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Mae: What if at a key moment in the game my, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops, my bosoms come flying out? That, that might draw a crowd, right?
Doris: You think there are men in this country who ain't seen your bosoms?

You've heard of Nothing Is Scarier, right? This trope could be called Nothing Is Sexier.

Clothing Damage is when clothes get torn off during combat. This type of Fanservice is more generally when clothing rips or falls off in non-combat related situations.

The Theiss Titillation Theory says that outfits which "merely suggest the imminence of revelation" are teasingly sexy. If it looks like Victoria is one stiff breeze away from having all of her secrets revealed, it will certainly get your attention, if only out of morbid curiosity. But the allure is all in the teasing: it looks like we'll see something, but we never do. When the hinted-at revelation accidentally comes to pass (universally to the embarrassment of the victim and the enjoyment or amusement of everyone else), the tease is over. And you get this trope.

This is common to outfits that are impractical and/or prone to falling off such as swimsuits, stripperiffic clothing, towels, robes, loincloths, dresses, gowns and skirts. When caused by some machine or magic specifically designed to achieve that effect, see The Nudifier, if caused by some form of shapeshifting see Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing. Witnesses and gawkers are usually targets for an Unprovoked Pervert Payback. A Shameless Fanservice Girl might not care about suffering a wardrobe malfunction and an Attention Whore might even engineer it for the attention.

A Super-Trope to All Cloth Unravels (clothes unraveling from a single thread), Open-Fly Gag (leaving the zipper undone), Popping Buttons (when buttons pop away from the clothes), Slippery Swimsuit (losing your swimwear in the water) Splitting Pants (pants or similar garments rip from strenuous movements and/or being too small for the wearer) and Stripping Snag (clothes get snagged off when caught in something). See also Dress Hits Floor if the malfunction causes the clothes to pool at their feet. Compare Defeat by Modesty, Pants-Pulling Prank, Right Out of My Clothes, Shameful Strip, Undressing the Unconscious, and Wardrobe Wound. Contrast Sexy Coat Flashing. May cause a Comedic Underwear Exposure or Naked Freak-Out. A Fan Disservice version might be Plumber's Crack.

Don't mistake with Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress, when falling through clotheslines gets you dressed in mismatched clothes.

No Real Life Examples, Please!. This includes when this happens unintentionally during live performances.


Examples:

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    Advertising 
  • A zooming tennis ball causes a female ticket taker's clothes to fly off, leaving her in her underwear on a public street, in this Adidas advert.
  • Self-imposed in this 3Suisses advert, when a busty dancing girl shakes her top down, exposing herself to her friends.

