mascot "Crazy Frog", a.k.a. "The Annoying Thing". The blue frog creature sports ambiguous but noticeable genitalia that caused some controversy when he began appearing in late night ringtone ads. When he first began appearing in music videos in the United Kingdom, a prominent black bar was used to censor his groin area. (Which if anything just drew attention to it.) What makes this an inversion? Well, with the exception of the tailed frog, amphibians don't even have external genitals.

• Attack on Titan: Justified and coupled with Barbie Doll Anatomy for the less deformed individuals. The Titans are noted to lack any sexual organs, and have no lower digestive tract. In keeping with this, they notably also do not have navels. They otherwise look like giant, naked humanoids with various deformities.
• Cardcaptor Sakura:
  • Ruby Moon lacks breasts, even though she's ostensibly a teenage girl. She explains that she has No Biological Sex; she chooses to present as female because she likes women's clothes.
  • When Watery is flying, she looks like a mermaid, she is naked, but she has no nipples◊.
• Dragon Ball Z:
  • Many of the humanoid animals that appear through the entire series wear no clothes and show no sign of genitalia.
  • Frieza's final form is unclothed and just has a blank space on his crotch (the other three forms wore black briefs). Supplement sources state the white parts of his body are actually Instant Armor his body created, which grew to cover his lower half with his final form.
  • Cell has insect-like plates covering parts of his body, including one on his crotch that resemble a cod piece. He doesn't need genitals, as he's capable of asexual reproduction, giving birth through his back.
  • Surprisingly, when Oolong turns his arms into wings to reach Pilaf before he wishes to Shenron, his clothes disappear (despite most of his body still being the same) and he does have genitals.
• Digimon meanwhile tend to vary. There are some seal, dog and wolf-like Digimons that play this trope straight. Then we have evolved ones, who are anthropomorphic in build, that wear pants or shirt to cover their area (Angewomon, Leomon, WereGarurumon, LadyDevimon, etc.). And then there are some that are biped yet play this trope straight (Zudomon, Renamon, etc.)
• The Vision of Escaflowne: Various non-humans are shown naked and/or pantsless. No attributes.

• Bone:
  • Played very straight with the Bone cousins, who never wear pants.
  • Averted with Roque Ja the giant lion, who when seen from behind has a very prominent scrotum.
  • Played also ridiculously straight with the Rat Creatures. Writer Jeff Smith even said "I never bothered to look under their fur to find out."
• Concrete: Justified. The aliens really don't have any of the typical anatomical features. It's brought up semi-regularly as well, much to Concrete's chagrin, although if he did have any features they'd probably be equally discussed and mocked by the public.
• ElfQuest: The preservers have androgynous bodies without genitals or nipples. Justified, as they're apparently asexual and sexless.
• Marvel Universe:
  • The Awesome Slapstick: Slapstick has no naughty bits in his superpowered cartoon form. His increasingly deranged behaviour after getting Shapeshifter Mode Locked is at least partially because of sexual frustration.
  • Exiles: One storyline introduces an alternate universe version of Morbius who looks like a giant bat. He is naked all of the time and doesn't have genitals or nipples.
  • Silver Surfer: The Surfer, despite looking like a human Chrome Champion, displays no genitalia whatsoever. Presumably covered or removed as part of his transformation into the Silver Surfer. Other natives of Zenn-La apparently have the same attributes as humans, which they cover in similar ways.
  • West Coast Avengers: Discussed with the Vision. U.S. Agent demands that he "show some decency" and put some clothing on, but Vision points out that clothing would be pointless since as an android, he doesn't have nipples or visible genitals.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The title characters probably get a pass for being reptiles, but Splinter plays it dead straight.
• Vertigo Comics:
  • All angels in the setting (including Lucifer, Sandman and Hellblazer, notably) are generally depicted as genderless. They are, however, still apparently capable of intercourse. The closest we get to an explanation of this is someone who has experienced this whispering in someone else's ear and her looking shocked.
  • The Books of Magic: The demon Barbatos is often naked. While he has buttocks, he never has visible genitalia.

