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14Somebody is injured and there is no hospital, drugstore, or first aid kit in sight. This leaves only one option, someone is going to have to tear off a piece of their clothing to make a bandage or sling to help patch up that wound.
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16This is an action that, though seemingly a simple display of kindness, can say many things about the characters involved. If a character rips their clothes without hesitation, they're probably either a battle or survival pragmatist and if they do hesitate they could be a tiny bit vain or at least image-conscious. Or if said clothes were [[DoomedNewClothes expensive and/or new]], they are more mindful of the money they're wasting than the needs of others.
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18It also can be used to send romantic signals about the characters involved. It is not uncommon for the person ripping the clothes to be a girl and the injured party to be a guy she likes. This romantic undercurrent is amplified if this [[TheLadysFavor dressing kept, treasured and/or tied on the arm]]. The fact that it's usually a woman doing this can be seen as a form of mild titillation if played for {{fanservice}}.
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20A subtrope of ClothingDamage and ImprovisedBandage. See also AfterActionPatchUp and ActionDressRip.
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27* In one of the ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'' theatrical shorts, Umeko-chan rips off part of the bottom of her kimono to wrap up Komusubiman's damaged foot (which he hurt by skidding down a mountainside, which snapped his sandal in two and rubbed a hole in his sock, which rubbed his heel raw). What makes it kinder was the fact that he hurt himself saving Umeko-chan.
28* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold Christa]] rips apart her skirt to make a bandage and sling for an injured comrade. She apologizes for not having anything better to use, prompting him to blush and insist it's fine.
29* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': When she catches up to Guts outside Promrose Hall, where he was looking for Griffith, Casca notices his arm is wounded and borrows his dagger so she can cut a bandage out of her sleeve. Casca had acted very hostile toward Guts up to this point, making this the first indication that she's kinder than she lets on. For extra symbolism, she ties it around his upper arm, where a knight would traditionally display his lady's favor.
30* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Awaki tears her jacket apart to bandage her wounds from her fight with Kuroko.
31* In the second part of the ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' manga, Miaka uses her shirt as a tourniquet/bandage on Tasuki.
32* In episode 18 of Anime/FutureBoyConan after Conan has been shot and beaten up by Industria soldiers they leave him in a room next to Lana's, Lana rips off a piece of her slip to clean Conan's wounds and use as a bandage for his gunshot wound.
33%%* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Prussia does this for a wounded Hungary.
34* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', Relena rips off a piece of her expensive party dress to use on Heero's gunshot wounds.
35* In ''Anime/OnePiece'', Captain T-Bone will tear off portions of his cape if one of his men has so much as a bug bite. After encountering the aftermath of Sanji's attack, he barely has any cape left.
36* ''Anime/RedBaron'': In Episode 40, Komei gets a nasty shoulder injury, and Marilyn decides to take off ''her bra'' to use it as a bandage. She smacks Ken before using it when he ogles at her, though.
37* In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', a flashback shows a young Seiya chasing a rabbit to a training field for female saints. He's seen by Shaina, who is about to attack him, but then he notices she has a wound in her arm, and he rips off a piece of his shirt to bandage it. This is later revealed to be the reason why she's so bent on killing him because that meeting caused her to fall in love with him for his kindness.
38* ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Naru does this with her pajamas to make a bandage for Nephrite when they are hiding from Zoisite in a park after his attack. She hangs onto said bandage as a token to remember him by after he dies and eventually uses it on a wound Umino gets whilst trying to defend her to show she's moved on emotionally from Nephrite's death.
39* One story in the ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' manga series has Sasami tear up a handkerchief to help make a splint for an injured wolf.
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43* ''ComicBook/RedRobin'': When attacked by the Widower Tim uses part of his cape to bandage his abdominal wound and to help bandage Pru's neck since the first aid kit packed in his UtilityBelt only goes so far and they both have serious injuries.
44* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'': During "The Janus Directive" crossover, a disguised Manhunter (who is DressingAsTheEnemy) is almost garroted by Raven. Having cut his hand blocking the garrotte, he pulls off Captain Boomerang's scarf and uses it to bandage his hand. When Boomerang complains and claims the scarf is genuine silk, Manhunter responds "It's genuine rayon and I'll buy you another one!"
45* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': When Hippolyta cuts off one of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s brainwashed minion's arms [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna]] reacts by quickly removing her own shirt to use as a tourniquet while yelling at her mother for the level of violence she's using against people who are not acting under their own will.
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49* To break an enchantment they encounter in ''Fanfic/AllThatGlittersOthellia'', Anna and Hans need to exchange blood. Hans then cuts strips of cloth from his shirt to wrap their wounds.
50* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9656336/6/The-Broken-Boy The Broken Boy]]'' Hermione uses part of her robe to make a splint for Draco's injured ankle.
51* ''Fanfic/{{Couturiere}}'' has Marinette take the sleeve off her jacket so she can wrap up Chat's leg, dressing some of the wounds she inflicted while akumatized.
52* ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' :
53** In ''[[http://web.archive.org/web/20080424102900/exit3.i-55.com/~ffaller/dark.html One Dark and Stormy Night]]'', Johnny and Dixie are kidnapped after a Halloween event and Johnny is badly beaten. Dixie tears strips from her costume dress to bandage him.
54** Captain Stanley uses his flannel shirt to make bandages for Mike Stoker in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4420033/1/I-Will-Carry-You I Will Carry You]]'' and ends up hypothermic from it.
55* Maddie rips the sleeves of her dress in ''Fanfic/HomeWithTheFairies'', chapter 5 "Up and Out", to make pads to soak the blood from her own period. In this DeconstructionFic, ripping her dress was not trivial. "I had to use my teeth and rocks, and got some rug burns on my hands from all the pulling."
56* ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'': Avalina first uses the [[PostVictoryCollapse unconscious]] Horned King's shredded robe to bandage his body that was savaged during his fight against the entire [[SavageWolves Mad Pack]]. Later she uses the fabric from her own skirt and cloak to do the same to Taran's side and dislocated shoulder following the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown he received.
57* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12342350/18/Its-Not-Over It's Not Over]]'' Hermione uses her dress and Draco's cloak to make bandages for themselves after fighting Death Eaters.
58* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11420434/26/Moments-in-Love Moments in Love]]'' Harry uses his T-shirt to bind his wounds after four kappa attack him during the Second Task.
59* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11506150/23/My-Godfather My Godfather]]'' Harry uses part of his robe to bandage Ron's badly broken leg.
60* Early in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Misty sees Ash being attacked by a flock of Spearow and Fearow. After he successfully fends them off [[spoiler:using [[AttackReflector Counter]] ]], he collapses from exhaustion, and she uses an old shirt to bandage his wounds.
61* In the ''Series/Adam12'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8243040/1/Thunder-Rolls-Again Thunder Rolls Again]]'',Sgt. [=MacDonald=] uses his uniform shirt to tie off Pete's bleeding leg after Pete is shot.
62* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13197260/20/The-Videus-Charm The Videus Charm]]'' Harriet uses the sleeves of her robe to bandage her injured arm.
63* ''Fanfic/WolfInTheStreetsSardineInTheSheets'' has a variation where the clothing isn't ripped apart: Rutile needs to carry a seriously injured Zeroken to Artina's clinic, and Laharl uses his signature red scarf to help secure him, scolding about how he doesn't want them to get it dirty.
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67* [[TheChiefsDaughter Nita]] does this to Kenai at the end of ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear2'' [[spoiler: after he survives being pushed off a cliff by Atka]], just right before [[spoiler: the Great Spirits turn Nita into a bear as well so that she and Kenai can finally get married.]]
68* ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'': Odette rips some fabric off her skirt to patch up Puffin's wing after removing the arrow that had been shot through it.
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72* ''Film/BlackWidow2021'': Following the car crash in Budapest, Yelena uses her coat to bandage her injured arm till she can get proper bandages.
73* ''Film/TheChargeAtFeatherRiver'': When the Guardhouse Brigade runs out of actual bandages, Anne--who has been pressed into service as nurse--is reduced to using strips torn from the soldiers' clothing to bandage their wounds.
74* In ''Film/CocaineBear'', Daveed uses [[MyFavoriteShirt his favourite jersey]] as a makeshift bandage after he loses several fingers.
75* After Morten breaks his leg in ''Film/ColdPrey'', Jannicke gets Ingunn to pass her her spare shirt from her pack and uses it to splint Morten's leg.
76* In ''День Д'' (''D-Day'', the Russian remake of ''Film/{{Commando}}'') our hero takes off his shirt to bandage a leg wound and provide the requisite manly fanservice. Meanwhile his ArchEnemy is ripping off his own shirt [[EvilIsHammy for no reason at all]], before taking on the hero in hand-to-hand combat.
77* In ''Film/Derailed2002'', Angus rips up his shirt and uses the strips to make cold compresses for Madeline to bring down the fever of those infected with the virus.
78* In the early Creator/MichaelJFox movie ''Film/DocHollywood'', he momentarily agonizes over having to rip up some Armani shirts in order to treat a woman who's gone into sudden labor.
79* In ''Film/EveryLastOneOfThem'', Hunter uses his undershirt to staunch the bleeding from the gunshot wound in his shoulder until he can [[HealItWithFire cauterize it with a red hot knife]].
80* When Joe cuts his hand attempting to play GrievousBottleyHarm in ''Film/FearInc'', Lindsey tears the bottom off her tank top and uses it to bind his hand.
81* ''Film/ForceOfNatureTheDry2'': After Bree is bitten by a funnel-web spider, Beth uses Jill's scarf as a compression bandage to immobilize Bree's arm.
82* ''Film/GameOfAssassins'': When they first meet, David rips the bottom off his tee-shirt and uses it to bandage the cut on Kyle's leg.
83* In ''Film/GreatWhite'', Jijo rips the sleeve off his shirt and uses it to bandage Michelle's blistered hands.
84* In ''Film/HannieCaulder'', Emmett rips up his last clean shirt and uses it to bandage his brother Frank's leg after Frank is shot escaping the ''Federales''.
85* ''Film/TheHorseSoldiers'': Following the battle at Newton Station, Lukey and the black servants in the hotel tear up the sheets to turn them into bandages.
86* Parodied in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', Ramada rips off a part of her (already scant) clothing to bandage Topper's [[OnlyAFleshWound flesh wound]], at which point their compatriots present their little scratches in hopes she'll tear off more of her shirt.
87* In ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'', Carly tears strips off the top she is wearing to bandage her mutilated finger.
88* Film/JamesBond has a couple of mundane versions. In ''Film/DrNo'' he has to do this so he doesn't touch the suddenly very hot floor during his water-pipe escape, and in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' he rips out his pockets for a couple of improvised gloves so he can hold onto the cable in the cable car escape scene.
89* ''Film/JaneGotAGun'': When Jane is shot in the belly during the final shootout, Dan rips up a sheet to use as a pad and clamps it in place with her gun belt.
90* In ''Film/JurassicCity'', after Stephanie gets injured, Pippi and Sarah use their coats to tend her wound and Doyle gives them his uniform to them to tend her wound.
91* ''Film/AManCalledSledge'': After being stabbed in his gun arm by Kehoe, Sledge uses his neckerchief to strap a crucifix to the arm as a makeshift splint so he can keep shooting.
92* In the film of ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'' protagonist Raymond Shaw is bitten by a snake and childhood sweetheart Jocelyn Jordan rips off her blouse to make a tourniquet before dashing off bra-clad on her bicycle to get help. Totally innocent, but love blossoms. Then it gets complicated.
