A variety of Fanservice provided by damaging a character's clothing in such a way as to provide teasing glimpses of the flesh or lingerie beneath.
Female characters tend to fall victim to this, converting their usual costumes into something more Stripperiffic. A male action hero might instead simply lose the shirt altogether for a Shirtless Scene.
Can induce You Must Be Cold or Defeat by Modesty. See also Action Dress Rip and Armor Piercing. For the non-combat version, see Wardrobe Malfunction. Kicking Ass In All Her Finery is not immune to this (but it's not common).
The Nudifier is typically a weapon which has no other effect than this. Hat Damage is a non-Fanservice Sub Trope. See also Magic Pants, which is often combined with this trope despite also being its inverse: no matter how much clothing damage they take, they still have enough threads left over to cover the naughty bits.
Dragon Half. Apparently, the only thing strong enough to stop the Big Bad's son's Laser Blade just happens to be the Heroine's Boobs of Steel. Said Laser Blade is tough enough to cut through stone pillars, even parts of the audience, but yet when the heroine gets hit with it, all it does is cut her bra off.
Bleach has a lot of this, mostly for the very lean buff male characters who have a tendency to get their clothes ripped open/off/to shreds and run around for the rest of the arc. Ichigo particularly has this problem; the poor hottie can't even fight internal battles without baring his abs. Curiously, it almost never happens to female characters and when it does the damage is minimal and not fanservicey (such as Orihime having the clothes ripped off... from her shoulders).
The manga has taken this to its logical extreme, with Ichigo explaining that, since his outfit changes when he assumes bankai, his shirt takes damage in proportion to how much spirit power he loses. As he rests, the robes mend.
Also in recent manga chapters, Sosuke Aizen's shirt and jacket have been partially ripped open at the front, displaying the Hogyoku embedded in his body underneath.
Ulquiorra does this deliberately with Ichigo's sword, tearing his shirt open to reveal he's the 4th Espada.
Szayel has this happen to him during his first battle with Renji and Ishida, leaving him shirtless. He even stops the battle to go change clothes.
Not to mention that when Gyomaru fired a laser at her it destroyed her clothes again.
Inuyasha, Naraku, Jakotsu and Hakudoshi also suffer from a very similar situation to lesser degrees.
When Inuyasha battles Goshinki, Goshinki claws him and his shirt explodes.
Battle-damage to Ranma's shirts while in female form, in Ranma 1/2. In her first fight against Mousse, he was intentionally ripping off all of her clothes, since he thought it was a disguise. When he eventually succeeds, Akane steps in and gives Ranma a change of clothes.
Much to the despair of their high school's male population, most of whom were watching the fight at the time.
Another deliberate instance in the Battle Dogi story arc: the only way to remove the Dogi (other than, um, seducing the owner to get the Dogi to reject her) is with a solid strike to the yin-yang belt buckle, which makes the suit burst into shreds. Too bad for the owner that the Dogi always disintegrates whatever she's already wearing when being summoned.
Honey Kisaragi's Transformation Sequence in the various versions of Cutey Honey. Also, a little humorous clothing damage occurs on occasion. (Her reaction to that varies from episode to episode, though she never cares about the seconds spent naked while her outfit is disassembling and reforming.)
In Project A-Ko, Ako's first fight with D has her shirt and dress being sliced in some rather interesting places.
There's about a nine in ten chance that anytime a female character in Ikki Tousen (AKA Battle Vixens) gets hit any clothing she's wearing from mid bust line down will go up in smoke.
Unless you constantly keep your eyes closed, have a very elegant fighting styleas well as good looks and long white hair, and in your past life you've been a near-invincible, often Bishonen-ified warrior who underwent a Foe Tossing Charge to deliver your lord's infant baby, only to have the said lord to drop the poor baby down to ground on the head, and said baby would grow into an idiot who causes your kingdom's downfall. Yes, Chou'un Shiryuu (Zhao Yun). I'm talking about you.
Happens in nearly every episode of Steel Angel Kurumi. In fact, in one episode of Steel Angel Kurumi 2, the main character apparently has the ability to completely obliterate her outfit by flexing in just the right way.
There's one very interesting example in Sailor Moon. In episode 27, bit character Urawa has a horrible nightmare about Ami being attacked - but the only thing that gets damaged are her clothes, and by the time the vision ends she's wearing nothing but two tiny little scraps over certain sensitive areas.
, robots are armed with clothes-destroying lasers, there's a clothes-eating octopus, clothes get petrified and then shattered...then there's Takane, who gets hit with this so often that the other characters (who are used to living in a universe where this happens on a daily basis) call her "the stripper" and she begins getting Stockholm Syndrome about it.
Poked fun of in Hayate the Combat Butler (see the image above), where one girl's clothing is shredded by a monster attack while trapped in an RPG.
Not just a monster, a slime monster. It'd be easier to tear clothing with Jello.
In a manga chapter, Sakuya is put into a suit to try and force Saki into gambling against Wataru's mother (Wataru isn't old enough to gamble..), she chooses to play roulette, and then Wataru and Saki find out that when they lose a round, Sakuya's outfit tears itself. You don't win roulette often indeed.
The women in the Get Backers manga fall prey to this endlessly. It's extremely rare for any of the women to manage a single fight without losing almost all their clothes. Ban Midou also often ends up with his shirt shredded into pieces whilst fighting.
And when he doesn't end up totally losing his shirt, he usually ends up giving it to Himiko, who by that time rarely has any clothes on.
In the first episode this happens, and the characters (particularly her love interest) make fun of it through the rest of the season (and beyond).
Kusanagi himself occasionally destroys the upper part of his trademarkoutfit during his transformations and ends up shirtless. His orange skin notwithstanding, maybe this series does have some Periphery Demographic due to this, no?..
The final episode of Full Metal Panic!: Fumoffu, where the scary, deadly, biotoxin turns out to be a bacteria that disintegrates synthetic fibers. Which the entire school's uniforms — and a fair bit of underwear — are made of.
When having a Whispered flashback, Kaname rips her clothes to expose her cleavage for no apparent reason.
If you'll notice the background of that scene, you'll see the figure of another Whispered girl hanging (literally) from a tree; Kaname was most likely experiencing an early Resonance. Basically, she felt as if she was the one being hung, seeing that she was shown having difficulty breathing, and panicking hard. She rips her clothes open most likely in a futile struggle to breathe. This scene is different in the novel, where she gradually starts coughing and choking (as they walk through the forest), because the drugs administered to her earlier were starting to take effect. Some of the side effects also include episodes of self-induced damage — with the clothes being the first thing to go.
Ayano's clothes are shredded in Kaze no Stigma after a climactic fight with a wind demon, and of course she just happens to somehow end up straddling Kazuma by accident to boot.
In the manga, there are a few incidences where Kazuma damages Ayano's clothes, one notable instance when they fight as Ayano questions why Kazuma let Misao escape, or something.... Also, the first time Ayano and Kazuma fight in the anime, he causes a large rip in her skirt, plus probably Fanservice when she fights Catherine McDonald's Metatron.
This occurs to Nana in Elfen Lied in her battle with Mariko in episode 12.
An early episode of Bastard!! has a villain throwing one of the female leads into a pit full of clothing-eating green slime.
Edward Elric of Fullmetal Alchemist couldn't walk past a knife rack without his shirt shredding itself to pieces to reveal his arm. Or his arm and his very well-defined chest. Seriously, someone that buff cares about being short? He could walk into any singles bar shirtless and never go home by himself.
Never mind Ed, Sergeant-Major Armstrong parodies this trope to hilarious effect. He will rip off his shirt at the drop of a hat- in order to show determination, moral conviction, or even sympathy and sadness — it seems to be how he deals with almost any situation. He even uses it when deciding his friendship with Sieg Curtis. One scene in the anime had him punch an incoming stone fist so hard that his shirt exploded, revealing his almost hilariously buff figure.
♥♥♥ THIS SHIRT-RIPPING TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS! ♥♥♥
Speaking of Curtis, he does the same thing in the friendship scene, flexing so hard his shirt tears off.
