Panty Shot - Television Tropes & Idioms

Mahoraba (pictured above) uses the idea for laughs, usually without explicitly showing anything.
Ronin Warriors mostly averted this trope, but in more of an honorary use, there was a brief scene where Lady Kayura was nude, seen from the back, while she changed clothes.
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 PantyShots. The Collector's DVD even comes with actual panties.
- The Shuffle box set also comes with free "GOD"-print panties, which (as mentioned below) were advertised in an incredibly disturbing fashion on the Funimation Update Quickie.
Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex has Batou pinned down by enemy mecha at the Major's house. He fights back by discovering a secret arms cache hidden in her underwear drawer. Or, at least, hidden in the underside of the drawer.
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.
- One odd scene has Nodoka running into Kotaro, knocking both over. They both apologize, but Kotaro yells "I saw your panties!" upon leaving, even though the reader doesn't see it. The fact that this is noteworthy should show how prominent this trope is to the series.
  - As is the fact that the girls often get panty shots even when they're wearing pants.
- And then... and then... there's Negima's Jack Rakan... who wins a battle by stealing the panties off someone then effectively incapacitating them with repeated skirt-flipping until they surrender. Truly a terrifying opponent. The only reason he didn't steal the panties off both of them is because one was going commando anyway.
- The first time that Sayo actually appears (other than her picture on the class roster), is a panty shot of her. Complete with frilly, old-timey, underwear.
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!"
The girls of Strike Witches seem to be prime candidates for this, unless you take their word that they're all just wearing pants that look exactly like panties.
Colorful is an entire series composed of 16 seven-minutes shorts dedicated to men obsessing over women's underwear, with plenty of panty shots.
Battle of the Planets, a.k.a. Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, featured a panty shot in the opening montage of every episode.
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.
Air Master, which features a heroine who fights with a highly acrobatic fighting style while wearing a skirt she is entirely too big for, understandably has several panty shots per episode. Amazingly enough, not a one of them feels fanservicey at all.
Azumanga Daioh, for being a high school series heavy on fuku, has exactly ONE panty shot in each version (manga and anime), in a setting where it's at least likely to be done — but even then, the focus is on the cat print, such that one can't tell it's a panty shot by looking at the frame in question.
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 Kyo Ani replaced that with a bowl of rice. Everybody in the auditorium, on the other hand....
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.
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.
Kaere Kimura from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei is accused by another character of being a "panty shot character", which, from the amount of panty shots she displays, goes from accuracy into (even further) parody.
Uran from Astro Boy was arguably the Trope Maker in Japan, though (hopefully) no explicit Fanservice connotations were attached to it until Cutey Honey came along.
- Heck, in the "Greatest Robot in the World" arc she appears nude in one panel. Personally I don't think Tezuka saw anything sexual in it and the panel itself plays it more as a "naked is funny" type joke.
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 gratuitious in regards to these.
- Well, yeah, Nanoha wears a pretty long skirt, but Fate...
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 could simply be 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).
Early on in Yu-Gi-Oh! (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.
Subverted when Female Ranma from Ranma ½ tried to get the Yamata No Orochi's attention away from Akane, by offering to flash her panties at him (the Orochi is a gigantic pervert.) Unfortunately, she forgot she was wearing male boxers under her skirt, utterly frustrating the beast.
- At other times though, Panty Shots are played straight — like Kodachi's backflip during her introduction, both in the anime and manga. They're unbelievably rare, though, unless the girl in question (usually, um, Ranma) is already down to nothing but underwear.
Inu Yasha's Kagome averts this entirely, despite wearing an extremely short skirt while running around Feudal Japan, because Takahashi herself added a note to the animators never to show Kagome's panties. However in the first episode while Kagome and her brother are in the shrine of the well, Kagome crouches down and you can see her panties.
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 the Most Common Superpower. 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.
Everywhere in High School Girls.
Shugo Chara. An innocent children's show with innocent thematics, innocent main-characters, innocent music... AND THREE PANTY SHOTS FROM AMULET HEART IN THE THIRD OP SEQUENCE! (While the chorus is singing "What you want to be, what you want to say." I don't wanna guess, WHAT she wants to be or say...)
When Hayate the Combat Butler is alone in the house with the (17-year-old) maid Maria, the two go on a walk. Hayate offers to show her his new technique... but it just blows up her skirt. Her happiness doesn't last for very long. Also, according to Miki, Hinagiku gets one off-screen.
- Hayate's loli mistress Nagi provides the occasional panty-shot when she lazes at home reading manga or playing video-games; Hayate would inevitably chastise her for being unladylike.
