Line #119 Main/ShirtlessScene


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:No shirt, no service. [[{{Fanservice}} Except for one kind.]]]]
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8	->''"I'm too sexy for my shirt,\
9	Too sexy for my shirt,\
10	So sexy, it hurts!"''
11	-->-- '''Music/RightSaidFred''', "I'm Too Sexy"
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13	So, you thought {{fanservice}} was [[MostWritersAreMale only targeted towards straight men]]?
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15	A {{hunk}}y man (real or animated) goes shirtless (or [[MaleFrontalNudity completely nude]]) or wears a revealing top that shows off his pectorals (in a sort of [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] to NavelDeepNeckline). Saves the crew a fortune in wardrobe (or ink) for MrFanservice.
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17	A less fleshy version of this would be his wearing a t-shirt pulled back over the back of his head or his leaving the shirt totally unbuttoned. Also a practice of slender {{bishonen}} in {{Japanese media\|Tropes}}. Western shows may play around with this by having the female characters ogle the "pool boy".
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19	Despite applying mostly to young, hairless types such as {{Bishonen}}s, some men will occasionally sport a CarpetOfVirility. Of course, [[MagicPants their pants]] [[RightThroughHisPants will always stay on]]. (Well, almost always...)
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21	"Beefcake" poses for male performers probably date as far back in human history as skimpy outfits for female performers. One of the standard props of certain kinds of "Strongman" performers in circuses and such is a "tear-away" shirt that can be pulled off during a performance and then easily sewn back together in between shows.
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23	This type of gratuitous semi-nudity is also called a Shirtless Jackman Scene, named after muscular Australian actor Creator/HughJackman whose film contracts allegedly contain a clause that demands the presence of at least one shirtless scene, even when the plot does not require it. It's not proven, but the majority of the films he has appeared in are strong evidence. Legend has it that some people are not able to recognize him with his shirt on, and ''Film/XMen1'' (2000) established him as the pioneer of the current generation of topless male actors.
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25	This trope is among the AlwaysMale tropes because... [[NippleAndDimed well, you know.]] The closest female equivalent would usually be a LingerieScene, [[BareMidriffsAreFeminine a midriff-baring outfit]], or a SwimsuitScene. Or, if it's more important to have a female character shirtless InUniverse but not necessarily to show everything to the viewers, then of course the answer is ToplessnessFromTheBack and/or ShouldersUpNudity.
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27	See also ShowerOfAngst, SlipknotPonytail, FinalBattleInducedShirtLoss, ManInAKilt, SexySoakedShirt, ForgingScene, ShirtlessCaptives, AfterActionPatchUp, IntimateOpenShirt, LingerieScene and DistractedByTheSexy.[[note]] As a rule, in such a work, [[AlwaysFemale female characters]] will only pay attention to the [[WalkingShirtlessScene shirtless guys]] with [[{{Hunk}} slim figures and built up muscles]] and ignore the guys who are fully clothed.[[/note]] If the character's [[LimitedWardrobe everyday attire]] is conspicuously lacking a shirt, he would be a WalkingShirtlessScene.
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29	[[noreallife]]
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31	!!Example Subpages:
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33	[[index]]
34	* ShirtlessScene/AnimeAndManga
35	* ShirtlessScene/{{Film}}
36	* ShirtlessScene/LiveActionTV
37	* ShirtlessScene/VideoGames
38	* ShirtlessScene/{{Webcomics}}
39	* ShirtlessScene/WesternAnimation
40	[[/index]]
41
42	!!Other Examples:
43	[[foldercontrol]]
44
45	[[folder:Advertising]]
46	* The Diet Coke Hunk (from the infamous commercial featuring an office-full of women leering at a shirtless construction worker) is pretty much the epitome of this trope. This was parodied by ''Series/SmackTheDonkey'' when it is revealed that the shirtless window-cleaner is protectively nursing a helpless kitten: the directed lust evaporates and becomes warm fuzzies.
47	* One ad for Smirnoff Ice, basically a line of flavored beers, features several shirtless guys.
