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10->''"Naked I was sent back -- for a brief time, until my task is done."''
11-->-- '''Gandalf''', ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''
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13To be alive, you basically need two things: a living spirit/mind, and a fully functioning body. Note that clothing is not included in there. When people are born as babies, they're [[TruthInTelevision naturally]] NakedOnArrival, and the same often goes for resurrections, unless the force that brings people back to life is feeling extra generous to give them a spare set of clothing on top of that. When it's not, expect ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing to precede this trope in some manner.
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15This trope can be symbolic of the character's rebirth into the living world, of course, or serve to show how fragile life is by having them be vulnerable upon being thrust back into the world. {{Fanservice}} is also a contributing factor, but it can turn into FanDisservice if the character is unattractive and/or wounded. Or it can just be [[NakedPeopleAreFunny funny]].
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17Expect this to happen when someone [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue Wakes Up At The Morgue]].
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19May often involve a FetalPositionRebirth. The super trope to this is NakedOnArrival.
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21Note that there may be '''spoilers''' ahead: we're going to have to talk about death if we talk about resurrection.
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23!!Examples:
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28* ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'': In the final book of the pre-''Last Order'' series, [[spoiler:Alita is destroyed saving the Earth, and is effectively "regrown" out of the resulting "tree's" nanomachine system. In the last frames, Figure pulls her out of a cocoon and she falls out, nude.]]
29* ''Literature/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'' gave us the Vampire Carmilla, reviving herself out of pure blood, naked in a casket.
30* ''Manga/TerraforMARS'': While Eva Frost can grow a new body from a small portion of her body such as when she gets blown up, she cannot regrow her previous outfit.
31* Not immediately apparent, but the hero of ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' is killed when his control metal is ripped out of his head and his body consumes itself. A new body later forms from the control metal itself, but when the Guyver armor recedes, he's naturally without clothing.
32* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Yami Yugi's FetalPositionRebirth during the Doma saga. Of course, it got cut by the 4Kids dub.
33* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. [[spoiler:Alphonse Elric]] at the end of the manga. They were nice enough to throw a blanket over the severely-malnourished body though.
34* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders,'' Polnareff encounters a JerkassGenie (actually the VillainOfTheWeek) and wishes for the resurrection of both his [[CynicismCatalyst dead sister]] and his fallen comrade, [[spoiler:Avdol [[FakingTheDead who's not even dead, incidentally]]]]. Cameo creates [[OurZombiesAreDifferent flesh-eating clones made of earth]]; while [[spoiler:Avdol]]'s is fully clothed, [[{{Fanservice}} the sister is naked]], which is neither questioned nor explained.
35* ''Literature/TheMisfitOfDemonKingAcademy'': When Anos kills and reincarnates Emilia Ludowell, she comes back naked. Given Anos is perfectly capable of bringing people back with their clothes, he likely did that to further humiliate her. He then leaves her without giving her any clothes, leaving it unknown how she managed to get home.
36* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
37** Shinji gets absorbed into his Eva which leaves his plugsuit behind, which can be seen floating in the plug ([[SeriesContinuityError even though he was wearing his school uniform when he was absorbed]]). Later on, the Eva's core spits him back out naked. Makes sense when you consider [[spoiler:that he's literally coming out of his mom a second time]].
38** Surprisingly averted in ''End of Evangelion'' where both Shinji and Asuka come out of [[AssimilationPlot Instrumentality]] with their respective clothes: Shinji with his trademark white shirt and black pants, Asuka with her plugsuit and lots of bandages. Doesn't make sense since their physical bodies were destroyed (when Instrumentality begins, we see [[EmptyPilesOfClothing piles of clothing soaking in pools of LCL that's actually the wearer's physical body broken down into primordial soup]]) and Shinji's clothes should be in Unit-01's entry plug which is [[spoiler:currently floating in outer space]].
39* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' [[spoiler: After summoning the spirit of [[TheFourGods Suzaku]], Miaka's first wish was to return Yui, who had been absorbed by Seriyuu a few episodes ago. As her brother and his friend were headed to her location, they see a light and from there was Yui, who was without clothes.]]
40* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': This happens to Kikyō for her resurrection, since her bones had been used to essentially create a golem. By the time they track down her {{Reincarnation}} Kagome to put her soul into the new body, she's acquired a set of traditional {{Miko}} clothing.
41* ''Manga/DragonBallZ'': Defied by Polunga, who revives Krillin and throws some clothes on him "as a bonus."
42* ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'': In the anime, the [[GenderBender now-female]] Hazumu is revived after being crushed by Jan-Puu's spaceship form without clothes. In the manga, her clothes were reconstructed along with the rest of her body.
43* ''Manga/SoulEater'': Asura was imprisoned by being wrapped up in his own stretched skin. Upon returning to life, he is naked, then makes ImprovisedClothes out of his still-loose skin.
44* Happened to Clare from ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' when she was brought back from her fusion with the Destroyer (where she existed as a consciousness only while her original body was dissolved), when she was brought back to perfectly recreated original body she was not only [[FanService missing her clothes]] but also the [[FanDisservice stitches that were keeping shut the wound across the entire front of her body]].
45* In ''Anime/DogDays'', when Valério Calvados and Adelaide Grand Marnier are revived from their tombs, they emerge naked. The witnesses to both revivals freak out, but they just nonchalantly create new outfits with their magic.
46* ''Manga/ShadowStar'': After getting blown up by some missiles, Shiina is reborn, completely naked, on the shore of her grandparents' island.
47* ''Franchise/KagerouProject'': When Takane [[spoiler:is killed, she awakens in the digital world completely naked. She then undergoes a TransformationSequence when she becomes Ene]].
48* A non-fatal version: in ''Manga/DrStone'', an unknown force causes everyone on Earth [[TakenForGranite to turn to stone]], but [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing excludes their clothing]]. 3,700 years pass before people begin to turn back, by which point their clothes have realistically dissolved. Taiju specifically waits to revive his crush, Yuzuriha, until after he's dressed her stone form.
49* ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'': When Elaine was killed, the Fairies preserved her body in a crystal naked. When she comes back to life, she wanders around [[FullFrontalAssault kicking ass]] until she uses her magic to make a GardenGarment for herself. Averted in the anime, where she was preserved in the crystal with her clothes, but she still replaces her clothes with a GardenGarment shortly after being revived.
50* In ''Anime/SevenMortalSins'', [[spoiler: Maria Totsuka does a HeroicSacrifice and she disintegrates. When Lucifer manages to bring her back to life, she materializes [[BridalCarry in Lucifer's arms]] naked.]]
51* In ''[[Anime/FLCLProgressiveAndAlternative FLCL Progressive]]'', this happens to Aiko (complete with FetalPositionRebirth) and apparently Iide, though we only see him from the waist up. (Also, he's technically not ''completely'' naked -- he still has his glasses, [[FridgeLogic for some reason]].)
52* In ''Literature/Overlord2012'', after Shalltear was killed to undo her being BrainwashedAndCrazy, Ains gathers the remaining Floor Guardians and, [[CastFromMoney at the cost of much of his valuable]] ''[[CastFromMoney YGGDRASIL]]'' [[CastFromMoney gold]], resurrects her. It starts out as a heartwarming scene as they welcome her back, but quickly becomes hilarious when she realizes she's naked and [[ACupAngst her real size]] is on display.
53* Megumi from ''Manga/{{Majinden}}'' gets completely regenerated in human form by Riki after being possessed, mutated and killed, and her nakedness proves a bit of a trouble for him afterwards.
54* In the third and final OVA of ''Anime/ReCutieHoney'', all of the women who had been turned into flower petals reform completely naked, much to their collective embarrassment.
55* The final issues of the initial run of ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' depict Knives regenerating himself after he was very badly wounded. Specifically, he's messily "birthed" from another Plant -- adult-sized, long-haired and without a stitch of clothing. He doesn't bother to dress before [[FullFrontalAssault confronting]] his twin brother, Vash.
56* ''Manga/KingdomsOfRuin'': When Adonis resurrects Doroka, she materializes naked, causing her to have a NakedFreakOut until he hands her some clothes.
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60* ''ComicBook/XMen'': When Rogue falls into the Siege Perilous, she's wearing ComicBook/MsMarvel's costume. When she is reborn in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #269, she is naked (in the sequence of panels, she first appears as a skeleton, then grows muscles, then skin).
61* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
62** In ''ComicBook/Supergirl2011'' #23, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s body is dissolved by a machine, leaving her clothes lying in a pile. In ''Supergirl'' #24, her body is restored by the same machine, but she has to manually put on her clothes. Also in issue #23, when Cyborg Superman becomes fully biological, his cybernetic parts fall off and he is left naked. He stays naked for the duration until he makes himself a cyborg again in issue #24.
63** ''ComicBook/DeathAndTheFamily'': Lucy Lane, who had been killed off in ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', is fully naked when she is revived. Justified, since her suit exploded after being torn to shreds.
