History ClothingDamage / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/FightingVipers'', all combatants wear some kind of armor that can be blown off area-by-area with specific attacks. Naturally, the male characters wear fairly normal clothes underneath while the females wear mostly lingerie.

* In ''VideoGame/The3rdBirthday'' PSP game, Aya's clothes can be "damaged" if she gets hurt. There have been screenshots of her left wearing [[{{Fanservice}} very little]] as a result of this.

* ''VideoGame/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' movie tie-in game includes this among the game elements appropriated from the Arkham Batman titles, though in this case the webhead's costume (and body) goes through several stages of destruction based on how often you take damage. By the end of a tough mission, don't be surprised if Spidey looks like a man-shaped mound of ground beef held together with blue and red twine.

** In the second game, defeating ''anyone'' with a fireball wrecks their outfit. But only King and [[GenkiGirl Yuri]] reveal the lingerie beneath. For them, this Clothing Damage caused by a Special or Super Attack carries over to the crossover game ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' (first two installments: '94 and '95; ceases afterwards... until ''XIII''). To their credit, Yuri covers up with one of her arms after she lands, and King covers up (even managing to stay conscious to do so!) in the ''Art of Fighting'' games.

* Every game in the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' sees the Caped Crusader's Batsuit get scuffed up, ripped, torn and shot full of holes as the game goes on. Towards the end of each game, it's a wonder how the suit is providing any protection, or letting him glide when the cape is so torn up.

* In ''Videogame/BioShockInfinite'', Elizabeth's clothes get progressively torn up and messy from the constant violence until half-way into the game [[spoiler: when it's sprayed with the blood of the woman she killed]] causing her to change into her Main/IconicOutfit. Strangely, this doesn't appear to be a problem for our protagonist despite being the main target of the onslaught.
* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue: [[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]'', Bang's revised Astral Finish causes his clothes to '' burn off at the end of it.''
* The ''VideoGame/BloodyRoar'' series features characters whose clothing shreds every time they transform to Beast form, to some degree. (Male characters usually lose little more than their shoes and maybe their sleeves; female characters, however, can lose anything from just their shoes to -- in the cases of Jenny the Bat and later versions of Alice the Rabbit --- their entire outfit). Their clothing is mysteriously repaired when they change back to human form.

* A stag beetle enemy in ''VideoGame/{{Bug|1995}}'' loses his ''entire exoskeleton'' when damaged once, leaving a skinny, shivering bare body wearing nothing but GoofyPrintUnderwear. [[DefeatByModesty It will die after a short time]] or if Bug stings him again.

* Kyoya of ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}'' gets shot in the chest early in the game (don't worry, he gets better) and the bullet hole remains in his shirt. He gets shot ''again'' later and gets a second hole in his shirt.

** In ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'', all of Peter and Miles's suits get their own battle-damaged variants if they take too much damage. The symbiote-based suits are the only suits that remain intact in battle, owing to the symbiotes' healing factor.

* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', Spidey's costume is damaged during his face-off against the Kingpin due to the fact that the man is throwing him through walls and floors. Peter's attempt to repair the costume leads [[spoiler:Dr. Otto Octavius]] to upgrade it to the new suit for the game.

* A stag beetle enemy in ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'' loses his ''entire exoskeleton'' when damaged once, leaving a skinny, shivering bare body wearing nothing but GoofyPrintUnderwear. [[DefeatByModesty It will die after a short time]] or if Bug stings him again.

* Various Dragonball games feature this. ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai3'' has a battle damaged outfit for Goku including his orange shirt being completely ripped off exposing the blue weighted top underneath as well as various tears all over the pants. The ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi'' videogames have your character display clothing damage if hit by an ultimate move. Goku also has access to not only his damaged outfit from Budokai 3, but he gains another damaged outfit based off the damage sustained during the Frieza Saga. This outfit can actually be damaged further, completely removing the last shred of blue shirt if he's hit by an ultimate move.

* In the Game Boy Color game ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants: Legend of the Lost Spatula'', [=SpongeBob=] starts out with his pants on. If he gets hit, his pants rip off and fly off the screen. If he gets hit one more time, his underwear flies off the screen and his jaw drops as he covers himself and he restarts the area. Also in the game, if he pesters Mrs. Puff long enough, she will give him [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS1E7HallMonitorJellyfishJam the Hall Monitor uniform]], which will give him an extra hit.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'': Dante dodges Lady's bullets with ease, but looks down and is annoyed to find his jacket is now full of bullet holes. Also during his initial fight with Vergil, one of the sleeves on his coat gets ripped resulting in him yanking the torn section off completely.

* A central gameplay mechanic of ''VideoGame/AkibasTrip'', in which you [[WidgetSeries strip vampires to their underwear so that sunlight will kill them]]. Non-vampire opponents suffer DefeatByModesty instead.

* On the cover of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', what looks like a [[BareYourMidriff midriff-less]] SpaceMarine outfit has actually been damaged from one of the demons clawing at him (note the claw marks on Doomguy's chest).