48	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGKpqH8j31w This Jordache commercial has a group of young women watching and videotaping a male neighbor as walks around his house wearing only a pair of white bikini briefs.]]
49	* An Israeli commercial for the lottery shows a woman who hires some help with a construction project, and gets [[HotMenAtWork way more in the bargain]]. (The slogan? "We can't make all of your dreams come true...)
50	* Bod body spray commercial
51	* See also HotMenAtWork on this wiki.
52	* [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Hello Ladies.]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE "Look at your man. Now back to me. Now back at your man. Now ''back to me.'' Sadly, he isn't me..."]]
53	* "[[Creator/TeenNick This is]] [[WalkingShirtlessScene Shirtless Cole.]]"
54	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_7zjKIl050 "Easy on the eyes as it is on the road" Subaru Forester]]
55	* [[http://www.vimeo.com/1789667 The Xtra-Pine Cleaning Hunk]](mildly {{NSFW}}) quickly gets his top off.
56	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLUuFPAJpfs Underdaks]]
57	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4_ka-MYBZ8 aussieBum swimwear]]
58	* Kim Kardashian's personal trainer in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vr-pnKU9PM this Skecher's commercial]] is shirtless for his parts of the full minute.
59	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kX_8gTdM0 Coty Wild Musk]]
60	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etIRRErJunY this]] Zoosk commercial
61	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20OG9o3B8pI Give A Shirt for Climate Change]] PSA
62	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa5bVbkldFY Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister]] models
63	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvs9s1Vkscc This]] Watch Creator/{{ESPN}} commercial.
64	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPbfS19IBGE Promo]] for ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless''.
65	[[/folder]]
66
67	[[folder:Comic Books]]
68	* ''ComicBook/{{Animorphs}}'': While the books mention that Jake's [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper morphing outfit]] includes bike shorts; here that seems to be all that he wears. Whether Marco wears a shirt after morphing varies (sometimes within the same scene).
69	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Neal Adams would draw Bruce Wayne shirtless in the cave, although he usually had a lot of bandages covering him. Additionally, Adams popularized the "pants and mask without a shirt, cape or belt" look.
70	** Neal Adams was also the first person to draw ComicBook/RasAlGhul, who is a WalkingShirtlessScene half the time. Naturally, the first time Batman and Ra's fought, they were both shirtless.
71	** Most male members of the Batman Family appear shirtless frequently, especially MrFanservice ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}. He always ends up parading around [[ShirtlessScene shirtless]] or in his underwear, and he has a tendency to get [[JamesBondage tied up]]... often while shirtless or in his underwear.
72	* ''ComicBook/{{Brit}}'': Since he's {{Nigh Invulnerab\|ility}}le but wears ordinary clothing, Brit is usually stripped naked by energy blasts about halfway through his fights.
73	* ''ComicBook/{{Circles}}'': Men take their shirts off quite often.
74	* ''ComicBook/TheDresdenFiles'': The comic adaption of ''Storm Front'' has one scene where Harry, who just got out of the shower, has to fight a demon. He didn't have much time to get his clothes on. Not that anyone's complaining; especially his kind-of girlfriend, who just drank a love potion by accident and is trying to have sex with him.
75	* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': Among others, main protagonist Cutter's everyday outfit does not include a shirt.
76	** Cutter actually ''does'' get to wear a shirt, [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ08/DisplayOQ08.html?page=8 for a while at least]]. [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ08/DisplayOQ08.html?page=9 But then...]]
77	*** Later on [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ12/DisplayOQ12.html?page=16 he gets a new outfit, although the shirt still shows off his chest]]. But guess what, [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ13/DisplayOQ13.html?page=12 a little while later he loses that shirt as well]].
78	* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': In issue 115, Kyle Rayner wakes up from bed in nothing but his undershorts to find a mystery box.
79	* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Bruce Banner always has his clothes conveniently ripped away when he transforms into the Hulk, meaning that when he turns back into Bruce we get lovely scenes of him wearing nothing except for a pair of baggy purple shorts which he has to hold up to stop them falling down. Of course, [[MagicPants his trousers never tear off completely.]]
