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[[caption-width-right:250:The preferred bathing method of MsFanservice.]]

Lost in the middle of a forest? Need to take a [[ShowerScene shower]]? Cue the convenient nearby waterfall. Excellent source of {{Fanservice}}. Although often that character doesn't have to fully undress and can do NonNudeBathing, which may lead to a SexySoakedShirt or ShirtlessScene.

Often this trope also leads to an InterruptedBath, ShowerOfAwkward, GoneSwimmingClothesStolen and OutdoorBathPeeping, which may cause the bather to have a NakedFreakOut... or to threaten the intruder armed if they CantBatheWithoutAWeapon. Other times it can lead to an impromptu ShowerOfLove.

In RealLife it's somewhat less practical, particularly for large waterfalls, since in most cases the water would be stone cold and would have enough force to knock you flat if you were to step under it. Some martial arts works go with this, with a warrior standing beneath the falls as part of his TrainingFromHell.

Contrast MeditatingUnderAWaterfall, which has a different purpose. Compare SkinnyDipping.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' combines this with ShowerOfAngst with [[spoiler:the first time we see Casca following the Eclipse]].
* Kallen's [[LaResistance true identity]] in ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is exposed to Suzaku when he walks in on her doing this and [[FullFrontalAssault she attempts to attack him]].
* Komaeda is introduced in ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' taking one of these after his fateful plane crash.
* Shirenu takes a shower under a melting glacier in the 2nd ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}'' OVA.
* Shizuka takes a shower under a little waterfall in an episode of ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' where Nobita and his friends go on a desert island.
* In the uncensored original version of ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu'', Misty washes her bare breasts beneath a waterfall in hopes of getting them to "evolve" before catching [[OutdoorBathPeeping Ash and Brock spying on her]] and streaking off into the night.
* The 22nd episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' has Pedro, Sandora and Nabeshin showering under a waterfall.
* Haru from ''Anime/{{Free}}'' met his first love this way. The [[CargoShip waterfall]], not the naked woman.
* Miaka is shown in an artificial one near the middle of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi''. Tamahome, of course, [[AccidentalPervert gets a peek]].
* ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada'' has [[WholesomeCrossDresser Yellow Belmont]] doing this twice.
* In ''Manga/{{Ikkitousen}}'' episode 9, Hakufu Sonsaku strips off her dress but keeps her panties on to go SkinnyDipping and have a waterfall shower.
* ''Manga/LoveHina'' hits this up at least twice.
** During the trip Sara and Naru take one, but Keitaro suddenly [[ShowerOfAwkward falls in on them]].
** Later lost on a desert island finding an oasis, Naru takes one while making a Leaf Bikini.
* In a Filler of the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' anime, Hinata combined this with a NudeNatureDance, by dancing in a waterfall.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** While lost in the library. (Yes, the Library has a waterfall. Many, in fact.)
** And much later, Asuna and Setsuna take one.
** Chisame takes one and, much to her chagrin, [[TopHeavyGuy Jack Rakan]] is also taking one on the other side of some rocks.
* Raina takes a waterfall bath in the ''Manga/NishikazeToTaiyou'' one-shot.
* ''Manga/{{Outlanders}}'': While Kahm is having a bath, she goes over to the portion of her bathing pond where the waterfall is and has a waterfall shower to rinse off the shampoo that she had in her hair.
%%* ''Anime/YuGiOh'''s first season has this.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* For unexplained reasons, Julia is taking one ''in the Batcave'' just before Hush escapes in ''ComicBook/BatmanEternal''.
* Fauna the Jungle Girl takes one after she is stranded on an alien planet in ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}} Color Special''. This turns into a GoneSwimmingClothesStolen situation when flying creatures steal her uniform. This is pure {{Fanservice}} and little more than an excuse to show Fauna cavorting around in the nude.
* Abbey and [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash]] take one, to wash off zombie goo, in ''ComicBook/DangerGirl and the ComicBook/ArmyOfDarkness'' #5.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Extinctioners}}'', Scarlett Ann Starfox takes a shower under a waterfall while [[NonNudeBathing wearing a swimsuit]].
* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Bleez of the Characters/GLRedLanternCorps was fond of taking these on her homeworld before she got abducted by the Sinestro Corps.
* In ''[[ComicBook/HarleyQuinn Harley's Little Black Book]]'' #6, Harley and ComicBook/{{Lobo}} take a waterfall shower while stranded on an alien planet. It nearly turns into a ShowerOfLove, but they are [[InterruptedBath interrupted]].
* ''Marvel Illustrated Swimsuit'' (which Creator/MarvelComics published annually between 1991 and 1995) featured several illustrations of superheroines taking waterfall showers. Of course, if you're strong enough to toss tanks around, you can probably handle the force of the water.
* Some publicity artwork for the French graphic novel ''ComicBook/{{Pyrenee}}'' shows the WildChild heroine showering beneath waterfalls. Not ''intended'' as {{Fanservice}}, because she's too young...
* ComicBook/RedSonja takes one (surrounded by strategic CensorSteam) just before she is captured by an EvilSorcerer at the start of ''Red Sonja Annual'' #4.
