This Troper is terrified of a certain doll who looks IDENTICAL to his infant cousin.

This tropette was watching Digimon Frontier and realized that each of the five main characters holds huge parallels to a person in her life. The total differences were NINE. NINE.

This troper's response to the trailer for the upcoming movie for TheSmurfs went something like this: "Oh God, it's ''this'' movie. Hollywood will make a movie out of anything these da-AUUUUUUUUUGH, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THEIR FACES?!"

Trollface. Am I the only one?

The first time I saw it, I was like. "WTF IS THAT THING?" And every time I saw it, I was like, "Must...look...away..." because for some reason, every time I saw it, I was reminded of that Batman Beyond movie that I saw when I was 5 that scarred me for life, where Joker made Robin into a little joker through surgery and genetics, for some reason. I slowly got used to it and can handle it without reacting to it like Medusa's head anymore.

This troper can't stand child pageants. The poor girls look so synthetic and fake. I can't stand people who dress up in animal costumes. Piercing create a very unsettling feeling in me.

The chimera that Shou Tucker created in episode 7 of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) fell under this trope for me... until I realised who it was. DAMN YOU, SHOU TUCKER! I WILL FOREVER HATE YOU WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY 15-YEAR-OLD BEING FOR THIS, AND I HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL. [-Poor Nina...-] : FINALLY, I get to say what I've wanted to say! The Webwasher filter at my school has gone what can only be described as a variant of haywire, and is blocking perfectly innocent sites for no apparent reason. Case in point, I was trying to edit this page and put my entry in, but it wouldn't let me save the edit! *cue several {{Cluster F Bomb}}s and considerable amounts of {{Angrish}}*

This. Number one in particular is incredibly unsettling... "looks like he's wearing a peeled child," indeed.

This troper is known for having five modes: fidgeting, pacing, eating, typing and asleep. All it takes to freak people that know me out is to STOP all movement and stare at a wall. Reactions have ranged from "What's wrong?t" to "Oh God, call an Ambulance!".

This troper can't stand anime. I always end up seeing those exaggerated facial expressions as real and it falls right down this alley. Especially when they're making a ":D" expression, or something like that. HOW DOES YOUR MOUTH KEEP CHANGING SIZE. WHY ARE YOUR EYES FLAT SURFACES. HOW DO YOU BREATHE WITH A SMALL BUMP FOR A NOSE. Chibi stuff aren't so bad, as long as they're only portrayed as chibi and nothing else (As in, a "realistic" *shudder* character turning into chibi is scary, but a character that's always chibi is fine).

I also hate Smileys. No wait, they're fine. However certain ones scare me. ^_^ = happy, but it's NOT SMILING. :3 = What else can it be? It's pretty obviously a SCROTUM face. Smileys with mouths are fine (:) :( :P :O :D) but not when people repeat the mouth (:DDDDDDD :OOOOOOO etc.)

Both are because Japanese people (and maybe Asians in general) look at different parts of the face when trying to recognize emotions. The greatest difference being that westerners look at the mouth, while Japanese people look at the eyes. So less attention is being payed to the mouth, and more to the eyes, which is why manga and anime, as well as Japanese emoticons (^_^ , @_@, etc.) have proportionally large eyes. What emotions are expressed with the mouth have to be overstated, thus the large difference in size. The Japanese beauty ideal is small mouth and nose, thus manga/anime characters have those characteristics. :3 is a CatSmile.

This troper (AIR) is ok with anime in general. However, I can't stand the way most shojo is drawn. They look like aliens!!!

I have one that really annoys me. A neighbour has this statue of an owl. It's VERY realistic, but has these creepy, shining eyes. Every time I pass it at night, I go "HOLY SHIT OWL!". Then, "Oh yeah...", then "ARGH WHAT THE HELL."

Though Handlebars (Flobots) is one of this troper's favorite songs, the people in the music video creep her the hell out.

This troper's mother was immensely disturbed by the characters of ''MonsterHouse'', which lacked the more cartoonish proportions of other CGI movie characters. So much so, in fact, she refuses to watch the movie again.

Cars in the 1980s that had voices to alert drivers of potentially hazardous situations squicked me out a little. This troper still cringes at the idea of a car saying, "The door is ajar."

This troper laughs at them, because he was a smart-ass that said "No, it's a DOOR."

Every time?

"ATTENTION, ATTENTION! THIS VEHICLE IS GOING BACKWARDS!" Argh, This Troper *loathes* her neighbor's car.

This troper's brother had one of those, and we decided that it sounded like Tom Brokaw only Tom Brokaw is a robot alien and we'd make up stories about him.

"PEGGY'S FATHER WITH ALZHEIMER'S IS ESCAPING!" "THE BASEMENT DOOR WAS JIMMIED WITH A BACK SCRATCHER!"

This troper has a a GPS route-finding device that announces directions out loud. It sounds like HAL, and its directions are wrong enough of the time that "Take me to X" "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" is a family joke. Sure, it's a glitch, but ''just maybe'' it's trying to kill you... Not to mention the inherent creepiness of "You have arrived at your final destination." Intoned with ''just not quite'' enough inflection.

Funny you should mention that...

Oh, and this episode of Doctor Who, too.

This troper can't help but have a shiver down his spine every time there is an Anonymous protest outside his local Scientology HQ. White face masks galore.

Anonymous is legion. We do not forget. We do not forgive.

When you say "local," are you implying that you frequent it? If so, please continue your shivering until you can tell us WHY ARE THEY DEAD.

I'd say that "his" would imply that he frequents it, not "local".

Pick up VForVendetta. You'll learn to love that mask.

You sure? This troper would dearly love to see a V-versus-Joker, not the least of which because at least ''one'' of 'em will be dead by the time it's over...

This troper has a cousin with severe genetic defects. On the surface, she looks like an ordinary girl of her age. But spend even a minute in her presence, and the defects become apparent. Not only is she unable to stand upright without support and has seizures, but she is mentally retarded to the point that this troper isn't sure if she's truly sentient. She's like an animal in a human body - and yet she is kin.

This troper has a great-aunt who's mentally retarded to the point that she has the mind of a four-year-old... despite being in her late 50's. Every time his family goes to visit her, he can't help but be really, really creeped out.

TwoWords: TearJerker.

That's why I can't substitute teach in [=EC=], (what used to be called "Special Ed") classes. My empathetic side feels sorry for them, but every other instinct is calling for retreat. The exaggerated cheerfulness of the other teachers in there doesn't help. They pretty much have to do that to register on the kids.

You too? I missed my last possible year to go visit a school in LA filled with the kids who are just too mentally impaired to go to a normal high school. He couldn't help but pity them when they'd come to perform for Christmas, and looking at a friend's field trip form, rule #1 of the trip was "YOU ARE NOT TO PITY THEM". How can I not, the poor souls...

This troper has been stuck in Special Ed, and HATES the overly-cheerful crap. I'm disabled, not stupid!

Aye, this Troper gets very creeped out around mentally disabled people. Not to mention birth defects and other things. *shudders*

I once saw a special on TLC about a girl who doesn't age. She was technically 16 years at the time of shooting, but she had the body of a baby. Here is an article about her. I find it almost too bizarre to comprehend.

This troper goes to a high school with a Special Ed class in it and has to walk by the classroom on her way to lunch as the disabled kids are getting ready to eat too. This troper has to keep her head down at the floor to keep herself from running away. It's not that I'm truly afraid of them (I really do sympathize for disabled people) it's just it frightens me to know that they weren't supposed to be that way, they could have been normal, yet somehow they weren't born right. It frightens me even more if they're mentally retarded as I don't know what to do in situations like that without feeling uncomfortable and scared.

This troper's nephews were burned in a car fire when they were young; their burn scars ranging from just a few here and there to one who bears an uncanny (pun not intended) resemblance to Jacqueline Saburido (both were trapped in their seats when their respective fires happened). I don't feel it's effects since I've seen them at least once a month (and have gotten used to it), but I only noticed this trope applies to him when I overheard a small girl who couldn't be older than eight at a high school football game say "mommy, that kid looks weird" or something to that effect.

Jesus Christ there's a shitload of ableism in this thread.

There's some ableism, yes, but there's also recognition that it's ''not'' socially acceptable to treat mentally impaired individuals differently - and yet many people have an irrational part of their brain repeatedly smashing the panic button every time they are around these individuals. This whole trope is about the fact that there is, for many people, an intuitive response of DO NOT WANT to things that seem human-but-not-right, and the fact that it is the exact same response to an extremely lifelike robot or puppet as to a child with, say, down syndrome makes it very clear that this is not society creating a stigma, but a built-in human reaction. (Not to mention, it ''is'' depressing to meet all the kids who are functionally retarded and will never be able to live on their own just because Mommy couldn't stay off the crack and booze while she was pregnant.) I learned from substitute teaching that while I handle just fine the high-functioning "special ed." kids who just have learning disorders, I need to stay away from the "sheltered environment" assignments, because I can't effectively hide my body language from the other students in the classroom when a kid who hits my own Uncanny Valley effect approaches me, and I don't want to encourage treating those students as different.

This teenage troper HAD TO LIFEGUARD, for the mentally and physically retarded. While I admit I was not effected by the uncanny valley here, do you know how pathetic it was to watch some of them swim? Half of them were in wheelchairs, and had to scoot around in the wading pool on their butts. Two in particular were really sad cases, both of them in wheelchairs. One was a boy and he was probably around my age, his hands and toes were curled into his body and it didn't seem like he had much ability to control them, although he wasn't flailing or anything, they stuck him in a neck brace (it looked like a life vest, but it didn't go on his torso, he was LITERALLY floating around by his head and neck dragged around by an aid). The other case was similar, although instead of being all curled up, she was flailing around and at times wailing or seeming to be very angry at being in the pool, she did not float around by her neck, and despite her nervous flailing I noticed she had some control over what she did. She seemed to be trying really hard to get away from her aid... Worst of all? I still see some of these kids around the high school, as it was the school pool.

This troper spent a weekend with a bunch of other theater groups at a school, among them a school for disabled people. Before this weekend, this trope applied for her. Now she's completly over it.

This troper has inherited her mother's very pale skin and tall, painfully thin build (aided by a metabolism running at the general speed of a Concorde), along with strabismus (more commonly known as 'squint') in the left eye. This makes it seem as if she isn't looking directly at the person with whom she is speaking (when in fact actually she is) and coupled with the rest of her inadequacies, it makes for a probably overall unsettling image. She has gotten used to the odd looks and sometimes rude remarks and generally tries to dispel them with good humor, an application of subtle self-tanning lotion and a pair of dark-tinted glasses when out in public.

This troper has a bad habit of thinking that store mannequins seen out of the corner of his eye are real people.

Each morning and every afternoon this Troper walks past a shop that has one and has done so for a year and it STILL creeps her out.

This troper does that too. It's why she's been afraid of them since early childhood.

This troper Has done this several times. It ''still'' makes me jump.

Same here.

Me too! It's just how my brain registers them.

Here's a new thought for you.. I took a modeling class and we actually were taught how to pose to be a mannequin. There are jobs out there for people pretending to be a mannequin. Some of them may actually be a person. (At least around the holidays.)

This Troper does that a lot too, and gets really creeped out when they don't have heads or arms before realizing...

And then when the people in the window actually ''are'' real, you do a double or triple-take...

I once saw, out of the corner of my eye, a real person taking apart a shop dummy. Yeah, that was frightening.

This troper frequents a mall where one of the stores has mannequins with half of their heads missing, as if they were sliced off at a weird angle. They have a mouth and the bottom half of a nose, then the head ENDS. NO IDEA why anyone would put that in a store window.