64** ''ComicBook/SupermanSpaceAge'': Lois Lane is the first of humanity to be revived from Superman's archive of DNA samples, and she happens to be naked in the process.
65* Subverted in ''ComicBook/DeathVigil''. Bernie [[ExactWords allows Sam to think this is going to happen]], and his reaction when he snaps back into existence fully clothed [[{{Troll}} causes her to double over laughing]].
66* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', Doctor Manhattan is naked when he first fully reconstitutes himself after being disintegrated in a FreakLabAccident. By the story's present day, he's grown so detached from human society that he no longer bothers with clothes as a general rule.
67* Back when ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s HealingFactor was powerful enough that he could regenerate from being reduced to an adamantium skeleton in minutes, he would inevitably be naked after healing.
68* ''ComicBook/JusticeDCComics'' has Wonder Woman die in the end, but she is resurrected, albeit nude, after her mother Hippolyta prays to the gods to let her live again.
69* The fourth issue of the ''WebAnimation/BravestWarriors'' comic book tie-in by Boom Studios has the heroes' consciousnesses revive themselves in new bodies after being decapitated by the fear goddess Sadness. When resurrected, their bodies are shown [[ModestyTowel putting on towels]] after stepping out of the vat. Ever the gentleman, Chris chooses to avert his eyes and avoid looking at Beth's nude body even though everyone else treats seeing one another in their birthday suits as a non-issue.
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73* In ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', when the title character is brought BackFromTheDead with the help of a [[AlmightyJanitor brilliant garbage man]], he reappears naked in a garbage can with no memory of what happened to him.
74-->'''Garbage Man:''' AAAGH! Run for your life!!! It's a hideous, disgusting creature!!!
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78* ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'': Realizing this would be the case with the Resurrection Ritual, its use on Hermione has Dumbledore cast a preemptive Modesty Charm above the Cauldron before they go through with it.
79* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'': In "Who's That Smurfette?", retelling Smurfette's origin, Papa Smurf reverted the original "un-Smurfy" Smurfette into a pile of blue clay, separating her spirit from her body while using his magic spells to change Smurfette into a real Smurf. When the spirit reenters the blue clay, it reforms into the blond-haired physical form of Smurfette. However, she finds out that the spells caused her to appear naked in her new form, so Papa Smurf cast another spell to put some clothes on Smurfette.
80* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''/''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' fic "[[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32661/SeaSpectre+Two+For+The+Price+Of+One.htm Two for the Price of One]]", Willow is able to bring Leonard Snart back to life after travelling to the Vanishing Point, using a ritual that draws his dispersed cells back together due to the timeless nature of Vanishing Point meaning that Snart's cells are basically frozen in the moment just before death. However, she makes it clear that the spell will only bring Snart back and will do nothing about the clothes he was wearing, requiring Mick Rory to bring a blanket to cover Snart once enough of his body has regrown.
81* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': How Mukrezar appears when he revives, in [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/6355797/ "Backfire - Part 2":]]
82--> The creature was an elf, Ami realised, or at least it looked like one. Despite the smooth, snow-white skin and the long pink hair, the wild-eyed new arrival was clearly male. She was sure about that, since he had not been summoned with any clothes.
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86* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': Leeloo is reconstructed FromASingleCell, and naturally clothing doesn't come with that, though the machine puts bandage-clothing on her shortly afterward.
87* Creator/JackieChan's character in ''Film/TheMedallion'' is brought back to life by said magic medallion when he was already at the morgue, his clothes removed from the autopsy. Averted a while later in the movie, when he does the same thing to bring back his love interest shortly after she died (still clothed), his partner even protests saying right away: "But when he came back, he was NAKED!"
88* In ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist,'' the final shot of the film shows UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} resurrected, and while we obviously don't see anything, he's clearly naked. (Which fits, since historically he would have been buried in nothing but a shroud.)
89* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'': [[spoiler:Ella]], because her corpse had been set on fire and her clothes burned away as she revived.
90* In ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'', Katsura is briefly shown nude when the aliens resurrect her. The English dub cut this scene out.
91* In ''Film/The6thDay'', humans are resurrected through cloning and come out of it sans clothes, of course.
92* When Gurerro is returned to life in ''Film/DeadInTombstone'', he wakes up naked in his grave. He later finds his clothes in a cupboard in Ramos' barn, implying that the gang buried him naked.
93* ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers1978'', an alien pod that managed to capture a human host (Elizabeth) arises in a new body that perfectly mimics Elizabeth's, only naked.
