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| 4 | [[quoteright:350:[[Anime/{{Yatterman}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sexysilhouette_yatterman.png]]]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | ->'''Kala:''' ''[hidden behind a screen]'' Do you have any other questions?\ |
| 7 | '''Jarrell:''' As a matter of fact I do. What are you doing this weekend, because your silhouette is kicking! |
| 8 | -->-- ''Film/TheGoldenChild'' |
| 9 | |
| 10 | When a person, more often than not a woman, is showing off her [[CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces curvaceous figure]] via a silhouette, implying nudity without showing any. Usually, the character is shown to be undressed or undressing behind a backlit screen of some kind, but often the projection of the shadow itself is used. NippleAndDimed will almost always be in effect, as the silhouette focusing on the curvature of the breasts without the nipple. |
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| 12 | Expect her to have to bend down. A lot. ''Slowly''. If the character ''is'' shown don't expect more than brief ToplessnessFromTheBack or ShouldersUpNudity shots. Expect also that the screen -- which is apparently supposed to ensure some form of modesty -- will be as thin as paper and positioned right in front of a source of light, leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination and thus utterly defeating its supposed purpose. |
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| 14 | This may happen during a conversation with another character, who may react by [[EatingTheEyeCandy enjoying the sight]] or by [[IgnoreTheFanservice ignoring it]]. It commonly occurs during {{Shower Scene}}s with shower curtains or frosted glass walls. Also used often in {{Transformation Sequence}}s especially with {{Magical Girl}}s. |
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| 16 | When only a part of the character's body is hidden in shadow, then it's using CensorShadow. Compare SexyFigureGesture, which also emphasizes silhouette without showing detail. Also compare BarbieDollAnatomy, CensorSteam, MaleGaze and WatchingTheReflectionUndress. |
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| 18 | ---- |
| 19 | !!Examples: |
| 20 | |
| 21 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 24 | * ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi'': In episode 1, Kaoru lets Aoi use the bath in his house after letting her stay for the night. She goes into the changing room and Kaoru gets [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] by the silhouette of her stripping through the screen panels. |
| 25 | * ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': |
| 26 | ** Senjougahara when she showers in her apartment in preparation for her exorcism that Meme Oshino is going to perform on her later. |
| 27 | ** Happens when Senjougahara and Hanekawa shower together. |
| 28 | * ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'': |
| 29 | ** In episode 57, Aoi's demon partner Koma is trying to feed her his manju that would have them BodySwap, and one of the scenes in the montage he tries it when she is in the shower where only her silhouette is seen. |
| 30 | ** In chapter 222, Nene is taking a shower at her house while one of the split up mini-forms of Furuichi is hiding in the bathroom [[EatingTheEyeCandy watching her silhouette from a distance]]. When she walks out of the shower, she reveals she knew he was watching and was wearing a [[NonNudeBathing bikini the whole time]]. |
| 31 | * ''Manga/BlackCat'': Rinslet while a showering behind a purple shower curtain in episode 2. |
| 32 | * ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Happens in "[[Recap/CodeGeassS1E3TheFalseClassmate The False Classmate]]", when Lelouch brings Kallen a change of clothes while she's showering, she is seen as a silhouette behind a yellow shower curtain. During the ensuing conversation, she accidentally causes the shower curtain to open, exposing herself to him causing her to have a NakedFreakOut. |
| 33 | * ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' |
| 34 | ** In "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession12JupiterJazzPart1 Jupiter Jazz Part 1]]", Gren is seen taking a shower behind a green shower curtain just before Faye [[InterruptedBath comes in]] and points a gun at him and finds out he has grown female breasts. |
| 35 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession16BlackDogSerenade Black Dog Serenade]]", Faye Valentine's silhouette is seen behind a shower curtain while she is trying to take a shower, but the shower breaks and we see her jumping around due to the hot water. |
