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[[caption-width:278:Gravity loses to modesty.]]

->''Another picture people thought was sexy... I wanted to draw a pose that showed off her shoes, so it turned out like this. Her skirt is kept in place by magic.''\\
-- '''[[HidamariSketch Ume Aoki]]''', on [[http://i36.tinypic.com/142fqf8.jpg this picture of Yuno]]

The odd local laws of physics which apply to a (super)heroine's impossibly short skirt which cause it to ''always'' cover everything regardless of what ridiculous things she may be doing, like falling legs first. Note that the skirt always conceals the girl's modesty from "the camera", i.e. the viewers at home, and thus acts as a form of [[CensorshipTropes censorship]]. This trope's at least plausible if the skirts are quite close-fitting. It applies more to the pleated skirts which are in no way prevented from flapping around -- Supergirl, we're looking at you.

Can coincide with PantyShot if another character is watching from a different position, albeit without the usual {{Fanservice}}. (Just like in the pictures for both of [[MagicSkirt these]] [[PantyShot articles]]). Occasionally this trope gets [[AvertedTrope averted]] by simply giving the character something extra to wear under said impossibly short flappy skirt -- usually something akin to cycling shorts, as worn by [[AhMyGoddess Skuld]], [[{{Mahou Sensei Negima}} Setsuna]], [[FutariWaPrettyCure Cure Black]], and [[HayateTheCombatButler Hinagiku]].

And one last way to at least try to explain this is if said heroine is actually falling headfirst at the time; then it can be believed that wind resistance plus inertia keeps the skirt pointing back where the character came from.

It's the thing you must wear for convenience sake if you are an ActionGirl, otherwise you're going to [[ActionDressRip tear the hem off every dress you wear if you want to be able to move.]]

For dignity in the face of TransformationSequence-based ClothingDamage as opposed to WaifFu, see MagicPants.

Compare ImpossiblyLowNeckline.

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* AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku uses this in TV series (obivously caused by timeslot), but subverts in OVA series.
* FutakoiAlternative: during the whole first episode, which uses a ridiculous amount of StuffBlowingUp and other activities involving ActionGirl, there is even no PantyShot during the SuperWindowJump. In a loose skirt. With the camera near the earth and looking up.
* UminekoNoNakuKoroNi has an animators' fetish including BabyGotBack, HartmanHips and MostCommonSuperpower, skirts (except [[ShrinkingViolet Shannon]]'s MaidOutfit) are very short, but good luck finding pantyshots.
* The characters on ''{{Noir}}'' are always covered by their skirts, even when ''upside down''.
** Especially noticable to {{Cosplay}}ers, who will attest to the impossibility of replicating Mireille Bouquet's leather miniskirt without occasionally flashing people.
* Apparently, the animators learned the lesson and gave {{Madlax}} and [[ElCazadorDeLaBruja Nadie]] hotpants. And Ellis, who wears a loose tunic, is a telekinesis-capable witch, to boot. Evidence indicates that she doesn't wear anything under it, so the Magic Skirt is an absolute necessity.
* Mai in (the 2006) ''{{Kanon}}''.
* Saya, at the end of the third opening of ''{{Blood Plus}}''.
* Kyou and Tomoyo in ''{{Clannad}}'' as well, which is quite surprising, considering all the high kicks they do. (Though they aren't shown to the viewer, Kyou's flying high-kick does end up giving Sunohara a fleeting glimpse (light blue) at one point.)
* Kagome from ''InuYasha''. That might be intentional, as RumikoTakahashi likewise pushed to the animators of the anime adaptation that habitual skirt-wearer Kagome wasn't to be shown flashing her underwear, and after about 160 episodes of being thrown around never did.
** With Kohaku's acrobatics, ''he's'' even ''more'' of a MagicSkirt case.
* There were some comments about Yuki Nagato's fight against [[spoiler:Ryoko Asakura]] in ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' about how her acrobatics never actually led to any panty-flashes.
** Likewise, Haruhi's dropkick of the Computer Club President with nary of glimpse of her panties also fits this trope.
** Because of the nature of both girls (especially Yuki), this is more "Powered by Microsoft SQL" Skirt...
* In ''FutariWaPrettyCure'', not only there's the Cure Black shorts-under-skirt example above, but also her partner Cure White has a skirt that only ever flies up either to the side or in the direction you're not looking. This is even seen in her civilian form in the second opening, where her skirt actually seems to lengthen for this purpose.