Roy Mustang mostly averts this trope, as he stays surprisingly clothed throughout the series. However, fans are given a tease in episode 19 of Brotherhood, when Mustang is stabbed by Lust, and must resort to searing his wound closed. This leads to a Crowning Moment of Awesome in which Mustang is shown with his uniform jacket and shirt undone, revealing his bare (not to mention injured) chest, as he incinerates Lust to death again and again with Havoc's lighter. For the fangirls, there was much rejoicing.
In Dragon Ball Z, clothing damage is more or less a given in every fight and nearly random in exposure area. Recoome's chest and butt are exposed by a blast from Vegeta, Goku's shirt is stripped off by a fireball launched by Vegeta.... well, the important thing is that someone's shirt gets torn off, at least In fact, Goku's shirt gets torn so much that you can gauge where in the fight you are by it — if it's still there, and the enemy looks dead, it isn't over yet. Apparently, aliens are immortal unless Goku is topless.
Well, except for Krillin removing Bulma's shirt in front of Master Roshi. Best of all, the reader gets to see it, and there's no Anime Anatomy.
18 gets her clothes torn up when fighting Vegeta, but gets a new set later.
Also, Videl gets her clothes torn up when fighting Spopovitch.
Played for comedic effect in Dragonball, where a child Goku seems to have no problem fighting in front of a large crowd completely naked (his clothes destroyed by his Oozaru transformation). Similarly, he is unfazed when only his pants are completely destroyed in a later battle.
17 gets his shirt destroyed in a battle against Gohan in one of the movies.
In any fight involving fighters with Saiyan armour, the plates extending out over the shoulder or forming a sort of skirt around the waist always got broken off. At the beginning of the Cell saga the only character who still wears the stuff is Vegeta, and it no longer features shoulders pads or the skirt stuff (which The Other Wiki tells me are called Faulds in European armour and Tare in Japanese armour).
Pretty much a given for any fight in Rave Master (unless you're watching the anime). Special mention goes to Julia, for having her first fight include so much Clothing Damage that afterward all she has left is her underwear and a bra fashioned from the remains of her shirt.
Devilman Lady goes even further—her pants go bye-bye too when she transforms into a muscular she-devil. Her handler remarks that she's going to have to remember to bring Jun an extra set of clothes for missions.
Vaan had to shred his own shirt whenever he popped his wings in Vision of Escaflowne.
Rosette has most of her clothing torn off during her fight with Rizelle. (So badly that in the anime, the next episode shows her wearing a sack in place of her normal uniform and has to borrow clothing from somewhere in the manga.) Lampshaded when Rizelle mockingly says the effect is quite pretty.
Satella Harvenheit also gets her clothes shredded occasionally, most notably in her fight with Fiore in the end where a flash of her lacy underwear is seen.
The manga shows Chrono's clothes dissolving in a flashback to when he was first crowned 1000 demon slayer, or whichever version you prefer.
In Mysterious Girlfriend X the titular character does this to herself and others with a pair of scissors she keeps in her panties.
To Love-Ru has clothing damage about every other chapter. In the anime, everyepisode. Doesn't matter what the cause is, any female in the cast is going to get her clothing torn off in some way.
The scene played out a bit differently in the manga, with both combatants getting hit hard by Precia's area magic. Fate still gets the worst of it, but Nanoha's barrier jacket gets torn up pretty badly as well.
In the first episode of A's, one of Vita's hammer attacks that destroys Nanoha's shield also destroys the first layer of her Barrier Jacket. (It's worthwhile to note that this situation was caused by an Unstoppable Rage when Nanoha damaged Vita's hat.) Vita's clothes also get significantly damaged after some difficult battles on a desert world.
Another significant example would be in Chapter 15 of the StrikerS manga, where Signum and Nanoha go at each other in a no holds barred exihbition duel. Again, Nanoha's outer layer of her jacket gets destroyed by the end, but Signum's armor is completely wasted, with significant rips in her underlayer of armor as well.
Utena's clothes get torn up during her second duel with Touga.
In Grenadier, Rushuna Tendou's clothing gets damaged so often, one would think her shirt was made entirely out of tissue paper. In the last episode, she actually manages to subdue The Dragon by tearing her shirt off and hugging her tight.
Made really funny when the damaged article of clothing was her panties, and she ended up running around the battlefield with her hand on her crotch while wailing "NOOOOO!!!" (bad enough she ran out of ammo before it happened)
The rest of her outfit is also systematically reduced to tatters during the course of the same fight.
Doronjo in Yatterman is a regular victim of this trope. This may be a reason why the anime will never be aired in America. Yatterman is a children's superhero anime in Japan and Doronjo sometimes has her breasts accidently exposes (censored, of course), and this is considered inappropriate for a children's show in America.
That's only applicable in the 2008 series. In the original 70's series, Doronjo ends up being naked, with her nipples exposed! Hell, this applies to the whole Time Bokan series!
Of course, this has been severely toned down in Tatsunoko Vs Capcom, which will see an American release.
In the first episode of To Aru Majutsu no Index, Index wants to see a demonstration of Touma's Anti-Magic powers, and boasts that since her clothes are magical, it should work. Touma touches her clothes, and she's instantly stripped.
This also comes up later, since it seems as if all religious clothing is enchanted, and thus destroyed by Touma's hand. One notable occasion has two nuns wearing clothes that bind them from using magic. Touma, logically, thinks he should destroy these...but everyone else stops him. Later, after getting knocked unconscious, he finds the girls looking at him demurely. Apparently their rescuers used his hand to destroy their bindings while he was sleeping.
Index:Tou-ma...you did something perverted again...
Touma: Wait, no, you can't blame me this time!
A member of the Amakusa, Itsuwa, actually invokes this trope in a fight with a powerful enemy. She enchants her clothing in such a way that it takes the damage meant for her body, making even normal clothing act like proper armor.
In Strike Witches, Charlotte Yeager managed to break the sound barrier during an engagement. She was so fast that she slammed onto the enemy, tearing both the enemy and her clothes apart. The rescue squad (Yoshika and Lynnette) could only nervously laugh while they carried her nude body back to base.
Plenty of times in Asu no Yoichi!. Tsubasa's fighting style is dependent on clothing damage.
In One Piece, Mr. 3 uses his Wax-Wax powers to trap Zoro, Nami and Vivi on a giant wax sculpture, with a rotating set of candles slowly encasing them in wax. Usopp manages to release them, burning away Nami's shirt and singing Vivi's, but leaving Zoro's untouched. Usopp also burns off Luffy's vest in order to save him from the Color Trap that Miss Goldenweek painted on it.
Lampshaded in an SBS, where when questioned why his character's clothes never were fully destroyed despite their various body-changing powers, Oda answered "If they fought naked, wouldn't it kind of change the emphasis of the manga?"
The clothing of the main characters of .hack//SIGN inexplicably disintegrates as they fall through space during the Theme Song. The camera always cuts away just before anything naughty is revealed. Subaru is assaulted and almost killed by another PK, destroying her clothes in the process. When Tsukasa is attacked by The World, his clothes are also ripped apart.
Used by Blue in Pokémon Special. When her shirt is ripped, it is revealed that her breasts are actually two pokeballs tucked under her shirt.
This is done a hilariously large number of times in Rebirth. Milly's clothes are ripped off so frequently that you would think she would have gotten somewhat past the modesty thing.
Well, she does... to the point of simply wearing bondage outfits in lieu of real clothing - circa the time she becomes a vampire.
Frequent male examples in Yu Yu Hakusho, usually to Yusuke. An early chapter of the manga that didn't make the anime also had a female example.
When Itsuki and Akiha are handcuffed together in Sora Wo Kakeru Shoujo, Leopard decides to toy with them by slowly making parts of their Latex Space Suits disappear. Try as they might to go unnoticed, news of someone streaking around the school has already spread by the next day.
Funnily enough, it's the men in D. Gray-Man that suffer the most Clothing Damage. Allen and Kanda especially suffer from this, constantly having most of their shirt torn up. Lenalee also gets her jacket burnt off during her battle with Eshi.