    Anime & Manga 
  • Miria experiences a Wardrobe Malfunction in Baccano! when Jacuzzi trips and tries to grab something to hold onto — which turns out to be the front of Miria's strapless dress, snagging it down and shoving his head against her chest. And Miria doesn't even care.
  • Blade & Soul: Both Karen and Dan suffer this in episode 13 as a Running Gag. Karen's Seashell Bra comes undone while she's fighting some hostile fish-men who suddenly start worshipping her as their goddess after witnessing her rather ample bosom. Later, Dan's Sarashi unwraps in front of the Cat Folk she's fighting, and they react in the same manner.
  • When Nel in Bleach goes back to being her adult self, the green gown which covered her entire body as a child doesn't fit as well anymore and the gown gets torn into a skirt and a top, revealing only her midriff and Underboobs.
  • Boarding School Juliet:
    • After her clothes got wet, Juliet had to put on Romio's clothes temporarily. Because of their Huge Guy, Tiny Girl dynamic, Romio's uniform was too big for Juliet and the pants slide back down revealing her legs because she didn't tie the belt to fit her and it results in confetti somehow bursting out of his head. Later, Juliet (in her "Julio" alter-ego) had to put on a Towan bathrobe in a hurry or else she'd be discovered by Romio's adopted sister Shuna. Juliet manages to fool Shuna, but when Romio turns his attention to Juliet, her robe was loose, slightly showing a little of her cleavage. As a Westian, Juliet doesn't know how to put it on properly.
    • During the Beach Episode when Hasuki was trying to teach Romio how to swim, she suddenly lets him go so that he can swim on his own. Romio starts flailing his arms about, trying to grab the nearest object, which happens to be Hasuki's bikini top. One strong yank, and Hasuki suddenly finds herself topless.
  • Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight!:
    • After Misora shows up to her first match of the Tournament Arc in a slingshot bikini, Akira and Sara get the idea to one-up that by dressing her for her second match in nothing but elastic bandages. The logical result happens when she finishes off Chompoo Shinlat with a flying kick: the bandages snap and leave her naked in front of the crowd and on live TV. She's mortified and probably would have suffered a Defeat by Modesty if she hadn't kayoed Shinlat already.
    • The Space Wolf modeling celebrates the establishment of the second generation of Japan KGB with a pay-per-view breast tug-of-war: suction cups attached to the first- and second-generation models' nipples, winner still has hers attached. When trans woman Miya (2nd gen) goes up against Beruko (1st gen), the movement causes enough friction and arousal that she has an erection that escapes her panties. She's mortified, but the other girls reassure her that it's no big deal and declare her penis to just be a really big clit.
  • The central character of the highly obscure manga Buraburabanban (loosely cognate with "brass brass band band" via use of shortened loanwords) suffers one of these when, while conducting a performance of the school band, her motions become so vigorous that her shirt flies up, revealing to the audience that she forgot to wear a bra that day. Much later, in the final pages of the last chapter, a Call-Back strikes during an even bigger and more public concert: her baton catches on the strap of her dress, which completely falls off. And this time she isn't wearing panties either.
  • Chapter 12/ episode 4A of Castle Town Dandelion deals with a bottomless Akane who shows up to school without her skirt. Everyone notices, and assumes she forgot it, but no one has the guts to tell her or is afraid she will have a Defiled Forever reaction if they do, so they try to ignore it. When her sister points it out to her she reveals she ripped her skirt in some bushes and put on some gym shorts and lifts her shirt to show her... but then it turns out she forgot to put on the shorts and she just have her classmates a panty shot. Cue Skyward Scream.
  • A Certain Magical Index:
    • Touma accidentally disrobes Index at the beginning by touching her magically-generated clothes with his Imagine Breaker. Index had actually told him to do it, not believing him when told about his ability, but neither of them expected her clothes would disintegrate. This causes problems later when an enemy who knows Index attacks her and is shocked the attack actually hurt her, not knowing her magic clothes were gone.
    • Happens again later in the second season to free a nun from magic-restricting clothing. Which then leads to a flashback (from another character) of Touma's hand being used to free other nuns while Touma was unconscious. He still gets in trouble.
  • Takao from D-Frag! once spontaneously fired the zipper on her track shirt at Kenji without as much as a gesture.
  • In the second episode of Dragonaut: The Resonance, Jin is knocked unconscious by Sieglinde's Battle Butler and in awakens a bunker room with all of his clothes gone. He wraps a bedsheet around his waist and starts looking around, until Sieglinde enters the room and startles him, causing the sheet to slip down to the floor and giving her a Naked First Impression (He's only seen from the waist up). She promptly nicknames him "little man".
  • Mai Shiranui has many of these during her fight scenes in Fatal Fury The Motion Picture, including rather detailed nipple slips, panty shots and camel toes.
  • Fire Force: Tamaki is known to get into exceptionally fanservicey situations due to her clumsiness, usually resulting is wardrobe malfunction or Suggestive Collisions. She termed that problem a "Lucky Lewd Syndrome".
  • Gabriel DropOut: Raphiel has the largest chest of the girls and is also the most athletic, but she ends up being held back by them in the episode where they take the fitness test since the bra she was wearing that day was too tight and she was afraid to move too much and causing it the hooks to snap, which they eventually do during the running test, causing a lot of bouncing.
  • Ghost Talker's Daydream: Kadotake trips and grabs Misaki's dress while falling down, causing it to rip off and reveal her sexy lingerie underwear.
  • In the first chapter of the manga Idol Pretender, an idol contest is interrupted by a guy wielding a knife, angry that his Gonk daughter hasn't made it past the pre-audition screening. When the creep takes Love Interest Yuika hostage, Gender Bender Chinami snaps and sends him flying with a mighty kick. Unfortunately, they were at the swimsuit competition phase, and Chinami's string-bikini bottom unties and flutters away as a result. He/She still wins a special prize nonetheless.
  • Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Bell and Ryuu are rescued from the Dungeon and hospitalized. When Ryuu wakes up, she gets up and tries to find Bell without bothering to change out of her hospital gown. When she finds him, the stress from all her running makes the gown fall apart, leading to a Naked Freak-Out.
  • KanColle: In Episode 6, Zuikaku notices that Shoukaku has spilled a drop of curry on her skirt. When she tries to rub it away, she winds up pulling off Shoukaku's skirt with incredible ease. An embarrassed Shoukaku then starts running around in panic, causing them to forget about the curry competition.
  • During a Beach Episode in Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl, Hazumu's swimsuit top almost falls off.
  • Kemeko Deluxe! has probably the most unbelievable malfunction that happened in Anime history via Standard Snippet. A pair of glass happens to fall right on Izumi's bikini strings unlacing the knot causing her top fall off right in front of Sanpeita while Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" making the moment verge on Mundane Made Awesome territory. Izumi gets a full-body blush and a Naked Freak-Out before delivering a Unprovoked Pervert Payback via Megaton Punch.
  • At the prefectural swimming tournament in episode 8 of Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho, Momoko gets coerced into making a bet with Nanjou, the other team's captain, that the loser of the 100-meter freestyle has to have a "nip slip" in front of the crowd. Momoko wins, and while she's rubbing it in, the crotch of her swimsuit snaps. While Momoko has a Naked Freak-Out, Nanjou gets jealous and pulls her own swimsuit down to show off, Amuro offers to strip as well, and Captain Ikariya apparently already has, again. In the next chapter/episode, Momoko confiscates the pictures that Takeda took that day... and gives them to the school newspaper.
  • Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier ends up subverting the Impossibly-Low Neckline of her one-piece tube dress. When the ship she's on is attacked, everyone ends up falling to the ground, with the lights flickering off. When the lights come back on it's revealed her dress does fall off, all the way down to her waist with conveniently placed hair on her chest. It doesn't stop her from slapping Alto for seeing her.