| 36 | * ''Anime/DarlingInTheFranxx'': When Hiro gets his [[NakedFirstImpression first glimpse]] of Zero Two SkinnyDipping in a lake she's only a silhouette. |
| 37 | * In ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'', there is a scene involving Sakurako and Kyuu. |
| 38 | * ''Literature/DirtyPair'': Yuri during her ShowerScene in episode 12 and OVA episode 6. |
| 39 | * Done in the ''Manga/DragonBall'' anime during the Bulma's ShowerScene in Oolong's double-decker camper in episode 6. |
| 40 | * Yuki when she showers in episode 24 in ''Manga/HaruhiChan''. She's even temporarily un-chibified. |
| 41 | * Done in some of ''Franchise/LupinIII'' media (tv series, special and movies), usually with [[MsFanservice Fujiko Mine]]. |
| 42 | * [[HotTeacher Machiko]] in ''Manga/MissMachiko'' in some shower and bath scenes; however she end up with show [[MsFanservice more than]] [[NakedPeopleAreFunny her simple silhouette]] every time. |
| 43 | * Shizuru in ''Anime/MyHime''... in FanDisservice mode, since the scene in question is a flashback of her apparently raping Natsuki in her sleep (although whether it actually happened is debatable). |
| 44 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': During a {{Filler}} episode of Part I, Naruto caught a glimpse of Hinata naked, while she was dancing in the middle of a river, and the camera gives us a silhouette of her as she does so. In reality, she was practicing a new Jutsu, and Naruto never realized who it was. |
| 45 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': |
| 46 | ** In the OP Asuka and Rei's naked silhouettes pan over the screen in the background. Asuka is upside-down while Rei is upright. |
| 47 | ** Rei's naked silhouette can be seen, [[InvertedPortrait reflected upside-down in water]], spinning against the dark blue background of the ClosingCredits. |
| 48 | ** In chapter 8 of the Manga, Shinji comes home with groceries and gets nervous when he sees the silhouette of Misato's body showering through the bathroom door. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/OnePiece''. After easily incapacitating Nami who [[InterruptedBath interrupted her bubble bath]], [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Kalifa]] proceeds to taunt Nami by [[SexySurfacingShot slowly getting out of the bath]] and slowly getting dressed behind a screen where her naked silhouette is shown. |
| 50 | * ''Anime/Persona5TheAnimation'': After Makoto convinces Sae to go wash up (and thus leave her computer unattended so Makoto can get the files off of it), there is a brief shot of the shower door with Sae's silhouette behind it. |
| 51 | * Manga/{{Psyren}}: Sakurako gets one in the fourth trip to Psyren when she needed to change clothes and talk to Ageha at the same time. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/RODTheTV'' has [[HotLibrarian Yomiko]]'s Sexy Silhouettes in its opening credits. |
| 53 | * Parodied in ''Manga/{{Umisho}}''; various props made it seem like the silhouettes of the undressing girls suddenly grew extra bits. |
| 54 | * Doronjo when showering in episode 24 of the ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'' 2008 remake, providing the page image. |
| 55 | [[/folder]] |
| 56 | |
| 57 | [[folder:Comics Books]] |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': In ''ComicBook/Hawkeye2012'' #20, this happens with Kate Bishop after she smuggles herself into Madame Masque's headquarters as a BodySushi. She is later seen as a silhouette behind a dressing screen while admonishing all the old men in the room for EatingTheEyeCandy. |
| 59 | * ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': In ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulks'' #633, Hulk and Umar are shown are black silhouettes while in bed having sex. |
| 60 | * Played in a sophisticated manner in ''ComicBook/LePetitSpirou'', where the curvaceous Maths teacher is seen waiting for a car lift. It's dark and headlights casts a clean shadow of her against a nearby wall. Add the fact her skirt is rather sheer, and that's about as nude as a fully dressed person's shadow can be. Cue slow-motion walking. |
| 61 | * ''Miss Fury'' #2, there is a full frontal shot of a nude silhouetted Miss Fury staring outside the window, uncaring of whoever can see her, which makes her lover jealous. He eventually [[ComeBackToBedHoney lures her back to bed]]. |
| 62 | %%* Quite a lot of this in ''ComicBook/SinCity''. |
| 63 | * Lyla Lay in ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' when she changes from her normal clothes to her Time Police armor in the 1997 special. |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': This happens in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'' #57, when Mary Jane [[DressHitsFloor drops her robe]] to join Peter in bed. |