80	* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': The title character, goth pretty-boy Morpheus, frequently went shirtless. Indeed, one of his most frequently seen items of clothing is an ankle length robe that nevertheless exposes his skinny but toned midsection, allowing him to present the image of the authoritative King of Dreams while still providing the expected fanservice. And people think Sandman's biggest selling point was its sophistication. Not to mention that he's buck-naked in his first appearance.
81	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan1963'' #69, Spidey uses the shirt from his outfit on a decoy to trick the Kingpin's men, which gives him a lengthy fight scene where he takes on Kingpin and his goons shirtless.
82	* ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': Kanan ends up in his underwear in a bacta tank after getting stabbed in the back, which acts as a framing device for a flashback to the final days of the Clone Wars. He then bursts out of the tank and fights off a squad of storm troopers in said state of undress.
83	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/TheJungleLine'', when Superman jolts up in his bed after having a nightmare, his bedsheet slides downwards, lying bare his muscular torso.
84	* ''ComicBook/{{Violine}}'': Oddly enough, the titular character. Violine spends one comic book in nothing but panties and an open shirt.
85	* ''ComicBook/{{Witchblade}}'': Michael Turner apparently received constant requests to show [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Ian Nottingham]] with his shirt off.
86	[[/folder]]
87
88	[[folder:Fan Works]]
89	* In ''Fanfic/TheDragonThatWillPierceTheHeavens'', [[Manga/OnePiece Zoro]] is more prone to this trope, since protagonist Hikari has a tendency for ClothingDamage and a lack of care for whatever people see, and he would prefer if not everyone got an eyeful.
90	* In ''Fanfic/TangledUpInYou'', when Marinette is about to take Adrien's measurements for a Ladybug onesie, he takes his shirt off before she tells him that he doesn't need to strip for this. He apologises and says it's a habit he's picked up from his photoshoots.
91	* ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' has several instances:
92	** John, who has been made physically awesome and given wings, often goes around shirtless, if not nearly or completely naked. {{Fanservice}} for straight women and gay guys!
93	** The others get naked or nearly naked on occasion. Paul actually can't wear clothes any more, though he covers up with an illusion most of the time. The illusion is conspicuously absent in Ehndris after he gets mind-controlled.
94	** As'taris is never more than half-dressed in Ehndris (and is fully naked in his last appearance).
95	* At one point in the 8th entry of the ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheUndiscoveredSwords'', [[spoiler:Kiwame]] Sasanoyuki stands topless in front of a mirror contemplating his life [[spoiler:before [[DrivenToSuicide deciding to slit his throat with his own sword form]].]]
96	* Paul and John also spend time shirtless (and in Paul's case, naked) in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World''. Ringo ends up teleporting to the mesa wearing only underwear. And George [[HulkingOut hulks out of his clothing]] at one point.
97	* Rare female example in the ''Fanfic/DokiDokiLiteratureClubLoops'' that isn't (solely) played for fanservice, as the girls Awaken for one loop and [[spoiler:discuss what kind of game ''DDLC'' is, specifically whether it's an H-game as they are four girls revolving around one male otherwise-unremarkable PlayerCharacter. Yuri test this by taking off her shirt and looking, concluding that ''DDLC'' is not an H-game because there's just a blank space where her chest should be, i.e., there's no data about their appearance. Or at the very least not a full-fledged H-game, because there ''is'' data about where they are exactly and how they feel when touched.]]
98	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12644952/1/Strut Strut]]'' Harry teases Ginny by going without a shirt. She retaliates by reminding him of the time he [[DistractedByTheSexy walked into a tree]] while ogling her swimsuit.
