A specific variety of Fanservice, the Panty Shot is exactly what it sounds like: a gratuitous exposure of a female character's panties.
This form of Fanservice tends to be uncomfortable (and incomprehensible) to the poor souls accustomed to underwear exposition of the I See London variety. Often averted by using a Magic Skirt or Modesty Shorts. See Innocent Panties for shots of panties that aren't made to be sexy or comedic, but to highlight the fact that the character is young and innocent.
Examples
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Advertising
A girl doing kartwheels from a 2000 "Old El Paso" commercial.
There are two different versions of a "Tampax" ad from the 2000s featuring this, depending on the length and the shorter one being the more common. Although this trope is used in both, the slightly extended version has this same woman going about from place to place around town and being completely oblivious to the fact that the back of her dress is tucked in her panties. When she gets in front of a mirror and finally notices this, she's shocked and mortified, then adjusts her dress.
In a Coca-Cola or Sprite commercial from the late 1980s featuring original members of the freestyle group The Cover Girls performing "Inside Outside", their panties are flashed so easily due to their loose-fitting, pleated skirts hiking up when they twist and twirl as they dance.
A 1968 Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercial had Tony the Tiger appearing with a live-action girl participating in tennis, and giving a small flash of her underwear.
An 90s spot for Fruit Of The Loom panties had actress Teri Garr strutting in a dress shirt and said panties.
Anime & Manga
Mahoraba (pictured above) uses the idea for laughs usually without explicitly showing anything.
Lotte no Omocha! have quite a few of these, subverted with Asuha who often goes commando. It's played up in chapter 20, wherein it's unveiled that all the girls have been skipping panties in various situations (Lucca is completely inverted, she's wearing panties for the first time ever), save Lotte.
In Heroman, Lina gets a brief one in episode 5 while running through the subway. Considering the length of her skirt, it's no real surprise.
Marvelous Melmo was one of the first anime to use this trope: Whenever Melmo changes into her Older Alter Ego, her clothes stay the same size, and her now-too-small skirt flips up to show off her undies.
Miyuki in Miyuki-Chan in Wonderland has some in themanga. Some of the other characters do too.
Blue Seed actually turns it into a running gag, with the members of TAC running betting pools on what cute cartoon-character panties Momiji Fujimiya is wearing on any given day; it's a foregone conclusion that they'll be revealed by any manner of accident.
The first episode of Najica Blitz Tactics involves the titular heroine infiltrating a castle full of SMG toting maids. There are few shots in the episode which aren't upskirts. In fact, most of the series consists of the weirdest camera angles and character positions (specially after being knocked out) to guarantee a constant display of panty shots. The Collector's DVD even comes with actual panties.
Panty shots are a key element of the humor in Love Hina and Mahou Sensei Negima! (both created by Ken Akamatsu), although far less prevalent in the anime than they are in the original manga.
The various versions of Agent Aika are so famous for this that the DVD trailer for one proclaims: "The girls and their panties are back!"
Used and lampshaded early on in Initial D. As Takumi and Itsuki are, ahem, admiring the scenery at the bottom of the stairs, Itsuki wonders out loud why the school allows the girls to wear their skirts so short.
K-On! In the manga, there's a rather gratuitous panty-shot of Mio after their performance at the school cultural festival. The anime viewer doesn't get to see it, as Kyoto Animationreplaced that with a bowl of rice. Everybody in the auditorium, on the other hand....
In the Chapter 15 Ah! My Goddess manga, there was a contest for who would be the queen of the campus. A lady singer was the unwitting victim of not only Urd, but Sayoko as well! The guys, however, were practically stoked.
Rosario+Vampire is built on panty shots — at least one in every scene. The animators were already slightly overdoing it in the first season but the second one is definitely reaching Agent Aika levels of panty overkill. The manga has significantly less than the anime, and has a noticeable subversion with Moka's vampire form: her stock move is a kick to the face that throws up her skirt in a perfect opportunity for a panty shot, but the area underneath is completely blank. Mizore, on the other hand...
The anime version of Tenjho Tenge actually increases the number of panty shots from the manga, but that's because the panty shots were used as substitutes for many of the this-side-of-porn nude scenes the manga was (in)famous for.
Guaranteed in Hand Maid May, with the Girl Next Door (unknowingly) going to great lengths to show off her wardrobe.
Uta Kata has quite few of those, although they don't get much emphasis. It's still a weird match with the overall serious atmosphere of the show though.
The exploding-panties Transformation Sequence aside, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha has a few, but they're mostly of the blink-and-you'll-miss-it variety (the fact that our heroine wears a long skirt helps). The promotional images, however, tend to be pretty gratuitous in regards to these.
Happens pretty often in the Get Backers manga, especially to Himiko. It gets to the point where she's wearing a cheongsam slitted up past her hips on both sides, climbing a windy mountain ahead of Ban, and still goes tsun-tsun on him when he looks at the very detailed close-up provided. Himiko, sweetie, the only one you have to blame is yourself.
The Sailor Moon anime has a lot of these. Some of them are debatable as the Sailors themselves are simply wearing leotards, but they are sometimes shown depicted as embarrassed and sometimes not, so even the anime can't seem to decide if they're always going for the panty shot or not. There's also plenty of actual panty shots of characters that don't wear battle outfits. Most notorious is a gratuitous shot of Haruna-sensei's panties when Umino flicks up her skirt in front of her students, which took place in the second episode of the show. Naturally, these are all cut from the dub (including the entire second episode). And let's not forget how in the manga, they often flash the little petticoats they wear under their school skirts, like when Serena tries to use the Sailor V Kick on her brother. 'Nuff said.
One can't forget To Love-Ru. If one were to play a drinking game with panty shots, one would die of alcohol poisoning. And it got progressively more common as the chapters progressed. Especially common in the sequel series Darkness.
Early on (back when it wasn't about children's card games), Tea/Anzu talks to Yugi about how during an impromptu mixed basketball game, the boys would constantly pass the girls the ball so they peek up their skirts when they did a jump shot. Yugi is then shown smiling oddly and imagining someone's underwear ("Basketball is good!").
Also, Jonouchi/Joey and Tristan/Honda appear in a later chapter, shout "Panty tank!" and proceed to lift up Anzu's skirt. In class.
This is also averted weirdly in the later Duelist Kingdom arc — Tea, Tristan, and Bakura climb up a rope to the top of a tower. Tea wants the two big, burly guys behind her to catch her if she falls*
Bakura's official height and weight? 5'9", 114 lbs. She'd knock him right off that rope! Tristan, however, is The Big Guy
. But, of course, something wrong with that — she's wearing a skirt. Tristan doesn't think of that at first, but Bakura explains it to him — yet another one for Team Covert Pervert, I guess. So the two guys wear blindfolds.
We also see one of the Dark Magician Girl in the cyberworld arc (her being Tea's guardian) but she wears pink biker shorts under her skirt, leading to a subversion.
Panty Shots are played straight both in the anime and manga — like Kodachi's backflip during her introduction. They're unbelievably rare, though, unless the girl in question (usually, um, Ranma) is already down to nothing but underwear.