The basement section of this troper's local Myer store seems to be invoking UncannyValley, since it's teeming with mannequins. This Troper has occasionally bumped into a person and turned to apologise, only to find that said "person" is actually a mannequin. Eerie. And then there were the "mutilated" mannequins displayed during Halloween...

This troper has always found some bit of creep-out value in mannequins, not enough to have a real life episode, but enough to turn the mannequins from SilentHill 2 into NightmareFuel. And the perfectly harmless offscreen decapitation of one in SilentHill 3 practically knocked me out of my chair and left me scrambling with heart pounding.

A level on Condemned has living mannequin enemies, cue this troper freezing stock still in fear when he was locked in the clothes store where he worked with dim lighting behind many many mannequins. They lined the path to the office meaning that my walk turned into a short sprint near the doors, no looking back.

Series/DoctorWho, the first episode of the rebooted series. That is all.

The Kohls mannequins are terrible, especially the children ones... ye gods!

For me it's scarier when I see something in the corner of my eye, think it's an object, then find out that it's an actual person or something else living. It was especially scary when it happened with a little girl who looked like she came straight out of a horror movie, white dress, a bow, hands clasped behind her back, and just ''staring''.

This troper, at eight years old, was accidentally locked in the dressing room of a community theater while her mother was rehearsing for ''Little Women''. In the room, there was a mannequin propped in such a way that it seemed to be towering directly over me. I am now twenty-one years old, and I ''still'' hate mannequins.

For me, it's those flat cardboard people that make me creeped out for the same reasons.

This troper's school library has these cardboard cutouts of people. They're very realistic and look three-dimensional. They creep this troper out to no end—they ''look'' like real people. Except they're not. And that's really creepy.

This troper Has ''always'' had issues with pictures of birth defects. Not so much disfigurements from an accident or something, just anything congenital or genetic. There's just something about humans being born looking inhuman that makes me feel like nature isn't to be trusted, and the world is a really squicky place on a primordial level. I saw a commercial for some Discovery Channel show about The Elephant Man when I was around eight, and... Well, needless to say, I didn't watch Discovery for a while after, and that commercial was ''literal'' NightmareFuel for me off and on for years after. Which probably means this is more like NightmareValley for me.

This troper read the elephant man story online and promptly need a hug and a Kleenex.

As far as birth defects go, the scariest by far is Harlequin babies [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_type_ichthyosis]], born ''with their skin inside out and keratinized into diamond-shaped scales...a gaping inside-out mouth, two slits for a nose, holes for ears'' and '''bulging red eyes which usually bleed at birth.''' - the photographs (if you can bare to look) provide enough nightmare fuel to power a spaceship at the speed of light across the entire universe. DONOTWANT.

This Troperess has been always bothered by pictures of ''any'' newborns and babies covered in blood and such. It's just that... I mean... I just hope it'll be gone t'll I'll give birth myself, 'cause screaming of fear and squicking on the sight of own child is retarded.

This troper is scared of Michael Jackson. He is...unreal. Same for most celebrities who had a bit too much surgery. They look like inhuman monsters.

While he may look creepy, you have to admit that he was an awesome musician. Before, you know... But this Troper is with you one-hundred percent when you say plastic surgery is creepy as all hell.

Seconded! I'm a big Micheal Jackson fan, but... he reminds me of Voldemort. I once had a dream where everyone (even my pets) had his face. OHGODOHGODDONOTWANT!!!

The whole feeling strange about plastic surgery thing is true for me, too. When the current queen of Sweden made a speech a few years back and a 12 year old me was there to watch in person, i was somewhat puzzled, but i had no idea why. after looking for a moment or two, I realized this was because her face wasn't moving while she spoke. Everything but the mouth was absolutely still. I have had nightmares about that face a few times since, before i realized why her face didn't move.

The first time I saw Micheal Jackson, I didn't know who he was and asumed he was an actor staring in a horror movie.

Not sure where to put this, so I'll just put it here. Many/most Aspies (definition from the other wiki - by the way, no matter what it says, '''yes''' we have a sense of humour), This Troper included, both ignore the Uncanny Valley and fall victim to it. They/we ignore it by not seeing it in the first place, it just doesn't register - for example, I saw nothing wrong with ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''s physical portrayal of people, and highly enjoyed ''Bicentennial Man''. We fall victim to it in our interactions with those strange creatures known as 'neurotypicals' (you call yourselves 'normal' ;P), where many people pick up on something subtly 'wrong' about us and treat us according to their beliefs on 'different', varying from 'intriguing' or 'finally, someone interesting', through 'humour him, edge away slowly', all the way to 'DIFFERENT EQUALS BAD, DESTROY!'. I'll let you decide for yourselves what this does to someone over a lifetime.

This Aspie Troper ''does'' notice mannequins and is rather scared of them (though noticed nothing wrong with the Final Fantasy movie), but tne again she ''is'' only mildly Aspie.

Holy crap, are you me?

Same here, except I '''was''' actually creeped out by FF:TSW.

ohhh.. thats why everyone around my always thinks im so scary. 1 i am an aspie. 2 i have learned to cope with the fact that people are scared of me by avoiding people, so people dont really know anything about my personality. 3 i am a really big muscular guy. i guess all of them combine to scare the crap out of people.

I don't have Asperger's, but I'm not particularly creeped out by famous UncannyValley ad people like the CGI Orville Redenbacher, The Burger King or Aunt Jemima.

This anonymous troper also doesn't mind Aunt Jemima or Orville Redenbacher, but ''is'' very spooked by the Burger King.

This troper doesn't have Asperger's either, but finds nothing odd about most UncannyValley examples. If anything, the stylization can be kind of neat. (Corpses and zombies are still creepy.) Incidentally, I don't find most people with Asperger's particularly annoying either, as long as they don't decide that I need to hear all about the Ranma fanfic they're planning. (I cringe even at the memory.)

This Aspie troper can back up the examples, except that I was deathly afraid of the rows of identical, slowly turning clowns used in luck games at local funfair type thingies. These days, not so much, and I'm thinking of ways to avert the MonsterClown. On the other hand, see TheGreys below.

This Aspie Troper has a big problem with messy CG animation, like that horrible baby from the Pixar short Tin Toy

And this Aspie troper always wondered, what's all the fuss around this thingamabob called UncannyValley about? Mannequins? She never paid any attention to them. A talking car? She thinks, only a pitiful neurotic can be scared by this. Skeletons and zombies? Fun, fun, fun! Time for a good old-fashioned pitchfork showdown!

This troper is a case of PDD-NOS (PDD is the same umbrella that Aspies fall under.) However, I seem to suffer a lot less Uncanny Valley incidents than my Asperger boyfriend. Such as I have no issues with The Spirits Within (love that movie) or Oblivion, but playing either will send my lovely other over the edge.

This troper has PDD-NOS also, and he finds the term neurotypical rather offensive. Sometimes he sees Uncanny Valley in drawings or real people.

What's wrong with neurotypical?

I know 'neurotypical' isn't the nicest or most accurate term in the world, but it's the only one we have at the moment. It'll do until somebody invents a better word for a non-autistic person.

"Normies".

This Aspie troper often notices people being slightly unnerved by her, sometimes even before she says anything to them. She attributes it to an Uncanny Valley reaction brought on by lack of neurotypical body language.

This Aspie troper has never experienced this "UncannyValley" thing. The Burger King guy is just a man in a stupid-looking mask, mannequins are mannequins, robots are robots, etc. I can't for the life of me figure out why people are so bothered by not-quite realistic representations of humans; don't you all know that it isn't the real thing?

We know it isn't the real thing. It's just that it can be unsettling when we expect something to act or look a certain way only to see that it doesn't.

Also, the fear is on a deep, primal level - knowledge and logic don't enter into the equation. ''We'' know it's a doll or computer model - but our subconscious mind thinks it's a HIDEOUS FREAK FROM THE UNDERWORLD.

This non-Aspie troper has never experienced anything like others on this page describe herself. Go figure.

This Aspie Troper has never experienced Uncanny Valley response beyond an occasional mild "that's pretty creepy" (Usually when she's been briefed beforehand that she should have some reaction, so even then its validity as a genuine experience of the effect is questionable) that she knows of, except for one thing -- the Splicers in ''{{Bioshock}}''. She's even the one that first added them to this article. Something about them manages to trigger the sort of "MUST KILL NOW!" response that she's heard other people talk about. The first time she got a close look at the corpse of one in the demo, she had to grab the wrench and beat it a few times just to make sure it was dead. The Little Sisters, on the other hand, get absolutely nothing from her -- she thinks they're creepy, but for entirely different reasons relating more to CreepyChild rather than a supposed "not-quite-human" appearance.

This broader autism phenotype (BAP---debate rages whether it's a real disorder or just introversion run wild) troper tends not to have too much trouble with the Uncanny Valley, even going so far as having random sexual fantasies about some of the women in Oblivion's Imperial City.

I have PDD NOS, and I'm certainly affected by UncannyValley. In fact, I have that reaction for other species, too, especially cats. I saw a video once which had taken still pictures of cats and animated them (like the animation bits in Monty Python except with cats) and it really creeped me out. Animals trained to act like humans can set this off too, such as an auditory UncannyValley reaction to cats saying recognizable words (which some can do with a lot of training).

This Aspie troper apparently seems like an example of the Uncanny Valley to some people. He wasn't diagnosed until age 29, but it explains why other people's reactions to him have sometimes been so extreme. His facial expressions often tend toward the frowny side when he's thinking (which is frequently). When asked a question, he'll purse his lips, squint, and furrow his brow while pondering the answer, causing the question-asker to think he's irritated or downright pissed off. Asking him a question while he's exerting himself will yield an even more face-contorted response (and often a curt reply, due to the difficulty of having to coordinate two wildly different parts of the brain). Then when other people react to such responses, this troper will read the shift in the person's demeanor, and wonder what set it off, introducing confusion and increasing frustration into the situation for both sides. And before too long, the frustration leads to anger, which looks even scarier. And then there are the people who find his seemingly-extreme reactions amusing, and who will do everything they can to needle a response out of him, just for the entertainment value. It's like being poked with a stick, and ignoring them seldom works because they know he's aggravated and will thus keep doing. Then when this troper has finally had enough, the resulting rage mode seems unreasonable. It's like being a sideshow exhibit.

This autistic troper sees why puppets can be very creepy, but also has a crush on one. However, only the ''true'' one is toleratable, but certain variants are ''NOT'' go!!!

Ah, that would explain why this Aspie Troper isn't bothered by this sort of thing... usually.

Actually I don't buy all that about Aspies being generally immune to the UncannyValley... Remember, the UncannyValley is ''extremely'' subject to YourMileageMayVary in the first place. Also above there are already some exceptions listed.

Very true. I don't think Aspergers has any effect on personal likes and dislikes. Two given aspies will be as different from each other as two given NTs will be. A lot of people seem to forget that.

This troper is an Aspie, but he has exactly the opposite response with the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is extreme for this troper. He could not finish watching "2012" because the science, while sounding logical, is so off that it became downright uncanny for him. If any other troper had that problem, he has not seen that entry. Bizarrely, he did not have that problem with Avatar, but he always has that with food in CGI films. He normally loves the trope.

This troper is best friends with someone with Asperger's, and loves the boy to ''death,'' but at points she can't stand being ''near'' him, because he just triggers a primal urge that there is something ''wrong'' with him.