** A similar example happens in ''FreshPrettyCure''; their underskirts are so frilly that you can't even see panties. [[YesPrecure5 Cure Lemonade]] used a similar method; her teammates and [[FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar immediate predecessors]] follow the Cure Black technique.
* Despite having a large {{Lolicon}} fanbase (including an adolescent girl who is one in the show itself) ''CardCaptorSakura'' never gets a panty shot, even with all the ridiculous costumes made by the aforementioned lolicon fan, and even while cheerleading in a very short skirt.
** {{Cardcaptor Sakura}} is a ''kid'' show. What does the {{Periphery Demographic}} have to do with anything? Also You're not a {{Lolicon}} if you are ten years old. If that was true, every character in a {{Toy Ship}} would be!
** This is said to have been [[ExecutiveMeddling ordered]] for Sakura; despite short pleated skirts of both the schoolgirl and cheerleader variety and dozens of fanciful battle costumes, there's not a PantyShot in the series. Then again, unlike Kagome and the women of ''Noir'', she's ten.
** You do see right up her skirt on at least two or three occasions in the anime (in the Jump and Sleep card episodes for example), however all you see is darkness.
** actually she wore brown shorts in the sleep card episode.
* In the same fashion, Juri's skirt in ''DigimonTamers'' flaps around freely when standing but is magnetically attracted to her knees when she sits or kneels (and she spends a long time crouching on the ground towards the end of the series). Ruki's TransformationSequence (nekkid and glowy) is apparently perfectly OK, however.
* In ''KeroroGunsou''; despite getting attacked and spun around at least once an episode, Natsumi's skirt manages to conceal the goodies. That Vacuum cleaner in the first episode tried it's best, though.
** Not in the manga however. Panty shots (and occasional nudity) abound.
* Hinoki of ''{{Betterman}}'', despite sporting a pleated skirt that's an inch away from being reclassified as a belt.
* Hikari/Dawn in ''[=~Pokémon~=]''. She has had exactly one PantyShot (black, if you must know), despite having a skirt which looks like it should flash people every time she bends over.
** The black panty upskirt was recently edited out and it's probably impossible to find it in a video but [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/1/16/Dawnpanties.jpeg this]] is not fake, it was taken before the recent editing of the episode "Steamboat Willies".
** DP122 gives her another, [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/b/bf/Dp122jumpingdown.jpg see here]]. Noticeably the shot is right before some {{QUALITY}} animation (use that to build whatever theory you will).
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8vIp2JCt5Q This]] video, involving a person in a Dawn/Hikari mascot costume, shows just how bad that skirt of hers would really be. Even walking seems to result in exposure.
** There is a fake upskirt of her [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/3/37/Panties.jpg here]].
* Played straight in ''{{Bleach}}''. The only two females to display any acrobatics while wearing a skirt are Rukia and Tatsuki, both in schoolgirl uniforms; Rukia is decidedly the more daring of the two, delivering a blow to a Hollow with her knee. Tatsuki, on the other hand, does not have any qualms about kicking [[{{LovableSexManiac}} openly lesbian]] Chizuru in the face, darkness obscuring her unmentionables from view.
** "Hey!! You're flashing the quad!!" When Orihime "smells" Ichigo and nearly jumps out the window trying to find him.
** What about Nemu? With that "skirt" and combat style in the ending, she should be making panty shots just by walking or sitting down.
** [[{{LampshadeHanging}} Lampshaded]] once when Rukia steps out of Ichigo's closet onto Kon's face, obscuring his left eye. Then, as if it weren't already obvious to the readers/viewers, a dotted arrow leads from Kon's unobstructed eye to, guess where?
** While the anime likes to hide things like SexyBack and visible G-strings (Yoruichi and Soi Fon) with undershirts and the like, Tite Kubo apparently had no qualms about them when he [[{{FanService}} drew them in the first place]].
** During her fight in episode 124, Lisa Yadomaru was doing all sorts of flips and upside-down spinning handstand kicks and yet her short skirt never revealed anything.
* All the characters in the ''PrettySammy'' series. It looks sort of silly at times, such as when Sammy gets slam dunked into a basketball hoop rear first and her skirt just happens to maintain itself.
** And this is another series where full-frontal toplessness (and backlessnes) was OK. Oh well, we'll just make do...
* Chiko from ''{{The Daughter of Twenty Faces}}''. Admittedly, her skirt is oftentimes more like a dress in length, but still, considering all the insane acrobatic stunts she does...