Defied in Inu Yasha; Kagome is most of the time the only female to wear panty-flashable clothing, and Takahashi makes it sure nothing glimpses. The author even went as far as to demand that the anime version keep her tiny school uniform skirt strictly Magic to avoid panty flashes.
A-ko from Project A-Ko is amazingly prone to this. Most infamous of all, falling from midair onto a fighter jet, so that she straddled the cockpit, giving the pilot a Heads-Up Display he would not soon forget.
Generally averted in the early parts of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple in favor of large breasts. It does come up once in a while, and Miu has been known to remark she hates fighting in a skirt due to the likelihood of it. Shigure, Ma Renka and Rachel Stanley all provide lots of panty shots. Usually caused by Clothing Damage or, in the case of Rachel Stanley, being an Attention Whore.
In Hayate the Combat Butler, it's mentioned more often than explicitly shown, but still there - One of Hayate's duties becomes to prevent this with Nagi (who wears short skirts quite often) and when he isn't there, it shows.
Also in the 8th episode when Asuka's sundress is blown up by the wind, flashing "the three stooges" (Toji, Shinji, Kensuke). She immediately delivers one Armor-Piercing Slap per boy, and when Touji retaliates by pulling down his pants and underwear, he gets another slap for his trouble. His face shows the "consequences" for the rest of the episode.
In her first appearance in the anime, Dokkoida?! villain Eidelweiss has her dramatic entrance ruined by choosing a perch high above the heroes on a windy day.
There are a few panty shots of Misa in the Death Note manga.
This is done early on when someone cuts skirts on the train. Except for at the very end, this isn't played for laughs and the first victim is shown to be deeply embarrassed by this.
This also happens with other characters Lucy Winladd, who has her American Flag Panties quite clearly displayed when she accidentally crashes into Seiji. Also, for the audience, in one panel of Chapter 19 the character Shiori gives a small flash of a pair of bear panties.
Subverted later when a girl is confessing to Seiji and Midori accidentally catches a glimpse up her skirt... and sees briefs, cluing her in that the "girl" is actually Kouta in drag.
The story of Ichigo 100% was basically engineered by one panty shot. One can assume that they don't stop after that.
Ikki Tousen (known as Battle Vixens in the west) consists of about 70% panty shots, as it is everyone constantly beating each other up and most of the main characters are females (hence the English title) who wear short skirts and use kicks 80% of the time instead of other moves. It's even hinted that fighting (and winning) causes orgasms, so one of the girls (who starts as... well, a deranged pervert, before getting Character Development and becoming more of a Tsundere) actually puts people in submission holds and then rubs against them, using it as a sort-of masturbation technique.
Just try to find a picture by Tony Taka that doesn't feature this.
School Rumble has an episode where Tenma gets her friends to sleep over. At one point, Mikoto is shown stretching while wearing a long shirt and no pants. Her knees are apart. The result should be quite obvious.
Arcade Gamer Fubuki is solely predicated on the panty shot. The title character is an introverted girl in a standard pleated school dress who becomes an arcade game whiz when her panties (a special pair that is supposed to take in the essences of the world to give her power) are exposed. As she plays, her friend uses a battery-operated fan to blow her skirt up and while she's playing she stands upside down so her skirt will flip over.
Minamo from Real Drive gets a few, but seeing how short the skirt of her school uniform is and how much acrobatics she does that's hardly avoidable without resorting to magic skirts. She gets bonus points for not having the typical bishoujo character design — she is actually rather plump.
Totally and skillfully averted in Angel Densetsu. Both Ryoko and Ikuno love high kicks but we see a grand total of five pantyshots in the whole 15 volumes of the series. And everything is done by camera angles rather than using a Magic Skirt. It's even lampshaded a couple of times.
Bleach contains a curious mixture of averting the trope, subverting it and playing it straight.
The most memorable one in Boku No Pico is when the boys are walking down the street in Pico x Coco x Chico, in cosplay, and Chico decides to walk on his hands briefly while in a dress.
Miaka exhibits one in Fushigi Yuugi, with an astonished blink from Tamahome.
In Ergo Proxy the robot nurses appear to be wearing outfits that stop just short of fully covering their crotches. This seems somewhat out of place given the serious tone of the series.
The parody book How NOT to Draw Manga features an entire chapter on how to properly draw panty shots from the "Naughty Nor'easter" to the "Saffic Surprise".
My Wife is a High School Girl uses this at least twice with the protagonist Asami, once when she tripped and somehow managed to land her bottom on her husband's face, and another when she bumped into a fellow classmate in the library causing her to fall with her legs spread open in front of him.
The opening credits to Kiteretsu Daihyakka, also by Fujiko Fujio, places Miyoko's pantsu on center stage. Both the manga (1974) and the animated adaption (1988-1996) featured assorted panty-gags, though nowhere near as frequently as in Doraemon.
The frequent usage of this trope on the suspiciously childlike girls of Transformers: Kiss Players and 15 Go! Go! is one of its most common criticisms. Namely: Wheelie peeking up Teletraan 15's skirt, and Starscream's ghost possessing Atari while she's in the bathroom and neglecting to pull up her underwear.
In The Movie, Airi's panties can be briefly seen when she's knocked to the ground by Jagi.
The anime series has Lin's panties exposed on a few occasions, most notably in the first episode.
All over the place in Ladies Versus Butlers! — although it's aimed to be heavily ecchi anyway. However most of the exposure is while the characters are only partially dressed anyway. The accidental panty shots are a lot rarer — the school principal giving the audience one when she climbs over her desk.
Although none of the female characters are modestly dressed (even the nuns) "Greenback" Jane is the only character in Black Lagoon to have panty shots. It actually was a Running Gag in her introductory arc, where she wore an outfit with a flowing long skirt. Which would "fly up" more than every now or then.
The young schoolboys of Maicchingu Machiko Sensei constantly create ways to make their cute teacher's skirt fly up.
Viewers have a fair idea of what they're getting into when Yamada of B Gata H Kei draws attention to a chalkboard rendered image of herself giving one of these about half a minute into the shows opening theme.
Narue No Sekai occasionally pulls off some panty shots, especially in some of the eyecatches.
The Soul Eater manga LOVES panty shots early on, including the uncomfortably tight panties variety. These slowly disappear as the story develops, and are entirely absent from the anime.
Not entirely true, there is one instance in the anime after Chrona joins the DWMA. Ragnarok lifts up Maka's skirt and makes the comment "not much to look at". It doesn't show anything, and is used purely for comedy.
There is one in the ninth episode. When Nia climbs out of her box, Simon takes one glance towards the relevant direction then immediately blushes and looks away. Knowing Nia, however, it's entirely possible that she was Going Commando...
Yoko gets one in the beach episode: while she dressed up to prevent her male team members from ogling her, later on she aims her rifle from a half-crouching position, the camera briefly focusing on her butt. Cue the "ooooooh..." from every male in sight.
