History Main / Shirtlessscene

-->-- '''Music/RightSaidFred''', ''"I'm Too Sexy"''

* ''ComicBook/{{Brit}}'': Since he's MadeOfDiamond but wears ordinary clothing Brit is usually stripped naked by energy blasts about halfway through his fights.

** In [[https://youtu.be/LiG_8uFElFY Episode 236]], not only is she shirtless, [[spoiler:she's completely naked]].

* ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' had a few episodes in season five where Laine has his shirt off for now reason.

** In [[https://youtu.be/LiG_8uFElFY Episode 236]], not only is he shirtless, [[spoiler:he's completely naked]].

* Neal Adams would draw [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] shirtless in the cave, although he usually had a lot of bandages covering him. Additionally, Adams popularized the "pants and mask without a shirt, cape or belt" look.
** Neal Adams was also the first person to draw Franchise/{{Batman}} villain ComicBook/RasAlGhul, who is a WalkingShirtlessScene half the time. Naturally, the first time Batman and Ra's fought, they were both shirtless.

* In issue 115 of ComicBook/GreenLantern, Kyle Rayner wakes up from bed in nothing but his undershorts to find a mystery box.
* Since he's MadeOfDiamond but wears ordinary clothing Brit from ''[[Creator/ImageComics Brit]]'' is usually stripped naked by energy blasts about halfway through his fights.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Circles}}'', men take their shirts off quite often.
* The comic adaption of ''[[ComicBook/TheDresdenFiles Storm Front]]'' has one scene where Harry, who just got out of the shower, has to fight a demon. He didn't have much time to get his clothes on. Not that anyone's complaining; especially his kind-of girlfriend, who just drank a love potion by accident and is trying to have sex with him.
* Among others, ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s main protagonist Cutter's everyday outfit does not include a shirt.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'''s title character, goth pretty-boy Morpheus, frequently went shirtless. Indeed, one of his most frequently seen items of clothing is an ankle length robe that nevertheless exposes his skinny but toned midsection, allowing him to present the image of the authoritative King of Dreams while still providing the expected fanservice. And people think Sandman's biggest selling point was its sophistication. Not to mention that he's buck-naked in his first appearance.
* Michael Turner apparently received constant requests to show [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Ian Nottingham]] with his shirt off.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' has one issue (#''69'', appropriately enough) where Spidey uses the shirt from his outfit on a decoy to trick the Kingpin's men, which gives him a lengthy fight scene where he takes on Kingpin and his goons shirtless.
* ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': Kanan ends up in his underwear in a bacta tank after getting stabbed in the back, which acts as a framing device for a flashback to the final days of the Clone Wars. He then bursts out of the tank and fights off a squad of storm troopers in said state of undress.
* ''ComicBook/TheJungleLine'': When Franchise/{{Superman}} jolts up in his bed after having a nightmare, his bedsheet slides downwards, lying bare his muscular torso.
* ''Comicbook/{{Animorphs}}:'' The books mention that Jake's [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper morphing outfit]] includes bike shorts; here that seems to be all that he wears. Whether Marco wears a shirt after morphing varies (sometimes within the same scene).

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* In, ''Theatre/AllMySons'' when Chris is chopping down the stump of the destroyed tree at the start of the second act, he is wearing a pair of "good" pants but no shirt.

* ''Theatre/AllMySons'' has Chris shirtless at the start of the second act.

* Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons" has Chris shirtless at the start of the second act.

* The actual number of times this has happened to various superheroes is too many to list, especially including characters [[WalkingShirtlessScene with nothing but shirtless scenes]] (Namor, Hulk, etc.). It's safe to say that every male hero and villain has had one of these. Except the Blob, of course.
** [[http://shirtless-superheroes.blogspot.com/ Shirtless Superheroes]] covers a lot of instances in which male superheroes appear shirtless or in other states of undress.

