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6In media, characters who have just bathed or showered will often wrap themselves in towels to preserve their modesty, even if there is no one else around. This is often done to show that a character has been [[InterruptedBath interrupted while or shortly after they were bathing]], as they had no time to get properly dressed yet. Towels are also common attire in public baths, locker rooms, spas, and saunas. But while wearing a towel in TruthInTelevision, it's far less common in RealLife than media portrays, as people usually prefer the more reliable and modest bathrobes. As such, towels in media are often done to invoke {{fanservice}}.
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8Men will wear the towel wrapped around the waist hanging from their hips, while women will wear it wrapped around the torso hanging from their bust. This conveniently covers any body parts MoralGuardians might find objectionable, but is often TruthInTelevision just out of practicality: the towel wards off a potential chill and soaks up any water left remaining on the skin after bathing, plus those who are accustomed to covering themselves while others are around will often do so out of habit, even if they are alone. The differences in how males and females wear it probably stems as much from men and women having different places to hang their towels as their having different places that might require covering. Even more practical, those with long hair often wrap a towel turban-style around it.
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10Towels on men will be very low to best show their [[ShirtlessScene bare pectorals]], while women will wear them with an ImpossiblyLowNeckline to show off cleavage but also have them short on the waist for maximum leg exposure. This also follows the TheissTitillationTheory, as it will be immediately clear that the towel is the ''only'' thing being worn, and it is in constant danger of [[WardrobeMalfunction slipping loose and falling off]] or being [[StrippingSnag snagged away]], a possibility that can be made even more imminent if the wearer makes a sudden movement or reaches for something, usually when surprised or when put in some kind of [[FullFrontalAssault action sequence]]. If the towel ''does'' slip, the wearer will likely have a NakedFreakOut and resort to HandOrObjectUnderwear to maintain some measure of modesty/dignity. Often, a towel actually serves as the "[[HandOrObjectUnderwear Object Underwear]]" for a character that has been [[ShowerOfAwkward caught while they were bathing]]. It can also be used in conjunction with DressHitsFloor (when a character purposefully drops their towel) and SexyCoatFlashing (when a character opens their towel to flash someone).
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12Wearing a towel can also be a subtle way of implying intimacy between two people, serving as a form of SexDressed. A common situation is a third party [[DidYouJustHaveSex assuming the two characters have been intimate]] upon when finding one of them in a towel, even if the [[NotWhatItLooksLike situation is actually innocent]].
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14A [[RuleOfFunny common gag]] is for a character to wear one even when they shouldn't have anything to hide such as a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal. Another common gag is to show effeminate males wearing their towels in the feminine style. However, as towels are often just worn for practicality, both situations [[FridgeLogic actually make sense]]. In stark contrast, female characters ''can'' wear their towels in the masculine way (or a mock-up of that way, which has one towel around the breasts and another wrapped at the waist, [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine baring the midriff]]), but this is impractical and does not preserve modesty, so this would pretty much only be for {{fanservice}}.
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16In televised {{anime}}, towels are often [[TooHotForTV used to censor scenes]] like [[FuroScene bathing]], in which the characters [[FullyClothedNudity really should be naked]]. When a towel appears in the localization that wasn't there in the original, it's a form of DigitalBikini. Many VideoGames also feature towels as {{unlockable c|ontent}}ostumes, sometimes [[VirtualPaperDoll as purely cosmetic outfit]], sometimes as an [[RainbowPimpGear equipable item with actual stats]].
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18See CensorSteam and CensorSuds for another common form of bathtime censorship. Related to the ModestyBedsheet, with characters wrapping themselves up in a sheet to preserve their modesty in a similar manner, though that trope is far less likely to occur in RealLife.
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26* A [[UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash Flash]] cartoon advertisement for Monsavon Smoothie Care shower gel which can be seen [[https://vimeo.com/12080732 here]] has a mother and daughter doing a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Smoothie_1_9777.jpg dance in modesty towels.]] With the last image, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Smoothie_2_3595.jpg the towels fall.]]
27* Creator/IsaiahMustafa of the ''Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike'' Old Spice adverts is known for wearing one. It's all he wears in the personalized Youtube response videos, and even mentions that the only way to do community service is in a towel. Eventually, it changes since whenever he changes the scene, he wears new clothes as the situation demands. [[WalkingShirtlessScene But never a shirt.]]
28* Many spoofs of advertisements featuring towel-only clad models have appeared through the years. However, North Scott High School in Eldridge, Iowa, took this a step farther in the spring of 2002 when members of the school newspaper, ''The Lance'', published a "centerfold" featuring students -- including several 18-year-old male and female students -- dressed minimally, including some girls wrapped only in towels. Related pictures (which also appeared in a "minimal clothing calendar") appeared on the April 25, 2002, issue's back page. The student editor told the ''Moline Daily Dispatch'' that his staff had gotten the idea from reading ads for such items as perfume and shaving cream in magazines that circulated at the school's library. The resulting newspaper gained noteriety in the community for several days as several conservative-minded community members expressed their concern about the morality of the feature and, despite the absence of outright nudity and a disclaimer that the students ''were'' dressed, the fact that child pornography had inadvertently been published. (All of the students pictured in the issue were seniors, but the worry was that some had yet to turn 18.)
29* A woman is painting a naked male model wearing only a towel over certain parts you can't show on TV, and she is even painting the towel on the portrait, but her biggest concern was the problem the model had, a discolored toenail. (This was, of course, an ad for a toenail fungus treatment.) If she wanted not to show that, why didn't she just have him wear a bathing suit or underpants?
30* In a commercial for ''Bad Company'', Creator/ChrisRock ends up pulling the same gag as ''Film/JamesBond'' in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', below.
31* Subverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drmeHg2VuTo this Diet Rite commercial.]] In the locker room a football player wraps his towel around his neck instead to the [[ReactionShot delight]] of the female reporter.
32* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhUZOCRkPZY This]] Proactiv commercial features Creator/OliviaMunn materializing out of nowhere to the shock of a young man in a towel to tell him that Proactiv will clear up his face quicker than the cleanser he was about to use. His towel falls, of course, and Munn tries to back out of the room.
33* Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes, which has aired its "surprise" presentations of $1 million checks on live television (usually on Super Bowl Sunday), once caught a 21-year-old girl wrapped in nothing but a towel answering the door of a winner.
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37* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'': In episode 12, Tatsumi [[OutdoorBathPeeping tries peeking on Chelsea while she's bathing outdoors]] but he's the one surprised when he finds her wearing a towel, and she explains she [[GenreSavvy foresaw he would try doing it]]. She lets him go with a warning that if she ever finds him [[ThePeepingTom peeking at her again]] she'll be [[CripplingCastration "cutting it off"]].
38* In ''Anime/AldnoahZero'', scenes of both episodes 9 and 10 had [[LittleMissBadass Rayet]] in nothing but a towel. The {{Fanservice}} expectations are [[FanDisservice turned around in their heads]], however, because [[spoiler: she has [[HeroicBSOD a mental breakdown]], tries to murder Asseylum and ''then'' [[DrivenToSuicide attempts to shoot herself dead]]]]. All while still wearing only a towel.
39* [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Nino]] wears one while bathing (outdoors) in ''Manga/ArakawaUnderTheBridge'' (much to Ko/Ric's disappointment). She [[InnocentFanserviceGirl didn't originally]], but one time she was getting in just as a police car went by, and it was "a pain".
40* In ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'', the '''extremely''' effeminate male Hideyoshi wears a towel wrapped around his chest like a girl, as seen in episode 6.
41* In Chapter 519 of ''Anime/Bleach'', the cover had Orihime and Rukia wrapped in towels, enjoying their time in hot springs.
42* ''Anime/BProject'': Hikaru has the habit of [[HomeNudist walking around the apartment naked or in a towel]], and in episode 11 ends up dropping his towel right in front of a mortified Tsubasa who gets a [[LuminescentBlush full-body blush]] at the eyeful while the rest of the boys reprimand him on his lack of modesty.
43* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': Ran enters a murder scene wearing only a towel and Conan turns towards her right as the towel [[WardrobeMalfunction slides down]], and he {{nosebleed}}s so much that he gets a ''GoryDiscretionShot''.
44* ''VideoGame/ChousokuHenkeiGyrozetter'': In episode 5, Michie crashes into the {{hot springs|episode}} where the female characters were relaxing by [[AccidentalPervert complete accident]]. Akira, the only one who wasn't in the water and thus was still in her towel, drops it in shock and he unintentionally gets a full eyeful of Akira. Cue a SkywardScream from the poor girl.
45* ''Anime/CodeGeass'':
46** "[[Recap/CodeGeassR2E3ImprisonedInCampus Imprisoned In Campus]]" has Kallen in a towel storming in on C.C. to complain about how their plan at the beginning of season 2 has her in a PlayboyBunny. Turned into a funny moment when she realizes C.C. is in the middle of a meeting with a few gentlemen from the Chinese Federation. In an oddly-effeminate (if understandable) moment [[NakedFreakOut she screams and runs behind a screen]], despite the men having gotten a good look already. Angrier than ever, she continues to complain to C.C. and almost has the towel fall off in the process.
47** Special edition DVD revealed that the [[NoodleIncident Aomori incident]] implied Kallen and C.C. fleeing wearing only towels. [[ResolvedNoodleIncident Other media showed]] that the Black Knights were almost caught by Britannia while they were at a hot spring and they had to run away.
48 * ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'': Often common due to the abundance of {{hot spring|sEpisode}} scenes, especially if they're out of the bath. Special mention goes to Akoya who even covers his chest like a girl.
49* ''Anime/DancougarNova'': The IntrepidReporter that is investigating the protagonists manages to find their secret IslandBase via helicopter just as Aoi and Kurara were SkinnyDipping at the beach, prompting them to hide behind a rock as their clothes were too far away for them to run to. [[TooHotForTV The TV broadcast]] has both girls wearing Modesty Towels while the DVD version had them both nude, but still employing GodivaHair or HandOrObjectUnderwear.
50* ''Manga/DashKappei'': Once Akane is kidnapped by a robot while she was bathing and is used as Damsel in Distress for Kappei wearing just a towel. Kappei uses the same towel to defeat the robot.
51* In the HotSpringsEpisode of ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'', Ryu Amakusa arrives at the male side of the springs with a towel. Kintarou thinks this isn't manly enough and tries to force it off him. HilarityEnsues.
52* [[Recap/DigimonAdventureE17TheCrestOfSincerity Episode 17]] of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' has Sora and Mimi running and fighting Cockatorimon after escaping from the showers, wearing nothing but towels.
53* In the ''Literature/DirtyPair'' movie ''Project EDEN'', Yuri and Kei are [[FullFrontalAssault forced to fight]] against several alien-like creatures while in towels when their [[BathtubScene bubble baths]] get [[InterruptedBath interrupted]]. They are then forced to retreat without getting their clothes and end up wearing the towels after modifying them in bikini form for the rest of the movie -- which isn't any different than the [[BattleBikini skimpy clothing]] they already wear.
54* Shizuka in ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'', sometimes after [[BathingBeauty her usual bath]]. One occasion has also the [[WardrobeMalfunction towel fall]] down while she is on the phone with Nobita and Doraemon (that has added a [[PowerPerversionPotential video option to phone]]).
55* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
56** ''Manga/DragonBall'':
57*** Episode 2 has an anime-only scene where kid Goku takes a towel and doesn't understand how they work. When Bulma is telling Goku that the towel is supposed to go on his front, he puts it in front of his head.
58*** Episode 6 has Bulma comes out of the shower in a towel and yells at Oolong for giving her his pajamas that do not fit her, forcing her to stay in a towel until her clothes get clean and having to [[SleepsInTheNude sleep with no clothes on]].
59** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Another anime-exclusive scene had Mr. Satan, shortly after his "win" against Android 18, in the shower room in a towel when some {{Paparazzi}}s burst in and started questioning him about his win against Android 18, and he claims to "not hide anything from the fans", and while laughing, [[WardrobeMalfunction accidentally dropping his towel]] in front of all of them.
60** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Episode 43 has Goku suffering PowerIncontinence and when trying to use his [[{{Teleportation}} Instant Transmission]], he accidentally ends up in Bulma's bedroom just as she stepping out of the shower in a towel, which infuriates both her and Vegeta.
61* ''Manga/Eyeshield21'': Sena, Monta, Mamori, and Suzuna visit a bathhouse in order to talk to Kakei of the Kyoshin Poseidons, Mizumachi's attempts [[OutdoorBathPeeping at peeping on the girls' side]] lead to the [[CovertPervert normally shy and quiet Sena]] having a vision of Suzuna, with nothing but a towel held against her front.
62* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Many of the characters wear these during the ''many'' {{Furo Scene}}s.
63** Lucy, in particular, gets to wear them a lot, since she's a BathingBeauty with a BathtubScene in almost every story arc. During the "Grand Magic Games" arc, Lucy even orders Gemini to turn into her, and Gemini transforms into towel-clad Lucy, prompts the crowd [[EatingTheEyeCandy to cheer]] and Lucy to have a NakedFreakOut.
64** During the "Phantom Lord" arc, Erza is having a ShowerOfAngst in the guild, when the ground suddenly starts moving, she rushes outside wearing only a towel. When Erza sees that Phantom Lord is going to destroy Fairy Tail with a giant laser, she runs off dropping her towel activating her InstantArmor to try and stop it.
65* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': Rei walks in on Mamiya and Lin, who bathing at the water spring. Clad in a towel, Mamiya tries to fight him, but he easily avoids her punches and grabs her by her hair. He then [[ShamefulStrip removes one of the towels wrapped around her body]] and tells her that she is beautiful, and not worth sacrificing to the Fang clan.
66* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'': Kaname first meets Tessa after she's just stepped out of Sousuke's shower, wearing only a towel. This causes Kaname to think that Sousuke's been skipping out on their study sessions to make out with his girlfriend (a mistake Tessa is happy to leave uncorrected). Sousuke tries to explain to Kaname that [[NotWhatItLooksLike the girl in a towel is one of his superiors at Mithril]], but is not believed.
67* ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'': In episode 32 of the TV series, Asuka is [[ShowerScene taking a shower]] when Hayato opens the trailer door and asks her to help for dinner, [[AccidentalPervert not realizing]] that she is stepping out of the shower in a towel. Then [[WardrobeMalfunction her towel falls off]] and Asuka [[NakedFreakOut lets out a big scream]] and starts [[TantrumThrowing throwing stuff at him until she drives him out]].
68* As an effeminate male, Kazuki did this in the ''Manga/GetBackers'' anime (as well as [[MsFanservice Hevn]] and [[NeutralFemale Natsumi]], when the camera cut back to them), but he didn't bother in the manga version. He has a ''very'' nice rear...
69* In an chapter/episode of ''Manga/GhostSweeperMikami'', the titular protagonist is attacked by Dr. Chaos (who pulled a GrandTheftMe on Yokoshima) when she's just out of the shower, thus only wearing a towel. It eventually comes off during the scuffle, [[AllMenArePerverts much to]] [[LovableSexManiac Yokoshima's]] [[NoseBleed delight]].
70* In the ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' anime, Gintoki and Hijikata got into a fight at a sauna, which consisted mainly of a lot of grabbing each other while wearing ridiculously tiny towels. Needless to say, it is '''AWESOME!'''
71* ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'': In episode 5, Shu's alone in a room wearing only a towel after being knocked out by Ayase. Then, Ayase suddenly enters without knocking or anything and [[OhCrap shocks Shu into dropping his towel]], who [[NakedFreakOut gets embarrassed]] and [[HandOrObjectUnderwear tries to cover himself]]. Cue an OhCrap and then a slap from Ayase. UnprovokedPervertPayback
72* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
73** ''Anime/AfterWarGundamX'':
74*** [[Recap/AfterWarGundamX01IsTheMoonOut In the pilot]] Garrod is sneaking around the ship, when suddenly Toniya burst out from the bathroom right in front of him, clad in a towel to complain about the water going out, almost catching Garrod. A similar scene occurs in episode 20, this time with her bursting out of the bathroom in the same towel to complain about the room being flooded and {{distract|edbythesexy}}ing Miles as he was inspecting the ship.
75*** In episode 7, Ennil is [[ShowerScene taking a shower]] aboard a vulture ship, when she hears someone enter the bathroom. She [[CantBatheWithoutAWeapon picks up her gun]] and pulls the shower curtain to point her gun at the intruder, now clad in a towel which she somehow quickly put on. The intruder turns out to be just Zacotte who came to invite her for some wine.
76** ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'': In episode 22, Rinko and China visit Sei's and Reiji's with food for them. But then Aila comes out of the bathroom in just a towel, causing Sei to FacePalm while Rinko and China have ColorFailure at the possible implications of girl showering in their room.
77** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'': Meyrin Hawke {{Invoke|d}}s this as part of an IndyPloy to keep the ZAFT soldiers pursuing the runaway Athrun from looking inside her room and finding him. She answers them in a towel and claims they can't come in since she's naked. Sure enough, they tell her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn and go check the next room. And [[DressedInLayers she wasn't even naked under the towel!]] She just got her hair wet and wrapped the towel over her clothes.
78* ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'': Ippo wears one around his waist when he first showers with the guys simply because he's ShowerShy. Takamura mistakes this for size insecurity and removes it for giggles- which is how he discovered [[BiggerIsBetterInBed Ippo's]] actually a [[UnusualEuphemism "heavyweight"]].
79* There's a short SuperDeformed [[HotSpringsEpisode Hot Springs Anime Special]] for ''VideoGame/HarukanaruTokiNoNakaDe 3'' that features Modesty Towels; and apparently it's entirely possible to ''swim underwater freely'' while wrapped in these. Also, considering [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys the nature]] of the ''Haruka'' franchise, had the special not been drawn in the SuperDeformed style, it probably would've been much more valuable in terms of {{Fanservice}}...
80* In ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'', the Cures wear [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience color-coded]] fabric resembling a towel during [[TransformationSequence transformation sequences]] to preserve their modesty. When forced to detransform, they wear this "towel" instead of their normal clothes, so it could be considered to act as a modesty towel.
81* The unusual usage of towels as censorship in anime is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'', where the narrator [[NoFourthWall points out]] that the towels are added due to broadcast regulations and shouldn't be worn in baths because it's unhygienic and disliked by bath attendants.
82* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', when France goes around in the Christmas Special, he catches Spain in the shower. He pulls the curtain towards himself, but only manages to cover his crotch.
83* ''Manga/HidamariSketch'': Yuno wears a towel wrapped around her breasts during a visit to a {{public Bathhouse|scene}} due to [[ShrinkingViolet her shyness]].
84* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'':
85** Used to show how Rossweisse is [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl more conservative than the other girls in the Club]] as she's the only that wears a Modesty Towel while the other girls happily go into baths naked even when Issei is present.
86** Gasper is [[ShowerShy very uncomfortable bathing with Issei and Kiba]] and keeps his Modesty Towel on the whole time. Issei calls him out on how unmanly he's acting, especially since Gasper wears the towel like a girl.
87* ''Literature/HowToRaiseABoringGirlfriend'': Episode 10 has Tomoya's cousin [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Michiru]] walking around his house [[HomeNudist in the buff]] except for her panties and a towel around her neck, with the danglings ends that just barely cover up her breasts. At the end of the episode, the situation is inversed when he steps out of the shower in a towel and hears Michiru playing a song on her guitar and walks up to her to listen. Shortly after she finishes, his [[WardrobeMalfunction towel falls off]] and we're left with her awkwardly staring right at his crotch before fading to credits.
88* ''Anime/TheIdolMaster'': Miki accidentally enters the men's bath wearing just a towel. She then [[TheTease "accidentally" lets it start to slip off]] while talking to the Producer.
89* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'': Ichika catches Houki in one after he enters their shared dorm room for the first time, which starts off their relationship in the wrong foot.
90* While ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is normally light on {{fanservice}}, Hayasaka spends most of chapter 42 wearing nothing but a towel since Kaguya keeps dragging her away from her bath [[HopelessWithTech to help set up a Twitter account]].
91* At one point in ''Literature/KonoSuba'', Kazuma assumes that he's having a fantasy in the bathroom with Darkness. Unlike most examples, the latter doesn't even ''wear'' the towel since it's too tiny that it barely covers her naughty bits from the front.
92* In the ''Manga/LoveHina'' manga, characters are normally naked when in the hot springs, while in the anime, they are often wrapped in towels. Evidently, even the [[BarbieDollAnatomy Barbie-doll bodies]] of the manga are too risqué for anime.
93* ''Anime/LupinIIIEpisode0FirstContact'': Fujiko takes a shower in Jigen's apartment, comes out in just a towel, and tries to seduce him by leaning over to show her generous cleavage off, and then when he {{ignore|thefanservice}}s that, starts to drop the towel. He uses the barrel of his magnum to hold it on her body while simultaneously threatening to shoot her if she tries that again. This is also an EstablishingCharacterMoment for Jigen, as he is the only one consistently unaffected by [[TheVamp Fujiko's feminine wiles]].
94* ''Anime/LupinIIITravelsOfMarcoPoloAnotherPage'': During Hiromi's FuroScene, her bustline is covered by CensorSteam while the lower half is covered by a Modesty Towel.
95* Present on every character during the HotSpringsEpisode of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', though absent... [[FuroScene everywhere]] [[ShowerScene else]].
96* In ''Anime/MajokkoMegChan'', Meg wears one in several episodes after a ShowerScene. Often something happens to make her [[WardrobeMalfunction lose the towel]], such as being startled by Rabi calling her a witch in episode 3.
97* In episode 52 of ''Anime/MazingerZ'' Shiro's toy ends up in Sayaka's bathroom while she's in there brushing her hair with just a towel on. Not wanting to alert her, he [[RodAndReelRepurposed tries using a fishing rod]] to get back his toy, but [[AccidentalPervert accidentally]] ends up [[StrippingSnag snagging]] her modesty towel instead.
98* Roughly half of the episodes in ''Manga/MissMachiko'' show the main character in a modesty towel in one scene. In the vast majority of those scenes, the towel ends up being taken away one way or another.
99* ''Anime/MoeyoKen'': Episode 8 has a PublicBathhouseScene with the characters wearing towels as they bath. Ryunosuke ends up dying ([[DeathIsCheap yet again]]) because of Nekomaru's clumsiness with soap. When Nekomaru uses [[CatsHaveNineLives one of his nine lives]] to [[BackFromTheDead revive him]], Ryunosuke is now in a [[GenderBender female body]]. A ''[[HartmanHips rather shapely]]'' female body that causes the boys in the bathhouse to get quite {{distracted|bythesexy}}, especially since his Modesty Towel was only covering his lower half, giving them all an eyeful when he stands up.
100* ''Literature/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'': Yui wears one in episode 19, but its because she wasn't told to bring a swimsuit like the other women were. Inia and Cryska also have one, but at least in Inia's case, she chose not to bring it. All three of them either get the towel [[StrippingSnag taken away]], or it [[WardrobeMalfunction falls off]] them when they go in the hot springs.
101* CensorSteam aside, this was quite common in Akamatsu's next work, the anime version of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', also done by Xebec. In the manga, however...
102* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
103** Rei wears one when Shinji goes to visit her apartment for a delivery, as she just finished showering at the time. Unfortunately, [[WardrobeMalfunction it falls to the floor]] when Shinji [[SuggestiveCollision trips and falls on her]]... but being an EmotionlessGirl, Rei [[InnocentFanserviceGirl barely reacts]], despite Shinji's utter embarrassment.
104** In the manga adaptation, Asuka plays a prank on Shinji - after threatening death if [[ThePeepingTom he pervs on her]] in the {{shower|scene}}, Asuka later steps out wearing a towel and [[TheTease asks if he wants to see what's underneath]], only to reveal [[TheGadfly she's put her clothes back on]].
105** Mana Kirishima from the ''Girlfriend of Steel'' {{visual novel}} one-ups both. After having Shinji swear that he absolutely won't peek, Mana comes out of the bathroom in a towel and, similarly to Asuka, [[TheTease asks if he wants to look]] before taking off the towel... but unlike Asuka, Mana is not baiting him but is ''[[ShamelessFanserviceGirl actually naked]]''. We don't get to see Shinji's reaction, only hear it - but Mana [[TheGadfly finds it amusing enough to laugh for the rest of the scene]] as the camera rapidly pans over her still frame, with a corner of the towel censoring her crotch (and CensorSteam over her breasts, though the latter is [[NippleAndDimed absent]] from the version in the visual novel's bonus materials).
106* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
107** Used after Luffy defeated Crocodile while everyone is in their own gender baths. Gets averted when the guys are looking over at the girls and [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Nami]] decides to give them what she liked to call: [[SexyCoatFlashing Happiness... PUNCH!]] Made funnier by Vivi's horrified expression at Nami when she does this.
108** Many chapters later, Robin wears one she has taken a bath with Momonosuke and goes outside to ask for Momonosuke's kimono.
109** Oddly enough, [[DemBones Brook]] has been known to do this, despite being a skeleton and thus having nothing to hide.
110* ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'': In episode 15, Yuri dons one [[FullFrontalAssault right before she fights Masako]]. When Masako defeats her by {{blind|edByTheLight}}ing her with a flashlight, her towel comes undone at the same time.
111* ''Anime/Persona3TheMovie'': Just like in the game, all the guys are wearing these in HotSpringsEpisode. This is [[MundaneMadeAwesome played for faux drama]] when they realize the girls are coming to bathe and they have to leave without them noticing, but Junpei [[WardrobeMalfunction loses his Modesty Towel in the stream]] while they were swimming underwater. He invokes IWillOnlySlowYouDown but his fellow male teammates [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind don't want to leave him behind]]. Their conversation drew the attention of the girls, followed by the guys's "[[PervertRevengeMode Execution]]".
112* After being pulled into the water [[spoiler:by Corphish]] in the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire'' episode "[[Recap/PokemonS6E23GoneCorphishin Gone Corphishin']]", May appears briefly in one while the protagonists' are HangingOurClothesToDry.
113* In ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'', Mami Tomoe is briefly shown in a towel after getting out of the bath. Then she hears a Nightmare is on the loose, tugs her towel loose aaaand... SceneTransition to the battlefield, where she's fully clothed.
114* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'' has this trope a few times:
115** First in Chapter 5, Fuutarou enters the Nakano apartment to retrieve his wallet, and finds Nino in a towel drying her hair on the couch. She doesn't recognize him immediately due to [[BlindWithoutEm not wearing her contacts]] and first thinks he's Miku.
116** Later, in Chapter 34, Fuutarou enters the apartment and sees one of the quintuplets in a towel, who tosses him a bag calling him "pervert". He doesn't identify her immediately because she was also wearing a towel in her head (thus covering her hair), and the next chapter is about finding out who it was (it was Ichika).
117** Reversed in Chapter 43. After having a ShowerOfAngst at Nino's hotel and telling her about his encounter with "Rena", he comes out of the bathroom wearing only a towel around the waist. Nino freaks out, but he calls it even because he already saw her the same way.
118* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
119** While the title character [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl really couldn't care less]] about being seen naked as a girl], Akane will wrap her in a towel anyway. Even if there's nobody but girls in the room. Left to his own devices Ranma wraps the towel around his hips male-style regardless of his current form. Towels get a lot of use since Ranma's GenderBender curse is triggered by hot and cold water.
120** Akane herself dons the Modesty Towel quite a bit.
121* ''Manga/Reborn2004'' has these for all the guys during the [[HotSpringsEpisode Hot Springs Epic Battle]] in the OAV. Much to the fangirls' disappointment.
122* In the ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' manga, when Touga sees Dios's power for the first time and decides to get close to Utena to find out more about it, he joins Utena's household as a "shimobe" (personal servant). The first time Utena hears of this is the next day, when he waltzes out of her shower, clad only in a Modesty Towel.
123* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' In episode 7 of season 2, Tsukune bath is [[InterruptedBath interrupted]] by Kurumu, who is only wearing a Modesty Towel and trying to seduce him. But she ''also'' gets interrupted by other girls, including Yukari, who bursts into the bathroom and slips on a bar of soap, [[StrippingSnag accidentally pulling off Kurumu's towel]] as she falls. Tsukune gets a violent {{Nosebleed}} at the sight as Kurumu has a NakedFreakOut.
124* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
125** Used in the HotSpringsEpisode of the first season. Shingo is wearing one, female-style and embarrassed about [[ShowerShy bathing with his family]]. When Usagi teases him about it, he retaliates by [[StrippingSnag stealing hers]] and leaving Usagi naked.
126** Used in one episode of ''Sailor Moon Stars''. When Seiya is hanging out at Usagi's house while her parents are out (it's completely innocent, don't look at me like that...), Chibi-Chibi spills cake all over him, so he uses her shower to clean himself up while his clothes are being washed. Meanwhile, the other girls show up... just in time for him to come out of the shower in what appears to be the tiniest towel on the face of the earth, asking where his clothes are. Then Chibi-Chibi complains that he's using her towel and proceeds to do her best to get it away from him. HilarityEnsues.
127* Pacifica Casull from ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'' has an odd habit of bathing [[NonNudeBathing with a towel wrapped around her]].
128* When at a {{public bathhouse|scene}} Kirito from ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'' and several background characters are seen wearing towels around their waists implying that everyone is wearing them even though the others are submerged to the point that the towels wouldn't be visible.
129* ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'':
130** Several scenes in the locker room show Sara and the other girls wearing towels.
131** [[TheBaroness Captain Vivian Medlock]] is betrayed by [[TheDragon her main enforcer]] and [[SleepingWithTheBoss lover]] Ralph while she was showering, as he traps her in the bathroom, leaving her there helpless while he finishes off the rest of her crew. When he comes back to take her prisioner, a [[NudityEqualsHonesty towel is all he allows her to wear]] as he disposed of all her clothing, since her security pass was incorporated into her uniform, and depriving her of it leaves her dependent on Ralph. When she manages to flee from her the ship via an escape pod, she's still only clad in the towel and the heroes make fun of her when they arrest her, much to her [[HumiliationConga continued humiliation]].
132* ''Anime/SoulEater'': In episode 12, The rest of the gang meet at Soul and Maka's pad for the first time when MsFanservice Blair suddenly walks in wearing nothing but a towel, which [[WardrobeMalfunction falls off as she strikes a pose]], giving them a NakedFirstImpression and causing the guys to [[EatingTheEyeCandy stare]].
133--> '''Kid:''' ''[Shocked]'' Is it always like this around here?\
134'''Soul:''' ''[{{Nosebleed}}ing]'' Yup. Anybody wanna take the [[SexyCatPerson sexy kitty]] home? She's free."
135* In ''Manga/StellaWomensAcademyHighSchoolDivisionClassC3'', the [[NakedFirstImpression first time Yura]] (and [[NakedOnArrival the audience]]) meet Sonora, she's just come out of the shower and is wearing nothing but a towel. The scene is then practically repeated in a later episode.
136* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/StellviaOfTheUniverse'': The cadets at the Space Academy are outfitted with [[LatexSpaceSuit tight-fitting flight suits]]. Shima and Kouta are [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl notably shy about the cut of their uniforms]] and they come down to the flight deck with towels wrapped around the suits.
137* ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV'': In "Special Orders to Iron Men", Cammy's ShowerScene is {{interrupted|bath}} by the phone ringing, and she leaves the bathroom wrapped in a towel to answer it.
138* ''Anime/SummerWars'':
139** Natsuki emerges from the bathroom in a towel to chase down [[NakedPeopleAreFunny one of her little cousins who had gone running from the bathroom without a stitch]], when she runs into Kenji. She [[NakedFreakOut quickly darts back in to the bathroom]], while Kenji averts his eyes and insists that he saw nothing.
140** Kenji has one as well when going in for his own bath.
141* The TheAnimeOfTheGame ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration The Inspector'' has a scene in episode 3 where a towel-clad Excellen takes [[ButtMonkey Bullet's]] portrait of his girlfriend and teases him about it. When he demands it back, she puts the portrait [[TheTease in her cleavage and dares him to take it]]. He nervously attempts to, but trips and ends up falling to the floor, [[StrippingSnag snagging away her towel in the process]]. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl She laughs it off]] while he runs away from the room blushing.
142* ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia [[TheAnimeOfTheGame Animated]]'':
143** In episode 2, Reid tries to escape from Marone Bluecarno, the BountyHunter who captured him, while she's busy {{shower|scene}}ing. In the middle of his attempt, he's foiled by her suddenly showing up, wearing only a towel. Then, [[TheTease just to mess with him]] she drops her towel... revealing she was actually wearing a bikini underneath.
144** In episode 6, all the girls [[HotSpringsEpisode go to search for a hot springs in the wild]]. When they find it, they all [[FlungClothing flung their clothes into the air]] and go bathing while wearing inexplicably towels now, which they clearly weren't carrying towels with them before. Both Farah and Marone do also [[FlungClothing flung away their towels when jumping into the water]].
145* ''Anime/TekkenBloodVengeance'': Xiaoyu wears one after {{shower|scene}}ing and chats to Alisa dressed like this for a few minutes before falling asleep on her lap. Alisa then carries her and tucks her into bed while she's still in her towel.
146* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'':
147** Aeka and Sasami used these at times, even in the hot spring. This would be more of a character decision, though; it's hard to call it censorship when everyone else around them goes without. Ryoko once took the chance to humiliate Aeka by [[ShamefulStrip undoing the tie on her towel]], exposing her in front of Tenchi.
148** In ''Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo in Love!'', Kiyone is [[DrumBathing bathing in an oil drum]] when she's suddenly {{teleport|ation}}ed to Washu's laboratory. Washu then gives her a towel to cover herself as a half-hearted apology for the {{Inconvenient Summon|s}}, which Kiyone wears for the rest of the scene.
149* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
150** In the [[Recap/TengenToppaGurrenLagannS1E06SitInTheHotTubTilYoureSick uncut "director's cut" version of episode 6]], the HotSpringsEpisode, has the characters wearing these for most of the episode since they're [[InterruptedBath attacked by the villain while bathing]]. When the villain kidnaps the women and displays them on a monitor, [[{{Pixellation}} pixels]] covering the necessary areas and she offers to remove them if Kamina exits Gurren. When [[AllMenArePerverts he does so]], it reveals all the girls were wearing towels underneath. And later when their towels ''do'' [[WardrobeMalfunction come undone]], it shows they were wearing bikinis underneath the towels.
151** [[TimeSkip Late into]] the anime, there is a fight scene in the prison bathroom between [[spoiler: [[MrFanservice Simon and Viral]]]], who are wearing nothing but ridiculously tiny towels.
152** In ''Lagann-hen'' [[spoiler:the trope [[http://i47.tinypic.com/30j413d.png returns]], but with an added touch of MagicSkirt.]]
153* A particular example from ''Manga/ToLoveRu'', in the two-part story "War At The Public Bathhouse". Yami, along with Lala, Haruna and Mikan, is attacked by two bounty hunters in a public bath who use Rito (controlled by a device). All the girls (and Rito) wears towel. One of two hunters makes also Rito [[ShamefulStrip pull off Haruna's towel]].
154* ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel'': The devil Ashkelon walks into the hotel's VIP suite just after the female devil Demona has apparently come out of the shower, with nothing on but a towel around her neck. She [[NakedFreakOut screams and calls him a pervert]], but instead of trying to cover her body, she covers her [[{{Cyclops}} single eye]].
155* ''Anime/ZoidsNewCentury'': There are a number of scenes where the characters wearing towels for no readily apparent reason besides fanservice.
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159* ''Animation/MotuPatlu'': Inspector Chingum is seen wearing one in "Water Problem". He's trying to take a shower, but he realizes that the water has suddenly gone from Furfuri Nagar and gives up.
160* ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'':
161** In "Chutney Dam", when the Mayor discusses the disappearance of Chatpata Nagar's chutney supply with the townsfolk, Cham Cham appears in a towel, implying he had been taking a chutney shower before the events occured.
162** In "Jalebi's Birthday", Jalebi takes a shower and emerges from the bathroom wearing a towel.
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166* ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'': PlayedWith in Issue #14. Aurora has finished showering and is drying herself with a towel, which blocks the view of her nakedness. But when she wipes the mirror she gets a {{Hallucination|s}} MirrorScare of her Jeanne-Marie SplitPersonality trying to break free and Aurora falls to the bathroom floor, with her towel also falling on top of her in such a way that it conveniently covers her naughty bits. PlayedStraight next issue when she's back of her room with the towel properly wrapped around her.
167* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': Vol. 7 #49 has an equal opportunity {{fanservice}} moment with Mera dancing around in a towel while Arthur is {{shirtless|scene}} at their home. Until they're {{interrupted|Intimacy}} by officer Watson dropping in for a late-night call.
168* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': During one story, Betty enters her living room in nothing but a towel and [[NakedFreakOut panics]] when she finds Archie there. When she comes back wearing a bathrobe and still stressed out, Archie points out that the robe she is now wearing is the exact same material as the towel, covers even ''less'', and she is somehow fine being seen in it.
169--> '''Betty:''' Well, it's... ''different.''
170* ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen Xenogenesis'': ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} is seen dressed in a towel during a breakfast meeting with the rest of the X-Men.
171* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': In issue #236, ComicBook/SheHulk is [[BathtubScene having a bath at the Avengers manor]] when she is [[InterruptedBath forced to abandon]] by the security alarms tripping, and she hurriedly throws on a towel on before rushing to confront the intruder... only for it to turn out to be ComicBook/SpiderMan, who broke into the manor with great fanfare to announce his desire to join the Avengers. Jen is so pissed she is ready to pummel him, until he points out how [[TheissTitillationTheory any sudden movements from her "daring outfit"]] would cause her to suffer a WardrobeMalfunction and she backs off.
172* ''ComicBook/Batgirl2000'': When ComicBook/{{Oracle}} visits Cassandra Cain's new apartment for the first time, she finds Cass stepping out of the shower in a fluffy towel.
173* During ''Comet Man'''s SuperHeroOrigin story, ComicBook/MisterFantastic is helping him learn about his {{Teleportation}} powers, but the first attempt ends {{accidental|pervert}}ly teleporting him into the Baxter building bathroom, [[LandingInSomeonesBathtub right while She-Hulk was showering]]. After she [[PervertRevengeMode violently throws him out]], she furiously comes to confront him and Reed while wearing a towel.
174* In ''ComicBook/{{Crimson}}'' #5, Alex and Joe break-in into VampireHunter Scarlet's apartment while searching for her and end up catching her stepping out of the shower in only a towel. Assuming they're hostile, she [[FullFrontalAssault immediately attacks them in just a towel]] and during the struggle, Alex accidentally [[StrippingSnag snatches off her towel]] She quickly aims her crossbow at his face and demands his surrender, which was moot by that point, as he's too {{distracted|ByTheSexy}} by the view to keep fighting.
175* ''ComicBook/DangerGirl'': The first issue has a panel with heavy MaleGaze of Sydney stepping out of the shower in a towel, holding it in such a way as to show the maximum amount of skin possible while still keeping the important areas covered.
176* ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'': In Issue #23, Jackie has been mortally injured and the Darklings take him to an acquaintance, [[HospitalHottie Dr. Kim Fang]] to patch him up. They arrive at her house while she was [[InterruptedBath showering]] and she lets them in while only wearing a towel. But one of the Darklings is so worried about Jackie that he [[StrippingSnag yanks off her towel]] to use it as a bandage, leaving her naked in front of the Darklings, who have now [[DistractedByTheSexy stop worrying about Jackie]] to [[EatingTheEyeCandy enjoy the sight]] while she has a NakedFreakOut while furiously demanding her towel back.
177* ''ComicBook/{{Elektra}}'''s first solo series has a few examples:
178** In Issue #8, ComicBook/DoctorStrange sends an AstralProjection to Elektra [[ShowerOfAwkward right as she's showering]] and she teases him by asking if he has nothing better to do than peeping on a girl in the shower. He dispels it and gives her a minute to get dressed. The second AstralProjection he sends finds her wearing a towel and she once again teases him by asking him if all AstralProjection can [[LuminescentBlush blush]].
179** In Issue #10, she goes after [[TheDon crime lord]] by attacking his home while he was showering. He comes out of the bathroom in a towel, and is shocked to find all his bodyguards dead. Suddenly his towel is [[StrippingSnag swiped away]] by Elektra's Sai, who shoves him against a bathroom mirror and begins to intimidate him, telling him if she doesn't do as he asks he'll be [[CripplingCastration losing more than a bath towel]].
180* One issue of ''ComicBook/{{Excalibur}}'' has Nightcrawler wearing a Modesty Towel when another character bursts into the bathroom and tries to kill him. Conveniently, the towel remains firmly in place [[FullFrontalAssault throughout the ensuing struggle]].
181* ''ComicBook/FreaksSqueele'': Everyone (including the camera crew) wears stylized sarongs at the pool that serve this purpose. Then the students are given the assignment to steal each others' sarongs. Chaos (and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]]) ensues. According to WordOfGod, early storyboards used regular towels, but they looked like they would fall off too easily and weren't sexy enough, so the sarongs were invented.
182* A variant is used with Bree, a character in ''ComicBook/FreddyVsJasonVsAsh'', who spends the better part of two issues running for her life, wrapped up in a sheet after Jason attacks her while she and her boyfriend are having sex.
183* In ''[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk Vol. 2]]'', minor villainess Sandra Verdugo gets to wear a towel several times, one time she even threw it at her partner's face while teaching him about how her TheVamp routine works.
184--> '''Slater:''' You occasionally wear something other than a towel ?\
185'''Verdugo:''' Done some of my best work in a towel.
186* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' had a story titled "Como Atravessar a Sala", where Monica left the bathroom in only a towel because her clothes were in her room. Unfortunately, two male friends and her crush were waiting in the living room, and HilarityEnsues.
187* ''ComicBook/MrAndMrsX'': Rogue and Gambit are on their honeymoon, so they are making love, it just happens that Kitty calls them right afterwards to give them a mission. And when Rogue agrees to go on the mission, Gambit loses the modesty blanket, to the horror of Kitty.
188* In ''ComicBook/{{Mystique}}'''s solo series #19, Mystique is taking a late-night shower when someone breaks into her home. She throws on a towel and leaves to confront the intruder, which is curious since she's a TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter and could simply shapeshift some clothes on.
189* In ''New ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' #5, Sage's [[BathtubScene relaxing bubble bath]] is {{interrupted|bath}} when she hears Morph and Cat getting sucked in by a portal. Sage hurriedly throws a towel on and dives into the portal after them at the nick of time. She spends the next few pages in a FairyTale-esque world in only a towel. When they get into a fight with a couple of evil knights, Sage [[ClothFu deliberately throws her towel at one the knight's face]] to stun him and then [[FullFrontalAssault takes him out]] with a DivingKick. Morph finds her some clothes to wear soon after.
190* In ''ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}: The Devil Inside'', Kurt takes a shower in his [[HospitalHottie Christine Palmer]]'s apartment and come out wearing just a towel. She's very honest about [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreciating the view]].
191-->'''Kurt:''' Thanks for the shower, Christine.\
192'''Christine:''' Not at all, Kurt. Anything to have you wandering around my apartment half-naked.
193* ''ComicBook/{{Punisher}}'' foe Rosalie Carbone has several moments of this. In her first appearance, she shares a MeaningfulLook with an undercover Punisher from her bathroom window while holding up a towel just big enough to obscure most of her breasts and her vagina. On a couple of other occasions, she's seen giving orders to her men while wearing just a towel (after being given news during a spa appointment and a bath, respectively).
194* MrFanservice ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} wore one a couple of times.
195** In ''New ComicBook/TeenTitans'' V2 #12, Dick is [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside trapped outside of his apartment in a towel]], when he pursuing the ghost of a little girl that kept appearing to him, much to the [[NakedPeopleAreFunny amusement]] and [[EatingTheEyeCandy appreaciation]] of some of his neighbors.
196** When [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} Bruce]] sent Tim Drake to Dick Grayson for Dick to start Tim's training (without of course giving Dick any warning about it) Tim arrived just after Dick had finished a shower meaning Dick answered the door in an open bathrobe with a towel preserving his modesty.
197** In ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' #56, ComicBook/BlackCanary ends up [[ShowerOfAwkward catching him in the shower]] and he's quick enough to grab a towel to cover himself while she laughs at the situation.
198** ''ComicBook/TitansHunt2015'' has him lounging in his room a towel when Lilith suddenly comes visit, as a vision.
199* ''ComicBook/{{Sandcastle}}'': The children use towels to cover themselves after they outgrow their bathing suits, but they discard them for the rest of the story not long afterwards.
200* One Smurf got stuck wearing a towel throughout most of ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Smurfs and the Howlibird", and when Papa Smurf has to do a bullfight with a Howlibird stripped of its feathers to wear it down, he takes that Smurf's towel to do it!
201* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':
202** ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott'': In ''Amazing Spider-Man #677'', ComicBook/BlackCat is arrested wearing only a towel when a bunch of cops breaks into her apartment while she was showering.
203** ''ComicBook/SpiderManBlackCatTheEvilThatMenDo'': The story opens with [[ComicBook/BlackCat Felicia]] talking in the phone wearing only a towel since the call has [[InterruptedBath interrupted her shower]]. After finishing she just walks bath to the bathroom, [[DressHitsFloor drops the towel]] and resumes showering.
204* ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'' In the One-Shot, "Fantasio is getting Married", Seccotine becomes Spirou's new roommate, much to the latter's annoyance. At some point, she comes out of the bathroom wearing nothing but a towel and Spirou tries his best to IgnoreTheFanservice.
205* ''ComicBook/Starfire2015'': ComicBook/{{Starfire}} comes out of the shower with just a towel on the head right in front of Boone, who shoves another towel at her, telling her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn, which [[InnocentFanserviceGirl confuses her]].
206-->'''Starfire:''' Oh, thank you! But I do not ''need'' another towel. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint The sun and the wind dried my skin! It is only my hair that is wet.]]
207* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
208** In ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'', Superman is stepping out of the shower plate, wearing a tower wrapped around of his waist, when he unexpectedly bumps into [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} his cousin]].
209** In ''ComicBook/PowerGirl2009'' #9, Kara steps out of the shower, someone slides an envelope under the door containing pictures compromising her SecretIdentity. Kara instantly bolts out clad in a towel to chase after the perpetrator, who's just a kid. Dashing down the stairs, she manages to collar him, at which point her [[WardrobeMalfunction towel falls off]], giving both the kid and a neighbor a full-frontal eyeful, while covered by SceneryCensor to the viewer. She hastily [[HandOrObjectUnderwear covers herself with bread and a pie pan]] borrowed from her neighbor and flees to her room to get dressed and resume the pursuit in her hero outfit.
210** In the ''Series/{{Smallville}} Season 11'' comic, Diana (ComicBook/WonderWoman) first adult encounter with her ChildhoodFriend ComicBook/{{Steve Trevor}}s has her showing up at his apartment unannounced while [[ShowerOfAwkward he was showering]]. Thinking her an hostile intruder, he burst out of the bathroom wearing only a towel and ends up [[WardrobeMalfunction losing it]] during the struggle, awkwardly causing Diana to slip some InnocentInnuendo.
211--->'''Diana:''' You have... certainly grown...\
212''[{{beat}}]''\
213'''Diana:''' [[ThatCameOutWrong I cannot believe I just said that...]]
214** During the ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'' storyline, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman need help to get to Apokolips and go to visit their only former inhabitants on Earth, Big Barda and Mister Miracle. Barda answer the door to them wearing a towel, which noticeably makes it clear how [[StatuesqueStunner absurdly tall she is]] when she towers both Clark and Bruce even while dressed in just a towel.
215* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2013'': In issue #14, after showering, Benjamin (Morph) goes back to his room clad in a towel only to find his teacher ComicBook/EmmaFrost casually waiting for him, which startles him enough to [[WardrobeMalfunction drop his towel]]. Nonplussed, Emma proceeds to talk to him about his powers and how they work while the poor boy backs up against the wall trying to cover himself back up with the towel.
216* ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': The first time we see ComicBook/JeanGrey in ''Ultimate X'', she's in the bathroom post-shower with a towel wrapped around her waist ([[ToplessnessFromTheBack bare back to the viewer]]) as she's dying her hair black for her new identity as Karen Grant.
217* In ''ComicBook/UltimateWolverineVsHulk'' #6, Betty Ross, the Ultimate ComicBook/SheHulk, is coming out of the shower in a towel, which she drops it in surprise when she sees ComicBook/UltimateWolverine broke into her apartment searching for Bruce. It soon escalates into a FullFrontalAssault. A combination of CensorShadow, GodivaHair, and SceneryCensor are used to hide her nudity during the entire sequence after she loses the towel.
218* ''ComicBook/WetMoon'': Natalie struts around with one these a couple of times in the series, to the point Malady even tells her that she should wear something like it for a dress.
219* ''Creator/{{Wildstorm}} Revelations'' #1 begins with Jodi Slayton (ComicBook/{{Backlash}}) and Kenesha (Savant) having some BathtubBonding. Jodi eventually leaves to get food, wrapping herself in a towel. In the way, she's suddenly ambushed by Lady Charis (Nemesis) and Jodi tries to fight her while keeping hold of her towel, causing Nemesis to mock her for [[DefeatByModesty caring about modesty during battle]] and proceeds to give Jodi a CurbStompBattle.
220* Issue 121 of ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'' opens with Sara stepping out of the shower and answering the phone in a towel, holding the phone in one hand while stroking her hair with the other and [[MundaneUtility using The Witchblade (a cosmic artifact of nigh limitless power) to hold up her towel]].
221* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': Issue #36 shows [[Franchise/WonderWoman Diana]] stepping out of the shower in only a short towel.
222* ''ComicBook/XFactor'':
223** In issue #119 of the first run, Kyle Gibney / [[WildMan Wild Child]] is losing some steam in his room, working out in only a towel on. When his teammate Shard suddenly [[ProjectedMan projects herself in his room]], she scares him making him suddenly jump [[RightOutOfMyClothes high in the air, right out of his towel]]. She laughs and picks up the towel to give him back while he [[HandOrObjectUnderwear picks up a skateboard to cover himself with]].