Actual panty shots are rare, but the notion is occasionally played for laughs; early in the series, Ran once angrily asked Conan if he saw her panties, and in the "Kaitou Kid vs. Shounen Tanteidan" arc, Haibara accused Conan of taking advantage of faking being knocked unconscious to peek up her skirt.
In the manga, we get a brief sight of Sara Masumi's white panties when she drop kicks someone while wearing her school uniform.
However, in Magic Kaito, Kaito Kuroba, a.k.a. Kaitou Kid, flips up the skirt of his not-girlfriend Aoko for panty shots regularly.
Subverted in Amagami SS when Junichi thinks he catches a glimpse of Ai Nanasaki's panties at the beginning of her arc, but it turns out that the freshman swim-team member has a habit of wearing her suit beneath her uniform. She makes sure to torment him with the thought that she's offering him a peek before he realizes, however.
The manga of Minami-ke has some from Kana and Chiaki, but none from Haruka, and they were all removed in the anime. Haruka and her friends do have a conversation about Panty Shots are and how much of a risk they are in their uniforms (that leads to the color of Haruka's panties nearly being announced to the entire class).
And often enough panty shots of girls that have already been turned...
Panty of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt uses this trope literally — her panties turn into a gun. Oddly enough, she herself subverts the trope as it is written despite her name and nymphomaniac nature — her gluttonous little sister Stocking beats her to the punch in episode three.
In the first Vampire Hunter D movie, the heroine Doris has a very short skirt and her panties are shown quite often. (Averted in the manga version — she's wearing pants.)
Subverting/parodying is a whole subtype of Yoshio Kawashima's Gloom PartyYonkoma strips. A notable pattern: a scene where a panty shot should logically happen. Unfortunately, the girl is wearing shorts, bloomers, or some other type of not-so-alluring underwear. The male spectator is so disappointed that he hits her, telling her not to wear such ugly underwear.
Played with in REC: During a live TV Interview that interrupted their promotional appearance, Aka and Matsumaru end up crashing into the interview set. As the chaos settles down and the camera comes back online, we see a package of the product Aka and Matsumaru are promoting. Then the camera zooms out and we see that the package is resting in front of Aka's panties. Cue scream from Aka when she sees herself on the big screen in the square.
To Aru Kagaku No Railgun seems to be playing with this trope. The only upskirts are from Misaka (who, as mentioned above, wears shorts), but we do get a tour of Kuroko's extensive kinky underwear collection, and earlier in the same episode, we see her putting on panties (which is probably as close as you can get to a "traditional" Panty Shot without it "counting").
Further, we never see Uiharu's panties, even though Saten has a habit of requently throwing up Uiharu's skirt whenever possible. The same gag is played out between Sisters Lucia and Angelene in Index.
Taken to the extreme in the OVA where Saten sneaks up on Uiharu and slowly lifts the latter's skirt... only to be visibly shocked at what she sees underneath. Naturally, the camera is in a position where we don't see what she's shocked about but Uiharu's not the type to be Going Commando.
Subverted to Hell and back in Mitsudomoe where, for all the jokes about panties, seeing panties thrown around, and wearing panties on the outside of clothing, we never, ever see a traditional up-the-skirt panty shot. The closest we get is when a character flips two girls skirts, but they're wearing bathing suits under their clothes as they have swimming that day. Ironically, the character in question does this to verify the reason those girls weren't wearing bras.
At the end of Episode 9, Yuka's dress is rippedfrom her transformation and you can see a bit of her panties.
For that matter, you see them clearly during the sex scene in Episode 1.
Bit of a subversion in episode two of A Channel, Run forgot to wear a sock so she decides to take off the one she's wearing. When she goes to do so a breeze comes by and starts lifting up her skirt, giving Tooru something to look at. Turns out Run forgot to wear something else that day.
Kore wa Zombie desu ka? has tons of them, but a significant portion are from Ayumu himself (and when I say he has Panty Shots, I mean he is wearing panties).
A Running Gag in Tantei Gakuen Q is for Kyu to end up seeing Megumi's skirt for a variety of reasons (never because he's deliberately trying to look up her skirt) and blurt out what kind of pattern is on her underwear.
Lampshaded in one omake where Kyu directly asks Yukihira to let him take a peek at her panties. We don't get to see anything since she refuses and pulls her miniskirt down, and then Megumi gives him a Dope Slap.
More properly a fundoshi shot, but in Wild Rock, despite how little the Loin Cloths cover to begin with there are still more than a few panels where the audience gets a peek at what's underneath.
in Full Metal Panic!, there are typically not many pantyshots done in jest, despite the females obviously super short skirts. However, several scenes involve very brief scenes of upskirt panty shots, the one doing them often Kaname. From any other angle one wouldn't notice, only the audience watching can see it due to the animations view angle on the scene, such as lower angles looking up. There are a decent number of pantyshots done in the series which are not jokes however, mostly in the beginning such as when Kaname is wearing the patient outfit, which has virutally no coverage, while trying to flee from a military through a dense forest.
Used on occasion in the LupinTheThird series mostly from Fujiko such as when she performs jump kicks, Lupin sometimes points them out to her she usually smacks him in response.
Fairy Tail gets a fair share of these, but quite unusual for a manga with a high degree of Fanservice, the panty shots are very rarely commented on nor the focus of the scene or the perspective. Actually the shots are often quite discreet, such as being in the background or almost concealed like here, where you only can make out the edge of Lucy's panties. Fairy Tail is also very fond of using the Magic Skirt trope, which makes it even more hard to notice when an almost hidden panty shot pops up in between.
Blood-C manages to give us one of the most un-erotic panty shots ever, during episode 12. You get a clear shot of Nono's panties for about 4 seconds. Why is this not sexy? Because an Elder Bairn has her dangling, and is slowly ripping her legs off, split wise.
Occurred with some frequency in the various "good-girl art" illustrations that appeared in calendars and on other American memorabilia between the 1930s and 1970s. Taken Up to Eleven by the calendar illustrations of Art Frahm, who depicted women's panties slipping all the way down to their ankles as their dresses were lifted by the wind! The women are often holding shopping bags, leading humorist James Lileks to hypothesize a correlation between celery and loose elastic.
Comic Books
Cable & Deadpool #9 featured a Panty Shot... from Deadpool himself. Wearing (by request) the Marvel Girl costume that comes with a short skirt and golden panties. For those who don't know the character, note that Deadpool is male and has a body that's very mutilated and scarred. It's a sight that the X-Men won't be forgetting any time soon.
Issue #392 (Feb. 1984) of Superman has Lana Lang's lacy white panties exposed as she is hung upside down by her feet.
Mary Marvel gets quite a few Panty Shots over her career. This only gets worse after she becomes Black Mary, including having Panty Shots on a couple of covers.
Panda Delgado from Body Bags. Her cheerleader skirt is so short to barely qualify as such, to the point where the reader gets panty shots when she's standing still.
Lilith of Dreamkeepers has one panty shot to Mace, then on the next page to the audience. It doesn't help that they're climbing down a sheer cliff and Lilith is above Mace, and she's only wearing an oversized shirt and a coat. And panties.