** She does show off a lot of leg though, but it somehow gets cut off before it gets too high. That's some magic there.
* The entire cast of ''LuckyStar'' -- ''especially'' during the OP animation. With ''one'' exception (a high kick).
* Shinosuka from ''GadGuard''. Especially evident since the camera is frequently behind her while she's flying through the sky on the back of her HumongousMecha and it's ''still'' stuck to her legs.
* The girls of ''ManabiStraight'', to ridiculous levels.
* Most of the girls in ''PetitePrincessYucie'' wear magic skirts -- which is even more amazing if you consider their ''shape''.
* Chen Agi of ''Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack'' wears a mini skirt as part of her military uniform. Not so bad, until you see the scenes where she's bouncing around IN SPACE and she doesn't flash any of the males in the process!
* The girls from ''WindyTales'' manage to never flash their panties even once, despite the shortness of their school uniform's skirts and all the wind that blows around them, often caused by themselves. Sure, their fairly unique character designs might have something to do with it, but still...
* The three titular ten-year-olds in ''ZettaiKarenChildren'' have this. Sixteen-year-old Naomi doesn't.
* Hinamori Amu's "Amulet Heart" form from ''ShugoChara'' features a cheerleading skirt, which is usually a magic skirt... except for the third opening, where Heart gets panty-shotted several times in 10 seconds (you should never wear a skirt while using flying roller-skates). Her other two usual transformations don't fall under this, since Spade wears pants and Clover's "skirt" is VERY tight. Diamond, Devil, and Angel haven't been used long enough yet to judge. Some of the Shugo Charas themselves seem to wear Magic Skirts as well, especially Ran, who is the source of Amu's "Amulet Heart" transformation.
** In the manga, there are several upskirt shots of Amulet Heart, in which she is shown with pink, what I assume is, trunks, considering that Ran, the source of the transformation, is shown to be cheerleader-themed. Also, Ran wears really puffy versions of trunks in her non-transformed self.
** Also, several of the girls' chara-transforms are shown to have shorts, such as Utau's charatransform with Dia and Amu's with Yoru, though this was only shown in an omake illustration.
* In ''{{Record of Lodoss War}}'', Deedlit would sometimes fly around with a lot of dramatic wind. The wind would blow her hair and cape around, but not her skirt.
* Ran and Midori from ''TelepathyShoujoRan'' have these, and they tend to wear rather short skirts throughout the series.
* ''SoulEater'': In the anime version, Maka's skirt might as well be glued on. No amount of tumbling or backflipping will budge it.
** In an early episode however, Maka ended up dangling by one foot, and she had to hold her skirt with her hands.
** Mifune also has a Magic Jacket. Despite keeping both his arms out of the sleeves at all times, it stays perched solidly on his shoulders. While he jumps around in the air and fights with about three dozen [[KatanasAreJustBetter swords]].
* ''SailorMoon'''s manga version, to the point it's just ridiculous. Nicely subverted in ''Sailor V'', when the resident Game {{Otaku}} pulls Minako's skirt ''just'' to see her panties (or if she's a girl, but it still was one hell of a subversion). Of course, taking in consideration that Sailor Moon and Sailor V were serialized in Nakayoshi (a really strict shoujo manga magazine), Naoko ''had'' to take such providences to avoid [[PantyShot pantyshots]].
**The anime threw out the magic skirts in favor of normal ones, probably because the fight scenes would be nigh-impossible to animate otherwise. Of course, the girls are wearing [[LeotardOfPower Leotards Of Power]] when transformed, so it makes sense that they wouldn't mind as much.
* In most versions of ''[[CutieHoney Cutie Honey]]'', Honey's miniskirt allows for [[PantyShot Panty Shots]] aplenty, but the shoujo ''Cutie Honey Flash'' put on a spell on her skirt.
* Ogata Rin of ''RideBack'' has this. She has a long dress, but the stunts she pulls should've flashed many people already.
* Parodied in the "toxin purging" episode of ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' -- the theme of the episode was the girls losing the "toxic" parts of their personality that made them THEM after a detoxifying soak in a hot springs... so when chronic PantyShot character Kaere trips and her bath-towel comes off, she is shown wearing a full-body wetsuit that would, of course, been impossible to hide under that towel. Fujiyoshi even outright states "we were expecting fanservice for the viewers, but they didn't even use a swimsuit!"