224** In ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'', Madrox gets a NakedFirstImpression of Sheila [=DeSotto=] when he finds her SkinnyDipping in her pool, arriving just as she's [[SexySurfacingShot climbs out of the pool topless]] but she later wraps herself in a towel when her husband and his guards arrive.
225* ''ComicBook/XMen1991'':
226** In Issue #17, Cyclops [[ShowerOfAwkward walks in on]] Psylocke fresh out of the shower dressed in a skimpy towel. He [[EatingTheEyeCandy gapes at her for a moment]] before stuttering an apology and bolting out of the bathroom, while an unperturbed Betsy smiles knowingly (this was the era where there was a lot of UnresolvedSexualTension between them, as part of a LoveTriangle subplot between them and Jean Grey).
227** In Issue #91, Rogue is wearing a towel in her bedroom post-shower, trying to pick a dress to use in a date with Gambit.
228* ''ComicBook/YokoTsuno'': In the ''The Rhine Gold'', Yoko is seen wearing nothing but a towel after taking a shower.
229* ''ComicBook/Zatanna2010'':
230** PlayedWith near the end Issue #1, when Zatanna is climbing into her bath, a magically floating towel [[SceneryCensor blocks the view of her naked body]], preserving her modesty even if she does not actually have it wrapped around her.
231** On Issue #4, Zachary's assistant Bunny is caught wearing one in Zatanna's apartment when she [[HomeEarlySurprise comes home earlier than expected]]. Zatanna is quick to use her magic to [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration clothe her]] and kick both her and Zachary out.
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235* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' In one strip, Paige is SingingInTheShower (the "Series/TheLoveBoat Theme") when she notices a microphone hanging from the ceiling and abruptly stops. Turns out Jason was recording her and she angrily chases after him clad in a Modesty Towel.
236* ''ComicStrip/SpiderMan'': Shortly after ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' erased ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson and ComicBook/SpiderMan's marriage, Creator/StanLee had Peter waking as if from a nightmare to find [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/spider_man_strip_6.jpg MJ stepping out of the shower in a towel]], in an alternate continuity where they were still married.
237* A strip in ''ComicStrip/{{Pondus}}'', during the period where Jokke lives together with Tammy-Sue, sees him sitting and watching TV, bemoaning that there is nothing interesting while Tammy-Sue pass behind him, wearing only a Towel, which gets stuck halfway through the scene dropping the Towel, without Jokke noticing.
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241* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': At the beginning of chapter 3, Shinji sees Asuka wearing nothing but a towel and fails to stop from [[EatingTheEyeCandy staring]] at her bare legs.
242* ''Fanfic/AFamiliarVoid'' justifies the towel in bath when Louise goes bathing after being wounded: She doesn't want other students to see [[spoiler:the black voidflesh where her stomach should be]] but still needs to soak in hot water, especially now.
243* ''Fanfic/{{After}}'': After showering, Tessa comes out of her shared dorm room clad in a Modesty Towel where she meets Hardin who's casually sitting in her roommate's bed while reading a book. She's obviously embarrassed but he doesn't care and when she requests for him to leave so she can get dressed he simply says "Don't flatter yourself, I'm not looking".
244* ''Fanfic/AnnalsOfDarkness'': Naminé loses hers after a ShowerScene. Coincidentally, [[AccidentalPervert Roxas walks in right when she does]].
245* In the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/BelieveItOrNot'', Soushin is wearing one when the Chapter 4 victims are discovered dead. [[FridgeLogic Since she never gets an opportunity to change out of it,]] she's actually wearing it throughout the trial.
246* ''Fanfic/ACertainUnknownLevel0'': As said in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8918264/6/A-Certain-Unknown-Level-0 the sixth chapter]], it's how Last Order dresses to greet Touma when he visits her home.
247* ''Fanfic/BeyondTheOuterGateLies'':
248** Serafall wears one of these when the girls are staying at Harry's house during the "Beholder" storyline, and she [[ShowerScene uses the shower in Harry's room]] with the excuse that she prefers the western-style bath he has in there, though it's clear to Harry, her ''and'' the reader that she's really just doing it [[TheTease for flirtation]] as she [[TheissTitillationTheory keeps toying with the knot that keeps to towel tucked in]].
249** {{Averted|trope}} with Sona when Harry [[ShowerOfAwkward accidentally walks in on her in the shower]] at Tsubasa's apartment (she put a silencing charm up while bathing and didn't hear him knock). She's wearing a towel, but is using it to dry herself off, meaning that Harry gets a partial view of her. He would later get an EroticDream about her wearing it in the same fashion.
250* ''Fanfic/CabinFeverPartingShot'': {{Downplayed|trope}}. Karen does use a towel in this fashion after she's done a NudeNatureDance with Marcy. However, she doesn't do it for modesty reasons as [[WackyFratboyHijinks (she seems to have drunk all her inhibitions away)]], but rather simply for warmth.
251* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', [[ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} Betsy Braddock]] wears one of these when going [[ShowerScene into and coming out of the shower]]. Peter Wisdom finds her in one when he drops by to her place to recruit her, and she [[DressHitsFloor drops it purposely]] in front of him twice. The first time is [[SecretTestOfCharacter calculated to get an idea of what Peter Wisdom's really like]] since she can't read his mind. His reaction is [[IgnoreTheFanservice less titillation, more irritation]]. This leads to the second one, after they've talked, which is [[TheGadfly simply calculated to annoy him]], which she succeeds as he tells her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn.
252* ''Fanfic/{{Displacement}}'': During the Clone Wars, a surprise attack [[InterruptedBath drags Michelle out of the shower]]. The entire bridge gets DistractedByTheSexy when she comes in soaking wet and with a towel only wrapped around her waist. Evie in particular is more distracted by [[AmazonianBeauty her abs]] than her toplessness. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Not bothered with all the stares]] she hurries [[FullFrontalAssault to join the battle dressed just like that]].
253* ''Fanfic/Earth27'': After showering, Kate Spencer comes out of the bathroom in a towel, but gets so into [[SingingInTheShower the song she was singing]] that she shrugs off the towel and starts [[HomeNudist dancing around her apartment in the buff]]... and naturally Vigilante [[NakedPeopleAreFunny finds that exact moment to sneak into her apartment]]. He tells her to [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn put the towel back on]], but she hesitates since she doesn't want to take her eyes off him so he can pull a StealthHiBye.
254* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Smurfette's Evil Mirror", four Smurfs are waiting outside of Tailor's shop wearing towels around their waists in order for him to sew up new pairs of pants for them to wear.
255* In the Wrestling/{{WWE}} story ''Fact or Faked'', Wrestling/JohnCena goes to the Divas dressing room to borrow a pair of socks. Wrestling/GailKim offers to lend him some, but as she has just finished showering, she is only wearing a towel. While she's bent over her gym bag to get socks for him, John sees [[spoiler:Gail has a penis]].
256* In ''Fanfic/FatesCollide'', Astolfo steps out of the shower and happily greets Ruby, oblivious to her getting embarrassed. He walks over to his clothes and drops his towel to put them on, and Ruby faints. He assumes she was just tired from her trip and carries her to bed.
257* One of the Figuretoons at [=OAFEnet=] showed ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} wearing one of these towels [[http://www.oafe.net/toons/0502/3.php on his way to the shower.]]
258* ''Fanfic/FinalFantasyVIIAnotherSide'': Sephiroth [[ShowerOfAwkward bumps into Cissnei when she's just out of the shower]] wearing only a Modesty Towel.
259* In ''Fanfic/FrozenWight'', [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Elsa's]] GorgeousGarmentGeneration abilities aren't limited to dresses and nightgowns, she can also make herself a modesty towel out of ice, which comes in handy when she's about to be caught naked. Anders [[MindScrew struggles to understand how she's able to dry herself with the solid form of water]].
260-->"If that made even a little bit of sense, it was a strange foreign kind of sense Anders wanted nothing to do with."
261* During the second year of ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePrinceOfSlytherin'', someone [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen steals the Slytherin Quidditch team's clothes while they're showering after practice]], and they have to run through the castle in nothing but skimpy wet towels [[NakedPeopleAreFunny while the rest of the student body laughs]].
262* ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'': After spending one hour swimming in a spa's pool, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] wraps one towel around her naked body, even though she's reasonably certain that there're no employees or customers on the premises, enters the dressing room and bumps into her rival Jasmine, who was waiting for her to try to seduce her.
263* ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'': Mikoto and Yugao wear towels during their visit to Mabui's spa. They use them for the massages but do take off the towels when actually getting into the hot springs.
264* In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Mikuru had one of these the first time [[spoiler:she arrived at Nagato's apartment for training as she's [[InconvenientSummons been teleported there]] while she was [[InterruptedBath just after bathing]]]].
265* ''Fanfic/LelouchOfTheWingsOfRebellion'': The "Summer Vacation" arc has a HotSpringsEpisode, with Milly tricking the boys into walking on the girl's side, who all have {{Naked Freak Out}}s despite all wearing towels. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Milly herself is the one who isn't embarrassed]] and even poses for the boys in a towel, causing a few {{Nose Bleed}}s
266* ''Fanfic/CodeGeassThePreparedRebellion'': Thanks to being more willing to exercise than he was in canon, Lelouch has developed a more [[AdaptationalCurves athletic physique]], which C.C. [[EatingTheEyeCandy notices]] when she catches sight of him coming out of the shower in a just towel in Chapter 5. It causes quite a stir for [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld C.C.]] since it's the {{first time|Feeling}} she feels sexual attraction toward a guy and the incident ends up [[HormoneAddledTeenager awakening her to puberty]].
267* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Izuku gets into tons of embarrassing situations, like running out of the shower with nothing but a towel on when he thought the girls were in trouble, giving them an eyeful of his six-pack abs to his embarrassment.
268* ''Fanfic/NeonGenesisEvangelionGenocide'': Asuka is wearing a towel when she shoves Shinji playfully, causing him to stumble and [[AccidentalPervert accidentally grabbing part of her towel]], thus [[StrippingSnag ripping it off]], exposing her body and getting her ''a bit'' angry.
269* ''Fanfic/NeverSayNever'':
270** Mondo is wearing one when Chihiro asks him to train her. Mondo is very nervous since he's half-naked in front of a girl, not knowing yet that Chihiro is actually a boy and isn't attracted to men.
271** When [[CovertPervert Hinata, Celeste]] and Toko go [[ThePeepingTom to peep on the boys]] as they're bathing, they find them all wearing their towels. Byakuya ends up losing his, causing [[MadLove Toko]] to {{nosebleed}} and turn into her SplitPersonality, almost causing them all to get caught. Even the [[AloofDarkHairedGirl usually aloof Celeste]] seems impressed by the sight.
272--->'''Celeste:''' Well, it seems Byakuya's [[{{Narcissist}} ego]] is [[BiggerIsBetterInBed well founded]].
273** Mukuro, Sayaka and Kyoka later have a PublicBathhouseScene where they also wear their towels. Mukuro in particular makes sure to keep one towel tied on her hair, since she's disguised as Junko and the hair is actually a wig and getting it wet would ruin it. Nobody peeps on them, instead, they catch Hifumi trying to steal Alter Ego's laptop that was hidden in the lockers. Makoto and Leon confuse Hifumi's [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl high pitched scream]] with the girls and rush inside the bathhouse for an AccidentalPervert moment where they see the three girls in just their towels, with even [[TheStoic Kyoko]] blushing faintly at Makoto seeing her wearing so little.
274* ''Fanfic/NoirAnge'': Liz reads one passage in Kid's diary where [[StupidSexyFlanders he questions his own sexuallity]] after bumping into [[AmbiguousGender Crona]] fresh out of the shower in a Modesty Towel. Kid also notes Crona is very self-conscious and wears the towel all the way up to the chest, which keeps Crona having an AmbiguousGender.
275* ''Fanfic/PathOfTheKing'':
276** In Chapter 19, Shirou is naked save for the towel as Medea is [[PowerTattoo drawing magic patters on his body]]. He finds it ''very'' difficult not to react to the feel of her slender fingers running on his bare skin.
277** {{Subverted|trope}} in Chapter 28, when Shirou {{accidental|pervert}}ly sees Yumizuka walked out of the bathroom with a towel only on her hair. She does untangle the towel to cover herself in the ensuing NakedFreakOut.
278* ''Fanfic/RemnantsReclaimer'': An example in Chapter 16 actually subverts the TheissTitillationTheory part of the trope. Yang has borrowed Weiss's Modesty Towel without asking, which [[BerserkButton infuriates Weiss who considers it deeply unsanitary]]. When Yang steps out of the bathroom after showering wrapped up in the towel, Weiss [[StrippingSnag tries to pull it off her]] but underestimates how firmly it was wrapped and just accidentally causes Yang to fall on top of her instead, in a SuggestiveCollision.
279* ''Fanfic/PrincessOfTheBlacks'': Cedric Diggory notes that as the prefect bathroom is communal bathing, new prefects generally wear Modesty Towels into the bath but eventually stop bothering, making Jennifer stand out as [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl she walks in nude]] without a care in the world in her very first time, with her towel slung over her shoulder.
280* ''Fanfic/ShatteredReflection'': {{Subverted|Trope}}. Chrom has [[RunningGag once again]] managed to [[ShowerOfAwkward walk in on Rose bathing]] just as she's reaching for her modesty towel. [[TheTease Feeling devious this time]], instead of [[NakedFreakOut becoming embarrassed and covering herself with it]], she hands it over to him and coyly asks him to use it to wash her back. The insinuation is enough to cause [[ChasteHero Chrom]] to flee out of the tent in a hurry, with her towel still in his grasp, while she laughs at him.
281* ''Fanfic/StillWatersSeries'': Asuna is seen several times in one; in Chapter 3 of Book 2, it [[{{Stripperiffic}} almost wasn't big enough]] and she nearly lost it.
282* ''Fanfic/StoriesAndTalesFromDimension63'':
283** In chapter 7: Lincoln, forgetting [[GenderBender he's a girl now]], leaves the bathroom with his Modesty Towel covering his lower body only. Lynn(M) sees and promptly {{nosebleed}}s.
284** In Chapter 8: Linka, [[GenderBender remembering she's now a boy]], leaves the bathroom with her Modesty Towel covering her upper and lower body, then Lynn(F) jokingly pulls on it, causing it to [[WardrobeMalfunction fall to the floor]].
285* ''Webcomic/TheStoryOfAGardevoirThatBecameATrainer'': Gardy conspicuously gets one post-transformation and is seen with it upon waking up. It does slip off during her jubilant shout in realizing she's a human now, though. A mysterious benefactor does leave behind a box with supplies and clothes, so she isn't without clothing for long.
286* ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheOtherverse'': After taking a relaxing shower, Kara steps out of the bathroom, wearing nothing but a towel wrapped around her hair, and bumps into Rogue.
287-->Kara sighed as the hot water cascaded over her body. For a long moment she just stood there, allowing the shower to ease the tension away.\
288After washing and drying, she stepped out of the restroom, towel wrapped around her hair.\
289"Uh. I'm sorry."\
290Kara stopped. There, seated on the foot of her bed, was Rogue.
291* ''Fanfic/TeachingDarkness'': Shadow does this in a chapter of "Flux", with him commenting on needing his clothes. Mephy points out the absurdity of the idea, as Shadow is a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal most of the time, and that the only thing he wears regularly are shoes, socks and gloves.
292* In ''Fanfic/TruthAndConsequences'', Alya and Chloe walk in on Nino wearing only a towel after using the Jade Colossus form caused him to grow several inches. Both girls' reactions are more than a little... flustered.
293* ''Fanfic/UltimateDCUHeadverse'': After taking a shower, Kate wraps herself with a towel, heads to her bedroom to get dressed, and she bumps into Linda, who was grabbing her breakfast tray instead of washing dishes in the kitchen as Kate expected.
294* ''Fanfic/{{Viridescent}}'': When Mineta and Kaminari had the rather bright idea to make off with Bakugo's clothes while they were in the shower, he comes after them in nothing but a towel... until he loses that too. Thankfully, Momo beans him with an encyclopedia before he can go far.
295* In ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/45984871/chapters/115749064 The Waters of Lethe]]'', the towel is justified during the bath. Aizawa has been rescued from quirk traffickers and was hit by a severe dose of a Trigger-boosted IdentityAmnesia quirk. Present Mic is trying to help him get clean after everything and gets him into a tub. They’re married, but Hizashi doesn’t want to feel like a pervert seeing Shota’s private parts since Shota barely has a grasp on reality, let alone his own identity or his history with Hizashi. Hizashi persuades Aizawa to drape a towel over his lap while he’s sitting in the tub.
296* The ''Literature/WickedLovely'' SlashFic fanfiction ''[[http://sana-the-random.deviantart.com/art/WL-Wishes-161500825 Wishes]]'' has Niall wishing he had one of these.
297* ''Fanfic/WithThisRingGreenLantern'': Subverted. Star Sapphire parades in front of a paralyzed Hector Hammond wearing a towel which covers nothing but her shoulders with the express purpose of screwing up with his head.
298[[/folder]]
299
300[[folder:Films — Animation]]
301* ''WesternAnimation/DCUniverseAnimatedOriginalMovies'':
302** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday'': This is used twice to imply the intimacy level between ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/LoisLane.
303*** In the Fortress of Solitude, a dripping wet Lois emerges from the bathroom dressed in just a towel while she and Superman exchange some sexually charged banter about the [[PowerPerversionPotential possibilities]] of his [[EyeBeams heat]] and XRayVision.
304*** In their final scene together, Superman is wearing just a towel when he and Lois embrace in the bedroom of her apartment.
305** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanApocalypse'': Big Barda answers the door to Diana and Clark in a towel, and stays in it during the following discussion about them needing her help to go to Apokolips. At one point she goes into her room to get dressed and we see her SexySilhouette removing the towel and putting on her armor.
306** ''WesternAnimation/AllStarSuperman'': Lois briefly wears one after {{shower|scene}}ing in Superman's Fortress, while she checks out the [[SexyBacklessOutfit backless dress]] Clark left for her to wear.
307** PlayedWith in ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'': At Scandal's penthouse apartment, Knockout is [[BathtubScene relaxing in the Jacuzzi]] while Professor Pyg is held hostage, [[ChainedToARock tied to a chair]]. When Scandal enters tells Knockout to get ready, she does a SexySurfacingShot in plain view of Pyg and Scandal, before she grabs a towel. But instead of wrapping herself in it, she just uses it to dry off and then throws it at Pyg's face while she embraces Scandal, giving her a passionate kiss while fully nude. All while Pyg complains about GirlOnGirlIsHot action he's missing.
308* In the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', Goofy barges into Max's bedroom wearing a towel around his body and on his head, despite having only three hairs on his head.
309* ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'': In ''All the Cats Join In'', the older teenage girl dries herself in one when getting out of the shower.
310* ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'': Mitch answers the door to Courtney in nothing but a towel, and her eyes clearly [[EatingTheEyeCandy pan him up and down]].
311* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'':
312** Cale narrowly escaped a Drej attack in space and loses consciousness. When he awakens, he [[UndressingTheUnconscious finds himself naked in a ship's sickbay]] with Akima and Preed examining him. When he complains about his nudity, Akima snarks she "didn't notice it" before throwing a towel over his waist.
313** Cale [[ShowerOfAwkward walks in on Akima stepping out of the shower]] and she quickly covers herself with a towel. She doesn't hold a grudge and just invites him in as she gets into the stall to get dressed behind the force field curtain.
314[[/folder]]
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316[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
317* In the 2004 french film ''Film/FiveXTwo'', the lead characters go to a hotel after finalizing their divorce in order to have intercourse one last time. The woman takes a shower, emerges wrapped in a towel and keeps it on while getting into the bed. Her ex-husband asks her why she covers up like that and whether it is because they are no longer married. She responds that she does not know why.
318* ''Film/AcesGoPlaces 2'': PlayedWith. King Kong dresses up for his new LoveInterest, just to see her fresh out of the shower and wearing nothing but a Modesty Towel. Thinking this is her being ReadyForLovemaking, he [[SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable goes back to his room, undresses and returns clad in a towel himself]]. She, however, is dressed now and asks him [[YouMustBeCold if it isn't a bit cold without clothes on]].
319* In ''Film/AllTheMarbles'', Loise is shown coming out of the bathroom wearing just a towel wrapped around her waist.
320* In ''Film/ArmorOfGod II'' there is a RunningGag with the female leads getting into action scenes clad only in towels and ending up losing them, usually getting both [[ATruceWhileWeGawk Jackie and the bad guys]] to be DistractedByTheSexy.
321* ''Film/AvalancheSharks'': The one girl from the ski resorts jacuzzi to take the main characters warning seriously and get out in time to avoid the arriving monsters spends the rest of her screentime racing around wrapped up in a towel after not having time to put on any more clothes before fleeing, partially for modesty, [[ExposedToTheElements partially for warmth]].
322* ''Film/Bedazzled2000'':
323** Elliot's third wish from [[{{Satan}} the Devil]] is to be a superstar athlete and a ChickMagnet and he turns into a {{Hunk}} basketball player. He meets with his LustObject, Alison is the locker rooms while he's only wearing a towel and she's clearly all over him... until he opens his towel and she's sorely disappointed as [[JackassGenie the Devil]] also gave him a TeenyWeenie.
324** Later, The Devil {{teleport|ation}}s Elliot into Alison's room to peek at her journal. While they're searching, Alison comes out of the shower wearing a towel, but they're both InvisibleToNormals to her and [[AllMenArePerverts Elliot takes advantage of the chance]] to go EatingTheEyeCandy.
325* ''Film/TheBlueMax'': Kaeti (Creator/UrsulaAndress) wears a towel carefully looped around her neck, with the dangling ends only just managing to cover both breasts. Yet while she moves around a lot, ''[[NippleAndDimed nothing ever get exposed]]''.
326* ''Film/TheBoy'': Greta has a ShowerScene when preparing for a date with Malcolm, while an unseen Brahms steals the dress she had laid out to change into afterwards. This leaves her in nothing but a towel for the next few minutes of the film as she searches for first her missing clothes, and then the source of the strange noises she hears.
327* ''Film/CarryOnAgainDoctor'': When Dr. Nookey is scared out of the shower room, he comes out wearing a Modesty Towel, revealing he also has a CarpetOfVirility.
328* In ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'', the flowers are undercover getting massages in a spa when a fight breaks out, resulting in them staging a FightScene dressed in nothing but modesty towels. Inevitably, one of the girls has her towel [[StrippingSnag snagged away]] by a {{Mook}} and has a NakedFreakOut, with the other girls stopping just to tighten the knot on their towels. [[note]]Rather than rely upon any [[MagicSkirt editing tricks]], the actresses themselves are clearly wearing white bikinis under the towels[[/note]].
329* ''Film/ChasingLiberty'': When Anna and Ben pretending to be newlyweds to stay at a strangers house, they have to share a room where ThereIsOnlyOneBed. To make matters even more awkward for Ben, Anna walks around the room in just a towel after showering (which is actually an intentional attempt at seducing him).
330* In ''Film/ACinderellaStoryOnceUponASong'', Katie briefly wears one before her little brother Victor [[StrippingSnag deprives her of it]] and [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside locks her out of the house]].
331* ''Film/ClownKill'': After completing her shower in the office building, [[TheProtagonist Jenny]] wraps a towel around herself.
332* ''Film/{{Clownface}}'': Jenna wears one of these in one scene after having a shower.
333* ''Film/DOADeadOrAlive'': The Hong Kong police arrive at Christie's hotel room to arrest her [[InterruptedBath while she was showering]] and opens the door wearing just a towel and keeps it while they try to interrogate her right there. She flirts and [[ShowSomeLeg flaunts her body]] to make them [[DistractedByTheSexy drop their guard]], then goes on a FullFrontalAssault on them, unwrapping her towel and using it as an ImprovisedWeapon, [[ClothFu whipping one guy in the face and using it to disarm another holding a gun to her]].
334* ''Film/DoctorSeries'':
335** ''Film/DoctorInLove'': A towel is all that Drs. Hare and Burke get to wear during their time spent in the Cold Room at the Foulness Anti-Cold Research Unit.
336** ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'': When Ophelia leaves her bathroom to ask Dr. Burke out to dinner, she is wearing nothing but a white towel with pink flowers.
337* Used to keep a PG rating in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' ([[RuleOfFunny and also because it's funny]]). When Robert ''accidentally'' [[ShowerOfAwkward walks in on Giselle stepping out of the shower]], two doves move a towel in front of her ''just'' as he opens the door, providing SceneryCensor until she wraps herself in it. Soon after she gets into SuggestiveCollision when she falls on top of him in just a towel, [[NotWhatItLooksLike right in front of]] his {{Clingy Jealous Girl}}friend. What makes it worse is that Giselle doesn't help Robert clear up that it's NotWhatItLooksLike because she herself [[InnocentFanserviceGirl doesn't understand the implications]].
