History Main / UncannyValley

* The short film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVeHxUVkW4w The Centrifuge Brain Project]]'' features a rare mechanical variant with its [[AmusementParkOfDoom bizarre and unsafe amusement part rides]]. They look familiar and nostalgic at first glance until they suddenly move in unexpected ways or the video pans up to show that they're far bigger than such a ride should be, all while a narrator speaks matter-of-factly about these machines stimulating the brain in such a way that a mysterious "enlightenment" is achieved. [[spoiler:As the film goes on and the rides become more and more dangerous, it becomes increasingly apparent that the "enlightenment" the researchers are looking for is death.]]

** Thanos in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' and ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has this as well. Much like the Hulk example above, there's a level of translucency to his skin and his enormous presence contrasting with Creator/JoshBrolin's calm stoicism can be extremely uncanny to witness in a regular non-action scene. Unlike Ultron who suffered from some bad NightmareRetardant, Thanos's recognizable humanity in [[https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/1200x1200/public/2018/12/screen_shot_2018-12-06_at_9.33.40_am.png?itok=RvHDUpVv&timestamp=1544106901 an alien face]] is both extremely unsettling and effective.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Oda just loves to make {{Gonk}} characters so the UncannyValley is no stranger to the series.

** Another movie example with ''Anime/OnePiece3DStrawHatChase'' the first and so far only entirely CG ''One Piece'' film. As technically impressive as the film is, it still brushes against this trope, as Oda’s stylised characters can be very jarring when put in 3D, especially [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/5/58/Franky_Movie_11_Outfit.png/revision/latest?cb=20130624091657 Franky]] and [[https://www.vankaizer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Mugiwara-chase-Brook.jpg Brook]] and it also doesn’t help that characters have rather [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqsmqjv1WT1qklm53o1_500.gif stiff]] [[https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SkinnyShallowFalcon-size_restricted.gif movements]]. [[CanonForeigner Canon Foreigners]], [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/97/6c/8f976c21e5caca2cfccd1437c6bc66d3.png Schneider]] and his dog [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EB21CB_WsAATGa9?format=jpg&name=small Buzz]] are particularly freaky looking. ''VideoGame/OnePiecePirateWarriors'' despite also being in 3D, doesn’t dip into the UncannyValley nearly as much.

* Played with in the ''Literature/GaeaTrilogy'', in which a race of obviously-nonhuman alien centaurs, for reasons that make sense in context, sport genitalia identical to those of humans. This single feature's similarity invokes the UncannyValley effect ''because'' the rest of the body is so strange.

*** The special 200th episode featured the SG-1 team as marionettes and as [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/SG1puppets.jpg this link]] shows, it certainly qualifies as UncannyValley.

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

Turn this trope UpToEleven and you'll most likely have a HumanoidAbomination.

** It's brought up again in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' as intentional on the developers' part for the [[MechaMook Motorized Patriot]], who was in fact based on a nightmare of Ken Levine's about the porcelain dolls his grandparents had when he was a child.

* The music video for Serj Tankian's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxKA1uETxE Empty Walls]]" features the lead singer parading around a CircusOfFear with a bizarre, sociopathic look on his face, while various small children play happily... or, as some people have interpreted it, re-enact the War on Terror.

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Uncanny Valley is invoked in Judge Doom as {{foreshadowing}}, [[spoiler:considering that he's actually an AxCrazy toon disguised as a human]]. He is at least half a head taller than any other character. His eyes are often hollow and he ''never'' blinks. Creator/ChristopherLloyd only blinked between takes or when his face was out of frame. Every smile is a SlasherSmile. He has a lot more strength than an average man. He is shown ripping the industrial dip barrel open with one hand. His skin is pale and lifeless. His vocal cadence is either too clipped or too drawn out to be normal. He talks, just, Like, THIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!

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

* 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]].

* In ''Literature/{{Argo}}'', androids are usually designed to look like {{Funny Animal}}s to avoid this trope, so that humans would be less intimidated by them.