In the comics version of WITCH, panty shots are very common from the main heroines, though most of the time it's usually either Hay Lin or Will prancing around with them.
Gypsy's panties are exposed when being swung by Vixen.
Comic Strips
Implied: A 2010 story line on Greg Evans' Luann had the school staging a production of West Side Story. During the big dance number, the girls were all required to have on black leotards under their skirts, but the strip's self-proclaimed queen bee Tiffany Farrell was called to the carpet for having on red lacy panties.
Fan Works
In chapter 5 of Dark Serenity, Minako bursts into Usagi's bedroom to alert Luna that if she didn't unfreeze the other scouts, then the restaurant Usagi and the Outer Senshi were in would be known for "underwear-showing Sailors".
Films — Animation
Theres's a few strange ones in Disney films. In Peter Pan, Tinkerbell when she's stuck in a hole.
In the Disney DVDs, at the beginning Tinkerbell uses her Pixie Dust to drew in the words of Disney DVD.
The Bimbette Triplets panties◊ can be seen in Beauty and the Beast when Gaston drops a bench they are sitting on on top of Lefou.
Films — Live-Action
1968's Finian's Rainbow: The character Susan the Silent, in a short, loose dress, provides an exhibition of her lacy panties doing spins and cartwheels.
1987's French film Le Grand Chemin has Martine, played by Vanessa Geudj, raising her skirt and flashing her panties at a priest. She shows her panties frequently in the film, which her friend Louis (Antoine Hubert) can't help but see:
Martine: Dirty boy! Why do you keep looking at my pants? Louis: I'm not. You keep showing them.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has a few (rather gratuitous) examples. One is when Mikaela takes her pants off while changing and tries to keep her shirt down (it's outside), and another is when "Alice" tries to seduce Sam.
The very first shot of Carly in Dark of the Moon is one of these!
1976's Nickelodeon has Jane Hitchcock's character hanging upside down after getting her foot caught in a hot air balloon's tow rope. Her dance hall outfit dress flips over to show knee-length pantaloons over black stockings.
In the big dance climax of Dirty Dancing, Jennifer Grey twirls her skirt up.
Annabeth Gish in Shag (1988) twirls her skirt up several times in a dance sequence.
I Love You Beth Cooper has the main character (and the audience) getting a glimpse of Beth Cooper's underpants. They say "Hello."
This happens to Andy in The Goonies several times (most prevalent in the scene where she falls off the ship's plank into the lagoon water). Probably to keep the adults interested.
Andy: Troy! If you touch that mirror again I swear to God I'm going to smack you in the face.
Loni Anderson's panties are readily seen in the Burt Reynolds movie Stroker Ace. Loni is in a billowy dress on top of a platform at the big race; as the cars whiz by, it creates a gust of wind that blows Loni's dress all the way up.
1957's The Pajama Game has a wild dance sequence which shows two ladies on their backs running with their feet in the air. Their skirts and slips completely cover their faces to show panties matching their skirt colors.
In the movie The Big Bounce, Sara Foster gets 3 panty shots, all at separate times.
JoBeth Williams in Poltergeist, when the unseen haunts lift up her football jersey.
The second Sweeney movie has Jack Regan meeting an informant in the park when a group of schoolgirls walk by and one of them bends over to pick something up. Seeing how Regan is Distracted by the Sexy the informant quips: "I could be arrested for doing what you're thinking!"
In The Outsiders, Two-Bit pulls up a female Soc's skirt, revealing her white panties.
A panty shot occurs briefly in one scene from Weird Science... as the house goes topsy-turvy!
During the infamous street race in Driven, one of the race cars whooshes by a blonde standing next to the street, and in Marilyn Monroe style, the wake turbulence lifts her billowing skirt above her waistline.
In The Cocoanuts, the first Marx Brothers movie, Mary Eaton twirls up her skirt in a dance scene.
In Worlds Greatest Dad, Robin Williams' generally unpleasantly perverted son Kyle manages to sneak a panty shot of his teacher in a restaurant. This gag appears in all the film's trailers; however what the trailers don't show you is how the film turns into a black comedy after he accidentally dies from autoerotic asphyxiation while masturbating to them later.
The 2003 short subject La Valiente ("The Brave Little Girl") has Laura Ballestas — playing an unnamed girl — playing Spin The Bottle. As it points to her, she has to stand on her head which causes her skirt to fall over and show her panties as a boy in the game swats her keister with a switch.
Used in Bubba Ho Tep to illustrate how old and worthless Elvis is.
Elvis: The revealing of her panties wasn't intentional or unintentional. She just didn't give a damn. She saw me as so physically and sexually non-threatening, she didn't mind if I get a bird's eye view of her love nest. It was same to her as a house cat sneaking a peek.
In the 1995 film Gordy, there's a scene where Hanky Royce, played by Michael Roescher, is sitting on a diving board and when he gets up he falls into the pool. Jinnie Sue Mac Allister played by Kristy Young is worried about him and then runs to get him help, when she turns around her skirt twirls up showing her white panties as she runs away.
The main character in the Japanese film Love Exposure becomes an upskirt photographer. Naturally, there are more than a few of these throughout the film.
Mena Suvari lifts her skirt deliberately to show off her underwear in The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh. It's in the trailer. Enjoy.
Grandi Magazzini: 1986 Italian comedy. Two Fanservice Extras do a Marilyn Maneuver dance on a ventilation grate and offer up panty shots for our viewing pleasure. One woman is a Kelly LeBrock lookalike wearing the red dress from The Woman in Red. The other is a long-haired blonde wearing Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress. See this borderline NSFW 40-second video.
In Tremors, Finn Carter's character Rhonda loses her pants to a Graboid, and runs down a board sidewalk in her white panties.
In the 1987 comedic film, License To Drive, a wasted Mercedes Lane (portrayed by Heather Graham) gets onto the car that Les Anderson (portrayed by the late Corey Haim) "borrowed" from his dad and at one point, she lifts her pink, lacy skirt, flashing her pink panties.
In the 1972 action-comedic, cop film, "Fuzz", as Det. Eileen Mc Henry (portrayed by Raquel Welch) comes to a stop after pursuing a suspect, her white undies are shown for a moment due to what she's wearing being a split dress (which is split at the front).
The 1989 horror flick, "Cutting Class", features one with Jill Schoelen's character Paula Carson bending over at one point, revealing her white panties.
Averted in the same film, with Brenda James' character Colleen going commando under her cheerleader outfit after removing her panties.
In the 2002 film, Rhapsody (which was either a limited release or just went straight to DVD), during the opening credits, there's an up-skirt shot of En Vogue's Cindy Herron-Braggs' white panties undies her tight-fitting, cheetah or leopard printed mini-skirt.
In one part of the 1971 mystery cult classic, Pretty Maids All In A Row, while laying on a hill, watching girls pass by and get ready to enter Oceanfront High School, a student named Ponce de Leon Harper (John David Carson) notices two girls, both wearing short skirts. And after one female student (Susan Tolsky) bends over to reach for and pick up some books she dropped, she turns to him as she notices him eyeing her white panties under her khaki skirt and with a smile she asks, "Shopping?"