338* ''Film/FantasticFour2005'':
339** Reed gets an AccidentalPervert moment as he [[ShowerOfAwkward accidentally walks]] in on Sue (Creator/JessicaAlba) when she's about to get into the shower. She [[NakedFreakOut responds]] by clutching the towel to her and simultaneously [[{{Invisibility}} turning invisible]]... you'd think one of the two would be enough, but maybe it was just reflex.
340** {{Subverted|trope}} in the sequel, where Johnny (Creator/ChrisEvans,) comes out a shower and wrapped in a towel and is accosted by Captain Raye, the female military officer he's had his eye on. Johnny insists she was waiting there on purpose to catch him in a towel. She merely [[NotDistractedByTheSexy rolls her eyes and walks away]].
341* ''Film/{{Fletch}}'' asks Mrs. Stanwyk when she answers the door wearing a towel: "Can I borrow your towel for a sec? My car just hit a water buffalo."
342* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'':
343** ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'': Sara puts one on after her [[ShowerOfLove shower sex with Doug]], which she keeps on for the remainder of her screen time until Jason kills her.
344** ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'': The lady (who turns out to be an undercover FBI agent) that Jason chases in the opening throws one on when Jason interrupts her bath. Amazingly, she manages to keep the towel on during the chase, even after doing flips and jumps.
345* ''Film/GirlHouse'': After her ShowerScene, there's a shot of Kate walks into her room in a towel, walking right past the SerialKiller loverboy hiding in her closet.
346* In ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'', Trillian is about to emerge from a shower when she asks Arthur for a towel, adding to the already well-established "Most Versatile Object in the Universe" gag.
347* ''Film/TheHouseBunny'': {{Subverted|trope}} Shelley likes to [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl "air dry"]] and steps out of the shower [[ToplessnessFromTheBack topless]] with a towel wrapped around her waist and another on her hair. Natalie tells her she has to [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn cover up]] because most of the girls in the house haven't seen their ''own'' bodies and seeing [[HeadTurningBeauty Shelley]] naked may be too much of a shock. She refuses and goes a step further by dropping the towel. Cue a horrified ReactionShot from the girls.
348* {{Subverted|trope}} in ''Hot Dog!: The Movie''. The heroes stop at a hotel and ring for service, whereupon we see the woman who runs it reach for a towel as she steps out of a hot tub. She then walks in... towel wrapped around her hair. It's the only thing she has on.
349* ''H.O.T.S'' has a scene in which Honey Shane wraps one towel around her waist and the other around her neck and over her breasts in the locker room after she gets out of the shower to change clothes.
350* ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'':
351** Barry covers himself in one showering in the gym's locker room after he finds his own note from the Fisherman.
352** Julie walks around in a towel in TheStinger while talking to Ray on the phone and getting ready to shower. But her [[DeadlyBath shower turns for the worse]] when she sees the [[CondensationClue "I STILL KNOW" message written on the foggy door]] Cue The Fisherman bursting through the glass for a final JumpScare. This was {{Retcon}}ed in [[Film/IStillKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer the sequel]] as [[AllJustADream a nightmare she had]].
353* ''Film/JamesBond'':
354** Riffed in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' when James Bond surprises Andrea Anders in the shower. She tells him to hand her a towel, so he does. Only it's a hand towel.
355** A DeletedScene from ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' has Plenty O'Toole, a minor character and almost one-night-stand of James Bond, returning to his apartment wearing nothing but a white towel after she had been [[DestinationDefenestration thrown out of his hotel room's window]] and lands in a pool while wearing nothing but her underwear and high heels. She's [[{{Cuckold}} outraged]] when she sees he's [[TheCasanova already in bed]] with ''another'' woman, but leaves in a fury without confronting him.
356** One scene in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' has Bond encounter FemmeFatale Fiona in the [[BathtubScene bath]], and she asks him to hand her something to wear. Bond hands her a pair of ''high heels''. She eventually uses a face towel.
357* ''Film/JustGoWithIt'': Danny's girlfriend Palmer walks up to in just a towel, [[DressHitsFloor dropping it]] and inviting him for some ShowerOfLove.
358* ''Film/LaLaLand'': Mia exits the shower with a towel already wrapped around her while nobody else was around.
359* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'': Lara Croft (Creator/AngelinaJolie) comes out of the shower in a towel and is walking up to her wardrobe when she sees her butler Hillary holding a pair of heels and an elegant dress for [[TomboyWithAGirlyStreak her]], which she is [[HatesWearingDresses quick to dismiss]].
360-->'''Hillary:''' I'm only trying to turn you into a [[ProperLady lady.]]\
361'''Lara:''' Mm... ''[walks right past him and [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl indignantly tossing the towel]] she was wearing]''\
362'''Hillary:''' And a lady should be ''modest''.\
363'''Lara:''' Yes, a lady ''should'' be modest.
364* ''Film/{{Leap Year|2010}}'': Both Anna and Declan emerge from their respective showers wearing towels, both awkwardly aware of the [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed small room they're sharing]].
365* ''Film/MaidToOrder1987'': {{Subverted|trope}}. Jessie goes SkinnyDipping in a pool only to discover that Nick was already SkinnyDipping in the pool and they both have a NakedFreakOut. Trying to be respectful, he gets out and passes her a towel and turns away. When he turns back she has wrapped the towel around her hair and is [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl walking away otherwise nude]] back to the house.
366* ''Film/{{Mandalay}}'': Tony sneaks a peek at Tanya while she’s showering. UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra element comes in when we see a shot of the towel falling down to her ankles when they're kissing.
367* In ''Film/MarleyAndMe'' during the sequence where Marley is tormenting his house sitter, we see him following her out of the shower pulling on her modesty towel until he [[StrippingSnag eventually pulls it off her]].
368* ''[=McHale's=] Navy Joins the Air Force, a sequel film to ''Series/McHalesNavy'' has one of the WAC's waling around in one briefly when she nearly runs into Parker after he wandered in their by mistake.
369* ''Film/MikeAndDaveNeedWeddingDates'': Tatiana and Terry both wear towels in their scene at the sauna, but Terry wears two, one around her waist and another around her neck.
370* ''Film/MissPettigrewLivesForADay'': Miss Pettigrew holds a towel to Delysia when she [[SexySurfacingShot climbs out of her bubble bath]] providing SceneryCensor until Delysia wraps herself in the towel.
371* ''Film/TheMusketeer'': A DirtyOldMan is crawling through an attic, hoping to [[ThePeepingTom get a look]] at his niece Francesca as she's [[BathtubScene bathing]]. D'Artagnan, who heard the man and went up there to stop him, then falls through the ceiling and [[LandingInSomeonesBathtub lands in front of her bathtub]]. He quickly composes himself, and turns his back on her, telling it's NotWhatItLooksLike. To his surprise, she believes him and is even amused at his nervousness and doesn't worry about him peeking while she gets out of the bath to wrap herself in a modesty towel.
372* ''Film/NecessaryRoughness'': Lucy wears one in the locker room, while waiting for the boys to shower so she can have her turn.
373* In ''Film/NewYorkMinute'':
374** Roxy and Jane end up having to shower at a hotel room belonging to Trey. When he comes in he finds Roxy is a bathrobe and Jane in a towel, with both doing [[MermaidArcEmergence flipping their wet hair back]] in SlowMotion while {{Sexophone}} music plays in the background. Naturally, after fiding two [[HeadturningBeauty attractive]] half-naked [[TwinThreesomeFantasy twins]] in his room, he jumps to conclusions.
375-->'''Trey:''' Is today my birthday?
376** Later, when they're forced to sneak out of the hotel, Jane has to do so still wearing only a towel and slippers. At one point, her towel gets caught in the scaffolding and she ends up falling naked into a dumpster. She manages to get the towel back and has to walk around like that around New York until they find a change of clothes, but not before having a SuggestiveCollision with her LoveInterest when he crashes on her in his bike.
377* ''Film/OverHerDeadBody'': When Ashley is {{shower|scene}}ing at the gym, her boyfriend's PsychoExGirlfriend, Kate does a fake announcement of there being an emergency evacuation, that only Ashley can hear since she's Kate is a ghost that is only visible to her. Ashley then rushes out of the showers in panic, with just a small towel around her hips and [[HandOrObjectUnderwear one arm barely covering her soapy breasts]]. She's naturally [[NakedFreakOut mortified]] when she finds there's nothing wrong and everyone is staring at her like she's insane.
378* ''Film/Pitch2009'': The fantasy version of Jim's old crush Mike appears in a locker room, drying himself off with a towel. He then approaches with the towel wrapped around his waist.
379* ''Film/TheProposal'' Margaret (Creator/SandraBullock) finishes {{shower|scene}}ing and is searching the bathroom for a modesty towel, but all she finds is a cloth mitt that she then [[HandOrObjectUnderwear holds over her crotch while her other arm is across her chest]] and leaves the bathroom to get a proper towel. But she ends up running into the [[SidekickCreatureNuisance small annoying family dog]] that stands in her way yapping at her, preventing her search.
380* ''Film/{{Python}}'': Theresa spends about twenty minutes in one after the Python attacks her while she's getting out of the shower and chases her for quite a while before she can find any clothes.
381* In ''Film/RomancingTheStone'', Joan Wilder emerges from the shower with a towel around her.
382* {{Subverted|trope}} in the horror film ''Film/SororityRow''. A girl does have a modesty towel but as a punishment for going into the seniors' bathroom, she is forced to remove it and walk across the house back to her bedroom in the buff.
383* ''Film/RunFatboyRun'': Blackmail: Dennis comes out fo the bathroom in a towel and Maya takes advantage of the opportunity, [[ShamefulStrip whipping away his towel]] and taking a polaroid of his bits and {{Blackmail}}s him to agree to her ultimatum to kick him out if he quits the race and pay his back rent if he doesn't.
384* Creator/JackieChan and Creator/ChrisTucker fight wearing this in a bathhouse during the second ''Film/RushHour'' movie, replacing towels with bath robes. (They end up being thrown out naked anyway.)
385* {{Subverted|trope}} by Maxine Wasa in ''Film/SavageBeach'' when she wraps a towel around her waist.
386* In ''Film/SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil'' the evil FemmeFatale killer Eve (Creator/JoanSeverence) emerges from her shower wearing nothing but a towel but the deaf hero Dave tricks her into dropping said towel by passing off his ''erection'' as a gun.
387* In ''Film/ShallowGrave'', the female lead wears her towel in the male fashion when emerging from the bathroom, giving the audience titillation in the form of a topless scene.
388* ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'': Irene Adler finds Sherlock trying to break into her room while only wearing a towel. She merely invites him in and [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl doesn't hesitate to drop it in front of him]] while walking behind a dressing screen.
389* ''Film/SoClose'' has playful BathroomBrawl where Sue is trying [[StrippingSnag rip off]] her sister Lynn's modesty towel after she burst in on her [[BathtubScene while she was bathing]]. Given they're both {{Action Girl}}s, it involves a lot [[SheFu impractical acrobatics, flips, and spinning]]. It ends with Lynn GivingThemTheStrip with Sue falling into the bathtub with the towel while Lynn quickly and skillfully [[CurtainClothing wraps the shower curtain around herself like a towel]] and walks away triumphantly.
390* ''Film/SomethingWicked'': When Christine (Creator/ShantelVanSanten) thinks a stalker is [[ThePeepingTom peeking on her in the pool's shower]], she covers herself in a towel and leaves to confront him, only to be attacked and pushed into the pool. She escapes from her attacker and runs back to her house while still clutching the towel around her.
391* ''Film/TheSpirit'': When the Spirit arrives at Sand Saref's place with the intent to arrest her, he becomes obviously {{distracted|ByTheSexy}} when he sees her stepping out of the steamy bathroom wearing only a towel. He tries to {{ignore|TheFanservice}} it and demands her to put her hands behind her head. Amused, knowing exactly what will happen but [[TheGadfly wanting to mess with him]], she raises her arms and strikes a pose causing the towel to slide off her. Flustered, he turns around and tells her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn.
392* From the 2004 ''Film/StarskyAndHutch'' movie:
393** All the cops at the locker room use these, but Hutch and Starsky are the only ones using ''hand'' towels.
394** Prior to that, an attractive blonde cheerleader wrapped a modesty towel around herself after undressing in front of Starsky and Hutch as they questioned her on a dirty ex.
395* ''Summer Stock'' starts with Creator/JudyGarland SingingInTheShower, so she appears in this between getting out and changing into her overalls.
396* ''Film/{{Ted}}'': When Ted goes to Lori's apartment to apologize, she answers the door wearing a short towel. Being a tiny Toys/TeddyBear, he can get an eyeful of her under the towel, but since he doesn't want to make her even angrier at him, he [[IgnoreTheFanservice covers his eyes]].
397* {{Lampshade|hanging}}d and lampooned in ''Film/TheThreeStooges'' short film ''A-Plumbing We Will Go''. Curly has to evict a bather from a shower he needs to repair. After some bantering with the bather, Curly loses his patience and pulls the shower curtain, to reveal that the occupant had been [[NonNudeBathing showering with a towel already wrapped around him]].
398* ''Film/TheUnborn'': Casey is wearing a towel in a locker room when she first notices one of her eyes changed color [[spoiler:to [[DualityMotif match that of her unborn twin brother]].]]
399* ''Film/{{Valentine}}'': Kate is [[ShowerScene taking a shower]] in her apartment, but [[InterruptedBath is interrupted when she hears a noise]], and with shampoo still in her hair, puts on a towel and goes out to investigate, leading to an awkward encounter with her creepy neighbor.
400* In ''Film/WhatsUpTigerLily'', Teri is in Phil's apartment, wearing only a towel:
401-->'''Teri:''' ''[seductively]'' Name three presidents.\
402'''Phil:''' Roosevelt, [=McKinley=]... ''[[[SexyCoatFlashing opens towel]]]'' ...Lincoln?
403* In ''Film/Youngblood1986'', Dean's (Creator/RobLowe) towel falls off [[EatingTheEyeCandy to the delight]] of Jessie (Creator/CynthiaGibb).
404* ''Film/WelcomeHome2018'':
405** Cassie wears a towel covering her privates after a shower, which turns on her boyfriend Bryan. He tackles her and they almost start having sex, but the visions he has of her cheating on him gets [[TheLoinsSleepTonight the better of him]].
406** One scene shows [[ThePeepingTom Federico]] watching Cassie [[SpyCam with his hidden cameras]] coming out of a different shower also wearing a towel, which she takes off to get dressed (with her [[ToplessnessFromTheBack back to the cameras]]).
407* ''Film/MyWeekWithMarilyn'': PlayedWith. Marilyn comes out of the shower wearing a towel around her hair, but unravels it to wrap herself in it when she notices [[AccidentalPervert Colin is in the room]] and she just gave him an eyeful.
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411* In ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'', Eve wraps herself in towels after the BatheHerAndBringHerToMe so that she won't have to take her clothes off again after having just put them on.
412* Jerin from ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' averts this - he puts on a "bathing gown" in order to be somewhat more clothed in case he meets one of the female guests of the house. [[spoiler: He does.]]
413* ''Literature/CassandraPalmer'': In ''Hunt the Moon'', Cassie's [[BathtubScene relaxing bath]] is {{interrupted|bath}} by her ghost sidekick, Billy Joe. She hurriedly covers herself with a towel, which he tells her it's a useless gesture for a ghost who's SeenItAll. He [[TantrumThrowing gets a sponge throw at him in response]], which naturally [[{{Intangibility}} just phases through him harmlessly]].
414* Because she had just been showering, Amberley spends most of the two-page ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' short story "The Little Things" wearing only a towel. The exception is when kidnappers trying to grab her (or possibly her wealthy cover identity) break into her hotel room and [[FullFrontalAssault she attacks one of them]] with [[ClothFu the towel]]. After subduing the last attacker [[CovertPervert Cain is disappointed she already had the towel back on]] now that he had time to appreciate the view.
415* ''Literature/CrystalSinger'': After traveling on a stinking Selkite vessel, Killashandra is so eager for a shower when she gets to her room that she forgets she didn't have any fresh clothes on her, forcing her wear just a towel until Lanzecki brings her clothes.
416* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'': After showering, Tris is trying to get dressed, but notices that she's beginning to develop muscles she never had before, and her clothes no longer fit. So she walks back to the dormitory from the showers in her towel but crosses path with her bullies along the way, [[AlphaBitch Peter]], [[BetaBitch Molly]], and [[TheBully Drew]], who immediately begin taunting her. Peter [[ShamefulStrip pulls away her towel]], leaving her completely naked in public, forcing her to go {{streaking}} the rest of the way [[TheFreelanceShameSquad while they laugh at her]].
417* ''Literature/{{Dream}}'': PlayedStraight with Alania, but inevitably gets knocked off whenever Sekiya is wearing one. Which, considering her [[BathingBeauty love of taking long relaxing baths]], happens often.
418* Shows up a few times in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''.
419** In ''Literature/{{Storm Front|DresdenFiles}}'', he's just out of the shower when the date he'd forgotten about (because he took a few blows to the head) shows up. He covers himself with a towel, then a demon shows up and the [[WardrobeMalfunction towel falls off]] while he's fighting it. This is [[HilarityEnsues made more complicated]] when he realizes said date accidentally drank a LovePotion instead of an escape potion.
420** Harry gets into trouble because of someone else's modesty towel in ''Literature/ProvenGuilty''. He's letting Molly, his friend's 17-year-old daughter, get cleaned up in his hotel room while waiting for her mother, Charity, to pick her up. Molly steps out of the bathroom, wearing a towel which is perhaps less modest than it should be, just as Charity is asking Harry where Molly is. She decks Harry in the jaw, orders Molly to [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn put her clothes on]], and storms out.
421** In the short story "Day Off," he is again getting ready for a date when business interrupts in the form of two naked werewolves. This time he does have time to get some clothes on before everything goes pear-shaped.
422* ''Literature/TheEldestCurses'': ''The Red Scrolls of Magic'' has two scenes featuring towels
423** Magnus is showering when he hears Alec yelling in the living room. He swathes a towel around his hips before rushing there, only to find it was simply Alec having an argument with Shinyun. The sight of [[MrFanservice Magnus]] bare-chested and wearing only a towel is enough to cause them both to stop, with Shinyun averting her eyes and Alec [[EatingTheEyeCandy blatantly staring]]. Curiously, Magnus later just [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration conjures some clothing on him]], making one wonder why he bothered with the towel.
424** Later, a towel-clad Shinyun intrudes on Magnus bathing, and he conjures a towel for himself for the sake of modesty. After their BathtubBonding moment, they both leave the bath while [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration using magic clothe themselves]].
425* ''Literature/{{Gone}}'': In ''Plague'', Diana has a ShowerOfAngst while thinking about her NearDeathExperience in the last book. She walks back to her bedroom wrapped in a towel to find Caine sitting on her bed. He gives her an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove that quickly progresses into them having GladToBeAliveSex via a SexyDiscretionShot caused by Diana letting her towel [[DressHitsFloor hit the floor]].
426-->"Diana took a step back, unwound the towel, and let it drop. Caine [[GibberishOfLove made a sound like a strangling animal]]."
427* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Harry puts one on [[NonNudeBathing while in the bath]] after realizing that [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Moaning Myrtle]] is [[ThePeepingTom spying on him]].
428* ''Literature/TheHollows'': In ''The Good, The Bad, And The Undead'', Rachel wears a pink towel after bathing and is getting ready on her room when her FairyCompanion Jenks drops in and she spends some time trying to shush him away while holding the towel while he laughs at her efforts.
429* ''Literature/IggiesHouse'': A neighbor lady, Mrs. Axel, wears a towel and nothing else when sunbathing in her backyard, according to Winnie.
430* ''Literature/TheImmortals'': In ''The Realms of the Gods'', Daine' is {{interrupted|bath}} in a lake by a tauros. She [[ImprovisedWeapon improvises a sling]] with her towel and decides she [[CantBatheWithoutAWeapon can't bathe unarmed again]].
431* ''Literature/IronDruidChronicles'': Due to ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing, Atticus ends up naked a lot, and Modesty Towels are normally his go-to piece of cloth for him to cover himself with. At one point one of his friends demands him to put a towel on before he gives him a car ride, not because of modesty, but because he doesn't want Atticus bare ass sitting on his car.
432* In ''Literature/KateDaniels'', shapeshifters are all either very modest or very open, since their [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing changes leave them nude afterward]]. Thus [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Dali]] drops her towel after drying off without seeming to notice that she's in a crowded room.
433* ''Literature/LookingForAlaska'': Miles [[NakedFirstImpression first meets]] his roommate Chip when he's fresh out of the shower and only wearing a towel.
434-->'''Chip:''' I'd shake your hand, but I think you should hold on damn tight to that towel till you can get some clothes on.
435* In ''Literature/TheLunarChronicles,'' [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Jacin]] has a towel draped over his waist when he's woken up from a SuspendedAnimation chamber. This is made notable because, in the Acknowledgements, Creator/MarissaMeyer thanks some friends and adds "There, I put Jacin in a towel. ''Are you happy??''"
436* ''Literature/TheMagicForIdiots'': Rokuro [[AccidentalPervert accidentally sees]] a near-naked Akemi, covered only by her underwear and a towel, when he hides in the girl's locker room.
437* ''Literature/Millennium1983'': One of the people Loise {{Time Travel}}s to the past to replace is an airline stewardess that was [[InterruptedBath in the middle of a bath when Louise arrives]] and wraps herself in a towel when she goes to investigate, but Louise quickly takes her out with a TapOnTheHead. Her towel comes undone as she drops, and Louise, who comes from a CrapsackFuture, takes note she's certainly the SexyStewardess type.
438-->"Lord, to look like that with no skinsuit, no prosthetics. She nearly broke my heart."
439* In the book of ''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', [=McMurphy=] greets Nurse Ratched wearing one on his second day at the hospital, as he had just showered. When she says he can't walk around like that, he threatens to take it off. [[spoiler: He's actually wearing boxer shorts underneath]].
440* ''Literature/OneFatSummer'': Bobby is kidnapped by Rumson and his gang who take him in a BlindfoldedTrip to [[MakeOutPoint Make-Out Island]], where is suffers a ShamefulStrip and put on [[{{Mooning}} display]] in an effort to humiliate him until they [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside abandon him there with no clothes]]. It takes a bit of searching, but Bobby manages to find a serviceable Modesty Towel in the shack he takes shelter in. It shows up in the FilmOfTheBook as well, [[AdaptationInducedPlothole despite neither the island or the shack ever being referenced previously as a spot people go to.]]
441* {{Subverted|trope}} in ''Literature/PreludeToFoundation''. The day after their second trip to Billibottom, Seldon interrupts Venabili not long after her morning ablutions, he's only dressed with a towel from the waist down, and so is she while she carelessly dries her hair with another towel. One causes a bit more awkwardness.
442* ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'': Nimue Alban learns just how "fully functional" her robotic body is when, as the [[GenderBender now male]] Merlin Athrawes, learns that the Safeholdian version of rugby is played in the nude, and Nimue, for all her body was male, was still a woman where what was attractive to her was concerned. Merlin makes sure to be the last to leave the water, and quickly wraps a towel around the waist, not for overall modesty but to hide the [[RagingStiffie physical reaction]] his body has due to all the eye-candy. When Cayleb learns Merlin's true identity and is reminded of this incident, he finds it absolutely hilarious.
443-->'''Cayleb:''' Oh, my God! ''That'' was why you stayed in the water! Why you were so damned careful about that towel!
444* ''Literature/StephaniePlum'': Stephanie is {{shower|scene}}ing in her house when Morelli [[ShowerOfAwkward suddenly barges in on her]], looking for his car keys that she took. He hands her a towel and [[BringTheAnchorAlong handcuffs her to the shower rod]], while he searches her apartment, all while they have some SnarkToSnarkCombat. When he can't find his keys, he comes back to her and [[ShamefulStrip takes away her towel]] before he goes away, leaving her completely naked and handcuffed to her shower rod. She has to call her male friend Ranger to cut out the cuffs, while she can [[CurtainClothing barely keep herself covered with the curtain]]. The ''Film/OneForTheMoney'' film version adapts the scene, using ToplessnessFromTheBack and ShouldersUpNudity to preserve Stephanie's (Creator/KatherineHeigl) modesty and keep a PG-13 rating.
445* In ''Literature/ThingsNotSeen,'' Bobby [[JustWokeUpThatWay stumbles out of bed]], takes a shower in the dark and only realizes that he's {{invisibl|ity}}e upon looking in the mirror. Despite this, he puts on a towel before telling his parents. It does help them know where he is, though. At one point he gets angry and wants them to think that he's stormed out of the house, so he just [[InvisibleStreaker throws off the towel]] and moves a few steps away from them.
446* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': In ''Breaking Dawn'', Edward and Bella arrive at their honeymoon destination and before they have TheirFirstTime, she decides to take a shower. After, she goes out on the beach in a Modesty Towel where Edward is. She [[DressHitsFloor takes her towel off]], he pulls her into his arms and... [[SexyDiscretionShot Oh look, it's the next morning]].