| 65 | ** The same goes for Black Cat in ''ComicBook/SpiderManBlackCatTheEvilThatMenDo'' when she has a ShowerScene. |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' |
| 67 | ** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Wolverine and Magda when having sex in front of a fireplace. |
| 68 | ** In ''ComicBook/UltimateWolverineVsHulk'' #6, Betty Ross, the Ultimate ComicBook/SheHulk, is seen showering as a silhouette. Later, she steps out of the shower in a ModestyTowel and drops it in surprise when she sees Ultimate Wolverine has sneaked into her apartment and it soon escalates into a FullFrontalAssault from her. A combination of Sexy Silhouette, CensorShadow, GodivaHair, ToplessnessFromTheBack and SceneryCensor is used to cover her nudity during the sequence. |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 70 | ** ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]]'': In "The Sky Road", Di's morning shower and is depicted through her shadow on the shower curtain. |
| 71 | ** In ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman2006 Volume 3]]'', Diana is sleeping nude in her room when she suddenly notices Ares is her room creepily sitting in the corner and she sits up in shock, shown only as a silhouette. For the rest of the scene she has GodivaHair or a ModestyBedsheet to cover her nudity. When Ares leaves she stands up to stare outside her balcony, and her semi-transparent curtains just happen to blow to cover her and silhouette her body. |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 75 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight'': When Bruce and Harvey visit Selina in her dressing room after the show, they (and the viewer) are treated to a silhouette of her changing clothes behind a screen. |
| 76 | * ''WesternAnimation/MakeMineMusic'': In ''All the Cats Join In'', when the older teenage girl goes to take a shower and strips down behind the glass door, where we can only see her silhouette. |
| 77 | * Happens to WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} in the beginning of the movie, as she is getting changed at the Matchmaker. |
| 78 | * {{Subverted}} in ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' for comedic effect. After Moses has Tzipporah sent to his chambers by Rameses, he sees a shapely, shadowy figure sitting on his bed behind a curtain. He composes himself awkwardly before pulling the curtain back—to reveal that it is actually the servant who had escorted her sitting there, BoundAndGagged. He then notices that his dogs are tied up as well and there is a BedsheetLadder going over the balcony. |
| 79 | * Lola Bunny intentionally makes one as she enters the arena at the start of the game in ''Film/SpaceJam''. |
| 80 | * When Rosita and Gunther sing and dance for the show in ''WesternAnimation/{{Sing}}'', Rosita has a quick costume change that involves stepping behind a screen and FlungClothing appearing as her silhouette gets larger and larger. |
| 81 | * ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie'': During Chun-Li's ShowerScene, we get a brief ImpendingDoomPOV of Vega sneaking in and seeing her silhouette in the shower. |
| 82 | * ''Anime/TekkenBloodVengeance'': Ling Xiaoyu while behind a shower curtain during her ShowerOfAngst scene. |
| 83 | * ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'': After Cale [[ShowerOfAwkward walks in on]] Akima stepping out of the shower, she goes back into the stall to get dressed and her silhouette is seen behind a force field curtain. |
| 84 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': |
| 85 | ** [[MsFanservice Jessica Rabbit]] makes one when she visits Valiant's office and when she's running to her car outside Maroon Studios. |
| 86 | ** PlayedWith when Eddie sees what he thinks is the silhouette of Jessica Rabbit in a hotel window, but once he gets up there, much to his horror it turns out to be [[{{Butterface}} the hideous Lena Hyena]]. |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
| 88 | |
| 89 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 90 | %%* Just about every title sequence of a ''Film/JamesBond'' movie will feature these. |
| 91 | * ''Film/AustinPowers'' |
| 92 | ** ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'' Alotta Fagina did one of these in her room while Austin sat there watching. |
| 93 | ** PlayedWith in the second ''Austin Powers'' movie, with the tent scene. |
| 94 | * ''Film/{{AWOL}}'': Rayna is shown in silhouette taking her shirt off while sharing a tent with Joey when they prepare to have sex there. |
| 95 | * ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': After sex with Mark Hand, the camera cuts to the outside of the plastic tube thing to show a naked Barbarella through the semi-transparent material. |