  • Maria†Holic: Poor Ayari suffered this... twice. Both incidents even happened at the same feast. The first was as a child, when Shizu (then posing as Mariya) stumbled on her and accidentally revealed her panda-print panties. The second was as a teenager, after Mariya saved her from falling off her float by pulling down her School Swimsuit. Cue Ayari's Skyward Big "NO!" and Kanako staining the statue of the Virgin Mary with her epic nosebleed.
  • In Mazinkaiser's Beach Episode, Sayaka starts marching angrily towards the Iron Masks (apparently to give them a piece of her mind) and Kouji tries to stop her by grabbing her shoulder, only to slip and accidentally undo her bikini top. When the Iron Masks get completely distracted on Sayaka's bare breasts, Kouji decides to weaponize it so they can escape and prevents her from covering herself with her arms.
  • Dragons in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid don't normally have to worry about this since they're all Technically Naked Shapeshifters whose outfits are thus a lot more durable than they appear, but Ilulu, Lucoa, and Elma (in her spin-off) have all been subjected to this when they try on other clothes and their large breasts cause them to rip. Elma in particular gets it pretty bad since she had spent an entire chapter picking out the outfit, only for it to be destroyed right after she bought it.
  • Roughly 75% of the jokes from Miss Machiko invoke this trope. Machiko is often the victim of this in alternative to Clothing Damage (in every case she will lose her dress).
  • My Dress-Up Darling:
    • Almost happens to Marin during the first cosplay event. She noticed that Shizuku-tan, the character she wanted to cosplay at, had a bigger bust than hers so she put on two nubras to make her chest bigger. This naturally put a heavy strain on the costume as it was made for her exact size, forcing Gojo to fix it up before it could rip open.
    • Later, Gojo manages to help Shinju Inui pull off a cosplay as Souma (a male character) by compressing her huge chest with a combination of a sarashi and B-Holder. Unfortunately, they end up giving in to the pressure after a while.
    • Defied later on when they're making the costume of Arisa, a girl who dresses up like a Playboy Bunny. Marin seems disappointed when the salesman explains that the bustier is designed so that it won't fall off, implying she was expecting this trope to happen.
  • Mysterious Girlfriend X: Identical Stranger Mokona, posing as Urabe and wearing her clothes, accidentally gives Tsubaki a free show when she bends down because her breasts are two to three sizes too small for Urabe's bra. When she realises this after he asked her to do it again... boot to the head.
  • One Piece: During the Wano Arc, when Hawkins bursts into the spa where Nami and Robin are hiding out looking for them, Nami's Modesty Towel ends up slipping loose and falling off, much to the shock and enjoyment of everyone there (especially Sanji).
  • Prison School: Happens to Meiko, on multiple occasions, wears clothes that are way too tight for her curvaceous figure and end up giving out and tearing at the most inopportune moments.
    • Mari gives her a suffocatingly tight but more modest school uniform. Meiko thinks this is her actual punishment for the incident with Gakuto's action figure but later, when trying to goad Andre to go through the prison's fence, the uniform gives out and tears, which excites Andre enough to charge through the fence just as Mari planned.
    • The back of the pants of her prison uniform tear as she's trying to quickly complete her task of digging a large hole.
    • In a flashback chapter, Meiko's Sarashi audibly tears when she stands up too fast in class to answer a teacher's question.
  • A-ko often in Project A-Ko. When she is particularly embarrassed, one of her bra straps will slip down her shoulder, often with some of the shirt accompanying it. She also often gets into situations that become an innocent Panty Shot, not that she takes it that way.
  • Happens to Rio at least Once per Episode in Rio -Rainbow Gate!-:
    • Rio's wedding dress gets ripped at the skirt by Mint after the latter trips and grabs it at the end of episode one, much to the delight of Tom Howard. Gets followed by a Scream Discretion Shot by Rio.
    • Almost happens to Rio during the virtual beach volleyball game in the giant roulette challenge in episode 2, when the top of her bikini gets undone, but somehow it gets fixed shortly after.
    • One instance borders on Clothing Damage, where Rio and her Childhood Friend Rina are pitted battle of skeet shoot where they shoot coins. A miss by the shooter (when it's her turn) results in her (already skimpy clothing) getting undone piece by piece (in fact the first one results in a Navel-Deep Neckline).
      • And at the end of that challenge which resulted in a draw, Rio, whose hotpants were undone in the match, ends up absentmindedly dropping them in full view of the spectators, much to her horror.
    • To date, the only time she never got hit with this trope is at episode 5.
    • After not being hit with this trope for how many episodes, she gets hit again; in episode 10. This time, though, she actually lampshades it.
  • The DVD versions of Queen's Blade allows any nipple flashes that would naturally happen from those outfits to take place. Most noticeable with Menace's version of the second season-ending, where she exposes her breasts with every step she takes.
  • Episode 7a of Sakura Trick promises one in the title, and delivers: Mitsuki's bikini top falls off.
  • Episode seven of Sands of Destruction deals with Morte ripping her skirt because Taupy accidentally pushed Kyrie onto her. She doesn't notice; although everyone else does, they're all too scared to tell her.
  • Downplayed in a skit in episode 3 of Servant × Service. The buxom Lucy has all hooks on her bra broken, and the tension was about how her coworkers get to resolve the issue while tiptoeing around the issue itself. Eventually, Yutaka claimed Lucy had a fever because of her blush and should "go back to rest;" the others immediately got the hint. No fanservice was even intended in the skit as she wears conservatively.
  • Sgt. Frog: Whenever Natsumi gets hit with the age ray in the manga, she always gets a wardrobe malfunction. Whether reverting back her regular age, and suddenly finding herself topless in front of a crowd of nerdy guys, or losing her ski suit to an explosion, it's pretty much a given.
  • Happens all the time to Super Sonico in the many manga adaptations; about two of every three times she's wearing a bikini, her top will snap at some point. To make things worse for the poor girl, it usually happens at the worst possible moment, such as in the middle of a photo shoot, when she's in a stage giving a concert for millions, or when she's at the beach with everyone staring at her as she rides her savior dolphin back to the coast. Official artworks tend to chronicle her many wardrobe malfunctions as well; one of them even shows her bikini top and bottom snapping at the same time. The ultimate example, though, was in an episode of the anime, in which her whole costume melted in the middle of a concert. Cue her horrified scream. The last case was also an example of the trope being invoked since the costume was specifically designed to melt and leave its wearer in the buff.
  • Ryoko invokes this towards Ayeka in the fourth episode of Tenchi Muyo!. The princess had just realized Tenchi was now in the girls' bath (again, thanks to Ryoko), and is caught in something of a daze by being in the baths with him. Realizing how prim, proper and utterly boring she's being, Ryoko livens things up by undoing the tie on Ayeka's towel, exposing her in front of Tenchi.
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Averted during the Hot Springs Episode, when girl's Modesty Towels are unraveling, Kamina eagerly looks, only to find out they were wearing bikinis under the towels. Played Straight at the end where Yoko's bikini top falls off while she is jumping vigorously, prompting the boys to stare and for her to have a Naked Freak-Out as she runs away crying.
  • Time Bokan: In episode 2 Mirenjo starts an exhibition during the battle in a Pom-Pom Girl outfit that ends with a Wardrobe Malfunction distracting for a second the heroes mecha.
  • Tomo-chan Is a Girl!: Tomo is rather stacked and her bust has to be binded for her role as The Prince in the school play. Apparently it wasn't enough as they end up busting out of said bindings.
  • Chapter 10 of Usotsuki Paradox which has the male lead Youkadou strip the female lead Seiyuu of her bikini top leaving her topless and forcing her to hug Yukadou to avoid getting caught by her friends.
  • In one of the mini-specials of You're Under Arrest!, Natsumi and Miyuki pull over a Rich Bitch who uses her daddy's connections to avoid consequences for her reckless driving. To get their revenge, later they pretend to be apologizing, and while Natsumi distracts her (loosening her dress straps), Miyuki pretends to check on her car and adjusts the oil cap. When the car breaks down later, she angrily gets out to check it, and then the dress comes loose, leaving her in bra and panties for everyone to see.

