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-> '''Hank:''' Because a big part of being a man is doing things you don't want to do. But there's a way to get through it: You just lower your eyes to the floor and count the tiles.''

-> '''Bobby''': Why?"

-> ''Hank:''' Because a big part of being a man is doing things you don't want to do. But there's a way to get through it: You just lower your eyes to the floor and count the tiles.''

-> '''''Hank:''' Bobby, no one wants to take a shower after gym. It's not fun, it's not pleasant, and usually not very sanitary, but you do it anyway."
-> '''"Bobby''': Why?"

-> '''"Hank: Bobby, no one wants to take a shower after gym. It's not fun, it's not pleasant, and usually not very sanitary, but you do it anyway."'''
-> '''"Bobby: Why?"'''
-> '''"Hank: Because a big part of being a man is doing things you don't want to do. But there's a way to get through it: You just lower your eyes to the floor and count the tiles.'"''

-> ''"Hank: Bobby, no one wants to take a shower after gym. It's not fun, it's not pleasant, and usually not very sanitary, but you do it anyway."''
-> ''"Bobby: Why?"''
-> ''"Hank: Because a big part of being a man is doing things you don't want to do. But there's a way to get through it: You just lower your eyes to the floor and count the tiles."''

-> ''"Hank: Bobby, no one wants to take a shower after gym. It's not fun, it's not pleasant, and usually not very sanitary, but you do it anyway.
Bobby: Why?
Hank: Because a big part of being a man is doing things you don't want to do. But there's a way to get through it: You just lower your eyes to the floor and count the tiles."''

-> ''"Bobby, no one wants to take a shower after gym. It's not fun, it's not pleasant, and usually not very sanitary, but you do it anyway. Why? Because a big part of being a man is doing things you don't want to do. But there's a way to get through it: You just lower your eyes to the floor and count the tiles."''

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Since Matsuri [[GenderBender was male most of his life]] and keeps this a secret, he's averse to undressing or bathing with girls even while living as one. He changes clothes as fast as possible for gym class and refused to join Yayo and Lu in a hot spring until they started [[ShamefulStrip pulling his clothes off themselves]]. They think "she" is just shy, though ironically [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Matsuri has very little personal modesty]]--he just thinks it's wrong for him to look at girls in his position, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark even if they don't know]]. When his grandpa suggests Suzu (who does know he was male) could wash Matsuri in the bath, he's alarmed to the point it becomes the subject of an [[YourWorstNightmare illusion]] he's put into later that day.

* Juvia Lockser of ''Manga/FairyTail'' is shown to be very uncomfortable bathing with the other girls at the Fairy Hills baths.

This trope is mostly found in series set in a school, where the character is a student who has to shower with his classmates after PE. Adolescent kids are often going through {{Pubery}} and enduring the AppearanceAngst that comes with it, so being naked in front of their peers understandably cranks those insecurities UpToEleven. It also inflicts TransTribulations on anybody with dysphoria.

* Joyce of ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' is shy about the shared dorm showers, to the point of wearing winter clothes the first time. She mentions that at home she was [[OutnumberedSibling the only girl]] and thus got her own bathroom.

A character, usually male, has to get into a group shower for the first time, but finds the idea of getting naked in front of others uncomfortable. He will often try to avoid having to take a shower using various excuses, before finally summoning up the courage to go through with it, and then realizes he has no reason to be ashamed.

This trope is mostly found in series set in a school, where the character is a student who has to shower with his classmates after PE. Although group showers are the most common example, it can also apply to other places where people are usually naked, like during a PublicBathhouseScene.

-->--'''Hank Hill''', ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' ("The Incredible Hank")

* In ''Ava XOX'', a children's chapter book written the form of a girl's diary, Ava has a NotWearingPantsDream because of this - her teacher told the class that girls in her grade will be allowed to use the showers at school next year and she doesn't want to.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' episode "Gym Class Confidential": Hoodsey is not too fond of showering after PE, but Carl manages to convince him otherwise at the end of the episode.

-->'''Hank:''' Bobby, no one wants to take a shower after gym. It's not fun, it's not pleasant, and usually not very sanitary, but you do it anyway. Why? Because a big part of being a man is doing things you don't want to do. But there's a way to get through it: You just lower your eyes to the floor and count the tiles.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'': At the beginning of "The Frog Principal," Adam doesn't want to shower in front of his classmates after gym class, but Jake tells him that he won't pass the "Sniff Test," which is given by Coach Gills' assistant to ensure that the students shower after class. Adam covers himself and Jake (who is actually okay with showering after P.E.) in a cologne called "Man Fume" so that he can avoid bathing, which works...until all of the females in the school become attracted to the duo and start chasing after them due to the cologne containing "100% animal pheromones."

* In the 1978 movie ''El Cantor'', the two daughters of the protagonist refuse to participate in a group shower, mostly because it's both mixed gender and mixed age.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Since Matsuri [[GenderBender was secretly male most of his life]], he's averse to undressing or bathing with girls even while living as one. He changes clothes as fast as possible for gym class and refused to join Yayo and Lu in a hot spring until they started [[ShamefulStrip pulling his clothes off themselves]]. They think "she" is just shy, though ironically [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Matsuri has very little personal modesty]]--he just thinks it's wrong for him to look at girls in his position, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark even if they don't know]]. When his grandpa suggests Suzu (who does know he was male) could wash Matsuri in the bath, he's alarmed to the point it becomes the subject of an [[YourWorstNightmare illusion]] he's put into later that day.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Since Matsuri [[GenderBender was secretly male most of his life]], he's averse to undressing or bathing with girls even while living as one. He changes clothes as fast as possible for gym class and refused to join Yayo and Lu in a hot spring until they started [[ShamefulStrip pulling his clothes off themselves]]. They think "she" is just shy, though ironically [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Matsuri has very little personal modesty]]--he just thinks it's wrong for him to look at girls in his position, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark even if they don't know]].

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Since Matsuri [[GenderBender was secretly male most of his life]], he's averse to undressing or bathing with girls. He changes clothes as fast as possible for gym class and refused to join Yayo and Lu in a hot spring until they started [[ShamefulStrip pulling his clothes off themselves]]. They think "she" is just shy, though ironically [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Matsuri has very little personal modesty]]--he just thinks it's wrong for him to look at girls in his position, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark even if they don't know]].

* In ''Manga/UQHolder'', Kuromaru is very uncomfortable about entering in a public bath with Touta, claiming people don't bathe together where he comes from. Also kinda justified, since Kuromaru has NoBiologicalSex and he doesn't want Touta to find out.

* The ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' episode "What’s Love Got to Do With It" has Chuckie trying to avoid having to shower until one of his attempts to do so gets him stranded outside the locker room with no clothes or towel. At the end of the episode, he finally overcomes his fear.