99	* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal, airborne Witch Irena Politek has reached her middle thirties and seen at least three of her closest friends settle down, marry and start families. She has remained single by choice and inclination, having never encountered a man who has been of more than incidental interest. But as she gets older and having seen her friends' children born and grow up, [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking she is starting to get restless]]. One day, when a junior Air Witch known for mischief leads her to an emergency landing in a backwater of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinia]], saying she knows a man who can do an emergency repair, they land just where [[Music/OtavaYo local men are dancing and play-fighting]]. With their shirts off. And she meets Vitali for the first time. With his shirt off. Things begin happening after that as the normally cynical and sardonic spinster Witch realises spinsterhood might not be that great a deal, having been shown the alternative. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ0xnJyb0A Soundtrack provided]] by Music/OtavaYo.
100	* ''Fanfic/GuysBeingDudes'': Spark spends a good portion of Go Fest Day 2 shirtless after giving his hoodie to Arlo.
101	* Parodied in the blooper reel for ''Fanfic/GlitterForceIntoTheGlitterverse''; [[Anime/SmilePrecure Majorina]] bursts into the bathroom, then freaks out because she didn't expect Joker to be shirtless...in a bath.
102	[[/folder]]
103
104	[[folder:Literature]]
105	* Rob’s shirt in ''Literature/AnOutcastInAnotherWorld'' gets destroyed in the beginning and ending chapters of Book 1. In the latter instance, he ends up unwittingly giving some fanservice to women who were passing by. He doesn’t particularly mind.
106	* In ''Literature/DragonBlood'', Ward is in love with a woman who is rather reluctant to enter a relationship (despite being in love with him). He deliberately takes off his shirt during a training fight she's watching to invoke this trope. As this takes place outside, in the middle of winter, with ''snow'' on the ground everywhere, his intentions are [[FanService quite obvious]], as the lady later mentions.
107	* In ''Literature/ShamanBlues'', when Konstancja knock on Witkacy's door, he's just finishing taking a shower, so he opens the door with only a towel to protect his modesty. She notices the fact.
108	* In ''Literature/{{Everworld}},'' April goes to see David, and he opens the door without a shirt. April's narration [[ThinkUnsexyThoughts repeatedly reminds her to not stare at his chest]]. Incidentally [[TokenEvilTeammate Senna]], his evil girlfriend and a master of MoreThanMindControl, was in the room with him; when she lessens the degree of control it mentions that David suddenly looks like he's wondering where his shirt is. There are a few more scattered throughout the series, such as David during a ForgingScene and Christopher while playing basketball.
109	* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}:''
110	** In one book, they cut up Marco's shirt to make armbands so that they can blend in among the EliteMooks.
111	--->"No looking," he warned. "[[CasanovaWannabe There's no telling what the sight of my naked torso might make you do]]." Marco turned to me. "I'm lethal at the beach."
112	** Human-morphed [[TokenNonHuman Ax]][[note]][[ExposedExtraterrestrials who's usually naked in his Andalite form]][[/note]], after he becomes [[AlienArtsAreAppreciated addicted to]] [[AliensStealCable television]]:
113	--->'''Ax:''' I am ready. [[VerbalTic R-r-r-ready. Red. E. Red. E.]]\
114	'''Marco:''' How about putting on a shirt?\
115	'''Ax:''' The men who are [[Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless young and restless]] do not wear shirts. I am young. And I am occasionally restless.\
116	'''Marco:''' Ax?\
117	'''Ax:''' Yes, Marco?\
118	'''Marco:''' Put on a shirt.
119	* In ''Literature/{{Touch\|2017}}'', [[IJustWantToBeFree Caleb]] takes off his shirt a few times to show people the RestrainingBolt tattooed on his back. He's amused to notice that [[TheBigGuy Tasha]], who hates him, stares when he does it in front of her. [[BlowYouAway James]] always looks away, possibly because he seems uncomfortable at any hint of nudity and possibly because [[spoiler:he's starting to think that he's gay]].
120	* ''Literature/TheWitchlands:''
121	** Merik's first meeting with Safi and Iseult has him shirtless. Safi snarks about his inability to work a button even as she's [[EatingTheEyeCandy checking out his bare chest]].
122	** In ''Windwitch'', Iseult startles Aeduan while he's trying to wash his bloodied shirt. He's mortified to be caught in such a state of undress and dives into the stream in search of his shirt the moment Iseult turns around and walks away.