94* In ''Film/TheMummy2017'' after Nick Morton is killed in a plane crash, he suddenly revives...in a morgue. Since his body is prepared for examination, all he's wearing is a body bag.
95* ''Film/TheProphecyII'' opens with Gabriel being returned (without clothes) to Earth from the pit of Hell where he was banished at the end of the first film.
96* ''Film/TheNakedWitch'': Perhaps unsurprisingly, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the witch is naked]] when she [[RiseFromYourGrave rises from her grave]].
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100* In Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Jack of Shadows'', if anyone gets killed before exhausting his finite supply of lives, he is resurrected naked in the Dung Pits of Glyve at the east pole (ItMakesSenseInContext) of the planet.
101* Gandalf in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. WordOfGod clarified that when Gandalf said, "Naked I was sent back," he wasn't speaking figuratively. In the film, we briefly glimpse this scene, shot with Gandalf shown from the bare shoulders up--so, at the very least, shirtless he was sent back.
102* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Voldemort's first words upon stepping out of the cauldron he was resurrected in were, "Robe me." ([[AdaptationalModesty In the film version]], a fresh set of [[BlackCloak suitably-black]] robes materialized out of the mist-like remains of the Cauldron… which makes little logical sense, unless Voldemort was Transfiguring the cauldron with wandless magic even as the Resurrection was going on, but undeniably [[RuleOfCool looks awesome]].)
103* In book 10 of ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', Darren and his undead sidekick Harkat go on a mission to find out who Harkat was before he died. Once they reach the titular Lake of Souls, Harkat has to fish for the correct spirit with a net. When he finally finds that "impossibly familiar" ghost and pulls him out, the spirit comes up in a solid body, naked, causing Mr. Des Tiny to pun, "Cover the poor soul," as he hands Harkat a cloak to give to him...self...
104* In Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's ''Literature/{{Riverworld}}'' series, the entire population of Planet Earth from all times and eras is resurected for a surprise Afterlife on the Riverworld. On the Day of Awakening, everyone is reborn naked. This causes a lot of ''Angst'' for those from the Victorian and other prudish eras.
105* In ''Literature/{{Firefight}}'' when [[spoiler:Megan]] revives at the end she comes back sans all clothes which is standard for her method of resurrection. It doesn't faze her at all and David embarrassingly enjoys it for a few moments before she gets some clothes.
106* ''Literature/GhostRoads'': Ghosts that come back to life for the Halloween rites emerge from the field completely naked.
107* Touchstone in the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' trilogy is first encountered [[TakenForGranite transformed into a wooden figurehead]] for a ship. To his rescuer's embarrassment and {{distract|edByTheSexy}}ion, that transformation didn't include his clothing.
108%% (Zero-context example) * ''Literature/APieceInTheGameOfGods'': How [[spoiler:Jeri]] returns in [[spoiler:Part 37]]:
109%%--> I was home. I was also completely naked.
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113* ''{{Series/Angel}}'': When Wolfram & Hart resurrected Angel's dam, Darla, she came back nude.
114* Cylon Resurrection works this way in ''{{Series/Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', since the Cylons are basically ArtificialHuman clones.
115* As did Angel himself in the third season of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Technically, he came back from a hell dimension, not actual death, but it was used in the same way.
116* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]], when [[spoiler:the Master]] is being resurrected by a cult using his ring, [[ShirtlessScene he is shown from the top up without a shirt]].
117* This is part of how Henry Morgan's immortality works in ''{{Series/Forever|2014}}''. Whenever he dies, he wakes up naked in a nearby large body of water. As the show is set in New York City, this usually means the East River. This makes for some rather awkward situations as he's been arrested for SkinnyDipping more than once. He tells Lieutenant Reece that he's a [[{{Sleepwalking}} somnambulist]] and he SleepsInTheNude.
118* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Jon Snow comes back to life this way, but only because his body had been stripped and washed, although there's a ModestyTowel placed on his private parts.
119* Claire in ''Series/{{Heroes}},'' because her [[WakingUpAtTheMorgue clothes had been removed for autopsy]]. When the branch lodged in the "no HealingFactor if this gets screwed with" part of her brain was removed, she woke up and gave everyone a good scare. However, she's still covered with a cloth at the time -- sorry, no {{Fanservice}}.
120* This is what happened to the title character of ''Series/JohnDoe'', [[spoiler:after PHOENIX successfully yo-yoed him into Heaven and back again]].