- Hinagiku and Miki avoid exposing themselves by wearing sport tights underneath their skirts.
In Trigun, a woman in a nightdress shoots a man using her feet. His last words are "They were white..."
The very first shot of Great Teacher Onizuka is a Panty Shot. It's even before the OP!
Happens during three critical points during a fight between Fuko and Hisui in Flame of Recca.
Played for chilling laughs in the last episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Played for regular laughs in Asuka's debut in episode 8.
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.
Sayu: Hey... is that Light's girlfriend...? I can see her panties...
Due to the show's focus on realism this happens more than a few times in Elfen Lied, even when it would have been much easier not to show anything.
Midori Days does this 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.
Kodomono Jikan has a panty shot on the THIRD PAGE of the manga, when Aoki-Sensei walks in on his third grade class changing out of P.E. clothes.
- There is probably at least one panty-shot in every episode of the anime.
  - The manga averages two, but there are some issues that don't have any.
- There is an episode where Rin takes her panties off in class, drops them on the floor, and then asks Aoki to pick them up. It isn't a hentai... yet.
The story of Ichigo 100% was basically engineered by one panty shot. One can assume that they didn't stop after that.
The manga 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) 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. Seriously, just try.
In Sonic X, there are seven panty shots at least — one in each season — and three of them are pantyless upskirts. one with panties◊ and one without panties◊.
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 charcater 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.
NEEDLESS. Oh god.
Totally and skillfully adverted 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 serie. And everything is done by camera angles rather than using a Magic Skirt. It's even lampshaded a couple of times.
Popotan has more of these an episode then most series can manage in entire seasons.
Bleach has been averting this for a while now, despite all the obvious chances they've had due to fighting in midair and several of the female characters wearing skirts instead of the usual shinigami pants. Now we finally get such a shot, and it's a lovely subversion. Sorry I just had nosebleed.
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.
Frequently subverted in Shikabane Hime, but only because the girls don't wear panties.
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.
While the viewer never gets to see anything, Rin's high-flying stunts in Ride Back are often accompanied by crowd shots of men looking up. And she wears a white dress most of the time.
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 Student 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.
Older episodes of Doraemon feature these happening to Shizuka and sometimes other girls for various reasons. There was also an episode where Nobita uses the Moshimo Phonebox to become a girl named Nobiko where he/she falls down the stairs and gets one.
Kiteretsu Daihakya, also by Fujiko Fujio as one of these in its opening credits.
Chinpui also by Fujiko Fujio has this happen to Eri a few times during the first episode and a quick one in the last episode. The episode title card where she jumps round to face the audience and the end credits also feature one.
Oh, dear, sweet Maka Albarn, why did they give you a Magic Skirt in the anime? Why?
- Interestingly, the trading arts figures do not avert this and provide a potential answer: plain white panties. (What? Mine insisted on flashing me. It's not like I checked for a camel toe.)

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Little Lulu. Just Little Lulu.
- Likewise, panty shots are disturbingly abundant in most of the girls in the Harvey Comics universe.
One issue from Cable & Deadpool 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.
- And now, Neither will you◊.
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  - This Troper liked it.
Averted in the Firefly comic Better Days, where River kicks an enemy soldier sneaking up behind her. The angle of the panel would have shown a reader a perfect shot up River's dress, except that the soldier's hand flies up to block that exact spot.
Ruthlessly subverted in Empowered with the arrival of Maid Man.
A November 1983 issue of Superman has Lana Lang's lacy white panties exposed as she is hung upside down by her feet.
Recent panty flashers in the comics section of the newspaper include:
- Zoe, from Baby Blues, who in one strip is walking down the street with her dad Darryl. Zoe has her skirt raised so she can show off her cartoon panties.
- Holly Stone from Stone Soup. A strip several years back had her going a whole day of school with the back of her skirt tucked in her panties.
- The 9/20/09 installment of Family Circus had Dolly Keane making her first panty flash in a while. (A circa-1972 installment had big brother Billy getting bent out of shape because Dolly is raising her skirt and showing her panties to her parents' guests.)
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.
Lampshaded and eventually subverted in an issue of Ninja High School when every girl in school meets to discuss their blatant exploitation in the name of Fan Service because of their school uniforms. The problem is solved when they all go to school wearing sweats.
Margaret in Dennis The Menace used to have the lace (and occasionally the seat) of her panties show until in later years her skirt was lengthened.
Betty and Veronica in Archie Comics has had them in their skivvies on rare occasions.