93* ''Film/TheManFromLaramie'': After Will [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoots his gun out of his hand]], Dave wraps his neckerchief around his injured hand.
94* ''Film/MissFisherAndTheCryptOfTears'': After Wilson is shot, Phryne pulls a shirt out of his pack and presses it down on the wound in an effort to staunch the bleeding.
95* ''Film/NutcrackerMassacre'': After managing to escape from the Nutcracker by hiding in a closet, Clara tears a strip of cloth off a shirt and uses it to dress Paul's wounds from the Nutcracker's attack on him.
96* ''Film/{{Primal}}'': After being shot in the leg, Frank tears a strip off his shirt and uses it to bind his thigh.
97* ''Film/ThePrinceOfThieves'': Lady Christabel uses a strip from her blue gown to bind up the wound on Sir Allan's arm before the wedding.
98* In ''Film/TheRaid1954'', Dwyer puts his handkerchief under Benton's coat to staunch Benton's shoulder wound.
99* ''Film/ReadyOrNot'': After climbing out of the goat pit, Graces rips the sleeve off her wedding gown and uses it to bandage her ImpaledPalm.
100* ''Film/Revenge2017'': After being shot in the shoulder by Jen, Stan uses his sock as a tourniquet to staunch the bleeding.
101* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'': Janet rips her slip to make a bandage for Rocky just before the "Toucha Toucha Toucha Touch Me" number.
102-->''[[AudienceParticipation He's got more hurt than you've got skirt!]]''\
103''[[AudienceParticipation It's]] [[Creator/SusanSarandon Sarandon]] [[AudienceParticipation Wrap!]]''
104* ''Film/RumRunners'': Linda rips her feathered dress to bandage a sailor's arm after he's hit by shrapnel from an explosion.
105* ''Film/SanAndreas'': Blake uses her white tank top to bandage Ben Taylor's leg after he gets an open wound.
106* ''Film/TheShallows'': Nancy is forced to use her wetsuit to cover her injured leg.
107* The eponymous character in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'' wraps his tie around his head after Dianne accidentally hits him with a dart.
108* Happens in ''[[Film/ShortCircuit Short Circuit 2]]'' when [[spoiler:Johnny is mortally wounded by Oscar and his mooks and rapidly leaking battery acid. [[JerkAss Fred]] tears off part of the very expensive shirt he's taken pride in throughout the movie to bandage Johnny and try and slow his "bleeding".]]
109* ''Film/{{Slashers}}'': Megan tears up Matthew's shirt and uses the strips to bandage Brenda's face and Rick's hand.
110* ''Film/StatesOfGrace'': A Mormon missionary rips up his iconic white shirt to help a gang member who was shot in front of him.
111* In ''[[Film/Stranded2002 Stranded]]'', Lara tears off part of her petticoat to create a bandage for David.
112* In the 2013 horror movie ''Film/TasmanianDevils'' Alex takes off her shirt and puts it around the ribcage of Anderson.
113* ''Film/TheatreOfDeath'': After having his palm sliced by the killer, Charles hurriedly wraps his handkerchief around his hand as a makeshift bandage.
114* ''Film/ThreeHeadedSharkAttack'': Both Maggie and Allison use their shirts to bandage some of the injured passengers.
115* ''Film/{{Thunderheart}}'': After Maggie's son Hobart is shot by the [=GOONs=], Roy is driving the pair of them to the hospital. When Maggie panics that he is losing a lot of blood, Roy pulls off his tie and hands it to her and she uses it to bind the wound.
116* ''Film/TimberFalls'': Mike gets a stick stuck in his arm when he falls while chasing after Sheryl. He yanks it out and uses his bandana as a bandage.
117* ''Film/TheTunnel'': Natasha Warner takes off her shirt and uses it to bandage one of the guys that are with her.