    Comic Books 
  • Happens with Lynn in the ALF comic, when Alf, in order to stop Willie and Kate from going down the girl's throat about her new bikini being too revealing, sews a new, stylish and more modest swimsuit for her out of the seat-covers from his spaceship. Crisis averted — until Lynn and her classmates go to the seaside and it turns out that the Melmacian fabric can take fresh water without any problems, but dissolves completely in saltwater.
  • All-New Wolverine: Experienced by Laura (X-23) in issue #22. After spending two weeks unconscious in a hospital bed, Laura gets up and demands to be taken to S.H.I.E.L.D. at once upon learning how long she was out, not realizing she has been undressed and put into a hospital gown Gabby, who is standing behind her, suggests she might want to get dressed first because the gown has a very big opening in the back.
  • Both Ant-Man and The Wasp can be prone to this since they're both Sizeshifters and their Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing. They need to specially prepare their clothes for their powers in order not to fall out of them or rip them apart.
  • Archie Comics:
    • A story in Veronica volume 201 had the girls discover a collection of old-style bathing suits and try them out in the water. The boys didn't really appreciate the cover-everything styles... until it became clear that the old fabric couldn't stand up to water anymore and disintegrated, leaving Betty, Veronica and the rest naked in the ocean. Heck, this even happened to Mrs. Lodge who tried out one of the suits at a pool party.
    • In another Archie comic, Cheryl stole a dress that Veronica designed and wore it to a party just to laugh in her face - only to find out at that point what a bad seamstress Veronica was. The whole dress ripped apart in front of everyone. (Of course, as humiliating as that was for Cheryl, the story didn't quite end on a high note for Ronnie either...)
  • Black Moon Chronicles: Early on in the series, Wismerhill and his friends develop a routine where Feydriva would suffer an "accidental" Wardrobe Malfunction when one of her breastplates falls off so that Pilou can steal the purse of any gentleman who is Distracted by the Sexy.
  • In Danger Girl: Back In Black, Sydney Savage learns the hard way that a zipped-down corset is not the best attire for bike riding and she has to fight off a snake that crept near it. As if that weren't embarrassing enough, she is photographed topless by a couple in a passing truck and her picture ends up being used for a calendar.
  • In Doom Patrol 2009 #7, the Metal Men are trying to stop Giganta (Doris Zeus) when one of their attacks weakened her suit, resulting in a wardrobe malfunction when she stretches her arms, leaving the giantess topless in the middle of the street. She agrees to surrender in exchange for Platinum and Copper forming a giant bikini for her to wear.
  • Empowered: A super-powered variant occurs with Elissa. While attempting to show Ninjette and Thugboy her suit's invisibility powers by making her mask invisible, she accidentally ends up making the entire thing disappear... while wearing absolutely nothing underneath. Naturally, she also happens to have both hands stretched overhead as this happens (to hold up a car), leaving her body completely exposed. Luckily for her, Ninjette is her best gal-pal who has absolutely no hangups about nudity, while Thugboy is her devoted boyfriend, while the reader doesn't get to see anything.
  • In the Smallville Season 11 comic, Diana's first adult encounter with her Childhood Friend Steve Trevor ends up in one, when she ends up showing up at his apartment unannounced while he was showering and he ends up losing his Modesty Towel when he confronts her. Diana's Innocent Innuendo right after doesn't help
    Diana: You have... certainly grown...
    [Beat]
    Diana: I cannot believe I just said that...
  • Harley Quinn 2014: In issue #11, Harley finds an amnesiac Power Girl and takes her to her home, where she promptly falls unconscious, and Harley gets an idea to convince Kara that she's her Sidekick. To help sell the illusion, Harley had tailor-made matching costumes for her and Kara, based on Power Girl's Iconic Outfit (with a Harley Quinn twist). She then undresses Kara and puts her in the new costume. When Kara awakens, due to her muscular and tall physique the costumes immediately burst under the strain the moment she gets up, leaving her standing there nude save for Scenery Censor provided by Harley's head.
  • In the first issue of the original Lady Rawhide mini-series, Lady Rawhide's breast does actually pop out of her costume for a panel. There had been jokes ever since the character debuted about how she managed to stay in her Stripperiffic outfit.
  • Happens to Power Girl in issue #9 of her series. Right after she steps out of the shower, someone slides an envelope under the door containing pictures compromising her Secret Identity. Kara instantly bolts out clad in a Modesty Towel to chase after the perpetrator, who's just a kid. Dashing down the stairs, she manages to collar him, at which point her towel falls off, giving the kid and a neighbor a full-frontal (covered by Scenery Censor to the viewer). She hastily covers herself with bread and a pie pan borrowed from her neighbor and flees to her room to get dressed.
  • During Secret Invasion (2008) when Jazinda tried to teleport She-Hulk to her ship, but only succeeded in teleporting her clothes, leaving a furious and embarrassed Jen completely naked in front of a cheering crowd.
  • Squadron Supreme: In issue #3, Zarda (Power Princess) is filming a promo spot and suffers one at the prankish hands of Doctor Spectrum, who secretly cuts the straps of her outfit, making it slip, leaving her topless in front of a camera and the crew. The viewer only sees her bare back and Sideboob but everyone around her get a full-frontal eyeful. She figures out it was Spectrum when she catches him laughing and is pissed, not due to modesty since she's a Shameless Fanservice Girl, but because he did it with the intent to humiliate her.
  • Uncanny X-Men (2013): In issue #14, after showering, Benjamin (Morph) goes back to his room clad in a Modesty Towel only to find his teacher Emma Frost casually waiting for him, which startles him enough to drop his towel. Nonplussed, Emma proceeds to talk to him about his powers and how they work while the poor boy backs up against the wall trying to cover himself back up.