In the 1973 film, Harry In Your Pocket, after Sandy (portrayed by Trish Van Devere) gets on an ascending escalator carrying packages, as she's going up, a man on a descending escalator passes by her on the way down. As he's checking her out, he turns around to ogle at her some more and she bends over, mooning white undies under her dark brown miniskirt before standing back upright and straight. He's so distracted that he trips when he reaches the bottom and nearly stumbles onto another man.
Early in the 1975 beauty pagaent parody, Smile, a Young American Miss contestant named Karen (portrayed by a young Melanie Griffith), bends over to pick up a small box she dropped, and her blue-with-white-floral-patterns, knee-length dress rides up, exhibiting her white panties.
In this same film, near the end of it, another contestant named Doria (Annette O'Toole), lifts up her printed, yellow mini-dress to show her white undies with the word "Sunday" in pink letters on them while talking to reporters and photographers.
Averted in the 1986 British comedy/adventure, Shanghai Surprise, there's an accidental up-skirt scene with Madonna (who portrayed Gloria Tatlock) when she's riding in a rickshaw. As she reaches towards Sean Penn's character (Glendon Wasey) riding on another rickshaw, a draft causes her blue dress to flip up and she's in spread eagle mode, revealing she's not wearing any unmentionables underneath.
In the 1999 drama, Cruel Intentions, Selma Blair's character, Cecile Caldwell, is sitting on a couch, spreading her legs to the farthest as she teases, flashing her white underwear while she and her mother are being interviewed for entrance and acceptance into a college.
In the 1975 satirical flick, Shampoo, Jill (portrayed by Goldie Hawn) is wearing a short skirt and while sitting on the floor near a coffee table, she spreads her legs and keeps them together (but not crossed) constantly, flashing her white panties with some printing on them under her white, short skirt, hyperventilating into a paper bag.
In the 1975 English drama, Out Of Season, Susan George (portraying Joanna) sits on the sofa and lifts her gray skirt, showing off her hosed, light blue panties to Cliff Robertson's character (Joe Tanner), in an attempt to flirt with him.
In the 2000 spoof, 2001: A Space Travesty, a flight attendant (portrayed by Stephanie Dumolin-Shaw) catches Marshal "Dick" Dix's (the late Leslie Nielsen) eyes when the blue dress of the matching rest of her uniform gets caught in an updraft (due to no gravity) while they and others are on a space shuttle, and in space, as she climbs on a ladder. Her dress blows up from behind, exposing her hosed behind (the panty shot could be possibly averted, as it looks as though she has nothing underneath other than the pantyhose.
Averted in the 1972 British, soft-core, sex comedy, Au Pair Girls, when a man looks up Anita Sector's (Astrid Frank) dark purple, light purple and white plaid skirt while she's on a ladder painting the ceiling. She turns around and looks down, catching him gawking at her; he then looks in another direction and embarrassed, she smiles at him demurely before climbing back down it (she's wearing hose, but no panties).
In the same movie, Randi Lindstrom (portrayed by Gabrielle Drake), hikes up one side of her red mini-dress to hitch a ride from a man on a tractor, giving a flash of white undies.
In the 1985 Australian romantic comedy, The Coca-Cola Kid, a secretary named Terri (Greta Scacchi) tries to keep her estranged or ex-husband from entering an office and when she eventually falls down in the struggle, this causes her red dress to flip up, revealing pink panties.
In the 1988 American drama, Far North, an inebriated Jilly (portrayed by Patricia Arquette) falls out of a convertible car (which has the top down) and her pleated jean skirt flips up as she tumbles on the ground, displaying white undies.
In the 2004 satirical comedy, Little Black Book, Stacy Holt (played by the late Brittany Murphy) shows off her pink panties, causing her pleated jean skirt to flip up during the part when she turns cartwheels.
In the 1999 comedy-drama Foolish, Desiree (Amy Petersen) has one when she sits on the highest step of the stoop next to the title character (Eddie Griffin), flashing her zebra-printed panties under her blue dress.
An extended scene from the 2003 Ukraine movie Stolichnyj Skoryj has some girls in a field lifting their skirts and flashing their panties at passing trains. After the second train passes, the girls find themselves showing their panties to some boys on the tracks' other side.
Literature
Piers Anthony's Xanth series exhibits the literary version of this interest. The 15th book was actually named The Color of her Panties. This can be viewed as an early part of the author's decline into the stereotypical "Dirty Old Man" mentality, as exhibited to a greater and greater degree by his later novels.
In Stephen King's IT, it's mentioned that Ben always looked up, when he passed under the staircase in the library, because once, when he looked up for no reason, he's seen a girl's panties.
The Takers, a modern Two Fisted Tale by Jerry Ahern. Hot Scoop Mary Frances Mulrooney often makes the mistake of wearing a dress in windy conditions, but at least she has the legs for it. As one naval officer points out when Mulrooney's dress blows up while she's boarding a submarine, the three other ladies who'd embarked earlier never got a whistle like she just did.
Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast Of Champions has an early passage stating that it is a boy's job to try and peek at a girl's underpants, while it is the girl's job to keep boys from peeking at her underpants.
Kay Thompson's hotel-dwelling moppet Eloise has been illustrated in her books showing off her pink panties. In the live-action movies, Eloise (played by Sofia Vassilieva) does likewise but not in the same manner. In the book, Eloise stands on her head and lets her skirt flip over. In the movie, she stands on her head but does so in a position where her skirt doesn't flip over.
In one chapter of Jury Macnitier, Allison is dressed in a stupidly short micro-mini that was so flippy, she didn't bother wearing shorts under it. When she sits cross-legged on the couch, both Jury and Katey can see her purple underwear. Though, Katey just shrugs it off and instead insults how stupid Allison's cat outfit it, resulting in Jury yelling at her because she doesn't wear a bra yet.
Joan Rivers' The Life and Times of Heidi Abromowitz has an illustration on the front of the titular character doing the Marilyn Maneuver holding her Monroe-esque skirt down from a floor air vent, then on the back, she raises her skirt to show panties with the word "anytime" written on them. An illustration in the book has a five-year-old Heidi in a dress hanging upside down on a jungle gym showing panties along with a change-making device.
In The Dresden Files, Harry gets to see Murphy's panties when circumstances force her to remove her pants during a fight. Bob is enchanted by this story and wants Harry to tell it to him again.
Blue Peter in the late 1990's/early 2000's, when miniskirts were in fashion again, and presenters Katy Hill and Konnie Huq seemed to be in competition as to who could flash her knickers most often when sitting on the Blue Peter sofa. Just to make it more obvious, Katy appeared to favour what was otherwise a style solecism of wearing white knickers with black tights. She also had a habit of crouching or squatting when presenting to camera that made it difficult to conceal in a miniskirt.
Jon Pertwee's tenure as the 3rd Doctor is infamous for the number of panty flashes provided by companion Jo Grant (played by Katy Manning), whose entire wardrobe seemed to consist exclusively of the shortest miniskirts the costume department could get away with putting her in on the air.