| 96 | * Creator/NicolletteSheridan got one in ''Film/BeverlyHillsNinja''. And so did Creator/ChrisFarley. |
| 97 | * Used in some {{Busby Berkeley Number}}s. |
| 98 | * The second ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' movie had some girls changing in the back seat with a blanket hanging in front--when a track pulls up behind with high beams to highlight them perfectly. Creator/BurtReynolds and Creator/DomDeLuise (who think that the ladies are ''nuns''--[[spoiler:they're actually just actresses just playing nuns]]) are [[AccidentalPervert practically biting their lips in the front seat]]. |
| 99 | * ''Film/CircusOfHorrors'': When Inspector Ames is searching the circus for Nicole, he sees her silhouette going through her limbering up routine projected on to the wall off of her tent. |
| 100 | * ''Film/GodsOfEgypt'': Zaya getting changed behind a dressing screen. |
| 101 | * ''Film/Gone2012'': Jill behind the curtain during her ShowerScene. |
| 102 | * In ''Film/{{Leap Year|2010}}'', this trope is played with when Creator/AmyAdams showers, unaware that her [[BelligerentSexualTension love interest]] is watching her silhouette through the curtain--he points this out to embarrass her, and then gives her a similar show. |
| 103 | * ''Film/Lifeforce1985'', when the [[FullFrontalAssault naked Space Girl]] walks through the research facility, you see her backside, clad in shadows, as she climbs up some stairs. Shortly after that, we get another scene as she passes in front of a security guard, first her shadow and then her, as she makes it for the exit. |
| 104 | * In ''Film/NoGoodDeed2002'', Erin (Creator/MillaJovovich) has a [[ShowerScene shower]] in front of Jack (Creator/SamuelLJackson), who is tied to a chair. As Jack tries to escape in the foreground, in the background, we see Erin's shapely body behind the shower door. |
| 105 | * ''Film/MulhollandDrive'': |
| 106 | ** In the bedroom, when Rita unrobes, we see little more than just her silhouette against the light coming in through the window.[[note]]Blurring had to be added to Creator/LauraElenaHarring's front part for the DVD release.[[/note]] |
| 107 | ** During Rita's ShowerScene, the shower door is notably foggy from the moisture. |
| 108 | * Spoofed in ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3: The Final Insult'' when Tanya (Creator/AnnaNicoleSmith) undresses behind a screen [[spoiler:but reveals a [[BiggerIsBetterInBed Biggus Dickus]], much to the [[{{Squick}} chagrin]] of Frank Drebin. ''With a 90-degree angle!'']] |
| 109 | * ''Film/Oblivion2013'': Used when Victoria strips to go SkinnyDipping during the night. |
| 110 | * PlayedWith in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights''. Robin and Marian are both behind a curtain that they don't know is see-through, and Robin, as he finishes an incredibly overdone opera-style love song, drops to one knee, causing his sword scabbard to rise up like a... [[GagPenis you know]]. |
| 111 | * Played straight in ''Film/TheShadow'', when Margo (Creator/PenelopeAnnMiller) strips behind one of these while talking to Lamont (Creator/AlecBaldwin). |
| 112 | * ''Film/AndSoonTheDarkness'': Elli's is silhouetted behind a shower curtain when she yells for Stephanie to bring her a towel. |
| 113 | * ''Film/SoClose'': Lynn is behind a shower curtain when she climbs out of her bath and wraps herself in a towel. |
| 114 | * ''Film/TheSpirit'': When [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Sand Sareff]] drops her ModestyTowel to embarass The Spirit, the CensorSteam spilling from her shower obscures her full frontal shot, only showing her Sexy Silhouette. |
| 115 | * In ''Theatre/StateOfTheUnion'' Grant is [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted]] by the curvaceous shadow Mary casts as she changed her clothes in an adjoining closet. (Said shadow was presumably cast by someone pinch-hitting for the non-curvaceous Creator/KatharineHepburn.) |
| 116 | * ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' |
| 117 | ** In ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'', when the T-X walks down the street naked, her whole body from behind is covered in shadow. It's quite sexy. |
| 118 | ** And in ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'', Kyle Reese [[WatchingTheReflectionUndress watches Sarah Connor's shadow]] as they both strip down for TimeTravel. |
| 119 | * ''Film/ToForgetVenice'': A relatively uncommon male example. Piccio's rugged physique, complete with a hint of wang, is shown when he's showering in his room with his boyfriend Nicky. |