** Well, sometimes they do, especially in the Ultimate universe.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'''s title character, goth pretty-boy Morpheus, frequently went shirtless. Indeed, one of his most frequently seen items of clothing is an ankle length robe that nevertheless exposes his skinny but toned midsection, allowing him to present the image of the authoritative King of Dreams while still providing the expected fanservice. And people think Sandman's biggest selling point was its sophistication.
** Not to mention that he's buck-naked in his first appearance.

This trope is among the AlwaysMale tropes because... [[NippleAndDimed well, you know.]] The closest female equivalent would usually be a LingerieScene, BareYourMidriff, or a SwimsuitScene. Or, if it's more important to have a female character shirtless InUniverse but not necessarily to show everything to the viewers, then of course the answer is ToplessnessFromTheBack and/or ShouldersUpNudity.

* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', there's a brief scene where Jaune asks for romantic advice from a shirtless Ren.

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* ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'': Oddly enough, the titular character. Violine spends one comic book in nothing but panties and an open shirt.

* In ''[[Literature/Touch2017 Touch]],'' [[IJustWantToBeFree Caleb]] takes off his shirt a few times to show people the RestrainingBolt tattooed on his back. He's amused to notice that [[TheBigGuy Tasha]], who hates him, stares when he does it in front of her. [[BlowYouAway James]] always looks away, possibly because he seems uncomfortable at any hint of nudity and possibly because [[spoiler:he's starting to think that he's gay]].

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* Daichi greets Sasha and Iphigenie wearing nothing but a towel in ''Literature/GreekNinja''.

* Jonas in ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'' is very often shown without his shirt. This aspect of his character is eventually [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] during Sarah's rant in the season 3 episode "Adios Amigos".
** Jonas then got a SpinOff in the form of ''WebVideo/LG15TheResistance''. He didn't manage to go four episodes without taking his shirt off.
* WebVideo/{{Benzaie}} is prone to these. Also, there was that time that [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] was on pain-meds for dental surgery...
** Then there was that time when [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/sketches/64-how-i-quit-my-job Doug quit his job]], as well as [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Critic's]] DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1743-surf-ninjas moment]] in Film/SurfNinjas.
** Creator/JewWario got one in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' where he fences, a la George Takei from the Star Trek episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime The Naked Time]], with Mechakara who just ignores him.
* Website/{{Cracked}} [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18633_the-real-reason-shes-making-you-go-see-eclipse-5Bgraph5D.html explains why so many boyfriends were dragged unwilling to see]] Literature/{{Twilight}} 3.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsSQKspCPHg Shirtless Anonymous]]
* Parodied by ''Website/CollegeHumor'' in their [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6791913/call-me-maybe-parody Call Me Maybe Parody]]. Like the music video, an attractive guy starts lawnmowering a backyard, but when a girl takes note of him and he takes his shirt off, he's revealed [[ThoseWackyNazis to be a Neo-Nazi]] on account of the huge swastika tattoo on his chest.
* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': Downplayed in episode 11. Mr Rochester has loosened his shirt and a tie, and he has rolled up his sleeves, revealing his geeky tattoo. Fangirls approve.
* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'': Lydia stages a shirtless scene when she spills water on George's T-shirt. That soaked T-shirt was nice enough, but she managed to convince him to take it off.
* Jake in ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' decided to take his shirt off in their review of Smurfs 2. [[Creator/BradJones Brad]] joined in, and insisted that Irving follow.
-->"Dude, you're making us look gay, bro!"