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124
125	[[folder:Music]]
126	* [[Creator/MarkWahlberg Marky Mark]], shirtless, pants-dropping, [[TheNineties early '90s]] white rapper extraordinaire. He was the face (er, torso) of Calvin Klein for a while, eventually became an Oscar-nominated actor -- What?!?
127	* Usher, notably in "Confessions Part 2", where he takes his shirt off towards the end of the video.
128	%%* Music/FiftyCent.
129	%%* Akon
130	* Early on, Rick Allen of Music/DefLeppard would play his drums wearing only a pair of Union Jack shorts. After losing his left arm in a car accident and learning to play again with an electronic drum kit, he had to begin wearing a shirt to keep the sweat from damaging the electronics.
131	%%* Music/LLCoolJ.
132	* Music/{{Manowar}} [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PylY7FQPe0c/Tv-oRkZ_rbI/AAAAAAAAAU0/uVsOqvGVuxo/s1600/manowar.jpg]]
133	* Joe Loeffler from the band Chevelle has apparently never done a video with a shirt on.
134	%%* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers... constantly.
135	* Maroon 5's lead singer Adam Levine in the video for "Moves Like Jagger".
136	* Most, if not all {{Boy Band}}s, to some extent. One of the most famous examples is "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" by Music/BackstreetBoys, which is just basically them shirtless and singing in the rain.
137	%%* David Gahan of Music/DepecheMode
138	* Music/{{Eminem}} - less often than 50, but he's shirtless on the back of ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' and performed shirtless a number of times. In "3 a.m.", due to [[DyeingForYourArt showing off his recovery from obesity]], he's shirtless for over half of the video (complete with a BloodBath scene and [[FemaleGaze fragmented closeups of his collarbones and hands]]).
139	* Mark Farner of Music/GrandFunkRailroad regularly ripped his shirt off during concerts or didn't even bother wearing one back in the '70s.
140	* Brandon Boyd of Incubus. The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgT9zGkiLig&feature=channel "Drive"]] is especially notable for its many low-angle shots of his abs.
141	* ZP Theart, formerly of Music/DragonForce, often goes shirtless onstage.
142	* The video for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ0xnJyb0A Sumetskaya]]'', by Russian folk-rockers Music/OtavaYo, features village men in the rural hinterland of Pskov (near St Petersburg) dancing, performing feats of strength, and play-fighting with and without their shirts on, while the band play music for them.
143	* Bobby Blitz of Music/{{Overkill}} is frequently seen shirtless on stage, and for an old man, he's absolutely ''[[SilverFox ripped]]''.
144	** Ditto for Geoff Tate of Music/{{Queensryche}}, who likes to go on stage in a leather jacket with no shirt underneath.
145	* [[Music/{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]] in the '80s. In the "Radio Ga-Ga" music video, all he wears on his upper body are some red ribbons.
146	** In '70s concerts, he rocked scoop-neck leotards: the scooped necklines went all the way down to his ''[[http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-ent-120514-freddie-mercury-queen.380;380;7;70;0.jpg navel]]''.
147	*** Paul Stanley of Music/{{Kiss}} also wore outfits like that in the '70s.
148	* Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello tends to go shirtless at all of their concerts.
149	* Angus Young of Music/{{ACDC}} regularly strips down to just a pair of shorts during concerts.
150	* Country singer Kenny Chesney appears without a shirt in his music videos and his bus and billboard advertisements.
151	* Henry Rollins of Music/BlackFlag [[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000MS75EO/bookrags as a young man]], and [[http://www.musicpix.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=527 still today]].
152	* In the video for his one-hit wonder "Rico Suave", Gerardo didn't wear a shirt.
153	** He didn't wear one in the video for "Latin Till I Die (Oye Como Va)" either.
154	* The video for "Connection" by Elastica shows the band being surrounded by naked male models.
155	* The video for her debut single "What Made You Say That?" has Shania Twain frolicking on the beach with a barechested, musclebound love interest.