118* ''Film/TheUncanny'': While trapped in the kitchen by the cats, Janet tears up her petticoat and uses it to bind the worst of her wounds.
119* ''Film/TheWomanHunt'': After Billie is bitten by a snake, [=McGee=] uses the belt off her dress as a tourniquet while Tony cuts her leg to SuckOutThePoison.
120* ''Film/{{XX}}'': When Jess falls off a cliff and breaks her leg In "Don't Fall", she rips up her top and turns it into a tourniquet.
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124* ''Literature/LoneWolf'': On their (possibly second) meeting in Book 5, ''Shadow on the Sand'', Lone Wolf witnesses wizard Banedon being attacked by a Drakkar warrior which he has to kill. He then tends to Banedon's wound with strips of the wizard's journeymaster robes.
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128* In John Green's novel ''Literature/AnAbundanceOfKatherines'', Colin, the protagonist, receives a head wound, and Lindsey, a girl he met an hour ago, orders Colin's friend Hassan to take off his (Hassan's) shirt. When Hassan refuses (so that Lindsey won't see his man boobs), Lindsey whips off her own shirt to staunch Colin's bleeding.
129* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
130** Rachel does this in one book, tearing a strip off her own leotard to bandage Tobias's wounds. Justified in that they've been thrown back in time 65 million years; she literally has nothing else to use that she knows isn't poisonous.
131** In the first book, Cassie suggests using Jake's shirt as a bandage for Elfangor, [[{{Averted}} but]] the latter says that he's too injured and it wouldn't help.
132* Happens so often in the ''Literature/ChroniclesOfAncientDarkness'' series that you can start to wonder how long Torak's clothes were originally, if he's not naked by the end of the book.
133* Olivia Koudelka rips up her party dress to bandage Dono Vorrutyer after some thugs nearly castrate him in ''Literature/ACivilCampaign''. This is the moment Ivan, hovering nearby, realizes that he doesn't have a chance with Olivia.
134* ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' series:
135** In ''Literature/{{Orca}}'', Vlad has to bandage his ShoulderSizedDragon familiar's injuries with strips torn from his cloak. As one of the wounds he's tending is on Loiosh's long snaky ''neck'', and must be covered loosely enough to allow breathing yet heavy enough to stop the bleeding, it's a good thing it's a long cloak.
136** In ''Literature/TheLordOfCastleBlack'', Ibronka cuts strips out of her own cloak as bandages for Roaana after the latter is wounded in battle. It's used as a sign of their friendship and also to show the mindset of Dragaeran nobles; Ibronka's servant suggests using the cloak of one of the men they had fought and is promptly rebuked for it.
137* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Oreg's shirt is at one point used to bandage Ward's wounds.
138* In the second ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' novel, F'lar and Lessa are wearing new outfits to a wedding. F'lar ends up in a duel with T'ron, during which he gets his suit cut up, and Lessa has to rip up her dress to make bandages.
139* ''Literature/{{Hawksmaid}}'': When Matty finds the injured merlin Marigold, she tears up her underskirt and uses the strips to bind up the falcon.
140* In ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', Susan does this to patch up the Hogfather's wounds after she saves him from being killed DeaderThanDead by the Auditors.
141* ''Literature/JoePickett'': In ''Free Fire'', Joe tears strips of his shirt and uses them to bandage the mangled hand of a survivalist while they wait for the medivac chopper to arrive.
142* In the 1924 novel ''Jungle-Born'' by John Eyton a village girl who's run away from her abusive father finds the WildChild protagonist unconscious and badly injured from a tiger attack. To save him she strips off her one and only garment and tears it into strips to wash and bandage his wounds. The fact that this means they're now both naked probably isn't insignificant.
