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1[[quoteright:336:[[Film/TheSevenYearItch https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mte5ndg0mdyznziznjuynjiz.jpg]]]]
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4->''"Creating a tempest whirling at speeds of a hundred kilometers per hour around the target, whilst the target herself feels nothing but the soft touch of a gentle breeze! Truly the ultimate wind technique for granting the dreams of men!!"''
5-->-- '''[[LovableSexManiac Jack Rakan]]''', ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''
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7A comedy trope in which a character's skirt, dress or [[ManInAKilt similar]] garment gets lifted by a sudden unexpected gust of wind. Bonus points if this causes them to shriek and try to push their skirt back down. If the character is a CovertPervert they may actually enjoy the experience, or at least the attention it gets.
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9The {{Trope Namer|s}} and most iconic example, of course, is Creator/MarilynMonroe in ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'' standing over the subway vent (see picture). As such, a common {{stock parod|ies}}y includes having the character adopt Monroe's pose from the scene.
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11May or may not result in ComedicUnderwearExposure, depending on the presence or [[GoingCommando absence of underwear]], the angle it's seen from, and the victim's reaction time (for some reason, characters always tend to be quicker on the draw when it's seen from the front). The more vulgar examples (of the bathroom variety) would include the skirts being blown away by "wind", likely a reference to Marilyn's flatulence problems and poor personal hygiene.
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13While this occasionally happens in RealLife, it requires a short skirt made of light fabric, a strong wind, and an updraft, whereas in fiction it often happens to any skirt with the slightest breeze. [[PublicServiceAnnouncement By the way]], if you ever do feel the wind lifting your skirt, pushing it down as Marilyn did in the movie is likely to give the wind more surface area to push up against, exacerbating the problem and drawing more attention from passersby; it's best to either gather a side of the skirt in one hand, put a pin in it (many women carry a safety pin in their purse for this reason), just let the wind have a cheap thrill until the gust has passed, or plan ahead and wear something other than a flared or pleated skirt in windy weather. [[ObligatoryJoke Whatever blows your skirt up.]]
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15For voluntary examples see ShowSomeLeg.
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17Often used as a {{Modeling Pose|s}}.
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24* A male kilt example with a Sierra Mist commercial featuring Creator/PattonOswalt stepping out of a St. Paddy's Day parade to do The Marilyn Maneuver. Quoth an onlooker, "[[FanDisservice That's just wrong, Dad.]]"
25* Sometimes seen in commercials from the 1970s, '80s, and '90s for products like pantyhose (back when a lot more women wore them than do today), Nair (see Image Links above), or any other product designed to make a woman's legs look nicer.
26* In Australia's Avis Super Savers [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_41Hj6d_XM ad]] from the late '80s, a blonde Avis girl walks past a line of cars with men leaning out to watch her, then opens the door of another car, causing the air conditioner to blow her red dress up and around as if she's standing over a fan (matching panties can be just barely glimpsed). The all-male line of drivers get a rear view of her and hoot with delight.
27* In a [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7KYp/pepsi-wild-cherry-explosively-cherry 2014 commercial]] for Pepsi Wild Cherry, a woman's white dress with cherry patterns billows quickly after a man pops the cap off a bottle of the beverage. Then, the cherry patterns fizzle away or dissolve as the man drinks the soda.
28* Sprite commercials from the late '80s, featuring the freestyle group The Cover Girls, would include them twirling in flirty skirts as they danced, revealing their panties.
29* A promo for Creator/CartoonNetwork's Cartoon Theater involves WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood, dressed as the Creator/ColumbiaPictures Torch Lady, trying to get her torch lit, followed by the wind blowing up her dress before the view quickly pans away.
30* Snickers had two ''Seven Year Itch'' spoofs in 2016, the year that would have marked Marilyn Monroe's 90th birthday.
31** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT-SAoTXNAs commercial]] set during the filming of the movie has a cranky Marilyn mess up the maneuver, then complain about the improbability and inconvenience of a woman wearing heels while standing on a subway grate. Even after a break for Snickers gets Marilyn in the proper mood to complete the scene, the man operating the fan underneath the grate admits [[ItWillNeverCatchOn doubting that it will make the final cut]].[[note]]This commercial featured Creator/WillemDafoe as the cranky Marilyn, a combination of a Monroe impersonator and ''Seven Year Itch'' StockFootage as post-Snickers break Marilyn, and Creator/EugeneLevy as the man operating the fan.[[/note]]
32** A New York video billboard treated passer-bys to the sight of Marilyn on the vent. [[spoiler:If someone stared ''too'' long, Marilyn would change into Willem Dafoe, and scold viewers for gawking.]]
33* An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCgpxNq346g ad]] for [=Plus500=] features a celebrity having her skirt blown up by a leaf blower to reveal her knickers, which causes the brand to quickly sell out.
34* in Creator/CartoonNetwork Movie Month Bumper with Finn and Bubblegum Princess,with her having the same moment as Marilyn had.
35* A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOT4tAbxZYE French Eau de Gloss commercial]] features a woman having her dress blow up in the wind revealing striped panties.
36* A Rover MG commercial features two guys in a car who zoom past a girl on the sidewalk and make her long red dress fly up. In the uncensored version, one can see that the woman is GoingCommando.
37* A 2007 Ukrainian advertisement for Russian telecommunications company Beeline includes a scene with several couples dancing, cutting to a very low shot just as one dancer performs a twirl that makes her dress fly way up. In one version of the ad, this dancer is wearing white panties, while in a second version with a slightly different voiceover, she [[GoingCommando isn't wearing any panties at all]]. When that version hit the internet and quickly became quite widespread, the company responded to the ensuing scandal by claiming that it was the result of digital image editing.
38* it has an Commercial from MASS that Severina is dressed as Marilyn Monroe and did the scene with the breeze from the Subway grate blowing up her dress,it can be watched [[https://youtu.be/asmv2svG1qU?si=7Jnd3nEWF7hAG0Z1 here]]
39* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwetoCAL60o One Australian commercial]] for Berlei's Barely-There-Briefs features four young ladies walking down the street, when a red bus with the Berlei logo on the side passes by them, giving their skirts an updraft and each lady is wearing a different color of this brand of panties.
40* An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt_CpUfBI_o ad]] for FlyStation Japan has this happen to a woman wearing a similar white dress to Marilyn Monroe's ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'' to demonstrate the power of its wind tunnels. Unlike the film, though, the wind force is so powerful that the woman's skirt is actually blown off, leaving her in her underwear.
41* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mOwZOJDyLg Czech sweepstakes ad]] features a Marilyn figure at the the end of the video being disgusted by the breeze delivered by a strong flatulence from a kid in a fart contest.
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45* Shugo spies two female [=PCs=] in the middle of this in ''Manga/DotHackLegendOfTheTwilight''. Someone on the dev team for The World must have done quite a bit of research, as Shugo is quite enamored with the "bump mapping."
46* Happen in Season 2 of ''Manga/AhMyBuddha'' with a pervy ghost that use wind-based power to lift schoolgirl's skirt.
47* An accidental one occurs in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' Chapter 5 when Sayoko pressures Keiichi to date her, and boy... does the System Force respond!
48* Nadja Applefield from ''Anime/AshitaNoNadja'' in the first episode, "Nadja, Door of Destiny". Seen from the side, a gust suddenly blows up her dress forwardly and her hat off her head.
49* In an unanimated part of the twenty-fourth chapter of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'', [[CameraFiend Mari]] explains to Mai some photographic terms, including the phrase "exposure correction." Mai has an ImagineSpot over what that phrase means--that of Mari doing one of this while the latter's eyes were censored by a CensorBox. Bonus points to the fact that Mari's InSeriesNickname is "Monroe," in a [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous direct reference to]] Creator/MarilynMonroe.
50* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' has a self-inflicted example: in Chapter 5 While Soga and Matsuri seemed on the verge of a fight, Matsuri's own [[BlowYouAway wind powers]] and skirt give Soga a [[MundaneMadeAwesome very over-the-top]] PantyShot. Soga then [[DefeatByModesty run off, stuttering and red-faced]], and Matsuri [[InnocentFanserviceGirl doesn't understand why]].