- Li'l Jinx, the blonde tyke in Archie Comics, was a more prolific panty flasher, as were Betty and Veronica in the "Little Archie" series.
Issue #20 of the Archie Comics run of Scooby Doo has a single-page Flintstones story of Wilma showing her new organic dress to Betty. However, off-screen some bugs feast on the dress with the final panel showing Wilma in bra and panties.
In the early days of the "Peanuts" comic strip, Lucy, Violet and Patty were known to have shown their panties.

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A male version in Made of Honor, with a non-traditionally worn kilt.
Marilyn Monroe's dress blowing up from The Seven Year Itch. While it was censored in the actual film (we saw nothing above her legs or below her waist), promotional shots were much more candid.
- In the movie Pulp Fiction, a Monroe-lookalike in a nightclub stands on a floor vent and lets it ride.
1961 Disney film The Parent Trap (original version) has Hayley Mills in a dual role as identical twins at a summer camp — one girl is proper, the other a tomboy. The tomboy secretly cuts a gap in the back of the proper's skirt, giving everyone at the dance party a good look at her panties.
1965'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, and she asks Louis (Anotine Hubert) why he keeps looking at them. "I'm not," he says, "You keep showing them."
2003's Bruce Allmighty does this too, with a woman after Bruce gets his new-fownd powers.
In the Disney film "The Kid" there is a scene where there's a little girl on the monkey bars and as soon as she swings left her purple panties are shown, plus there's a boy under her looking up her skirt to see what she showed us.
- This scene was probably obscured when it was formatted for TV, as subsequent screenings do not show it.
In The Gods Must Be Crazy 2, Ann Taylor's skirt is involutarily pulled up over her face twice.
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.
In Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, during Tifa's fight against Loz, an upskirt shot of Tifa is shown... right before Loz grabs her ankle and smashes her against several wooden benches. Ouch!
- That is NOT an upskirt. She is very clearly wearing shorts. In that shot, it does look white, but if you look close, it's just because the super-reflective leather is right under the light.
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.
Annabelle 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."
Does it count if she's not wearing them? In Sixteen Candles, the Geek asks Samantha if he can borrow her panties, and then shows them off to a group of 9th and 10th graders in the boys' bathroom who each paid $1 to see them. The movie completely ignored the fact that Sam went commando for most of the next half-hour of the movie.
In The Breakfast Club, when Bender hides under Claire's desk.
In the movie version of Nick And Norahs Infinite Playlist, the audience gets a very clear view of drunk Caroline's panties as Nick's band mates try to take her home.
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.
This exchange from Dirty Work (1998):
Mitch: Hey, hey! Hey, you remember in 5th grade when I was under the monkey bars and I sneaked a peek at your sister's underwear? Remember that? Hey, no no! I was sneaking a peek at my own sister's underwear!
Sam: That's right! Yeah, and then remember in the 12th grade, you had sex with her?
(uncomfortable pause)
Mitch: Okay, enough reminiscing...
Happens in this scene of Inventing the Abbots.
In both "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", Veruca Salt gives a brief panty shot, both times under hosiery.
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.
Kelly Le Brock's red satin panties are exposed in the Gene Wilder film The Woman In Red. Le Brock is standing slinking on an air vent and letting her skirt go up as she doesn't think anybody sees her.
1979's Skatetown U.S.A.: Maureen Mc Cormick's skimpy roller skating skirt flies up or twirls up in nearly every scene.
2008's Cloverfield may have been a scary movie with a badass monster. However, there was a panty shot, an overlooked one at that! In the part where the group is climbing on the roof of the fallen building to rescue their friend, enough wind gets up Lily's torn up skirt to reveal her black panties. This is one you may have to turn up your T.V's brightness if you're curious on seeing this one.
The little antagonist of 1980s' The Visitor had two panty shots in the same venue, an ice skating rink. The first is an upskirt ground shot as a bunch of bullies try to gang up on her; the second (after she dispatches of the bullies) has her doing a leap and a spin with the shot frozen and her skirt all the way up showing yellow panties.
A panty shot was averted in the print ad for the 1989 movie Parenthood. In the ad, the little girl dangling by one foot is wearing pink tights and has the front of her skirt between her legs.
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 Grease (1978), a girl during the school dance has her dress pulled up.

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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 the defense of Piers Anthony, he was actually trying to make sexuality with a PG rating. Instead of saying "sex," he would write "knowing her panty color."
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 The 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.