Music
Mindless Self Indulgence has a song titled "Panty Shot".
The Dave Matthews Band's Title song, "Crash". "Hike up your skirt a little more... and show the world to me."
Rolling Stone issue 1102 (April 15, 2010) has the Glee cast on the cover, with Lea Michele (Rachel Berry) shown on roller skates with her skirt flipped up revealing her white panties. Issue 375 (August, 1982) had The Go-Gos clad in nothing but T-shirts and panties.
The back cover of Walter Egan's 1977 album Fundamental Roll shows the singer embracing a couple of cheerleaders and lifting their skirts to reveal their panties.
Stated to happen often to the title girl in "Centerfold" by J. Geils Band.
The cover of the punk-pop/punk revival band The Skirts' Look Up! EP. It depicts a young lady seen from the back and the shoulders down wearing a white, short-sleeve shirt, pink thigh-length skirt, and black high heels walking up a flight of stairs that are in the scenery of a film strip, and there's an up-skirt view of her white panties.
Ariana Grande often performs in very short but wide skirts, with many of her dance moves being spins or twirls, the skirts fly upwards. Unlike many other performers who, she doesn't seem to realise or care, and doesn't wear lycra shorts underneath, leading to full on panty shots and even videos because of how often it happens.
The cover of the Japanese post-punk band Sparta Locals' eponymous album. It depicts a Japanese girl in front of the blue sky for the background, wearing a purple bow tie, white shirt and blue, pleated, knee-length skirt, which gets lifted with three, different-colored balloons that seem to be tied to it (she holds a fourth balloon), revealing her white panties.
Music Videos
In the PV for the Vocaloid song Waribashi Onna, during the many, many times you see Miku rolling forward and backward, away and toward the screen, you get a glimpse of her trademark striped panties.
The video for Shakira's "Las De La Intuición" has this prominently, as seen here
Toni Basil's video for her song "Mickey" had her and dancers in cheerleader outfits. As it was screened on Beavis and Butt-head, Butt-head would not change the channel (amidst Beavis' demands) until the scene in the video where Basil hangs upside down by her knees.
In the video for Manfred Mann's Earth Band's cover of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song," the photo wall of a troubled teenage girl is slowly panned across. One of the photos has the girl, younger, posing for a family portrait, but she has her skirt raised and flashing her panties, presumably just as the camera shutter goes off.
Princess Superstar's video for "Bad Babysitter" features an upskirt as she climbs onto the couch with her legs spread — her blue cheerleader-style skirt lifts up and briefly shows her pink panties.
The music video of The Killers' Mr. Brightside has the prostitutes in the brothel pulling their skirts and revealing their panties during the chorus part of the song.
Sports
Cheerleaders' bloomers were always a mainstay. Little by little, though, the panty-shaped bloomers have been replaced by bloomers shaped as short shorts, although some squads (like the USC Trojans cheerleaders) still wear the panty-shaped bloomers.
Unavoidable for players in women's tennis who have to run and jump around mostly in flowing minidresses.
That is, of course, unless that's averted with shorts (although unless the cover up with shorts is then averted with the fact that they may be transparent).
Female figure skaters, though they wear leotards over their skirts, are also prone to this as they piroette and spin on the ice.
Video Games
BloodRayne 2. The evening gown and its various re-skins or the schoolgirl outfit combined with Rayne's acrobatics result in plenty of panty shots.
One of the TV spots for the PS3 game Heavenly Sword opens with a panty shot. In slow motion too.
During Alice's ultimate attack in Shadow Hearts, where she summons God, there is still room for an upskirt panty shot. Sacrelicious. If you have her magical black panties accessory equipped (and why wouldn't you want them equipped, as they halve all magic damage), the panties will be black instead of the usual white.
The sequel parodies this with Gepetto's puppet, who can equip a Alice outfit which allows her to perform this attack. Her underpants are bright pink and had cute pictures on them.
The original arcade version of Double Dragon gives the player a glimpse of Marian's panties while she is carried over the shoulder by her kidnapper and again at the end of the game when Marian embraces Billy (or Jimmy, depending on who beats the game) to give him a kiss. This was actually toned down in many home versions of the game, except for the Genesis and Lynx ports, as well as the Xbox 360 version (which was an emulation of the arcade game). Even the iPhone remake manages to avoid the panty shot when she is shown bound and gagged in the intro by putting a conspicuously placed pipe in front of her skirt.
Handwaved in the Street Fighter games that feature Sakura; materials say she's really wearing her gym shorts under her school outfit. Considering the aerial nature of the games and kicking in general (and Sakura's "Overhead" kick in particular) though, this might not be a bad idea. Her rival Karin seems to have bicyclist's shorts under her skirt that extend well past its hem, too. Oddly enough, however, the design of the shorts makes it look like she's wearing panties over them. And Chun Li gets a bunch during her fight with Vega in the animated movie. It's rare for Chun Li to be drawn without a panty shot, either from the front or the back.
Roll seems to attract these. She gets a panty shot quite a few times in the Marvel vs. Capcom series, but then that's to be expected when your skirt's only long enough to covering your rear. In Mega Man 9, we get a rather pointless 8-bit example: Roll trips at one point after you defeat five bosses. There's a bit of white in between her skirt and legs, making this one of the first panty shots to grace the main Mega Man games.
The fighting game Line Kill Spirits relies on this trope. Damage to an opponent isn't permanent until you take a picture of their panties. Several special moves cause skirts to flip up and there is a standard move for every character that does nothing but flip up the front or back of the skirt.
Venus from Metal Gear Ac!d 2 really should have worn something more substantial considering she was going on a stealth mission. Her cameo in Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops downscaled her enormous chest, shortened her incredibly long hair, and gave her model a slightly longer skirt and a pair of black tights in order to preserve her dignity. Oddly, it made her look even hotter.
In the Japanese version of Streets of Rage 2, Blaze's jump kick sprite gives a pretty good view of what's up her skirt.
Despite being a series about school kids, the Rival Schools video games have plenty of these. The first game has this happen with Hinata and Sakura (see above), and the PlayStation port has these on Natsu and Tiffany's alternate costumes. The sequel Project Justice has these for Momo and Yurika (although in Yurika's case, it's more of a Pantyhose Shot). Kyoko averts this thanks to her Magic Skirt, while Ran and Zaki do the same by wearing bike shorts and a spandex bodysuit, respectively. This happens to Hinata again during her Capcom VS SNK 2 cameo.
Princess Peach's Up+ A attack (not the Up+ A Smash) in Super Smash Bros.. Melee. Apparently, snapshots of Peach's panty shots were so prevalent that Masahiro Sakurai actually addressed the issue on the Dojo, saying that he would never publically post them on the site... ironically enough, the Japanese version of the update shows such a snapshot doing exactly that◊.
Changing the camera angle at the final save point in Kingdom Hearts 2 can get the player a great upskirt shot of Kairi's panties. The fanboys went nuts on various forums when this was discovered.