51* Yuuji's [[WeNeedADistraction bright idea]] in ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'', complete with the white dress, [[AffectionateParody at least in Yuuji's head]], that is.
52* The indirect cause of the entire plot of ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}''.
53* Episode 82 of ''Manga/BlackClover'' has omake clips, one of which features Charmy's "Sexy Transformation" that has her do this, complete with an outfit modeled after Marilyn Monroe in the film.
54* Momiji in episode 10 of ''Manga/BlueSeed'' in one of many PantyShot scenes.
55** this also occurs at the end of Episode 13 where a gust of wind reveals she's wearing panties with hearts and "I love you" with Mr. Kusanagi being written with black marker as a means of Momiji expressing her true feelings for him, but he barely noticed.
56*** Episode 14 has a brief flashback of the same scene, although Momiji wonders if Kusanagi even saw her panties in the first place.
57* ''Manga/CaseClosed'':
58** At the end of an otherwise serious episode where Kogoro discovers one of his old friends resorted to murder, he cheers himself up by looking out the window of his second floor office during a gusty day.
59** In "Roller Coaster Murder Case", there's a flashback moment of Hitomi in sepia as Conan explains how he can tell she's a gymnast. There was a wind lift of her skirt, revealing frilly, white panties with a bow on the front and he noticed there was a bruise on each of her thighs, which typically is the result of physics of the sport.
60** Det. Naeko Miike near the end of "Co-Investigating with a First Love". A wind gust nearly lifts her skirt to reveal more than intended, but she manages to catch it before her hat is blown off her head.
61** Ran in "The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases" (a.k.a. "Jimmy Kudo Revealed"). One of the suspected magicians, Mako Miyoshi, performs a magic trick that involves doves flying out from under Ran's skirt. Younger Conan comments that her panties are white.
62* Happens to some passing schoolgirls in ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'', just as Chi happens to be on a quest for underpants.
63* One famous scene from ''Manga/CityHunter'' has protagonist Ryo Saeba lift up attractive Inspector Nogami's skirt to distract a villain wielding a grenade. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCx92m77Alk here]].
64* In both the ''Anime/CosPrayers'' spinoff ''Love Love?'' and ''Hit wo Nerae!''.
65** For the first happen in the first episode with Hikaru and, after, to Natsumi during a CherryBlossoms scene (for the joy of the male protagonist Naoto).
66** For the later happen in a special where both Sayaka (before) and Natsumi (later) end on the same subway grate.
67* In the "Secret Weapon" episode of ''Manga/CrossGame'', a sudden breeze begins to lift up a schoolgirl's plaid skirt, but she catches it in time. Nothing is shown, but Kitamura snuck a peek up her skirt while laying on hill and mentions her panties are "light blue".
68* Junko Ejima from ''[[Manga/TheDaichisEarthDefenseFamily The Daichis: Earth Defense Family]]''. In the first episode, when Dai Daichi is running around the school hallway lifting up girls' skirts before lifting hers up as he dashes past her. The skirt is raised high enough to cover her upper body, revealing white, bikini-string panties and a male, fellow faculty member gets aroused by this through a nosebleed.
69** In the third episode, Junko's skirt is raised again by Dai and he does this before dashing away from the front entrance of his residence. This time, she wears periwinkle panties with a bow on the front and this is done in front of Mamoru Daichi.
70* Yuri in the ''Literature/DirtyPair Flash'' episode, "Hot Springs Steamy Romantic Tour". While she's trying to steady a helicopter, her dress receives a draft from outside and reveals her pantyhose in full and peach-with-periwinkle-flower-patterns-panties underneath. Kei mentions panties and Yuri quickly holds down her skirt and sits in a chair, then closes the door.
71* Several times to Shizuka in ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' with natural wind or, more often, caused by Doraemon's gadget.
72* In the 89th episode of ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Chaiotsu uses one of his psychic powers to lift Yurin's skirt and make it flow, though she's not shown below the waist. She almost immediately covers up and tells others not to look.
73* Chi-Chi in the ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' episode, "Black Fog of Terror". After Maron tells she doesn't blame Gohan for leaving her, Chi-Chi gets enraged and the red aura forms around her, causing her dress to lift up somewhat, and create a wavy effect to it.
74* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Virgo helps Lucy keep her skirt down when the winds from Erigor's tornado risk blowing it upwards. She neglects to do it for herself though, to Lucy's concern, and Gray, who is standing behind them is visibly [[CovertPervert red-faced.]]
75* In the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga, this is parodied on one of the {{omake}} pages, where Al's loincloth blows up.
76* Sometimes this is the case with Lana from ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'' when her dress gets caught in a gust.
77* This is a recurring gag with Baruko Ogawa from the ''VideoGame/GateKeepers'' anime throughout most of her appearances. Mainly whenever she's near the front of Tategami High and the Up-15 causes a sandstorm as it exits. In one episode, this trope happens to her due to a passing train and in another, some Tategami High female students also have this happen to them.
78* Hikari Amamiya in the third episode of the ''Manga/{{H2}}'' anime, "The Soccer Club". In a flashback, a younger, shorter, nosy, and naughty Hiro waits, and watches, for Hikari to receive a windblown updraft to her long skirt. When it occurs, he gets a rear view of her white panties as she holds down the front of her skirt with a briefcase and quickly pulls down, and covers, the back with it before Hiro runs away.
79* During the ''Anime/{{Hamtaro}}'' episode, "The Scary Principal!", said Principal chases a group of hamsters through the school hall. His speed creates a wind-tunnel which in turn causes a girl's skirt to blow up. While she reacts quickly and nothing is shown, it's still cut from the English dub.
80* At the beginning of the first OVA adaptation of the visual novel ''Harukoi Otome'', a strong gust of wind leads not to one but ''six'' panty shots in quick succession. No surprise, this being a {{Hentai}} anime.
81* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'':
82** Subverted when [[ChasteHero Hayate]] is worried about this happening at least at two different points, but both girls cheerfully announce that they are actually wearing shorts underneath their skirts so if he makes some wind that is okay!
83** Played straight when he does this to Maria while demonstrating his new FinishingMove.
84** Maria does this in episode 8 of Can't Take My Eyes Off You when Nagi has her take the cursed stopwatch as a precautionary measure. the moment she grabs it, the ventilation system below her turns on causing Maria's dress to do this. Nagi comments that her fortune seems to have run out as a result. the guards explain that the boat itself is airtight, so they occasionally turn the ventilation on to let some air flow through. Nagi tells her this with Maria telling her that it was so eerie the system turned on right as she grabbed the stopwatch. she asks the guards to turn the ventilation system off after it starts up a second time, with Hayate asking Nagi if the stopwatch caused this. Hayate volunteers to hold onto the stopwatch until the trade is made. Nagi comments that the trade won't be completed until 9:00 tonight. Episode 9 shows a brief recap of the scene.
85* In "The Snowy Alps" episode of ''Anime/HeidiGirlOfTheAlps'', an autumnal wind attempts to blow up Heidi's skirt, but she manages the catch it and pull it back down in place.
86* One of Azusa's old promo pic of ''Anime/TheIdolMaster'' has her doing this, complete with the white dress.
87* ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' does this in both the manga and anime, although the manga differs from the anime. chapter one of The manga has this inflicted by a gust of wind with the girls scowling at Tetsuro. episode one of the anime does this differently. Sakuya and Chono take down two helicopters that Miya uses to cause chaos. The first helicopter lands near some trees, while the second one appears to crash just above a building, with both of the helicopters creating explosions causing a bunch of schoolgirls to do this.
88* Sometimes in ''Manga/LoveHina'' to [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Naru]] and [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Mutsumi]].
89* Mytyl from ''Maeterlinck Air no Tori: Tyltyl Mytyl no Boken Ryoko'' (an anime adaptation of ''Theatre/TheBlueBird''). In the first episode, when Berylune demonstrates her magic and some clothes float across the attic, Mytyl's skirt is lifted by this effect, displaying white panties with a red bow on the front. She hurriedly pulls it back down and blushes while facing the viewers.