* This happens in ''Toy Pop'', a "multi-directional shooter" arcade game Namco released in 1986. Unlike most games at the time, you lose a life after "two" hits rather than one (as in VideoGame/RollingThunder, released the same year). What happens, when your character ("Pino" for player 1; "Acha" for player 2) gets hit once, he or she gets reduced to their underwear. However, a "clothes" icon may randomly appear in one of the boxes that you shoot open, giving you back the "first hit" you took.

** The title character combines this with a ShirtlessScene by the end of ''The Sands of Time'', as his shirt is gradually damaged more and more by the swordfights he gets into.
*** Parodied in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=85 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/VGCats''.
** In ''Two Thrones'', the prince starts off with a shirt but loses it almost immediately in the sewers close to the beginning of the game with no explanation as to how and goes through the entire game shirtless.

* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive5 [[UpdatedRerelease Last Round]]'' has a set of [=DLC=] costumes based on the ''Senran Kagura'' series. Staying true to that series, the costumes all suffer from ClothingDamage.
** Later DLC costumes, such as the ''Deception'' Crossover Costumes and the costumes designed by Tamiki Wakaki also get Clothing Damage. One of the Deception costumes also belongs to Ein, so there's also a rare Male example.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'': Dante dodges Lady's bullets with ease, but looks down and is annoyed to find his jacket is now full of bullet holes.
** Also during his initial fight with Vergil, one of the sleeves on his coat gets ripped resulting in him yanking the torn section off completely.

* Happens indirectly during ''[[VideoGame/DynamiteCop Die Hard Arcade]]''. As the stages progress, both main characters' clothes become more ragged. (With a {{Fanservice}} double standard between the male and female ones, natch.)
** Its sequel ''VideoGame/DynamiteCop'' strips and eventually tatters the hero's clothes as they take more and more damage.

** There was a FightingGame released for the Arcade based on the characters of the ''Gladiator'' game called ''VideoGame/{{Blandia}}''. Several of the characters here wore armor that acted as additional health and must be destroyed before health damage could be inflicted.

* In ''VideOGame/{{Caladrius}}'', player and boss characters, under specific circumstances, have their clothes tear up when they get hit, and especially when defeated. Though most of the cast is female, this trope applies even if the victim is Kei, [[TheOneGuy the game's sole male player character]].

** ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' is even worse. Damage is done to the characters in fights, and their clothes will be torn to shreds, even in the winner's case. (And this is one place where the BeautyIsNeverTarnished Trope is clearly subverted. Kitana's lovely face will probably wind up with black eyes and bruises just as often as anyone else.)
*** To say nothing about how the female characters' already wildly impractical outfits actually manage to stay on their bodies after suffering the kinds of damage the game depicts. Logically, almost all of them should fall completely off by that point.

* FanDisservice in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': During the fight with [[spoiler:Orochi]], Susano's clothes are torn to reveal his butt.

* Depending on how much damage she takes, in ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' 2B will lose her DangerouslyShortSkirt and show a white LeotardOfPower. It is even possible for the player inflict this to her thanks to "Self Destruction" mode.

* With each cutscene of the NES game ''Menace Beach'', the bound-up DamselInDistress's clothes are seen to be in
progressive stages of disintegration until the final stage, when she's down to her unmentionables.

* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'':

** And in every 2-D ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' game ever except 1 and 2. Also ''[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Other M]]''.

* In the ecchi dungeon explorer ''Sakura Dungeon'', critical hits will shred the victim's clothing, complete with the sound of fabric ripping and a cut-in of the monster girl in question not being too pleased about her outfit being torn.

* ''VideoGame/AbsentedAge'': As Karen/Satsuki uses up turns and takes damage, her armor loses durability until she's forced to unequip it. This is shown not only through percentage values, but also her body portrait having torn clothes.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Gladiatrix}}'', the titular gladiatrix was given a set of armour which falls apart as her opponent (a much more experienced gladiator) hacks away at her. By the time she lost the match, she was wearing little more than her bra and panties.

* The freeware title ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}'' gives the protagonist swimsuit armour which will dissapear if you get hit for damage. It's separated into top and bottom so where you get hit determines which part of the swimsuit you lose. Getting hit without the armour leads to death.

** Speaking of ''Pocky & Rocky'', the series's SpiritualSuccessor ''Heavenly Guardian'' goes back to a lifebar of icons. However, if Sayuki takes her last hit from a spear-wielding rabbit inside a wall unit, instead of her normal death animation of spinning around and falling down, her robes will come undone and she'll fall on her knees.

* ''Anime/QueensBlade : Spiral Chaos'' and its sequel, ''Queen's Gate : Spiral Chaos'', feature clothing damage for both playable and enemy female characters (guys are immune, but there is so few of them...). It's included in the gameplay mechanics, as breaking all the clothes/armor results in a DefeatByModesty.

* Ryu's alternate costume in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' is a gi with the top half torn off, with Ryu visibly battle-damaged. Ditto for M. Bison (the dictator). Sakura's colour 10 of her alternate costume reduces her to gym shorts and a T-shirt.

* With each cutscene of the NES game ''Menace Beach'', the bound-up DamselInDistress's clothes are seen to be in progressive stages of disintegration until the final stage, when she's down to her unmentionables.