Mahoromatic. Gods, Mahoromatic. One chapter features a 'Panty-thief Ninja' who devotes his entire life to - well, guess - and whose signature attack is the ability to destroy a girl's entire outfit with a single sword-stroke: so thoroughly does it work that the pieces of outfit left over to preserve modesty can be measured in square millimetres. If that weren't enough, another chapter (also the Beach Episode) is devoted to the attack of the rampaging 'Cloud Crab'. Cloud Crab is a warehouse-sized robot crustacean that was originally designed by invading alien forces as an Anti-Android war mecha - except that a slight malfunction means that rather than hunting down and destroying androids, it grabs young women and tears their clothes off.
A chapter of Midori Days does this when a pervert on the subway cuts two girls' skirts on the rush hour train. The first one finds this out after several shocked stares; the second doesn't discover this until a lot later.
Mar when Dorothy's opponent tears off the left half of her dress. She is unfazed until this is pointed out... several chapters later. Ginta even Lampshade Hangs this by saying: "Well, you survived, even if your dress didn't!" The author of Mar also created Flame of Recca, which has fanservice all the time despite being an action series.
When Dorothy is fighting Chimera the top of her breast is exposed. This is commented on when she summons her guardian.
Strangely enough, despite all of the girls battling, Dorothy seems to be the only one to suffer.
In Saikano, Chise's transformations as the Ultimate Weapon inevitably destroyed her blouses, and on at least one occasion left her completely naked.
The second Ronin Warriors OAV, "Kikoutei Densetsu", has Ryo get his shirt shredded early on by the film's antagonist (who, for his part, spends the OAV running around half-naked).
Also happens later in the OVA as the White and Black Inferno armors dismantle each other during the final battle.
In Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Tsuna burns off all his clothes (except his boxers) every time he gets hit with the Dying Will Bullet. He gets hit with it a lot.
And during his battle with Mukuro he got hit with an attack that left numerous tears in his clothing.
In Flame of Recca, Fuuko. To a less extent some of the guys will have their clothing damaged, but the amount of battles which DON'T end with the poor girl half naked could probably be counted on one hand. Lampshaded during her battle with Fujimaru, where he deliberately aimed at her clothes for his own enjoyment, leaving only her underwear. Afterwards his team mate gave her his coat.
In the last few episodes of Pumpkin Scissors, Alice cuts off a good bit of the skirt of her own Pimped Out Dress in order to get it out of her way while she's fighting a duel, leaving herself showing quite a bit of leg.
Plenty of times in Queen's Blade. Special mention goes to Airi, who has her clothes regenerate and then get damaged again.
In Naruto, Kakashi loses his Konoha vest to one of Kakuzu's wind jutsus, but seems otherwise unhurt when he re-emerges after the attack.
Any time this happens to an Akatsuki member you know that they are going to die.
Averted with Kisame, Zetsu, and Madara who have all removed their cloaks and are either still alive or die a long time after removing it.
On the subject of Akatsuki Clothing Damage, here's an example that pretty much sums it up.
And in the second Shippuden movie at one point the villain hits Naruto with an attack that removes a portion of the jacket covering his back.
Hayate: Yeee! Ayana!! Your clothes! They're all ripped and sexy now!! You rank number one in violent sexuality!!!
In Fist of the North Star, Rei uses his Nanto Seiken style to slice off Mamiya's clothing to prove a point, exposing her breasts. His point being that if Mamiya truly renounced her femininity then she wouldn't need to cover her breasts.
In Defense Devil, every time demonic defense lawyer Kucabara defeats a Shinigami, his final attack destroys every inch of their clothing. As of chapter seventeen, this has led to the complete stripping of one (delicious) female, and two males, making it delightfully equal opportunity fanservice.
In episode seven of Wandaba Style, the girls' standard sweatsuits are so worn from all the experiments that Teen Genius Susumu had put them through that Sakura and Himawari's burst to pieces with slight provocation (Sakura provoked hers to prove to Susumu that they needed new clothes, Himawari just got too into her dramatic monologue). The same happens to Ayame and Yuri's outfits when Susumu sends them down a tunnel in freefall to get to their new clothes.
Happens all the time in NEEDLESS to the whole female cast. The girls seriously can't do anything without having half their clothing rip to shreds.
Lampshaded in the manga as an accurate visual representation of how damaged people are, to which Madam Black of St. Rose Academy responds by wearing clothes of steel.
There have been two times when Blue had her clothes ruined for the purposes of her Xanatos Gambit.
Male example: In episode 49 in the first season of Beyblade, Ray's clothes get torn up by the bit-beast Falborg's wind attacks.
Kai gets most of his shirt ripped off in season 3. His very defined chest is revealed very nicely for about 5 or 6 episodes. Young fanfgirls rejoiced!
In 009-1 Mylene Hoffman, Agent 009-1, gets clothing damage on a number of occasions; she also has machine guns in her breasts that cause clothing damage every time she fires them, sometimes giving the viewer a glimpse of her ample breasts, though Anime Anatomy seems to kick in, since her nipples aren't visible (as far as I could tell).
The animators always have her clothing draped in a way that covers her nipples when she isn't firing, and when she is firing they're hidden behind the muzzle flash.
Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru: Shusei gets a good deal of the front of his shirt ripped up as a result of being subject to torture by Ashley. And while fighting Ashley leaves a few tears in Hotsuma's clothing with her metal claw-like weapon.
Air Gear: Agito has this happen to him in chapter 282.
Perfect Blue: When trying to rape Mima near the end of the movie, Me-Mania rips her shirt open, slices the corner of it, and tears the rest of her clothes off.
Mirai Nikki once featured Yuno with her blouse and bra ripped open as a result of Tsubaki having her followers attempt to rape her.
Hellsing: In a flashback scene of Sera's horrific childhood a burglar rips off the shirt and bra from her mothers corpse and proceeds to rape the corpse.
Master of Martial Hearts loves this trope and owes it money. In addition to the fact that the fighters are all apparently wearing tissue paper that looks like clothes, there was one instance where a girl got punched in the shoulder and her skirt basically exploded.
Another girl took a blow to the face, causing her bra to fly off — which tears through her shirt in the process.
Occasionally subverted in that while her opponents tend to wind up over-exposed, Aya almost never loses anything but outerwear. (A notable exception is the poolside fight with Yuu, where she is only wearing a swimsuit to begin with.)
One of the cheesier episodes in the Nausicaa manga is when the Emperor decides to give Nausicaa "a good thrashing." His goons basically just tear her trademark clothes apart, leaving her in a conveniently more Stripperific outfit for a good portion of the manga.
In Demon City Shinjuku, the skirt of Sayaka's dress gets ripped enough over the course of the movie that it displays a good bit of leg when she's held captive for the climactic scenes.
Dog Days embodies this trope. Since battles cause no physical harm (well in protected areas and to native people) if a (female) fighter gets hit by an attack he loses his clothing. Mostly down to the underwear. Why this isn't an instant kill to all observing males is still not clear.
An aspect of the characters' power in Ultimate Girls. The instability of their transformations causes their clothing to disintegrate from the moment they transform, potentially leaving them completely nude when they run out of time. Fortunately, their powers are enhanced by their embarrassment, so the closer this outcome gets the more powerful they become.
Further, the girls' transformation sequences actually destroy whatever they happen to be wearing at the time. This means that if they don't strip down prior to transforming they'll have nothing to wear when they change back.
In the penultimate episode of Tiger & Bunny, Kotetsu takes the brunt of an energy blast that not only obliterates his Powered Armor, but nearly half his undersuit with it. Any potential fanservice aspect of this is drowned out by the fact that this may have very well killed him.
Occurs numerous times in Girls Bravo for the Fanservice. A notable example is the time Kirie's clothes got ripped during a wrestling tournament.
In Jack to Mame no Ki when Tulip the giant finds out Margaret doesn't really want to marry him in his rage he grows taller and tears off his wedding suit and he's left in his tattered undershirt and boxers.