* In ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'', Freddy and Casey get married while standing naked under a waterfall... but soon regret it when they realize how cold it is.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* Non-fanservice example (unless you're a furry): In one ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' strip, Officer Pupp is taking a Waterfall Shower.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/BlizzardStorm'': Both Sakido and Eric get this idea in Waterfall Romance, followed by an accidental OutdoorBathPeeping, which ultimately leads to TheirFirstTime.
* Empath and Smurfette take separate showers in the waterfall during their honeymoon in the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Empath's Honeymoon". It is during Smurfette's shower that Empath tests the limits of how much and when he can touch Smurfette with his touch-telepathy when she is in the shower.
* In Chapter 43 of ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'', Hinata accidentally comes across Yugito taking one of these in an artificial waterfall on the balcony of her high-rise penthouse suite. [[OutdoorBathPeeping Hinata watches for a good few minutes]], despite her moments of blushing at Yugito's daring, even unconsciously comparing her own chest size to Yugito's at one point. For her part, [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl Yugito doesn't mind the audience but is still careful about not embarrassing Hinata (too much)]].
* In Chapter 29 of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Ash finds a rather secluded waterfall and decides to wash himself under it. [[ShowerOfAwkward Things get a little awkward when]] Iris, an InnocentFanserviceGirl with no nudity taboo in story, shows up and joins him, even stripping naked in front of him before he can say anything to stop her and nonchalantly chatting with him about his training regime. A similar set up occurs in Chapter 36 with a larger variety of characters, though Iris interrupted a girl's shower that time.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2021470/1/Voyeurs Voyeurs]]'', the [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi Temple]] has a natural waterfall in back of it, and some female trainees sneak to a hidden vantage point to watch Luke take a shower in it after his morning run. The first two get caught by Mara Jade and another, only for those two to start watching as well. Maybe not quite as big a deal for Mara, since she later married him, but it does mention her not wanting him to do it anymore after they marry.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'': Cody and Lani end up cleaning themselves up under a waterfall after getting covered in glowworm poo.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AlmostHeroes'': Edwards and Hunt [[OutdoorBathPeeping spy on Shaquinna]] bathing in a waterfall with a telescope, although they only see her ToplessnessFromTheBack.
* After the raid on the drug dealer's compound, the Angels celebrate by taking one in ''Film/AngelsRevenge''.
* In ''Film/TheBrideWithWhiteHair'', Ni-Chang and Yi-Hang, the StarCrossedlovers of the film, [[ShowerOfLove have sex]] under a waterfall.
* ''Franchise/KingKong'':
** The heroine taking this sort of shower occurs in the 1976 remake of ''[[Film/KingKong1976 King Kong]]'', and in the 1998 animated musical adaptation ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyKong''.
** Kong himself takes a shower under a waterfall as part of his morning routine during the opening scenes of ''Film/GodzillaVsKong''.
* In the film ''Film/TheLastSamurai'', Creator/TomCruise's POW character comes across his host (the widow of the man he killed) taking a waterfall ShowerOfAwkward.
* Isabel takes one in a jungle lagoon, [[OutdoorBathPeeping and is spied on by the eponymous heroine]], in the Z-grade Italian film ''[[Film/LuanaGirlTarzan Luana, Girl Tarzan]]''.
* ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'': After Toby falls through the rotten boards into the cave, he discovers Angelica standing under a waterfall at the mouth.
* One of Creator/PhoebeCates' two nude scenes ever was in one of these in the otherwise unmemorable ''Film/TheBlueLagoon'' rip-off, ''Film/{{Paradise}}''.
* Mandakini takes a shower under a waterfall in [[WetSariScene a transparent white sari]] in the UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movie ''Film/RamTeriGangaMaili''.
* Myth/RobinHood does it in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves''. Marian [[EatingTheEyeCandy spies on him]] to the horror of her maid.
* Eve showers naked under a waterfall in the 1984 sex comedy ''Film/SecondTimeLucky''.
* Creator/TanyaRoberts took two as the titular character in ''Film/{{Sheena}}'', which made the MPAA create the PG-13 rating.
* Happens in ''She-Wolves of Wasteland'' (a.k.a. ''Phoenix the Warrior''), when Phoenix and Keela stumble across a clan of friendly women showering bare-breasted under waterfalls.
* In ''Film/TheStoryOfRobinHoodAndHisMerrieMen'', Robin rinses himself off under a small waterfall in the outlaw camp while Scathelock is tending to Stutley's wounds.
* In ''Film/AWalkOnTheMoon'', Creator/DianeLane and Creator/ViggoMortensen [[ShowerOfLove get it on]] under a waterfall.
* ''Film/RainingInTheMountain''. Master Wu Wai, a lay Buddhist scholar who claims to be impervious to temptations of the flesh, is shown leading the monks in prayer while his female servants bathe [[WetSariScene in their white robes]] under a nearby waterfall, casting a DisapprovingLook every time one of the monks is DistractedByTheSexy. General Wang finds this amusing and invites Esquire Wen to join him in EatingTheEyeCandy, so neither are happy when they're informed at that moment that the Abbot is finally ready to have a word with them.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/GloryRoad''. Oscar and Star bathe under several waterfalls in the area called the Singing Waters (so named for the sounds the water makes falling over them).