• Bloom County: "No dice! Comic strip animals aren't anatomically correct!"
• Scary Gary: Played straight with every monster without clothes except for Leopold. He is technically a heavily genetically mutated human who runs around buck-naked in every scene he's in, yet his privates are always... private. Possibly justified due to the "genetically mutated" part. The moment he accidentally, temporarily un-mutates himself, he spontaneously gains a full suit and tie.

• Of Mice and Mayhem: Gadget spends large parts of the story either completely clothesless or only wearing a turtleneck. Chip who has only ever seen her fully dressed is quite uncomfortable with that, but she tells him there's nothing to see because she's fully covered in fur just like him.
• Surprises of a Wedding Night (The Lord of the Rings): Male elves don't have penises, because the female tentacles serve the purpose of getting sperm where it needs to be. Aragorn recalls having noticed that male elves "lack certain attributes".
• Terraria Calamity adds two bosses, the Siren and Brimstone Elemental, who appear as nude humanoid women with Barbie Doll Anatomy. The same applied to the Cloud Elemental before Art Evolution gave her a new design with armor.
• Twisted Toyfare Theatre: A parody has the Thing refusing to talk to the Silver Surfer until he puts on some pants. So the Surfer dons blue jeans. Returning thus clad to Galactus, his master says, "Pants? I didn't remove your genitals so you could wear pants!"

• An American Tail: Fievel is usually fully clothed, as are the other mice in the series, but in the brief nude scenes in which he's taking a bath he follows this trope.
• Badly Drawn Roy: This is actually a plot point for the main character, who is a cartoon in a live-action setting. He and his girlfriend broke up because they, uh, couldn't take their relationship to the next level (although they remained friends).
• Flushed Away: Justified during the Toad's Start of Darkness, where he actually does not have genitalia at all due to him being an amphibian.
• Kung Fu Panda: Although Po is always portrayed as wearing only pants and sandals, as seen in the flashbacks in the sequel, he wore nothing as a baby.
• Fritz the Cat doesn't show any genitals — until and unless a sex scene comes up. Female characters always have visible nipples and genitals, but they usually cover them with clothes whereas Fritz is a Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal.
• My Neighbor Totoro: Played straight with the Totoros themselves. Averted near the end of where the Catbus is actually revealed to be extremely anatomically correct (and male) during the scene where he is shown running on top of several telephone lines while helping Satsuki and the three Totoros find her younger sister Mei.
• Rock-A-Doodle: Edmond gasps and covers himself up after being turned into a kitten and realizing he's naked, despite not really having anything to cover up. He then "covers up" with a big shirt that still leaves his furry but otherwise featureless bottom half exposed.
• Turning Red: The red panda forms of Mei's female relatives have no definition to their chests at all even though their human forms do (which is Truth in Television, as red pandas do not have noticeable breasts).
• Zootopia: The mammals are fully clothed, so if not for a rather gratuitous scene in a nudist club we would be none the wiser about the lack of reproductive organs. Considering the animation detail goes as far as to visibly vary Judy's bust depending on what she's wearing, it seems very odd.

• Alien: The Xenomorphs have no visible genitalia, since most members of the species are sterile drones. The Queen does have an ovipositor.
• Dogma: Angels have no genitals. Neither does Serendipity the Muse.

  "See? I'm as anatomically impaired as a Ken doll."

• Coneheads: The Coneheads don't have asscracks.
• District 9: The prawns are hermaphroditic and thus self-fertilize. Despite that, interspecies prostitution is briefly mentioned.
• The Shape of Water: Seemingly played straight but later averted. The Amphibian Man initially appears to lack genitals but is then able to have sex with Elisa. Being mute she is unable to verbally explain this but her hand gestures imply his penis is normally inside his body but his crotch opens up to extend it when needed.
• Star Wars: Wookiees. You'd hope. Mark Hamill's initial reaction to seeing Chewbacca on the set of the first Star Wars movie was: "The wookiee has no pants."
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Because the movie has a PG rating, the Toon Patrol weasels, including the one that Eddie Valiant kicks in the crotch to rhyme with the “walls” on one verse, don’t show any genitalia, including the ones whose slang term rhymes with “walls.”
• X-Men Film Series: Mystique, despite being human, is decent even while naked. This might be part of her shapeshifting (seeing as how she can look like she's wearing clothes too). Rebecca Romijn even remarks on this by commenting that her character's costume was "strategically placed body paint, pasties, and clever camera angles".