Has happened many times to Lupin and Fujiko in Lupin III, Fujiko is often in disguise when this happens to her and she has her disguise cut off and she's left in her underwear.
Also frequently inflicted on male Mooks by Goemon, who uses his Absurdly Sharp Blade to cut through their guns and their clothing, leaving them standing embarrassed in their boxers.
Episode 3. As a side effect of Ikuyo Suzuki's Weather Control Machine exploding, all of the maids nearby (except Mariel) have their clothing disintegrate.
Card Games
There's a card in Munchkin called Revealing Costume. It gives you a + 3 bonus, and then an extra + 1 bonus each time you change gender, "due to tearing in inappropriate places".
Comic Books
Ultimate Spider-Man frequently has to improvise ill-fitting and ridiculous-looking costumes when he is unable to get Mary Jane to fix his Clothing Damage.
Regular Spider-man has this problem too. Once patching his clothing with webs kept someone from pulling his mask off.
Also in Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Hobgoblin's first appearance had him completely nude.
Elsewhere in the Ultimate Marvel universe, Hulk frequently ends up nude when he transforms. In one case he was witnessed stealing the pants from a fat guy.
Giant Man tends to destroy his clothes every time he grew into giant size at least in the first issues of Ultimates.
This◊ ridiculous outfit Alex Summers wore during the Inferno arc of the X-Men as the Goblin Prince. An over-the-top shreded version of his Havok costume.
Happens to Emma on occasion... you know, whenever her current outfit isn't already at the point of any-more-damage-and-she'll-be-naked.
In her origin comic series, this happens to her when she goes to a school dance, in a scene reminiscent of Cinderella.
Whenever the mutant Paul Patterson uses his powers, he ends up destroying all of his clothes.
Lampshaded by Caitlin Fairchild, protagonist of fanservice-packed comic book Gen 13, after realizing that a raft crash has somehow completely removed her khakis and belt: "For some strange reason, I always seem to lose articles of clothing whenever we get into trouble."
In a recent remake, Fairchild managed to get most of her skintight body suit-the one that had just appeared on her body seconds earlier-ripped nearly to shreds in the space of five minutes. To be fair, she did take out several commandos and jump clear through a roof to do so.
The very first time her powers manifested, increasing her muscle mass among other things, she went from petite to Amazonian Beauty and... ahem... "busted" out of her clothing.
The first issue of Adam Warren's run was a recap disguised as a Behind The Music parody; in the (imaginary) "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue, Caitlin died after defeating a supervillain in sub-zero weather... of exposure.
For a male example, Burnout once incinerated his swim trunks while flying up to a plane and ended up having to fight naked.
Typical in Witchblade (the comic, at least), where, in the process of expanding from its dormant bracelet form into Stripperifficsuperpowered armor form, the Witchblade tends to tear up whatever Sara Pezzini was already wearing. Justified (and lampshaded!) by a later retcon that revealed that Witchblade was male and he pretty much did the shredding for his own enjoyment. As Sara became more experienced with Witchblade, the instances of shredded clothes decreased (instead, Witchblade simply appeared over whatever she was wearing at the time.) Danielle, the less experienced Witchblade bearer, on the other hand...
Happened frequently to Catwoman in her 1990s series. She was also shown to be able to cut a man's clothing off with her whip without leaving a scratch on him.
Depending on the artist, this can happen pretty regularly with She-Hulk; though it's pretty much guaranteed with her cousin the Hulk.
Lampshaded in the Sensational She-Hulk where she ends up in a teddy during the fight. When asked afterwards what the hell made the teddy indestructible, she pointed out the APPROVED BY THE COMICS CODE AUTHORITY label on them.
In a variant case, Plastique's first appearance ended rather badly when she tried to blow herself up for a terrorist attack and make herself a martyr with a suit that was laden with bombs. Firestorm responded by changing the fabric of her suit into air, leaving her naked and humiliated while he gathered up the bombs to explode at a safe distance while her political credibility was equally vaporized.
This used to happen to Luke Cage a lot to show off how indestructible he was.
In the recent Blackest Night story, the original Dr. Light came back via the Black Lanterns and challenged Kimiyo "I am now Dr. Light" Hoshi. He not only mentally and verbally attacked her, but to add insult to injury, basically blasted her outfit off of her piece by piece until she was naked lying on the ground. No big surprise, since recent Dr. Light stories have established him as a special kind of evil.
Sergeant Nick Fury used to have this happen all the time.◊ Lampshaded when a supply sergeant is issuing him replacements, which are the last shirts available in the European Theater of Operations that will fit a man with a 22-inch neck.
A recent Runaways had the older members of the team attempt to hold a prom, which was interrupted by a plane crashing into their current base. Klara freaks out and starts unleashing her plant-based powers uncontrollably, and Nico's bondage gear top gets completely torn off. She spends the rest of the arc wearingloosely wrapped in Victor's suit jacket.
The bounty hunter Lobo, a popular character for DC Comics in the 90s, has the ability to near instantly regenerate any damage done to his body, even from being reduced to a puddle. Unfortunately his clothing doesn't grow back, often leaving him bare naked after, and occasionally during, his fights. Lobo seems to understand how this makes people feel, and takes great pleasure in the discomfort his nudity brings to others.
The character Skuzz from the New Universe title DP7 had disintegration powers. Unfortunately, these ran all the time, so an outfit would usually last three days for him even if he wasn't actively using them. And when he does... well, there's usually a scene of him focusing his power to destroy something with a beam attack, only to realize afterwards that he's just gotten nekkid.
Happens all the time to the female protagonists in the Al Rio comic Exposure. They even adopt their trademark uniforms because their clothes were shredded to nothing, and even they don't last long.
Of The Authority, Apollo seems to suffer from this the most.
Being a werewolf Wolf-Man is very susceptible to this. His costume fits his wolf form. However, with the exception of sweatpants and tanktops, if he has to wolf out in normal clothes they will be shreded. Tends to lead to Walking Shirtless Scene.
Samantha, who generates "ectoplasmic armor", tends to shred her clothes completely each time she uses her power. She is never shown dispelling the armor (although she is shown altering and dispelling portions, and dispelling the swords that she occasionally generates instead), and it remains intact even when she's unconscious.
Walter's Hulk-like transformations destroy his clothing, except for his underwear. It takes him a while to revert to his human form, so the story tends to end before he does so anyway.
Adam, who is Made Of Diamond but wears normal clothing, tends to lose his shirt in combat situations but retain his pants. This can be attributed to censorship or to the genie who gave him his powers, whichever you prefer.
There's rarely an issue of Atomic Robo that goes by where Robo's shirt isn't destroyed entirely (likely for the same reasons as Luke Cage and Savage Dragon). His pants, however, always remain intact.
The comic strip Nguyen Charlie ran in the U.S. military's newspaper, Stars and Stripes, during the Vietnam War. At least twice, the defoliant Agent Orange was portrayed as instantly disintegrating not only trees and grass, but the clothing of anyone who got caught in the chemical cloud. Definitely NOT Fanservice, though, considering the way these guys were drawn.
Film
Buster Keaton loses his shirt and trousers (through not his shoes, undershirt, or boxers) to a threshing machine in "The Scarecrow."
Surely this is a lampshading of the trope, considering Weaver's character's stated purpose in the "original" show is simply to repeat computer instruction, i.e. no real purpose except looking pretty and occasionally having Clothing Damage.
Rare example of a Defied Trope, as her movie-character despises her show-character being treated as a sex object. Of course, one of the themes of the movie is the various characters end up becoming like their show-characters.
Don't forget this is also parodied with Tim Allen's character.
Captain Taggart's clothing damage was also lampshaded. This is fitting, since he's a Kirk parody and Clothing Damage was always happening to Kirk in fights that didn't even muss other character's hair.
Basil's clothes are also heavily damaged after Ratigan's vicious beatdown on him.
Wolverine gets caught in a disintegrating attack in the third X-Men movie. His body regenerates; his shirt does not. (And his Magic Pants remain invincible throughout.)