447* The ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' novel ''What Makes Us Mighty'' has Wash cover his frontal area with a towel when Zoe and Mal walk into his and Zoe’s hotel suite without knocking because Mal and Zoe feel things are getting dangerous in town and Mal wants Wash and Kaylee to get off world to safety. Wash is naked and startled. He was just leaving the bathroom, so it’s likely they caught him just after a shower.
448* ''Literature/ZeroSight'': Dieter wears one in the lockers, where his {{Jerkass}} teammate Roster is teasing about Dieter's time with their FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire teammate Rei and if she didn't the chance to [[KissOfTheVampire nibble on him]]. Roster wipes off his towel to "check if she went for the femoral" and runs off with his towel while Dieter chases after with HandOrObjectUnderwear, being particularly embarrassed since their female teammates were also present and are now giggling at him.
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452* ''Series/AlteredCarbon'': In "[[Recap/AlteredCarbonS01E05TheWrongMan The Wrong Man]]", Ortega is {{shower|scene}} is {{interrupted|bath}} when she hears her Abuela screaming at Kovacs. She comes out of the bathroom in a towel to defuse the situation between the two.
453* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
454** In "[[Recap/AngelS01E05RmWAVu Rm w/a Vu]]", Angel comes to the door of his apartment wearing a towel and nothing else. In the episode commentary by writer Jane Espenson, she notes, "I put that scene in there because, frankly, I knew there [[EatingTheEyeCandy wouldn't be a woman on the planet]] who wouldn't enjoy seeing Creator/DavidBoreanaz {{shirtless|Scene}} and dripping wet."
455** "[[Recap/AngelS04E06SpinTheBottle Spin the Bottle]]", Cordelia decides to shower while she's not in an AbandonedWarehouse, and naturally gets surprised by Angel wearing only a towel.
456** "[[Recap/AngelS05E09HarmsWay Harms Way]]" has a scene showing Harmony's daily routine, starting with her coming out of the shower in a towel.
457* ''Series/AngieTribeca''
458** Angie has worn a modesty towel around her waist a few times, usually in the police locker room with {{Pixelation}} on her chest. The pilot al has her wearing around her waist while doing [[WorkoutFanservice pull-ups on the shower rod]] with [[ToplessnessFromTheBack her back to the camera]].
459** {{Parodied|trope}} in one episode. To enter a locker room, Geils and Tanner cover themselves up with bath towels... over their street clothes. Later, the villain whips the towels off them and runs off while the two [[NakedFreakOut cover themselves in embarrassment]], even though they're fully dressed.
460* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
461** "[[Recap/ArrowS3E15NandaParbat Nanda Parbat]]": There's a scene with Ray only clad in a Modesty Towel with Felicity trying (and failing) to IgnoreTheFanservice.
462** "[[Recap/ArrowS5E8Invasion Invasion]]": The second scene has Oliver and "Laurel" sharing a ShowerOfLove clad only in Modesty Towels.
463* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': In TheDocumentary episode "[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S02E08FinalCut Final Cut]]", Apollo uses a Modesty Towel, although he is apparently unable to properly fasten it around his waist. Starbuck, who's standing behind him, apparently gets quite a view as she can be seen [[FunnyBackgroundEvent smirking]] when the towel falls open.
464* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': Penny plays the trope straight in the [[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS1E1Pilot pilot episode]] while using ''Leonard and Sheldon's shower''. It never seems to occur to her later that Howard's constant hitting on her might have something to do with first meeting him in a ''towel''.
465* ''Series/BloodDrive'': Grace wears one after she showers in the diner they're staying in "Welcome to Pixie Swallow".
466* {{Parodied|trope}} in ''Series/{{Blackish}}'', when Bow and Dre are standing by the bathroom sink getting ready. Dre wears his in the feminine style, representing his conservative upbringing, while Bow's is in the masculine style, representing her carefree personality.
467* In one episode of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'', Shawn answers the door wearing just a towel when he first meets Angela, who would soon become his LoveInterest. He's clearly smitten with her immediately, and Corey, who's been recording everything in Shawn's apartment ''a la'' ''Series/TheRealWorld,'' is standing off to the side, muttering that he should drop the towel. At this prompting, Angela actually kisses Shawn for Corey's movie, while he's still only in a towel.
468* ''Series/BroadCity'':
469** Bevers is wearing one when Abbi first meets him. He's considerably slimmer and more muscular than he is in every other episode.
470** Abbi changes in the locker room [[ShowerShy with a towel wrapped around herself]], even while everyone around her casually gets naked.
471* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': In "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS2E11Stakeout Stakeout]]", during the eponymous stakeout, one of the things Charlies does that pisses of Jake is walk around in a towel in the female style and Jake puts it in their "No-No List".
472-->'''Jake:''' No lady-style towels!
473* In the ''Series/BurnNotice'' episode "Better Halves", Michael and a Russian agent get into a fight in a sauna wearing nothing but white terrycloth towels. Defying several laws of physics, at the end of the fight, both towels are still firmly in place.
474* ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': In "The Limey", Beckett and Castle storm a suspect's hotel room and find him just stepping out of the shower in a towel. Beckett orders him to hold up his hands and the man reluctantly complies, [[NakedFirstImpression leaving his towel to fall to the ground]] and soon identifies himself as Detective Inspector Colin Hunt. [[CrazyJealousGuy Castle]] tries to cover Beckett's [[CoverInnocentEyesAndEars eyes with his hands]], but she [[CovertPervert coyly moves her head aside]] to [[EatingTheEyeCandy get a peek]].
475* On ''Series/ToCatchAPredator'', Chris Hansen has provided these on more than one occasion to "guests" that stripped naked when entering the house.
476* On ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', Rebecca accidentally [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside locked herself out of a hotel room]] wearing only a towel, which was caught in the door.
477%%* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': Captain Awesome [Devon] -- practically every episode he's in!
478* In an episode of ''Series/ColdCase'', the second half of a gay couple emerges from the shower ''already'' wearing a towel around his waist, joining his partner, who is similarly clad. Despite the fact that by this point in their relationship, they'd likely be quite comfortable being naked around each other.
479* ''Series/CougarTown'':
480** The [[Recap/CougarTownS1E01Pilot Pilot]] episode has Jules walking out of the shower in a towel. She walks up to the mirror, and is disappointed at finding her body is getting older, and drops the towel to fully inspect herself.
481** A later episode has Laurie [[ShowerOfAwkward walking in on Jules coming out of the shower]] with a towel half wrapped around her. Feeling insecure Jules actually opens the towel to ask Laurie if she still looks good and it's relieved when Laurie says she looks great.
482* ''Series/DarkAngel'': In "Out", one mission ends with Max falling into a mud pit. The next time we see her is at Logan's apartment, having just showered and is walking around wearing only a towel since her clothes are still wet after they were washed.
483* ''Series/DarkMatter2015'': In the beginning of episode 7, While going to Two's room to give her a status report, One finds her in only a towel fresh from the shower and tries to leave but she tells him it's fine to stay. She [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl casually drops the towel]] while he's in the middle of his report [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage which he finds very frustrating as he knows she's very aware of his attraction to her]] yet doesn't consider her behavior as flirting. The episode ends with the opposite scene, with Two coming to his room while he's in a towel asking for a "status report". But this time she admits she ''is'' attracted to him and the scene ends with a SexyDiscretionShot.
484* ''Series/DarkSkies'': In "The Warren Omission", John is ambushed fresh out of the shower by Juliet while he's only wearing a Modesty Towel. After being beaten up by her as a warning, she gasses him and once he's out, she [[UndressingTheUnconscious rips off his towel and leaves him naked on the floor]], seemingly just to [[ShamefulStrip humiliate him further]].
485* In ''Series/DegrassiNextClass'', a rival school pranks the girls by [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen stealing the clothes in the lockers]] and [[FalseFalseAlarm sounding the fire alarm]], forcing all the girls out of the school in their towels. Frankie's towel [[StrippingSnag gets caught in the door as she's getting out]], leaving her briefly naked outside the school before her friends come to her rescue.
486* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'': In ''Pretty Little Picture'', Susan's ex-husband comes to visit her for their "talk" [[InterruptedBath while she was showering]] and she answers in a towel. When she lets him in and tells him to wait while she gets dressed, he just snarks he's already seen it all anyways. They get into a heated argument, making him leaves the house with her hot on his heels still in a towel. The end of her towel gets caught on his car's door and [[StrippingSnag it ends up being ripped off her body while he drives away]] leaving her to have a NakedFreakOut in the sidewalk. To make matters worse, when she rushes back home, [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside she finds the door closed and locked her out]] and she needs her new {{Love Interest}} help to get back inside.
487* ''Series/DeviousMaids'': In "Setting the Table", SpicyLatina maid Carmen goes SkinnyDipping in her patron's pool, after both he and the governess are out of the house. She's later seen playing in his piano clad in only a towel, when her co-worker Sam chides her about her behavior. They're interrupted when Odessa the governess [[HomeEarlySurprise comes back earlier than expected]]. When Odessa walks into the room, she finds Sam wiping down the piano with the towel, covering for Carmen while she is hiding ''inside'' the piano, completely naked.
488* ''Series/DoctorWho''
489** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]], the Eighth Doctor [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue escapes from a morgue]] wrapped in the funeral shroud they put his body under.
490** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]]: The Doctor, under the (mistaken) impression that his roommate is being attacked, races out of the shower to rescue him, barely managing to wrap a towel around his waist beforehand. Considering that this is the [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace Eleventh]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Doctor]], it is rather impressive that he remembered to grab a towel at all.
491* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': Whenever the Dolls shower in their large shower room, they clad themselves in red towels when stepping out from behind the [[ShouldersUpNudity convenient shoulder lenght glass walls that obscure their nudity]].
492* ''Series/{{Eastwick}}''
493** In episode 3, Joanna is in a towel at her house, getting ready for a shower, when she hears someone break into her house. Scared, she just out the window of her house still in a towel, and runs all the way to Roxy house in it.
494** On episode 11, Kat is talking in the phone in her towel when she's startled by her boyfriend's son and ends up losing the towel in front of him, with her later angsting that her boyfriend's son saw her naked before he did.
495--->'''Joanna:''' Just tell the kid to report to his dad how good the goods were! If anything, it could move things along quicker.\
496'''Kat:''' [[DudeNotFunny Gross!]]
497* In the 2003 {{sitcom}} ''Eve'', a towel-clad Rita steps out of her house in the morning to grab the paper, and finds a crowd of {{paparazzi}} waiting for her. Startled, she ends up [[WardrobeMalfunction losing the towel]] in front of them, but decides to [[HandOrObjectUnderwear use her hands]] to cover her [[SkewedPriorities green-cream-masked-faced instead of her exposed body]].
498* ''Series/FairlyLegal'': In "Start Me Up", Lauren catches [[HelloAttorney Kate]] walking around the office in only a towel, since she has been homeless for a couple of days after her divorce and had to shower there.
499* ''Series/FamilyMatters'':
500** During the house party scenes of the first-season episode "The Party", Shawn Harrison makes an appearance as "Boy in Towel," a classmate of Eddie's who is dressed only with a towel around his waist; the kid still has just a towel on when Carl [[HomeEarlySurprise comes home early]] and kicks everyone out. (Although he was nameless in this episode, the "Boy in Towel" had the same mannerisms and voice as Waldo Faldo, whom the character (fully dressed in future episodes) eventually became.)
501** In the seventh-season episode "The Naked and the Nerdy", during a bathroom scene Urkel humorously wears his towel high up on his chest, somewhat in the female manner. (Laura wears one too ... only after Urkel accidentally sees her in the buff.)
502* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': Used on TheStinger of "[[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E4TheNewRogues The New Rogues]]" when Caitlin finds out she's turning into [[AnIcePerson Killer Frost]]. She's having a ShowerScene but is shocked when [[PowerIncontinence the water suddenly freezes]]. She comes out of the shower in a towel and is terrified when she looks at herself in the mirror, finding she now has blue lips and a white streak on her hair.
503* ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'': "Attention Shoppers" ends with Sam walking in on Jules in the lockers clad in a towel while checking her bruised shoulder she got in the last job. He checks it for her in an awkward {{UST}} fueling moment.
504* ''Series/TheFosters'':
505** In the SeriesFinale, the moms Stef and Lena are [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside locked outside a hotel beach resort naked]] after losing their robes while SkinnyDipping [[TwoPersonPoolParty in the ocean]]. They hurriedly take some used towels from a hamper then have to walk up to reception clad in their towels to get a new key to their room where they run into their son's soon-to-be parents-in-law.
506* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': In the episode "Junior Agent", Frasier and Kenny go to a steam room, wearing giant, blanket-like towels from slightly below the chest to slightly above the ankle. Junior Agent Portia storms in on them, and Kenny hides, [[FullyClothedNudity exclaiming several times that he's naked]].
507* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
508** {{Discussed|trope}} by Chandler in "[[Recap/FriendsS3E2TheOneWhereNoOnesReady The One Where No One's Ready]]" in a SeinfeldianConversation:
509--->'''Chandler:''' You know what's weird? [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal Donald Duck never wore pants]]. But whenever he's getting out of the shower, he always put a towel around his waist. I mean, what is that about?
510** In "[[Recap/FriendsS3E6TheOneWithTheFlashback The One With The Flashback]]", in a {{flashback}}, Chandler finds a sad Monica in her apartment, wearing only a towel. When prompted she confessed she's upset that Phoebe moved out and she wonders if she's difficult to live with. Chandler comforts her and they have a heartfelt moment that ends in them hugging. Chandler then breaks the ice by asking if her if the towel she's wearing is 100% cotton since it feels so nice.
511** In "[[Recap/FriendsS1E13TheOneWithTheBoobies The One With The Boobies]]", Rachel is a victim of an interesting case of malfunctioning modesty towel.
512--->'''Chandler:''' That's a relatively open weave and I can still see your... [[BuffySpeak nipular]] areas.
513** {{Parodied|trope}} in "[[Recap/FriendsS3E18TheOneWithTheHypnosisTape The One With The Hypnosis Tape]]". Chandler uses a [[SleepLearning hypnotic tape]] to help him quit smoking, which offers such encouragement as "You are a strong, confident woman who does not need to smoke". He then spends the rest of the episode behaving in a very effeminate manner, including coming out of the shower wearing a towel all the way up to his armpits the way a woman would, along with having another wrapped over his head.
514* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': In "[[Recap/GothamS1E20UnderTheKnife Under The Knife]]", Lee is having [[BathtubScene a relaxing bath]] when [[InterruptedBath she hears a noise around the house]]. A dripping-wet towel-clad Lee tiptoeing around her apartment until [[CatScare she discovers that the intruder was actually a cat]]. When she lets the cat around she's scared ''again'', this time by Gordon suddenly barging in.
515* ''Series/GrandHotel'': Alicia finds out Carolina slept with El Rey and cheated on her fiancé when she finds her coming out of the shower of El Rey's room wearing only a towel.
516* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'': Dr. Sloan's first appearance. His very first appearance was actually hitting on Meredith in the hospital, although the scene with the towel is [[BestKnownForTheFanservice probably his most famous]].
517* ''Series/{{Hellcats}}:'' Marti gets her [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen clothes stolen in the locker]] and is forced to go to the boys locker room for a towel, but she hears them coming in while she's sneaking and has to hide in a stall. Thankfully for her, the only one that catches her is [[NiceGuy Lewis]] who helps her out by taking off ''his'' towel in front of her stall, giving her his towel and clearing out his playmates from the locker room since they don't want to see him naked.
518* The Creator/{{BBC}}'s 2012 production of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/HenryIVPart2'' decided that a short conversation between the Prince of Wales and his "friend" needed to be in a sauna. With wet towels.
519* ''Series/HowToGetAwayWithMurder:'' "It's All Her Fault" has Rebecca showing up at Wes's door at 4 in the morning asking to use his shower (hers is broken) while wearing just a towel, which furthers the UnresolvedSexualTension between them. She even drops the towel when the bathroom door is still open, causing him to get [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] by her ToplessnessFromTheBack before she closes the door. [[spoiler:The visit turns out to be plot-important as she hid a cellphone under his sink before she got arrested, implying the towel shenanigans were indeed an effort to distract him.]]
520* ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'': In the episode "The Lottery", Banner is HulkingOut halfway up an emergency ladder in a block of flats, he busts his way through the wall, and into a room with a couple looking on in shock and confusion. He then bursts through another wall, and the scene cuts to a sexy lady stepping out of the shower and wrapping a towel around herself. The Hulk steps into the bathroom and [[EatingTheEyeCandy looks her up and down]] and smirks before leaving the room by breaking down ''another'' wall. The scene ends with both the couple and the towel-clad lady in the shower just looking on confused through the giant holes in the wall. [[https://twitter.com/RavenWitchShade/status/830124059249823745 It really has to be seen to be believed.]]
521* ''Series/InPlainSight'': Humorously PlayedWith in "In My Humboldt Opinion", where Rafe asks for Mary a towel from inside his shower. She goes to look for them, she finds them all missing except a washcloth, explaining a towel filled suitcase earlier in the season which was thought to contain drugs. She leaves the washcloth hanging on the handle and [[ShowerOfLove joins him in the shower]].
522* ''Series/KimsConvenience'':
523** Jung's ex-girlfriend Grace comes out of the bathroom in Jung and Kimchee's apartment wearing only a towel, essentially confirming her and Jung's date the night before was a success. Jung's mother is unfortunately also present when she appears in this manner.
524** Jung comes out of the shower with just a towel around his waist in one episode when Kimchee's date arrives at their apartment. Kimchee is annoyed to no end because he was trying to get Jung, the MrFanservice of the series, to stop "[[ChickMagnet stealing]]" his dates.
525* ''Series/LaReinaDelSur'': The very first scene starts with Teresa enjoying [[BathtubScene a bubble bath]] before she's {{interrupted|bath}} by a cell phone ringing. She hurries out of the bath in a towel since the cell phone is the one her husband warned her [[DeadManWriting would only ring if he's dead]].
526* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': In [[Recap/LeverageS02E15TheMalteseFalconJob The Maltese Falcon Job]]", Tara (Creator/JeriRyan) uses one as part of a con where she pretends to be an unlucky woman who got [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside trapped outside her hotel room in just a towel]] to trick a waiter into opening a door for her. Then also [[DressHitsFloor drops the towel]] to [[DistractedByTheSexy short-circuit his brain enough]] so he won't question her story.
527* ''Series/{{Life|2007}}'': In "Badge Bunnies", Bob goes to Crews' house to [[MySisterIsOffLimits get his sister]] Kathy who is SkinnyDipping at Crews pool. When she leaves wearing only a towel, he tells her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn and she makes a move to [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl take off her towel right there in front of everyone]] before he yells at her to get dressed ''outside''.
528* ''Series/LifeWithDerek'': In one episode, Casey is seen reviling over the disorganization of the bathroom, clad in only a Modesty Towel. About as hot as you'll ever see on Creator/DisneyChannel.
529* ''Series/LoisAndClark'': In the pilot episode, Lois arrives at Clark's apartment to give him a ride to work. He answers the door [[ShirtlessScene wearing nothing]] but a towel.
530-->'''Lois:''' It's nine! I thought [[FreudianSlip you'd be naked. Uh, ready.]]
531* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'': In "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E04ManlyWhatnots Manly Whatnots]]", Chloe (Creator/LaurenGerman) hears an intruder while [[ShowerScene she was showering]], grabs a towel [[CantBatheWithoutAWeapon and a gun]] and goes to investigate. It turns out to be [[NoSocialSkills Lucifer, who's casually barged into her house]] to cook her breakfast, but ends up startling Chloe, who [[WardrobeMalfunction drops her towel in shock]]. Lucifer is [[EatingTheEyeCandy impressed with what he sees]].
532* Hilariously subverted in an episode of ''Series/LuckyLouie'' where a male character enters the kitchen wearing a towel the way a woman would, the "hem" barely concealing his package. Then, standing with his crotch a foot in front of Louie's face he casually bends backward revealing what the towel was meant to conceal.
533* ''Series/MadAboutYou'': The first episode of season 7 had Jamie [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside trapped outside her gym in just a towel]] after she's wrongly directed to an outside door instead of the showers. She spends the entire episode wandering the streets still clad in it, trying to get back home.
534* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': In "What Goes Around Comes Around", Bud tries to make amends with AlphaBitch Heather [=McCoy=] who humiliated him back in sixth grade, but [[ButtMonkey he just ends up being humiliated by her yet again]] when she leaves him with just a towel on the stage of the Homecoming Dance party. In a [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther rare moment]] of BigSisterInstinct, Kelly tells him she'll "[[HumiliationConga work things out]]" with Heather for him. [[DescriptionCut Cut to]] a distressed Heather [[BoundAndGagged gagged]] and [[ChainedToARock with both arms bound to a bank of lockers]] with a huge sign taped to her that reads "[[KnightTemplarBigSister DON'T MESS WITH A BUNDY]]" and wearing [[ShamefulStrip nothing]] but a towel that is attached to a rope being held in Buck's jaws. Then Kelly walks in and calls Buck to her, and he runs to her, [[StrippingSnag dragging away the towel by the rope]], just as the bell rings and students come flooding out of the classrooms.
535* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' had many.
536** "[[Recap/MashS1E3RequiemForALightweight Requiem for a Lightweight]]" begins with the P.A. system announcing the arrival of wounded, while newly arrived nurse Margie was in the shower. She runs through the camp in only a towel and [[MeetCute accidentally bumps into]] Hawkeye, before extricating herself from him and dashing away causing the towel that was still on his grip to be [[StrippingSnag snagged off]]. The sight of her as she {{streak|ing}}s through the camp prompts a rare salute from Hawkeye and Trapper.
537** In "[[Recap/MashS2E10TheSniper The Sniper]]", a sniper is shooting at the camp, Radar (who was in the showers with Col. Blake) tries to make a run for it in his modesty towel. He loses it just before he gets back to the showers, but gets another while he's inside.
538** In "[[Recap/MashS6E2FallenIdol Fallen Idol]]", Radar is out delivering mail and encounters [[HospitalHottie nurse Perry]] wrapped in a towel. She asks if he has any mail for her but he's [[DistractedByTheSexy too stunned]] to answer. He manages to blurt out, "I don't think so. If I may say, that's a very nice towel you're wearing, Lieutenant." But by then she has closed the door on him.
539** In "Father's Day", Margaret's father calls the 4077th and she ran through the camp wearing only a towel to take the call.
540** "None Like it Hot", where Hawkeye and BJ get a portable bathtub during a HeatWave, has several:
541*** When Hawkeye first tried out the tub, he had just wrapped his modesty towel around himself when Margaret came in.
542---->'''Margaret:''' I want it. I want it.\
543'''Hawkeye:''' Women often have that reaction when they see me naked.
544*** Later, two soldiers get in a fight while line waiting to use the tub (one accused the other of cutting). During this, Charles pointed out the fight and as people in line went to watch, he moved forward. The last person he mentions it to is the soldier using the tub, who runs out in a towel to check it out.
545*** Near the end, Margaret finally gets to use the tub, until Klinger (who had been trying again for a Section 8 by wearing winter clothing during a HeatWave) jumped in the tub with her. Margaret runs out of the tent wearing only her towel, humiliated.
546* ''Series/MenInTrees'': Marin, a FishOutOfWater, moves from New York to Alaska. When she's seen wearing nothing but a towel, she's asked earnestly if that's the current style in New York.
547* ''Series/MidnightTexas'': The pilot has a scene with Olivia walking around her room fresh out of the shower in a towel. Since she's a HitmanWithAHeart, instead of clothes her room is comically filled with WallOfWeapons.
548* ''Series/TheMessengers'': In "Path to Paradise", when Alan tracks down Vera in her hotel room at Houston she answers the door only wearing a towel, implied to have been taking an offscreen ShowerOfAngst.
549* In the first season of ''Series/McLeodsDaughters'', Nick [[ShowerOfAwkward walks into the bathroom while Tess is dressing]]. She holds a towel to her chest to cover herself, but doesn't realize until he leaves that he could [[WatchingTheReflectionUndress see her exposed rear in the mirror]].
550* ''Series/MondayNightFootball'': An infamous pre-show skit aired November 15, 2004, as a takeoff of Creator/NicolletteSheridan's Edie Britt character on ''Series/DesperateHousewives''. Sheridan, in-character as Edie and dressed only in a towel, enters the Philadelpia Eagles locker room and seduces wide receiver Creator/TerrellOwens. Owens remains focused until Edie [[DressHitsFloor drops it]], after which Owens remarks that the Eagles "are gonna have to win this game without me" as an ecstatic Edie jumps into Owens' arms. Afterward, two women -- perhaps reflecting the soon-to-come negative criticism over the incident (and it did come, despite the absence of outright nudity) -- scoff at the skit before shouting to the camera, "Are you ready for some football?!"