| 120 | * ''[[Film/TheBradyBunch A Very Brady Sequel]]'': Greg and Marcia are forced to share the attic room and hang up a sheet for privacy. Instead the sheet lets them watch each other undress in shilouette. Cue them both realising they're NotBloodSiblings and spending the rest of the movie trying to fight the [[FlirtyStepsiblings sexual tension]] between them. |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 124 | * The last chapter of detective novel ''Literature/StrangerInTown'' has private detective Michael Shayne finally getting home to Miami after nearly getting killed more than once while solving a tough case. He arrives at the apartment of his SexySecretary Lucy, who greets him in a translucent "hostess gown" that "clearly outlined her slender figure in the light from beyond." |
| 125 | [[/folder]] |
| 126 | |
| 127 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 128 | * In the ''Series/Babylon5'' episode "[[{{Recap/BabylonFiveS05E08DayOfTheDead}} Day of the Dead]]", Dodger emerges naked from the shower and all we see of her is a silhouette before Garibaldi hands her a shirt. |
| 129 | * ''Series/TheBigValley'': In "In Silent Battle," Major Eliot is propositioned by a prostitute, who tells him she has an upstairs room nearby. He contemptuously tells her to leave him alone, but later sees a silhouette of her getting ready for bed and goes over there (unfortunately for her). |
| 130 | * ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': Beckett is seen as a showering silhouette while Castle is desperatly calling to warn her about the bomb in the apartment. |
| 131 | * ''Series/TheCatch'': In the season 2 premiere, Benjamin poses as a masseur but only finds out the masseur he's replacing is the [[HappyEndingMassage Happy Ending kind]] when his client shows up completely naked, with either a silhouette or SceneryCensor to keep her modest. |
| 132 | * ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'': "[[Recap/DollhouseS02E07 Meet Jane Doe]]", Echo is seen a silhouette in the shower when Paul talks to Boyd about her in the phone. |
| 133 | * ''Series/{{Eureka}}'': |
| 134 | ** "Momstrosity" starts with a PsychoShowerMurderParody, with a someone slowly approacing Jo Lupo (Creator/EricaCerra) Sexy Silhouette as she's taking a shower behind the glass door...but it turns out to be just Kevin's [[CuteMachines pet robot EMO]]. But she's still pissed it saw her naked and demands Carter get rid of it. |
| 135 | * ''Series/GeneralHospital''. While they're on the run, Laura insists on sleeping separately from Luke, hangs a sheet in between them, and while changing for bed, teases him like this. |
| 136 | * Rachel does it in the hospital during the "Laryngitis" episode of ''Series/{{Glee}}'', prompting Finn's rendition of [[TwoGuysAndAGirl "Jessie's Girl"]]. |
| 137 | * ''Series/{{JAG}}:'' In "[[Recap/JAGS05E07Rogue Rogue]]", Raglin sneaks into his CO's house to try and kidnap his wife, who is in the shower. Except Harm anticipated this and the woman in the shower is really a Marine NCO being used as bait. |
| 138 | * ''Series/LostGirl'': |
| 139 | ** In "[[Recap/LostGirlS3E1CagedFae Caged Fae]]", with Bo showering at the prison with all the guards also as SinisterSilhouettes surrounding her and EatingTheEyeCandy. |
| 140 | ** "[[Recap/LostGirlS3E6TheKenziScale The Kenzi Scale]]" has Fake Kenzi's silhouette showering behind the glass at Dyson's place. |
| 141 | * ''Series/TheMagicians'': On episode "[[Recap/TheMagicians2016S03E09AllThatJosh All That Josh]]", in order to get Quentin and Alice alone with Josh, Kady stays on the ground floor to [[WeNeedADistraction distract]] the party guests by singing. She then rigs up a magical Sexy Silhouette of herself to continue the act so she can sneak away. The illusion betrays itself when it starts reaching beyond the borders of the panel. |
| 142 | * ''Series/MutantX'' has Ashlocke watching the silhouette of Avaris getting dressed in "Past as Prologue". |
| 143 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}:'' Happens in "Terminal Leave", when Kate is [[SingingInTheShower singing]] "[[Music/BritneySpears Outrageous]]" in the shower while Tony is brushing his teeth outside. |
| 144 | * ''Series/OneLifeToLive''. When Tina and Cain are on the run, they hang a sheet between them to change, and tease each other with their sexy silhouettes. |
| 145 | * ''Series/RelicHunter'': |
| 146 | ** Nigel (and the audience) are treated to a backlit silhouette of Sydney undressing in a tent during a rainstorm in "The Emperor's Bride". |
| 147 | ** "Cross of Voodoo" uses this when Sydney is bathing behind the shower curtain. |
| 148 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': |
| 149 | ** In "[[Recap/SeinfeldS4E11TheContest The Contest]]", George visits his mother at the hospital and sees the silhouette of her attractive roommate getting a sponge bath from a sexy nurse. He revisits at the same time the next day just to see that happen again. |