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'':

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

* charcoalman on Website/DeviantArt has made many [=SCPs=] fall into the Uncanny Valley. But his depiction of the Yule Man is his most well known by far. [[https://www.deviantart.com/charcoalman/art/SCP-4666-It-Never-Sleeps-840082763]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI I Feel Fantastic]] (also known as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09iknuzDlw Fantastic Hey Hey Hey]]). It's a video of an animatronic woman singing an off-putting song, made all the more creepy by the low quality camera and how jerky and inhuman her movements and voice are. Just in case you're feeling extra brave, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6TdRD3moBk you can watch the entire 16 minute video it was sourced from]].
* Someone had the idea to feed the "Screaming Frog" video into Google's Deep Dream neural net software. The results? After what seems like what would take countless iterations, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JSrKS6KUWE this.]] [[EyesDoNotBelongThere The frog's eyes pop up and disappear all over its body,]] it's sprouting some sort of tentacle-toe things all over the lower half of its body, and the video itself occasionally morphs into different things for an instant, such as a car or a dog. Now, keep in mind that Deep Dream is meant to look like a human dream. And not after our sleeping brains distill it into a form we can understand, for these are the pure memories of this neural net. And if that turned a relatively harmless frog video into [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Frog-Sothoth]], then [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm the real forms of our own dreams would be truly maddening.]]

* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'': [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/lester.htm Lester the Manbogey]] is a bio-construct designed to spy on and study colonies of humans by blending in as a human itself. However, it's noted to have a 100% failure rate; even human newborns can immediately tell that Lester is an imposter. Lester's creators are baffled how, since other races can't tell it apart from a real human.
* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': The central HumanoidAbomination is an abnormally tall guy with [[TheBlank no face or hair]] that wears a business suit. He apparently can't talk, and he walks in a very stiff manner, often with his arms out in front of him. He can also teleport anywhere he wants. [[ParanoiaFuel Like inside your house]]. The [[MultiArmedAndDangerous tentacles]] are a bit off-kilter, as well.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' plays with this. To the people of the New England Commonwealth, the Institute's 1st- and 2nd-generation Synths, which look like {{SkeleBot|9000}}s and {{Murderous Mannequin}}s respectively, are pure Nightmare Fuel because of their uncanniness. 3rd-generation Synths, which can [[ArtificialHuman pass for human]], are pure ParanoiaFuel. But potential companion Nick Valentine averts Uncanny Valley, since he's a discarded prototype with obviously fake "skin" and enough wear and tear to have his robot parts showing. As a result, he looks (and acts) human enough to be reassuring, but still obviously a robot instead of an infiltrator, and so is tolerated in Diamond City and even able to work as a private investigator.

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

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'':

*** [[spoiler:[[FinalBoss Merged Zamasu,]] the final opponent of the Future Trunks Arc, looks [[{{Bishonen}} unnaturally beautiful for all the wrong reasons.]] Firstly, it's the [[FallenAngel disgraced Kai Zamasu]] fused [[ParadoxPerson WITH HIMSELF, AKA]] [[HumanoidAbomination Goku Black, his alternate timeline self who stole Goku's body,]] making his existence on a fundamental level blasphemous in the eyes of the gods. He retains Zamasu's facial features and hair color, but everything else is superimposed over Goku's features, from his chin, height, to even the hair being simply Goku's Super Saiyan hair but slightly morphed. And for all of Zamasu's self-aggrandizing in this state, it is a completely unstable fusion, [[EldritchAbomination and the pretty facade quickly falls apart to belie a horrifying, multiverse-level threat]] and [[SanitySlippage a completely broken mind.]] You wouldn't believe such a pretty face would turn into a living Giygas reference over the span of three episodes.]]
*** [[spoiler: Moro, antagonist of the Galactic Patrol Prisoner Arc, begins the arc as a decrepit, hunched over old figure who resembles western demons in look. Initially not looking too threatening beyond his design seeming [[OffModel a little too keen on adhering to classical mythology]] amid the classic shonen look of the other characters, [[ProgressivelyPrettier he loses his elderly and withered look over the course of the arc]] [[LifeDrain by literally draining life energy from his surroundings.]] By the arc's end, he goes from looking like a supremely muscled goat demon straight out of biblical text throwing hands with Super Saiyan Gods, to a [[BishonenLine completely human-like form]] after ''[[EatenAlive swallowing the android 73 whole]]'']], only more powerful than ever and still possessing some of his monstrous traits such as horns and red eyes, owing to the series trend and keeping him just humanoid enough to look more powerful and combative, yet still demonic enough that it just looks WRONG. [[spoiler:[[SuperpowerMeltdown And then this ends up subverted too he starts devouring energy he can't control, and ends up needing]] to [[GeniusLoci abandon a humanoid body completely just to survive a few more minutes.]] In his final moments, he looks more like a rabid, mutant goat, completely alien to any of his previous looks, [[AlmightyIdiot and fundamentally cannot even comprehend what he became anymore.]]]]

* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/361829 The Gloaming]],'' a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' rewrite, vampires' status as an InhumanlyBeautifulRace falls into this--upon meeting Alice, Bella thinks that she looks more like a porcelain doll than a normal person.

* Scott Westerfeld discusses this in ''Literature/SoYesterday''. A special effects whiz explains that the human face is the hardest thing to animate convincingly because humans spend almost all of their time reading faces. If it's even a tiny bit off, we won't accept it.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In the episode "Knock It Off", the BigBad creates an army of PPG imitations, but with shoddy worksmanship. The scariest ones are those who are only ''slightly'' different from the originals.

* The remake of ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' by [[Creator/TimBurton (who else?)]] is a haven for this. The mix of live-action, CGI, and motion-capture makes for some [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm290228224/tt1014759 freaky Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dums]], the [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2983300608/tt1014759 Cheshire Cat]] and an [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1124370432/tt1014759 uncannily disproportionate Helena Bonham Carter]] as the Red Queen.

* The Spielberg movie ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'' turns the Uncanny Valley on its head by having actual actors play the [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots human-looking androids]]. However, it's used for effect in some scenes with CGI-animated partially damaged androids being hunted down and put on a bonfire at the Flesh Fair, and a sequence with many identical boy and girl androids hanging in the factory. The part where David "breaks" after ingesting human food (he shudders to a stop and the left side of his face sags alarmingly) is particularly effective. Alas, a scene after that, where David is lying on an operating table, still looking human, but with the "skin" on his chest peeled away, especially with them "testing" him; they flick something in him and his hand rises up slowly in a dead manner.
** Most robots (Jude Law's prosti-bot character Joe, for example) look a tad too perfect, with smooth skin, a perfect hairline, and so on. They slide deeper into the valley the more you look at them.
* ''Film/BicentennialMan'': [[invoked]] The valley is {{Discussed|Trope}} by Rupert when he starts making Andrew's new face, describing how minor flaws in human appearance, such as an asymmetrically shaped nose, make people more realistic looking. It's about getting to the other side of the valley, where the sharp incline to human-like appears.

* Michael Myers' mask from ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' creates this effect. If you're not paying attention, or viewing it in the dark, it looks human enough. At a passing glance, you might not even notice that it isn't his actual face. But when you get a good look at it, you notice something wrong. Very, very wrong. It looks like it was based on a human face, but one rendered soulless and inhuman by some unspeakable evil.[[note]]It was actually a mask of Creator/WilliamShatner as Captain Kirk.[[/note]] It gives the impression that Myers ''used'' to be human, but is now some horrific parody of humanity. The effect is unsettling at first, but the longer you look at it, the more it stares back, like some terrible staring contest. And the mask is never going to blink.

--->'''Loomis''': I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no, uh, conscience, no understanding and even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, of good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes, the devil's eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was purely and simply... ''evil''.

** The people who produced the film adaptation of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' say, in the DVD extras, that the reason they changed Voldemort's eyes from red (as they were in the book), to looking quite like your everyday eyes, is that "if you don't leave in a huge part of the human in him, he's not going to scare you."
** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'': The scene where the [[ArtifactOfDoom Horcrux]] is destroyed has visions of Harry and Hermione appear to Ron, both of whom appear with white, almost featureless, sort of glowing skin. Here it is deliberately {{invoked|Trope}}.

** [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Smaug]] also falls into this, Despite being a {{Kaiju}}-sized dragon, his face and body movements are much more human-like than they should be, since he is animated in SerkisFolk fashion.

* FoundFootage horror film ''The Houses October Built'' has Porcelain, a woman wearing a Victorian child's dress and a mask/makeup combination that makes her look like a heavily damaged antique porcelain doll come to life (complete with strangely proportioned head, unnaturally white skin, cracks in her face and chunks of missing hair). The other primary antagonists also have disturbing masks that they never take off, but at least you can easily ''tell'' that they're masks right away. She also tends to make very unnatural, stiff head motions when she's looking around, and on top of that, even though she's presumably a haunted house actor like the rest, she's the only one who never goes out of character.
* The odd Creator/EnkiBilal film ''Film/{{Immortal}}'' has many eerie CGI side-characters who interact with the live actors. They're supposed to be mutants, gods, and people with strange body augmentations (mainly skin grafts), and seeing them next to live actors (even ones with ice-like blue hair and bluish-white skin) is jarring. This was said to have been done to show that most people on Earth (except for a few main characters) have been dehumanized.

* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''. That film was ''about'' this trope.
** In the original version, when people started to be replaced, their closest relatives started to notice something ''off'' about them. A young woman was convinced that her beloved uncle was another man since, despite looking just like him, the gleam in his eyes was gone. A boy knew his mother wasn't his mother anymore because he knew her so well that he could recognize something was just wrong about her.
** In the remake, the effect is subtler, but goes clear and glaring in the scene where a replacement gone wrong results in a pod person with the body of a dog and the face of a man. The result is, well, disgusting.
* In-Universe in ''Film/IRobot'', Detective Spooner 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.

* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''Literature/{{Bequin}}'', Beta finds the Blackwards dolls deeply unsettling due to how highly detailed and lifelike they are, such as the girl doll having a wig of actual human hair. [[spoiler:She finds them even more unsettling when they come to life and attack her.]]

* Played straight in Neal Asher's ''{{Cormac}}'' novels with the Golem androids. Early in the series most Golem androids are absolutely perfect in their humanoid design, with god-like strength and god-like beauty. Humans are usually pretty disturbed by them in their perfection because it makes the androids feel LESS human, since real humans aren't perfect. Furthermore most non-combat Golems have inhibitors which stop them using their joints in impossible directions and from using strength far greater than even an enhanced human. Subverted when later models have purposeful imperfections (moles, limps, idiosyncrasies) to make them feel more human (but are still quite capable of tearing people, and other androids, limb from limb).

* ''Literature/ExtraterrestrialCivilizations'': (DiscussedTrope) When comparing humans to other primates, Dr Asimov quotes Creator/WilliamCongreve for his 1695 statement on finding disturbing similarities between monkeys and humans:

* In Rick Griffin's ''Literature/{{Argo}}'', androids are usually designed to look like {{Funny Animal}}s to avoid this trope, so that humans would be less intimidated by them.

* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfNarnia'': [[invoked]] Discussed in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', not as a vague feeling of uneasiness, but as a ''general moral rule'':
-->'''Mr. Beaver''': There may be two views about Humans (meaning no offence to the present company). But there's no two views about things that look like Humans and aren't.\\
'''Mrs. Beaver''': I've known good dwarfs.\\
'''Mr. Beaver''': So've I, now you come to speak of it, but precious few, and they were the ones least like men. But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be Human and isn't yet, or used to be Human once and isn't now, or ought to be Human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

** Lady Myria Lejean from ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', who is an Auditor in an artificial body created by the Auditors to look human. They don't understand human standards of beauty, but to make her appealing to Jeremy whom they need for their plans, their idea of making her the most beautiful woman alive is copying the features of what was considered the world's most beautiful painting of a woman, then improved upon them by erasing imperfections, adjusting symmetry, that sort of thing. The result is something that Jeremy describes as beautiful, though a "monochromatic" sort of beauty; he first suspects her to be an undead. Even after he gets over it and falls for her, his servant [[TheIgor Igor]] finds Myria highly uncanny as she doesn't smell like an undead - in fact, she doesn't have a smell at all. Also, she "doesn't manage to walk right" as her feet sometimes need a moment to touch the floor after she does a step - because she isn't used to submitting to gravity.

* ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'': ''[[Recap/NewSeriesAdventuresTheClockwiseMan The Clockwise Man]]'': Due to [[spoiler:Melissa's]] information on how humans looked being inaccurate [[spoiler:her]] face is described as a "parody of humanity", with eyes that seem too human.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/ExtraterrestrialCivilizations'': (DiscussedTrope) When comparing humans to other primates, Dr Asimov quotes Creator/WilliamCongreve for his 1695 statement on finding disturbing similarities between monkeys and humans:

* In ''[[Literature/FlipFlopGirl Flip-Flop Girl]],'' while attending her father's funeral, Vinnie is unnerved and upset by the wax dummy they put in the coffin to look like him (it's not explained what happened to his real body).
* In ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', this is what triggers Victor's near-immediate rejection of his creation. Victor had selected all of the Creature's body parts to make him as physically imposing and attractive as possible. What he ended up with was a sallow-skinned, sunken-eyed, varicose-veined hulk of a man with serious anger management issues. True to form, the trope kicked in as soon as it started moving. Creator/JunjiIto's manga adaptation of the story takes Shelly's words and puts a horrifying face to it, albeit more horrifying.

* ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': Quasimodo {{lampshade|Hanging}}s that his appearance falls into this trope:
-->... at last he [Quasimodo] said, shaking his heavy and ill-formed head,--\\

* In ''Literature/OnlyEverYours'' by Louise O'Neill, women can no longer be born naturally. They are bred in laboratories as future wives and prostitutes to serve men, and are engineered to be as physically perfect as possible. When protagonist freida and her classmates first meet the Inheritants (the group of boys they were designed for), freida notes the sharp contrast between the naturally born and physically diverse boys, vs the manufactured and artificial appearance of the girls

* ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'': Utterson says that Mr Hyde's appearance gives the impression of deformity without having any. People who look at him dislike him immediately without quite understanding why, though by the end it's clear that his underlying evil causes the reaction rather than any physical property. Adaptations tend to just give Hyde a NightmareFace however.

** Another movie example with ''Anime/OnePiece3DStrawHatChase'' the first and so far only entirely CG ''One Piece'' film. As technically impressive as the film is, it still brushes against this trope, as Oda’s stylised characters can be very jarring when put in 3D, especially [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/onepiece/images/5/58/Franky_Movie_11_Outfit.png/revision/latest?cb=20130624091657 Franky]] and [[https://www.vankaizer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Mugiwara-chase-Brook.jpg Brook]] and it also doesn’t help that characters have rather [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqsmqjv1WT1qklm53o1_500.gif stiff]] [[https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SkinnyShallowFalcon-size_restricted.gif movements]]. [[CanonForeigner Canon Foreigners]], [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8f/97/6c/8f976c21e5caca2cfccd1437c6bc66d3.png Schneider]] and his dog [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EB21CB_WsAATGa9?format=jpg&name=small Buzz]] are particularly freaky looking. ''VideoGame/OnePiecePirateWarriors'' despite also being in 3D, doesn’t dip into the UncannyValley nearly as much. * ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'': The titular monsters, while usually looking human, never blink and have very limited understanding of facial/emotional subtleties that place them quite firmly in this trope. They also are drawn with slightly elongated eyes with sharply pointed ends, giving their faces a distinctly inhuman aspect. Even scarier is that near the end, when police start using these attributes to recognize and kill the parasites, they occasionally kill ordinary (but crazy) humans by mistake.

* Used liberally in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' to make the animatronics more disturbing. Nothing more charming than pulling up a camera and seeing a robot [[ParanoiaFuel that wasn't there before]] and now [[NightmareFace looking back at you]] to make you feel [[SarcasmMode all nice and cozy]] at night. Of note is the history behind the characters: Creator/ScottCawthon originally developed kid-friendly games, but one such game, ''VideoGame/ChipperAndSonsLumberCo'', was [[UnintentionalUncannyValley criticized for having characters that look like creepy animatronics]]. After a CreatorBreakdown, Scott decided to turn this flaw into an advantage by creating a horror game about creepy animatronics. Special mention goes to Toy Chica from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'', who is the very incarnation of {{Fanservice}} [[FanDisservice gone horribly wrong]]. A yellow chicken-girl robot wearing attire that leaves very little to the imagination is slightly unsettling in and of its own, but when she starts roaming, she takes it above and beyond because her eyes and beak somehow disappear, leaving her with a very freaky GameFace.

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* Done intentionally in the WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters short "Twisted" with Harley Quinn. While she's normally a very cute AntiVillain (bordering on AntiHero in some versions), This version is both [[AdaptationalVillainy far eviler]], and [[{{Gonk}} very ugly]]. Even if you can get past her weird makeup and ScaryStitches, her facial features are misproportioned, and her eyes seem to not be focusing in the same direction.
* [[CreepyChild The Delightful Children From Down The Lane]] in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' have VoiceOfTheLegion, blank eyes, and sociopathic qualities, not to mention a slight NonStandardCharacterDesign. They're arguably the scariest aspect of the series. Lenny (the football helmet) averts this when he betrays them for the K.N.D. He's still a bit weird, but seems like a normal kid with a nasally lisp thanks to his headgear. [[spoiler:Then he dives headfirst back into the creepy hole when he reveals himself as a triple agent. He ''slides back into his place in the group with a slurping sound''.]]

* In ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'', this is one of the reasons why the [[RobotBuddy Assistroids]] are in their current form. The last generation were normal-sized RidiculouslyHumanRobots -- due to this, the Catians couldn't see them as "Tools", and a war was fought until the current generation of Assistroids was made.