* Happens to Moka of ''RosarioToVampire'' in the manga version only. The anime Moka is a PantyFighter. Both love high kicks.
* Sandy, the little girl in the children's series ''TheNoozles,'' has a panty shot in a particular episode where she's underwater (a rear shot as she swims away from the camera). Later in the episode she gets caught in a snare. It can be assumed that her skirt flipped over as she hangs upside down as the view of her is of head and shoulders only. As the snare catches her foot and lifts her up, she remains sideways until she is out of shot.
* The example in ''HidamariSketch'' is already listed in the page quote, so ThisTroper would stop.
* Shampoo's Chinese minidress in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]''. Nevermind that it's scandalously skin-tight, it's also unbelievably short. This is even spoofed in her introductory arc, when she hangs upside-down from a tree and she has to tuck the hem of her dress between her thighs.
* Similar to the ''{{Inuyasha}}'' example above, animators for ''VisionOfEscaflowne'' were specifically instructed not to let Hitomi's constant leaping or running show her unmentionables. This is quite a feat, as the girl is a top track runner and long jumper and enjoys displaying these skills often.
* The lead girls from ''DennouCoil'' never get any panty shots, despite all all the jumping, crouching and climbing they do while wearing short skirts. Kyoko gets one briefly, but even that one is only to show that she's just a little kid.
* While not direct magic skirt usage, newer anime averts this [[TruthInTelevision realistically]] by giving the girls a set of shorts to wear under it, ranging from biker shorts to skirt length shorts including Biri Biri from ''ACertainMagicalIndex'' and Alice from ''{{Nightmare of Nunnally}}''.
** Something similar was done quite earlier in ''UruseiYatsura'': When Lum started going to Ataru's school and wearing the uniform one of the female teachers noticed that she flashes anyone who she passes over when [[{{Flight}} flying around]], and gives her a pair of gym shorts to wear under it.
* With all the jumping, flying, etc., that Lenalee in ''[=~D.Gray-Man~=]'' does, and with how goddamn short the skirt is, it's amazing how little -- if any -- {{Panty Shot}}s there are of her.[[BigBrotherComplex There's no wonder as to why]] [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Komui's so protective]].
* Lampshaded in one episode of ''NerimaDaikonBrothers'': with Mako planted headfirst in the dirt by Yukika, Hideki wonders if her skirt will succumb to gravity, giving him a peek at her panties. Ichiro tells him not to get his hopes up about what the animators will show.
* ''{{Saki}}'' has a... weird version of this. Even though the characters wear these short skirts and the series uses angles that should normally give a PantyShot, no panty shots have ever been shown. There is, however, suspiciously bare flesh in its stead. These has led readers and viewers to wonder if the characters are wearing really small panties, or if [[VaporWear they aren't wearing any panties at all]].
* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', [[BigBad Fate]]'s girls get Magic Skirts after losing their panties to [[PantyThief Jack Rakan]]. But even then, they only cover the bare minimum.
* ''TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'', despite [[ShapedLikeItself leaping]] and falling a lot.
* Oddly missed in ''{{Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind}}''. In one scene, we see straight up her skirt. Turns out she's actually wearing leggings that are extremely close to the color of her skin, making it appear that she has Barbie doll anatomy down there.
** Though of course this is the subject of much debate. Others insist she really does run around pantsless in the toxic jungle despite being completely covered everywhere else, her legs just happen to be slightly yellower than the rest of her skin, and she really does have Barbie anatomy. The same goes for all the men who wear the matching uniform.
* Subverted in {{AirMaster}}, with all the aerial combat and acrobatics Maki performs, her panties get quite a bit of screen time, but not much attention. Mostly because at the same time she is probably kicking 4 different people in the face.
*In {{Fruits Basket}}, Tohru wears a very short skirt as her part of her school uniform (apparently one can decide on the length, due to the fact that Uo and Hana's skirts are longer.) Even though it would barely cover her underwear in {{Real Life}}, nothing is ever seen, even if she falls down.
**The artist once mentioned that Tohru wears shorts under her skirt.
* Subverted in an episode of SonicX. Amy, Cosmo, and Cream get hung upside-down by a Metarex, and have to hold their skirts up to keep them from falling.