This troper with Asperger's is extremely self-conscious about falling into the Uncanny Valley. She is uncomfortably well aware that her rocking backwards and forwards, talking to herself, and making strange movements somewhere between dancing and possession while listening to music is considered extremely creepy to others. Hell, it creeps her out when her fellow aspie brother does it. And on a personal level, to disprove the whole "Aspies don't have the Uncanny Valley" theory, supermodels. It's not the unnatural perfection that gets this troper, it's the freaky pouty expression they have in EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN PICTURE. UGH. So yeah, just because our valley (or just this troper's valley) is a bit different, doesn't mean we don't have one. Oh, clowns freak me the hell out too. And those singing.....''things'' from {{Mirrormask}}.

This is why AS-types should never ''ever'' '''ever''' admit their disorder - because then you're seen as UncannyValley and then peoples' response is "Get this crazy..''thing'' out!"

This non-autistic, completely neurotypical troper has had people tell her that ''she'' falls into Uncanny Valley (not in those words). When I ask them why they're so weirded out, they either can't say why ("You're just...not like other people.") or they say it's because she walks fast or writes fast, or because she's very calm. I don't understand it at all, since I know people with those traits and they don't fall into Uncanny Valley, I don't move differently than most people, and I don't look weird or anything. I could be sitting perfectly still and reading, wearing normal clothing, and they still stare like there's something wrong with me.

This Aspie troper actually suffers bouts of Uncanny Valley in real life. Sometimes, after sitting and watching the t.v. for awhile, seeing all of these people with makeup and shite on, he'll turn and look at the people around him, who just seem...off.

This troper with Aspergers has never been even slightly upset by models, mannequins, anime, etc., but occasionally experiences the Uncanny Valley while looking at herself in a mirror. She also triggers the Uncanny Valley for her parents. It's a side effect of aimless skipping and rocking, a strange toe-heel gait, and constant murmuring or tuneless singing. Consequently, she feels like she's acting whenever she's out in public.

Just '''try''' to not cringe when you walk up to a perfectly normal-looking person to discover they're wearing a Scream mask.

How about try not to laugh?

This troper had to watch The Others for a college class once. She was totally cool until they got to the Book of the Dead, the photos of ''corpses'' posed like living humans. Cue a days-long full-bore freakout. I couldn't sleep for thinking how they'd pose me if I died. I was afraid of the chair in the bathroom lest I turn around and find a body sitting in it. I eventually turned the whole experience into a final exam paper on the uncanny valley, but I was Not Okay for quite some time.

Try livejournal communities like 'darkvictoria' for this sort of thing. Scroll through a lot of lovely family portraits (albeit most in mourning clothes, to fit the comm's theme) and then BAM, it's a mother holding her dead child, or a baby posed on a chair with adhesive mortuary eyes on so it looks like it's staring at you with its eyes COMPLETELY OPEN. No lids, just whites and then this dead black pupil... shiver. The gesture of post-mortem photography is beautiful, and this troper's contemplated once or twice whether she wants it done after she's dead- not just casket photography, but me posed to be reading a book or similar-- but oh, jeez. They're about as lively as any other Victorian photograph, and worst of all, sometimes you can't tell...

This Troper has never seen that picture, but got creeped out by the discription.

GAH! This troper has seen that exact same photo, during a classmate's presentation on postmortem photos and... just... oh good god what were they thinking?

Back in the day, digital cameras did not exist, where you could shoot literally thousands of photos a day virtually everywhere. Victorian-era photographs were very much more like portrait shoots all the time. You don't necessarily get to have them while your loved ones were still alive, so this was pretty much the only other option of having something to remember them by.

It's in no way the intent that gets this troper-- the intent is beautiful, even admirable. It's the execution.

And again I ask - what other options did they have? Dead people, no muscle control, no pink flush, no breathing, no sings of life. You either take photos when they're alive, or when they're dead. And if they died before any photos were taken of them...

Just because it was a logical alternative back then doesn't mean it isn't incredibly unnerving ''now.''

Exactly! I'll grant that most Victorian era post-mortem photography just makes them look like they're sleeping, and is only creepy with the knowledge that they're dead, but to ''glue a dead baby's eyes open oh my flurking God!'' how did they not find THAT just a little creepy at the time?

This troper couldn't have been the only girl in the world who was seriously freaked out by the Teddy Ruxpin doll? OK, the first time I saw it, I liked it. But the second time I saw the store display, the thing had been running for a long time and made gear grinding noises whenever its eyes and mouth moved. Traumatized for life. Best friend had one, and this troper refused to sleep in the same room with it. The very patient friend had to either carry it out into the living room or have it hidden before I even arrived.

I can't say about the first girl, but you're not alone in that opinion. Of course, said ThatGuyWithTheGlasses special might just make him scarier; better to stay away.

This troper's sister was once given a set of the animatronic teddy ruxpin and grubby dolls, as creepy as those things are, it doesn't help when their voices do a slowdown akin to that of a tape recorder thats run out of battery power. "Hi Teddy, my name is Grubbeeeerrooowww...."

This troper visited Mount Rushmore on holiday once, and spent the whole day seeing George Washington smirking or winking just out of the periphery of his vision.

I'll say this even if my sister and hordes of fangirls attempt to murder me: GACKT. Seriously, he looks fine in the Final Fantasy game, but then you realise: HE IS A REAL PERSON. That's just creepy.

EXACTLY. This Troper is even more freaked out by this for the Perverse Sexual Lust she harbors for him. He looks so artificial...

He's so pretty that it WORRIES me!

Wait, WHAT? GACKt..as in..Gakupo?

Gackt, as in the real life singer who was the voice source of Gakupo. Gakupo is "Gackt+poid".

This troper was startled by how much of this he invoked with an extremely simply costume for Halloween, dressed as the Red Death. He took a standard BlackCloak with hood and an attached face-covering veil that only the wearer could see through, then simply put on a red scarf and a red Mardi Gras-style masque over it. The result made it appear as if this troper had no face and the masque was simply floating over an empty chasm. It made teenage pollsters scream and run at forty feet.

This troper had a similar outfit on halloween, A black robe with black gloves, and a black one-way hood that covered my face from view, the difference being I had a set of glasses that turned on for a few seconds then turned off, and repeated this endlessly. The effect being it made it look like I had a glowing red set of eyes that appeared and disappear. I made several children cry the night I took my 5 year old brother trick or treating, one case was bad enough when I walked up to the door I had to take my mask off to calm her down. On top of this I scared several adults and teenagers crapless, with many surprised shouts and startled reactions. I was also a little creeped out by myself, because I went to the basement room to check how my costume looked in the mirror. All-in-all it was a pretty scary costume...

This anonymous troper had that problem when she went as Ledger Joker last year. I took cream makeup, lipstick, and green hair dye that made my hair look stringy and greasy (but not green, my hair's too dark... T_T). I made several little kids cry just by looking at them, made several adults and teenagers jump, and nearly gave my own mother a heart attack. On a side note, the Red Death is an ''excellent'' idea for a Halloween costume...

This troper was working in her University's cafeteria when someone dressed as Ledger's Joker came in. At first she was just stared, a bit bemused. Then he smiled at her... She had never been more scared in her life.

This Troper dressed as Ledger!Joker about three years ago for Halloween, and must have been deep in the Uncanny Valley for a few people. I won the award for scariest costume in the costume contest at my school, and scared the shit out of a little girl (who was, ironically, dressed as Raggedy Ann). When she came around the corner and looked at me I smiled at her and she made the D: face. It looked like she was gonna shit a brick. Another time, about eight or nine years ago, I was dressed as the grim reaper for halloween, so I was probably in the Uncanny Valley that year as well. One of my next door neighbors, when he learned that I wanted to try and scare people, gave me the advice to just stand there and stare. It worked. I accidentally made a kid cry.

This troper once had sticky tape stuck over her mouth to shut her up in class once. She put on her slightly ScaryShinyGlasses, grinned a la Ledger and looked at a friend. Said friend FREAKED OUT. The teacher asked me to turn around. Cue slow head turn and everyone in the class shitting them selves, including the teacher.

This troper was sitting in line at her local convention's consuite when she noticed a guy cosplaying TimBurton's Sweeney Todd. Good-looking and note-perfect costume, haggard appearance, bit of a Noodle Person, but no problems there... so I waved, and complimented him on it all with my usual cheer. The conversation stopped dead; he didn't respond, or even move, but merely looked at me darkly... and then I realized his one hand had crept back to stroke his razors in their holster. By all appearance real vintage straight razors. Friends say I went dead white and took a ''big'' step back... then promptly left the consuite and did not return. (This is from a troper who went around hugging Joker cosplayers, and currently has a 1/4 scale BJD head in his likeness sitting disembodied around her house.)

This troper was at a grocery store and noticed the seagull sculptures along the shelves of fish. He had to put his hand to them to make sure they weren't real.

This troper knew this girl in middle school. She looked perfectly normal and all, but... just... off. He's not entirely sure how to explain. Just... she moved so unnaturally. She was like an action figure. It would have been deeply disturbing if, by that time, this troper had not seen countless corpses, decapitations, lynchings, burnings... the internet is not a good place for disturbed people, that it is not.

This troper is okay with inhuman looking characters, as long as they are consistent from panel to panel, somehow. Plot related shape changes are okay, but if there is no explanation, cue freakout. In other words, clearly defined rules of anatomy or no thanks.

Recently this troper has theorised that the reason he is so freaked out by Grey aliens is probably that they fall somewhere in the UncannyValley. Spindly, genderless, huge skull-like faces... they do look something like skeletons...

Greys are said to be a modern personification of ancient fears about fairies and such - they'll take you away at night, they're really weird looking, they're supernatural...

...either that, or I'm suppressing memories of alien abduction. Which would explain a LOT.

This troper finds them adorable...but the fact that she had a bunch of those shirts and stickers with cute hippie-ish aliens in tie-dye giving the peace sign when she was a kid might have something to do with it...

The 90's live-action AnimalFarm made This troper hate pigs for most of her childhood. (to the point of never even allowing one near her whenever the rare opportunity arose.) Not because of how the story portrayed them, but because ''realistic pig snouts shouldn't move like human lips.'' It's just ''wrong''. Actually, a lot (if not all) of movies that have live-action animals talk like people fall into this trope.

Mannequins are one of this troper's major {{Squick}}s, but I also detest fake plants. Their unnatural perfection creeps her out -- plants shouldn't have 100% green leaves with unmarred trunks/stems and perfectly identical flowers. And they shouldn't feel like dead, scratchy ''fabric'', but that's obvious.

Skeletons. Especially ''moving'' skeletons. They're not fun, they're ''creepy as hell''! Somehow, they clearly look a lot like humans... except they're horribly, horribly wrong, like a ''way'' too thin human being. By extension, anything that looks similar enough to a skeleton (or any head with sufficiently skull-like features) becomes creepy.

This troper has been uneasy about skeletons since childhood, to the point of running away crying from every single Halloween decoration featuring one. I've never really understood why you would ''want'' jewelry or clothing or what have you with a skull motif.

Because it looks ''damn cool'', that's why.

This troper isn't bothered by skeletons at all. He thanks rpgs.

Looking at the commercials for that new Coraline movie (the one being created by Henry Selick, the guy that made The Nightmare Before Christmas) give this troper the heebie-jeebies; at first it looks like CGI, BUT THEN, later in the movie it switches to a REALLY jerky movement scheme and give the characters a texture like they were made out of cloth (not to mention the whole "buttons for eyes" in the book...

That would be because it's stop-motion. You know, like WallaceAndGromit, or The Nightmare Before Christmas. I really can't blame you for being creeped out - I don't think they could've chosen a better way to make that movie.