* Subverted in ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan''. On Vampire Mountain, ''all'' showers are waterfalls ''inside caves''. Its impracticality is even {{lampshaded}}, justifying why the vampires bathe so rarely while staying in the mountain. It's also an effective if painful way of [[HideousHangoverCure waking yourself up from a hangover.]]
* At the end of ''[[Literature/TheVAMPIRECHRONICLES The Tale of the Body Thief]]'', [[spoiler:David Talbot]] cleans off beneath a waterfall after being turned into a vampire; this scene doubles as ShowingOffTheNewBody.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'', Dr. Quinn and Sully have a ShowerOfLove under a waterfall shower.
* ''Series/GeneralHospital'' managed to pair this with ShowerOfAngst when Karen took one after nearly being raped.
* Done frequently by the female contestants on ''Series/ImACelebrityGetMeOutOfHere''.
* In ''Series/ISurvivedAJapaneseGameShow'', one of the punishments for the losing teams was going through this.
* ''Series/OffTheMap'': Happens several times as a RunningGag, always in the same waterfall and always ends up with said character shower being [[InterruptedBath interrupted.]]
** In "Smile. Don't Kill Anyone", Lily, Tommy and Mina's [[NakedFirstImpression first meeting]] with Dr. Ryan is when they stumble upon her bathing in a waterfall in the wild. She [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl nonchalantly gets out]] and wraps herself in a ModestyTowel to properly greet them. When Mina questions it, Ryan calls the waterfall "God's Shower".
** Later in the same episode, Lily decides to use the same waterfall to shower, but it turns into a NakedPeopleTrappedOutside situation when her towel washes away... right as Ben is strolling by and happens to get an eyeful which causes Lily to have a NakedFreakOut until he returns her towel and warns her she's bathing on a main hiking trail.
** In "It's Good", Lily is again showering in the same waterfall at night, when Mateo walks in on her [[RunningGag also telling her she's bathing in a main hiking trail]]. It turns into a Waterfall ShowerOfLove when he joins her.
* ''Series/TheShannaraChronicles'': Will [[NakedFirstImpression first meeting]] with Amberle is him walking in on her doing this. After getting a view of her ToplessnessFromTheBack, [[DistractedByTheSexy he slips up]] and when he gets back up she already has a [[CantBatheWithoutAWeapon dagger to his throat]].
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Priest(esse)s of Eldath, Goddess of the Singing Waters in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting, are stated to pray while under waterfalls and as unclad as possible when in the woodlands or far away in the wilderness.
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[[folder:Theme Parks]]
* The "Elephant Bathing Pool" scene in the ''Ride/JungleCruise'' at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks features an elephant showering by using a waterfall.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* A cutscene in ''VideoGame/FarCry1'' shows Valerie taking a shower under a waterfall as she tells Jack about the CIA's involvement on the BigBad Krieger's work.
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' has a hiker do this in "The Last Yardbird" sniper mission. He's blocked from reaching a waterfall with a "No Trespassing" sign, but if 47 destroys it, the Hiker will strip off his shirt and bathe in the waterfall.
* ''VideoGame/Onimusha2SamuraisDestiny'': The intro cutscene has Oyu bathing [[ToplessnessFromTheBack nude]] in a waterfall before putting on her armor.
* Follow the singing in ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997'' to find a woman doing this. But don't stand too close for too long, or your character's pickup lines will lead her to [[HammerSpace whip out an]] [[HandGuns Uzi]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Evon takes one after running away from Hero in ''Webcomic/{{Evon}}''.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
** In "XCVII" [[HeelFaceTurn Ashi]] takes one to wash away the rest of the coal on her body (which she had had since she was a child). But when she comes out, she [[DidntThinkThisThrough realizes that she's got nothing to wear]], so she makes a [[GardenGarment new outfit made of leaves]].
** Jack himself does this whenever possible, doubling as a BathOfPoverty since he's a broke, homeless fugitive. He still enjoys it though, and [[MrFanservice so do we]].
* Like Bugs above, Squidward from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' does this not for the {{Fanservice}}, but it's because he's enjoying himself after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick make him a tiki paradise vacation.
* In the Franchise/LooneyTunes short "WesternAnimation/WetHare", WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, in an example not intended as {{Fanservice}}, uses a waterfall as a shower and is trying to stop a lumberjack from damming the river that provides it.
* Alexa bathes with some other girls under a waterfall in ''WesternAnimation/WonderWoman2009''.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Artificial waterfalls are a popular choice for many pools and resort locations.
* [[https://polymathically.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/weekly-photo-challenge-vivid-or-tiger-shower/ This Bengal tiger in Nuevo Vallarta.]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Lagoon_%28geothermal_spa%29 The Blue Lagoon geothermal spa]] in Iceland has a waterfall shower... it's actually very warm like the rest of the lagoon.
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