* The two [[TriggerHappy high-kick-to-the-face happy]] female leads of AngelDensetsu manage not to flash the reader every other panel ''without'' any kind of MagicSkirt. It's all done by skillfull camera angles. It's lampshaded a couple of times when someone flashes some other character (luckily not the reader, in one case it would have been a bit [[{{Lolicon}} squicky]] )
* [[KamikazeKaitouJeanne Kaitou Jeanne]] wears one of these. Despite being a {{Kaitou}} who does a lot of impressive acrobatics, we never catch a glimpse of her panties. Maron, too, in the TransformationSequence that involves her jumping from a high place and transforming in mid-air. Apparently the skirt is turned off when Chiaki is around, though, as their very first meeting involves her falling on the floor and him commenting on the "great view".
* [[EurekaSeven Eureka]]'s dress, as well as Talho's skirt. [[spoiler: Though Talho later gets an ImportantHaircut and corresponding clothing change that does away with her old {{Stripperiffic}} outfit.]]
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[[folder:Comics]]
* The GoldenAge and SilverAge {{Catwoman}} expressed this trope when she used to run around Gotham City in a slit-sided skirt.
* Similarly, in a ''FantasticFour'' story where Annihilus breaks out of the negative zone and attacks FF headquarters (around issue 250). He attacks frequent love interest Alicia Masters and hangs her by her heels from the ceiling. When discovered, she is suffering from what one reader called "the world's worst case of static cling" as her knee-length skirt sticks to her legs.
* In the 1940s back-up comic ''Ginger Maguire, Sky Girl'', the title character was prone to showing her panties and being seen in them frequently. In a splash page of a story, her male pal is holding her upside down by one foot over the side of a plane engine so she can do some sky-writing (with a can of spray paint against a cloud), and Ginger's skirt remains properly placed.
* Elektra of ''{{Daredevil}}'' comics fame.
* {{Supergirl}} is an interesting case: for most of her career, she had a MagicSkirt when she wasn't wearing short-shorts in TheSeventies. Then the most recent version started wearing a ''microskirt'' with {{Panty Shot}}s galore, even though the skirt looked so short that underwear wouldn't fit underneath. Then a new artist started drawing her with shorts underneath, and [[{{Fanservice}} fanboys complained]]. Turns out Supergirl is more "girl" than "super".
* ''{{Watchmen}}''. Two examples: the second Silk Spectre (but not the first one; her skirt is too short to even qualify) and The Comedian with his dressing gown, which appears to have these abilities even when he's being tossed out a window. Ozymandias and his toga might've qualified if he had an actual fight scene.
** Given Dr. Manhattan's lack of clothing throughout most of the book as well as various other explicit scenes, I think you can chalk this one up to artistic flair rather than censorship
* An issue of Trina Robbins' ''GoGirl'' has the title character holding her skirt in as she is held upside down by her feet.
* Hypolyte's skirt in ''WonderWoman'' [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/645446.html #145]].
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[[folder:Films]]
* Was averted in the early theatrical version of the movie, ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Jessica Rabbit wore a dress with a long slit up the side that, in one scene where she's thrown from a crashing car, briefly flashes her naughty bits. Once Disney had caught on to what the animators had done, the scene was changed, and it thus came in line with [[MagicSkirt this trope.]]
* Disney's ''{{Tarzan}}'' has a magic loin cloth, although if one were to, [[OrSoIHeard er]], look up his skirt in the ''KingdomHearts'' game, one would see he wears matching bikini briefs underneath.
* In the 2002 live action ''ScoobyDoo'' movie, Velma falls off a scaffold and gets her foot caught in the scaffold's chain, making her hang upside down when it goes taut. Her skirt does not fall over as the studio wanted to maintain the "family film" sense. In the 2004 sequel, Velma jumps into a boat vent funnel and for a couple of frames, she is shown wearing orange panties.
* In the movie ''{{Troy}}'', Achilles' (Brad Pitt) leather skirt somehow manages to completely obscure all private parts, despite Achilles leaping into the air with his legs spread apart.
* Disney's ''{{Pocahontas}}''. Even when she jumps down a waterfall, her little dress thing still stays down.
* In Ghostbusters2, the lawyer representing the district Attorney's office is captured by a ghost, and is held upside-down by one foot (with the other kicking around) and carried out of the courtroom by it. Her skirt stays completely on her legs the entire time.
* Sharon Stone in BasicInstinct was probably expecting her skirt to do this. Whoops.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* In the ''DoctorWho'' serial "The Invasion", [[ManInAKilt Jamie]] was required to climb into a helicopter. The crew followed the example of Elizabeth II below and gave him a Magic Kilt by sewing weights into the hem.
* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' -- the first season, pretty much.
* Completaly averted in the [[PrettyGuardianSailorMoon Live Action version]] of SailorMoon. While you rarely see anything in the Anime or Manga, the live action has the Senshi doing flips and relaying much more on hand to hand combat (Mainly due to it being a tokuotsu version of the sereies) The Senshi's skirts pretty much flip once per episode due to this. Though they're wearing leotards under the skirts so no Panty Shots for you.
**Though it is played straight with Sailor V. She doesn't get any flips that would give her a panty shot (likely due to her uniform being a skirt and shirt combo rather then a skirt over a leotard)
* Echo on {{Dollhouse}} wore a skirt while dancing during the first episode which, to the naked eye, would suggest it's so short it shouldn't cover so much as half of her ass. [[BagOfHolding Magic]] is really the only logical explanation.
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* The Indian Lotsa Luck in ''{{Tumbleweeds}}'' had a Magic Loincloth that stayed in place even when he was standing on his head.
* A circa-1938 ''DickTracy'' comic strip presented Tracy clinging to a collapsed window-washer platform. A lady acrobat hears Tracy and runs off from the police office (where she's being held for questioning) on the same high level. She jumps out, grabs the platform rope, wraps it around her foot and swings upside down to affect a rescue of Tracy. The lady acrobat's skirt falls only as far as her thighs in long shots, but in a medium close-up it falls far enough to show her wearing black panties.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Pretty much every single character in ''EternalFighterZero''.
** Although you ''can'' [[{{Fanservice}} burn their clothes off]] with any fiery attack.
* Occasionally crops up in fighting games. Disregarding the question of why you're in a fighting tournament wearing a long slit skirt and high heels, Anna Williams in the ''{{Tekken}}'' games doesn't have any wardrobe failures if, say, turned upside down for a friendly Tombstone piledriver. Then again, in the same game, Ling Xiaoyu's skirt (if in a pleated schoolgirl one) may or may not follow this, depending on the mood of the game engine.
* The ''ArtificialGirl'' series of Hentai games suffers from this phenomenon, though more for technical reasons than any attempt at modesty (obviously). In fact, even the characters' ''hair'' fails to obey the law of gravity.
* In a commercial for ''GuitarHero: World Tour'', supermodel Heidi Klum recreates the iconic "Old Time Rock And Roll" scene from ''RiskyBusiness'', but the shirt she wears stays firmly at waist-level, not even revealing whether or not she's wearing the requisite boxers. The trope is immediately subverted in a sequel commercial where Klum ditches the shirt altogether and cavorts in her underwear.
* In the ''SuperSmashBros'' series, Peach and Zelda must buy their magic dresses from the same place. Maybe Zelda uses her own magic on hers, but it still doesn't make much sense. Slightly averted, as pausing and rotating the camera at the right time show that under those dresses, Peach wears panties and Zelda wears... boy shorts? On a more disturbing note, Young Link's tunic. *twitch*
** Boy shorts in preparation for Sheik-mode? Or maybe she used to have panties and had one too many "accidents" while leaping.
* On that note, Link in ''TwilightPrincess''. He spend a fair portion of the game walking on the ceiling (magnetic walls + iron boots), yet the skirty portion of his tunic stays firmly in place, gravity be damned. His hat, however...
* Ilyana, a playable mage in ''FireEmblem: Path of Radiance'' (and later, the sequel, ''Radiant Dawn''), has a ridiculously short skirt. While she has plenty of panty shots in the first game (almost every attack!), the only thing that results in one in the 2nd game is attacking through a barrier (barriers you can attack through are only in a handful of levels).
* Freya of the ''ValkyrieProfile'' series has a skirt that's about as short as can be without showing anything in a normal pose. Everthing somehow remains hidden as she flies around the battlefield, while the camera draws attention to her hips.
* Male example: In ''{{Castlevania}}: Bloodlines'', Eric [[FanNickname "Spear Dude"]] Lecarde's short tunic stays in place even when completely upside-down AND flying feet-first.
* In the Ash the Archknight sidegame of ''DragonFable'', the first story has a bit where a princess in a long dress, with a slit up the side no less, is being held upside down by a monster. Her dress is, presumably, held up by magic.
* Averted in ''{{Persona 4}}''. [[{{Atlus}} That One Company]] ruined 70+ hours of constant [[PantyShot Panty Shots]] by giving Chie bike shorts. Played straight with Yukiko's summer outfit, which uses the "lots of shadow" varrient.