| 150 | ** In the "[[Recap/SeinfeldS4E17TheOuting The Outing]]" when he and Jerry are MistakenForGay, he sees [[CallBack the exact same thing]] happen but with a male nurse and a male patient. |
| 151 | * ''Series/Sheena2000'': Used regularly with Sheena as the Darak'na as she fights with only mud to cover her. |
| 152 | * ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'': In "The Elixir", when Marguerite and John are in the shower washing off the mud from their bodies. |
| 153 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': |
| 154 | ** During Comicbook/LanaLang's (Creator/KristinKreuk) ShowerScene in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E01Crusade Crusade]]", we only see her from the [[ShouldersUpNudity shoulders up]] or via her silhouette. |
| 155 | ** In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS04E12Pariah Pariah]]" Lana is once again seen like this, when the [[ElementalShapeshifting Sand Morphing]] VillainOfTheWeek tries to [[DeadlyBath kill her while she's showering.]] |
| 156 | ** Comicbook/LoisLane (Creator/EricaDurance) changing into a FlagBikini behind a dressing screen while she talks to Chloe when they're going undercover at a gentlemen's club in "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E06Exposed Exposed]]". |
| 157 | ** In "[[Recap/SmallvilleS05E20Fade Fade]]", Comicbook/LoisLane silhouette is seen [[ShowerScene showering]] behind the shower curtain in the Talon, when the VillainOfTheWeek uses his {{Invisibility}} powers to sneak into the bathroom and [[ThePeepingTom peek]] on her. |
| 158 | * ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. The episode "In the Flesh" has the shower version, as seen by Chakotay; the irony being that he knows that the woman showering is a shapeshifted StarfishAlien. |
| 159 | * ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': T'Mir (Creator/JoleneBlalock) in the episode [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS02E02CarbonCreek "Carbon Creek"]]. She and two other Vulcans have crash landed on Earth and need some clothes to blend in. T'Mir and Mestral spot a clothesline with various garments and bedclothes on it, so T'Mir takes a dress and goes behind a blanket hanging on the clothesline for a modicum of privacy. But the sun is shining so brightly that Mestral could very well look at T'Mir's silhouette if he wanted to. And since T'Mir put the dress on backwards, she has to go behind the blanket a second time to correct it. |
| 160 | * ''Series/UglyBetty:'' In "A Thousand Words Before Friday", Daniel and his LoveInterest Renee spend the night in her apartment. The morning after, Daniel walks in the bathroom and sees a silhouette in the shower. Thinking it's Reene, he strips down barges in for a ShowerOfLove... only for it to turn into a ShowerOfAwkward when he finds his ArchEnemy Wilhelmina there instead. Cue a mutual NakedFreakOut. Turns out that they're ''sisters'' and Renee was actually crashing at Wilhelmina's place. |
| 161 | * ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': |
| 162 | ** In "We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes", Elena behind the curtain at the beginning of her ShowerScene. |
| 163 | ** Katherine showering in a hotel room she's sharing with Stefan in "No Exit". |
| 164 | * The opening and in-between-sketch title credits of French sketch show ''Series/VousLesFemmes'' show the instantly recognisable figures of leads Judith Siboni and Olivia Cote, in (rotoscoped) silhouette. The episodes might start out conventionally enough - Olivia, in a miniskirt, walking along looking chic and attractive - until she picks up something on her shoe and then inelegantly tries to shake it off. Or Judith, looking chic, French and sexy - until her skirt falls off. |
| 165 | * ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': |
| 166 | ** In "[[Recap/XenaS03E01TheFuries The Furies]]", when a naked and confused Xena confronts a village full of women and children, accusing them of murder. |
| 167 | ** In "Chakram", Xena is seen taking off her clothes to bathe behind a curtain. |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 171 | * ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology'': The music video of "Real Love" shows silhouette animation of a man and a woman falling in love and flying away on a horse. |
| 172 | * The logo for Dirty Workz, the Belgian [[HardcoreTechno hard dance]] record label founded by Music/{{Coone}}. |
| 173 | * ''Music/TheCorrs'': The girls in the "Breathless" music video. |