Tinkerbell has a much more obvious and deliberate one in Birth by Sleep.
A shot early on in Dragon Age looks like Alistair is getting a good look up the female Warden's skirt (if she is wearing leather armor or robes, at least), yet his lack of reaction suggests that the designers didn't notice. Also, the camera rotation stops short of allowing you to see up any female character's skirt (and Morrigan's default outfit has pants under the skirt anyway).
Isabela in Dragon Age 2 doesn't actually wear pants or a skirt, just a shirt and thigh-high boots, so these are extremely common.
Can also happen with Female!Hawke if she's wearing the Finery clothing obtained at the beginning of Act II. Particularly noticeable with a rogue, who performs several spinning flips and wide kicks when she fights.
Yuni in some versions of Dance Dance Revolution (most notoriously, versions based off the 4th Mix engine) gets quite a bit of shots of her black panties, thanks in no small part to a combination of her miniskirt and the randomly-changing camera angles. She has an animation in which she bends over, giving a more-than-reasonable view.
If you attempt to look up Ashley's skirt in Resident Evil 4, she calls you a perv. However, many people have tried (and succeeded) to look up her skirt, and she has stiching and a red bow on her underwear. During a brief sequence where you play as Ashley, she has to crawl under tables and through small tunnels a few times. The camera follows directly behind her. It's possible to hack the game and play as Ashley for the whole thing. In the scene where you dodge the lasers, not only is the stunt quite impressive as Ashley, you get quite the show at the end (3:44)
In Final Fantasy VIII, Selphie wears a tiny minidress. The Z-axis rotation on her Scan screen (and only Selphie's screen) was disabled, to prevent you turning her upside down and having a look — clearly the censors deemed it too racy.
This game has no such qualms. Scan targeted things to provide information, Scan Lv 2 allowed you to rotate the image, and Scan Lv 3 allowed you to target your own party. Your own party consisting of three chicks.
In the International+ Last Mission version, when Yuna spherechanges into her Psychicer dressphere, her skirt goes FLYING up and you can clearly see a flash of white that had nothing to do with all the pretty lights. Think about the fact that her Psychicer outfit is mostly purple, AND the fact that hers and Rikku's outfits are modeled after school uniforms for a second.
Narrowly averted: Vanille is climbing over an obstacle at such a height that the player and character Sazh are about to get a perfect panty shot view. However the baby chocobo with him blocks the view, annoyed at the indiscretion.
Later, Fang lifts up Vanille's skirt to get a look at her l'Cie brand. The audience don't see anything, but Snow, Sazh and Hope all turn away bashfully.
Terra Branford gets such things if she is in her alternate costume. It's even Lampshaded by a Moogle in the TIPS section. He specifically mentions Terra's alternate costume, but quickly dismisses the sentence in shame.
It's almost impossible not to get shots of Kuja, especially because he's always floating and flipping around.
Sabin lampshades it in the in-game manual for the model viewer.
Sabin: My brother mentioned something about battle replay...
The Soul Series is loaded with panty shots, although not as blatantly as Dead or Alive since the Male Gaze usually isn't followed in cutscenes. Then again, you could customize the color of Sophitia's underwear as early as Soul Edge, so Namco obviously knows their audience.
At least in the first game, MOMO from Xenosaga is a tiny Panty Shot factory.
In the MMORPG, Lunia, playing as Eir will subject the player to tonnes of panty shots since her skirt flips up way more than it should. This is especially so if the player changes the camera angle.
Lineage II:
The dark elves practically wear lingerie 99% of the time. They also lean forward quite a bit when running just to make sure you get a good view.
The other races aren't slackers in the pantyshot department either, at least in the original non-international versions. Female characters wear short skirts that are easy to see up at the right camera angle (read: a lot of them), and which flip up when a spell is cast. Human females wear cotton underwear, while elf girls wear lacy thongs.
In the World War II-set game, Velvet Assassin, certain levels have the heroine running around in a negligee (it's a long story). Yes, you can look up it. This prompted Playr to bump their rating of the game from a 6.5 to a 7, on grounds of "schoolboy tittering".
The all-female wrestling game Rumble Roses, not surprisingly has a lot of panty shots. Even if one doesn't count bikinis or costumes such as assless chaps that CONSTANTLY show the panties, any character with a skirt will invariably give a lot of panty shots when tossed around with the opponent's moves. The character Becky/Candy Cane (Face/Heel sides of the same character) who is generally seen as the most Fetish Fuel in a game consisting entirely of Fetish Fuel characters, has a loose skirt... which unlike the tight skirts of some other characters constantly flies up or turns upside down to reveal panties. (The tight skirts still show panties, but will require a better angle. Fortunately, the PS2 controller lets you have your way with the camera.)
Vampire The Masquerade — Bloodlines. When any character in a dress or skirt so much as runs (never mind jumping or flipping during a fight), the skirt suddenly flies up as high as possible to give a panty shot. I suppose vampires run so fast, they cause strong winds. The female Malkavian character, who's completely Fetish Fuel in every outfit, even gets a cowgirl outfit later, with assless chaps for constant panty shots.
Higurashi Daybreak: Whenever a female character jumps over the player. Or whenever a female is knocked silly. Or whenever the player is female and another character jumps over her. Or whenever Chie-sensei does her flip-kick attack.
Kimberly from Don Bluth's Space Ace FMV game had a skirt shorter than her temper, and Bluth made it a habit to view it flying upwards whenever she was captured or riding a vehicle or underwater or... you get the idea.
While the cartoon adaptation on Saturday Supercade gave her a Magic Skirt.
Played as a joke in Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars with Jun the Swan. Frank West is implied to have taken pictures of Jun's underpants, and in her ending, she hits Ken and Joe after they see up her skirt. You actually can get a shot of her panties if you hit her with Frank's level 3 super, which probably explains where he got the pictures from.
Vela of Jet Force Gemini gives the player just about the nicest view possible when swimming. As she's the only character who can swim proficiently, it happens several times.
In BlazBlue Litchi, Taokaka, and Makoto all give panty shots with varying degrees of frequency. Noel, surprisingly, has a Magic Skirt, although there may be a good reason for this.
Commonplace in Korean MMO golf game Pangya, where several of the playable female characters, depending on what outfit(s) they're wearing, frequently flash their panties. The flashiest girls are Kooh, Lucia, and Arin.
In the love scene of Project Sylpheed, Ellen flashes her white panties to the camera while embracing and kissing Katana, adding to the romanticfeel. (Katana deserves this a lot~!! ^^)
The end-of-level animation for Team Rose of Sonic Heroes sometimes pans around to reveal the underwear of Amy Rose or Cream the Rabbit. This is made even more awkward when you consider that canon dictates that Amy is only twelve years old, and that Cream is half that.
These are incredibly common with Amy in the 3D Sonic games she's playable in, considering the design of her dress. Example: In Sonic Adventure, you get one of these when you choose Amy on the character select screen.
Panty shots are also visible in some scenes of Sonic X.
And in Sonic Battle, they weren't exactly adverse to drawing visible panties on the sprites.