** Also played straight in ''{{Persona 3}}'' for Yukari and Mitsuru. Also played straight with the PSP verisons female MC.
* In ''{{Arcana Heart}}'' and Arcana Heart Full, none of the all female cast will have a panty shot, no matter what the circumstances are.
** Except with Petra in Arcana Heart 2, where one of her supers causes one.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Anne of ''TheWotch'', whose skirt might very well be magic -- except for one time, where the readers find out that the throwaway gag about Wonder Woman undies made several years before was accurate. A male friend who's present at the scene [[MaleGaze can't seem to keep his eyes on]] the mortal danger that's dangling them both upside down.
* Reka from RPGWorld sorta inverted this trope by wearing low-rider pants that miraculously stayed up all the time. Exact same concept though, and even spoofed in a filler doodle once (Hero, posing as a detective, finds out she used glue to hold them in place).
* The girls (and women) in ''KevinAndKell'' are more often than not wearing skirts and dresses, so they end up featuring this when the scenery gets physical. One example is Lindesfarner upside down and stopped by getting stuck to a tree; her skirt stays rigidly in place.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''ThePowerpuffGirls''
** Somewhat odd, considering that at least one episode shows them in their underwear about to get into a bath.
*** And later topless in the bath itself. They're so young (and their cartoonish design is so simple that they're not even drawn with ''fingers'', let alone nipples) I'm guessing it's not supposed to cause any horrified reactions in those instances, but I'm guessing if they repeatedly had their skirts go flying up in battle to reveal their underwear it would get [[PowerpuffGirlsDoujinshi really creepy really fast.]]
* KimPossible has the good sense to not go looking for a fight in a skirt, but trouble occasionally finds her while in an evening gown, or a cheerleading outfit. When she does get physical in one, this trope applies in all cases but two: a first-season incident that somehow got into the TitleMontage for the first three seasons and a somewhat less subtle incident from the fourth season.
** In the GrandFinale, [[http://www.globaljusticealliance.com/screencaps/episodes/04%20Season%20Four/22%20Graduation%202/0918.jpg Warhok grabbed Kim Possible by the leg while she's wearing her graduation gown]]. She's hanging upside-down, her her dress isn't down around her shoulders. That's because Warhok's got a bit of the fabric in his hand.
* [[SheRaPrincessOfPower She-Ra]] -- despite having a skirt shorter than most tennis players and her main offensive move being a roundhouse kick.
* In the ''{{Superman the Animated Series}}'', Lois Lane's short skirt ''has'' to be some kind of Kryptonian ImportedAlienPhlebotinum or some such. Realistically, the entire cast would be familiar with Lois' unmentionables by the end of any episode, especially when you consider how often Lois is seen falling from high places. Doesn't matter if it's straight down legs-first, or end over end, or how she lands when it comes to falls that don't require superheroic intervention, Lois's Super-Skirt will remain glued tightly to her legs.
* Sprite the fairy from the old ''{{The Legend of Zelda}}'' cartoon, who should rightfully have flashed Link every other time she moved. Some game versions of Link himself fall into this. ''A Link to the Past'''s Link is portrayed in official art to be less Hero of Time and more Peter Pantsless.
* Sari from ''TransformersAnimated''. In "Sari, No-one's Home", she's actually hanging upside-down at one point.
** Before that she is seen sitting on the ground and [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Sari%27s_leg.jpg one of her legs appears to be going through a hole in the top of her skirt]].
* In the original Doom Patrol's appearance in ''TeenTitans'', Elastigirl's power, despite her name, is actually to grow and shrink. (This is consistent with comics, though the comics version can expand or shrink individual limbs.) She also wears a very short skirt. How does a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giantess]] with a short skirt never flash anyone down below, including the viewer? Gotta be [[AWizardDidIt magic]].
** However, her appearance in ''SecretSix'' had a character deliberately looking up her skirt and remarking on the view.
** The same goes for Giganta in ''JusticeLeague''. Probably why she switched to [[SpyCatsuit catsuits]] in the comics. This was averted in the television show, where Shade makes a remark on how the job just keeps getting better when Giganta grows.
** Both SeanBaby and ''{{Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law}}'' have pointed out this exact problem with Apache Chief.
** Speaking of ''TeenTitans'', a fanfic of the animated series pointed out how everybody in the show has probably seen Starfire's panties. Not the best choice of costume for a FlyingBrick... Her skirt even stays straight in on episode where she's pushing a spaceship downwards.