| 174 | * ''Music/NSYoonG'': In "If You Love Me", Noogie's silhouette, juxtaposed against physical photographs of the moon's phases, remains perhaps the most revealing leitmotivs in the video. |
| 175 | [[/folder]] |
| 176 | |
| 177 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 178 | * ''Pinball/TruckStop'' features the "Mudflap girl" silhouette on a playfield road sign, along with the caption "Dangerous Curves". |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/AgentUnderFire'': When James Bond infiltrates an embassy in Romania, he enters a room with a changing screen, and can make out the silhouette of the woman changing behind it. |
| 183 | * ''VideoGame/CaptainRainbow'': At night, Crazy Tracy can be found in her mansion taking a bath behind a shower curtain. |
| 184 | * ''VideoGame/DangerGirl'' introduces Abbey Chase as she's getting out of a lake in her wetsuit, then changing under the moonlight into her casual outfit. |
| 185 | * ''VideoGame/{{Deponia}}'': In ''Deponia Doomsday'', Rufus walks in on Ulysses SingingInTheShower and he remains TheFaceless as only his silhouette is seen behind a curtain. |
| 186 | * ''VideoGame/AnElderScrollsLegendBattlespire'' has a sexy silhouette of a Daedra Seducer on its cover. |
| 187 | * In ''[[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Fate/Grand Order VR]]'' the ModestyTowel that hangs over Mash's shoulder-high changing screen falls away just as she strips down, leaving this in its wake. |
| 188 | * ''VideoGame/FearEffect'': In Madame's Chen Restaurant, Hana undresses behind a screen when she changes her outfit to go undercover. |
| 189 | * ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'': On the Gotham streets part of the Gotham City level there's the strip club the Sin Kitty advertising Live Nudes where the silhouette of a naked woman can be seen dancing through the window. |
| 190 | * Played with in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' with Miss Petunia, the Bathing Beauty. Luigi encounters her in a bathroom where he can see a svelte woman taking a bath behind the curtain, but once he moved it, Miss Petunia is actually a pig-like BrawnHilda. It might have more signification that a simple joke, as some background information revealed that [[IWasQuiteALooker she used to look beautiful]], enough to be the Miss Ghost runner-up from six years before the events of the game. |
| 191 | * In a very odd example of this trope, in ''[[VideoGame/RType R-Type Final's]]'' final level (if you go the normal route, there's an inexplicable image of a naked woman and naked man that will appear in the background of the level who race toward each other, appear to start having sex, then merge into a ball. ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext. |
| 192 | * ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'': When Iroha lands her LimitBreak, everything suddenly cuts behind Japanese screen doors. Then, she [[FullFrontalAssault tears off her clothes]] then it rapidly cuts to her beating down on the opponent, and then- did she just turn into a [[{{Animorphism}} bird]]? |
| 193 | * The ''Crystal Flash'' move in ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' has Samus surrounded by a blinding corona of energy, with only her silhouette, stark naked- it's even more apparent in the "official artwork", that she's naked as the day she was born and shows a very nice view of her bottom. |
| 194 | * ''VideoGame/{{Whacked}}'': During [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Lucy's]] audition, she is shown naked behind a dressing screen as she's choosing which outfit to wear. |
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| 197 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 198 | * ''Webcomic/DangerouslyChloe'': On her first page Chloe appears this way in a flash. |
| 199 | * ''Webcomic/DocRat'': The premonition of Ben and Daniella's first time: [[https://crosstimecafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=16771 the strip before their]] SexyDiscretionShot shows their silhouettes at dinner, and Danni looks like she's about to jump over the dinner table at Ben.[[note]]A little context: During the course of their relationship, Daniella was worried their relationship was going south because Ben hadn't asked to have sex with her. As it turned out, he didn't see sex as a prerequisite for a deeper relationship, and had some other things to sort out before committing to marrying her. Once that was all squared away, he officially proposed to her. Their first time together was after said proposal. [[HappilyMarried Given how things]] [[BabiesEverAfter have gone since]], it could be said that it was well worth the wait.[[/note]] |
| 200 | -->'''Ben:''' Did you bring dessert?\ |
| 201 | '''Daniella:''' Did I ever. |
| 202 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' |