This Troper does not experience the Uncanny Valley, at all. This extends to real corpses. That such a thing even existed did not even occur to me until I stumbled across it on that other wiki. For the record This Troper has a spotless mental health record.

This trooper is the same way. Most of the examples on the list just strike me as badly rendered. Not creepy, not scary, just badly done. And real corpses are dead, anyway. Never understood how someone can fear something that can't even move.

This trooper believes the reason people are instinctively afraid of corpses is not because they think they're going to sudenly grab for them and try to eat their brains (although that helps), but becase a dead corpse is a potential plague bearer and not at all the best thing to hang around.

This Troper doesn't really experience the phenomenon either. However, she DOES see how others could be freaked out by it. In fact, she enjoys finding and if possible collecting things that fall into the Valley. More on that later...

This Troper bought a three-foot fake trick-or-treater mummy for KMart for Halloween this year. It was the most awesome thing he had ever bought at the time... but now, when he walks down to the living room at 6 a.m. and sees it standing, the faintest light glinting from its black eyes, its arm extended as if beckoning, and he occasionally mistakes it for a real person...

The freaking freaky IMVU web advertisements that show up everywhere pretty much embody ErectionRejection for this troper. Having phony smiles and expressions on plastic-like body models dress up in a variety of supposedly FetishFuel outfits? These are the things that will haunt my sleep indefinitely.

This troper isn't much frightened by bad CGI, overly "realistic" dolls like MyTwinn or Reborns (let alone ball-joint dolls, which are far too stylised to do any damage), sex dolls, robots or mannequins, but is absolutely revulsed to the point of sickness by bad photoshop jobs-- especially those done on child beauty pageant contestants. It's just childlike enough and then infinitely not-child, and if you spend any time around ''actual'' children ever it just makes it worse, and oh... To boot, mini-busts of comic book characters also give me the willies, especially if they're less stylized than their source material. Oh good Lord.

This troper has a growing phobia of a certain type of face: very strongly expressive, usually with heavy/dark eyebrows, dark eyes and a strong mouth. Particularly when it's on something that isn't human, but seems to have a soul anyway. And that soul is screaming. Warning: NightmareFuel

It's actually NightmareRetardant for the second picture when you realize that those fish are making perfect 8O and D8 expressions.

Reaction to dog video: Ahahaha .... OMFG, please stop staring!!!!!!

This troper has had a few run-ins with this trope, but one that really stood out was a recent commercial for H & R Block or something. it had a bunch of people -- real people-- who had CGI added to make them look like cyclopes. Combinations of real people and CGI always creep me out.

This troper can't stand huge breast implants. They're so disgusting and disturbing to look at.

Same, but with all cosmetics (but there is another reason for the implants as well...)

I second the cosmetics and the improbably big implants. And female tropers, please, PLEASE, '''PLEASE''' don't shave your eyebrows. Drawn-on eyebrows DO NOT. LOOK. RIGHT.

This troper is really bothered by them because not only do they look odd, they also look incredibly stupid and unfitting for the woman who got them. This especially becomes apparent with video game characters who have the MostCommonSuperpower or GagBoobs... Yuck.

Umm, how screwed up do you have to be for parts of the UncannyValley to act as FetishFuel? Just asking...

Not very. Rule34 pretty much insures it. UncannyValley, like Squick, NightmareFuel, FetishFuel, etc. is a very subjective trope.

This Troper once made a mask out of a picture of a real face, and wore it to a costume party. People who knew me well got instantly squicked. After all, they knew my face, and this wasn't it. Might also be because the way I cropped the face picture to fit on the mask unintentionally made it look a little like it was a girl with her head cut off.

Don't you think that some fashion model photographs, especially the ones that try quite hard to look 'seductively blank-faced' or rather, 'deadpan' fall straight to the dreaded valley? This troper had a hard time to look for the element 'sexy' in those pictures. The heavy make-up they wear just worsen the matter, really.

'''Just try''' reading The Phantom of the Opera and then looking up photos of Erik online. If unmasked Erik doesn't scare you enough with the whole living corpse thing, think about this: Erik can creep about in the shadows as silent as a mouse, so silent that his victims don't notice until it's too late. He dresses in all black, so all you would see of him if you turned to look are his glowing yellow eyes. He has tunnels and trapdoors everywhere in the opera house; he even has one behind a mirror ''in his beloved's dressing room.'' If that still isn't enough, imagine being approached by a guy in a detailed, full-face black mask with glowing yellow eyes. Oh yeah, and he kills people. Pleasant dreams...

is there anyone else who is creeped out by those ball-jointed dolls. It's not necessarily the dolls themselves, but the photography of them that exists on places like deviantART. I'll just be browsing around, spot what looks like a nice picture of some girl and her boyfriend, click on it and it looks... wrong. It takes a couple of seconds to work out that what I'm looking at is a pair of dolls, and that freaks me out for some reason.

Hey. This troper ''owns'' a ball jointed doll, and is looking to get a second, but having that happen gives me the ''severe'' creeps. I'm okay with sites or galleries that are all doll pictures, but trying to puzzle it out on the fly-- is that a joint or just their shoulder? Is that a shadow, or the line where the doll's head delineates from its neck?-- makes me panic a little every time.

Ball jointed dolls aren't as bad as those expensive children's dolls. My friend has a bedroom full of them, all around her bed and on her drawers and stuff. They look pretty real and probably even real-er at night. It doesn't help that many are on those metal stands and boxes. I don't know how she can sleep.

This troper is terrified by mannequins.

This troper started drawing regularly in the seventh grade, and tried to imitate anime style. However, she hadn't yet acquired a good sense of proportion or otherwise an idea of what a human is supposed to look like (or, in more sophisticated terms, she drew on the left side of the brain as opposed to the right), so she drew humans with incredibly flat (sometimes even ''concave'') heads and these huge, vacant, zombie-like eyes with sparkles placed randomly in them. This troper has since had nightmares about her old drawings of flat-headed zombies that were supposed to look like normal people.

This Troper feels his own personal uncanny valley is a little to the left of everyone else's. So while ultra-realistic robotic humans leave me feeling mildly creeped out, this video left me deeply, deeply disturbed.

No, This Troper is pretty sure that falls solidly into Uncanny Valley, I'd find it hard to believe there's someone who wouldn't be creeped out by that.

*raises hand* Believe it. This troper doesn't see anything creepy on any of these pages. Subjective trope is subjective, remember.

This Troper have met the Uncanny Valley in a bus. She looks like a young woman, but thinner than every single thin woman. She must be suffering severe anorexia, to the point were you can see her ''bones''. Yeah, literally, all she got was some flesh left on her bones. Combined with a pale, cadaveric skin, and a black robe in wich she seems to float... Looking at her was like looking to a human skeleton. She was creepy enough, but then she starts to ''move'', like a disincarnate puppet; her arms reaching slowly the door, straight as two pieces of wood, shivering lightly. And then, she ''gasps''. Ooooooh boy, that was NightmareFuel !

This Troper has a wish (for lack of a better term) of making the cast of AzumangaDaioh real. (Not like that! For friendship. We have a ''very'' lonely troper here.) Assuming they look like normal, and not like real people, there's still how to, er, "render" them. I'd choose constantly updating 2D over 3D. But then, there's still the tactile aspect, either having them feel like plastic or the realistic approach - their skin feeling like real skin, their hair feeling like real hair, et cetera. Urp.

This Troper once had a babysitter who was a fundamentalist Christian who always acted happy to a creepy extent even when there isn't a reason to say "Happy Tuesday!". The way how he acted like he had one emotion made a swear he was not human, placing him deep in the valley for me.

There exist photoshops of Gaston and Belle from ''BeautyAndTheBeast'' with their facial features swapped. Gaston in particular has disproportionately small, delicate figures in the middle of his face with tons of space to spare. Someone on LJ had it as their icon. I'm not sure whether I should laugh or feel viscerally horrified.

This troper saw it and made sure to IM it to every person on her buddy list :D

This Troper works at a telephone relay service for deaf people, which frequently involves calling companies with automated menus. Normally this is not a problem, but somewhere along the line someone had the bright idea that these voices should be recorded to convey emotion. Machines were never meant to sound that much like real people, so everything sounds just a little bit wrong. Every time Social Security apologizes (completely insincerely) for the long hold time, This Troper dies a little more inside.

This troper ordinarily doesn't have a problem with mannequins, but there was the time he was on the bus and suddenly noticed the girl across from him - apparently coming right out of a nearby cosmetology school - was holding a disembodied mannequin head with realistic hair in her lap. Eek.

This thing is still reigning supreme as the scariest thing this troper has ever seen in her life. ''Oh my god, why is this this?''

I saw that for the first time about a week ago and slept with the lights on for three days.

It shows how deranged this troper is that she's clicked on that link three times and still smiles after seeing it. It's cute! Sort of... crippled and ineffectual and high-voiced and moe.

This troper is now scared of how much that thing scares her.

This troper wonders what the heck that video was, since now it's been removed.

If this troper is guessing right, the video was of a roughly human-looking gynoid that sings a creepy sort of song, while her hands and head move slowly. "I am fantastic, hey hey hey." Combined with a trippy {{BLAM}} of a forest scene with the same music over it randomly appearing.

Yes: It's Tara, an android built by John Bergeron; that's one of her "music videos." Tara is ''terrifying'' and her other music video is ''even worse''. You know you're in trouble when you start asking "is she scarier without eyes, or with?"

I'm thinking the music may be enhancing the effect. I'm not usually creeped out by the uncanny valley but that video was getting to me. Then I watched it again, but muted. It hardly bothered me (and I'm thinking that what is bothering me is remembering the music).

O_O -Starts Loading Revolver Frantically-

Those blends of two people to show what their potential offspring might look like ''really'' get this troper. Especially if both people are grown-up actors-- I can't help but look at it and get conflicting cues of which one of them it is, until realising, it's ''both''. AAAAGH. No matter how good the photoshop is-- and sometimes it's really good-- it... throws me. The offspring of ZacharyQuinto and ChrisPine look particularly uncanny.

To each their own, cos as a fan (and shipper) of both; he's gorgeous!

This troper's younger sister once intentionally invoked this trope, apparently - I went to all the bother of bringing home cupcakes (subverting the potholed trope by bringing them home all right) and how does she thank me? She looms over my shoulder, grins, and ''holds her breath''. For about two minutes. NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished.

This troper can't suppress a shudder whenever shown Kingdom Hearts screenshots. For some reason the people in it REALLY creep me out.

This female troper thinks that they are all very hot, especially Kairi and Namine.

Birds look like bad stop motion animation to this troper.

Those commercials for Christian music [=CD=]s scare the hell out of me (no pun intended). Those crowds, doing the synchronized arm-waving with raised faces and half-shut eyes just scream Apocalypse}} "zombie horde", and make me think I don't keep nearly enough firearms around the house.

Are you freaked out by people doing the wave, too? Because I am. It just looks... hinky.

Until you've seen it, you have no idea how ''weird'' it looks to see a transmission leaking transmission fluid on your garage floor. Why? Transmission fluid looks almost exactly like human blood.

Try approaching a flipped car in your ditch and seeing it in the water. I was terrified that someone had actually gotten killed.

I can't be the only one who was freaked out by the robots in I, Robot? Most of the time it wasn't so bad because even though their faces were humanlike, they were obviously robots, but Sonny was exceptionally creepy because he acted and looked like one. Shudder.

She's never actually scared or creeped out anyone aside from people who are scared of dogs in general, but people have mistaken this troper's Pomeranian Luna for a doll before, and then get surprised when the dog moves or they look closer and realize she's real. This usually happens when Luna is sitting in a special pouch that fits across my chest and she usually is very calm and still when she's in there, and often just her head sticks out.