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Although LazyTown character Stephanie's underpants are revealed almost constantly in the early episodes, it doesn't appear to this editor to be fanservice, just the result of an active little girl wearing a skirt that is short enough to dance in. By the second season, all new items in Stephanie's wardrobe appear to have been chosen to prevent pantyshots, a rather ugly red tracksuit being a disturbingly frequent replacement for her signature pink dress, which has itself gone from just covering her rear to knee-length.
- And that wardrobe malfunction spawned lots and lots of fetish fuel.
Unintentional panty shots are so common on Doctor Who that there used to be a whole website devoted to them.
- When the missing episodes of the serial "Invasion" were reconstructed with animation, one such "unintentional" shot was included.
This one's actually from a live show that many people may be familiar with: Dancing with the Stars. This happens several times actually, most are accidental. However in some dances, most notably Cody and Julianne's jitterbug dance, there seemed to be a flashy display of rather lacy panties covering the girls' butts... several times in the same dance.
Has happened on more than one occasion in Power Rangers thanks to short skirts + high kicks. Presumably unintentional in these cases though.
There was one in an episode of Mork and Mindy... from Mork himself. Near the end of "Hold That Mork", where Mork becomes a Denver Broncos Cheerleader, Mork comes out from hiding in a locker and momentarily flips up his skirt, revealing his white panties. Knowing Robin Williams, this was probably intentional. Sadly for normal people, Mindy never once had one.
In her debut episode in Family Matters, Myrtle Urkel at one point collapses onto the floor, briefly revealing her panties under her frilly skirt. The odd thing about it? She is played by the male Jaleel White, who also played her cousin Steve Urkel.
ANY scene involving the miniskirted Starfleet personnel of Star Trek The Original Series. Their panties are even colour-coordinated with their uniforms!
The debut episode of 1998's "House Rules" has a girl in a dress at a playground hanging upside down by her knees on the monkey bar. She has a tip jar for allowing her panties to be seen.
Cindy Brady's panties are exposed at least twice in first season episodes of The Brady Bunch.
- In a Brady instance, a potential panty shot was averted by camera angle. Jan Brady, in a short, single-piece dress, crashes off-screen from her bicycle. As she sits on the ground, Peter approaches her, and her legs are spread wide apart in front of him. Jan was posed to her side to avoid the camera catching anything.
In the debut episode of My World and Welcome to It, Lydia Monroe's mom is getting her dressed for bed and is seen for about half a minute in her panties.
In an installment of Nickeldeon's You Can't Do That On Television, hostess Christine Mc Glade is wearing a tennis outfit and has water poured on her. Soaking wet, her panties can be seen through her dress.
- Which also falls under Wet Sari Scene.
In the PBS series "Kidsongs," one of the girls in a song sequence twirls her sun dress up quickly.
The Nashville Network's "Club Dance" had many female dancers twirling their skirts up.
Saturday Night Live sketches featuring Molly Shannon's character "Mary Katherine Gallagher" are made of this trope. So much so that one gets the feeling Shannon created the Gallagher character as an excuse to flash her panties constantly.
- (Ms. Shannon actually posed for a photo in Entertainment Weekly flipping her skirt up from the rear and showing off her heart-pattern panties.)
A 1997 commercial for Fruit Of The Loom panties had the ladies in the commercial twirling their skirts up while dancing. The commercial's tagline was "If you're going to show them off."
America's Funniest Home Videos has a number of panty shots, ranging from skirts getting pulled up to cheerleaders getting knocked over on their backs.
Joanie Cunningham on Happy Days has had two panty shots, both while in cheerleader outfits (white bloomers first time, dark blue bloomers second time).
Marie Osmond has had a couple. In the 1975 ABC special leading up to the 1976 Donny & Marie series, Marie twirls up her ice skating skirt. In 2008, she lets it ride wearing a little girl outfit on Dancing With The Stars.
The Man Show. Girls on trampolines. 'Nuff said.
Any number of variety shows of the past that either featured dancers or acrobatic acts had female members in skirts providing many panty shots (even if their panties were part of their costumes).
In the 1980s when the models on The Price Is Right dressed as cheerleaders for certain showcases, Holly Halstrom was prone to high kicks and jumping up and down, making her skirt fly up.
Happens plenty of times in the Original Series of Star Trek, thanks to the regulation Starfleet miniskirt.

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Mindless Self Indulgence has a song titled "Panty Shot". Try and guess what it's about; you won't get a prize.
- Actually, the line in the song is "Five year old—panty shot!" And it's about a pedo ogling a little girl.

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The BBC's Wimbledon coverage used to feature gratiutous use of these — between games, a front on camera angle of the players sitting down between games was the norm until a few years ago, when it was specifically "phased out" because of the panty shots. We now get loads of stats and Hawkeye instead.