    Fan Works 

    Film — Animation 
  • Animalympics: Figure skater Dorrie Turnell combines this with feathers as clothes. She loses them in a rapid pirouette and ends up in underwear. The spotlight goes off and on again, and she wears a bathrobe.
  • Revolting Rhymes: When the clocks strikes midnight, Cindy loses a shoe as she flees the scene just as in the classic telling of her story. Before that however, as Cindy makes her escape, the Prince accidentally tears off her dress trying to stop her from leaving and she leaves in her underwear mortified.
  • The Rugrats Movie: When the babies are lost in the forest, Phil and Lil blame the whole mess on Dil, who Tommy defends. Then, Dil snaps off one of his diaper straps, causing it to fall in front of his friends.
  • Winnie the Pooh (2011): Pooh's tummy bursting open with stuffing when he reaches for a pot of honey on Owl's mantle. The stuffing even tumbles out.

    Film — Live-Action 
  • In The 40-Year-Old Virgin, a woman at the speed-dating session has a wardrobe malfunction when her top slips to the side just enough for a nipple to peek out. She's completely unaware of it and oblivious to Andy's resultant discomfort and repeated subtle hints to cover herself.
  • In Are You Being Served?, Mr. Harman accidentally sucks off Miss Brahms' knickers with his vacuum cleaner while hoovering the mannequins:
    Miss Brahms: 'Ere, whatcha think you're playin' at?
    Mr. Harman: What're you goin' on about? I bet it ain't the first time you've lost your knickers in the tube.
  • The Babysitter: Killer Queen: Narrowly avoided by Allison after she stumbles through an open window and tips backwards. The fall causes her boobs to nearly flop out of her halter top, but she scrambles back to her feet and quickly tucks them away.
  • Part of Torrance's Catapult Nightmare at the beginning of Bring It On is that she somehow loses the top of her cheerleading outfit during the pep rally in which she is introduced as squad captain to the entire school, making it a "Not Wearing Top" Dream.
  • The even more obscure Live-Action Adaptation of the obscure manga Buraburabanban features a variation upon the manga example mentioned above. The main heroine loses her dress during the band's first performance (with no help from the baton this time), and gets through the climactic major performance without incident... only to have her skirt pop open and fall off during a rehearsal later.
  • Carry On... Series: Nearly every film featured at least one scene where a male character either lost or split his trousers or a female character lost her skirt or top:
    • Carry On Abroad has Sadie Tompkins losing her top when Vic Flange tries to stop her to talk.
    • Babs (Barbara Windsor) was made famous by one of these in Carry On Camping, as a boarding school girl doing aerobics. Her bra not only fell off but flew across the field, hitting Dr. Soaper in the face. Her classmates around her roar with laughter and she is dragged away by Miss Haggerd.
    • Carry On Cruising: Dr. Binn and First Officer Marjoribanks split their tight trousers when they bend over in front of Captain Crowther. They hobble out of the room in embarrassment with a shared matador cloth wrapped around their waists.
    • Carry On Spying: This happens to Charlie Bind when he tries to stop the enemy on the train journey back to the airport. It works though - it does stall them for a long enough time to get Desmond Simpkins two carriages down.
    • Carry On Teacher: Miss Allcock's gym shorts split when she's teaching her PE class, as the students have replaced her usual pair with one that is several sizes too small.
  • In the 1983 film Class a college boy has a disastrous date with a girl whom he meets in an official meeting the next day. In front of various officials she shoves him over backwards, he grabs on to the nearest handhold which is her shirt.
  • In Deadpool, Angel Dust's (Gina Carano) top slips during her battle with Colossus (blocked to the audience via Scenery Censor). Chaste Hero Colossus is kind enough to let her fix it before they get back to fighting. She repays him with a sucker punch to the groin.
  • Dear Diary: Annie's taking golf lessons while wearing a buttoned-up work blouse. She takes a mighty swing at the golf ball and gets off a very nice drive, and also causes her shirt to rip open, exposing her bra for an audience of appreciative men.
  • In Devil Fish, we're treated to an upwards shot as a male character descends a ladder, giving us a look right up the leg of his shorts. The MST crew censored it with their logo, but the "Greatest Hits" montage that the staff used to screw with Mike, Bill, and Kevin while filming Danger: Diabolik had it uncut.
  • In Doctor in Trouble, a gust of wind blows Mélisse's dress up several times and repeatedly exposes her knickers, much to Wendover's delight.
  • In Entrapment, Gin (Catherine Zeta-Jones) has to sleep in the nude with only a Modesty Bedsheet in a hotel room after her luggage is stolen by Mac, the Gentleman Thief she's trying to meet. Naturally, he sneaks into her room to meet her that night and she ends up giving him a Naked First Impression when she sits up startled and drops the sheet. (The camera only shows her bare back or from shoulders up). He has to point it out for her to cover herself again.
  • In the credits for Epic Movie, a blooper reel is shown, which shows off one of Carmen Electra in her Mystique outfit. She's acting all sexy and seductive, moving so much that her Mystique suit rips, showing off some of her cleavage.
  • Fantastic Four (2005), Both Susan and Johnny Storm (Jessica Alba and Chris Evans) end up showing a lot of skin in both movies due to Wardrobe Malfunction shenanigans involving their powers, usually Clothing Damage and Invisible Streaker. In Rise of the Silver Surfer, Sue and Johnny even swap powers, and she ends up incinerating her clothes and ending up naked on the streets in front of a dozen of photographers while lamenting "Why does this always happen to me?".
  • In Good Luck Chuck, among the many mishaps happening to accident-prone Cam (Jessica Alba), she rips off her skirt when it gets snagged at the door of Charlie's car, revealing penguin-adorned panties.
  • In Holidate, Sloane manages to get Jackson to perform the lift scene from Dirty Dancing at a New Year Eve party. Unfortunately, Sloane's dress rips open exposing her breast to the entire club.
  • Home Alone 3: The female robber, Alice Ribbons bends over to pick up a hat ripping open her pants to expose her red underwear. Let it be noted she's on a mission to steal a computer chip when this happens.
  • Jumpin' Jack Flash: Averted when Terry's dress gets caught in a shredder. She desperately holds on to the dress' cups to prevent it. Regardless, her dress does get much shorter as a result.
  • The Kissing Booth, a portion of the plot is kicked off by protagonist, Elle ripping her school pants on the first day of school to reveal her white undies and causing her to wear a tiny skirt to school.
  • King Kong:
    • In King Kong (1933), Ann's dress slides down when she and Jack fall into the water after escaping Kong.
    • Played straight and downplayed in King Kong (2005), Straight when Ann is wearing her dressing gown, as right after Kong kidnaps her and when Ann entertains Kong the following morning, occasionally her gown would slide down showing a bit more skin. Downplayed after she loses the dressing gown and only wears her silk slip, as her straps sometimes fall off, but it doesn't expose any more skin as it already does.
  • In the opening scene of Lady Ninja Kaede, Kaede's boob falls free of her tunic as she springs up the wall.
  • The page quote from A League of Their Own occurred when the players were discussing how to drum up more interest in the all-female baseball league.
  • Let It Ride: In a Deleted Scene, Vicki's breasts pop out of her dress when she tackles Trotter in the Jockey Club, which is why in the film all of the elderly women Gasp! in shock at her.
  • In the B-Movie Lost Continent (made famous by Mystery Science Theater 3000) Sid Melton's pants slip down his butt in one scene (causing the other actors to crack up).
  • Modern Problems: After having the first of the incredible orgasms Max gives her with his powers, Darcy's Modesty Bedsheet falls down slightly, briefly revealing one of her nipples, before she pulls it back up.
  • The Mummy (1999): It turns out that Evelyn's (Rachel Weisz) nightgown from the boat scene got very translucent when wet, and Weisz wasn't wearing anything underneath. Of course, by the end of the scene, she ended up in the water, giving the rest of the cast and crew an eyeful and requiring touching up in post-production to keep its rating.
  • Happens repeatedly to Baya, the lead female character of The Names Of Love, but she's so absent-minded that she barely even notices when her breasts spill out of her clothes in public. On one occasion, she suffers an extreme case of Wardrobe Malfunction, by forgetting altogether to put any clothes on when going out of her flat.
  • On the Buses films:
    • In On the Buses, Stan jokes that if Blakey messes with the wrong straps when trying to help Eileen with her ticket machine, he might take her bra off:
      Stan: Watch it, Blakey. If you undo the wrong straps, the ticket machine won't be the only thing tha's loose an' danglin'.
    • Holiday on the Buses:
      • When Joyce runs to catch Stan's bus, her running causes her top to come undone and reveal her breasts.
      • Olive loses her bikini bottom after Arthur shoves her into the indoor pool:
        Olive: It's my bikini! I've lost the bottom half of it!
  • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping: One of Hunter's pranks has Conner's quick-change costume gimmick go wrong, leaving him completely nude on stage. He has Nude Colored underwear, but the audience assumes he has a Teeny Weenie much to his distress.
  • Played for Laughs in Psycho Beach Party when Marvel Ann (Amy Adams) gets her bikini bottoms ripped off by her ex-boyfriend. On the beach. In broad daylight. Leading her to have a Naked Freakout.
  • In Repo! The Genetic Opera, Amber Sweet's face falls off while she's performing on stage.
  • During the final musical number for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, near the end Columbia's breasts slip out of her top. Little Nell did this on purpose and you can play a drinking game out of how many times she gets her nips on screen.
  • Return of the Jedi has three nip-slips during the scenes at Jabba's palace: one involving Oola's breast briefly swinging clear of her costume while she fights with Jabba, one involving Leia's metal bikini, and a third with Lyn Me's sideboob showing slightly more skin than intended. All were unintentional bloopers; the first two were edited out starting with the Definitive Collection but can still be seen with the Still/Step feature on the Japanese Special Collection CAV Laserdisc.
  • In Snatched (2017), Emily's breast falls out of her dress during her first date with James. He pushes it back in. Later, during the Distant Finale in Kuala Lumpur, the same thing happens to Linda. Emily runs over to fix it.
  • The Spirit: When the Spirit arrives at Sand Saref's (Eva Mendes) place with the intent to arrest her, he becomes obviously distracted when he sees her stepping out of a steamy bathroom wearing only a towel, but tries to ignore it and demands her to put her hands behind her head. Amused, knowing exactly what will happen but wanting to mess with him, she raises her arms and allows gravity to drop her towel, and stands there flaunting her nudity. Flustered, he turns around and tells her to Please Put Some Clothes On.
  • Happens to Mikaela (Megan Fox) in a blink-and-miss moment in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, after Sam is killed by Megatron, Mikaela runs towards Sam to check on him, she then gets tossed away by Lennox, as he tries to revive Sam, Mikaela gets up as her top slides down a bit revealing her bra.
  • In Twice Round the Daffodils, Janet's skirt comes off three times in one night:
    • When she sneaks into the ward kitchen through the window, her skirt comes off, and Henry and George (hiding in the cupboard) see her frilly knickers.
    • It happens again when she enters Ward V, and a sleepy Ian mistakes it for one of his Erotic Dreams.
    • The final time comes when she reenters the ward kitchen, and it comes off as Henry falls out of the cupboard.
  • Up the Front: When Lurk is Disguised in Drag for El Puncturio's Knife-Throwing Act, Colonel von Gutz throws a knife at him that slices his knickers and sends them falling around his ankles.
  • Wild Wild West: The rear flap of Rita Escobar's (Salma Hayek's) pajamas falls open, exposing her butt to West (Will Smith) and Gordon (Kevin Kline) who are apparently quite cheered by the sight.
  • The Musical biopic With A Song In My Heart from 1952 had an overhead shot in which Susan Hayward's dress accidentally slipped off her left breast.