This attempt at cosplaying Yoshika Miyafuji from ''StrikeWitches'', while a valiant effort, ultimately looks more like if L and the actual Yoshika had a child, and that child wants to rape you mentally before she rapes you physically and then tries to kill you. The sloppy Photoshop work on some of the pics doesn't help matters either. Judging from the majority of the comments there, this troper isn't alone in that assessment. And when you gaze long into a loli, the loli gazes also into you, and the loli does not like what she sees.

I thought it was cute. In a very {{Yandere}} sort of way.

When this lurker went to the museum as a kid there were these mannequin things in the exhibits that were painted and everything they looked just like people until you got close.

Does anyone else never smile for pictures, because they don't look ''right'' when they do?

I try to smile when I feel bad and don't want to upset people. But when I do, I am usually told I either evoke a huge "Omg-I'm-so-sorry. What-can-I-do-to-help?" response, or an "WTFOMGHumanoidAbominationRUNFORYOURLIVES!" response.

*raises hand* Me! I usually just do a vague, distant grin because that's the only way to escape the valley. (There's actually some science behind this - the muscles used for a real smile are hard for a person to pinpoint and use on command, so when you intentionally try to smile, you leave out entire muscle groups, and usually end up with a pale imitation of the real thing.)

Whenever This troper smiles, it comes off as cold and mocking, which is pretty freaky. Also, my face has this cold and expressionless look like a robot. I'm kind of scared of myself...

This troper is taking her second photography class, and we are taught to take "portraits" instead of just "snapshots". This is quite frustrating to explain to any of the subjects of the portraits I take for my class, as seemingly everyone's first instinct when they have a camera pointed at them is to put on a cheesy, {{uncanny valley}} smile. This was especially bad with my friend's young cousin, who is like that ''all the time'' anyway....

This is a trick I was taught. Tell yourself a joke, to get an honest smile. It WORKS!

This troper's brother makes the most hilarious Squick face at anything slightly homosexual, which never fails to make us (me and my twin are BiTheWay) chuckle. This is what i use to avoid SlasherSmile.

I don't. Of course, having big, puffy lips that should be on a black woman and me being a Caucasian male... I am a resident of the UncannyValley... And therefore I have to bite my lips in just to look normal.

This is exactly why I hate any photos taken of me; it's like I forget what I'm supposed to do with my facial features or something. The eyes are either too open (which makes me look AxCrazy) or too shut (which makes me look sleepy / stoned), my eyebrows never sit right on my forehead, the smile is too wide and forced... Aw, crap, I'm a HumanoidAbomination, aren't I? *sigh* ... anyone for scones?

There's actually a reason a fake smile doesn't look right. Several of the muscles we use to smile are triggered involutarily; they only form their part of the smile when we are genuinely smiling out of happiness. Attempting to force a smile causes several subtle, almost subliminal aspects of the smiling face to be left out, which causes a very unsettling effect.

This troper's mother used to insist on him smiling for pictures. Then she said "Actually you look kinda like a serial killer here." This combined with having a mild cross-eye ''and'' one eye being slightly darker than the other (both for related reasons, probably) has led to this troper just hating pictures in general because they ''always'' look wrong.

This troper was particularly creeped out by a museum display. It was of a man on a horse, the most realistic thing ever. It look EXACTLY like a real person... until you noticed it didn't move an inch. Didn't blink. Unnaturally still. Out of the corner of her eye, this troper swears it moved.

Does anyone else get creeped out by the mannequin in I am Legend? The one that moves and is part of the infected's trap?

Bloodshot eyes. I saw a kite with stick-on bloodshot yellow eyes as a child and never quite got over it. I still cringe when films use them as a "joke."

Anyone creeped out by the puppets in TeamAmericaWorldPolice? Or was it just me who was the freaked the hell out?

This tropers uncanny valley seems to be bit to the left or right of other peoples, for instance, watching the Terminator perform eye surgery on itself was comforting in a strange way but that may have been because it confirmed that it wasn't human, face it, Arnold looked werid in that movie. This troper might have slipped into it herself as a 3 year old as back then she could have passed for autistic (she turned out to be dsylexic), and laughed when her mother shouted at her, which could have been creepy. Also Susan Boyle creeps her out, there's just some ''signal'' that cheery face isn't giving off.

Remember that scene in ''{{Blade Runner}}'' in which Pris gets shot in the gut and starts screaming and frantically flailing her limbs in odd directions? Yeah...that one. Scares the hell out of me.

Female characters in American TV shows such as ''{{Desperate House Wives}}'' and ''{{Pushing Up Daisies}}'', what with all the surgery, heavy make up, and unnatural lighting, have a strangely prosthetic look. This when combined with their unnatural and "comically" bubbly demeanour really unnerves this troper.

This Troper volunteers at a charity shop, and was sorting toys when she came across a Barbie with an... unusually lifelike face. What made it even more creepy was that it looked a little like Sarah Palin...

While working at a garden centre at Christmas, this troper was mistaken for a festive life-size doll when she stood still for a minute among some decorations, startling the person walking past when she moved.

This troper also studies Special Effects in Uni. The workshop was at one point full of white, lifelike, disembodied plaster heads, and the odd random latex bodypart.

This troper has made an online roleplay character inspired by the doll in ''The6thDay'' example on the main page, was initially trying to aim for this and ended up averting it: everyone said character meets loves her, even despite the random seize-ups and miscellaneous malfunctions! Still can't decide whether I want to make her creepier or cuter. (Of course she hasn't gotten into a fight yet...)

I can deliberately turn my own face into this. Normally I look fine, but I do this thing I call my stalker smile, where I grin while opening my eyes as wide as I can. Instant uncanny valley. It's ended up as something of a running joke between my friends, and I find it very hard to do it to myself in the mirror, because I either creep myself out too much or just start laughing at it. It feels weird too, like I'm stretching my face too far or something. Hence why I only smirk when I want to look happy.

I dare anyone to try and tell me that Bill O'Reilly's guest in this video is not in fact the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the UncannyValley. Humans are supposed to ''show signs of life'', even when they aren't actually speaking.

To me it's not so much UncannyValley, but rather the dissonance of face and voice that irritates me about it. From the face and expression I would have expected a much deeper voice than that.

This Troper is creeped out by the girls in 'The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'. It's because of their eyes; I think they look like fish eyes. The boys avoid this by having less detailed eyes.

This Troper doesn't find anything unsettling or uncanny about things like most mannequins, sex dolls, statues, or humanoid robots, but he DOES find babies ugly. Really, really ugly, to the point of edging towards creepy to look at. Despite being in his mid-twenties, he has yet to see a cute (human) baby. He thinks baby animals are adorable, though.

For This Troper, manequins and 'perfect' looking models/people (mainly in adverts) creep her out. It's mainly because they don't have any 'dents' from life e.g. scars, moles, wrinkles, and so on, making they look so 'perfect' that they don't really appear human anymore, and loop right back into {{Uncanny Valley}}. And yes, she knows often a product is trying to be sold, but it still creeps This Troper out.

This troper, while due to either his DeadpanSnarker attitude or the fact he suffers an extreme form of ADD, used to be invulnerable to this trope (and in fact has an unhealty obsession with gynoids)... until the day he saw Jibber Jabber with one of his younger cousins. You can guess how terrifying are the character designs by that... and that's supposedly a child's show.

When i first saw Jibber Jabber it struck me as poor quality cgi than anything... and then i looked at their hands. Oh god, their hands... they have only three fingers, simpsons-style, but the fingers are weirdly long and seem to have too many joints. Every time i watch the show i just stare at their hands.

Thirded so hard. When this troper first saw the show, it didn't just strike me as 'badly done CGI'. There's just something incredibly WRONG and CREEPY about their smiles and buggy eyes.

Taxidermied animals. From the dead, glass eyes to the fact that that fur used to be on something that was actually alive...brr.

This Troper has a similar problem with those Fureal toys that supposedly mimic real life animals (and end up looking like real dead ones to me). It's like someone got a taxidermy cat and animated it.

Ever since her dad first showed her a picture of one, this troper has always been unnerved by the blobfish. Basically, it's a deep sea creature that looks like the disembodied head of a fat little old man. This troper's still not really sure what makes them so creepy; their big bulbous noses, their slimy greyish pink flesh, or their beady little soulless eyes, but she's sure that she'd never want to see one of those ''things'' washed up on the beach. Unfortunately, It seems that she's alone here, because she actually knows people who find them ''cute''.

You are not alone. First time I saw one i was like: What the f**k is THAT?!?

When this Troper went to see the Harry Potter prop exhibit in Chicago, she couldn't help but notice how unearthly creepy the "pixies" were. However, the statue of Buckbeak was so realistic and endearing that I felt compelled to hold out my hand so he could sniff it.

I have a picture of me at my mom's old nursing school from when I was five, looking as miserable as miserable can be. But can you blame me? I was standing next to a model of a SKELETON.

This Troper cannot stand to look at fashion dummies in stores and stuff. Whenever she sees them, she gets extremely paranoid that they're going to swing their arms to hit her when she walks by. Same reason she adamantly refuses to go anywhere near a wax museum.

This Troper likes to make pixel dolls now and then. For the uninformed, dolling is a type of pixel art where you draw hair, clothing, and accessories on a pre-made base, which is like a bald posed mannequin. Bases can come in any art style; most common being {{Animesque}} and cel-shaded (they usually look something like this), or having realistic, but often still somewhat {{Animesque}}-inspired faces (see this for an exampe). This Troper only ever uses the cel-shaded blatantly {{Animesque}} ones. She's always found the realistic-ish ones to be ''hella'' creepy. Those blank stares...

Am I the only person who thinks that the Na'vi in Avatar were already scary enough with their Noses that were inspired by throwing a football at the references' faces and sometimes rubbery skin ''without'' people photoshopping themselves to look like Na'vi and creating the most hideous thing known to mankind?

You are not alone. Photoshopped Na'vi give me nightmares (no thanks to people not knowing about lighting, color blending, proper photo editing, etc.). But drawn and stylized ones aren't bad and are just fine (even drew my own)... Unless some guy thinks a female one needs an even larger rack.

This Troper met a robot by the name of Nexi. When Nexi is in a "normal" pose, she falls into the valley, but as soon as she starts emoting, she jumps out. I think the eyebrows help.

OMG WTF IS THA- Awwwwww, she's adorable!

The even human sounding voice doesn't hurt anything either. I wouldn't mind seeing robots like that around.

This troper was told by her family much later that the reason why most of my family always gave me a wide berth was because I was this to them. In a family that usually has slightly naturally tan skin, I was as far to the white side as you could get before being classified as albino. While the rest of my family has brown hair and brown eyes, I had solid black hair and blue eyes. From everyone's accounts, and old pictures I've seen, I looked exactly like a moving porcelain doll. It didn't help that I was unnaturally quiet and reclusive for a child, sitting perfectly quietly and still in corners with my books for hours, causing people to freak out when I actually did move.

This troper STILL looks like the dolls she collects. Add that to above average intelligence, too-big, too-pale blue eyes that tend to jitter about due to loose optic nerves, and very loli features, and you've got yourself a freakshow, friend. Doesn't help that I grew up in DeepSouth.

Pics? This troper is curious to how deep in the valley you are.

It is for this reason this troper doesn't like to draw humans in a realistic style - from his experience, when it works, it works ''great'' (like some of the Greek sculptures, some really good artists, etc) but when it doesn't...then it's definitely UncannyValley material.