90** She has another moment of this in the 23rd episode, when she, Tyltyl, Tyrol, and Shanet are blasted in the air with a water hose, but this time she tugs her skirt in place as it happens.
91* When Shamal from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' uses her magical device Klarer Wind to heal the protagonists, her dress does this.
92* Happen in episode 5 of ''Anime/MagicalIdolPastelYumi'' to titular character.
93* Ms. Aki pulls this off during a USO show in the War episode of ''Anime/MagicalShoppingArcadeAbenobashi'' in one of her FanDisservice moment.
94* In the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' episode, "The Finishing Blow! The Mecha-Beast Gorgon", Yumi Sayaka's shirt gets blown up caused by the draft of a motorcycle, exposing white panties before she holds it down and puts on her matching skirt.
95* ''Anime/MegamanNTWarrior2002'':
96** In "Ice Ice Baby!" (a.k.a. "Subzero Brawl"), Yai and Maylu have this when riding in seats that descend and transport them into a car, along with Lan and Dex. But Maylu holds her skirt in place as this happens.
97** Maylu has another in "Allegro" from Axess, due to a tornado approaching, but she keeps her dress in place.
98* There is a OncePerEpisode gag in ''Manga/MissMachiko'' where the main character's skirt if flipped up one way or another (for example, putting fans on the ground). She always ends up in this pose (the "Maicchingu" pose is a Japanese anime trope in an of itself). Female students are not immune and join in the pose.
99* This happens to Miyuki in the second half of the "Miyuki-Chan in Wonderland" OVA. Shortly after meeting a butterfly girl atop several islands floating in the sky, the wind picks up around Miyuki, until she is forced to hold her skirt down to keep it from blowing up in the front (although it is implied to blow up in the back, she is unable to prevent it). Eventually the wind is strong enough that she is blown off the island completely.
100* This happens a few times to [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Yumiko]] in ''Literature/ModernMagicMadeSimple'', especially when circumstances have left her [[VaporWear without her underwear]].
101* Melissa Thorn in the ''Anime/MontanaJones'' episode, "The Rescuing Boomerang". A gust comes along and her dress starts to blow up, but nothing more is shown underneath than her petticoat. She manages to catch it and a avoid a [[WardrobeMalfunction wardrobe mishap]].
102* Natsuki in the fourth episode of ''Anime/MyHime''. And she wasn't wearing panties.
103* Zia in ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'' episode, "Back To Barcelona Part 2". Her dress spreads out briefly when she drops down from a tree.
104* Several times in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
105** Jack Rakan even has a technique that's solely meant to invoke this trope after he's stolen his opponents' panties. See page quote.
106** Yue accidentally does it to herself once when she's trying to demonstrate some wind magic.
107** Used early in the manga as a side effect of Negi's [[SneezeOfDoom sneezes]] when they ''don't'' cause ClothingDamage.
108* Asuka's introduction in the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' episode "[[Recap/NeonGenesisEvangelionEpisode08AsukaStrikes Asuka Strikes!]]" has her sun dress get blown up by a breeze. The audience get a back view of her being exposed to her classmates, most prominently Shinji. Asuka then slaps him and calls it a "charge".
109* In ''Anime/OkusamaWaMahouShoujo'' Ureshiko accidentally causes this to herself at the beginning of the first episode.
110* In ''Manga/OnePiece'' Chapter 911 cover spread [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT61NIgAcuyfZB8nbJ7pi6HEK116bj1Ah9zqGUaatbeoBZ5GxdYWEOJXyKf&s=10 Nami does this at a gust of wind]], she’s even wearing a white dress.
111* In ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', a perverted ghost possessing a car drives fast enough to raise skirts with his slipstream.
112* It happens in an ImagineSpot to Ash's mother [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/10/cb/75/10cb7528c45cf3bc0a202b1d884af6cd.gif Delia]] in ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' when walking to a movie premiere on a windy day.
113* Happen to Haruka in the first episode of ''Literature/RailWars'' because of the wind. Another episode has Aoi victim in the same way. Both times strangely without glimpse of panties despite to be a fanservice show.
114* Akane from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. In the episode, "You Really Do Hate Cats!", her school dress billows as she falls through a trap door.
115** In another episode, Akane begins to let her dress get caught by the wind to be flirty with the male Ranma, but he's not there to see it.
116** Some school girls get their dresses blown up by Happosai, either by him just running passed them or also lifting their dresses as he does this. In a couple of episodes, their panties are shown, but this is averted in another.
117* Haruna Sakurada/Patricia Haruna in the second episode of the original ''Anime/SailorMoon'' series. Umino magically lifts up her skirt from the back and while she's pulls down the front, the back is raised and her pink panties with a smiley face on the rear are seen.
118** [[Characters/SailorMoonAmiMizuno Ami Mizuno]] in Episode 45 when she uses her powers to create a protective shield
119** Berthier in ''R'' gets one when the wind blows up her skirt along with her flyers revealing her panties.
120** in the episode 32 of Sailor Moon R,when Minako accidentaly breaks the window in Usagi's room,the breezy weather tries blowing up Chibiusa skirt.
121* in ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' Shinovi Master: Tokyo Yoma-hen, halfway through episode 1, Asuka does this to a woman and Senko due to her causing a gust of wind when she runs, while searching for her missing cat ears throughout the city.
122* ''Anime/RedBaron'': In one episode, [[MsFanservice Dr. Marilyn]] dresses up like her namesake and does the maneuver.
123* Happen to the girls in ''Sasuga no Sarutobi'' when the main character, the young ninja Sarutobi, use his wind-based techniques.
124* Seen in a chapter of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', when Momoka is shown doing this as part of her "sex appeal" training.
125** In episode 247a of Sgt Frog, Asami's Gorgeous style shows her standing on a vent (while wearing Marilyn's iconic white dress) holding her dress down as a reference to the scene in the seven year itch.
126*** episode 325b would use this scene again for the cover of a magazine, with her doppelganger Mois.
127* Happens to Haruko in ''Manga/SlamDunk'', when Sakuragi is running around like the LargeHam he is.
128* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', Hero causes a mass occurrence of this by swinging Excalibur really hard, just to show off and [[AllMenArePerverts enjoy the view]].
129* Happens to Ling Ling in ''Manga/SteamDetectives'', providing Narutaki with [[EurekaMoment a valuable clue to a recent string of robberies]]. Unfortunately for him, [[AccidentalInnuendo she interprets his comments completely differently...]]
130* Several times in ''Manga/StrawberryOneHundredPercent'' to Aya and Nishino, especially the first to show her strawberries panties. Happen to Satsuki in the anime also when Manaka meet her the first time.
131* Joy in the ''Anime/{{Superbook}}'' episode, "Superbrain". When Ruffles runs passed her, the back of her skirt rises from Ruffles's motion briefly, but she holds the front in place.
132* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'':
133** Saki tried to invoke this to seduce Rito when she tried to beat Lala by stealing her boyfriend. [[IgnoreTheFanservice But he ignores her.]]
134** A chapter has an alien cold virus makes Lala act shy and feminine. When a gust of wind blows up Lala's skirt, revealing her panties, Lala is immediately embarrassed and asks Rito if he saw.
135** Oshizu, when in a game where she plays the role of a ninja, uses a wind style technique that reveals her panties.
136* In the 1980 version of ''Anime/TwelveMonths'', from the back, the princess's dress is lifted in an updraft by the autumn wind, though not enough for anything underneath to be shown.
137* ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' Saito does this to a bunch of schoolgirls (in a dream he has) at the start of episode one of Knight of the Twin Moons. He manages to start a plane and gets back to Akihabara, only to have his dream short lived.
138* In the uncensored version of ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' episode, "The Girl From The Mystic Moon", the back of Hitomi's skirt is blown up slightly when the Escaflowne takes a step and she tugs on it from behind.