    Literature 
  • The Dresden Files: In Storm Front, Dresden's just stepped out of the shower when the date he'd forgotten about (because he took a few blows to the head) shows up. He covers himself with a towel, then a demon shows up and the towel falls off while he's fighting it. This is made more complicated when he realizes said date accidentally drank a Love Potion instead of an escape potion.
  • Song of the Lioness: When Alanna duels Duke Roger just after being knighted, he slashes at her chest with his sword. He cuts through not only her shirt but also the corset she uses to bind her breasts, causing them to pop out and literally reveal that she's a woman in front of the entire court.
  • Young Wizards: In Wizards at War, Dairine finds she has nothing in her closet suitable for meeting alien royalty and resorts to Gorgeous Garment Generation. Unfortunately, she doesn't consider that reconfiguring her clothes on a molecular level will leave her momentarily nude, and she isn't alone at the time.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Baywatch: In "A Little Help," CJ (Pamela Anderson) is in training for a dancing competition. Early in the episode, she practices her routine with Mitch, which involves dipping her at the end. She tells him to check if anything has fallen out, and he tells her, accurately, "Everything's in place." At the end, her partner hasn't shown up for the competition, so Mitch volunteers himself. They do the routine, and, while not shown on camera for obvious reasons, it's apparent that CJ has fallen out of her dress. Caroline, Stephanie and Hobie are there, and they cover-up Hobie's eyes.
  • A staple of The Benny Hill Show. However contrived, you can bet that every sort of freak accidents possible will happen to the clothes of any sexy woman in most sketches (usually with a very exaggerated ripping sound) and leave her in her underwear. Though the males of the cast aren't entirely spared either, there it's purely for humor and never fanservice.
  • In an episode of The Brittas Empire, the flaky Helen Brittas (Pippa Haywood) has to run across the leisure center reception area in a dressing gown. It very briefly flaps open as she runs and reveals that she is completely naked underneath. This was not intended and as the wardrobe malfunction only lasts for less than a second and was recorded before freeze-frame technology became standard on video players, it was allowed to stand on the released version. It does appear to have been edited out of later released versions, however.
  • The CSI: Miami episode "Shock" opens with a pair of very famous young ladies competing for camera time in front of a group of Paparazzi. One of them intentionally pulls her top down and later refers to it as a wardrobe malfunction.
  • The 2003 sitcom Eve has a funny subversion. When Rita steps out of her house in a Modesty Towel to grab the paper, she finds a crowd of paparazzi waiting for her and she drops the towel in shock... but decides to use her hands to cover her green-cream-masked-faced instead of her naked body.
  • Faking It: In "Faking It... Again", Liam ends up walking on his Best Friend's off-limits hot sister Sasha that he hasn't seen in years while she's naked in the shower, while he himself just has a Modesty Towel on, which he loses upon seeing her. Being The Tease, she's just amused by it while he's clearly panicking.
    Liam: Sasha! You're home.
    Sasha: Liam! [looking down at his crotch] You've... grown.
  • Friends:
    • In "The One with Barry and Mindy's Wedding", Rachel accidentally gets her dress tucked into her underwear during the wedding and everybody sees her butt when she ends up walking down the aisle this way, adding even more embarrassment to her day.
    • Years later, in "The One with Rachel's New Dress", thanks to various misunderstandings Rachel ends up wearing her skimpy nightie to dinner with Joshua and his parents. Talking about it with Monica and Phoebe afterwards, she reports that when the waiter spilled water down her back, she jumped up and her boob popped out.
      Phoebe: Oh, no!
      Rachel: It's okay. I have nice boobs.
    • In "The One Where Monica Sings" the lights in Mike's piano bar turn Monica's shirt see-through when she goes on stage. She's unaware of this due to the angle and thinks the crowd just really likes her singing. When Chandler shows up late he immediately tells her what's happening but Monica decides she doesn't care and pushes him aside to keep singing.
  • In an episode of Full House, Joey rips his pants while doing ballet in his 90s' jeans, prompting DJ to mock him. In a nice bit of karma, 20 years later in the sequel series Fuller House, DJ rips her own pants during a game of twister in broad daylight.
  • In episode 2 of the ABC series GCB, head cheerleader Alexandra gets a boob job and ignores her mother's advice that "you can't wear last year's uniform with this year's breasts". She then plays a prank on some less popular girls just before a pep rally, and justice inevitably strikes when her top pops open (warning: contains excessive pixellation) in front of the whole school.
  • General Hospital: During the years of the annual Port Charles Nurses' Ball (1994-2001, 2013-), a Running Gag was that Lucy Coe would somehow always wind up on stage in her underwear at the end of the show ... often because of a rival's plotting.
  • In an episode of Hannah Montana, Miley's pants rip open causing a young girl to chant the "I see London" rhyme.
  • On the How I Met Your Mother episode "Blitzgiving", Barney is in an elevator when a beautiful girl in a long red dress follows him in. The end of the dress gets caught in the doors. Cue a ripping sound and a "Thank you, God" from him.
    The Blitz: Aw, man!
  • In The Inbetweeners, Simon models at the school fashion show wearing only a pair of speedos below his waist. He fails to notice that one of his testicles is hanging out. Word of God says that the actor Joe Thomas really did get his testicle out. The actors and extras in the audience were not told this was going to happen, so their reactions of surprise and amusement are all genuine.
  • In The Kenny Everett Television Show, Cupid Stunt was always telling Michael Parkinson (or rather a cardboard cutout of him) about intentional wardrobe malfunctions in her films. "It's all done in the best possible taste."
  • Lucifer: In "Manly Whatnots", Chloe (Lauren German) is taking a shower, but it gets interrupted when she hears an intruder in her home. She grabs a towel and her gun and goes to investigate. It turns out to be Lucifer, who's casually barged into her house to cook her breakfast, but he ends up startling Chloe who drops her towel in shock. Lucifer doesn't miss the chance to go Eating the Eye Candy.
  • Modern Family: In "Snip", a pregnant Gloria has insisted on her usual clothes despite an increasing baby bump and body fat. Near the end of the episode, after Manny has told her she can't deny that she looks pregnant, her sweater suddenly pops open and her tight pants rip. This leads her to finally start wearing maternity clothes.
  • One Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch ("Scott of The Sahara") has the female lead of a movie being filmed run from a monster and get various articles of clothing caught and ripped off by the cacti she passed while fleeing. This is made absurd by the fact that the cacti are so far apart that she has to obviously go out of her way to get her clothing caught on them.
  • In the final season of The Practice, Alan hacked Jimmy's computer so that it would show a graphic of Jimmy with his pants falling down and say "Wardrobe Malfunction!" over and over.
  • Robin of Sherwood:
    • Marion's dress flies up as she jumps from the loft in "The King's Fool."
    • Will Scarlet in a short, wet robe in "The Cross of St. Ciricus", climbing up a sheer rock face with no underwear. It perhaps wouldn't have been so bad if the camera hadn't been positioned low, pointing directly up. In the same episode, Guy of Gisburne wears wet beige clothing with black underwear beneath.
  • On a Saturday Night Live sketch, Sigourney Weaver (As Herself) is obsessed with Internet Buzz. She finds a nip slip of herself on "eyesugar.biz" and is thrilled.
    Sigourney: Do you think men are gonna masturbate to this? Do you think women will?
  • Smash: Ivy suffered a Wardrobe Malfunction during a play while playing the part of Marilyn Monroe and her entire outfit pooled at her feet. The audience thought it was part of the show as a Dress Hits Floor scene and it ended up being such a hit that they made it part of the play.
  • Telenovela (2016): Happens in the first episode to Anna Sofia (Eva Longoria) who is wearing a last-minute made dress for the Telenovela that is falling apart while she tries to have a conversation with her boss. At one point with only her hands keeping it from falling, preventing her from opening a door.
  • In the second episode of The Two Ronnies serial "Hampton Wick", Madeline Smith's low-cut dress slips a bit too low and exposes more than it ought. It seems no-one noticed it before the show was broadcast.
  • Ugly Betty: In "Betty's Wait Problem", Amanda (Becki Newton) is trying to get attention at a red carpet event, when Marc decides to "help" by stepping on the hem of her dress, tearing it away until she’s totally naked in public. She's momentarily embarrassed, but then the photographers turn toward her and start snapping away, she gets over it and basks in the limelight of the camera flashes and even starts striking poses.
  • In French sketch comedy show Vous Les Femmes, the girls find they are at the same job interview. When Judith suffers from a severe wardrobe malfunction, of which she is oblivious, it's plain that Olivia is struggling with her conscience and on the verge of telling her. She opts to remain silent and wishes Judith good luck as she goes in. With her left breast exposed.
  • White Rabbit Project: Used as a title of one of the escape shenanigans in the "Jailbreak" episode. A convict disguises himself as his visiting wife, trading places with her, to escape. The title comes into play in that the convict was poorly disguised, couldn't act like a woman convincingly, and got recaptured within 15 minutes.