- Actually, just women's tennis in general.
Figure skating is rife with panty shots, even if the skaters are wearing skirts attached to leotards. Every time a photo of Michelle Kwan was seen in the newspaper sports section, her skirt was up.
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.

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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. This troper burst out laughing when he saw her underpants were bright pink and had cute pictures on them.
The 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 toned down in many home versions of the game, including the GBA version, Double Dragon Advance (although she does show quite a bit of cleavage in the ending of the GBA version).
Handwaved in the Street Fighter games that feature Sakura; materials say she's really wearing her gym shorts (bloomers, which are almost just as bad for some people) 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.
- Also played straight with Maki◊ in Capcom VS SNK 2 and the PSP/GBA versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3, as well as Chun Li◊ during certain animations in Pocket Fighter.
- 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. http://gpsc.sakura.ne.jp/gsr1/index_e.html
Venus from Metal Gear Acid 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.
You can look up one of the hostage's skirt in Metal Gear Solid 2. She'll piss herself and Rosemary will call you a perv.
In Jet Force Gemini, if you get the camera angle just right, you can see that Vela is wearing a thong. Though, after she gets upgraded, she wears shorts under her miniskirt.
- "If you get the camera angle just right?" Just put her in the crawling position. Her underwear is as plain as day.
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.
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.
- ... And 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.
- In fact, if one were to pause the camera when Peach and Zelda are in their tumble animation (when they are falling after being hit) and change the angle in Melee or Brawl, you can get a clear shot of the insides of their skirt. This can be taken advantage of if the player hacks Brawl to give themselves unrestricted access to the Pause Camera... Or So I Heard.
- You can get a pretty okay shot of it if you just look at their respective trophies. Peach is wearing bloomers and Zelda's wearing tights, though.
- 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◊.
The 3-D Sonic the Hedgehog games: if Amy or Cream jump at the right angle, you can actually see their underwear. This happens quite a lot in Sonic Heroes thanks to the vast amount of jumping you're always doing. For that matter, Amy Rose from Sonic the Hedgehog gets one in pretty much every game since Sonic Adventure.
- It's even worse in Phantasy Star Universe. During the Christmas holiday season, a giant statue of Amy from Sonic is seen in a number of the lobby areas. The camera, unfortunately, makes it all but impossible to avoid inadvertent flashing cases any time you're within 500' of her statue.
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.
- Not to mention earlier on in the first game, with Rikku and Jane, though as Jane is only from top-down it's slightly harder to appreciate. But only slightly.
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 evidently has a design 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. So Yeah.
- The best way to look is to have her stand far away enough from you on a higher plane (like a staircase) and uses your sniper rifle to scope her out. Or So I Heard.
Aoi Kanda from Osu Tatakae Ouendan really shouldn't be wearing such a short skirt considering she'll be jumping a lot (they're black◊, by the way)...
In Final Fantasy VIII, Selphie wears a tiny minidress. In the American and PAL versions 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.
- And the camera angle was very carefully manipulated to avoid giving one in her introductory FMV (where she falls backward trying to jump down from a ledge).
- Final Fantasy X 2 had 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. So Yeah.
Dead or Alive. Full stop.
- You were looking at their panties?
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.
The Soul Calibur series should be called "Soul Cal-girls-fighting-in-unffiting-clothes-ibur." This troper believes panty shots should be acknowledged as a feature in the game.
- Wish retroactively granted: You could mess with the color of Sophitia's panties in the Japanese PSX version of Soul Edge.
The dark elves in Lineage II practically wear lingerie 99% of the time. They also lean forward quite a bit when running, so if you didn't see it before...
- 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 Two-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 PS 2 controller lets you have your way with the camera.)
The game Vampire: the Masquerade — Bloodlines may not seem to have much fanservice other than "vampires are hot" at first, even though there is a console cheat TO MAKE BREASTS BIGGER. However, 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 for perverts that are too lazy to run around (or move the camera).
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. Or...
Chrono Cross had a feature in the status menu that allowed you to view your character and look at them from different angles and different poses. The game allowed you to zoom in and out, pan the camera, but not move the camera all the way so that it goes underneath character's feet. If you viewed a character that was wearing a skirt or a mini-dress and let them do a pose that made them run, you may see panty shots from behind.
- Also during battle, a character named Marcy shows her panties upon executing certain element magics in battle. This can be commonly seen by using one the green element aeroblaster. According to chronocompendium.com, "The Earth Dragon likes making the camera show Marcy's panties. What a pervert."