139** Hitomi has another in "The Gallant Swordsman". When the spirit of The Death card comes to life and emerges out of it, swirling around Hitomi and the motion causes her skirt to flap around in the wind the spirit creates.
140* Dorothy in ''Anime/TheWonderfulWizardofOz'' episode, "Dorothy Meets the Munchkins". Caused by an approaching tornado, her dress is left being blown until she gets inside her house and shuts the door.
141* ''Manga/TriageX'' Yuu does this in episode 6/chapter 25 as a result of the Motorcycle that passes through the tunnel, that is being driven by Mikoto.
142* Towards the end of the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' episode, "Explosion-Ultimate Yoyo Technique", this effect is used on Anzu/Mai and Miho, thanks to Jounichi/Joey using his own yoyo trick, Loop the Sky, with the disks end of it inadvertently lifting their skirts from the front. Their panties aren't shown due to the girls being seen from behind at that moment.
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146* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 5 episode 5, the MonsterOfTheWeek uses his robotic hands to suck in people's money. A robot citizen wearing clothes similar to Marilyn Monroe's signature outfit is seen trying to keep her skirt down as the wind from the monster moves it around.
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150* Cheryl Blossom from ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' in a [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iiKU0OQhIK0/UpZF7qT3V6I/AAAAAAAACm4/8JkEhi9gOy0/s1600/654225.jpg cover]] from her mini-series "Cheryl go to Hollywood" homage Marilyn.
151* This happens to Fanny in ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'' album "De Medusa Stichting".
152* [[ComicBook/TheFlash Wally West]] accidentally blows a woman's skirt so she has to hold it down with a a gust of wind caused by his running in issue 53 of ''Flash v2''.
153* ''ComicBook/{{Natacha}}'': The album cover of "Instantanés pour Caltech" features Natacha both in a Marilyn Maneuver as well as a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer''[='=]s ''The Yellow M''.
154* [[http://www.comicvine.com/what-if-34-what-if-no-one-was-watching-the-watcher/4000-35376/ The cover]] of ''[[ComicBook/WhatIf What if No One Was Watching the Watcher?]]'' featured [[FanDisservice Uatu the Watcher]] doing this.
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158* {{Parodied}} in [[http://www.gocomics.com//theargylesweater/2011/06/01 a strip of]] ''ComicStrip/TheArgyleSweater''. A woman is standing over a subway vent holding her dress like the famous Creator/MarilynMonroe shot...rather than go inside the laundromat and use the clothes dryers there.
159* An old "The Lighter Side Of..." cartoon in Magazine/{{MAD}} featured men at an amusement park reminscing how much fun it was to let the boardwalk ventilator (see the Real Life section) lift up women's dresses when they were younger. Nowadays they consider it to be less fun, since women's skirts gradually became smaller. They've become ''tighter'' too, so one isn't even guaranteed a lifting anymore.
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163* Alice from ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', as she descends slowly through the Rabbit Hole, floats towards a narrow section, causing her to fall through faster as she pushes her dress down.
164* Rita from ''Chico & Rita''. Her dress receives an updraft from a passing bus and her white panties are seen from behind.
165* ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'': As Lady Tremaine begins to cast the time-travel spell, a large gust of wind causes Anastasia's dress to fly up and expose her bloomers.
166* Happens to the constellation of Virgo near the end of the song "Zero to Hero" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' as Herc and Pegasus fly through the night sky, causing a nebula surrounding the constellation as if it were wearing a dress to fly up, causing Virgo's dress to blow off as the two fly away.
167* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', a disguised Ursula's (''as Vanessa'') [[https://i3.wp.com/caps.pictures/198/9-tlm/full/little-mermaid-1080p-disneyscreencaps.com-8174.jpg wedding dress receives a draft from a flock of bluebirds as they fly underneath her.]]
168* In ''Anime/PorcoRosso'', this happens during Gina's flashback to when Porco was human and taking her for a plane ride as teenagers, to both Porco and Gina's embarrassment.
169* This was played with during the Fairy Godmother's Song in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2''.
170* In ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', this is what happens when Haku dashes past the slug-spirit girls while trying to keep Chihiro from being discovered.
171* In the DisneyAcidSequence "Round My Family Tree" from ''WesternAnimation/TheTiggerMovie'', a Marylin Monroe version of Tigger does this only to be blown straight up and across the horizon.
172* Kiki had this moment in ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' in a scene where she is on Stairway.
173* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryBlastOffToMars'': During the climax, a female reporter has her skirt start to lift up due to the giant robot's vacuum cleaner and quickly pushes it back down.
174* In ''WesternAnimation/WereBackADinosaursStory'', this is caused by motion when a lady circus patron reacts by leaping due to a monster-costumed Cecelia scaring her with a roar.
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178* The Trope Namer, TropeCodifier and iconic example, of course, is Creator/MarilynMonroe's white dress in ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'', where she goes to the subway grates after watching the film ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon''. The iconic scene only has Marilyn's feet being shown in the film, while the photoshoots were published elsewhere.
179* Creator/KellyLeBrock's scene from ''Film/TheWomanInRed'' is also well known, and is frequently parodied in Europe (particularly Italy), perhaps because ''The Woman in Red'' itself is nearly a shot-for-shot remake of the 1976 French film ''Un éléphant ça trompe énormément'', also known as ''Pardon Mon Affaire''.
180* In 2000's ''[[Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceTravesty 2001: A Space Travesty]]'', a flight attendant (Stephanie Dumolin-Shaw) climbs up a ladder on a space shuttle and her dress blows up from behind, showing off her nearly nude booty that can still be seen through clear pantyhose ([[GoingCommando she doesn't seem to be wearing any panties]]), due to a lack of gravity and Marshal Dix (Creator/LeslieNielsen) checks her out.
181* In ''Film/TheAwfulTruth'', a nightclub singer does a tasteless number called "My Dreams Are Gone With The Wind" in which her skirts are disturbed by blasts of air from below every time she sings "gone with the wind."
182* In the film version of Music/TheWho's rock opera, ''Music/{{Tommy}}'', during the song, "Eyesight To The Blind", Music/EricClapton is the leader of a church that worships Marilyn Monroe, and a statue of her in this pose is the centerpiece. Worshipers believe they can be healed by touching the statue. When Tommy's mother tries to get him to kneel down to kiss the statue's feet, he accidentally knocks it over, causing it to shatter.
183* In the 1981 Italian fantasy comedy, ''Bollenti Spiriti'', Marta (Gloria Guida) has this moment. After a gas station attendant pumps too much air in a car tire of Marta's car and another gas station attendant makes him deflate it somewhat, the air from the pump causes Marta's flimsy, pleated, pink skirt to get caught in an updraft, putting her white panties on display, and she struggles to hold it back down in place.
184* Bruce from ''Film/BruceAlmighty'' uses his new God powers to blow up a woman's blue dress up while commenting what he saw was good.
185** The sequel ''Film/EvanAlmighty'' has [[http://www.impawards.com/2007/evan_almighty_ver5.html a poster parodying]] the trope.
186* ''Film/TheCovenant'': the boys use their powers to settle a bet on what kind of panties a [[FanserviceExtra waitress at the bar]] is wearing by blowing up her skirt. The boy who bets that she is GoingCommando wins.
187* ''Film/DangerDiabolik'' has Valmont's mistress doing this, while standing [[TooDumbToLive stupidly close]] to an airplane's trap door.
188* In another racing movie, ''Film/{{Driven}}'' from 2001, the draft from a speeding race car causes a blonde's (who's standing in line) skirt to lift up, she lets out an abrupt shriek and she turns around while trying to pull it back down in place.
189* When the requisite super weapon is activated in the {{Kaiju}} parody ''Geharha: The Dark and Long Haired Monster'', it creates strong wind currents that starts throwing abandoned vehicles around and blows up one random woman's skirt. The scene of the latter gets a thumbs up from the machine's activators.