• The Company Novels, by Kage Baker: Averted in practice but Conversed. For his disguise as the eponymous Native American deity, Joseph wears prosthetics that give his genitalia canid attributes. At one point, he decides to show the Chumash people he's there to help evacuate a Roadrunner cartoon and blames the lack of attributes on a very unfortunate dynamite accident.
• Lilith's Brood: The Cthulhumanoid Oankali have no breasts or genitals, which confuses one human who makes several attempts at a Groin Attack before realizing she's not kicking anything. Justified by their innate Biomanipulation: they create and implant fetuses without any need for gametes, then grow a temporary orifice to give birth. In addition, their digestive systems only produce small amounts of dust as waste, which they secrete through their skin.
• L. Sprague de Camp: In a fantasy/comedic novel, the main characters summon a demon who's clearly devoid of genitals despite being otherwise human-like. When he's asked about mating, he explains that the members of his race "grow" genitals in the right season.
• Well World: A villainous character passes through the Well and is sent to a hex populated by frog-like creatures. Transformed into one of them by the Well, he's perplexed by his new body's lack of external genitalia; one of his first questions, upon meeting the hex's natives, is how they have sex.

• When the Alien Autopsy was presented on Fox, they pixilated the part of the "body" where the genitals would be, if it had any. (And truthfully, it looked like it was lacking.)
• Farscape: Played with in "The Flax". A male alien drops his pants to show the crew murals on his legs from being in prison. The crew lampshades this trope with Zhaan even saying "For an anthropoid biped, there seems to be something missing." This is later hilariously explained when the alien is revealed to be the female of her species and in love with D'Argo.
• Red Dwarf: Kryten is "a bit like Action Man in that respect; it's just plastic pants and a trademark". On the other hand, he does have a groinal socket into which he can plug a vacuum cleaner hose or electric kitchen utensils.
• Stargate SG-1: The Asgard lack genitals. Justified, as they don't reproduce. When we see precloning Asgard popsicles, the relevant area is hidden behind the frost.

• Angels are usually depicted as androgynous-looking (but extraordinarily beautiful) Winged Humanoids. This may stem partly from Byzantine art depicting angels as resembling imperial eunuchs (in a nice aversion of Eunuchs Are Evil), which fits their role as God's courtiers. In many cases, they are said to be sexless (though not always; see, for example, the Archangel Michael). When they are not depicted as Winged Humanoids, they are some kind of bizarre Eldritch Abomination.

• Devil's Dare: The assorted green-skinned demons are completely naked but sport no genitalia or nipples at all.
• Barracora: The merwomen wear nothing and show nothing, even on their Non-Mammal Mammaries.

• Dragon: In an early article, "The Psychology of the Doppleganger", a captive doppleganger's lack of genitalia or nipples in its natural form is openly discussed, as it provides its human captors with evidence (confirmed via interrogation) that such Dungeons & Dragons monsters have no true gender, and bred by changing into a gendered creature's shape and mating outside their own species.
• Magic: The Gathering:
  • This comes into play In-Universe in the story "Dragon's Paw" by Edward Bolme. Urza magically creates a dragon to aid him in his experiments, but doesn't bother to give it a gender. The dragon talks him into making it stronger and bigger and eventually wants to be given a gender. When Urza admits that he's not sure how, the dragon convinces him to let it do the work — and uses this newfound control to sever the link between dragon and mage and flies off into the world.
  • Thassa, God of the Sea seems to be topless, but has no visible nipples.
• Warhammer 40,000: Orks reproduce through spores rather than sex, and consequently lack sexual anatomy. In the background book Xenology, for instance, while the dissections of the similarly-humanoid Eldar and Tau corpses need to have cloth or folds of skin strategicaly draped over their groins to cover their genitals, the Ork just has nothing but smooth skin down there.
• Werewolf: The Apocalypse: One of the physical features of the Crinos war-form is "vulnerable features like genitalia" are withdrawn into the body.