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...
Guilty Gear has Jam, Millia Rage, I-No... heck, any female character wearing a skirt. Even Jam's regular stance reveals a bit. Ky even points this out:
Ky: Um, you shouldn't kick so high. People's eyes tend to wand— I'm sorry!!
In Clock Tower 3, Alyssa has A LOT of shots of her black panties during gameplay and cut scenes.
This troper heard from a friend, who was one of the poor souls who had to playtest this game, that the titular character in Red Ninja throws these all the time. Particularly, when she's climbing a ladder, the camera just swoops into position automatically and...
Any woman wearing a skirt in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas or 4 can give you a panty shot.

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Megatokyo treats it more seriously; 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)
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.
Misfile example here. Seems Angels in this universe don't count modesty amongst the cardinal virtues.
- Considering that the angel in question is the "Closest to [Lucifer] that you will ever get"....
Lampooned in Not Quite Daily Comic with Malène doing it on purpose.
In Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, the main character is prone to these since she's a magical girl. Well, ever since she was a she, anyway.
Any work by Bleedman (Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi, Grim Tales from Down Below, and Sugar Bits). Seriously the guy just loves to draw these shots.
- "Realistic skirt physics", people! Realistic skirt physics.
Agatha from Girl Genius jumps for joy when Gil survives a dangerous ploy. From one comment about decorum and the looks on the faces of several men, her leap was high enough that her skirt proved less than modest.

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The Funimation Update Quickies show several of these during their anime previews, and in fact, panties are a rather popular subject within the podcast. One example takes this to the extreme, when Scott (the host), walks around the office and does stuff... while wearing panties!! This includes a shot of him bending over and the camera zooms in on his bepantied ass. To clarify, this is Scott◊. My eyes...
- Says you.
  - ...I'll be in my room.

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The original titles for Kim Possible (very briefly; light blue, if you're curious), taken from the episode. Until the beginning of Season 4, this was Kim's ONLY Panty Shot, in direct contrast to Ron's habitual trouser problems. In another episode, Kim is participating in a cheerleader pyramid routine and her friend Crystal is on top of the pyramid doing a handstand. Every stitch of Crystal's purple bloomers are shown.
Played for comedic effect at various times in Tiny Toon Adventures (Babs Bunny - when she's actually wearing underwear - and Elmyra), Animaniacs (Dot Warner), and by Minnie Mouse in many of the old Disney short cartoons.
- Dot Warner did these pretty much as a matter of course, due to the length of her skirt. She's also one of the few female cartoon characters I can think of that regularly went topless without the risk of drawing down Moral Guardians. Not done for fanservice, though, as she's an underage species-indeterminate cartoon critter.
- Dot sometimes averts this, though, by...uh...not wearing underwear. So yeah...
Batman villain Baby Doll provides particularly disturbing examples — her frilly panties are very visible, but she's an adult with a child's body. Um, yeah.
- Aren't we overreacting just a wee bit? Baby Doll looks like that because its a stereotype example of a "cute baby girl" outfit. Nothing fanservicey or squicky is meant by it.
  - That would only make it worse, though, right?
  - In the episode "Love is a Croc" she starts up a crime partnership with nine-foot-tall lizardman Killer Croc. She takes this to be a romantic relationship. Baby Doll's character is easily equal parts squick and tragic villain.
The New Batman Adventures episode Girl's Night Out featured a shot of Supergirl flying away with just the right camera angle.
A rather pointless male example appears in the narmful animated The Lord of the Rings when Aragorn trips and falls over from exhaustion. It wasn't even hot; couldn't his tunic just have been a few inches longer?
The first episode of Dungeons & Dragons, of all things, has a brief panty-shot from Sheila as she jumps onto a horse.
- And another during a Dream Sequence in "The Girl Who Dreamed Tomorrow".
In the episode of the animated Punky Brewster series "Any Wish Way You Can", we see Margaux Kramer's panties after she slips on a throw rug. In another episode, "The Perils Of Punky", she's held upside down by her feet down a cavern, but her skirt and slip discreetly cover her undies by having them draped over her keister. In "Punky To The Rescue", Margaux's foot is caught in a snare but she is shown standing upright with her snared foot raised and not hanging upside down since she's wearing a dress.
Rainbow Brite had a panty shot in "The Mighty Monstromurk Menace Part 1" when she nearly fell off a rainbow while escaping from the evil Pits.