This happened several times in the Stephen Chow movie Shaolin Soccer, generally to comedic effect (or unfunny effect, depending on how one felt about the movie).
Used in The Mask of Zorro, where Zorro fights Elena and manages to, essentially, cut her nightshirt off, though she still had pants (and Godiva Hair). In fairness, she attacked his clothes first.
The somewhat silly movie Susie Q has the titular character ripping her Jacob Marley apparel prom dress down to the petticoat, ostensibly to draw the eye of her distracted male accomplice.
Susan Storm (Jessica Alba) suffers the extreme form of this in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. When she accidentally swaps powers with the Human Torch, she immediately lights up in flame, burning off her non-fireproof clothes, leaving her in the buff on a crowded street. Note that when the same thing happens to Ben Grimm, he doesn't suffer from the same problem, only burning minor holes in his shirt rather than being covered in flame. Definitely meant as Fanservice. She even lampshades it by quipping "Why does this always happen to me?" By the way, she had nude scenes in the first movie too.
Also happens to Johnny in Surfer. When Sue and Reed's wedding is beset by the Surfer's arrival, Reed tells Johnny to follow him, much to Johnny's chagrin since he didn't want to incinerate his tux. He was wearing his uniform beneath the tux, though.
Clothing damage in Die Hard is just one part of why John McClane is such a freaking Bad Ass.
In Star Wars Episode II: The Attack of the Clones, a nexu beast attacks Padme (Natalie Portman), tearing her shirt to expose her midriff and one arm. The scratches on her back from the nexu's claws disappear almost immediately. Her abs do not.
Zhang Ziyi's character in House of Flying Daggers gets her clothes partially ripped off quite frequently.
In Mystery Men, a gang of female furriers is taken down by use of a fabric-adhesive liquid projector, shrinking their clothing sizes "from junior to missy petite". The fanservice is lampshaded by spectator Ben Stiller: "My pants feel like they're shrinking, too."
The first Get Smart film (which would probably be considered Fanon Discontinuity if it were more well-known) is titled The Nude Bomb. Guess what the bad guys have, and use. Being a PG film from 1980 you don't see much.
Then in the current Get Smart film, the pants damage done to Max during the SUV/train/plane chase.
Happens to Fay Wray in the original King Kong, after Kong peels off most of her dress.
This has happened to Spiderman in all three live action movies.
Lampshaded in Diary of the Dead. While filming a B-grade horror movie an actress objects to the cliched idea of the mummy yanking down her dress to expose her breasts, saying that it's just not going to happen. Later on when the actor playing the mummy gets turned into a zombie this happens for real, whereupon she shouts at the DOP (who's been filming all this instead of helping her): "I hope you're happy, you son-of-a-bitch!"
In Future War, we are supposed to believe that the male kickboxing lead gets his shirt knocked off in the final battle, even though we can clearly see him quickly slip it off despite it being tucked in and fully buttoned to the collar in the previous shot. We don't know how he did it, either.
Hot Shots! Part Deux. The female rips part of her shirt off to make a bandage for one of the male soldiers, so several other soldiers also startfaking nonexistant cuts and injuries to get her to rip more of her shirt off.
Coyote Ugly. Violet's boss compliments her on her nice T-shirt, and then immediately rips off the sleeves and the bottom part of her shirt.
The heroine in Der Clown ? Payday is shown with several clothing damages (belly, thigh...) as she is tied to the front of a tractor-trailer. There isn't even a logical explanation as to where these damages may come from.
While watching the 1930's movie version of The Most Dangerous Game in my English class, many of the female (and a few of the male) students became much more interested when the (male) main character's shirt became unbuttoned and ripped up.
A male, and hilariously gratuitous, version occurs in the Beatles' film Help! The villains attack the boys with a booby-trapped hand dryer that starts sucking away their clothes.
In Coffy, a Blaxploitation movie starring Pam Grier, the title character gets into a fight with a bunch of female Mooks, seemingly making a point of ripping each and every one of their shirts wide open and exposing their bare breasts.
In Kung Pow! Enter the Fist near the beginning Chosen One attacks a henchman ripping his outfit until his torn clothing takes the appearance of a bikini.
In Dead Air a female victim of the technically living zombie infected gets her shirt torn during the attack, exposing a breast. This can go into Fan Disservice for some as she soon rises as a zombie herself, snarling and bleeding from her eyes and mouth.
In Cape Fear Max Cady's shirt is damaged when Danielle sets him on fire.
In Home Alone 2, Harry's coat collar is charred after he soaks his burning head in a toilet filled with kerosene, blowing the house up.
In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Khan and crew gain control of a starship with all the benefits of clothing and personal facilities— but choose to remain in clothing that they haven't changed or washed in 15 years— presumably to stress Khan's long years of exile and his superior rugged musculature; he doesn't even tie his hair back like he had it in the original TV episode.
Most of The Return of Captain Invincible features the title character struggling to control his magnetic powers, causing metallic buttons and zippers to randomly tear loose of the items they are supposed to hold closed.
Literature
A character in one of Isaac Asimov's Norby novels is mentioned to have gotten kicked out of The Academy after an incident with a clothes-eating bacteria and the ventilation system.
His future Love Interest was standing in front of the wrong ventilation duct at exactly the wrong time, too.
In the reprints of the Doc Savage novels in the 1960s, artist James Bama painted Doc with his shirt ripped beyond repair from his continual fights, showing off his rippling muscles. There was even a contest run by the publisher called "Doc Savage Needs a New Shirt!"
In the Spellfire novels, Shandril frequently incinerates her own clothing during particularly intense battles. This is something of a Running Gag.
In Tanith Lee's Vivia this is all that is achieved by burning the titular vampire at the stake. Ah well, at least it made her hide inside the flames for a while.
Your Mileage May Vary on if it qualifies as Fan Service, but Duncan vomiting on Kelly and Jason in Mystery Team. Parodied with Charlie, who thinks they're just taking off clothes.
In Breaking Dawn, newborn vampire Bella gets mauled by the mountain lion that she's hunting. The mountain lion's claws can't damage her vampire skin, but that fancy dress that Alice put her in doesn't fare so well.
Live Action TV
Spoofed in a sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus. The female lead in the fictional movie "Scott of the Sahara" is being chased by a man-eating roll-top desk, and gets her clothes torn off by snagging them on cacti. The thing is, the cacti are spaced so far apart that she has to go out of her way to get her clothes snagged on them. Just as she's about to lose the last of her clothing, John Cleese appears to say, "And now, for something completely different."
Justified in Smallville, as while Clark Kent is indestructible, the clothes he wears aren't. In one episode, he's thrown into a blazing furnace that gives way to a really nice shot of his butt.
In Heroes, the only time that Elle's electricity powers display any ability to set things on fire is when she shoots lightning at Peter's shirt, prompting him to take it off.
In season 3, Elle goes one better, when one of her lightning blasts completely disintegrates Sylar's shirt, and a second blast removes his undershirt too. Not that people were complaining.
In the Doctor Who story "Bad Wolf", Jack Harkness loses all his clothes when he is zapped by a "defabricator" ray. He lampshades this later, when he says "Ladies, your viewing figures just went up!"
"The Eleventh Hour" features Matt Smith in David Tennant's clothes, looking all tattered from the regeneration and subsequent TARDIS crash-landing.
Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the Starship Enterprise was infamous for finding a way to get his shirt torn in just about any conflict that he got in to. If the Captain thing ever fell through, he could always get a job stripping. Do they have strippers in the future?
Sir Alexander Dane: I see you've managed to get your shirt off.
It was parodied again in the Futurama episode, where Shatner simply tears his own shirt right before a discussion.
It was also parodied in the actual show. The one episode where Kirk manages to NOT tear his shirt, McCoy walks up behind him and rips the sleeve off... to give Kirk a shot, apparently.
Averted, at least in Fanservice terms, in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, when Cameron launches her One Cyborg Army assault on the LA County Prison lockup. Her clothes are absolutely riddled with bullet holes, but the only result from that is a lot of red stains from her cyborg blood and one half her face being shredded clean off by a shotgun blast.