121* [[spoiler:Desmond]] in the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' season 3 premiere is an arguable example. Arguable because we still have no freaking clue as to what really happened there. He probably didn't die, but he did have a near-death experience that ''should'' [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat have resulted in his death]], and [[PlotHole he woke up without his clothes anyway]].
122* In the ''Series/SoWeird'' episode "Shelter", Fi gets turned into a dog by a psychotic veterinarian and spends most of the episode as one. At the end, Fi triumphantly gets restored as human, though naked as she had all her clothes removed as a dog.
123* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
124** When Daniel comes back from AscendingToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, this trope is in full force. When Daniel later gets the chance to discuss this with another ascended being, she mentions being brought back to life was entirely his idea, but when he protests she admits that the naked part wasn't, so apparently that's just how it works.
125** He does it twice, and the second time it's played for laughs, with O'Neill lampshading that he always comes back that way.
126* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E19Lifesigns Lifesigns]]", when the Doctor is building a holographic body for the (female) Vidiian doctor, the reconstruction shows the skeleton being constructed, then travels up the body as the musculature is added (looking like a text-book diagram), to finally settle on her face as the skin layer is finally added.
127* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
128** In the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS07E17TheBornAgainIdentity The Born Again Identity]]", [[spoiler:after having his vessel break down and being presumed dead, an amnesiac Castiel describes having been found naked by the river with no memory of who he was]].
129** In the episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS09E02DevilMayCare Devil May Care]]", Abaddon returns in the restored naked body of her former vessel.
130** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS15E06GoldenTime Golden Time]]", Sam works one of Rowena's spells to restore hunter Eileen Leahy to life. Eileen returns, but her ghost clothes do not.
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134* In Islamic eschatology, the resurrection of the dead will result in everyone being naked, i.e., without any sort of status symbol, showing that are all equal before {{God}}. It's specifically stated that people will be too distracted by their upcoming divine judgement to leer at each other.
135* {{Inverted}} in Literature/TheTalmud (Ketubot 111b): Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Yosef claims that the righteous dead will be resurrected fully clothed, using the metaphor of a wheat seed that is planted "naked" but comes up "clothed" in straw and chaff. Since people are buried in some kind of clothes, clearly they'll be dressed too.
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139* In ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', Serge is very much naked after the Dragon's tear grows a new body for him. He somehow gains a full set of clothes by the time he walks out to greet his companions.
140* In the early years of ''VideoGame/EverQuest'', this was a game mechanic. Retrieving your body and all the gear on it from deep inside a dangerous dungeon or getting slaughtered by a god on his home turf was all too common.
141* In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd -REVELATOR-'', [[spoiler: Jack O' Valentine merges with Justice to recreate Aria, the woman that both were created from. They succeed, and Aria returns to this world - and logically, she's naked as her still-living boyfriend Frederick/Sol [[BridalCarry holds her to him]].]]
142* In the ''{{VideoGame/Hitman}}'' games, the AntiVillain protagonist Agent 47 can strip most male [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] of clothing down to their underwear after he sedates or kills them. While they cannot be fully naked, it's amusing to see them waking up (if they were sedated) in a dark alley in underwear and running around covering their crotch.
143* In ''VideoGame/LunarSilverStarStory'', when the Goddess Althena [[spoiler: chooses to reincarnate as a human infant and be born as Luna]], she lands nude in Dyne's arms.
144* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', Sindel is revived from a skeleton; we see the muscles and blood vessels forming on her bones, but the camera sticks above the chestline once she has skin.
145* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'': In the Campaign Mode, Leon and Helena come across a videotape labeled as "[[spoiler:Happy Birthday, Ada Wong]]", showing how [[spoiler:Carla Radames was "reborn" as a physical clone of Ada. The video shows her popping out of a C-Virus cocoon, completely naked and dripping in fluids]].
146* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndTheSevenSirens'': Rag and Bones-es can be resurrected with the Refresh Dance, without their clothes, only "wearing" a few wrappings, and are revived in a HandOrObjectUnderwear stance, before they pop off in a DefeatByModesty.
147* Sodina from ''VideoGame/ThousandArms'' commits HeroicSacrifice in the final battle. In the ending, she's revived and naked.
148* Happens whenever you revive someone in ''VideoGame/ZankiZero'', which is often.
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152* In ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'', when Caliban and Mell are kicked out of the afterlife onto Earth, they're both starkers.
153* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': When Roy, the leader of the Order of the Stick, is [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0665.html brought back to life,]] he's totally nude and covered only by a [[{{Pixellation}} blurry section]] near his crotch. Roy seems a little annoyed that the others aren't expecting it, considering his body was regenerated using only his cracked skull.