In the Scooby Doo, Where Are You! episode "Decoy for a Dognapper", while warding off a flock of bats, Velma kicks her knees up high enough to show her panties, but they are colored the same as her skirt. In another episode, "Scooby's Night With A Frozen Fright", she, Shaggy and Scooby get startled at the door slamming behind them and you can see her panties which are the same color as her dress. In "A Good Medium Is Rare", Velma's skirt rides up as she, Daphne and Fred react at a mysterious figure behind them.
- In the "New Scooby Doo Movie," "Mystery of Haunted Island," one occurs when the gang meets the Harlem Globetrotters. A mishap with the door leads to the gang being pulled into a pile with the Globetrotters, where Daphne ends up face-down with her skirt flipped up, exposing her panties underneath her trademark pink tights.
- In the episode "The Babysitter from Beyond" (A Pup Named Scooby Doo), the kids are wedged in a doorway and from behind we can see Velma's and Daphne's white panties. Curiously, Daphne is wearing her panties on the outside of her tights. Velma had another in "A Bicycle Built For Boo." Her skirt flips up after Scooby drops her from the reach of the episode's monster.
  - Wearing a second pair of panties over one's tights is an old trick to help stop them falling down.
- Velma gets another one in "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine" from What's New, Scooby-Doo when the Mystery Machine is chasing the gang and Velma fals over, flipping up her skirt in the process to show her white panties.
- She has even yet another in the 1976 episode "Scooby Doo, Where's The Crew?" On Prof. Poisson's ship, Velma stands on tiptoe to look into the radio room porthole. Her skirt rides up high enough to show her red lace-trimmed panties.
This troper swears the animators gave one to Lisa on The Simpsons. It may have just been that they inadvertently forgot to color it in, but you can see a flash of white under Lisa's skirt as she's climbing over the dividing wall between the "Boy" and "Girl" halves of the school, in the episode where she dresses like a guy to get into the better classes.
- There's a few others too, including one in the Human Resources Treehouse of Horror story and one in the ep where Lisa puts on some shoes which dance for her when someone claps.
In the Droopy cartoon Wild and Woolfy, at the end when he is chasing cowgirl Red you can see her panties as she runs off.
Tasha from The Backyardigans had a couple of those, particulary one in the Halloween episode, "Scared of You". Here's the clip.
Several times in Code Lyoko (see Fanservice), but one rather baffling case of scene reuse takes the cake, as parodied here.
The Chipettes get a few of these in The Chipmunk Adventure.
Pistol from Goof Troop has a number of these during the series
In one episode of Winx Club, the Trix were at a beauty pageant casting spells at the contestants and laughing at them. During one of the times this happened, Stormy laid down on Icy's lap laughing, and accidentally exposing her purple panties.
- And of course, 4Kids edited the picture when that happened.
In The Amazing Chan & The Chan Clan episode "The White Elephant", Suzie Chan's skirt billows up as she, Flip, Alan and Anne fall feet first through a trap door. Her panties — same color as her dress except for some lace trim and floral pattern — can be seen for a couple of frames.
Ed Edd & Eddy episodes "Boom Boom, Out Goes The Ed" and "A Town Called Ed" has series cutie Nazz in T-shirt, slippers and panties for extended time in each. In "Smile For The Ed," Ed's obnoxious sister Sarah is wearing a frilly dress (waiting line for her class photo) which rides up to show frilly panties.
Starfire has a quick panty shot at the beginning of the Teen Titans episode "Sisters" as she turns to return fire at her chasers.
In Courage the Cowardly Dog, there is an upskirt of any skirt wearing female character in every episode — you'll have to be blind not to notice them.
All the grotesquely drawn girls in Cow and Chicken wear boys' briefs.
Nutsy of Blinky Bill fame, is a repeat offender in this category, which is common due to her being a Koala and frequently climbing trees.
In the PBS show Super Why, the character Little Red Riding Hood only has a skirt long enough to cover her crotch area, so when ever she moves a little her white panties can be shown, especially in the "Cinderella" episode.
An episode of the 1972 cartoon The Roman Holidays has Precocia Holiday in her panties for a scant couple of seconds as her mother puts a formal toga on her.
In an episode of Inspector Gadget, "Movie Set", Gadget is in actress Lana Lamore's trailer he accidentally activates his gadget skis knocking her over, for a split second during the fall you can see her panties (they are pink).
On the 1988 cartoon series Fantastic Max, Max's big sister Zoey shows her panties on a regular basis.
The Wild Thornberrys has the main character Eliza; basically any time she's wearing her yellow dress she can easily notch up about 5 an episode (partly due to being quite short and having little legs)...