551* ''Series/ModernFamily'': In "Las Vegas" Gloria goes into Claire and Phil's room to borrow Claire's hair products dressed in a towel, which [[StrippingSnag gets stuck in the door between their rooms]]. While she struggling to get it free, Phil and the leader of the secret magician's society (Creator/PattonOswalt) walk into the room. She abandons her towel runs into the closet before they see her and Phil places a French Maid Dog Statue named Rebarka in the same closet, not knowing Gloria is hiding in there. Phil then performs his magic trick, but Oswalt isn't impressed... until Phil accidentally causes smoke and Gloria pops out now dressed in the FrenchMaidOutfit she [[StrippingTheScarecrow took from the statue]], making Oswalt believe that it was all part of the trick.
552* In the [[KoreanSeries Korean drama]] ''Series/MyLoveFromAnotherStar" main character Do Min-Joon takes this trope further by repeatedly wearing a towel while showering, although this can be explained by the fact that he is secretly an alien.
553* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
554** Starting with the sixth season, NCIS simply covered the bodies with towels.
555** On female corpses, they are often shown with the chest cavity already open and a towel covering the lower half, thus using a sort of "Modesty Flesh" and reducing the need for a towel up to the neck.
556** Given the fact Ducky's lab is often visited by not only assorted NCIS personnel but sometimes outsiders as well, it's not unreasonable to imagine that Ducky might cover up genitals and breasts with towels out of respect for the dead if there's no real reason to expose those parts of the body--this is actually very touchingly and genuinely invoked as he prepares to autopsy Caitlin Todd:
557---> '''Caitlin's Spirit''': I appreciate you keeping me covered up, in front of the others, Ducky.\
558'''Ducky''': Yes, I know how modest you are.
559* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'': In "Neighborhood Watch", Kensi and Deeks are living together in an UndercoverAsLovers situation, and one of the situations that fuel fueling their UnresolvedSexualTension is when Deeks barges on her in the bathroom while she's only wearing a towel, causing her to [[NakedFreakOut freaks out]].
560* ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'':
561** Matt volunteers to [[PublicExposure model for a life drawing class]], on the basis that his wife Lauren was the only person who signed up, and Lou [[TheBet makes a bet]] that Matt is too laced up to go through it. When Matt steps out into class in a Modesty Towel, he is shocked to find that at least a dozen people have turned up, as Lou bolstered the numbers by spreading the world and a lot of Lauren's girlfriends showed up just to make it embarrassing for Matt. Right when he's about to drop the towel, the fire alarm goes off (pulled by his son Bailey, having been alerted to Lou's prank) and everyone is forced to evacuate. Matt's still left embarrassed, though, as he's [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside now trapped outside in a towel]] until the fire brigade has declared the building safe.
562** In one episode, HotTeacher Elly [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen had her clothes stolen and towel stolen while she was showering]] in Erinsborough High as a prank by one of her students, a [[TheBully bully]] that Elly has a feud with. Elly then {{improvise|dClothes}} a poster, wrapping herself around like a modesty towel, before make a run to her office.
563* ''Series/OffTheMap'':
564** In "Smile. Don't Kill Anyone", Lily, Tommy and Mina's [[NakedFirstImpression first meeting]] with Dr. Ryan is when they stumble upon her taking a WaterfallShower in the wild. But she has keeps a Modesty Towel nearby, wrapping herself in it before properly greeting them.
565** Later in the same episode, Lily decides to take a WaterfallShower herself, but it turns into a NakedPeopleTrappedOutside situation when her modesty towel falls into the water and is washed away... right into her LoveInterest Ben, who was just strolling by and gets an eyeful which causes Lily to have a NakedFreakOut. When he returns her towel, he warns her she's bathing on the main hiking trail.
566* ''Series/OneTreeHill'': Used a couple of times, usually involving [[MrFanservice Nathan]] or [[MsFanservice Brooke]].
567** In "Near Wild Heaven", Hayley is talking with the girls when Nathan walks up to them wearing only a towel. Brooke playfully sneaks behind him and [[ShamefulStrip snatches it away]] causing him to flee with Brooke and Peyton laugh, until they notice [[ClingyJealousGirl Hayley]] is giving them a DeathGlare for ogling her boyfriend.
568** In "Lifetime Piling Up", Nathan is showering in the locker room when a towel-clad joins him with the intent of seducing him which leads to an awkward time for him.
569---> '''Brooke:''' ''[entering the shower while eyeing him up]'' So I guess the rumors are true... [[BiggerIsBetterInBed Mr. Size 14]].\
570'''Nathan:''' ''[nervously grabbing the nearest towel to cover himself]'' Uhh, I think you're in the wrong locker room.\
571'''Brooke:''' ''[feigning innocence]'' But the sign says boys ''[[[DressHitsFloor drops her towel]]]'' doesn't it?\
572'''Nathan:''' ''[averting his eyes]'' Ooookay.\
573'''Brooke:''' ''[[[ShamelessFanserviceGirl unashamed]]]'' Oops.
574** In "Deep Ocean Vast Sea", one of Nathan's commercial shots involves him wearing just a towel. When it's abruptly canceled one of the set assistants [[StrippingSnag snatches it away from him]] while his female co-star Kylie stares appreciatively and quip "What a pity, I just found my ''motivation''".
575** "Valentine's Day Is Over" has a gratuitous scene with Quinn lotioning her legs while wearing a towel.
576* ''Series/TheOriginals'': In "Alive and Kicking", Elijah confronts Haley (Creator/PhoebeTonkin) while she's [[BathtubScene in a bathtub]], about her witch massacre. Hayley isn't really in the mood for his judgment and [[SexySurfacingShot defiantly climbs out of the tub]], [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl taunting and challenging]] Elijah (whom she has tons of {{UST}} with) to look at her. Elijah, unamused, wordlessly reaches for a Modesty Towel and [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn holds it to her]], though he doesn't avert his eyes. She rolls her eyes at it, but takes the towel and wraps herself in it before walking away.
577* ''Series/{{Pandora}}'': When Jax {{showers|cene}} in her room, the [[OurShowersAreDifferent shower doesn't seem to use water, spraying some mist against her body instead]], yet when she comes out of the HardLight door at the stall, she still uses a Modesty Towel despite not being wet, meaning modesty really is the towel's only purpose.
578* ''Series/APassionForRevenge'': Arturo's attraction for the villainous Isadora (thus starting the main LoveTriangle of the story) begins when he {{Accidental|Pervert}}ly walks in on her room to find her clad in a towel post-shower, which she happens to drop just as he comes in.
579* ''Series/PrivatePractice'': The show starts with Addison coming out of the shower dressed in towel and in good spirits. She decides to celebrate her new life at her new beachfront home by [[HomeNudist dancing around her home in just the towel]]. She even flings the towel away right as the moment screeches to a halt when she notices she's in front of the window where her next-door neighbor (who is ''also her coworker'') can clearly see her. [[NakedFreakOut She immediately drops to the ground in mortification]].
580* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'':
581** In the pilot, Emily is wearing a towel in the locker room when she finds A's note in her locker.
582** In "The Perfect Storm", a {{flashback}} with Alison and Emily in the locker has the former dropping her towel in front of the later, who's gets visibly {{distracted|bythesexy}} since she's a LipstickLesbian.
583** In "It Happened 'That Night" Toby showers at Spencer's room because the plumbing at the loft he moved into is broken and comes into her room [[ShirtlessScene wearing only a towel]]. Spencer [[EatingTheEyeCandy starts ogling him]] and tells him she can hardly remember why she had said she wanted to [[LetsWaitAWhile wait to have sex.]]
584** "Hot Water" has Spencer is wearing a towel in the sauna, when A [[SaunaOfDeath traps her, and leaves her in there to die]] (Aria rescues her in the nick of time).
585* During the height of the "classic-model" era of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', Creator/BobBarker frequently made a joke that the "Barker's Beauty" who was modeling a spa or sauna was "completely naked", all which drew laughs from the audience; of course, the model was dressed in only a towel, but she was laying inside in such a way that [[ShouldersUpNudity only her bare shoulders and up could be seen above the ledge]]. The joke went away after Dian Parkinson's departure from the show (after her ill-fated affair with Barker and subsequent sexual harassment lawsuits).
586* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Killer With A Long Arm", Bodie has to knock on every door of an apartment block looking for the VillainOfTheWeek. He's looking bored until his knock brings an attractive women in a towel to the door. A short time later he has to enter her apartment again and she's wearing a short [[KimonoFanservice kimono]] (and their dialogue shows he's already made a date with her).
587* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': In "Class Action Satisfaction", Jane and Maura have to take a [[DecontaminationChamber decontamination shower]] after being exposed to a potential pathogen. Jane is [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl extremely distraught]] at the excessively small Modesty Towel she's given and [[NakedPeopleAreFunny amusingly]] spends most of the scene [[HandOrObjectUnderwear trying to keep a medical waste bin between her and anyone else]].
588* ''Series/{{Secret Invasion|2023}}'': Used in "Beloved" to reveal that [[spoiler:the Skrull who is impersonating Col. James Rhodes is a woman]]. She is shown taking a shower, then putting on one of these towels, [[spoiler:then she looks herself in the mirror and takes on Rhodey's appearance]].
589* ''Series/{{Sisters}}'': The first two seasons (summer 1991-1992) of this weekly serious-drama featured the four main female leads sitting in a steam sauna, towels wrapped around their chests and chatting about whatever.
590* ''Series/{{Smallville}}''
591** In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS01E04XRay X-Ray]]", the second time that Clark's XRayVision activates, he ends up seeing through a wall and into the girls' locker room, with many of them wearing towel, including ComicBook/LanaLang who actually drops hers [[CovertPervert causing Clark to grin widely]].
592** In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS02E11Visage Visage]]", PsychoLesbian Tina Greer [[ShapeShifting shapeshifts as Chloe]] to sneak into Lana room, whom just got out of the shower in a towel. Tina immediately starts acting like a creep, even coming close to Lana for some PervertedSniffing.
593** PlayedWith in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E20Fade Fade]]". Lois is {{shower|Scene}}ing at the Talon when she hears the {{Invisi|bility}}ble Graham (who was [[PowerPerversionPotential using his powers to peek on her]]) sneaking out of the bathroom. Suspicious, she arms herself with a steel brush but doesn't bother with a towel, before rushing out the bathroom to investigate her apartment... only to find a [[OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople flabbergasted Clark on the other side of the door]]. She [[DeerInTheHeadlights stands still like a statue]] for a moment before closing the door at his face. Only then does she wrap herself in a towel and comes out of the bathroom to confront the awkward Clark.
594** In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E06Crossfire Crossfire]]", Lois visits her ex-boyfriend and know TheCasanova Oliver, and finds his apprentice, Mia coming out of his shower wearing only a Modesty Towel and thanking him for the "[[AccidentalInnuendo workout]]". Lois [[NotWhatItLooksLike naturally jumps to conclusions]], and he only makes things worse when he tries to explain to Lois that he and Mia were only sparring. Lois [[TheNicknamer even ends up nicknaming Mia]] "towel girl".
595** On "[[Recap/SmallvilleS09E16Escape Escape]]", Chloe [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession possessed]] by the Silver Banshee]] walks into Clark's shower wearing a towel and drops it in an attempt to seduce him. [[AboveTheInfluence Trying very hard not to look]], Clark hastily wraps her up in it again while covering himself with another towel.
596* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
597** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
598*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E17PlayingGod Playing God]]", when Arjin comes to Jadzia Dax quarters earlier than she expected, he is rather surprised to find her in the company of an alien man named Trajok and wearing only a towel.
599*** In "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E16DrBashirIPresume Dr. Bashir I Presume]]", Leeta greets Dr. Zimmerman at her door wearing a towel before going to get dressed. But then [[NakedPeopleAreFunny distractedly runs out her room without it]] when he tells her about a new job opportunity. When she notices his [[EatingTheEyeCandy stare]] she [[HandOrObjectUnderwear quickly grabs his flower bouquet to cover herself]] and dashes back to her room.
600** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E07Nepenthe Nepenthe]]", Kestra hands one to Soji after she uses the Rikers' outdoor shower.
601** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E2Drone Drone]]", B'Elanna Torres is not amused when the EMH calls on the VideoPhone [[ShowerOfAwkward while she's having]] a [[OurShowersAreDifferent sonic shower]]. She hurriedly covers herself with a towel while the Doctor nonchalantly replies he's a doctor and she has nothing he hasn't seen before. She promptly throws the towel on the VideoPhone in annoyance.
602* ''Series/{{Smash}}''
603** The pilot's SingingInTheShower scene with Karen shows her stepping out and wrapping herself in a towel, while still singing.
604** [[ShowWithinAShow Bombshell's]] "Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking" number takes place entirely in a steam room filled with towel-clad executives.
605* Played straight in an episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' when one of the title characters spent a good part of the episode wearing a towel that reached from his ankles to his ribs. Was it a towel or a carpet??
606* In ''Series/Ted2024'', Ted wears one after getting out of the shower, despite him being a teddy bear who doesn't wear clothes to begin with (and doesn't have any genitals to even cover up)
607* ''Series/{{Teresa}}'': When Teresa visits her ex-boyfriend Mariano to confront him the day before her wedding, she catches him half-naked wearing only a towel and her jaw almost hits the floor. Unsurprisingly, after some SlapSlapKiss exchanges they [[SexWithTheEx end up in bed soon after]].
608* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': In "[[Recap/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS2E10StrangeThings StrangeThings]]", Jesse is coming out of the shower wearing a towel when she finds her apartment ransacked, with all the pictures she secretly took of John out in the open and Derek waiting for her, clearly angry about them.
609* ''Series/ThreesCompany'' had an episode where they played StripPoker, ending with a "winner take all" hand. As all the losers left the apartment where the game was held, it showed Larry, Jack and Furly were wearing [[HandOrObjectUnderwear newspaper, boxes or pillows]] while the [[FanserviceExtra two girls Furly brought with him]] had Modesty Towels on.
610* ''Series/TidelandsNetflix'': When she's caught in the nude by Colton after exiting from the bath, Cal covers herself with a towel, though not before he's seen it all (the audience gets a shot of her topless).
611* In the ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'' episode "[[Recap/TitansS1E5Together Together]]", Dick wears one when coming out of the shower. He loses it when he and Kory start making out, before they [[SexyDiscretionShot fall onto the bed and the scene ends]] with a FadeToBlack.
612* ''Series/UmAnjoCaiuDoCeu'': Raphael appears draped in one during one episode, where Cuca visits him. Curiously, Raphael seems to wrap his towel in a way that hides most of his torso but keeps his chest exposed, somewhere in between the male and female variants. After Cuca kisses him on the cheek and leaves, he becomes so giddy he throws his hands in the air and ends up [[WardrobeMalfunction pulling his towel off in the process]], quickly covering himself for precaution once he realizes what he just did.
613* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'':
614** In "[[Recap/TheVampireDiariesS01E03FridayNightBites Friday Night Bites]]", Elena is wearing one in the morning before getting ready for school.
615** In "[[Recap/TheVampireDiariesS01E08OneHundredSixtyTwoCandles 162 Candles]]", Lexi (Stefan's vampire BestFriend) is wearing one when she meets Elena at Stefan's house, causing Elena to assume she has a thing with Stefan and [[ClingyJealousGirl getting visibly jealous]]. Elena even nicknames her as "Towel Girl".
616** PlayedWith in "Bring It On". Elena, [[EmotionlessGirl having turned off her emontions]] forgoes it and comes of the shower in the buff, [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl right in front of Damon and Stefan]]. But once she seems to get bored of their [[EatingTheEyeCandy blatant ogling]] she does wrap herself in a towel.
617** "True Lies" has Damon barging in Caroline dorm room to talk to her while she's in a towel. She's indignant, but he couldn't care less.
618--->'''Caroline:''' Damon! Towel! Knock!\
619'''Damon:''' Caroline! No one cares! No!
620** In "Handle with Care", Katherine sneaks into Caroline and Elena dorm room to shower. She's in a towel when Caroline finds her, and being Elena's EvilDoppelganger she can't even tell who she really is until Katherine makes it clear, since normally the way they dress is what tells them apart.
621** In "No Exit", Katherine has finished showering, when she hears Stefan in the bedroom. [[TheVamp Acting coyly]] she comes to the bathroom door wrapped in a towel and plays the "could you pass me my clothes" game, [[TheTease deliberately holding the towel as low on her chest as possible]]. After he does she lets the door open ajar enough to see her [[DressHitsFloor dropping the towel]].
622* ''Series/{{VIP}}'': Nikki meets one target [[ASpyAtTheSpa at a spa's sauna]], with both of them wearing only towels. When he's suspicious of her wearing a wire underneath it, [[NudityEqualsHonesty she removes it to prove she isn't]], framed with a BetweenMyLegs shot. Then she [[SupermodelStrut walks up to him in a slow and seductive fashion]] to keep him [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] and starts strangling him with the towel when she gets close enough.
623* ''Series/WheelOfFortune'': Vanna White was one of the few models who never (if not, rarely) was seen in a towel to model a spa, sauna, etc. However, that did not stop her from one time sitting, bare-shouldered, in a spa alongside a bare-chested Pat Sajak at the end of one episode.
624* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': "Master Planner", opens with Elizabeth and Peter had just walked out of a ShowerOfLove, wearing Modesty Towels and still bantering about it.
625* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': In "Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis", Xena and many other women wear one during a scene in a steam room. Xena [[SaunaOfDeath gets locked inside]] and she escapes by taking off her towel and [[ClothFu using it as a whip]] to snap open a vent.
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627
628[[folder:Music]]
629* The cover of ''Beauty and the Beat'' by Music/TheGoGos uses this trope for all five members.
630* Music/CaptainAndTennille: The duo wears them on the cover of "Keeping Our Love Warm", during the sauna scene.
631* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3X3npWjxCc "Girl on the Billboard"]] by Del Reeves.
632* The cover of Music/{{Heart|Band}}'s ''Dreamboat Annie'' album shows sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson sitting back to back, seemingly topless, but the [[ShouldersupNudity image is cropped below the shoulders]]. Other publicity photos from the same session make it clear that they were wearing modesty towels.
633* Music/LittleMix: Jesy Nelson wears nothing but a towel for her part of "The One I've Been Missing" music video.
634* Music/{{PSY}} and two other men sport one in the sauna scene of "Music/GangnamStyle"; however PSY wears his around his chest (i.e. the way women traditionally do it).
635* Music/TrishaYearwood: A music video for "There Goes My Baby" featured a scene at the beginning where Yearwood exits a bath and is seen returning to her bedroom to sit on the bed while wearing only a towel wrapped around her.
636[[/folder]]
637
638[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
639* At the WWF's 1987 "Slammy Awards," "Ravishing" Wrestling/RickRude, having TheGimmick of a sexy ladies'-man chippendale, did a strip-tease act when he came onstage to accept the "[[Wrestling/JesseVentura Jesse 'the Body']]" award for best-looking male wrestler. At the height of his act, Rude began taking off his pants when "Mean" Gene Okerlund ran out and began wrapping a towel around an annoyed Rude's waist (Rude, of course, was wearing a thong). After his acceptance speech, he took one of the showgirls backstage and threw a towel on-stage, giving the impression that Rude was completely in the buff (off-stage).
640* WWE's Wrestling/ValVenis (Sean Morley), as part of his "[[WrestlingDoesntPay porn star]]" [[TheGimmick gimmick]], wore a modesty towel around his waist during his standard ring entrance during the late 1990s. (Yes, a pair of wrestling trunks was underneath).
641** Unfortunately for Wrestling/StevieRichards, when doing a copycat gimmick in his first cup of coffee stint in WWE, forgot to put his trunks on before the towel.
642* In a 2002 episode of Raw, Wrestling/ChrisJericho and Wrestling/{{Christian}} come out of the shower wearing towels and find out [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen their bags (and along with them, their clothes) have been stolen]] by Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys. Jericho and Christian spend much of the rest of the episode wandering backstage trying to find something to wear. Later, the Dudleys came out to the ring and began throwing Jericho and Christian's clothes into the crowd, prompting them to come out on the stage. Once the Dudleys finish throwing their clothes and their bags into the crowd, Wrestling/SpikeDudley comes out and relieves Jericho and Christian of their towels.
643* Subverted on Wrestling/{{WWE}} No Mercy of 2006: Wrestling/WilliamRegal was wearing a towel during a segment with Vito. [[spoiler:While Regal was moving around, [[FanDisservice his penis was exposed]]]].
644* A week after the Terrell Owens-Nicolette Sheridan ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' "towel skit" aired and gained negative criticism by conservative critics and women's groups, a parody skit aired on ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Monday Night Raw]]''. Wrestling/SheltonBenjamin was initially in the Owens role, while -- despite wearing a nose brace due to a legit injury suffered a week earlier -- [[HeadTurningBeauty babelicious]] blonde Diva Wrestling/TrishStratus was the towel-clad Edie Britt (Sheridan's ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' character), this time with Benjamin trying to prepare for a match and Trish doing her best to [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey turn on her sexual charms]]. Wrestling/{{WWE}} owner Wrestling/VinceMcMahon entered the locker room to express (mock) outrage, claiming the swift downfall of society would result by solely said actions being aired on TV. Benjamin walked off disgusted, and after he left [=McMahon=] immediately focused entirely on Trish... who took it all off ([[ToplessnessFromTheBack with her back to the audience]]). Cue the ''Monday Night Football'' theme as an orgasmic [=McMahon=] gleefully said, "Are you ready for some wrestlin'?"
645* In a spot in 2005 ''Wrestling/{{WWERAW}}'' where Wrestling/JohnCena is trying to poll backstage to find out how they feel about Wrestling/KurtAngle, he ends up in the Divas' locker room. A flirtatious Wrestling/CandiceMichelle steps in front of him and [[SexyCoatFlashing drops her towel]].
646* After their FaceHeelTurn, Wrestling/VelvetSky came to ringside in a towel, then flashed the referee, [[EasilyDistractedReferee distracting him]] and allowing Wrestling/AngelinaLove to cheat and win.
647* On the July 3, 2013 episode of OVW TV, [[Wrestling/RubyRiott Heidi Lovelace]] was seen wearing one of these when she overheard {{Manipulative B|astard}}itch Wrestling/TaelerHendrix bragging to Nikki St. John in the locker room about having Heidi wrapped around her little finger, as seen [[https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/5111/VpMl5R.jpg here]].
648* After defeating Barbie Boy for the vacant World Wrestling League Diosas title, the camera next showed Wrestling/IvelisseVelez in the locker room, covering herself with a towel when Wonderful Xander barged [[AbhorrentAdmirer in to flirt with her]].
649* During Wrestling/MickieJames and Wrestling/{{Melina}}'s ''Falls Count Anywhere'' 2007 match, it spills into the locker room and a towel-clad Wrestling/CandiceMichelle orders them out. Melina pulls Candice's towel off and the camera crew cuts away.
650* In a 2007 RAW, when Wrestling/{{Melina}} was "dating" Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}}, he came upon Melina [[ShowerOfAwkward while she was showering]], causing her to cover herself in a towel and flees from him causing him to give chase and eventually managing to [[StrippingSnag pull it away]], leaving her to have a NakedFreakOut offscreen.
651* ''Wrestling/WWERaw'', September 6, 1999. The [[GarbageWrestler hardcore]] Wrestling/{{WWE}} Women's Champion Wrestling/{{Ivory}} vs. [[Wrestling/TerriPoch Tori]] match started with them in the locker room before going into the {{bathroom|brawl}}, causing a towel-clad Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} to come running out of the shower.
652* In ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'' 04/10/2003, Wrestling/{{Sable}} invades Wrestling/TorrieWilson's bathroom while [[InterruptedBath she's showering]] to brag that about her Magazine/{{Playboy}} is selling better than Torrie's. Sable then takes the towel outside the stall and holds it open for Torrie, forcing her to walk across the bathroom to get it while, [[ShouldersUpNudity with the towel covering Torrie from the shoulders down]] as she does.
653* In ''Wrestling/WWESmackDown'' 01/06/2005, Wrestling/KurtAngle was [[AccidentalPervert tricked]] into walking on Joy Giovanni [[ShowerOfAwkward in the shower]]. She has a NakedFreakOut and covers herself with a towel while fleeing the bathroom. While he's trying to explain himself he reaches for her and accidentally [[StrippingSnag snatches off her towel]] leaving her naked offscreen.
654[[/folder]]
655
656[[folder:Theatre]]
657* In ''Theatre/CactusFlower'', Julian enters Toni's apartment one evening and is surprised to find Igor Sullivan wearing nothing but a towel.
658* "Ah, But Underneath" in ''Theatre/{{Follies}}'' (used in some productions to replace "The Story of Lucy and Jessie") has Phyllis [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn executing a striptease]] to increasingly DoubleEntendre lyrics. At the end, she appears in only a towel and says:
659-->Sometimes, when the wrappings fall,\
660There's nothing underneath at all.
661[[/folder]]
662
663[[folder:Video Games]]
664* [[InsufferableGenius Kira Daidohji's]] entrance in ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'' starts with her wearing one that she dramatically [[FlungClothing flings away]] at the same time that she puts on her SchoolSwimsuit.
665* ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia'' features Modesty Towel as a ''battle costume'' for Aurica. Somehow, it gives away most stats of all her clothes selection.
666* ''VideoGame/ArTonelicoIIMelodyOfMetafalica'' also has Modesty Towel as a battle outfits for Luca called "Bathgirl". Jacqui and Cloche also have towel outfits, but they're only for their Dualstall cutscenes and aren't battle costumes. Of note both Luca and Cloche wear their towels in the traditional female manner, but Jacqui wears two short towels, one around her waist used to cover her lower part and the other draped around her shoulders and made to cover her breasts.
667* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'': The "End of the Snake" quest sees Bayek infiltrating a {{Public Bathhouse|Scene}} disguised as a regular visitor, wearing [[NoGearLevel only a towel and his hidden blade]], in order to [[DeadlyBath assassinate The Snake while he's bathing]]. After the mission, the player unlocks the [[AndYourRewardIsClothes Bathhouse Towel]] outfit, which has Bayek wearing the towel; the toggleable "hood" is another towel draped over his head and shoulders.
668* ''VideoGame/BlueReflection'' has a "Bathing Towel" [[DownloadableContent DLC]] outfit for all the girls, complete with JigglePhysics.
669* ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'': The player can purchase a Modesty Towel costume called "Washcloth" for all the party members in Chompshire for 200000 [[GlobalCurrency pg]]. During the Yunohana HotSpringsEpisode (and whenever using the bathhouse thereafter), the character models are actually wearing towels under the opaque water, but [[ShouldersUpNudity since the camera never shows anything bellow the shoulders of the girls or the waist of the guys, the player can't tell]].
670* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'': In the mission "Paparazzi", female Jock Mandy Wiles wears a towel right after you take a picture of her in the shower.
671* ''VideoGame/TheCaligulaEffect Overdose'': The female Go-Home Club members (and the PlayerCharacter if female) have to go to the female [[HotSpringsEpisode hot springs facility]] to confront Sweet-P. Kotono [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl nonchalantly strips down and dresses]] in a modesty towel, which all the other girls consider as "bold" and [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl are embarrassed at the prospect]], but Kotono insists they can't go inside the hot springs wearing their clothes. Even Aria gets to wear one, while [[VictoriasSecretCompartment hiding]] inside Kotono's [[MarshmallowHell towel cleavage]].
672* ''VideoGame/CodeVein'': Despite being an [[CozyCatastrophe abandoned and ruined church]], the HubLevel and the PlayerCharacter main base come with fully functioning {{hot spring|sEpisode}} where the player or any other resident can go for a soak, always clad in modesty towels. There's also a Bath Towel costume for both genders, and due to the game's lack of ClothingDamage, these towels might as well be MadeOfIron, since nothing under the sun could damage or cause them to fall off. Originally, it was only a pre-order DLC [[VersionExclusiveContent exclusive to Japan]], but a later patch added the Bath Towel costume available to owners of the Deluxe Edition.
673* ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacingNitroFueled'': One of Nitros Oxide's costumes has him clad in nothing but a bath towel, shower cap and flip flops and carrying a brush.
674* ''VideoGame/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirlOnline'': [[MoeAnthropomorphism Hydra]] the [[OurHydrasAreDifferent Hydra]]'s care event has her getting out of the shower wearing a towel only around her waist, with [[GorgeousGorgon her snake-hair]] to [[GodivaHair covering her chest]].
675* ''VideoGame/DankiraBoysBeDANCING'': For AprilFoolsDay in 2020, the Dankira matches take place in a {{hot springs|episode}}, with the cast in nothing but a towel and a [[LensFlareCensor white light]] to censor the 'naughty bits'.
676* From the ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' series, ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive5: Last Round'' has Ayane, Helena, Naotora, Nyotengu, Rachel and Tina having this as a costume.
677* ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'': One of the survivors, Kristopher Bookmiller is humorously wearing only a towel for the entirety of the game as he did not have the time to dress properly while escaping the zombies.
678* ''VideoGame/FairyFencerF'': Modesty Towels are costumes for the Hot Springs Set DLC. A Collab with ''Famitsu'' had red bath towels with the ''Famitsu'' logo as costumes.
679* The first ''VideoGame/FearEffect'' game features a sequence in which Hana is [[ShowerScene showering]] and is {{interrupted|bath}} by a zombie attack and forced to fight her way through the jungle village wearing only a towel. [[UnnecessaryCombatRoll Careful use of the combat roll command]] during this level reveals only [[CensorShadow impenetrable darkness]] underneath. At the end of her segment, Hana is ambushed and held at gunpoint by a random {{mook}} and the player [[PuzzleBoss must]] [[PressXToNotDie quickly select]] the towel from the inventory, which causes Hana to [[ShowSomeLeg take it off]], {{Distract|edByTheSexy}}ing the mook long enough for Deke to arrive and perform a NeckSnap. When Deke starts looking at her, she admonishes him for staring.
680-->'''Hana:''' [[MyEyesAreUpHere Not too long Deke]]. I've killed men for less.
681* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' has a Bath Towel available in the Accessory Shop. Gifting it to your soldier can get [[https://imgur.com/a/ceZfw quite a few humorous reactions]]. Noticeably the Bath Towel is the only risqué body pieces that Creator/{{Nintendo}} hasn't DummiedOut for the Western release.
682* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'': Ryoma and Camilla wear towels during the [[HotSpringsEpisode Hostile Springs]] event. They both can suffer a WardrobeMalfunction when they take damage, which reveals they are clearly wearing ModestyShorts under their towels.
683* ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage 2'' has a Modesty Towel as a costume option for Mamiya. It's [[ImpossiblyLowNeckline cut very low, but it stays glued to her no matter how much damage she takes.]]
684* ''VideoGame/FZeroGX'': Lily Flyer bonus movie has her clad in a towel as she washes all her clothes at a laundromat.
685* One of the people you must possess in ''VideoGame/{{Geist}}'' is a woman taking a shower. After you scare her out of the shower, she wraps a towel around herself. A different woman with glasses is also in the shower, also wearing a towel. After scaring her a bit and possessing her, you have to go get dressed before she'll leave the locker room.
686* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'': The opening cinematic has Fiona awake in the cellar of Castle Belli in nothing but a bedsheet to cover herself. However, the "modesty" part is questionable, considering it's semitransparent and you can see [[GoingCommando she isn't wearing anything underneath it.]]
687* ''VideoGame/HitmanAbsolution'': 47 shoots Diana Burnwood while she's taking a shower. Despite being clearly nude seconds before the shot, she's suddenly in a well-wrapped towel lying on the floor of the bathroom later.
688* ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon2KiteretsuShogunMagginesu'': There are hot springs in certain towns for recovering health. If Goemon enters the females' side of the bathhouse, he is shocked to tears when all the women surrounding him drop their towels and [[UnsettlingGenderReveal reveal bearded faces]].
689* ''VideoGame/GravityRush'': At the end of the ninth episode, Kat is clad in a Modesty Towel back in her Pipe House white she's washing [[LimitedWardrobe the only outfit she has]]. Syd drops by to visit her, and after they interact, she jokingly punches him in the arm, which [[WardrobeMalfunction causes her towel to accidentally fall off]], right in front of Syd. Cue NakedFreakOut.
690* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': Amanda is wearing one during the scene where [[{{Cuckold}} Michael finds her banging the tennis instructor]].
691* ''VideoGame/{{Infectonator}}'' has a [[MsFanservice ridiculously attractive]] News Reporter that keeps track of the player's progress. Most of the games have several [[UnlockableContent unlockable]] {{Sexy Whatever Outfit}}s for her, one of them being a Modesty Towel.
692* In ''VideoGame/LittleKingsStory'', the picture for the Hidden Hot Spring Wonder Spot features Apricot in one.
693* ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' has these as an equip. [[LethalJokeItem Oddly enough]], it's one of the best items a [[MinMaxing pure]] can have/make, as it's one of the few relatively cheap pieces of overall armor that can be scrolled numerous times for a specific stat.
694* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2'': When Max finally finds Mona in her secret hideout [[ShowerOfAwkward she is taking a shower]]. [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl She is rather calm about this]], and just casually asks him for a towel, wraps herself in it and walks to her room to get dressed.
695* ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'': Momohime and Kisuke can talk to monkeys, who lead them to a hot spring in the mountains, which serves as a healing pool, or a place to resharpen any broken blades and {{fanservice}} as [[MrFanservice Kisuke]] wears a {{Fundoshi}} while [[MsFanservice Momohime]] is clutching a modesty towel to her chest, leaving most of her side exposed. It's noticeably [[NakedFirstImpression the first]] (and aside from one ending, ''the only'') place you meet [[HeroOfAnotherStory the protagonist you didn't pick to plays as]]. Momohime is particularly [[NakedFreakOut mortified]] at Kisuke seeing her in only a towel, lamenting he has "seen what she hasn't even shown her lord." Kisuke also finds his LoveInterest Torahime during one his hot spring visits, and she's also only wearing a towel, and unlike Momohime, actually has it fully wrapped around herself.
696* In ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPortable3rd'' taking a bath, which grants a temporary stat boost, causes the player-character to automatically doff their usual TwentyFourHourArmor in favor of a Modesty Towel.
697* ''VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege'': Michelle Aubert's {{unlockable|content}} special outfit (acquired by [[AndYourRewardIsClothes clearing the game with an "S" ranking in Normal difficulty or higher]]) is a tiny bath towel, which she can wear in all cutscenes.
698* ''VideoGame/{{Onechanbara}}: Bikini Samurai Squad'': The opening cutscene has Aya having a ShowerScene before being {{interrupted|bath}} by news of zombie attack. She only has time to put her panties on before dashing out of the shower while her sister Saki throws a towel around her neck, with both ends falling down to conceal her breasts.
699* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'':
700** Both the boys and the girls are all wearing these during [[HotSpringsEpisode their visit to the hot springs]] in the [[ClassTrip Kyoto trip]]. They're worn around the waist and around the bust, respectively, as one would expect, but where the boys' character portraits are positioned (moreso in the portable version) makes it seem as if [[ShouldersUpNudity they aren't wearing them at all.]]
701** Also, during the [[MonsterOfTheWeek July Full Moon operation]], Yukari [[LoveHotels comes out of the shower]], dressed only in a towel, to greet the PlayerCharacter (and presumably do more than that)--she's [[AliensMadeThemDoIt under the influence]] of the Shadow of the [[TarotMotifs Lovers Arcana]]. She comes out of the [[TarotMotifs Lovers]] Shadow's trance immediately upon seeing him [[UnprovokedPervertPayback and slaps him for seeing her in that state]]. The [[UpdatedRerelease P3P version of the game]] also has this happen if you pick a female protagonist, with the person coming out of the shower being [[MrFanservice Akihiko]] instead. In his case he only gets embarrassed, and the player even has the opportunity to tell him to PleasePutSomeClothesOn.
702** In "The Journey", Mitsuru also comes out of her private shower (the only one in the dorm, at that) and [[HomeNudist lounges around her room in a towel]] while musing about her friends and fashion. She only doffs it when she walks out of frame again... which is lucky, since she was being [[SinisterSurveillance recorded by a surveillance camera and was none the wiser]].
703* ''VideoGame/Persona4'':
704** All the HotSpringsEpisode have both the boys and the girls wearing these, Of particular note, the is when the girls find out Naoto is actually a HiddenBuxom, with all the girls [[BuxomBeautyStandard being in awe of her]].
705** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'' had a few of the {{hot springsEpisode}} scenes [[{{Cutscene}} animated]], all still featuring all the characters in towels, with plenty of {{Male|Gaze}} and FemaleGaze. During one of them, Yosuke is trying to [[OutdoorBathPeeping peek on the girl's]] but is caught and ends up [[WardrobeMalfunction losing his towel]] and ends up [[HoistByHisOwnPetard being seen naked by the girls instead]].
706** There are various gag costumes the PlayerCharacter and the party can wear during dungeon explorations, including Bath Towels for the guys. They will usually [[WhatTheHellPlayer chastise you for forcing them to wear a towel]] in dialogue, and when the protagonist is wearing the towel, the responses from the party will vary from [[GettingHotInHere asking him if he's feeling hot]] to getting DistractedByTheSexy, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim even from the guys!]].
707--->'''Yosuke:''' ''[talking to Yosuke while he's in the bath towel outfit]'' [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential So, this is what you wanted?]] I'm in nothing but a towel. ...I don't think this is appropriate. I'm not comfortable with this! Is there an HR department I can report you to?\
708'''Rise:''' Whoa, I didn't know that's what you were into, Senpai. That's disappointing...\
709'''Yosuke:''' I hate you, HelloInsertNameHere.
710* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'' the PlayerCharacter wears these when he visits the {{Public Bathhouse|Scene}} to raise his Charisma. One story event has him visiting it along [[BathtubBonding with Ryuji and Yusuke]], who also wear towels.
711* ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'': A trip to Kyoto leads the Phantom Thieves to [[NostalgiaLevel the same hot springs S.E.E.S. visited nearly 10 years ago]]. They also [[MythologyGag recreate the same scene]] which due to misunderstanding with the schedule, the [[AccidentalPervert boys are caught by the girls in the bath]] and [[UnprovokedPervertPayback get their asses kicked]], complete with everyone wearing modesty towels.
712* ''VideoGame/TheQueenOfHeart'': Yu's stage in ''Party’s Breaker'' takes place in an ''onsen'', with the characters standing on the hot water, and toweled girls as [[FanserviceExtra background NPCs]].
713* In ''VideoGame/RidgesideVillage'', during [[CuteClumsyGirl Flor]]'s 2 heart event, she greets the player character in the hallway outside of her room at the Log Cabin Hotel while covered only in a towel, [[InnocentFanserviceGirl she doesn't realize this until the player character points it out to her]], after which she flusters out.
714* ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors 4-II'': The "Women of War" story mode starts with Naotora Ii [[NakedFirstImpression meeting]] Gracia and Koshōshō while they're all dressed in towels in a {{hot spring|sEpisode}}, with Gracia getting [[SkinshipGrope very handsy]] with poor Naotora before recruiting her for Gracia's AmazonBrigade. Completing it will unlock the option to have a towel costumes for Naotora and Gracia to use while fighting. Completing Kosh?sh?'s story "Love and Fear" will unlock her towel costume.
715* In ''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'', [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank Ratchet]] and the more humanoid enemies wear these in the showers (and lose them upon taking damage, leaving them with {{Censor Box}}es).
716* In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', if a character [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen has their clothes stolen]] while SkinnyDipping, they immediately cover-up in one of these on emerging from the pool.
717* ''VideoGame/SNKHeroinesTagTeamFrenzy'': Sylvie Paula Paula has a Modesty Towel as a costume option.
718* Elh wears one during the two ShowerOfAwkward scenes in ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}''. It's perhaps implied that Red tried to steal it the first time.
719* ''VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries'': When Ernie uses his magic to dispel the CensorSteam hiding the showering girls at Barmaid University, they each go for their towels to cover themselves with.
720* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'': Edge is [[ThePeepingTom watching]] Reimi's SexySilhouette while she's {{shower|scene}}ing. When she hears him make a noise, when leaves the shower stall wrapped in a towel to investigate, apparently having the towel inside the stall with her the entire time.
721* ''VideoGame/StellaGlow'': [[DudeLooksLikeALady Ewan]] wears his bath towel in the FuroScene in the "female" fashion, covering his entire torso. Rusty and Archibald poke some fun at him for this.
722* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'': E. Honda's story takes place in his bathhouse. In the illustrations, he fights Laura, Rashid and Ryu while they're clad in nothing but Modesty Towels, but [[GameplayAndStorySegregation in gameplay, Laura and Rashid are wearing their casual story costumes]] and Ryu is at least fought wearing his Jin {{fundoshi}} outfit.
723* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'': Shows often throughout the series, usually during the HotSpringsEpisode. Sometimes they're even [[UnlockableContent unlockable costumes]].
724** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', all the party members have custom sprites of all of them dressed in towels when they visit the [[HotSpringsEpisode hots springs at the Ninja Village]].
725** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': Both the boys and the girls are wrapped up in towels when they soak in [[HotSpringsEpisode the hots springs]].
726** ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'', the HotSpringsEpisode is shown via event CG, showing all the characters are wearing towels white bathing.
727** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', Karol reluctantly wears one as his employee "uniform" (They ran out of proper ones) while working part-time at a hot spring with the rest of the party. He [[AndYourRewardIsClothes gets to keep it as a costume once the job is done]] called "Towel Fanatic" and is rather displeased by it. Leaving it on him for long enough starts a skit where all the girls avoid him. At one point he starts LeaningOnTheFourthWall, [[WhatTheHellPlayer yelling to the player how he's mean and made him wear it]] only because he [[NakedPeopleAreFunny thought it was funny]].
728** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'' the animated HotSpringsEpisode has all the characters wearing one while bathing.
729** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria'', the party has a HotSpringsEpisode while visiting the inn, with one event CG showing the boys dressed in towels at the sauna, while another event CG shows the girls are bathing in the hot springs in their towels.
730** PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria''. During the HotSpringsEpisode, as a result of a special effect of the baths, [[FreakyFridayFlip the girls and guys of the party end up switching bodies]] and HilarityEnsues. The dialogue makes it pretty clear the character actually ''aren't'' wearing towels with many having a NakedFreakOut over the body swap, and their modesty is concealed instead with CensorSteam, SceneryCensor or ShouldersUpNudity. But after the event, all the characters gain [[AndYourRewardIsClothes "Hot Spring" costumes]] that are all Modesty Towels. [[note]]It's likely the towel costumes were being used during the hot springs scene but were concealed from the player via above mentioned CensorshipTropes and camera trickery. But the dialogue makes it pretty clear the characters aren't wearing anything.[[/note]]
731* ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel:'' In ''Cold Steel IV'', towels are an unlockable outfit, for the girls and the boys.
732* ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'': [[HospitalHottie Maria's]] introduction has her just [[InterruptedBath coming out of the shower to answer a call]], wearing only a towel around her neck, with the dangling ends covering her breasts.
733* In ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' Sam is wearing one while being pursued by the killer. Miraculously, it stays on even when she's running.
734* ''VideoGame/ValkyrieAnatomia'': The "[[HotSpringsEpisode Hot Spring Incident]]" [[AndYourRewardIsClothes awards the player]] with Modesty Towel costumes for Caradoc, Brahms, Cloe, Bedelia, Leny, Aelia and Wylfred. InUniverse, characters lament Jeanne doesn't get one, since it would be an opportunity to see [[TheFaceless her face, since it is always half-hidden by her outfit]].
735* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'':
736** ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'': One scene has Kiryu coming to Serena, only to find Kaoru wearing nothing but a Modesty Towel after helping herself to a shower closeby. She [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl even casually drops the towel to get dressed while he's still in the room]]. He's [[ChasteHero obviously awkward the whole time]].
737** ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'': The first time Kiryu goes to confront Takumi Someya, the latter is relaxing in the sauna of a hotel, wearing nothing but a towel. Before the fight can actually start, however, Someya [[FlungClothing throws said towel in Kiryu's face]] as a distraction and scampers back to his suite to put something on while leaving his guards in Kiryu's path. By the time Kiryu catches up to him, he's just managed to put on a pair of athletic briefs. Notably, Someya's lack of clothes is also used dramatically, since it shows that he has no ''irezumi'' on his back despite being a high-ranking yakuza.
738* ''VideoGame/YsVIIILacrimosaOfDana'': Post-prologue, Laxia's [[NakedOnArrival first appearance]] is her wearing a Modesty Towel. When Adol finds her, she takes a rapier with the hand holding the towel and attacks him; Adol parries the attack, causing her to [[WardrobeMalfunction lose her grip on the towel]], rendering her nude. Cue NakedFreakOut.
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742* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'':
743** In Chapter Two, Kiyotaka wears one during his "sauna battle" against Mondo who is fully clothed in the sauna. It noticeably shows that Kiyotaka is actually extremely ripped under all his clothes.
744** In Chapter Three, if the player got the "A Man's Fantasy" item during Chapter 2, it will trigger an opportunity for a [[EasterEgg bonus cutscene]] during Chapter 3 where [[CovertPervert Makoto]] will gather the courage to [[ThePeepingTom go peeking at the girl's when they go to bath]]. The player gets a {{fanservice}} event CG with Sakura, Aoi, Kyoko, Toko, and Celestia all clad in modesty towels while bathing. AmazonianBeauty Sakura, the most masculine of the girls, is notably wearing a towel around her waist, her modesty concealed by having her [[ToplessnessFromTheBack bare back]] turned to the camera, though she's still showing a generous amount of {{sideboob}}.
745* Subverted in ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'' on a couple of occasions when the title character is staying at the protagonist's apartment. Melody walks in front of him wearing a towel, but it doesn’t sufficiently cover her chest. Sometimes, he can get points by bringing this to Melody’s attention, and at other times, it’s better just to keep quiet.
746* ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvExtra'': Mikoto keeps an AmbiguousGender by using a Modesty Towel like a woman during the group's stay in the {{hot springs|episode}}.
747* ''VisualNovel/Never7'': Yuka and Makoto wear one in the HotSpringsEpisode.
748* ''VideoGame/{{Roommates}}'': [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Isabella]] has no problems waltzing around the house in just a towel in front of her roommates, causing Dominic to scold her and tell her to PleasePutSomeClothesOn.
749* ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'': Gillian [[ShowerOfAwkward walks in on Katrina showering on his apartment]] prompting a NakedFreakOut following by her kicking him out. When she comes out to talk to him, she has a towel wrapped around her hair and body, and even does a ShakingHerHairLoose when unwrapping the head towel. During the following conversation, the player has [[VideoGamePerversityPotential the option to try to investigate said towel]].
750-->'''Gillian:''' I'm going to need to check out your towel...\
751'''Katrina:''' Don't you ever quit!? I know what you have in mind!
752* ''VisualNovel/TimeTenshi 2'': One event with Kyo has the PlayerCharacter bumping into a freshly showered Kyo wearing just a towel, with her boobs being so big they almost spill out of the towel.
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756* Subverted in ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''. While Coach Z is talking to Homestar about girls, an alien is shown in the background showering, while wearing a modesty towel... [[spoiler:and then the towel falls down to [[FanDisservice reveals the alien's butt]].]]
757* In the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' episode "[[Recap/RWBYV2E6BurningTheCandle Burning the Candle]]", Ren is stepping out of the shower in a towel when Jaune grabs him and drags him into their dorm room. Jaune says he needed someone to confide to, and drones on about his failed love life, while Ren awkwardly sits there and tries to grab his clothes.
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761* ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe'': When Triana confronts Teddy in the girl's locker room, shes's actually wearing ''three'' modesty towels: one around her bust, a second around her hips and a third thrown over her shoulders like a cape. She's all covered up because she's convinced Teddy is faking his GenderBender and is shocked to discover that he isn't.
762* Appears in ''Webcomic/DevilBear'' after the Daivas share some time in the [[http://www.thedevilbear.com/comics.php?p=103 Hot Springs.]]
763* ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' makes use of them to preserve the comic's PG-13 rating, during {{bath|tubscene}} and {{shower scene}}s.
764** First seen in chapter 6 (''"See no Evil"''), when [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/rorrim_ni_deppart the Hellrunes]] were in the school's shower. wherein, a ghostly message from [[spoiler:Nina]] sent them running down the hall clad in towels.
765** Tiffany was also seen in one, [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/ewwwww!!! after stepping out of the shower]] at home.
766* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': In the ''[[ShowWithinTheShow Lucky Bunny Bounty Show]]'', Unusagi and Travis [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-11-14 wear the female and male versions, respectively]], during a PublicBathhouseScene.
767* On [[http://flyingsparkscomic.com/archive/issue-4-page-1/ the first page of issue 4]] of ''Flying Sparks'', Johnny Benvinuti has just come out of the shower wearing only a towel, which suddenly slips off his body, leading to a FullFrontalAssault.
768* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'':
769** Florence wears one after taking a bath at Winston's place, until he donates one of his shirts to provide for her modesty.
770** [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1600/fc01526.htm Florence is called to the videofone.]]
771* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Agatha actually invokes the trope while on the Corbettite Railways, using it as a ploy to distract anybody entering her compartment, giving time for Krosp (and later Wooster) to take them out if they happen to be hostile. Unluckily, all those coming to visit are either allies or just train attendants, and thus she gives each of them an eyeful for nothing. [[spoiler:She has pretty much given up on the pretense when an ''actual'' assassin shows up.]]
772* "Around the Universe in a Bath Towel" is the fourth ''Webcomic/GirlsInSpace'' story. Scarlet "Red" Macrumble spends almost the entire story wearing only a towel.
773* On page [[https://pika-la-cynique.deviantart.com/art/GND-306-Heads-and-eyes-up-694674662 306]] of ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'', Jareth inverts this trope. While a Modesty Towel is usually used to... well, preserve one's modesty, Jareth uses it as an opportunity to blatantly invoke a ShirtlessScene. This is made even more egregious by the fact that Jareth can (and frequently ''does'') magically poof into different outfits--he has no ''need'' to '''ever''' be only partly dressed. Also, the towel he wears seems to be a hand towel, not a bath towel.