Megan Fox. Damn the inevitable fanboy wrath. Foul Daemon! Get away! *Warms up gattling gun*

I have a high threshhold for Uncanny Valley, but I will not, under any circumstances, walk by a wall mirror in a dark room. Will. Not. Something about your reflection in a dark mirror is just ''wrong''.

This troper has had nightmares involving his reflection in a mirror in a dark room.

Seconded, my sister has a oval shaped mirror on the wall, and her room is very dimly lit, and since she turns off her lamp manually, I have to lean around the corner and feel for the switch while the mirror is RIGHT behind me... thankfully her door opens in and blocks it.

This Troper's friend is severely creeped out by the Vocaloids. While this Troper isn't creeped out by them and find them rather unique, her friend finds their premise and sound quite disturbing. I can see why she would think that. They're computer voices made from recordings of real voices, "singing" by having the different phonetics typed out, pitched, and strung together, trying to sound human...

This troper can understand how they would be creepy... after all, singing robots meant to sound perfect, until that ''one note'' is out of tune. However, this troper finds it hard to be creeped out when they're singing songs like frickin' Melt or We Are Pop Candy, although some other songs...

Actually I thought it sounded good, and I liked the song, although at 2:52 I was a bit creeped out, and something about the page is smashing my primal panic button... I think it has to do with the pictures though, since muting the song doesn't help. I actually like the sound, is that weird?

This Troper actually likes collecting things that fall into the UncannyValley. However, the only things she ever has on display are her beloved porcelain dolls that she's been collecting since she was five. Said dolls frequently startle visiting friends and relatives, especially if they have to stay in my bedroom while I go sleep in the basement due to lack of a guest bedroom. You're laying there in bed, a cabinet full of dolls right next to your head. The dolls -ranging from brides, lolitas, Victorian women, and little girls- constantly staring at you with their glass, souless eyes and their faces perpetually locked into a single (or lack of) expression. And they continue to stare at you, all night, never stopping, always watching... Said guests are lucky I don't display the doll with the SlasherSmile...

Does stuff that resemble bodily fluids or waste in any ways count? No really - anything that looks and/or smells (And by extention since it ''is'' mostly smell, tastes) like a bodily fluid, ''this troper feels nauseous''. Because of how it looks (including the foam) and how it smells, this troper ''refuses'' to do anything with 90% of Beer other than KillItWithFire or pour it down the drain. I had a hard time drinking Apple Juice for the first few times, too, same with some Peach Juice. The only thing saving some fruit juices from being UncannyValley is just that I can get a good whiff of them and not be reminded of a kind of bodily fluid. (even as a kid, my mom and nanny had to get me to smell the apple juice so I'd drink it) However, stuff like most red juices...unless it's a kind of Pastel Red, then I think it looks like blood and will have a hard time drinking it. (Some Wines also fall into the UncannyValley this way). And let's not forget...one time mom wanted to split a piece of fudge cake with me and I thought it looked like someone took a shit on the plate. I had to close my eyes, then put it in before I could get my mind to think "It's okay, it's Chocolate." (To this day I avoid those too) Another time I squicked at a Smoothie because I thought it looked like phlegm. And don't even get me ''started'' on those times I had to mentally say "It's food, it's ''supposed'' to look like this" because mom made something that looked like a CalvinAndHobbes meal, and, you guessed it...It looked like vomit. (I still refuse to touch most of those kinds of foods today for that very reason) First time I saw a cassarole, I gagged. Don't also get me started on that thing with marshmallows in it - I thought they looked like teeth and ''still'' haven't tried it!!

This troper isn't affected by many things people would consider "from UncannyValley", having a morbid interest for that kind of thing. Her drawings, while approaching the valley, don't go in it due to her notion of proportions (as in "It doesn't look right") and her use of human-like characters in chibi form. Of course, having a villainous personality allied to perfectionism may be part of the reason...

Being a troper and music composer who just loves to work with vox sounds and incorporate them into my music, I have to test out my sounds to see if I can make them work how I want. However, this hasn't come without some very creepy and disturbing experiences with various choral and synth produced vox sounds when hammering away to test them on the keyboard. Notes that can't be obtained by humans can produce gutly disgusting gurgly rumbling (lower notes) or horrendous screeching (higher notes) that don't even sound natural nor pleasant. And then there are some people who can't seem to stack their samples properly and you wind up going from on note to another hearing some very unusual sounds...

Speaking of music, has anyone had the experience of listening to a rendition of a piece that sounds close to how it should sound but really far off for some unexplainable reason? This troper plays the piano and he is too familiar with this experience. Basically, some of his attempts at playing songs sound really wrong while having the notes correct. It sometimes ends up disturbing, especially when the listener knows the piece well.

Do this with your face: [[http://i44.tinypic.com/s3gd4l.png]] You have to sort of pinch your cheeks, but don't hurt yourself. If you've done it right, your lower lip should be level with your upper gums. Then look in the mirror.

Speaking of this, whenever this Troper makes strange faces in a mirror, if she stays perfectly still for a few moments, she immediately begins to {{squick}} herself out.

To the person above me, DO NOT EVER go to ReverseSpeech.com. I was on the newspaper staff in high school, and for some reason I can't remember, our main editor went to the site and started playing the sound clips. I have never been able to listen to "Stairway to Heaven" since.

For this troper, Zombies. ''Especially if they are not decaying yet''. They can look at first like a normal living person but... something is wrong. ''Very wrong''.

I think that's exactly WHY zombies are sacry. You're not alone at all.

The picture of MarilynMonroe on EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry jumps right into the valley.

Eeeek! If that's not a Stepford Smile I don't know what is

This troper is very short (about five feet, give or take the height of my shoes on any given day) and rather buxom. This tends to freak people out, and when I ask, they say it's because I look disproportionate.

Take heart fellow troper, I know people shorter than you, and some of them are seniors in high school. You don't squick me out =)

this troper evidently falls into the valley for some, she had major eye surgery when she was a child and as a result her eyes are paralyzed, she cannot move them, so while other people have constant subtle movements in their eyes, this troper moves her entire head, people say she moves her head like a bird ALL THE TIME.

One of this Troper's classmates looks like she crawled straight from the Valley. Her face is too pale and bland without any point, that would capture the eyes. And her hair looks like that it has been borrowed from a doll. And to top that, she's almost skeleton thin. She looks more like those artificial robots rather than a real human. And also, this Troper looks like the resident of the Valley; I have a lot of chest, but my waist is often teeny-tiny because I use corsets, and my hair is sometimes too stringy because I haven't brushed my extensions. Not to mention, I use a lot of makeup what makes my skin sometimes look unnatural and my fingers are too long when compared to my palm.

This troper doesn't like Meat Loaf for this reason: If it looks the same going out as it does going in, and probably even ''tastes'' the same too...then you really shouldn't eat it. (It looks worse than TwoGirlsOneCup to me.) And for the record? I think chocolate looks kinda like cow turds, too.

This troper is usually unfazed by what many people consider "OHCHRISTGETITTHEFECKAWAYFROMMEAUGH!!!" examples of uncanny valley, but sometimes, when it ''does'' faze me, it will also remind me of something. See these eyes? Look at these ones and you'll see why they phase me a bit.

It's like they're just slightly misaligned (pointing in opposite directions). It hurts to look at both those images...

Look, this troper loves Bette Midler, but she cannot look at her face for more than two seconds now. Overdone plastic surgery combined with bleach blonde hair makes her very, very worried.

This troper can smile/grin really widely. Combined with facial shape and pale skin, it creates a natural version of what this troper calls, 'Creepy Clown Face'. Holding this face, wide-eyed and without blinking is her favourite way of freaking people out. So, when in a drama production that required her to make her face very white and her cheeks and eyes very gaunt with stage makeup, she would sneak up on people (both cast members and strangers) with this face, and enjoy watching people get honestly scared by the uncanny valley effect.

This troper has what is referred to by the medical community as 'Schizoid Personality Disorder', a condition which makes me into a living repository for Uncanny Valley. For those too lazy to click the link to {{The other wiki}}, this disorder makes me look as human as anyone else but keeps my emotions at a flat and extremely inhuman degree. When something distressing happens to me, I barely even register it. Emotions come at a distance, like flat and hollow echoes from deep in the depths of my psyche. I'm driven by logic and a moral code exclusive to me alone, making it hard to interact with others. At best this makes me {{The Stoic}}, but I've found I usually come across as something else entirely... I'm about six foot four; long and skeletal with protruding, prominent joints; and a long thin face lined in jagged, sharp angles. I don't sleep well (ever), so I have deep, purple bruises beneath deep eyesockets and heavy eyelids. Now, imagine this towering over you when you turn around. To humorously elaborate, I was once referred to by a girl as a '{{Bishonen}} Slender Man with a face', which is a most confusing statement. Tell me, is that a compliment or an insult?

Dude...most men out here would consider schizoid and StrawVulcan emotions a ''strength''. Most men out here see some others as UncannyValley but guess why? They haven't erased all emotions except anger and blandness - ''that'''s why they appear wrong to the men out here.

This Troper finds that description incredibly attractive. She also really, really wishes you lived in the same area as her because she herself is rather strange in terms of personality and morals, and so has few friends. And for the first time in her life, she wishes that TVTropes was a dating site.

This troper is unnerved by awful English and bad animation. The combination of both is her ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE.

This Troper could not stop laughing at the Mickey Mouse thing for about three minutes, but the second she did, it became {{High Octane Nightmare Fuel}}

I find hentai extremely scary not so much because of the beach ball sized tits the girls all have but because the vacant expressions on their faces.

You can find hentai better than that, at this day and age.

This troper was dissecting a fetal pig for school; the way it looked in the tray did not quite seem like a real pig, but it was. It was too still and it looked almost like it was made out of rubber, and its closed eyes! That image is still haunting to this troper. Ugh.

This troper is a Skinned Brunette}}Pale-Skinned Brunette with some serious problems when it comes to social interaction. As a young child, this troper was the epitome of a Child}} creepy little doll-girl-thing with black hair, blue eyes, dead-white skin and the inability to communicate normally with another human being. Add an early love of all things messed-up and above-average intelligence and some teachers literally backed away.

Am I the only one who thinks some of {{Norman Rockwell}}'s art falls into this?

This Troper was the only person in her family who was ''not'' freaked out by the realism of the characters in ThePolarExpress. Well, this Troper and her brother-in-law, who used to be a CGI animator, and could only talk about how awesome he thought it was. I still don't understand why ''The Polar Express'' crosses into the Uncanny Valley for most people. If those uber-realistic models had been poorly animated, then I would have been freaked out, but they used the most advanced motion capture technology they had at the time, and to me, the result was spectacular. And all that beautifully-rendered scenery and the festive soundtrack didn't hurt.

This troper can't watch ''Return to Neverland'' without being creeped out by how realistic Peter looks at one point, when he tells Tinkerbell that Jane will have to stay with them if she isn't able to fly back home. It's around 3:26.

This troper finds it weird that so many people are creeped out by ball-jointed dolls. And it even doesn't have anything to do with me being a bit of a NightmareFetishist. They're so pretty! However, a few dolls, American Girl dolls most of all, scare the living crap out of me. There's just something about the way their faces are proportioned that looks so ''wrong''.

And as a more personal anecdote, there's Emily, a porcelain doll my grandmother once owned. For one thing, she was missing an eye. She would just sit there in her lacy lavender lolita dress with her weirdly-proportioned face and her one empty eye socket and ''oh god''. If that wasn't bad enough, my dad would talk about when he was my age, he would come home some nights and Emily would be sitting on a rocking chair in the foyer, half in shadow, just ''staring.''