* Gwen of ''Ben10AlienForce'' is capable of executing karate kicks, flipping, getting caught in a tornado and whisked into the air, sliding down an ice slide to escape from said tornado, and sitting cross-legged in a miniskirt without trouble. Granted, she wears some sort of pantyhose under it, but...
* In the 1951 ''Mighty Mouse'' cartoon ''Sunny Italy'', Pearl Pureheart is seen dangling upside down by one foot and wearing a very short, loose blue dress. But only the hem of the skirt flips over. Similarly that same year, a human Pearl Pureheart-type girl in a cartoon called ''Better Late Than Never'' is wearing the same type of dress and plummets from a building feet first. Her skirt flies all the way up, showing her matching lacy panties.
* Despite having four characters with skirts of some sort, the main heroines of ''{{WITCH}}'' always have Magic Skirts, even to the point where one episode has a monster holding a transformed Hay Lin (who has the worst of the designed skirts) upside down, yet the skirt is still up right! So, for Disney, revealing transformations is okay, but not panty shots?
** Consider that Disney wouldn't let Annette Funicello show her navel in her surfing movies but in their 1961 edition of ''The Parent Trap'', Hayley Mills' panties are exposed: the dance party scene where her twin cuts an opening in the back of her dress.
* Crysta in ''FernGully''. Same problem as Tinker Bell, only even curvier, with a shorter skirt, and dancing with jazz spins.
* An episode of ''[[ScoobyDoo What's New Scooby Doo]]'' has Velma and Dpahne get caught in a chain in midair with the others. Their skirts stay hanging upward.
* Aelita from ''CodeLyoko'' gains a Magic Skirt as a her standard outfit once she's materialized on Earth. This is somewhat strange [[{{Fanservice}} considering the show's reputation.]]
* ON the PBS show ''{{Cyberchase}}'', the character Jackie wears a short blue skirt -- and no matter what she does her panties are never seen, just the back of her skirt only. It's pretty much an action show, so doing front flips, spreading her legs open or even strong winds do nothing -- and she doesn't even hold her skirt down. 87 episodes and still nothing.
* In one episode of ''KidsNextDoor'', Numbuh 3 was in a wedding dress, tied at the ankles, with her dress staying firmly in place. Because they couldn't have her dress tied as well, thus holding it up. No, they had to make it obvious and fake.
* In the ''[[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batman & Robin]]'' episode "Love Is A Croc", Killer Croc grabs Baby Dahl's foot and holds her upside down long ways up from a HVAC fan. Baby Dahl's skirt stays firmly in place, only giving a shot of her panties from an aerial view as we see the giant fan below.
* Often Subverted in ''BettyBoop'' cartoons, where the animators would repeat a motion over and over using the skirt, only to have it [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar fail ever so often]]. Also in the Cartoon ''Betty in Blunderland'', the lack of a Magic Skirt means Betty has to hold it down while falling down the rabbit hole, until she passes a clothesline and grabs a pin to keep it in place.
* In the animated ''Batman'' movie ''Sub-Zero'', Barbara Gordon (a.k.a. Batgirl) is wearing the same early 60s' loose dress through the episode. In a chase scene through Mr. Freeze's lair, we see a ground shot of her leaping up to grab an overhead pipe and swing over. The drawing where we should have and could have seen something was deliberately left out. Later, Barbara rides a pully down a wire and her skirt goes only as far as her thighs.
* ''{{Futurama}}'': Zap Brannigan, fortunately.
* In ''The Real Adventures of JohnnyQuest'', Jeremiah Surd's female [[TheDragon Dragon]] Julia regularly wore an extreeeemely short skirt, and fought with a high-kicking kung-fu style. There was never an upskirt shot, ever.
* Katana in ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''.
* Kimberly on the "Space Ace" segments of ''Saturday Supercade''. Which is ironic because in the original video game, practically every other shot of her is a PantyShot.
* Averted in ''{{Recess}}'' -- Upside-Down Girl is always shown with her skit flipped when she's hanging upside-down. Fortunately she's always got shorts on underneath.
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* Queen Elizabeth II has skirts with special weights sewn into the lining to prevent them from blowing up. Sadly, this is normally mostly useful for getting in and out of helicopters, rather than superheroics.
** As far as we know....
** What do you mean? Everyone knows Elizabeth II is a superheroine.
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