774-->'''Sarah:''' ...Jareth we don't even own a towel that small.
775* Instinctively wrapping her towel girl-style is just one of the things programmed into Roxanne the {{Gender Ben|der}}t cheerleader by ''Webcomic/TheGoodWitch'' along with a full set of cheer routines, causing Roxanne some cognitive dissonance and making her wonder if any other parts of her brain were affected by her transformation.
776* The cover for the first print collection of ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' shows Peanut and Grape wearing the male and female versions, respectively, of a modesty towel, even though they almost always walk around wearing only a collar in normal conditions.[[note]]In the comic, even pets soaked down to the bone aren't any more detailed about their mostly undressed state than when dry.[[/note]]
777* ''Webcomic/LivingWithHipstergirlAndGamergirl'': Erika is prone to wear tiny towels around the house, [[http://www.jagodibuja.com/2016/08/3197/ much to Arthur's frustration]]. Though there are a few times she didn't [[HomeNudist even bother with the towel]].
778* ''Webcomic/LottaSvardWomenOfWar'': The characters are sometimes depicted sitting in the sauna, and most of the time they are sitting there wearing towels. This gets lampshaded in chapter 5 with a caption saying:
779-->In sauna you're supposed to be naked, but let's keep this comic worksafe.
780* ''Webcomic/MagickChicks'' is rated PG-13 like its parent comic, ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' (see above), and also uses bath towels to preserve that rating. As [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/magick-chicks/the-dollar-store seen here]], for example, when Faith steps out of the shower to check on Sandi's progress with [[spoiler: the wand]].
781* In ''Webcomic/MeatShield'', it's more like [[http://www.meatshield.net/archive/dhur-and-the-duckies/ Modesty Blankets]] for Jaine and Dhur after they get mugged.
782* ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'': In [[https://megatokyo.com/strip/1319 strip 1319]], Miho and Piro are in a {{Public Bathhouse|scene}} when Miho [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl nonchalantly starts stripping]] in front of Piro so [[BathtubBonding they can talk while they're bathing]]. This freaks him out so she covers herself with a modesty towel, while he does his best to IgnoreTheFanservice. [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1332 Later when they're done talking]], Miho covers herself back in a towel as she walks out, but she also ends up getting into a quick BathroomBrawl with Yuki and seemingly loses both towels offscreen. When Piro rushes to see what's happening, he gets [[PervertRevengeMode smacked in the face by a washtub]] on grounds that Yuki isn't as shameless as Miho.
783* The idea behind ''Webcomic/OkashinaOkashi'''s Beauty Man Garden, introduced [[http://www.strangecandy.net/d/20010301.html here]], staffed by {{bishonen}} wearing nothing more than towels [[FanServiceWithASmile with the restaurant's logo]]. Unless they're washing dishes, in which case it's a NakedApron.
784* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
785** Haley wears one for a quick InterruptedBath gag on the bottom of [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0277.html "The Crayons of Time: Breaking Up is Hard to Do"]].
786--->'''Haley:''' Zfq bq nzml? (Are we back?)
787** And in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0648.html "A Dish Best Served with +1d6 Cold Damage"]], [[spoiler:to add insult to injury, Haley kills Crystal by ambushing her in the bathroom while she's just wearing a towel.]]
788** Roy gets such a scene [[spoiler:[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0665.html post-resurrection]]. Did you know you [[NakedOnRevival arrive naked]] when you're resurrected...?]] Though it's not even a towel; that's V's cape.
789** As a gag to the name of "Empire of Sweat", a {{flashback}} [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0758.html comic]] shows Queen Shvitzer having a meeting with her two "advisors" in a sauna with everyone only wearing towels, including an {{Mook|s}} standing guard.
790* ''Webcomic/PocketPrincesses'': [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1992 Ariel]], whenever she has just changed from her mermaid to human form and has yet to put clothes on, will wear a towel around her waist (her top staying covered by her SeashellBra).
791* Former magical girl Tessa Quinn in ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'' wears a modesty towel in the scene that reveals the scar where her PowerTattoo used to be.
792* In the ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' "GOFOTRON" arc, Princess-Princess actually [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010708 puts a towel on]] for the naked part of her TransformationSequence.
793* ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'': In [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/sticky-dilly-buns/Totally-at-ease-around-any-man this strip,]] Ruby and Dillon are already EatingTheEyeCandy at the sight of Ray in only a towel, and their staring only gets more intense when he suffers a StrippingSnag accident off-screen.
794* In one strip of ''Webcomic/ValAndIsaac'' Isaac's sister [[https://val-and-isaac.tumblr.com/post/180343146747/tredlocity-do-not-mess-with-a-wizards-family summons him]] to save her from a bandit, and he arrives wearing a wet towel [[InconvenientSummons complaining about the timing of those bandits]].
795* In ''White Noise'' (not the one that has a trope page), Teige wears his modesty towel female style. He also wears a tight, cropped undershirt reminiscent of a sports bra in his human disguise. It's foreshadowing the eventual reveal that he's UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}.
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799* A Website/CollegeHumor sketch featured a {{POV|Cam}} of a "typical" dorm bathroom, wherein TheProtagonist takes note of another student [[ShowerShy stepping out of the shower and wrapping a towel over his swim trunks]]. After asking, "How self-conscious can you be?" another student steps out of the shower ''[[NonNudeBathing fully-clothed]]'' and wraps himself in a towel.
800* Done by Kate in the ''WebVideo/KateModern'' episode "Tariq Attack" and by Gavin in the episode "A Close Shave".
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803[[folder:Western Animation]]
804* PlayedForLaughs on ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime:'' a paranoid [[NonHumanSidekick Jake]] wears one [[NonNudeBathing in the shower]] after finding out that [[VampireMonarch Marceline]] sometimes sneaks into his house, then puts on a ''second'' one when he steps out. Note that he's a dog who always looks naked anyway, though technically he claims to wear spider-web pants [[FridgeLogic too thin to see]].
805* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} (1993)'' episode "Meet Minerva" start with [[MsFanservice Minerva Mink]] walking out of home with just a towel (and another for the head), causing [[HeadTurningBeauty affectionate reactions]] (Tex Avery-styled) to males of every species, before bathing naked in a lake. Then again, this trope was applied to Ms. Mink every chance the writers got in the comics.
806* Used on ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', when Mallory hires a black Jewish man to fulfill minority hiring requirements, and Archer confronts him in the locker room. When they end up nearly fighting, both towels [[WardrobeMalfunction fall off]].
807-->'''Archer:''' He's uncircumcised.\
808'''Lana:''' Okay, glossing over how you know that...\
809'''Archer:''' We touched penises.\
810'''Lana:''' Glossing over!
811* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "The Winter Solstice Part 1" after the Earthbenders capture the naked Iroh, they wrap a towel around him off-screen so they wouldn't "experience" what Zuko did earlier. Later:
812-->'''Zuko:''' ''[after beating up the Earthbenders]'' Now would you [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn please put on some clothes?!]]
813* After soaking in his bathtub in a previous scene of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Megatron comes out with a towel wrapped around his waist. Considering that he is a robot and thus always naked just like everyone else, and considering that he has a rubber ducky in his bathtub, this is pretty much due to the RuleOfFunny.
814* In the opening credits of ''WesternAnimation/BobbysWorld'', Kelly, clad in this, runs from Bobby just after coming out of the shower.
815* Both girls and boys wears this in few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Braceface}}''. In the "[[AprilFoolsPlot prank episode]]", Sharon scares Connor with a rubber cockroach causing him to drop his towel in public.
816* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, is [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal always naked except for his gloves]], wears a towel in the short ''The Wabbit Who Came to Supper'', during a scene in which he's coming out of the shower.
817* Bathtub Granny from ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' wraps herself in a towel in the rare instances of her leaving her bathtub.
818* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'':
819** Yumi Ishiyama is seen in a Modesty Towel in at least two episodes, most notably [[Recap/CodeLyokoS1E1 the first]]. To be fair, the boys are seen wearing one even more often over the run of the series.
820** Near the end of "[[Recap/CodeLyokoS4E14 Bragging Rights]]" has a scene with Odd dancing around for "breaking the record of fastest shower", while wearing only a Modesty Towel.
821** In the opening of Season 4 episode "Bad Connection", Ulrich is stuck in the hallway wearing just a towel. When Aelita and Yumi walk in with Jérémie, the girls at first pretend to be looking away, but spend pretty much the rest of the scene [[EatingTheEyeCandy ogling]].
822* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'': Caprice wears a towel in at least two episodes, one of them where she [[NonNudeBathing wears a towel while showering]] (appearing as a SexySilhouette through the curtain) and emerging out the bathroom after one of her TricksterTwins siblings changed the water temperature for a prank, and the other episode where when half of her family lives in a shanty house with no electricity, she has hairy armpits and complains of her hair remover not working while wearing a towel. Her father also wears a towel in at least another episode.
823* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' has the title character visit a special boarding school for gifted, and [[{{Jerkass}} rather elitist]], students. One of them bitterly mentions leaving his old school after the quarterback of the football team told everyone that he wore a towel [[NonNudeBathing in the locker room shower]].
824* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse''
825** In the episode "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E11Revenant Renevant]]" of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', Dana, Chelsea, and other schoolgirls wear towels while getting ready to shower in the girl's locker room, when the showers start to go haywire due to a "ghost" (actually a remote-viewing telekinetic) forcing them all the flee the locker room in their towels.
826** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In the AprilFoolsDay episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE4TheLastLaugh The Last Laugh]]", Bruce walks to the bathroom in a towel for the bath Alfred "draw" for him. But he finds the bathtub empty and [[ServileSnarker Alfred]] proceeds to give Bruce an [[ExactWords actual literal drawing of a bath]] as a joke. Bruce is not amused.
827** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
828*** In the episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS1E22And23Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]]", Green Lantern visits an old friend, [[ComicBook/{{Metamorpho}} Rex Mason]] and is introduced to his [[HeadTurningBeauty stunning]] fiancée, Sapphire Stagg, who had stepped out from the showers with nothing but a towel on.
829*** At the end of "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS1E1Initiation Initiation]]", ComicBook/GreenArrow comes out of the Watchtower's shower room in a towel, but hilariously [[NeverBareheaded still has his mask on]].
830** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E8Mxyzpixilated Mxyzpixilated]]", a towel is one of the many FanserviceCostumes Ms. Gsptlsnz wears in her attempt to {{distract|edByTheSexy}} Mr. Mxyzptlk from his from his crusade against Superman. [[NotDistractedByTheSexy It fails]].
831** ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject'': In "West Bound", Zeta and Ro are in a train, hiding from Agent West in a private room. When Agent West comes into their room, Ro hides and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Zeta changes]] into an old woman in a towel and pretends to have a NakedFreakOut for West to back off.
832* ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'': "[[Recap/DisenchantmentS1E2ForWhomThePigOinks For Whom the Pig Oinks]]", Bean enters her room wearing a towel after bathing, and almost drops it before noticing Elfo is in the room, EatingTheEyeCandy. She then turns his cage around and so she can get dressed, throwing the towel at Luci from offscreen when he starts snarking.
833-->'''Elfo:''' I was just admiring the towel! My people don't have terrycloth.
834* WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck wears a Modesty Towel after taking a shower. Given that he [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal doesn't wear pants]], presumably it's done [[RuleOfFunny because it's funny]].
835** [[https://charges.uol.com.br/2009/06/13/tobby-entrevista-pato-donaldo/ A Brazilian animation]] had Donald being interviewed, questioned about this, and saying he's impressed why people don't understand: "It's to dry my huge butt!".
836* Used by Judy Funnie in ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' when she's waiting for her brother Doug to get out of the bathroom so she can take a shower.
837* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''
838** {{Subverted|trope}} when Princess Clara discovers Captain Hero sleeping with her cousin Bleh. She gives her a towel and instructs her to "...[[PleasePutSomeClothesOn cover your shame!]]" Bleh takes the towel and wraps it around her head before skipping back to her room otherwise naked.
839** In "Terms of Endearment", Clara, Foxxy and Toot are wearing towels when confronting Captain Hero about him [[ThePeepingTom peeking]] on them showering with his XRayVision.
840* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'': "Too Close for Combat", has [[MsFanservice The Martian Queen]] and the Commander meeting with [[ASpyAtTheSpa an assassin at in a Steam Room]], with both of them wearing towels. PlayedForLaughs when the Centurtions come in and are ''also'' wearing towels, despite being MechaMooks with nothing to hide.
841* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'''s [[Recap/DuckTales2017S1E1Woooo first episode]] begins with [[WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck Donald]] getting ready for a job interview; he wants to wear his usual sailor suit, but the triplets force it off of him, saying that he needs a suit. Donald quickly pulls on a towel, despite the obvious FridgeLogic that a.) NonHumansLackAttributes and b.) [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal he wasn't wearing pants before anyway]].
842* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': In "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS0E7TheZappys The Zappys]]", The ToothFairy [[NakedOnArrival makes her first appearance wearing one]], after Timmy's knocked out tooth lands under a pillow earlier than expected, resulting in her having to leave [[InterruptedBath in the middle of a shower]].
843* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
844** "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E21FamilyGuyViewerMailOne Viewer Mail #1]]", Peter wishes he had no bones and is turned to a shapeless blob. At one point he gets thrown out of the Teacups ride at Disneyland and through a window into a locker room, where Michael Eisner comes out and uses him ''as'' one of these, tucking his face into the inside as he walks out of the room.
845** {{Subverted|trope}} in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E5WhistleWhileYourWifeWorks Whistle While Your Wife Works]]" with Jillian. When Brian is trying to break up with Jillian, his [[HeadTurningBeauty incredibly attractive]] but [[DumbBlonde intellectually challenged]] girlfriend. He goes to her apartment and she answers the door wearing only a towel, which she absent-mindedly removes to dry her hair. Needless to say, he was too DistractedByTheSexy to go through with the break-up.
846* ''WesternAnimation/TheFantasticFour1978'' shows The Thing wearing a towel in the episode "The Impossible Man".
847* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In Episode 6, Quinn sees all of Gary's old video messages to her. In one, it shows him, dressed in just a towel, [[SerenadeYourLover trying to sing a balad he wrote for Quinn]]. While playing on a small, improvised guitar he made from scrap since HUE wouldn’t let him have an actual guitar.
848** In episode 3, Gary wears a towel after his new arm rips off his clothes.
849* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': Eduardo spends most of "The Big Cheese" in one due to having taken a shower early in the episode and being called outside the house by Mr. Herriman so the latter can demonstrate the new security system he bought to keep Cheese out before the former can get dressed.
850* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Happens in the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E17WarIsTheHWord War Is the H-Word]]":
851** A joke similar to ''Hot Dog!: The Movie'' was used with Zapp Branningan stepping out of the shower.
852--->'''Richard Nixon:''' Damn it, Brannigan, I didn't live for thousands of years and travel millions of miles to look at another man's gizmo!
853** Subverted seconds before also: [[SweetPollyOliver Pvt. Lee Lemon]] suggests that [[strike:his]] her Captain puts on a towel after exiting the shower. He obliges by putting a towel [[YouNeverAsked on his head]]. Considering in the world of ''Futurama'' there's no nudity taboo, it leads you to think what's wrong with Zapp's anatomy. Or, more likely, the sight of him brought shameful memories to mind. [[note]] Considering that, in a later episode, when Amy is cooing at Kif that he's her "greenie weenie" and Brannigan covers his lap and says it's a medical condition before realizing that it wasn't directed at him... Yikes[[/note]].
854** Leela herself wears her towel wrapped around her entire torso in the same scene, but nobody notices that she's a SweetPollyOliver. (Well, Zapp seems to notice [[SweetOnPollyOliver subconsciously]].)
855* The [[TestosteronePoisoning Manotaurs]] in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' wear towels all of the time as their only clothing. A scene near the beginning of the episode also shows Dipper with one in the bathroom.
856* In the ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' episode "[[Recap/HiHiPuffyAmiYumiS1E1DisHarmonyCollectAll5Ninjcompoop Dis-Harmony]]", Ami and Yumi quickly start wearing towels when they find their mud bath [[InterruptedBath disturbed]] by their LoonyFan Harmony.
857* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTheSeries'': In the HalloweenEpisode, "The Legend of Pumpkin Guts", Mavis is ordered not to go outside by her father, which she naturally ignores and Lydia spends most of the episode trying to find her. When Mavis sneaks back inside, she makes sure to walk out of the bathroom in a towel in front of Lydia, to claim that she's been in the shower... for the last ''ten hours''.
858* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'':
859** In one episode, Kaeloo does a painting of Quack Quack wearing no clothes [[SceneryCensor except a leaf covering his crotch]]. Once she's done, Quack Quack wraps a towel around his waist.
860** A different episode has Quack-Quack wearing a towel because Stumpy set his underpants on fire and he had nothing else to wear.
861* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Madballs}}'' episode "Escape from Orb" had a scene where Slobulus and Aargh accidentally fire their ship's bathtub at the spaceship of Wolf Breath and the Badballs. Freakella isn't happy about this because she was going to take a bath, and is seen wearing a towel and a shower cap. Since the Madballs are [[{{Cephalothorax}} heads with arms and legs]] and therefore don't really have any visible naughty bits, this was most likely done for comedic effect rather than modesty.
862* In the episode "Hot Lava Shower" on ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'', Vulk wears one after coming out of the shower. This actually ends up being ''more'' than he normally wears.
863* PlayedForLaughs with Jimmy Five during the first half of a ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' cartoon named "Quero Entrar" ("Let Me In").
864* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
865** In "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbGamingTheSystem Gaming the System]]", Candace spends almost the entirety of the episode in one that, despite running, jumping, and fighting her way through a video game, stays put. [[FridgeLogic Technically, she even went on her]] ''[[FridgeLogic date]]'' [[FridgeLogic wearing it under her dress.]] That must have been kind of uncomfortable to dance in (well, that or she went on the date with nothing underneath).
866** Linda in "Tour de Ferb" with Candace take her out from the home without others dress. What's with this trend?
867** [[FanDisservice Doofenshmirtz wears, and loses, one]] in "Where's Perry."
868* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': In "[[Recap/ScoobyDooMysteryIncS2E10NightTerrors Night Terrors]]", Daphne steps out of the shower in a towel and is soon attacked by what looks like a giant {{Medusa}}. Curiously, before she runs out of the bathroom, she ''also'' throws a robe over her modesty towel.
869* In the ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' episode "Flowers for Hordak", Mantenna, perpetual ButtMonkey of the Evil Horde, is called into Hordak's throne room over an issue, as per the norm. This time, [[InterruptedBath he was in the middle of a shower]], so he's dripping wet and only in a shower cap and Modesty Towel. Hordak's more irritated over the fact he's dripping water on the floor, and sends him down the trapdoor, [[RunningGag as always]].
870* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E12BartGetsFamous Bart Gets Famous]]": When Homer comes out of the shower at the nuclear plant to answer the phone: "You'll have to speak up. I'm wearing a towel."
871* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In "Towelie", the military is destroying all towels to stem the threat posed by Towelie. In one scene, [[DepravedHomosexual Mr. Garrison]] is getting out of the shower in a towel when the soldiers storm in and [[StrippingSnag rip off]]. He cries out, "Oh, all right, have your way with me, you sick freaks!"... and is [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe immensely disappointed when they leave once the towel's destroyed]].
872* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Felicia Hardy wore a light blue towel in the opening of "The Vampire Queen" before suiting up in her ComicBook/BlackCat attire.
873* In ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' background character Ensign Hans Federov is better known to the cast as "Towel Guy" as we mostly see him in a modesty towel. Of the main cast we see D'Vana Tendi in the female variant in the episode "The Least Dangerous Game".
874* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil,'' Marco wears one the traditionally feminine way, including with a towel wrapped around his (short) hair.
875* ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'': In the second motel that Lance and Ilana stay episode 19, Ilana comes out of the shower and in a towel before setting beside Lance in bed while he's watching the news.
876* Krang in the '80s ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' cartoon wears one in his robotic body after Shredder contacts him on his communicator and "[[InterruptedBath interrupts his shower]]" in one episode.
877** Krang dons a towel again in one scene in the 2012 Crossover episode "The Big Blowout".
878* Dr. Vic on the ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}'' episode "Love Potion Number Nein!" was wearing a towel the feminine way (covering from under the armpits to around the knees) and had another one wrapped around his hair when he came out of the bathroom to find Igor being chased by the ghost woman Natalie Nightshade.
879* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Only a few characters wear a bathrobe. Most go to and from the showers wearing towels.
880** Heather records her audition video when she's fresh from a shower and wrapped in a towel. The appeal is part of her strategy to get on the show as she promises good ratings if she's selected. She then walks out of view and throws her towel back behind her.
881** The Screaming Gophers win a shower in "[[Recap/TotalDramaXtremeTorture X-Treme Torture]]". The girls go first and come out wearing towels.
882** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaHookLineAndScreamer Hook, Line, and Screamer]]", DJ finds Heather in the communal bathroom draped in a towel and in the process of shaving her legs. She's later still in a towel when she tries to shower, which causes her to be eliminated when the "killer" catches her. She's still wearing it when Chris lectures her about her GenreBlindness in [[DeadlyBath showering alone]] during the horror film-themed challenge.
883** The contestants get the opportunity to shower in "[[Recap/TotalDrama310ToCrazytown 3:10 to Crazytown]]", but have to share the same barrel. Harold goes first while Duncan, Justin, Beth, DJ, Lindsay, Owen, and Heather wait in line dressed in towels. Owen goes the feminine route by wearing his towel up high and another as a turban, while Leshawna is the only contestant to wear a bathrobe. Trent is off to the communal bathroom, both wearing a towel and using another one to dry himself off.
884** "[[Recap/TotalDramaRockNRule Rock n' Rule]]" starts with Lindsay coming out of the communal bathroom in a towel while singing.
885** In the "That's Gonna Leave a Mark!" segment of "[[Recap/TotalDramaAftermathIIIOwenOrLose Aftermath III: O-wen or Lose]]", an [[AnimatedOuttakes outtake]] of "[[Recap/TotalDramaOneMillionBucksBC One Million Bucks B.C.]]", Harold walks around the trailer wearing a towel. It comes flying off when he slips on soap.
886** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaGetAClue Get a Clue]]", Lindsay needs to get Courtney's footprint for a challenge, and she tries it by getting her to walk in paint and then on a sheet of cardboard while she only has a towel on after showering.
887** Duncan walks around in a modesty towel in "[[Recap/TotalDramaMutinyOnTheSoundstage Mutiny on the Soundstage]]".
888** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaAMineIsATerribleThingToWaste A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste]]", Jo is wearing just a towel while bragging in a confessional about having the girl's side of the cabin to herself, so she can now [[WorkoutFanservice workout]] while [[HomeNudist naked]].
889* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'': In "[[Recap/RidonculousRaceILoveRidoncAndRoll I Love Ridonc and Roll]]", Don wears one while introducing Finland, and the Finnish Don Box for the "Spa Day" all-in. It [[WardrobeMalfunction falls off]] at the end of the segment.
890* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'':
891** "Matchmaker" Clover wears one when spying on a posh and wash spa, along with several other women.
892** "[[Recap/TotallySpiesS3E02FreakyCircusMuch Freaky Circus Much?]]", The Reality TV Show Crew that Clover signed up for is [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace very intrusive]] and even sneaks up on Sam [[ShowerOfAwkward while she was showering]] and she wraps herself in a towel to complain to Clover about it. She's still wearing it when Jerry [=WOOHPed'd=] them to his office, with her holding on to it to keep it from falling off. Jerry also just happens to have a camcorder recording their interactions, and at one point, he does a close-up on the towel-clad Sam, before he blushes and sends them to put on their {{Spy Catsuit}}s.
893* In the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' song about Larry's hairbrush, Larry is shown in a Modesty Towel (even though he doesn't wear anything other than the occasional period-appropriate headdress in the regular animated stories or on one occasion, in a corporate setting, a tie when his character was promoted) coming out of the shower, and everyone who walks into him still recoils in embarrassment. At the end, the Peach shows up and is ''also'' wrapped in a towel. The two are shocked and slightly embarrassed at the sight of each other.
894* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' had a gag in the episode "The Day" where Sylvia has to fight some Watchdogs in the Skullship's locker room and is disgusted that the Watchdogs directly in front of her [[NakedPeopleAreFunny are butt naked]]. They comply Sylvia's request that they put towels on before fighting, but wear the towels around their heads before Sylvia clarifies she meant for them to wear the towels around their waists.
895* In [[Recap/WakfuS1E4TheUglyPagent episode 4]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', almost the whole cast wears one, though not just to keep modesty but also to hide the "ugly princesses" disguises. Unfortunately, the only one to have the towel fall off is [[FanDisservice Ruel]].
896* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': Helia is seen in one during episode 21 "[[Recap/WinxClubS3E21TheRedTower The Red Tower]]" in season 3. Perhaps it was a little {{Fanservice}}, since we hadn't seen him much in that season.
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