This troper, thanks to being extremely pale and having dark brownish/blackish hair and having very big green eyes seems to cause this to some people. It doesn't help that I'm small and thin. It's especially bad in the dark when it exaggerates all of these qualities. I can really freak other people (and myself) out when it's dark and I do a certain creepy smile, which supposedly has caused nightmares for my friends. But it's hilarious for when I get my picture taken.

The picture on MakingASpectacleOfYourself...

This Troper tends to avoid retirement homes whenever possible, because the atmosphere is unsettling. It's quiet, even when the room is filled with people. Some elderly people will give you a blank stare like there's nothing but emptiness and monotony in their lives anymore. When you talk to some of the more... mentally checked-out patients, that their mind is starting to fail with age becomes disturbingly clear. And do not even get me started on the Alzheimer's ward.

Right after watching The Last Airbender, I had to turn to my friend and ask her a question that had been bothering me through the whole movie; "Is it just me or did Appa look like he just crawled out of the ninth level of hell?"

''He has a human face oh god why does he have a human face.''

AmusingInjuries in cartoons are funny. However, when cartoonish slapstick violence is translated into live action, this troper finds it just a tad bit...unsettling. Oh, don't get me wrong, I've grown up with a bunch of live-action kids movies that rely heavily on slapstick (the HomeAlone series, Film/MouseHunt, etc) and still managed to enjoy them, but I still must admit that seeing ''real people'' getting hurt in the same way as cartoon characters always felt a bit...off. This is probably one of the many reasons Judge Doom is so terrifying, he basically takes this UpToEleven.

The guy from Brooklyn in this video. ''The human mouth SHOULD NOT MOVE LIKE THAT!!!''

When this troper was nine, there was an exhibit on the Black Plague at her local museum. It was all fine and dandy until she wandered into one room; a tiny, dark, converted broom closet with a large mannequin dressed as a Plague Doctor. It was back-lit with eerie red lights and this troper was ALL ALONE. Then the door shut behind her. She turned her back on the mannequin to re-open the door and stepped back as she turned, moving closer to it. Suddenly she felt something touch her shoulder. She looked up and saw the plague doctor moving jerkily, reaching out and LOOKING AT HER. Cue screams of terror and fleeing from the room like a bat out of hell. It turns out it was an animatronic robot, but this troper certainly didn't know that at the time. She managed to repress the memory until recently, when she saw a documentary on the Black Death. Now she keeps thinking she feels the doctor touching her shoulder and her childhood fear of the dark has come back full-force *shudder*

For This Troper, even people with piercings or cosmetics fall into the valley. Oddly, hair dyed impossible colours doesn't.

My Korean girlfriend once told me she thinks Asian people invoke the Uncanny Valley for every other race.

No, it's pretty much the opposite...

She might be onto something, considering the reactions people have had to the face of DichenLachman (though she is only half-Asian, her features are unique-looking). Personally, I think she's one of the hottest things I've ever seen, but I've heard people say she looks like a mangled lion.

This troper agrees with you. Wow...

Ever since she was young, this Troper has had a fear of people with beaks, or beak-like features. The Plague Doctor is a prime example of the deepest depths of Uncanny Valley. A strange, faceless, emotionless human with the beak of a bird. For this Troper, he's the Trope Incarnate.

This Troper's first real encounter with the valley came from a issue of People Magazine, what was supposed to be a heartwarming feature story about a Mom who lost half her face from a shot gun accident getting a prospetic replacement mask for her missing Nose and Eyes area, turned into something else for this troper, she did it for her son so he could see mommys face, but the results where less heartwarming and more Unnerving, the prospectic doesn't excatly cover the entire area, so a unatatural ridge rests between fake and real, and the realistic eyes where staring in one direction, this troper takes pity on her son once he gets older and realises mommy never blinks, he's going to have nightmares for life.

These 1990 NBC saturday morning cartoon bumpers fall squarely into this category, some ( such as the clay one) border on {{Nightmare Fuel}} for me. It's just the trippiness, the giant mouth, and that creepy voice that says "we'll be bacK!" is almost threatening. I didn't grow up in the early 1990's, but I watched tapes of N: The Game Master that had these. Anyone who watched Saturday Morning cartoons on NBC in the early 90s ever find these creepy? Or am I just odd?

You're not odd, I can see why you would find them creepy. But I grew up in the 1990s and this was a pretty popular style in cartoons, so it just makes me nostalgic. The guy's chirpy little voice is funny, too.

Anything and everything in Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum. Holy. ''Fuck''. Especially the Michael Jackson figure.

This Troper (I) enjoys going to Madame Tussauds and has a lot of fun posing with the celebrity figures, but what gets to me are the figures that illustrate the sculpting process, a wax figure of the artist sculpting the wax figure. Those are almost surreal in that the artist appears to be a random guy you could meet on the street (as opposed to celebrities or historical figures) but yet, there is a figure of him. See here.

this Troper's teacher took her baby son to Madame Tussauds. Her telling of how her son din't know they weren't real and tried to play with them made the class laugh ... and in the back this troper was making a Squick face.

This really creeps this troper out. It's just wrong. Damn you, Phlox, no wonder those guys ran away when you did it. It's not much fun when you do this, either...

YourMileageMayVary: this troper thinks those photos are fantastic {{Narm}}y NightmareRetardant.

This troper has three:

Models who have been Photoshopped to appear plastic. There's nothing wrong with clear, zit-free skin, but when you've airbrushed out every pore and wrinkle, and all the little blood vessels in the corner of the eye, it stops looking human and starts looking like an eerily life-like porcelain doll. ''Creepy.''

Artificial dog limbs used in movies. For example, take AirBud and CatsVersusDogs. When Buddy puts a paw into the center of the basketball team's hand circle, they didn't train a Golden Retriever to stick his foot up there; they used a furry plastic limb. And when Peek the Chinese Crested is "typing" on a computer, instead of teaching the dog to poke at colorful buttons (which is really all they're doing anyway; there's no semblance of actual typing going on), they just have a pair of plastic feet moved by a human. The trouble lies in the fact that these artificial limbs have ''no joints whatsoever'' in them, so the limb doesn't have all the little wibbles that a natural dog's leg would, and then the foot is often posed in a half-extended, half-flexed position that would ''never'' happen if a dog naturally picked up its leg. The fact that the limb doesn't move, coupled with the fact that ''it's supposed to be a real leg, not a decent replacement for a lost limb'' just creeps her out (interestingly, actual prostheses attached to an otherwise-normal body are not creepy; it's obvious that the limb was lost and they're just making the best of it).

''Babies''. Call this troper a ChildHater, but there's just something ''wrong'' with them. Their noses are all smushed, and their mouths are strangely shaped, and their limbs are all out of proportion to their bodies, and they make these ''awful noises'' (infant crying is totally different from adult crying, but, at least to this troper, suspiciously similar to infant ''laughter''). Then they start walking, and it's this arms-flailing, bow-legged, paddle-footed gait that might be kinda cute on a duck but is utterly ''creepy'' given their human limbs. And the rest of the world finds them ''cute''? This troper is disturbed.

This troper agrees as well. Worse is their inane yelling and screaming that mocks language and their seeming ability to just ''stare'' at you for what feels like an eternity... *shiver*. This troper is very rarely affected by the Uncanny Valley, even Zombies don't quite register for me... Is there something wrong with me?

After you have a baby relative this won't effect you, I had a baby bro born in 2004. Although admittedly I don't think babies are creepy to begin with, excepting the occasional ugly baby I see the odd couple sporting

This troper is creeped out by those advertisements for weight loss that pop up on random sites- you know, the one with a drawing of a chubby woman who shrinks down to thinner sizes? It's not ''right'', especially when they jump back to fat and start over again. And ItGotWorse when I saw one (the doll is wearing a black bikini) who had STITCHES for no good reason on her neck and joints. Thanks to that one, I have nightmares where the ads are really dead bodies being inflated with a bicycle pump by some serial killer. Auuuuugh.

The Na'vi were definitely uncanny, so much it broke my WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. So these are ''completely'' different life forms, they're sentient...they have their own tribal structure, huh? Well that's ''really'' a coincidence that the Na'vi somehow ''also'' have western body structure in addition to western body language. I can at ''least'' assume that the Klingons in ''StarTrek'' or the aliens in a lot of other sci-fi series were all "Oh hey, these aliens have been with us for so long, it just helps to use their body language style". But ''Na'vi''?!? These are supposed to be like, within first contact and yet they look and act ''so much like humans'', albeit with broken noses, latex rubber in place of skin, and excuse features. Pretty much something I think should be better off ''written''...that way I don't have to look at those hideous creatures!

I second you all the way about the Na'vi. I love aliens, but they were way too much human for me. And look at a closeup of their face for a second -Absolutely creepy!

My boyfriend had this reaction to SummerGlau in ''{{Film/Serenity}}'' because, for some reason, her eyes look disproportionately large in some shots. I, on the other hand, had a very different reaction.

This troper cannot stand lifeless dolls. She had a rabbit-doll once without a face, could not stand it, and made her mom stitch in a face. I mean, seriously, they are creepy. Just look at these dolls

This male Troper did a vocal impression of the Joker, and also of Harley Quinn, the latter achieved with some voice editing. A friend said knowing that it was really my voice made it uncanny valley for him.

Same troper attempted a largely unsuccessful action figure customization, turning Cyclops into Jean Grey. I used clay to sculpt boobs, butt and hair, and painted over the eyes and lips. It ended up looking like Cyclops in drag. The one redeeming feature were the very feminine hands that the Cyclops figure had to begin with.

This troper will like to comment no how badly this page has been abused and then submit my own experiences of this trope. For me it is not just things that are meant to mimic humans that give me the creeps, robotic and CGI animals also do it for me, I find it quite hard to find an actual example of what 'does' it for me, but know I'm not alone, becuase I've often seen people (on youtube) comment on animal robots as being 'creepy.'

Also a freind at school had a problem with his eyes which meant they couldn't contract and dilate properly, which meant either his pupils were too small like he was staring at you with sheer loathing or they were too big like he was drugged or giving you a rapeface.

This troper finds live action Blu-ray movies to fall straight into the uncanny valley, making the whole thing look more like a school play than a movie.

This troper is surprised Furbies haven't been mentioned sooner. Just the way those little... THINGS... look. Plus once the batteries start dying, and they start sounding awfully demonic... GAH.

This troper is creeped out by the dolls in the ads for "My American Girl," which is this thing where you buy an American Girl doll and create an online version of her. I think the dolls in real life are pretty, but the corresponding virtual images of the dolls just look...wrong. If the producers of American Girl were trying to make the virtual dolls look as close as possible to the real ones, they did their job too well - the eyes are huge and too close together. Eee.

One day this troper was walking around the mall and stumbled upon a whole kiosk filled with Perfect Petzzz Many people find them cute, but this troper is a bit unnerved by how realistic the puppies/kittens are and by the fact that the only thing they do is sleep as if they were in a drug-induced coma.

This troper's closest friends find him to epitomise this. I am freakishly tall, thin enough to make people think I'm anorexic, pale enough to make people think I'm dead when I'm asleep, I don't smile a lot and when I do it's unfathomably creepy, I have a REALLY dark sense of humour, I am really quiet, I laugh like the maniac I am, I walk almost completely silently, I occasionally cough uncontrollably , I'm schizophrenic, I have bi-polar disorder, I wear almost all black, I have long spidery fingers and long nails, my arms and legs are long and spindly, I am freakishly gifted and remember tons of unimportant or insignificant things for years, (the non creepy stuff) my hair is auburn but my eyebrows are dark brown, and I have blue eyes.