Jo-Beth Casey's panties are seen in Timesplitters Future Perfect as her skirt falls over after she is found in a snare, dangling upside down by one foot.
Fire Emblem Path of Radiance has a mage named Ilyana who wears a short skirt, and when she attacks you can clearly see her black panties. (ESPECIALLY if she happens to get a critical hit.)
Nephenee the soldier's black undergarments are also visible when she attacks, but one of her criticals reveals more of them than usual.
In Fortune Street for Wii, if you have a female Mii wear a Santa gown, certain "Actions" can show panties being worn under the Santa gown (mostly when viewed from behind).
Plenty of these in Dead or Alive. Notably, Kasumi gives us one while doing a slo-mo backflip in the first chapter of the Chronicle mode from Dimensions.
Much of Chapter 7 concerns a group of otaku lusting after Kimiko's panties, causing her much distress. Ironically, we don't actually see her panties at any time during the chapter (despite her threatening to lift her skirt at one point, and Piro's otaku friend sending him an upskirt picture), yet Chapter 8 involves her dressed down to her underwear without any fanfare at all. Oddly enough, this seems to make it a lot less sexy.
Thus far, the only classic panty shot in the series has been in a video game setting (game characters always resemble their players in this strip). There has also been one person accused of falling over for the purpose of seeing panties, while another man who actually seemed concussed was mistaken for doing so when he complained about seeing spots (ultimately exonerated because the girl in question was wearing stripes).
Actually, when Yuki tries (and fails) to break Largo out of his depressed state by attacking him, her panties are shown in a few panels. Observe. Although, given the events, the drama is more definite than the fanservice.
This is a plot point in an early Bittersweet Candy Bowl arc, despite few of the characters wearing clothing.
Parodied in Fans!!: during battle, Rumy's habit in the earlier strips of wearing a Japanese schoolgirl outfit often causes her underwear to show when she performs elaborate martial arts moves — and when she realizes this in Adulthood's End / Break, she's utterly mortified, and eventually starts wearing more pragmatic clothing for this purpose.
This gets used extensively in Chapter Five of City of Reality, after AV is forced to sacrifice her shorts to give the transformed Hawk some clothes, and again when she gets restored from her transformation into a digital character.
Later episodes of Sonichu have a lot of shots of Rosechu's panties, one of which even got Chris banned from Deviant ART the second time. Presumably intended as Fanservice, but Rosechu's questionable age and furriness combined with Chris' terrible art make it Fetish Retardant instead.
In the pregame of Survival of the Fittest V4, Rosa Fiametta accidentally flashes her underwear at Eiko Haruguichi whilst crawling underneath a table.
Sally Brosity in Space Goose has several panty shots throughout.
The Nostalgia Critic in Suburban Knights. So as well as having far too nice legs for a guy, he also has a decent sized package? Doug Walker is a bastard.
Western Animation
The New Batman Adventures episode "Girl's Night Out" featured a shot of Supergirl flying away with just the right camera angle.
The Trial Of Mr. Wolf (1941): Red Riding Hood carries the wolf off in the sidecar of her motorcycle; her skirt flies up as she speeds off.
Nasty Quacks (1944): A shot up the dress of Daffy's young mistress Agnes as, up the flight of stairs, she proceeds into her bedroom with her new baby duck.
"Land of the Midnight Fun" (1939): The rotoscoped, Eskimoan ice skater, whose skirt flips up while gliding across and around the ice, and twirling.
" The Censored 11's "Goldilocks And The Jivin' Bears" (1944): A black girl named Red (as in Little Red Riding Hood) reacts upon the realization that her grandma is really the wolf in disguise and when she jumps in fright, her blue mini dress lifts. Also, prior to that, this version's titular character's short skirt also moves up, showing off white undies, when she bounces up and down when trying out Middle-Sized Bear's bed, is getting chased by the wolf and when they're jitterbugging.
Total Drama Island: Izzy gives us one when she scratches her ear with her foot (they're the same green as her shirt).
Phineas and Ferb in "Ain't No Kiddie ride". Candace is on a rocket and it starts spinning, causing 8 different upskirt views.
There's also one in the episode "Mommy Can You Hear Me?".
There have been at least two in The Boondocks. First in "Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner" when Granddad's much younger girlfriend Crystal leaps onto their couch you can see her panties, and in episode "Pause" when Granddad escapes from the fans he rolls onto his back and sees the producer's secretary, and uses the opportunity to look up her skirt and see her panties
Invoked in the The Venture Bros. episode "Tears of a Sea Cow", reflecting the UST that the Murderous Moppets have for Dr. Girlfriend:
Tim-Tom: I just saw mum's clean panties. Kevin: Oh, when she was crouching? I tried not to look. Were they— Tim-Tom: They were white panties, Kevin. Kevin:(lustfully) White...
The first episode of the Dungeons & Dragons TV series had a one frame shot of Shiela's white panties as she jumped onto a horse. This was mentioned in the DVD Commentary for the box set.
Kim Possible gets it while fighting in her cheerleader uniform, or in the scene where she is fighting in a dress (not aired). Ron probably got to see it (and more) when she changes into said dress in front of him.
The cheerleader one made it into TITLE SEQUENCE!!! So, it was in every episode of the first three seasons.
It's probably safe to say the Minnie Mouse is definitely one of the earliest examples, and she's known for it in design anyway.
The blonde moth from the Silly Symphony featurette "The Moth and the Flame". With the bottom of her skirt being a wide circle and at above-the-knee length, her white (or light blue) undies are exposed several times, such as when she teases the male flame with the can-can.
The girl Flea that flirts with Homer the flea in the Tex Avery short "What price Fleadom?"
The Terrytoons short "Better Late Than Never" has a girl in a short blue dress that is atop a skyscraper going up in flames. She leaps, plummeting feet first with her skirt billowing all the way up to show matching blue, lacy panties.
In the "Pardon My Molecules" episode of Quack Pack, as part of a flashback that the mad scientist tells Daisy, after several people in the street faint when they see the abstract art design of his face (his original, normal having been transformed by a ray), a young, long-haired, brunette lady wearing a green beret and blue dress notices him as well after stopping for a moment. Horrified, she reacts with wide eyes by jumping up, her hair standing up, her dress flipping up revealing white, frilly panties and her beret flying up, and she too faints.
Earlier in the same episode, after the ducks arrive in the desert and get out the RV, Daisy's pink dress lifts slightly in a breeze caused by her motion and she's wearing white, knee-length bloomers or pantalets underneath.
In "The Boy Who Cried Ghost", the viking ghost's panties are seen from the back as she, the vampire and the blue ghost jostle their way to an exit as they try to escape a room.
In " Heavy Dental", there's a panty shot of one of the three cheerleaders, jumping in their skin-tight, hip-hugging mini-skirts. Huey watches them from a stadium entrance and then uses his new head gear to control them.
Often white panty flashes are featured from Kimberly of Space Ace. But only in the video game. The cartoon show (on CBS's Saturday Supercade) gives her a Magic Skirt.