The Mythbusters tried a variation of this, where the myth was that you could punch a person so hard that his socks would fly off. Turns out, you'd kill the guy several times over long before you could manage to pull it off, and that's including using battering rams and high explosives.
Not surprising, given the nature of form-fitting, elastic-banded socks. Regular clothing, however, depending on the fabric and construction, can become shredded or completely torn away at lower, survivable overpressures.
Reportedly, people struck by lightning are frequently blown out of their shoes as the electricity instantly vaporizes foot sweat, literally popping them off or splitting them apart. (I think this calls for another trip to that lab with the 30' static generators from the Water Stun Gun episode...)
In The Troop, the borlak's slime actually melts their clothes away.
In Kamen Rider OOO, when a Greeed is stripped of its Core Medals it is also stripped of the clothes and armor they are wearing.
Music
In the music video for Devo's "Whip It", a female character's costume is removed, piece by piece, by a band member wielding a whip. The video ends just as her modesty is about to be violated.
And that song is used for gay jokes?!
Freddie Mercury endures this in the music video for Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love".
Theatre
Parodied in Evil Dead: The Musical, with lots of "Oh no, now my is torn." by the heroine. Followed by her ripping the offending bit of clothing off.
Video Games
In Onimusha 4, Ohatsu's clothes are supposedly destroyed after a battle (not that there is any evidence for this at the time). She returns later in the game with a new, fan-servicey outfit created from the remains of the old one.
Late in "Makeruna! Makendou Z", a crab-girl named Masakani destroys our heroines' outfits after a bit of a dispute. Three shots of Mai, Hikari, and Saya with their clothes ruined are shown, but afterwards, they simply revert back to their everyday clothes on the game screen.
Miraculously, they were able to regenerate their outfits right afterwards, before actually fighting that douchebag.
Considering that Mai and Hikari's mother Shouga had to change physically into her new Makendou outfit at the end of the game, just think how bad things would've been for her if she were part of the team then!
In the "La La" stage in Elite Beat Agents, ending the first section in the red results in Cap White taking some serious Clothing Damage. In the "Canned Heat" stage, ending the second section in the red causes Ken to accidentally cut up his ninja costume while slicing open a door with his katana.
This is actually used for a Tomato Surprise in the first Art of Fighting game. The character Kinglooks perfectly masculine (if a bit like a pretty boy), unless defeated with a fireball-type attack in the deciding round... which blows open King's shirt and reveals her bra.
In the second game, defeating anyone with a fireball wrecks their outfit.
But only King and Yuri reveal the lingerie beneath. For them, this Clothing Damage caused by a Special or Super Attack carries over to the crossover game King of Fighters (first two installments: '94 and '95; ceases afterwards). To their credit, Yuri covers up after she lands, and King covers up (even managing to stay conscious to do so!) in the Art of Fighting games.
In the second game, every character can be subject of Clothing Damage, provided it's an Ultimate K.O..
Suggested in dialogue during the rape scene at the beginning of A Dance with Rogues, if the player chooses not to be compliant. Though, given the Stripperific nature of every single piece of female clothing in that module, any clothing damage at all would likely render the character nude.
Prince of Persia combines this with a Shirtless Scene by the end of The Sands of Time as his shirt is gradually damaged more and more by the swordfights he gets into.
In Two Thrones, the prince starts off with a shirt but loses it almost immediately in the sewers close to the beginning of the game with no explanation as to how and goes through the entire game shirtless.
In the 2008 reboot, Elika's clothes are artfully tattered in a few places as well.
The player-character of Heavy Metal: FAKK 2 takes clothing damage over the course of the game, although it is reset every time she receives a new outfit. (Not surprising considering she's modeled after a centrefold model.)
Occurs in Super Smash Bros. Brawl with Samus Aran. Her "Final Smash" move has her fire a massive laser beam from her arm cannon that fills up one side of the screen... along with causing her armour to fall off, leaving her clad in only her skin-tight Zero Suit.
You can also start a match without armour.
On another note, when in the Zero Suit, her "Final Smash" consists of her regenerating her armor, undoing the previous Clothing Damage (Clothing... Recovery?).
Also occurs in Zero Mission. If Samus loses all of her energy, the death scene shows her armor disintegrating.
And in every 2-D Metroid game ever except 1 and 2. Also Other M.
Part of the concept of the Sega game Fighting Vipers. In this 3D Fighting Game, all combatants wear some kind of armor that can be blown off area-by-area with specific attacks. Naturally, the male characters wear fairly normal clothes underneath while the females wear mostly lingerie.
Also occurs in another game 'Capcom' developed and published, Three Wonders for the Arcade. This game is actually a set of three games in one, with the one titled "Midnight Wanderers" featuring clothing damage much like in Ghouls 'n Ghosts, where any kind of contact with the enemy ends up with your character in nothing more than a pair of shorts.
And yet another Capcom Arcade game, Black Tiger, the Barbarian Hero's armor breaks off and leaves him in his Loin Cloth after enough hits. Capcom just likes this, I guess.
In Eternal Fighter Zero, this occurs to varying degrees whenever a character is hit with a fire attack. It only lasts a moment; all damage to clothing is regenerated as soon as the character hits the ground.
In turn, that is lifted straight from Darkstalkers.
The Bloody Roar series features characters whose clothing shreds every time they transform to Beast form, to some degree. (Male characters usually lose little more than their shoes and maybe their sleeves; female characters, however, can lose anything from just their shoes to - in the cases of Jenny the Bat and later versions of Alice the Rabbit - their entire outfit). Their clothing is mysteriously repaired when they change back to human form.
Lampshaded in this fanfic (NSFW, possible sign-up required); one of the characters (Shenlong) removes a very expensive shirt he's wearing before a fight to prevent it from being destroyed when he "beasts out", and after the fight, he and his opponent discuss the types of clothes (read: underwear) they wear to prevent them from being destroyed during their transformation, as well.
Soul Calibur IV features clothing damage, if one attacks a specific area enough, or does a Soul Gauge Break (which happens if the opponent blocks too much), then that area breaks, reducing the character's defence at that level. There are three areas that can be broken, which correspond to the areas that can be attacked; high (helmets and capes), mid (shirts and gloves) and low (pants and shoes). While the main cast have customized clothing damage (Break Nightmare high, and the horns on his helmet will come off, and even remain on the battlefield), custom characters don't have that luxury, and clothing damage will cause their entire articles of clothing to break off. Even the most heavily dressed characters can be clothing damaged down to their undergarments and socks.
One tends to wonder how someone manages to kick a shirt to pieces.
Or why hats and shirts make metallic clangs as they splinter
"You broke my pants!"
Parodied in the Omake released prior to the game's release in Japan.
Evil Marie, the level boss of the Haunted House level in Carn Evil, loses clothing as she takes damage, ending in corset, stockings, and underwear when she is defeated.
Appropriately for a series with a large number of ways to die, at least a few methods of death in Metal Slug result in clothing damage at least one, the larva in Metal Slug 3's 4th level, shows nipples if using a female character.
Fan Disservice in Ōkami: During the fight with Orochi, Susano's clothes are torn to reveal his butt.
The goal of the hentai shmup Sentimental Shooting: To entirely destroy giant girls' clothes.
In both Tony Hawk's Underground and Tony Hawk's Underground 2, the more you grind, the more damage is done to your board's deck graphic until it's just stripped to nothing. This was phased out in American Wasteland and later games.
Ryu's alternate costume in Street Fighter IV is a gi with the top half torn off, with Ryu visibly battle-damaged. Sakura's colour 10 of her alternate costume reduces her to gym shorts and a T-shirt.
Ditto for M. Bison (the dictator).
All of the Darkstalkers who wear clothes lose some when burned. Some characters just get them tattered and charred a bit while others (of both genders) end up completely naked and covering their naughty bits with their hands/wings/feet.