    Music 

    Music Videos 

    Print Media 
  • The January 1940 cover of The New Yorker is a Peter Arno cartoon with a dancing couple consisting of a worried-looking man noticing that the back of the woman's dress is coming undone.

    Pro Wrestling 
  • Defied, but in between traveling between Deep South Wrestling and PGWA in 2007, Melissa Coates experimented with ring gear that ended up having her fighting off wardrobe malfunctions as much as pin and submission attempts.
  • In her autobiography The Fabulous Moolah, (who was a part of what may have been the second generation of female professional wrestlers in the Americas) recounts one night in Oklahoma City in the early 1950s when a man lurking in the crowd tried to stab her for kissing a male wrestler who was clearly non-white (apparently not knowing or caring about Moolah's own Native American heritage). He succeeded only in ripping off her bikini top with the knife, leaving her topless, before he was tackled by arena security. To calm down the crowd, Moolah immediately remarked: "Well, he saw what he wanted to see, didn't he?"
  • Total Divas made a storyline out of an incident where Layla El pulled Rosa Mendes tights and exposed her ass as she was climbing into the ring. The storyline had Rosa noticing that her Instagram followers increased after the incident, and wondering if she'd be able to stage a second to get even more followers.
  • WWE: One of the Easter Eggs on the WWE Divas South of the Border DVD is a Blooper Reel which includes a scene of Torrie Wilson walking out of the water in a bikini and her top sort of falling forward but her breasts were covered by a cross out circle. She said, "You can't use that anyway."

    Puppet Shows 
  • The incident with Sophie Marceau's dress at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival was repeatedly mocked on Les Guignols de l'Info, each time implying it to be less and less accidental.
  • The Muppets (2015): Parodied on "A Tail of Two Piggies" when Miss Piggy's on the Red Carpet wearing a dress with a very low plunging backline and her curly tail slips out. Seems that in the Muppet universe, pigs' tails are taboo. Lamenting that she has to hide her piggy-ness, she's inspired to create #UnveilTheTail in order to empower other pigs to proudly show their tails.
  • In one cartoon segment of Sesame Street, the buttons pop off of a boy's pants, exposing his butt. Two birds discuss what to do, before flying down to lift the flap back up.

    Theatre 
  • Mean Girls: Happens to Regina during that talent show number, due to the fact that (thanks to the Kalteen bars) her skirt no longer fits and the makeshift holders she created for it failed mid-performance. This incident goes viral on Instagram, and causes Regina to begin falling out of favor with the student body.
  • In the last scene of The Women, a recent victim of this makes a bit-part appearance, desperately seeking a safety pin to mend the broken shoulder strap of her dress.

    Video Games 
  • Aquapazza: Sasara magically dismisses her halberd and shield as part of some of her Victory Poses. Only she sometimes also dismisses her armor, leaving her in a strapless leotard that she finds quite embarrassing.
  • Played for Laughs in the ending of Bayonetta 2, when Jeanne discovers her outfit was slashed in a very... revealing spot, forcing her into a Back-to-Back Badasses pose with Bayonetta.
  • Conquests of Camelot: When Arthur throws the mirror to Mari and she leans out the window to catch it, her dress slips down for a single frame to reveal EGA nipples.
  • Darkstalkers: When Lord Raptor "uncurls" for his intro animation, his pants slip down, and before he pulls them up you can briefly see his bare, bony behind as he's Going Commando.
  • Elf Bowling: In the second game, on occasion, an elf being lifted up from the party going on belowdecks will have his swimsuit catch on a piece of the mechanism and snap, leaving a pixellated blur in its place. It doesn't last long, though, as the swimsuit reappears for the player to use in flinging the elf down the deck.
  • Fire Emblem Heroes: The towel-wearing Ryoma and Camilla from the Hostile Springs event both suffer a wardrobe malfunction, which reveals they are clearly wearing Modesty Shorts under their towels.
  • Granblue Fantasy:
    • Grea's outfit has become a bit memetic with fans for a problem it has... with her dragon tail. Her school has a fairly standard, if somewhat fancy, Joshikousei outfit for the girls. Except that Grea's skirt hasn't, uh, been modified for her tail. As a result, her SR portrait in particular looks rather like it's mooning everyone all the time. (This was less of a problem in Rage of Bahamut because her tail wasn't as thick, but in Granblue it's gigantic.)
    • Airi's charge attack ends with her bust Popping Buttons off of her top, causing it to fire off like a bullet.
    • Let's just say, Forte's "Draph Assets" cracked her armor's breastplate. Her initial design from Rage of Bahamut has Forte's armor fit comfortably with her form, but due to her transition to the Draph race, it was inevitable.
  • Gravity Rush: At the end of the ninth episode, Kat is clad in a Modesty Towel back in the Pipe House white she washing the only outfit she has, when Syd visits her. After they interact, she (jokingly) punches him in the arm, which causes her towel to accidentally fall off, right in front of Syd. Cue Naked Freak-Out.
  • Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart: Happens to Ai in her specific scene, when she's tussling with Noire. It looks like Ai has the upper hand, but then her bikini top falls off.
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak: After a battle, Judith's transformation wears off and she is left in a bathrobe. While talking to Van, her bathrobe falls open, giving him an eyeful. She slaps him.
  • Teddie attempts to invoke this on the girls during the beach trip in Persona 4 Golden. It ends up being a double subversion, because while the girls didn't suffer Teddie's intended wardrobe malfunction, somebody did:
    Kanji: Holy shit, the wardrobe malfunction was mine!
  • In Secret Agent Clank, Ratchet and the more humanoid enemies only wear Modesty Towels in the showers and will drop upon taking damage, leaving them with Censor Boxes).
  • Street Fighter V: It's for a small fraction of a second, and it automatically corrects itself, but Birdie's pants fall down exposing his ass during his Bull Head attack.
  • Taisen Hot Gimmick Forever, a mahjong game where defeating an opponent gives the player the option to punish them which, male or female, usually involves the character having to strip. Akiko Daimon is a muscular woman wearing just a sports bra and thong, and is also a member of her school's bodybuilding club. For her punishment, the player can have her do bench presses topless, or flex her biceps, which causes her sports bra to tear off.