143* In the ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}'', Princess Draupadi once tore off a piece of her sari to fix a cut on Krishna's finger in this manner. Later, when she prays to him for help when her own brothers-in-law are trying to rape her in front of their court, he returns the favor by [[AllClothUnravels extending her sari]] so that the Kauravas can't strip her and eventually give up.
144* Discussed in the Literature/ModestyBlaise novel ''The Night of Morningstar''. Modesty is attacked and injured while out on the town with her friends Dinah and Stephen. While trying to improvise a dressing for the injury, Stephen remarks that in films this is the point where one of the women present would start tearing strips off her petticoat, and jokes that it was careless of Modesty and Dinah to not have brought a petticoat with them. They make do with Stephen's handkerchief tied in place with Modesty's nylons.
145%% * ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'' - Clary tries to invoke this, to Jace's amusement.
146* After Literature/JamesBond's hands are cut from barbed wire in ''Literature/NoDealsMrBond'', one of the agents he is rescuing rips pieces from her skirt to apply bandages to them.
147* In ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'', Claire Randall ends up tearing strips from her nylon dress (which she’d happened to be wearing when she traveled through the stones and ended up in 1743) to bind Jamie Fraser’s wounded shoulder.
148* In Alex Pelle's "Play It Cool, Pal" a bolt shoots out of Dwight's damaged and half-raised convertible top and cuts him over the eye. He uses part of his T-shirt to fix it up so he can see to drive.
149%%* Most Creator/TamoraPierce books include this.
150* In the ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'' series, neckcloths are used for field dressing more often than not.
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154* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In "[[Recap/AngelS04E10Awakening Awakening]]", after bandaging Wesley when he gets an ImpaledPalm from a {{Booby Trap}}ped door, Cordelia points out that she doesn't have enough shirt for the rest of them.
155* ''Series/ANZACGirls'': Matron Grace Wilson, faced with a catastrophic lack of supplies at the fledgling field hospital on Lemnos, gets her nurses to tear their white petticoats (including hers) into strips for bandages -- but she makes sure those strips get sterilized before they're used.
156* Brennan grabs Sweets' shirt in ''{{Series/Bones}}'' to stop the bleeding when a guy gets shot during an undercover plot at a death metal concert. The scene is used for additional drama as well due to Brennan seeing Sweets' scar-covered back and realizing he'd been abused as a child.
157* Chummy uses her uniform as bandages in one episode of Series/CallTheMidwife.
158* ''Series/CSICyber'': In "Red Crone," a boy who cut his hand to offer blood to the Red Crone as part of the treasure hunt uses the bottom of his shirt to bind up his hand.
159* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In "Hunting Ground," the BodyOfTheWeek is found [[PinnedToTheWall nailed to a tree]] by an arrow, with a makeshift tourniquet made from his pants leg wrapped around his arm.
160* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Various detectives tear off parts of their shirts to bandage victims from time to time. Also:
161** In "What You See Is What You See," Mac uses his jacket to stem the flow of blood from the waitress' gunshot wound.
162** In "Charge of This Post," he borrows a ''shoestring'' from a fellow victim to bind a profusely bleeding artery in Flack's gut until the paramedics can arrive. Then he tears strips from his own shirt to stuff in the gaping wound to staunch additional bleeding.
163** "Epilogue" has a variation. A perp stabs a security guard, hitting his femoral artery, then tears off one of the man's sleeves to use as a tourniquet ''on his own arm'' (where the guard had shot him earlier), and runs away, leaving the guard to bleed to death.
164* ''Series/DeathInParadise'': In "[[spoiler:The Impossible Murder]]", the VictimOfTheWeek is stabbed by their killer in the kitchen of a hotel. Not wanting their killer to go to prison for their murder, the victim uses a scarf to staunch the bleeding and walks upstairs in full view of the guests (who mistake his slight stumbling for him being drunk). Once in his room, he locks the door and stages the room to make it look like there had been a break-in. After hiding the scarf, he suffers a TimeDelayedDeath on the floor, accidentally creating a LockedRoomMystery.