The unlicensed NES game Menace Beach, made by the infamous Color Dreams, has cutscenes between levels where the Distressed Damsel's clothes gradually "rot" off until only her lingerie is left. Rated M for Money.
There was also a pirated H-Game, Miss Peach World, based on this game.
In Mortal Kombat Vs DC Universe, nearly every character except for a few suffer clothing damage in battle, most notably with Superman and the Flash. The Flash can end up with one of his sleeves missing and his buttocks exposed.
Hee hee they don't call him "The Flash" for nothing.
In the SNES title Pocky & Rocky, damage was kept track of by diminishing hearts. In the sequel, Pocky & Rocky 2, damage was kept track of by how much Pocky is wearing. She starts in her usual robes, but one hit knocks them off, leaving her in shorts and a shirt, which is tastefully only slightly less modest than her usual wardrobe. The next hit takes away a life. It is possible to obtain an item which adds another hit in the form of armor.
Speaking of Pocky & Rocky, the series's Spiritual SuccessorHeavenly Guardian goes back to a lifebar of icons. However, if Sayuki takes her last hit from a spear-wielding rabbit inside a wall unit, instead of her normal death animation of spinning around and falling down, her robes will come undone and she'll fall on her knees.
In X-Men Origins: Wolverine (the game, and likely the movie), taking damage from gunfire will perforate both Wolverine and his clothing. His body regenerates, but the shirt does not. Strangely, he always seems to find a new one between stages, and the pants never take so much as a ding...
Not to mention he recovers his shirt every time he levels up.
The freeware title Holdover gives the protagonist swimsuit armour which will dissapear if you get hit for damage. It's separated into top and bottom so where you get hit determines which part of the swimsuit you lose. Getting hit without the armour leads to death.
There's an H-Game called Battle Raper. It's a Fighting Game where almost all the characters are female and when enough damage is done to them, their clothes come off.
Similar to Prince of Persia above, in Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Dark Knight starts off looking impeccable, but gets more and more haggard looking (torn cape, nicked armour, and some apparently really fast growing manly stubble) as the night progresses.
This happens in "Toy Pop", a "multi-directional shooter" arcade game Namco released in 1986. Unlike most games at the time, you lose a life after "two" hits rather than one (as in Rolling Thunder, released the same year, but I digress...). What happens, when your character ("Pino" for player 1; "Acha" for player 2) gets hit once, he or she gets reduced to their underwear. However, a "clothes" icon may randomly appear in one of the boxes that you shoot open, giving you back the "first hit" you took.
Takes place during the arcade game Dynamite Cop. As the player character takes health damage, the character appearance will change to reflect that.
The old arcade game Gladiator released by Taito had the player and enemies armor act as the health points. The first attack on the area would remove the armor in that area with a second hit in the same spot slaying the character. The exception to this was the one female combatant who had several layers of chest armor and could actually become topless in one version of the game with enough blows landing in that area.
There was a Fighting Game released for the Arcade based on the characters of the Gladiator game called Blandia. Several of the characters here wore armor that acted as additional health and must be destroyed before health damage could be inflicted.
Happens indirectly during Die Hard: Arcade. As the stages progress, both main characters' clothes become more ragged.
In Spiderman 2: Enter Electro during the final battle Spiderman receives heavy clothing damage during his final battle with Electro; the spider symbol on his back is even missing.
This happens to the loser of any danmaku duel in the Touhou games.
In the opening of Bayonetta, the titular protagonist rips out of her nun disguise and is briefly shown nude before conjuring up her Godiva Hair suit.
Moments later, her clothes are ripped by attacking angels in strategic places, including breasts and ass.
The Japanese PS2 game "Nuga-Cel" has a lot of this, and is actually an important gameplay mechanic. Your team of girls battle against other girls with the help of magical costumes. Along with your standard health, costumes have their own "health" as well. When it's depleted, the poor victim is stripped to her underwear, her stats drop low enough so almost anything will one hit kill, and they will lose a turn while they cover themselves in embarrassment.
In The 3rd Birthday PSP game, Aya's clothes can be "damaged" if she gets hurt. There have been screenshots of her left wearing very little as a result of this.
Illbleed, a horror game for the Dreamcast, has an interesting example. On a second playthrough, if the protagonist Eriko lets her friends die in the next level her clothing will be torn slightly. If she lets all of them die, by the end she'll be naked save for some mud covering the naughty bits. Now, you don't actually see it damaged, you just have to assume it sort of happens while you aren't looking.
On the cover of Doom, what looks like a midriff-lessSpace Marine outfit has actually been damaged from one of the demons clawing at him (note the claw marks on Doomguy's chest)
Kyoya of Siren gets shot in the chest early in the game (don't worry, he gets better) and the bullet hole remains in his shirt. He gets shot again later and gets a second hole in his shirt.
Every character in the recent Fist of the North Star : Ken's Rage game will slowly lose more and more clothing as they take damage; Mamiya's is particularly amusing. Ken, of course, also loses his shirt every time he finishes off a boss.
One of Tron Bonne's defeats also vaporizes her clothes. Seeing as how both Mega Man and two Servbots are also in the room, Hilarity Ensues.
In Indiana Jones and The Staff of Kings, after your fight with the fire breather much of Jones' shirt is damaged and one of his sleeves has been burnt off.
The outfit Kratos wears for most of God of War II is a heavily damaged version of his God armor from the beginning of the game (which conveniently resembles his outfit from the first game). In God of War III he wears an even more tattered version of that outfit.
A stag beetle enemy in Bug! loses his entire exoskeleton when damaged once, leaving a skinny, shivering bare body wearing nothing but boxer shorts. It will die after a short time or if Bug stings him again.
In the Game Boy Color game SpongeBob SquarePants: Legend of the Lost Spatula, SpongeBob starts out with his pants on. If he gets hit, his pants rip off and fly off the screen. If he gets hit one more time, his underwear flies off the screen and his jaw drops as he covers himself and he restarts the area.
In Space Quest IV, Roger's shoes and pant legs get vaporized by the Latex Babes of Estros in preparation for leg-shaving based torture. Shortly after, you must get replacement clothes in order to enter Monolith Burger, which has a "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" policy.
Queen's Blade : Spiral Chaos and its sequel, Queen's Gate : Spiral Chaos, feature clothing damage for both playable and enemy female characters (guys are immune, but there is so few of them...). It's included in the gameplay mechanics, as breaking all the clothes/armor results in a Defeat by Modesty.
A major game mechanic in the MMO Vindictus. If a certain amount of damage is taken to an area, that piece of armor breaks, and the model reflects this. This has an effect game-wise, as the armor is less effective when broken than undamaged. The Clothing Damage can be undone in a dungeon by using certain items, and is fully repaired in town. Each piece of gear has a durability statistic, which makes the armor easier to break.
Subverted in Shortpacked!. Robin gets in a catfight with Sarah Palin (yes, really) at one of her rallies because she's pissed Palin stole the "ditzy government official" limelight. Once the action starts, the panels focus on Amber in close-up as she gets covered in torn items of clothing, starting with torn-off sleeves and ending in underwear... but then the last panel goes wide focus, showing that Robin and Palin have been trying to strike at each other through a clothes rack.
Played straight with the Ethan/Willis fight. Then they get pushed into a tub of pudding.
Girl Genius had Gil's attempts to hit Zeetha with a metal-destroying device backfire when he grabs the cloth-destroying one by mistake. Of course, on the next page, we find out that it logically doesn't work on the leather, which - since 'Wacky Weave Destabilizer' is infamous enough - makes up Zeetha's underwear.
Anevka's electric weapon turned her clothes to ashes. Of course, she had it in the first place because she was a sufficiently advanced metal mannequin.
A recent Girly strip uses and lampshades this. See it here.
Terinu ends up losing his shirt when Gwen does her best to bandage up the nasty gut wound that tore it up in the first place.
Philip M. Jackson's Nurse Sally vs the Mutants, which doesn't take itself seriously in the least, features "mutant fabric-eating piranha" which reduce the heroine's nurse outfit to nothing more than a barely-there top.