156	* Scott Weiland of Music/StoneTemplePilots and Music/VelvetRevolver fame regularly appeared without a shirt.
157	* Music/{{Gorillaz}}' 2D went topless in the "Dirty Harry" music video, and Murdoc wanders around shirtless a lot of the time. It's debatable whether either or both of them are {{Fanservice}} or FanDisservice, though ...
158	** The was certainly FanDisservice to be had for the old "Rock The House" music video, with Murdoc sporting some serious skin and not-so-serious physique.
159	%%* The 1992 Creator/{{MTV}} Video Music Awards
160	* Sting spends some time bare-chested in the video for 'Don't Stand So Close To Me'. While there's two different 'sets' (classroom, random romping area), the shirtless scene is during a classroom segment.
161	* Music/{{Gackt}}'s YFC tour has him pulling off his tie then ripping off the white sleeveless shirt. Then resumes going shirtless for the rest of the concert. Why? Does it really matter?
162	* The first guy's shirt is totally unbuttoned in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31UEGl9tvX8 "As If"]] by Sara Evans
163	* The video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Ky5Yc00uI As Long As You Belong to Me]]" by Holly Dunn.
164	* The men in the video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA "Physical"]] by Music/OliviaNewtonJohn
165	* The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SArW2QjMIEo "Hangin' In"]] by Music/TanyaTucker.
166	* The video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsX7TxgECw "Indian Disco"]] by Jasmine.
167	* From ''Australia's Got Talent'': Dylan Yeandle while singing this cover version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-d-k85kvrQ "Sex Bomb"]] by Music/TomJones.
168	* Axl Rose of Music/GunsNRoses was known to do this quite often in earlier years.
169	%%** As was Slash.
170	%%** And Duff McKagan.
171	%%* [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]]. ''So'' much Robert Plant.
172	* [[Music/SexPistols Sid Vicious]] rarely [[DreadfulMusician "performed"]] with a shirt on.
173	* Ensiferum--or, to be more precise, Petri Lindroos, Markus Toivonen and Sami Hinkka. It's most common during live shows, but they get their tops off in the video for 'In My Sword I Trust'.
174	* Everybody in Music/{{Megadeth}} in the video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4ui9q7eDM "Holy Wars"]] an several times during live concerts back in the '90s.
175	* Music/SClub7's video for "Natural" featured the group on an island with each of the three boys showering using a waterfall.
176	* Trent Reznor in the videos for Music/NineInchNails' 'Sin' and 'Closer', both featuring some sort of bondage as well.
177	* In the music video for Music/{{REM}}'s "End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," a teenage boy digs around through a destroyed building. Near the end he takes off his shirt, wipes his forehead with it and starts trying to do skateboarding tricks inside.
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180	[[folder:Pinballs]]
181	* Seen in Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/StarTrekDataEast Star Trek]]'' pinball, which depicts the scene from [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime "The Naked Time"]] with Sulu fencing while shirtless.
182	* Seen on [[Creator/WilliamsElectronics Wiliams']] ''Jungle Lord'' backglass.
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184
185	[[folder:Podcasts]]
186	* When Frank and Ethan in the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Creepy Town'' dress up for the torture cabin room they aren't wearing shirts, with Frank as the torturer and Ethan as a sexy doctor. Walter tries this, but people complained because he was too pale and glowed in the blacklight.
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189	[[folder:Sports]]
190	* It's common for at least some football (soccer) players to remove their shirts after scoring and before leaving the field at the end of a match. In the former case, this is mostly just a demonstration of excitement, though it's sometimes a method of conveying a message through a slogan tee underneath of varying solemnity (Andres Iniesta, for instance, used it to pay tribute to a friend of his, who had tragically died of a sudden heart attack during a match), and it invariably attracts a yellow card (caution) from the referee. In the latter case, originally, this was done to honour the long-standing tradition of swapping shirts, particular after international or high-profile games. Although there's still an element of this, nowadays it's more of an excuse for physically fit, tired and overheated young men to [[MrFanservice show off]] their bodies from time to time. A few players (Cristiano Ronaldo and Lewis Holtby, for example) strip off after every match as a matter of course, for no reason other than habit or [[{{Stripperiffic}} a bit of mild exhibitionism]].