165* In the final season of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', [[spoiler:Thomas]] slits his wrists in the bathtub. After his friends break down the door and find him unconscious, Miss Baxter rips temporary bandages out of her petticoat while waiting for the doctor.
166* There was an episode of ''Series/TheFlyingNun'' where Sister Bertrille tore her habit to make a bandage.
167* An episode of ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'' had Kitty shred up her petticoat to make bandages for an ailing Matt.
168* ''Franchise/StarTrek'', particularly ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', did this several times: the characters would find themselves without their advanced medical technology, so they (usually Bashir) would rip up their uniforms to make bandages.
169* ''Series/{{Survivorman}}'' Les Stroud has done this after injuring himself in the wild.
170* ''Series/TheSwampFox'' has an episode where Mary Videaux boarded a British prison ship by pretending to be a Tory. She begins nursing the American soldiers, hoping to find a way to sneak them off to supplement Marion's dwindling brigade. She ends up turning the party dress she'd been wearing the night before into bandages for the guys' wounds.
171* In ''Series/UntoldStoriesOfTheER'', Dra. Candice Myhre takes her shirt off and uses it as a bandage for a guy who received a huge cut in his leg on the beach.
172* In ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs (2010)'' Lady Agnes Holland uses an expensive-looking blouse to stem the blood flow of [[spoiler:Beryl, after Lady Persephone shoots her and then kills herself, she even tells the staff to ignore Lady "Persie" who is already dead.]]
173* ''Series/YancyDerringer'': When Colton gets shot in the arm in "Return to New Orleans", Yancy rips his sleeve open to examine the wound, and then uses the ripped sleeve to bind the wound.
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177* Multiple episodes of ''Radio/TheSixShooter'' feature a character tearing up their clothing--usually either a shirttail (if male) or a petticoat (if female)--to bandage either themselves or someone else.
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181* In ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'' Aldonza tears up her petticoat to make bandages for Don Quixote after their and Sancho's fight with the muleteers.
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185* In ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', if you fail to spot [[spoiler:the Founders' ambush in the airship station]] and end up [[ImpaledPalm stabbed with the letter-opener]], Elizabeth uses her scarf to dress the injury. The scarf remains in place for the remainder of the game.
186* In the alternate fourth stage of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'', Richter and Maria can rescue Iris, a villager whose father is a doctor. Before they leave, Iris notices an injury they have on their arms and rips off her left sleeve to act as a bandage (as shown in the PC-Engine version), [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration and even replenishes your health after the scene ends.]] She even brings up facts about infection and the like if the wound is left untreated in the PSP remake. Like father, like daughter.
187* In the final mission of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', you can overhear a soldier trying to instruct a girl over the radio to make a tourniquet from her clothing to save another soldier whose leg had been blown off. The tourniquet doesn't work, and the soldier dies. Hearing enemies approaching, and [[FateWorseThanDeath knowing the practices of the enemy]], the girl decides to use the soldier's gun to kill herself.
188* In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'', the Prince tears off one of his sleeves to bandage his own arm. Later he tears off [[SleevesAreForWimps his other sleeve]] and [[ShirtlessScene the rest of his shirt]] as it gets progressively more [[ClothingDamage damaged]].
189* Discussed in a background conversation in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''. Two nuns are discussing treating the wounded when one of them worries about running out of bandages. The other tells her to just start tearing up shirts if that happens, since if the Inquisition can afford fancy uniforms they can certainly afford bandages.
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193In ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'':
194** {{Downplayed}} and {{Parodied}} when in a CarChaseShootout, Rocky, a [[VenturousSmuggler booze-runner]], wails a desperate "Oh no! Stay with me!" after his [[ThePreciousPreciousCar car]] trunk is hit by gunfire, unlatching it and putting bullet holes in both the trunk, and the whiskey bottles inside, when he notices it "bleeding." He then removes his tie and knots it to relatch the trunk.