• Batman: Arkham Knight: Kirk Langstrom's Man-Bat form doesn't have his traditional Monster Modesty and thus is flying around nude, but is also under the trope as the player doesn't see anything below his waist.
• Destroy All Humans!: Actually a plot point. The Furons, after centuries of waging unregulated nuclear war against other alien races, were subject to severe mutations that left their entire species with a lack of genitalia. They tried to get around this sterility by using cloning technology, which made members of the species essentially immortal, but the DNA patterns used for this process gradually became more and more degraded. To solve this, Orthopox-13 and Cryptosporidium-137 decide to pay a visit to a world whose native inhabitants, thanks to some Furon sailors on Furlough, house samples of pure Furon DNA in their gene pool: The planet Earth. In the sequels, thanks to all the DNA that Crypto obtained in the first game he actually gets genitalia and has been happily having sex with human women in-between game.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: Unlike the human and elven playable races, the khajiit and argonians don't have underwear beneath their armor and clothing, but nothing is visible. Presumably the khajiit have their nipples and genitals covered by fur, while the argonians have no nipples and internal genitalia. Notably they're also the only races that don't have a shocked reaction to a naked Player Character that tries to speak to them, implying that they might not have much of a nudity taboo either. Later games use the same body model for all playable races, meaning that the beast races wear the same underwear as everyone else and are thus implied to actually have nipples and genitals that need covering.
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Werewolves and werebears don't have any going on down there; vampire lords, on the other hand come, with their own Magic Pants.
• Evolve: The monsters have neither genitals nor an anus. The lack of genitals is justified as the monsters don't sexually reproduce, but the best information we have for the lack of an anus is that they're just weird.
• Fire Emblem: Awakening: There is a rare race of rabbit people who transform into clawed rabbits in battle known as the Taguel. The only two Taguel who appear are Panne and her son, Yarne, who both are wearing no pants and appear to have fur underwear, but this is their actual body fur. Their genitalia are hidden in this fur.
• Half-Life:
  • Possibly Vortigaunts. Totally alien, so anything goes, but a featureless crotch is good for the censors.
  • For all we know, Vorts of the first game could be asexual. No Xen creatures except the Gonarch were shown with genitalia. Speaking of which, the Gonarch DID have a large sack with an orifice on the bottom. Which released baby headcrabs and was the only location which took damage.
• Knights of the Old Republic: Rakghouls aren't shown with genitalia, despite being hairless and shiny. This is never addressed within the story, even though rakghouls are humans transformed by The Virus. At one point, humans transform into Rakghouls in front of your eyes — their genitalia appear to have instantly disappeared (along with the eyes, and the fifth finger, and... A lot, really).
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • In general, Gorons and Zora tend to be naked, but don't have any details (though in Twilight Princess the male Gorons infamously had nipples).
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: The Koroks, being plant people, don't have any sexual characteristics.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Midna is technically nude most of the time, but since her imp form is devoid of detail aside from her belly button, she gets away with it. When she transforms into her true form, which is much more humanoid, her lower half is covered by a skirt but she is still topless, and so she still has no details there despite obviously having breasts.
  • Hyrule Warriors: Midna (both versions), Ruto, and the Gorons are all technically naked, but lack visible naughty bits due to being different races than the more human-like characters. Though Ruto's alternate costumes seem to suggest she's wearing a dress that's simply the same color as her skin.
• Spore: One of the few things that you can't give your creatures is genitalia, although you can place body parts designed for other purposes where they should be. Or you can shape them like genitals...
• Sonic the Hedgehog: The games primarily features animals without clothing (or very little anyway, as they usually at least wear shoes and White Gloves), except in case of the females (and Charmy Bee, who wears an orange vest and a flight helmet). None of the male characters are shown to have genitals, thankfully. Even Charmy.
• StarCraft:
  • After being infected by the Zerg, Sarah Kerrigan is turned into the stark-naked Queen of Blades, but lacks nipples or genitalia. Probably justified since she was built with intelligent design by Abathur, and Zerg don't need reproductive organs.
  • The Protoss do not have anything resembling human genitalia, although they do have distinct sexes and a vaguely humanoid body-plan. How they reproduce is unclear.
• Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario 3D Land: The Tanuki Suit, unlike many traditional depictions of the Tanuki, is very anatomically incorrect.
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown: Aliens. Then again, they are genetically engineered cloned cannon fodder grown in vats, so genitalia would be a superfluous trait at best, a weak point at worst, so why bother leaving them with genitalia?
• YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG:
  • A two-off NPC from the beginning of the game, Proto Woman, appears to be a nude woman with flames coming out her back that flashes orange and blue. Or something like that. She has a visible naval, but lacks nipples or genitals. She also lacks hands, her arms ending in sharp points.
  • In-combat, the final boss appears as a gray fusion between Proto-Alex and the Essentia 995 twisted together, who are nude, but featureless.