    Visual Novels 
  • Danganronpa:
    • Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair: Hiyoko's been wearing the same traditional Japanese dancing clothes for a long time, because the clothing is apparently so complicated she can't tie her obi by herself without suffering a wardrobe malfunction (which means if she were to take the clothing off she wouldn't be able to put it back on), which means she hasn't bathed in a while. This ends up being important in Chapters 2's trial as it proves she couldn't have showered Mahiru's blood off her if she cannot re-dress herself afterward, as Mahiru was the one who was helping her dress.
    • This ends up happening to both Kirumi and Maki at the end of their respective Argument Armament. Both times they're using Hand-or-Object Underwear to cover themselves.
  • Liar! Uncover the Truth: This happens to The Heroine's cheating boyfriend when he's trying to chase her, dropping his Modesty Towel in the lobby. He only notices once he starts to notice all the catcalls he's getting.
  • Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!: When Stacy is having a splash fight with Yamato, her top comes off and vanishes never to be seen again. Yamato doesn't even pretend he didn't see anything, much to her irritation.
  • Princess Evangile: During Chapter 2 of Ruriko's route, Masaya experiences a Wardrobe Malfunction, with Ruriko bearing witness to him in his birthday suit. She describes the moment as "Like the Statue of David".

    Web Animation 

    Webcomics 

    Web Original 
  • SCP Foundation: SCP-1755, is a Keter-class SCP that threatens the very existence of the global cotton crop, resulted when two college guys tried to create a device that made women's clothes fall off.

    Web Videos 
  • Critical Role: In Lyra's debut scene, she trips and spills papaya on herself. She tries to brush the papaya off her robes, but accidentally brushes the robe off her body instead.
  • Ozzy Man Reviews: In the video "Live TV Fails", a woman attempts twerking on live television in a tight-fitting dress that zips in the back. It rips.
    Ozzy Man: Look how excited everyone is over an arse. They're all chanting 'We saw ya butt hole! We saw ya butt hole!' [...] Crikey, we are a simple species, aren't we?

    Western Animation 
  • In an episode of 6teen, Nikki wears a long, purple dress in order to impress a boy (not Jonesy), and stands too close to the going-down escalator. Guess what happens?
  • Archer: Malory hires a black Jewish man to fulfill minority hiring requirements, and Archer confronts him in the locker room, with both wearing Modesty Towels. When they end up nearly fighting, both towels fall off.
    Lana: Wh-what do we even know about him?
    Archer: Only that he's not circumcised.
    Lana: Okay. Glossing over how you know that...
    Archer: We touched penises.
    Lana: No! Glossing!
  • Doctor Blight in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, when she squeezes into a pair of her sister's shorts in an attempt to disguise herself as her sister. As Blight sits down, she splits the shorts.
  • Disney animated shorts saw this happen to Donald Duck on several occasions:
    • Bellboy Donald (1942): Donald loses his entire bellboy uniform as a troublesome child sticks part of it between an elevator door... and the elevator moves, completing the deed. Hand covers crotch and deep blush immediately follows.
    • Tea for Two Hundred (1948): Donald digs for food stolen by ants inside their hole. Rather pull the food out, they pull his entire outfit in, leaving him above ground completely naked. Moment of embarrassment follows.
    • Hook, Lion, and Sinker (1950): As Donald is cooking in his kitchen, two lions steal fish stacked on the windowsill, one at a time, bucket-brigade style. Having run out of fish but assuming there is more to steal, the next items blindly grabbed —in order and sequentially — are his chef's hat, matching bib, his entire outfit, Donald himself, and the gun he was holding before being tossed out the window. Cartoon logic in this backward order; after the brigade is out of items, Donald, once again fully clothed and armed, greets them on the far end.
  • Family Guy:
    • The plot for "PTV" kicks off with David Hyde Pierce's scrotum falling out during the Emmys, in a thinly disguised parody of the Trope Namer. Peter missed the incident because he was forced to see Meg's play. The same episode directly parodied it during a rapid-fire montage at the end of the "Freakin' FCC" song with a clip of Peter flashing his nipple.
    • What gets Cleveland fired as a mailman in "Unzipped Code"; during the sexy calendar shoot, one of Cleveland's testicles was exposed, while he was wearing the company uniform, no less.
  • Harley Quinn (2019): Harley winds up hanging by the seat of her pants from a stalactite, exposing her backside for all to see. Thankfully for her, the only witness is a disinterested Batman.
  • Kim Possible: Sidekick Ron Stoppable's falling-pants is a running gag that happens Once per Episode. When it happens in the Amnesia Episode, it triggers Kim's memories of him.
  • The Loud House: In an episode where Lincoln films his sisters doing embarrassing things around the house one of the things he captures is punk rocker, Luna jumping up and performing the splits only to split her pants.
  • In Pet Pals, Madame's dress gets ripped off after Top Hat accidentally closes the car door on it. She is then subjected to humiliation by being flashed by photographers. This may or may not be an enforced example since part of the scene appears in the trailer and it happens 6 minutes into the movie itself.
  • Pound Puppies (1980s) had one in the episode "A Tail of a Pup" where the Safety pin on Whopper's diaper came undone and it fell off.
  • Robot Chicken has a cloth-ripping incident happening during a chase scene... for the funeral of Benny Hill, fittingly.
  • The Simpsons:
    • Happens to Homer Simpson's salamander costume at the end of "See Homer Run" where he tries to run for Mayor of Springfield.
    • Homer also fell victim to this trope in "Treehouse Of Horror III":
      Homer: Hail Caesar, in all his glory!
      [the hem of his toga snags on a loose nail as he's coming down the basement stairs]
      Cloth of toga: RRRIIIIIPPP!
    • In "Trash Of The Titans", U2 is hanging out at Moe's during the musical number "The Garbage Man Can":
      U2: (singing in unison) The sanitation folks are jolly friendly blokes, courteous and easy-going...
      The Edge: They mop up when you're overflowing...
      (A Garbage Man whispers something to Bono)
      Bono: And tell you when your arse is showing.
      (The members of U2 pull up their pants in unison)
  • In the South Park episode "Good Times with Weapons", Cartman walks onto a stage stark naked, believing in his (imaginary) power to turn invisible. When put on the spot about this "scandalous" display, he replies, "I told you, it was a wardrobe malfunction!"
  • SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob rips his pants accidentally while trying to lift weights; he then does this intentionally because it makes people laugh.
  • Total Drama: In "X-Treme Torture", Heather's top gets stuck in a tree branch and comes off while she was trying to cheat by cutting Harold's rope. He still loses the challenge after getting distracted by the view.


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