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So, our spy with blonde highlights is chasing someone through a major European city. She's wearing a white blouse, without a jacket. She ends up being knocked into a fairly deep fountain, for some rather contrived reason.
She comes out of the water. Her white blouse is now not only rather clingy, it's gone see-through, revealing that, yes, she shops at Victoria's Secret (or, if this is a high-rated movie, that she went braless today). The see-throughness is optional.
The name is from Bollywood, where it's pretty much a cliche. If an attractive woman is wearing a sari, expect her to get soaking wet at some point in the movie (getting soaked in the rain is considered especially romantic). India has a legally enforced nudity taboo, so this is Fanservice without the nudity (even if you do see breasts- but not nipples).
A large scale sub-trope is of course, the "Wet T-Shirt" contest, although this tends to get referred to rather than seen. Another variant involves white swimsuits, in particular white school swimsuits.
This is also a common Music Video thing, when the artist performs in a "rain storm", or writhes around in a large water container (often some huge drinking glass).
Naturally, it can be done with men too. In fact, it's becoming quite popular when you have a Walking Shirtless Scene when actually being shirtless would be inappropriate.
Not to be confused with this scene ◊ from Transformers Animated.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- In Nagasarete Airantou, Suzu sleepwalks into a barrel of water. Ikuto wakes up and tries to help her out of the barrel, but when he lifts her out he utters "It's translucent" and then passes out from a massive nosebleed.
- Full Metal Panic: Second Raid has a scene where Kaname is soaking wet, wearing nothing save for a bathrobe and panties as she is trying to outwit whoever is spying on her.
- Happens early on in Elfen Lied when Nyu gets soaked in the rain.
- Although its not seen, a similar example happens early in Negima! while walking through a body of water. Makie suddenly complains that her panties are soaked.
- In Jikanme 2 for the PS2, there's an option to see any of the girls in their sports wear while soaked.
- Saeko gets this twice in one episode of High School Of The Dead (though only the first time is see-through). The second time she asks "Do you enjoy getting girls wet?!". While waiting on an isolated sandbar, she changes into a tank top, leading to a Vapor Wear moment.
Comic Books
Film
Literature
- A written example: Temple has one, though since the narrator for the relevant part is a monk, he's more embarrassed than turned on.
- Pride and Prejudice has Elizabeth walking a distance in the rain to visit her ill sister at Netherfield, and given Darcy's somewhat pleased reaction, that scene qualifies as an example of this.
Live Action TV
- Mr Darcy diving into a pond in the BBC's adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth Bennet is awed, and the scene became memetic among Jane Austen's fans.
- The Colin Firth scene (and the fangirling) is so well known that it was referred to in Lost In Austen: Mr Darcy asks the heroine, a fan of Pride and Prejudice who is Trapped in Book Land, if there's anything he can do for her... Cue him getting out of the pond.
- In the second part of the 'In The Shadow of Two Gunmen' episode of The West Wing, during a flashback C.J., who has lost both her contact lenses and her glasses, accidentally stumbles into a swimming pool, much to the amusement of Toby, who has witnessed it. While the floral dress is not see-through, she peevishly orders him to turn around so that she can attempt to un-cling it before realizing it's a lost cause.
"Avert your eyes!"
- In CSI: New York, Lindsay goes for a walk in the rain for some reason. Not see through in this case.
- NCIS:
- Kate's "Wet T-Shirt Hall of Fame" picture is a Nipple and Dimed version of this trope.
- Justified, of all things, on NCIS: Los Angeles when a spy asks a woman he's meeting to take a dunk in the water to prove she doesn't have any concealed weapons. It manages to short out the wire she's wearing as well.
- In the TV adaptation of Johnny and the Bomb Kirsty ends up in a fountain, which gets her frock wet.
- In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Surprise", Buffy ends up soaking wet after her escape from the Judge because it's pouring outside. Her shirt isn't see-through, but the scene ends with Buffy making love with Angel. The soaking aspect is used to underline Buffy's terror and vulnerability.
- The opening credits of Friends had all six characters playing in a Central Park fountain.
- Doctor Who: In "Cold War", Clara arrives on the sub wearing a silver cocktail dress and immediately gets drenched.
- Horatio Hornblower: Many sailors on this show manage to get wet, either when someone spills a bucket of water on them (Styles does it to Oldroyd in "The Frogs and the Lobsters") or when they have to dive and swim. There is nothing like eye-candy officers in wet uniforms or wet shirts. Especially series 1 and 2 are full of this trope.
Music Videos
- The Backstreet Boys video for "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" is an example. What starts with all five members sitting around on an abandoned basketball court ends up with the group in wet button-down shirts singing in the middle of a sudden downpour.
- The above video is parodied, like lots of other boyband videos, in Blink 182's infamous "All the Small Things". You think they're in the rain? No, they're wet because of a well-placed hose!
- Pretty much the entire point of Alizée's "J'en ai marre!" video. To quote The Other Wiki: "Throughout the video, water is poured into the cubicle, making Alizée wet".
- Katy Perry in the video for 3OH!3's "Starstruck"
- The Beach Boys' promo video for "Sloop John B" shows them all trying to climb, fully clothed, into an inflatable raft in a swimming pool, naturally falling all over each other and into the water in the process.
- And of course there's the classic video for Duran Duran's Girls on Film , which involves wet T-shirts and cat-fighting in a wrestling ring. MTV shied away from showing the full version, but this is freely available out on the Net.
Theatre
- In Once Upon a Mattress, Princess Winnifred makes her entrance having swum the moat. Then she falls right back in. After she changes into a dry dressing gown, Lady Larken tears her still-wet dress up into rags for cleaning.
- The BBC's productions of Henry IV Part 1 and Henry IV Part 2 seem intent on keeping Prince Hal as wet as possible, dousing him with wine and then putting him in a sauna. Since he's played by Tom Hiddleston, no one complains.
Video Games
- Uncharted takes many, many opportunities to douse Nathan Drake in realistically-rendered water. Lampshaded in the second game, when Chloe declines Nathan's invitation to join him in the pool.
- Ar Tonelico 3, Soma the professional assassin always dresses this way under her heavy and uncomfortable clown suit, which makes her sweat a lot.
Web Original
- Although it's tricky in a written medium, Survival of the Fittest manages this by describing the effects a gout of rain has on Maxie's shirt.
- Gaia Online's 2007 Summer Festival and Water Balloon Fight featured a picture of NPC Jinx in a white t-shirt and a bikini bottom. There was also a picture in which she'd been nailed with a water balloon, and was covering her chest with one arm.
- Lately, The Nostalgia Critic has a Running Gag of throwing water on himself in response to... something crappy happening in the movie he's watching.
- On The Lizzie Bennet Diaries':
- Mrs. Bennet plans to stage one between Jane and Bing. Jane is absolutely horrified and Lizzie has to help her get out of it.
- Lydia invokes one when she deliberately spills her drink on George Wickham. She then asks him to take his shirt off, which he does.
Western Animation
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◊ from Transformers Animated.