| 203 | ** Susan is [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-05 presented]] this way. [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-17 Twice.]] |
| 204 | ** Also Diane [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1840 in this comic.]] |
| 205 | * ''Webcomic/LoveNotFound'': Abeille's session with the Stimulator 3K is portrayed in this manner, though unlike most examples, it's done as a discretion shot. |
| 206 | * The trope is used [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00526.html here]] on Thelma from ''Series/NipAndTuck''. |
| 207 | * ''Webcomic/{{Seekers}}'': In their first meeting, Eloya spends hours staring at Giselda's shadow on the canopy before ever seeing her face. |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 211 | * ''WebVideo/YouthAndConsequences'': Colin watches Farrah behind the shower curtain as she strips down to enter his [[NudityEqualsHonesty "Chamber of Trust"]] so they can exchange their secrets safely. |
| 212 | [[/folder]] |
| 213 | |
| 214 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 215 | * In a nice ParentService, Minerva Mink does this in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' when she bathes naked in a lake and later behind the curtain in a ShowerScene. |
| 216 | * ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' does this in two of her shorts (though not on purpose). In "Is My Palm Read?" after the room's lights turn off besides a lamp directly above Betty, Bimbo and Koko sneak a peek at Betty's figure through her hoop skirted dress. Also in WesternAnimation/RedHotMamma, while walking past some flames her figure is shown through her night gown. |
| 217 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Cybersix}}'': In "The Mysterious Shadow", when Cybersix is stripping out of her Adrian clothes and suiting up there is a brief glimpse of her naked upper body as a silhouette. |
| 218 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' when older Stewie shows Brian his Japanese screens as he "really likes changing in silouette while carrying on a conversation". Going behind the screen inexplicably results in the silouette of a woman changing (including taking off high heels and stockings). Going behind a "very foggy" shower screen also has this same effect. Stewie's only explanation is that he has a lot of money. |
| 219 | %%* Happened at least once on ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. |
| 220 | * ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': |
| 221 | ** Ashi provides one against a stream of water during a WaterfallShower in "[[Recap/SamuraiJackS5E6XCVII Episode XCVII]]". |
| 222 | ** Jack gets one in "[[Recap/SamuraiJackS5E9C C]]" when he washes off all the gunk from the previous episode. |
| 223 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E12TheGunganGeneral "The Gungan General"]] one of Turk Falso's pirates has the "mudflap girl" silhouette etched on both sides of his speeder's tank. |
| 224 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E51TinyToonMusicTelevision Tiny Toon Music Television]]" has a one-episode character Julie Bruin. Julie's intro has her orange silhouette dancing with bouncing effect. |
| 225 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}'': The ''first episode'' included a scene of Igor, Dr. Vic, and Phil drooling over a Sexy Silhouette of a woman showering... until they draw back the curtain and find the Darla Doiley doll ready to kill him. |
| 226 | * Heather from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' in her several {{ShowerScene}}s during ''Island''. |
| 227 | * In season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' an episode has, in shadow, Flora showering. In the censored version, 4Kids flattens her chest. |
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| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 231 | * The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudflap_girl "mudflap girl"]] silhouette, popularized since TheSeventies on semi tractors and pickup trucks, is arguably the most famous version of this trope. |
| 232 | * A [=WW2=] cartoon has two ARP wardens perving on a woman who'd forgotten to draw her blackout drapes, leaving her silhouetted against the curtains. "We'll give her another 20 minutes, then fine her." |
| 233 | * Tik Tok had a [[https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/amp35363450/silhouette-tik-tok-challenge-explained/ silhouette challenge]] that involves the use of this trope. The person doing the challenge is supposed to be showing off how unkempt they are, then switch into a sexy silhouette (usually in a red background). |
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