• Alice Grove: Laridia appears as a nude humanoid without breasts or genitalia. Justified because it's a temporary body, grown for them to leave their native virtual-reality world.
• Boxer Hockey: Tyson Hesse's infamous Sonic parody plays the trope straight like the source material, then plays it for laughs with Super Sonic's inexplicable briefs.
• Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire: Both lampshaded and subverted in this strip. Buck, on the run from an ardent pursuer, drops into the rooftop garden of his best friend (and bartender)'s fiancé, Tal. Both she and her husband-to-be are Thuxians, vaguely resembling somewhat "softer" versions of the Xenomorphs from Alien. Tal was apparently sunning when Buck dropped in, and is thus buck-naked, which causes her to complain loudly about Buck's sudden appearance. He silences her, however, by pointing out that since humans and Thuxians are biologically incompatible, he wouldn't even know which parts of her could be considered "naughty". Then he comments on how her plump thorps bring out the sway of her tail,^note  and promptly gets Megaton Punched through a window. (The lesson, my friend: Buck Godot ALWAYS knows more than he lets on.)
• El Goonish Shive:
• This page of Exterminatus Now plays with the trope by talking about it with regards to Pokémon, despite the fact that at least two of the main characters seem to be subject to it.
• The Greenhouse: Played with.
  • The demon 'Red'. She starts off as little more than anthropomorphized mist (plus horns), but even as she gets increasingly solid and humanoid (including clearly defined breasts and legs) never develops 'attributes'. This may be an intentional choice; the way she describes her abs while they're disintegrating suggests she has some control over the way her body develops. Or maybe she just hasn't developed far enough yet.
  • We later see a demon called Aris, who does have nipples and appears to wear pants, averting the trope.
  • And at the same time, meet a possibly demonic being by the name of Amihan, who has nipple-less breasts but always has her groin censored by her Godiva Hair or speech bubbles.
• Kill Six Billion Demons
  • Angels are sexless, and neither the stone bodies they use to manifest nor their real bodies (even when humanoid, and even when noticeably resembling one gender) seem to have attributes.
  • Devils "don't procreate normally," and at least blue devils have been shown naked and showed no attributes, in spite of most of them having a clearly "female" shape. They have been known have sex anyway, but the details haven't been explained.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • The issue is addressed in one strip in regards to reptilian humanoids — they do have genitals, but keep them withdrawn instead of having them on display like humans do.

    Gannji: It's called a genital sheath, look it up.