* In episode 54 of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Vegeta is seen shirtless when Perfect Cell [[YourMom makes a crack about his mother]] when he was wearing a shirt just mere seconds earlier. Krillin asks "Why did you take off your shirt?"[[note]]It was an animation error Team Four Star [[ThrowItIn left in]].[[/note]]
* ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' had a few episodes in season five where Laine has his shirt off for now reason.
** [[https://youtu.be/H9MJ-4L0Wto OH JAMES VALENTINE!]]
** In [[https://youtu.be/LiG_8uFElFY Episode 236]], not only is he shirtless, [[spoiler:he's completely naked]].
* Tom Fawkes of LetsPlay/TheDerpCrew recorded a playthrough of ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' on Halloween, and dressed up as the main character during the dream sequences, meaning no shirt and a ram's horn headpiece. He also occasionally records parts of his weekly vlog shirtless, usually when he's recording after working out.
* Creator/MF217 goes back to using his webcam to show himself during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxror87VJ8&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=MF217 the Freezeezy Peak portion]] of his ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' OneHundredPercentCompletion run and he's explicitly without a shirt. It's both because he's not joking when he says it's hot outside since it's July of 2021 and the fact he just wanted to be shirtless while playing through a SlippySlideyIceWorld.

* The Diet Coke Hunk (from the infamous commercial featuring an office-full of women leering at a shirtless construction worker) is pretty much the epitome of this trope. This was parodied by ''Series/SmackTheDonkey'' when it is reveasled that the shirtless window-cleaner is protectively nursing a helpless kitten: the directed lust evaporates and becomes warm fuzzies.
* One ad for Smirnoff Ice, basically a line of flavoured beers, features several shirtless guys.

* The Diet Coke Hunk (from the infamous commercial featuring an office-full of women leering at a shirtless construction worker) is pretty much the epitome of this trope.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal, airborne Witch Irena Politek has reached her middle thirties and seen at least three of her closest friends settle down, marry and start families. She has remained single by choice and inclination, having never encountered a man who has been of more than incidental interest. But as she gets older and having seen her friends' children born and grow up, she is starting to get restless. One day, when a junior Air Witch known for mischief leads her to an emergency landing in a backwater of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinia]], saying she knows a man who can do an emergency repair, they land just where [[Music/OtavaYo local men are dancing and play-fighting]]. With their shirts off. And she meets Vitali for the first time. With his shirt off. Things begin happening after that as the normally cynical and sardonic spinster Witch realises spinsterhood might not be that great a deal, having been shown the alternative. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ0xnJyb0A Soundtrack provided]] by Music/OtavaYo.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal, airborne Witch Irena Politek has reached her middle thirties and seen at least three of her closest friends settle down, marry and start families. She has remained single by choice and inclination, having never encountered a man who has been of more than incidental interest. But as she gets older and having seen her friends' children born and grow up, she is starting to get restless. One day, when a junior Air Witch known for mischief leads her to an emergency landing in a backwater of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinia]], saying she knows a man who can do an emergency repair, they land just where [[Music/OtavaYo local men are dancing and play-fighting]]. With their shirts off. And she meets Vitali for the first time. With his shirt off. Things begin happening after that as the normally cynical and sardonic spinster Witch realises spinsterhood might not be that great a deal, having been shown the alternative. Soundtrack provided by Music/OtavaYo.

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal, airborne Witch Irena Politek has reached her middle thirties and seen at least three of her closest friends settle down, marry and start families. She has remained single by choice and inclination, having never encountered a man who has been of more than incidental interest. But as she gets older and having seen her friends' children born and grow up, she is starting to get restless. One day, when a junior Air Witch known for mischief leads her to an emergency landing in a backwater of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinia]], saying she knows a man who can do an emergency repair, they land just where [[Music/OtavaYo local men are dancing and play-fighting]]. With their shirts off. And she meets Vitali for the first time. With his shirt off. Things begin happening after that as the normally cynical and sardonic spinster Witch realises spinsterhood might not be that great a deal.

* Bruce Banner in every adaptation of ''[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]]'' always has his clothes conveniently ripped away when he transforms, meaning that when he turns back into Bruce we get lovely scenes of him wearing nothing except for a pair of baggy purple shorts which he has to hold up to stop them falling down. Of course, [[MagicPants his trousers never tear off completely.]]

A {{hunk}}y man (real or animated) goes shirtless (or [[MaleFrontalNudity completely nude]]) or wears a revealing top that shows off his pectorals (in a sort of [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] to AbsoluteCleavage). Saves the crew a fortune in wardrobe (or ink) for MrFanservice.