195** Later {{Downplayed}} and PlayedForDrama as a PlotDrivenBreakdown requires Rocky's GetawayDriver Ivy to tear the sleeves off her jacket and blouse to use for her makeshift repair work on the car's engine.
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199* In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'', [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/ISSUE11Pages/ib255.html Caspian asks for a bandage. Roan tears Caspian's sleeve off. Caspian thanks him.]] (Unusually, this is a full-blown AfterActionHealingDrama.)
200* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', when Bob injures his head, his fiance Jean [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/809 has to use her shirt]] to bandage it.
201* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' plays this for laughs--when Sam gets bitten by a snake, Marten ''immediately'' rips part of his shirt to tourniquet her arm... then she casually reveals that she knows the snake isn't poisonous, and everyone picks on Marten about it when the group returns to the coffee shop.
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205* Used for [[RuleOfFunny humorous]] FanService in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' episode "Space Race Part 2". While being held hostage on a space station, Lana Kane opens her jumpsuit and removes her tank top to distract the guard so she and the rest of the ISIS hostages can overpower him. In an offscreen fight, Lanas jumpsuit is destroyed and Archer is shot in the arm. Left wearing only panties, Lana reaches for her tank top just as Archer is wrapping it on his arm as a bandage. [[spoiler:This leaves Lana with nothing but space agency decals to cover her nipples with.]]
206* In ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'', Bee's new temp job friend, the GentleGiant cat Moully, accidentally injures his finger with a wish crystal while making wish donuts. Bee pulls the crystal out, rips off the bottom of her dress and wraps it around Moully's finger as a makeshift band aid.
207* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode ''The Journey'' had Elisa rip a strip from her dress to tend to Goliath's injured wing after he was shot by the Quarrymen.
208* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': In "Into the Bunker", Wendy wraps her wounds in a strip of cloth from her flannel shirt after a fight with the MonsterOfTheWeek.
209* Not clothing, but thematically similar, in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Rarity cuts off her tail to fix the mustache of a [[TheDandy prissy]] sea-serpent who is suffering a MinorInjuryOverreaction. It's done specifically to highlight how her generous nature outweighs her [[TheFashionista fashionista]] personality to set her up as the wielder of the Element of Generosity.
210* In episode 9 of WesternAnimation/SabansAdventuresOfTheLittleMermaid Marina and Prince Justin find an injured rabbit, upon seeing that it has a hurt paw, Marina rips off a piece of her dress to use as a bandage.
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214* In the case of Real Life occurrences, in the past it happened on the battlefield before medical personnel were deployed, and it can still happen now. Also in areas after any disaster and where you cannot locate a First Aid kit, clothes are commonly used as makeshift bandages. Using things like belts and ties as makeshift slings is a common bit of advice in first-aid manuals as well.
215* [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle A word of advice]]: Shoelaces are bad as ties to hold dressings in place. Due to being so narrow, they can turn into an unwanted tourniquet and cut off circulation to the limb. The exception is when [[AnArmAndALeg the limb has been mostly or totally severed]], whereupon a tourniquet is the first best option.
216* ''Reader's Digest'' wrote about [[https://www.readersdigest.ca/culture/true-stories-saved-belle/ one of those incredible true stories]] of a 115-pound girl dragging her 160-pound injured boyfriend down a steep waterfall trail. She stripped off her surf shorts for his head wound, her bikini top for his arm wound, and said that "My bikini bottoms would have been off if I'd needed to." Props, lady.
217* Grand Duchess Elizabeth Romanova (a.k.a. Elisabeth of Hessen and by Rhine) and several of her relatives, friends and courtiers were thrown into a mine shaft by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Not all of them died instantaneously, and later, in particular, Prince Ioann Romanov's body was discovered next to Elizabeth's, with Elizabeth's [[http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolnik apostolnik]] serving as bandage for his wound.
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