191	* Brandi Chastain famously stripped off her shirt after winning the 1999 Women's Football World Cup. It wasn't overly revealing, since like many female players, she was wearing a fairly heavy duty sports bra, but it was an iconic shot.
192	* 2007 World Men's Champion in figure skating Brian Joubert has a tendency to wander around shirtless backstage at competitions, and ESPN has a tendency to include a clip of it in their broadcasts of every competition he's in. These days they even lampshade this piece of fanservice turned RunningGag, with comments such as "And there's your obligatory shot of Brian Joubert shirtless," or montages. He may claim that he takes the top of his costume off just because he likes to, not because he wants to show it to everyone, but when you consider he's deliberately posed shirtless for magazine photos and the state of even further ''déshabillé'' he's appeared in on TV in his native France, one must wonder...
193	[[/folder]]
194
195	[[folder:Theatre]]
196	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?search=&mode=related&v=EOMlmcZGCRk Aerial Straps]] act in Cirque du Soleil's ''Varekai''. Also has an aura of {{Twincest}}.
197	* Cassius from ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', ecstatic about the conspiracy to kill Caesar, bares his chest to a thunderstorm one night and, according to the script, appears with his shirt unbuttoned. As the manipulative Cassius could easily be considered the villain- and is also described as being quite [[LeanAndMean lean]]- this can cause some happiness among female Shakespeare geeks.
198	* ''Riverdance''
199	* Chris in Theatre/MissSaigon has two. He's post-coital in one scene and pre-coital in the other, so it's not as gratuitous as most examples.
200	* ''Terrible Advice'', a black comedy play by Saul Ruibinek of 'Warehouse 13' fame, featured a certain Scott Bakula in nothing but board shorts for the first 15 minutes. Ummm.
201	* The BBC's ''Theatre/HenryIVPart2''. Surely Shakespeare was thinking of Creator/TomHiddleston when he titled Act 2 Scene 2 "The Sauna Scene." Oh, wait...
202	* In ''Theatre/AllMySons'', when Chris is chopping down the stump of the destroyed tree at the start of the second act, he is wearing a pair of "good" pants but no shirt.
203	* In the William Inge play ''Theatre/{{Picnic}}'', as well as the 1955 film adaptation, Hal's willingness to be shirtless, especially in mixed company, marks him as both more virile and lower-class than his college roommate.
204	* In the Met Opera's new (2016) production of Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, after the storm, Zurga takes off the looser shirt he's been wearing until that point, on stage, and changes into a [[https://youtu.be/3_1o3j7MIUc?t=5s tight black t-shirt]] for the rest of the opera.
205	* Radames in ''Theatre/{{Aida\|JohnRice}}'', following the SexyDiscretionShot between him and the titular character, to make it obvious that they slept together.
206	* Colloredo in ''Theatre/{{Mozart}}'' was making out with a paramour when Mozart forces his way in, so the Archbishop receives the composer clad in jeans and a dressing gown with the front open.
207	* Emanuel in ''Theatre/{{Schikaneder}}'' was in bed with a woman when Benedikt interrupted with the news that the woman's very angry husband is arriving soon and out for Schikaneder's blood. He had to flee, holding his shirt, [[DestinationDefenestration through the window.]]
208	* Beau in ''Theatre/{{Shucked}}'' tries to tempt Maizy back by pulling up his shirt, flexing, and using pelvic thrusts to move some barrels around. While she [[EatingTheEyeCandy certainly seems to enjoy the view]], it isn't until they talk and SpeakInUnison that she kisses him.
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212	* ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints''. Big time. Oran spends half the series shirtless, Kamimura and Raimi join him in shirtlessness for Chapter 20. Gabriel goes completely nude early on and later on goes shirtless [[spoiler:for the GrandFinale]].