Happens repeatedly to Spinnerette, including in her first ever actual fight. The most interesting to straight male readers (and possibly Mecha Maid) is having about half of the suit shredded by vampire Cal Warden's fangirls, mainly around the midriff area.
Ongoing problem for Tennyo in the Whateley Universe. She's nearly indestructible, heals faster than Wolverine, and will take on anything. But she's wearing normal clothing. It never survives intact.
In The Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage, Link fires a sword blast at Ganon, burning his robe off. The best part is that nobody cares.
The Animatrix short "Final Flight of the Osiris" opens with a blindfolded swordfight with nothing but Clothing Damage, until both man and woman are almost naked. Mind you, it was intended as foreplay.
One episode of Totally Spies! actually had a minion shoot the girls with a "clothes shrinking ray."
Samurai Jack loses clothing this way quite frequently. Seriously, just about every other episode.
The Duck Dodgers episode "Samurai Quack" parodies this by having Daffy (in the role of Jack) insist that he and Aku can't have their big fight until he's ripped off his shirt, hakama pants, and hair tie, leaving him near-naked and wild-haired.
He then rips his own flesh off leaving him a skeleton.
Played to its most disturbing in the Teen Titans episode "Birthmark" where Slade actively tears Raven's clothes, showcasing the various demonic birthmarks that show up on her skin. The intense shredding eventually leaves Raven clad in a ragged bikini, and is so reminiscent of rape for all intents and purposes that it's a wonder how it got past the radar.
In a more traditional application of the trope, Robin gets the sleeves of his martial arts tunic ripped off by a Threshold Guardian, in "The Quest". Fangirls are... quite pleased.
In "Haunted" Robin's costume is heavily damaged following his battle with Slade's projection. He also damages his costume in Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo during his fight with Saico-Tek.
And in "The Beast Within" Beastboy's costume was shredded every time he turned into the werebeast.
In a first-season episode of the early '90s X-Men animated series, Rogue confronts Apocalypse. He hits her with an energy blast that blows back, then shreds, then vaporizes her jacket. Rogue being '90s Rogue, and this being a) a kid's show and b) the Marvel Universe where pretty much everyone uses Unstable Molecules, there was no other damage done on the surface. Of course, no damage was needed; convenient angles and the fact that Rogue was deprived of her bomber jacket provided all the Fanservice the scene needed.
Also sometimes in battle Wolverine would get his shirt ripped or blown off.
Something similar happens in X-Men Evolution, but somewhat justified. Rogue is hit head-on by a massive fire blast from Pyro. Having just absorbed Colossus' metal skin power, she comes out of it unharmed. Her clothes, however, are burned off except for the obvious necessary bits and some extra scraps.
Happened other times in Evolution, especially with Scott. Whenever he got into a rough situation, his shirt would usually get ripped, exposing half of his chest.
One Treehouse of Horror segment on The Simpsons was based on the film The Fantastic Voyage. It had a sequence where white cells attack Marge (who was given a Stripperiffic outfit and made unusually busty just for this episode) and eat away at her clothing. "But they seemed to know just where to stop".
The Final Battle of Avatar The Last Airbender has Aang losing his shirt, though the Magic Pants stay firmly in place and unripped. This is actually important though:hitting his scar on a rock ended up unleashing the Avatar State. Zuko also got his shirt torn taking the lightning for Katara.
In another episode April's outfit gets shredded when Raphael pulls her out of some thorns she then proceeds to tear off the loose parts of her clothing.
One particular scene in the Danny PhantomGrand Finale had this happen to Danny no less than three times in a row!
In the Adventure Time episode Finn the Wizard, an asteroid that Finn has destroyed shatters into pieces, tearing apart Finn's and the other Wizards' clothes, as well as Jake's fur, thus rendering them nude.
No matter what happened to Zeta in The Zeta Project, he never had so much as a rip in his clothes - because they're a holographic projection outside his robotic shell. Ro only has occasional clothing damage, usually to her jeans.
In Family Guy this happened to Peter every time he fought Ernie the giant chicken.
In the King of the Hill episode "Texas City Twister" when a tornado strikes the trailer park the Hills are at and Hank fails to make it to the shelter, he grabs onto a nearby pole the force of the tornado shreds Hank's clothes bit by bit until he's left in his underwear which eventually blows off too, he covers himself with a cactus so Luanne won't have to see his private parts.
This has happens to other characters like Luanne in "Propane Boom part II" her shirt and jeans get damaged in the explosion but it's minimal and she also loses her hair.
Bill got his shirt ripped off his newly adopted Rottweiler in "Dances With Dogs".
And Dale got heavy clothing damage when he accidentally blew up a mini propane tank in "Master of Puppets".
Anastasia: In the final battle Rasputin gets his minions to rip and tear Anya's ball gown.
Disney's Cinderella has the scene where the evil stepsisters tear Cinderella's ball gown to shreds in anger.
In A Twist in Time, Cinderella, in a white gown gets transported inside a pumpkin carriage by Lady Tremaine. Once Cinderella is inside the pumpkin, her dress somehow gets all torn up, and she's now barefoot.
In the Futurama episode 'A Clockwork Origin', Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Hermes, Leela, and Amy's clothes get shredded by Farnsworth's nanobots.
At least a couple of moments in Justice League. One instance that comes to mind is The Flash in "Divided We Fall."
Captain Hook's clothes get destroyed in his encounters withthe crocodile. It's really incredible how the crocodile can eat up most of his clothes without harming him at all, especially considering harming him is presumably what the crocodile is trying to do. Also interesting how later on Hook wears the same outfit which got destroyed.
Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid. Twice in the film, from being in the ocean his boots come off, and his pant legs get ripped.
A similar thing happens to Gepetto from Pinocchio. When Monstro destroys the raft he loses his shoes and socks and his pant legs rip.
Snake Eyes in G.I. Joe: Renegades suffers this on a couple of occasions, but never enough that we can see his face.
In a crossoverBatman/Superman episode, Bruce Wayne is kidnapped by Brainiac (not for being Batman, which he doesn't know, but for being filthy rich), so Robin recruits Supes to help him find Bruce. In the meantime, Supes poses as Batman by wearing his suit (over the top of his own) and using his superior muscle control to fake Batman's voice. When they confront Brainiac, he blasts "Batman" with a beam that would've killed a human. Then Superman walks out of the flame, the Batsuit completely burned away, but his own clothes and cape just fine.
During the events of ''Tokyo Mater'', Mater actually gets parts of his new paint job in Japan gradually peeled off by Kabuto, the short's villain as their race progresses because of Kabuto's tendency to strip his rivals of their own paint if they lost to him, but at the end of the short Mater wins the race though with almost all of his paint peeled away, and as a result Kabuto ends up losing his own paint job.
Good thing Superboy bought so many shirts in Young Justice. His favorite boots were destroyed by magma though.
Captain America's outfit previously got torn when a WWII-era pursuit of Red Skull instead resulted in an explosion causing Cap to drown into the Arctic Ocean and freeze for over 60 years.
Real Life
In a rather bizarre case in real life, the 20 July 1944 attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler only resulted in him getting minor injuries and having his trousers blown off. Four others died.
Severe clothing damage, including naked victims, is common enough in high-explosive detonations that first responders can usually tell if they're dealing with a criminal bombing or genuine accident.
This isn't quite a fanservice example, but it's egregious enough to be worth mentioning. During the Winter War, after the Russians had enough people killed by SimoHäyhä that they just decided to carpet bomb the entire forest he was in, he finally took some damage . . . to his coat.
Several competition swimmers with Jaked brand swimsuits have had the suit rip in the posterior area before or during a swim.
The infamous "wardrobe malfunction" exposing Janet Jackson's breast during the Super Bowl halftime show.
In many massed melee battles in history, the amount of movement and the proximity of a writhing, stabbing, pulling, punching, slashing, and hooking masses of men can actually cause certain fighters in said battles to come out completely naked and covered in cuts. This is one of the reasons why armor of any kind, despite the numerous amounts of armor piercing weapons, exists.