This troper can relate to you to an extent. While she isn't schizophrenic or bi-polar she is tall, thin, and possessing a twisted sense of humor. I'm also extremely quiet around those I don't know very well and my voice seems to fade to a whisper around people besides friends and family. Usually I bring a book whenever I'm around someone else. But I have a friends who I eat lunch with at school occasionally and one day I forgot a book. Because I couldn't think of anything to say, all I could do was sit stock-still and stare into space. One guy at the table then pointed out how eerily quiet I was. Hence I make sure to have something to do now.

Portrayals of the 1950s do it for this troper. In fact, she finds the 50's-era PSA shorts on MST3K (especially this one) MUCH creepier than most of the actual horror movies on the show.

This Troper collects dolls, loves even the ones with missing eyes and crazed composition (flaking or cracked "skin"), and has been told that she herself resembles a living porcelain doll. What finally invoked this for her was one of her senior photos; in the process of Photoshopping out dark circles under her eyes, the photographer had gone overboard. Troper's lower eyelids had little or no distinction, making her large-ish eyes look smaller and, more importantly, flush with her cheeks. The final product resembled some kind of anime character's eyes cut-and-pasted onto a human face. Brrr...

I always worry about whether I fall into the UncannyValley and because of this I feel very nervous of giving people eye contact in case I am staring at them and creeping them out. The UncannyValley doesnt bother me much though, except for one nightmare I had a few nights ago, with things that were a cross between really realistic dolls and the children that do the beauty pageants in adult make up. In this nightmare they were created by a woman who was a teacher and turned the naughty children in the class into zombie like things which looked like realistic dead children but moved like robots, and she made them do these shows on a stage and it was really creepy.

A girl in my school is THIS. She uses spray-on tans to give her completely evenly (and unnaturally) colored, (if that makes any sense),skin. It looks like the plastic skin of a doll. She uses a lot of makeup, with also makes her eyelashes stick out really strangely, and her eyes are always opened just a little too wide. Add a disturbing-looking smile and fake-sounding, robotic laughter even by teen girl standards, and you have a seriously creepy girl. The funny thing is, she's super-popular and "hot". In theory, she's attractive, but she just looks... off to me.

Normally, This Troper find uncanny valleys to be horrifying, absurd, or outright eldritch to the point that upon encountering these things I was not meant to know, I would see such terrifying vistas of humanity that I would {{go mad from the revelation}} and be left with a mental paralysis with howling laughter. However, some objects out of the uncanny valley, like anime (as in 2d anime and not kigurumi, since upon witnessing those figures in movement due to me being an idiot and searching for their videos, I cannot bear to never look upon) and female robots/sex dolls, actually make it out of my uncanny valley perception, IfYouKnowWhatIMean.

Visually, I'm not all that affected by the UncannyValley visually. I have stumbled upon, among other things, a bevy of Magaret Keane paintings, the works of RobLiefeld, and two real-life people whose waists were thinner that 7-inch singles, and I did not flinch. Aurally, that's another thing. I'm not talking vocaloids here, they don't faze me in the least, but there are some things... Case in point: The pitch-shifted sample looped on CDR's "Chinkonka make the song reminiscent of a ghostly child raising hell at a research facility, and the singers on Intestinal Disgorge's "Rectum Grinder" initially sounded to me as if they were being anally raped by Satan. And ChrisBrown's "I. Y. A. terrifies the living fuck out of me--the less said about that hack autotune job, the better.

On this very wiki, the image for the page {{Gainaxing}}. THAT! IS! WRONG!.

This troper had the horrifying revelation that all anime characters practically exist in the Uncanny Valley ''while fapping to hentai''. The moment passed, though.

Thanks for sharing.

I could've lived a long happy life without knowing that...

There is a teacher's assistant at this troper's school who dwells in the Uncanny Valley. She is stunningly pretty, but there is something piercing and unreal about her face.

When this troper first saw the Pokemon Tympole, she wasn't all that affected. Then she played a rom of White, and it hit her that its face was the same color that they use for white people. So, for a while, I was creeped out that the thing looked like someone tore off someone's face and stuck it onto the thing. Same for Palpitoad. I'm over it now, but still, the creeps I got when I first saw it... *shiver*

For a Skype-based RPG campaign, this troper uses a voice changer to make his voice sound like his character's. His character is a warm alto; he's a deep baritone, about the same as the actor who voiced Panthro on ThunderCats. A new player in the game was profoundly disturbed by the contrast between the two.

For this troper, possums and armadillos fall squarely into this. Watching them move, every bit of my body screams "THIS THING SHOULD NOT EXIST!".

This troper is an amateur CG artist, and as such, encounters the Uncanny Valley a lot. Due to this, he moslty doesn't make humans, and only uses humanoid characteristics for Eldritch abominations. It works pretty well when he does that, though.

I really don't understand why girls coming straight from the uncanny valley can be elected as Miss France. They are obviously way too skinny, there is obviously something wrong with them. And yet, people from my country find them the most beautiful girls ever. FanDisservice and/or FetishRetardant at its finest.

The female member of Die Antwoord ( a really weird South African hip hop group) is an adult but she looks like a 9 year old with big boobs and it doesn't help that she acts rather sexual in the band's music videos.

The kid on the page of AnimationAgeGhetto has always creeped me out.

He looks like he's coming on to us...

A friend of mine did a year abroad in South Korea. She has alabaster skin, vibrant red hair and big blue eyes. One day when she was sitting in a park, a small Korean child went up to her, curious and confused, and was apparently convinced my friend was not a real person. For the child, my friend looked unlike any human he had ever seen before.

This has to be some kind of creepy coincidence, as this troper, a South Korean, when he was little, had a family vacation in France... When he first saw a white person, (no doubt in her blonde hair and white skin) fled in terror, screaming "Mommy! That doll is alive!"

This troper usually finds bishonens to be borderline Uncanny.

This troper was watching a show on primordial dwarfism. This episode was focusing specifically on this girl named Charlotte who was a couple years old. She looks like a doll, and even the way she moved at times looked...artificial, like she was animatronic. It was weird at first and almost kind-of scary, but after awhile she grew on me.

The people in Minecraft. God, I HATE it when I'm going about my business mining in SMP and then, BAM! Blocky, off color, death-stare clone of myself staring eerily into my face.

In fact, ANYTHING alive in Minecraft.

This already rather doll-like troper is pretty sure the Uncanny Valley is the reason her mother reacted so badly when she came back from college one break with cranberry-red hair and bright green "circle lenses" (that is, contact lenses designed to make eyes appear larger than natural).

This Troper can't stand people wearing fake fangs or unnaturally colored contact lenses. Especially the colored lenses. Her friend posted a cosplay photo on DeviantART where she had bright yellow lenses in, and it freaked this troper out so much that she couldn't look at her friend's page until the scary yellow eyes were buried deep in her gallery and not on the front page.

This Troper finds his local meteorologist to be UncannyValley. He suspects that the "man" is really some sort of HumanoidAbomination.

This Troper has difficulty understanding what facial expression is on her face at any given time. This means that she quite often thinks her face is appropriate for the situation, when in fact it is anything but. On an entirely unrelated note, reflections fall into this for her. She knows on an intellectual level that what is viewed in the mirror is simply her reflection, but still views it as a separate being, somehow. When she was smaller, she viewed her shadow in a similar manner.

I have Asperger's Syndrome, and I am one of only about five Asians in my entire school. I was also the first Chinese adoptee in my area (which means there were few to no Asians in town). My mom theorized that the other children instinctively stayed away from me when I was in preschool and kindergarten because of my Asperger's and this trope, since people of races that you've never actually seen before look inherently creepy. My mom has also said that I don't show emotion in my voice, and that I occasionally do things and have habits that could be seen as weird by other people. Alright, enough talk about why I may fall into this trope; I myself don't actually find most of the stuff on this page that scary. There is one thing that freaks me out, though. It's when a person's eyes are spaced too far apart on their face. It reminds me of a fish, and it just sends off alarm bells in my head.

Something else that I've noticed that may be linked to this trope is that when I write, I try to visualize my characters doing stuff in real life, and I can only seem to visualize my Asian characters properly. If I try to do the same with my Caucasian or Middle Eastern characters, they come out with Asian features. I'm not trying to seem racist, but I wonder if that may be linked to this trope.

One word: {{Hermaphrodite}}.

I use to have these Victorian dolls as a kid. They were glass dolls, so all I could really do was look at them on my shelf, but I loved them. Until one night, I woke up and my eyes came across those dolls displayed on my shelf, staring back at me with this blank expression on their faces. I don't know what went through me at that moment, but I just had this weird, unsettling feeling when I was looking at them (maybe because I thought one of their eye-lids moved on their own) and I had a hard time going back to sleep after that. I guess that's when I grew out of dolls.

And what's even worse is when people mold little people into the form of dolls - I'm talking about child beauty pageants.

Am I the only one here creeped out by the Delightful Children from CodenameKidsNextDoor? They always seemed so UncannyValley to this troper, even with the show's cartoony style. (Though this might have been intentional.)

This troper never gets the Uncanny Valley feeling. Literally. After reading through every page on it and following every link, she doesn't understand it. The girl on the Real Life section who got surgery to make herself look like an anime girl? Aww, she's adorable. Mannequins? No problems there. Real Dolls? Not creepy. Isabelle Dinoire? That's so cool!

On a side note, this same troper (who happens to have Asperger's) apparently fall into this sometimes, especially when she concentrates on something and tunes everything else out, or doesn't react to things, or doesn't have facial expressions that last for anything longer than a twentieth of a second.

People who constantly baby-talk, or constantly use cartoony facial expressions are pretty deep in the valley for this troper.

It was 1996. Polygons were on their way in for console games. ''ResidentEvil'' was one of the prominent polygonal games of its time. As an arachnophobe, I disliked the spiders in the game on principal. As the years passed, though, these polygonal horror games became harder and harder to take seriously, as the Playstation's limited capabilities made everything look like they were made out of Triscuits or something. As we saw in the ''ResidentEvil'' remake for the GameCube, it could be much, much worse. The graphics for that game are still gorgeous in fact, so much so that it's hard to imagine them being much more realistic, probably very close to how Jill and Chris would have seen them in RealLife. The spiders in the 1996 version went from having a strangely peppy, tigeresque color scheme (mainly yellow, with black-striped legs) to a more realistic, grey pattern based on an actual spider specie in the GameCube version. The Black Tiger boss didn't change much, though.

This tropette has three garbage bags2 large orange bags and 1 medium black bag to be precise. worth of stuffed animals and a few dolls!

This troper goes into a quiet fit whenever she watches cartoons where mad scientists use de-evolution rays to turn modern day lizards into stock dinosaurs such as t-rex.

This troper and her twin sister (who are both avid cat lovers) used to volunteer at Pets-mart taking care of the abandoned or stray cats each weekday. It was fun and in spite of a few scratches and bad first meetings, most of the cats were okay. Except one. And her name was Ophelia. She was like an especially vicious attack dog born in cat form. Whenever someone got close to her cage, she didn't just swipe her paws and hiss in self defense, she RUNS RIGHT UP TO THE FRONT AND TRIES TO ATTACK THROUGH THE BARS, SCREAMING LIKE A HELLSPAWN! It got so bad some began to consider putting her down. To this day this troper always wondered what happened to Ophelia. Despite the hell she gave her, she hopes she found a kind owner willing to tolerate her and perhaps bring her on the path to sociability.

A lot of my friends on DeviantArt are like this-- for a year or two, they're wobbly, and then they start turning out art that I can't manage within triple the time they take.