Happy the Hare from Tabaluga will infrequently show hers when climbing or falling, they vary from Pink to purple.
In Disney's animated short subject "Pecos Bill", Calamity Jane comes riding in on a buffalo. As the buffalo bucks up and down, Jane's rather short skirt flips up and shows white panties.
In the Rugrats episode "Tricycle Thief", Susie holds a kangaroo trial against Angelica for stealing her tricycle. She ties the string of her mylar balloon to the left foot of Cynthia, Angelica's doll, and dangles it upside down. Cynthia's skirt falls over to show her panties. When Susie lets go of the balloon, the string is now tied to Cynthia's right foot, and her skirt is back in its proper position.
In another Rugrats episode "America's Wackiest Home Videos", Angelica's skirt flies up a number of times and reveals her pink panties when she is skating for Drew's video.
- In the episode Mirror Land when Didi realizes that she's wearing a ballerina outfit you can see her panties right before she covers them up out of embarrassment.
Hey Arnold has one in the episode "Phoebe Skips".
Little Audrey showed her panties a lot in her theatrical cartoons in the 40s and 50s, yet in the end titles of the anthology TV show she appeared in, Matty's Funday Funnies (ABC, 1959-61) she gets a Magic Skirt. Casper the Friendly Ghost, swinging on a trapeze by his knees, holds Audrey upside down by her feet, and her skirt doesn't budge.
Jerry's alien girl friend in Tom & Jerry: Blast Off To Mars has a couple of panty shots late in the feature.
1995's Itsy Bitsy Spider episode "State Fair Itsy" has a scene where Itsy's human pal Leslie plummeting down a long slide feet first. Her skirt flies up all the way to her face.
In "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy", in the episode "Nigel Planter and the Chamber Pot of Secrets" when Nigel, Grim, Billy and Mandy go through Dean Toadblatt's bookshelf, Mandy turns around causinging a quick flash. Then when the scene returns to Nigel, Grim, Billy and Mandy, Mandy's panties are showing.
- I checked, this is the only upskirt you'll ever see.
The Powerpuff Girls had two. The first, in "Mommy Fearest", had Bubbles sneaking off from getting ready for bed in her camisole and panties. The other, from "The Powerpuff Girls Movie," had the Professor putting Buttercup's nightie on her.
Mona The Vampire has a few.
In Disney's The Rescuers (1977), the character Penny is held upside down by her panties by the villainess Medusa's crocodile. Later she lifts her nightgown to show Bianca and Bernard the tooth holes in her panties.

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Subversion (reversion? 180 degree turn?): Man In A Kilt. Often played for laughs and the subject of numerous questions: "What's worn beneath a Scotsman's kilt?" Answers go below:
- Whatever he feels like;
- Your mom;
- Vapor Wear;
- Leopard print velvet;
- Frilly ladies underwear with hearts on them;
- Shoes and socks;
- $50 to tell you, $20 to show you, but finding out for yourself: Priceless;
- On a good day? Lipstick;
- Nothing;
- Nothing is worn, it's all in very good condition.
- Red gym shorts.
In the past, girls were pretty much required to wear dresses at school. This gave the boys plenty of opportunities to see their panties in various ways:
- When the girls sat at their desks with their legs spread apart;
- Doing a cartwheel;
- Twirling their skirts;
- Any upside down position (hanging by knees on monkey bars, handstand, headstand, etc.);
- Boy drops his pencil next to girl for the sole purpose of peeking up her skirt;
- Following them up a flight of stairs;
- Gust of wind blowing their skirts up;
- Kneeing their skirt up after (e.g.) kicking a ball;
- Tripping a girl wearing a sufficiently short skirt — or just in a specific fashion;
- Vicarious exhibitionism — lifting their skirts;
- Jumping up and down (thus making their skirts billow up as they descended;
- Placing mirrors under their chairs.
  - This troper has heard of boys tying small mirrors to their shoes.
  - And Ohio has some law agains shiny shoes, for that exact reason.
Not even the Princess of Asturias (and posibily future queen of Spain) is inmune to this.
In real life, "upskirt" is an entire category of softcore pornography, and in Japan, it is an entire industry with a special name: panchira.
- As was mentioned at the very top.
A joke that's made the rounds in many permutations has a little girl telling her mother that a boy gave her $1 to see her hang upside down on a monkey bar, and her mother says the boy is doing that just to see the girl's panties. Later, the girl says the boy gave her $5 to see her hang upside down. Mother says "I told you, he's doing that so he can see your panties." The girl says "Not this time...I wasn't wearing any panties!"

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