213	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In Volume 3's eleventh episode, General James Ironwood leaves the wreckage of a ship with most of his shirt and some of his pants torn/burned away. It reveals that the right half of his body is biomechanical, and there is burn scarring where it's attached to his body.
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217	* Daichi greets Sasha and Iphigenie wearing nothing but a towel in ''Literature/GreekNinja''.
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221	* Website/{{Cracked}} [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18633_the-real-reason-shes-making-you-go-see-eclipse-5Bgraph5D.html explains why so many boyfriends were dragged unwilling to see]] Literature/{{Twilight}} 3.
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225	* Jonas in ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'' is very often shown without his shirt. This aspect of his character is eventually [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] during Sarah's rant in the season 3 episode "Adios Amigos". Jonas then got a SpinOff in the form of ''WebVideo/LG15TheResistance''. He didn't manage to go four episodes without taking his shirt off.
226	* Website/ChannelAwesome:
227	** WebVideo/{{Benzaie}} is prone to these. Also, there was that time that [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] was on pain-meds for dental surgery...
228	** Then there was that time when [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/sketches/64-how-i-quit-my-job Doug quit his job]], as well as [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Critic's]] DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1743-surf-ninjas moment]] in Film/SurfNinjas.
229	** Creator/JewWario got one in ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee'' where he fences, a la George Takei from the Star Trek episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime The Naked Time]], with Mechakara who just ignores him.
230	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsSQKspCPHg Shirtless Anonymous]]
231	* Parodied by ''Website/CollegeHumor'' in their [[http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6791913/call-me-maybe-parody Call Me Maybe Parody]]. Like the music video, an attractive guy starts lawnmowering a backyard, but when a girl takes note of him and he takes his shirt off, he's revealed [[ThoseWackyNazis to be a Neo-Nazi]] on account of the huge swastika tattoo on his chest.
232	* ''WebVideo/TheAutobiographyOfJaneEyre'': Downplayed in episode 11. Mr Rochester has loosened his shirt and a tie, and he has rolled up his sleeves, revealing his geeky tattoo. Fangirls approve.
233	* ''WebVideo/TheLizzieBennetDiaries'': Lydia stages a shirtless scene when she spills water on George's T-shirt. That soaked T-shirt was nice enough, but she managed to convince him to take it off.
234	* Jake in ''WebVideo/MidnightScreenings'' decided to take his shirt off in their review of Smurfs 2. [[Creator/BradJones Brad]] joined in, and insisted that Irving follow.
235	-->"Dude, you're making us look gay, bro!"
236	* In episode 54 of ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Vegeta is seen shirtless when Perfect Cell [[YourMom makes a crack about his mother]] when he was wearing a shirt just mere seconds earlier. Krillin asks "Why did you take off your shirt?"[[note]]It was an animation error Team Four Star [[ThrowItIn left in]].[[/note]]
237	* ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' had a few episodes in season five where Kiara has her shirt off for no reason.
238	** [[https://youtu.be/H9MJ-4L0Wto OH JAMES VALENTINE!]]
239	** In [[https://youtu.be/LiG_8uFElFY Episode 236]], not only is she shirtless, [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext she's completely naked]]]].
240	* Tom Fawkes of LetsPlay/TheDerpCrew recorded a playthrough of ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' on Halloween, and dressed up as the main character during the dream sequences, meaning no shirt and a ram's horn headpiece. He also occasionally records parts of his weekly vlog shirtless, usually when he's recording after working out.
241	* Creator/MF217 goes back to using his webcam to show himself during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxror87VJ8&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=MF217 the Freezeezy Peak portion]] of his ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' OneHundredPercentCompletion run and he's explicitly without a shirt. It's both because he's not joking when he says it's hot outside since it's July of 2021 and the fact he just wanted to be shirtless while playing through a SlippySlideyIceWorld.
242	* WebVideo/{{TheDoubleAgent}} in his Spring and Fall 2023 collaboration rankings with WebVideo/DiamondAxeStudiosMusic, and in his "Top 20 Worst Almost Hit Songs of the 2010's" video.
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