  • Possibly averted in the same comic with a different species. The Oracle, a kobold, mentions having balls, but in context (insulting someone with "Lick my orange balls"), he may have been joking.
• Our Little Adventure: Angelika lampshades that the Nemurik Fish People don't have anything in the crotch department. Justified, since they exchange genetic information through their tails.
• PvP: Skull is a large, fat, blue naked troll. Several characters have commented on his lack of genitalia, particularly when he was dating a normal human girl. Skull mentioned at one point that trolls are asexual, which immediately got used for a Pun.
• Runaway to the Stars: In centaurs and bug ferrets, the reproductive organs are located internally and are not visible except during active arousal. Scuds reproduce passively, and their genitals are purely internal and never visible. Averted for avians (specifically the brights) because the brights have an external ovipositor, but as they're fairly prudish about dress code this is typically only evident when looking at pygmy avian traditional attire. Without the extensive nudity taboos imposed on them by skimmers, pygmy avians are comfortable walking around with only shoes and some Tools of Sapience.
• Sluggy Freelance:
  • The alien Aylee, who would occasionally shift form as a response to a new environment, mostly had nonhuman forms with no such attributes. Even her brief "buxom blonde secretary" form had a uniformly scaly exterior. Eventually she would adopt a form so human that she actually does have "human female naughty parts" under her wings-dress, though she's still green, which naturally causes embarrassment and some downright distress before she realizes human nudity rules now apply to her.
  • Mospinispinosp, the snake-woman-demon from the Dimension of Pain, has a human figure (without legs) but a featureless, scaly texture.
  • Lacey, a woman possessed by a lacewing demon, takes on a different demonic appearance at times, like most other possessed humans. In her case, her dress opens to form wings, which is handily accompanied by her body turning featureless too.
  • Most demons do actually wear clothes, indicating there may be something underneath. This also applies to Satan — except when drawn by Ian McDonald, when he's pantsless and featureless.
• Sonichu: Subverted. At first, the titular character seems featureless (he is based on Sonic after all). However, in issue 8, the author dedicates a good dozen pages to describing how his Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal characters' sexual anatomy works and how some characters can walk around naked without exposing their genitals... culminating in a graphic depiction of electric-hedgehog-Pokémon-on-electric-hedgehog-Pokémon intercourse.
• Yokoka's Quest: Critters with fur have no attributes to show (the comic is for all ages).

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged makes a Running Gag out of the fact that Namekians lack any form of genetalia since they reproduce asexually by vomiting up eggs. In fact, Piccolo tends to react with either confusion, disgust, or horror any time the subject of sexuality comes up due to how foreign the concept is to him.

• The Amazing World of Gumball: Zig-zagged. The anthropomorphic non-humans may wear body-covering clothes, non-body covering clothes, or no clothes at all. When the first type lose their clothing (most often Gumball), they're treated as naked and usually have pixellated genitals. Sometimes the second type losing their "clothes" (Darwin the goldfish's shoes, Leslie the flower's pot) will be treated as naked, complete with the uncovered area being pixellated. Tina Rex and her father are more specifically of Animals Lack Attributes types.
• "The Anatominals", a Saturday TV Funhouse Yogi Bear parody, parodies this. Both "Kogi" and "Boo" seemed to be smuggling potatoes in their underwear, and Cindy Bear and her coyote friend have their own issues.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force features several relatively anthropomorphic food items, who all expressed sexual attraction to women (Master Shake likes to look at dirty magazines alone), but none of whom wear clothes or show their genitals. The episode where Shake sells Meatwad to the circus features the "prince of Saturn" sent to Earth to reproduce with our women. In a notable aversion, he reveals his genitals and they are horrific (and thus his mission failed); that's why he's running a circus now instead of still trying to take over the planet.
• American Dad!:
  • Roger mentions to a date that he doesn't have any genitals. (It was okay; she had both).
  • In another episode, he claims it's just imperceptibly small due to years of steroid abuse.
  • Yet in several other episodes, Roger has sex with human women as though he has identical genitals to a normal human male.
  • In the episode "Jenny Fromdabloc". Roger (after tricking Steve's best friend, Snot, into thinking he was the eponymous "Jenny Fromdabloc" to cheer him up after being denied by his crush) is caught cleaning up a stress ball by Steve. Roger had been using it to cure Snot of his "stress".
• Bluey: Most of the characters almost never wear clothes, even though they are bipedal and civilized, and you see nothing down there (since it's a kids' show of course). There are some times however when they do act as if they possess such parts:
  • Groin Attack is surprisingly frequent in this show. Both Bandit and his brother Stripe have had their fair share of getting hit or kicked in the crotch, despite the audience not seeing anything.
  • At the beginning of "Born Yesterday", Chilli is upset when she sees Bluey and Bingo taking pictures of her bottom while she's doing yoga, despite not really having anything to hide.
• Family Guy : Brianhas been the butt of several penis jokes, despite his own lack of visible genitalia. Brian claims it gets pulled inside when he stands up. Truth in Television; dogs have a sort of retractable penis on their belly that normally rests inside a sheath.
• Looney Tunes: The naked animal characters never display any of questionable anatomy. Overlapping with Pop-Culture Urban Legends, Bugs Bunny may have actually averted this trope in the short The Wabbit Who Came to Supper, during a scene in which he's coming out of the shower and his towel slips, revealing what looks like a white fur-covered penis for a couple frames. This has been discredited by most, though— it was most likely supposed to just be a gap between his legs and above the towel, through which either the bathtub or another part of the towel is visible. Make your own judgement.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic plays with this. In "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000", Fluttershy is embarrassed when Rainbow Dash yanks the sheets off of her, despite the lack of any visible nipples. Yet in "A Canterlot Wedding", Twilight Sparkle shakes her naked flank in Queen Chrysalis's face, treating the viewers to a view of featureless pony arse. In the general run of the show, attention is inadvertently drawn to their lack of attributes by the way their tails always point up rather than staying in line with the spine and frequent from-behind perspectives.
• Regular Show: Oddly, Mordecai and Rigby are the only Funny Animals without some sort of clothes on. Rigby's brother Don (who's also naked but drawn with a MUCH more human-looking anatomy) lampshades this, especially how they'll often be clothed in flashbacks to indicate their age:

  Don: Remember when you started walking around naked? I thought you were SO cool.

• SpongeBob SquarePants: Even though the show showcases species that would not have external genitalia in real life and are shown lacking them, the male animal characters in the show have lampshaded this trope from time to time.
  • SpongeBob has been seen completely naked (well, completely naked except for his shoes) in multiple episodes. In "Nature Pants", Scenery Censor is used to cover that area most of the time, but it can still be seen a few times. In "Hooky", he is traumatized when Pearl and her friends (as well as the audience) sees his non-existent genitalia.
  • Patrick and SpongeBob become Invisible Streakers in one episode and terrorize the town. Mr. Krabs catches them and puts them on show before they have a chance to get clothes on. They try to use their hands to cover their nudity, but it is obvious they have nothing to hide.
  • Squidward usually wears a shirt and no pants. He's still embarrassed when he finds himself naked in public and a police officer even fines him for it.
  • Mr. Krabs is completely naked when Plankton uses a machine to switch lives with him (a variation on the "Freaky Friday" Flip) since Plankton is usually completely naked. Even though it is obvious that he has no genitals, Plankton is still mortified to see him in the nude.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) this is played straight with Splinter and Leatherhead and possibly subverted with the Turtles themselves, if you look closely, the Turtles in this version have a bit of plastron that goes between the legs forming 'built in pants' as it were one can only assume this means their "naughty bits" are underneath the shell.
• Steven Universe: Despite their female appearance and generally wearing clothing that would cover them up, gems don't appear to have any breasts and certainly don't have belly buttons. Amethyst has on a couple of occasions pulled her top down far enough that the audience would have certainly seen something if there was anything to show, while Sugilite, Jasper, Blue Pearl, Yellow Pearl, Doc, and Navy have very chest-baring shirts with no hints of any features. Indeed, Rose Quartz is the only one with visible cleavage (and that might just be the way she's shaped), even though her original form, Pink Diamond, had no breasts. Guide to the Crystal Gems states that Rose had to use shapeshifting to make a womb for Steven to be born, implying they don't usually have genitals either. All of this makes sense, though, as gems really have No Biological Sex and reproduce artificially with machines.
• 12 oz. Mouse.: Played straight with Fitz and his friends This is very applicable with the former, as male mice have obvious testicles. Averted in "Bowtime", where you can see Golden Joe and Peanut Cop's dicks (albeit pixelated).
• VeggieTales: The characters, usually during the countertop segments, are seen unclothed, but they do not have any genitalia, as the show is aimed at children.

• Sally Acorn in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) can be either fully nude save for boots, or wear only an open vest. Either way, she has obvious breasts without nipples.