154** Averted in [[spoiler: Durkon]]'s case who comes back wearing their robes, presumably to avoid them the embarrassment of making a marriage proposal naked. Then again their robes were also inexplicably destroyed when they died so it checks out.
155* This trope was ''fully'' exploited in ''Crushed: The Doomed Kitty'', a now-defunct webcomic by the ''Webcomic/{{Supermegatopia}}'' brothers. Crushed was a female adventurer, and every time she died (which was often), she'd resurrect at the Temple of Infinite Lives, without all her equipment and clothing. She'd have to go back to her previous body to get it all back, just like in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. This also applied to every other adventurer in the comic, and total party wipes were quite common, resulting in a small horde of naked people popping into existence at the temple.
156* Tanica, Rina and, in the backstory, Sarin in ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors''. Especially Tanica, who had no clothes on revival despite her transformation appearing as bark growing over her, clothes and all.
157* In ''Webcomic/TalesOfGnosisCollege'', Professor Corwin's human-reconstitution technology just ''happens'' to work this way.
158* Dhur of ''Webcomic/MeatShield'' is brought BackFromTheDead this way too, in a ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' shout out. He also has lost all body hair, which seems to distress him more than the nakedness.
159* In ''Webcomic/DungeonsAndDenizens'', whenever Min gets killed by whatever means, he wakes up naked in Seidistica's office (much to his horror). This has also happened to Gazdar at least once.
160* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', this happens to Bella when she's [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0657.html resurrected]] from her vampiric condition. Unusually for the trope, the resurrection begins with a ReviveKillsZombie effect that shatters her clothes along with her undead body.
161-->'''Lenny:''' ...Was that supposed to happen?
162* Whenever Oasis or Kusari is killed in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', her latest clone body is decanted naked. Their revival chambers are thoughtfully provided with a shower and plenty of spare clothes.
163* Common occurrence for Selenis Zea from ''Webcomic/SupermassiveBlackHoleAStar'', which her RespawnPoint involved her vat-grown clones being activated upon her death(s).
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167* The final scene of ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'' has [[spoiler:Dracula and Lisa]] mention that they came BackFromTheDead naked in a field, and had to steal clothes from some nearby villagers.
168* In the episode "Resurrection" of ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatDefendersOfTheRealm'' Shang Tsung is nude after being resurrected by Shao Kahn and the Shadow Priests, indicated by the BetweenMyLegs view from the back, and a Shadow Priest approaching him with a folded robe, which is then draped over Shang Tsung's body.
169* In the episode "Haunted House" of ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' the ghost who's been attempting to scare Ren and Stimpy but keeps on failing, falls into a depression and "commits suicide," only to come back to life as a fat naked black man.
170* ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends:'' When Charlie gets resurrected in the first season finale, he arrives entirely naked... which makes Pim's utterly relieved hug a little awkward.
171-->'''Charlie:''' I'm completely naked, be careful where your hand goes, dude...!
172* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'', [[spoiler:when Steven reaches his meltdown point believing himself to be [[IAmAMonster a monster]], the outcome transforms him into one, [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing which ends up destroying his clothes]].]] After receiving a CooldownHug that restores him, he awakens while covered in a blanket.
173* The ''WesternAnimation/SuperMansion'' episode has Titanium Lex sacrifice herself to prevent her insect side from taking over. Her father Titanium Rex touches her remains and revives her. Lex is naked when resurrected.
174* On ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan'', Ilana is turned into a monster and when she turns back to normal, she wakes up naked. When Lance realizes this, he gives her his sweater to wear.
175* On ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Neutro/Nathaniel's PowerIncontinence gets so bad that it obliterates his armor and body; the latter quickly reforms from a skeleton, but leaves a confused, naked teenager on a destroyed street. (To make matters worse, he was BrainwashedAndCrazy [[AdaptationalHeroism in this version]], so he had no idea what was happening.) Luckily [[Franchise/TheFlash the Flash Family]], whom he'd been fighting, are able to [[YouMustBeCold provide a blanket]] before leading him away.
176* In the episode "Goal Keeper" of ''WesternAnimation/CreepSchool'', Elliot ends up unwittingly robbing his friends of their dreams while trying out the different dreams he finds in the Chamber of Goals, which eventually leads to them fading out of existence, leaving their clothes behind. After Elliot sets things right by sacrificing his own dream to save the others, the other characters find themselves naked upon being restored to existence.
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