190* The 1986 Italian comedy ''Grandi Magazzini'' has a scene where two [[FanserviceExtra Fanservice Extras]] dance on a ventilation grate and offer up [[PantyShot Panty Shots]] for our viewing pleasure. One woman is a Kelly [=LeBrock=] lookalike wearing the red dress from ''The Woman in Red''. The other is a long-haired blonde wearing Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress. See Image Links above or this borderline NSFW [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q83Lviuwamg 40-second video]].
191* Parodied -- gruesomely -- in ''Film/TheHouseBunny'', where Anna Faris' character tries the Marilyn Maneuver while standing over an open manhole... and gets scalded. We then see her recovering from her injuries with a male companion in a restaurant, and her legs are heavily bandaged with gauze - and those areas that aren't bandaged [[{{Squick}} have ugly welts on them]]. It's as if the filmmakers wanted to guilt-trip the audience by saying: "[[YouBastard You bastards!]] You were ''laughing and hooting'' at this!"
192* Darkly parodied in the film ''Film/{{Insignificance}}'', in which Marilyn Monroe's -- sorry, ''The Actress's'' skirt billows up in response to a nuclear blast and catches fire... Fortunately it's AllJustADream of [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein The Scientist]].
193* Creator/ClaraBow, one of the earliest examples of MsFanservice, has this happen to her at an amusement park in ''Film/{{It|1927}}'', some thirty years before the Trope Namer.
194* In the second ''Film/{{The Italian Job|2003}}'', Lyle talks about a stereo "so loud, [[GaleForceSound it blows off women's clothing]]." We see him actually ''use'' this at the end, but the results of the blaring stereo are avoided through a SexyDiscretionShot.
195* During the opening credits of the 1995 film ''Panther'' (which is a fictionalized account of the uprising of The Black Panther Party), there are scenes in which a boy riding a bicycle notices a woman in a green hat and dress named Bernadette is at a bus stop. The boy peddles toward her checking her out and sees a bus driving across the street, heading in their direction. The boy anticipates the draft from the passing bus to blow up Bernadette's dress, which evidently does, she gasps and is mortified. When her dress gets lifted, rather than holding that down, she holds on to her hat to keep that from getting blown away and raises one leg, knee bent forward, to hide part of her unmentionables, which are white panties with matching girdle (or corset). The boy enjoys the view and gets a snicker out of it.
196* Marilyn Monroe's scene was copied in ''Film/PulpFiction'', by a Marilyn impersonator. Since she was a waitress at a Fifties-theme restaurant, this is presumably a regular occurrence. Unlike Marilyn in her movie, the impersonator lets her skirt go all the way up.
197* In ''Putting Pants on Philip'', one of the first Creator/LaurelAndHardy films, this happens to a kilted Stan on more than one occasion. The last time, we see only the shocked reactions of the onlookers because his tartan underpants had fallen down a few moments earlier.
198* [[AlphaBitch Christine]] gets a big one at the end of '''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion'' thanks to the downdraft from a helicopter.
199* Appears in ''Film/TheSmurfs'' when Smurfette has the vent blowing up air into her skirt.
200* Done to Pembrook Feeny (Loni Anderson) in ''Film/StrokerAce''. Ace's first impression from her was her skirt blowing up,courtesy of a bunch of pervy mechanics and a portable air tank.
201* This happens in 1916 Creator/MackSennett short film ''The Surf Girl''. OlderThanTelevision.
202* Happened near the beginning of the 2001 movie ''Tart'' starring Creator/DominiqueSwain, but wasn't that good. The video cover was better than the actual scene. She wore a mini Catholic school skirt and was already walking halfway out of frame by the time her skirt went up. You need Widescreen or to zoom out to even see it properly!
203* Used in ''Film/{{Torque}}'' (2004) to show just how fast they're driving... among other things.
204* In ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'', Creator/LeslieNielsen ends up in this situation while infiltrating a Scottish pipe band, complete with kilts. His legs are suspiciously shapely, and there is a sound effect similar to blowing into a glass bottle.
205* Leslie Ann Warren does a dance routine in ''Film/VictorVictoria'' in honor of UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} (the Windy City!), where wires simulating the wind lift, and eventually pull off her dress.
206* In the 1998 film, ''Film/{{Woo}}'' (the eponymous character portrayed by Creator/JadaPinkettSmith), a breeze blows under the helm of her loose-fitting, pink mini dress as she walks down a sidewalk, nearly high enough to show her goodies. A bicyclist ogling at her gets so distracted he doesn't watch where he's going, crashing into the side of a sewer pipe and falling off his bike.
207* In the Scott Baio comedy ''Film/Zapped1982'', a FanserviceExtra at the prom does one by climbing on a table while a strong wind blows through the gym. She ends up getting more than she bargained for when her dress is then blown completely off of her -- the woman ends up topless.
208* In the 1981 Italian Film 1981 Asso, Asso wants his wife to make a good first impression to a rich banker by turning on the vent behind her lifting her dress.The scene is hot that it even break's the banker's glasses
209* In the 1986 film ''Film/BreakingAllTheRules''. Debbie (Carrolyn Dunn) has her skirt blown up revealing the words I love you, though she doesnt seem to mind it.
210* The 1995 Hong Kong Film ''Film/SheStartsTheFire'' has our lead female Wendy (Chingmy Yau) get stuck near a grate vent and unfortunately has her polka dot red dress blow up in the wind to the amusement of the onlookers
211* The 1983 Hong Kong Film ''Film/TwinkleTwinkleLittleStar'' has the woman get her shoe and her purple dress blowing with the wind catching the eyes of many drivers and causing a lot of over the top car crashes. [[https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews/twinkle_twinkle_little_star.htm The film's DVD cover also does this]].
212* The 1972 film ''Film/LeFousDuStades'' has a trumpet player blowing up a woman's skirt until being interrupted by another person.
213* Creator/VanessaAngel's character in the 1996 film ''Film/{{Kingpin}}'' as forms a distraction by using the bowling vent to get a rise for her skirt and distracting the other bowlers.
214* The 2016 film ''Film/HentaiKamenAbnormalCrisis'' has a scene near the end where a girl passes by the protagonist with her skirt blowing up causing a table shaking rise out of him.
215* The film ''Film/{{Delzia}}'' has a group of guys using a switch based vent to blow the skirts up of women who pass by the restaurant, to their amusement.
216* In ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'', Mélisse struggles as the wind blows her dress up, exposing her knickers to Wendover and Dr. Burke.
217* In ''Film/MyFatherTheHero'', some wind comes along and blows up Nicole's skirt while she kisses Ben towards the end.
218* Sally Elliot (Lucille Ball) in ''Film/TheFullerBrushGirl''. While climbing down a ladder, smoke from a ship's steam whistle keeps puffing up the back of her skirt.
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222* Ginger dreamt this scene in ''Literature/MovingPictures'' (which contains innumerable {{Shout Out}}s to classic movies).
223* Intentionally invoked by Maureen Smith, Lazarus Long's mother (with [[ParentalIncest all that]] [[{{Squick}} implies]]), in Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', complete with VaporWear. Interestingly, the [[TimeTravel time period]] in which this occurs significantly predates Marilyn Monroe, but Maureen was always ahead of her time.
224* Featured on the cover sleeve to a book by Joan Rivers called ''The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abramowitz'' where she imitates Marilyn on the front cover... [[spoiler:and intentionally hiking up her dress on the back of the book!]]
225* In ''The Takers'', a modern-day ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' pastiche by Jerry Ahern, Mary-Frances Mulrooney's skirt has a habit of blowing up providing everyone with a PantyShot. She gets a WolfWhistle too while boarding a nuclear submarine. A naval officer tells off the seaman responsible, then explains that none of the women who boarded earlier got a whistle like that.
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229* One of Russ Abbot's sketch shows played with this trope. A Scotsman walks over a grating and is disconcerted to find the air blowing his kilt up. The next grating he comes to, he's ready for... except that it's an air ''intake'', and pulls his kilt clean off.
230* ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'':
231** Shirley Brahms for three times (twice her undergarments can be seen) in episode "The Club". Mr. Lucas pushes a button on a wall and a draft from a floor vent causes her skirts (she's seen in two, different outfits when this occurs) to billow up due to her being near it as a joke, and put her white bustier/corset with matching knickers on display.
232** The secretary Miss Belfridge tries to keep down her pink dress and avoid flashing her white panties when it flows up from an electric fan in "Monkey Business".
233* One of the games on the Spanish GameShow ''Series/ElGranJuegoDeLaOca'' features each member of the dance squad wearing a Marilyn-style dress and a different colored garter on one leg. After all eight took turns dancing on a wind machine, the contestant then has to slide a colored garter up each girl's ''other'' leg that matched the one she was already wearing.
234* The first time the title character of ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' transforms, it causes a gust of wind which causes his friend Yuki's hair to blow. The DVD/Blu-Ray release contains several deleted/extended scenes, one of which is a longer version of that shot where she has to hold her skirt down from the force of his transformation.
235* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': Bud Bundy rigs an air vent to do this to his date at a school function. It works perfectly... except Marcy ends up the victim.
236* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
237** The show does a homage when Abby dresses as Marilyn Monroe for the Halloween episode.
238** Happens to [=DiNozzo's=] fantasy of Kate, though in that case she is dressed in a [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule Catholic school uniform]].
239* In the mid 1970, Angie Dickinson was dressed in a Marilyn Monroe outfit in an episode of her series ''Series/PoliceWoman''. A publicity photo showed her skirt blowing all the way up, showing she had on a flesh-colored body suit underneath.
240* Revenge of The Bog People from Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): 2000 Series. There is a scene where the museum guide has skirt lifted up by a ghostly wind prank courtesy of Hopirk's friend Nesbit. This prank gets repeated as a form of a distraction by Hopkirk, except this time the wind has a bit more power which gives a nice view of her knickers.
241* Some of the miniskirted female members of ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn'' had this occur.
242* Happens to Carrie in ''Series/SexAndTheCity'', where it's played for laughs. After being surprised by a gust of wind that lifts her skirt, she then [[WhenItRainsItPours gets drenched in a sudden downpour of rain]].
243* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS06E02Sneeze Sneeze]]", Clark Kent has a sneeze [[SuperBreath so powerful]] it creates a gust of wind strong enough to lift a girl's skirt up, revealing purple panties.
244* A promo for Creator/{{CBS}} ''Series/TheNanny'' has Creator/FranDrescher doing this pose in a black dress.
245* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
246** An early episode of ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' has a miniaturised space shuttle being sent through the streets of Tokyo, which causes this as it wizzes past some schoolgirls.
247** After getting his powers, [[Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger Kibaranger]] uses them to blow up some schoolgirls' skirts.
248** In ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman'' Akira/Denzipink straight up weaponizes this in one episode. Amongst other tricks using costumes and sex appeal to confuse or otherwise get the better of a group of mooks trying to capture her and several other females Akira, dressed in homage to Marilyn herself in a blonde wig and white dress lets a errant gust of wind blow her dress tail straight into the faces of the mooks just as they try to grab her from behind blinding them and giving her the chance to change outfits to disguise herself before they recover.
249* In the ''Series/MrBean'' episode, "Back To School, Mr. Bean", rather than the wind causing this, a lady's ankle-length skirt receives a static cling to her upper body, which is caught in the skirt when it blows up, due to static electricity on a piece of paper Mr. Bean hands her and her white panties with some pattern are on display for everyone at a science fair to see. The static electricity was transferred onto the paper after he touched a Van Der Graaff Generator.
250* A female flutist in one ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'' skit has a fly skirt moment when her skirt keeps getting blown up to her face, exposing her white undies, caused by a male tube player being near her and each time he blows into the tuba.
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254* The cover of the Music/{{Aerosmith}} album ''Just Push Play'' depicts a {{Fembot}} doing this.
255* Music/TaylorSwift suffered this during a concert in 2011 when a [[http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/ourcountry/94419/taylor-swift-suffers-wardrobe-malfunction-on-tour-stop/ wind machine blew her skirt]] (the linked article called it a WardrobeMalfunction, which it clearly isn't).
256* Music/DonnaSummer does it on the back cover of her 1976 album ''Four Seasons Of Love''.
257* In the music video for Music/LionelRichie's ''Dancing on the Ceiling'', this happens to one of the women who is, well, dancing on the ceiling.
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261* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP_BsSUXGx8 the latest Kelly video,]] one of the party members does this.
262* Don't think that TheEighties did not have a couple these happen...
263** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdQDXs75Ulo Here]] at 04:00-- When you're dancing on the ceiling in a long evening dress, watch out when those wily A-C vents start a-blowin'!
264** And though the late Jermaine Stewart had a couple of hits, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1trQsW0aGc this video]] features a blown skirt at 02:25.
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268* A woman is shown accidentally doing this on the backglass and the slingshot bumpers of ''Pinball/FunHouse1990''.
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272* And one ''really'' strange FanArt of [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], printed in ''Nintendo Power'' magazine. VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'s reaction in the drawing pretty much said it all.
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276* One of the best examples of this trope occurred at Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s ''Cyber Sunday'' pay-per-view (their final one by that name) in October 2008. Since the event took place just before Halloween, the Divas held their second annual Halloween Costume Contest. Wrestling/CandiceMichelle (who had missed the previous year's contest due to a neck injury) was prominently featured as Marilyn Monroe from ''The Seven Year Itch'', complete with a blonde wig and a copy of the famous white halter dress. Not about to miss a golden opportunity, WWE had an air jet installed under the entry ramp to the arena to blast Candice's dress as she came down to the ring for the final judging - and the resulting PantyShot revealed that Candice was wearing ''the exact same cut of panties that Marilyn had had on in the 1955 film''. [[ShownTheirWork Candice obviously did her homework.]]
277* And then there was the case of another Diva wearing the white halter dress. Wrestling/DGenerationX were scheduled to compete in a tag team match with Wrestling/VinceMcMahon one night in the summer of 2009, but Wrestling/ShawnMichaels and Wrestling/TripleH worried that Vince just wasn't "angry" enough to make an effective combatant. They spent the whole time before the match trying different strategies to goad him to violence, and one of them was sending the ''atrocious'' singing Diva Wrestling/JillianHall into his office wearing a ''Seven Year Itch'' costume and performing Marilyn's birthday song for [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy President Kennedy]] in her hideous voice (though Marilyn had not been dressed that way when she sang for Kennedy). Vince screamed "GET OUTTA MY OFFICE!" and became steadily more filled with rage as the night wore on, until he was finally ready to compete. (This incident culminated in commentator Wrestling/JerryLawler noting that Jillian looked a lot "like Monroe"....and then, a moment later, clarified that he meant ''[[UsefulNotes/JamesMonroe James]]''!)
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281* One of the characters from ''VideoGame/GateKeepers'' constantly gets her skirt lifted by the wind. In the last ep, she is really an AEGIS agent. [[SmallGirlBigGun And she has a bazooka]].
282* One of the events called Future Gate ''VideoGame/MachBreakers'' has one of the characters from the rising platform as marilyn monroe in her dress from the seven year itch.
283* This is one of Sue's events in ''VideoGame/MitsumeteKnight''. [[ShoutOut And to make it clear about the reference]], the CG obtained through this event is called "The Monroe Effect" in the game's CG Gallery, the Mitsumete Gallery. The event also has a nice RefugeInAudacity moment : when Sue asks the Asian (the player's avatar) if he saw anything, the best answer is to actually tell "They (the panties) were white". This will reassure her, saying that he hasn't seen them then, since he said the wrong colour.
284* Josette has her dress blown up in VideoGame/{{Wonder Project J}}2: Josette of the Corlo Forest'' commercial,also [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ1251mO5wQ&pp=ygUcd29uZGVyIHByb2plY3QgajIgY29tbWVyY2lhbA%3D%3D it has subtittles on it if you want to see]]
285* The tag-team arena in ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 2'' allows for this with female fighters. It's more interesting than the combat, really.
286* The scene is parodied in ''VideoGame/DiscworldII: Mortality Bytes''.
287* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'':
288** Playing ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow''? Got a wind-based [[PowerCopying soul power]]? Aim it at a [[CuteWitch Student Witch]] or a [[NinjaMaid Persephone]]...
289** Returns in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'', in which one of the two main characters, Charlotte to be precise, does the same when faced with a Persephone and a vacuum cleaner. The other main character, Jonathan, simply gets his coat stuck.
290* Happens to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Peach]] in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' stage in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee''.
291* Queen Oyobee in ''[[VideoGame/Bomberman94 Bomberman '94]]'' have this moment every time with the Bomb explosion.
292* Beauty Bomber in ''VideoGame/BombermanGeneration'' has this moment when you use Big Wind Bomb on her with she also saying "That's Intense!".
293* Joe (from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'') tries to use his Tornado Punch on Mai (from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'') in ''[[VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium Capcom Vs SNK 2]]'' to [[PowerPerversionPotential get this effect]] in their special intro. It never goes far enough to pull it off so Mai's not fazed by it.
294* Amy has this moment while Rail-Grinding in ''VideoGame/SonicAdvanceTrilogy'' 2 and 3
295* One of the Punishment videos in Kamen no Maid Guy: Boyoyon Battle Royale has Fubuki doing this when a gust of wind comes by and blows her dress up, which results in a boy getting a nosebleed (with his friend asking if he's okay), and a male driver to become distracted, resulting in the person crashing into a stationary pole.
296* Rasputin from ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' does this in one of his victory poses
297* ''VideoGame/GekiboGekishaBoy'':
298** In the 1° Take:Street Stroll
299You can see Creator/MarilynMonroe doing what she always do,and the player needs to take a photo when her dress blows up.
300* Is Referenced by the "Art/StatueofLiberty" in the game's cover.
301* Fuga's LOSE animation in ''VideoGame/PopnMusic'' shows him accidentally blowing Rinka and Hiumi's skirts up with his wind powers. In return, he and Retsu (who watched his faux pas beside him) get punched in the face by the embarrassed girls.
302* Parodied in ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', where be-kilted Scots pirate Haggis [=McMutton=] can't assist the ship's crew in a heavy storm because he's too busy preserving his modesty.
303* One of the cut scenes from ''Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos'', features a moment when Tomoe, Melpha, Airi, Cute, Ymir, and Jean are walking in a cave when a blast of wind suddenly comes blowing out of nowhere. Each of the former five is shown getting her skirt or dress lifted by it, revealing her unmentionables, with the exception of Melpha, who wears a body suit underneath her dress, but it's still just as revealing. Jean reacts pleasurably at the sight while the others are displeased with him.
304* Roll does this a lot when you play as her in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfSuperHeroes''.
305* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', there is a brief period where Professor E. Gadd follows Luigi around; if you try blinding him with the flashlight, he will pull one of three comical startled poses, one of which is the Marilyn Monroe pose with the tails of his lab coat fluttering like her dress.
306* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'', when mages cast spells, there's rising wind that causes their clothes to blow upward. Linde's casting animation has her raising one hand to cast the spell and holding her skirt down with the other. Male mages are fully dressed under their cloaks, which billow about freely.
307* In the [[https://youtu.be/DSYbyGIL8yY&t=47s debut trailer]] for ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'', this is shown to have been Rayman's first action after being created by Betilla the Fairy, by standing beneath her and using his HelicopterHair to create an updraft. Tellingly, Betilla reacts more positively every time it happens...
308* ''VideoGame/KanColle'': Saratoga makes this pose in her default art.
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312* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': {{Parodied|Trope}} when Richard the Warlock [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/180 stands over a vent]], revealing (a) his pasty skeletal undead legs and (b) that he wears garters.
313* Happens regularly in ''Webcomic/TheDevilsPanties'' during strips where Jennie is at a convention. It involves her armed with an altered leaf blower and hunky guys in kilts. The author, Jennie Breeden, actually sets up gatherings of this nature at most conventions she attends, unless they get shut down by the cops.
314* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', referenced [[https://bobadventures.thecomicseries.com/comics/182/ by a robot who looks like a walking refrigerator]], sadly.
315* Happens with both an anonymous Marilyn lookalike and a robot's pet Emu in [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01478.htm a strip of]] ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''.
316* In ''Webcomic/{{Outsiders}}'', Siobhan has her skirt suddenly blown upwards by an arriving train while her and Ebony are on the London Underground, revealing her underwear.
317-->'''Ebony:''' What a glorious day it's been, especially with your Marilyn Monroe impression on the Tube earlier!\
318'''Siobhan:''' Please don't remind me. I don't know why I bother wearing skirts, they always keep getting blown up.\
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322* In Website/JibJab's "2012: The End Is Here", the Art/StatueOfLiberty does this during Hurricane Sandy.
323* ''Webcomic/GarnetAndGure'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZfEXpRXMtg This cartoon short]] features an actress doing a re-creation of the Marilyn Monroe pose for a charity zombie calendar.
324* Bee unintentionally experiences this in the second episode of ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'' when flying to Temp Bot. Her skirt opens in the wind, prompting to tell both Puppycat and Temp Bot to not look.
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328* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Aang invokes this with his [[BlowYouAway airbending]] in a rare male example in [[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEarthKing "The Earth King"]] on [[EvilChancellor Long Feng]] to expose the bruise he got from Appa to prove Long Feng is lying about having never met a sky bison.
329* Hanna-Barbera's 1966 special of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' ''[[EitherOrTitle or: What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?]]'' had a scene of Alice falling slowly down the rabbit hole feet first. She holds her skirt and slip down in place as she descends.
330* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' had Cecil lick Sleeping Beauty to wake her up, lifting her up in the air, right before she lands she holds down her dress.
331* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' Butthead uses an air hose to blow up women's skirts so he can look at their panties.
332* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' has Jay Sherman dressed up as Marilyn in a brief scene. It ends, appropriately enough, performing the obligatory maneuver as he stands over a fan.
333* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': In the episode "King Tuck", Tucker's loincloth flies up when the Sphinx roars at him.
334* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
335** Leela in the episode "Attack of the Killer App" during her humiliating montage after her singing boil is exposed online, she attempts to hide her appearance only for her dress to fly up and the paparazzi group take pictures.
336** Parodied in the episode "The Mutants Are Revolting" where the Queen of Yonkers is walking on the streets with the Mayor when an air conditioner, which had just lifted her dress a little too high, exuded an enormous quantity of sewage that sent her through the air.
337* She-Hulk does this in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibleHulk1996'', despite wearing short pants, is sufficient to distract a dock worker doing his job and causes an incident at the start of "Fantastic Fortitude".
338* Coop speeding in ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' has caused this one more than a few skirted women.
339* The ''[[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'' episode "The Littlest Tramp" has Polly Pineblossom's skirt being blown up by an air vent as one of the ways the villain Big Murray harasses and torments her.
340* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' episode "Janine, You've Changed" shows Janine doing this (in mid-air, no less) at one point in her rapidfire outfit transformation sequence.
341* in the episode 13 from Season 4 of WesternAnimation/ElChavoAnimado it has a scene that Quico takes photos where Margot Blonde holds down her dress lifted up by the wind from the fan from the Industrial Worker.
342* ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'''s instance of this was parodied in a ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch, wherein the person standing over the vent was [[Wrestling/RoddyPiper "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.]] In this sketch, the iconic scene was made because Marilyn "broke wind" from eating tacos before the shoot, and the director made the idea of covering it with a sound of train passing by.
343* Rocko on ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' posed for a photo while doing this with his shirt. [[RuleOfFunny Like it makes a difference when he almost never wears pants.]]
344* The ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' episode "Be Still My Bleating Heart" has a scene where Sheep's wool goes up in a Marilyn maneuver while he's standing over a grate.
345* on the Episode 4 of the 3° Season from ''WesternAnimation/JorelsBrother'' Granny Juju holds her dress down with a Manhole Steam Breeze.
346* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
347** Parodied in episode "Home Away from Homer", when Ned Flanders' moustache is blown around. (He's refusing to bow to pressure to shave it off.)
348** It happens to Groundskeeper Willie during Scotchtoberfest when Bart somehow manages to sneak balloons under his kilt, causing a female bystander to faint at [[GoingCommando the sight]]. Of course, it was all a trap laid by Principal Skinner, because there is no Scotchtoberfest.
349** Perhaps most disturbingly of all, Mr. Burns is [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7vrlyuZZl1r95bpao1_500.jpg seen in this pose]] in the episode "Rosebud."
350** The scene with Sister Marilyn in "Gone Maggie Gone" is another ''The Seven Year Itch'' parody.
351** In "The City of New York Vs. Homer Simpson", Homer drives his car between a startled couple in the middle of their picnic. The draft from the speeding vehicle causes the woman's orange, pleated skirt to get blown up from behind and there's a glimpse of her matching panties.
352* Spidey uses webs to build a slingshot to get to Oscorp faster and a young woman in a skirt happens to be in his wake resulting in this in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'''s "Reaction".
353* Lois Lane in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', due to a wind blown up from Superman's hasty departure. She comments that she needs to start wearing pants, (and in a rare case of averting LimitedWardrobe, she does wear pants in the next episode).
354* Few times done by girls in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' when they fly through tunnels to the WOOHP.
355** In episode "Forward to the Past" done by Alex when girls get shot at and are sent flying to the fountain.
356** In episode "Evil G.L.A.D.I.S. Much?" done by a random pedestrian when Clover lands WOOHP jet next to her.
357* In the ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' episode "Recipe For Disaster", Velma and Daphne have to hold their skirts down when a high-powered floor dryer is activated.
358* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short, ''WesternAnimation/BacallToArms'', Laurie Be Cool's robe rises from the back up to her upper thighs when she whistles.
359* Roxy in the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Two-Tone Town". In one scene of a short film where she, Foxy, Goopy Geer, and Big Bee appear, her skirt gets blown up briefly when a swarm of bees fly between her legs.
360* ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace (1986)'':
361** In "Wet n' Wild", a blonde lady keeps her skirt in place as a draft from Dennis and Joey, riding on skateboards while carrying a raft, attempt to lift it.
362** In "Sir Dennis and the Dragon", Margaret holds down her skirt as a twister suddenly appears and causes a draft.
363* Aimee in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/GalaxyHigh''. Her skirt lifts somewhat, as she gets sucked into a pneumatic tube twice and when she's seen exiting once.
364* Daisy in the ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' episode, "Koi Story". After Gil dashes so fast he's a blur and carries her to where the giant fish bowl is, and places her down, his motion causes Daisy's skirt to lift somewhat and she does the one-leg-lift pose.
365** In "Can't Take A Yolk", this occurs with the Mergancer twins, Alexandra and Cassandra. When the Whirl-N-Hurl ride they're in is sped up, both their hair and skirts rise. One of them has another when she leaps for joy as the teenage Donald admits he was the one who caused the ride to go faster.
366* Mari Phelps and Hilary Hissy in ''WesternAnimation/TheCrampTwins'' episode, "Pirate Pants". A wind gust suddenly comes and blows up Mari's skirt, revealing yellowish-green panties with white lace trim in the beginning when she's with Lucien in the beginning and again towards the end; This occurs with Hilary towards the end, exposing she, too, wears the same color panties as Wayne tries to resist laughing at this.
367* A rare, male example with Zandor from ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids'' in "The Raiders Apes". His skirt lifts up with Zok flies passed him, revealing his briefs.
368* Nita in The New Shmoo episode, "The Terror of The Trolls". After she tries to stop the Troll King's escape by motorboat with a lasso, he manages to drive off. As she holds onto the rope tightly, she's dragged across the surface of water and the motion gives her skirt an updraft. She crouches to avoid revealing too much and her panties are briefly exposed, and seen from the side.
369* Princess Toadstool in ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' episode, "Count Koopula". When she's falling with Mario, Luigi, and Toad, she makes sure her dress stays down.
370* Jessica from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', in "Rest and Ricklaxation", when she drops from a portal with Rick.
371* Patti in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' episode, "Quailman: The Un-Quail Saga". She's in the middle of giving a news report when air coming from a huge vacuum hose causes her skirt to begin to blow up. But as she holds it in place, she gets sucked up by the vacuum hose, attached to a machine that collects beets.
372* In the ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats'' episode "A Greenthumb Is Not A Goldfinger", Valerie's dress floats slightly in the breeze, as she and the others cling onto one another and parachute to the ground.
373** Alexandra in "The Jumping' Jupiter Affair". Her skirt gets lifted from behind, as she hangs on tightly to a kite and the gust carries them idly. In a possible animation goof, she seems to be commando.
374** Melody in "Never Mind A Master Mind". Her skirt flies up as she and the others drop to the ground after being suspended in the air by a ray gun used to cause levitation, and the effect wears off. As a possible animation goof, she doesn't seem to wear undies in this.
375** In "All Wong In Hong Kong", Valerie's dress flows lightly or slightly as she hangs onto a flying rocket and grabs, and carries Alexandra. But the former isn't seen from behind when this happens.
376* Princess Calla in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' episode, "A Gummi By Any Other Name". When she and Sunni climb out of a tower's window, some wind lifts up the skirt of her peasant outfit and causes it to flow sideways, but it goes up no higher than calf-level.
377* Belinda Maze in the intro of ''WesternAnimation/AroundtheWorldinEightyDays''. Due to bouncing with a pogo stick, her dress folds up enough to cover her upper body, exposing her underwear.
378* Monica in the Dinky Dog episode, "Dinky The Foggy Doggy". As she and Sandy look and call for Dinky, a stormy wind approaches and blows up her skirt up to her thighs, forward, then back.
379** Monica has another one briefly in "Phi Beta Dinky". When she climbs over and jumps down from a wall as part of an obstacle course.
380* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'': In "[[Recap/RugratsS4E10AngelicasLastStandClanOfTheDuck Clan of the Duck]]", this happens to Chuckie when he tries on one of Lil's dresses and passes by an air vent.
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384* In [[ValuesDissonance less gender-sensitive times]], many American amusement parks featured hidden boardwalk vents for this very purpose.
385** As shown in a Creator/NormanRockwell [[http://images.art.com/images/products/regular/13213000/13213392.jpg Saturday Evening Post cover]] from the 1920s.
386** As [=YouTube=] will confirm, there are still quite a few carnivals out there with "skirt-blowing" funhouses.
387** Considering that most modern women would wear jeans or shorts to a carnival, these funhouses are a bit of a relic now.
388* One anecdote from the 1914 Christmas Truce tells the story of a Scottish regiment and a German regiment starting an impromptu football game... and then the wind comes along and reveals the Scots are GoingCommando... (the Scots won the game).
389* At the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Kosovar actress Arta Dobroshi posed for a photocall to promote the upcoming ''Trois Mondes''. A very ill-timed gust of wind that struck just as she did a little pirouette sent her (normally quite modest) blue skirt flying a bit too high, just as all the cameras were going off. [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2149945/Cannes-2012-Arta-Dobroshi-Marilyn-Monroe-moment-skirt-flies-bare-cheeks-photocall.html Some publications]] couldn't resist the chance to use the term "Marilyn Monroe moment", and as if that wasn't bad enough, Miss Dobroshi [[VaporWear did not happen to be wearing panties]] at the time.
390* Creator/JessicaAlba suffered a WardrobeMalfunction of this type on August 13, 2014, complete with PantyShot, as seen [[https://www.gotceleb.com/jessica-alba-leaves-the-trump-soho-hotel-in-nyc-2014-08-14.html/jessica-alba-skirt-flew-up-marilyn-monroe-moment-05/full-image here]].
391* Similar to Alba, Creator/ElizabethOlsen accidentally [[https://i.imgur.com/EbjWWnb.jpg made one]] in 2015 while in UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} as she happened to be in a mini-dress when the air decided to get windy for a moment.
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