• Moto Moto the hippo from Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa has this.
• Played with for laughs in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Scrat is a saber-toothed squirrel... thing, and is presented with neither visible genitals or nipples. Until a patch of fur gets ripped off his chest, revealing two nipples on the skin underneath. The female Scratte plays this straighter, with the impression of having breasts, but once again no visible nipples.
• Lola and the other female martians in Marcianos vs. Mexicanos have three breasts to go along with their three eyes that the martians (except Jacinto, who has one eye) have by default. They don't have nipples however.
• Surprisingly averted with Walt Disney's Fantasia. The centaurette from the Pastoral Symphony sequence bathe topless and visible nipples are shown. The harpies in the Night on Bald Mountain sequence are also topless, with nipples.
• Also averted in The Last Unicorn with the harpy and her three Non-Mammal Mammaries.

• The merwomen of Barracora have breasts but no nipples visible.

• The Pokémon games give us Nidoqueen.◊
• Shantae: The game series features a variety of monster girls as some of the enemies. They're usually topless, but with no nipples to speak of.
  • And as neutral Non Playable Character-s, such as the green bog sahagin gambler in the Village of Lost Souls of Shantae and the Pirate's Curse and as a possible gambling opponent in Shantae (2002).
  • Usually the mermaids, with the Monster Modesty exceptions of the Giga Mermaid of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero, who wears a Seashell Bra, and the Sirens of Shantae and the Seven Sirens, who all wear chest coverings.

• Amy, created by the creator of Sabrina Online prior to the latter and its titular character, had defined breasts without nipples.
• TwoKinds generally follows the "covered in fur" approach. Lampshaded using those exact words when Maren reminds a shy Raine that "You're covered in fur remember? Nothing's going to show." Raine, who has severe body image issues due to her barely controllable Voluntary Shapeshifting, admits her modesty is silly but helps her feel human. The nipples are definitely there, though, as told by one character that female Keidran have rows that go below the two "primary" mammaries.
• Questionable Content: Zig-zagged as the designs for AI bodies are refined, to Roko's surprise when she has to replace her chassis:

  Lemon: So how do you like it? The tech blogs are deeply divided over whether the nipples are a necessary addition.
  Roko: No comment

• Subverted in Sonichu. While some of the characters do appear topless with seemingly featureless breasts, issue #8 explains that the females of the Sonichu species have retractable nipples.

• The female reindeer in Robbie the Reindeer have plainly defined breasts without nipples.
• A little bit of it is present on the females in Father of the Pride. Also averted with the female pig in the "Donkey" episode; she has eight nipples showing. Not only is she an aversion, she is a very rare female aversion and the show is rated TV 14 rather than TV MA.
• The female chimp that appeared in one episode of The Penguins of Madagascar doesn't have any nipples showing, but averted with Phil and Mason the male chimps; they still have their nipples showing. Also averted and Bada and Bing the gorillas.
• Averted with the male and female animals in Almost Naked Animals. Unlike with the male animals in the same show, they’re all wearing bras except the cows, which have udders instead.
• Averted with the titular character from Chowder.
• Richard Watterson from The Amazing World of Gumball is pretty frequently shown shirtless. Although he has very visible saggy man breasts, they have no nipples barring a few episodes from the first season. Gumball is also shirtless a lot, and has no visible nipples except in one scene where the dialogue mentions them (he wondered if he could sell them).
• Humphrey and many of the other bears his cartoons in the Classic Disney Shorts have Wrong Type of Mammal Mammaries and their nipples don’t show, but since they’re male, this is a notable example of The Law of Conservation of Detail.
• Averted with Porky Pig in Duck Dodgers and The Looney Tunes Show.
• Sylvester's mom from The Looney Tunes Show has small, human-like breasts, but because of Nipple and Dimed for female animal characters, her nipples don't show.
• Sometimes averted on The Ren & Stimpy Show, especially when the title characters gain muscular bodies.
• Flavio and Marita, the Hip Hippos from Animaniacs have this.
• Averted with Skips the gorilla from Regular Show.
• Averted in the Family Guy episode, "The Book of Joe." Brian is shown to have ten nipples on his chest. Truth in Television as actual dogs have ten nipples.
• Averted with Coverton in the Monsters vs. Aliens (2013) TV series. He has six breasts that each have nipples showing when he is naked.
• 12 oz. Mouse: Fitz's wife has visible breasts, but has no nipples.